"I'm eight years old, and I used to watch The Little Mermaid every day. One day my disc wouldn't play. My dad says it's got a scratch on it so it won't play anymore. I cried and cried, so my dad downloaded the movie from some website and burned me another copy. I turned my dad in to the nice people at the MPAA and he's serving hard time now. My mom and I aren't very happy at the shelter, but we feel better now that the movie studios are getting their fair share."
Don't pirate movies. Because the movie studios aren't rich enough."
A better reason would be "Don't pirate movies because most of them stink anyway and you don't want your mind warped by what constitutes scripts, dialogue or acting these days.
As always, your best bet is to make your own movies and drive teh evil capitalists from their high and mighty throne
"Let's face out out on the terrain no-one is holding these guys accountable. IT may set up the system, Risk Management may generate the reports and they'll be either modified to say what management wants to say or just plain ignored because like all gamblers these guys think they have a system which lets them keep on winning even as they are betting their house (or in this case our houses.)"
This "blame IT" crap has gone on long enough. It's time we stood up for ourselves instead of allowing ourselves to be used as a convenient scapegoat all the time.
How often have you seen an IT representative in front of the cameras say, "Well, we see this behaviour, the lights are flashing, the klaxons are going like a cat with its tail in a wringer, but the people who collect 7 figure salaries haven't been taking an interest so far."
Should be criminal charges for management negligence -- and I don't mean just giving the the sack. Those protesters on Wall Street have a point, everyone gets hurt when the bank CEOs screw up, but those most responsible. Thanks to their stalwart defenders in the US Congress no stronger regulation get passed. If that's not sign that government is in the bank's pockets, I can't imagine what could be more clear.
Here's a decent and quick summary, clipped in part from the complaint. Short version: Astrolabe, Inc. has purchased the copyright to the American Atlas and is claiming that because Olson and others used the atlas as a source for some timezone information, the entire database infringes.
Of course, the timezone information itself is public - the atlas only collected it.
Reminds me of those YOU BETTER NOT COPY THIS DVD OR WE'LL CALL THE DVD LAW ON YOU AND THROW YOUR BUTT IN DVD JAIL messages I see at the start of DVDs loaded with content from the Public Domain.
While absolutely important.....I'd have to argue apple and MS have made a bit larger impact on what we now use and interact with on a daily basis as far as common technology. Just IMHO.
Apple and Jobs strived for usability, while Microsoft headed off into the direction of convoluted operating system mess, they continue to tinker with. Jobs understood the average consumer wasn't interested in learning a lot of technical bits, they just wanted something to work - the iPod really was an obvious idea when everyone looked at it _after_ Apple introduced it - it not only revolutionised portable music players, but the means to deliver product (digitized music) to the masses through a storefront - any man on the street could work it. Jobs true gift, earned by the tuition of his earlier failure with the Apple board, was identifying was to make technology serve people in simple, ordinary ways, which could actually be elegant and attractive.
As a programmer and developer I often struggle with communicating to users, designing interfaces which are easy and straightforward for them, because I have 30 years of technical background, that user point of view is never to be taken lightly and a much harder task to realise than it seems. End users are not idiots. They want tools, products, devices, which serve or entertain them, not baffle and confound them and require them to learn a lot of technical information (which changes almost daily as technology evolves.) In his idle days Steve undoubtably spend many hours considering the chief failure of technology - it was hard to use and usually only attractive to the small percentage of techies who could relate to it.
Well done, Steve. Glad you returned to the helm. You did good.
To think with GUI Operating System versions it began with Microsoft's rather optimistic view, with regards to ActiveX, nobody on another networked computer would every think of invading your computer, manipulating it, installing software on it and controlling it.
Big fan of OTR and impressed when I heard a radio play from the 1950's which predicted unprotected computer hardware being infected... so the concept wasn't new.
I also spent my early years on a mainframe system, where we were always vigilant to keep aspiring computer science students from exploiting security holes in software and operating system (the fake login program, these days called a Spoof, was a standard entry point for most.) We had pretty hardened systems by the mid-80's, when the mainframes were starting to be replaced by PC-servers.
