. By publishing online, he says, "you give the reader the possibility of reading books and choosing whether to buy it or not."
That's good for Coehlo, but the issue here is that the work is his. Like it or not, the US and the rest of the world has adopted the French model of copyright and in that model the artist reigns absolutely supreme first. If Coehlo wants to give his work away to promote himself, that's fine. But, that is his choice to make and not something that should be imposed on him - unless you want to change the law.
This is why museums were created, and...lets face it, most painters are no da Vinci.
Actually, most painters today in good art schools are better painters than Da Vinci could ever have hoped to become. We don't study old masters because they were somehow better than the people that came after, but, because they broke new ground and showed the way to do things. Seriously, go walk into a good art school, and you'll find 19 year olds kids painting things that DaVinci could never have even dreamed up, but then they get bored and go onto looking for something new.
it doesn't necessarily mean they enjoy paying $10m for the privilege of looking at it.
But to see a DaVinci painting or a painting by any major master is probably not free. In the very least, the musuem has an active and ongoing fundraising drive in addition to charging for major exhibits.
The same is true on a much smaller scale. Someone may enjoy reading Anne Rice, but will go to a library and read The Mummy for free
Yeah, but those people are stupid. They would pay an easy $10 in gasoline, public transportation and possibly a library membership to go to the library and read the Anne Rice book, when could have just gone to Amazon.com and bought the thing and had it delivered to your doorstep.
Kindle will be bigger than iPod because Amazon is so huge in the publishing industry and they appear to be writer friendly. What are you going to do? Write a book for free on the internet? Or write it and sell it on Kindle? A book is a lot of fricking work, but Kindle opens doors to a lot of authors.
It's this care and passion for creation that makes open standards superior
No, the fact of the matter is that open standards and this anti-commercialism that you speak of is really just a geeks way of saying that they are self indulgent and want to create for themselves. It's the guys at Microsoft and Apple that have to sweat deadlines, do focus groups, sift through the complaints of millions of users, the genuinely work for everyone else. They get paid for it.
Windows is for the people that use it. Mac is for the people that use it. But, Linux is for the people that write it. You can rip me all you want, but just look at all the project managers of various Linux things, and their postings, and the things that strike you is that they are all about "me" first. Stallman, Torvalds, etc, are all pretty self-centered people. Me. Me. Me. This solution is evil, that technology is terrible. Everything to them is black and white. Of course society has a need for such people and we shouldn't throw away open source any more than we should adopt it to the exclusion of all else.
Last time I checked, taking advantage of someone's enjoyment of their work by not paying them is called exploitation. How about, if because you like to program, your employer decided not to pay you.
Artists work. They deserve to be paid for what they do. If you don't want to have art on your computer, you can choose to not pay for it. But if it is valuable enough that you might be motivated to go out of your way to get some DRM breaking device, chances are, that means it is valuable, even to you. That means, don't steal it.
The question isn't whether, for example, Paul McCartney made a billion dollars off of his music, or Steven Spielberg made a billion dollars off of his movies. The question is, is a Paul McCartney song worth a $1 to you. If so, then pony up. Otherwise, don't listen to it.
Compuserve, I think,, would have survived much better in the Internet age than AOL, if AOL hadn't have bought them. AOL was more a forerunner of the advertising laden shlock that we have today, but Compuserve was a much more serious minded product and tended to have good information products and good forums. IF AOL would have kept up with Compuserve, investing millions into a computerserve web site, rather than -cough-, Time Warner, they could have been way out in front with the social stuff that was in Compuservers forums, the software stores could have been expanded to sell other stuff... the news was always good. It was just that AOL ruined them.
I have both Windows Vista and Windows 7 RC1 running, have installed IE8, Silverlight, and have all my updates turned on... and it hasn't happened. My default IE8 search is Bing, but that's only because I set it that way. What's funny is that when I installed Google Chrome, it looked at my IE settings and asked me if I wanted to keep using Bing, to which I replied 'NO'.
I am wondering if the whole concept of CSS modifying a set of stock tags is unwieldly, and if a simpler Html might be one that allows you to first specify a page schema with custom tags, then, renders those using CSS to define custom tags. So, instead of having pages with div class = "menu", we might have , etc.
Honestly, if there was any single place where it would probably be safe to have a bike lane, it would actually be the interstate. If you had bike lanes I'd think it would be ok.
