"Many good movies will often have a concept, or a message, or something for you to think about after the credits roll."
If now I had to explain why I loved the first Stars Wars movies (especially the first one) I would simply put it as a search query: "Star Wars, Wuxia, Kurosawa". That was the concept I liked.
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Nothing that fine sardines bread and butter can't do. But I guess we've all seen the news that indeed our brain do rationalize a posteriori every choices we make.
At the same time communication may help to save many lives. "Quite as directly" doesn't seem very important to me in the context where information could save lives and self respect for occidental people. Heard about Burma in the news much those last days ?
"Can I take it that you like getting paper junk mail too?"
Not liking something is different from calling death penalty for it. I obviously miss some important point about Spam (I'm sure some people are happy to have jobs designing Spam filters at Google) because I don't understand the feeling of this thread. Reminds me of old people raging against paper junk mail, but a younger and nerdier version of it.
Maybe I'll get it and wish death to people I don't know nothing about, to thereafter learn that those people only live in a hoax that only exist to fulfill some nerd rage; it'll be great.
"What exactly happens, of any interest, in that period? Bilbo uses the Ring a few times to avoid the Sackville-Bagginses. Writes memoirs. Lends mithril armour to the Michel Delving Mathom-house. Wow, riveting stuff."
Sounds better than what I've seen of the first Lord of the Rings adaptations. A wealth of special effect, but zero value as a movie, not even close to early and spectacular Spielberg/Lucas movies.
What is your solution ? because France is much less capitalist than the US and have a much better Internet (by a very long shot mind you... lets say free phone to 49 countries, ultra solid 17mbps down in a 40.000pop city, 300 free TV channels, access to paying cable channels, HDTV, ultra cheap VOD updated weekly, etc etc for 45$ a month... and there's so much more haha, it's just sad for you). And we're borderline socialist. So, what your ideal capitalist world is going to do better, how and why ? is Japan the epitome of Capitalism ?
Not that I'm particularly against capitalism. It's just a broken ideology that fosters anti-human actions, like every others, all of them, when people begin to really believe in it like it was some divine truth to be followed.
"Windows is about having to spend endless hours of your time applying security patches, scanning for malware and sometimes restoring the entire operating system when it glitches. Linux is about enjoying your computer. "
I'm pretty sure I didn't patch anything since SP1, or restore anything ever. The only crashes I have is when I forget to turn my fans on for playing games. And my mainstream music programming softwares and synths don't run on Linux (and the alternatives are too few and just not comparable). So, I disagree with this statement.
"Would he recommend people break into the stadium?"
That would be dangerous too have too many people than allowed in a stadium. Nothing comparable to downloading music when the artist says he doesn't mind. I don't mind that he doesn't, do you ?
"Most of the communication things you can do today, you could do in 1950, but more expensively."
I find this a bit unfair. You could dwarf electricity by the wheel, and the former by the fire domestication, etc. And saying from our technological revolution that "Most of the communication things you can do today, you could do in 1950, but more expensively", well I could easily imagine you saying of the light bulbs: "Most of the things you can do today, you could do in 1850, but in the dark". Do you see what I mean, if I may be right: that's exactly the point of the technology in question.
(Iliad) delivers its data, video, and voice service bundle over IP using ADSL and copper plant owned by France Telecom SA (NYSE: FTE - message board). Better yet, Iliad earns its margin on a bargain-priced 29.99 (US$41.50) per month data, video, and voice bundle in a hypercompetitive broadband market. (...) The newest incarnation, the HD Freebox (with a separate ADSL2+ adapter) integrates hi-def and standard-def decoders (including MPEG-4), a digital video encoder, S-Video and HDMI connectors, WiFi, plus landline VOIP and mobile voice over WiFi. (...) Free's 30 package is chock-full of value-added service features. At the top of the list is unlimited telephone calls within France and to 49 other counties, plus integrated messaging and a WiFi VOIP client for mobile phones. Also included are over 100 digital TV channels, plus up to 28 Mbit/s downstream Internet access via ADSL2 (for those customers on short copper loops) and 1 Mbit/s uploads. It also offers a user-generated video app called TV Perso Free that leverages the video encoder capability of the HD Freebox. (...) For 5.99 ($8.28) a month, Free sells a subscription video-on-demand (VOD) package with access to more than 50 films and 100 TV series, updated weekly. (...) While Free gives its customers a great bang for their euro, the company is not sacrificing financial results in the process. In addition to strong EBITDA results, Free generated a gross margin of 43.5 percent on its broadband service in the second quarter.
