So are you the kind of guy that would try to jump a river that is 10 m wide? (the long jump record is just below 10m BTW).
There is a point when you have to lick your wounds, count your loses and learn from the experience.
And now I am going to agree in the particular cae of MS: if thet would leave the mobile market they would be done. Really. In a few years down the line they would be acquired as also rans by a company that saw the light.
Mobile devices are forcing web developpers to be more standards compliant, IE no longer will sway web developers about how the web is built (very few sites still insist on being an IE site only, fools, they do so at a prelude to ther demise).
So if MS wants to be part of that they have to be in that market. Otherwise everything may move to th web in terms they would not be dictating, or at least providing inout to.
Why coders can't live with the fact that their profession is utilitarian in nature and essence and be happy with that?
Picking nits: Jackson is not directing.
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In any case, given that del Toro is a better director than Jackson, I think that the final product will be great.
Producing is an entirely different beast from directing. Actually an overbearing director can be the worst news for a film, since he may want to see his ideas in the film, robing creative control form the person that should have it: the director.
I hate Microsoft, go on, you can check that if you want.
But their level of anal retentiveness and malfeasance is beginning to look like child's play when compared to the IMperial attitudes of His Highness Lord Jobs.
Microsoft provides a platform, most of it rubbish, but you can do as you best can with that in a framework of traditional computing craft.
Apple wants to deny you access to that craft in the terms that best suit you, that people that know about this are not angry is frankly incomprehensible.
I have come back to Mexico once or twice a year every year for the last 12 years.
Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana are dreadful, as are many parts in the border (the border? that place where the drug dealers' clients are closer? What a coincidence....)
But most other places are perfectly fine in general terms. As bad as the violence is most of it is restricted to fight between gangs or between gangs and the police or the army (and these don't happen everywhere every day, consider this the Mexican equivalent of the US random shooting....deplorable but unusual)
The tobacco and alcohol companies are certainly some of the most deplorable examples of how capitalism can go wrong, but at least they move within the constraints of civilized society and the rule of law.
Compare against the Mexican drug cartels, which are undermining law and order in Mexico and causing serious social problems in the US.
I would want all the people involved in drug trafficking paying taxes, unarmed and defending their businesses against educational campaigns that encourage people to stop drug consumption.
The militarization of the problem, with the encouragement of the Ayatollic US approach to law enforcement, is making things worse, not better.
I worked in close contact with INEGI at the beginning of the 90s in order to implement the National Land Reform System in all the country. I can assure you that the government distributed every bit of land that could be distributed.
Thousands of people were sent to the field to measure plots of land accurately, 32 computer centres were set up to process that information and generate the maps that would guarantee once and for all land ownership for small landowners (all Sun hardware, Solaris 2.0, Oracle DBs, GIS software by MapInfo if I remember correctly).
The problem in Mexico is that there are many small landowners, because the land has been redistributed completely. With little land you have little collateral in order to take a loan and obtain the resources you need to make your land productive. As a result you are at best a subsistence farmer who hopefully will produce enough to feed his family (until your children inherit part of it, so eventually there are a bunch of small farmers that have little land as collateral, this is not a matter of if but a matter of when).
This has nothing to do with race. The "Criollos" (people of pure Spanish descent, which don't come from Castilla only, I have no idea where did you read that nonsense) certainly have lots of political power, but by no means monopolize it. Politicians of note come from all the Mexican racial spectre, but most people are mixed race anyway.
Certainly the Mexican nation has to figure out a way to integrate with dignity and without patronizing the Native American peoples that are now in the boundaries of Mexico, but giving them land, without the capital and the know how, would be pretty useless.
I know people in the Mexican Police and Army that have been killed fighting the drug trade.
It is very easy for USians to be judgemental of the efforts of other governments to fight drug trafficking, after all you only smoke the drugs with utter disregard of the misery you are causing elsewhere.
Mexico never had a problem with drug trafficking in spite of rampant corruption, drug addiction was unheard off until the early 90s.
Drug trafficking became a Mexican National Security issue only once the rampant drug consumption in the US was well established and the prohibitionist, and morally bankrupt "War on Drugs" tactics took deep root in the US.
