Yep, you're right. The market will gladly show that only the rich should have any chance at anything worthy of doing.
It's good to know that my children will likely never be able to afford to see a live show.
It makes me feel great to know that this is purely because the Artist needs to be compensated more.
Oh wait, there, little problem. It's a handful of fucking corporate execs that will be padding their wallets even more. Shit seen the price of a freaking BASEBALL or HOCKEY game lately? And they're just about to skyrocket? Goodie! I jump for joy!
Free market capitalizm is going to do us in in the end. How long do we figure until 95% of the worlds wealth has migrated into the hands of.01% of the population of the world?
Yes, yes, this is a good thing. Absolutely. Free markets will ALWAYS end up balancing in favor of the people those markets affect...oh, right, no they don't.
You're still selling us out, WAY short by the way. Thanks for that reassurance that all we are capable of is being criminals.
Your facts may be correct, but what you imply by your statements is just this. It's a slick sleight of hand that the industry has been using on us for years now.
My response: In most countries in the world, one is to be considered innocent until proven guilty. It does not matter that I can make an identical copy of a file full of numbers, that has NO BEARING on whether I will perform an illegal activity.
Further, FUCK YOU for implying that I am a criminal based on these statements. FUCK YOU, the record companies employing DRM, and anyone else using arguments similar to yours.
If you ever garner evidence of my performing an illegal activity, I'll gladly treat that with the respect deserved. But for now, you get what you give.
That's a great argument, if it didn't completely remove the ability for people to think for themselves and do the right thing.
You are propagating the bs stance that the record companies want us to swallow hook line and sinker: Because it's so easy, EVERYONE will obviously be a criminal, how could they not when it's so easy?
Do you have trouble walking past a candy rack at the variety store without slipping one in your pocket? No? Why not?
Now, you get a file sent to you in the mail. It's a song. It doesn't happen to say who paid for it or what rights might go along with it. Aha! It's free! It's Mine All Mine!!! Well, that's what you are implying...thanks for taking away my ability to think for myself...you're a lawyer right?
Society is built up on mutual trust. All of it. Without that, our society DOES NOT EXIST. There is a VERY long running tradition of trust between a seller and a buyer...if there wasn't, markets wouldn't work. For a long time, the music industry trusted us to purchase rather than steal their products...and they also realized that as a bonus, the few that would choose to steal end up generating more desire and hype for their products, enough to by FAR outweigh the losses incurred (Not losses actually, revenue that never existed to be precise), and actually INCREASED REVENUE. It was at this time, when they figured this out, that dual cassette decks became all the rage.
Well, now the trust is completely one sided. The big music distributors offer less than zero trust, in fact, they accuse us of being untrustworthy to the utmost. And yet, most of us still place our trust in these companies. What The Fuck. Really now.
The answer is more than simple. Don't do business with companies that aren't worthy of doing business with. If EVERYONE quit paying a buck a song, a buck that almost NONE of even goes to the artist (whom we're constantly told we're stealing from btw...how can we be stealing when actually buying an album brings no revenue to the artist anyways? But that's another point...), these practices would end OVER NIGHT. DRM could be completely gone in a WEEK, IF we'd stand up for our rights and make GOOD PURCHASING DECISIONS.
Too bad we're too fucking lazy to be bothered. Thanks kiddies.
Am I the only one that remembers Taping? God, it's just so much WORK to copy a CD, who in their right mind would do that?
No one remember pressing down that little record button to duplicate a cassette tape? No one remember renting or borrowing CD's and recording them to tape?
We've been screwed over. We've been accused of being criminals with absolutely no evidence presented. We now happily purchase crippled similies of products we once could use freely.
I went through my taping phase. Everyone that grew up listening to music knows that trading and sharing music is what generates interest in music in the first place. If I couldn't have had that access to music growing up, I never would have gone through the phase where I started a CD collection that grew over the years to ~1000 discs. I never would have spent upwards of $10g on music.
Know what I spend on music now? Fuck all unless it's an independant non-crippled product. Period.
