Is there anything that the US or other nations can do to North Korea? We can sanction the crap out of them, but sanctions are just as deadly as an biological or chemical attack. Sanctions hurt countries and hurt the innocent people that aren't mixed up in this crap. North Korea is going to do what they want and no one is going to stop them. The US is so bogged down in the middle east that we can't do anything to NK, short of nuking them or causing harm on them.
If you are tired of seeing this crap, there is one simple solution. STOP paying for music or for movies. Just download everything. It stops the money flow, so they can't use that money to make these insane court cases. That is all.
why the hell is our information on something as portable as a laptop? Where the hell does it need to go? One should expect that information to be safe and under guard at all times. Just big corporations trying to spend the least amount of money so they can get their execs. more bonus money. Weak sauce people...weak sauce. Shouldn't would be smacking these places with huge lawsuits for negligence? We keep setting the bar too low for these companies who we are suppose to trust with our personal information. I guess it is wishful thinking.
Yes I understand it is Australian and you completely missed my point.
It doesn't matter which country technology comes from it should be implemented into society. And excuse me I am going to complain because America actually gets the shit end of a lot of technology. The sad thing is that a lot of America doesn't know or doesn't care with the system we have today. So it ends up being fucked over by retards in Congress who make laws that not only affect the US but other countries as well.
I swear, none of this technology ever sees the light of day to the public. It is just astounding on how much bullshit that goes around in this country because of big business models. Something amazing like this should be rolled out everywhere. Even if this stuff costs a crap load atleast it is better spent on the public than a shitty ass war. It is nice to know US tax dollars go out the window where it could be actually funding programs like this and help roll out this tech. to communities. We have such a big business mindset in America that we end up going into tunnel vision.
I think I am frustrated paying $40 for a crappy Verizon connection that peaks about 120k/s and when I am actually downloading something and trying to browse the web, it ends up being slower than 56k.
This is a great achievement but it wont see the light of day in a very very long time if ever. (maybe our government will use it but not us)
Or we can send some people to go live on Mars. First we should build a lunar base and use that a starting point to travel deeper into space. It takes so much fuel and so much energy to leave earth's atmosphere that sending people out into space is not cost effective. It would cost less to lets say launch a ship from the moon than it would be from the earth. We can go much further and at a faster pace if we first built a base. From there you can start sending actual people out to places like Mars. Granted those people would be spending a lot of their life time on a ship to get there and either setup base there or setup a midway point between us and mars. What anything really comes down to funding something like this. Although we do spend $300+ billion on wars so you would think if we put that much money to R & D in physics, biology, chemistry, technology, etc. we would be much better off. I am looking at long term outcomes here. 20-30-50-100 years away. Eventually oil and other resources will become scarce so where is humanity going to turn to next? Eventually we will need to start funding space programs so we can take advantage of other planets around us.
Eventually we get to a place like we see in Battlestar Galactica. It really is about where the money goes. If we can land on Mars we can do a lot more than sending probs out.
Well, you want to know where the money is going from gootube to pay off the copyrighted material on youtube? Assuming Mark Cuban's source is right and google/youtube paid $50 million to each of the head media corporations then that would explain the recent lawsuits. You know, the only way MPAA and RIAA are going to loose is when we stop feeding the cash cow to make it happen. Google is handing them major money to go after more companies and more individuals. Why can't someone pull a Fight Club sequence on their ass and be done with it?
I wish they just postpone all of vista. The only reason why vista will be used is because major corporations will buy all their computers from Dell, HP, etc. Those computers will house Vista. It will take a couple years before everyone has the operating system. Mainly because people don't want to pay a lot of money for an operating system. There is way more people who buy from venders like Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry's etc. Microsoft has a version of windows for every circumstance you need. You know what? Screw that. Just make one OS with everything in it. All the same damn features as the top of the line Vista. An average person isn't going to know the differences between Home Premium, Vista Enterprise, Vista Business, Vista Home Basic, Vista Ultimate. Shit I don't even know what the hell is the difference (yes I know I can look for it on their website) but in general people don't want to think when it comes to computers. It is too technical, blah blah blah.
The problem is that we just need to STOP buying their damn products. It is easy to say that than to actually do that but for god sakes we could have so much more in an OS. We could have really cool interactive menu systems, we could have media drivin enviroments and I am not talking about shitty ass GUIs I am talking about 3D enviroment desktops. Make things intuitive and faster. I know people want fast times when installing the OS but I would love to see options to not install or to install certain applications. The best thing any one can ever do in software development is make two versions of your software, one light and one full, then you put them into one piece of software. Being able to select which options you want to have on there and which options you don't is just better for everyone. Most the people who build their computers know enough about computers to have options to do shit in the OS. Dell, HP, Gateway, etc. all can have their own installation processes for prebought computers (they could have a drop down menu in the bootup disc for average users and users who want to customize installation). Yes I know linux has some of this stuff already. The problem is linux isn't that user friendly. I know I will probably get slammed for this but it truely isn't intuitive at all. I do admit over the years different distros have made it a lot easier to install but just dealing with hardware issues and drivers, etc. just a nightmare to deal with.
