I prefer that the government would give me a boat and pay me a million dollars to fish.
We're both SOL.
Can't you see the announcement is only for the free advertising? A month after they release the movie, Apple and Fox will quietly release the soundtrack on CD. Neither will sacrafice the chance to make extra money.
Did I say the Dems smell like roses? No, I never said Democrats were holy and perfect. It wasn't the point of my post. The point is that it's a valid criticism to make of the current administration - being Republican or Democrat has nothing to do with it.
Boy everyone likes to poke fun at the republicans.....well, they may not have had to do that if Clinton would have been taking care of Osama instead of playing with his cigars and Monica Lewinsky. Then again, if his daddy would have taken care of Saddam, we would not had to do it this time.
Then again if the Clinton administration hadn't been hampered by impeachment hearings over blowjobs, maybe they would've dealt with Osama bin Laden. Then again if Reagan hadn't increased covert operations in Afghanistan, the Taliban may not have come to power. Then again if whoever hadn't supported the Shah, then Islamism (NOT Islam) may not have gained such a foothold. Then again if WWI and WWII hadn't happened, then the US wouldn't be such a world power and Sept 11 wouldn't have happened. Then again if the Ottoman empire had truly embraced Westernization, perhaps Europe and by extension the US would be Islamic. Etc, etc, etc... 20/20 hindsight and shoulda-woulda-coulda count for diddly squat.
The truth still stands that the current administration has eroded our civil rights.
And what good will a db linking email to phone numbers be?
The gov't already knows how much you make, where you live, your employment record, and who you're related to. They have easy access to your school records and most likely know how intelligent you are. They know what car you drive, what charities you give to, and your run-ins with the law. And if they've ever suspected you of anything, then they know your cohorts, political beliefs, your keystrokes, and what you say on the phone. If they were ever worried about who belongs to a particular address, they already had tools to easily find out.
It's one more bit of information which is a little disturbing, but accounting for the breadth of knowledge they already have, an email address is insignificant. Especially when creating an anonymous, legal, throw-away address circumvents any linking.
I'm not really directing this at you, it's directed to the idiot moderators who thought your comment deserved modding up.
If they have the patent on a business, they have the monopoly and can stop everyone else from competeing.
That's the whole point of a patent. You develop something unique, you have the exclusive right to sell it for a limited amount of time. This way you can recoup develop, marketing, and consumer education costs, and a bigger business can't sink you by stealing your idea and work.
You seem to forget that Netflix has competition. They compete with local video stores. Netflix can't use the patent to close your corner video store. Like most businesses in the US, their price is dictated by what the market will bear.
I'd love some competition to drive the price way down.
But the price going way down means Netflix would start loosing money and eventually close shop.
Just replying to obliterate my down mod of the parent comment. It's an interesting opinion, and should be higher than -1. At the time of the downmod, it was at +5 which was too high IMO.
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Why is it acceptable that Apple can bully companies into oblivion? Just because it's not Microsoft? Or is it because their PCs are prettier and BSD-based? I thought the whole point of capitalism was that through competition among large numbers of companies, consumers would get better and cheaper products with the passing of time.
Well, the obvious answer is that Apple is not a convicted monopoly. Microsoft gave up the right to be anti-competitive when it abused it's monopoly power.
Doesn't it just kinda seem obvious that company A can restrict people from buying parts and making clones of company A's products? Would it be fair for you to buy pre-fabbed ingredients from the local Dominos and bake cloned Dominos pizza in competition with Dominos? Doesn't Dominos have the right to say "No, we won't sell our parts to our competition." ?
The other day my boss passed on to me a document from a vendor. Well, I say it was a document. It came tarballed. Untarring it gave me a sxw file and directory of similar name. Why the hell it an sxw file? Some nifty acronym? Having never seen the extension (and I work with many pro-Linux people), I turned to Google.
So, Google turned up a reference to OpenOffice, and I started installing a beta on my Mac. It was positively the worst install process I've ever experienced under OS X. It took quite a while, was a little confusing, and the installer launches other installers.
Launching the program was painfully slow - worse than Mozilla. Eventually the window popped up, and I quickly saved the doc as a Word doc and closed OO.
Not only had I not heard of it, but when I finally used it, my first impression was less than glowing. Yes, I know it was a beta and requires X11. It's not in the best position to be a replacement for Office on the Mac, but it has a ways to go.
