Comments on: Future Disillusion http://omino.com/blog/2006/future-disillusion/ We need code. Lots of code. Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:42:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: David Van Brink http://omino.com/blog/2006/future-disillusion/#comment-30 David Van Brink Mon, 11 Sep 2006 03:18:34 +0000 http://www.subservientastronaut.com/blog/?p=5#comment-30 But... but... it's a rant! It doesn't have to make sense, does it? But seriously, what I was trying to get at was the silly redundancy going on. Of course I rip CD's, so I can play them in iTunes and all that. But I converted a copy of The Bee Gee's Greatest Hits, and you converted your copy of The Bee Gee's Greatest Hits, and we both have it backed up to our separate BLT drives, and and... what's this obsession with the Bee Gee's anyway? You should just be able to think Staying Alive and the MCP would begin playing it directly into your private ear buds... Hm I got a little off-course in my reply there. Sorry about that. But… but… it’s a rant! It doesn’t have to make sense, does it?

But seriously, what I was trying to get at was the silly redundancy going on. Of course I rip CD’s, so I can play them in iTunes and all that. But I converted a copy of The Bee Gee’s Greatest Hits, and you converted your copy of The Bee Gee’s Greatest Hits, and we both have it backed up to our separate BLT drives, and and… what’s this obsession with the Bee Gee’s anyway? You should just be able to think Staying Alive and the MCP would begin playing it directly into your private ear buds…

Hm I got a little off-course in my reply there. Sorry about that.

]]> By: Ryan Ballantyne http://omino.com/blog/2006/future-disillusion/#comment-27 Ryan Ballantyne Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:20:32 +0000 http://www.subservientastronaut.com/blog/?p=5#comment-27 You make mostly good points, but I do take exception to your apparent implication that consuming others' creative works is a bad thing, and that, by extension, use of technology to consume it in more convenient ways is a waste. What would be the point of creating and distributing your own symphony, if no one listened to it? Do you really not understand the utility of ripping CD's, or did you just pick a bad example to make your point? You make mostly good points, but I do take exception to your apparent implication that consuming others’ creative works is a bad thing, and that, by extension, use of technology to consume it in more convenient ways is a waste. What would be the point of creating and distributing your own symphony, if no one listened to it?

Do you really not understand the utility of ripping CD’s, or did you just pick a bad example to make your point?

]]> By: David Van Brink http://omino.com/blog/2006/future-disillusion/#comment-3 David Van Brink Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:02:43 +0000 http://www.subservientastronaut.com/blog/?p=5#comment-3 (Snicker) (Snicker)

]]> By: John http://omino.com/blog/2006/future-disillusion/#comment-2 John Wed, 26 Jul 2006 13:51:55 +0000 http://www.subservientastronaut.com/blog/?p=5#comment-2 That's quite insightful, David. I'll have to save that essay off somewhere. Just as soon as I decide on a filename... That’s quite insightful, David.
I’ll have to save that essay off somewhere.
Just as soon as I decide on a filename…

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