MS wants your money. Even if you need to run a free OS. That's always been the case and hasn't changed. In general, they're winning and this is the start of the endgame for them.
With everyone progressively more and more locked into Office365, this gives MS an argument to say there's not even a need to find a way to unlock and escape.
If all your Linux needs can be met from Windows, how are you ever going to convince the CTO to abandon Windows even for the technical staff?
FB must be wondering why they're getting hit with the privacy stick while Win10 is sitting there keylogging it's head off (you know, to improve user data statistics for your own good).
Wylie is a bit of a known nutter, so it's worth taking his word with some salt. He admits to stealing the same data from CA that he claims they should have had, when he left the company in 2014. So he's not really up to date or in the clear himself.
The real CA work was done by Carole Cadwalladr; Wylie was a useful source of contacts more than anything, as I read it.
The problem with the story as it stands is that many outlets are conflating intent with actual achievements and it's worth remembering that everyone involved at the CA side are huge bullshit-artists and absolutely not above promising to fix anything and pocketing the fee regardless of whether they actually can deliver or not.
Because Netflix is making avant guard art. If you exclude the most interesting works than winning becomes meaningless. If winning is meaningless than ultimately nobody will pay attention anymore. If the underlayng reason for the festival was to build excitement about film to sell more tickets you cant succeed without the excitement
Netflix doesn't sell any tickets - that's the point.
They can make the rules as they see fit, but sometimes, you see a disruption take place, and I personally find it amusing when the old guard are trying to maintain their status and keep the newcomers out.
The point is; netflix isn't going anywhere!,
That's what they said about Blockbusters.
If they're making the profits I've read about, and more importantly, prepared to spend money on making art films, which the industry, broadly speaking, struggles to make money on, then it comes across as incredibly petty for organisations to try to keep them out of prestigious events
I just don't see that. Netflix is making television programmes. There are television festivals they can go to. What's the problem?
however, after all, these french associations/organisations are notoriously corrupt, with so many scandals plaguing other organisations, such as FIFA, FIA, IOC, as a few examples, I'm not really surprised.
Well, okay. I guess Netflix is purer than the driven snow but it's still making TV programmes - by which I mean programmes to watch on your TV. If they want to make cinema then they need to release it to cinema.
Another aspect is that these judging organisations usually develop prestige through identifying and recognising quality, and having rigorous judging. If they exclude something for more arbitrary reasons, they're only hurting their own credibility in the long term.
"Rigorous" judging in an industry that gave Peter Jackson an Oscar for directing isn't something I'm holding out for.
Maybe the problem here is your expectations; I don't know. I've certainly never watched a movie because it won an award, although I have watched many because I heard of them in coverage of Cannes/Bafta/Oscars.
The organization claims to be a film festival, not a cinema festival.
It started in 1939 (although it was postponed until '46) when the two were synonymous.
Netflix has brought to light the lie that Cannes is about art; Cannes is actually an incestuous profit machine with no regard for art.
Well, that sounds so unlike the well-known art charity Netflix, doesn't it? Next you'll be telling me that the Oscar for Best Film doesn't always go to the year's best film! Sorry - Oscar®.
I'm not arguing about either side's morality, just that Netflix is basically complaining that rain is wet and that the Pope grasp of bar mitzvah is lacking in detail. It's just a whine.
It is, of course, more complex than that. I don't know about the US but in the Africa->Europe flow many of the the immigrants have been lied to by the trafficers. So, Sipo starts off in a shithole country south of the Sahara with no prospects except that at least he'll die young. Pavel turns up in the village, or one of his agents does, and says that he can arrange for Sipo to get a legal work permit for the EU. There's even a promise of some work. Sipo is dubious but Pavel's guy has testimonies and sample documents and all the rest of it.
Of course, it's expensive but for roughly the whole of Sipo's savings +30%, Pavel's team will sort it all out and the final details will be handled at Tripoli before boarding the boat when Sipo hands over the extra 30%. He'll have a few months to scrounge around his relatives and friends to raise the extra cash, but he'll be able to pay them back once he starts his new job.
Sipo arrives in Tripoli and is lucky - the slave market is closed today. So he gets to go down to the dock were he sees the boat for the first time. It is built for 12, and is "booked" for 40. Sipo says that he's changed his mind and instead of paying the rest of the cash he wants his original money back so he can go home.