Maybe a military risk then ? because wildlife seem pretty resilient to radioactivity as seen at Chernobyl, where owls or wolves, local species of wild horses, prosper since the radiations have kicked out humans. I'm not at all a PETA kind of people though I like animals, still I'm not sure to understand how radiations could be worse for the environment than the constant spills, which unlike the radiations give no chance to the wildlife.
As a consumer I must admit that I don't care to download Blizzard patches that way. Maybe if I had a limited or capped access i would care, but I'm lucky to live in one of the EU countries where it isn't a problem (we've got enough other problems).
I'm a gamer and a musician whose (beloved) music software is native to windows (a rarity indeed in professional grade softwares, I admit), I also like to build my computer from scratch (so you see, I choose my hardware too, and not the Apple way that I highly dislike: I'm choosing every part of my hardware and can change them to what I want between several concurrent brands... and price wise I really like it). For example I'm still running a AMD Athlon XP-M that I paid 110 4 years ago and overclocked at 2.4Ghz. I only had to change my video card last year for a measly 120 7600GT (slightly overclocked too) and I can play any non DX10 game. I wouldn't care to change my OS if I could do more for less money. For me isn't a "default choice" . I won't say that Microsoft OSes are better or worst than Apple OSes, just say that not all windows user are the same.
Buy: Money Cost = $49.00 Time Cost = ~ ONE to SIX hours of working time (btw just fuck you, I wish [not for me] that everyone was paid at least 25$ an hour which is the minimum salary you acknowledge). Misc Cost = Loss of ability to spend or invest that $49.00 in something else Benefit/problems = Having the choice between all existing movies (including rare and old ones, including previously hard to see Middle eastern of African movies) at the speed your line can do (lets say at least a dozen mbps to account for countries where people have good connections) > not available Historic of the work, advices on interesting similar choices, movie analysis > not available
Steal: Money Cost = $0.0 Time Cost = 0 as torrents are automated and can be downloaded while sleeping or at work earning $49.00 (do you even know that not everyone earns 50$/hour) Misc Cost = none Benefit/problems = "digital" item, poor choice, long to download (one hour for a DVD is a lot, honest businesses could do better if they decided to), dishonesty
I think that music and movie distributors could have changed the face of art propagation years ago, and that they could have provided us with a fantastic access to our heritage and lesser known works including rare foreign ones, modern ones, etc, and not just last weeks blockbusters. They've decided to not do so, because their old system was good enough for a moment (but they did loose the momentum) I won't shed a tear for them.
Buy:
Money Cost = $49.00
Time Cost = ~ ONE to SIX hours of working time (btw just fuck you, I wish [not for me] that everyone was paid at least 25$ an hour which is the minimum salary you acknowledge).
Misc Cost = Loss of ability to spend or invest that $49.00 in something else
Benefit/problems =
Having the choice between all existing movies (including rare and old ones, including previously hard to see Middle eastern of African movies) at the speed your line can do (lets say at least a dozen mbps to account for countries where people have good connections) > not available
Historic of the work, advices on interesting similar choices, movie analysis > not available
Steal:
Money Cost = $0.0
Time Cost = 0 as torrents are automated and can be downloaded while sleeping or at work earning $49.00 (do you even know that not everyone earns 50$/hour)
Misc Cost = none
Benefit/problems = "digital" item, poor choice, long to download (one hour for a DVD is a lot, honest business could do better if they decided to), dishonesty
I think that music and movie distributors could have changed the face of art propagation, and that they could have provided us with a fantastic access to our heritage and lesser known works, and not just last weeks blockbusters. They've decided to not do so, because their old system was good enough for a moment (but they did loose the momentum) I won't shed a tear for them.
So a hardcore gamer is not someone like you, who "wipes the floor with (his friends)" and whose not there to brag about it. It's someone who wants "better graphics, more channels of audio, and the same old gameplay". Whaaa, that makes a whole lot of hardcore gamers, if that words means anything, and more precisely what you think it describes.. Bioshock players if I'm not mistaken?
My grand mother was a little sad to have here friends blown to bits by ally bombardments (following droppings of aluminum foil bits that the children, mind you, liked a lot) but she was still a little happy to be freed from the Nazi: because, you know, it was such a popular war.
