Ah I suppose there are better places to put this but fuck it. Not like its going to make an ounce of a difference anyway.
First of all yes our gov is fucked. Governing systems, be they your guild/clan/local chapter of Whatever I Like club, are never perfect. Due to personal interests, ego, poor leadership, outside interests, and likely a number of other things I'm not listing here. However when we are talking about government at our federal level we have taken it to a whole new level of crazy with allowing money to be infused into the system in a scale that I don't know that has any equal unless you go back a few decades. (I hear that in the 1920's the plutocrats were crazy out of control, as they are now, but I don't know what mechanisms where in place. Still, nearly 100 years ago so lets keep focus on this age.)
Next huge failure is our media. Not too long ago news reporting was considered a break even, or even a loss leader for things like TV, profession. Journalism and all the integrity that went along with it. Then that changed when it was realized that money could be made off the "news cycle" and journalism, by in large, went right out the window. Most media now is classified as entertainment. That is right. It is not as much news as it is there to sell you ideas, stuff, or even your info.
As such our media LOVES the idea of calling things down the middle. That lets them have the "gladiator fights" that keeps the eyes glued to the TV sets, web pages, or glossy mags.
"This axe murderer things he should be able to kill 10 people without punishment! This person over here things that they should not be allowed to kill anyone. SOME people say that they should compromise. What do YOU think? Is 3 a fair number? Tune in at 11 and find out!"
In short yes gov is always fucked, ours currently is particularly fucked, but that does not mean calling it down the middle is always correct. There is a vested interest by those who make money off such things in pushing that idea. And by in large it works. People LOVE the idea of compromise.
So all that being said our current situation is NOT even. The extreme right, be it types like the Koch brothers and also the religious right, has taken over the GOP. They have 0 compunction about doing ANYTHING to get their way. Including using issues that normally never anything more than rubber stamps that both party's did to just move the day to day governance along.
They did so last year with the debt ceiling (a separate issue that is going to come up again very soon) causing the US to lose part of our best in the freaking world credit rating. They have used the filibuster at a rate that has never been seen. They seek to win at any costs and use the idea of compromise as leverage to let them kill 3 people all the fucking time.
And so yes, the Dem's have issues. They enabled this ultra-right wing GOP to think that if they just can kill 3 people and call it a day everyone will be happy. Hopefully they will grow a spine and say no this time.
Finally if you don't agree with this then you are either ignorant of the facts, been brainwashed by the media, or are one of the ultra-right GOP teabaggers. And I really don't give a shit what you have to say.
This has to be one of the most troll/cringe-worthy threads I've seen on/. in a while. The OP responding to everyone via AC and in rather hostile fashion for being told what they likely knew would be the answer to such a question. Assuming that said AC is even the OP...but no matter.
I was only able to make it about 1/2 though the posts before I had to say something that I'd not yet seen. That thing, whatever you get them, will be broken within a month. If not sooner.
I don't care how awesome you think your spawn is, and if you don't know that you are biased then you have even bigger problems, they are 4...years...old! Think about all the ways adults break such devices all the damn time. Go and read some stories from people who work in cell phone shops about adults who try and claim all sorts of crazy shit about how their broke device, that they clearly broke/dropped in water/whatever, was "not their fault."
Yeah. I get that if even half of what the AC who claims to be the OP is true that they are in a tough spot, pissed as hell about it, and looking for some sort of solution. This is not the solution. If for my point alone, never mind all the other good issues raised in this thread.
Modern "punch" systems do no such mechanical punching and work well across any areas that have nominal services that you would expect in any place that would have something as advanced an a subway.
You have a keycard (Or whatever system you want: RIFD or NFC for example.) that you swipe and then that "punch in/out" is sent to then the system that keeps track of the "punches". I've seen such systems implemented via AS/400 systems. A freaking S 400 systems. Your idea of what "punches" mean is very dated and thus whatever argument you think you might have had failed pretty bad.
Speaking as someone who's family was in the car industry for a long time (going back to AMC) dealerships are not cheap.
The land space, the brick and mortar, and the rent on the cars (I'll get back to that.) is substantial. There is a reason why a lot of car dealer owners are considered big people in their communities. They are freaking loaded.
