is all I had in mind. Like you, I have already returned to condemning their many failures. I've given the PTO its high-five; now its back to the tongue lashings.
Answer: It is not worth the effort to sue a person. A photographer whose photos have been printed w/o permission will always sue the deep pocket.
But, from a larger perspective, why be sad if the mass retailers alienate pro-sumer photographers? We should be so lucky that the corporations' one-size-fits-all, our-customers-are-all-talentless-pleebs approach might drive people back to the independent photography labs, where they can get to know the proprietors. The corps will probably wise up too fast for that rosy scenario to actually happen, but we can dream.
Disney just has to get back into . . . (allowing some "duds" as well as non-blockbusters to get made).
The reason they can't is, of course:
"Merchandising, mechandising, where the real money from the movie is made. . . . the video game, . . . the lunchbox, . . . the Pajamas . .." --Mel Brooks, SPACEBALLS
It takes a lot of effort, lead time, and risked capital to get the merchandizing machine up and running. They cannot afford to have a dud with that money at risk. They cannot afford to waste a summer with no fad to profit from. And, they cannot afford to have anything distract the public's attention from the buying frenzy.
The parent is right. As I recall, Win2000 was touted as "the most stable Windows ever". It promised to eliminate the blue screen of death. And, more than any of its predecessors, it did.*
Security didn't become the dominant issue until later. Seems to me that the Register/Security Focus has a short (dare I say "revisionist") memory.
*(That is, it was stable relative to MS products, not really stable. Viva Novell Netware!!)
I would only think this would work if the deposit was much higher.. but of course then no one would use it.
Elite Level: For a fee large enough that only rich people (and well-funded cells) will pay it, you can have a library card not traceable to you (until you show up to use it again).
Comrade Level: For free-as-in-police-state, you can have a library card that logs every transaction you make. (Future upgrades will upload the logs directly to DCS1000.)
The surveillance situation in this country is just wrong and it keeps getting wronger(TM), but look where this solution leads us: two classes of access. The principle of libraries is that free public access to information improves society. Free -- not paid, not surveilled -- free.
HEADLINE: Microsoft Declares that Your Computer is No Longer Yours
Does M$ mean to say that the computer now belongs to it or to the friendly neighborhood zombie master? I don't suppose it matters. Either way, your box is owned.
So heavily that one quarter of respondents won't go more than two or three days without it.
If I went 3 days without checking my physical mail or voice mail, my customers would dump me. No less so my email.
Do you at Opinion Research Corporation wait 3 days before responding to business communications? Well, neither do I. Wise up, guys. Email isn't a toy and hasn't been for a decade, even in the most backwards industries. It is a tool for time-critical communications.
There's absolutely no rational reason why schoolwork must be done at home; children can learn just as well in school.
Perhaps there is no pedagogical reason, but there are at least two rational reasons: convenience and cost.
Convenience - There are roughly 6 hours between the end of the school day and bed time. "Home" work allows students and parents to schedule that time as they please for activities, work, doctors' appointments, etc. Plus, some assignments are not due the day after they're assigned, permitting weekend hours to be used for school work when evening hours are needed for other activities.
Cost - Every minute that students are in the school facility, they must be monitored. If the time is extended, the cost increases. In addition, many school facilities are heavily booked for other activities after the school day ends -- teams practice, clubs meet, etc. In some circumstances, the various costs of keeping students at the school longer may be worth it, but it is not "free" to do so.
"No, . . . But I'll tell you who can," said Deep Thought.
"I speak of none other than the computer that is to come after me," intoned Deep Thought, his voice regaining its accustomed declamatory tones. "A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate - and yet I will design it for you. . . . And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called... The Earth."
. . . obviously not a parent. There's nothing wrong with having this as an option, as long as the child is informed. . . . Dignity and responsibility don't instantly come at 18 . . . we parents want to be able to prepare our kids so they can do that.
Dismiss the opinions of non-parents if you like, but I am a parent and this practice appalls me. Children build skills by doing small things on their own, followed by progressively bigger things. Trust is built the same way. They need freedom to fail. They need an opportunity to do right or wrong.
The consequences of lost, stolen, or misspent lunch money are tiny. This is not an area where sheltering and monitoring our children is warranted. The child needs to face the temptation of short term gratification in a situation where "getting away with it" is possible. Else, "not getting caught" may become his only moral compass.
