You aren't getting the point. The point is if you don't have a pleasant workplace for the employees they'll leave you as soon as they can meaning your turnover rates will be higher than they would have been had the boss been less of a prick.
I love how arrogant Scroogle's "about us" page is: "It's time to stop pretending that Google's revenue model is anything more than a temporary bubble, and it's time for Google to start developing more socially-responsible sources of income. Showing Google's results without the ads amounts to more public-interest advocacy. It says that the web spam situation is intolerable. "
Like some outside organization has a right to tell a company how to run its business. Why is my socialism alarm going off? In any case, up above that paragraph they mention that Google retaining information is bad because it might get subpoaned someday. How about just not doing anything worth getting investigated over? Isn't that a good idea too?
Seriously, do geeks have real privacy concerns or is there just like perhaps an aspergers/autistic based higher level of paranoia about piracy among the technically inclined set?
What exactly are you afraid of? Is it a reasonable fear or do you just like to add extra effort to your life by triyng to avoid using Google for paranoia's sake?
Someone else in this thread has already pointed out to me that you can in fact access the iTunes Music Store from Linux using a Linux app.
As to your response. Can you think of a more convoluted way of saying what you said? Would the average user care about DRM or why they couldn't connect to the iTunes Music store? I mean come on. Is there any way for me to point out how much of a pedant you sound like without getting modded down? This is exactly what regular folk are talking about when they say "Can you explain this to me in English?" DRM? GAHHH!
Simply put, if you can't do something you can't do it. Don't want to know the particulars. Just if you can or you can't. (It just so happens in this case you can but you get my point.)
Its not scaremongering or a myth. Its the truth. Linux is harder to use than either OS X or Windows. How you can't understand that is beyond me. I run Ubuntu and OS X. Ubuntu as far as it has come is still no match. It didn't even come with WPA Wifi support enabled by default. WTF.Way too many naggling things like that keep Linux from being "easy to use".
And freedom? Come on man. You aren't Martin Luther King here trying to free some oppressed people. You just don't want to pay money to enjoy the fruits of what is a very difficult profession that requires a lot of skill to do competently, making software.
I never said it was ignorance of other races. What I said is that people are more comfortable around those who are more like themselves. You can harbor no ill will towards a person of another race yet feel more comforatble and be able to relate more easily with those of the same race as yourself. Where's the racism in that?
I am just going to put this out there. I think you may have some form of a mental illness. Seriously. You speak as if there is some Misery Factory out there somewhere pumping out more misery. You don't sound like a person who has all their marbles upstairs. You are ranting and raving all over this thread against things that no one else sees because THEY DO NOT EXIST. Ok take that for what it is.
The United States did not invent the "ghetto". The word is an old Jewish word that was brought here so clearly "ghettos" existed before this young country, the US, did. Do you honestly think there were no poor areas in cities before the American Revolution? Was the United States the only country that didn't allow women to vote? Has that not changed? Was the United States the only country that had segregation? Has that not changed as well? Poverty rates, women's rights and civil rights have all moved in the right direction over the course of our nation's history. So where is your foundation for us never making eliminating misery a priority?
As for eliminating misery not being concern thats pure nonsense. Humans all over the world today live longer and more healthier lives than their ancesetors in the past. We have more material posessions, better health care and less worry about basic needs such as food, shelter and safety. Yes there are still regional wars in some parts of the world but there hasn't been a World War in over 50 years. You also assume that making people work less would automatically make them happier. A lot of people enjoy their jobs and only hate working because they are working at jobs they don't like. Not many people want to sit at home all day everyday. That would get boring fast.
Yes I can tell you with a straight face that the world is poor and starving to death because we have yet figure out how to get those countries to form stable governments. There is no lack of food, there is however a lack of infrastructure and stable governments in the starving nations. While I am sure there are some evil individuals out there but as a whole no humanity does not want people to starve. I think your mental illness is the cause for your nihilism. There's just no logic behind it at all. We can't invite Africa into the WTO until they get their act together. Humans aren't socialists. We need there to be something in it for us to do something. Thats not evil. Its just the way it is and it works out very well. The capitalist system allows for ridiculously high standards of living, socialist utopian systems allow for ridiculously low standards of living. I know which one I prefer.
I don't know. Maybe I'm the crazy one and I'm miserble and I just don't know it. I live a comfortable life in a good house, I'm healthy and have a good job but maybe I'm miserable just because you say so.