Now as to how you keep a fleet of cars on your lot. Do you buy every single one of those cars from the factory? Well you could but that would be hugely expensive. If you had 50 cars on your lot (which is not a lot of cars when you want to show off your inventory) which average 30k each that is 1.5 million dollars right there that you would have to put out.
And clearly that is not the real number in both the amount of cars and the value of them. To buy outright from the factory every car that you want to put on your lot you would have to float millions of dollars. And while I said dealership owners are rich they are not that rich. Rather they just rent that set of cars from the factory's (the car makers) kinda middle man leaser. They pay rent on what they want to put on their lot and when someone actually buys a car that is when they actually buy the car from the factory and pay them for it.
What does all this have to do with why Tesla does not want to open up dealerships? Well they would have to follow that same type of business model. They would have to make a bunch of cars, a bunch of cars, and then get a bunch of dealerships open, populate those dealerships with the cars, blah blah blah.
It is the same as asking why does not Amazon want to open up a store in every town the US? It is not like there is not a law making them not do it.
You can legitimately say that you don't like copyright. Fine. You could almost make a coherent argument that programmers, record producers, and videographers should all work two jobs, one to eat and one (for free) to give you free shit. Kinda silly, but that's at least cogent. When you start saying "it doesn't reduce infringement, and here's the evidence - our study shows that it does, but we wish it didn't, therefore it doesn't" - at that point you've just gone off the deep end and are making yourself look like a complete nutjob.
We don't like copyright in its current form. That is different than saying we don't like copyright at all.
You did nothing to refute the points that I made that show you for being a shill. Instead you attack me. Classic shill move.
I need to do NOTHING that a shill like you tells me to do. I've been around long enough to have used computers before MS clawed its way to the top via some, yes smart moves, but a hell of a lot of shady moves that ended up in them being a convicted monopolist.
It was because of a change in our government that allowed them to escape any real punishment for being a convicted monopolist and solidify those practices.
Only now with the advance of mobile devices, that MS has failed multiple times at, are we likely going to see a change in the power dynamic that they setup. However they do have a ton of cash reserves so they can afford to continue to try to enter markets where they see growth even if they are a day late and nearly a billion dollars short of a write of on.
Are you an MS shill? Talking about a few examples of software packages from the 90's and then how when they embedded IE into their OS that lead to them being convicted monopolist is your example?
And please, detail how much of a "fortune" did they make with the Xbox? I really would love to see the numbers you have because they lost a ton of money for years on that project and we can really have some fun talking about how they did with their new console's "features".
As an owner of an n810 that now sits in my closet unused, more on that in a moment, I can say that Nokia had the people in place to shift gears to Android if they had chosen to do so. It would not have been a seemless transition from their own Linux platform to Google's Java encapsulated Linux platform but they would have remained much more of a core of what they are.
My n810's platform was even gone by the time the 9xx series was out. They had a history of developing these great platforms and then leaving them behind in an effort to chase the market. The reason my n810 sits in my closet right now is not only because its battery is dead, but because that even if I were to get another battery for it (and it eats them up pretty good due to its pretty dated tech) but that there is no development for it. Nor has there been for a while now.
Instead, and I'm gonna go into speculation mode here, but the board got bought out with MS money. Instead of looking at a company they were looking at their own self interest (a very common theme these days in business) and rather than working hard and trying to forge their way past the market issues that they were having they thought that it would be better just to get money that would secure their own, and by their I mean the very few who got the big checks that allowed this to happen, futures. And damn the company, those who worked for it, and everything else that it helped support. Hard work is for suckers right?
I remember a while ago when I was doing something very much away from my computer and wanted to check some sports scores. I thought how odd it was that my go to thought was Yahoo Sports. And how were it not for that Yahoo would really not be in my life at all save for the odd time a Yahoo Answer would come up via a Google search.
So as football season has rolled around I actually had been going there often to check on things both NFL and CFB related. I noticed the new logo and thought ugh, who thought that was a good idea. Little did I know that was just the tip of the iceberg.
See this thread and thing hrm, did something change more than the logo and I didn't notice it? Then go there and wow yeah, I would have noticed that. No, just no.
Good job Yahoo in your effort to drive away the vestiges of your users. I have no clue what I'm going to use now but there no way I'm using that.
