some people have suggested that album sales are off by seven percent because of the RIAA tactics scaring away customers. i can't speak for everyone, of course, but i can say that is definitely the reason i buy fewer albums. i used to buy, say, an album every week or two -- maybe thirty a year, or forty -- and now i buy maybe two or three a year. it's not worth it! what i want is to pay for music and have it in a free medialess format (MP3). since that isn't available, i am forced to either go without music (which i consider unacceptable) or to "steal" music by downloading it in the format i want (which i consider less unacceptable.)
no the point of the original article is that Linux applications have stupid names *and that's a problem*. but grandparent post makes the point that Linux stupid application names *aren't a problem* because of superior GUI design.
the article specifically covers the price war MS wages over its OS. i only read a few paragraphs and i got that much. you, clearly, read none of it at all.
the first major computer vendor i approached was more than happy to sell me a computer without Windows. i didn't have to bother asking a second one. you must never have heard of them: it's a multinational corporation called Apple. they have a line of computers called Macintosh, which goes back over twenty years, and was a formulating technology in the worldwide computer market. Apple sells millions of computers every year and many people think their operating system is better than Windows, even the best OS in the world.
you are forgiven for never having heard of Apple or Macintosh, but now that you know, you should revise your argument.
i make the same argument about clothing with advertising on it. yo, why do so many people wear Nike tshirts? not only do they wear them, but at the store a Nike tshirt is almost twice as expensive ($19) as a plain tshirt with nothing on it ($10). why would people pay Nike (or any other company) to advertise for them? isn't advertising big business worth big bucks? yo, i'm HAPPY to wear Nike shirts, but Nike will have to pay me first, or at least the shirts better be free.
i also make the same argument for those grocery store discount cards. the cards used to be worth ~5%, and i said that wasn't good enough, they'd have to pay me for than that. but now the cards are worth ~10% where i live, and i decided that was good enough, so i got one. every man has his price, and i know they were tracking my purchases by credit card number anyway.
counterpoint: because human thumbs are so radically much more dextrous than human fingers, it is actually a gargantuan waste to relegate BOTH thumbs to ONE key entry.
on my keybaord, the delete (backspace) key is under my left thumb, which is an awesome improvement (to use two thumbs for two of the most common keys), but still, i feel like the best keyboards would give each thumb four or five modifiers to select from. some keyboards already do this.
far more important than the 4th is the 9th: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
In Griswald the SCUSA found (correctly, IMHO) that the right to privacy was one of the non-enumerated rights, hinted at under the "penumbra" of amendments such as the 4th.
you forgot the best part, which is that it's the same CDs for less money. i try not to pay more than five dollars for a CD, which is usually about what i consider fair for the music. for music i really covet, i'll pay a little more, but it really has been a heck of a long time since i paid full price for a brand new CD. in fact, i distinctly recall in the past paying $19 for a CD, and i would never, ever consider paying that much today. (the CD, however, was Aenima, so it was probably worth it.) my favorite place to buy is half.com because it's really easy but i'm sure there are lots of places.
what about when the kid wants to copy something out of one program and paste it into another, but can't, because linux doesn't get many trivial things like cut-and-paste right?
two things: first, you're wrong, not everything is equally hard to learn when you have no experience with computers, we know from user testing that certain paradigms are far easier than others to grasp for newbies; and second, since pretty much all free software developed for Linux will run on OS X, you could have the OS be non-Free yet have all the application software be Free.
obviously that's not what they were going for, though, and that's great.
got it. thanks for admitting that your assumptions were baseless and ignorant. at least you're big enough to admit that.
and really, i'm not digging you too much, most assumptions are baseless and ignorant. and frankly, i'm assuming the same as you in this particular case, but i'm more careful about writing things in the conclusive voice which are in fact not conclusive.
do you have more information than was provided by the article? the article is specifically about an accusation on the part of the corporation that the woman is spreading libelous lies. was there something that made you assume the woman was in fact telling the whole truth? if the corporation is right, then it's likely they have nothing to clean up.
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nice argument, but no. speeding is still illegal. so is smoking weed. try to argue with the judge next time you get hauled in for posession though.
Only if you don't understand irony.
Irony, "the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect".
It's okay, though, irony isn't taught until, what, ninth grade? So if you're still in middle school, don't worry, you aren't remedial.
Your kidding right?
