Must suck for people who streets don't have cable or who aren't close enough to over-the-air broadcast for things like EBS, news, and other things they want to pay for just so you can precede their right to buy a service with your right to do math that destroys the service provider's ability to sell to them. But I guess preserving the right to allow piracy with the excuse of "just doing math" is paramount. FOR FUCKS SAKE how the hell can you twist this around into a rights issue? I want to buy a service, and delivering the content which advertising pays are costs that are in addition to delivering the service. You call that a privilege, fine, but it's just as much a privilege as paying for delivery of boxes of goods instead of driving to the manufacture to get them into my house. You're saying DishTV doesn't have the right to deliver content because you have the right to monkey with their equipment?!?!?
The satellite companies ahve a very weak business model. It involves sending information into everyoens house.
Then what could be a stronger business model that delivers information (television signal, both satellite and non-satellite) into homes in a manner that is cheaper than competitors which doesn't involve encryption so that people cannot receive their service for free and offer their service to consumers as a competitor just as (or only a little more than) free?
If consumers find another way to view the data in their house, then tough tits for the satellite company.
I'm think'n the chip inside the receiver needs to be covered in epoxy, like the Nintendo game cubes used to to. You're not breaking the law trying to decrypt the chip, but you are breaking the chip - which simply prevents people from stealing the service and making it extremely difficult to decrypt the signal by any other means (which is the whole point of selling the receiver with encryption in the first place). What's your idea? Other than to let all delivery of TV signals slip into an unsustainable business model of "free for all" ideology, of course.
Ya, early G3s: but it's good for in-house web pages that I control for sharing access to data and low-level processes (one of the Macs runs FileMaker's Web Publishing, which does enough for my needs w/o javascript or flash or anything client-side) for serving up info on graphic art with thumbnails since their machines can't deal with EPS and TIF or even very large JPGs without freaking out.
I won't be able to use IT's web pages - but that's okay, they don't do it that way (proprietary system interfacing with databases and uploading Excel files via FTP - I know, I know, but that's what they do despite my offers of a better way).
I've got three MacOS 8.6 that are the main production line for our company. Nice to know I still can use a web browser on those machines for solutions made to be used by all other computers (WinME, WinXP, MacOS X, etc..) since IE 5 crapped out a long time ago and nothing else would run half as well as it on the old Macs.
Now, be honest. How many of us had our first computer experience with MS-DOS or Windows 3.1?
I see that many have replied that is not the case, and I assume that you are directing this question at regular users more than computer enthusiasts who by nature will have a much wider experience with different types of computers.
I'm a regular user. My first experience with a computer was, I think, in mid '70 with a Casio laptop that wasn't much more than a fancy calculator that my dad borrowed to see if I'd be any good with tech (I was 8 or 9 years old). In junior high school I played with the display model of a TSR-80 at Radio Shack, which was fun but pointless since I didn't want to slog thru programming (seemed far too tedious for me at the time), and in high school I tinkered from time to time on Apple's in the school's lab (tho really liked when I got access to the districts mainframe machine with it's platten disks, orange terminal displays, and stuff - kicked out quick for being able to figure out how to list everybody's locker combination). From there I got a Commodore 64 to write papers for college after having experienced a friend's HP word processor thingy (forget what it was, small screen and two 5.25" floppy drives, boxed up like a suitcase, LPR to a dot matrix printer), so maybe that was my first "personal computer" that wasn't for exceptional or computer-centric use. Then there was the itty-bitty Macintosh, which were new to the market now, the school's recording studio had controlling all the MIDI gear, and after all that I tried using Windows 3.1 to start my own graphic arts business while at the same time used an Amiga with Video Toaster at a wedding vidographer's attempt at being a production company.
All in all, no - neither MS-DOS or Windows of any version were my first computer experience. I feel lucky, to be honest, since had it been I might not have known that there are better systems for different applications than a "one tool for all" approach that is espoused by Windows.
One of the best "diet systems" I heard about was, essentially, "Look into what your ancestors were eating 400 years ago, because that's what your body has evolved from and is best suited to convert into energy and nutrients." Made a lot of sense - so in the comparison to Japan I think that it would not be healthy for me to eat more fish and rice, since my ancestors ate more boiled meat and potatoes.
