There's no reason for that to be the case. Music, for instance, is trivially easy to copy, and yet purchases continue.
Yeah, but that music is being sold through retail or through liscensed online download services, and that's totally not the point, anyway.
The analogue is: How many peeople with electronic format digital copies of music sell their music to a third party (and also destroy any copies they might have) when they no longer want or that music?
The answer: next to nobody. People who have MP3s that were ripped from legitimate sources, and who also erase those files when they get rid of those CDs are so few in number that they don't even count as an anomaly.
This is the family objecting to the misuse of the artist's moral rights. They simply do not want arbitrary businesses associating themselves with the artist's work. This is not about the family wanting money, it's about the family not wanting Google to associate itself with Miro.
I'd rewrite that as: "This is not about the family wanting money, it's about the family not wanting Google to associate itself with Miro, without forking over a buttload of money"
This would be a complete non-issue if a pallet load of Benjamins mysteriously appeared up on their doorstep. I know it, Google knows it, the family knows it, and I think you're daft if you believe otherwise. This is precisely why this has bupkis to do with an artist's moral rights, and the want to protect a famed, deceased artist's works from besmirchment, and why this has everything to do with a money grubbing family doing their best to rape and extort any value from the only claim to fame that has had the honor to grace their name. Furthermore, anyone who essentially believes that a someone, even if it is a company saying, "Hey, look here, we think this dead artist guy is pretty cool, maybe you want to know more about him, so you'll like him as much as we do!" is even loosely associating themselves with that dead artist guy... well, they're barking mad.
...said one Phillips executive as he vanished in a cloud of his own vomit.
So, if he were a vampire, would that make him Count Barfula?
Or maybe he'd be Count Bulimia! Oh noes! Look out! It's Count Bulimia! He strikes fear into 7-Elevens, all-you-can-eat-buffets, ice cream aisles and toilets everywhere!
That's funny, I actually felt bad for him after he said "white power", 'cause you can be sure there's gonna be some 8' tall black man named "Bubba" that's gonna change his mind about that whole white power thing.
Oh, I know all about it. That's why I say that I'm fine if MS directly motivates google to change that practice, or they indirectly solve part of the problem by depreciating the economic value of having tons of parked domains to near nothing, thereby motivating google and other advertisers.
Is this a strategic swipe at Google's ad revenue for parked domains?
If it is, then goddamnit, it's about time. Frankly, I don't even have a problem with Microsoft doing it, if it makes Google get off its ass and fix the issue.
Could you not say that a hypothetical, very inclusive guild based on the more radical elements of Mormonism would also be based directly on polygamy? Does the fact that polygamy is illegal impact that?
"You can't claim a guild that is based on the Christian faith is equivalent a guild based on heterosexuality."
But can't you, though? If you can say the above, is it also not true that you could say that many Christian groups use their theology to define accepted sexual relationships, in just the same way? If so, then one might argue that a very strict Christian guild might reject a guilds person if they found out this person's sexual alignment was contrary to their attitude of bigotry, and that therefore that the hypothetical guild was indeed based just as much on sexuality, as it were supposed to be based on on spirituality, because the two are so rigidly intertwined? Afterall, some Christians share the view that heterosexuality is just as important to Christendom as Jesus Christ, himself! Would you deprive them of their belief?
What this transgendered person needs to do is create an artificial religion (sorta like Scientology) that equally favors transgendered people, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and also your garden-variety heterosexuals, and when they get into trouble, they play the religion card. When all the bible thumpers hear through a little media spin that Blizzard doesn't like religion on their servers, the shit will hit the fan, and worse than they could ever imagine.
Dick Haney: Look out Georgy! Terrorists! Prezy-Dent: Oh no, protect me Dick Haney! Dick Haney: Don't worry, I'll blow them up...
