"We all know there aren't any ads on cable TV, if there were people would complain loudly about paying twice and either the ads would cease or people would cancel their cable. "
Sure the few showtimes don't and such (just 15 minute + breaks between shows. . ..)
But shit;
even our damn onscreen interface has ads all over it!!!! Some screens have two or even THREE ads a page!!! (banner ad style ads for those, bleh)
Even the 'TV guide channel" has ads on the top half of the screen (eew, happened when AT&T bought out TCI and AT&T outsourced the schedual channel to TV Guide.:(:(:( )
Hell that is where Ms. Cleo got her start, heh, adverting on that station.:(
Even alot of the 'higher end numbered' stations (such as the 'new urban entertainment' station which has the exceptionaly cool abrevation of NUE but I don't ever watch because they NEVER submit a schedual listing to AT&T thus I have no idea as to what they show. ^_^ ) have lots of ads on them.
Actualy in my area PPV and movie rentals are about the same price. . . .
Now with the digital cable thing though being mixed up with analog boxs in the same house everybody else around here is pissed off when they can't watch their PPV movie on ANY tv in the house, hehe.
They don't seem to get it that the old analog boxs just can't handle the gazzilion PPV channels, heh.
If they have multiple server storage facilities then you are talking 5-10 admins per network minimum, and since the data that they are handling is so valuable they also likely have 2-4 security operators at each site as well (in fact I wouldn't be surprised, though I would sure as hell hope that it is so, if they have at least a few people on a 24/7 security watch).
Then there are the people who just rove e-bay looking for illicit auctions to close (Hey, no body organs allowed!) and based on how fast Ebay is closing down such auctions now days, they must have quite a staff.
Don't forget web page designers working on any n ew sections of their site, and so forth. Market researchers (what market should we expand into next. . ..) also likely play a part.
Ebay also runs half.com (great service) and likely needs admins for that network too (since uptime is a must for them and every second they go out is alot of lost profits, they likely have seperate admins for their different main sites.)
Ebay.co.uk also likely has its own set of admins and such. And customer service.
And then their billpoint service needs admins and security personel (ALOT of $$$ involved there.:) I betcha they are all patched up! ^_^ ) and customer service reps (apparently that latter catagory has been lacking lately from what I have heard said by others).
They seem to be constantly adding new features to their service so at least a few programmers are likely employeed there. You want your admins on the job full time keeping the site up, in this case where time = ($^2) it is worth the extra personel cost.
Add internal tech support for all of those people (If your site has just been hacked you don't want your admins to go have to pause and go install a new toner cartridge for the secritary) and of course a HUGE bean counter depository (man I bet their yearly IRS forms are a PAIN to fill out!).
Then add a manager per each employee and another manager per each 3 managers below him. . . and so forth on up for quite a few levels until you eventualy get to a board of directors and CEO and such.
They probebly could trim/some/ fat off, but hell, they ARE turning a profit.:)
I have a friend who goes to weekly LAN parties that also involve everybody going out to breakfast together in the morning, some games of pool, and watching some movies or such.
You take away the computers that that'd be a good ol' mens night out.
But because they met over the net and like the blow the shnitz outa each other in UT/Q3 for a few of those hours of the night, they are all of a sudden a-social freaks?
Before I got net access I stayed in and played with legos and read alot of books.
Now that I have net access I stay in and, uh, do 3d modeling and read alot of web pages.
where do you think amazon.com GETS its rare books from?
Yup.
Independent book sellers! (says so on their page, no idea how reliable that is. ^_^ )
Kinda hard to find alot of those old books therwise, hehe.
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Hmm, didn't we here at/. have something to do with helping that along?:):):)
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I would hardly call Seattle high priced. (or a tech center, there isn't a single d*mn fucking computer store within 30 minutes of my place, bleh, the malls on either end of town are about it! Sheesh.)
Hell after amazon.com left and alot of those other.coms went bust, the average cost of a house or apartment around here shot WAY down!
