Do you somehow plan your emergencies in advance so that you can make sure you have no scheduling conflicts? Most emergencies I've seen happened when you didn't know they were going to happen and are in the middle of something else.
In both situations it's a choice. The "artists" are conforming to a dress code to keep from being ridiculed by their peers and excluded from artistic society. The "corporate drone" is conforming to a dress code to keep from being ridiculed by his peers and thrown out of corporate society. Hmm...seems pretty similar to me.
The only difference is that the "corporate drone" is doing it so that he can continue to earn a living...which is generally considered a worthwhile thing. The "artist" is doing it so that he can impress his peers and be different...just like everybody else.
Both sides have a choice...to conform or be ousted from the place they've chosen to spend their time. The "corporate drone" just has the added bonus of getting paid for it as well.
I paid $0.49 per 4x6. This seemed quite steep to me before I realized that I had the privelage of only sending photos that I already knew were print-worthy. Plus I had a chance to crop and color-correct them if I wished. When you figure it that way, it's not so outrageous.
I still think that's pretty high. I pay $.26 apiece for my 4"x6" prints from digital at Wal-mart Photo Center. The color is always just like it looks on screen as I edit in Photoshop. And the prints are done using an excellent process developed by Fuji.
5"x7" - $.96
8"x10" - $2.86 (I'd like to see you print your own for that cheap by the time you price photo paper and ink...and still get lesser quality)
sheet of wallet-sized is $2.86 as well.
For the price and quality, I don't think Wal-Mart's service can be beat. You can even get them without paying shipping if you're willing to pick them up at the photo center of your local Wal-Mart instead of have them shipped to your home...which is what...about 2 miles away for most of us? About the only reason to go with Apple's service is if you need one of the albums/books. For individual prints, though, Apple's service is overpriced and I've heard very little praise from the digital photography web sites when comparing its quality to most other digital photo printing services.
I would also guess that this product is high end and niche enough that it does not directly compete with any officially licensed products. So it's unlike that LucasFilm would try to pursue the issue legally.
According to the article, the licensed light saber producer is Master Replicas. If you follow the link, you'll see their prices are just as "high end" as the ones featured in this article. So, yes, he's competing with an officially licensed product.
After all, Disney, Microsoft, et al don't have a single vote in the elections, so who cares how much money they donate?
No, Disney, et al don't have votes...but their many multitudes of employees do. (Yes, it's surprising, but even large corporations are made up of real people.) And why wouldn't these employees vote for somebody that's making life easier for the one who pays their bills? Most people would definately be influenced to vote for a certain candidate if voting another way could cause harm to the one who puts bread on their table.
How many times do we see topics come up on Slashdot where we're encouraged to call or write our representatives to change things in the favor of geeks? Pretty often...and we're not even a well-organized group of people.
Would it surprise you that many corporations (who are much more organized than the geeks who read slashdot) send out emails to their employees when legislation is pending that could help or harm them...encouraging the employees to call or write their representatives (even including addresses and phone numbers to make it easier)? It shouldn't. Speaking from experience, it happens all the time.
So, do corporations have a vote? No...they have many, many votes.
According to the article, it doesn't matter whether we get rid of Hollings. There are plenty more in line behind him to take his place in the back pocket of the music and movie industries.
We'll be lucky to ever get a "non-biased" politician in a position of power. To get elected takes a lot of money (to get your name out there in advertising, etc.). Real people don't have that kind of money. So where does the money come from? Big industries like these. After their elected, they can't stray from what these industries what because they'll need their money to be re-elected in a few more years. There is no forseeable end to the cycle.
There is no "good guy" any more is there? A politician's a politician.
Uli updated the MoOse a couple of years ago to work with OS 8/9. You can get it at this web site.
Shoot, while you're at it, maybe encourage an OS X version.
I doubt I'll be running it though...the moose grates on my nerves after a few minutes.
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To quote from the aforementioned site:
I'll eat my hockey puck mouse. I'm not using it anyhow.
Since he wasn't using the mouse to interact with his iMac to start with...I doubt that's a problem after eating the mouse. Although lack of airflow due to a mouse stuck in his throat might have inhibited his interaction with the computer.
It's very unfortunate IMO that this is the case. The way I see it is if you don't know how to use the tool, either learn how or don't use it
Installation, configuration and trouble-shooting aren't "using the tool". That's creating or fixing the tool. Non-slashdot people don't get computers so they can have something to make work. They get computers so they can get things done. They want to use the computers...not spend their time learning how to make it usable. A "tool" is generally something used to accomplish a task more efficiently. If your choice between two things that do basically the same thing is something that you just have to push a button and it works or something that you have to put together first and then push some buttons before it does the same thing...most people are going to choose the one where you just push a button. It's more efficient.
Can anyone bring me one such person who likes Linux?
I can give you two. My two younger cousins...They asked me to install Linux for them
Which is just what most people want. As you said, you installed it for them. You took all the learning curve out. They just have to use WindowMaker. For them, this was a "push one button" porcess. If everybody had a cousin handy to set-up their Linux with the apps they want to use, then I'm sure more people would use it. But this isn't the case for most.
