What other seed provider would this be and where will you go when they all do the same thing? I don't think you have the slightest clue how this works, do you?
You're clearly not a farmer. And asking "where will you go when they all do the same thing" is just baseless fear-mongering. My local Wendy's closed and now it's a McDonalds. "Oh noes! Where will I go when they all do the same thing! Gah! It's the end of Wendy's!"
Amishland Seeds Annapolis Valley Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds Burpee Seeds Heritage Seed Company (Nova Scotia, Canada) Diane’s Flower Seeds Ed Hume Seeds Fedco Garden City Seeds Heirlooms Evermore Seeds Heirloom Seeds Heirloom Organics Horizon Herbs Irish-Eyes J.W.Jungs Johnny’s Seeds Landreth Seeds Lake Valley Seeds Livingston Seeds Local Harvest Mountain Rose Herbs Organica Seed Park Seeds Pinetree Sand Hill Preservation Center Seeds of Change (Owned by Mars Inc.) But GMO Free. Southern Exposure Sustainable Seed Co Territorial Seeds Tiny Seeds Uprising Seeds Virtual Farm Seed Co Wildseed Farms
In what universe can you called suing farmers for cross-contamination and then locking farmers into having to buy seeds from Monsanto an ethical or sustainable business practice?
In what universe has Monsanto ever sued a farmer for cross-contamination that wasn't intentional fraud on the part of the farmer? If you can come up with a single example, the lawyers at the OSGATA would like to have a word with you, because they sure as hell couldn't find any.
You do realize that ALL Federal employees have access to benefits that are not available to the general public, right? Kinda like I don't have access to your company's pension or 401(k) plans.
Maybe because programming and tech jobs in general are viewed as high prestige and the cutting edge of technology
Where do you work? I've been in technology for 20 years and programming and tech jobs have about as much prestige as a plumber or mechanic. I actually think that's one of the main reasons women DON'T pursue tech jobs in favor of doctoring and lawyering.
That's selection bias at work. It's extremely hard for a woman to land a job in this field, and even before that there's a lot of pressure against it (the stupid idea that women can't do maths, the extremely male-oriented lingo and focus, etc.), so only the most persevering, most enduring women make it through.
No it's not. It's extremely hard for an employer to HIRE a woman in this field. There aren't any. I've hired for hundreds of technology positions from data center operations to development, and I've seen thousands of resumes. The women stick out mostly on account of their novelty. I have always hired on merit, but unless a woman was obviously unfit for the position (e.g., experience in a completely unrelated field or no experience at all) we always brought her in because it was such a refreshing change. This is not an advantage any man was ever given.
And like the AC above, their skills fell pretty much along the same bell-curve as men: a few absolutely worthless ones, most of them about average, and a few standouts.
You might think at this point that companies and advertisers start getting the message. Instead, they just keep finding more and sleazier ways. All these technologies have valid uses but have been so abused by corporations and marketing that people increasingly don't trust it anywhere.
I'm honestly curious here. Advertising isn't going away. It's what keeps the Internet "free". So you're saying you'd rather have completely irrelevant advertising than stuff you may actually be interested in? When I'm in the market for any kind of product, I actively seek out sources of advertising to survey what's available. Being flooded with irrelevant information and advertisements (like happens on the radio and television) is personally unnecessary but financially necessary noise to provide the content I want. I'll take trackers any day over having to pay for every single site I visit.
Randall Munroe is an embarrassing illustration of the mediocrity of the average modern nerd.
Long enough that we figured out you don't end a sentence with an unnecessary preposition. Talk about embarrassing mediocrity. You can't even muster a proper sentence with which to condemn your betters.
This, this, and exactly this. Mod anony-man up. What an incredibly negative and unrealistic view your friends and family have of human nature. People will pay for something they enjoy because they want you to keep making it. If your 'source of income' is so tenuous that it can be undermined by some kid setting up a torrent, then your audience wouldn't buy it in the first place because they don't care enough to keep you going. Yes, there will always be a selfish percentage who will do nothing but take. Before the Internet we called them shoplifters. But most people are better than that. If you do something that makes them feel, they will want to help you continue doing it.