(wish they'd stop making those damn condo' though, disgusting to see people stacked up like rabbits.:(:(:( )
Oh sure while amazon was HERE it cost them alot of $$$.:)
You can actualy still occasionaly see (as of ~6months ago) Japanese business dudes getting out of Limos in front of to the old amazon.com place and getting a tour by some amazon.com offical.
I pefer half.com myself, almost any book, half price, heh.
Hmm, is Ebay profitable? (do they take a certain % of each sale or something? How does Ebay make their profit? I know that Half.com takes like 10% of each exchange or something)
Amazon DOES have a good selection though, and their prices are equal to major bookstore chains even after shipping (which is all that their 'discount' about pays for, heh, either that or look at is as sales tax removal, depending on your state though. . . ..)
Being able to get older books in a series is also nice though, especialy since the larger chains typicaly only stock random bits and pieces of older books in a series, and sometimes I just don't want to wade through tons of old science fiction book stores.:) (though that IS one of my favorite habits, hehe.)
For that matter that is one of the reasons that I really do not use amazon.com all that much, I just enjoy wading through piles of books, hehe.
There is a book store in the Pike Place Market (Google it folks) that specalizes in old Science Fiction books and magazines, hehe, yah they cost a pretty penny (its painful paying $10 for a book that has "Only 25 cents!!!" on its original cover artwork but. . . hehe. They are worth it.:):):) ) but shoot the emotions that just digging through an old pile of books can give ya. . . .
(well, at least those ones that aren't behind lock and key, heh)
Of course he likes things that are all form on top (gui), have this big huge empty hollow layer (performance/sensible design [lacking of]) and then have a bunch of kick ass things going on underneath (the BSD kernal)
(for the slow, gui = many.com' way of doing things, lack of performance = lack of profits, and the BSD kernal = all the kickass things that the.coms hoped to achieve)
Yah, just what the government needs to encourage, more citizens to throw away their brains.
Bleh, and we have issues with each generation getting st00pider already! (the small percentage of children who are 'above average' keep on smarter and smarter each generation, but the usable intelligence of the rest of the population. . . ..)
Shit, why not just go to each 10th or so person and give them a full frontal lobotomy? (with a chainsaw. . . . )
The government does NOT need to/encourage/ the use of harmful drugs (this is going beyond pot, if your going to say something about pot come up with something else to say, pot was argued to death long ago).
One of the main excuses for smoking cigarettes was that "if they were really harmful then the government would outlaw them."
You realize how much fr*cking money it took to overcome THAT issue? How much advertising and how many darn public awareness campaigns had to be launched?
Even now days that excuse still comes up (less so since the cigarette manufacturers themselves admitted to the dangers).
A similar situation with drug use is/not/ needed. It is bad enough that there are idiots who are going around claiming that cocaine isn't all that bad for you or that X doesn't have any long term effects just so long as you drink lots of water. (bleh)
In my opinion the war against drugs needs to be ESCALATED.
Fuck.
Then again if it was up to me anybody who was caught/found doing drugs twice would be shot dead on site.
::shrugs::
(I just get annoyed at the assholes who can't keep their drug binges to themselves and insist on coming to class while royally f*cked up. It ain't a victimless crime if it interferes with my education, m'kay.)
It says that their software allows for you to burn DVD-Rs with your CDR burner! LOL!!
One of the newer varations appears to be selling instructions on how to copy from DVD to VHS.
(This isn't all that hard really, if you have a CDR drive and a DVD-ROM drive on your computer and a standalone DVD player, it will just end up looking like dog shit. Rip the DVD, decrypte, reencode into SVCD or VCD [eew] and then play said S/VCD on your DVD player, which most now days support doing. Plug your DVD players out into your VCRs in and set the VCR to record, you will have to pause the recording while swapping S/VCD disks unless it is a/really/ short movie, but besides that. . . . enjoy your pixalated blurry mess! ^_^ )
Call me when those devices that project the image onto either the Retina or the back of the Eyelid come out.
Damn I want one of those, spiffy. Especialy the eyelid ones, hehe, blink and see a map of where you are going.:)
Ah, or even better, direct optic nerve interface.:) Uh, could I get a replacement optic never for my right eye while your at it? The current one doesn't quite work. ^_^ (bleh)
Ah, oh well, in the future, in the future. (and if not I'm going to seriously start bitching!)
