Such bullshit. Don't people have any right to choose, or responsibility for their own actions? Why is it evil to talk about the effects of drugs in an honest way? Why should there be any form of guilt or wrongdoing associated with that?
Ummm, the body of work contained in rap music is also "an important historical document". And if you actually listened to it, you'd find that much of it is rich in Christian imagery.
You're right. DMX is an interface used for controlling lighting fixtures (and other devices) in stage and theater productions. Looney Tunes is a cartoon.
Yeah, but the iPhone is not likely to be a "proper" GPS. It's probably just a cheap GPS receiver, which you can use for certain things like Google Maps. While that dedicated GPS features things like a better quality receiver, electronic compass, and mapping tools.
I reckon that you probably won't even be able to save GPS tracklogs on the iPhone, and you won't be able to load your own maps, etc.
There are a lot of great phones out there that aren't getting the attention they deserve,
What? How does a product "deserve" attention? Anyway, why can't these companies try to build a "buzz" and a cool "corporate image" so they can get the kind of coverage that Apple gets? It's not exactly Apple's fault that other companies have about as much style and savvy as a discarded wrist watch.
I know, it's a big question for a Monday afternoon, but a lot of people think that glorification of violence in music and video games carries over into common life, moreso in poor areas than wealthy ones.
Why do people only ever seem to mention the glorification of violence when it comes to music or video games? the other day I saw the new "Indiana Jones" film - and it had parts where grisly deaths were actual comedic elements, and the entire cinema laughed out loud.
On the other hand, even in very violent video games or rap music, the violence is usually portrayed as something dark and sinister - not as a punch-line to a joke.
Personally, I find the use of violence as comedy in Tv and films to be much more disturbing that its use in video games and rap music. It's much more contextualized in the music and video games, while in the film/TV mediums it often appears to be entirely gratuitous. Yet the moral crusaders appear to be more concerned about showing boobies or saying "fuck" than they are about the consequence-free violence.
In the 50s very, very few kids would have taken "Kill the fucking cop" songs to heart.
Likewise, in 2008, very, very few kids would take the "kill the fucking cop" song to heart. It's just a performance, not a command or statement of intent.
Well in case you have just been spending your time watching TV
you might realize the wealthy have taken their kids out of public
schools and put them in private schools.
What does that have to do with segregating the most intelligent kids? Wealthy kids are just as likely to fuck up as anybody else. They're just as likely to be stupid as anybody else.
If you have an issue with that then I ask what is your personal
bias to continue exposing the well mannered kids to violence
and drug dealers ?
Well, I would ask what your bias is towards stupidity. Firstly, just because a kid is "well mannered" does not mean that s/he is intelligent. Secondly, there are many highly intelligent kids who use and sell drugs. Thirdly, people can be in all of these categories at different points in their lives.
If you think children can be neatly segregated into such clear-cut categories, then you are either delusional or ignorant.
2. iPhone game development restricts you to a MacOS development environment. This basically guarantees that even if the iPhone becomes hugely successful, its place in mobile game development will never capture more than a minority status among game developers.
Why would that be an issue? If a developer feels the market is worth going after, then buying a Mac is no big deal. In fact, I'd be surprised if there were many developers who didn't have at least one Mac in their business, even if they don't use it to develop on or for.
Why would the developers be needed to treated like rockstars? Surely, if they are any good - they will see the platform based on its merits, and decide to develop or not develop for it based on rational metrics?
If a developer needs to be given cocaine, or have the red M&Ms separated from the other colors by Apple, then I question the value of that developer's input. Someone like that can't be far from the drug-fuelled implosion of their career. When people with egos like that go down, they tend to cause collateral damage.
The flopies too, I'm not sure if there is a file that I used today on a regular basis that could even fit on one of those.
Why not? those old-school floppies were massive. You could easily fit a whole pizza on the larger ones. Try doing that with a 2GB flash stick, or even a DVD-R.
Especially the scene near the beginning where David is playing the arcade game, and he's like a town hero for being good at it, with a crowd of onlooking fans. Reminds me of my own childhood playing the arcades... um... except for the part about the hot chicks wanting to come home and play with my hardware.
