I think your post has the highest density of logical fallacies in recent memory. Just because Kerry refuses to be interviewed by someone does not make that person a better journalist. Does this reasoning extend to every newspaper that GWB refuses to read? Not that they do any better than Crossfire, natch.
Well, "similar" includes a wide range of possibile levels of quality, now doesn't it? I doubt that the large companies can make something as good as QS without buying them outright and substituting it as their own.
I've been using Quicksilver for the past six months and not only do I have access to all of my drive data, iTunes playlists, Safari (and other browser) bookmarks...but I also rarely use a mouse anymore. I don't have to poke around folders at all since with a hotkey I can type a few characters for Quicksilver to present a list of likely objects that I'm looking for. QS also ranks the hits based on usage, so for the most common tasks I only have to hit the hotkey, a few (or one) character(s) and hit enter. Like, for my Slashdot bookmark it's just apple-space, type 's', and hit enter since it seems to be the most common object I use that starts with "s". Quicksilver is completely extensible through a published API and a healthy user community writing plugins to access just about any kind of data that today's Macintosh has.
Indispensible, and this is what I would hope the major MS/Apple/etc. efforts produce. Somehow I doubt it, though.
>The point was that films have become far too reliant on special >effects and that it is still possible for very good movies to >be created in their absence.
What is this "film" you speak of? You mean it hasn't all burned or disintegrated? I thought actors were only there for voiceovers!
Oh, but maybe you meant "films" as in the kind that you pronounce with your jaw jutted out a little along with talk of "auteurs" and "vision".
See how silly categorical marginalization is? Here's a news flash, people have been making thin plots and lame actors since the beginning of drama. If you're going to complain about its acceptibility, you're going to need a Ouija Board and time machine because the industry doesn't care. There will always be good stuff to see that doesn't force you to choke down more CG, so you know...save your pennies and be an educated consumer.
They take peoples' money with little recourse, they make up their own laws, and they scrape the profits off everybody. Fining people? It would be a funny joke to talk about over dinner if it wasn't so sad that they put it into practice. I don't use PayPal much for just these corporate techniques that they use, and they can only use them because of their dominant position in the marketplace.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton Abuse of power comes as no surprise - Jenny Holzer
Just because they have found ways of acting where the laws are undefined doesn't mean they aren't scumbags. Sorry to use such harsh words, but this just all leaves a bad taste in my mouth and makes me want to search the ASCII art archives for a picture of a weasel to paste here.
Propaganda is a mechanism for disseminating information reserved specifically for those who are in power at the time. Michael Moore is a much-maligned and marginalized character who has found a way to propound his opinion via mass communications, just like anybody on FOX news or the other partisan or, shall we say, "opinionated" infosources so prevalent today. To call it "propaganda" elevates it to a level that almost begs for Godwin's law to be invoked. While Bill O'Reilly may be an *agent* of propaganda in the way that he adopts a perspective favorable to the current administration, I don't think anybody would say that Michael Moore is acting at the behest either consciously or unconsciously of anybody else - well, I'm sure someone would - so the aspects of propaganda that serve to preserve the existing power structures just aren't there.
Propaganda isn't material disseminated in opposition, it's disseminated in support. Support of the existing regime.
Being a for-profit company or owned by big corporation is not necessary a bad thing. People need to make a living and an office need money to run. Even slashdot.org a fervently independent outlet is now owned by VA Software. But craigslist has made a name of itself by strongly resist to commercialize.
This is a hodgepodge and makes no sense. Craigslist is already supporting 11 people's livelihoods and, last I checked, they were working in an office. Who then do you mean by "People"? Nobody's talking about CL being owned by anybody yet, but it's ominous that eBay will be able to affect the direction of Craigslist at all. Craigslist's resistance to the profit motive has had nothing to do with their ability to make living working on a website that is so useful to so many.
I was just thinking myself that a quick way of forcing the issue would be for KatieJ to change the homepage to a statement that Penguin is an online predator, with an email link, perhaps, to the unpleasant lawyer (and Penguin contacts, I suppose).
How long until people start writing viruses just to "get points" on some chart somewhere? Christ, you people have no logic whatsoever.
Hey now, just because you don't like the logic of a situation doesn't mean there isn't a logic operating. In fact, your post is speculating on what that might actually be. Virus writers are already competing, and as other respondents have noted there are already rankings put out by the anti-virus industry/community. Not to mention the New York Times, theregister.co.uk, and other press outlets.
You associate yourself with the rankers ("we're fucking ranking them"), yet you say that "you people" have no logic. Do you mean the virus writers or those of us who are neither ranking nor writing?