Yep, Apple et al are really winning this one. Unfortunately, they are actually, but they wouldn't be if people would wake the fuck up and open their eyes to what they're actually spending their money on. The American carrot is simple: Make it so brutally easy for them to give money that they will gladly do so, without even glancing at what it is they are buying. America is selling itself out in the name of 'convenience'.
You've boughten into the big-box dream hook line and sinker which made you automatically pass over the incredibly good advice given.
Yes, you are correct that 12 cans sold in a case for 3.99 is cheaper than 12 cans bought individually at a buck a piece...that's what they want you to see.
And we believe for some reason that that is actually a good deal for us...never mind the fact that if you buy the 12 pack and take it home, you will drink all 12 LONG before you would have made 12 trips to a vending machine or to the store when you actually wanted that 'treat'...which is what pop is. It is not sustenance in any way shape or form...but packaged and sold in a way that can be equated to buying staple sustenance in bulk form, obviously the way to go.
The only way out of this trap is to see it for what it is.
Now add up the whole equation and decide which is better:
a) Hop in car, drive to store, buy 12 pack, drive home, drink all within 2 1/2 days.
or...
b) Decide you don't want a pop that bad at the moment, wait till the evening. Walk down to the store after dinner and buy a pop. Drink it as you stop in the park to watch the grass grow for a few minutes. Heck, go wild and make this a daily routine.
In case b, for the same period of time, you've spent LESS actual money on pop, AND you've offset the caloric intake of said pop.
The corporation is ONLY out for your money...don't believe ANYTHING they say...even when using pure numbers they can 'prove' that buying more is cheaper...it almost never is.
Best thing I ever did was quit drinking caffeine. You won't believe the negative impact that caffeine has on you until you try quitting for yourself. Caffeine is so incredibly terribly bad for you...your body will make it plain as day to you if you'll give it half a chance and quit for a week...at least long enough to get rid of the withdrawal shakes etc.
You'll be more alert always. You will actually have true highs where you can really focus rather than 'tunnel-vision highs' that caffeine offer. You won't be dragging your arse whenever you haven't had a caffeine supplement recently. You'll sleep better, a whole shitload better actually. Think you're sleeping fine right now? Yeah, well, you're not. Trust me. Your heart rate will be more relaxed. You'll think clearer more often than not. Your memory may even improve noticeably.
I had been a hard core coffee drinker for ~10 years. I too thought caffeine was the savior of all, the only thing that could keep you going in this day and age. But all through that time I was having a shitty time sleeping. Tossing and turning, night sweats...Used to write it off as stress etc, crappy mattress, whatever. Finally talked to my Dr about it and he stated flat out, without a doubt, it was my caffeine intake.
So I quit drinking the shit. 1 week later, everything I'd conned myself into believing was the norm was gone. I'll never EVER go back to drinking that shit. It is simply shit, period. Again, give your body a shot and it WILL tell you loud and clear that this is the case...it just can't while it's all hopped up on caffeine.
You should do some reading on simple vs complex carbs. Refined white sugar is very VERY different than honey. It is ignorant, and worse, dangerously misleading to suggest to others that might listen that honey is no better for you than white sugar.
Everything in moderation of course, but 1tsp honey vs 1tsp white sugar...you go ahead and take the sugar mmkay?
Now for those that get this and are interested in natural sweeteners, I was turned on to natural Agave Nectar about 6 months ago. Entirely organic, and one of the healthiest natural sweeteners on the planet. Tastes awesome in tea, especially spicier teas such as chai, as it has just a bit of a nip to it itself.
Gravis gamepad pro is a Knock-Off PS1 controller for use with a PC.
It is NOT a PS1 controller. You appear to have used one, so you darned well know that the 2 are not equivalent by any stretch of the imagination. The similarities are simply that they are of a similar shape with similar button layout. Get into ANY technical details, and it's immediately apparent that the gamepad pro is a POS. The only thing it has going for it is it's arbitrary keyboard mapping abilities. In some ways, it's actually the best available controller for a PC...but it's still a POS. Unlike the PS1 controller. Not perfect, but very good.