If copyright did not exist, people would STILL pay for art. It just wouldn't be the guaranteed monopoly protection.
History is against you. Most artists died in poverty.
In the days when an artist could die in poverty, most people didn't have money to pay them, and the means to reach those that could were nearly non-existent. People have disposable income now and have had for quite some time. An artist that dies in poverty today means there was no market for what he was creating, or he or she wasn't clever enough to discover them.
If your art is easily reproducible, then it wasnt all that unique to begin with.
Spoken like someone who never created anything worthwhile in his life.
Yeah, you're right about that. That was probably about the dumbest thing anyone has ever said in the history of words. Evidently writing isn't art. Music, movies, photography, or design aren't worthwhile art forms either. Reproducibility is a factor of technology, not the value of the object being reproduced. I'm pretty sure that given time, indistinguishable reproductions of the greatest artworks ever created will be available via 3D printers in the poster's mom's basement. I'm seriously having a hard time trying to figure out what the hell he thinks he was talking about.
In his book, The Righteous Mind, Jon Haidt covers this phenomenon quite thoroughly. It comes down to this: in spite of what we might like to think, most of our beliefs are built on uncontrollable, gut reactions. Our thinking and explanations of those reactions are post-hoc justifications to convince others that we are correct and that they should be on our side. In this case, the gut reaction has simply been replaced by a vote. If the participants believed that to be their response to the situation, it's not surprising that they would construct post-hoc rationalizations to justify their behavior.
Your understanding of "survival of the fittest" is flawed. "Fittest" does not mean "fitness" to do battle with the environment, it means fit to reproduce. A male peacock who is highly mobile yet fails to attract a mate will not pass on its genes. A male peacock who can't move but attracts females who bring him food, protect him, and reproduce with him is considerably more "fit" to survive. In fact, he'd just be a level 90 Paladin away from living a lot of people's dream life.
but if you are going to criticize X, criticize it on it's flaws, it's got enough of them, don't try to invent shit.
Yes, probably off-topic, but I've found myself saying exactly that in pretty much every conversation I've had regarding religion, politics, and economic policy for the last five years. It's sad to see it's now infected technology.
I just bought my first ever Apple product, a MacBook Air with Lion. I have been woefully unimpressed with the illogic of many of its features, the inconsistencies in use and design, and some of the downright irritating PITA aspects. Talking with my friends who are long time Apple users, it seems a good 90% of my complaints were all introduced with Lion. Many of of those power-users are of the same opinion as you. It's got some nice features but this will be the only Apple computer I'll be buying for a good long time.
Not taking a jab at you personally, but I've never understood the "you deserve what you got, silly victim!" mentality. No victims *deserve* to be victimized. Sure, they could have taken better steps to protect themselves, but I can just as easily say "you deserve that cancer you got" for not getting regular boob or prostate squashings. It's technically true that many people are vulnerable because they don't know how important it is to protect themselves, but directly blaming them for it is counter-productive.
Would you feel better if I said you "earned" being victimized? You smoke two cartons of Camels a week in this day and age, and you don't just deserve cancer, you earned it. You evidently put a lot of effort into pretending that the fact that your cancer was all but inevitable somehow didn't apply to you. Enjoy your winnings!
Any opinion referencing "refresh rate" when talking about film can be safely ignored.
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You don't have to be Morman to understand how addiction works.
No, but it does take someone who understands addiction to understand how addiction works. And it's pretty clear to anyone who who has ever regularly used caffeinated substances the parent poster isn't one of them.
And once again, I'm tethered to a screen. PC wins this one.
resolution
Once 9" tablets surpass 1080p, they'll be near "retina display" pixel density.
Unless you're using the above mentioned HDMI on a bigger screen. Now you want higher resolution. PC wins again.
mouse
Computer novices already have enough trouble using a mouse.
Computer gamers - which I believe is what started this thread - use them extensively. PC again.
keyboard
The laptop concept of having to carry a keyboard even where you aren't going to be needing one has become blue in the tooth.