For fuck's sake, way to miss the point! It's a hypothetical question, and the very reason I chose that film was the presumed familiarity of it among slashdotters. I wasn't literally asking you to watch the movie again, but to consider the nature of such a film in a visual medium.
Generally speaking, the purpose of the pictures on the screen is to convey a story. Does the higher resolution aid that?
Well, it depends on the story. Film is not just a story-telling medium, it's also a medium of visual art. If it were just about the story, then radio plays and books would still be the dominant media.
Take the films of someone like Kubrick - while they are great stories even on a low-resolution screen, they are also breathtaking works of visual art when seen in their intended form.
It took 1 minute for those players to load the movie? The just means you were looking at shitty players. Mine doesn't take nearly that long. And it works without internet connectivity. So, you are obviously just making stuff up.
Not really. The quality of CD audio was already at most people's perception limits, and musicians weren't (and aren't) recording in surround sound, just stereo. But the quality of DVD is well below the perceptible quality of 35mm or 70mm movies projected in a cinema. Plenty of average people can see the difference.
When someone comes up with a format that allows people to easily read video/audio/data from a disc, modify it, and write it back so that it will play in standard devices, THEN people might be interested in upgrading from DVD.
Uhhh, you can already do this with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. The copy-protection schemes have already been cracked, in exactly the same way they were for DVD. So, I'm not sure what your point is. Somebody probably said the same thing about DVD when it was introduced - "This new, weird format cannot be manipulated like VHS can be" but then somebody cracked CSS protection and DVD can be manipulated exactly as VHS was.
A bad movie with special effects is a bad movie, a bad movie on BluRay is a bad movie...
But a movie with quality cinematography is better on a higher resolution medium than the same movie in low-resolution. Would you rather watch 2001: A Space Odyssey as a 70mm theatrical print, or as a video on YouTube?
Because they might find something that is useful or sellable for some future use or product. Why would they just give their patents and IP away? It's also not theirs to give away, it was developed by a consortium of different companies. Toshiba never "owned" HD-DVD in the first place.
You can't have it both ways. You can't berate others for bankrupting one industry while advocating doing it to another (or at least minimizing their profits).
You also can't use verbs as nouns. Well, you can, but you probably shouldn't (except in those cases where the noun is also the verb).
I don't get what you are implying. In CloneDVD, it doesn't take any more of the user's time to remove menus or compress data. Removing menus doesn't take any time - you just click the option to only copy the main feature, versus clicking the option to copy the whole disc with menus and extra features. The compression is done by the computer, and doesn't take any extra user input.
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But it would be stupid to drill it now. I guess that makes those laws unstupid if they are preventing something disastrously stupid from happening.
Such bullshit. Don't people have any right to choose, or responsibility for their own actions? Why is it evil to talk about the effects of drugs in an honest way? Why should there be any form of guilt or wrongdoing associated with that?
Ummm, the body of work contained in rap music is also "an important historical document". And if you actually listened to it, you'd find that much of it is rich in Christian imagery.
You're right. DMX is an interface used for controlling lighting fixtures (and other devices) in stage and theater productions. Looney Tunes is a cartoon.
Yeah, but the iPhone is not likely to be a "proper" GPS. It's probably just a cheap GPS receiver, which you can use for certain things like Google Maps. While that dedicated GPS features things like a better quality receiver, electronic compass, and mapping tools.
I reckon that you probably won't even be able to save GPS tracklogs on the iPhone, and you won't be able to load your own maps, etc.
What? How does a product "deserve" attention? Anyway, why can't these companies try to build a "buzz" and a cool "corporate image" so they can get the kind of coverage that Apple gets? It's not exactly Apple's fault that other companies have about as much style and savvy as a discarded wrist watch.
Why do people only ever seem to mention the glorification of violence when it comes to music or video games? the other day I saw the new "Indiana Jones" film - and it had parts where grisly deaths were actual comedic elements, and the entire cinema laughed out loud.
On the other hand, even in very violent video games or rap music, the violence is usually portrayed as something dark and sinister - not as a punch-line to a joke.