But I don't expect much because winners write the history and I had to go down all the way to the Judgment section to see that term used. Convicted monopolist.
I agree that using a file tree to manage a large music, or whatever, library is not the best way. Unless you are super organized on your own and like manually putting whatever meta-data you like along with your music it is just more work than is needed.
But iTunes sucks. Why does it suck? I don't know enough about it but I know that every time I have had the displeasure of using it I thought to myself man this is a really bad program. (That's right, I called it a program not an "app".)
And while I don't know enough to say exactly why it sucks so bad I have a few theories. 1. It was designed to "look cool" like all the other, modern, Apple stuff. (I personally grew up with a//e so I like to qualify the fact that Apple was not always the walled-garden hipster cult that it is now.) 2. Because it was required to look cool that was given priority over good code. 3. It also was designed to SELL stuff.
So rather than being a great tool for organization, which it does, that was way way way down on the list.
Mea culpa is not an apology. An apology is an admission of wrongdoing. Mea culpa is an admission of being wrong.
To expand that, say we are walking both along the street together. And I am feeling like a dick so I trip you and make you fall down. I a) was wrong for hurting you, and b) I purposely did that to you. I would owe you an apology because not only was I wrong for hurting you but I did so knowing full well what would happen by the results of my actions.
To put that yet another way, that is why we have laws that define Manslaughter and Murder II. I have no idea if English is your 1st language or how versed in all its nuances you are but consider this your lesson. Asking for your mea culpa is not the same thing as asking for your apology.
Next, it is incumbent on you when you make your arguments to understand the impact of them. Just as when I use my words it is incumbent on me to make sure that I am understood as clearly as I can be. You pulled out the children card on your 2nd post. Take responsibility for your words.
Next, I did see your post where you "changed your mind". Quite frankly that is why I posted in this thread. I thought you needed all the more pushing. You were so wrong at the start that you needed every argument thrown at you to defeat your "feelings". I wanted to make sure that you, and others, understood what type of people were out there.
Finally, I could care less about PMing you. If you read this great. If not I'm leaving it here for the/. ages. You are the person who has to live with yourself and your 3 kids who views censorship, and who freaking knows what other uber right-wing authoritarian ideology, with. Good luck with all that.
If, however, you can make your way to admitting fault, then we might be able to have more of a discussion. Admitting that you were wrong, full stop, is not as hard as you might think when you accept it. (Hint: Much greater people than you have had to do it.)
You're reply is the reason any debate on this subject is impossible, apparently. I'm a father of two (soon to be three), I'm an active web developer and proponent of liberties for all. Right now the internet is often a unregulated wild west with the people enforcing law having too little knowledge or power.
This is your 2nd reply. You pulled the children card early as well as the idea that you are for liberty with one hand while taking away liberty with the other.
I'm not gonna expect a mea culpa from someone like you. You have far too much invested in your argument at this point. However you really are all about turning the argument around. Trying to attack me for showing what you did? No sir, not on my watch.
The discomfort also likely lies in a base emotional desire that is, by definition, beyond reason. People, like cablepokerface, that argue for X at the expense of Y because X is so very bad nothing else can matter are doing so often based on feelings.
And we are human so it should come as no surprise that that is a factor. And it is not a bad thing. However when X is indeed bad but there are very good reasons why we can't solve X without damaging Y (Or other things.) and reason has left the building we tend to end up with bad solutions. (As detailed in this thread which I feel is pretty well resolved.)
I will finish by saying one last thing about such a discussion. It often can start with people being discussing a topic with a nominal amount of humanity still in tact, aka emotions/feelings. But often the group that wants to do X feels that they be losing the rational discussion and do not like that, again because they have those feelings about wanting to do X, they will reflexively throw out that feelings based argument. In this case cablepokerface at one point used the "What about the children, my children!" Why? Because it can and does work.
But beyond they why is what happens next. cablepokerface just introduced a non-rational argument into a rational discussion and then, and this is key, got offended when he was met with some people getting hostile (emotions again) in the discussion. Allowing him to then not only have introduced a new non-rational argument that must be at the very least maneuvered around but then got to play the victim by saying, "Hey hey, let's keep it civil!"