Okay, I've never played WoW, or any other massive RPG (discounting DiabloII, if one wants to consider it an MMORPG--I don't)... But I would have chortled at that one. I mean, unless you're a terrorist, that aught to be at least a teeny bit funny. It might be a little annoying if they kept it up for more than five minutes, but then again, I still find some comedic value in old slashdot cliches.
Actually, before the Constitution was signed there was no such thing as a "Career Politician.
Oh really? What about Governors and mayors, and the various people who were instituted by The Crown? I think there were career politicains, just not entirely in a democratic context, and maybe not so much on our side of the pond. I think a career of politics was something that the founding fathers were particularly afraid of, along with opressive governments, taxation without representation, and extremist religion influencing the offices, among other things.
What we need, Doc is to kick out most of the goddamned lawyers and elect other professionals to fill their positions. Nearly every congressman, senator for the last bazillion years was either a lawyer or has had law training. It's ridiculous. What makes lawyers better at running a country than other professionals? We need ex-medical doctors, engineers, architects, scientists, biologists, mathematicians, programmers, chemists, librarians, teachers, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, psychologists, businessmen, merchants, farmers, etc. We need balance in the system. Back when this country was founded, there was more balance, but we need more yet.
Around two thirds of the attendees of the constitutional convention were either lawyers, or had law training, but the rest were involved in other occupations, similar to the ones I listed above, like merchants, securities traders, farmers, physicians, and had participated in misc. economic stuff. There were very few career politicians back then, and most of those who had political experience came upon it because of their occupations, business interests, because of trading, and just being outstanding men. Of course, post-constitution, most of these men actually did go further in politics, so maybe this was the beginning of career politics in our country...
Power usage. Flash uses next to nothing power wise. The computer is designed to wake up and go back to sleep when the user interacts with it and stops (like reading an E-book, for example), and doing that with a physical disk is the least efficient thing to do. The computer is designed to be hand cranked, and the least often they want is a 1:10 ratio of cranking versus using... i.e. 1 minute cranking = 10 minutes of use. They would very much like that ratio to be higher.
My point wasn't that Enlightenment was "feature rich", it's that it has (had) a reputation for being a a beast of a Window Manager, and being notoriously demanding of hardware. I'd aruge that it is indeed very feature rich for a certian subset of people, but for everyone else it's next to useless... My main purpose was to illustrate the fact that a computer dosen't need to be 1+Ghz to be what some people consider to be useful, and to carry a good learning experience for young people. That's it.
I expect that the latest incarnations of KDE would run just fine on a 500Mhz machine with 128MB RAM, and that a custom distrubution of KDE+Linux, plus useful utilities could be slimmed down to fit very reasonably on 500MB of flash; and those are the specs for Negropontes' computers...
Besides, loading up on faster processors, more ram, and a real disk is just going to increase the power reqirements. We don't want these kids to have one large forearm and look like Popeye, and it's unreasonable to hold the hundreds of people working on Linux usability to the standards Neoprogente desires.
Yes but a full blown feature rich gui will not run on those kind of resources
The heck it won't. Back in the day I happily ran Enlightenment--the notoriously graphics intensive Window Manager, versions 0.14, 0.15, with 2 virtual desktops, across two heads of monitors each running 1280x1024... And all of this was done on a Pentium I running at a blazing 133 Mhz, with a whopping 96MB RAM (and 6MB VRAM). It was perfectly suitable for coding, compiling, for checking and writing mail, for browsing the net, and even for experimenting with The Gimp.
As a matter of fact, that computer was still serving up files at my home, being a web server, mail host, fax server, and small database server for perl apps for a neighborhood association, and companion for my SGI O2 of the same vintage (1996), and it ran up until about two years ago when I retired it; and that was only because when I moved, Qwest started jacking around with my DSL service and myself, and I just decided that it would be easier to put that site on a shared hosting service, dump the commercial DSL service and move to cable internet.
