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exactly.
essentially, the browser is now the new plugin.
for all the ranting and raving about HTML5 and all the "they've been pushing for it for a while now"... the tooling still sucks and so the go to market time for anything except the most simple of applications is too long to justify its adoption.
It's the same with Silverlight. Too many decision makers are opting to cancel development using it in lieu of using HTML5.. when realistically the same application either couldn't even be made, or would take at least twice as long to complete.
conversely, if you spent more time and money on the game rather than marketing, that 'small group' of people that follow the game releases would be more dedicated to supporting the product, ergo your need for getting the word out in 'traditional' marketing veins would be decreased. Then, just like you want, people will start telling other people that they should go buy the game because the game maker actually took the effort to make it badass, instead of some lame, reinvention of the wheel with adverts and long load screens and bad AI, not to mention bugs that will never get fixed. Most game companies spend so much on marketing because they've sold their integrity for greed and status quo. Ironically, in this system, they have themselves to blame. They wind up telling the consumer what they want, and then forcing it down their throats, then blaming them for their lack of sales (of the crappy game), crying it's because of piracy or whatever else, EXCEPT improving the game by spending more on development. It's one thing to add devs mid-development... it's another, completely, to plan for more devs up front, and less marketing.
If you build it, they will come. If you say you built it, and there is just an empty field, you may have gotten your admission ticket, but your return sales are going to suck. The corporate mentality nowadays is that someone else 'copied' your 'great idea' and is giving it away for free. What really happened is that once the people you tried to fool realized it's just an empty field you're charging admission for... they started going to the public park because you offered nothing substantive for consumption.
I'd guess that those who oppose health care/insurance reform, are the same people that want their 'due privacy'.. as another commenter pointed out.. so that they can be one of the hypocritical masses who prefer to shun the taboo activities in public, but want to practice their taboo activity in private. Those who don't want to share the 'burden' of health care would similarly not want to share their information, and thus would be offended by those who would prefer to live in a society where hypocrisy & fear do not reign, hand in hand.
Except that they are only granted the ability to sell/license the creative works for a limited time solely for the benefit of society/culture/creativity.
However, I don't think copyright needs to go away, just cut waaay back. If there were no limits to what you could/could not copy, too much would be pushed aside/lost in the wash, or too many cases would be making their way to the judicial branch of your local/state/fed govt.
I have been actively involved in music my entire life. I know many musicians who want nothing to do with big labels and corporations who take your music, morph it into what they think or simply what they want to sell, make you a deal you can't refuse, and finally hold the copyright for 99 years, or sell it back to you for more than you ever made off it.
Meanwhile that same schmuck that ruined your music by adding the standard flip flop flap crap is kickin' back probably is the same mf'er that got your shit leaked in the first place, or didn't promote to his boss hard enough because you didn't hire him a hooker and an 8-ball of coke... (Completely bypassing the notion that your failure couldn't possibly have been the result of his amazing producing skills... that he thinks are so good because he's being paid so disproportionately when compared to the quality of his work. And let's not forget that all these producers (that you would probably not know by name, but whom have changed that 'awesome sound' your favorite band used to have before 'they sold out' ) create almost every bit of music the same way, every time. The time signatures, phrasing, melodies, subject matter... pretty much the whole damn thing... sounds like a pre-fabricated, cookie-cutter POS.
To the industry: Get a clue already! Music we make sounds better because there are more of us, doing more things, from wider backgrounds with greater ranges of influence and collaboration, all at an incredibly far faster pace than your 'ollld, wrinkly balls' can handle (Adam Sandler - Big Daddy lulz). Why do you think the underground remix/hip-hop/etc scene is so huge? Why do you think artists like Girl Talk are so popular? Checked out the Hype Machine lately? How about TheSixtyOne? Probably only to disenfranchise your consumers more by wiping their blog, forcing their ISP's to start monitoring the data they transfer, and doing everything in your power to make sure that 99 year copyright makes you that golden buck.
One of my friends likes to say about record labels/industry:
It's like going hunting with Dick Cheney... You may get lucky and shoot some quail, but odds are you're always having to keep an eye out over your shoulder to make sure that old crazy fuck with the bad heart doesn't make swiss cheese out of your pride, joy, and countless hours of painstaking practice..