You seem to understand my post, therefore it makes sense. Yes I am saying that freedom is too good a word for software. But not just the word, the concept itself. Only something that is alive can have meaningful freedom. Software is a product. It is not sentient. It has no wants or desires. Thus it cannot ever be free.
You assume people segregate because of racism. At my boarding school at mealtime the races sat with their own but not because they did not get along but because it is easier to relate to those who are most like you. You can't call people racist if they aren't integrated in every waking moment of their lives.
You assume because miserable conditions exist that this is the desired state of things. What you rule out without providing a reason for excluding it is that miserable conditions may exist because we do not yet know how to prevent/eliminate them.
What exactly would be wrong with having a United States of Europe? Seriously. From a security standpoint the EU as it is is kinda well not kinda but very convoluted. Lets just say for a minute that the US did not exist, and Russia threatnened the EU. Could you all act decisively with one voice? Or would the UK, France and Germany go one way with the rest of Europe going another way.....ensuring that you'd all lose?
My guess is they use the term religious in reference to free software to explain to normal folk how irrational free software people can be at times. Most people couldn't care less about whether or not the software is free as in speech, not just beer. They just want to use something that works for as little money as possible. But then you have people ranting and raving about GPL licenses and making sure source code is available and all that stuff. But again no normal person really cares about this so to explain the Free Software "ethos" to normal folk using the term "religious" is pretty apt, since believing in a diety that can't be proven and who doesn't even help you when you are in trouble is also pretty irrational.
This is actually an important point. I enjoy open source software and recognize the benefits that the GPL license can bring to us all but whenever I hear a Free Software proponent discuss software "freedom" or how they "value freedom" and its kinda like you are talking to someone who honestly, truly, madly, deeply feels that the battle for free software is akin to the battle for african american civil rights, gay rights, women's sufferage, human rights....etc. I mean I really really *really* hate to let some folks down but this struggle for free software is mainly going to result in software that people can use for free instead of having to shell out $10,$25,$250,$1000... for it. Most people will NOT be looking at the source code. Most people will NOT be porting it to new architectures decades from now when the original companies go under. Most people won't even know what the GPL is 25 years from now, just like they don't right now. The main result of this entire open source/free software movement will be to save people money and saving people money is always a good and excellent thing to do but its not in any way equal to freeing the slaves, giving women the vote or achieving racial tolerance.
It would be nice for once if FOSS advocates could kinda maybe acknowledge that.
Its not subjective at all. The US isn't uncivilized simply because someone on the left wing is in disagreement with the current administration. Our entire code of laws and ethics is based around a civil society. We even have a "Bill of Rights" and an Amendment banning cruel and unusual punishment. The current quibble is whether this ammendment applies to non-citizens as it does to citizens. Now compare that to many other countries, even other Western countries such as the UK, German...etc which don't even garuntee freedom of speech and you can see how it is quite correct to call the US, civilized.
Then you can compare the US to those great honor killing muslim societies, or those asian countries (India, China) where there are looming massive imbalances in sex ratios because for various cultural reasons parents do not want female children....
But hey, the US is a free country so if you want to be snarky to the point of being petulant AND WRONG, then go right ahead.
Who do you think runs Slashdot, robots? No, its run by humans. All humans have favorites and biases and beloved underdogs. So I really don't think your request is going to go very far. Its focus is "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters". Google is nerdy and matters. Anything they do is nerdy and matters.
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What part of the paragraph do you have a problem with and why?
With iTMS you get your movie in an hour. With Netflix you have to wait a few days. iTMS wins hands down. Just like folks put up with low res music just fine (lossy MP3s) over lossless CDs I don't think many folks will have issues with movies from the iTMS. Extending this, I think the whole HDTV thing is going to have less of a market than most people think.
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You aren't getting the point. The point is if you don't have a pleasant workplace for the employees they'll leave you as soon as they can meaning your turnover rates will be higher than they would have been had the boss been less of a prick.
What if the greedy artist is better at making art than the artist of modest ambition?
