Like I said, I'm not really worrying about damaging the Planet of the Apes or Blade II. But if someone were to start splicing up The Talented Mr. Ripley or even Ocean's 11, I'd be a little annoyed. Those movies, though commercial and big budget, have at least some vision and artistic merit.
Duchamp's mona lisa is a powerful thing, I agree. But, call me elitist, I have more patience for Duchamp doing that than Vinny next door. It's like a Jackson Pollack painting: anyone can throw paint around, but people only spend tens of thousands of dollars on one by Mr. Pollack.
You, sir, missed my point. The problem I have is that this approach has the dangerous ability to corrupt the vision and effort of an artist. I have no problem unlocking the visions of others, but when we have everybody thinking that it's "no big thing" to accomplish the same feat as the filmmaker because he really has nothing to do but smudge around what the filmmaker has already done, we quickly descend into inanity.
And there would be more than one Mona Lisa if we had a wall of them.
That's ghastly! It's like having a wall of Mona Lisas and passing out sharpies to all of the museum-goers. Do you have no regard for the director and the other creative people who put time and effort into creating something? I'm not talking about dross like the Planet of the Apes here, but can you imagine changing the ending of Citizen Kane so that the [old-ass spoiler warning] sleigh read "Drink Pepsi" instead of "rosebud"? Agh!
"why did we go to the moon? we knew what was there. so why did we kill 3 astronauts, and waste gagillions to do it? we could have just bought a 30 billion dollar telescope to look at it."
Because the Soviets put the first satellite and astro/cosmonaut in orbit?
The "you don't deserve our product" attitude is one of the quickest ways to oblivion for a company. Regardless of product quality. Look at NeXT -- best product around, expensive (problem A) and their "stealth marketing" strategy (problem B) with the philosophy that the customers would find them resulted in corporate disaster.
All of the whining about breaking the law (Apple will sue for Windows iPod software!) is really unbecoming when you really don't know what the hell is going on in the real world. Do you have any idea what constitutes grounds for a lawsuit?
The elitism shown by so many people here makes me ill. Just because someone can't code as well as you, or doesn't have M4d 5ki1l3 in Quake doesn't mean that they're slow or stupid. I'd probably rather have them around on a regular basis than I would you, in face.
The best? Office for Windows suffers most of the problems that I associate with Windows itself. The bloat, the stupid features, the bizarre interfeace, etc.
Office for Mac OS X isn't bad, but I'd prefer to use something else.
The problem is that I can't think of anything else that doesn't suck that's still sold, but I refuse to believe that there isn't such a thing.
It's not so hard. My dad got a firewire digital camera and has a Dell laptop. We went out and got an Adaptec PC card at Circuit City for something like $115, and it worked like a charm. I was surprised and impressed. Not at all what I've come to expect from the Windows world.
Why would Apple sue? It's not in any sort of violation of their copyrights, etc. Unless there's something funky in the license, people can use their hardware whenever and wherever and however they like. It's not like it's a song, it's a song player.
How different is this from connecting my Apple USB keyboard to my PC?
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Like I said, I'm not really worrying about damaging the Planet of the Apes or Blade II. But if someone were to start splicing up The Talented Mr. Ripley or even Ocean's 11, I'd be a little annoyed. Those movies, though commercial and big budget, have at least some vision and artistic merit.
Duchamp's mona lisa is a powerful thing, I agree. But, call me elitist, I have more patience for Duchamp doing that than Vinny next door. It's like a Jackson Pollack painting: anyone can throw paint around, but people only spend tens of thousands of dollars on one by Mr. Pollack.
You, sir, missed my point. The problem I have is that this approach has the dangerous ability to corrupt the vision and effort of an artist. I have no problem unlocking the visions of others, but when we have everybody thinking that it's "no big thing" to accomplish the same feat as the filmmaker because he really has nothing to do but smudge around what the filmmaker has already done, we quickly descend into inanity.
And there would be more than one Mona Lisa if we had a wall of them.
That's ghastly! It's like having a wall of Mona Lisas and passing out sharpies to all of the museum-goers. Do you have no regard for the director and the other creative people who put time and effort into creating something? I'm not talking about dross like the Planet of the Apes here, but can you imagine changing the ending of Citizen Kane so that the [old-ass spoiler warning] sleigh read "Drink Pepsi" instead of "rosebud"? Agh!
"why did we go to the moon? we knew what was there. so why did we kill 3 astronauts, and waste gagillions to do it? we could have just bought a 30 billion dollar telescope to look at it."
Because the Soviets put the first satellite and astro/cosmonaut in orbit?
Um, did you read the article? They explain how they did it pretty clearly.
Yep. And the result of that? Connecting three or four monitors to an IBM PC/AT (see previous post.)
Why the heck would you do that?
I don't suppose I'd like to work for anyone with the title "the Destroyer."
I dunno -- If I found out that my new division chief was named B1arg0n the Destr0yer, I'd be pretty alarmed.
Most WinCE devices are big and clunky =)
At least I think so. My Palm V is barely small enough for me.
Absolutely. I think they're doing a better job, though, nowadays. But it's still there.
> Did you know we only use 10% of our total brain's capacity?
The rest is devoted to Xenu! Fear!
I love the Internet. Is that Mr. Sc00ter? Dr. Sc00ter? Admiral von Sc00ter? It's hard to take someone seriously when their name has numerals in it.
The "you don't deserve our product" attitude is one of the quickest ways to oblivion for a company. Regardless of product quality. Look at NeXT -- best product around, expensive (problem A) and their "stealth marketing" strategy (problem B) with the philosophy that the customers would find them resulted in corporate disaster.
You forgot about the intermittent viruses.
What law would it be against?
All of the whining about breaking the law (Apple will sue for Windows iPod software!) is really unbecoming when you really don't know what the hell is going on in the real world. Do you have any idea what constitutes grounds for a lawsuit?
Yea, and you'll really piss off the pastry chef's union.
Porque?
The elitism shown by so many people here makes me ill. Just because someone can't code as well as you, or doesn't have M4d 5ki1l3 in Quake doesn't mean that they're slow or stupid. I'd probably rather have them around on a regular basis than I would you, in face.
The best? Office for Windows suffers most of the problems that I associate with Windows itself. The bloat, the stupid features, the bizarre interfeace, etc.
Office for Mac OS X isn't bad, but I'd prefer to use something else.
The problem is that I can't think of anything else that doesn't suck that's still sold, but I refuse to believe that there isn't such a thing.
That and it was the only thing available in our fairly small town in a hurry. I know for next time, though :)
And how does that make anything actionable?
It's just a hard drive. If you can read HFS+, you can have your way with it.
It's not so hard. My dad got a firewire digital camera and has a Dell laptop. We went out and got an Adaptec PC card at Circuit City for something like $115, and it worked like a charm. I was surprised and impressed. Not at all what I've come to expect from the Windows world.
Why would Apple sue? It's not in any sort of violation of their copyrights, etc. Unless there's something funky in the license, people can use their hardware whenever and wherever and however they like. It's not like it's a song, it's a song player.
How different is this from connecting my Apple USB keyboard to my PC?