How is this not a violation of any number of our rights? If I can already legally broadcast it, how can the government tell me what language to use. I know we voted for english way back in the day, but that doesn't make publishing in german a crime. What's next? Are they going to start telling us that we can't broadcast in arabic because it helps the terrorists? or can't broadcast slang because of the war on drugs?
This is exactly why comic books became so successful. When you are presented with a character that is less than detailed your mind is forced to fill in the gaps with bits of your self. Since your brain will always be what really makes something "real" to you and not visual or auditory detail, an abstract character will seem more "human" than an incredibly detailed sketch. The same idea applies all the way down the scale of detail to smily faces and finally text. Anyway, there is a much better explaination in "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud, from which I got this info. "Understanding Comics" is a must read for anyone whom has ever enjoyed a comic book or strip. It also sheds a lot of light on the photorealism in videogames debate. I wish they could bring comic book characters to life in video games the same way I see them in the books, few games have come close enough without being campy.
Why would anyone bother destroying the hard copies? Were scribes and printing publishers in the habit of destroying the originals of the copies they make. The digitization of data is would make it easier to backup data to less mutable and destructible formats, not harder. The article you cite refers to digital media being pass/fail, i.e. either you can get all the data back from a medium or none of it. When is this ever true? With the right knowledge and training, similar to a historical art restorationists, a forensic scientist could recover the still intact parts of the digital medium. Physical deterioration will happen with ANYTHING we store our data on as the article you cite suggests also.
I thought the hippies taught us 'I can do everything' and 'I am entitled to everything'. It's not juvenile, but naive. Why is it wrong to want everything and want to do everything I can get within a reasonable moral framework? We are only promoting the societal norms our parent worked hard through the 60s, 70s, and 80s to create. My hippy parents also taught me that the illegality of a thing does not necessarily make it wrong. Thoreau stole from the government by not paying taxes. Was he juvenile?
Your post et al., mine included, are clearly BIASED, alright weeny.
What's your point? Why is viral marketing bad. If a company tries to push a bad product through viral marketing, it will fail and I'll never hear about it. At the same time, if a little group tries to push a product through viral marketing (a product they might not have had the resources to promote to me), then if it is good I will be more likely to see it. This may be especially true if the product is pushed through bittorrent. I may go seek out this virus...
You're not the only one. I can't figure out what most of the shapes are let alone if one is oriented wrong. The sideways picture was more visible in set A.
Yeah, I want Intel's toxic waste or even "known space junk" raining down over my house. Good idea. Most of it might burn up in the atmosphere, but is that really any better, i.e. isn't burning toxic waste still toxic waste?
What about the shuttles massive orange fuel tank? I don't think it gets far with out it. I thought that's why the shuttles return flight is really a controlled fall or glide. I don't think it's that easy to move around something like the shuttle, especially if it's going to have to stay up there. Unmanned fuel transport launched by rocket? An semi-permanent in-orbit shuttle does not sound frugal.
You're right, those cop shows are propaganda, but there is a way to turn them against the cops. Those cop reality shows show you exactly what you shouldn't do when confronted by the cops. I've learned that you should not give them permission to do anything (they will if they want to regardless), don't lie to them, keep in mind that nothing they say to you has to be the truth, and don't curse or act agitated. They can only search you if you smell or if they think you have a weapon. If your calm and only minimally responsive they are up Shit Creek and you've got the paddle. In the same way a leason can be taken from the propaganda corporate america spews at us, e.g. trade with friends, not strangers, unless it can be helped.
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you are almost completely right. I disagree about the benefit of being able to your words onto paper as fast as you can type them. I've gotten many stream of consciousness letters, memos, and "what ifs", where I wished that the writer had slowed down a bit in their comminucation effort so that they might realize that the note they are sending me is (a) horribly misspelled because though they can type they still can't spell, (b) something they did not have to tell me, or (c) gibberish anyway because something interupted them for split second in the middle of a tought.
P.S. I look at the keyboard all the time. Am I the only one that can remember roughly a line of text and not need to look back up at the screen in order to edit it or continue typing. My fingers don't have eyes, but I'm not yet so feeble that I can't remember the sentence I'm typing. I don't retype written ttext or type from dictation, that job is for machines.
P.S. - This is not to say that blind typing is a useless skill.
Fuck you. Not to be a troll, but don't insult my and others intelligence or willpower. Just because you can't make informed consumer decisions, doesn't mean that the rest of us can't. I want advertisers to know what I like, what I like to buy, and what I don't. Sound crazy? I change the channel when ads for feminine hygiene products come on for the same reason. Ads aren't as annoying if there advertising stuff you want. Any idiot can avoid buying crap they're interested in but wouldn't normally buy. There is nothing to defend against, just think for yourself. If you are not able to outsmart an advertisement, then too bad for you. I hope you destroy your credit rating and your death from not reading the warning label sends your family into debt.
