Is anyone really convinced that the Sales Tax would go away? I mean, Local Governments are so money hungry, i could easily see them trying to manage (and possibly succeeding) in having BOTH taxes in place, like it is here in Arizona (and most places in the US, i believe).
I've played Nethack for countless hours over the years and always return to it. I've ascended about 5 times, i think. Every time I come back to it, i fall in love with it all over again.
I can't think of another game that has affected me like that
So this means that likely just the bloggers will subscribe, have something to write about, summarize the content and distro to the people that read the blogs. I guess that means NYT makes some money off of it, but it forces them into less relevance in the online world.
and the interesting (ironic?) thing is that the kinds of people that actually WANT to do this type of video streaming are the exact type of people that WON'T put up with DRM. I want to watch the vid on multiple devices... so waht do i do? I could either RENT this license for some fee or rip and convert my product.
What's funny is how IMMEDIATE physical contact is often viewed as secondary to sms contact. So many times I'm talking to someone and in the middle of my sentence, he'll suddenly just turn away, head down, and start reading his sms. "Dude, I'm talking here..."
And the solution is to drive about 10-15 mph slower than ongoing traffic. Gawd, every time i get stuck behind some idiot who is driving way slower than traffic, it's someone on a cellphone. Yeah, it may be safer for THEM, but it's crazy frustrating and dangerous when cars have to try to navigate around these moving roadblocks.
This is partly what the **IA is fighting and partly the FAULT of the **IA b/c of how they've proceeded.
It's very easy for a particular convenience to set into a mind. Then it's really REALLY difficult to change that mindset. So, early on, mp3 filesharing got the mindshare and so now there's a very real problem of many people (especially sub-college aged) to think of music as free and to not even consider the option of paying.
But the RIAA could have intercepted this early on with their approach. Instead of fighting it, causing the filesharers to advance their technologies, the big Media Conglomerates could have leveraged it for their own benefit. True, if they had offered DRM-free mp3s on a pay-basis, there would have been many sneaker-net sharing, but the mindset would still be that "you SHOULD pay for the music."
I honestly think it's too late for the music industry to totally recoup this; i could be rong as iTunes does seem to be selling alot of music, but then the death of Zune and MS plays for never and now Yahoo's drm going away could set it back.
BUT, i think the movie industry still has a chance to establish themselves in the mindshare. While the savvy ones have been downlaoding divx/xvid AVIs/MKVs, using UpnP media servers, and media-shifting their DVDs for a while now, the general populance is only now starting to figure out that they WANT to do these things.
THe DVR has reached a critical mass where end-users are enjoying the convenience. So why shouldn't they consume movies in a similar fashion? They are used to putting a CD into the computer and easily having iTunes put it on their iPod, so why should a DVD be any different?
It's time that the people in charge at the MPAA start thinking about how to provide for their customers. If they do that, i tihnk they'll be surprised at how much they can actually profit from it, WITHOUT having to gouge them!
But then again, this is just all stuff that's been said 100x before, so why expect change now...
Agreed on this. All these services and craftsmen are very well paid. Include to your list: tailors (at least in italy), photographers, chefs, wedding planners, heavy machinery operators...
Of course the key piece (referring to parent poast) is that the successful ones at these are neither stupid nor lazy. Just b/c they can't quote Brutus' speech in JULIUS CAESAR or differentiate x^2 doesn't mean they are stupid. And the effort involved in learning specialized skills is likely as involved (or even moreso in some cases) than traditional scholastic efforts.
Often, i think these types of student (myself, i must admit) need to be in classes with teachers that they respect.
I think many teachers these days don't realize that respect is not automatically given by students to the Teacher, but must be earned by the teacher. There's the effort, the dynamic, and the knowledge base to work from (and for each teacher and each student there are different things which will hit and ring true).
The sign that someone is constantly sleeping in class should be an indication to the teacher that there's a disconnect b/w s/he and the student.
I think a better analogy is that of paying for access to roads (taxes). The roads are then free for your use in your car (computer) as much as you want. You can drive on the road just to and from work or to transport good from one place to another.
Let me know when they get David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, or someone with talent, vision, and insight to direct the movie. But, I'm counting on someone like Brett Ratner...:P
There are ALOT of really solid DVD players. I still have my Sony (*spit*) $1200 DVD player (forget the model #. DVP-1000?) and it is built like a tank. Later I bought a Denon DVD player that was $1000 and it too was a brute. The $49 DVD player from Wal-Mart will perform and last like you might expect. THere were VHS players that were like this also. My JVC VHS player ($500 when i bought it) is still going strong when i need to and is much heavier and more solid than any of those DVD players are WalMart/Target/etc
What will Metallica do? So far, NIN : Big. Radiohead : Huge. If Metallica follows suit and they bomb fantastically, then will they go back to business the old fashioned way? Will they sue all the downloaders again? I'm curious...