Maybe it wasn't the fastest computer around, but it worked, and damit, it worked well. It never broke, and it never complained, unlike some modern computers. I learned very much plugging around with that old beast-and well after it was obsoleted by much, much newer technology. Maybe I kept it going out of romance because I had so much fun learning back when I was hacking around with Enlightenment, Linux, Gnome, etc. i.e. Back when I really just could not afford a better computer.
My P133 also dual booted to Win95 when I first installed RedHat4, and I learned the basics of 3D modeling, raytracing, and if I'm not mistaken, I also ran the very first betas of Rhinoceros 3D on it, too. I had one scene in truespace2 that took several days just to render, and did I have a problem with that? No.
So, lower spec computers might not play HD porno, run Windows Vista in Glass mode, play Counterstrike: Source, or other things... So what?! Like those things are going to be of great utility to third world children! I would have gladly accepted a 500Mhz notebook with 128MB, way back when. I think such a computer could be a great thing to third world children, because instead of learning how some slick GUI with gobs of eyecandy works, like our current generation, they might actually stand a chance to learn how a computer works.
Even worse than not being able to use them because of a measly adapter: Depending on how old the monitors were, they could have been (probably were) fixed frequency composite sync monitors (H and Vsync signals are combined), or sync-on-green (where the vsync signals are combined with green), and would be unable to take a VGA signal. I think newer Sun, SGI monitors can take VGA through a VGA->13W3 cable without anything special in between.
However, Back in The Day you either required a special fixed frequency video adapter, or an external dongle device to convert VGA to whatever signaling your monitor required, and both were expensive to the point where getting a free monitor just wasn't worth it, unless you already had the stuff it would work with. Bummer.
I've got a few such monitors laying around hooked to old computers through old PCI adapters just because they're connected to a couple servers and they're hardly ever turned on, and damnit, I just can't stand to get rid of them.
Yeah, I'm sure that this could be done pretty easily with any bluetooth phone. That Salling Clicker program can apparently do loads of stuff, like muting the computer audio, or pausing iTunes when you walk away from your computer or even when you answer your bluetooth phone, among the other things it does... If your phone is supported.
I'd guess that it should be pretty easy to do with any phone that iSync supports. It would be really simple if iSync could run scripts on certian events, though I have no idea if it does.
IQ is not an assumption, it's a definition, and definitions aren't assumptions, or they'd be called that. Maybe some people make the mistake of believing that IQ means anything at all, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a no more or less a definition than the words "cat", "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", or 0=False, and 1=True.
The average intelligence quotient of a population in one particular age group is always 100, because that's the way IQ was defined. It doesn't matter if the subject happens to be Japanese Macaques, or transcendent beings from another plane of existence, as long as there is a standardized test that is to analyze their respective intelligences, an IQ can be derived. And in the case of transcendent beings, if they're all equally intelligent, they'll all have an IQ of 100... Maybe they're all part of a hive mind!
Of course, IQ is a highly subjective measurement of intelligence. No sane person argues against this. I'd argue that IQ usually means very little. However... Unless you find some pocket of space-time in which 1+1 does not equal 2, and where a=b, b=c, but a!=c, the definition of IQ is sound, as a definition, albeit a rather arbitrary definition.
That is, unless you're trying to be one of those wacky nihilists, then never mind the god behind the curtain.
It's a 1989 200, Turbo quattro sedan, 5 speed, white, 160,000 miles and still running strong. I've upgraded the brakes and have left pretty much everything else oem. They're deceivingly fast, as you well know... But best of all, it's a sleeper car. It dosen't look special, but it'll suprise people, and that's what I love most about it, that and the roominess.
I mostly drive it when I'm expecting to haul around a few people, and in the winter, with snow tires, it's amazing, and with studded tires it's unstoppable:)
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There's no reason for that to be the case. Music, for instance, is trivially easy to copy, and yet purchases continue.
Yeah, but that music is being sold through retail or through liscensed online download services, and that's totally not the point, anyway.
The analogue is: How many peeople with electronic format digital copies of music sell their music to a third party (and also destroy any copies they might have) when they no longer want or that music?