I just want more. I want people to think what you want the future to be like in 10-20 years. What sort of technology do you want? Think of all the cool ideas for a good os would be, think about optimizations in your companies computers, think about gaming and how interactive that is, now think about something like interactive menu systems and real time effects. In 20 years we will amazing technologyy, maybe more doors will open with light particles and we will be able to manipulate light in a way where we could have 3D holograms. The way I see it, is that Vista is just a blockade for all of that. It will only help out the big media corporations and hurt innovation and creativity. I say we hold off as long as we can with out installing vista. Make it as painful as we can for them. If any one is high up in a company, please do not upgrade your systems yet. Wait till crazy haxors begin the crack it open and figure out the system.
Ah cool, didn't know that. I usually switch between winampe 2.81 and if it is a bunch of stuff musikcube. I will definately have to check it out. Thanks
I hear you on Media Player Classic. Just a far better player. It gets right down to the point on what you want and it is easy to find stuff. Everytime I open WMP I can't figure out where to go because the UI is crap.
The same principle goes with winamp. That is why I use winamp 2.81 before it got shitty. Sometimes updating isn't the way to go.
I find this really funny actually. You just assume people are just speaking out of their ass. I do have creds to back it up. I have lived in LA for 6 years now and have met people from TV, Film, Game, and Music industry. Infact I was taught by some of the most professional artists in the world. I as well work for a big entertainment company and do produce help produce a product that makes between $100-$200million in sales, I cannot say who or what I deal with because my job would be at stake.
You may think everyone blows shit out of their ass but unfortunately you are wrong.
I have factual evidence to back everything I say is up. Apparently you don't think American rights are being trampled on over NSA wiretaps? Apparently you don't understand that we just suspended habeas corpus. You don't understand that their are frivolous lawsuits in America because of big corporations want more power and more money.
When I say entertainment shouldn't be as a high priority, I mean that the people doing this work should be getting paid middle to upper middle class wages. If their movie or game or album or tv show does really well, then you get a bonus. As an artist you should not expect millions for a retarded roll you played in and make the consumer pay higher prices to compensate your wages. That is retarded. There are way more important things in the world than what Tom Cruise and Katie holmes does. There are way more important things to gossip over than paris hilton.
As for popularity of a show. Let me see, first off any anime you find on torrent sites are hugely popular and because of that people end up buying more of their products here in America. America wouldn't have had Naruto with out downloading or million other animes. There are tones of shows and tones of movies that would have never gotten off the ground if they have not been downloaded. There are thousands upon thousands of downloads everyday in the movie, and tvshow and music catagories through torrenting. Shows that range from being insanely popular to shows that arent. A lot of downloads come from other places in the world, Spain, Japan, Germany,England,etc. They wouldn't get half the shows we get and vica versa.
When I say you are wrong, I mean you are fuckin' dead wrong.
I am just getting sick of this shit. The whole point of entertainment is TO FUCKING ENTERTAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
If it isn't one thing, it is another and another. A lot of shows wouldn't be so popular if it weren't for downloading or watching them on the internet. All youtube is, is another medium at which entertainers can entertain. The more people watch you, the more popular you are. I can go on and on, but this is getting old. Can we for once look past the money and do something good for a change. Yes people have to get paid to live but they don't have to get paid what they are getting paid at, which could range in the millions per year. Actors/actresses/musicians/artists/athletes/entert ainers/executives/etc. have no right to be paid millions upon millions for their lack of work in society. Yes they entertain but the priority of entertainment shouldn't be as high as it is. People like scientists and educators should be getting paid a hell of a lot more than what they do now. The problem with our society is the fact that we have big business running the government. How?
Well first off, you have campaign contributions by big corporations to the politician. These politicians get elected and now have to scratch the corporations back by putting into law like the DMCA or other bills. OR we have politicians that come from a big business background and want to maximize profits for their friends or their companies they have/had ties to. When things like the DMCA get passed it hurts innovation and it hurts society. That is why we have a format war going on. That is why we have our rights being stomped out. That is why we are slowly becoming a bunch of sheep. This is just one of many bad things to come if we don't stop this government. Pirate the shit out of everything. Say fuck you to Sony BMG, say fuck you to Microsoft, say fuck you to Universal, say fuck you to warner bros, say fuck you to news corp, say fuck you to disney, say fuck you to aol, say fuck you to DRM, say fuck you to congress, just fucking think for yourself and stop being a god damn sheep to these people. Stop buying their god damn products. Stop paying for their second rate shit. Life is too god damn short for this stupid ass crap.
Whoever buys hell.com should put a bunch of pictures of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Foley and Congress all having a sex orgy on the senate floor with banners saying mission accomplished!