I see that there were some bigger problems there than just what you describe.
Why would production code be sending messages to the dev team at all if your shop is big enough to have separate departments? Isn't that then a support issue?
Smells like one root of a MUCH bigger problem there.
Imagine an OEM having to supply alternatives to all of these things. Buying the replacements from third parties, or including crippled versions of full products, or using opensource alternatives where they exist. Imagine every OEM doing this, and choosing different products. Imagine sitting down infront of a computer and no longer having a guaranteed set of tools to work with - different browser, email client, file explorer etc.
No doubt. I can't believe this has goine this far. Really, whether MS is too big or whatever is entirely beside the point. MS is a software company. They make operating systems. People expect operating systems to do things like play videos and stuff. Go figure, MS would rather write their own and bundle it with _their_ os than PAY to bundle someone elses software. Why would ANYONE in ANY business do something like that?
Here's a parallel example: Imagine if it was legislated that FORD was too big and shouldn't be bundling only their own proprietary parts in their cars. Further, they are then forced to 'bundle' 3rd party engines in their cars. Huh? Wtf?
Yeah, no shit. Wtf.
Don't get me wrong, MS is a gorilla, and they certainly can do evil, but this is just good business. If Korea doesn't like what MS's product is, then they shouldn't freaking well use it. Personally, I hope MS tells them to pound salt.
This has nothing to do with multi-core multi-cpu configurations.
Software that currently is not multithreaded, cannot take advantage of a SINGLE multi-core chip. HOWEVER, any multithreaded app would IMMEDIATELY take advantage of the availability of dual cores and dual cpus.
This article is about the hardware end of this, not about your favorite game that can't use it.
There are many MANY legitimate fan-recorded board tapes out there.
The ones that gd doesn't want traded are 'official' board tapes of shows.
Granted, there can still be a big quality difference, as usually fan recorded board tapes come off a straight stereo mix, often off of monitor lines, so is not typically levelled correctly for recording.
This is a very important distinction: Board levels for a live show are obviously set for optimal live sound, NOT the same at all as for a recording. When professionally recording a live show, there is actually an entirely separate board to mix the recording on. THESE are the recordings they do not want traded, as these require extra work, and result in a polished saleable product.
Live mix line out board tapes are VERY common for gd shows. These are what traders are looking for.
To note, there is absolutely NOTHING new about this. Gd fans have been doing this for decades now. Sure, they trade digitally now, and were amongst the first people trading music online, but it really hasn't changed at all.
The gd's stance on this hasn't changed either. They've NEVER liked having their live mix recordings leaked. This happened in the past well before it happened digitally.
Gd fans would say 'nothing new here, please move along'.
QED, AJAX (ex-DHTML) can illustrate this pretty effectively. The question is, do the kids really care? The hands-on trades have been ignored for a long time, but there's nothing wrong with getting your hands dirty (instead of getting paper cuts or carpal tunnel "ailments").
or:
Interactive Multimedia can illustrate this pretty effectively. The question is, do the kids really care? The hands-on trades have been ignored for a long time, but there's nothing wrong with getting your hands dirty (instead of getting paper cuts or carpal tunnel "ailments").
Because you aren't really meaning to talk about QED or AJAX, what you're talking about is whether kids should be exploring things hands on or not.
A good side effect of the second example is also that anyone reading it could understand it. Most parents wouldn't get past the first few words in the original version.
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Yep, you're right. The market will gladly show that only the rich should have any chance at anything worthy of doing.
.01% of the population of the world?
It's good to know that my children will likely never be able to afford to see a live show.
It makes me feel great to know that this is purely because the Artist needs to be compensated more.
Oh wait, there, little problem. It's a handful of fucking corporate execs that will be padding their wallets even more. Shit seen the price of a freaking BASEBALL or HOCKEY game lately? And they're just about to skyrocket? Goodie! I jump for joy!