The answer: next to nobody. People who have MP3s that were ripped from legitimate sources, and who also erase those files when they get rid of those CDs are so few in number that they don't even count as an anomaly.
Maybe Monet should have patented painters having cataracts, so it could have been even more confusing.
This is the family objecting to the misuse of the artist's moral rights. They simply do not want arbitrary businesses associating themselves with the artist's work. This is not about the family wanting money, it's about the family not wanting Google to associate itself with Miro.
I'd rewrite that as: "This is not about the family wanting money, it's about the family not wanting Google to associate itself with Miro, without forking over a buttload of money"
This would be a complete non-issue if a pallet load of Benjamins mysteriously appeared up on their doorstep. I know it, Google knows it, the family knows it, and I think you're daft if you believe otherwise. This is precisely why this has bupkis to do with an artist's moral rights, and the want to protect a famed, deceased artist's works from besmirchment, and why this has everything to do with a money grubbing family doing their best to rape and extort any value from the only claim to fame that has had the honor to grace their name. Furthermore, anyone who essentially believes that a someone, even if it is a company saying, "Hey, look here, we think this dead artist guy is pretty cool, maybe you want to know more about him, so you'll like him as much as we do!" is even loosely associating themselves with that dead artist guy... well, they're barking mad.
If there's one thing worse than getting busted for shit, it's getting busted for shit after you flushed it already.
Yeah, and it's even worse yet if the cops gave it to you in the first place!
two non-experts slapping each other's wrists.
Woah I hope it's not just me, but that totally sounds like a hot Saturday night!
The grandkids (and subsequent offspring) were showing no signs of the exposure.
Just to be clear, we are talking about the same Japan, right?
...said one Phillips executive as he vanished in a cloud of his own vomit.
So, if he were a vampire, would that make him Count Barfula?
Or maybe he'd be Count Bulimia! Oh noes! Look out! It's Count Bulimia! He strikes fear into 7-Elevens, all-you-can-eat-buffets, ice cream aisles and toilets everywhere!
You know, all we need is for AMD to buy SGI!
That's funny, I actually felt bad for him after he said "white power", 'cause you can be sure there's gonna be some 8' tall black man named "Bubba" that's gonna change his mind about that whole white power thing.
Oh, I know all about it. That's why I say that I'm fine if MS directly motivates google to change that practice, or they indirectly solve part of the problem by depreciating the economic value of having tons of parked domains to near nothing, thereby motivating google and other advertisers.
Is this a strategic swipe at Google's ad revenue for parked domains?
If it is, then goddamnit, it's about time. Frankly, I don't even have a problem with Microsoft doing it, if it makes Google get off its ass and fix the issue.
mmmm... *sigh* :P
Could you not say that a hypothetical, very inclusive guild based on the more radical elements of Mormonism would also be based directly on polygamy? Does the fact that polygamy is illegal impact that?
"You can't claim a guild that is based on the Christian faith is equivalent a guild based on heterosexuality."
But can't you, though? If you can say the above, is it also not true that you could say that many Christian groups use their theology to define accepted sexual relationships, in just the same way? If so, then one might argue that a very strict Christian guild might reject a guilds person if they found out this person's sexual alignment was contrary to their attitude of bigotry, and that therefore that the hypothetical guild was indeed based just as much on sexuality, as it were supposed to be based on on spirituality, because the two are so rigidly intertwined? Afterall, some Christians share the view that heterosexuality is just as important to Christendom as Jesus Christ, himself! Would you deprive them of their belief?
What this transgendered person needs to do is create an artificial religion (sorta like Scientology) that equally favors transgendered people, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and also your garden-variety heterosexuals, and when they get into trouble, they play the religion card. When all the bible thumpers hear through a little media spin that Blizzard doesn't like religion on their servers, the shit will hit the fan, and worse than they could ever imagine.
