[opendtv] Re: Did Apple Just Crush the Next Revolution?
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:52:52 -0400
At 5:22 PM -0500 6/19/11, Manfredi, Albert E wrote:
Oh, so you're one of THOSE people. I can't blame him.
The problem with this sort of behavior is that one never knows if
the offender will quit during the movie, or whether we'll be
subjected to his antics throughout. This is also true with people
who talk loudly during the commercials, or people who carry on cell
phone conversations during the commercials. I mean, it's not like it
never happens that these people carry on after the movie starts,
right? So yeah, he probably wanted to nip that behavior in the bud,
before it got into the movie.
I understand your point. But people DO talk during the commercials
and IMHO have every right to do so. I NEVER talk on my cell phone at
a theater. The main reason I had it out was to mute the ringer.
People have the right to complain when appropriate, not that it
always does them any good.
We went to an open air concert in St. Petersburg a few weeks ago. We
came early and set up chairs with a view of the stage through a
corridor for people to move to the front area. When the concert began
people jammed the front and the corridor and totally blocked the view
for dozens of people who had come early to get decent seats. I went
to one group of people and told them they were being impolite and
blocking the view for everyone behind them. They didn't give a damn.
Later I saw some off duty cops and asked if there was anything they
could do. The response was "are you kidding? Half the people here
can't see because of the rest."
We all depend on the humanity of others...
Once again, YOU are demonstrating your disdain for all that is Apple,
and your lack of understanding of the Flash issue.
You mean, the bogus Flash issue, which could have been solved with
the proper accelerator? It's all about control, Craig, how come you
don't see this? I don't disdain Apple at all. They are very good at
this. If anything, they are to be admired. It's not Apple, Craig.
We agree more than not.
Apple gave Adobe a simple out. Update Flash to use an industry
standard codec that IS accelerated. Adobe is the one that has been
trying to promote a proprietary solution that is a power hog.
Fortunatley this is a non issue. It is now VERY RARE to access sites
that only work with Flash.
Today, on NPR (Interfaith Voices), I heard a very revealing
interview of a woman whose mom was a supposed "guru," with a
religious cult following. And the daughter was just as much into the
cult as the other followers, and in fact convinced herself that she
too could read the intentions of The Divine. She described how her
mom had power over people, how she could talk non-stop for hours on
end, and so on. She described how these "thoughts" would come into
her head, and how she thought they were in fact visions of the
future.
All I could think during the interview was, what on earth can
possibly possess people to be so profoundly gullible, so
controllable, so deluded? Is there no skeptical bone in their
bodies? The daughter finally discovered that it was all bogus, but
if it took so many years, it really makes me wonder about her, first
of all, and about the other faithful deluded.
It has always been thus...
Indoctrination has been a viable control technique for as long as
people could communicate. All it takes is a bit of magic, like the
village leader who figured out that lunar and solar eclipses were
natural phenomenon that could be predicted, not "Acts of God."
There are two major institutions of indoctrination in the U.S. today.
The Public schools
Television (and music)
Regards
Craig
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