Who does Apple think they are to decide if they want "lousy bloated code" (what gives them the authority to take such decisions?) on *people's* devices?
The abrogation of rights of most Apple apologists is a truly sorry spectacle.
They are so confident they are solving a problem that they are selling you a keyboard for the trinket.
it is a netbook, keyboard and all, but in which they decide which software you can run.
That so many people are falling for this (apparently, I still hope people will come to their senses, were in a economic crisis after all) is frankly depressing.
To expect Uncle Steve to give me more features (or at least the same) as others do for my hard earned cash.
The cheek, those ungrateful people not thanking Apple for constraining their computing devices, not being grateful for having to buy all their software from only one source (this is screaming Monopoly all over the place, or at the very least unfair restriction of trade).
Keep sucking it up to Apple dear fanboys, the house of cards will come tumbling, and the tumble will be one of the most spectacular in the short history of computing.
In a free computing world If you can't program you either
- Learn to program. - Pay other people to program for you (you can band together with other people so what you pay is a small fee).
In a closed computing environment
- You can learn to program until hell freezes over, if Uncle Steve does not approve your application you are out of luck (and Uncle Steve is a Puritian and anticompetitive type, has always be, he will eve be).
- You can't pay nobody to fix things for you. Uncle Steve again.
The "Stallman" philosophy is the only thing that has ensured that Microsoft has some degree of competition. Without that we would only have Microsoft computing (Apple would have been engulfed long time ago, Linux competition gave Apple enough time to switch their OS to something based on more openness not less. It is ironic that Apple fanboys claim Stallman is wrong but forget that a BSD project (not free, but that is another matter) saved Apple's skin in the computing arena.
You can distribute up to 100 people for free.....
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That you put that as reasonable says all what is needed regarding this bastardized computing device.
The moment Apple locks applications in your Mac in a similar way to what they are doing in the iPad and other gadgets, it will be because they consider to have a mandate from the mindless consumers that are voting with their wallets.
Not only that, but by making this a successful business model other companies and organizations will have a big incentive to set shop in the same way.
Things are bad enough as they are, we really don't need closed gardens when buying a piece of hardware that for all intents and purposes is a general computing device which has been locked down, and thus dumbed down, in purpose.
How much have TVs, microwaves or dishwashers have progressed since their inception? Precious little. Any person that saw the first of those devices decades ago woould pick up how the current devices work.
The same people would find hard to understand how a modenr computer works and what you can do with it.
Closed architecture against open one.
So you want your computing architecture closed and ruled by a commercial entity? Fine, but let forever be noticed that we had examples to learn from about how closed, centralized development is a bad idea (why TVs are not media centers for example? Copyrights and DRM. That is why).
So if they fail to keep the information secure, but they did their bes, it is all right, lets give those people a pat in the back and shrug off the identity theft that ensues.
In the US there was already somebody tampering with anti terrorism lists (the US authorities would not say in which way but it is not difficult to imagine many scenarios).
Reasonable attempts is not good enough. The only way to be sure this data is not abused is not to collect the data at all in the first place ( the government can and must collect aggregate data, that is whet they need to govern, only authoritarian regimes need your picture and fingerprints for no good reason).
Many low time priests issued empty threats against people they didn't agree with.
Excommunication can only be dished by people very high up in the Catholic hierarchy: bishops and up I think, and never without the consent of the Vatican I believe.
At the end, the Catholic Church no longer has any moral authority to lead in matters related to sexuality, the recent worldwide debacle regarding paedophile priests and the Church's attempt to brush this under the carpet is enough to allow them any moral authority.
On top of that, any other priests without such sick proclivities have absolutely no experience about how human sexuality works (they are celibate), so again, they know nothing about human sexuality for the simple fact that they have foregone to practice it.
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So are you the kind of guy that would try to jump a river that is 10 m wide? (the long jump record is just below 10m BTW).
There is a point when you have to lick your wounds, count your loses and learn from the experience.
