So as it stands, Microsoft has to play by different rules. The comparisons are not fair.
That's right. Apple's simply better at it. They disguised their monopoly, and profited off it longer. Why do you think Apple's always pushed its elitist standard? To make it seem more niche, to avoid exactly what happened to Microsoft. There is absolutely no legitimate reason to lock an iPod or iPhone or iAnything to only use iTunes, except to promote hegemony. Sure, they could *optimize* their stuff to work best with their software. That's how it should be. But if I want to use Windows Media Player, or VLC, then I should be able to.
So, you can call me a Microsoft apologist, and I can call you Jobs' personal fluffer, but in the end, I just want companies playing by the same rules, and you'll still be a cocksucker.
So... Which Earth is this? 2? 3? 75? Pick any 4 Will Smith movies and he'll be passable *at best* in 2 of them, and playing a wise-cracking jackass in 3 of them. And if you really want to destroy your opinion of Will Smith, watch Shark Tale.
Actually, he was pretty good in both The Lake House and Sweet November. Believe it or not, the guy actually *can* act. Why he doesn't try it more often, I don't know.
Emotionally uninvolved? Sure. Whiny bitch? No. Go back and watch the scenes where he bitches about not being on the council, not getting respect, being held back. The ideal way to play it would have been less whiny, more seething rage. What kills me is I've seen Hayden in other roles, and he can sort of act.
Also, personally, I thought that Keanu in Johnny Mnemonic was okay. It wasn't exactly a high budget film, and his acting was way beyond anyone else in the movie. Except maybe Jones.
I don't think I repeated the summary. I said that it wouldn't be as ideal as a pure tablet-designed OS, but WebOS isn't that either, it's a smartphone OS, just like the iPhone OS.
This, however:
Microsoft is the type that's always going to throw a stylus and a full keyboard into the mix "just in case",
is something I didn't consider. On-screen keyboards still aren't that great, though I prefer stylus-use over fingers (I push at odd angles, so the "target" usually interprets my finger as just to the left or right of where it actually is). But a reliance on the part of program developers on keyboards and mouse-type input would severely hamper the experience since it's supposed to be a mobile platform. Point taken to heart.
I could have sworn I heard in the run up to release that there were tablet features built-in to Win7. Pare down the install footprint by ripping out unneeded drivers, and then you've got a full OS on a tablet. Sure, it's probably not as good as an OS designed specifically for a tablet, but you'd still be able to connect whatever peripherals you had ports for, and install whatever you wanted.
Or is the tablet mode just not that useful for touch/stylus computing?
Please never submit a manuscript to a publisher then. The poor sod in charge of cleaning up your manuscript will want to fucking murder you for using spaces instead of tabs. I know from personal experience: I've been the poor sod needing to clean it up.
I dunno. If you're getting only 1000 copies of something, especially if it's only 1 page, you're going to be set in to whatever slot they have available between the real jobs, so you might be waiting a few days to get your stuff, and in some cases, needing to drop off the file, wait, then pick up the finished product more than eats up any savings in cost due to hassle, especially since the real price breaks only come at multiple thousands.
Then again, that might just be for the print shops I'm used to dealing with, where it'd take longer to set up the press than it would to run a 1,000 page job, since they can do 10,000 pages an hour.
I got news for you: They DO sell them with half-full cartridges, the so-called "starter cartridge." And if you buy the printers on sale, it's STILL CHEAPER than buying all-new colour cartridges 95% of the time. You can literally get a new printer for under $40 on Amazon.com.
if you run off to canada and spout off to a canadian about supposed canadian superiority about this or that issue, the canadian isn't going to look at you admiringly and embrace and welcome you as some sort of secret brother in arms. no, they're going to go "well that's great that you say that. so why don't you not freeload off me here, and go back home and fight for that superior understanding you share with me, so we have a nicer neighbor to our south, okay?"
Speaking as a Canadian, I feel fairly well equipped to speak to this scenario. The response, would in fact go as follows:
"You're an American, eh? Living here now? Immigrating and everything? Welcome to Canada. If I were you, I'd busy myself learning the differences. Fewer guns, trust the government, hate Ontario. Unless you're in Ontario. Then hate Toronto. Unless you're in Toronto, then pretend you're all of Canada. Also, make sure you get excited any time something Canadian is mentioned in some foreign piece of media. Thus concludes your orientation course, enjoy living here."