So you guys have formed an ad hoc union? Good. Now before walking out, sit down with the owners and upper management. Explain your view of the situation, ask for concrete assurances and solutions to make your work environment more tolerable.
Obviously if you are as important to the company as you say you are, then the company wants to keep you. Without you, the company falls.
Also, take an objective look at the work conditions. Is the entire company tightening the belt? Have the owners and upper management forgone bonuses, perhaps even pay? If everyone else is putting in the extra time, taking shit, and in general it's a good company with a good product, then you're being a whiny punk ass bitch. On the other hand, if it's an Enron situation, your department really is in the shit, and the company isn't willing to meet you halfway, then walk en masse.
There will be negative consequences. You'll loose frienships. You're going to regret the choice when you start living off peanut butter sandwiches. BUT! You will have followed in the footsteps of other workers who decided not to take shit, and you will still have your humanity.
My suggestion, pick up copies of the Ani Difranco w/ Utah Philips' CDs. The old union songs and stories will inspire you. Afterall, companies didn't give us the eight hour day. Workers died for so we could only work eight hours a day, and it's a disgrace to their memory to let a company walk all over you.
"We Want Bread and Roses To"
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If there's a PDF version, then it should be searchable
Thanks, but the crash I was asking about doesn't show up in google. The others sound interesting, but Peaks of Otter is a mere hour from me and better for day trips.
Yes, because picking up a second job or more hours is SO very easy for the working poor who are already working two jobs or for single moms or even the average worker right now.
Interesting. Never have heard about this. Googling came up with a crash site near the Peaks of Otter but no firm location. Would you mind emailing me (slash at whatsgood.com) the co-ordinates or rough directions?
Add a line to your answering machine message telling solicitors to put you on their 'Do Not Call' list. I did it a month ago and the number of calls and messages has gone from four or five a day, sometimes four or five on hour, to one every two or three days.
What is so Americo-centric about an idea that goes back to ancient times?
"Ancient civilizations occasionally planned new cities or major additions to existing settlements. The most widespread plan was a rectangular or grid street pattern that allowed considerable flexibility in the size of blocks while maintaining a clear visual order. Noteworthy examples of this type of city plan include Kahun (Egypt, c.1890 BC), whose workers' quarter is separated by an internal wall from the wealthier districts;" - From Google's cache of the University of Melbourne's History of Urban Planning
"Block" is not an Americo-centric term. Granted, many of our cities are layed out in a grid pattern, but a block is not a standard size from city to city - try defining a block in the heavily Spanish and French influenced layout of New Orleans or the sometimes quirky layout of Washington, DC.
As far as city-centric. So fucking what? I live in the country. There's nothing offense about someone expressing an idea in term of a relation to a block. It's a commonly understood *idea*. And if 'block' isn't a familiar word, then look it up. Several definitions I found used a quote from the London Quarterly Review as example usage.
Why does the fact that at one point the right to bear primitive flint lock projectile launchers was neccissary have any bearing today?
Because the courts have interpreted the Constitution that way, and they know a bit more about the Constitution than you do (unless you're a Constitutionaly lawyer or historian).
It probably has something to do with the Courts recognizing technical progress as covered by the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment has progressed from covering public speech and printed media to media types the Founding Fathers couldn't have imagined (radio, television, the internet, tee shirts). Likewise, there's an obvious progress from flintlock rifle/pistol to cartridge loading rifle/handgun.
As far as the other weapons you mentioned, I'm not a Constitutional historian. I do know that bombs were available at the time of the Founding Fathers, but it seems the Constitution has traditionally been interepreted to only cover firearms. Laws banning the casual ownership of said weapons have not been judge unconstitutional. Just because the average person can't answer the question doesn't mean there isn't a completely valid and sensible answer.
In the US alone, or, more exactly, in the U.S. only. (well, it happened in Europe. Once.) The problem is NOT Quake, Doom, violent video games, or even Marilyn Manson. Consider this: ONLY in the U.S. are guns so easily available. If there is a problem here, I'd argue that it is NOT John Carmack; the problem here is N.R.A., and the fact that anybody out there can arm himself/herself to its teeth.
Of course there are twenty million reasons why he might want to do it, no one said different. No one's saying people shouldn't do it. All that was said was that the submitter might want to look at the cost in time and compare that to the $100 price.
I believe the AC responded the way he/she did because the tone of the write-up is one of avoiding the $99/year fee. There wasn't much of a 'joy of hacking' tone in the write-up.