Thanks for the lesson on what the iPod's purpose is. However, Apple may disagree. I mean, there are plenty of non-PDA mp3 players out there, and you don't have to use these features, right? Heck, you can even remove them from the top menu so you don't have to see them. I would have liked to have this in New Orleans when I didn't have any internet access to check where wifi hotspots were, cuz access problems happen to us all (I use the calendar all the time, too, since it conveniently auto sync's with OS X's calendar). I agree that featuritis can ruin the best of devices, but at this point the iPod is read-only and I doubt Apple is very anxious to take on the support burden of added iPod complexity.
> I'd love to see a Firewire hub that could act as a hardware RAID controller.
Firewire drives can be daisychained, and in fact OS X allows you to set up software RAID on multiple firewire drives attached to the system. You can't move them to another system and get access, but that's about the only limitation that I've found and it's more than decent for local high-density storage..
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the point you're missing is that graffiti is creative while spam is not.
>A retail layout is more like a device to increase >sales, than a business method is.
that's stretching the definition of "device" almost to meaninglessness. would you also consider a particular layout and architecture to be a business method for increasing sales and customer satisfaction? which, of "device" and "business method", bears a closer relation to their concept?
You're pushing your idea of "adequately control" on the rest of the world. It's a logical fallacy to generalize based on one example, and the fact that you think that people can't "adequately control" themselves does not mean that people are out of control. However, if you do in fact think that people think it's okay to kill their neighbor I really wonder where you live, or if perhaps you're being extreme to make a point. A point that serves to justify an authoritarian government. What do you think is the easiest way to get people to police themselves? How far up in the rankings do you think "governmental surveillance" would be? How are people supposed to learn how to "police themselves" when the government is stepping in at every moment to take care of their peace of mind for them? I tell ya, I'm a US citizen in a large city and "fear of being killed by a terrorist" doesn't even register in my world of personal safety. As has been demonstrated by the government's response to 9/11 (this means 'not including WTC/etc. fatalities') that Americans are more likely to be falsely accused of being a threat to national security than they are of being a victim of a terrorist act.
As far as the war business goes, I've always been told that soldiers fight to defend the freedoms of their countries. But look, here we are giving up privacy in the name of war, how ironic! Any other freedoms been curtailed in the last few years that you can think of? Oh, but we're in a war, that's right.
The website for Linux Today is very blatantly about Linux. Linux users have a high probability of being anti microsoft.
You're assuming that all Linux Today readers are Linux users. To say that this ad is mistargeted and has "little chance of making money" reflects a single-minded idolatry that the only people reading Linux Today are members of some quasi-religious sect who have never heard the phrase "the best tool for the job".
Then again, maybe Microsoft doesn't care about any of these fuzzy situations where Linux Today readers will "probably" react negatively. It wouldn't be the first time.
Much of the problem with spyware is that EULA's are so arcane and overlooked that it makes it easy for things to be slipped in under the user's nose. Why do EULAs need to be so long? Why are they always in a tiny box that discourages reading it? Is there anything in the legal landscape to simplify all of this? I realize some of the problems are interface/GUI programming issues and some are legalistic maneuvers, but if EULAs weren't so lame and complicated we may have had a safer-computing populace right now.
Keep in mind that the governments of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany are no longer in power. The US can't say the same, so for the posters who have been flying off the handle: of course it's not the exact same because the US isn't finished yet! Among other things, the government is trying to drum up support to make the PATRIOT Act *permanent*. Is this a good idea given the history of nationalized secrecy? THIS is the major point of the original poster, for United Statesians to keep their eyes open and realize the histories of the path that the US Government *may* be going down.
And let's not even get into the absurdity of the Bush Administration's cynical attempts to invent exceptions to the Geneva Convention, since this thread is already in severe danger of going Bozon-nuclear.
While the USSR and Germany were leftist movements and the US is rightist, the government's promises are the same: that the citizens will be safer and better off if they let the government do what they want. Secrecy only benefits those with the secrets.
You assume a couple things: that Baystar is *trying* to invest in a legitimate Linux business; and that the events that have transpired in SCO v. IBM have anything to do with Baystar's ability to extract cash from SCO's position in the stock market.
For one thing, Western music doesn't "rule the world". Secondly, even if it did, history tells us that the people who are getting most of the compensation are marketers and executives, who are the true products of the American industries. You'll notice that they never get outsourced.
I imagine that the questions you ask are the questions that would be asked of the viewer watching the film. I see those as the larger questions of meaning in the outsourcing debate but not the kinds of questions that can be answered by any one participant.
Who knows, but I'm curious whether their deal with MS prevents them from even considering to open-source Java as had been bandied about over the past couple of months.
Maybe yes, maybe no. This about the hundredth "first nail" development, so much so that I noticed that the Groklaw has decided to start including exclamation points in its story titles, perhaps to differentiate from the other beginnings of ends..