I wonder if that's the deal that was made. You don't get massive defense related centers in your state unless you pay a pretty big political price. I imagine it was, big ticket item for Sotomoyer's confirmation vote.
. It's the car drivers who want the road all for themselves and andanger other traffic that dares to enter their domain.
We paid for the road with something called a "gasoline" tax. Bicycles, last time I checked, do not use gasoline. Therefor, you are freeloading as well as well disruptive and annoying, and you should be banned.
I wasn't surprised or angry by his diagnosis as I don't think it changed my understanding of who he is at all. I think his learning difficulties are more my fault for not knowing how to teach him, than the fault of any environmental agent or genetic disorder.
The one thing about an educational diagnosis of autism, that you might have missed, is that your kid had no way to communicate at all. As it was explained to me, if they had given a deaf child or a blind child the same test as was given to my son, they would have seen compensating behavior to make up for the sensory loss. In the case of autism, you don't see that.
There's something else going on besides environmental issues and how you raise your kid. There are so many other kids who have parents that really don't do anything that come out at least capable of communicating.
While it can obviously be beneficial to ask if you are doing enough for your child, affixing blame to yourselves for his autism is something that could actually be more corrosive than it is worth. What good would it do your kid if your marriage fell apart because of finger pointing over his condition? Best to accept him for what he is, say, yeah, maybe you could do better, but, ultimately realize that his autism isn't your fault, but still get the best treatment you can.
I have an autistic son and I think that "causes of autism" are something that is used far too often. My wife and I have thought about this and we see in our son's autism some of our own traits as its forbears. Rather than the litany of plastic bottles, vaccines, carbon monoxide, indoor air pollution and other bogus causes, we now wonder if autism is actually part of a natural evolutionary response to dealing with an increasingly complex human society.
Perhaps we've evolved to deal with the fact that we are increasingly specialized, as our society feeds back into our own natural selection, and, we've reached a sort of a tipping point where autism is the next step.
We've been very fortunate in that our son has responded extremely well to aggressive therapy, all, by the way, provided by the taxpayer... (makes this old Republican rethink some of his own values). And, we wonder if, perhaps, a different sort of society might emerge from autism, that, we see it as a disability because we value our own communication so much. Perhaps autism is something that will never be cured, but, people who are autistic can move onto lead intelligent and productive lives if only there is intervention and ever better education and socialization for them and in a way that makes sense, for them.
Regardless of all of that though, I can say this. I'm proud of my son for who he is. When I first heard of his diagnosis, I almost felt like he had died and I was very angry about it. Sometimes, I admit, I still am. But, overall, if I could do it all over again, and make a choice about having an autistic child, I would gladly keep the son that I have.
Reimplementing DirectX is considerably harder, I think they used Wine code for a lot of that.
I could see that. COM sure makes a mess of things....
What I would wonder though, is if really the right end of things is to look at the WDM model that Vista uses as a basis for a virtualization architecture. At least that way you could have to worry about a single driver with a single set of 3d calls that covers both DirectX and OpenGL.
I would think it would be actually easier to implement a VM for an OpenGL window, at least in terms of calls goes. I would be willing to bet that there are less calls in OpenGL than there are in a rich 2d API. There's only so many ways to slice a polygon.
But at least on Windows there's historically been the issue of making an OpenGL window a child of the main window and other weird stuff like that, and I believe the same issue applies to DirectX. I can't say I know enough about Linux to know whether or not it has the same problem.
It's that games are $50, which makes it a problem. I think in the minds of the American consumer, $20 isn't "too much money", but $50 is something that makes you think a little bit. Earlier this year, that would have been at least 25 shares of Ford stock.
I pulled an all-nighter, and I saw the dual headlines - carnivorous bugs, NASA and 99% of the earth, and I was nearly ready to head for the hills thinking that some astronauts had just made a terrible, terrible mistake.
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. By publishing online, he says, "you give the reader the possibility of reading books and choosing whether to buy it or not."
That's good for Coehlo, but the issue here is that the work is his. Like it or not, the US and the rest of the world has adopted the French model of copyright and in that model the artist reigns absolutely supreme first. If Coehlo wants to give his work away to promote himself, that's fine. But, that is his choice to make and not something that should be imposed on him - unless you want to change the law.
Yeah, I was going to point out too that you could walk. The GP is probably a fat American though.
I'm not fat and I can bench nearly 300lbs. So you can shove your fat american stereotypes up your starving little third world ass.
If you people actually paid for stuff, you might have an economy.
