Are you insinuating that the "little people" in the record business don't get paid their fare share?
well, if we're keeping track of who's doing the insinuating, add me to the list.
steve albini's the problem with music is a well-documented accounting of how bands on major labels get hooped by clawback clauses. read it. no, really.
I would pay for the mp3s I had if I wasn't required to have an iPod.
where to start....
you can play mp3s on all sorts of stuff. there's a big list of 'em right here... i stopped counting after 40.
there are tonnes of sites that offer pay-for music downloads either via subscription or per-track. some use wma, some use aac, some even use... mp3s
if you buy music off itms you'll get an aac file. it does have some drm in it, yes, but that drm allows unlimited burning to cd. so, you can easily use a discman - or convert the aac to mp3 and use some other player.
Israel's standing fast and adopting the full open source solution will make it easier for other countries and companies to find an excuse to stand fast
more importantly, this may help make inroads against the "ibm mindset"... you know, "nobody ever got fired for buying ibm".
in the corporate culture there is a natural trend towards conservatism in business choices. if you go with the underdog and things go poorly, your decision becomes the focus of blame. if you go with the established, popular choice and things fail, the blame is more likely to go somewhere else.
overcoming this mindset is crucial for oss to get adopted with the big purchasers. if enough large, conservative organizations (and the isreali gov't is pretty conservative and large) adopt Oo, this mindset might actually work in their favour
They do the police's work and the police can worry about real crime, then.
oh there's a smashing idea! private citizens' initiatives at law enforcement always turn out to be fair and equatible treatments of not only the letter but the spirit of the law.
i'm tempted to recall a scene in italo calvino's "if on a winter's night a traveller..." (a classic of po-mo lit):
in said scene, a literary critic develops a program to count the frequency of words in a given book (ignoring prepositions, pronouns and the like) and then display the 20 most and least frequent words.
the theory is that the core concept of the book can be gleaned by simply reading these lists.
now i have tried this myself and can say, while it does not work to the level stated by calvino, it does certainly give you a feel for the book. different genres have noticable word distributions especially. it's easy to identify, say, a western or sci-fi or romance novel from these lists.
Frequency, vibration, oscillation, revolution, sense, and being are all derived from this flux
you sound like deepak chopra...
Balance will be achieved. It is the way of things.
really? what makes you think that? there have been several cataclysmic ice ages that wiped out entire ecosystems. planet-wide waves of extinction have occurred before (the K-T is only one of them). large chunks of some ecosystems have been entirely borked by foreign species introduction (the cane toad leaps to mind).
human beings have the power to completely decimate popualations of animals and level entire ecosystems and we use it. environments that took millions of years to evolve can be turned into a walmart parking lot in a week. of all the mammal species in the world nearly a quarter are threatened, endangered or critically endangered (i have a source). did the "flux of nature" just decide to drive all these animals to the brink of extinction? or was it the continued destruction of habitat by human activity that did this? probably the latter.
oh yeah, "balance" and "flux" are kinda contradictory concepts too.
you know that staking out the high end for apple has to be in the agreement somewhere.
apple learned this lesson the hard way six or seven years ago with the whole "macsimilie" fiasco. basically, apple licensed the spec and the os and the firmware to make mac clones to a bunch of companies to try and reposition themselves as a software company (rather than a hardware company, which they are and always will be)
the result was that companies like powercomputing and umax gunned for the fat-margin at the top end and beat apple at their own game. apple nearly went bankrupt, yanked the deal with os 8, changed ceo's and had to kow tow to msft for a $150mil in emergency cash to avoid the chapter-11 reaper.
steve knows this history well (since he was the replacement ceo). he won't let it happen again, believe me.
er. yeah. um. i thought it was strange that you had one of those little green "cool people" dots beside your name... but, hey, flying off the handle is a bit of a trademark for me.
Steve Jobs said my current computer tower is a supercomputer!
sigh. when the g4 was introduced, the united states defined "supercomputers" or "high performance computers" for the purpose of export as any machine that could do 2000 MTOPS (million theoretical operations per second).
any machine that met this definition was under strict export control to "tier 3" countries (n. korea, iran, pretty much all of s. america &c.). hence the "supercomputer" appellation from jobs & co.
now the export control for computers has been raised to 6500 MTOPS - so iranians can merrily get their g5's.
Actually, I suspect that most men who drink 6 cups of coffee a day are younger men
i would like to think that fancy schmancy scientist-type guys have a better understanding of correlational vs. causal than that!
remember high school stats when the instructor would draw that graph of drowning deaths vs. ice cream sales of the course of a year and they looked the same? we don't see stickers on klondike bars saying "warning: ice cream may increase risk of drowning" so somebody in the stratosphere of government must know the difference.
currently we are in a position where the big distros are fighting it out for a bigger chunk of the existing linux market pie at the expense of other distros. a better tactic might be to go after the 90 % (or whatever) of the market that is using windows[1] by presenting a united front (or at least the semblance thereof)
let's grow the pie instead of fighting over the crumbs.
notes: 1. except for, oddly enough, sun - who seem to be doing a great job of carving out chunks of redmond's turf for jds.