I still have this nagging feeling that prevailing attitudes, not just at Microsoft, but among a large number of developers is, "Nah, nobody'd ever do such a thing, so I won't bother trapping it."
Not sure if I'm supposed to spill the beans on this, but I'm an AC, dammit. I'm in their focus-group thing, and apparently they're working real hard on a Crossfire-like solution right now so your "free" on-chip GPU isn't being wasted if you throw down for a discrete card. They haven't been making much words about this, though. Odd.
I figured they were trying to fly under the RADAR until they got to some point.
When you can't figure out the easy way to launch stuff, look in the Start Menu.
This is change for change's sake.
Indeed. I actually use the Start Menu dozens of times each day. I have shortcuts on the desktop, but usually the are obscured by all the work I'm doing. Because most people don't use it is a pretty poor reason to remove it.
The way they've complicated Task Manager I can't see too many neophyte users struggling with that beast now - might as well remove it, too.
that he did so many cons so far in time. He deserves to live long and prosper himself, devoting his last years uninterrupted to what he feels he has the will and time to do.
So true, so true. An elder statesman of an actor and an example (largely ignored) to the actors of today. Remarkable professionalism and a great sense of humour.
It seems to be all of them. Gizmodo, Ars, PCMag...
A dull event covered poorly. Yay!
Well there is one thing to follow - how well Tim Cook fills Steve Job's shoes. Better believe the show is more about the show and how Apple appears in it than the product(s).
Go search youtube for Harry Potter Puppet Pals - Mysterious Ticking / Wizard Swears.
Ultimately, you'll get more enjoyment there than at watching the Apple stuff show, unless you have $600 burning hole in your pocket and need a new shiny.
I noticed several brand names I associate with "America" are now owned by some one else, I wonder if selling off Yahoo would the loss of all the American jobs hired there.
they report that Alibaba is actually one of three parties looking into a joint bid for Yahoo, the others being the equity firm Silver Lake and Russian tech investor Digital Sky Technologies.
So how's the joke supposed to go now? "In capitalist Russia, Chinese employee buys YAHOO!"?
To further besmirch the image of the average iPhone/iPad user, let's have a café where they can appear to be casually hanging out, before going someplace or doing something incredibly important, but for now can spare $20 for a cuppa and a scone.
Hey! This iPhone was an open box, there's crumbs in here!
MS is still the only one of these big three to have a committed interest in long-term research
MS does research? For real? I thought all they did was buy startups and competitors, some of which had done research in the past, or are winding down R+D after the purchase.
Please don't confuse research grants from the bill gates charitable foundation with "MS does long term research".
The only evidence I see is Microsoft looks to see what the market is doing now and develops a product for it, which by the time they release it they've missed the boat. Should be a learning experience, but they keep repeating this idiotic strategy.
...when they force a pen into my cold, dead hands and wiggle my fingers to draw an 'X'...
...over where I wrote in big, bold letters NEVER A CONTRACT AGAIN!
Seriously. I get by rather well on a stupid phone with pay as you go, though I did have a run-in this morning with the scum who subscribe people into their 'Love Genie Tips' - Wise Media, I think they are called. Watch out for texts which enroll you into their program and cell providers actually allow this sort of crap.
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"I'm eight years old, and I used to watch The Little Mermaid every day. One day my disc wouldn't play. My dad says it's got a scratch on it so it won't play anymore. I cried and cried, so my dad downloaded the movie from some website and burned me another copy. I turned my dad in to the nice people at the MPAA and he's serving hard time now. My mom and I aren't very happy at the shelter, but we feel better now that the movie studios are getting their fair share."
Don't pirate movies. Because the movie studios aren't rich enough."
A better reason would be "Don't pirate movies because most of them stink anyway and you don't want your mind warped by what constitutes scripts, dialogue or acting these days.
As always, your best bet is to make your own movies and drive teh evil capitalists from their high and mighty throne
From my comment on the original article :
"Let's face out out on the terrain no-one is holding these guys accountable. IT may set up the system, Risk Management may generate the reports and they'll be either modified to say what management wants to say or just plain ignored because like all gamblers these guys think they have a system which lets them keep on winning even as they are betting their house (or in this case our houses.)"
