If people want a face, I guess plastic surgery is a better option.
this article was on the late night news where I live last night... there's this poor girl in england that was in a fire as a toddler, her face was extremely badly mutilated. In cases like this, there is only so much plastic surgery can do... plus the poor thing has to get skin grafts every month or too.
Maybe if Steve Jobs & co. didn't have a monopoly over the hardware that runs OS X, Microsoft wouldn't have such a large market share.
and maybe if they didn't have a "hardware monopoly", they'd end up with a hotch-potch operating system like Windows that doesn't run properly on anything.
Q From e-mail:... I also have one question; did Apple "steal" the GUI from Xerox (at PARC), or did they develop it themselves?
WOZ: Apple worked with Xerox openly to bring their developments to a mass audience. That's what Steve portrayed Apple as being good at. Xerox got a lot of Apple stock for it too, it was an agreement.
Apple stole *nothing*. It was a deal. Whether it was a smart deal... doesn't matter. Both companies agreed.
As for MS stealing from Apple... well, that's another story entirely.
Jobs were listed under "man wanted" and "woman wanted" as last as the nineteen sixties. The women who were "moving into occupations" were able to move into occupations because of the "gals" who stood on the picket lines.
In every culture? In every country?
And at every time? If you read the post, all I said was last century. The 1970s and 1980s and 1990s are all part of last century.
Furthermore, not every job in the last century that a woman could take involved her "applying" for it - you don't need to "apply" to become a female general practitioner, do you?
I am not being ignorant. You are making baseless assumptions.
Who "did more for civil rights" - the Freedom Riders or the students desegregating schools or the waves that followed? Who "did more for the environment" Carson* or Greenpeace or the Seirra Club? All of these played a critcal role, each providing a necessary element.
your rhetoric overlooks one important consideration - I didn't say either one did "more" for civil rights - rather, I just identified the two sides, which, by the nature of your post, you agree exist.
I saw a webcast of Lessig's presentation, and I found it fascinating and inspirational. However, I question whether donating to EFF is the only way to measure "what you have done." What about doing actual work: contributing to the public domain or to the growing corpus of publicly licensed works? Shouldn't that "count"?
What's better--working for an hour to remove works from the tyranny of copyright, or working in a "regular job" for an hour and donating the proceeds to EFF?
This is an interesting post - because it mirrors a number of other fights throughout history. Although not a keen interest of mine, I remember watching a TV show on womens rights in the last century.
Basically, it came down to this; which did more for womens rights; the gals that stood at the picket lines (or whatever it was at that stage through the century) protesting and refusing to shave their armpits... or the women who got out into the workforce and started actually doing stuff to benefit society, in turn breaking down the barriers by moving into occupations like Medicine and Law where previously women had not played a role.
Talk about left hand not talking to the right hand. (yes, I saw the disclaimer about views not being their own etc). If MS has employees, employees that are obviously involved in digital rights management and secure document/media distribution (an assumption based on the topic of the paper), then why the hell has MS spent all this time and money on pushing ideas like Palladium, and secure music within WMP?
I mean, these guys put forward a logical and convincing argument - and yet still the behemoth churns out anti-consumer crap like "limited copying" in WMP and "trusted computing" with Palladium. What's the goddamm point?
I'm not a big MS fan, but seriously, I think it's time for a generational change at the top. Ballmer & Gates are still thinking in late 80's and early 90's terms for so much of MS's strategic decisions... they're gonna go the way of IBM.
Actually, maybe they should leave management as it is...:)
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority
As long as the supreme court upholds this judgement, we have some small hope.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but remember it's a double edged sword. Not to sound like some George W Bush speech; anonymity is where the enemies of freedom hide as well.
Everybody now is talking about Apple. Sure, It's pretty cool that Macs run Unix, but well, it's not Linux is it?
No, just like Linux isn't Apple. I mean, that's like me turning around and saying "Linux is bad for Apple as a whole".
Maybe. But as long as neither of the two try predatory tactics (aka everyone's favourite Redmond software Co) then all it is is healthy competition. And that's a good thing, isn't it?
I know where you're coming from - because I see it in reverse. When it boils down to it though, if we're both happy with our respective platforms, isn't that what counts?
Do you feel any connection to the Dell dude? No, none whatsoever. That guy's a doofus. I get a lot of "What if you guys had kids?" And I'm like, "What if we had kids?" Why would you ask that? What a weird question. They'd probably be blond.
I had to clean my screen after reading that comment - I laughed so hard saliva went everywhere
This is sort of besides your point, but why on earth couldn't he get the iDVD (legally (I don't support piracy)) for his excisting mac and buy a DVD burner? MS is a convicted monopolistic force, but I think we ought to be glad Apple is small compared to MS. They controll - as proved by this post - the users choise of hardware and software and dictate unfair (though legal) policies on consumers.
To be perfectly honest, this is the real reason that they asked the update to be pulled. Kinda comes back to Apple's mantra - if it can't work reliably, it can't work. They didn't want iDVD etc out there with a whole lot of untested DVD burners.