This is an interesting turn as up to now, the providers have not been worried about owning up to the practice and have been creating speak about how they're allowed to do it, how they have to do it to protect the over-capacity infrastructure they have, etc. etc
at least they're now figuring out that it's a frowned upon practice. Even if they ARE doing it, they are best off hiding it. Well, that's going to do quite a bit to help The Net Neutrality movement if/when the truth comes to light.
A wholly new story covering the period of time between THE HOBBIT and LOTR (I'm assuming that it's to be wholly new, at least and that there's not somehting like a Christopher Tolkien piece of work that they're going to base it on). I'm sure they'll have the best intentions but i can see that going terribly wrong.
I think this is so true. And also explains why I never have enjoyed reading Tolkien very much. He spends a great deal of time and effort on the minutiae of the world, developing it so that there's no mistaking how it looks, what things are populating it,... everything. And then spends a great deal of time with his characters wandering thru it, a middle-earth tourist document, if you will. I believe that is why those who love it do in fact love it: because it is so vivid and vibrant and complete. It's not JUST a story, it's an entire mythology.
For me, while i did enjoy quite a bit of it and i absolutely credit him with influencing most (if not all) fantasy afterwards, it's a bit tedious for me to get thru it all.
In high school i was quite a voracious fantasy reader. Terry brooks' Shannara is almost a complete rip of Tolkien but trimmed (watered?) down to a point that i actually enjoyed reading it more. I liked A SPELL FOR CHAMELEON quite a bit, Raymond Feist's MAGICIAN, Michael Moorcock though i wouldn't classify his work as great, Zelazny's AMBER,...
BLADE 2 was just awful, but i don't know that there was ANYTHING that could have been done short of a complete rewrite. But it did have a good look/feel to it.
HELLBOY and PAN'S LABYRINTH show that he's quite an adept director/writer. Although my one gripe is that in both, it felt that there were some story elements either cut from the final product or that he shortcutted thru some storytelling.
Anyone who hasn't checked out HELLBOY really ought to give it a chance; it's FAR better than i expected it to be, though i was hoping for more delicious Cthulhu-ness!
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The better question is going to be Does it affect DVD sales.
Is anyone really convinced that the Sales Tax would go away? I mean, Local Governments are so money hungry, i could easily see them trying to manage (and possibly succeeding) in having BOTH taxes in place, like it is here in Arizona (and most places in the US, i believe).
I've played Nethack for countless hours over the years and always return to it. I've ascended about 5 times, i think. Every time I come back to it, i fall in love with it all over again.
I can't think of another game that has affected me like that
So this means that likely just the bloggers will subscribe, have something to write about, summarize the content and distro to the people that read the blogs. I guess that means NYT makes some money off of it, but it forces them into less relevance in the online world.
Dude, this sounds TOTALLY COOOL! Write it up! /sarcasm
I could actually see someone taking it and running with it.
and the interesting (ironic?) thing is that the kinds of people that actually WANT to do this type of video streaming are the exact type of people that WON'T put up with DRM. I want to watch the vid on multiple devices... so waht do i do? I could either RENT this license for some fee or rip and convert my product.
What's funny is how IMMEDIATE physical contact is often viewed as secondary to sms contact. So many times I'm talking to someone and in the middle of my sentence, he'll suddenly just turn away, head down, and start reading his sms. "Dude, I'm talking here..."
Why do you hate Tiger?
And the solution is to drive about 10-15 mph slower than ongoing traffic. Gawd, every time i get stuck behind some idiot who is driving way slower than traffic, it's someone on a cellphone. Yeah, it may be safer for THEM, but it's crazy frustrating and dangerous when cars have to try to navigate around these moving roadblocks.
This is partly what the **IA is fighting and partly the FAULT of the **IA b/c of how they've proceeded.
It's very easy for a particular convenience to set into a mind. Then it's really REALLY difficult to change that mindset. So, early on, mp3 filesharing got the mindshare and so now there's a very real problem of many people (especially sub-college aged) to think of music as free and to not even consider the option of paying.
