I think perhaps that watching all 4 hours of Urotsukidoji, this wonderful coming of age anime, will assuage your fears about the delightful sub-genre known as "Hentai". Many fans find it's philosophical plot too heavy for the "lite" aspect that is so prevalent of much anime, but I think that for you it is "just right".
Thanks for the link, this does make things clearer. It becomes very clear what effect these games have by the quote of those kids, "We're playing the good guys. We're police officers killing the bad people."
As if it is okay to kill the alleged bad people. I have noticed that the way information is presented on Slashdot is becoming increasingly inflammatory. Perhaps next we will be arguing for beer to be served in the arcades and that they include peepshows, so that no form of entertainment is kept from our kids. We sure would hate to infringe upon their "rights".
I worry about free speech as much as anyone, but it seems that as soon as kids become old enough to be influenced by advertising and peer pressure, parents start letting them make their own decisions. Not to knock kids but they are not adults, and since it has become apparent that parents lack the time or ability to really be involved in their children's life enough to exert influence (as opposed to mere discipline), it increasingly becomes the society's job to make sure that kids are safe from certain material and situations. You know, like the fact that they aren't allowed in bars or strip clubs. Kids can't buy guns etc. In a public place like an arcade where minors are allowed to be unsupervised, it makes sense that there should be certain restrictions on what is allowed there.
I admit that the "give" is worrisome, however anyone can write a commentary on anything. By which I mean that you can take notes and then write your own analysis on the lecture and publish it. This would constitute an original work, and is what most academic works are. However I have to concede that you are correct in the assessment that the bill is too restrictive and will probably not pass as a result. On the other hand, I don't see the problem with profs publishing their own material. That is what academic presses are for. And they ain't making tons of dough off it either. If Stephen King came to my local bookstore and read from an upcoming work and I wrote it down and published it, how fast do you think it would take his lawyers to put me in jail? Pretty fast I bet.
The RMS thing seems awfully paranoid in the context in which you want to put it. It still doesn't negate the fact that this isn't about the "notes equaling the education". It's about the redistribution of original material, the lecture. It is sold as "the lecture". If someone wanted to write a commentary on Derrida's lectures, that is one thing. But to record and sell his lectures is another is another. It's that simple.
Actually the "commercial" part is still the point of the bill so your argument is still valid. It just means that if I xerox my handwritten notes and sell them commercially for money and represent them as the lectures that I still get busted. Which is how it should be. Don't take the class if you can't attend the lecture.
I think that your whole argument is absurd. These notes are not presented as an original work "reviewing" or "commenting" upon the lectures. They are specifically sold as the lectures themselves. And the reasons that these exist are so that students don't have to attend the class. That specificity is a world apart from your presentation. This is a commercial enterprise. I know that on Slashdot the kneejerk reaction is that "everything is free" and all IP has no right to protection but that isn't how the world works and there is no reason that is should be that way. If a student wishes to pass notes to another student that is different than this case. A large percentage of academic presses publish books that are collections of lectures every year. But I suppose that they are just money grubbing champagne swilling rock stars to you guys for trying to break even. Grow up will you?
Some of the best bands this country has ever seen have been little more than broke their whole careers. Perhaps if the Rolling Stones hadn't been rich rock stars they would of thrown in the towel 30 years ago when they realized they had nothing more to say and we would of been saved three decades of horrible records at their hands. There is tons of great music being made now on small labels where dedicated musicians work together and a network is supported by a small group of dedicated fans. Maybe John Zorn and his ilk are not becoming millionaires but there is no doubt that they are serious about music making and not about dollar making. They are also serious about community. A trait not in evidence in the RIAA circles except inasmuch as it is about celebrity. Any musician that cares only about the dollars is a capitalist, not an artist.
"We're the hardest working band in the business...I don't care if we're the best!"