And now I am going to agree in the particular cae of MS: if thet would leave the mobile market they would be done. Really. In a few years down the line they would be acquired as also rans by a company that saw the light.
Mobile devices are forcing web developpers to be more standards compliant, IE no longer will sway web developers about how the web is built (very few sites still insist on being an IE site only, fools, they do so at a prelude to ther demise).
So if MS wants to be part of that they have to be in that market. Otherwise everything may move to th web in terms they would not be dictating, or at least providing inout to.
Coding is not "art".
Why coders can't live with the fact that their profession is utilitarian in nature and essence and be happy with that?
In any case, given that del Toro is a better director than Jackson, I think that the final product will be great.
Producing is an entirely different beast from directing. Actually an overbearing director can be the worst news for a film, since he may want to see his ideas in the film, robing creative control form the person that should have it: the director.
How do you upload your pictures from your camera to the net?
How do you watch a DVD.
I hate Microsoft, go on, you can check that if you want.
But their level of anal retentiveness and malfeasance is beginning to look like child's play when compared to the IMperial attitudes of His Highness Lord Jobs.
Microsoft provides a platform, most of it rubbish, but you can do as you best can with that in a framework of traditional computing craft.
Apple wants to deny you access to that craft in the terms that best suit you, that people that know about this are not angry is frankly incomprehensible.
I have come back to Mexico once or twice a year every year for the last 12 years.
Ciudad Juarez and Tijuana are dreadful, as are many parts in the border (the border? that place where the drug dealers' clients are closer? What a coincidence....)
But most other places are perfectly fine in general terms. As bad as the violence is most of it is restricted to fight between gangs or between gangs and the police or the army (and these don't happen everywhere every day, consider this the Mexican equivalent of the US random shooting....deplorable but unusual)
The tobacco and alcohol companies are certainly some of the most deplorable examples of how capitalism can go wrong, but at least they move within the constraints of civilized society and the rule of law.
Compare against the Mexican drug cartels, which are undermining law and order in Mexico and causing serious social problems in the US.
I would want all the people involved in drug trafficking paying taxes, unarmed and defending their businesses against educational campaigns that encourage people to stop drug consumption.
The militarization of the problem, with the encouragement of the Ayatollic US approach to law enforcement, is making things worse, not better.
When alcohol was banned in the US that gave raise to a criminal Mafia. As soon as the ban was lifted the Mafia disappeared.
All other things being equal, I would prefer to live without an artificially created Mafia.
I worked in close contact with INEGI at the beginning of the 90s in order to implement the National Land Reform System in all the country. I can assure you that the government distributed every bit of land that could be distributed.
Thousands of people were sent to the field to measure plots of land accurately, 32 computer centres were set up to process that information and generate the maps that would guarantee once and for all land ownership for small landowners (all Sun hardware, Solaris 2.0, Oracle DBs, GIS software by MapInfo if I remember correctly).
The problem in Mexico is that there are many small landowners, because the land has been redistributed completely. With little land you have little collateral in order to take a loan and obtain the resources you need to make your land productive. As a result you are at best a subsistence farmer who hopefully will produce enough to feed his family (until your children inherit part of it, so eventually there are a bunch of small farmers that have little land as collateral, this is not a matter of if but a matter of when).
This has nothing to do with race. The "Criollos" (people of pure Spanish descent, which don't come from Castilla only, I have no idea where did you read that nonsense) certainly have lots of political power, but by no means monopolize it. Politicians of note come from all the Mexican racial spectre, but most people are mixed race anyway.
Certainly the Mexican nation has to figure out a way to integrate with dignity and without patronizing the Native American peoples that are now in the boundaries of Mexico, but giving them land, without the capital and the know how, would be pretty useless.
I know people in the Mexican Police and Army that have been killed fighting the drug trade.
It is very easy for USians to be judgemental of the efforts of other governments to fight drug trafficking, after all you only smoke the drugs with utter disregard of the misery you are causing elsewhere.
Mexico never had a problem with drug trafficking in spite of rampant corruption, drug addiction was unheard off until the early 90s.
Drug trafficking became a Mexican National Security issue only once the rampant drug consumption in the US was well established and the prohibitionist, and morally bankrupt "War on Drugs" tactics took deep root in the US.
