How do you pay for the media you want without having to go through the above groups. I do without personally but ripping off a group of companies who are so dodgy that musical instrument shops have to pay them a levy in case a copyrighted riff gets played in the course of a test doesn't seem so bad. I'm all for artists getting paid, how does one go about buying say a Kaiser Chiefs song without having to pay them a cut?
These things have all happened over periods of thousands or millions of years though. The earth's temperature has got noticeably hotter over the last 100 years or so. This is an unusual event, not business as usual, and even if it wasn't, being worried about it is a sign of common sense not stupidity. Stupidity is a lack of intelligent thought, not a lack of agreement with a particular view. It's not stupid to worry about how climate change will affect your own life, irrespective of what actually causes it.
And what about the rest of his list? Linux is not a practical solution for most people, else we'd be seeing masses of Linux desktop adoption stories instead of a few and the desktop market wouldn't be as skewed as it is. Our office is a good example, we have a custom Win32 app which will never be rewritten just so we can move to Linux and a digital dictation system which doesn't have a Linux port. WINE may be the answer but in my experience it's still too unreliable for many organisations to take the plunge. The same or similar goes for home users. Contrary to often expressed opinions on here PCs get used for a lot more than just email and internet. As soon as the user finds out their favourite hardware or software doesn't work on Linux they don't want to know anymore.
Given that people with learning difficulties have been given a huge disadvantage at birth, I have no idea why you begrudge society being kinder to them than us lucky folks who were born like everyone else. How many people with learning difficulties chose to be that way as opposed to those choosing to use performance-enhancing drugs. You sound like the morons who think that LD and ADHD can merely be solved by better parenting (or as one genius put it "they just need a good smack"); as the uncle of a boy with autism, I'm telling you you don't have a bloody clue.
Sorry for the me too post but I couldn't agree more. Seriously I'd hate to have had the parents some slashdotters had who knew exactly what they were up to at all times.
i've always believed that poverty is just a state of mind.
It's usually a state of not having enough resources to feed, clothe and house yourself (and your family if you have one). Now if you know a way for a person to think themselves out of that, you'll be the most revered man on the planet when you share it with the rest of us.
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The CBI. The TUC's glory days of screwing up the country buggered off a very long time ago, however our captains of industry are going from strength to strength.
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Thatcher was a disaster for the UK and paved the way for the takeover of the economy by the vested interests you mention.
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Tell me you're not serious. Cable is the most ad-saturated TV you can get, it's terrible.
I'm not in denial I'm merely pointing out that totalitarianism and communism are two separate things. Up until the last 250 years or so just about everywhere was a totalitarian dictatorship, it's the nature of some humans to want control over others, and not a flaw in one system over another. Russia was a dictatorship before communism and although nominally democratic now Putin is still a lot more authoritarian than any of the western leaders. I personally think that pure communism can't work but then I also think pure capitalism can't work either.
I used to do that, however it's not what the so-called user friendly Windows experience leads you to expect. Writing a macro is even less grandma-friendly but it saves me time working around poor design decisions.
The only way we can sell you software for the price we do is because we are able to limit our liability.
Yes that would explain why Oracle is such a cheap product. Sarcasm aside, software producers don't limit their liability, they say that they have no liability for any flaws in their product. I'm having trouble thinking of another industry that would get away with that for the length of time that the software industry has.
Yes "smart" cut and paste in word is a really crap idea and I wish it was off by default, as is cut and paste as HTML which can only be avoided by doing Paste Special all the time or writing a macro and binding it to CTRL-V.
Haha, got me, I'm normally more careful than that, having been on the end of some fairly vitriolic pedantry in the past. What amazes me is that only one person picked up on it I posted this almost half an hour ago.
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How do you pay for the media you want without having to go through the above groups. I do without personally but ripping off a group of companies who are so dodgy that musical instrument shops have to pay them a levy in case a copyrighted riff gets played in the course of a test doesn't seem so bad. I'm all for artists getting paid, how does one go about buying say a Kaiser Chiefs song without having to pay them a cut?