This "blame IT" crap has gone on long enough. It's time we stood up for ourselves instead of allowing ourselves to be used as a convenient scapegoat all the time.
How often have you seen an IT representative in front of the cameras say, "Well, we see this behaviour, the lights are flashing, the klaxons are going like a cat with its tail in a wringer, but the people who collect 7 figure salaries haven't been taking an interest so far."
Should be criminal charges for management negligence -- and I don't mean just giving the the sack. Those protesters on Wall Street have a point, everyone gets hurt when the bank CEOs screw up, but those most responsible. Thanks to their stalwart defenders in the US Congress no stronger regulation get passed. If that's not sign that government is in the bank's pockets, I can't imagine what could be more clear.
Here's a decent and quick summary, clipped in part from the complaint. Short version: Astrolabe, Inc. has purchased the copyright to the American Atlas and is claiming that because Olson and others used the atlas as a source for some timezone information, the entire database infringes.
http://www.thedailyparker.com/PermaLink,guid,c5f28bae-4b9c-41ea-b7b7-8891ad63c938.aspx
Of course, the timezone information itself is public - the atlas only collected it.
Reminds me of those YOU BETTER NOT COPY THIS DVD OR WE'LL CALL THE DVD LAW ON YOU AND THROW YOUR BUTT IN DVD JAIL messages I see at the start of DVDs loaded with content from the Public Domain.
While absolutely important.....I'd have to argue apple and MS have made a bit larger impact on what we now use and interact with on a daily basis as far as common technology. Just IMHO.
Apple and Jobs strived for usability, while Microsoft headed off into the direction of convoluted operating system mess, they continue to tinker with. Jobs understood the average consumer wasn't interested in learning a lot of technical bits, they just wanted something to work - the iPod really was an obvious idea when everyone looked at it _after_ Apple introduced it - it not only revolutionised portable music players, but the means to deliver product (digitized music) to the masses through a storefront - any man on the street could work it. Jobs true gift, earned by the tuition of his earlier failure with the Apple board, was identifying was to make technology serve people in simple, ordinary ways, which could actually be elegant and attractive.
As a programmer and developer I often struggle with communicating to users, designing interfaces which are easy and straightforward for them, because I have 30 years of technical background, that user point of view is never to be taken lightly and a much harder task to realise than it seems. End users are not idiots. They want tools, products, devices, which serve or entertain them, not baffle and confound them and require them to learn a lot of technical information (which changes almost daily as technology evolves.) In his idle days Steve undoubtably spend many hours considering the chief failure of technology - it was hard to use and usually only attractive to the small percentage of techies who could relate to it.
Well done, Steve. Glad you returned to the helm. You did good.
Requiesce in pace.
and one book closer to the cookie jar.
So now you won't even be able to enjoy a beer in the front seat without being caught on video.
To think with GUI Operating System versions it began with Microsoft's rather optimistic view, with regards to ActiveX, nobody on another networked computer would every think of invading your computer, manipulating it, installing software on it and controlling it.
Big fan of OTR and impressed when I heard a radio play from the 1950's which predicted unprotected computer hardware being infected... so the concept wasn't new.
I also spent my early years on a mainframe system, where we were always vigilant to keep aspiring computer science students from exploiting security holes in software and operating system (the fake login program, these days called a Spoof, was a standard entry point for most.) We had pretty hardened systems by the mid-80's, when the mainframes were starting to be replaced by PC-servers.
I still have this nagging feeling that prevailing attitudes, not just at Microsoft, but among a large number of developers is, "Nah, nobody'd ever do such a thing, so I won't bother trapping it."
Not sure if I'm supposed to spill the beans on this, but I'm an AC, dammit. I'm in their focus-group thing, and apparently they're working real hard on a Crossfire-like solution right now so your "free" on-chip GPU isn't being wasted if you throw down for a discrete card. They haven't been making much words about this, though. Odd.
I figured they were trying to fly under the RADAR until they got to some point.
When you can't figure out the easy way to launch stuff, look in the Start Menu.
This is change for change's sake.