Free market capitalizm is going to do us in in the end. How long do we figure until 95% of the worlds wealth has migrated into the hands of
Yes, yes, this is a good thing. Absolutely. Free markets will ALWAYS end up balancing in favor of the people those markets affect...oh, right, no they don't.
You're still selling us out, WAY short by the way. Thanks for that reassurance that all we are capable of is being criminals.
Your facts may be correct, but what you imply by your statements is just this. It's a slick sleight of hand that the industry has been using on us for years now.
My response: In most countries in the world, one is to be considered innocent until proven guilty. It does not matter that I can make an identical copy of a file full of numbers, that has NO BEARING on whether I will perform an illegal activity.
Further, FUCK YOU for implying that I am a criminal based on these statements. FUCK YOU, the record companies employing DRM, and anyone else using arguments similar to yours.
If you ever garner evidence of my performing an illegal activity, I'll gladly treat that with the respect deserved. But for now, you get what you give.
That's a great argument, if it didn't completely remove the ability for people to think for themselves and do the right thing.
You are propagating the bs stance that the record companies want us to swallow hook line and sinker: Because it's so easy, EVERYONE will obviously be a criminal, how could they not when it's so easy?
Do you have trouble walking past a candy rack at the variety store without slipping one in your pocket? No? Why not?
Now, you get a file sent to you in the mail. It's a song. It doesn't happen to say who paid for it or what rights might go along with it. Aha! It's free! It's Mine All Mine!!! Well, that's what you are implying...thanks for taking away my ability to think for myself...you're a lawyer right?
Society is built up on mutual trust. All of it. Without that, our society DOES NOT EXIST. There is a VERY long running tradition of trust between a seller and a buyer...if there wasn't, markets wouldn't work. For a long time, the music industry trusted us to purchase rather than steal their products...and they also realized that as a bonus, the few that would choose to steal end up generating more desire and hype for their products, enough to by FAR outweigh the losses incurred (Not losses actually, revenue that never existed to be precise), and actually INCREASED REVENUE. It was at this time, when they figured this out, that dual cassette decks became all the rage.
Well, now the trust is completely one sided. The big music distributors offer less than zero trust, in fact, they accuse us of being untrustworthy to the utmost. And yet, most of us still place our trust in these companies. What The Fuck. Really now.
The answer is more than simple. Don't do business with companies that aren't worthy of doing business with. If EVERYONE quit paying a buck a song, a buck that almost NONE of even goes to the artist (whom we're constantly told we're stealing from btw...how can we be stealing when actually buying an album brings no revenue to the artist anyways? But that's another point...), these practices would end OVER NIGHT. DRM could be completely gone in a WEEK, IF we'd stand up for our rights and make GOOD PURCHASING DECISIONS.
Too bad we're too fucking lazy to be bothered. Thanks kiddies.
Am I the only one that remembers Taping?
;)
God, it's just so much WORK to copy a CD, who in their right mind would do that?
No one remember pressing down that little record button to duplicate a cassette tape? No one remember renting or borrowing CD's and recording them to tape?
We've been screwed over. We've been accused of being criminals with absolutely no evidence presented. We now happily purchase crippled similies of products we once could use freely.
I went through my taping phase. Everyone that grew up listening to music knows that trading and sharing music is what generates interest in music in the first place. If I couldn't have had that access to music growing up, I never would have gone through the phase where I started a CD collection that grew over the years to ~1000 discs. I never would have spent upwards of $10g on music.
Know what I spend on music now? Fuck all unless it's an independant non-crippled product. Period.
Yep, Apple et al are really winning this one. Unfortunately, they are actually, but they wouldn't be if people would wake the fuck up and open their eyes to what they're actually spending their money on. The American carrot is simple: Make it so brutally easy for them to give money that they will gladly do so, without even glancing at what it is they are buying. America is selling itself out in the name of 'convenience'.
Quit it already.
Now to go find some non-converts to preach to
You've boughten into the big-box dream hook line and sinker which made you automatically pass over the incredibly good advice given.
Yes, you are correct that 12 cans sold in a case for 3.99 is cheaper than 12 cans bought individually at a buck a piece...that's what they want you to see.