-Iggy Pop with the Stooges
Maybe you should find out a little more about B&N. Over the last few years they entered into an unhealthy relationship with Ingram Book Dist. (the largest book distributor in the US) and started putting the squeeze on smaller chains and all independent stores through a series of unethical acts that bankrupted a lot of smaller stores. When B&N tried to buy Ingram the outcry against their proposed monopoly was so strong (the ABA and many other book orgs decried the buyout) that they dropped the whole thing and slunk home with their greedy tail between their legs. I have no love for Amazon because of their abusive practices against their employees as they became "corporatized" and their patent war with B&N was a battle that I wish could of set both companies aflame.
If you care about having a choice at all, buy independent and support your local brick and mortar.
To think that because you can buy your allegedly rebellious products at B&N means anything is a foolish thought indeed.....
You call that cracking??!! In my day we cracked the original Hebrew of the old testament and translated it into greek and then rm'ed the Hebrew! Then we left it to those poor meshuggah's to translate it back into into Hebrew!!!! Wotta joke!! You think you have keyboard problems, try translating on parchment using a quill by candlelight! Talk about carpal tunnel....it took them years to recompile the kernel back into Hebrew!!!!
I misspelled Google the other day and accidentally typed in gogole and got the Bill Gates Home page complete with links to Micro-Soft. It ain't owned by M$ but it sure was weird. Even creepier was the link to pix of Bill inserting alleged vaccine into the mouths of children in India. It looked more like "You will take this Window upgrade and like it !"
Bill Gates personally overseeing the vaccination of third world countries to protect them from Linux!
I thought that this article was going to be about why Einstein populated a universe with flying rods and clocks or why Minkowski tried to give Relativity a geometrical dimension by supplying time as a fourth axis, but instead what we get is a bunch of talk about scientists watching TV and movies. The cool part is that the discussion here on Slashdot actually is far more interesting than the article itself. Though I think that there has always been more imagination in scientists minds than the article is willing to give. It's not like Star Trek is the first thing to send people off with wacky ideas of what "could happen"......
still not sure where the poster pulled the topic out of that mess of an article....
Since Apple uses its secretive announcement schedule as a way to dump old equipment before stocking new (thereby screwing people over)perhaps there is a coterie of people within Apple who are tired of this. When I called to complain because I received my G3 the day that they announced the G4's, I was told that there had been a ton of complaints and they had set up extra lines to handle the complaint process. Of course all they were doing was basically using the famous "Animal House" quote: "You fucked up, you trusted us!" They lost me as a future customer. (That and the fact that the far cheaper Athlon system that I bought a few months later totally kicks ass over the G3).
Maybe there are people within the company who think that Jobs policy of sticking it to the suckers will mean no return business.
As a Mac user who's ass is tired from the reaming Jobs has given it over his secretive new releases and sticking it to the Mac consumer I can only say that the sooner the better for the death of the Mac. At lease Microshaft doesn't jam overpriced and outdated the day I get it hardware up my snoot the way Apple does. And if you call Apple they apologize for selling you the last G etc the day the new G etc. came out but tough shit for you. And if they announce a new OS the next day they are big enough to give you a $20 discount. Fuck the theiving rotten Apple, I hope they rot. Most graphics people I know have PC's anyway since except for those suckups at Adobe more stuff is ported PC only. Since I don't have a vested interest in Photoshop I can say that my switch to Unix or Linux is making me happy and I know that it isn't going to surprise me or cost me a jillion $$$ when the latest stuff comes out.
"There is a special place in Hell for Tow Truck Drivers and Steve Jobs".
There are two options available to you. one is to ask the instructor (which is a good skill to learn) if you can do it your way. The other is to LEARN to do it their way. You seem to think that the learning process is only geared to what you want to do. WRONG! It' s to teach you things, it may be good for you to learn how to do it under Windows using Code Warrior. If you can't accept that then quit the class. If you are such a goddamn smarty pants then go get a job and fuck school. If you are there to learn, then shut up and learn. And like I said, learn to talk to your teachers, it will benefit you more than whining on Slashdot so you can start another round of Microsoft bashing.
It's got my vote.....
