I presume that by you posting Anonymous Coward, and by mischievously lying about what I said, that you are shilling for the MAFIAA.
Nevertheless I'll reply to your lies and misrepresentations.
Please tell us, what is the NEW business model ?
From you post, I gather they are not allowed to sell their work, so what options are left ?
Lie #1. I did NOT say that artists could not sell their work. What I DID say, is that MAFIAA criminals should not be allowed to saddle us with stupid, onerous laws and endless copyright, because some ageing conservative white male retard can't figure out how to stream music, instead of selling merchandise, concert tickets, or streamed music.
Advertising, well ad blockers are popular , so that business model is already broken too
Yes. What are you going to do about it? Anybody with half a fucking brain could tell you that you can't make the world revolve on banner ads alone. Just because we've managed this long doesn't mean it's sustainable.
Concerts, Umm... well if I can get all their music for free why would I pay to go to a concert ?
You are a profoundly stupid and ignorant person. Fans are only too happy to support their favourite artists by paying big money to go to concerts and buy their merchandise. Statistics show that while record company revenue from shiny bits of plastic are falling (and despite their despicable behaviour and acts of political corruption and bastardry), revenue from live concerts is increasing year on year. Record companies now sign artists on comprehensive deals, which includes recording, merchandise, concert promotions-- the whole kit and kaboodle. Get your facts straight.
Given that flying a Band, Stage setup, venue hire, etc etc etc plus the ability to live for the rest of the year for everyone costs a lot of money and they will have no other income ticket prices will rise, either that or the business model you envision is the mediocre pub band who make their real living in other ways.
Explain in detail exactly what this new business model is as you obviously think you have a much better idea.
You must have been born with calipers. That is what normal and rational people call a 'straw man argument'. Would you like me to spell it out for you?
Frankly, the record industry can fuck off and die in a fire. With the Internet, modern computers and software, record companies are about as useful as tits on the proverbial bull. Like all middlemen, they are parasites, and only serve to enrich themselves on the talents and hard work of good artists, and the naivete of the general public. The 'curation' function of record companies is no longer required. The criminal MAFIAA's associates employee fuck-all people, pay fuck-all tax, do fuck-all for the health of our culture, and will serve us best by collectively eating shit and dying.
I'm a little aghast at what slow learners the pro-copyright corporatist extremists and their front groups really are.
I've convinced that they will never learn ever -- and that we'll simply have to wait a generation for these stupid, venal old white men to die before they are replaced by people willing to see logic and reason, and realize that locking up culture behind contrived barriers, and lobbying/corrupting government into propping up their broken business models is a long term losing proposition.
The MAFIAA are proof that human greedy and stupidity is truly infinite.
I walked in assuming I could drive everything off the touch display, and that the keyboard was an optional convenience, like Bluetooth keyboards and the iPad. I initially thought that there would be an obvious way to get out of the current Metro app, but there are no cues to indicate how this might be done.
OTOH, if you're an experienced PC user, you might then start mashing buttons. But again, it's not obvious that pushing the Windows key is meant to do anything. Frustrating and illogical.
I assume that this will be their first attempt, and that Windows 9 will suck less.
Looks like Windows OSs are a bit like Star Trek movies. You spring for a copy of every second version, because you _know_ that every other version is going to be shit.
I like to boil the kettle to drink tea (3 kw draw). Ditto the washing machine on spin cycle. And my oven, which is on its own circuit, and draws a stupendous amount of power. I'm not going to be able to drive those off solar panels, or wind renewables, when I get home after dark and the wind dies down.
When we switch to electric cars and want to charge them, those things will draw 2 kw for hours on end. This is before we start talking about running electric car chargers off dedicated high-current circuits.
Sure, my lappy and NAS, and my ultra efficent LED lights don't use much power, but essentials like refrigeration, ovens, washing machines, etc certainly do, and often at inconvenient hours for renewables.
We're going to be stuck on fossil fuels and fission nuclear for a while yet.
I beg to differ. I think the Ribbon is a very clever piece of design, apart from how they mix nouns and verbs.