True, however the concept of being stuck without a keyboard when you do need one hasn't gone away. This is a tie. Size and portability are a huge plus for small platforms but even something simple as typing an essay is frustrating to the point of distraction on a table.
heavy web apps
Mobile CPUs are slowly catching up to desktop CPUs in speed.
Very, very slowly - and it's not like they've stopped developing desktop and laptop CPUs. Point PC - for now.
integration with applications
Web site developers and tablet application developers want this integration to be mediated on the server side, with web applications using OAuth to authenticate to each other.
And a tie. I'll reiterate the AC's point because it's true: there are many areas that a tablet or phone simply cannot match a PC for even something as seemingly trivial as web browsing.
(b), the memory usage is massive. It's better now that I've upgraded my machine to 8 GB, but you shouldn't have to do that for a BROWSER. This (massive resource usage) kind-of negates the idea of an inexpensive, low powered browser appliance.
After switching to Chrome, I immediately noticed that if it *was* updating, it was doing it in a completely unobtrusive way, and the resource usage was significantly lower. I'd been using Firefox since the original beta, but after switching to Chrome never looked back.
I recently switched to Chrome from Firefox because Firefox just plain broke. I'm a tab-whore and it would literally take 10 minutes before Firefox became usable. It was not unusual to see a 1.4G Firefox footprint. I switched to Chrome and I was so happy to see 30M and 50M threads here and there. But then as I started completing my migration I noticed that tabs started loading slower and slower. Now, with the exact same session loaded, Chrome is using about 20% more memory than Firefox ever did. It's an absolute pig. I'm either going to have to change my browsing habits or find another new browser.
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Apparently he's a celebrity. Wikipedia says he's a radio personality and hosts a show called American Idol.
I had to look it up too.
That is some world-class hipsterism, right there. I tip my hat to you.
Yeah! And maybe I'll get a blowjob from Natalie Portman, while eating a nice bowl of hot buttered cheese grits.
In this scenario of yours, which one of you is eating grits?
What other seed provider would this be and where will you go when they all do the same thing? I don't think you have the slightest clue how this works, do you?
You're clearly not a farmer. And asking "where will you go when they all do the same thing" is just baseless fear-mongering. My local Wendy's closed and now it's a McDonalds. "Oh noes! Where will I go when they all do the same thing! Gah! It's the end of Wendy's!"
Amishland Seeds
Annapolis Valley
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Burpee Seeds
Heritage Seed Company (Nova Scotia, Canada)
Diane’s Flower Seeds
Ed Hume Seeds
Fedco
Garden City Seeds
Heirlooms Evermore Seeds
Heirloom Seeds
Heirloom Organics
Horizon Herbs
Irish-Eyes
J.W.Jungs
Johnny’s Seeds
Landreth Seeds
Lake Valley Seeds
Livingston Seeds
Local Harvest
Mountain Rose Herbs
Organica Seed
Park Seeds
Pinetree
Sand Hill Preservation Center
Seeds of Change (Owned by Mars Inc.) But GMO Free.
Southern Exposure
Sustainable Seed Co
Territorial Seeds
Tiny Seeds
Uprising Seeds
Virtual Farm Seed Co
Wildseed Farms
In what universe can you called suing farmers for cross-contamination and then locking farmers into having to buy seeds from Monsanto an ethical or sustainable business practice?
In what universe has Monsanto ever sued a farmer for cross-contamination that wasn't intentional fraud on the part of the farmer? If you can come up with a single example, the lawyers at the OSGATA would like to have a word with you, because they sure as hell couldn't find any.
http://www.osgata.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/OSGATA-v-Monsanto-MTD-Decision.pdf
You do realize that ALL Federal employees have access to benefits that are not available to the general public, right? Kinda like I don't have access to your company's pension or 401(k) plans.
On Jezebel, the answer is "both".
Maybe because programming and tech jobs in general are viewed as high prestige and the cutting edge of technology
Where do you work? I've been in technology for 20 years and programming and tech jobs have about as much prestige as a plumber or mechanic. I actually think that's one of the main reasons women DON'T pursue tech jobs in favor of doctoring and lawyering.