--"Air show? Buzz-cut Alabamans spewing colored smoke from their whiz jets to
the strains of "Rock You Like A Hurricane?" What kind of countrified rube
is still impressed by that?"
--Sideshow Bob, the Simpsons.
"While I'm all for making computers easier to use, would typing "move all files beginning with the letter a to the directory called 'foo'" be any improvement over "mv a* foo" (or "move a* foo" for that matter)?" Duh! That's a stupid geek question. How many of the users that this stuff is aimed at know what mv or * mean? Sure it's simple to use maybe, but if I tell someone to use a wildcard half the time I get Homer eyes in return and realize that I have to help out by doing it myself. Doh!
When I sent this story in two days ago when I saw it on Salon, I wondered if this meant that fashion and art sites would end up being censored. Perhaps Salon is not as good a source as a company press release.....
People just want to get the job done. Many of these people have LIVES outside of their JOB and for them the computer is a tool not a religion. The driving analogy doesn't fit because I have yet to run across a computer that is as robust and easy to use as a car. Most people don't know how to work on their cars and it's probably pretty likely that most quake playing geeks don't either. So far M$FT has provided the best combination of ease of use and extortion (err I mean business leverage) to rule the desktop. But if their products were as difficult to use as vi then I doubt that there is enough "leverage" in the world for them to sell it to end users.
We are visual beings and that means the GUI's are the rule and while I know that there are many who drool over the command line (and maybe some who are truly bent and dream of the return of that retarded Edlin) the truth is that for many using the computer is not so involved with the SYSTEM as it is with using Excel/Word/Outlook and going home to have a LIFE outside of computers. Scary, ain't it, that some people want to do something other than 'hack the kernel' or play Quake till they drop?
I bet users (and I.Q. has nothing to do with it) will learn more about computers about the same time that geeks learn social skills and the joy of interacting with live people rather than trying to look up Lara Croft's undies.
Like getting in your "covered self-powered transport" and driving out of the autopark so that you can leave the building where you spend 60 hours a week and honk, honk, gas your way through traffic to drive into the underground parking garage and take the elevator to your apartment in a high-rise deluxe condo and use the weight room and then have Kozmo deliver food so that you can watch TV and start the cycle all over again the next day is so different. Give people TV and they won't even notice. If the domes translucent what's the diff?
Being from New Mexico and having friends who work at LANL, I can tell you that you are right. Though the way they put it now, is that it could withstand the crash of a 747, I think that what that used to mean is an ICBM hit. I bet a forest fire directly overhead would not do any damage. In 1996 when fire did reach a couple of the buildings, they landscaped much of the growth away and set up fire walls. A friend of mine in Santa Fe said that there had been an explosion and that all these people that she knew were leaving Santa Fe thinking that it was nuclear waste going up. With half of Los Alamos burning I am sure that there were plenty of other things to blow up other than the labs, such as gas lines, scorched cars etc. But it does show what paranoia there is out there. The AP article itself sounded that way as well. What kind of technical information did they want? National secrets? Please.....
Though perhaps this fire was really set to burn those bee fields that Mulder found in the X-files......
He's loaded the cops up with guns and now they do the bulk of the killling in NYC. And are shooting people who are unarmed!!!!! I am less worried of being hassled by criminals than the gunslinging cops and the worst part is that they are generally coke snorting, bribe-taking (in order to maintain their "cover")undercover cops. The difference between these guys and the alleged bad guys is???????I bet that they don't need to worry about no waiting period.....
As pathetic as it sounds, this guy is right. Metallica has sucked for years and the only way for them to truly keep making money after ridiculous gaffes like covering Bob Segar, is to inspire the kind of loyalty that keeps the Stones in business and blood changes. The fans desire to engage in the act that I call necrophilia, or 'loving' a band long after they are dead, is responsible for tons of cash each year.