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I think your post has the highest density of logical fallacies in recent memory. Just because Kerry refuses to be interviewed by someone does not make that person a better journalist. Does this reasoning extend to every newspaper that GWB refuses to read? Not that they do any better than Crossfire, natch.
Well, "similar" includes a wide range of possibile levels of quality, now doesn't it? I doubt that the large companies can make something as good as QS without buying them outright and substituting it as their own.
I've been using Quicksilver for the past six months and not only do I have access to all of my drive data, iTunes playlists, Safari (and other browser) bookmarks...but I also rarely use a mouse anymore. I don't have to poke around folders at all since with a hotkey I can type a few characters for Quicksilver to present a list of likely objects that I'm looking for. QS also ranks the hits based on usage, so for the most common tasks I only have to hit the hotkey, a few (or one) character(s) and hit enter. Like, for my Slashdot bookmark it's just apple-space, type 's', and hit enter since it seems to be the most common object I use that starts with "s". Quicksilver is completely extensible through a published API and a healthy user community writing plugins to access just about any kind of data that today's Macintosh has.
Indispensible, and this is what I would hope the major MS/Apple/etc. efforts produce. Somehow I doubt it, though.
>The point was that films have become far too reliant on special
>effects and that it is still possible for very good movies to
>be created in their absence.
What is this "film" you speak of? You mean it hasn't all burned or disintegrated? I thought actors were only there for voiceovers!
Oh, but maybe you meant "films" as in the kind that you pronounce with your jaw jutted out a little along with talk of "auteurs" and "vision".
See how silly categorical marginalization is? Here's a news flash, people have been making thin plots and lame actors since the beginning of drama. If you're going to complain about its acceptibility, you're going to need a Ouija Board and time machine because the industry doesn't care. There will always be good stuff to see that doesn't force you to choke down more CG, so you know...save your pennies and be an educated consumer.
In other words, "lighten up, Francis"...
Paypal is seeing how far they can go in:
- Avoiding definition
- Avoiding regulation
- Avoiding responsibility
They take peoples' money with little recourse, they make up their own laws, and they scrape the profits off everybody. Fining people? It would be a funny joke to talk about over dinner if it wasn't so sad that they put it into practice. I don't use PayPal much for just these corporate techniques that they use, and they can only use them because of their dominant position in the marketplace.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton
Abuse of power comes as no surprise - Jenny Holzer
Just because they have found ways of acting where the laws are undefined doesn't mean they aren't scumbags. Sorry to use such harsh words, but this just all leaves a bad taste in my mouth and makes me want to search the ASCII art archives for a picture of a weasel to paste here.
Propaganda is a mechanism for disseminating information reserved specifically for those who are in power at the time. Michael Moore is a much-maligned and marginalized character who has found a way to propound his opinion via mass communications, just like anybody on FOX news or the other partisan or, shall we say, "opinionated" infosources so prevalent today. To call it "propaganda" elevates it to a level that almost begs for Godwin's law to be invoked. While Bill O'Reilly may be an *agent* of propaganda in the way that he adopts a perspective favorable to the current administration, I don't think anybody would say that Michael Moore is acting at the behest either consciously or unconsciously of anybody else - well, I'm sure someone would - so the aspects of propaganda that serve to preserve the existing power structures just aren't there.
Propaganda isn't material disseminated in opposition, it's disseminated in support. Support of the existing regime.
This is a hodgepodge and makes no sense. Craigslist is already supporting 11 people's livelihoods and, last I checked, they were working in an office. Who then do you mean by "People"? Nobody's talking about CL being owned by anybody yet, but it's ominous that eBay will be able to affect the direction of Craigslist at all. Craigslist's resistance to the profit motive has had nothing to do with their ability to make living working on a website that is so useful to so many.
I was just thinking myself that a quick way of forcing the issue would be for KatieJ to change the homepage to a statement that Penguin is an online predator, with an email link, perhaps, to the unpleasant lawyer (and Penguin contacts, I suppose).
How long until people start writing viruses just to "get points" on some chart somewhere? Christ, you people have no logic whatsoever.
Hey now, just because you don't like the logic of a situation doesn't mean there isn't a logic operating. In fact, your post is speculating on what that might actually be. Virus writers are already competing, and as other respondents have noted there are already rankings put out by the anti-virus industry/community. Not to mention the New York Times, theregister.co.uk, and other press outlets.
You associate yourself with the rankers ("we're fucking ranking them"), yet you say that "you people" have no logic. Do you mean the virus writers or those of us who are neither ranking nor writing?