"If you really don't know what I mean by all of this, and you don't think that physical presence and real-life actions mean more than virtual presence and virtual actions, then I'm very sorry for you."
As someone working on the Internet only (virtual work I guess) and having online friends that I value more than than some "real life" people, whatever that means, thanks for your compassion. I sure didn't realize that "humor", "honesty", "kindness", are virtual things that don't weigh a lot in face of the great quality that is "real-lifing" and will reevaluate my friends according to your chart.
Though socialism is now a past ideology, and that those who still reclaim themselves from it (rather than from some kind of lighter social democracy) are long time deluded, corruption is not inherently linked with socialism. Even free market liberalism can be corrupt, like Enron, AT&T, or Bush and co have clearly demonstrated.
Say you live in France and watch TV on your computer. At 3.5 mbps second for the average channel (some channels have a low bandwidth version, and some others are HD and I think that they consume around 8/10mbps). Let's say you look TV 4 hours a day (which seems about average for US people?). 6 x 60 x 60 x 3.5 = 75600 megs in one week if I'm not mistaken (I hope I'm not:).
Add the phone and downloads, it may make a lot. Well I'm sure happy that my 30 euros 17mbps line (why 17 ? it's the maximum my line can do, so my ISP thinks there's no reason to give less, which seems about right to me, and I can say that everyone got used to it by now) doesn't have download caps, because otherwise I couldn't even use the services I have (TV, HDTV,movie VOD, free VOD for the programs I missed).
I'm sorry for all the people stuck with bad lines and no services, I'm sure in a few years from now US people will have much better lines than we do (especially if Google gets interested in it) but sometime some ADSL related posts/threads seem to pop out of 4 years ago.
Reposted in "plain old text" ? this joke never gets old.
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"Many good movies will often have a concept, or a message, or something for you to think about after the credits roll." If now I had to explain why I loved the first Stars Wars movies (especially the first one) I would simply put it as a search query: "Star Wars, Wuxia, Kurosawa". That was the concept I liked.
Nothing that fine sardines bread and butter can't do. But I guess we've all seen the news that indeed our brain do rationalize a posteriori every choices we make.
At the same time communication may help to save many lives. "Quite as directly" doesn't seem very important to me in the context where information could save lives and self respect for occidental people. Heard about Burma in the news much those last days ?
Freedom doesn't matters anything serious for occidental countries. Money, oil, hypocrisy, do.
Don't you have an indirect electoral system, that counter balances "wisdom of crowds" by "wisdom of my daddy and brother jeb" ?
"Can I take it that you like getting paper junk mail too?"
Not liking something is different from calling death penalty for it. I obviously miss some important point about Spam (I'm sure some people are happy to have jobs designing Spam filters at Google) because I don't understand the feeling of this thread. Reminds me of old people raging against paper junk mail, but a younger and nerdier version of it.
Maybe I'll get it and wish death to people I don't know nothing about, to thereafter learn that those people only live in a hoax that only exist to fulfill some nerd rage; it'll be great.
"MS' intent is to make the text be seen by you (which is nice, and has only my interest at heart)"
Thanks Slashdot to make this comment be seen by me. That's very nice of you, and I'm sure that you only have my interest at heart, like Microsoft.
"What exactly happens, of any interest, in that period? Bilbo uses the Ring a few times to avoid the Sackville-Bagginses. Writes memoirs. Lends mithril armour to the Michel Delving Mathom-house. Wow, riveting stuff." Sounds better than what I've seen of the first Lord of the Rings adaptations. A wealth of special effect, but zero value as a movie, not even close to early and spectacular Spielberg/Lucas movies.
What is your solution ? because France is much less capitalist than the US and have a much better Internet (by a very long shot mind you... lets say free phone to 49 countries, ultra solid 17mbps down in a 40.000pop city, 300 free TV channels, access to paying cable channels, HDTV, ultra cheap VOD updated weekly, etc etc for 45$ a month... and there's so much more haha, it's just sad for you). And we're borderline socialist. So, what your ideal capitalist world is going to do better, how and why ? is Japan the epitome of Capitalism ?
Not that I'm particularly against capitalism. It's just a broken ideology that fosters anti-human actions, like every others, all of them, when people begin to really believe in it like it was some divine truth to be followed.