From TFA: 2. Give us a genre of game we've never seen before. . . . where we actually have to talk to contacts and extract information and tap phones and piece together clues . . . where we're a castaway on a deserted island and the object of the game is to find food and clean water . . . where we play a salty Southern lawyer who has to piece together evidence . . .
Why don't these exist?
Answer 1: Because brain games can't be mass-produced with current tools. Current gaming technology has more or less mastered the displaying of virtual worlds. This makes 1000 fights only slighly harder to produce than 1 fight. Creating the ingenious riddles/conundrums the author desires is still a by-hand art, not an automated process.
Answer 2: Dumb gamers don't like brain games. Lots of players just wanna blow stuff up. They like a game with great graphics, intuitive game play, and no secrets they have to divine. Sure, no one on slashdot cares what dumb gamers want, but they spend money, too.
- Yoda, Obi Wan and Mace Windu vs. Picard, Kirk and Janeway (gotta love time travel)
On a primative planet, surely. Fashioning their own weapons while they argue philosophy, I hope. Fighting at the behest of rock-creatures, for certain.
--- HENSLOWE: It's a crowd tickler-mistaken identities, a shipwreck, a pirate king, a bit with a dog, and love triumphant. LAMBERT: I think I've seen it. I didn't like it. HENSLOWE: This time it's by Shakespeare
Good point. Though, really, the U.S. isn't (a) the only country meddling now or (b) the only country to claim that its meddling is done for the principle of freedom for all.
"Never trust a guy whose personal feces is not odiferous."
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Yep, they sure got it right this time
is all I had in mind. Like you, I have already returned to condemning their many failures. I've given the PTO its high-five; now its back to the tongue lashings.
Lots of weird shit happens when you approach absolute zero.
Yes, indeed it does.
Our bashing of the PTO might mean a little more if once in a while some one would stand up and say, "Hooray for the PTO. They got one right."
Only a few hundred thousand to go.
Answer: It is not worth the effort to sue a person. A photographer whose photos have been printed w/o permission will always sue the deep pocket.
But, from a larger perspective, why be sad if the mass retailers alienate pro-sumer photographers? We should be so lucky that the corporations' one-size-fits-all, our-customers-are-all-talentless-pleebs approach might drive people back to the independent photography labs, where they can get to know the proprietors. The corps will probably wise up too fast for that rosy scenario to actually happen, but we can dream.
- Pass unconstitutional law forbidding something your party dislikes.
- Risk-averse companies (i.e. all of them) immediately stop doing the prohibited thing.
- Wait until your opponents challenge it in court.
- Wait between 6 months and 2 years while litigation grinds forward.
- Lose litigation. Blame 'activist' judges. Blame your opponents.
- Pass another unconstitutional law forbidding the same thing.
- Repeat.
You don't have to win the court cases so long as people are scared to do the thing while a case is pending -- which is forever.The reason they can't is, of course:It takes a lot of effort, lead time, and risked capital to get the merchandizing machine up and running. They cannot afford to have a dud with that money at risk. They cannot afford to waste a summer with no fad to profit from. And, they cannot afford to have anything distract the public's attention from the buying frenzy.
...and taken the whole legal department on a field trip to hell to learn new techniques.
"hell". That's one of those "ranches" outside Las Vegas, right?
Copyright Holders
- ownership of mass media
- direct personal greed
- a complacent population rapidly becoming inured to more and more laws, and less and less freedom
Copyright OpponentsAshkenazis are, by definitions, supposed to be jews whos family came from germany or eastern europe.
So, to be prefectly blunt, we study this population because they are massively inbred in a particularly interesting way.
Cool.
The parent is right. As I recall, Win2000 was touted as "the most stable Windows ever". It promised to eliminate the blue screen of death. And, more than any of its predecessors, it did.*
Security didn't become the dominant issue until later. Seems to me that the Register/Security Focus has a short (dare I say "revisionist") memory.
*(That is, it was stable relative to MS products, not really stable. Viva Novell Netware!!)
How, exactly, does one "fall behind" in open source research? It's not exactly a space race where each researching country hides its discoveries.
I call marketspeak on this article.
...a COMPLETELY anonymous method of checking out books ...
Buy them for cash. In a city far from where you live.
(No matter how anonymous the card is, when you return to check out more books later, they can be waiting.)
I would only think this would work if the deposit was much higher.. but of course then no one would use it.
Elite Level: For a fee large enough that only rich people (and well-funded cells) will pay it, you can have a library card not traceable to you (until you show up to use it again).