These things have all happened over periods of thousands or millions of years though. The earth's temperature has got noticeably hotter over the last 100 years or so. This is an unusual event, not business as usual, and even if it wasn't, being worried about it is a sign of common sense not stupidity. Stupidity is a lack of intelligent thought, not a lack of agreement with a particular view. It's not stupid to worry about how climate change will affect your own life, irrespective of what actually causes it.
And what about the rest of his list? Linux is not a practical solution for most people, else we'd be seeing masses of Linux desktop adoption stories instead of a few and the desktop market wouldn't be as skewed as it is. Our office is a good example, we have a custom Win32 app which will never be rewritten just so we can move to Linux and a digital dictation system which doesn't have a Linux port. WINE may be the answer but in my experience it's still too unreliable for many organisations to take the plunge. The same or similar goes for home users. Contrary to often expressed opinions on here PCs get used for a lot more than just email and internet. As soon as the user finds out their favourite hardware or software doesn't work on Linux they don't want to know anymore.
Given that people with learning difficulties have been given a huge disadvantage at birth, I have no idea why you begrudge society being kinder to them than us lucky folks who were born like everyone else. How many people with learning difficulties chose to be that way as opposed to those choosing to use performance-enhancing drugs.
You sound like the morons who think that LD and ADHD can merely be solved by better parenting (or as one genius put it "they just need a good smack"); as the uncle of a boy with autism, I'm telling you you don't have a bloody clue.
Sorry for the me too post but I couldn't agree more. Seriously I'd hate to have had the parents some slashdotters had who knew exactly what they were up to at all times.
i've always believed that poverty is just a state of mind.
It's usually a state of not having enough resources to feed, clothe and house yourself (and your family if you have one). Now if you know a way for a person to think themselves out of that, you'll be the most revered man on the planet when you share it with the rest of us.
Mainstream music has been shite since well before the Spice Girls.
I don't know about France but our politicians are just as prone to financial influence as yours are.
That's really handy thanks for that link.
The CBI. The TUC's glory days of screwing up the country buggered off a very long time ago, however our captains of industry are going from strength to strength.
Thatcher was a disaster for the UK and paved the way for the takeover of the economy by the vested interests you mention.
Tell me you're not serious. Cable is the most ad-saturated TV you can get, it's terrible.
I'm not in denial I'm merely pointing out that totalitarianism and communism are two separate things. Up until the last 250 years or so just about everywhere was a totalitarian dictatorship, it's the nature of some humans to want control over others, and not a flaw in one system over another. Russia was a dictatorship before communism and although nominally democratic now Putin is still a lot more authoritarian than any of the western leaders. I personally think that pure communism can't work but then I also think pure capitalism can't work either.
Or perhaps unimpressed by these overpaid clowns telling the rest of us we're too expensive.
Possibly because communism is a political concept that has very little to do with totalitarianism which can be allied to any economic philosophy.
[typical geek response]Why would anyone want to do that?[/typical geek response]
I used to do that, however it's not what the so-called user friendly Windows experience leads you to expect. Writing a macro is even less grandma-friendly but it saves me time working around poor design decisions.
I doubt there's any technical limitation but Microsoft won't be giving up that massive competitive advantage any time soon.
The only way we can sell you software for the price we do is because we are able to limit our liability.
Yes that would explain why Oracle is such a cheap product. Sarcasm aside, software producers don't limit their liability, they say that they have no liability for any flaws in their product. I'm having trouble thinking of another industry that would get away with that for the length of time that the software industry has.
No it's the users who will be surly.
Yes "smart" cut and paste in word is a really crap idea and I wish it was off by default, as is cut and paste as HTML which can only be avoided by doing Paste Special all the time or writing a macro and binding it to CTRL-V.
VBA and VBScript makes my life a lot easier, so, as with any language, it's horses for courses.
I've had so many arguments with the "learn some basic economics" loons that infest this forum that I tend to over-react ;)
Haha, got me, I'm normally more careful than that, having been on the end of some fairly vitriolic pedantry in the past. What amazes me is that only one person picked up on it I posted this almost half an hour ago.
Humour is subjective, however selling sex, violence and high speed racing to men is a bit snow to eskimos.