Now I could be off about the details on this particular debate but what I'm saying is a very real thing. For whatever reason it is much more allowed for people to introduce non-rational, to the point of them being non-nonsensical, point after point into a debate and it is expected that the reaction is to be calm in facing them. If the person on the other side of the debate has the temerity to become emotional in response they then are the person who has done wrong and then the person who pushed for X, even in non-rational ways, now has their non-rational arguments still on the table but is the victim as well in their cards.
The main thing I see, stripping away all the hype, is the price point for this device. And as to the hype I actually did not know what this thing did before I happened to go on iFixit today and decided to actually see what it was.
Because what it is is damn near nothing. It is a consumer grade Raspberry Pi that may or may not catch on fire at some point. Ok ok, Google has some damn fine engineers so I'm guessing that it won't but we've seen other titans struggle with such issues, coughapplecough.
But actually it is less than the Pi unless you a Netflix coupon as more, which I do not, I really question this thing's purpose. Turn's your TV into a SmartTV! is the hype I see. I do not remember seeing any talk about how SmartTVs took off so...yeah. Back to that price point argument.
Want to try having a SmartTV for only $35, a bit of free Netflix, and access to giving Google and the NSA more of your ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H...ah you get the idea.
While I've had a bit of fun here I honestly question if this will take off. The media conglomerates that have been allowed to morph into entities that control content creation, content delivery, internet delivery, that have clear conflict of interest issues for the consumers are going to fight tooth and nail to let anyone on their jungle gym. We however will see if this see if this latest experment in totally free as in a birrrrrrddddd now capitalistic armageddon will somehow not morph into a greater clusterfuck for us citizens...I mean consumers...hell I mean terrorists.
I will fully admit that my theory is rough and very missing a lot of details. However it still is something that, as I understand it, happens. You cite exactly ONE company. And so fine, GE is not doing what I'm saying. But I've been told by finance geeks that it does happen at other companies. CXX's don't just take $1 salaries out of the goodness of their hearts.
This is due to the company doing stock buybacks. I've been a tech geek for much longer than I've been a business geek but as we keep moving towards an oligarchy I've had to shift my focus some.
When you are a public company you can issue stock. When you issue that stock on the "free market" that stock is bought and sold then by people who want to "invest" in your company. They do so with the idea that they are going to get a return on that investment. In the past those were known as dividends and they were paid quarterly to stock owners.
But there was this idea by people who controlled the stock issues to make money. It goes like this:
Pre: Be given stock by the company for being a CXX.
1. Issue 1000 stock for $1. 2. Wait as your company makes some money that are realized as profit. (My language is specific here, please note.) 3. Use that profit to buy stock in the company, thus raising the "value" of the stock higher. Say to $2. 4. Sell the stock that now is at $2 to anyone who will buy it until you get the value back to $1. 5. Goto 1.
This is in addition to the fact that you have a salary as a CXX. Or maybe you don't? You might be playing the game that you are taking a $1 salary and then looting the company this way. Fun for all!
You are missing the point of Windows 8. Forcing people to learn their tablet UI so that they can enter the market.
I have yet to see any objective reason why Win8 is better than Win7 (or even in some cases XP) in performance terms. And MS knows this so their recent announcement about releasing the next DX for Win8 only is a shot across the bow to that fact. However game makers care much more about their own asses and less about trying to save MS's and so that likely will fail much like it has in the past.
It is much easier to hack up your code and work around an older API than it is to explain to the suits why your AAA game did not meet sales expectations because you released it for a platform that has low market saturation.
Using Win8 with some addon that makes it more like the proven WIMP interface is not a ringing endorsement for the product. Not when Win7 is still very valid and whatever cooked up metrics that some MS paid for shill is gonna tout as performance gains could not be solved by adding a SSD.
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My problem?! It is more than that. Look at what my post is rated at. Yeah.
Ah I suppose there are better places to put this but fuck it. Not like its going to make an ounce of a difference anyway.