I think they tried that with the anti-piracy movie ads didn't they? Get actors who they think kids like and will 'listen to' just like they did with cigarettes and beer and drugs and violence...
Except kids don't mind paying for shit they have to buy to have a good time carrying on with the tradition of debauchery. Stick it to the man! Need a pack of cigarettes or that 12-pack of natty? An underage kid will handily pay some bum on the street and even tip him if he can pull it off without getting the kids in trouble.
The problem, as I see it, is that music is NOT consumable in the same way as beer/cigs/drugs. This is why Sony put rootkits on their discs, why early game consoles tried to sign the disc to the console so it couldn't be used elsewhere, why everyone wants a proprietary format if they hold the market share, and why vinyl records fell out of style/function.
Yes, I know vinyl is making a comeback, and that's because it's unique to the market. It's good'ol fashioned analog sound. I'm sure the record companies didn't expect that reducing the frequency range in the music they produced, so they could squeeze more crap onto an album to make consumers feel better about the money they just spent wasted, while gradually increasing the volume to account for lesser frequency range & longer recordings... would eventually bring the fuller, richer sound of vinyl back into the mainstream...
But back to the point. Music is not consumable in the same right. It'd be one thing if the record industry was in it for the true reasons why copyright/IP were started.. to foster creativity/culture. We all know this already but it can only help to push the agenda (i sound so evil) to have billions of people feverishly trying to pry back from the gluttonous, corporate hands our creativity and culture.
As society advances faster and faster and faster, and children born today will learn/absorb much more in their lifetime than anyone reading this now will and at a much faster rate with better and better tech at each step of the way. As this happens the velocity of culture (and what we consider copyright today) through our societies will necessarily increase at the same rate, if not faster.
Sooner, rather than later, much more of society will realize very quickly that copyright is not serving the public's best interest as far as music/creativity/culture are concerned. There is and endless amount of media out there that will make it's way across the globe simply by word of mouth, viral internet hype, etc. Those who make the best music/are the most creative, are those doing it for the creativity alone.
We've evolved away from needing the stringent IP/CR because we are so much more capable. It no longer requires 10's of thousands of dollars to produce a quality album: just practice and technology. We're there, ladies and gentleman. Youngsters being driven to innovate by the insatiable need to contribute to the ever-changing landscape of today/tomorrow's new trends before it's too late is simply cold, hard fact.
Old habits die slow, and it's nigh impossible to teach an old dog new tricks. It's time to put this one down.
However, I feel the next revolution to our worlds will be things that function just as you suspect. Perhaps this will come in the form of bionics, or simply more advanced materials, conductors, energy production, that function solely to provide additional resources via non-standard means. If we could translate the tapping of your foot while you're peeved at your computer for burning too much CPU (or your ADHD is going off the charts and YOU'RE trying to do too much at once) into more CPU cycles, the technological world would be a much more intuitive, ergonomic, and... intelligent.
But sadly, a user-sensing-cpu, to me, means that that for hardcore users (or simply not habitual), you're going to always be wishing you could turn off that 'annoying POS feature that makes your computer slow to respond >:'.
I don't know about "devlopers", but real developers use whatever OS they need, utilizing virtualization, to get the job done.
There, fixed that for you;-)
Download VMWare and make a snapshot if you're that up in arms about it. Or track changes to the registry and post what those changes are before you run around in a circle with your hands in the air, crying wolf.
oh i do. both renditions are equally pathetic, frankly.
I don't think 'average joe' (avg american) and 'joe sixpack' (avg american is an alcoholic couch-potato) are anywhere NEAR equatable. I guess that's why McCain/Palin road the FAILBOAT all the way home..
the point being that, as a representation of the typical computer-illiterate American, it is simply wrong.
This is by no means a representation of an average American. Remember, we're the obese country?
Why anyone ever jumped on this stupid bandwagon is beyond me...
However, it does lend to some funny break-down: Are we saying meat-heads are somehow dumbed down?
All jokes aside, the state of our country's computer literacy is a joke. If one this is for sure, we should be teaching kids how to troubleshoot & fix issues with computers, not just 'use the features' like a black box.
I fully understand the monopoly/anti-trust suit... And don't get me wrong, I've garnered my own hatred of the company in more ways than one in the past 12-15 years, but I also know that without MS, we would likely (almost certainly) not be in the same place we are today.
