These tactics ALWAYS work with these kind of people.
For remarkably small values of "ALWAYS". I have clients who not only refuse to encourage their customers to upgrade their browser, they refuse to upgrade from IE6 themselves. Knowing that much of my billable time is specific to IE6 issues, they'll pay that premium willingly - or, not hire me at all.
Yeah, and if everybody keep thinking that then IE will never go away. Just display the message "Your are trying to view this webpage with a non-standard browser. Please use Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera." Seriously, is that so hard? Even Google did this trick with YouTube for IE6. Well... if Google can do that then why can't you?
Easy to do, and if it fits the clients profile to do that - and they're cool with it. But if I want to get paid, the site better work in IE6 the way the client wants it to.
Recently I discovered I completely disagree with Pink Floyd on what their best albums are. I'm a big fan of Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma, but they consider them "stumbling around in the dark". On the other hand, I'm a bit tired of Dark Side of the Moon, whereas to them it's when everything fell into place.
My "favourite" of their catalog changes at a whim, but objectively everything really did fall into place with Dark Side. Production, writing and performance all fit together flawlessly, or as near to it as any other record. There are records and artists I enjoy more, but the coherence of Dark Side of the Moon continues to impress me whenever I consider it. Of course, part of the reason why it worked so well was the time taken to create the work - "fall into place" is an understatement!
Good artists borrow; great artists steal. It's cliched because it's the absolute truth.
What a load of garbage. Do us all a favor, if you will. Please cite a few examples of where the following great artists stole:
Picasso
Shakespeare
Monet
Beethoven
Da Vinci
Michaelangelo
etc etc
Oh, come ON... you're a composer and you don't realize that musicians beg, borrow and steal from each other? It has always been that way, even back in Beethoven's day. Just do your homework. And I'm not referring only to the absorption of earlier works that informs a composer, but also to deliberate lifting and themes and motifs for reinvention. But there was also accreditation, and the work was interpreted by the "thief" - not merely rewritten to score sheets and signed falsely.
The quote comes from Picasso - "Good artists copy, great artists steal". Good artists, in other words, mimic the story and art available to them, and the great ones take those concepts and ideas and go somewhere new with them.
Of course, Picasso stole the idea of the quote:
"One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest." -- T.S. Eliot.
It SHOULD be that our music, art, science, and other thought gets out into the world, to have the ideas be extended, reshaped, and built upon into new things. (The alternative is to start farming composers in Skinner boxes!) That's not to say that we should work so the world can photocopy our efforts and by mere marketing profit by them, nor that a composer shouldn't be able to control who was the rights to use or publish their works for commercial purposes. But whatever regulations we have in place to protect musicians, scientists, authors, inventors and everybody else from theft of their work should also allow those ideas to be shared. Copyrights should start more narrowly and more quickly fade, patents should expire, etc. And I write as a musician/composer, which apparently gives some magical weight to my opinions, as if I'm the only type of person affected by these issues. Copyright is far too stringent and protective these days, and neither the creators nor the public are benefiting.
"steal my foundations and build a new spire." -- Stephen R. Hill
This answer always amuses me because it makes it seem like we have another choice. We don't -- or at least we have very little other options.
There are plenty of non-RIAA options for music. Mostly, directly purchasing from the artists themselves, but there are other distribution channels as well.
Not everybody thinks that rampant copying of music or whatever for free is worth the damn effort.
And that's a huge part of it all - how annoying is getting what I want vs. paying for what I want? When prices are (to my mind) reasonable, I was once far more likely to pay than search (now I find other music/artists). That's fairly common, and that's what the industry is competing against.
If you don't like how the major labels deal with production and distribution of their product, don't use them. Don't buy it. Don't steal it.
These days, thanks to the hardworking and savvy indie artists, that's what I do. There are so many options that I don't even need iTunes to find and pay for new, good stuff. I find new and skilled artists, and pay them directly.
That's a marketing department, not a heart. One is a fist-sized mass of complexly arranged muscles and nerves ; the other is a large building filled with overpaid shit-for-brains with the communal ethics of a pile of fetid dingos kidneys.
Same result, and I'll give them the same respect either way. A marketing department should behave like it "has a heart". That's just smart marketing, especially for Disney.