"Windows is about having to spend endless hours of your time applying security patches, scanning for malware and sometimes restoring the entire operating system when it glitches. Linux is about enjoying your computer. "
I'm pretty sure I didn't patch anything since SP1, or restore anything ever. The only crashes I have is when I forget to turn my fans on for playing games. And my mainstream music programming softwares and synths don't run on Linux (and the alternatives are too few and just not comparable). So, I disagree with this statement.
"Would he recommend people break into the stadium?"
That would be dangerous too have too many people than allowed in a stadium. Nothing comparable to downloading music when the artist says he doesn't mind. I don't mind that he doesn't, do you ?
"Most of the communication things you can do today, you could do in 1950, but more expensively."
I find this a bit unfair. You could dwarf electricity by the wheel, and the former by the fire domestication, etc. And saying from our technological revolution that "Most of the communication things you can do today, you could do in 1950, but more expensively", well I could easily imagine you saying of the light bulbs: "Most of the things you can do today, you could do in 1850, but in the dark". Do you see what I mean, if I may be right: that's exactly the point of the technology in question.
In the meantime:
:p
(Iliad) delivers its data, video, and voice service bundle over IP using ADSL and copper plant owned by France Telecom SA (NYSE: FTE - message board). Better yet, Iliad earns its margin on a bargain-priced 29.99 (US$41.50) per month data, video, and voice bundle in a hypercompetitive broadband market.
(...)
The newest incarnation, the HD Freebox (with a separate ADSL2+ adapter) integrates hi-def and standard-def decoders (including MPEG-4), a digital video encoder, S-Video and HDMI connectors, WiFi, plus landline VOIP and mobile voice over WiFi.
(...)
Free's 30 package is chock-full of value-added service features. At the top of the list is unlimited telephone calls within France and to 49 other counties, plus integrated messaging and a WiFi VOIP client for mobile phones. Also included are over 100 digital TV channels, plus up to 28 Mbit/s downstream Internet access via ADSL2 (for those customers on short copper loops) and 1 Mbit/s uploads. It also offers a user-generated video app called TV Perso Free that leverages the video encoder capability of the HD Freebox.
(...)
For 5.99 ($8.28) a month, Free sells a subscription video-on-demand (VOD) package with access to more than 50 films and 100 TV series, updated weekly.
(...)
While Free gives its customers a great bang for their euro, the company is not sacrificing financial results in the process. In addition to strong EBITDA results, Free generated a gross margin of 43.5 percent on its broadband service in the second quarter.
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=133564
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Maybe a military risk then ? because wildlife seem pretty resilient to radioactivity as seen at Chernobyl, where owls or wolves, local species of wild horses, prosper since the radiations have kicked out humans. I'm not at all a PETA kind of people though I like animals, still I'm not sure to understand how radiations could be worse for the environment than the constant spills, which unlike the radiations give no chance to the wildlife.
As a consumer I must admit that I don't care to download Blizzard patches that way. Maybe if I had a limited or capped access i would care, but I'm lucky to live in one of the EU countries where it isn't a problem (we've got enough other problems).
I'm a gamer and a musician whose (beloved) music software is native to windows (a rarity indeed in professional grade softwares, I admit), I also like to build my computer from scratch (so you see, I choose my hardware too, and not the Apple way that I highly dislike: I'm choosing every part of my hardware and can change them to what I want between several concurrent brands... and price wise I really like it). For example I'm still running a AMD Athlon XP-M that I paid 110 4 years ago and overclocked at 2.4Ghz. I only had to change my video card last year for a measly 120 7600GT (slightly overclocked too) and I can play any non DX10 game. I wouldn't care to change my OS if I could do more for less money. For me isn't a "default choice" . I won't say that Microsoft OSes are better or worst than Apple OSes, just say that not all windows user are the same.
Buy:
Money Cost = $49.00
Time Cost = ~ ONE to SIX hours of working time (btw just fuck you, I wish [not for me] that everyone was paid at least 25$ an hour which is the minimum salary you acknowledge).