This is why museums were created, and...lets face it, most painters are no da Vinci.
Actually, most painters today in good art schools are better painters than Da Vinci could ever have hoped to become. We don't study old masters because they were somehow better than the people that came after, but, because they broke new ground and showed the way to do things. Seriously, go walk into a good art school, and you'll find 19 year olds kids painting things that DaVinci could never have even dreamed up, but then they get bored and go onto looking for something new.
it doesn't necessarily mean they enjoy paying $10m for the privilege of looking at it.
But to see a DaVinci painting or a painting by any major master is probably not free. In the very least, the musuem has an active and ongoing fundraising drive in addition to charging for major exhibits.
The same is true on a much smaller scale. Someone may enjoy reading Anne Rice, but will go to a library and read The Mummy for free
Yeah, but those people are stupid. They would pay an easy $10 in gasoline, public transportation and possibly a library membership to go to the library and read the Anne Rice book, when could have just gone to Amazon.com and bought the thing and had it delivered to your doorstep.
Kindle will be bigger than iPod because Amazon is so huge in the publishing industry and they appear to be writer friendly. What are you going to do? Write a book for free on the internet? Or write it and sell it on Kindle? A book is a lot of fricking work, but Kindle opens doors to a lot of authors.
It's this care and passion for creation that makes open standards superior
No, the fact of the matter is that open standards and this anti-commercialism that you speak of is really just a geeks way of saying that they are self indulgent and want to create for themselves. It's the guys at Microsoft and Apple that have to sweat deadlines, do focus groups, sift through the complaints of millions of users, the genuinely work for everyone else. They get paid for it.
Windows is for the people that use it. Mac is for the people that use it. But, Linux is for the people that write it. You can rip me all you want, but just look at all the project managers of various Linux things, and their postings, and the things that strike you is that they are all about "me" first. Stallman, Torvalds, etc, are all pretty self-centered people. Me. Me. Me. This solution is evil, that technology is terrible. Everything to them is black and white. Of course society has a need for such people and we shouldn't throw away open source any more than we should adopt it to the exclusion of all else.
Last time I checked, taking advantage of someone's enjoyment of their work by not paying them is called exploitation. How about, if because you like to program, your employer decided not to pay you.
Artists work. They deserve to be paid for what they do. If you don't want to have art on your computer, you can choose to not pay for it. But if it is valuable enough that you might be motivated to go out of your way to get some DRM breaking device, chances are, that means it is valuable, even to you. That means, don't steal it.
The question isn't whether, for example, Paul McCartney made a billion dollars off of his music, or Steven Spielberg made a billion dollars off of his movies. The question is, is a Paul McCartney song worth a $1 to you. If so, then pony up. Otherwise, don't listen to it.
It's pretty simple, really.
I think if you wanted to, you could just project something onto the mask using a sort of a portable imaging system.
I'm always clicking away as I stumble downstairs and don't want to wake up the wife and kids.
That's pretty much what happened. But, to some extent, Prodigy's protocol was ahead of its time.
Compuserve, I think,, would have survived much better in the Internet age than AOL, if AOL hadn't have bought them. AOL was more a forerunner of the advertising laden shlock that we have today, but Compuserve was a much more serious minded product and tended to have good information products and good forums. IF AOL would have kept up with Compuserve, investing millions into a computerserve web site, rather than -cough-, Time Warner, they could have been way out in front with the social stuff that was in Compuservers forums, the software stores could have been expanded to sell other stuff... the news was always good. It was just that AOL ruined them.
I have both Windows Vista and Windows 7 RC1 running, have installed IE8, Silverlight, and have all my updates turned on... and it hasn't happened. My default IE8 search is Bing, but that's only because I set it that way. What's funny is that when I installed Google Chrome, it looked at my IE settings and asked me if I wanted to keep using Bing, to which I replied 'NO'.
I'm sorta wondering if this dog really bites.
I am wondering if the whole concept of CSS modifying a set of stock tags is unwieldly, and if a simpler Html might be one that allows you to first specify a page schema with custom tags, then, renders those using CSS to define custom tags. So, instead of having pages with div class = "menu", we might have , etc.
Honestly, if there was any single place where it would probably be safe to have a bike lane, it would actually be the interstate. If you had bike lanes I'd think it would be ok.
I wonder if that's the deal that was made. You don't get massive defense related centers in your state unless you pay a pretty big political price. I imagine it was, big ticket item for Sotomoyer's confirmation vote.