It was pulled after a whole lot of support issues cropped up on the Apple support website. Which is fair enough.
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this article was on the late night news where I live last night... there's this poor girl in england that was in a fire as a toddler, her face was extremely badly mutilated. In cases like this, there is only so much plastic surgery can do... plus the poor thing has to get skin grafts every month or too.
-- james
and maybe if they didn't have a "hardware monopoly", they'd end up with a hotch-potch operating system like Windows that doesn't run properly on anything.
-- james
I swear, the luckiest guy in that photo is the one whose face is obscured
-- james
you like it? i thought it was hilarious too
problem is, I swear I take a karma beating for wearing that on
-- james
No, but you're almost there.
They should recommend avoiding Microsoft if their problem is security.
-- james
this makes me mad.
From woz.org:Apple stole *nothing*. It was a deal. Whether it was a smart deal... doesn't matter. Both companies agreed.
As for MS stealing from Apple... well, that's another story entirely.
-- james
that was meant to be tongue-in-cheek
-- james
In every culture? In every country?
And at every time? If you read the post, all I said was last century. The 1970s and 1980s and 1990s are all part of last century.
Furthermore, not every job in the last century that a woman could take involved her "applying" for it - you don't need to "apply" to become a female general practitioner, do you?
I am not being ignorant. You are making baseless assumptions.
your rhetoric overlooks one important consideration - I didn't say either one did "more" for civil rights - rather, I just identified the two sides, which, by the nature of your post, you agree exist.
-- james
the schema is really not that difficult to use. go check out http://www.w3schools.com - they have some great tutes over there.
-- james
This is an interesting post - because it mirrors a number of other fights throughout history. Although not a keen interest of mine, I remember watching a TV show on womens rights in the last century.
Basically, it came down to this; which did more for womens rights; the gals that stood at the picket lines (or whatever it was at that stage through the century) protesting and refusing to shave their armpits... or the women who got out into the workforce and started actually doing stuff to benefit society, in turn breaking down the barriers by moving into occupations like Medicine and Law where previously women had not played a role.
-- james
I want to go shove a whole lot of prawn shells in his letterbox and see how he likes it
-- james
-- james
-- james
Talk about left hand not talking to the right hand. (yes, I saw the disclaimer about views not being their own etc). If MS has employees, employees that are obviously involved in digital rights management and secure document/media distribution (an assumption based on the topic of the paper), then why the hell has MS spent all this time and money on pushing ideas like Palladium, and secure music within WMP?
:)
I mean, these guys put forward a logical and convincing argument - and yet still the behemoth churns out anti-consumer crap like "limited copying" in WMP and "trusted computing" with Palladium. What's the goddamm point?
I'm not a big MS fan, but seriously, I think it's time for a generational change at the top. Ballmer & Gates are still thinking in late 80's and early 90's terms for so much of MS's strategic decisions... they're gonna go the way of IBM.
Actually, maybe they should leave management as it is...
-- james
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you, but remember it's a double edged sword. Not to sound like some George W Bush speech; anonymity is where the enemies of freedom hide as well.
-- james
no, the difference being it's a lot easier to kill a lot of people without doing any damage to yourself using a gun.
-- james
and yet, here we stand, arguing about how your government is taking away all your rights and giving them to corporations.
it's time you got off your ass. take your gun and storm capitol hill! protect our rights!
-- james
Seems like you're not the first to ask this. From the interview, and I quote:
"What a weird question. They'd probably be blond."
-- james
No, just like Linux isn't Apple. I mean, that's like me turning around and saying "Linux is bad for Apple as a whole".
Maybe. But as long as neither of the two try predatory tactics (aka everyone's favourite Redmond software Co) then all it is is healthy competition. And that's a good thing, isn't it?
I know where you're coming from - because I see it in reverse. When it boils down to it though, if we're both happy with our respective platforms, isn't that what counts?
-- james
Do you feel any connection to the Dell dude?
No, none whatsoever. That guy's a doofus. I get a lot of "What if you guys had kids?" And I'm like, "What if we had kids?" Why would you ask that? What a weird question. They'd probably be blond.
I had to clean my screen after reading that comment - I laughed so hard saliva went everywhere
-- james
is how some stupid new standard can make news... and an Ellen Feiss interview, the first ever, cannot!
:)
c'mon editors, this is supposed to be "news for nerds. stuff that matters"!
-- james
What about historians? Imagine if we had a version of this that belonged to Stalin, Hitler, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, etc?
Not necessarily for public consumption at the time, but everything that person had ever lived through. It would be fascinating.
-- james
yeah, what about "rip mix burn" :)
-- james
To be perfectly honest, this is the real reason that they asked the update to be pulled. Kinda comes back to Apple's mantra - if it can't work reliably, it can't work. They didn't want iDVD etc out there with a whole lot of untested DVD burners.
It was pulled after a whole lot of support issues cropped up on the Apple support website. Which is fair enough.
-- james