It's all really single play isn't it? 0s and 1s. Whichever marketing (or engineer, you never know) guy came up with this idea should be hanged on the spot.
Your comparison breaks down because The Beatles had talent, Bob Dylan has talent, Elvis had talent, so someone saying "Bob Dylan sucks" is perhaps trying to incite something, maybe they are simply a blowhard about what they like/dislike, or whatever but that does not remove the talent these artists have. Starcraft on the other hand just plain sucks.
This is the exact point there - you are exactly trying to incite something with absolutely no justification for your argument. At least you point out why the artists mentioned don't suck. "Yeah it fucking sucks" or "It just plain sucks" doesn't mean a whole lot. And commenting as anonymous makes the argument worth even less.
Yeah you can hide in the corner, blind-fold yourself and yell Beatles sucks, Elvis sucks, Bob Dylan sucks or whatever. You don't have to like any of those artists nor Starcraft. But you don't like it doesn't mean it sucks.
If Google uses the digitized books for self economic interest is not ok, I wonder what you guys think about peer-to-peer swapping of digitized books? No more 'economic benefits', is that ok?
Well, music compares to how many years ago? During the time when you were ~16-25? Everybody who's past that age have the same comment about music. They say whatever they listen to 10/15/20 years ago is much better. I'll guarantee 10/15/20 years later they'll tell their kids about the same thing. What did your parents told you 10/15/20 years ago about your music?
Mind that not everybody listens to 'mainstream' stuff. Have you dig around independents lately? The problem for people pass that young age, they don't have much time to search for such a thing.
Yes engineers wants to do their job well. And the quote "They don't care so much about the political undercurrents of the organization" is typical of engineers. But engineers gotta realize in order to make a decision for the larger group (not just themselves), these processes has to occur. I wouldn't even call such a thing as 'necessary evil', because afterall, it is really just a process to get this done with consensus, unlike design of a subsystem, architecture of a software, which may only require agreement of a handful of people.
"The Net" - this is one of the very few times I felt like tearing and ripping the theatre seat apart. How LAME can it get? A little hidden pi symbol that is a link to some secret/important site???
Like you said, it is sort of relevant. Think about it, say for example, for an article talking about Japanese robot, would you see people talked about how many people they killed/raped during WWII? It's the same regime/conservative parties/political structure now and then. On the other hand, people stay with talking about robots. Let's say there's a Chinese slashdot. Would you be sick and tired of reading every single post about Intel, IBM, NASA, US scientist discovery suddenly becomes a ranting place for Bush policies?
Openly planning to unleash a holocaust against another state? Who said that? Quote me somebody from the Chinese government actually said that. Show me their plan. This sounds more like Bush's WMD.
Again you are speculating. If you want to talk about history there're plenty to talk about. Like western aggression against China late 1800. We can talk about not long ago black people are slaves in the States and getting bought and sold, abused, killed and tortured. Khmer Rouge killed millions of their own people. Dude, this is 2006 - Mao's dead, Confederacy no longer exists, and Pol Pot is dead as well.
Dude you realize what's going on here? Your comment accurately reflect the parent comment - anything about China becomes political rant. That's exactly my point: does NASA, Linux or beanie babies has to do with China potentially attacking Russia? If it weren't so many of these China bashing comment that has no substance flooded/. I won't posting this kinda response.
Lebensraum - you know which country knows this much better and have current practical experience? You know it and that's the country that occupy "territory believed especially by them to be necessary for national existence or economic self-sufficiency". You tell me about the situation at Middle East/Iraq/Isarel/Saudi then I'll tell you more about your insightful speculation on China's motive. Guys, when is this going to end? Posters put non-fact speculative FUD about China, readers agree, moderators mod insightful and everybody goes home happy.
If so, I wonder if it's really the US that blackballs the Chinese. The country with the most to fear from China is actually Russia. They share an enormous common border. On the Russian side you've got endless empty taiga, natural resources galore...a paltry 140 million citizens...on the Chinese side, a billion hungry peasants. What's the Chinese for Lebensraum, I wonder?