Take a while for the production of meat to be reduced to match the reduction in consumption, especially if it's cheaper to reprocess it back into cannibal cow food if humans don't buy it first.
Yeah, in the Bay Area I see the results that began with Severson Co in So Cal where I grew up and got a friend his first job building the control systems for the first wind farms near Palm Springs. Within 20 years the farms have found their way into great places for supplementing power grids where before there was only windy valleys and freeways, and very little NIMBY complaints or depletions of bird and bat populations.
Of course, I'm always reluctant to offer the real point of view of a typical Californian, since it's usually assumed that I've hugged trees more than people and raise pet buffalo instead of eating them.
Among the comments and concepts here, I find that precept to be the most damaging to education. Sports is clearly a competition and is given a higher (some would say artificial) value than, say, philosophy or fine art - both in the school and in society. In my own experience, I achieved greater understanding and had more inspiration (even in non-art venues like ditch digging) when I wasn't gunning for a prize, however all schooling and essentially all of society seems to be motivating people to greatness with the carrot on a stick or be punished by losing method.
With whom was Einstein competing? How about the Curries, or Franklin? Maybe a "competition" sense can be assigned to people like Luther or Gutenberg, but I'm still dubious that beating out the Catholics or the Monks was really their motivation for invention and making advances in their fields. Why is it only that commercial values are judged as valuable?
The knowledge is what we need to hold dear, not the artifacts created in search of that knowledge. It's nice in a saccharine sort of way to have tangible evidence of where someone stood, but the real treasure is what that person did. If we sanctify the artifacts we tend to lose sight of the knowledge.
You have simply thrilled me with that insight, thank you; and I hope that other religious, political, and every manner of leader and follower lets it sink in before spouting off some kind of drivel about essentially nothing more than either geography or architecture.
to be fair, I'm not convinced that 'day jobs' will let reporters REALLY do research.
problem is, almost no local paper does research anymore and its only the 'biggies' that can afford it. the biggies are also the ones we cannot trust as they are too much in bed with the subject they are trying to do research on! its a big mess.
smaller independants are more trustable but their budgets are down to near zero now. so where do we get IN DEPTH stories from?
answer: we don't. the gov will soon control the data flow and news flow (in our lifetimes, we'll see this).
we are witnessing a change in info flow but its not all good, folks.
It's called the Ministry of Truth. Everyone else merely feeds off of the "real" IN DEPTH and BREAKING NEWS that's RESEARCHED PROPERLY
I served on the board of directors for a 401c3 corporation, which was our tax-exempt status for being not-for-profit, and got the rights of religious organizations. Religions don't get special treatment in the US, charities do.
bah. Buckaroo Banzai only needs 8 dimensions to finish brain surgery, rock the house with a trumpet solo, rescue the girl, lead a youth group into battle with a band of misfits, complete groundbreaking experiments, test pilot the vehicle for that very technological breakthrough, piss off the other scientist that went crazy trying to repeat that experiment the first time, establish diplomatic relations with one alien race, and save the world from another.
In comparison, Chuck is an amateur who can only beat things up.
Isn't "hate crime" really "thought crime" in all sense of the words? I don't want to cry wolf, just that if we're going to discuss legislation let's call it for what it is rather than turn it into something that only sounds palatable so it'll pass the court of public opinion.
The way I always describe why PDF is preferred over any other format for layouts is, "It's not a 'save as' format, it's a 'print as' format," and if they don't gloss over at that I continue with the difference between rendering a page on the screen to see it's size that isn't a paper size, or print to this printer which has different margins than that printer so what margins does the "file" have, and how PDF ignores all that because it's already been printed correctly and to it's own format for a page.
The plane comes in and just past my building does a hard bank that no normal 747 on regular business would ever do and from my vantage point appears momentarily to be making a bee line for the tallest building in NJ, 30 Hudson St which is owned by Goldman Sachs, an iconic investment bank that has taken TARP money and a highly likely target...
I see Obama's urging that the financial institutions clean up their act or else is now clear.
So, you have left handed gloves and right handed gloves, and you can't transform one into the other without doing something like flipping it through a fourth spatial dimension (strangely, flipping it through the time dimension will result in an opposite handed glove traveling backwards in time that's made of antimatter) or turning it inside out.