I also never claimed that MS was correct during those times. However, I do believe that as an entity, Microsoft had equal right to create a competing product, and as it turned out, are still doing so. The distinction is that the entities merely had to be split up. wikipedia entry The browser was (and still is) packaged with the OS (for free), and yet non-IE adoption is still rising. And realistically, consumers (largely) weren't up in arms about the browser wars at the time.
That wasn't even the point. The point is the (usually) baseless & manic subversion of truth and objectivity that ensues over anything Microsoft does, regardless of it's positive/negative impact.
How many times over the years have you seen a Dev pull his hair out having to deal with browser interoperability? Not only that, but snobby users cry cry cry about how IE sucks. So MS makes a FF plugin to help in interoperability and users cry cry cry about how they installed it.
It's one thing to be critical of what was done, it's another to make completely irrational claims about how MS is the devil. As much as the fanbois I'm referring to don't want to admit it -- Microsoft is a commercially viable corporation like any other. More importantly they supply software for the VAST MAJORITY of computers in existence. They're not trying to install something on your computer that will render FF useless so that you have to use IE. In fact it's QUITE THE OPPOSITE.
Just imagine all the whining everyone would've done if MS didn't package the browser with the OS - good luck getting Windows Update to work in Netscape.
Of course, then you could simply blame them for not having a patched OS (Don't forget that it was your choice to uninstall* -- purely for idealogical reasons too), and then your system got rooted by some script kiddie in China and your machine was turned into an IRC bot.
* As you pointed out (even though you contradicted yourself), you could uninstall, there just wasn't a Staples Easy Button, right? And, last time I checked IE still comes installed with Windows.
you're right -- this was a pathetic waste of my time.
I get the troll mod when everyone else is trolling around MS's balls, because they go out of their way to help all the IE bashers (myself included) run code with better interoperability.
What you all should be doing instead of blindly bashing MS because you think it's cool -- is go troll around Mozilla and ask them why they don't do better to support software that runs on the VAST MAJORITY of all computers...
Of course, this just goes back to the fanboi mentality lol...
How do they get away with what? Did they hack FF to install the addon? No.
Could they have made it an XPI? Maybe, but really? It's functionality to help software run better.
It's funny how the fanboi mentality works (and not as a valid argument, mind you)
MS creates a browser (and packages it w/ their OS)
Everyone is up in arms. ZOMG monopoly! (Lest you forget they want to create a browser that can function more effectively with their own OS without having to spend all the effort and overhead involved in working with a 3rd party competitor who does not want to work with them?)
MS creates use-cases for, and implements, functionality that currently doesn't exist, and non-standard
Everyone complains that other browsers have to work around this, and writing code for multiple browser targets is frustrating because there are so many special cases (true lol)
MS extends functionality of said browsers to make the lives easier for those who complain
Everyone complains that MS is trying to subvert user control and how on earth could they 'get away with this' !!!
I guess it's always easier to look and judge rather than assess what's really going on. Everyone complains and complains and when something is done to fix it, complain some more.
Sound more like an incessantly nagging spouse on a power trip please...
Except that personally, after listening to music through headphones and crappy earbuds and the like, with music that is/was predominantly 128kbps rips... my ears are tired of the lack of quality. After awhile it's like there has been a CPU fan whirring right next to my ear for hours.
Frankly, the push of the industry for louder, not wider sound is a bigger issue, but not one for this discussion.
But I liken this same experience to MP3/AAC formats. The psychoacoustic sounds of an AAC really bother me after awhile. Just that fake sound is like a shortcut to a headache.
I'll almost take the warble in a bad MP3 convert than high-pitch sound compression pops and squeeks that are intended to make me feel like there is more to the music than i'm actually hearing.
But you're right -- maybe this is because I've been raised to appreciate real-life music and sound quality, as well as audiophile equipment that makes you feel like that musician is sitting right there.
actually, the UAC is forcing developers to write better code, and to provide users with the ability to know when they are accidentally doing something they shouldn't be doing.... you know, like clicking that link that says free hardcore porn here, which installs a trojan and some adware/malware.
have to say tho... without reading this at all and taking it for face value, this adds some complexity to the situation...
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1064265&cid=26134705
That being said, working in IT, I've still seen my fair share of dumb users scratch CD's in their laptop trays...
You're missing one huge difference between the drive in the XBOX and the drive in your laptop/cd-walkman:
With both your Laptop & CD-Walkman, the cd is snapped into the disc holder.