Okay, I've never played WoW, or any other massive RPG (discounting DiabloII, if one wants to consider it an MMORPG--I don't)... But I would have chortled at that one. I mean, unless you're a terrorist, that aught to be at least a teeny bit funny. It might be a little annoying if they kept it up for more than five minutes, but then again, I still find some comedic value in old slashdot cliches.
Personally, I make it a point not to trust people with stubby fingers, and his are freakishly short. Seriously, those do like gorilla hands!
Wooh! It would be sweet if we could turn the moon into a giant Zen Garden!!!
Actually, before the Constitution was signed there was no such thing as a "Career Politician.
Oh really? What about Governors and mayors, and the various people who were instituted by The Crown? I think there were career politicains, just not entirely in a democratic context, and maybe not so much on our side of the pond. I think a career of politics was something that the founding fathers were particularly afraid of, along with opressive governments, taxation without representation, and extremist religion influencing the offices, among other things.
What we need, Doc is to kick out most of the goddamned lawyers and elect other professionals to fill their positions. Nearly every congressman, senator for the last bazillion years was either a lawyer or has had law training. It's ridiculous. What makes lawyers better at running a country than other professionals? We need ex-medical doctors, engineers, architects, scientists, biologists, mathematicians, programmers, chemists, librarians, teachers, dentists, pharmacists, nurses, psychologists, businessmen, merchants, farmers, etc. We need balance in the system. Back when this country was founded, there was more balance, but we need more yet.
Around two thirds of the attendees of the constitutional convention were either lawyers, or had law training, but the rest were involved in other occupations, similar to the ones I listed above, like merchants, securities traders, farmers, physicians, and had participated in misc. economic stuff. There were very few career politicians back then, and most of those who had political experience came upon it because of their occupations, business interests, because of trading, and just being outstanding men. Of course, post-constitution, most of these men actually did go further in politics, so maybe this was the beginning of career politics in our country...
Power usage. Flash uses next to nothing power wise. The computer is designed to wake up and go back to sleep when the user interacts with it and stops (like reading an E-book, for example), and doing that with a physical disk is the least efficient thing to do. The computer is designed to be hand cranked, and the least often they want is a 1:10 ratio of cranking versus using... i.e. 1 minute cranking = 10 minutes of use. They would very much like that ratio to be higher.
My point wasn't that Enlightenment was "feature rich", it's that it has (had) a reputation for being a a beast of a Window Manager, and being notoriously demanding of hardware. I'd aruge that it is indeed very feature rich for a certian subset of people, but for everyone else it's next to useless... My main purpose was to illustrate the fact that a computer dosen't need to be 1+Ghz to be what some people consider to be useful, and to carry a good learning experience for young people. That's it.
I expect that the latest incarnations of KDE would run just fine on a 500Mhz machine with 128MB RAM, and that a custom distrubution of KDE+Linux, plus useful utilities could be slimmed down to fit very reasonably on 500MB of flash; and those are the specs for Negropontes' computers...
Besides, loading up on faster processors, more ram, and a real disk is just going to increase the power reqirements. We don't want these kids to have one large forearm and look like Popeye, and it's unreasonable to hold the hundreds of people working on Linux usability to the standards Neoprogente desires.
Yes but a full blown feature rich gui will not run on those kind of resources
The heck it won't. Back in the day I happily ran Enlightenment--the notoriously graphics intensive Window Manager, versions 0.14, 0.15, with 2 virtual desktops, across two heads of monitors each running 1280x1024... And all of this was done on a Pentium I running at a blazing 133 Mhz, with a whopping 96MB RAM (and 6MB VRAM). It was perfectly suitable for coding, compiling, for checking and writing mail, for browsing the net, and even for experimenting with The Gimp.
As a matter of fact, that computer was still serving up files at my home, being a web server, mail host, fax server, and small database server for perl apps for a neighborhood association, and companion for my SGI O2 of the same vintage (1996), and it ran up until about two years ago when I retired it; and that was only because when I moved, Qwest started jacking around with my DSL service and myself, and I just decided that it would be easier to put that site on a shared hosting service, dump the commercial DSL service and move to cable internet.