Well, somebody saidmust be true. It reminds me of a Terry Pratchett book I just read, The Truth. People believed whatever was printed in the paper because "they" wouldn't let them say just anything.
Unfortunately, Joe Shmo's word doesn't mean Jack if he doesn't have something concrete to back it up.
If someone wants me to watch a commercial, they better make it entertaining and/or interesting.
People really do like entertaining ads. Not these sickening Taco Bell "zesty" ads. *cringe*
People will actually put off their bathroom break if an ad is entertaining. They will even spend their time and bandwidth watching ads if they're entertaining enough...as is shown by AdCritic.com. I think more advertisers need to look at the "Top 10" ads on AdCritic and realize that people don't mind ads much...if the ads are as entertaining as the show they're interrupting.
Even grade school children are being constantly inundated with information telling them they need to be on the internet. My daughter comes home from school with books or magazines full of URLs to info related to the magazine. She watches the educational shows on PBS and what follows every show? "Visit our web site at pbskids.org". Everything aimed at kids (and adults of course) these days has an internet magnet attached to the end. Everything has a "Please visit our web site" attached to it.
No, I don't let her go off by herself. The computer is in one of the main rooms of the house and she already knows the safe sites where she wants to go anyway. No, she doesn't need the internet, but when it's all she ever hears about, you're not going to keep her from wanting it. And if she's going to be on the internet, I'd rather it was at home where I can explain any questions that come up, rather than in secret at some friend's house.
On the contrary, PDFs can be very interactive. With Acrobat you can create a PDF with:
Links - from graphics/buttons or text - to other pages in a PDF (the present one or another), to web sites, or to other documents/apps on your machine
Forms that will submit info to web servers
Javascript actions that occur on page openings, link clicks, etc.
Embedded animation and sound
No, the interactivity of PDFs isn't quite as slick as inside of a web browser, but it's far from being non-interactive. But PDF is about the most platform-independent format you can use if you want something to look the way you originally created it...because sometimes form does matter when presenting your content.
I had something similar happen to me last year. I bought a pice of software (cost about $500). When it arrived from a well-known catalog vendor, it was still shrink-wrapped. It felt about the right weight for what should be in there. But inside the shrink-wrapped box were stuffed about 100 sheets of blank paper in place of the CD, manuals and registration codes.
When I notified the vendor, they seemed sort of unbelieving, since it was a shrink-wrapped box and all. How could there have possibly been any tampering. But in the end they replaced it without any major hassle.
This differs from a child's school records in two ways:
The judge that presided on this case said that all information identifying specific students had to be removed from the logs. So no personal privacy is being invaded in that way.
The school's internet usage policy, which the kids should have known, stated that everything was being logged. There was never any privacy implied in their use of the Internet (just the opposite)...unlike the school records which are protected.
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I'm glad I don't have any mod points today. There's no way I could decide whether that was "insightful" or "funny".
How long 'til we get to see some leaked photos of Apple-specific X86 hardwware?
Do you somehow plan your emergencies in advance so that you can make sure you have no scheduling conflicts? Most emergencies I've seen happened when you didn't know they were going to happen and are in the middle of something else.
You appear to be blind.
In both situations it's a choice. The "artists" are conforming to a dress code to keep from being ridiculed by their peers and excluded from artistic society. The "corporate drone" is conforming to a dress code to keep from being ridiculed by his peers and thrown out of corporate society. Hmm...seems pretty similar to me.
The only difference is that the "corporate drone" is doing it so that he can continue to earn a living...which is generally considered a worthwhile thing. The "artist" is doing it so that he can impress his peers and be different...just like everybody else.
Both sides have a choice...to conform or be ousted from the place they've chosen to spend their time. The "corporate drone" just has the added bonus of getting paid for it as well.
"Installing a new driver"
I still think that's pretty high. I pay $.26 apiece for my 4"x6" prints from digital at Wal-mart Photo Center. The color is always just like it looks on screen as I edit in Photoshop. And the prints are done using an excellent process developed by Fuji.
5"x7" - $.96
8"x10" - $2.86 (I'd like to see you print your own for that cheap by the time you price photo paper and ink...and still get lesser quality)
sheet of wallet-sized is $2.86 as well.
For the price and quality, I don't think Wal-Mart's service can be beat. You can even get them without paying shipping if you're willing to pick them up at the photo center of your local Wal-Mart instead of have them shipped to your home...which is what...about 2 miles away for most of us? About the only reason to go with Apple's service is if you need one of the albums/books. For individual prints, though, Apple's service is overpriced and I've heard very little praise from the digital photography web sites when comparing its quality to most other digital photo printing services.
According to the article, the licensed light saber producer is Master Replicas . If you follow the link, you'll see their prices are just as "high end" as the ones featured in this article. So, yes, he's competing with an officially licensed product.
...which is fine and dandy if you only ever want to listen to music at your computer.