Whether it's the Sex Pistols or the Who, this ugly, awful act keeps the tasteless separated from their dollars and keeps geezers who should of been 'thought' out into the cornfield long ago, in piles of green. By foisting this act of betrayal through Napster, we can only hope that Metallica will open the eyes of their fans to how lame, greedy and truly stupid this band is. Hopefully they will die bitter, alcoholic deaths, old and alone in the gutters after their royalty checks have dried up from their once fans disinterest.
A little harsh maybe, but when people fuck with the freedom of others, especially those who supported them, they deserve the worst. To bring Napster under even more heat, also qualifies them for a big Roman "Thumbs Down" in my book.
"We're the hardest working band in the business, I don't care if we're the best!"-Iggy Pop.
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I think perhaps that watching all 4 hours of Urotsukidoji, this wonderful coming of age anime, will assuage your fears about the delightful sub-genre known as "Hentai". Many fans find it's philosophical plot too heavy for the "lite" aspect that is so prevalent of much anime, but I think that for you it is "just right".
As if it is okay to kill the alleged bad people. I have noticed that the way information is presented on Slashdot is becoming increasingly inflammatory. Perhaps next we will be arguing for beer to be served in the arcades and that they include peepshows, so that no form of entertainment is kept from our kids. We sure would hate to infringe upon their "rights".
I worry about free speech as much as anyone, but it seems that as soon as kids become old enough to be influenced by advertising and peer pressure, parents start letting them make their own decisions. Not to knock kids but they are not adults, and since it has become apparent that parents lack the time or ability to really be involved in their children's life enough to exert influence (as opposed to mere discipline), it increasingly becomes the society's job to make sure that kids are safe from certain material and situations. You know, like the fact that they aren't allowed in bars or strip clubs. Kids can't buy guns etc. In a public place like an arcade where minors are allowed to be unsupervised, it makes sense that there should be certain restrictions on what is allowed there.
I admit that the "give" is worrisome, however anyone can write a commentary on anything. By which I mean that you can take notes and then write your own analysis on the lecture and publish it. This would constitute an original work, and is what most academic works are. However I have to concede that you are correct in the assessment that the bill is too restrictive and will probably not pass as a result. On the other hand, I don't see the problem with profs publishing their own material. That is what academic presses are for. And they ain't making tons of dough off it either. If Stephen King came to my local bookstore and read from an upcoming work and I wrote it down and published it, how fast do you think it would take his lawyers to put me in jail? Pretty fast I bet.
The RMS thing seems awfully paranoid in the context in which you want to put it. It still doesn't negate the fact that this isn't about the "notes equaling the education". It's about the redistribution of original material, the lecture. It is sold as "the lecture". If someone wanted to write a commentary on Derrida's lectures, that is one thing. But to record and sell his lectures is another is another. It's that simple.
Actually the "commercial" part is still the point of the bill so your argument is still valid. It just means that if I xerox my handwritten notes and sell them commercially for money and represent them as the lectures that I still get busted. Which is how it should be. Don't take the class if you can't attend the lecture.
I think that your whole argument is absurd. These notes are not presented as an original work "reviewing" or "commenting" upon the lectures. They are specifically sold as the lectures themselves. And the reasons that these exist are so that students don't have to attend the class. That specificity is a world apart from your presentation. This is a commercial enterprise. I know that on Slashdot the kneejerk reaction is that "everything is free" and all IP has no right to protection but that isn't how the world works and there is no reason that is should be that way. If a student wishes to pass notes to another student that is different than this case. A large percentage of academic presses publish books that are collections of lectures every year. But I suppose that they are just money grubbing champagne swilling rock stars to you guys for trying to break even. Grow up will you?
"We're the hardest working band in the business...I don't care if we're the best!" -Iggy Pop with the Stooges
If you care about having a choice at all, buy independent and support your local brick and mortar.
To think that because you can buy your allegedly rebellious products at B&N means anything is a foolish thought indeed.....
Now that's cracking!!!
Bill Gates personally overseeing the vaccination of third world countries to protect them from Linux!
still not sure where the poster pulled the topic out of that mess of an article....