That is great for him. I also know people who are naturals at FPS and RTS games. They just know how to exploit the game in their advantage. They know what units to pump out first, they know what resource to go after. The thing about an RTS game is the fact that yes you do have freedom but you are also confined to "laws" of the game at any given point during the game. It becomes a factor of narrowing down how you play and what the right way to play against someone else is. It is just a matter of knowing what the developers wanted in balance of a game. It is all about balancing in any multiplayer game. Some games are less balanced than others but still it doesn't take skill to play most games at a competitive level. The only skill involved is how long it takes for a person to understand the principles of the game.
"So what you're telling us, is that if we sit down around a table and figure out all the angles and velocities, any tom, dick & harry, regardless of talent or god-given motor skills, could beat the vast majority of regular participants in any competitive sport?"
Actually, yes I am saying exactly that. I would say the right hardware setup for each person is a major factor on how well someone does. This is debated widely in console versus pc fps games. Some people have the thumbs to deal with the console fps games and some don't but I can bet anything that you give them enough time on it, they will become pretty damn good at it.
"Contrary to what you believe, most people that write the games suck at them, and so do the QA crowd. They don't spend enough time actually competing and will never ever *have* 18hrs a day, 7 days a week to spend on the game. And will thus suck mightily compared to any half decent "gamer" with no interesting in anything but playing and competing at a high level. Oh and let's not forget, seemingly endless amounts of spare time."
This has to be the best thing I have read all day or atleast the dumbest thing I have read all day. First of all, I am a person that "writes" (you should say develop makes you sound a tad bit smarter) games. I think I understand this a little more than you. Most people who develop games understand game philosophies and game mechanics. I am talking about programmers and designers (not talking about artists, but they understand other principles of the game as well) these people understand exactly how their game works and typically play 10x more games than the average gamer and easily rival "competitive gamers". Uh, I really don't know exactly what you mean by they dont spend enough time actually competing, they don't have to. Competitions are not more than just game matches in tournament style rank system. There isn't something special about competing that makes someone better. If you are "practicing" 18 hours a day 7 days a week and you aren't the top gamer in that game...then you should go jump off a bridge or something because that is just retarded or maybe get a life and go get laid.
You have to remember something, someone is always better than you.
First of all, when I make the comment "It really doesn't take that much talent to play video games, you just got to spend time figuring out what the developers where thinking." it refers to how developers work. I should know because I work for one and I work as a designer. I can bet you anything that developers for the most part know exactly what they are creating...like the rocket jump and translocator kill. I don't think the public understands that a lot of games (especially from big developers) go through a lot of QA testing, which means that they report bugs or exploits they can find. Developers have to develop around the average player (so they can make more money) more often than not the games you play are dumbed down so that average gamer can be enjoy the game.
"Functioning in them and being successful at it is much more than understanding some technical aspects of it, the same way understanding thermodynamics or quantum mechanics won't help you be a better human being."
You are kidding me right? Infact, yes it does make you a better human being. I won't go into it but that wasn't the most brilliant statement I have heard.
There are a lot of QA testers that play just as much as him if not not more and probably can woop the crap out of him in any game. It really doesn't take that much talent to play video games, you just got to spend time figuring out what the developers where thinking.
My question is, where do we go from here? What sort of technology do we want 10-20 years from now? We basically have maxed out our solution for TVs. The next big step is not working on a 2D plane of existence it is 3D. Are we expecting HD be here for 20 years? I sure as hell hope not. We need to be able to manipulate light in a way we can get 3D. If you have seen the 3D monitors that have come out, they suck. You just can't fake 3D on a 2D surface like our present displays we have. We have to move beyond HD and think of 3D space. This could spawn a whole new way of filming movies or media. These are things big companies like Sony, and Microsoft need to start thinking up. Not ways of flooding the market with crap like Blu-ray and HD-DVD. What happen to innovation?
I am paying $40 for a junky service and I can't get a better service because Verizon signed a deal with my apartment complex. Verizon avenue just blows and that is the only broadband internet I can get. What happened to innovation? Why are we paying these absurd prices for crap?
A start would to roll out FIOS or any other system than DSL or cable. They have been testin FIOS in Texas for god knows how long and it STILL hasn't rolled out to other places. That is only the start. I want to see telecos go after gigabit transfer rates here. Maybe we wouldn't have such a problem wiwth bandwidth if they actually spent money to upgrade their systems and upgrade their lines. There should be no reason why we have to pay an absurd amount for oc3 or above. The public just takes it up the ass because we have to, until these old farts die out of the telecos.