Now, when you load your XBOX game disk, what do you do? You place it on a tray. Biggggg difference. When the drive loads the disk, it engages the cd with a combination spring/felt layer on top & a tapered compression drive on the bottom that prevents the disk from moving too much, while also raising it off the tray deck. It's not too hard to figure out that shuffling this device will quickly overcome the strength of the upper spring holding the disk in place. Combine this with the centrifugal force in play on the disk, and you don't even have to turn the unit that 90* very fast to get one side of the disk to hit the side.
Also to note:
This is analogous to old-school PC CD drives that wouldn't stop the disk from spinning before you eject it (or current drives if you unfold a paper clip and poke it in the little manual-eject hole -- no jokes please). The drive would (will) eject and the cd will be left spinning in the tray, giving you circular disk lines...
Feel free to argue as long as you don't actually do it? lol
I'm not sure what that means, but I agree with you, and that's an interesting story.
Unfortunately, however, I think a large number of people will read that, see what happened, but have no clue how that applies to their life, or perhaps even the spanking thing. Maybe they just choose not to.
Morally and socially stigmatic situations tend to abstract and obscure truth and reason with personal vendettas. True, that's partially what defines a moral dilemma (and historically, this is where religion plays a large role). But at some point you have to think that people will get over doing things a certain way purely based on how they were raised (even if they disagreed with it when they were younger), or based on a sequence of events amongst peers that can now be used as an excuse to act a certain way, contrary to a more salient moral conscience/imperative.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that people will tend to choose the option that feeds a desire and is seen as socially acceptable amongst a group of a certain size or applicability to a subset of issues, rather than the choice that is harder to make, and ostracizes you from that certain group or area in which that subset applies.
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exactly.
... the tooling still sucks and so the go to market time for anything except the most simple of applications is too long to justify its adoption.
.. when realistically the same application either couldn't even be made, or would take at least twice as long to complete.
essentially, the browser is now the new plugin.
for all the ranting and raving about HTML5 and all the "they've been pushing for it for a while now"
It's the same with Silverlight. Too many decision makers are opting to cancel development using it in lieu of using HTML5
conversely, if you spent more time and money on the game rather than marketing, that 'small group' of people that follow the game releases would be more dedicated to supporting the product, ergo your need for getting the word out in 'traditional' marketing veins would be decreased. Then, just like you want, people will start telling other people that they should go buy the game because the game maker actually took the effort to make it badass, instead of some lame, reinvention of the wheel with adverts and long load screens and bad AI, not to mention bugs that will never get fixed. Most game companies spend so much on marketing because they've sold their integrity for greed and status quo. Ironically, in this system, they have themselves to blame. They wind up telling the consumer what they want, and then forcing it down their throats, then blaming them for their lack of sales (of the crappy game), crying it's because of piracy or whatever else, EXCEPT improving the game by spending more on development. It's one thing to add devs mid-development ... it's another, completely, to plan for more devs up front, and less marketing.
... they started going to the public park because you offered nothing substantive for consumption.
If you build it, they will come. If you say you built it, and there is just an empty field, you may have gotten your admission ticket, but your return sales are going to suck. The corporate mentality nowadays is that someone else 'copied' your 'great idea' and is giving it away for free. What really happened is that once the people you tried to fool realized it's just an empty field you're charging admission for
I think you've got that bet backwards:
.. as another commenter pointed out .. so that they can be one of the hypocritical masses who prefer to shun the taboo activities in public, but want to practice their taboo activity in private. Those who don't want to share the 'burden' of health care would similarly not want to share their information, and thus would be offended by those who would prefer to live in a society where hypocrisy & fear do not reign, hand in hand.
I'd guess that those who oppose health care/insurance reform, are the same people that want their 'due privacy'
You're onto something that the fearful will never understand, and will forever fight as hard against it as they can.
It's like pride and your perceived abstraction from pride-hurting activities trump freedom.
Many more people than are willing to accept it yearn for the womb every day of their lives.
It's a chat program.
... churning up CPU?
It's job is to run while 'idle'
How about getting up in arms about general bad programming that causes the software to run slower/harder/etc
all the same, i wouldn't want to have to deal with this.
Except that they are only granted the ability to sell/license the creative works for a limited time solely for the benefit of society/culture/creativity.