The same can be said to Canada for US. If Canada is a Muslim country, you bet the army, instead of navy/marines will step over before going to Iraq. "They share an enormous common border. On the Canadian side you've got endless empty taiga, natural resources galore...a paltry 30 million citizens...on the US side, a billion hungry SUV drivers and industrialists. What's the American for Lebensraum, I wonder?"
I totally agree - YouTube may be depending on a advertisement route right now, however, its platform is poise to revolutionize video content distribution AND the source - I'd dare to say the big support that YouTube get is not because of pirate materials but user generated content. Honestly how it translate to $$$ is another issue. Think of it as people watch 'tv program' on youtube and it generates youtube-ad like tv-ad every so often; then youtube revenue ~= tv-ad revenue. Wow... that's scary. OTOH, I really wish youtube can be a big blow to the conventional tv media, that did not quite happen with napster-vs-music.
My space is a totally different beast. I'm still trying to grasp (no sarcrasm here) the reason for its popularity and that most the web pages looks like POS.
So you're disagreeing with results of a survey with 5,000 students across two large countries because you attented one school, with one group of people, and had one group of friends that didn't exhibit the behavior? Is this the type of rigor they taught you in Business school? I'd get my money back.
5000 students is a sample not the population. What is the margin of error? 56% of biz school vs 54% of eng school pretty much means they both admit to cheat is about the same.
As much as I read from the comments, I can see that very very few of us have a grasp of the ins and outs, who did what, and what it all mean. Can someone actually in the field, somewhat familiar with the subject say something more objective and insightful?
If my memory served me right, almost 20 years ago my cousin who's an MIT physicist at the time, show my granddad around the labs and show him this motor/generator of a size of a grain of rice. We heard that and wondered what the heck is that good for?
What I really want is not more super-duper fast RAM but real cheap and abundance of FLASH - to replace (at least partially) hard-drive. Not only performance but reliability will be better for a system overall.
There are pirated TV/movies and other copyrighted stuff on it - which draws lawsuits and alike. But unlike Kazaa, YouTube does not depend on those to be kept alive - there are SO MUCH users created content it's not even funny. And I'll bet at least half of the use are for those purposes. At least for me, all the links I got from others in YouTube are all users created content.
>>Any box that doesn't run Windows confuses most investigators. Yep, all their tools are Windows-specific.
It's most likely because most people uses Windows? If the 60-70% of the world uses Mac, I'm sure most of the tools are Mac specific. Second, about "all their tools", did you just check out all the tools all police around the world uses? And we're talking about Commodore 64 here, not BSD/Linux or any of that sort. Coz if it is about BSD/Linux, there won't be such a news.
It's not that I like MS or anything but this is total troll and non-insightful: but yeah, in slashdot, moderators will take bait on any MS bashing.
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It's all really single play isn't it? 0s and 1s. Whichever marketing (or engineer, you never know) guy came up with this idea should be hanged on the spot.
Hmm... that prompts me to think if this idea is as stupid as SETI idea...
Somewhere in the article says its Former Soviet Union.
This is the exact point there - you are exactly trying to incite something with absolutely no justification for your argument. At least you point out why the artists mentioned don't suck. "Yeah it fucking sucks" or "It just plain sucks" doesn't mean a whole lot. And commenting as anonymous makes the argument worth even less.
Yeah you can hide in the corner, blind-fold yourself and yell Beatles sucks, Elvis sucks, Bob Dylan sucks or whatever. You don't have to like any of those artists nor Starcraft. But you don't like it doesn't mean it sucks.
If Google uses the digitized books for self economic interest is not ok, I wonder what you guys think about peer-to-peer swapping of digitized books? No more 'economic benefits', is that ok?
Wouldn't a tablet be doing it now?
Aie... Can you imagine Intel/AMD merge? When we have that we'll all yell and holla about the monopoly.
DITTO. Remember what our parents/adults said about the music we listened to back then.
Mind that not everybody listens to 'mainstream' stuff. Have you dig around independents lately? The problem for people pass that young age, they don't have much time to search for such a thing.
