no they're not. they're making us learn their way. since we don't no longer have the testicular fortitude to stand up for our own culture out of some misguided attempt at 'multiculturalism,' we're setting the stage for a 'bloodless takeover.'
Instead of making english the official national language, we're teaching our kids spanish and mandarin in school. we're giving full blown scholarships to immigrants because of their immigrant status, while american citizens have to pay.
It is a fact of human nature that societies have to stand up for themselves and their identities, or else they ossify into someone else's.
Our country's downfall will be the great lengths we go through to avoid having to compete on merit. It is sestemic in our business culture, and in the general "entitled" attitudes in a large part of our workforce, as evidenced by your comment. We should be ENCOURAGING hard working and talented persons to immigrate to this country. If we do not, we will no longer be able to compete in a globalized economy.
"Pirating everything" just puts money in the pocket of ISPs, it doesn't help the artist in any material way -- Comcast, Google and AT&T thank you for your "Piracy (for Civil Disobedience)", they profit smartly off it! A hell of a lot more than the musician does.
The problem is that these "middle men" are highly exploitative of artists and the consumers. These profits are then used to solidify their monopoly position even further, and on an international scale. They are able to do this because they own all of the distribution channels. This is why the Justin Bieber's make millions, and actual _artists_ can hardly make a living wage. If these companies did not exist (in their current form), art would be sold on its merits, and more artists would be able to earn a living wage. The really good ones will continue to make millions. I mention "in their current form," because there are still quite a lot of useful services these Labels provide (promotion, management, and yes, even distribution). However, these services would provide more value to the artist if they were broken up into into smaller, more focused, businesses that work _for_ the artist, instead of the other way around.
Putting aside the intangible benefits of free promotion, piracy helps artists by tanking the business model that exploits them.
Clearly there is small (but according to the RIAA; significant) part of our society that clearly feels that those "people who made the thing" make enough off of it.
FALSE. We believe the "people who made the thing" are not making enough off it, while the middle men that sit between the artist and consumer use their power and influence to extract money from the process, are. If you support the artists, pirate every fucking thing you can, and spend that money on live shows instead. The music distribution business as, it exists, is no longer needed. What artists need are PR firms and managers. People who work for THEM.
Am I the only one who gets confused when this company comes up in a storry related to Bit Torrent? It's gotten me a few times before, but this one really got me good. "BT starts blocking Pirate Bay"... Da' fuck did I just read?
Yes indeed. Everyone seems to keep confusing the business of making art with the business of distributing it. Piracy hurts one of those business, while helping the other. I will cherish the day when we can get back to appreciating (and paying for!) art based on its merits, not it's marketing budget.
How is this different from what I just said? Doesn't it work by compiling your.NET app from sources into a CLI, which then gets converted to native ARM? If you are implying that Windows for Arm will host the.NET run-time, then this is news to me.
My understanding from that link you posted is that WinRT will NOT run.NET apps. What you can do is take your.NET app (sources) and compile if for WinRT. Alternatively, you can write native WinRT code directly. This is actually very similar to my experiences developing for iOS.
I am actually a better programmer after smoking a _small_ amount. My right-brained creative problem solving abilities are greatly increased, at the expense of some of my left-brained activities (such as doing math in my head). This is particularly important for me, a heavily left-brained thinker. Whenever I get stuck on a problem, I go have a "smoke break," and suddenly I have all kinds of ideas flowing through my head (some of which are even good). Results will vary depending on the person though.
Funny how it's always the AC with this claim. I've never used a windows phone, or know anyone who has, so I can't speak to its quality. However, i have seen quite a number of faceless shills who support it. It seems the platform is very popular with the shills... which always makes me a bit leery.
Do yourself a favor. Buy an iPad. You'll thank me later.
The iPad is a toy (I have two, so I can say that with certainty). The enterprise needs hardware they can control. Apple is way to much of a control freak to have any hope of competing in the enterprise. I curse Apple every time someone brings me their damned iPad so I can provision our internal app for it (which requires a full rebuild). Want to give that app to an external client? Tough shit. Sign up for the B2B program and charge them a minimum of $9.99 for it (assuming you get Apples blessing of course).
While we're reminisceing about the good ol' days of Nokia, one of the things I really loved about Symbian was the thriving app eco system. You could get a whole wide range of programs for your phone, emulators, interpreters, games, office, network utilities, you name it. Most of the time they would be donation based freeware or open source. This was all at a time when installing an app on your phone was practically unheard of.
Then the iphone came out, and suddenly, they invented a "smart phone."