When I go to McDonalds and the bill comes to $5.58 and I give the brain dead clerk $6.08 and she starts to cry because she can't figure out the change we have a seriously under educated populace.
i'm just getting sick and fucking tired of parents that want to shove all the problems onto someone else and when that someone else doesn't get it right they sue them.. i'm sorry but that someone else never agreed to raising your child..
It happened when the state started to demand that parents turn their kids over to their schools. You want to fix the problem? Look to the cause of the problem.
Quite the conundrum ya got there. So are the parents supposed to not turn them over to schools in order to to learn math, or is McDonalds supposed to because the schools aren't teaching math since parents are "forced" to turn their kids over to them and have more say about whether math or morality is taught?
So, if a kid spent the majority of his waking day playing games, gets exceptionally good at it, and was able to enter tournaments, win prize money, travel the world etc., would we then talk about his addiction, or would we be talking about his achievement?
Simple, and the answer is the same for every other achievement listed before it - the issue of addiction is not about how much you do a thing, it is about how doing a thing interferes with your healths.
Yes, that's an intentional "s" at the end of "health" because I'm not talking about a "good" or "bad" judgement, I'm talking about the normal functioning of a person's body, mind, relationships, and other aspects of life. Health means functioning normally, it does not mean a "good" function.
Yes, some people will think gaming (or business, or sports, or novelties) are a waste of time, waste of talent, or waste of space. So what? That's them being judgmental and they have to live with it. If an activity is not interfering with anybody's participation in life, it's not unhealthy. If it is, then it's unhealthy.
You use Al Capone as an example which is downright fucking *hilarious* since he was ultimately taken down by the IRS.
Yes, but that was *during* prohibition and the only slip of bad luck Al had. Was he the only one making tons of money from illegal alcohol sales and distribution? Did the rest of the alcohol lords and ladies get busted by the IRS or even an Untouchable who was truly untouchable that could get a conviction, or did they simply lose their huge profit margins and power once prohibition was lifted?
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Must suck for people who streets don't have cable or who aren't close enough to over-the-air broadcast for things like EBS, news, and other things they want to pay for just so you can precede their right to buy a service with your right to do math that destroys the service provider's ability to sell to them. But I guess preserving the right to allow piracy with the excuse of "just doing math" is paramount. FOR FUCKS SAKE how the hell can you twist this around into a rights issue? I want to buy a service, and delivering the content which advertising pays are costs that are in addition to delivering the service. You call that a privilege, fine, but it's just as much a privilege as paying for delivery of boxes of goods instead of driving to the manufacture to get them into my house. You're saying DishTV doesn't have the right to deliver content because you have the right to monkey with their equipment?!?!?
Agreed.
Then what could be a stronger business model that delivers information (television signal, both satellite and non-satellite) into homes in a manner that is cheaper than competitors which doesn't involve encryption so that people cannot receive their service for free and offer their service to consumers as a competitor just as (or only a little more than) free?
I'm think'n the chip inside the receiver needs to be covered in epoxy, like the Nintendo game cubes used to to. You're not breaking the law trying to decrypt the chip, but you are breaking the chip - which simply prevents people from stealing the service and making it extremely difficult to decrypt the signal by any other means (which is the whole point of selling the receiver with encryption in the first place). What's your idea? Other than to let all delivery of TV signals slip into an unsustainable business model of "free for all" ideology, of course.
Ya, early G3s: but it's good for in-house web pages that I control for sharing access to data and low-level processes (one of the Macs runs FileMaker's Web Publishing, which does enough for my needs w/o javascript or flash or anything client-side) for serving up info on graphic art with thumbnails since their machines can't deal with EPS and TIF or even very large JPGs without freaking out.
I won't be able to use IT's web pages - but that's okay, they don't do it that way (proprietary system interfacing with databases and uploading Excel files via FTP - I know, I know, but that's what they do despite my offers of a better way).
I've got three MacOS 8.6 that are the main production line for our company. Nice to know I still can use a web browser on those machines for solutions made to be used by all other computers (WinME, WinXP, MacOS X, etc..) since IE 5 crapped out a long time ago and nothing else would run half as well as it on the old Macs.
That only tells me you have no imagination and is about your sex life, not mine.