Thanks for the lesson on what the iPod's purpose is. However, Apple may disagree. I mean, there are plenty of non-PDA mp3 players out there, and you don't have to use these features, right? Heck, you can even remove them from the top menu so you don't have to see them. I would have liked to have this in New Orleans when I didn't have any internet access to check where wifi hotspots were, cuz access problems happen to us all (I use the calendar all the time, too, since it conveniently auto sync's with OS X's calendar). I agree that featuritis can ruin the best of devices, but at this point the iPod is read-only and I doubt Apple is very anxious to take on the support burden of added iPod complexity.
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> I'd love to see a Firewire hub that could act as a hardware RAID controller.
Firewire drives can be daisychained, and in fact OS X allows you to set up software RAID on multiple firewire drives attached to the system. You can't move them to another system and get access, but that's about the only limitation that I've found and it's more than decent for local high-density storage..
the point you're missing is that graffiti is creative while spam is not.
>A retail layout is more like a device to increase
>sales, than a business method is.
that's stretching the definition of "device" almost to meaninglessness. would you also consider a particular layout and architecture to be a business method for increasing sales and customer satisfaction? which, of "device" and "business method", bears a closer relation to their concept?
You're pushing your idea of "adequately control" on the rest of the world. It's a logical fallacy to generalize based on one example, and the fact that you think that people can't "adequately control" themselves does not mean that people are out of control. However, if you do in fact think that people think it's okay to kill their neighbor I really wonder where you live, or if perhaps you're being extreme to make a point. A point that serves to justify an authoritarian government. What do you think is the easiest way to get people to police themselves? How far up in the rankings do you think "governmental surveillance" would be? How are people supposed to learn how to "police themselves" when the government is stepping in at every moment to take care of their peace of mind for them? I tell ya, I'm a US citizen in a large city and "fear of being killed by a terrorist" doesn't even register in my world of personal safety. As has been demonstrated by the government's response to 9/11 (this means 'not including WTC/etc. fatalities') that Americans are more likely to be falsely accused of being a threat to national security than they are of being a victim of a terrorist act.
As far as the war business goes, I've always been told that soldiers fight to defend the freedoms of their countries. But look, here we are giving up privacy in the name of war, how ironic! Any other freedoms been curtailed in the last few years that you can think of? Oh, but we're in a war, that's right.
The website for Linux Today is very blatantly about Linux. Linux users have a high probability of being anti microsoft.
You're assuming that all Linux Today readers are Linux users. To say that this ad is mistargeted and has "little chance of making money" reflects a single-minded idolatry that the only people reading Linux Today are members of some quasi-religious sect who have never heard the phrase "the best tool for the job".
Then again, maybe Microsoft doesn't care about any of these fuzzy situations where Linux Today readers will "probably" react negatively. It wouldn't be the first time.
Much of the problem with spyware is that EULA's are so arcane and overlooked that it makes it easy for things to be slipped in under the user's nose. Why do EULAs need to be so long? Why are they always in a tiny box that discourages reading it? Is there anything in the legal landscape to simplify all of this? I realize some of the problems are interface/GUI programming issues and some are legalistic maneuvers, but if EULAs weren't so lame and complicated we may have had a safer-computing populace right now.
Keep in mind that the governments of Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany are no longer in power. The US can't say the same, so for the posters who have been flying off the handle: of course it's not the exact same because the US isn't finished yet! Among other things, the government is trying to drum up support to make the PATRIOT Act *permanent*. Is this a good idea given the history of nationalized secrecy? THIS is the major point of the original poster, for United Statesians to keep their eyes open and realize the histories of the path that the US Government *may* be going down.
And let's not even get into the absurdity of the Bush Administration's cynical attempts to invent exceptions to the Geneva Convention, since this thread is already in severe danger of going Bozon-nuclear.
While the USSR and Germany were leftist movements and the US is rightist, the government's promises are the same: that the citizens will be safer and better off if they let the government do what they want. Secrecy only benefits those with the secrets.
that is all :)
Secret investments are a product of sex and violence. Right.
You assume a couple things: that Baystar is *trying* to invest in a legitimate Linux business; and that the events that have transpired in SCO v. IBM have anything to do with Baystar's ability to extract cash from SCO's position in the stock market.
For one thing, Western music doesn't "rule the world". Secondly, even if it did, history tells us that the people who are getting most of the compensation are marketers and executives, who are the true products of the American industries. You'll notice that they never get outsourced.
I imagine that the questions you ask are the questions that would be asked of the viewer watching the film. I see those as the larger questions of meaning in the outsourcing debate but not the kinds of questions that can be answered by any one participant.
Who knows, but I'm curious whether their deal with MS prevents them from even considering to open-source Java as had been bandied about over the past couple of months.
Maybe yes, maybe no. This about the hundredth "first nail" development, so much so that I noticed that the Groklaw has decided to start including exclamation points in its story titles, perhaps to differentiate from the other beginnings of ends..