"Photoshop has a HUGE learning-curve to do anything but the most basic operations. "
Only if your stupid. . . .
Or new to computers. ^_^
Photoshop has EVERYTHING in/EXACTLY/ the right place. From the first time I started it up I knew what most of the commands did, just becaus they where LABLED _CORRECTLY_ and _CLEARLY_.
Now Corel on the other hand. . . .::shudders:: !!! There is some piss poor designed software, at least when _I_ used it last, they keep on redesigning and 'updating' their photo software almost daily it seems.
Now if you want a program with a HUUUGE learning curve try out Painter6 or 7. Hard as HELL to use, 7 is alot easier then 6 though, but it is still no joy.
3DSM takes the cake though. After using Rhino3d as my first 3d modeler I ended up spoiled by its superior interface (superior to anything else on the market that is.:) ).
Anyways, took me two or three weeks just to figure out how to zoom in and out without using the Mousewheel in 3DSM. (3D Studio Max). Release 2.5 I do believe it was, heh.
Thinking about it, 3DSM is another product that benefits from being pirated to heck. Heck few people would use it if they did not get a chance to learn it themselves on their own time for free.:)
"Oh, what password officer? I just put my eyeball upto the retina scanner, my thumb on my fingerprint scanner and belch into my microphone and then hum Beethoven's fifth backwards. Then I say the list of woman I have cheated on my wife with."
Even if they tied you down to a chair and made you look in the retina scanner, pressed your hand on the scanner, and made you drink alot of carbinated soda, you could hopefuly plead self incrimination for the voice recognition part of the authentication.:)
Imagine what would happen if a goat fed her offsprings. The silk could end up passing through through them, creating the first ever animal made leash! Since that would count as tool usage, would that mean that we'd have species competition?:)
"Although the loss of work security creates a temporary loss of security and social capital, he believes that down the road, this individuality and freedom -- much of it empowered by the same technology that has eroded work security -- will create a new kind of global citizen, one who is better informed, more communicative and civically-involved than before"
That and no money to actualy say. . . eat?
Bleh;
1998: We will all have jobs thanks to the Technology sector, everybody will work and nobody will be poor!
2002: None of us will have jobs thanks to the technology sector, nobody will work and everybody will be poor!
Extremes extremes . . . .
All new technologies eventualy create MORE jobs in regards to maintaining those technologies.
Hell look at the Database specialists and what not, or the number of jobs that making new high CG enchanced movies make. Yah sure it put some rubber molders and painters out of business, but it added a whole new fleet of CG specialists, from modelers to texturers to CG enviromental designers (the background graphics, planets, trees, etc) to a bazzilion different types of animators.
Sure some people got put out of work, but the next generation had far mor opportunities opened up to them/because of/ that technology.
"Yes, if the computer doesn't demand that you take Computer Science part-time at night. "
Doesn't help ya much if the computer is slow as hell to respond because the programmers spent time making the OS look flashy and pretty while ignoring things such as. . . oh. . . I don't know. . . FUNCTIONALITY.
"I know how a graphics tablet works and how to use it;"
Graphics tablets have made great strides in the last past six or eight years. In both sensitivity, accuracy, and (occasionaly,:) ) price.
What if the effort that had gone into IMPROVING graphics tablets had been split 50/50 with 50% of those resources having gone to doing market studies as to what the best color for a line of graphics tablet was or on how to best make them look transparent or redesigning the physical/SHAPE/ of the pen 4 or 5 times without changing its underlying functionalitity at all?
What if 256 presure levels was the maximum possible today instead of the 1024 that we now have? Or if the accuracy that we have availble today was cut in half? But the pens came in 5 designer 'flavors'.
/THAT/ is my problem with Apple, they concentrate on MAKING a product LOOK GOOD instead of making it WORK WELL.
Seriously, how much use is a 15inch LCD to a graphics designer, eh? Hell, what is the contrast ratio on it? How accuret is its depiction of color? Can a secondary monitor be plugged in, and if so, then why should I have to still pay for an included monitor that I do not want?