Maybe there are people within the company who think that Jobs policy of sticking it to the suckers will mean no return business.
"There is a special place in Hell for Tow Truck Drivers and Steve Jobs".
There are two options available to you. one is to ask the instructor (which is a good skill to learn) if you can do it your way. The other is to LEARN to do it their way. You seem to think that the learning process is only geared to what you want to do. WRONG! It' s to teach you things, it may be good for you to learn how to do it under Windows using Code Warrior. If you can't accept that then quit the class. If you are such a goddamn smarty pants then go get a job and fuck school. If you are there to learn, then shut up and learn. And like I said, learn to talk to your teachers, it will benefit you more than whining on Slashdot so you can start another round of Microsoft bashing.
Sheesh, I am glad they allayed my fears about what it would look like under WIN2000. God forbid that it offend my GUI sensibility.
It's got my vote..... --"Air show? Buzz-cut Alabamans spewing colored smoke from their whiz jets to the strains of "Rock You Like A Hurricane?" What kind of countrified rube is still impressed by that?" --Sideshow Bob, the Simpsons.
"While I'm all for making computers easier to use, would typing "move all files beginning with the letter a to the directory called 'foo'" be any improvement over "mv a* foo" (or "move a* foo" for that matter)?" Duh! That's a stupid geek question. How many of the users that this stuff is aimed at know what mv or * mean? Sure it's simple to use maybe, but if I tell someone to use a wildcard half the time I get Homer eyes in return and realize that I have to help out by doing it myself. Doh!
I never met an idea that wanted to be free.....
When I sent this story in two days ago when I saw it on Salon, I wondered if this meant that fashion and art sites would end up being censored. Perhaps Salon is not as good a source as a company press release.....
We are visual beings and that means the GUI's are the rule and while I know that there are many who drool over the command line (and maybe some who are truly bent and dream of the return of that retarded Edlin) the truth is that for many using the computer is not so involved with the SYSTEM as it is with using Excel/Word/Outlook and going home to have a LIFE outside of computers. Scary, ain't it, that some people want to do something other than 'hack the kernel' or play Quake till they drop?
I bet users (and I.Q. has nothing to do with it) will learn more about computers about the same time that geeks learn social skills and the joy of interacting with live people rather than trying to look up Lara Croft's undies.
Like getting in your "covered self-powered transport" and driving out of the autopark so that you can leave the building where you spend 60 hours a week and honk, honk, gas your way through traffic to drive into the underground parking garage and take the elevator to your apartment in a high-rise deluxe condo and use the weight room and then have Kozmo deliver food so that you can watch TV and start the cycle all over again the next day is so different. Give people TV and they won't even notice. If the domes translucent what's the diff?
Though perhaps this fire was really set to burn those bee fields that Mulder found in the X-files......
He's loaded the cops up with guns and now they do the bulk of the killling in NYC. And are shooting people who are unarmed!!!!! I am less worried of being hassled by criminals than the gunslinging cops and the worst part is that they are generally coke snorting, bribe-taking (in order to maintain their "cover")undercover cops. The difference between these guys and the alleged bad guys is???????I bet that they don't need to worry about no waiting period.....
Goddam it! What if I want to kill someody now!!!!!!!!
Whether it's the Sex Pistols or the Who, this ugly, awful act keeps the tasteless separated from their dollars and keeps geezers who should of been 'thought' out into the cornfield long ago, in piles of green. By foisting this act of betrayal through Napster, we can only hope that Metallica will open the eyes of their fans to how lame, greedy and truly stupid this band is. Hopefully they will die bitter, alcoholic deaths, old and alone in the gutters after their royalty checks have dried up from their once fans disinterest.
A little harsh maybe, but when people fuck with the freedom of others, especially those who supported them, they deserve the worst. To bring Napster under even more heat, also qualifies them for a big Roman "Thumbs Down" in my book.
"We're the hardest working band in the business, I don't care if we're the best!"-Iggy Pop.