And we believe for some reason that that is actually a good deal for us...never mind the fact that if you buy the 12 pack and take it home, you will drink all 12 LONG before you would have made 12 trips to a vending machine or to the store when you actually wanted that 'treat'...which is what pop is. It is not sustenance in any way shape or form...but packaged and sold in a way that can be equated to buying staple sustenance in bulk form, obviously the way to go.
The only way out of this trap is to see it for what it is.
Now add up the whole equation and decide which is better:
a) Hop in car, drive to store, buy 12 pack, drive home, drink all within 2 1/2 days.
or...
b) Decide you don't want a pop that bad at the moment, wait till the evening. Walk down to the store after dinner and buy a pop. Drink it as you stop in the park to watch the grass grow for a few minutes. Heck, go wild and make this a daily routine.
In case b, for the same period of time, you've spent LESS actual money on pop, AND you've offset the caloric intake of said pop.
The corporation is ONLY out for your money...don't believe ANYTHING they say...even when using pure numbers they can 'prove' that buying more is cheaper...it almost never is.
Best thing I ever did was quit drinking caffeine.
You won't believe the negative impact that caffeine has on you until you try quitting for yourself. Caffeine is so incredibly terribly bad for you...your body will make it plain as day to you if you'll give it half a chance and quit for a week...at least long enough to get rid of the withdrawal shakes etc.
You'll be more alert always. You will actually have true highs where you can really focus rather than 'tunnel-vision highs' that caffeine offer. You won't be dragging your arse whenever you haven't had a caffeine supplement recently. You'll sleep better, a whole shitload better actually. Think you're sleeping fine right now? Yeah, well, you're not. Trust me. Your heart rate will be more relaxed. You'll think clearer more often than not. Your memory may even improve noticeably.
I had been a hard core coffee drinker for ~10 years. I too thought caffeine was the savior of all, the only thing that could keep you going in this day and age. But all through that time I was having a shitty time sleeping. Tossing and turning, night sweats...Used to write it off as stress etc, crappy mattress, whatever. Finally talked to my Dr about it and he stated flat out, without a doubt, it was my caffeine intake.
So I quit drinking the shit. 1 week later, everything I'd conned myself into believing was the norm was gone. I'll never EVER go back to drinking that shit. It is simply shit, period. Again, give your body a shot and it WILL tell you loud and clear that this is the case...it just can't while it's all hopped up on caffeine.
You should do some reading on simple vs complex carbs. Refined white sugar is very VERY different than honey. It is ignorant, and worse, dangerously misleading to suggest to others that might listen that honey is no better for you than white sugar.
Everything in moderation of course, but 1tsp honey vs 1tsp white sugar...you go ahead and take the sugar mmkay?
Now for those that get this and are interested in natural sweeteners, I was turned on to natural Agave Nectar about 6 months ago. Entirely organic, and one of the healthiest natural sweeteners on the planet. Tastes awesome in tea, especially spicier teas such as chai, as it has just a bit of a nip to it itself.
Gravis gamepad pro is a Knock-Off PS1 controller for use with a PC.
It is NOT a PS1 controller. You appear to have used one, so you darned well know that the 2 are not equivalent by any stretch of the imagination. The similarities are simply that they are of a similar shape with similar button layout. Get into ANY technical details, and it's immediately apparent that the gamepad pro is a POS. The only thing it has going for it is it's arbitrary keyboard mapping abilities. In some ways, it's actually the best available controller for a PC...but it's still a POS. Unlike the PS1 controller. Not perfect, but very good.
Troll? Ok, sure.
But I was serious, and it obviously hit a nerve, didn't it?
How's about we talk about it instead of shouting 'troll' and ignoring it?
Funny how if you disagree with the general stance, instead of discussing you rather get censored.
IMHO, If I could, I'd have censored the article itself.
In the context presented, it most certainly is pathetic.
Maybe if it was more about function than form, but the focus is COMPLETELY on form here. That is what is sad.