I am really fuckin sick of this shit. Why do people stand for this shit, these greedy fuckin asshole execs. Very few artists have backed the RIAA on anything. Actually, a lot of bands have been created from pirating and the use of websites they have created, or places like myspace. There are so many misplaced priorities in America which is killing America and it's citizens. Why do artists think they need get paid millions for fuckin' acting or performing or doing sports? I work a crap load of hours in the gaming industry and you don't hear us complaining about making average salaries. Very few people except the top of the top execs get paid anything remotely good. I am talking owners of publishers here. Put actors and actresses and music artists at a cap of 150k anything higher than that is just a little bonus. They shouldn't be expecting millions on a small amount of work. This goes for athletes as well. Maybe if we do that, there will be better movies and albums out there.
Did people ever thinking of pirating a form of a library. I don't know where I would be with out it. I sure as hell wouldn't be working in the game industry. There is a hell of a lot of knowledge and entertainment I wouldn't of seen with out pirating. With the RIAA and MPAA if they had it their way, we wouldn't have CDs or DVDs to burn on. Could you imagine the amount of useful information that has been passed through these medias? That one important discovery of a new virus, or a technological breakthrough document or maybe it is your photos of your trip that you don't want to ever loose? It isn't just about money, it is seriously about growing human knowledge. Only a few people in powerful places right now in America are keeping EVERYONE down. Between the shitty ass internet that the telecoms put into place, and the corrupt congress and government we have, to the mindset of greed in big corporations, we really have screwed ourselves over.
I will pirate till the day I die. FU RIAA you greedy twat-muffins. You keep innovation down and new forms of entertainment out of reach of your own fuckin consumer base. That is right, there is sure a hell of a lot more people on my fuckin side than yours. People can make their own recordings and produce their own albums with only a few thousand on a nice computer rig. All people need is talent and a website. Don't worry RIAA and MPAA you will go down in flames you greedy fuck monkeys!
Just because you don't understand technology doesn't mean you have to go and fuck it up for the rest of us.
Vader where is that mofo? I need to talk to him. He got all powerful and shit...pwned some damn rebels and choked some bitches to death. He must have gotten it from his rehab.
We (America) needs to shift priorities. There are too many priorities in the wrong things. The last election was won by Bush because of something as stupid as gay marriage. Some where along the line America has lost it's way and priorities shifted. Why are athletes, actors, actresses, ceo's, etc make insane amounts of money..where the people who actually do real work and benefit society make squat. Tell me why these people get paid millions to do very little amounts of work? Our system has become a two party system that just doesn't work any more. American's are fooled when going to the elections because there really is no choice in who they have to vote. Election campaigns have grown to be a huge shit fest on each other and they don't focus on things like what they can do to help society, not of just the US but of the world. There are too many rich, ignorant, selfish people in our government today. It isn't about serving the people any more. It is about what bids can I get, or how many votes I can get with the signing of this bill. It is absolutely appauling.
I would like to see our government completely wiped out from top to bottom and start from a bunch of young people who actually do give a shit about our country and our future. There is a huge damn generational gap that is happening. All the old people are making decisions that they have no idea what the consequences will be or they just don't care completely because they will be dead by the time those consequences happen (ie. global warming, internet, pirating, etc.)
The problem with America is that there is too much business. Because people are rich, they seem to have the most pull, which is bullshit because being rich doesn't make you intelligent. Too many things get passed through our congress and our senate because these assholes don't read anything, why? because they are on their damn big ass boats fishing or doing something other than coming up with new ways to help society. I hope all of our politicians burn in hell if there is one...because they are all evil....every single one of them. No one has the balls to stick up for what is right any more.
You know, we could of have been atleast one step closer to getting a better energy source. You take the worlds top scientists and stick them in a lab and give them whatever they want, and you will have your new, cleaner, better energy. How do you think the atom bomb was made? exactly the same way. We could of spent that $300 billion it is costing us for the fuckin retarded ass war in Iraq for R&D of new technology to HELP society on a global level instead of hurting society. I will be damn surprise if humans will make it another 100 years because of the retarded people in high up places will do something like nuke another country, which will set off a huge train wreck through out the world. How do we have the power to wipe the human race over and over again, and the person at the helm is no other than the guy who choked on a pretzel, the guy who fumbles words constantly, the guy who says he will not change his path even though everyone says he is a moron and he is wrong, the guy who probably doesn't know what 10 x 10 is?
Something needs to be done. We really need a good revolution of our government. Even though it won't happen, we really need one. This is what our second amendment right is for, to stand up against this bullshit when our government gets out of hand. Hell I am sure some of our military would even fight for the people, well whats left of it here in the US. I honestly don't think America could take another huge attack on American soil, and it shouldn't. Too many people in America are comfortable in their life driving their damn H3 hummers and as long as they can have their gas we are alright. I won't even go into all the BS oil and how that is going to end. America better get its act together or it will end up a 3rd world country in no time. And it all starts now with this damn goverment we have. This government has shifted America in a dir
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Is there anything that the US or other nations can do to North Korea? We can sanction the crap out of them, but sanctions are just as deadly as an biological or chemical attack. Sanctions hurt countries and hurt the innocent people that aren't mixed up in this crap. North Korea is going to do what they want and no one is going to stop them. The US is so bogged down in the middle east that we can't do anything to NK, short of nuking them or causing harm on them.