Comrade Level: For free-as-in-police-state, you can have a library card that logs every transaction you make. (Future upgrades will upload the logs directly to DCS1000.)
The surveillance situation in this country is just wrong and it keeps getting wronger(TM), but look where this solution leads us: two classes of access. The principle of libraries is that free public access to information improves society. Free -- not paid, not surveilled -- free.
HEADLINE: Microsoft Declares that Your Computer is No Longer Yours
Does M$ mean to say that the computer now belongs to it or to the friendly neighborhood zombie master? I don't suppose it matters. Either way, your box is owned.
So heavily that one quarter of respondents won't go more than two or three days without it.
If I went 3 days without checking my physical mail or voice mail, my customers would dump me. No less so my email.
Do you at Opinion Research Corporation wait 3 days before responding to business communications? Well, neither do I. Wise up, guys. Email isn't a toy and hasn't been for a decade, even in the most backwards industries. It is a tool for time-critical communications.
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There's absolutely no rational reason why schoolwork must be done at home; children can learn just as well in school.
Perhaps there is no pedagogical reason, but there are at least two rational reasons: convenience and cost.
Convenience - There are roughly 6 hours between the end of the school day and bed time. "Home" work allows students and parents to schedule that time as they please for activities, work, doctors' appointments, etc. Plus, some assignments are not due the day after they're assigned, permitting weekend hours to be used for school work when evening hours are needed for other activities.
Cost - Every minute that students are in the school facility, they must be monitored. If the time is extended, the cost increases. In addition, many school facilities are heavily booked for other activities after the school day ends -- teams practice, clubs meet, etc. In some circumstances, the various costs of keeping students at the school longer may be worth it, but it is not "free" to do so.
"But can you do it?" cried Loonquawl. . . .
... The Earth."
"No, . . . But I'll tell you who can," said Deep Thought.
"I speak of none other than the computer that is to come after me," intoned Deep Thought, his voice regaining its accustomed declamatory tones. "A computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate - and yet I will design it for you. . . . And I shall name it also unto you. And it shall be called
. . . obviously not a parent. There's nothing wrong with having this as an option, as long as the child is informed. . . . Dignity and responsibility don't instantly come at 18 . . . we parents want to be able to prepare our kids so they can do that.
Dismiss the opinions of non-parents if you like, but I am a parent and this practice appalls me. Children build skills by doing small things on their own, followed by progressively bigger things. Trust is built the same way. They need freedom to fail. They need an opportunity to do right or wrong.
The consequences of lost, stolen, or misspent lunch money are tiny. This is not an area where sheltering and monitoring our children is warranted. The child needs to face the temptation of short term gratification in a situation where "getting away with it" is possible. Else, "not getting caught" may become his only moral compass.
From TFA: 2. Give us a genre of game we've never seen before. . . . where we actually have to talk to contacts and extract information and tap phones and piece together clues . . . where we're a castaway on a deserted island and the object of the game is to find food and clean water . . . where we play a salty Southern lawyer who has to piece together evidence . . .
Why don't these exist?
Answer 1: Because brain games can't be mass-produced with current tools. Current gaming technology has more or less mastered the displaying of virtual worlds. This makes 1000 fights only slighly harder to produce than 1 fight. Creating the ingenious riddles/conundrums the author desires is still a by-hand art, not an automated process.
Answer 2: Dumb gamers don't like brain games. Lots of players just wanna blow stuff up. They like a game with great graphics, intuitive game play, and no secrets they have to divine. Sure, no one on slashdot cares what dumb gamers want, but they spend money, too.
-Picard vs. Vader!
Locutus vs. Vader
- Yoda, Obi Wan and Mace Windu vs. Picard, Kirk and Janeway (gotta love time travel)
On a primative planet, surely. Fashioning their own weapons while they argue philosophy, I hope. Fighting at the behest of rock-creatures, for certain.
---
HENSLOWE: It's a crowd tickler-mistaken identities, a shipwreck, a pirate king, a bit with a dog, and love triumphant.
LAMBERT: I think I've seen it. I didn't like it.
HENSLOWE: This time it's by Shakespeare
Please have marketting send my check to . . .
Good point. Though, really, the U.S. isn't (a) the only country meddling now or (b) the only country to claim that its meddling is done for the principle of freedom for all.
"Never trust a guy whose personal feces is not odiferous."
Nice of BBC to pick such an old, dangerous reactor design. They could at least have mentioned pebble bed or other current designs.
Besides, what could the US get by invading that it can't get now? ;)