We are talking about money paid, and the principle of having companies take away our ability to use what we have legally paid for, just because they have us by the balls.
Actually, when you buy a copy of Halo 2, you aren't automatically entitled to a lifetime of free XBox Live access. From the release of the game, you had to pay an extra montly subscription in order to access online multiplayer via XBox Live. Microsoft is no longer charging that monthly fee because the service is discontinued. Microsoft didn't take away the ability to play via system link, split screen, or single player. That's what a customer purchasing Halo 2 "legally paid for."
I agree that tightly controlled leaks are Apple's MO. However, I don't understand why Giz didn't post specs, a model number, or at least a good quality picture of the radio and the processor on the iPhone. If the radio is GSM and CDMA capable, it might mean that Verizon or Sprint will get the 4th iPhone. That's a way, way bigger scoop than just knowing that a new phone is coming out. I also wonder if the new phone is using one of Apple's new A4 processors. That's not as important as knowing what the radio is capable of, but it's still a big story. Why didn't Giz say anything at all about the radio or the processor?
I'm not generally a tin foil hat kind of guy. I just think it's really suspicious that Giz didn't post any info about the radio or processor. Those omissions make it feel like a controlled leak to me. I think it's possible that Apple gave Giz the scoop in exchange for not revealing anything about the radio or processor. Giz gets a bazillion page views, and Apple gets hype for an otherwise ho-hum update to an existing product line. After all, the biggest difference that we know about between this phone and the 3GS is the front facing camera, which many people expected on the 3GS anyway.
Gizmodo is already going to do everything they can to make as big a deal as they can out of the iPhone. They do it with every Apple product. (I actually like Apple products and Giz, but I tend to not read Giz as much around the release of the next shiny from Apple because their coverage will be overbearing and I don't care enough to filter out the Apple shiny coverage.)
I think your point is definitely valid, but I feel as a salaried employee I'm being paid to get my job done. I don't get any more money on the weeks it takes me 50 hours to do my work, so I don't feel bad if some weeks I'm not busy every moment of the work day. When I'm done with my tasks for the day, I ask the other people on my team if they need help. If they don't, I'll ask my boss if he needs anything. If everyone is covered, I hop on the web.
If I'm paying a gardener by the hour to make my yard pretty, he better stay on task. If I'm paying him by the job, I don't really care how he structures his time as long as he completes the work I paid him for in the timeframe we agreed on.
Social Security is welfare. The amount you receive is generally much, much higher than what you pay in. It's a welfare system that is available to everyone so most people don't like the term "welfare" being applied. Most people think welfare is something those stupid deadbeats steal from them, not something that helps grandpa buy his pills.
Torchwood got its own series. They're even looking into bringing it to America. There are 2 or 3 seasons of Torchwood on Netflix instant queue. I don't like it quite as much as Doctor Who, but it's not bad and the Jack Harkness character is explored deeply. I'm pretty sure sticking Harkness in the past was just a plot device to explain why he wasn't on Doctor Who as often since he'd obviously be busy working on Torchwood.
Yes, and you can look at your logs to see what sites your employees are going to and how often they are hitting those sites. You're even well within your rights to install monitoring software on the computers you own to monitor everything that happens on those machines. The machine I'm using here at work belongs to my company. However, if my company wanted to monitor my online behavior from computers they don't own on time they're not paying for, I'd leave immediately. What I do on my own time is none of the company's business unless it's bad enough to end up in the paper the next morning.
The judge doesn't give a shit about the artist's vision. If the specific provision protecting the albums' artistic integrity wasn't written out in black and white, the point would be moot. If an artist wants to have control over their work, they either have to have that control written into their contract with a major label/publishing house/whomever provides their upfront money, or they must exist and create outside of the mainstream system. I really hope we continue to see online distribution make it easier for artists to work without huge corporate backing. I think it's the next step in the evolution of art. Western art has always been paid for by Big Money, whether that money was from the Catholic Church, the aristocracy, or media conglomerates. It would be amazing to see the internet put the power in the hands of the creators.
Why would I give this asshole yet another page view? What could the article possibly say that would make me think he's not a lying asshole? I think this is one case where everyone shouldn't RTFA.
Oh, wait. I'm new here...