Actions get grouped logically, and bigger buttons are bound to more common buttons. Going the other way, the size of the button gives cues to how important that function is.
Your beloved Constitution says precious little about what citizens owe to their county and to each other. Might explain everyone's overweening sense of personal entitlement -- it's implicitly enshrined in the US Constitution.
This is window dressing by the gun lobby to try and head off sorely-needed firearms regulations.
The key issue is that people not responsible enough to get guns are getting them. TFA is missing the point -- safety and use by unauthoritized users isn't the issue here -- it's that people who are dangerous to others with firearms are getting them.
Positive change isn't likely while the US (and the far Right in particular) persist with their fetish with the US Constitution, as if it were some kind of holy object. The people who wrote that document did it in a hurry, 250 years ago, in completely different circumstances to today.
Count the lifecycle costs, including capital costs, operating costs, decommissioning and disposal etc.
With fission nuclear, they SEEM expensive, because everything had to be paid for and accounted for. Fossil fuels have huge negative externalities; renewables aren't suitable for baseload power and have sizeable upfront capital costs (albeit low operating costs). Fusion nuclear (when it comes online later this century), takes this trend to the extreme -- they will have MASSIVE upfront capital costs, but the fuel is abundant and dirt cheap.
I suppose that if the LFTR crowd *DO* manage to build working plants, they'll have solved many of the materials challenges plaguing the fusion programme too. They need materials that are activation-resistant and can stand up mechanically to neutron bombardment too...
The wind doesn't always blow, and the sun doesn't always shine. And we can't store electricity in large amounts. And if we DO lower our living standards as far as the deep greens want us to, that puts us firmly back into hyperbreeding-Third-World-overgrown-rat territory -- the situation we're trying to get ourselves out of.
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My first exposure to Perl was 15 years ago, when I was doing 'web' programming (actually, writing dinky CGI scripts), using some really primitive library (at the time, CGI.pm was "advanced")
Maybe I'm just thick, but coming from more conventional language, I never 'got' context, or how to do OO properly in Perl. I simply was never able to form a mental model of how to use it correctly.
I never did use Perl for personal coding after that (went straight to Python, because at least I could get my head around the syntax and type system).
The 'cheaper' bit will come in time, as these experiments tend to push the state-of-the-art in so many areas.
BUT, the ILC will be expensive, and that's unavoidable. In high-energy physics, higher and higher energies, and better, more sensitive detectors, are required to explore new physics. The accelerator and detectors required to do this are custom built, need to be basically developed from scratch -- and do not come cheap.
Given that E's niche was on the bleeding edge anyway, it's a mystery to me why they felt the need to wait until everything was ready to do a release, and then pushing everything out in one fell swoop. You wait that long, the technical ground beneath your feet keeps changing, that you're constantly rewriting code just to keep up (a bit like painting the Golden Gate Bridge -- by the time they're done painting the bridge, it's time to start again from the beginning).
I thought that the conventional wisdom in Open Source, was to engage users and coders by releasing early, and releasing often.
Given that software never really is ever "done"; please enlighten us (cough) about the thinking behind waiting so long to do a stable release. Was this a calculated risk, given the risk for erstwhile E fans to simply lose interest?
In the UK, hate speech is treated as a public order issue. Judging by what I read and see on TV, it appears that the WBC's behaviour is certainly a public order issue.
Perhaps if the activities of the WBC were seen in this light, then things might change...
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... and by definition, lying Third World scum (because of al-Taqqiya, they're allowed to deceive and lie to us dirty kuffars).
Don't believe a word these pigs say.
Butthead: Hey Beavis! ...
Beavis: What?
Butthead: He said '7-inch unit! Huh huh
I presume that by you posting Anonymous Coward, and by mischievously lying about what I said, that you are shilling for the MAFIAA.
Nevertheless I'll reply to your lies and misrepresentations.
Please tell us, what is the NEW business model ?
From you post, I gather they are not allowed to sell their work, so what options are left ?
Lie #1. I did NOT say that artists could not sell their work. What I DID say, is that MAFIAA criminals should not be allowed to saddle us with stupid, onerous laws and endless copyright, because some ageing conservative white male retard can't figure out how to stream music, instead of selling merchandise, concert tickets, or streamed music.