I see that many have replied that is not the case, and I assume that you are directing this question at regular users more than computer enthusiasts who by nature will have a much wider experience with different types of computers.
I'm a regular user. My first experience with a computer was, I think, in mid '70 with a Casio laptop that wasn't much more than a fancy calculator that my dad borrowed to see if I'd be any good with tech (I was 8 or 9 years old). In junior high school I played with the display model of a TSR-80 at Radio Shack, which was fun but pointless since I didn't want to slog thru programming (seemed far too tedious for me at the time), and in high school I tinkered from time to time on Apple's in the school's lab (tho really liked when I got access to the districts mainframe machine with it's platten disks, orange terminal displays, and stuff - kicked out quick for being able to figure out how to list everybody's locker combination). From there I got a Commodore 64 to write papers for college after having experienced a friend's HP word processor thingy (forget what it was, small screen and two 5.25" floppy drives, boxed up like a suitcase, LPR to a dot matrix printer), so maybe that was my first "personal computer" that wasn't for exceptional or computer-centric use. Then there was the itty-bitty Macintosh, which were new to the market now, the school's recording studio had controlling all the MIDI gear, and after all that I tried using Windows 3.1 to start my own graphic arts business while at the same time used an Amiga with Video Toaster at a wedding vidographer's attempt at being a production company.
All in all, no - neither MS-DOS or Windows of any version were my first computer experience. I feel lucky, to be honest, since had it been I might not have known that there are better systems for different applications than a "one tool for all" approach that is espoused by Windows.
>Have a look at Roman history, where blood sport was very popular. And that made the Romans so peaceful outside of the arena?
One of the best "diet systems" I heard about was, essentially, "Look into what your ancestors were eating 400 years ago, because that's what your body has evolved from and is best suited to convert into energy and nutrients." Made a lot of sense - so in the comparison to Japan I think that it would not be healthy for me to eat more fish and rice, since my ancestors ate more boiled meat and potatoes.
Take a while for the production of meat to be reduced to match the reduction in consumption, especially if it's cheaper to reprocess it back into cannibal cow food if humans don't buy it first.
Yeah, in the Bay Area I see the results that began with Severson Co in So Cal where I grew up and got a friend his first job building the control systems for the first wind farms near Palm Springs. Within 20 years the farms have found their way into great places for supplementing power grids where before there was only windy valleys and freeways, and very little NIMBY complaints or depletions of bird and bat populations. Of course, I'm always reluctant to offer the real point of view of a typical Californian, since it's usually assumed that I've hugged trees more than people and raise pet buffalo instead of eating them.
I think that there is not meaning to life as you say, that there is only beauty and pain; to which people ascribe meaning, like love and war.
It's all about competition
Among the comments and concepts here, I find that precept to be the most damaging to education. Sports is clearly a competition and is given a higher (some would say artificial) value than, say, philosophy or fine art - both in the school and in society. In my own experience, I achieved greater understanding and had more inspiration (even in non-art venues like ditch digging) when I wasn't gunning for a prize, however all schooling and essentially all of society seems to be motivating people to greatness with the carrot on a stick or be punished by losing method. With whom was Einstein competing? How about the Curries, or Franklin? Maybe a "competition" sense can be assigned to people like Luther or Gutenberg, but I'm still dubious that beating out the Catholics or the Monks was really their motivation for invention and making advances in their fields. Why is it only that commercial values are judged as valuable?
The knowledge is what we need to hold dear, not the artifacts created in search of that knowledge. It's nice in a saccharine sort of way to have tangible evidence of where someone stood, but the real treasure is what that person did. If we sanctify the artifacts we tend to lose sight of the knowledge.
You have simply thrilled me with that insight, thank you; and I hope that other religious, political, and every manner of leader and follower lets it sink in before spouting off some kind of drivel about essentially nothing more than either geography or architecture.
to be fair, I'm not convinced that 'day jobs' will let reporters REALLY do research.
problem is, almost no local paper does research anymore and its only the 'biggies' that can afford it. the biggies are also the ones we cannot trust as they are too much in bed with the subject they are trying to do research on! its a big mess.
smaller independants are more trustable but their budgets are down to near zero now. so where do we get IN DEPTH stories from?
answer: we don't. the gov will soon control the data flow and news flow (in our lifetimes, we'll see this).
we are witnessing a change in info flow but its not all good, folks.