He/she does have a valid point. If you're only trying to save money, then you need to take into account the time you'll spend.
The iTunes 4 app doesn't mutitask as well as prior versions did either (at least on a dual proc machine) and there's a big red flag in the success of the Apple product... Its an Apple only software/hardware package. Sure the iPod runs on PC's with MusicMatch, but does the music service. This alone could be the death of the music service. I hope Apple is ready to release some sort of patch/plugin for Windows based systems.
It will include the Music Store and probably iPod support (hasn't been confirmed but it's one of those d'uh things to do). At the iTMS/iPod show, Jobs announced that the Music Service would be on Windows by the end of the year.
Thanks for that up. The three grand figure makes much more sense.
As far as "blowing three grand on electronic toys," I'll be as pissed as I like. I might be a young single man with lots of discretionary income, but it was my money,
Yep, it was your money to do with as you like, and you have every right to be pissed at yourself.
$3K for an eMac and an iPod? The most expensive eMac and iPod combo is $2K. Praytell, how did you spend $3K on it? You could have gone with a cheaper combo for under $1500.
You had three grand to blow on electronic toys? You have very little to be pissed at.
This has interesting implications for Apple trying to sell more expensive hardware when the same apps are available on cheaper Wintel hardware.
I don't know anyone who bought their Mac just for iTunes or Mail. They all bought a Mac for the overall user experience of the apps and OS X. It's great that WinXP will get iTunes. It still won't have Safari, iDVD, iPhoto, Mail, Terminal, Fire, etc.... And it definitely won't have the BSD layer of OS X.
There are still fundamental differences between OS X and WinXP that will attract people to OS X. One or two ports of favorite apps won't change that.
Considering that at the presentation Monday Jobs said that the Music Store would be available to Windows users by the end of the year- yes, they'll be porting the Music Store along with it.
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I prefer that the government would give me a boat and pay me a million dollars to fish.
We're both SOL.
Can't you see the announcement is only for the free advertising? A month after they release the movie, Apple and Fox will quietly release the soundtrack on CD. Neither will sacrafice the chance to make extra money.
Did I say the Dems smell like roses? No, I never said Democrats were holy and perfect. It wasn't the point of my post. The point is that it's a valid criticism to make of the current administration - being Republican or Democrat has nothing to do with it.
Boy everyone likes to poke fun at the republicans.....well, they may not have had to do that if Clinton would have been taking care of Osama instead of playing with his cigars and Monica Lewinsky. Then again, if his daddy would have taken care of Saddam, we would not had to do it this time.
Then again if the Clinton administration hadn't been hampered by impeachment hearings over blowjobs, maybe they would've dealt with Osama bin Laden. Then again if Reagan hadn't increased covert operations in Afghanistan, the Taliban may not have come to power. Then again if whoever hadn't supported the Shah, then Islamism (NOT Islam) may not have gained such a foothold. Then again if WWI and WWII hadn't happened, then the US wouldn't be such a world power and Sept 11 wouldn't have happened. Then again if the Ottoman empire had truly embraced Westernization, perhaps Europe and by extension the US would be Islamic. Etc, etc, etc... 20/20 hindsight and shoulda-woulda-coulda count for diddly squat.
The truth still stands that the current administration has eroded our civil rights.
And what good will a db linking email to phone numbers be?
The gov't already knows how much you make, where you live, your employment record, and who you're related to. They have easy access to your school records and most likely know how intelligent you are. They know what car you drive, what charities you give to, and your run-ins with the law. And if they've ever suspected you of anything, then they know your cohorts, political beliefs, your keystrokes, and what you say on the phone. If they were ever worried about who belongs to a particular address, they already had tools to easily find out.
It's one more bit of information which is a little disturbing, but accounting for the breadth of knowledge they already have, an email address is insignificant. Especially when creating an anonymous, legal, throw-away address circumvents any linking.
I'm not really directing this at you, it's directed to the idiot moderators who thought your comment deserved modding up.
If they have the patent on a business, they have the monopoly and can stop everyone else from competeing.
That's the whole point of a patent. You develop something unique, you have the exclusive right to sell it for a limited amount of time. This way you can recoup develop, marketing, and consumer education costs, and a bigger business can't sink you by stealing your idea and work.
You seem to forget that Netflix has competition. They compete with local video stores. Netflix can't use the patent to close your corner video store. Like most businesses in the US, their price is dictated by what the market will bear.