And since most games require you to run as an administrator anyway, your kids will be able to simply create another user that can play the game. Any parent that thinks that this software will keep their kids from playing these games clearly does not know enough about computers to really have control over the computer.
The idea is that a computer is intelligent if it can hold a conversation with a human such that it is indistinguishable from a conversation with a real human.
RIDICULOUS.
Really. I've met way too many people that have so much trouble stringing together a sentence over the phone that they would fail a turing test.
Any program can be run as another user in windows as well. I have a special shortcut that opens up windows explorer as an admin after asking you for an administrator password. I can then run anything as admin or fiddle with other admin stuff while logged in as a limited user. Fast-user switching is for assholes. (troll) I try to emulate the fundamental security attitudes of unix whenever I have to use windows, too often these days. Granted, programs shouldn't require admin privileges, but there are ways of limiting access when programmers don't play nice with regular users.
This makes it sound like the record companies should take back some control. I'd be more likely to buy from iTunes Music Store if I knew that the songs wer 99 cents and under. I love to get old obscure music on the cheap. I don't care if it maximizes their sales, I want the discount. Now if there are price increases I'll just ignore the whole thing.
This might be true if the cell phone companies did not control the broadcast network and the devices that run on that network. This situation is closer to if my cable box suddenly started buying pay-per-view shows I never watch. ISPs aren't liable because they have no control over the hardware and software configurations a consumer might use to connect to their network. I would argue that cell phone companies have a substantially higher degree of control. Viruses like this are an indication that they are losing this control. My cell phone or any other device I carry around with me in my pocket should be and act as an appliance not the house of cards that todays PCs have become. This has nothing to do with traffic, and everything to do with taking responsibility for the code written to be invulnerable to bad traffic. This also has nothing to do with monitoring traffic. Should customers be responsible for that creep exposing himself in the restroom of a restaurant or do you think that maybe, just maybe, the restaurant should take responsibility by kicking him out.
Responsibility is not only about who's "fault" something is, it's about knowing when to do the right thing instead of the easy thing.
It seems to me that since most people get their phones for free when they sign up for a plan, the cell phone companies should bear the cost of this virus. This cost will inevitably be passed on the the concumers. My point is that it should be the responsibility of the cell phone companies to keep their products and their networks free of viruses. Dwight Yokel BEEP BEEPING his neighbor in the next trailer over, should not be expected to pay and money or attention to this sort of concern or worry about extra charges on his bill because his cell phone company runs a flawed service.
If I had the choice of going to a copyright infringing site to download that TV show I missed last night, without any commercials, or going to the network's site to download it with commercials or some other kind of forced advertisement, I would go the networks own site. I probably wouldn't even bother fast forwarding through commercial breaks if they weren't more than four minutes long. I only go to copyright infringing sites because the networks don't give me another choice. Hell, for most shows that I would download, I wouldn't even care if I couldn't watch the file six months later due to some sort of DRM. It's just TV.
Exactly. And I'd like to add that it seems that his scheme would utilmately kill windows, not linux. Think about it. If linux was still free and now windows was linux except for a driver layer then why would hard ware manufactures continue to release win32 drivers? Why would anyone buy new hardware if you had to buy "MS-linux" to get it to work? Why would hardware vendors want to unecessarily couple thier product to microsoft products if it was no longer necessary thanks to the disappearance of the Windows OS (this in a world where Mac, *nix, and "MS-linux" are the norm)?
Linux will always survive as long as it is copied freely. Windows could disappear completely in the span of a decade if microsoft dove head first into MS-linux.
...and then you provide a link to a site that posts a document, contradicting your own statement. The other post was a troll and so is yours. From hackingnetflix.com:
Hi Alan,
Thanks for your inquiry.
We appreciate you taking the time to provide us with your feedback and comments. I sincerely apologize for the difficulties you've experienced and have forwarded your feedback to the appropriate department. Please be assured that we are continually striving to improve our service.
I have provided below some details of how we ship and process DVDs so that you can understand how our service works at this time:
We receive rental returns Monday through Friday, except holidays. We process nearly 100% of returns the same day we receive them. When we check-in a return, an e-mail is automatically and promptly sent to you to let you know that we have received your DVD.
Our goal is to ship you the DVDs listed highest in your Queue. We try to ship you DVDs from the distribution center closest to you so that you get movies quickly. Often, on the same day that we receive a DVD from you, we will ship the next available DVD from your Queue. In certain instances, your next available DVD will not ship until the next business day following our receipt of your returned movie. This can occur, for example, when your top choices are not available to you from your closest distribution center or the number of shipments to be processed by the distribution center on that day has been exceeded. When this happens, your DVD will ship on the next business day and may come from an alternate distribution center.