It can take decades of time and millions upon millions to spit out one thing useful. Patents give return on investment.
There has to be another way, though. There's practically never only one way to do something, especially in the marketplace and legal arena. Hell, there might even be something more pragmatic.
I'm hoping that's a joke I'm not getting. No evil corporation is after brains. The brains aren't going anywhere, that's the problem. The evil corp wants the brains to go to waste.
Admittedly though, that's a really poorly constructed sentence. It's equating people donating brains to being stem cell cultures.
Patents are creating more problems than they're solving, lately. They were supposed to be a way to ensure that someone was able to make a living through creating innovations, now they're a way to stifle innovation and drive up a company's share value.
I think the system can be fixed, but I'm no genius, so I've only got a vague, probably loop-hole-ridden idea on how that could be done. 1. Patents apply to specific implementations of physical products. No processes, nothing naturally occurring (genes, etc). 2. If you're a non-profit entity engaging in research, you are exempt from patents. The patent-holder is under no obligation to help you, but you can't be sued for using something patented in your research (well, since you can't patent processes any more, it's not as big a thing, but still). Under that, it also means you wouldn't be able to charge for the results if they were dependent on patented technology unless you came to some form of agreement with the patent holder.
This should make it possible for a profit to be made on actual patent-worthy items, while not hindering important research. And yeah, if you're a for-profit research entity, just pony up for a licence to use the patented tech.
Though it might be easiest just to ditch the whole system and let people make their money off it by selling it to the highest bidder, and the second-highest bidder, etc.
English treats this strangely. Either could technically be correct, since it depends on whether you're talking about the data as a single unit, or as a collection of individual datums. If you're talking about it acting as a single group, then you use the singular "is". If you're talking about it as a group of individuals, then the plural "are". Basically, if you were talking about several different groups of data being stored safely, say, your photos, your company's financial records, and your insurance, that could be a case for "the data are stored safely," especially since they'd likely be stored separately, in different fashions.
A guideline that will serve well (but not perfectly) would be "many" for countable things, "much" for more ineffable concepts. You have many rocks, many people, many grains of sand, but much stress, much water, or much evidence, since you can count individual rocks, people, and grains of sand, but you can't count stress, water, or evidence (though you can count *pieces* of evidence, thus why this rule isn't perfect. In "pieces of evidence," you're talking about "pieces," and "of evidence" is modifying that, so you're using "many" to talk about "pieces.") I hope that helps somewhat.
Also you are definitely not the sole or ultimate judge of artistic value and monetary worth.
No, but I am the arbiter of where my discretionary spending goes, and if I know in advance that something is going to be a trainwreck of a travesty, since the entire point of paying for something is that you find it of *redeeming* value, paying for something bad is contra to that very notion. If someone set out to make something bad (and those do exist), and I want to see it, I'll pay, but Uwe Boll and his ilk aren't failing on purpose, and they absolutely should not receive a dime of anyone's money for their efforts.
Dumbass. If the problem is people aren't upgrading their machines for one reason or another, why the fuck would designing a new standard that would require them to upgrade their machines make any fucking sense?
I'd ask when slashdot became overrun with morons, but I know they've always been around.
No. However, since I don't have an extensive background in disk management and Linux, how the fuck would I even know that I had the correct LVM? There was literally no information in there to tell me I wasn't looking for an alternative to BIOS and EFI.
Way to misinterpret what I wrote. I was actually being legitimate at that part. If you parse that correctly, it says he has no reason to comply, dumbass.
I think we're coming close to the limits now. I've heard that there's already interference in the data tracks from the other nearby tracks' magnetic fields, and to make it much smaller will need some advances in error checking/correction.
Yes, let's design and manipulate an entire standard in order to work around a problem based entirely on the fact that people won't upgrade. And then you just need them to buy this and upgrade their compu...
Seriously? If you've got a 3TB drive, are you seriously suggesting a person be counting wasted bytes? You lose more space than what you're suggesting just in the conversion from "vendor measurement" to "OS measurement" of space on the disk.
I don't understand. Why would it be tantamount? You still *need* a deal in place. You can't simply say to a copyright holder "I'm using your shit, here's your cut." Thus, unlicensed fan works would still be, well, unlicensed.
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So as it stands, Microsoft has to play by different rules. The comparisons are not fair.