I'd love some competition to drive the price way down.
But the price going way down means Netflix would start loosing money and eventually close shop.
Just replying to obliterate my down mod of the parent comment. It's an interesting opinion, and should be higher than -1. At the time of the downmod, it was at +5 which was too high IMO.
Why is it acceptable that Apple can bully companies into oblivion? Just because it's not Microsoft? Or is it because their PCs are prettier and BSD-based? I thought the whole point of capitalism was that through competition among large numbers of companies, consumers would get better and cheaper products with the passing of time.
Well, the obvious answer is that Apple is not a convicted monopoly. Microsoft gave up the right to be anti-competitive when it abused it's monopoly power.
Doesn't it just kinda seem obvious that company A can restrict people from buying parts and making clones of company A's products? Would it be fair for you to buy pre-fabbed ingredients from the local Dominos and bake cloned Dominos pizza in competition with Dominos? Doesn't Dominos have the right to say "No, we won't sell our parts to our competition." ?
I think it's even a worse than low visibility.
The other day my boss passed on to me a document from a vendor. Well, I say it was a document. It came tarballed. Untarring it gave me a sxw file and directory of similar name. Why the hell it an sxw file? Some nifty acronym? Having never seen the extension (and I work with many pro-Linux people), I turned to Google.
So, Google turned up a reference to OpenOffice, and I started installing a beta on my Mac. It was positively the worst install process I've ever experienced under OS X. It took quite a while, was a little confusing, and the installer launches other installers.
Launching the program was painfully slow - worse than Mozilla. Eventually the window popped up, and I quickly saved the doc as a Word doc and closed OO.
Not only had I not heard of it, but when I finally used it, my first impression was less than glowing. Yes, I know it was a beta and requires X11. It's not in the best position to be a replacement for Office on the Mac, but it has a ways to go.
So you guys have formed an ad hoc union? Good. Now before walking out, sit down with the owners and upper management. Explain your view of the situation, ask for concrete assurances and solutions to make your work environment more tolerable.
Obviously if you are as important to the company as you say you are, then the company wants to keep you. Without you, the company falls.
Also, take an objective look at the work conditions. Is the entire company tightening the belt? Have the owners and upper management forgone bonuses, perhaps even pay? If everyone else is putting in the extra time, taking shit, and in general it's a good company with a good product, then you're being a whiny punk ass bitch. On the other hand, if it's an Enron situation, your department really is in the shit, and the company isn't willing to meet you halfway, then walk en masse.
There will be negative consequences. You'll loose frienships. You're going to regret the choice when you start living off peanut butter sandwiches. BUT! You will have followed in the footsteps of other workers who decided not to take shit, and you will still have your humanity.
My suggestion, pick up copies of the Ani Difranco w/ Utah Philips' CDs. The old union songs and stories will inspire you. Afterall, companies didn't give us the eight hour day. Workers died for so we could only work eight hours a day, and it's a disgrace to their memory to let a company walk all over you.
"We Want Bread and Roses To"
If there's a PDF version, then it should be searchable
Ummm... Use the book's index?
Thanks, but the crash I was asking about doesn't show up in google. The others sound interesting, but Peaks of Otter is a mere hour from me and better for day trips.
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http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx
Yes, because picking up a second job or more hours is SO very easy for the working poor who are already working two jobs or for single moms or even the average worker right now.
Interesting. Never have heard about this. Googling came up with a crash site near the Peaks of Otter but no firm location. Would you mind emailing me (slash at whatsgood.com) the co-ordinates or rough directions?
Add a line to your answering machine message telling solicitors to put you on their 'Do Not Call' list. I did it a month ago and the number of calls and messages has gone from four or five a day, sometimes four or five on hour, to one every two or three days.
What is so Americo-centric about an idea that goes back to ancient times?
"Ancient civilizations occasionally planned new cities or major additions to existing settlements. The most widespread plan was a rectangular or grid street pattern that allowed considerable flexibility in the size of blocks while maintaining a clear visual order. Noteworthy examples of this type of city plan include Kahun (Egypt, c.1890 BC), whose workers' quarter is separated by an internal wall from the wealthier districts;" - From Google's cache of the University of Melbourne's History of Urban Planning
Or Roman planned cities?
Or the Hampden Gurney School in London?
