I have some faint recollection from the early 90's that, during WW I or II (or both?), their was some research into the building of a telescope powerful enough that, when pointed straight up, would look right out the 'end' of the universe and in the other in order to spy directly on the exact opposite side of the planet. Now, to search for any links to back that strange memory up...
I think the one trick that Linux has up its sleeve is its repositories. "I can't open file-type.wtf!": Google linux wtf files, get package name, go to add remove programs, search for package and install from what is likely to be a trusted source.
If that doesn't work, most people are going to ask their friend who "knows what they're doing" to help them find and install/make the necessary software.
And what Linux geek isn't prepared to help their newbie friend, if it keeps them using Linux?
I did read some good points in your post before I realised that you seem to be discussing a problem which has already been solved, 'though is not yet widespread.
If you were to investigate Triple J Unearthed, you would find a myriad of songs by new artists. There, people who do have the time and inclination listen to the songs, rate and review them. Also, the station employs people to listed to every uploaded song to find the oats in the chaff: the best end up on the radio, win competitions and get exposure for possible signing.
The other thing to note, most of the people using this system listen to the associated station. I generally like the station because it mostly plays songs I have never heard before, and I would much rather hear a crap song once than the same three 'smashes' from the 'eighties played on repeat every time I get in the car. Not that I particularly dislike those songs, I just don't want to hear them all the time.
You seem to presume that the jobs of the labels won't be done when they're 'out of the picture', when truthfully, those jobs are already being done by multitudes more people with far wider spreads of opinion than some suit behind a 10' mahogany desk.
And then there's Jamendo and Magnatune, where you can generally listen by genre and get a good mix to suit your mood.
Disclosure: I do not work for the ABC, but I do contribute to their funding.
Let's spend tax-payer's money to seek out and reprimand people who illegally download copyrighted works!
The best part is, these people will then either go without, or source the works the 'old fashioned' way and copy them directly from friends, or from people who charge money to put it on a blank CD/DVD with black texta scrawled across it! This way, the owners of the copyrighted will make EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY they would have anyway.
The very idea is financially unsound for tax-payers, potentially reduces the customer-base of ISPs, reducing their revenue and thus their staff, increasing unemployment (although they could get jobs in the new Anti-piracy Enforcement Agency)...
The biggest issue is that people still seem to think that every copy pirated is a lost sale. It's not! Every copy pirated is a copy that would never have been sold in the first place. Many people pay for content they want, but the market is so saturated, not everyone can buy everything that they want. Many make do with what they can afford, others wait until its cheaper, and still others pay dearly for the things they really appreciate, and next-to-nothing for those things they would care less about if they couldn't have.
And IPs (v4) aren't static!
And, are we going to punish the children in families who have a pirate downloader in their midst?! Are we to make them fall behind or drop out of school/university because someone who had their IP previously downloaded some content and it got blamed on their parents/siblings?!
This is purely and unworkable fantasy utopia dreamed up by people with money who are greedy for more money. If instantiated anywhere, it will feed money into the black market even faster than it already is!
There are many other avenues my rant has gone on in my head since reading TFS, and if this appears to be being seriously considered or, FFS, actually proposed, I will have no issues expounding them to all who listen...
At the University I attend, all of the embedded-related subjects are Microelectronics Engineering controlled, and all of the Software Engineering subjects are controlled by the Engineering-oriented segment of Information Technology. They used to be two separate schools borrowing some subjects from one another and complaining how the other areas that each teaches aren't applicable enough (Software Engineering in Micro is not real Software Engineering, Programming in IT is too high-level for Micro applications, etc.), now they are in the 'Engineering' school.
This divide is propagated by the students, with most Micro students being lacklustre coders (from disinterest), and most Software students not giving a fig about the hardware. There are very few people doing a double-degree with Software and Micro, not just because it's hard, but because the culture clashes. A lot of people I've met in Software, however, started in Micro (myself included).