In determining priority for shipping and inventory allocation, we give priority to those members who receive the fewest DVDs through our service. As a result, those members who receive the most movies may experience next-day shipping and receive movies lower in their Queue more often than our other members. By prioritizing in this way, we help assure a balanced experience for all our members. Those that rent a lot of movies get a great value and those with lighter viewing habits are able to count on our service to meet their limited needs.
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He's not really anti-american. He's just inciting controversy to garner attention. I'm sure He'd like to thank/. for helping his negative publicity to jump the pond. I'm inclined to trust google over a whiny frog.
From the article: "In the subsequent weeks after the editorial was published, Jeanneney has toned down his statements made in the French media, but remains the leading proponent for mobilizing funding for the digitalization of European libraries. A Google spokesperson told BetaNews that Jeanneney's remarks were a reflection of his fundraising efforts."
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How is this not a violation of any number of our rights? If I can already legally broadcast it, how can the government tell me what language to use. I know we voted for english way back in the day, but that doesn't make publishing in german a crime. What's next? Are they going to start telling us that we can't broadcast in arabic because it helps the terrorists? or can't broadcast slang because of the war on drugs?
This is exactly why comic books became so successful. When you are presented with a character that is less than detailed your mind is forced to fill in the gaps with bits of your self. Since your brain will always be what really makes something "real" to you and not visual or auditory detail, an abstract character will seem more "human" than an incredibly detailed sketch. The same idea applies all the way down the scale of detail to smily faces and finally text. Anyway, there is a much better explaination in "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud, from which I got this info. "Understanding Comics" is a must read for anyone whom has ever enjoyed a comic book or strip. It also sheds a lot of light on the photorealism in videogames debate. I wish they could bring comic book characters to life in video games the same way I see them in the books, few games have come close enough without being campy.
Why would anyone bother destroying the hard copies? Were scribes and printing publishers in the habit of destroying the originals of the copies they make. The digitization of data is would make it easier to backup data to less mutable and destructible formats, not harder. The article you cite refers to digital media being pass/fail, i.e. either you can get all the data back from a medium or none of it. When is this ever true? With the right knowledge and training, similar to a historical art restorationists, a forensic scientist could recover the still intact parts of the digital medium. Physical deterioration will happen with ANYTHING we store our data on as the article you cite suggests also.
I thought the hippies taught us 'I can do everything' and 'I am entitled to everything'. It's not juvenile, but naive. Why is it wrong to want everything and want to do everything I can get within a reasonable moral framework? We are only promoting the societal norms our parent worked hard through the 60s, 70s, and 80s to create. My hippy parents also taught me that the illegality of a thing does not necessarily make it wrong. Thoreau stole from the government by not paying taxes. Was he juvenile? Your post et al., mine included, are clearly BIASED, alright weeny.
What's your point? Why is viral marketing bad. If a company tries to push a bad product through viral marketing, it will fail and I'll never hear about it. At the same time, if a little group tries to push a product through viral marketing (a product they might not have had the resources to promote to me), then if it is good I will be more likely to see it. This may be especially true if the product is pushed through bittorrent. I may go seek out this virus...
You're not the only one. I can't figure out what most of the shapes are let alone if one is oriented wrong. The sideways picture was more visible in set A.
Yeah, I want Intel's toxic waste or even "known space junk" raining down over my house. Good idea. Most of it might burn up in the atmosphere, but is that really any better, i.e. isn't burning toxic waste still toxic waste?
What about the shuttles massive orange fuel tank? I don't think it gets far with out it. I thought that's why the shuttles return flight is really a controlled fall or glide. I don't think it's that easy to move around something like the shuttle, especially if it's going to have to stay up there. Unmanned fuel transport launched by rocket? An semi-permanent in-orbit shuttle does not sound frugal.
You're right, those cop shows are propaganda, but there is a way to turn them against the cops. Those cop reality shows show you exactly what you shouldn't do when confronted by the cops. I've learned that you should not give them permission to do anything (they will if they want to regardless), don't lie to them, keep in mind that nothing they say to you has to be the truth, and don't curse or act agitated. They can only search you if you smell or if they think you have a weapon. If your calm and only minimally responsive they are up Shit Creek and you've got the paddle. In the same way a leason can be taken from the propaganda corporate america spews at us, e.g. trade with friends, not strangers, unless it can be helped.
you are almost completely right. I disagree about the benefit of being able to your words onto paper as fast as you can type them. I've gotten many stream of consciousness letters, memos, and "what ifs", where I wished that the writer had slowed down a bit in their comminucation effort so that they might realize that the note they are sending me is (a) horribly misspelled because though they can type they still can't spell, (b) something they did not have to tell me, or (c) gibberish anyway because something interupted them for split second in the middle of a tought.