I love how arrogant Scroogle's "about us" page is: "It's time to stop pretending that Google's revenue model is anything more than a temporary bubble, and it's time for Google to start developing more socially-responsible sources of income. Showing Google's results without the ads amounts to more public-interest advocacy. It says that the web spam situation is intolerable. "
Like some outside organization has a right to tell a company how to run its business. Why is my socialism alarm going off? In any case, up above that paragraph they mention that Google retaining information is bad because it might get subpoaned someday. How about just not doing anything worth getting investigated over? Isn't that a good idea too?
Seriously, do geeks have real privacy concerns or is there just like perhaps an aspergers/autistic based higher level of paranoia about piracy among the technically inclined set?
What exactly are you afraid of? Is it a reasonable fear or do you just like to add extra effort to your life by triyng to avoid using Google for paranoia's sake?
Someone else in this thread has already pointed out to me that you can in fact access the iTunes Music Store from Linux using a Linux app.
As to your response. Can you think of a more convoluted way of saying what you said? Would the average user care about DRM or why they couldn't connect to the iTunes Music store? I mean come on. Is there any way for me to point out how much of a pedant you sound like without getting modded down? This is exactly what regular folk are talking about when they say "Can you explain this to me in English?" DRM? GAHHH!
Simply put, if you can't do something you can't do it. Don't want to know the particulars. Just if you can or you can't. (It just so happens in this case you can but you get my point.)
Just so you know here's how you access the iTunes Music Store on Linux: http://nanocrew.net/software/sharpmusique/
Bad example. Evolution is an Outlook clone. Windows doesn't need to run Evolution. It already has the real McCoy.
The iPod has 75% MP3 Player marketshare in the US. Linux can't run iTunes. Thats a major shortcoming no matter how you try to spin it.
Lets see.
Linux can't do something Windows and Mac OS X can do.
You got another way to define shortcoming?
Its not scaremongering or a myth. Its the truth. Linux is harder to use than either OS X or Windows. How you can't understand that is beyond me. I run Ubuntu and OS X. Ubuntu as far as it has come is still no match. It didn't even come with WPA Wifi support enabled by default. WTF.Way too many naggling things like that keep Linux from being "easy to use".
And freedom? Come on man. You aren't Martin Luther King here trying to free some oppressed people. You just don't want to pay money to enjoy the fruits of what is a very difficult profession that requires a lot of skill to do competently, making software.
Thats only for stuff post Sarbanes-Oxley. Steve didn't even return to Apple until around 2000.
I never said it was ignorance of other races. What I said is that people are more comfortable around those who are more like themselves. You can harbor no ill will towards a person of another race yet feel more comforatble and be able to relate more easily with those of the same race as yourself. Where's the racism in that?
I am just going to put this out there. I think you may have some form of a mental illness. Seriously. You speak as if there is some Misery Factory out there somewhere pumping out more misery. You don't sound like a person who has all their marbles upstairs. You are ranting and raving all over this thread against things that no one else sees because THEY DO NOT EXIST. Ok take that for what it is.
The United States did not invent the "ghetto". The word is an old Jewish word that was brought here so clearly "ghettos" existed before this young country, the US, did. Do you honestly think there were no poor areas in cities before the American Revolution? Was the United States the only country that didn't allow women to vote? Has that not changed? Was the United States the only country that had segregation? Has that not changed as well? Poverty rates, women's rights and civil rights have all moved in the right direction over the course of our nation's history. So where is your foundation for us never making eliminating misery a priority?
As for eliminating misery not being concern thats pure nonsense. Humans all over the world today live longer and more healthier lives than their ancesetors in the past. We have more material posessions, better health care and less worry about basic needs such as food, shelter and safety. Yes there are still regional wars in some parts of the world but there hasn't been a World War in over 50 years. You also assume that making people work less would automatically make them happier. A lot of people enjoy their jobs and only hate working because they are working at jobs they don't like. Not many people want to sit at home all day everyday. That would get boring fast.
Yes I can tell you with a straight face that the world is poor and starving to death because we have yet figure out how to get those countries to form stable governments. There is no lack of food, there is however a lack of infrastructure and stable governments in the starving nations. While I am sure there are some evil individuals out there but as a whole no humanity does not want people to starve. I think your mental illness is the cause for your nihilism. There's just no logic behind it at all. We can't invite Africa into the WTO until they get their act together. Humans aren't socialists. We need there to be something in it for us to do something. Thats not evil. Its just the way it is and it works out very well. The capitalist system allows for ridiculously high standards of living, socialist utopian systems allow for ridiculously low standards of living. I know which one I prefer.