I don't know about you, but with every couple I know of the guy is the cook. Most of the single guys I know can cook, but I can't recall the last time I met a woman under the age of forty that could cook at all.
My girlfriend is 35, and a fabulous cook. I occasionally cook too... And, we met on OKCupid.
I believe what the GP was talking about is a price for the bandwidth - say $10-30 for 1-10mbps, AND a price for the throughput...
Packages here are for bandwidth and data cap, combined. Rogers has a 10Mbps/60GB package, a 3Mbps/25GB package, and others.
What we can't do is pick the speed and data independent of each other - speed and cap are a combo pack.
There's a chart which I think is current at http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/3861/280/ (lower down).
To be honest, this seems a lot like just made to work out from D&D. These are pretty much general principles in life that apply everywhere, and hence its not a surprise that they apply in *roleplaying* games aswell.
If you take it further, the same general principles that also works in business also works with women, or for that matter, any stuff. This can be something along the lines "dont be afraid to be yourself and be convinent when saying your say, because it works a lot better". It works the same way in RPG's, real life, women, business and for that matter in everything. Its just general human philosophy.
Like said, RPG games tend to reflect real life a lot. You just take different character. That's why the stuff is pretty much the same.
All of which also means that one is likely to learn these things playing RPG's, or hanging out with skateboarders, or being a bike courier, or dating girls, or going to high school... whatever it is you spend your time doing. You wouldn't need to "make" these lessons work out from D&D, because they are general principles. I took the point to be that these lessons were learned, by this person, while playing RPG's. In terms of relevance, the point caters to a group that may be sensitive to the false impression that such games have no life lessons to offer, when in fact the same life lessons are available as in anything else. I've got good friends who think my RPG time was "wasted", because they are completely oblivious to the social and personal lessons you can learn or reinforce while pretending to slice Orcs into itty bitty pieces - or even that they could be learned in that context. I think the "surprise" (which is not a surprise to all) is not that the principles apply to playing RPG's, but that they can be learned from playing as well.
But still, no more earth-shattering than the "10 Things I Learned from Star Trek" posters, or the "All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" books. And just as amusing.
And this is what's wrong with your assumptions - there isn't "a" Twitter crowd. It's used by many types of people in many ways. For me, it's useful because it's connected to my phone. As far as I'm concerned, it's my phone's text messaging, attached to a megaphone. The system is rapid, and succinct. My real friends and I have real lives, we update the group about whatever - plans, the ongoing day, delays - and as a result we spend more time hanging out than we do trying to figure out where to meet or who's having a shit day, etc.
I've got friends who are repulsed by Twitter, as well. They're usually harder to get a hold of (types who turn off their phone, or don't check their messages/e-mails), and so they're a little out of the loop. They spend less time hanging out with friends, and more time complaining that hanging out with friends is the only way to communicate with friends. They overlook what the tool is good for, and only look at what the tool is bad for. Twitter's a "group-speak" system - it works well for that, better than Facebook or IM do. On the other hand, it's shite for one-to-one communication.
It's just a hammer. You build a shitty house, that's your fault; not the hammer's.
American beer is anything but? I had experienced warm pisswater, cold pisswater, ice brewed pisswater, and as I started exploring the world of beer, I found myself very content with a variety of European beers. There's something to say for a beer that you can eat with a fork, that you don't piss out, but shit out as a nasty tar just as the reminder to you of how good it was.:)
There are a lot of great craft brewed American beers. The corporate crap is still crap.
That's nice. How is that in any way a response to his claims about Yahoo Mail though?
It's a response to the comment that he has no idea about Hotmail's spam filter ("Now Hotmail, I have no idea about since I stopped using them about 8 or 9 years ago."), which follows the claims about Yahoo.
i think if the canoodlians cant make their own space ships they should take their robots and go back to wear they came from. there robot doesnt even have anything but an arm lol
we'll bring you back some moon cheese losers
Probably posted on the Fox board from the guy's Blackberry.
So it's probably a less accurate rendering of their original recording, but I like it better.
Our car had a sound system that was, by spec, indifferent. Poor fidelity and power (by comparison), and very inaccurate to the CD - but it was magic for highlighting things in a track I'd never heard before. Musicians loved the sound. Instruments that had been buried in the mix would leap right out. It's an example of the classic "check the mix in the car" trick - presumably, if the mix is good in the car, it'll be good on standard and high end listening systems, too. Generally true of any car's audio system, but this one had a particular sound no other car I've driven had.