Maybe it wasn't the fastest computer around, but it worked, and damit, it worked well. It never broke, and it never complained, unlike some modern computers. I learned very much plugging around with that old beast-and well after it was obsoleted by much, much newer technology. Maybe I kept it going out of romance because I had so much fun learning back when I was hacking around with Enlightenment, Linux, Gnome, etc. i.e. Back when I really just could not afford a better computer.
My P133 also dual booted to Win95 when I first installed RedHat4, and I learned the basics of 3D modeling, raytracing, and if I'm not mistaken, I also ran the very first betas of Rhinoceros 3D on it, too. I had one scene in truespace2 that took several days just to render, and did I have a problem with that? No.
So, lower spec computers might not play HD porno, run Windows Vista in Glass mode, play Counterstrike: Source, or other things... So what?! Like those things are going to be of great utility to third world children! I would have gladly accepted a 500Mhz notebook with 128MB, way back when. I think such a computer could be a great thing to third world children, because instead of learning how some slick GUI with gobs of eyecandy works, like our current generation, they might actually stand a chance to learn how a computer works.
Even worse than not being able to use them because of a measly adapter: Depending on how old the monitors were, they could have been (probably were) fixed frequency composite sync monitors (H and Vsync signals are combined), or sync-on-green (where the vsync signals are combined with green), and would be unable to take a VGA signal. I think newer Sun, SGI monitors can take VGA through a VGA->13W3 cable without anything special in between.
However, Back in The Day you either required a special fixed frequency video adapter, or an external dongle device to convert VGA to whatever signaling your monitor required, and both were expensive to the point where getting a free monitor just wasn't worth it, unless you already had the stuff it would work with. Bummer.
I've got a few such monitors laying around hooked to old computers through old PCI adapters just because they're connected to a couple servers and they're hardly ever turned on, and damnit, I just can't stand to get rid of them.
Yeah, I'm sure that this could be done pretty easily with any bluetooth phone. That Salling Clicker program can apparently do loads of stuff, like muting the computer audio, or pausing iTunes when you walk away from your computer or even when you answer your bluetooth phone, among the other things it does... If your phone is supported.
I'd guess that it should be pretty easy to do with any phone that iSync supports. It would be really simple if iSync could run scripts on certian events, though I have no idea if it does.
IQ is not an assumption, it's a definition, and definitions aren't assumptions, or they'd be called that. Maybe some people make the mistake of believing that IQ means anything at all, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a no more or less a definition than the words "cat", "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", or 0=False, and 1=True.
The average intelligence quotient of a population in one particular age group is always 100, because that's the way IQ was defined. It doesn't matter if the subject happens to be Japanese Macaques, or transcendent beings from another plane of existence, as long as there is a standardized test that is to analyze their respective intelligences, an IQ can be derived. And in the case of transcendent beings, if they're all equally intelligent, they'll all have an IQ of 100... Maybe they're all part of a hive mind!
Of course, IQ is a highly subjective measurement of intelligence. No sane person argues against this. I'd argue that IQ usually means very little. However... Unless you find some pocket of space-time in which 1+1 does not equal 2, and where a=b, b=c, but a!=c, the definition of IQ is sound, as a definition, albeit a rather arbitrary definition.
That is, unless you're trying to be one of those wacky nihilists, then never mind the god behind the curtain.
It's a 1989 200, Turbo quattro sedan, 5 speed, white, 160,000 miles and still running strong. I've upgraded the brakes and have left pretty much everything else oem. They're deceivingly fast, as you well know... But best of all, it's a sleeper car. It dosen't look special, but it'll suprise people, and that's what I love most about it, that and the roominess.
:)
I mostly drive it when I'm expecting to haul around a few people, and in the winter, with snow tires, it's amazing, and with studded tires it's unstoppable