That's when the guns appear. Pavel informs Sipo that this is a binding contract, to shut the fuck up, hand over the money and get in the goddamned boat.
Sipo gets in the boat.
But Sipo is a very lucky guy and the boat makes it almost the whole way across the Mediterranean and sinks within sight of shore, so he manages to make it to land. There he meets another of Pavel's agents who tells him where the van is to take Sipo to his new job.
The job is not legal and at the end of the first day, Sipo is informed that he is now a criminal for engaging in work without a permit. When Sipo says that he paid for a permit, the overseer laughs and asks to see the receipt. Even if he ever had one, it probably went down with the boat.
Being a criminal means that, according to the gang master, Sipo can't go to the police. Also, he owes the gang for his share of the boat he lost, which turns out to be a very very expensive boat indeed. Sipo is very unhappy about this. That's when the guns appear again.
Sipo goes back to the illegally overcrowded house that he and the other survivors are going to share and wonders how long it will be before he can see his family again.
---
This isn't at all unusual a story and technically, Sipo maybe is a criminal or at least doing something criminal. But he never intended to do anything illegal. Some immigrants *do* certainly know they'r breaking the law but a lot more are really victims of blackmail of one kind or another.
I'm not sure what the issue is - an organisation that exists to support cinema is refusing to support a different organisation that is committed to undermining cinema (by "cinema" I mean the physical act of going to see a movie on a big screen in a publicly accessible building). Why *should* they support that any more than they allow oil paintings or books to enter?
The German court did not as Project Gutenberg to make any changes for users from the US.
No, they just asked Project Gutenberg to change their perfectly legal US-based operations to suit German law. Where the user is located is irrelevant; the copy was made in the US
I see. So there's no copy on the German user's computer?
Your notion of what is a copy is about 50 years out of date.
I mean, next you'll be telling me that I can't order Heroin from Somalia on-line and have it delivered to me in my house even though there's no law against it in Somalia (or some other anarchic hell-hole).
Fucking grow up. Fight the law, not for some bubble-headed notion of the Internet as some sort of parallel universe.
Life or 14 years, whichever is longer, is an ample copyright duration.
Bezos doesn't care about you, your business, your health, welfare, or anything except getting your money off you and into his pocket. He doesn't care if you are a thief, a slaver, or a drug-dealer. He doesn't care if the money comes from legal, illegal, or ethically-dubious sources. He doesn't care if you made it by selling people, animals, burning the rainforest, or conning old women out of their life savings. The only thing that matters is that it comes to Amazon.
Org-mode. If you use emacsclient then you can basically access it from anywhere via ssh.
The OP didn't specify collaboration, which is org-mode (and Emacs') only real weak point, although if you control the list and only need others to view it then org-mode will export to HTML and you can slap that on a server or whatever. Emacs and Org-mode are cross-platform too, as regards desktop OSes, and there's a mobile client too although I've not used it so I don't know how good it is.
The time-tracking and reporting is very good too and since you'll be doing all your other work in Emacs too (obviously), it's very easy to put together time sheets and billing etc. as well as seeing where you went over estimates and so on.
It's also very actively developed and supported by about a million tutorial videos, wikis, blogs, and a couple of reddit forums (there's a fairly quiet org-mode board and a much more active Emacs one which tends to draw in the org-mode traffic).
Facebook is international and, as far as I know, pretty well every country in the world is happy to have - or wished it had - effective gun controls so there's not a lot of debate.
Slashdot Mirror
Not shoot, just check the message a bit more carefully.
MS wants your money. Even if you need to run a free OS. That's always been the case and hasn't changed. In general, they're winning and this is the start of the endgame for them.
With everyone progressively more and more locked into Office365, this gives MS an argument to say there's not even a need to find a way to unlock and escape.
If all your Linux needs can be met from Windows, how are you ever going to convince the CTO to abandon Windows even for the technical staff?
FB must be wondering why they're getting hit with the privacy stick while Win10 is sitting there keylogging it's head off (you know, to improve user data statistics for your own good).
Just don't use Windows.
It's fucking Clinton who is behind this. She is a convicted child killer satanist, who eats her little victims' heart. RAW!