But you're still out of luck when you want to take your music with you on your portable player (which will play mp3s, CDs, wma, but not ogg vorbis).
Doing a quick search on Yahoo! Shopping I came up with tons of places where you can get firewire cards for sub-$25. It's not the high-priced game it used to be.
No, Disney, et al don't have votes...but their many multitudes of employees do. (Yes, it's surprising, but even large corporations are made up of real people.) And why wouldn't these employees vote for somebody that's making life easier for the one who pays their bills? Most people would definately be influenced to vote for a certain candidate if voting another way could cause harm to the one who puts bread on their table.
How many times do we see topics come up on Slashdot where we're encouraged to call or write our representatives to change things in the favor of geeks? Pretty often...and we're not even a well-organized group of people.
Would it surprise you that many corporations (who are much more organized than the geeks who read slashdot) send out emails to their employees when legislation is pending that could help or harm them...encouraging the employees to call or write their representatives (even including addresses and phone numbers to make it easier)? It shouldn't. Speaking from experience, it happens all the time.
So, do corporations have a vote? No...they have many, many votes.
According to the article, it doesn't matter whether we get rid of Hollings. There are plenty more in line behind him to take his place in the back pocket of the music and movie industries.
We'll be lucky to ever get a "non-biased" politician in a position of power. To get elected takes a lot of money (to get your name out there in advertising, etc.). Real people don't have that kind of money. So where does the money come from? Big industries like these. After their elected, they can't stray from what these industries what because they'll need their money to be re-elected in a few more years. There is no forseeable end to the cycle.
There is no "good guy" any more is there? A politician's a politician.
Shoot, while you're at it, maybe encourage an OS X version.
I doubt I'll be running it though...the moose grates on my nerves after a few minutes.
Installation, configuration and trouble-shooting aren't "using the tool". That's creating or fixing the tool. Non-slashdot people don't get computers so they can have something to make work. They get computers so they can get things done. They want to use the computers...not spend their time learning how to make it usable. A "tool" is generally something used to accomplish a task more efficiently. If your choice between two things that do basically the same thing is something that you just have to push a button and it works or something that you have to put together first and then push some buttons before it does the same thing...most people are going to choose the one where you just push a button. It's more efficient.
Can anyone bring me one such person who likes Linux?
I can give you two. My two younger cousins...They asked me to install Linux for them
Which is just what most people want. As you said, you installed it for them. You took all the learning curve out. They just have to use WindowMaker. For them, this was a "push one button" porcess. If everybody had a cousin handy to set-up their Linux with the apps they want to use, then I'm sure more people would use it. But this isn't the case for most.
After all, if you won't accept lack of evidence as evidence...you won't accept real evidence as evidence either.
Unfortunately, Joe Shmo's word doesn't mean Jack if he doesn't have something concrete to back it up.
People really do like entertaining ads. Not these sickening Taco Bell "zesty" ads. *cringe*
People will actually put off their bathroom break if an ad is entertaining. They will even spend their time and bandwidth watching ads if they're entertaining enough...as is shown by AdCritic.com. I think more advertisers need to look at the "Top 10" ads on AdCritic and realize that people don't mind ads much...if the ads are as entertaining as the show they're interrupting.
There once was a man on his phone
Who could not wait 'til he got home
HIs email he read
"It's important!" he said
'Til his car toward a semi did roam
Even grade school children are being constantly inundated with information telling them they need to be on the internet. My daughter comes home from school with books or magazines full of URLs to info related to the magazine. She watches the educational shows on PBS and what follows every show? "Visit our web site at pbskids.org". Everything aimed at kids (and adults of course) these days has an internet magnet attached to the end. Everything has a "Please visit our web site" attached to it.
No, I don't let her go off by herself. The computer is in one of the main rooms of the house and she already knows the safe sites where she wants to go anyway. No, she doesn't need the internet, but when it's all she ever hears about, you're not going to keep her from wanting it. And if she's going to be on the internet, I'd rather it was at home where I can explain any questions that come up, rather than in secret at some friend's house.
On the contrary, PDFs can be very interactive. With Acrobat you can create a PDF with:
- Links - from graphics/buttons or text - to other pages in a PDF (the present one or another), to web sites, or to other documents/apps on your machine
- Forms that will submit info to web servers
- Javascript actions that occur on page openings, link clicks, etc.
- Embedded animation and sound
No, the interactivity of PDFs isn't quite as slick as inside of a web browser, but it's far from being non-interactive. But PDF is about the most platform-independent format you can use if you want something to look the way you originally created it...because sometimes form does matter when presenting your content.I had something similar happen to me last year. I bought a pice of software (cost about $500). When it arrived from a well-known catalog vendor, it was still shrink-wrapped. It felt about the right weight for what should be in there. But inside the shrink-wrapped box were stuffed about 100 sheets of blank paper in place of the CD, manuals and registration codes. When I notified the vendor, they seemed sort of unbelieving, since it was a shrink-wrapped box and all. How could there have possibly been any tampering. But in the end they replaced it without any major hassle.