On most gadget plans I've seen, the insurance contract is "fulfilled" the moment you get a replacement. It's not cancelled, the terms state that the insurance company is only liable for one full replacement. You're usually able to buy a new policy on your replaced gadget, though.
*Obviously I don't know what was in your specific agreement, so please don't think I'm flaming you. I used to work at Best Buy and that's how all of their policies worked when I was there.
If you're comfortable with HTML, I'd go with PHP. It's basically a scripting language that makes your HTML do dynamic, interesting things. Tie your PHP learning with some sort of SQL database and it's not too complicated to make fun projects that are useful. There are a million good PHP/MySQL books out there. I'd take an hour or so, go to a bookstore with a large programming section, and grab a handful of books. Read the first chapter or so from them and find one that has a writing style you will enjoy, then go home and start hacking.
The PHP/MySQL stack is nice because it's free (both as in beer and as in liberty) and there are lots of great resources on the web.
In what way is this like charging per cycle? MS isn't asking for more money every quarter from legitimate customers, they're trying to be a pain in the ass every 3 months to pirates. If you own a legit license and you're tagged as a false positive, you call the 800 number and run through an automated prompt that takes about 5 minutes to have your machine up and running again. Sure, that's annoying, but it's nothing like charging you for CPU cycles. You're acting like they're monitoring your Task Manager and sending you a bill for how much "Windows" you're using, the way IBM used to charge for how much mainframe time you used...
In what way is 7 still a giant kludge? I've been running it since the beta started, and it works really well. I think it's the best OS Microsoft has released since XP, and is a great improvement over XP. And no, I'm not an MS fanboy, I use Ubuntu on my desktop about 60% of the time, and my laptop is a MacBook Pro. Both boxes run Windows 7. Mac OS, Windows, and Linux area all 3 great for some things and shitty for others. Why can't we all agree on that?
You've obviously never seen the film Idiocracy. It seems like our society is devolving into the world shown in the movie. That's why it's been tagged so much.
The "just don't buy it retort" doesn't hold any water in my eyes. It's not even only misinformed consumers' benefit that's at stake. 10 years from now, do you want your Free OS being an island of its own that no one tries to be compatible with, because closed platforms represent 99% of the market?
Umm... Your free OS is already an island on its own that no one tries to be compatible with. Desktop Linux hovers around 1% marketshare from every study I've ever seen, and MS developers sure as hell aren't busting their balls to become more compatible with that 1%.
Wait, are you saying that the game isn't innovative? Coin battle and 4 player co-op are two of the best innovations in the Mario franchise since 1985. Rather than just throwing the best textures and shaders their artists could make on top of the flavor of the month physics engine, Nintendo sat down and figured out how to take the classic side scrolling adventure game and make it fresh and fun again. It's not the most original game to ever hit the market, but it's sure as hell a lot more innovative than something like Modern Warfare 2. In an era when most game studios simply shit out an incremental improvement over whatever worked last year with slightly better graphics, NSMB Wii was a breath of fresh air to me.
***Disclaimer: I love MW2 even though it's not original. I also don't think NSMB Wii is the greatest game ever, but saying it's not innovative is ridiculous.
You're forgetting that we're tech geeks here. Sure, I was trading mp3s on Efnet in 1997 (anyone remember #poptart.net? best place for full live shows for a long time...), but you had to be reasonably computer savvy to do that (I'm not saying it's hard to use IRC, I'm just saying technophobes probably won't figure it out). I also remember having tons of headaches ripping CDs reliably back in those days. I couldn't believe how easy it was the first time I saw someone rip a CD with itunes and sync it to their ipod in college. I still had my beloved 20GB Archos mp3 player that was half the price of an ipod, and I would download music from IRC or DC++ back in those days. But, like I said, I'm a tech geek.
Apple didn't change the way geeks listened to music. They just made what we'd been doing for a few years so simple that anyone could do it.
I think the OP's point is that The Jobs will go to bat for Himself. Carrying the same phone as His Jobsiness allows one to benefit from from any updates that He dictates.
Holy shit, read the wiki page. That song is now in the catalog of Epic Records, the same label that RATM is signed to. Sony wins no matter how you slice it...
And extending your point, we want the insurgents to know the drones are up there watching all the time. We have thousands of them up and are making more as quickly as we can. We want the enemy to think we're watching every single move he makes. Drones are an important part of psychological warfare.