That's selection bias at work. It's extremely hard for a woman to land a job in this field, and even before that there's a lot of pressure against it (the stupid idea that women can't do maths, the extremely male-oriented lingo and focus, etc.), so only the most persevering, most enduring women make it through.
No it's not. It's extremely hard for an employer to HIRE a woman in this field. There aren't any. I've hired for hundreds of technology positions from data center operations to development, and I've seen thousands of resumes. The women stick out mostly on account of their novelty. I have always hired on merit, but unless a woman was obviously unfit for the position (e.g., experience in a completely unrelated field or no experience at all) we always brought her in because it was such a refreshing change. This is not an advantage any man was ever given. And like the AC above, their skills fell pretty much along the same bell-curve as men: a few absolutely worthless ones, most of them about average, and a few standouts.
You might think at this point that companies and advertisers start getting the message. Instead, they just keep finding more and sleazier ways. All these technologies have valid uses but have been so abused by corporations and marketing that people increasingly don't trust it anywhere.
I'm honestly curious here. Advertising isn't going away. It's what keeps the Internet "free". So you're saying you'd rather have completely irrelevant advertising than stuff you may actually be interested in? When I'm in the market for any kind of product, I actively seek out sources of advertising to survey what's available. Being flooded with irrelevant information and advertisements (like happens on the radio and television) is personally unnecessary but financially necessary noise to provide the content I want. I'll take trackers any day over having to pay for every single site I visit.
And how long has writing existed for?
Randall Munroe is an embarrassing illustration of the mediocrity of the average modern nerd.
Long enough that we figured out you don't end a sentence with an unnecessary preposition. Talk about embarrassing mediocrity. You can't even muster a proper sentence with which to condemn your betters.
If she's the only "human representative" in the organization, who is "we"? When working with my toaster, I don't generally use the pronoun "we".
This, this, and exactly this. Mod anony-man up. What an incredibly negative and unrealistic view your friends and family have of human nature. People will pay for something they enjoy because they want you to keep making it. If your 'source of income' is so tenuous that it can be undermined by some kid setting up a torrent, then your audience wouldn't buy it in the first place because they don't care enough to keep you going. Yes, there will always be a selfish percentage who will do nothing but take. Before the Internet we called them shoplifters. But most people are better than that. If you do something that makes them feel, they will want to help you continue doing it.
If copyright did not exist, people would STILL pay for art. It just wouldn't be the guaranteed monopoly protection.
History is against you. Most artists died in poverty.
In the days when an artist could die in poverty, most people didn't have money to pay them, and the means to reach those that could were nearly non-existent. People have disposable income now and have had for quite some time. An artist that dies in poverty today means there was no market for what he was creating, or he or she wasn't clever enough to discover them.
If your art is easily reproducible, then it wasnt all that unique to begin with.
Spoken like someone who never created anything worthwhile in his life.
Yeah, you're right about that. That was probably about the dumbest thing anyone has ever said in the history of words. Evidently writing isn't art. Music, movies, photography, or design aren't worthwhile art forms either. Reproducibility is a factor of technology, not the value of the object being reproduced. I'm pretty sure that given time, indistinguishable reproductions of the greatest artworks ever created will be available via 3D printers in the poster's mom's basement. I'm seriously having a hard time trying to figure out what the hell he thinks he was talking about.
In his book, The Righteous Mind, Jon Haidt covers this phenomenon quite thoroughly. It comes down to this: in spite of what we might like to think, most of our beliefs are built on uncontrollable, gut reactions. Our thinking and explanations of those reactions are post-hoc justifications to convince others that we are correct and that they should be on our side. In this case, the gut reaction has simply been replaced by a vote. If the participants believed that to be their response to the situation, it's not surprising that they would construct post-hoc rationalizations to justify their behavior.
I can't imagine how anyone with a name like that would have a personal bias in interpreting these results. No sirree.
Your understanding of "survival of the fittest" is flawed. "Fittest" does not mean "fitness" to do battle with the environment, it means fit to reproduce. A male peacock who is highly mobile yet fails to attract a mate will not pass on its genes. A male peacock who can't move but attracts females who bring him food, protect him, and reproduce with him is considerably more "fit" to survive. In fact, he'd just be a level 90 Paladin away from living a lot of people's dream life.
