How does painting my car a color that reflects light improve my fuel economy? Also, please note that ALL colors reflect light.
Try to drive a car that has a mirrored paint job and see what happens to you.
While we are outlawing things, outlaw all ICEs but Wankel engines.
Here's a question for you. Is it SMART to have an uneducated or willfully ignorant person's vote count the same as one who is educated and is well versed in all the topics at hand?
Wow, prescription strength. So it was a single 800mg pill as opposed to 4 200mg pills.
I doubt I will ever have any kids, but if I do, they will be taught from day one that they are to fight until they can't fight anymore if anyone tries this sort of shit.
And as soon as I find out about it, the fuckers responsible hand better be on the move because nothing would stop me from hunting their asses down and making them WISH they were dead.
I still fail to see anything unjust about it, we all had the option of signing the lease or walking away. I was getting a roughly equivalent deal on a living space as I would have elsewhere but with the added convenience of not having separate utility bills. And the fact remains I could have used as much electricity as I wanted to without altering my costs. Net result for me was a budget that never fluctuated. Fixed rent costs, utilities included. Fixed phone cost, unlimited calls. And even back then I had internet access without bandwidth caps.
Why can't the US get off its ass and upgrade its infrastructure?
Verizon has lately been having the gall to sell FiOS to customers like my parents who don't even live within an area serviced by FiOS. And it won't be there for years, if ever. But Verizon happily will make promises it can't deliver on and take people's money.
You are forgetting that anyone who was cleaver enough to scam $50 billion certainly has enough squirreled away and enough people still on his payroll somehow that unless he was locked up in prison he would be able to flee the country at the first opportunity never to be seen again.
Wait until bittorrent is a popular method for delivering licensed content. WoW patches are BT aren't they? Wasn't the BBC talking about content delivery via BT?
Just wait. Pretty soon the Used CD market won't exist, because corporations will wisely only make songs/albums available by download. You'll have no choice but to "buy new".
Yay.
Yeah seriously, so much for the right of first sale.
Oh and I agree with the European - gasoline is metered, phone calls are metered (by the minute or call), and electricity is metered. It makes sense to meter the internet too. It's not fair for grandma who reads a few emails per day to pay the exact-same rate as me who downloads 1000 gig per month.
While I completely agree that anyone who doesn't read the fine print is a fool, I have issue with your "everything is metered" assumption.
I used to live in an apartment where heat and electric were included in the rent.
I payed the same total rate as the guy next door even tho I was barely home and liked it on the cool side while he kept all sorts of lights and electrical gizmos on 24/7 and kept it at about 80 degrees.
Is that somehow wrong? We each made an agreement with the party providing the service.
Also, for the record, until I eventually got rid of my landline my calls weren't metered, I had completely unlimited (local) service, and I didn't have a long distance carrier since I didn't need one.
Maybe if the US would get off its technologically backwards ass and build a decent infrastructure we wouldn't even be having these discussions. WE pretty much invented this stuff and now I'm hard pressed to find a decently inexpensive 5MB connection while many Europeans could have 10MB or even 100MB connections for comparable rates.
Following your logic, we should be prepared to pay for clothing based on how many square inches/cms of fabric it uses. I hope they don't want to start taxing our O2 use.
While I agree in principal, the fact that this was concerning material that was not available for public consumption it is more akin to say, making copies of Intel's new CPU plans and putting them online. There have been laws covering this for years.
What does amaze me is that ages ago before DMCA etc there were a bunch of young hacker kids who were hit with big fines and felony charges for what amounted to possession of a document they could have legally bought from the phone company for $11.
So as assinine as this is, it could be a whole lot worse.
Yes it is. The average writer's salary? The average actor's salary? the average painter's salary?
I know writers, actors, and painters. I don't know any of them that collect a salary. (aside from any other professional employment such as teaching they might have) Everything they do is work for hire.
Commercial artisan jobs are diminishing. Maybe you are a graphic designer? Yes lots of photoshop jobs...
I was a classical drawing major at one of the best art schools in the country. There were about 12 of us total in a school of 1200+. There were quite a few illustration majors tho, which is basically just vo-tech drawing. Any drawing major can illustrate, not all illustrators can draw. Commercial jobs in general are deminishing, something to do with the economy being in the crapper at the moment or something.
A great parallel for this is the cutbacks in art and music in public schools. As an art school student do you think that and the fact that artists have little or no protection for their works.