If you are tired of seeing this crap, there is one simple solution. STOP paying for music or for movies. Just download everything. It stops the money flow, so they can't use that money to make these insane court cases. That is all.
why the hell is our information on something as portable as a laptop? Where the hell does it need to go? One should expect that information to be safe and under guard at all times. Just big corporations trying to spend the least amount of money so they can get their execs. more bonus money. Weak sauce people...weak sauce. Shouldn't would be smacking these places with huge lawsuits for negligence? We keep setting the bar too low for these companies who we are suppose to trust with our personal information. I guess it is wishful thinking.
Yes I understand it is Australian and you completely missed my point.
It doesn't matter which country technology comes from it should be implemented into society. And excuse me I am going to complain because America actually gets the shit end of a lot of technology. The sad thing is that a lot of America doesn't know or doesn't care with the system we have today. So it ends up being fucked over by retards in Congress who make laws that not only affect the US but other countries as well.
I swear, none of this technology ever sees the light of day to the public. It is just astounding on how much bullshit that goes around in this country because of big business models. Something amazing like this should be rolled out everywhere. Even if this stuff costs a crap load atleast it is better spent on the public than a shitty ass war. It is nice to know US tax dollars go out the window where it could be actually funding programs like this and help roll out this tech. to communities. We have such a big business mindset in America that we end up going into tunnel vision.
I think I am frustrated paying $40 for a crappy Verizon connection that peaks about 120k/s and when I am actually downloading something and trying to browse the web, it ends up being slower than 56k.
This is a great achievement but it wont see the light of day in a very very long time if ever. (maybe our government will use it but not us)
There will be a lot of things in the future that we will use nanotech for. The future looks pretty damn cool with nanotech everywhere.
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Some of the coolest and interesting things to read come from Ray Kurzweil.
this is fuckin' stupid. That is all.
Or we can send some people to go live on Mars. First we should build a lunar base and use that a starting point to travel deeper into space. It takes so much fuel and so much energy to leave earth's atmosphere that sending people out into space is not cost effective. It would cost less to lets say launch a ship from the moon than it would be from the earth. We can go much further and at a faster pace if we first built a base. From there you can start sending actual people out to places like Mars. Granted those people would be spending a lot of their life time on a ship to get there and either setup base there or setup a midway point between us and mars. What anything really comes down to funding something like this. Although we do spend $300+ billion on wars so you would think if we put that much money to R & D in physics, biology, chemistry, technology, etc. we would be much better off. I am looking at long term outcomes here. 20-30-50-100 years away. Eventually oil and other resources will become scarce so where is humanity going to turn to next? Eventually we will need to start funding space programs so we can take advantage of other planets around us.
Eventually we get to a place like we see in Battlestar Galactica. It really is about where the money goes. If we can land on Mars we can do a lot more than sending probs out.
Well, you want to know where the money is going from gootube to pay off the copyrighted material on youtube? Assuming Mark Cuban's source is right and google/youtube paid $50 million to each of the head media corporations then that would explain the recent lawsuits. You know, the only way MPAA and RIAA are going to loose is when we stop feeding the cash cow to make it happen. Google is handing them major money to go after more companies and more individuals. Why can't someone pull a Fight Club sequence on their ass and be done with it?
I wish they just postpone all of vista. The only reason why vista will be used is because major corporations will buy all their computers from Dell, HP, etc. Those computers will house Vista. It will take a couple years before everyone has the operating system. Mainly because people don't want to pay a lot of money for an operating system. There is way more people who buy from venders like Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry's etc. Microsoft has a version of windows for every circumstance you need. You know what? Screw that. Just make one OS with everything in it. All the same damn features as the top of the line Vista. An average person isn't going to know the differences between Home Premium, Vista Enterprise, Vista Business, Vista Home Basic, Vista Ultimate. Shit I don't even know what the hell is the difference (yes I know I can look for it on their website) but in general people don't want to think when it comes to computers. It is too technical, blah blah blah.
The problem is that we just need to STOP buying their damn products. It is easy to say that than to actually do that but for god sakes we could have so much more in an OS. We could have really cool interactive menu systems, we could have media drivin enviroments and I am not talking about shitty ass GUIs I am talking about 3D enviroment desktops. Make things intuitive and faster. I know people want fast times when installing the OS but I would love to see options to not install or to install certain applications. The best thing any one can ever do in software development is make two versions of your software, one light and one full, then you put them into one piece of software. Being able to select which options you want to have on there and which options you don't is just better for everyone. Most the people who build their computers know enough about computers to have options to do shit in the OS. Dell, HP, Gateway, etc. all can have their own installation processes for prebought computers (they could have a drop down menu in the bootup disc for average users and users who want to customize installation). Yes I know linux has some of this stuff already. The problem is linux isn't that user friendly. I know I will probably get slammed for this but it truely isn't intuitive at all. I do admit over the years different distros have made it a lot easier to install but just dealing with hardware issues and drivers, etc. just a nightmare to deal with.