However, I don't think copyright needs to go away, just cut waaay back. If there were no limits to what you could/could not copy, too much would be pushed aside/lost in the wash, or too many cases would be making their way to the judicial branch of your local/state/fed govt.
I have been actively involved in music my entire life. I know many musicians who want nothing to do with big labels and corporations who take your music, morph it into what they think or simply what they want to sell, make you a deal you can't refuse, and finally hold the copyright for 99 years, or sell it back to you for more than you ever made off it. ... that he thinks are so good because he's being paid so disproportionately when compared to the quality of his work. And let's not forget that all these producers (that you would probably not know by name, but whom have changed that 'awesome sound' your favorite band used to have before 'they sold out' ) create almost every bit of music the same way, every time. The time signatures, phrasing, melodies, subject matter ... pretty much the whole damn thing ... sounds like a pre-fabricated, cookie-cutter POS.
Meanwhile that same schmuck that ruined your music by adding the standard flip flop flap crap is kickin' back probably is the same mf'er that got your shit leaked in the first place, or didn't promote to his boss hard enough because you didn't hire him a hooker and an 8-ball of coke... (Completely bypassing the notion that your failure couldn't possibly have been the result of his amazing producing skills
To the industry: Get a clue already! Music we make sounds better because there are more of us, doing more things, from wider backgrounds with greater ranges of influence and collaboration, all at an incredibly far faster pace than your 'ollld, wrinkly balls' can handle (Adam Sandler - Big Daddy lulz). Why do you think the underground remix/hip-hop/etc scene is so huge? Why do you think artists like Girl Talk are so popular? Checked out the Hype Machine lately? How about TheSixtyOne? Probably only to disenfranchise your consumers more by wiping their blog, forcing their ISP's to start monitoring the data they transfer, and doing everything in your power to make sure that 99 year copyright makes you that golden buck.
One of my friends likes to say about record labels/industry: ... You may get lucky and shoot some quail, but odds are you're always having to keep an eye out over your shoulder to make sure that old crazy fuck with the bad heart doesn't make swiss cheese out of your pride, joy, and countless hours of painstaking practice..
It's like going hunting with Dick Cheney
more of the same rant: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1273015&cid=28376327
Except kids don't mind paying for shit they have to buy to have a good time carrying on with the tradition of debauchery. Stick it to the man! Need a pack of cigarettes or that 12-pack of natty? An underage kid will handily pay some bum on the street and even tip him if he can pull it off without getting the kids in trouble.
The problem, as I see it, is that music is NOT consumable in the same way as beer/cigs/drugs. This is why Sony put rootkits on their discs, why early game consoles tried to sign the disc to the console so it couldn't be used elsewhere, why everyone wants a proprietary format if they hold the market share, and why vinyl records fell out of style/function.
... would eventually bring the fuller, richer sound of vinyl back into the mainstream ...
.. to foster creativity/culture. We all know this already but it can only help to push the agenda (i sound so evil) to have billions of people feverishly trying to pry back from the gluttonous, corporate hands our creativity and culture.
Yes, I know vinyl is making a comeback, and that's because it's unique to the market. It's good'ol fashioned analog sound. I'm sure the record companies didn't expect that reducing the frequency range in the music they produced, so they could squeeze more crap onto an album to make consumers feel better about the money they just spent wasted, while gradually increasing the volume to account for lesser frequency range & longer recordings
But back to the point. Music is not consumable in the same right. It'd be one thing if the record industry was in it for the true reasons why copyright/IP were started
As society advances faster and faster and faster, and children born today will learn/absorb much more in their lifetime than anyone reading this now will and at a much faster rate with better and better tech at each step of the way. As this happens the velocity of culture (and what we consider copyright today) through our societies will necessarily increase at the same rate, if not faster.
Sooner, rather than later, much more of society will realize very quickly that copyright is not serving the public's best interest as far as music/creativity/culture are concerned. There is and endless amount of media out there that will make it's way across the globe simply by word of mouth, viral internet hype, etc. Those who make the best music/are the most creative, are those doing it for the creativity alone.
We've evolved away from needing the stringent IP/CR because we are so much more capable. It no longer requires 10's of thousands of dollars to produce a quality album: just practice and technology. We're there, ladies and gentleman. Youngsters being driven to innovate by the insatiable need to contribute to the ever-changing landscape of today/tomorrow's new trends before it's too late is simply cold, hard fact.