"Block" is not an Americo-centric term. Granted, many of our cities are layed out in a grid pattern, but a block is not a standard size from city to city - try defining a block in the heavily Spanish and French influenced layout of New Orleans or the sometimes quirky layout of Washington, DC.
As far as city-centric. So fucking what? I live in the country. There's nothing offense about someone expressing an idea in term of a relation to a block. It's a commonly understood *idea*. And if 'block' isn't a familiar word, then look it up. Several definitions I found used a quote from the London Quarterly Review as example usage.
Why does the fact that at one point the right to bear primitive flint lock projectile launchers was neccissary have any bearing today?
Because the courts have interpreted the Constitution that way, and they know a bit more about the Constitution than you do (unless you're a Constitutionaly lawyer or historian).
It probably has something to do with the Courts recognizing technical progress as covered by the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment has progressed from covering public speech and printed media to media types the Founding Fathers couldn't have imagined (radio, television, the internet, tee shirts). Likewise, there's an obvious progress from flintlock rifle/pistol to cartridge loading rifle/handgun.
As far as the other weapons you mentioned, I'm not a Constitutional historian. I do know that bombs were available at the time of the Founding Fathers, but it seems the Constitution has traditionally been interepreted to only cover firearms. Laws banning the casual ownership of said weapons have not been judge unconstitutional. Just because the average person can't answer the question doesn't mean there isn't a completely valid and sensible answer.
In the US alone, or, more exactly, in the U.S. only. (well, it happened in Europe. Once.) The problem is NOT Quake, Doom, violent video games, or even Marilyn Manson. Consider this: ONLY in the U.S. are guns so easily available. If there is a problem here, I'd argue that it is NOT John Carmack; the problem here is N.R.A., and the fact that anybody out there can arm himself/herself to its teeth.
Only in the US?
Checkout A Timeline of Recent Worldwide School Shootings. A majority of shooting happen in the US, but there have been several major incidents in Europe and the rest of the world.
Of course there are twenty million reasons why he might want to do it, no one said different. No one's saying people shouldn't do it. All that was said was that the submitter might want to look at the cost in time and compare that to the $100 price.
I believe the AC responded the way he/she did because the tone of the write-up is one of avoiding the $99/year fee. There wasn't much of a 'joy of hacking' tone in the write-up.
He/she does have a valid point. If you're only trying to save money, then you need to take into account the time you'll spend.
The iTunes 4 app doesn't mutitask as well as prior versions did either (at least on a dual proc machine) and there's a big red flag in the success of the Apple product... Its an Apple only software/hardware package. Sure the iPod runs on PC's with MusicMatch, but does the music service. This alone could be the death of the music service. I hope Apple is ready to release some sort of patch/plugin for Windows based systems.
Stories on the Windows port of iTunes: apple.slashdot.org & MacSlash
It will include the Music Store and probably iPod support (hasn't been confirmed but it's one of those d'uh things to do). At the iTMS/iPod show, Jobs announced that the Music Service would be on Windows by the end of the year.
Not everyone in the US has convenient access to a Best Buy or a Borders or, for that matter, any chain music store.
For a significant number of consumers, CDs cost upwards of $15. I know that my local music store has much of their older Tom Waits priced around $18.
Thanks for that up. The three grand figure makes much more sense.
As far as "blowing three grand on electronic toys," I'll be as pissed as I like. I might be a young single man with lots of discretionary income, but it was my money,
Yep, it was your money to do with as you like, and you have every right to be pissed at yourself.
And I don't know you, so I can't count you.
*scratching head*
$3K for an eMac and an iPod? The most expensive eMac and iPod combo is $2K. Praytell, how did you spend $3K on it? You could have gone with a cheaper combo for under $1500.
You had three grand to blow on electronic toys? You have very little to be pissed at.
This has interesting implications for Apple trying to sell more expensive hardware when the same apps are available on cheaper Wintel hardware.
I don't know anyone who bought their Mac just for iTunes or Mail. They all bought a Mac for the overall user experience of the apps and OS X. It's great that WinXP will get iTunes. It still won't have Safari, iDVD, iPhoto, Mail, Terminal, Fire, etc.... And it definitely won't have the BSD layer of OS X.
There are still fundamental differences between OS X and WinXP that will attract people to OS X. One or two ports of favorite apps won't change that.
Considering that at the presentation Monday Jobs said that the Music Store would be available to Windows users by the end of the year- yes, they'll be porting the Music Store along with it.