That's right. Apple's simply better at it. They disguised their monopoly, and profited off it longer. Why do you think Apple's always pushed its elitist standard? To make it seem more niche, to avoid exactly what happened to Microsoft. There is absolutely no legitimate reason to lock an iPod or iPhone or iAnything to only use iTunes, except to promote hegemony. Sure, they could *optimize* their stuff to work best with their software. That's how it should be. But if I want to use Windows Media Player, or VLC, then I should be able to.
So, you can call me a Microsoft apologist, and I can call you Jobs' personal fluffer, but in the end, I just want companies playing by the same rules, and you'll still be a cocksucker.
Will Smith isn't a bad actor?
So... Which Earth is this? 2? 3? 75? Pick any 4 Will Smith movies and he'll be passable *at best* in 2 of them, and playing a wise-cracking jackass in 3 of them. And if you really want to destroy your opinion of Will Smith, watch Shark Tale.
Actually, he was pretty good in both The Lake House and Sweet November. Believe it or not, the guy actually *can* act. Why he doesn't try it more often, I don't know.
Emotionally uninvolved? Sure. Whiny bitch? No. Go back and watch the scenes where he bitches about not being on the council, not getting respect, being held back. The ideal way to play it would have been less whiny, more seething rage. What kills me is I've seen Hayden in other roles, and he can sort of act.
Also, personally, I thought that Keanu in Johnny Mnemonic was okay. It wasn't exactly a high budget film, and his acting was way beyond anyone else in the movie. Except maybe Jones.
I don't think I repeated the summary. I said that it wouldn't be as ideal as a pure tablet-designed OS, but WebOS isn't that either, it's a smartphone OS, just like the iPhone OS.
This, however:
Microsoft is the type that's always going to throw a stylus and a full keyboard into the mix "just in case",
is something I didn't consider. On-screen keyboards still aren't that great, though I prefer stylus-use over fingers (I push at odd angles, so the "target" usually interprets my finger as just to the left or right of where it actually is). But a reliance on the part of program developers on keyboards and mouse-type input would severely hamper the experience since it's supposed to be a mobile platform. Point taken to heart.
I could have sworn I heard in the run up to release that there were tablet features built-in to Win7. Pare down the install footprint by ripping out unneeded drivers, and then you've got a full OS on a tablet. Sure, it's probably not as good as an OS designed specifically for a tablet, but you'd still be able to connect whatever peripherals you had ports for, and install whatever you wanted.
Or is the tablet mode just not that useful for
touch/stylus computing?
Please never submit a manuscript to a publisher then. The poor sod in charge of cleaning up your manuscript will want to fucking murder you for using spaces instead of tabs. I know from personal experience: I've been the poor sod needing to clean it up.
I dunno. If you're getting only 1000 copies of something, especially if it's only 1 page, you're going to be set in to whatever slot they have available between the real jobs, so you might be waiting a few days to get your stuff, and in some cases, needing to drop off the file, wait, then pick up the finished product more than eats up any savings in cost due to hassle, especially since the real price breaks only come at multiple thousands.
Then again, that might just be for the print shops I'm used to dealing with, where it'd take longer to set up the press than it would to run a 1,000 page job, since they can do 10,000 pages an hour.
I got news for you: They DO sell them with half-full cartridges, the so-called "starter cartridge." And if you buy the printers on sale, it's STILL CHEAPER than buying all-new colour cartridges 95% of the time. You can literally get a new printer for under $40 on Amazon.com.
WOOSH.
if you run off to canada and spout off to a canadian about supposed canadian superiority about this or that issue, the canadian isn't going to look at you admiringly and embrace and welcome you as some sort of secret brother in arms. no, they're going to go "well that's great that you say that. so why don't you not freeload off me here, and go back home and fight for that superior understanding you share with me, so we have a nicer neighbor to our south, okay?"
Speaking as a Canadian, I feel fairly well equipped to speak to this scenario. The response, would in fact go as follows:
"You're an American, eh? Living here now? Immigrating and everything? Welcome to Canada. If I were you, I'd busy myself learning the differences. Fewer guns, trust the government, hate Ontario. Unless you're in Ontario. Then hate Toronto. Unless you're in Toronto, then pretend you're all of Canada. Also, make sure you get excited any time something Canadian is mentioned in some foreign piece of media. Thus concludes your orientation course, enjoy living here."