Old habits die slow, and it's nigh impossible to teach an old dog new tricks. It's time to put this one down.
"You're sitting in a chair... In the SKY!"
Howard the Duck!
If only this were true.
... intelligent.
However, I feel the next revolution to our worlds will be things that function just as you suspect. Perhaps this will come in the form of bionics, or simply more advanced materials, conductors, energy production, that function solely to provide additional resources via non-standard means. If we could translate the tapping of your foot while you're peeved at your computer for burning too much CPU (or your ADHD is going off the charts and YOU'RE trying to do too much at once) into more CPU cycles, the technological world would be a much more intuitive, ergonomic, and
But sadly, a user-sensing-cpu, to me, means that that for hardcore users (or simply not habitual), you're going to always be wishing you could turn off that 'annoying POS feature that makes your computer slow to respond >:'.
Why is everyone missing the point of the numbers quoted above.
If 1000 people transfer the 1 SEK, assuming the law firm's bank-transfer-allotment is 100% unused, then the firm makes 1000.
If 1500 people transfer the 1 SEK, the firm gets 0 SEK, because every transfer over 1000 constitutes a charge to the account holder of 2 SEK.
If 2000 people transfer 1 SEK, the firm now owes the bank 1000 SEK.
You do realize you just did the same thing, right?
I don't know about "devlopers", but real developers use whatever OS they need, utilizing virtualization, to get the job done.
There, fixed that for you ;-)
Download VMWare and make a snapshot if you're that up in arms about it. Or track changes to the registry and post what those changes are before you run around in a circle with your hands in the air, crying wolf.
oh i do. both renditions are equally pathetic, frankly.
..
I don't think 'average joe' (avg american) and 'joe sixpack' (avg american is an alcoholic couch-potato) are anywhere NEAR equatable. I guess that's why McCain/Palin road the FAILBOAT all the way home
the point being that, as a representation of the typical computer-illiterate American, it is simply wrong.
Let's look at what 'Joe Sixpack' really means.
This is by no means a representation of an average American. Remember, we're the obese country?
Why anyone ever jumped on this stupid bandwagon is beyond me...
However, it does lend to some funny break-down: Are we saying meat-heads are somehow dumbed down?
All jokes aside, the state of our country's computer literacy is a joke. If one this is for sure, we should be teaching kids how to troubleshoot & fix issues with computers, not just 'use the features' like a black box.
Ever heard ... "If you can't do it, you teach it."
I think you just proved your point, but I don't agree with the assertion that Microsoft is aiding in that endeavor.
It's the nature of the beast, not the environment in which the beast thrives...
I fully understand the monopoly/anti-trust suit ... And don't get me wrong, I've garnered my own hatred of the company in more ways than one in the past 12-15 years, but I also know that without MS, we would likely (almost certainly) not be in the same place we are today.
I also never claimed that MS was correct during those times. However, I do believe that as an entity, Microsoft had equal right to create a competing product, and as it turned out, are still doing so. The distinction is that the entities merely had to be split up. wikipedia entry The browser was (and still is) packaged with the OS (for free), and yet non-IE adoption is still rising. And realistically, consumers (largely) weren't up in arms about the browser wars at the time.
That wasn't even the point. The point is the (usually) baseless & manic subversion of truth and objectivity that ensues over anything Microsoft does, regardless of it's positive/negative impact.
How many times over the years have you seen a Dev pull his hair out having to deal with browser interoperability? Not only that, but snobby users cry cry cry about how IE sucks. So MS makes a FF plugin to help in interoperability and users cry cry cry about how they installed it.
It's one thing to be critical of what was done, it's another to make completely irrational claims about how MS is the devil. As much as the fanbois I'm referring to don't want to admit it -- Microsoft is a commercially viable corporation like any other. More importantly they supply software for the VAST MAJORITY of computers in existence. They're not trying to install something on your computer that will render FF useless so that you have to use IE. In fact it's QUITE THE OPPOSITE.
It's time to move past the petty bs...
Just imagine all the whining everyone would've done if MS didn't package the browser with the OS - good luck getting Windows Update to work in Netscape.
Of course, then you could simply blame them for not having a patched OS (Don't forget that it was your choice to uninstall* -- purely for idealogical reasons too), and then your system got rooted by some script kiddie in China and your machine was turned into an IRC bot.