They'd probably be able to do a spinoff but I'm not sure how/who they'd follow for it...
If the money were coming (it's not), you might see a Serenity 2 but not more Firefly. I'd love to see a show set in the 'verse of Book before he became a Shepherd. There were hints of much more in his past. "The Story of Book", with a better title...
I remember a clip somewhere - possibly on one of the DVDs - of Whedon saying that they caught on fairly early that their chances of renewal were tenuous, and so they crammed in as much story as possible for each episode, rather than diverting to side stories and "filler" - the TV equivalent of feature bloat. There's something to be said for immediacy bringing focus to any kind of work.
That's the thing about pricing - you get it to the right spot, stuff flies off the shelf and profits are higher than if you raise the price to high - crippling sales - or too low - crippling profit margin per item. It's easiest to see the effect with downloadable goods, such as music and software, as the numbers can be gimmicked more readily - there's no production or shipping costs to gum up the works. I also would be much more likely to buy a Mini if it were priced lower - the question for the marketers is whether a 20% price drop increases sales by enough over 20% to increase profits. (Plus other considerations - is the Mini a gateway box to an iMac, MacBook, or Mac Pro? First hit's cheap kid, but now yer a fanboi...)
And to that, I have no idea.
Whether $100 is a nitpick depends completely on personal budget - for the next six months, $100 is a LOT of money for me. Next year, it'll be negligible.
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"Internet Explorer is out of date. Please upgrade to the latest version by going here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx We're sorry for the inconvenience."
These tactics ALWAYS work with these kind of people.
For remarkably small values of "ALWAYS". I have clients who not only refuse to encourage their customers to upgrade their browser, they refuse to upgrade from IE6 themselves. Knowing that much of my billable time is specific to IE6 issues, they'll pay that premium willingly - or, not hire me at all.
Yeah, and if everybody keep thinking that then IE will never go away. Just display the message "Your are trying to view this webpage with a non-standard browser. Please use Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome or Opera." Seriously, is that so hard? Even Google did this trick with YouTube for IE6. Well... if Google can do that then why can't you?
Easy to do, and if it fits the clients profile to do that - and they're cool with it. But if I want to get paid, the site better work in IE6 the way the client wants it to.
Recently I discovered I completely disagree with Pink Floyd on what their best albums are. I'm a big fan of Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma, but they consider them "stumbling around in the dark". On the other hand, I'm a bit tired of Dark Side of the Moon, whereas to them it's when everything fell into place.
My "favourite" of their catalog changes at a whim, but objectively everything really did fall into place with Dark Side. Production, writing and performance all fit together flawlessly, or as near to it as any other record. There are records and artists I enjoy more, but the coherence of Dark Side of the Moon continues to impress me whenever I consider it. Of course, part of the reason why it worked so well was the time taken to create the work - "fall into place" is an understatement!
Good artists borrow; great artists steal. It's cliched because it's the absolute truth.
What a load of garbage. Do us all a favor, if you will. Please cite a few examples of where the following great artists stole: Picasso Shakespeare Monet Beethoven Da Vinci Michaelangelo etc etc
Oh, come ON ... you're a composer and you don't realize that musicians beg, borrow and steal from each other? It has always been that way, even back in Beethoven's day. Just do your homework. And I'm not referring only to the absorption of earlier works that informs a composer, but also to deliberate lifting and themes and motifs for reinvention. But there was also accreditation, and the work was interpreted by the "thief" - not merely rewritten to score sheets and signed falsely.
The quote comes from Picasso - "Good artists copy, great artists steal". Good artists, in other words, mimic the story and art available to them, and the great ones take those concepts and ideas and go somewhere new with them.
Of course, Picasso stole the idea of the quote:
"One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest." -- T.S. Eliot.