Advertising, well ad blockers are popular , so that business model is already broken too
Yes. What are you going to do about it? Anybody with half a fucking brain could tell you that you can't make the world revolve on banner ads alone. Just because we've managed this long doesn't mean it's sustainable.
Concerts, Umm... well if I can get all their music for free why would I pay to go to a concert ?
You are a profoundly stupid and ignorant person. Fans are only too happy to support their favourite artists by paying big money to go to concerts and buy their merchandise. Statistics show that while record company revenue from shiny bits of plastic are falling (and despite their despicable behaviour and acts of political corruption and bastardry), revenue from live concerts is increasing year on year. Record companies now sign artists on comprehensive deals, which includes recording, merchandise, concert promotions-- the whole kit and kaboodle. Get your facts straight.
Given that flying a Band, Stage setup, venue hire, etc etc etc plus the ability to live for the rest of the year for everyone costs a lot of money and they will have no other income ticket prices will rise, either that or the business model you envision is the mediocre pub band who make their real living in other ways.
Explain in detail exactly what this new business model is as you obviously think you have a much better idea.
You must have been born with calipers. That is what normal and rational people call a 'straw man argument'. Would you like me to spell it out for you?
Frankly, the record industry can fuck off and die in a fire. With the Internet, modern computers and software, record companies are about as useful as tits on the proverbial bull. Like all middlemen, they are parasites, and only serve to enrich themselves on the talents and hard work of good artists, and the naivete of the general public. The 'curation' function of record companies is no longer required. The criminal MAFIAA's associates employee fuck-all people, pay fuck-all tax, do fuck-all for the health of our culture, and will serve us best by collectively eating shit and dying.
I'm a little aghast at what slow learners the pro-copyright corporatist extremists and their front groups really are.
I've convinced that they will never learn ever -- and that we'll simply have to wait a generation for these stupid, venal old white men to die before they are replaced by people willing to see logic and reason, and realize that locking up culture behind contrived barriers, and lobbying/corrupting government into propping up their broken business models is a long term losing proposition.
The MAFIAA are proof that human greedy and stupidity is truly infinite.
I walked in assuming I could drive everything off the touch display, and that the keyboard was an optional convenience, like Bluetooth keyboards and the iPad. I initially thought that there would be an obvious way to get out of the current Metro app, but there are no cues to indicate how this might be done.
OTOH, if you're an experienced PC user, you might then start mashing buttons. But again, it's not obvious that pushing the Windows key is meant to do anything. Frustrating and illogical.
I assume that this will be their first attempt, and that Windows 9 will suck less.
Looks like Windows OSs are a bit like Star Trek movies. You spring for a copy of every second version, because you _know_ that every other version is going to be shit.
I like to boil the kettle to drink tea (3 kw draw). Ditto the washing machine on spin cycle. And my oven, which is on its own circuit, and draws a stupendous amount of power. I'm not going to be able to drive those off solar panels, or wind renewables, when I get home after dark and the wind dies down.
When we switch to electric cars and want to charge them, those things will draw 2 kw for hours on end. This is before we start talking about running electric car chargers off dedicated high-current circuits.
Sure, my lappy and NAS, and my ultra efficent LED lights don't use much power, but essentials like refrigeration, ovens, washing machines, etc certainly do, and often at inconvenient hours for renewables.
We're going to be stuck on fossil fuels and fission nuclear for a while yet.
There's a gesture for it too. But it's not discoverable.
This is a great opportunity to see what Google does after it hires overrated bullshit artists.
As for my nerd rapture, I'm not holding my breath.
I beg to differ. I think the Ribbon is a very clever piece of design, apart from how they mix nouns and verbs.
Actions get grouped logically, and bigger buttons are bound to more common buttons. Going the other way, the size of the button gives cues to how important that function is.
Just out of interest, I walked into a PC World store to check out the new touch-screen PCs running Windows 8.
I timed myself: I was sitting there trying to work out how to do the gesture to get the Start screen. 90 seconds later, I simply gave up.