* As you pointed out (even though you contradicted yourself), you could uninstall, there just wasn't a Staples Easy Button, right? And, last time I checked IE still comes installed with Windows.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1111907&cid=26699955
you're right -- this was a pathetic waste of my time.
I get the troll mod when everyone else is trolling around MS's balls, because they go out of their way to help all the IE bashers (myself included) run code with better interoperability.
What you all should be doing instead of blindly bashing MS because you think it's cool -- is go troll around Mozilla and ask them why they don't do better to support software that runs on the VAST MAJORITY of all computers...
Of course, this just goes back to the fanboi mentality lol...
Could they have made it an XPI? Maybe, but really? It's functionality to help software run better.
It's funny how the fanboi mentality works (and not as a valid argument, mind you)
I guess it's always easier to look and judge rather than assess what's really going on. Everyone complains and complains and when something is done to fix it, complain some more.
Sound more like an incessantly nagging spouse on a power trip please...
Except that personally, after listening to music through headphones and crappy earbuds and the like, with music that is/was predominantly 128kbps rips ... my ears are tired of the lack of quality. After awhile it's like there has been a CPU fan whirring right next to my ear for hours.
.. http://www.us.martinlogan.com/gallery/clx
Frankly, the push of the industry for louder, not wider sound is a bigger issue, but not one for this discussion.
But I liken this same experience to MP3/AAC formats. The psychoacoustic sounds of an AAC really bother me after awhile. Just that fake sound is like a shortcut to a headache.
I'll almost take the warble in a bad MP3 convert than high-pitch sound compression pops and squeeks that are intended to make me feel like there is more to the music than i'm actually hearing.
But you're right -- maybe this is because I've been raised to appreciate real-life music and sound quality, as well as audiophile equipment that makes you feel like that musician is sitting right there.
BTW, you've got to check out the new Martin Logan CLX series
actually, the UAC is forcing developers to write better code, and to provide users with the ability to know when they are accidentally doing something they shouldn't be doing. ... you know, like clicking that link that says free hardcore porn here, which installs a trojan and some adware/malware.
have to say tho ... without reading this at all and taking it for face value, this adds some complexity to the situation ...
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1064265&cid=26134705
That being said, working in IT, I've still seen my fair share of dumb users scratch CD's in their laptop trays...
The parent is correct.
You're missing one huge difference between the drive in the XBOX and the drive in your laptop/cd-walkman:
With both your Laptop & CD-Walkman, the cd is snapped into the disc holder.
Now, when you load your XBOX game disk, what do you do? You place it on a tray. Biggggg difference. When the drive loads the disk, it engages the cd with a combination spring/felt layer on top & a tapered compression drive on the bottom that prevents the disk from moving too much, while also raising it off the tray deck. It's not too hard to figure out that shuffling this device will quickly overcome the strength of the upper spring holding the disk in place. Combine this with the centrifugal force in play on the disk, and you don't even have to turn the unit that 90* very fast to get one side of the disk to hit the side.
Also to note:
This is analogous to old-school PC CD drives that wouldn't stop the disk from spinning before you eject it (or current drives if you unfold a paper clip and poke it in the little manual-eject hole -- no jokes please). The drive would (will) eject and the cd will be left spinning in the tray, giving you circular disk lines...
Feel free to argue as long as you don't actually do it? lol
I'm not sure what that means, but I agree with you, and that's an interesting story.
Unfortunately, however, I think a large number of people will read that, see what happened, but have no clue how that applies to their life, or perhaps even the spanking thing. Maybe they just choose not to.
Morally and socially stigmatic situations tend to abstract and obscure truth and reason with personal vendettas. True, that's partially what defines a moral dilemma (and historically, this is where religion plays a large role). But at some point you have to think that people will get over doing things a certain way purely based on how they were raised (even if they disagreed with it when they were younger), or based on a sequence of events amongst peers that can now be used as an excuse to act a certain way, contrary to a more salient moral conscience/imperative.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that people will tend to choose the option that feeds a desire and is seen as socially acceptable amongst a group of a certain size or applicability to a subset of issues, rather than the choice that is harder to make, and ostracizes you from that certain group or area in which that subset applies.
stupid peer pressure.
thanks for that intelligent response.