It SHOULD be that our music, art, science, and other thought gets out into the world, to have the ideas be extended, reshaped, and built upon into new things. (The alternative is to start farming composers in Skinner boxes!) That's not to say that we should work so the world can photocopy our efforts and by mere marketing profit by them, nor that a composer shouldn't be able to control who was the rights to use or publish their works for commercial purposes. But whatever regulations we have in place to protect musicians, scientists, authors, inventors and everybody else from theft of their work should also allow those ideas to be shared. Copyrights should start more narrowly and more quickly fade, patents should expire, etc. And I write as a musician/composer, which apparently gives some magical weight to my opinions, as if I'm the only type of person affected by these issues. Copyright is far too stringent and protective these days, and neither the creators nor the public are benefiting.
"steal my foundations and build a new spire." -- Stephen R. Hill
This answer always amuses me because it makes it seem like we have another choice. We don't -- or at least we have very little other options.
There are plenty of non-RIAA options for music. Mostly, directly purchasing from the artists themselves, but there are other distribution channels as well.
Not everybody thinks that rampant copying of music or whatever for free is worth the damn effort.
And that's a huge part of it all - how annoying is getting what I want vs. paying for what I want? When prices are (to my mind) reasonable, I was once far more likely to pay than search (now I find other music/artists). That's fairly common, and that's what the industry is competing against.
If you don't like how the major labels deal with production and distribution of their product, don't use them. Don't buy it. Don't steal it.
These days, thanks to the hardworking and savvy indie artists, that's what I do. There are so many options that I don't even need iTunes to find and pay for new, good stuff. I find new and skilled artists, and pay them directly.
That's a marketing department, not a heart. One is a fist-sized mass of complexly arranged muscles and nerves ; the other is a large building filled with overpaid shit-for-brains with the communal ethics of a pile of fetid dingos kidneys.
Same result, and I'll give them the same respect either way. A marketing department should behave like it "has a heart". That's just smart marketing, especially for Disney.
I don't know about you, but with every couple I know of the guy is the cook. Most of the single guys I know can cook, but I can't recall the last time I met a woman under the age of forty that could cook at all.
My girlfriend is 35, and a fabulous cook. I occasionally cook too ... And, we met on OKCupid.
I believe what the GP was talking about is a price for the bandwidth - say $10-30 for 1-10mbps, AND a price for the throughput...
Packages here are for bandwidth and data cap, combined. Rogers has a 10Mbps/60GB package, a 3Mbps/25GB package, and others. What we can't do is pick the speed and data independent of each other - speed and cap are a combo pack. There's a chart which I think is current at http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/3861/280/ (lower down).
Why did you capitalize it?
I'd never noticed it before, but the site capitalizes it too, in the top banner:
XKCD updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
To be honest, this seems a lot like just made to work out from D&D. These are pretty much general principles in life that apply everywhere, and hence its not a surprise that they apply in *roleplaying* games aswell.
If you take it further, the same general principles that also works in business also works with women, or for that matter, any stuff. This can be something along the lines "dont be afraid to be yourself and be convinent when saying your say, because it works a lot better". It works the same way in RPG's, real life, women, business and for that matter in everything. Its just general human philosophy.
Like said, RPG games tend to reflect real life a lot. You just take different character. That's why the stuff is pretty much the same.
All of which also means that one is likely to learn these things playing RPG's, or hanging out with skateboarders, or being a bike courier, or dating girls, or going to high school... whatever it is you spend your time doing. You wouldn't need to "make" these lessons work out from D&D, because they are general principles. I took the point to be that these lessons were learned, by this person, while playing RPG's. In terms of relevance, the point caters to a group that may be sensitive to the false impression that such games have no life lessons to offer, when in fact the same life lessons are available as in anything else. I've got good friends who think my RPG time was "wasted", because they are completely oblivious to the social and personal lessons you can learn or reinforce while pretending to slice Orcs into itty bitty pieces - or even that they could be learned in that context. I think the "surprise" (which is not a surprise to all) is not that the principles apply to playing RPG's, but that they can be learned from playing as well.
But still, no more earth-shattering than the "10 Things I Learned from Star Trek" posters, or the "All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" books. And just as amusing.
Considering the average god's behavior, I would use the phrase "godly" instead.
Also, there is the high number of times "God" is mentioned during many adult activities.
And this is what's wrong with the twitter crowd.