A lot of Apple fans and MS haters may be tempted to cheer, but the loss of 10,000 jobs in this economy means 10,000 families whose lives will been up-ended and that sucks no matter what phone you're rooting for.
And what's more, according to the article, a third of these job losses will come from Finland, with more in Germany and Canada. Decent western factory jobs seem to be going the way of the Dodo bird. Are there any phones still actually being manufactured in the first world? Even if Nokia recovers, what are the odds that those jobs won't reappear in Finland, but in China?
I don't think many people here will be cheering for this one. Nokia has always (well until recently) been near and dear to many techies hearts.
I still have fond memories of setting up my own land-line dial up server so I could connect to the Internet with the analog modem in my Nokia 9290. Their platform was very open, and seemed to encourage curios tinkering. For normal consumers, their products were well built, user friendly, and always ahead of their time. Nokia's failing was not their technology, but rather their marketing.
It will be a sad day when the last remnants of the old Nokia is gone for good.
I meant to answer your questions as no, not yes... It is not significantly more expensive, but also not one of the cheapest (your questions seem to contradict, so I was a bit confused)
Yes, my Transformer cost about the same as my iPad(s). Although, my Transformer can do MUCH more than the iPad (HDMI, SD slot, etc) so maybe this is why some would think it's over priced. But IMHO, they are fairly close in terms of value. It just depends on what trade offs best suit your needs. Like anything else, there are pros and cons to both platforms.
Uhhh, what? Am I being trolled or something? Obama is a neo-con with a bit of "liberal" rhetoric on the side.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate. --Noam Chomsky
So how's that news media (Time Warner, Disney, Viacom, News Corp, General Electric) koolaid tasting?
Interesting read, but entirely subjective. How does one measure "affinity"? It seems as though the original author simply plotted a graph that matches his own perceptions. I suppose one could determine the data points through a survey, but I didn't see anything such in the essay (although I did just skim the second half, so maybe I missed it). Regardless, it doesn't seem very scientific to me. Interesting read though.
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no they're not. they're making us learn their way. since we don't no longer have the testicular fortitude to stand up for our own culture out of some misguided attempt at 'multiculturalism,' we're setting the stage for a 'bloodless takeover.'
Instead of making english the official national language, we're teaching our kids spanish and mandarin in school. we're giving full blown scholarships to immigrants because of their immigrant status, while american citizens have to pay.
It is a fact of human nature that societies have to stand up for themselves and their identities, or else they ossify into someone else's.
Our country's downfall will be the great lengths we go through to avoid having to compete on merit. It is sestemic in our business culture, and in the general "entitled" attitudes in a large part of our workforce, as evidenced by your comment. We should be ENCOURAGING hard working and talented persons to immigrate to this country. If we do not, we will no longer be able to compete in a globalized economy.
"Pirating everything" just puts money in the pocket of ISPs, it doesn't help the artist in any material way -- Comcast, Google and AT&T thank you for your "Piracy (for Civil Disobedience)", they profit smartly off it! A hell of a lot more than the musician does.
The problem is that these "middle men" are highly exploitative of artists and the consumers. These profits are then used to solidify their monopoly position even further, and on an international scale. They are able to do this because they own all of the distribution channels. This is why the Justin Bieber's make millions, and actual _artists_ can hardly make a living wage. If these companies did not exist (in their current form), art would be sold on its merits, and more artists would be able to earn a living wage. The really good ones will continue to make millions. I mention "in their current form," because there are still quite a lot of useful services these Labels provide (promotion, management, and yes, even distribution). However, these services would provide more value to the artist if they were broken up into into smaller, more focused, businesses that work _for_ the artist, instead of the other way around.
Putting aside the intangible benefits of free promotion, piracy helps artists by tanking the business model that exploits them.
Clearly there is small (but according to the RIAA; significant) part of our society that clearly feels that those "people who made the thing" make enough off of it.
FALSE. We believe the "people who made the thing" are not making enough off it, while the middle men that sit between the artist and consumer use their power and influence to extract money from the process, are. If you support the artists, pirate every fucking thing you can, and spend that money on live shows instead. The music distribution business as, it exists, is no longer needed. What artists need are PR firms and managers. People who work for THEM.
Am I the only one who gets confused when this company comes up in a storry related to Bit Torrent? It's gotten me a few times before, but this one really got me good. "BT starts blocking Pirate Bay" ... Da' fuck did I just read?
Yes indeed. Everyone seems to keep confusing the business of making art with the business of distributing it. Piracy hurts one of those business, while helping the other. I will cherish the day when we can get back to appreciating (and paying for!) art based on its merits, not it's marketing budget.