Marry this with the fact that intake of students tends to be in the Business-related degrees, the number of IT and Electronics professionals is dropping and the schools themselves are beginning to struggle.
The problem, as I see it, is one of glamour and financial success. Students are being wooed into the industries where the money is as being financially successful allows for a highly glamourous lifestyle and therefore required for 'sane' living. Engineers are once again being typified as dwelling in the basement of the company, working for schekels and getting no recognition.
This shows that the major problem, as ever, is a social one. IT is once again unpopular for the money and a lot of medium-large size companies (where most graduates end up) still consider IT in the realm of making sure Windows Server and Office are installed and running properly for those people who do the 'real' work. This is what I think students are currently seeing and they are not interested in being the mechanics of the information age.
So, where are the embedded developers? Well, I'm on my way (I hope), but I don't know of that many others following suit for exactly the reasons above (and the embedded courses tending to be post-graduate isn't helping, either).
</rant>
jaminJay
"I bet someone guesses which Uni. I'm at..."
As you can now download the instructions for all kits as PDF from Lego's website, each kit contains a custom piece sold only with that kit to encourage purchase thereof[citation needed].
There are already Pokemon which cannot be caught unless you went to a specific event held in Japan, or get one traded through the six degrees of separation principle. Now I'll have to go to actual real-world locations to find the obscure ones?! How are we supposed to do that from our Mum's basements?!
Also, could access points be used to simulate GPS with appropriately standardised naming schemes/info. packets?
Slashdot Mirror
But, but, but... Crystal Skulls?
I know, I know. Your lawn. Me. Getting off.
No wait! I didn't mean...
Where do I sign up for that?!
I have some faint recollection from the early 90's that, during WW I or II (or both?), their was some research into the building of a telescope powerful enough that, when pointed straight up, would look right out the 'end' of the universe and in the other in order to spy directly on the exact opposite side of the planet. Now, to search for any links to back that strange memory up...
People create artificial links between Video Games and Sex/Violence?
"We tried to kill the games industry in the 80's and now we're back to finish the job."
100% of computers sold at Apple retail stores are Apples! Colour me impressed!
So, what you're saying is, Microsoft are Nazis?
So, you dub them unforgiven?
I like Bunnies. But not as much as Hef likes Bunnies...
Bunnies are way better than FPS... <Cue mum's basement jokes>
Paraphrased:
I believe it's in John somewhere, and even then it is by no means meant to be accurate.
Psychohistory, anyone?
Unless said Unicorn is Pink..
11. Hard working staff are 'rewarded' with more work.
I think the one trick that Linux has up its sleeve is its repositories. "I can't open file-type .wtf!": Google linux wtf files, get package name, go to add remove programs, search for package and install from what is likely to be a trusted source.
If that doesn't work, most people are going to ask their friend who "knows what they're doing" to help them find and install/make the necessary software.
And what Linux geek isn't prepared to help their newbie friend, if it keeps them using Linux?
Heh, Fx dictionary thinks 'newbie' is a word..!
I did read some good points in your post before I realised that you seem to be discussing a problem which has already been solved, 'though is not yet widespread.
If you were to investigate Triple J Unearthed, you would find a myriad of songs by new artists. There, people who do have the time and inclination listen to the songs, rate and review them. Also, the station employs people to listed to every uploaded song to find the oats in the chaff: the best end up on the radio, win competitions and get exposure for possible signing.
The other thing to note, most of the people using this system listen to the associated station. I generally like the station because it mostly plays songs I have never heard before, and I would much rather hear a crap song once than the same three 'smashes' from the 'eighties played on repeat every time I get in the car. Not that I particularly dislike those songs, I just don't want to hear them all the time.
You seem to presume that the jobs of the labels won't be done when they're 'out of the picture', when truthfully, those jobs are already being done by multitudes more people with far wider spreads of opinion than some suit behind a 10' mahogany desk.
And then there's Jamendo and Magnatune, where you can generally listen by genre and get a good mix to suit your mood.
Disclosure: I do not work for the ABC, but I do contribute to their funding.