Indeed. I actually use the Start Menu dozens of times each day. I have shortcuts on the desktop, but usually the are obscured by all the work I'm doing. Because most people don't use it is a pretty poor reason to remove it.
The way they've complicated Task Manager I can't see too many neophyte users struggling with that beast now - might as well remove it, too.
that he did so many cons so far in time. He deserves to live long and prosper himself, devoting his last years uninterrupted to what he feels he has the will and time to do.
So true, so true. An elder statesman of an actor and an example (largely ignored) to the actors of today. Remarkable professionalism and a great sense of humour.
how long before plane crash is the next airline fee?
The slide will be. Cheapskates have to stay in the plane.
It seems to be all of them. Gizmodo, Ars, PCMag...
A dull event covered poorly. Yay!
Well there is one thing to follow - how well Tim Cook fills Steve Job's shoes. Better believe the show is more about the show and how Apple appears in it than the product(s).
I do not care, its another iphone...
Ah, but the rumour is - you can actually make calls with this one!
Go search youtube for Harry Potter Puppet Pals - Mysterious Ticking / Wizard Swears.
Ultimately, you'll get more enjoyment there than at watching the Apple stuff show, unless you have $600 burning hole in your pocket and need a new shiny.
Maybe we could wait until the announcement is finished for the story to get posted.
Why? Speculation is where all the excitement and fun are (aside finding the flaw, like the antenna one, later.)
Once I see it has nothing I really need and the price (and plans) are excruciating, I go back to making tea.
I noticed several brand names I associate with "America" are now owned by some one else, I wonder if selling off Yahoo would the loss of all the American jobs hired there.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/08/american-brands-in-foreig_n_755900.html#s152955&title=Budweiser
But hey what's in a name right.
Before the 1960's the largest foreign holders of property in America were the Netherlands.
In the 1970's people (particularly where I lived) were alarmed when the Saudis came in and began buying obscure local banks, companies and properties.
In the 1980's the Japanese were buying up golf courses, movie studios, huge ranches, you name it.
Now the Chinese are looking to buy and people are getting worried all over again.
I'll only worry when they make a bid for the State of California.
they report that Alibaba is actually one of three parties looking into a joint bid for Yahoo, the others being the equity firm Silver Lake and Russian tech investor Digital Sky Technologies.
So how's the joke supposed to go now? "In capitalist Russia, Chinese employee buys YAHOO!"?
In Soviet China Yahoo searches for YOU!
To further besmirch the image of the average iPhone/iPad user, let's have a café where they can appear to be casually hanging out, before going someplace or doing something incredibly important, but for now can spare $20 for a cuppa and a scone.
Hey! This iPhone was an open box, there's crumbs in here!
I've never quite understood how paying to read other people's research encourages good science.
See, that's where your own research grant comes in - to pay for access to others research.
We may stand upon the shoulders of giants, but only with financial aid, which creates a considerable barrier.
For all we know, Princeton may have studied the Wasabi Fire Alarm, years before that chap who got the igNoble for it.
We already outsourced the Presidency, and that seems to be working well.
As well as the economy. China defends it with far more energy than either side of the aisle in Washington DC
MS is still the only one of these big three to have a committed interest in long-term research
MS does research? For real? I thought all they did was buy startups and competitors, some of which had done research in the past, or are winding down R+D after the purchase.
Please don't confuse research grants from the bill gates charitable foundation with "MS does long term research".
The only evidence I see is Microsoft looks to see what the market is doing now and develops a product for it, which by the time they release it they've missed the boat. Should be a learning experience, but they keep repeating this idiotic strategy.
Microsoft: The "Me, too" company
Outsourcing the CIA to China isn't a go?
...when they force a pen into my cold, dead hands and wiggle my fingers to draw an 'X' ...
...over where I wrote in big, bold letters NEVER A CONTRACT AGAIN!
Seriously. I get by rather well on a stupid phone with pay as you go, though I did have a run-in this morning with the scum who subscribe people into their 'Love Genie Tips' - Wise Media, I think they are called. Watch out for texts which enroll you into their program and cell providers actually allow this sort of crap.