It's the law. Legally, a bicyclist has all the rights AND all the responsibilities of any other vehicle.
The law is not morality. It's legal for a record company to sue somebody for $200,000 for copying a $1 song, but that does not make it right.
Using "its the law", ought to be right up there with Godwin's rule when it comes to making lame arguments.
. It's the car drivers who want the road all for themselves and andanger other traffic that dares to enter their domain.
We paid for the road with something called a "gasoline" tax. Bicycles, last time I checked, do not use gasoline. Therefor, you are freeloading as well as well disruptive and annoying, and you should be banned.
Bicyclists are the spammers of public roads.
I wasn't surprised or angry by his diagnosis as I don't think it changed my understanding of who he is at all. I think his learning difficulties are more my fault for not knowing how to teach him, than the fault of any environmental agent or genetic disorder.
The one thing about an educational diagnosis of autism, that you might have missed, is that your kid had no way to communicate at all. As it was explained to me, if they had given a deaf child or a blind child the same test as was given to my son, they would have seen compensating behavior to make up for the sensory loss. In the case of autism, you don't see that.
There's something else going on besides environmental issues and how you raise your kid. There are so many other kids who have parents that really don't do anything that come out at least capable of communicating.
While it can obviously be beneficial to ask if you are doing enough for your child, affixing blame to yourselves for his autism is something that could actually be more corrosive than it is worth. What good would it do your kid if your marriage fell apart because of finger pointing over his condition? Best to accept him for what he is, say, yeah, maybe you could do better, but, ultimately realize that his autism isn't your fault, but still get the best treatment you can.
You aren't going to trample the sovereignty of my state because you are too lazy to self report your out of state purchases to comply with your laws.
My state does not have a sales tax.
I have an autistic son and I think that "causes of autism" are something that is used far too often. My wife and I have thought about this and we see in our son's autism some of our own traits as its forbears. Rather than the litany of plastic bottles, vaccines, carbon monoxide, indoor air pollution and other bogus causes, we now wonder if autism is actually part of a natural evolutionary response to dealing with an increasingly complex human society.
Perhaps we've evolved to deal with the fact that we are increasingly specialized, as our society feeds back into our own natural selection, and, we've reached a sort of a tipping point where autism is the next step.
We've been very fortunate in that our son has responded extremely well to aggressive therapy, all, by the way, provided by the taxpayer... (makes this old Republican rethink some of his own values). And, we wonder if, perhaps, a different sort of society might emerge from autism, that, we see it as a disability because we value our own communication so much. Perhaps autism is something that will never be cured, but, people who are autistic can move onto lead intelligent and productive lives if only there is intervention and ever better education and socialization for them and in a way that makes sense, for them.
Regardless of all of that though, I can say this. I'm proud of my son for who he is. When I first heard of his diagnosis, I almost felt like he had died and I was very angry about it. Sometimes, I admit, I still am. But, overall, if I could do it all over again, and make a choice about having an autistic child, I would gladly keep the son that I have.
I wouldn't trade him for anything in the world.
Reimplementing DirectX is considerably harder, I think they used Wine code for a lot of that.
I could see that. COM sure makes a mess of things....
What I would wonder though, is if really the right end of things is to look at the WDM model that Vista uses as a basis for a virtualization architecture. At least that way you could have to worry about a single driver with a single set of 3d calls that covers both DirectX and OpenGL.
I would think it would be actually easier to implement a VM for an OpenGL window, at least in terms of calls goes. I would be willing to bet that there are less calls in OpenGL than there are in a rich 2d API. There's only so many ways to slice a polygon.
But at least on Windows there's historically been the issue of making an OpenGL window a child of the main window and other weird stuff like that, and I believe the same issue applies to DirectX. I can't say I know enough about Linux to know whether or not it has the same problem.
It's that games are $50, which makes it a problem. I think in the minds of the American consumer, $20 isn't "too much money", but $50 is something that makes you think a little bit. Earlier this year, that would have been at least 25 shares of Ford stock.
I pulled an all-nighter, and I saw the dual headlines - carnivorous bugs, NASA and 99% of the earth, and I was nearly ready to head for the hills thinking that some astronauts had just made a terrible, terrible mistake.
They already do, considering that they're consuming approximately 0% of the state's resources.
If it wasn't for Amazon's giant warehouse, my tomatoes would be in season much, earlier.
Those thieves. Give me some money!
DVD = 1, Burner = 2, FedEx = 3