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1. well, it has been the holidays and
2. if you want your sco stories to be delivered on time, ibm will have to hand over some code from aix first.
espescially when you consider that the size will make this a "portable" drive. the jostle-n-drop action can wear drives already... very bad.
my suggestion: stop using that dvorak keyboard.
well, if we're keeping track of who's doing the insinuating, add me to the list.
steve albini's the problem with music is a well-documented accounting of how bands on major labels get hooped by clawback clauses. read it. no, really.
with a titanium knife! of course...
where to start....
er. are you implying that people choose red hat because of gnome and that red hat owns the gnome market? i think not!
red hat has had a lot of success because they:
- were first to market as a stable, all-purpose, free distro (slackware? well, okay. but most folks in management regarded slack as a "hobby" os)
- were first with an easy installer
- offered free iso's to plunder the "cheapskate" market
and it worked well for them. however, now:- there's all sorts of competition in this arena
- easy installers are the norm now (except for gentoo and, of course, slack)
- iso's aren't free anymore unless you want fedora... and lots of people running small servers most definitely don't
so, if anyone is going to be going out of business... it'd be red hat.yes, but....
here's one to start with:
microsoft (msft) of redmond washington: you suck!
now, go log that.
er... the frying pan.
more importantly, this may help make inroads against the "ibm mindset"... you know, "nobody ever got fired for buying ibm".
in the corporate culture there is a natural trend towards conservatism in business choices. if you go with the underdog and things go poorly, your decision becomes the focus of blame. if you go with the established, popular choice and things fail, the blame is more likely to go somewhere else.
overcoming this mindset is crucial for oss to get adopted with the big purchasers. if enough large, conservative organizations (and the isreali gov't is pretty conservative and large) adopt Oo, this mindset might actually work in their favour
oh there's a smashing idea! private citizens' initiatives at law enforcement always turn out to be fair and equatible treatments of not only the letter but the spirit of the law.
in said scene, a literary critic develops a program to count the frequency of words in a given book (ignoring prepositions, pronouns and the like) and then display the 20 most and least frequent words. the theory is that the core concept of the book can be gleaned by simply reading these lists.
now i have tried this myself and can say, while it does not work to the level stated by calvino, it does certainly give you a feel for the book. different genres have noticable word distributions especially. it's easy to identify, say, a western or sci-fi or romance novel from these lists.
nasa has a plan for a lander on europa complete with a sub-ice probe that's been sitting on the backburner for years.
if dubya is going to spend money on the space program that's a worthwhile project!
you sound like deepak chopra...
Balance will be achieved. It is the way of things.
really? what makes you think that? there have been several cataclysmic ice ages that wiped out entire ecosystems. planet-wide waves of extinction have occurred before (the K-T is only one of them). large chunks of some ecosystems have been entirely borked by foreign species introduction (the cane toad leaps to mind).
human beings have the power to completely decimate popualations of animals and level entire ecosystems and we use it. environments that took millions of years to evolve can be turned into a walmart parking lot in a week. of all the mammal species in the world nearly a quarter are threatened, endangered or critically endangered (i have a source). did the "flux of nature" just decide to drive all these animals to the brink of extinction? or was it the continued destruction of habitat by human activity that did this? probably the latter.
oh yeah, "balance" and "flux" are kinda contradictory concepts too.
you know that staking out the high end for apple has to be in the agreement somewhere.
apple learned this lesson the hard way six or seven years ago with the whole "macsimilie" fiasco. basically, apple licensed the spec and the os and the firmware to make mac clones to a bunch of companies to try and reposition themselves as a software company (rather than a hardware company, which they are and always will be)
the result was that companies like powercomputing and umax gunned for the fat-margin at the top end and beat apple at their own game. apple nearly went bankrupt, yanked the deal with os 8, changed ceo's and had to kow tow to msft for a $150mil in emergency cash to avoid the chapter-11 reaper.
steve knows this history well (since he was the replacement ceo). he won't let it happen again, believe me.
i think you meant to say "does it run os/2?"
dare to compare this screenshot of the panther selector to the gtk+ one.
very similar - with the exception that the mac seperates devices and directories with a horizontal line. probably a good idea.
er. yeah. um. i thought it was strange that you had one of those little green "cool people" dots beside your name... but, hey, flying off the handle is a bit of a trademark for me.
sigh. when the g4 was introduced, the united states defined "supercomputers" or "high performance computers" for the purpose of export as any machine that could do 2000 MTOPS (million theoretical operations per second).
any machine that met this definition was under strict export control to "tier 3" countries (n. korea, iran, pretty much all of s. america &c.). hence the "supercomputer" appellation from jobs & co.
now the export control for computers has been raised to 6500 MTOPS - so iranians can merrily get their g5's.
thanks for the link... i read "rod serling" at first. although i was impressed that someone managed to score an interview with a dead guy.
i would like to think that fancy schmancy scientist-type guys have a better understanding of correlational vs. causal than that!
remember high school stats when the instructor would draw that graph of drowning deaths vs. ice cream sales of the course of a year and they looked the same? we don't see stickers on klondike bars saying "warning: ice cream may increase risk of drowning" so somebody in the stratosphere of government must know the difference.
i disagree.
currently we are in a position where the big distros are fighting it out for a bigger chunk of the existing linux market pie at the expense of other distros. a better tactic might be to go after the 90 % (or whatever) of the market that is using windows[1] by presenting a united front (or at least the semblance thereof)
let's grow the pie instead of fighting over the crumbs.
notes: 1. except for, oddly enough, sun - who seem to be doing a great job of carving out chunks of redmond's turf for jds.
more like "biased blog".
mod parent up... sure it's not "patriotically correct", but they're good points!