"I know how to record 24 tracks of 24 bit audio on a computer and how to mix it and master it. I don't want to know about kilobytes "
You might want to learn a LITTLE BIT about data size and bandwidth and such, it is, err, heh, crucial to your craft so to speak.:)
The greatest artists have known the chemical properties of their paints. The Grand Masters made their own paints. (and brushs for that matter!)
The results are obvious, KNOWING every aspect of your craft can lead to greater possibilities.
"What you're saying is like saying "nobody should be able to listen to music until they've learned an instrument". This used to be the attitude in music, but I think it is better to leave the learning to the people who want to do it, "
Learning the basic principles of music has been shown to increase overall mathmatical aptitude.
With that in mind I think that public schools/should/ teach childern how to play at least one instrument and the basics of music theory.
Oh, and that Lawyer that you mentioned earlier?
He might benefit from some database theory. Knowing which type of a database to use and how to properly take advantage of its capibilites would greatly increase the efficiency with which he handles his case load. Not to mention that it would help him with looking up and cross referencing sources within his own private virtual library.
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My old middle school used to have it. . . . guess that was kinda odd huh? ^-^
Nobody was much able to figure out what it was though, shoot, its like 'hey, WTF does this thing do?'
Debates used local newspapers and the old non-fiction books that the library had available.
"We all know there aren't any ads on cable TV, if there were people would complain loudly about paying twice and either the ads would cease or people would cancel their cable. "
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:( :( :( )
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Umm, excuse me;
HahahahahOOHMYhehehehehahahahhahZHHHOOOOHHHOHOH
Ohhh shnitz.
Ah ok thats over, hehehehe.
Annnyways.
AT&T broadband digital cable.
Lots and lots and fucking lots of TV ads.
On every damn station.
Even the expanded channels have tons of TV ads.
Sure the few showtimes don't and such (just 15 minute + breaks between shows. . .
But shit;
even our damn onscreen interface has ads all over it!!!! Some screens have two or even THREE ads a page!!! (banner ad style ads for those, bleh)
Even the 'TV guide channel" has ads on the top half of the screen (eew, happened when AT&T bought out TCI and AT&T outsourced the schedual channel to TV Guide.
Hell that is where Ms. Cleo got her start, heh, adverting on that station.
Even alot of the 'higher end numbered' stations (such as the 'new urban entertainment' station which has the exceptionaly cool abrevation of NUE but I don't ever watch because they NEVER submit a schedual listing to AT&T thus I have no idea as to what they show. ^_^ ) have lots of ads on them.
Actualy in my area PPV and movie rentals are about the same price. . . .
Now with the digital cable thing though being mixed up with analog boxs in the same house everybody else around here is pissed off when they can't watch their PPV movie on ANY tv in the house, hehe.
They don't seem to get it that the old analog boxs just can't handle the gazzilion PPV channels, heh.
Well. . . .
.) also likely play a part.
:) I betcha they are all patched up! ^_^ ) and customer service reps (apparently that latter catagory has been lacking lately from what I have heard said by others).
/some/ fat off, but hell, they ARE turning a profit. :)
If they have multiple server storage facilities then you are talking 5-10 admins per network minimum, and since the data that they are handling is so valuable they also likely have 2-4 security operators at each site as well (in fact I wouldn't be surprised, though I would sure as hell hope that it is so, if they have at least a few people on a 24/7 security watch).
Then there are the people who just rove e-bay looking for illicit auctions to close (Hey, no body organs allowed!) and based on how fast Ebay is closing down such auctions now days, they must have quite a staff.
Don't forget web page designers working on any n ew sections of their site, and so forth. Market researchers (what market should we expand into next. . .
Ebay also runs half.com (great service) and likely needs admins for that network too (since uptime is a must for them and every second they go out is alot of lost profits, they likely have seperate admins for their different main sites.)
Ebay.co.uk also likely has its own set of admins and such. And customer service.
And then their billpoint service needs admins and security personel (ALOT of $$$ involved there.