I am glad I do not have to maintain your code base.
On the contrary, I get complimented all the time on the "readability" of my code. It is the one art form I excell at.
Indeed. I was mistaken.
Good deal. Thanks.
How is this different from what I just said? Doesn't it work by compiling your .NET app from sources into a CLI, which then gets converted to native ARM? If you are implying that Windows for Arm will host the .NET run-time, then this is news to me.
My understanding from that link you posted is that WinRT will NOT run .NET apps. What you can do is take your .NET app (sources) and compile if for WinRT. Alternatively, you can write native WinRT code directly. This is actually very similar to my experiences developing for iOS.
Ahhh... well... carry on then.
I am actually a better programmer after smoking a _small_ amount. My right-brained creative problem solving abilities are greatly increased, at the expense of some of my left-brained activities (such as doing math in my head). This is particularly important for me, a heavily left-brained thinker. Whenever I get stuck on a problem, I go have a "smoke break," and suddenly I have all kinds of ideas flowing through my head (some of which are even good). Results will vary depending on the person though.
Again with pro WP7 AC. For the love of god, can we hear one good thing about WP7 that is not from an AC? It's almost comical at this point.
Haha, I was looking for the same thing, and thought I was going crazy. What gives?
Your post was interesting until, I got to point 22, which contradicts your point 7. I wrote the rest off as BS after that.
Funny how it's always the AC with this claim. I've never used a windows phone, or know anyone who has, so I can't speak to its quality. However, i have seen quite a number of faceless shills who support it. It seems the platform is very popular with the shills... which always makes me a bit leery.
Do yourself a favor. Buy an iPad. You'll thank me later.
The iPad is a toy (I have two, so I can say that with certainty). The enterprise needs hardware they can control. Apple is way to much of a control freak to have any hope of competing in the enterprise. I curse Apple every time someone brings me their damned iPad so I can provision our internal app for it (which requires a full rebuild). Want to give that app to an external client? Tough shit. Sign up for the B2B program and charge them a minimum of $9.99 for it (assuming you get Apples blessing of course).
While we're reminisceing about the good ol' days of Nokia, one of the things I really loved about Symbian was the thriving app eco system. You could get a whole wide range of programs for your phone, emulators, interpreters, games, office, network utilities, you name it. Most of the time they would be donation based freeware or open source. This was all at a time when installing an app on your phone was practically unheard of.
Then the iphone came out, and suddenly, they invented a "smart phone."
Now I can't troll Apple fanboys with a straight face. :(
A lot of Apple fans and MS haters may be tempted to cheer, but the loss of 10,000 jobs in this economy means 10,000 families whose lives will been up-ended and that sucks no matter what phone you're rooting for.
And what's more, according to the article, a third of these job losses will come from Finland, with more in Germany and Canada. Decent western factory jobs seem to be going the way of the Dodo bird. Are there any phones still actually being manufactured in the first world? Even if Nokia recovers, what are the odds that those jobs won't reappear in Finland, but in China?
I don't think many people here will be cheering for this one. Nokia has always (well until recently) been near and dear to many techies hearts.
I still have fond memories of setting up my own land-line dial up server so I could connect to the Internet with the analog modem in my Nokia 9290. Their platform was very open, and seemed to encourage curios tinkering. For normal consumers, their products were well built, user friendly, and always ahead of their time. Nokia's failing was not their technology, but rather their marketing.
It will be a sad day when the last remnants of the old Nokia is gone for good.
It's called local peer discovery.
I meant to answer your questions as no, not yes... It is not significantly more expensive, but also not one of the cheapest (your questions seem to contradict, so I was a bit confused)
Yes, my Transformer cost about the same as my iPad(s). Although, my Transformer can do MUCH more than the iPad (HDMI, SD slot, etc) so maybe this is why some would think it's over priced. But IMHO, they are fairly close in terms of value. It just depends on what trade offs best suit your needs. Like anything else, there are pros and cons to both platforms.
Uhhh, what? Am I being trolled or something? Obama is a neo-con with a bit of "liberal" rhetoric on the side.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
--Noam Chomsky
So how's that news media (Time Warner, Disney, Viacom, News Corp, General Electric) koolaid tasting?
Interesting read, but entirely subjective. How does one measure "affinity"? It seems as though the original author simply plotted a graph that matches his own perceptions. I suppose one could determine the data points through a survey, but I didn't see anything such in the essay (although I did just skim the second half, so maybe I missed it). Regardless, it doesn't seem very scientific to me. Interesting read though.