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Intent matters in criminal cases AFAIK, so... f&ck them whether or not they just had 'intent' or actually achieved.
I agree, but in terms of deciding what to do about their actions, intent isn't so important.
Wylie is a bit of a known nutter, so it's worth taking his word with some salt. He admits to stealing the same data from CA that he claims they should have had, when he left the company in 2014. So he's not really up to date or in the clear himself.
The real CA work was done by Carole Cadwalladr; Wylie was a useful source of contacts more than anything, as I read it.
The problem with the story as it stands is that many outlets are conflating intent with actual achievements and it's worth remembering that everyone involved at the CA side are huge bullshit-artists and absolutely not above promising to fix anything and pocketing the fee regardless of whether they actually can deliver or not.
Because Netflix is making avant guard art. If you exclude the most interesting works than winning becomes meaningless. If winning is meaningless than ultimately nobody will pay attention anymore. If the underlayng reason for the festival was to build excitement about film to sell more tickets you cant succeed without the excitement
Netflix doesn't sell any tickets - that's the point.
They can make the rules as they see fit, but sometimes, you see a disruption take place, and I personally find it amusing when the old guard are trying to maintain their status and keep the newcomers out.
The point is; netflix isn't going anywhere!,
That's what they said about Blockbusters.
If they're making the profits I've read about, and more importantly, prepared to spend money on making art films, which the industry, broadly speaking, struggles to make money on, then it comes across as incredibly petty for organisations to try to keep them out of prestigious events
I just don't see that. Netflix is making television programmes. There are television festivals they can go to. What's the problem?
however, after all, these french associations/organisations are notoriously corrupt, with so many scandals plaguing other organisations, such as FIFA, FIA, IOC, as a few examples, I'm not really surprised.
Well, okay. I guess Netflix is purer than the driven snow but it's still making TV programmes - by which I mean programmes to watch on your TV. If they want to make cinema then they need to release it to cinema.
Another aspect is that these judging organisations usually develop prestige through identifying and recognising quality, and having rigorous judging. If they exclude something for more arbitrary reasons, they're only hurting their own credibility in the long term.
"Rigorous" judging in an industry that gave Peter Jackson an Oscar for directing isn't something I'm holding out for.
Maybe the problem here is your expectations; I don't know. I've certainly never watched a movie because it won an award, although I have watched many because I heard of them in coverage of Cannes/Bafta/Oscars.
The organization claims to be a film festival, not a cinema festival.
It started in 1939 (although it was postponed until '46) when the two were synonymous.
Netflix has brought to light the lie that Cannes is about art; Cannes is actually an incestuous profit machine with no regard for art.
Well, that sounds so unlike the well-known art charity Netflix, doesn't it? Next you'll be telling me that the Oscar for Best Film doesn't always go to the year's best film! Sorry - Oscar®.
I'm not arguing about either side's morality, just that Netflix is basically complaining that rain is wet and that the Pope grasp of bar mitzvah is lacking in detail. It's just a whine.
It is, of course, more complex than that. I don't know about the US but in the Africa->Europe flow many of the the immigrants have been lied to by the trafficers. So, Sipo starts off in a shithole country south of the Sahara with no prospects except that at least he'll die young. Pavel turns up in the village, or one of his agents does, and says that he can arrange for Sipo to get a legal work permit for the EU. There's even a promise of some work. Sipo is dubious but Pavel's guy has testimonies and sample documents and all the rest of it.
Of course, it's expensive but for roughly the whole of Sipo's savings +30%, Pavel's team will sort it all out and the final details will be handled at Tripoli before boarding the boat when Sipo hands over the extra 30%. He'll have a few months to scrounge around his relatives and friends to raise the extra cash, but he'll be able to pay them back once he starts his new job.
Sipo arrives in Tripoli and is lucky - the slave market is closed today. So he gets to go down to the dock were he sees the boat for the first time. It is built for 12, and is "booked" for 40. Sipo says that he's changed his mind and instead of paying the rest of the cash he wants his original money back so he can go home.
That's when the guns appear. Pavel informs Sipo that this is a binding contract, to shut the fuck up, hand over the money and get in the goddamned boat.
Sipo gets in the boat.
But Sipo is a very lucky guy and the boat makes it almost the whole way across the Mediterranean and sinks within sight of shore, so he manages to make it to land. There he meets another of Pavel's agents who tells him where the van is to take Sipo to his new job.