First of all yes our gov is fucked. Governing systems, be they your guild/clan/local chapter of Whatever I Like club, are never perfect. Due to personal interests, ego, poor leadership, outside interests, and likely a number of other things I'm not listing here. However when we are talking about government at our federal level we have taken it to a whole new level of crazy with allowing money to be infused into the system in a scale that I don't know that has any equal unless you go back a few decades. (I hear that in the 1920's the plutocrats were crazy out of control, as they are now, but I don't know what mechanisms where in place. Still, nearly 100 years ago so lets keep focus on this age.)
Next huge failure is our media. Not too long ago news reporting was considered a break even, or even a loss leader for things like TV, profession. Journalism and all the integrity that went along with it. Then that changed when it was realized that money could be made off the "news cycle" and journalism, by in large, went right out the window. Most media now is classified as entertainment. That is right. It is not as much news as it is there to sell you ideas, stuff, or even your info.
As such our media LOVES the idea of calling things down the middle. That lets them have the "gladiator fights" that keeps the eyes glued to the TV sets, web pages, or glossy mags.
"This axe murderer things he should be able to kill 10 people without punishment! This person over here things that they should not be allowed to kill anyone. SOME people say that they should compromise. What do YOU think? Is 3 a fair number? Tune in at 11 and find out!"
In short yes gov is always fucked, ours currently is particularly fucked, but that does not mean calling it down the middle is always correct. There is a vested interest by those who make money off such things in pushing that idea. And by in large it works. People LOVE the idea of compromise.
So all that being said our current situation is NOT even. The extreme right, be it types like the Koch brothers and also the religious right, has taken over the GOP. They have 0 compunction about doing ANYTHING to get their way. Including using issues that normally never anything more than rubber stamps that both party's did to just move the day to day governance along.
They did so last year with the debt ceiling (a separate issue that is going to come up again very soon) causing the US to lose part of our best in the freaking world credit rating. They have used the filibuster at a rate that has never been seen. They seek to win at any costs and use the idea of compromise as leverage to let them kill 3 people all the fucking time.
And so yes, the Dem's have issues. They enabled this ultra-right wing GOP to think that if they just can kill 3 people and call it a day everyone will be happy. Hopefully they will grow a spine and say no this time.
Finally if you don't agree with this then you are either ignorant of the facts, been brainwashed by the media, or are one of the ultra-right GOP teabaggers. And I really don't give a shit what you have to say.
This has to be one of the most troll/cringe-worthy threads I've seen on /. in a while. The OP responding to everyone via AC and in rather hostile fashion for being told what they likely knew would be the answer to such a question. Assuming that said AC is even the OP...but no matter.
I was only able to make it about 1/2 though the posts before I had to say something that I'd not yet seen. That thing, whatever you get them, will be broken within a month. If not sooner.
I don't care how awesome you think your spawn is, and if you don't know that you are biased then you have even bigger problems, they are 4...years...old! Think about all the ways adults break such devices all the damn time. Go and read some stories from people who work in cell phone shops about adults who try and claim all sorts of crazy shit about how their broke device, that they clearly broke/dropped in water/whatever, was "not their fault."
Yeah. I get that if even half of what the AC who claims to be the OP is true that they are in a tough spot, pissed as hell about it, and looking for some sort of solution. This is not the solution. If for my point alone, never mind all the other good issues raised in this thread.
You, linking an image of an outdated "punch" machine does nothing.
You still have failed on that point of your argument. You failed.
Modern "punch" systems do no such mechanical punching and work well across any areas that have nominal services that you would expect in any place that would have something as advanced an a subway.
You have a keycard (Or whatever system you want: RIFD or NFC for example.) that you swipe and then that "punch in/out" is sent to then the system that keeps track of the "punches". I've seen such systems implemented via AS/400 systems. A freaking S 400 systems. Your idea of what "punches" mean is very dated and thus whatever argument you think you might have had failed pretty bad.
Your are correct. There is always going to be that subset of people who are either anarchists or nihilists that don't want any regulation.
I personally view those groups as fringe at best. But again you are correct that there are some people that do not want any regulation at all.
Speaking as someone who's family was in the car industry for a long time (going back to AMC) dealerships are not cheap.
The land space, the brick and mortar, and the rent on the cars (I'll get back to that.) is substantial. There is a reason why a lot of car dealer owners are considered big people in their communities. They are freaking loaded.