But the RIAA could have intercepted this early on with their approach. Instead of fighting it, causing the filesharers to advance their technologies, the big Media Conglomerates could have leveraged it for their own benefit. True, if they had offered DRM-free mp3s on a pay-basis, there would have been many sneaker-net sharing, but the mindset would still be that "you SHOULD pay for the music."
I honestly think it's too late for the music industry to totally recoup this; i could be rong as iTunes does seem to be selling alot of music, but then the death of Zune and MS plays for never and now Yahoo's drm going away could set it back.
BUT, i think the movie industry still has a chance to establish themselves in the mindshare. While the savvy ones have been downlaoding divx/xvid AVIs/MKVs, using UpnP media servers, and media-shifting their DVDs for a while now, the general populance is only now starting to figure out that they WANT to do these things.
THe DVR has reached a critical mass where end-users are enjoying the convenience. So why shouldn't they consume movies in a similar fashion? They are used to putting a CD into the computer and easily having iTunes put it on their iPod, so why should a DVD be any different?
It's time that the people in charge at the MPAA start thinking about how to provide for their customers. If they do that, i tihnk they'll be surprised at how much they can actually profit from it, WITHOUT having to gouge them!
But then again, this is just all stuff that's been said 100x before, so why expect change now...
Of course the key piece (referring to parent poast) is that the successful ones at these are neither stupid nor lazy. Just b/c they can't quote Brutus' speech in JULIUS CAESAR or differentiate x^2 doesn't mean they are stupid. And the effort involved in learning specialized skills is likely as involved (or even moreso in some cases) than traditional scholastic efforts.
Often, i think these types of student (myself, i must admit) need to be in classes with teachers that they respect. I think many teachers these days don't realize that respect is not automatically given by students to the Teacher, but must be earned by the teacher. There's the effort, the dynamic, and the knowledge base to work from (and for each teacher and each student there are different things which will hit and ring true). The sign that someone is constantly sleeping in class should be an indication to the teacher that there's a disconnect b/w s/he and the student.
I think a better analogy is that of paying for access to roads (taxes). The roads are then free for your use in your car (computer) as much as you want. You can drive on the road just to and from work or to transport good from one place to another.
Let me know when they get David Fincher, Paul Thomas Anderson, or someone with talent, vision, and insight to direct the movie. But, I'm counting on someone like Brett Ratner... :P
When GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES originally played in the theatres in Japan, it was the first film of a double bill. The second film? TOTORO.
There are ALOT of really solid DVD players. I still have my Sony (*spit*) $1200 DVD player (forget the model #. DVP-1000?) and it is built like a tank. Later I bought a Denon DVD player that was $1000 and it too was a brute. The $49 DVD player from Wal-Mart will perform and last like you might expect. THere were VHS players that were like this also. My JVC VHS player ($500 when i bought it) is still going strong when i need to and is much heavier and more solid than any of those DVD players are WalMart/Target/etc
What will Metallica do? So far, NIN : Big. Radiohead : Huge. If Metallica follows suit and they bomb fantastically, then will they go back to business the old fashioned way? Will they sue all the downloaders again? I'm curious...
Here's a site on the subject: improve usenet
Shouldn't be too hard to make a Baker's Map cookie. Hey, count the puff pastry layers!
at least they're now figuring out that it's a frowned upon practice. Even if they ARE doing it, they are best off hiding it. Well, that's going to do quite a bit to help The Net Neutrality movement if/when the truth comes to light.
(no not that, i meant spitting :) )
A wholly new story covering the period of time between THE HOBBIT and LOTR (I'm assuming that it's to be wholly new, at least and that there's not somehting like a Christopher Tolkien piece of work that they're going to base it on). I'm sure they'll have the best intentions but i can see that going terribly wrong.
For me, while i did enjoy quite a bit of it and i absolutely credit him with influencing most (if not all) fantasy afterwards, it's a bit tedious for me to get thru it all.
In high school i was quite a voracious fantasy reader. Terry brooks' Shannara is almost a complete rip of Tolkien but trimmed (watered?) down to a point that i actually enjoyed reading it more. I liked A SPELL FOR CHAMELEON quite a bit, Raymond Feist's MAGICIAN, Michael Moorcock though i wouldn't classify his work as great, Zelazny's AMBER, ...
HELLBOY and PAN'S LABYRINTH show that he's quite an adept director/writer. Although my one gripe is that in both, it felt that there were some story elements either cut from the final product or that he shortcutted thru some storytelling.
Anyone who hasn't checked out HELLBOY really ought to give it a chance; it's FAR better than i expected it to be, though i was hoping for more delicious Cthulhu-ness!