I don't know. Maybe I'm the crazy one and I'm miserble and I just don't know it. I live a comfortable life in a good house, I'm healthy and have a good job but maybe I'm miserable just because you say so.
You seem to understand my post, therefore it makes sense. Yes I am saying that freedom is too good a word for software. But not just the word, the concept itself. Only something that is alive can have meaningful freedom. Software is a product. It is not sentient. It has no wants or desires. Thus it cannot ever be free.
You assume people segregate because of racism. At my boarding school at mealtime the races sat with their own but not because they did not get along but because it is easier to relate to those who are most like you. You can't call people racist if they aren't integrated in every waking moment of their lives.
You assume because miserable conditions exist that this is the desired state of things. What you rule out without providing a reason for excluding it is that miserable conditions may exist because we do not yet know how to prevent/eliminate them.
Has suicide been removed as an option thats available to everyone?
What exactly would be wrong with having a United States of Europe? Seriously. From a security standpoint the EU as it is is kinda well not kinda but very convoluted. Lets just say for a minute that the US did not exist, and Russia threatnened the EU. Could you all act decisively with one voice? Or would the UK, France and Germany go one way with the rest of Europe going another way.....ensuring that you'd all lose?
Normal would be recognizing that the concept of "freedom" shouldn't be "marginalized" by being applied to mere software.
My guess is they use the term religious in reference to free software to explain to normal folk how irrational free software people can be at times. Most people couldn't care less about whether or not the software is free as in speech, not just beer. They just want to use something that works for as little money as possible. But then you have people ranting and raving about GPL licenses and making sure source code is available and all that stuff. But again no normal person really cares about this so to explain the Free Software "ethos" to normal folk using the term "religious" is pretty apt, since believing in a diety that can't be proven and who doesn't even help you when you are in trouble is also pretty irrational.
This is actually an important point. I enjoy open source software and recognize the benefits that the GPL license can bring to us all but whenever I hear a Free Software proponent discuss software "freedom" or how they "value freedom" and its kinda like you are talking to someone who honestly, truly, madly, deeply feels that the battle for free software is akin to the battle for african american civil rights, gay rights, women's sufferage, human rights....etc. I mean I really really *really* hate to let some folks down but this struggle for free software is mainly going to result in software that people can use for free instead of having to shell out $10,$25,$250,$1000... for it. Most people will NOT be looking at the source code. Most people will NOT be porting it to new architectures decades from now when the original companies go under. Most people won't even know what the GPL is 25 years from now, just like they don't right now. The main result of this entire open source/free software movement will be to save people money and saving people money is always a good and excellent thing to do but its not in any way equal to freeing the slaves, giving women the vote or achieving racial tolerance.
It would be nice for once if FOSS advocates could kinda maybe acknowledge that.
Don't work for the Central Intelligence Agency.
Its not subjective at all. The US isn't uncivilized simply because someone on the left wing is in disagreement with the current administration. Our entire code of laws and ethics is based around a civil society. We even have a "Bill of Rights" and an Amendment banning cruel and unusual punishment. The current quibble is whether this ammendment applies to non-citizens as it does to citizens. Now compare that to many other countries, even other Western countries such as the UK, German...etc which don't even garuntee freedom of speech and you can see how it is quite correct to call the US, civilized.
Then you can compare the US to those great honor killing muslim societies, or those asian countries (India, China) where there are looming massive imbalances in sex ratios because for various cultural reasons parents do not want female children....
But hey, the US is a free country so if you want to be snarky to the point of being petulant AND WRONG, then go right ahead.
Who do you think runs Slashdot, robots? No, its run by humans. All humans have favorites and biases and beloved underdogs. So I really don't think your request is going to go very far. Its focus is "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters". Google is nerdy and matters. Anything they do is nerdy and matters.
Understand?
What part of the paragraph do you have a problem with and why?
With iTMS you get your movie in an hour. With Netflix you have to wait a few days. iTMS wins hands down. Just like folks put up with low res music just fine (lossy MP3s) over lossless CDs I don't think many folks will have issues with movies from the iTMS. Extending this, I think the whole HDTV thing is going to have less of a market than most people think.
Thanks. Now everyone in my office thinks I am crazy because I can't stop laughing. I really liked this job too.
Tell that to Dell, Apple and a resurgent HP.