...Somebody had to finish the joke. Ah, screw the whole thing.Let's spend tax-payer's money to seek out and reprimand people who illegally download copyrighted works!
The best part is, these people will then either go without, or source the works the 'old fashioned' way and copy them directly from friends, or from people who charge money to put it on a blank CD/DVD with black texta scrawled across it! This way, the owners of the copyrighted will make EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY they would have anyway.
The very idea is financially unsound for tax-payers, potentially reduces the customer-base of ISPs, reducing their revenue and thus their staff, increasing unemployment (although they could get jobs in the new Anti-piracy Enforcement Agency)...
The biggest issue is that people still seem to think that every copy pirated is a lost sale. It's not! Every copy pirated is a copy that would never have been sold in the first place. Many people pay for content they want, but the market is so saturated, not everyone can buy everything that they want. Many make do with what they can afford, others wait until its cheaper, and still others pay dearly for the things they really appreciate, and next-to-nothing for those things they would care less about if they couldn't have.
And IPs (v4) aren't static!
And, are we going to punish the children in families who have a pirate downloader in their midst?! Are we to make them fall behind or drop out of school/university because someone who had their IP previously downloaded some content and it got blamed on their parents/siblings?!
This is purely and unworkable fantasy utopia dreamed up by people with money who are greedy for more money. If instantiated anywhere, it will feed money into the black market even faster than it already is!
There are many other avenues my rant has gone on in my head since reading TFS, and if this appears to be being seriously considered or, FFS, actually proposed, I will have no issues expounding them to all who listen...
jaminJay
Angry Australian
At the University I attend, all of the embedded-related subjects are Microelectronics Engineering controlled, and all of the Software Engineering subjects are controlled by the Engineering-oriented segment of Information Technology. They used to be two separate schools borrowing some subjects from one another and complaining how the other areas that each teaches aren't applicable enough (Software Engineering in Micro is not real Software Engineering, Programming in IT is too high-level for Micro applications, etc.), now they are in the 'Engineering' school.
This divide is propagated by the students, with most Micro students being lacklustre coders (from disinterest), and most Software students not giving a fig about the hardware. There are very few people doing a double-degree with Software and Micro, not just because it's hard, but because the culture clashes. A lot of people I've met in Software, however, started in Micro (myself included).
Marry this with the fact that intake of students tends to be in the Business-related degrees, the number of IT and Electronics professionals is dropping and the schools themselves are beginning to struggle.
The problem, as I see it, is one of glamour and financial success. Students are being wooed into the industries where the money is as being financially successful allows for a highly glamourous lifestyle and therefore required for 'sane' living. Engineers are once again being typified as dwelling in the basement of the company, working for schekels and getting no recognition.
This shows that the major problem, as ever, is a social one. IT is once again unpopular for the money and a lot of medium-large size companies (where most graduates end up) still consider IT in the realm of making sure Windows Server and Office are installed and running properly for those people who do the 'real' work. This is what I think students are currently seeing and they are not interested in being the mechanics of the information age.
So, where are the embedded developers? Well, I'm on my way (I hope), but I don't know of that many others following suit for exactly the reasons above (and the embedded courses tending to be post-graduate isn't helping, either).
</rant>
jaminJay "I bet someone guesses which Uni. I'm at..."
As you can now download the instructions for all kits as PDF from Lego's website, each kit contains a custom piece sold only with that kit to encourage purchase thereof[citation needed].
More importantly, will it blend?
You win again, Gravity!
So, you start dragging an object, and a pie menu appears around it? Is that it? Sounds like The Sims with a drag instead of a click...
Have you power-cycled it?
There are already Pokemon which cannot be caught unless you went to a specific event held in Japan, or get one traded through the six degrees of separation principle. Now I'll have to go to actual real-world locations to find the obscure ones?! How are we supposed to do that from our Mum's basements?!
Also, could access points be used to simulate GPS with appropriately standardised naming schemes/info. packets?