Yes engineers wants to do their job well. And the quote "They don't care so much about the political undercurrents of the organization" is typical of engineers. But engineers gotta realize in order to make a decision for the larger group (not just themselves), these processes has to occur. I wouldn't even call such a thing as 'necessary evil', because afterall, it is really just a process to get this done with consensus, unlike design of a subsystem, architecture of a software, which may only require agreement of a handful of people.
"The Net" - this is one of the very few times I felt like tearing and ripping the theatre seat apart. How LAME can it get? A little hidden pi symbol that is a link to some secret/important site???
Like you said, it is sort of relevant. Think about it, say for example, for an article talking about Japanese robot, would you see people talked about how many people they killed/raped during WWII? It's the same regime/conservative parties/political structure now and then. On the other hand, people stay with talking about robots. Let's say there's a Chinese slashdot. Would you be sick and tired of reading every single post about Intel, IBM, NASA, US scientist discovery suddenly becomes a ranting place for Bush policies? Openly planning to unleash a holocaust against another state? Who said that? Quote me somebody from the Chinese government actually said that. Show me their plan. This sounds more like Bush's WMD. Again you are speculating. If you want to talk about history there're plenty to talk about. Like western aggression against China late 1800. We can talk about not long ago black people are slaves in the States and getting bought and sold, abused, killed and tortured. Khmer Rouge killed millions of their own people. Dude, this is 2006 - Mao's dead, Confederacy no longer exists, and Pol Pot is dead as well.
Dude you realize what's going on here? Your comment accurately reflect the parent comment - anything about China becomes political rant. That's exactly my point: does NASA, Linux or beanie babies has to do with China potentially attacking Russia? If it weren't so many of these China bashing comment that has no substance flooded /. I won't posting this kinda response.
If so, I wonder if it's really the US that blackballs the Chinese. The country with the most to fear from China is actually Russia. They share an enormous common border. On the Russian side you've got endless empty taiga, natural resources galore...a paltry 140 million citizens...on the Chinese side, a billion hungry peasants. What's the Chinese for Lebensraum, I wonder?
The same can be said to Canada for US. If Canada is a Muslim country, you bet the army, instead of navy/marines will step over before going to Iraq. "They share an enormous common border. On the Canadian side you've got endless empty taiga, natural resources galore...a paltry 30 million citizens...on the US side, a billion hungry SUV drivers and industrialists. What's the American for Lebensraum, I wonder?"
I read "Schools in India taking over Linux".
My space is a totally different beast. I'm still trying to grasp (no sarcrasm here) the reason for its popularity and that most the web pages looks like POS.
5000 students is a sample not the population. What is the margin of error? 56% of biz school vs 54% of eng school pretty much means they both admit to cheat is about the same.
As much as I read from the comments, I can see that very very few of us have a grasp of the ins and outs, who did what, and what it all mean. Can someone actually in the field, somewhat familiar with the subject say something more objective and insightful?
If my memory served me right, almost 20 years ago my cousin who's an MIT physicist at the time, show my granddad around the labs and show him this motor/generator of a size of a grain of rice. We heard that and wondered what the heck is that good for?
What I really want is not more super-duper fast RAM but real cheap and abundance of FLASH - to replace (at least partially) hard-drive. Not only performance but reliability will be better for a system overall.
There are pirated TV/movies and other copyrighted stuff on it - which draws lawsuits and alike. But unlike Kazaa, YouTube does not depend on those to be kept alive - there are SO MUCH users created content it's not even funny. And I'll bet at least half of the use are for those purposes. At least for me, all the links I got from others in YouTube are all users created content.
It's most likely because most people uses Windows? If the 60-70% of the world uses Mac, I'm sure most of the tools are Mac specific. Second, about "all their tools", did you just check out all the tools all police around the world uses? And we're talking about Commodore 64 here, not BSD/Linux or any of that sort. Coz if it is about BSD/Linux, there won't be such a news.
It's not that I like MS or anything but this is total troll and non-insightful: but yeah, in slashdot, moderators will take bait on any MS bashing.
There are actually a lot of people using PC as DVR for the longest time... nothing's surprising really.
The publishers are loving this.