Misc Cost = Loss of ability to spend or invest that $49.00 in something else
Benefit/problems =
Having the choice between all existing movies (including rare and old ones, including previously hard to see Middle eastern of African movies) at the speed your line can do (lets say at least a dozen mbps to account for countries where people have good connections) > not available
Historic of the work, advices on interesting similar choices, movie analysis > not available
Steal:
Money Cost = $0.0
Time Cost = 0 as torrents are automated and can be downloaded while sleeping or at work earning $49.00 (do you even know that not everyone earns 50$/hour)
Misc Cost = none
Benefit/problems = "digital" item, poor choice, long to download (one hour for a DVD is a lot, honest businesses could do better if they decided to), dishonesty
I think that music and movie distributors could have changed the face of art propagation years ago, and that they could have provided us with a fantastic access to our heritage and lesser known works including rare foreign ones, modern ones, etc, and not just last weeks blockbusters. They've decided to not do so, because their old system was good enough for a moment (but they did loose the momentum) I won't shed a tear for them.
Buy: Money Cost = $49.00 Time Cost = ~ ONE to SIX hours of working time (btw just fuck you, I wish [not for me] that everyone was paid at least 25$ an hour which is the minimum salary you acknowledge). Misc Cost = Loss of ability to spend or invest that $49.00 in something else Benefit/problems = Having the choice between all existing movies (including rare and old ones, including previously hard to see Middle eastern of African movies) at the speed your line can do (lets say at least a dozen mbps to account for countries where people have good connections) > not available Historic of the work, advices on interesting similar choices, movie analysis > not available Steal: Money Cost = $0.0 Time Cost = 0 as torrents are automated and can be downloaded while sleeping or at work earning $49.00 (do you even know that not everyone earns 50$/hour) Misc Cost = none Benefit/problems = "digital" item, poor choice, long to download (one hour for a DVD is a lot, honest business could do better if they decided to), dishonesty I think that music and movie distributors could have changed the face of art propagation, and that they could have provided us with a fantastic access to our heritage and lesser known works, and not just last weeks blockbusters. They've decided to not do so, because their old system was good enough for a moment (but they did loose the momentum) I won't shed a tear for them.
Faster than average 10 mbps ? I'm impressed, I didn't think old networks would pull their act together on internet diffusion.
So a hardcore gamer is not someone like you, who "wipes the floor with (his friends)" and whose not there to brag about it. It's someone who wants "better graphics, more channels of audio, and the same old gameplay". Whaaa, that makes a whole lot of hardcore gamers, if that words means anything, and more precisely what you think it describes.. Bioshock players if I'm not mistaken?
"Is it that they fought in a popular war?"
My grand mother was a little sad to have here friends blown to bits by ally bombardments (following droppings of aluminum foil bits that the children, mind you, liked a lot) but she was still a little happy to be freed from the Nazi: because, you know, it was such a popular war.
"If you really don't know what I mean by all of this, and you don't think that physical presence and real-life actions mean more than virtual presence and virtual actions, then I'm very sorry for you."
As someone working on the Internet only (virtual work I guess) and having online friends that I value more than than some "real life" people, whatever that means, thanks for your compassion. I sure didn't realize that "humor", "honesty", "kindness", are virtual things that don't weigh a lot in face of the great quality that is "real-lifing" and will reevaluate my friends according to your chart.
Though socialism is now a past ideology, and that those who still reclaim themselves from it (rather than from some kind of lighter social democracy) are long time deluded, corruption is not inherently linked with socialism. Even free market liberalism can be corrupt, like Enron, AT&T, or Bush and co have clearly demonstrated.
Well in France we have both hookers and ADSL (with TV) in rural areas. And booze. And blackjack.
Wow sorry just got up after a long work night, my maths shames me ! but my point stay valid.
Say you live in France and watch TV on your computer. At 3.5 mbps second for the average channel (some channels have a low bandwidth version, and some others are HD and I think that they consume around 8/10mbps). Let's say you look TV 4 hours a day (which seems about average for US people?). 6 x 60 x 60 x 3.5 = 75600 megs in one week if I'm not mistaken (I hope I'm not :).
Add the phone and downloads, it may make a lot. Well I'm sure happy that my 30 euros 17mbps line (why 17 ? it's the maximum my line can do, so my ISP thinks there's no reason to give less, which seems about right to me, and I can say that everyone got used to it by now) doesn't have download caps, because otherwise I couldn't even use the services I have (TV, HDTV,movie VOD, free VOD for the programs I missed).
I'm sorry for all the people stuck with bad lines and no services, I'm sure in a few years from now US people will have much better lines than we do (especially if Google gets interested in it) but sometime some ADSL related posts/threads seem to pop out of 4 years ago.
Reposted in "plain old text" ? this joke never gets old.