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Actually, when you buy a copy of Halo 2, you aren't automatically entitled to a lifetime of free XBox Live access. From the release of the game, you had to pay an extra montly subscription in order to access online multiplayer via XBox Live. Microsoft is no longer charging that monthly fee because the service is discontinued. Microsoft didn't take away the ability to play via system link, split screen, or single player. That's what a customer purchasing Halo 2 "legally paid for."
I agree that tightly controlled leaks are Apple's MO. However, I don't understand why Giz didn't post specs, a model number, or at least a good quality picture of the radio and the processor on the iPhone. If the radio is GSM and CDMA capable, it might mean that Verizon or Sprint will get the 4th iPhone. That's a way, way bigger scoop than just knowing that a new phone is coming out. I also wonder if the new phone is using one of Apple's new A4 processors. That's not as important as knowing what the radio is capable of, but it's still a big story. Why didn't Giz say anything at all about the radio or the processor?
I'm not generally a tin foil hat kind of guy. I just think it's really suspicious that Giz didn't post any info about the radio or processor. Those omissions make it feel like a controlled leak to me. I think it's possible that Apple gave Giz the scoop in exchange for not revealing anything about the radio or processor. Giz gets a bazillion page views, and Apple gets hype for an otherwise ho-hum update to an existing product line. After all, the biggest difference that we know about between this phone and the 3GS is the front facing camera, which many people expected on the 3GS anyway.
Wait, what? Somebody from the Apollo program got to step foot on another planet? How the hell did I miss that?
Gizmodo is already going to do everything they can to make as big a deal as they can out of the iPhone. They do it with every Apple product. (I actually like Apple products and Giz, but I tend to not read Giz as much around the release of the next shiny from Apple because their coverage will be overbearing and I don't care enough to filter out the Apple shiny coverage.)
I think your point is definitely valid, but I feel as a salaried employee I'm being paid to get my job done. I don't get any more money on the weeks it takes me 50 hours to do my work, so I don't feel bad if some weeks I'm not busy every moment of the work day. When I'm done with my tasks for the day, I ask the other people on my team if they need help. If they don't, I'll ask my boss if he needs anything. If everyone is covered, I hop on the web. If I'm paying a gardener by the hour to make my yard pretty, he better stay on task. If I'm paying him by the job, I don't really care how he structures his time as long as he completes the work I paid him for in the timeframe we agreed on.
Social Security is welfare. The amount you receive is generally much, much higher than what you pay in. It's a welfare system that is available to everyone so most people don't like the term "welfare" being applied. Most people think welfare is something those stupid deadbeats steal from them, not something that helps grandpa buy his pills.
Torchwood got its own series. They're even looking into bringing it to America. There are 2 or 3 seasons of Torchwood on Netflix instant queue. I don't like it quite as much as Doctor Who, but it's not bad and the Jack Harkness character is explored deeply. I'm pretty sure sticking Harkness in the past was just a plot device to explain why he wasn't on Doctor Who as often since he'd obviously be busy working on Torchwood.
I would consider being left the hell alone when you're in your home and not doing anything illegal a basic human right.
Yes, and you can look at your logs to see what sites your employees are going to and how often they are hitting those sites. You're even well within your rights to install monitoring software on the computers you own to monitor everything that happens on those machines. The machine I'm using here at work belongs to my company. However, if my company wanted to monitor my online behavior from computers they don't own on time they're not paying for, I'd leave immediately. What I do on my own time is none of the company's business unless it's bad enough to end up in the paper the next morning.
The judge doesn't give a shit about the artist's vision. If the specific provision protecting the albums' artistic integrity wasn't written out in black and white, the point would be moot. If an artist wants to have control over their work, they either have to have that control written into their contract with a major label/publishing house/whomever provides their upfront money, or they must exist and create outside of the mainstream system. I really hope we continue to see online distribution make it easier for artists to work without huge corporate backing. I think it's the next step in the evolution of art. Western art has always been paid for by Big Money, whether that money was from the Catholic Church, the aristocracy, or media conglomerates. It would be amazing to see the internet put the power in the hands of the creators.
How the hell are we supposed to know what you did or didn't read?
Why would I give this asshole yet another page view? What could the article possibly say that would make me think he's not a lying asshole? I think this is one case where everyone shouldn't RTFA. Oh, wait. I'm new here...