I think there was a 'what' missing in there somewhere. If so I'll respond with this, I have several relatives who are teachers all of whom have seen cuts to their 'normal' level programs, but at the same time there has been increased support for gifted and talented and magnet school programs. It is not uncommon to see dedicated high schools for the arts in school districts these days. Although there can be too much faith placed in schooling for the creative. One of the best shows I ever saw was a huge exhibit by working artists who had never had even a single day on art classes, at any level. There is plenty of protection for you works as an artist, in truth you are more likely to be ripped off by a big company stealing your stuff than individuals.
You totally missed the point on this. The industry is shrinking, and if the industry shrinks guess who misses out the most. The smaller independent artists. Now one might say well they were small already maybe they would stay small... maybe not... but if things keep going the way things are the ceiling is getting lower, and that's bad for art in general. >
That's not what I see happening. Firstly I don't know a single artist who does only one thing, they are usually working on all sorts of types of creative endeavors at once. They have many directions to move in if they need to. It actually seems that when the economy gets slack that people start pulling together and collaborating more, especially when space can be found for cheap.
Yeah "used to" have patrons. Lots of things are eroding. Things are staying the same things are getting worse... People expect art to be free now.. That's bad. If it is free then the artist does have a take a "day job" and guess what. Less Art. As a member of the art community you should be more encouraging of more art than pushing people away from it. I understand industry changes and what not, but if I can't get a distributor because the profit margin is razor thin now as opposed to 4 years ago well I might agree with you.
Distributor? What on earth are you talking about that you need a distributor? And god forbid an artist has a day job. Hell even pro football players used to have day jobs in the off season. This is the exact same mentality that used to disgust me about the trust-fund kids at the art school. Some of us were there taking full time classes and working 40+ hrs a week to pay for it all. Artists who love their craft will produce artwork, period.
Completely untrue. I have worked with lots of artists and there are great organizations that work on behalf of artists to get them there share. The problem actually is in when artists sign contracts. They typically can get a lot more, but because they are "Artists" and not "attorneys" they often get less. The smart ones do very very well for themselves. The not so bri
I went to art school. I have made and sold artworks. You are so ignorant of reality it isn't funny.
Art is eternal, but the means for Artists to make money is evaporating.
No it isn't. If making money is their only concern then there are many other ways to do it, including commercial artist jobs.
As you stated Art school people make less. They do have to take jobs unrelated to there passion. Why is that?
So does pretty much everyone else, why is that? Also, how come you seem to be measuring a person's achievements by how much money they make? How vile is that?
Because unfortunately there are very few ways for artists to make a decent living wage.
Bullshit. Be good at what you do. Pursue whatever work you need to to pay the bills and continue with your artistic pursuits. And here's a hint for you, there are an aweful lot of non-artists who make shittier wages than the artists, most of the artists have at least some college under their belt. Artists used to have patrons, if all they wanted to do was artwork they found one.
So why take away from the industry that helps artists make money?
The only industry that helps artists make money is the one that manufactures the supplies they use. You severely misspelled "profits like a leech off an artist's hard work with no concern or care for the creations involved"
Yes some people are still doing well, but there is a whole new generation that are still trying to figure out if it's even worth it at all to pursue.
How is this different for ANYTHING else at any time? I'm sure at some point there were people wondering if it was worth it to go into buggywhip making, or take over the family ranch, or thousands of other professions that have waned throughout history. Try finding someone who hand-carves decorative stonework sometime, there used to be hundreds of them in any city.
Easier way is: people were confused by the HDTV switch despite 6 months of increasingly heavy advertising.
Case in point. Despite 6 months of advertising you are under the impression that the switch to Digital TV has anything at all to do with High Definition. And you are probably much more tech savvy than most if you are hanging out on/.
The most overlooked product you can recycle though, is the Microsoft OS license on the system itself. I don't know how many hundreds of millions have been wasted because people did know that little piece of information.
If it's an OEM license it's tied to the hardware and cannot be transferred. At least not legally.
Why would the OP call him "B. Hussein Obama"? Is that supposed to mean something?
It means the OP is an ignorant idiot who doesn't know a damn thing about names in use for humans on planet Earth. The name "Hussein" means something like "handsome" if I recall and it's usually a surname. It also happens to be the family name of the Jordanian royal family.
Making a big deal out of his name is rather 3rd grade if you ask me.
Slashdot Mirror
How does painting my car a color that reflects light improve my fuel economy? Also, please note that ALL colors reflect light.
Try to drive a car that has a mirrored paint job and see what happens to you.
While we are outlawing things, outlaw all ICEs but Wankel engines.
Here's a question for you. Is it SMART to have an uneducated or willfully ignorant person's vote count the same as one who is educated and is well versed in all the topics at hand?
