I think the proliferation of "reality tv" and things like funniest home videos answers those questions. Those don't take a lot of money to make. Plus, just like there are people who create high quality music on their own, people can create high quality videos on their own. Sure it might not be a hollywood blockbuster but it can still be entertaining. Big budget doesn't guarantee quality.
In the future, the Motion Picture Association of America will control your television set.
In the future, I don't think the TV set is going to be that important. It's extremely easy to make your own videos. As time goes on people will start making their own high quality content. Those people will find other delivery mechanisms such as the net to get their work out and possible sold.
I know that everyone is going to read the parent post and think what a funny and great idea it is. Well, it's not. A nice solid wood bat is the right way to go. It'll be heavier and will get your point across in much less swings.
Well, for me it's easy to see. Debian has proper package management such as keeping track of dependecies. That's very important to me. For example, from the Gentoo portage docs:
Warning: Unmerging packages can be dangerous. If you remove any core packages your system may cease to function and the removal of various libraries may cause software to fail. Portage does not warn you if you are removing core packages or dependencies for other packages.
So with Gentoo I can accidently remove a package that many programs depend on and it won't tell me. That's terrible. That also makes me wonder if I can get a list of programs that depend on the package. It doesn't look like it.
Gentoo may be a nice system but for me this was a major showstopper.
Well they did encourage their users to crapflood the Mozillazine forums. Even though I feel that Mozilla was in the wrong, the FirebirdDB people handled things improperly.
SCIFI killed Farscape to pay for that awful Tremors show?! Oh God. I was sad that Farscape was canceled but now that I know why I just want to hang my head and cry. There truly is no justice in the cable world.
Can someone tell me how they manage to get so much?
Friends or family members forwarding articles to me via the "email this story" link instead of just sending me the URL.
Same as #1 except with online card sites or some other stupid dot com site that wants your email address.
Posting to newsgroups before spam existed
Posting to forums that don't mask email addresses
Used to have unobfuscated email address on web site
Email address sold by / misused by marketing folk
Email address in domain whois records for over a decade
Email address harvested from mailing lists I post to
That's just what I can think of off the top of my head.
All of that combined with the fact that I've had my email address since before the first Canter & Siegal spam on usenet even happened. After having my email address for over a decade I don't feel like changing it now.
Oh, add lazyness to the list. I could make up a new email address for each company or person I deal with but it's too much work. I'd rather let spamassassin sort it all out. That's what computers are for, AFAIC.
In fact, this has provided me with a kind of "honeypot", since I now check for the addresses of several people who are long gone from my site. If I see their address its gotta be spam!
Same here. I use the spamassassin blacklist_to command to blacklist emails where I'm CC'd with users that don't exist.
"This Incredible re-interpretation will be one to look out for and will be made available worldwide around Feb/March of 2004."
How non-commercial does that sound to you?
My response to your post is available world-wide right now. How commercial does that sound? Just because something is available doesn't mean that it's being sold.
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What alternative would you recommend?
Is that where you bill someone if their check-in breaks the build?
Repeated outages that last for days? If I was in your situation I'd just invest in a good gas-powered generator.
I think the proliferation of "reality tv" and things like funniest home videos answers those questions. Those don't take a lot of money to make. Plus, just like there are people who create high quality music on their own, people can create high quality videos on their own. Sure it might not be a hollywood blockbuster but it can still be entertaining. Big budget doesn't guarantee quality.
Because the Thinkpad keyboards feel fantastic and are a joy to type on.
Yeah but will it play race car sounds when I start it up?
In the past that purpose was explained as "he works in marketing."
Gentoo may be a nice system but for me this was a major showstopper.
Does that mean Java will be thrown to a fiery death?
For those of us who haven't read it, could you at least tell us what makes it insightful?
Why they went there doesn't change the fact that they were encouraging abuse not constructive discourse.
SCIFI killed Farscape to pay for that awful Tremors show?! Oh God. I was sad that Farscape was canceled but now that I know why I just want to hang my head and cry. There truly is no justice in the cable world.
Good point except that it's not relevant here. He wasn't in a vehicle.
- Friends or family members forwarding articles to me via the "email this story" link instead of just sending me the URL.
- Same as #1 except with online card sites or some other stupid dot com site that wants your email address.
- Posting to newsgroups before spam existed
- Posting to forums that don't mask email addresses
- Used to have unobfuscated email address on web site
- Email address sold by / misused by marketing folk
- Email address in domain whois records for over a decade
- Email address harvested from mailing lists I post to
That's just what I can think of off the top of my head.All of that combined with the fact that I've had my email address since before the first Canter & Siegal spam on usenet even happened. After having my email address for over a decade I don't feel like changing it now.
Oh, add lazyness to the list. I could make up a new email address for each company or person I deal with but it's too much work. I'd rather let spamassassin sort it all out. That's what computers are for, AFAIC.
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