I just want more. I want people to think what you want the future to be like in 10-20 years. What sort of technology do you want? Think of all the cool ideas for a good os would be, think about optimizations in your companies computers, think about gaming and how interactive that is, now think about something like interactive menu systems and real time effects. In 20 years we will amazing technologyy, maybe more doors will open with light particles and we will be able to manipulate light in a way where we could have 3D holograms. The way I see it, is that Vista is just a blockade for all of that. It will only help out the big media corporations and hurt innovation and creativity. I say we hold off as long as we can with out installing vista. Make it as painful as we can for them. If any one is high up in a company, please do not upgrade your systems yet. Wait till crazy haxors begin the crack it open and figure out the system.
Make vista the new ME.
Ah cool, didn't know that. I usually switch between winampe 2.81 and if it is a bunch of stuff musikcube. I will definately have to check it out. Thanks
I hear you on Media Player Classic. Just a far better player. It gets right down to the point on what you want and it is easy to find stuff. Everytime I open WMP I can't figure out where to go because the UI is crap.
The same principle goes with winamp. That is why I use winamp 2.81 before it got shitty. Sometimes updating isn't the way to go.
I find this really funny actually. You just assume people are just speaking out of their ass. I do have creds to back it up. I have lived in LA for 6 years now and have met people from TV, Film, Game, and Music industry. Infact I was taught by some of the most professional artists in the world. I as well work for a big entertainment company and do produce help produce a product that makes between $100-$200million in sales, I cannot say who or what I deal with because my job would be at stake.
You may think everyone blows shit out of their ass but unfortunately you are wrong.
I have factual evidence to back everything I say is up. Apparently you don't think American rights are being trampled on over NSA wiretaps? Apparently you don't understand that we just suspended habeas corpus. You don't understand that their are frivolous lawsuits in America because of big corporations want more power and more money.
When I say entertainment shouldn't be as a high priority, I mean that the people doing this work should be getting paid middle to upper middle class wages. If their movie or game or album or tv show does really well, then you get a bonus. As an artist you should not expect millions for a retarded roll you played in and make the consumer pay higher prices to compensate your wages. That is retarded. There are way more important things in the world than what Tom Cruise and Katie holmes does. There are way more important things to gossip over than paris hilton.
As for popularity of a show. Let me see, first off any anime you find on torrent sites are hugely popular and because of that people end up buying more of their products here in America. America wouldn't have had Naruto with out downloading or million other animes. There are tones of shows and tones of movies that would have never gotten off the ground if they have not been downloaded. There are thousands upon thousands of downloads everyday in the movie, and tvshow and music catagories through torrenting. Shows that range from being insanely popular to shows that arent. A lot of downloads come from other places in the world, Spain, Japan, Germany,England,etc. They wouldn't get half the shows we get and vica versa.
When I say you are wrong, I mean you are fuckin' dead wrong.
I am just getting sick of this shit. The whole point of entertainment is TO FUCKING ENTERTAIN!!!!!!!!!!!
t ainers/executives/etc. have no right to be paid millions upon millions for their lack of work in society. Yes they entertain but the priority of entertainment shouldn't be as high as it is. People like scientists and educators should be getting paid a hell of a lot more than what they do now. The problem with our society is the fact that we have big business running the government. How?
If it isn't one thing, it is another and another. A lot of shows wouldn't be so popular if it weren't for downloading or watching them on the internet.
All youtube is, is another medium at which entertainers can entertain. The more people watch you, the more popular you are. I can go on and on, but this is getting old.
Can we for once look past the money and do something good for a change. Yes people have to get paid to live but they don't have to get paid what they are getting paid at, which could range in the millions per year. Actors/actresses/musicians/artists/athletes/enter
Well first off, you have campaign contributions by big corporations to the politician. These politicians get elected and now have to scratch the corporations back by putting into law like the DMCA or other bills. OR we have politicians that come from a big business background and want to maximize profits for their friends or their companies they have/had ties to. When things like the DMCA get passed it hurts innovation and it hurts society. That is why we have a format war going on. That is why we have our rights being stomped out. That is why we are slowly becoming a bunch of sheep. This is just one of many bad things to come if we don't stop this government. Pirate the shit out of everything. Say fuck you to Sony BMG, say fuck you to Microsoft, say fuck you to Universal, say fuck you to warner bros, say fuck you to news corp, say fuck you to disney, say fuck you to aol, say fuck you to DRM, say fuck you to congress, just fucking think for yourself and stop being a god damn sheep to these people. Stop buying their god damn products. Stop paying for their second rate shit. Life is too god damn short for this stupid ass crap.