Windows 8, even on high-spec hardware with multitouch displays is completely unintuitive, completely undiscoverable, clunky, and amateur-looking.
I am GOBSMACKED, that Microsoft claimed that they've put a million user-hours into usability testing.
It'll snow in Hell before I put my hand in my pocket to upgrade.
Oh, and THAT is called an argument from authority. Reflect on how that makes you look.
Rights without responsibilities leads to anarchy.
Your beloved Constitution says precious little about what citizens owe to their county and to each other. Might explain everyone's overweening sense of personal entitlement -- it's implicitly enshrined in the US Constitution.
This is window dressing by the gun lobby to try and head off sorely-needed firearms regulations.
The key issue is that people not responsible enough to get guns are getting them. TFA is missing the point -- safety and use by unauthoritized users isn't the issue here -- it's that people who are dangerous to others with firearms are getting them.
Positive change isn't likely while the US (and the far Right in particular) persist with their fetish with the US Constitution, as if it were some kind of holy object. The people who wrote that document did it in a hurry, 250 years ago, in completely different circumstances to today.
Because the Daily Mail are clueless, but fluked a format that works with the unwashed (intellectually very mediocre) masses of the Internet.
Their web design is absolutely terrible, but works very well when you're finding content through Google and sharing it over social media.
This country is being run by moron Daily Mail readers.
The only reason why these clueless wrecking cockheads are running the show, is because New Labour screwed up so badly.
Count the lifecycle costs, including capital costs, operating costs, decommissioning and disposal etc.
With fission nuclear, they SEEM expensive, because everything had to be paid for and accounted for. Fossil fuels have huge negative externalities; renewables aren't suitable for baseload power and have sizeable upfront capital costs (albeit low operating costs). Fusion nuclear (when it comes online later this century), takes this trend to the extreme -- they will have MASSIVE upfront capital costs, but the fuel is abundant and dirt cheap.
I suppose that if the LFTR crowd *DO* manage to build working plants, they'll have solved many of the materials challenges plaguing the fusion programme too. They need materials that are activation-resistant and can stand up mechanically to neutron bombardment too...
I got one word for the neo-Luddites: baseload.
The wind doesn't always blow, and the sun doesn't always shine. And we can't store electricity in large amounts. And if we DO lower our living standards as far as the deep greens want us to, that puts us firmly back into hyperbreeding-Third-World-overgrown-rat territory -- the situation we're trying to get ourselves out of.
So NO.
There is no Left in the United States.
My first exposure to Perl was 15 years ago, when I was doing 'web' programming (actually, writing dinky CGI scripts), using some really primitive library (at the time, CGI.pm was "advanced")
Maybe I'm just thick, but coming from more conventional language, I never 'got' context, or how to do OO properly in Perl. I simply was never able to form a mental model of how to use it correctly.
I never did use Perl for personal coding after that (went straight to Python, because at least I could get my head around the syntax and type system).
The 'cheaper' bit will come in time, as these experiments tend to push the state-of-the-art in so many areas.
BUT, the ILC will be expensive, and that's unavoidable. In high-energy physics, higher and higher energies, and better, more sensitive detectors, are required to explore new physics. The accelerator and detectors required to do this are custom built, need to be basically developed from scratch -- and do not come cheap.
Given that E's niche was on the bleeding edge anyway, it's a mystery to me why they felt the need to wait until everything was ready to do a release, and then pushing everything out in one fell swoop. You wait that long, the technical ground beneath your feet keeps changing, that you're constantly rewriting code just to keep up (a bit like painting the Golden Gate Bridge -- by the time they're done painting the bridge, it's time to start again from the beginning).
I thought that the conventional wisdom in Open Source, was to engage users and coders by releasing early, and releasing often.
Given that software never really is ever "done"; please enlighten us (cough) about the thinking behind waiting so long to do a stable release. Was this a calculated risk, given the risk for erstwhile E fans to simply lose interest?
In the UK, hate speech is treated as a public order issue. Judging by what I read and see on TV, it appears that the WBC's behaviour is certainly a public order issue.
Perhaps if the activities of the WBC were seen in this light, then things might change...
You mean 'deceased', not 'diseased', right?