Your illiterate right?
some people have suggested that album sales are off by seven percent because of the RIAA tactics scaring away customers. i can't speak for everyone, of course, but i can say that is definitely the reason i buy fewer albums. i used to buy, say, an album every week or two -- maybe thirty a year, or forty -- and now i buy maybe two or three a year. it's not worth it! what i want is to pay for music and have it in a free medialess format (MP3). since that isn't available, i am forced to either go without music (which i consider unacceptable) or to "steal" music by downloading it in the format i want (which i consider less unacceptable.)
no the point of the original article is that Linux applications have stupid names *and that's a problem*. but grandparent post makes the point that Linux stupid application names *aren't a problem* because of superior GUI design.
i don't use Linux much so i can't say, myself.
the article specifically covers the price war MS wages over its OS. i only read a few paragraphs and i got that much. you, clearly, read none of it at all.
PS prices for everything keep getting higher.
the first major computer vendor i approached was more than happy to sell me a computer without Windows. i didn't have to bother asking a second one. you must never have heard of them: it's a multinational corporation called Apple. they have a line of computers called Macintosh, which goes back over twenty years, and was a formulating technology in the worldwide computer market. Apple sells millions of computers every year and many people think their operating system is better than Windows, even the best OS in the world.
you are forgiven for never having heard of Apple or Macintosh, but now that you know, you should revise your argument.
i make the same argument about clothing with advertising on it. yo, why do so many people wear Nike tshirts? not only do they wear them, but at the store a Nike tshirt is almost twice as expensive ($19) as a plain tshirt with nothing on it ($10). why would people pay Nike (or any other company) to advertise for them? isn't advertising big business worth big bucks? yo, i'm HAPPY to wear Nike shirts, but Nike will have to pay me first, or at least the shirts better be free.
i also make the same argument for those grocery store discount cards. the cards used to be worth ~5%, and i said that wasn't good enough, they'd have to pay me for than that. but now the cards are worth ~10% where i live, and i decided that was good enough, so i got one. every man has his price, and i know they were tracking my purchases by credit card number anyway.
yes, it's the mistakes. ;-)
Yeah, people could never learn to push two buttons for one function.
Like the shift key. I never got used to that shift key.
Or the clutch on my truck. Pushing the clutch down when I brake is really confusing.
counterpoint: because human thumbs are so radically much more dextrous than human fingers, it is actually a gargantuan waste to relegate BOTH thumbs to ONE key entry.
on my keybaord, the delete (backspace) key is under my left thumb, which is an awesome improvement (to use two thumbs for two of the most common keys), but still, i feel like the best keyboards would give each thumb four or five modifiers to select from. some keyboards already do this.
far more important than the 4th is the 9th: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
In Griswald the SCUSA found (correctly, IMHO) that the right to privacy was one of the non-enumerated rights, hinted at under the "penumbra" of amendments such as the 4th.
Bro, we do spend billions to fight traffic accidents, disease, crime, etc. etc. What the hell are you talking about?
Canadians don't know the difference between "your" and "you're"? Damn, even Americans with their crappy public education know that.
Hey, at least you have that famously low infant mortality rate.
hyperbolic fearmonger
that's not insightful. parent jumped to untenable conclusions.
how about detecting it without measuring it directly, like when we watch light from far away in the universe bend around various cosmic objects.
also, is that guy describing ether? sounds like ether to me.
are you thinking of the phrase "floating a trial baloon"?
yeah. we'll all just hum to ourselves.
you forgot the best part, which is that it's the same CDs for less money. i try not to pay more than five dollars for a CD, which is usually about what i consider fair for the music. for music i really covet, i'll pay a little more, but it really has been a heck of a long time since i paid full price for a brand new CD. in fact, i distinctly recall in the past paying $19 for a CD, and i would never, ever consider paying that much today. (the CD, however, was Aenima, so it was probably worth it.) my favorite place to buy is half.com because it's really easy but i'm sure there are lots of places.
what about when the kid wants to copy something out of one program and paste it into another, but can't, because linux doesn't get many trivial things like cut-and-paste right?
you want a child in the congo to download Red Hat? with what, their wireless broadband connection?
i can see you've thought this thru.
two things: first, you're wrong, not everything is equally hard to learn when you have no experience with computers, we know from user testing that certain paradigms are far easier than others to grasp for newbies; and second, since pretty much all free software developed for Linux will run on OS X, you could have the OS be non-Free yet have all the application software be Free.
obviously that's not what they were going for, though, and that's great.
got it. thanks for admitting that your assumptions were baseless and ignorant. at least you're big enough to admit that.
and really, i'm not digging you too much, most assumptions are baseless and ignorant. and frankly, i'm assuming the same as you in this particular case, but i'm more careful about writing things in the conclusive voice which are in fact not conclusive.
do you have more information than was provided by the article? the article is specifically about an accusation on the part of the corporation that the woman is spreading libelous lies. was there something that made you assume the woman was in fact telling the whole truth? if the corporation is right, then it's likely they have nothing to clean up.