Whoever buys hell.com should put a bunch of pictures of Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Foley and Congress all having a sex orgy on the senate floor with banners saying mission accomplished!
If Apple came out with a cell phone, Chuck Norris would use it to defeat terrorism at the tune of Dead Bodies Everywhere.
That is great for him. I also know people who are naturals at FPS and RTS games. They just know how to exploit the game in their advantage. They know what units to pump out first, they know what resource to go after. The thing about an RTS game is the fact that yes you do have freedom but you are also confined to "laws" of the game at any given point during the game. It becomes a factor of narrowing down how you play and what the right way to play against someone else is. It is just a matter of knowing what the developers wanted in balance of a game. It is all about balancing in any multiplayer game. Some games are less balanced than others but still it doesn't take skill to play most games at a competitive level. The only skill involved is how long it takes for a person to understand the principles of the game.
"So what you're telling us, is that if we sit down around a table and figure out all the angles and velocities, any tom, dick & harry, regardless of talent or god-given motor skills, could beat the vast majority of regular participants in any competitive sport?"
Actually, yes I am saying exactly that. I would say the right hardware setup for each person is a major factor on how well someone does. This is debated widely in console versus pc fps games. Some people have the thumbs to deal with the console fps games and some don't but I can bet anything that you give them enough time on it, they will become pretty damn good at it.
"Contrary to what you believe, most people that write the games suck at them, and so do the QA crowd. They don't spend enough time actually competing and will never ever *have* 18hrs a day, 7 days a week to spend on the game. And will thus suck mightily compared to any half decent "gamer" with no interesting in anything but playing and competing at a high level. Oh and let's not forget, seemingly endless amounts of spare time."
This has to be the best thing I have read all day or atleast the dumbest thing I have read all day. First of all, I am a person that "writes" (you should say develop makes you sound a tad bit smarter) games. I think I understand this a little more than you. Most people who develop games understand game philosophies and game mechanics. I am talking about programmers and designers (not talking about artists, but they understand other principles of the game as well) these people understand exactly how their game works and typically play 10x more games than the average gamer and easily rival "competitive gamers". Uh, I really don't know exactly what you mean by they dont spend enough time actually competing, they don't have to. Competitions are not more than just game matches in tournament style rank system. There isn't something special about competing that makes someone better. If you are "practicing" 18 hours a day 7 days a week and you aren't the top gamer in that game...then you should go jump off a bridge or something because that is just retarded or maybe get a life and go get laid.
You have to remember something, someone is always better than you.
First of all, when I make the comment
"It really doesn't take that much talent to play video games, you just got to spend time figuring out what the developers where thinking." it refers to how developers work. I should know because I work for one and I work as a designer. I can bet you anything that developers for the most part know exactly what they are creating...like the rocket jump and translocator kill. I don't think the public understands that a lot of games (especially from big developers) go through a lot of QA testing, which means that they report bugs or exploits they can find. Developers have to develop around the average player (so they can make more money) more often than not the games you play are dumbed down so that average gamer can be enjoy the game.
"Functioning in them and being successful at it is much more than understanding some technical aspects of it, the same way understanding thermodynamics or quantum mechanics won't help you be a better human being."
You are kidding me right? Infact, yes it does make you a better human being. I won't go into it but that wasn't the most brilliant statement I have heard.
There are a lot of QA testers that play just as much as him if not not more and probably can woop the crap out of him in any game. It really doesn't take that much talent to play video games, you just got to spend time figuring out what the developers where thinking.
My question is, where do we go from here? What sort of technology do we want 10-20 years from now? We basically have maxed out our solution for TVs. The next big step is not working on a 2D plane of existence it is 3D. Are we expecting HD be here for 20 years? I sure as hell hope not. We need to be able to manipulate light in a way we can get 3D. If you have seen the 3D monitors that have come out, they suck. You just can't fake 3D on a 2D surface like our present displays we have. We have to move beyond HD and think of 3D space. This could spawn a whole new way of filming movies or media. These are things big companies like Sony, and Microsoft need to start thinking up. Not ways of flooding the market with crap like Blu-ray and HD-DVD. What happen to innovation?
I am paying $40 for a junky service and I can't get a better service because Verizon signed a deal with my apartment complex. Verizon avenue just blows and that is the only broadband internet I can get. What happened to innovation? Why are we paying these absurd prices for crap?
A start would to roll out FIOS or any other system than DSL or cable. They have been testin FIOS in Texas for god knows how long and it STILL hasn't rolled out to other places. That is only the start. I want to see telecos go after gigabit transfer rates here. Maybe we wouldn't have such a problem wiwth bandwidth if they actually spent money to upgrade their systems and upgrade their lines. There should be no reason why we have to pay an absurd amount for oc3 or above. The public just takes it up the ass because we have to, until these old farts die out of the telecos.