They seem to be constantly adding new features to their service so at least a few programmers are likely employeed there. You want your admins on the job full time keeping the site up, in this case where time = ($^2) it is worth the extra personel cost.
Add internal tech support for all of those people (If your site has just been hacked you don't want your admins to go have to pause and go install a new toner cartridge for the secritary) and of course a HUGE bean counter depository (man I bet their yearly IRS forms are a PAIN to fill out!).
Then add a manager per each employee and another manager per each 3 managers below him. . . and so forth on up for quite a few levels until you eventualy get to a board of directors and CEO and such.
They probebly could trim
I have a friend who goes to weekly LAN parties that also involve everybody going out to breakfast together in the morning, some games of pool, and watching some movies or such.
You take away the computers that that'd be a good ol' mens night out.
But because they met over the net and like the blow the shnitz outa each other in UT/Q3 for a few of those hours of the night, they are all of a sudden a-social freaks?
Before I got net access I stayed in and played with legos and read alot of books.
Now that I have net access I stay in and, uh, do 3d modeling and read alot of web pages.
All in all not much as changed. ^_^
Dude;
where do you think amazon.com GETS its rare books from?
Yup.
Independent book sellers! (says so on their page, no idea how reliable that is. ^_^ )
Kinda hard to find alot of those old books therwise, hehe.
"and hasn't had to market as heavily since many rivals such as eToys have disappeared."
/. have something to do with helping that along? :) :) :)
Hmm, didn't we here at
I would hardly call Seattle high priced. (or a tech center, there isn't a single d*mn fucking computer store within 30 minutes of my place, bleh, the malls on either end of town are about it! Sheesh.)
.coms went bust, the average cost of a house or apartment around here shot WAY down!
:( :( :( )
:)
Hell after amazon.com left and alot of those other
(wish they'd stop making those damn condo' though, disgusting to see people stacked up like rabbits.
Oh sure while amazon was HERE it cost them alot of $$$.
You can actualy still occasionaly see (as of ~6months ago) Japanese business dudes getting out of Limos in front of to the old amazon.com place and getting a tour by some amazon.com offical.
Weird.
I pefer half.com myself, almost any book, half price, heh.
.)
:) (though that IS one of my favorite habits, hehe.)
:) :) :) ) but shoot the emotions that just digging through an old pile of books can give ya. . . .
Hmm, is Ebay profitable? (do they take a certain % of each sale or something? How does Ebay make their profit? I know that Half.com takes like 10% of each exchange or something)
Amazon DOES have a good selection though, and their prices are equal to major bookstore chains even after shipping (which is all that their 'discount' about pays for, heh, either that or look at is as sales tax removal, depending on your state though. . . .
Being able to get older books in a series is also nice though, especialy since the larger chains typicaly only stock random bits and pieces of older books in a series, and sometimes I just don't want to wade through tons of old science fiction book stores.
For that matter that is one of the reasons that I really do not use amazon.com all that much, I just enjoy wading through piles of books, hehe.
There is a book store in the Pike Place Market (Google it folks) that specalizes in old Science Fiction books and magazines, hehe, yah they cost a pretty penny (its painful paying $10 for a book that has "Only 25 cents!!!" on its original cover artwork but. . . hehe. They are worth it.
(well, at least those ones that aren't behind lock and key, heh)
Look at his name.
.com' way of doing things, lack of performance = lack of profits, and the BSD kernal = all the kickass things that the .coms hoped to achieve)
macosx.
Of course he likes things that are all form on top (gui), have this big huge empty hollow layer (performance/sensible design [lacking of]) and then have a bunch of kick ass things going on underneath (the BSD kernal)
(for the slow, gui = many
Oh? It is? . . . .
.)
/encourage/ the use of harmful drugs (this is going beyond pot, if your going to say something about pot come up with something else to say, pot was argued to death long ago).
/not/ needed. It is bad enough that there are idiots who are going around claiming that cocaine isn't all that bad for you or that X doesn't have any long term effects just so long as you drink lots of water. (bleh)
Depends on what your definition of 'better' is.
Yah, just what the government needs to encourage, more citizens to throw away their brains.