It can take decades of time and millions upon millions to spit out one thing useful. Patents give return on investment.
There has to be another way, though. There's practically never only one way to do something, especially in the marketplace and legal arena. Hell, there might even be something more pragmatic.
I'm hoping that's a joke I'm not getting. No evil corporation is after brains. The brains aren't going anywhere, that's the problem. The evil corp wants the brains to go to waste.
Admittedly though, that's a really poorly constructed sentence. It's equating people donating brains to being stem cell cultures.
Patents are creating more problems than they're solving, lately. They were supposed to be a way to ensure that someone was able to make a living through creating innovations, now they're a way to stifle innovation and drive up a company's share value.
I think the system can be fixed, but I'm no genius, so I've only got a vague, probably loop-hole-ridden idea on how that could be done.
1. Patents apply to specific implementations of physical products. No processes, nothing naturally occurring (genes, etc).
2. If you're a non-profit entity engaging in research, you are exempt from patents. The patent-holder is under no obligation to help you, but you can't be sued for using something patented in your research (well, since you can't patent processes any more, it's not as big a thing, but still). Under that, it also means you wouldn't be able to charge for the results if they were dependent on patented technology unless you came to some form of agreement with the patent holder.
This should make it possible for a profit to be made on actual patent-worthy items, while not hindering important research. And yeah, if you're a for-profit research entity, just pony up for a licence to use the patented tech.
Though it might be easiest just to ditch the whole system and let people make their money off it by selling it to the highest bidder, and the second-highest bidder, etc.
English treats this strangely. Either could technically be correct, since it depends on whether you're talking about the data as a single unit, or as a collection of individual datums. If you're talking about it acting as a single group, then you use the singular "is". If you're talking about it as a group of individuals, then the plural "are". Basically, if you were talking about several different groups of data being stored safely, say, your photos, your company's financial records, and your insurance, that could be a case for "the data are stored safely," especially since they'd likely be stored separately, in different fashions.
A guideline that will serve well (but not perfectly) would be "many" for countable things, "much" for more ineffable concepts. You have many rocks, many people, many grains of sand, but much stress, much water, or much evidence, since you can count individual rocks, people, and grains of sand, but you can't count stress, water, or evidence (though you can count *pieces* of evidence, thus why this rule isn't perfect. In "pieces of evidence," you're talking about "pieces," and "of evidence" is modifying that, so you're using "many" to talk about "pieces.") I hope that helps somewhat.
Also you are definitely not the sole or ultimate judge of artistic value and monetary worth.
No, but I am the arbiter of where my discretionary spending goes, and if I know in advance that something is going to be a trainwreck of a travesty, since the entire point of paying for something is that you find it of *redeeming* value, paying for something bad is contra to that very notion. If someone set out to make something bad (and those do exist), and I want to see it, I'll pay, but Uwe Boll and his ilk aren't failing on purpose, and they absolutely should not receive a dime of anyone's money for their efforts.
Dumbass. If the problem is people aren't upgrading their machines for one reason or another, why the fuck would designing a new standard that would require them to upgrade their machines make any fucking sense?
I'd ask when slashdot became overrun with morons, but I know they've always been around.
No. However, since I don't have an extensive background in disk management and Linux, how the fuck would I even know that I had the correct LVM? There was literally no information in there to tell me I wasn't looking for an alternative to BIOS and EFI.
Way to misinterpret what I wrote. I was actually being legitimate at that part. If you parse that correctly, it says he has no reason to comply, dumbass.
I think we're coming close to the limits now. I've heard that there's already interference in the data tracks from the other nearby tracks' magnetic fields, and to make it much smaller will need some advances in error checking/correction.
Yes, let's design and manipulate an entire standard in order to work around a problem based entirely on the fact that people won't upgrade. And then you just need them to buy this and upgrade their compu...
waaaaaaaaaaaaaait a second.
I'm not familiar with LVM. Mind giving a quick "noob's guide on what you should know"?
Seriously? If you've got a 3TB drive, are you seriously suggesting a person be counting wasted bytes? You lose more space than what you're suggesting just in the conversion from "vendor measurement" to "OS measurement" of space on the disk.
I don't understand. Why would it be tantamount? You still *need* a deal in place. You can't simply say to a copyright holder "I'm using your shit, here's your cut." Thus, unlicensed fan works would still be, well, unlicensed.