Personally, I find the use of violence as comedy in Tv and films to be much more disturbing that its use in video games and rap music. It's much more contextualized in the music and video games, while in the film/TV mediums it often appears to be entirely gratuitous. Yet the moral crusaders appear to be more concerned about showing boobies or saying "fuck" than they are about the consequence-free violence.
Likewise, in 2008, very, very few kids would take the "kill the fucking cop" song to heart. It's just a performance, not a command or statement of intent.
What does that have to do with segregating the most intelligent kids? Wealthy kids are just as likely to fuck up as anybody else. They're just as likely to be stupid as anybody else.
If you have an issue with that then I ask what is your personal bias to continue exposing the well mannered kids to violence and drug dealers ?Well, I would ask what your bias is towards stupidity. Firstly, just because a kid is "well mannered" does not mean that s/he is intelligent. Secondly, there are many highly intelligent kids who use and sell drugs. Thirdly, people can be in all of these categories at different points in their lives.
If you think children can be neatly segregated into such clear-cut categories, then you are either delusional or ignorant.
What the hell? That's my domain! How did you get access to my domain through Google Apps?
Why would that be an issue? If a developer feels the market is worth going after, then buying a Mac is no big deal. In fact, I'd be surprised if there were many developers who didn't have at least one Mac in their business, even if they don't use it to develop on or for.
Why would the developers be needed to treated like rockstars? Surely, if they are any good - they will see the platform based on its merits, and decide to develop or not develop for it based on rational metrics?
If a developer needs to be given cocaine, or have the red M&Ms separated from the other colors by Apple, then I question the value of that developer's input. Someone like that can't be far from the drug-fuelled implosion of their career. When people with egos like that go down, they tend to cause collateral damage.
I use a green-screen monitor, you insensitive clod!
Why not? those old-school floppies were massive. You could easily fit a whole pizza on the larger ones. Try doing that with a 2GB flash stick, or even a DVD-R.
And the "no urinating" signs in the nuclear bunker's corridor.
Especially the scene near the beginning where David is playing the arcade game, and he's like a town hero for being good at it, with a crowd of onlooking fans. Reminds me of my own childhood playing the arcades... um... except for the part about the hot chicks wanting to come home and play with my hardware.
For fuck's sake, way to miss the point! It's a hypothetical question, and the very reason I chose that film was the presumed familiarity of it among slashdotters. I wasn't literally asking you to watch the movie again, but to consider the nature of such a film in a visual medium.
Well, it depends on the story. Film is not just a story-telling medium, it's also a medium of visual art. If it were just about the story, then radio plays and books would still be the dominant media.
Take the films of someone like Kubrick - while they are great stories even on a low-resolution screen, they are also breathtaking works of visual art when seen in their intended form.
It took 1 minute for those players to load the movie? The just means you were looking at shitty players. Mine doesn't take nearly that long. And it works without internet connectivity. So, you are obviously just making stuff up.
Not really. The quality of CD audio was already at most people's perception limits, and musicians weren't (and aren't) recording in surround sound, just stereo. But the quality of DVD is well below the perceptible quality of 35mm or 70mm movies projected in a cinema. Plenty of average people can see the difference.
Uhhh, you can already do this with Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. The copy-protection schemes have already been cracked, in exactly the same way they were for DVD. So, I'm not sure what your point is. Somebody probably said the same thing about DVD when it was introduced - "This new, weird format cannot be manipulated like VHS can be" but then somebody cracked CSS protection and DVD can be manipulated exactly as VHS was.
But a movie with quality cinematography is better on a higher resolution medium than the same movie in low-resolution. Would you rather watch 2001: A Space Odyssey as a 70mm theatrical print, or as a video on YouTube?
Because they might find something that is useful or sellable for some future use or product. Why would they just give their patents and IP away? It's also not theirs to give away, it was developed by a consortium of different companies. Toshiba never "owned" HD-DVD in the first place.
You also can't use verbs as nouns. Well, you can, but you probably shouldn't (except in those cases where the noun is also the verb).
I don't get what you are implying. In CloneDVD, it doesn't take any more of the user's time to remove menus or compress data. Removing menus doesn't take any time - you just click the option to only copy the main feature, versus clicking the option to copy the whole disc with menus and extra features. The compression is done by the computer, and doesn't take any extra user input.