Bleh, and we have issues with each generation getting st00pider already! (the small percentage of children who are 'above average' keep on smarter and smarter each generation, but the usable intelligence of the rest of the population. . . .
Shit, why not just go to each 10th or so person and give them a full frontal lobotomy? (with a chainsaw. . . . )
The government does NOT need to
One of the main excuses for smoking cigarettes was that "if they were really harmful then the government would outlaw them."
You realize how much fr*cking money it took to overcome THAT issue? How much advertising and how many darn public awareness campaigns had to be launched?
Even now days that excuse still comes up (less so since the cigarette manufacturers themselves admitted to the dangers).
A similar situation with drug use is
In my opinion the war against drugs needs to be ESCALATED.
Fuck.
Then again if it was up to me anybody who was caught/found doing drugs twice would be shot dead on site.
::shrugs::
(I just get annoyed at the assholes who can't keep their drug binges to themselves and insist on coming to class while royally f*cked up. It ain't a victimless crime if it interferes with my education, m'kay.)
Uh. . . .
They do.
(for certain types of files)
"If drugs were legal, drug dealers would be out of business."
No they wouldn't,
They would just qualify for IRS tax refunds for any unsold merchandise. Bleh.
::raises hand::
I do.
Heh, you ever /read/ the message's claims though?
/really/ short movie, but besides that. . . . enjoy your pixalated blurry mess! ^_^ )
It says that their software allows for you to burn DVD-Rs with your CDR burner! LOL!!
One of the newer varations appears to be selling instructions on how to copy from DVD to VHS.
(This isn't all that hard really, if you have a CDR drive and a DVD-ROM drive on your computer and a standalone DVD player, it will just end up looking like dog shit. Rip the DVD, decrypte, reencode into SVCD or VCD [eew] and then play said S/VCD on your DVD player, which most now days support doing. Plug your DVD players out into your VCRs in and set the VCR to record, you will have to pause the recording while swapping S/VCD disks unless it is a
Call me when those devices that project the image onto either the Retina or the back of the Eyelid come out.
:)
:) Uh, could I get a replacement optic never for my right eye while your at it? The current one doesn't quite work. ^_^ (bleh)
Damn I want one of those, spiffy. Especialy the eyelid ones, hehe, blink and see a map of where you are going.
Ah, or even better, direct optic nerve interface.
Ah, oh well, in the future, in the future. (and if not I'm going to seriously start bitching!)
Pikmin, Luigi's Manson. Waveracer even. Heck if you want good gaming goto Nintendo (who do you think invented Donkey Kong? :) :) :) )
I LIKE THE SOUND OF MY FANS!!!!
/comfortable/ with them going on in the background.
:( (besides, how would I know if its on as I approach it from two rooms away? :) )
Seriously.
They wake me up in the morning and put me sleep at night.
They are like the sounds of an apartment to a New Yorker. I just feel more. . . .
A quite PC would suck.
"Photoshop has a HUGE learning-curve to do anything but the most basic operations. "
/EXACTLY/ the right place. From the first time I started it up I knew what most of the commands did, just becaus they where LABLED _CORRECTLY_ and _CLEARLY_.
::shudders:: !!! There is some piss poor designed software, at least when _I_ used it last, they keep on redesigning and 'updating' their photo software almost daily it seems.
:) ).
:)
Only if your stupid. . . .
Or new to computers. ^_^
Photoshop has EVERYTHING in
Now Corel on the other hand. . . .
Now if you want a program with a HUUUGE learning curve try out Painter6 or 7. Hard as HELL to use, 7 is alot easier then 6 though, but it is still no joy.
3DSM takes the cake though. After using Rhino3d as my first 3d modeler I ended up spoiled by its superior interface (superior to anything else on the market that is.
Anyways, took me two or three weeks just to figure out how to zoom in and out without using the Mousewheel in 3DSM. (3D Studio Max). Release 2.5 I do believe it was, heh.
Thinking about it, 3DSM is another product that benefits from being pirated to heck. Heck few people would use it if they did not get a chance to learn it themselves on their own time for free.
I got dead relatives smart enough to get around macrovision encoding. ^_^
Macrovision, for people to lazy to even bother with a XOR!