P.S. I look at the keyboard all the time. Am I the only one that can remember roughly a line of text and not need to look back up at the screen in order to edit it or continue typing. My fingers don't have eyes, but I'm not yet so feeble that I can't remember the sentence I'm typing. I don't retype written ttext or type from dictation, that job is for machines.
P.S. - This is not to say that blind typing is a useless skill.
Fuck you. Not to be a troll, but don't insult my and others intelligence or willpower. Just because you can't make informed consumer decisions, doesn't mean that the rest of us can't. I want advertisers to know what I like, what I like to buy, and what I don't. Sound crazy? I change the channel when ads for feminine hygiene products come on for the same reason. Ads aren't as annoying if there advertising stuff you want. Any idiot can avoid buying crap they're interested in but wouldn't normally buy. There is nothing to defend against, just think for yourself. If you are not able to outsmart an advertisement, then too bad for you. I hope you destroy your credit rating and your death from not reading the warning label sends your family into debt.
And since most games require you to run as an administrator anyway, your kids will be able to simply create another user that can play the game. Any parent that thinks that this software will keep their kids from playing these games clearly does not know enough about computers to really have control over the computer.
The idea is that a computer is intelligent if it can hold a conversation with a human such that it is indistinguishable from a conversation with a real human. RIDICULOUS. Really. I've met way too many people that have so much trouble stringing together a sentence over the phone that they would fail a turing test.
Any program can be run as another user in windows as well. I have a special shortcut that opens up windows explorer as an admin after asking you for an administrator password. I can then run anything as admin or fiddle with other admin stuff while logged in as a limited user. Fast-user switching is for assholes. (troll) I try to emulate the fundamental security attitudes of unix whenever I have to use windows, too often these days. Granted, programs shouldn't require admin privileges, but there are ways of limiting access when programmers don't play nice with regular users.
This makes it sound like the record companies should take back some control. I'd be more likely to buy from iTunes Music Store if I knew that the songs wer 99 cents and under. I love to get old obscure music on the cheap. I don't care if it maximizes their sales, I want the discount. Now if there are price increases I'll just ignore the whole thing.
This might be true if the cell phone companies did not control the broadcast network and the devices that run on that network. This situation is closer to if my cable box suddenly started buying pay-per-view shows I never watch. ISPs aren't liable because they have no control over the hardware and software configurations a consumer might use to connect to their network. I would argue that cell phone companies have a substantially higher degree of control. Viruses like this are an indication that they are losing this control. My cell phone or any other device I carry around with me in my pocket should be and act as an appliance not the house of cards that todays PCs have become. This has nothing to do with traffic, and everything to do with taking responsibility for the code written to be invulnerable to bad traffic. This also has nothing to do with monitoring traffic. Should customers be responsible for that creep exposing himself in the restroom of a restaurant or do you think that maybe, just maybe, the restaurant should take responsibility by kicking him out. Responsibility is not only about who's "fault" something is, it's about knowing when to do the right thing instead of the easy thing.
It seems to me that since most people get their phones for free when they sign up for a plan, the cell phone companies should bear the cost of this virus. This cost will inevitably be passed on the the concumers. My point is that it should be the responsibility of the cell phone companies to keep their products and their networks free of viruses. Dwight Yokel BEEP BEEPING his neighbor in the next trailer over, should not be expected to pay and money or attention to this sort of concern or worry about extra charges on his bill because his cell phone company runs a flawed service.
If I had the choice of going to a copyright infringing site to download that TV show I missed last night, without any commercials, or going to the network's site to download it with commercials or some other kind of forced advertisement, I would go the networks own site. I probably wouldn't even bother fast forwarding through commercial breaks if they weren't more than four minutes long. I only go to copyright infringing sites because the networks don't give me another choice. Hell, for most shows that I would download, I wouldn't even care if I couldn't watch the file six months later due to some sort of DRM. It's just TV.
Exactly. And I'd like to add that it seems that his scheme would utilmately kill windows, not linux. Think about it. If linux was still free and now windows was linux except for a driver layer then why would hard ware manufactures continue to release win32 drivers? Why would anyone buy new hardware if you had to buy "MS-linux" to get it to work? Why would hardware vendors want to unecessarily couple thier product to microsoft products if it was no longer necessary thanks to the disappearance of the Windows OS (this in a world where Mac, *nix, and "MS-linux" are the norm)? Linux will always survive as long as it is copied freely. Windows could disappear completely in the span of a decade if microsoft dove head first into MS-linux.
He's not really anti-american. He's just inciting controversy to garner attention. I'm sure He'd like to thank /. for helping his negative publicity to jump the pond. I'm inclined to trust google over a whiny frog.
From the article:
"In the subsequent weeks after the editorial was published, Jeanneney has toned down his statements made in the French media, but remains the leading proponent for mobilizing funding for the digitalization of European libraries. A Google spokesperson told BetaNews that Jeanneney's remarks were a reflection of his fundraising efforts."