Who does Apple think they are to decide if they want "lousy bloated code" (what gives them the authority to take such decisions?) on *people's* devices?
The abrogation of rights of most Apple apologists is a truly sorry spectacle.
Apple is making sure of that.
They are so confident they are solving a problem that they are selling you a keyboard for the trinket.
it is a netbook, keyboard and all, but in which they decide which software you can run.
That so many people are falling for this (apparently, I still hope people will come to their senses, were in a economic crisis after all) is frankly depressing.
To expect Uncle Steve to give me more features (or at least the same) as others do for my hard earned cash.
The cheek, those ungrateful people not thanking Apple for constraining their computing devices, not being grateful for having to buy all their software from only one source (this is screaming Monopoly all over the place, or at the very least unfair restriction of trade).
Keep sucking it up to Apple dear fanboys, the house of cards will come tumbling, and the tumble will be one of the most spectacular in the short history of computing.
.... if marketing and hype didn't surround Apple products launches.
In a free computing world If you can't program you either
- Learn to program.
- Pay other people to program for you (you can band together with other people so what you pay is a small fee).
In a closed computing environment
- You can learn to program until hell freezes over, if Uncle Steve does not approve your application you are out of luck (and Uncle Steve is a Puritian and anticompetitive type, has always be, he will eve be).
- You can't pay nobody to fix things for you. Uncle Steve again.
The "Stallman" philosophy is the only thing that has ensured that Microsoft has some degree of competition. Without that we would only have Microsoft computing (Apple would have been engulfed long time ago, Linux competition gave Apple enough time to switch their OS to something based on more openness not less. It is ironic that Apple fanboys claim Stallman is wrong but forget that a BSD project (not free, but that is another matter) saved Apple's skin in the computing arena.
That you put that as reasonable says all what is needed regarding this bastardized computing device.
The moment Apple locks applications in your Mac in a similar way to what they are doing in the iPad and other gadgets, it will be because they consider to have a mandate from the mindless consumers that are voting with their wallets.
Not only that, but by making this a successful business model other companies and organizations will have a big incentive to set shop in the same way.
Things are bad enough as they are, we really don't need closed gardens when buying a piece of hardware that for all intents and purposes is a general computing device which has been locked down, and thus dumbed down, in purpose.
How much have TVs, microwaves or dishwashers have progressed since their inception? Precious little. Any person that saw the first of those devices decades ago woould pick up how the current devices work.
The same people would find hard to understand how a modenr computer works and what you can do with it.
Closed architecture against open one.
So you want your computing architecture closed and ruled by a commercial entity? Fine, but let forever be noticed that we had examples to learn from about how closed, centralized development is a bad idea (why TVs are not media centers for example? Copyrights and DRM. That is why).
Developers have to pay their bills, the best developers I have met were working in banks or hedge funds, not in universities.
Not a piercing to be seen.
The best programmer money can buy worldwide.
So if they fail to keep the information secure, but they did their bes, it is all right, lets give those people a pat in the back and shrug off the identity theft that ensues.
In the US there was already somebody tampering with anti terrorism lists (the US authorities would not say in which way but it is not difficult to imagine many scenarios).
Reasonable attempts is not good enough. The only way to be sure this data is not abused is not to collect the data at all in the first place ( the government can and must collect aggregate data, that is whet they need to govern, only authoritarian regimes need your picture and fingerprints for no good reason).
Many low time priests issued empty threats against people they didn't agree with.
Excommunication can only be dished by people very high up in the Catholic hierarchy: bishops and up I think, and never without the consent of the Vatican I believe.
At the end, the Catholic Church no longer has any moral authority to lead in matters related to sexuality, the recent worldwide debacle regarding paedophile priests and the Church's attempt to brush this under the carpet is enough to allow them any moral authority.
On top of that, any other priests without such sick proclivities have absolutely no experience about how human sexuality works (they are celibate), so again, they know nothing about human sexuality for the simple fact that they have foregone to practice it.
So one has to wonder why people keep giving it any credence.