Bleh.
Solution?
:)
Biometrics.
"Oh, what password officer? I just put my eyeball upto the retina scanner, my thumb on my fingerprint scanner and belch into my microphone and then hum Beethoven's fifth backwards. Then I say the list of woman I have cheated on my wife with."
Even if they tied you down to a chair and made you look in the retina scanner, pressed your hand on the scanner, and made you drink alot of carbinated soda, you could hopefuly plead self incrimination for the voice recognition part of the authentication.
Imagine what would happen if a goat fed her offsprings. The silk could end up passing through through them, creating the first ever animal made leash! Since that would count as tool usage, would that mean that we'd have species competition? :)
"Although the loss of work security creates a temporary loss of security and social capital, he believes that down the road, this individuality and freedom -- much of it empowered by the same technology that has eroded work security -- will create a new kind of global citizen, one who is better informed, more communicative and civically-involved than before"
/because of/ that technology.
:)
That and no money to actualy say. . . eat?
Bleh;
1998: We will all have jobs thanks to the Technology sector, everybody will work and nobody will be poor!
2002: None of us will have jobs thanks to the technology sector, nobody will work and everybody will be poor!
Extremes extremes . . . .
All new technologies eventualy create MORE jobs in regards to maintaining those technologies.
Hell look at the Database specialists and what not, or the number of jobs that making new high CG enchanced movies make. Yah sure it put some rubber molders and painters out of business, but it added a whole new fleet of CG specialists, from modelers to texturers to CG enviromental designers (the background graphics, planets, trees, etc) to a bazzilion different types of animators.
Sure some people got put out of work, but the next generation had far mor opportunities opened up to them
Homework: Map it to a sine wave.
"Yes, if the computer doesn't demand that you take Computer Science part-time at night. "
:) ) price.
/SHAPE/ of the pen 4 or 5 times without changing its underlying functionalitity at all?
:)
/should/ teach childern how to play at least one instrument and the basics of music theory.
Doesn't help ya much if the computer is slow as hell to respond because the programmers spent time making the OS look flashy and pretty while ignoring things such as. . . oh. . . I don't know. . . FUNCTIONALITY.
"I know how a graphics tablet works and how to use it;"
Graphics tablets have made great strides in the last past six or eight years. In both sensitivity, accuracy, and (occasionaly,
What if the effort that had gone into IMPROVING graphics tablets had been split 50/50 with 50% of those resources having gone to doing market studies as to what the best color for a line of graphics tablet was or on how to best make them look transparent or redesigning the physical
What if 256 presure levels was the maximum possible today instead of the 1024 that we now have? Or if the accuracy that we have availble today was cut in half? But the pens came in 5 designer 'flavors'.
/THAT/ is my problem with Apple, they concentrate on MAKING a product LOOK GOOD instead of making it WORK WELL.
Seriously, how much use is a 15inch LCD to a graphics designer, eh? Hell, what is the contrast ratio on it? How accuret is its depiction of color? Can a secondary monitor be plugged in, and if so, then why should I have to still pay for an included monitor that I do not want?
"I know how to record 24 tracks of 24 bit audio on a computer and how to mix it and master it. I don't want to know about kilobytes "
You might want to learn a LITTLE BIT about data size and bandwidth and such, it is, err, heh, crucial to your craft so to speak.
The greatest artists have known the chemical properties of their paints. The Grand Masters made their own paints. (and brushs for that matter!)
The results are obvious, KNOWING every aspect of your craft can lead to greater possibilities.
"What you're saying is like saying "nobody should be able to listen to music until they've learned an instrument". This used to be the attitude in music, but I think it is better to leave the learning to the people who want to do it, "
Learning the basic principles of music has been shown to increase overall mathmatical aptitude.
With that in mind I think that public schools
Oh, and that Lawyer that you mentioned earlier?
He might benefit from some database theory. Knowing which type of a database to use and how to properly take advantage of its capibilites would greatly increase the efficiency with which he handles his case load. Not to mention that it would help him with looking up and cross referencing sources within his own private virtual library.
Microsoft must read /.
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