It's called the Ministry of Truth. Everyone else merely feeds off of the "real" IN DEPTH and BREAKING NEWS that's RESEARCHED PROPERLY
I served on the board of directors for a 401c3 corporation, which was our tax-exempt status for being not-for-profit, and got the rights of religious organizations. Religions don't get special treatment in the US, charities do.
bah. Buckaroo Banzai only needs 8 dimensions to finish brain surgery, rock the house with a trumpet solo, rescue the girl, lead a youth group into battle with a band of misfits, complete groundbreaking experiments, test pilot the vehicle for that very technological breakthrough, piss off the other scientist that went crazy trying to repeat that experiment the first time, establish diplomatic relations with one alien race, and save the world from another. In comparison, Chuck is an amateur who can only beat things up.
Isn't "hate crime" really "thought crime" in all sense of the words? I don't want to cry wolf, just that if we're going to discuss legislation let's call it for what it is rather than turn it into something that only sounds palatable so it'll pass the court of public opinion.
The way I always describe why PDF is preferred over any other format for layouts is, "It's not a 'save as' format, it's a 'print as' format," and if they don't gloss over at that I continue with the difference between rendering a page on the screen to see it's size that isn't a paper size, or print to this printer which has different margins than that printer so what margins does the "file" have, and how PDF ignores all that because it's already been printed correctly and to it's own format for a page.
The plane comes in and just past my building does a hard bank that no normal 747 on regular business would ever do and from my vantage point appears momentarily to be making a bee line for the tallest building in NJ, 30 Hudson St which is owned by Goldman Sachs, an iconic investment bank that has taken TARP money and a highly likely target...
I see Obama's urging that the financial institutions clean up their act or else is now clear.
Or some oracles and shamans decidedly using this technique slightly before the 1960's....
So, you have left handed gloves and right handed gloves, and you can't transform one into the other without doing something like flipping it through a fourth spatial dimension (strangely, flipping it through the time dimension will result in an opposite handed glove traveling backwards in time that's made of antimatter) or turning it inside out.
my brain just s'ploded...
When I go to McDonalds and the bill comes to $5.58 and I give the brain dead clerk $6.08 and she starts to cry because she can't figure out the change we have a seriously under educated populace.
It happened when the state started to demand that parents turn their kids over to their schools. You want to fix the problem? Look to the cause of the problem.
Quite the conundrum ya got there. So are the parents supposed to not turn them over to schools in order to to learn math, or is McDonalds supposed to because the schools aren't teaching math since parents are "forced" to turn their kids over to them and have more say about whether math or morality is taught?
So, if a kid spent the majority of his waking day playing games, gets exceptionally good at it, and was able to enter tournaments, win prize money, travel the world etc., would we then talk about his addiction, or would we be talking about his achievement?
Simple, and the answer is the same for every other achievement listed before it - the issue of addiction is not about how much you do a thing, it is about how doing a thing interferes with your healths.
Yes, that's an intentional "s" at the end of "health" because I'm not talking about a "good" or "bad" judgement, I'm talking about the normal functioning of a person's body, mind, relationships, and other aspects of life. Health means functioning normally, it does not mean a "good" function.
Yes, some people will think gaming (or business, or sports, or novelties) are a waste of time, waste of talent, or waste of space. So what? That's them being judgmental and they have to live with it. If an activity is not interfering with anybody's participation in life, it's not unhealthy. If it is, then it's unhealthy.
You use Al Capone as an example which is downright fucking *hilarious* since he was ultimately taken down by the IRS.
Yes, but that was *during* prohibition and the only slip of bad luck Al had. Was he the only one making tons of money from illegal alcohol sales and distribution? Did the rest of the alcohol lords and ladies get busted by the IRS or even an Untouchable who was truly untouchable that could get a conviction, or did they simply lose their huge profit margins and power once prohibition was lifted?
Lazziez faire doesn't work in reality.
Oh, for christ's sake...
Companies want to profit and destroy the competition and lock in their customers.
What do you think these eeevil companies use to attack their competition? Hint: it starts with a "g", and ends with "overnment".
-jcr
Are you saying that a truly free market can only exists when it is an unregulated market?