Now as to how you keep a fleet of cars on your lot. Do you buy every single one of those cars from the factory? Well you could but that would be hugely expensive. If you had 50 cars on your lot (which is not a lot of cars when you want to show off your inventory) which average 30k each that is 1.5 million dollars right there that you would have to put out.
And clearly that is not the real number in both the amount of cars and the value of them. To buy outright from the factory every car that you want to put on your lot you would have to float millions of dollars. And while I said dealership owners are rich they are not that rich. Rather they just rent that set of cars from the factory's (the car makers) kinda middle man leaser. They pay rent on what they want to put on their lot and when someone actually buys a car that is when they actually buy the car from the factory and pay them for it.
What does all this have to do with why Tesla does not want to open up dealerships? Well they would have to follow that same type of business model. They would have to make a bunch of cars, a bunch of cars, and then get a bunch of dealerships open, populate those dealerships with the cars, blah blah blah.
It is the same as asking why does not Amazon want to open up a store in every town the US? It is not like there is not a law making them not do it.
You can legitimately say that you don't like copyright. Fine. You could almost make a coherent argument that programmers, record producers, and videographers should all work two jobs, one to eat and one (for free) to give you free shit. Kinda silly, but that's at least cogent. When you start saying "it doesn't reduce infringement, and here's the evidence - our study shows that it does, but we wish it didn't, therefore it doesn't" - at that point you've just gone off the deep end and are making yourself look like a complete nutjob.
We don't like copyright in its current form. That is different than saying we don't like copyright at all.
You did nothing to refute the points that I made that show you for being a shill. Instead you attack me. Classic shill move.
I need to do NOTHING that a shill like you tells me to do. I've been around long enough to have used computers before MS clawed its way to the top via some, yes smart moves, but a hell of a lot of shady moves that ended up in them being a convicted monopolist.
It was because of a change in our government that allowed them to escape any real punishment for being a convicted monopolist and solidify those practices.
Only now with the advance of mobile devices, that MS has failed multiple times at, are we likely going to see a change in the power dynamic that they setup. However they do have a ton of cash reserves so they can afford to continue to try to enter markets where they see growth even if they are a day late and nearly a billion dollars short of a write of on.
Go away shill, I know more than you.
Are you an MS shill? Talking about a few examples of software packages from the 90's and then how when they embedded IE into their OS that lead to them being convicted monopolist is your example?
And please, detail how much of a "fortune" did they make with the Xbox? I really would love to see the numbers you have because they lost a ton of money for years on that project and we can really have some fun talking about how they did with their new console's "features".
Downvote this shill.
Nokia makes good hardware, but so does Microsoft.
What?!
Google "Xbox Red Ring" and count me the hits you find there.
As an owner of an n810 that now sits in my closet unused, more on that in a moment, I can say that Nokia had the people in place to shift gears to Android if they had chosen to do so. It would not have been a seemless transition from their own Linux platform to Google's Java encapsulated Linux platform but they would have remained much more of a core of what they are.
My n810's platform was even gone by the time the 9xx series was out. They had a history of developing these great platforms and then leaving them behind in an effort to chase the market. The reason my n810 sits in my closet right now is not only because its battery is dead, but because that even if I were to get another battery for it (and it eats them up pretty good due to its pretty dated tech) but that there is no development for it. Nor has there been for a while now.
Instead, and I'm gonna go into speculation mode here, but the board got bought out with MS money. Instead of looking at a company they were looking at their own self interest (a very common theme these days in business) and rather than working hard and trying to forge their way past the market issues that they were having they thought that it would be better just to get money that would secure their own, and by their I mean the very few who got the big checks that allowed this to happen, futures. And damn the company, those who worked for it, and everything else that it helped support. Hard work is for suckers right?
I remember a while ago when I was doing something very much away from my computer and wanted to check some sports scores. I thought how odd it was that my go to thought was Yahoo Sports. And how were it not for that Yahoo would really not be in my life at all save for the odd time a Yahoo Answer would come up via a Google search.
So as football season has rolled around I actually had been going there often to check on things both NFL and CFB related. I noticed the new logo and thought ugh, who thought that was a good idea. Little did I know that was just the tip of the iceberg.
See this thread and thing hrm, did something change more than the logo and I didn't notice it? Then go there and wow yeah, I would have noticed that. No, just no.