On most gadget plans I've seen, the insurance contract is "fulfilled" the moment you get a replacement. It's not cancelled, the terms state that the insurance company is only liable for one full replacement. You're usually able to buy a new policy on your replaced gadget, though. *Obviously I don't know what was in your specific agreement, so please don't think I'm flaming you. I used to work at Best Buy and that's how all of their policies worked when I was there.
If you're comfortable with HTML, I'd go with PHP. It's basically a scripting language that makes your HTML do dynamic, interesting things. Tie your PHP learning with some sort of SQL database and it's not too complicated to make fun projects that are useful. There are a million good PHP/MySQL books out there. I'd take an hour or so, go to a bookstore with a large programming section, and grab a handful of books. Read the first chapter or so from them and find one that has a writing style you will enjoy, then go home and start hacking. The PHP/MySQL stack is nice because it's free (both as in beer and as in liberty) and there are lots of great resources on the web.
In what way is this like charging per cycle? MS isn't asking for more money every quarter from legitimate customers, they're trying to be a pain in the ass every 3 months to pirates. If you own a legit license and you're tagged as a false positive, you call the 800 number and run through an automated prompt that takes about 5 minutes to have your machine up and running again. Sure, that's annoying, but it's nothing like charging you for CPU cycles. You're acting like they're monitoring your Task Manager and sending you a bill for how much "Windows" you're using, the way IBM used to charge for how much mainframe time you used...
In what way is 7 still a giant kludge? I've been running it since the beta started, and it works really well. I think it's the best OS Microsoft has released since XP, and is a great improvement over XP. And no, I'm not an MS fanboy, I use Ubuntu on my desktop about 60% of the time, and my laptop is a MacBook Pro. Both boxes run Windows 7. Mac OS, Windows, and Linux area all 3 great for some things and shitty for others. Why can't we all agree on that?
You've obviously never seen the film Idiocracy. It seems like our society is devolving into the world shown in the movie. That's why it's been tagged so much.
Umm... Your free OS is already an island on its own that no one tries to be compatible with. Desktop Linux hovers around 1% marketshare from every study I've ever seen, and MS developers sure as hell aren't busting their balls to become more compatible with that 1%.
Wait, are you saying that the game isn't innovative? Coin battle and 4 player co-op are two of the best innovations in the Mario franchise since 1985. Rather than just throwing the best textures and shaders their artists could make on top of the flavor of the month physics engine, Nintendo sat down and figured out how to take the classic side scrolling adventure game and make it fresh and fun again. It's not the most original game to ever hit the market, but it's sure as hell a lot more innovative than something like Modern Warfare 2. In an era when most game studios simply shit out an incremental improvement over whatever worked last year with slightly better graphics, NSMB Wii was a breath of fresh air to me. ***Disclaimer: I love MW2 even though it's not original. I also don't think NSMB Wii is the greatest game ever, but saying it's not innovative is ridiculous.
You're forgetting that we're tech geeks here. Sure, I was trading mp3s on Efnet in 1997 (anyone remember #poptart.net? best place for full live shows for a long time...), but you had to be reasonably computer savvy to do that (I'm not saying it's hard to use IRC, I'm just saying technophobes probably won't figure it out). I also remember having tons of headaches ripping CDs reliably back in those days. I couldn't believe how easy it was the first time I saw someone rip a CD with itunes and sync it to their ipod in college. I still had my beloved 20GB Archos mp3 player that was half the price of an ipod, and I would download music from IRC or DC++ back in those days. But, like I said, I'm a tech geek. Apple didn't change the way geeks listened to music. They just made what we'd been doing for a few years so simple that anyone could do it.
I think the OP's point is that The Jobs will go to bat for Himself. Carrying the same phone as His Jobsiness allows one to benefit from from any updates that He dictates.
And you'd think The Matrix could've gotten a sequel or two. Too bad that never happened...
Holy shit, read the wiki page. That song is now in the catalog of Epic Records, the same label that RATM is signed to. Sony wins no matter how you slice it...
Wait, when did we start talking about George Lucas?
And extending your point, we want the insurgents to know the drones are up there watching all the time. We have thousands of them up and are making more as quickly as we can. We want the enemy to think we're watching every single move he makes. Drones are an important part of psychological warfare.