I am really fuckin sick of this shit. Why do people stand for this shit, these greedy fuckin asshole execs. Very few artists have backed the RIAA on anything. Actually, a lot of bands have been created from pirating and the use of websites they have created, or places like myspace. There are so many misplaced priorities in America which is killing America and it's citizens. Why do artists think they need get paid millions for fuckin' acting or performing or doing sports? I work a crap load of hours in the gaming industry and you don't hear us complaining about making average salaries. Very few people except the top of the top execs get paid anything remotely good. I am talking owners of publishers here. Put actors and actresses and music artists at a cap of 150k anything higher than that is just a little bonus. They shouldn't be expecting millions on a small amount of work. This goes for athletes as well. Maybe if we do that, there will be better movies and albums out there.
Did people ever thinking of pirating a form of a library. I don't know where I would be with out it. I sure as hell wouldn't be working in the game industry. There is a hell of a lot of knowledge and entertainment I wouldn't of seen with out pirating. With the RIAA and MPAA if they had it their way, we wouldn't have CDs or DVDs to burn on. Could you imagine the amount of useful information that has been passed through these medias? That one important discovery of a new virus, or a technological breakthrough document or maybe it is your photos of your trip that you don't want to ever loose? It isn't just about money, it is seriously about growing human knowledge. Only a few people in powerful places right now in America are keeping EVERYONE down. Between the shitty ass internet that the telecoms put into place, and the corrupt congress and government we have, to the mindset of greed in big corporations, we really have screwed ourselves over.
I will pirate till the day I die. FU RIAA you greedy twat-muffins. You keep innovation down and new forms of entertainment out of reach of your own fuckin consumer base. That is right, there is sure a hell of a lot more people on my fuckin side than yours. People can make their own recordings and produce their own albums with only a few thousand on a nice computer rig. All people need is talent and a website. Don't worry RIAA and MPAA you will go down in flames you greedy fuck monkeys!
Just because you don't understand technology doesn't mean you have to go and fuck it up for the rest of us.
I think I saw this somewhere...
Vader where is that mofo? I need to talk to him. He got all powerful and shit...pwned some damn rebels and choked some bitches to death. He must have gotten it from his rehab.
We (America) needs to shift priorities. There are too many priorities in the wrong things. The last election was won by Bush because of something as stupid as gay marriage. Some where along the line America has lost it's way and priorities shifted. Why are athletes, actors, actresses, ceo's, etc make insane amounts of money..where the people who actually do real work and benefit society make squat. Tell me why these people get paid millions to do very little amounts of work? Our system has become a two party system that just doesn't work any more. American's are fooled when going to the elections because there really is no choice in who they have to vote. Election campaigns have grown to be a huge shit fest on each other and they don't focus on things like what they can do to help society, not of just the US but of the world. There are too many rich, ignorant, selfish people in our government today. It isn't about serving the people any more. It is about what bids can I get, or how many votes I can get with the signing of this bill. It is absolutely appauling.
I would like to see our government completely wiped out from top to bottom and start from a bunch of young people who actually do give a shit about our country and our future. There is a huge damn generational gap that is happening. All the old people are making decisions that they have no idea what the consequences will be or they just don't care completely because they will be dead by the time those consequences happen (ie. global warming, internet, pirating, etc.)
The problem with America is that there is too much business. Because people are rich, they seem to have the most pull, which is bullshit because being rich doesn't make you intelligent. Too many things get passed through our congress and our senate because these assholes don't read anything, why? because they are on their damn big ass boats fishing or doing something other than coming up with new ways to help society. I hope all of our politicians burn in hell if there is one...because they are all evil....every single one of them. No one has the balls to stick up for what is right any more.
You know, we could of have been atleast one step closer to getting a better energy source. You take the worlds top scientists and stick them in a lab and give them whatever they want, and you will have your new, cleaner, better energy. How do you think the atom bomb was made? exactly the same way. We could of spent that $300 billion it is costing us for the fuckin retarded ass war in Iraq for R&D of new technology to HELP society on a global level instead of hurting society. I will be damn surprise if humans will make it another 100 years because of the retarded people in high up places will do something like nuke another country, which will set off a huge train wreck through out the world. How do we have the power to wipe the human race over and over again, and the person at the helm is no other than the guy who choked on a pretzel, the guy who fumbles words constantly, the guy who says he will not change his path even though everyone says he is a moron and he is wrong, the guy who probably doesn't know what 10 x 10 is?
Something needs to be done. We really need a good revolution of our government. Even though it won't happen, we really need one. This is what our second amendment right is for, to stand up against this bullshit when our government gets out of hand. Hell I am sure some of our military would even fight for the people, well whats left of it here in the US. I honestly don't think America could take another huge attack on American soil, and it shouldn't. Too many people in America are comfortable in their life driving their damn H3 hummers and as long as they can have their gas we are alright. I won't even go into all the BS oil and how that is going to end. America better get its act together or it will end up a 3rd world country in no time. And it all starts now with this damn goverment we have. This government has shifted America in a dir