Good job Yahoo in your effort to drive away the vestiges of your users. I have no clue what I'm going to use now but there no way I'm using that.
And by clarity you mean their monopolistic practices that they were convicted of?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corporation
But I don't expect much because winners write the history and I had to go down all the way to the Judgment section to see that term used. Convicted monopolist.
I agree that using a file tree to manage a large music, or whatever, library is not the best way. Unless you are super organized on your own and like manually putting whatever meta-data you like along with your music it is just more work than is needed.
But iTunes sucks. Why does it suck? I don't know enough about it but I know that every time I have had the displeasure of using it I thought to myself man this is a really bad program. (That's right, I called it a program not an "app".)
And while I don't know enough to say exactly why it sucks so bad I have a few theories. 1. It was designed to "look cool" like all the other, modern, Apple stuff. (I personally grew up with a //e so I like to qualify the fact that Apple was not always the walled-garden hipster cult that it is now.) 2. Because it was required to look cool that was given priority over good code. 3. It also was designed to SELL stuff.
So rather than being a great tool for organization, which it does, that was way way way down on the list.
If I ever were to be mentioned in the same breath as Edison I would likely be rather upset.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD0Q5FeF_wU
Mea culpa is not an apology. An apology is an admission of wrongdoing. Mea culpa is an admission of being wrong.
To expand that, say we are walking both along the street together. And I am feeling like a dick so I trip you and make you fall down. I a) was wrong for hurting you, and b) I purposely did that to you. I would owe you an apology because not only was I wrong for hurting you but I did so knowing full well what would happen by the results of my actions.
To put that yet another way, that is why we have laws that define Manslaughter and Murder II. I have no idea if English is your 1st language or how versed in all its nuances you are but consider this your lesson. Asking for your mea culpa is not the same thing as asking for your apology.
Next, it is incumbent on you when you make your arguments to understand the impact of them. Just as when I use my words it is incumbent on me to make sure that I am understood as clearly as I can be. You pulled out the children card on your 2nd post. Take responsibility for your words.
Next, I did see your post where you "changed your mind". Quite frankly that is why I posted in this thread. I thought you needed all the more pushing. You were so wrong at the start that you needed every argument thrown at you to defeat your "feelings". I wanted to make sure that you, and others, understood what type of people were out there.
Finally, I could care less about PMing you. If you read this great. If not I'm leaving it here for the /. ages. You are the person who has to live with yourself and your 3 kids who views censorship, and who freaking knows what other uber right-wing authoritarian ideology, with. Good luck with all that.
If, however, you can make your way to admitting fault, then we might be able to have more of a discussion. Admitting that you were wrong, full stop, is not as hard as you might think when you accept it. (Hint: Much greater people than you have had to do it.)
You're reply is the reason any debate on this subject is impossible, apparently. I'm a father of two (soon to be three), I'm an active web developer and proponent of liberties for all. Right now the internet is often a unregulated wild west with the people enforcing law having too little knowledge or power.
This is your 2nd reply. You pulled the children card early as well as the idea that you are for liberty with one hand while taking away liberty with the other.
I'm not gonna expect a mea culpa from someone like you. You have far too much invested in your argument at this point. However you really are all about turning the argument around. Trying to attack me for showing what you did? No sir, not on my watch.
Thou doth protest too much.
The discomfort also likely lies in a base emotional desire that is, by definition, beyond reason. People, like cablepokerface, that argue for X at the expense of Y because X is so very bad nothing else can matter are doing so often based on feelings.
And we are human so it should come as no surprise that that is a factor. And it is not a bad thing. However when X is indeed bad but there are very good reasons why we can't solve X without damaging Y (Or other things.) and reason has left the building we tend to end up with bad solutions. (As detailed in this thread which I feel is pretty well resolved.)
I will finish by saying one last thing about such a discussion. It often can start with people being discussing a topic with a nominal amount of humanity still in tact, aka emotions/feelings. But often the group that wants to do X feels that they be losing the rational discussion and do not like that, again because they have those feelings about wanting to do X, they will reflexively throw out that feelings based argument. In this case cablepokerface at one point used the "What about the children, my children!" Why? Because it can and does work.