Answer me this: Why the hell must it have tits for it to be a suitable virtual assistant? Really. What the fuck is with that.
Does no one else see how sad and pathetic this is?
Not the fact that it exists, but the fact that this is somehow important to slashdotters.
And Taco posting it, Sheesh. Need to get some do you?
I see that there were some bigger problems there than just what you describe.
Why would production code be sending messages to the dev team at all if your shop is big enough to have separate departments? Isn't that then a support issue?
Smells like one root of a MUCH bigger problem there.
Ahh, of course.
;)
I love this society of ours, where the crap always floats to the top
This guy was fired, right?
I've seen a LOT of queries start to perform sluggishly, and it has NEVER been anything to do with hardware.
Go figure, it has ALWAYS been data. Every Single Time.
I just can't figure that out when this only happens on DB Servers!
That's just one of the biggest wtf's I've seen in a _long_ time.
If you use Mozilla, it's called type-ahead-find.
Check it out, with it you can easily browse the net sans mouse.
The article summary itself brings up nazi's so by all rights this thread is dead before it even gets started.
:)
Could have at least thrown us a bone
Don't get me started on phone regulations ;)
No doubt. I can't believe this has goine this far. Really, whether MS is too big or whatever is entirely beside the point. MS is a software company. They make operating systems. People expect operating systems to do things like play videos and stuff. Go figure, MS would rather write their own and bundle it with _their_ os than PAY to bundle someone elses software. Why would ANYONE in ANY business do something like that?
Here's a parallel example: Imagine if it was legislated that FORD was too big and shouldn't be bundling only their own proprietary parts in their cars. Further, they are then forced to 'bundle' 3rd party engines in their cars. Huh? Wtf?
Yeah, no shit. Wtf.
Don't get me wrong, MS is a gorilla, and they certainly can do evil, but this is just good business. If Korea doesn't like what MS's product is, then they shouldn't freaking well use it. Personally, I hope MS tells them to pound salt.
What, you've created this wonderful piece of software and _now_ want to figure out what to do with it?
Am I missing something here?
That still says absolutely nothing at all about whether one can put a pc together with a dual mb running dual core chips.
Of course you're right, but entirely beside the point.
This has nothing to do with multi-core multi-cpu configurations.
Software that currently is not multithreaded, cannot take advantage of a SINGLE multi-core chip. HOWEVER, any multithreaded app would IMMEDIATELY take advantage of the availability of dual cores and dual cpus.
This article is about the hardware end of this, not about your favorite game that can't use it.
That's just asking for trouble isn't it? Mixing a single core and a dual core.
Wouldn't you expect it to be more stable, and maybe actually work, with 2 dual core CPU's on a dualie?
Kinda having a wtf moment.
You're both still slightly wrong.
There are many MANY legitimate fan-recorded board tapes out there.
The ones that gd doesn't want traded are 'official' board tapes of shows.
Granted, there can still be a big quality difference, as usually fan recorded board tapes come off a straight stereo mix, often off of monitor lines, so is not typically levelled correctly for recording.
This is a very important distinction: Board levels for a live show are obviously set for optimal live sound, NOT the same at all as for a recording. When professionally recording a live show, there is actually an entirely separate board to mix the recording on. THESE are the recordings they do not want traded, as these require extra work, and result in a polished saleable product.
Live mix line out board tapes are VERY common for gd shows. These are what traders are looking for.
To note, there is absolutely NOTHING new about this. Gd fans have been doing this for decades now. Sure, they trade digitally now, and were amongst the first people trading music online, but it really hasn't changed at all.
The gd's stance on this hasn't changed either. They've NEVER liked having their live mix recordings leaked. This happened in the past well before it happened digitally.
Gd fans would say 'nothing new here, please move along'.
He specifically said best 9x version of windows.
This would preclude 2000 and xp from the conversation.
or:
Because you aren't really meaning to talk about QED or AJAX, what you're talking about is whether kids should be exploring things hands on or not.
A good side effect of the second example is also that anyone reading it could understand it. Most parents wouldn't get past the first few words in the original version.