The job is not legal and at the end of the first day, Sipo is informed that he is now a criminal for engaging in work without a permit. When Sipo says that he paid for a permit, the overseer laughs and asks to see the receipt. Even if he ever had one, it probably went down with the boat.
Being a criminal means that, according to the gang master, Sipo can't go to the police. Also, he owes the gang for his share of the boat he lost, which turns out to be a very very expensive boat indeed. Sipo is very unhappy about this. That's when the guns appear again.
Sipo goes back to the illegally overcrowded house that he and the other survivors are going to share and wonders how long it will be before he can see his family again.
---
This isn't at all unusual a story and technically, Sipo maybe is a criminal or at least doing something criminal. But he never intended to do anything illegal. Some immigrants *do* certainly know they'r breaking the law but a lot more are really victims of blackmail of one kind or another.
I'm not sure what the issue is - an organisation that exists to support cinema is refusing to support a different organisation that is committed to undermining cinema (by "cinema" I mean the physical act of going to see a movie on a big screen in a publicly accessible building). Why *should* they support that any more than they allow oil paintings or books to enter?
Because I didn't have 30 years of learning how much bullshit is spouted by people with hidden money in the game.
This closely related to why politicians keep wanting to reduce the voting age.
"The labels companies have long criticized YouTube for hosting videos that violate copyrights, and not paying artists and record companies enough"
Just because that was, like, their entire business model.
The German court did not as Project Gutenberg to make any changes for users from the US.
No, they just asked Project Gutenberg to change their perfectly legal US-based operations to suit German law. Where the user is located is irrelevant; the copy was made in the US
I see. So there's no copy on the German user's computer?
Your notion of what is a copy is about 50 years out of date.
proving that they really are just like all the other fascist dictatorships.
This is really the remains of Slashdot.
You have literally no idea what you're talking about, do you?
Imagine having to obey the law!
I mean, next you'll be telling me that I can't order Heroin from Somalia on-line and have it delivered to me in my house even though there's no law against it in Somalia (or some other anarchic hell-hole).
Fucking grow up. Fight the law, not for some bubble-headed notion of the Internet as some sort of parallel universe.
Life or 14 years, whichever is longer, is an ample copyright duration.
So, sex is bad, but defending the murder of children is a constitutional right?
That is a sick, sick culture over there.
Bezos doesn't care about you, your business, your health, welfare, or anything except getting your money off you and into his pocket. He doesn't care if you are a thief, a slaver, or a drug-dealer. He doesn't care if the money comes from legal, illegal, or ethically-dubious sources. He doesn't care if you made it by selling people, animals, burning the rainforest, or conning old women out of their life savings. The only thing that matters is that it comes to Amazon.
Bezos is a sociopath, pure and simple.
Don't
Buy
From
Amazon
EVER
No, I mean "countries". The American attitude to guns is basically a mental illness. Don't assume that the rest of us share it.
As to slaves: you live in fear of your children, friends, or yourself being murdered by some lunatic every day; is is you who is the slave.
Org-mode. If you use emacsclient then you can basically access it from anywhere via ssh.
The OP didn't specify collaboration, which is org-mode (and Emacs') only real weak point, although if you control the list and only need others to view it then org-mode will export to HTML and you can slap that on a server or whatever. Emacs and Org-mode are cross-platform too, as regards desktop OSes, and there's a mobile client too although I've not used it so I don't know how good it is.
The time-tracking and reporting is very good too and since you'll be doing all your other work in Emacs too (obviously), it's very easy to put together time sheets and billing etc. as well as seeing where you went over estimates and so on.
It's also very actively developed and supported by about a million tutorial videos, wikis, blogs, and a couple of reddit forums (there's a fairly quiet org-mode board and a much more active Emacs one which tends to draw in the org-mode traffic).
Facebook is international and, as far as I know, pretty well every country in the world is happy to have - or wished it had - effective gun controls so there's not a lot of debate.
What a shock.
I doubt that ancient rulers cared much (if at all) about their “legacy”.
As for those who are trying today to concoct some “legacy”, they are pompous, vain and clueless fools.
Hmmmm.
Wow, that would be a real selling point if I were 6 years old.