That you need to set aside time, and restrict your usage at other times, says clearly you DO have a problem.
No, it means clearly you need to get out of your mother's basement and find something engaging to do with your life.
but if you are going to criticize X, criticize it on it's flaws, it's got enough of them, don't try to invent shit.
Yes, probably off-topic, but I've found myself saying exactly that in pretty much every conversation I've had regarding religion, politics, and economic policy for the last five years. It's sad to see it's now infected technology.
+1. I LOL'd. Would LOL again.
I just bought my first ever Apple product, a MacBook Air with Lion. I have been woefully unimpressed with the illogic of many of its features, the inconsistencies in use and design, and some of the downright irritating PITA aspects. Talking with my friends who are long time Apple users, it seems a good 90% of my complaints were all introduced with Lion. Many of of those power-users are of the same opinion as you. It's got some nice features but this will be the only Apple computer I'll be buying for a good long time.
Not taking a jab at you personally, but I've never understood the "you deserve what you got, silly victim!" mentality. No victims *deserve* to be victimized. Sure, they could have taken better steps to protect themselves, but I can just as easily say "you deserve that cancer you got" for not getting regular boob or prostate squashings. It's technically true that many people are vulnerable because they don't know how important it is to protect themselves, but directly blaming them for it is counter-productive.
Would you feel better if I said you "earned" being victimized? You smoke two cartons of Camels a week in this day and age, and you don't just deserve cancer, you earned it. You evidently put a lot of effort into pretending that the fact that your cancer was all but inevitable somehow didn't apply to you. Enjoy your winnings!
Any opinion referencing "refresh rate" when talking about film can be safely ignored.
You don't have to be Morman to understand how addiction works.
No, but it does take someone who understands addiction to understand how addiction works. And it's pretty clear to anyone who who has ever regularly used caffeinated substances the parent poster isn't one of them.
Screen size
HDMI.
And once again, I'm tethered to a screen. PC wins this one.
resolution
Once 9" tablets surpass 1080p, they'll be near "retina display" pixel density.
Unless you're using the above mentioned HDMI on a bigger screen. Now you want higher resolution. PC wins again.
mouse
Computer novices already have enough trouble using a mouse.
Computer gamers - which I believe is what started this thread - use them extensively. PC again.
keyboard
The laptop concept of having to carry a keyboard even where you aren't going to be needing one has become blue in the tooth.
True, however the concept of being stuck without a keyboard when you do need one hasn't gone away. This is a tie. Size and portability are a huge plus for small platforms but even something simple as typing an essay is frustrating to the point of distraction on a table.
heavy web apps
Mobile CPUs are slowly catching up to desktop CPUs in speed.
Very, very slowly - and it's not like they've stopped developing desktop and laptop CPUs. Point PC - for now.
integration with applications
Web site developers and tablet application developers want this integration to be mediated on the server side, with web applications using OAuth to authenticate to each other.
And a tie. I'll reiterate the AC's point because it's true: there are many areas that a tablet or phone simply cannot match a PC for even something as seemingly trivial as web browsing.
(b), the memory usage is massive. It's better now that I've upgraded my machine to 8 GB, but you shouldn't have to do that for a BROWSER. This (massive resource usage) kind-of negates the idea of an inexpensive, low powered browser appliance.
After switching to Chrome, I immediately noticed that if it *was* updating, it was doing it in a completely unobtrusive way, and the resource usage was significantly lower. I'd been using Firefox since the original beta, but after switching to Chrome never looked back.
I recently switched to Chrome from Firefox because Firefox just plain broke. I'm a tab-whore and it would literally take 10 minutes before Firefox became usable. It was not unusual to see a 1.4G Firefox footprint. I switched to Chrome and I was so happy to see 30M and 50M threads here and there. But then as I started completing my migration I noticed that tabs started loading slower and slower. Now, with the exact same session loaded, Chrome is using about 20% more memory than Firefox ever did. It's an absolute pig. I'm either going to have to change my browsing habits or find another new browser.