But beyond they why is what happens next. cablepokerface just introduced a non-rational argument into a rational discussion and then, and this is key, got offended when he was met with some people getting hostile (emotions again) in the discussion. Allowing him to then not only have introduced a new non-rational argument that must be at the very least maneuvered around but then got to play the victim by saying, "Hey hey, let's keep it civil!"
Now I could be off about the details on this particular debate but what I'm saying is a very real thing. For whatever reason it is much more allowed for people to introduce non-rational, to the point of them being non-nonsensical, point after point into a debate and it is expected that the reaction is to be calm in facing them. If the person on the other side of the debate has the temerity to become emotional in response they then are the person who has done wrong and then the person who pushed for X, even in non-rational ways, now has their non-rational arguments still on the table but is the victim as well in their cards.
The main thing I see, stripping away all the hype, is the price point for this device. And as to the hype I actually did not know what this thing did before I happened to go on iFixit today and decided to actually see what it was.
Because what it is is damn near nothing. It is a consumer grade Raspberry Pi that may or may not catch on fire at some point. Ok ok, Google has some damn fine engineers so I'm guessing that it won't but we've seen other titans struggle with such issues, coughapplecough.
But actually it is less than the Pi unless you a Netflix coupon as more, which I do not, I really question this thing's purpose. Turn's your TV into a SmartTV! is the hype I see. I do not remember seeing any talk about how SmartTVs took off so...yeah. Back to that price point argument.
Want to try having a SmartTV for only $35, a bit of free Netflix, and access to giving Google and the NSA more of your ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H...ah you get the idea.
While I've had a bit of fun here I honestly question if this will take off. The media conglomerates that have been allowed to morph into entities that control content creation, content delivery, internet delivery, that have clear conflict of interest issues for the consumers are going to fight tooth and nail to let anyone on their jungle gym. We however will see if this see if this latest experment in totally free as in a birrrrrrddddd now capitalistic armageddon will somehow not morph into a greater clusterfuck for us citizens...I mean consumers...hell I mean terrorists.
I will fully admit that my theory is rough and very missing a lot of details. However it still is something that, as I understand it, happens. You cite exactly ONE company. And so fine, GE is not doing what I'm saying. But I've been told by finance geeks that it does happen at other companies. CXX's don't just take $1 salaries out of the goodness of their hearts.
This is due to the company doing stock buybacks. I've been a tech geek for much longer than I've been a business geek but as we keep moving towards an oligarchy I've had to shift my focus some.
When you are a public company you can issue stock. When you issue that stock on the "free market" that stock is bought and sold then by people who want to "invest" in your company. They do so with the idea that they are going to get a return on that investment. In the past those were known as dividends and they were paid quarterly to stock owners.
But there was this idea by people who controlled the stock issues to make money. It goes like this:
Pre: Be given stock by the company for being a CXX.
1. Issue 1000 stock for $1.
2. Wait as your company makes some money that are realized as profit. (My language is specific here, please note.)
3. Use that profit to buy stock in the company, thus raising the "value" of the stock higher. Say to $2.
4. Sell the stock that now is at $2 to anyone who will buy it until you get the value back to $1.
5. Goto 1.
This is in addition to the fact that you have a salary as a CXX. Or maybe you don't? You might be playing the game that you are taking a $1 salary and then looting the company this way. Fun for all!
You are missing the point of Windows 8. Forcing people to learn their tablet UI so that they can enter the market.
I have yet to see any objective reason why Win8 is better than Win7 (or even in some cases XP) in performance terms. And MS knows this so their recent announcement about releasing the next DX for Win8 only is a shot across the bow to that fact. However game makers care much more about their own asses and less about trying to save MS's and so that likely will fail much like it has in the past.
It is much easier to hack up your code and work around an older API than it is to explain to the suits why your AAA game did not meet sales expectations because you released it for a platform that has low market saturation.
Using Win8 with some addon that makes it more like the proven WIMP interface is not a ringing endorsement for the product. Not when Win7 is still very valid and whatever cooked up metrics that some MS paid for shill is gonna tout as performance gains could not be solved by adding a SSD.
Comment from all the clients I've had that I've steered to Android:
"Which iPad Android do I have?"