And this is what's wrong with your assumptions - there isn't "a" Twitter crowd. It's used by many types of people in many ways. For me, it's useful because it's connected to my phone. As far as I'm concerned, it's my phone's text messaging, attached to a megaphone. The system is rapid, and succinct. My real friends and I have real lives, we update the group about whatever - plans, the ongoing day, delays - and as a result we spend more time hanging out than we do trying to figure out where to meet or who's having a shit day, etc.
I've got friends who are repulsed by Twitter, as well. They're usually harder to get a hold of (types who turn off their phone, or don't check their messages/e-mails), and so they're a little out of the loop. They spend less time hanging out with friends, and more time complaining that hanging out with friends is the only way to communicate with friends. They overlook what the tool is good for, and only look at what the tool is bad for. Twitter's a "group-speak" system - it works well for that, better than Facebook or IM do. On the other hand, it's shite for one-to-one communication.
It's just a hammer. You build a shitty house, that's your fault; not the hammer's.
American beer is anything but? I had experienced warm pisswater, cold pisswater, ice brewed pisswater, and as I started exploring the world of beer, I found myself very content with a variety of European beers. There's something to say for a beer that you can eat with a fork, that you don't piss out, but shit out as a nasty tar just as the reminder to you of how good it was. :)
There are a lot of great craft brewed American beers. The corporate crap is still crap.
That's nice. How is that in any way a response to his claims about Yahoo Mail though?
It's a response to the comment that he has no idea about Hotmail's spam filter ("Now Hotmail, I have no idea about since I stopped using them about 8 or 9 years ago."), which follows the claims about Yahoo.
In either case, it helps if you blow!
Blowing sucks. Sucking is better.
"..many other places in the world. " I suspect Washington State qualifies as "other places in the world."
It's one of them - there is a world map, too. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/
Let us just hope the girl is not a relative.
And/or not unconscious.
i think if the canoodlians cant make their own space ships they should take their robots and go back to wear they came from. there robot doesnt even have anything but an arm lol we'll bring you back some moon cheese losers
Probably posted on the Fox board from the guy's Blackberry.
So it's probably a less accurate rendering of their original recording, but I like it better.
Our car had a sound system that was, by spec, indifferent. Poor fidelity and power (by comparison), and very inaccurate to the CD - but it was magic for highlighting things in a track I'd never heard before. Musicians loved the sound. Instruments that had been buried in the mix would leap right out. It's an example of the classic "check the mix in the car" trick - presumably, if the mix is good in the car, it'll be good on standard and high end listening systems, too. Generally true of any car's audio system, but this one had a particular sound no other car I've driven had.
They'd probably be able to do a spinoff but I'm not sure how/who they'd follow for it ...
If the money were coming (it's not), you might see a Serenity 2 but not more Firefly. I'd love to see a show set in the 'verse of Book before he became a Shepherd. There were hints of much more in his past. "The Story of Book", with a better title...
I remember a clip somewhere - possibly on one of the DVDs - of Whedon saying that they caught on fairly early that their chances of renewal were tenuous, and so they crammed in as much story as possible for each episode, rather than diverting to side stories and "filler" - the TV equivalent of feature bloat. There's something to be said for immediacy bringing focus to any kind of work.
Apparently, the "Bunny Trail" is a symbolic representation of one's latent homosexual desires. It's quite an interesting read!
Is there a moderation for +1 Too Much Informative?
That's the thing about pricing - you get it to the right spot, stuff flies off the shelf and profits are higher than if you raise the price to high - crippling sales - or too low - crippling profit margin per item. It's easiest to see the effect with downloadable goods, such as music and software, as the numbers can be gimmicked more readily - there's no production or shipping costs to gum up the works. I also would be much more likely to buy a Mini if it were priced lower - the question for the marketers is whether a 20% price drop increases sales by enough over 20% to increase profits. (Plus other considerations - is the Mini a gateway box to an iMac, MacBook, or Mac Pro? First hit's cheap kid, but now yer a fanboi...)
And to that, I have no idea.
Whether $100 is a nitpick depends completely on personal budget - for the next six months, $100 is a LOT of money for me. Next year, it'll be negligible.
So you agree that first came the invention, then came the need. Do you realize you're arguing my point?
The accountants might not have foreseen the need, but the developers who created the first spreadsheet software obviously did.
Discussing films and music in a slashdot way is discussing the technical and legal ramifications.
Or to discuss the discussion.