Wow, prescription strength. So it was a single 800mg pill as opposed to 4 200mg pills.
I doubt I will ever have any kids, but if I do, they will be taught from day one that they are to fight until they can't fight anymore if anyone tries this sort of shit.
And as soon as I find out about it, the fuckers responsible hand better be on the move because nothing would stop me from hunting their asses down and making them WISH they were dead.
Undead Lawyer == Politician?
No worse, lobbyest, you can vote out politicians.
I still fail to see anything unjust about it, we all had the option of signing the lease or walking away. I was getting a roughly equivalent deal on a living space as I would have elsewhere but with the added convenience of not having separate utility bills. And the fact remains I could have used as much electricity as I wanted to without altering my costs. Net result for me was a budget that never fluctuated. Fixed rent costs, utilities included. Fixed phone cost, unlimited calls. And even back then I had internet access without bandwidth caps.
Why can't the US get off its ass and upgrade its infrastructure?
Verizon has lately been having the gall to sell FiOS to customers like my parents who don't even live within an area serviced by FiOS. And it won't be there for years, if ever. But Verizon happily will make promises it can't deliver on and take people's money.
You are forgetting that anyone who was cleaver enough to scam $50 billion certainly has enough squirreled away and enough people still on his payroll somehow that unless he was locked up in prison he would be able to flee the country at the first opportunity never to be seen again.
But why not less for S or XS?
The 80's just called, it wants Usenet back.
Wait until bittorrent is a popular method for delivering licensed content. WoW patches are BT aren't they? Wasn't the BBC talking about content delivery via BT?
Just wait. Pretty soon the Used CD market won't exist, because corporations will wisely only make songs/albums available by download. You'll have no choice but to "buy new".
Yay.
Yeah seriously, so much for the right of first sale.
SSL VPN P2P "darknets" already exist.
My question is, how would a P2P blocking/throttling methodology at the ISP level effect those content producers who distribute via P2P?
Oh and I agree with the European - gasoline is metered, phone calls are metered (by the minute or call), and electricity is metered. It makes sense to meter the internet too. It's not fair for grandma who reads a few emails per day to pay the exact-same rate as me who downloads 1000 gig per month.
While I completely agree that anyone who doesn't read the fine print is a fool, I have issue with your "everything is metered" assumption.
I used to live in an apartment where heat and electric were included in the rent.
I payed the same total rate as the guy next door even tho I was barely home and liked it on the cool side while he kept all sorts of lights and electrical gizmos on 24/7 and kept it at about 80 degrees.
Is that somehow wrong? We each made an agreement with the party providing the service.
Also, for the record, until I eventually got rid of my landline my calls weren't metered, I had completely unlimited (local) service, and I didn't have a long distance carrier since I didn't need one.
Maybe if the US would get off its technologically backwards ass and build a decent infrastructure we wouldn't even be having these discussions. WE pretty much invented this stuff and now I'm hard pressed to find a decently inexpensive 5MB connection while many Europeans could have 10MB or even 100MB connections for comparable rates.
Following your logic, we should be prepared to pay for clothing based on how many square inches/cms of fabric it uses. I hope they don't want to start taxing our O2 use.
So how exactly do you punish someone who steals $50 billion?
While I agree in principal, the fact that this was concerning material that was not available for public consumption it is more akin to say, making copies of Intel's new CPU plans and putting them online. There have been laws covering this for years.
What does amaze me is that ages ago before DMCA etc there were a bunch of young hacker kids who were hit with big fines and felony charges for what amounted to possession of a document they could have legally bought from the phone company for $11.
So as assinine as this is, it could be a whole lot worse.
Wow, I like that. Is that yours? Mine was Picasso I think, probably paraphrased.
Yes it is. The average writer's salary? The average actor's salary? the average painter's salary?
I know writers, actors, and painters. I don't know any of them that collect a salary. (aside from any other professional employment such as teaching they might have) Everything they do is work for hire.
Commercial artisan jobs are diminishing. Maybe you are a graphic designer? Yes lots of photoshop jobs...
I was a classical drawing major at one of the best art schools in the country. There were about 12 of us total in a school of 1200+. There were quite a few illustration majors tho, which is basically just vo-tech drawing. Any drawing major can illustrate, not all illustrators can draw. Commercial jobs in general are deminishing, something to do with the economy being in the crapper at the moment or something.
A great parallel for this is the cutbacks in art and music in public schools. As an art school student do you think that and the fact that artists have little or no protection for their works.
I think there was a 'what' missing in there somewhere. If so I'll respond with this, I have several relatives who are teachers all of whom have seen cuts to their 'normal' level programs, but at the same time there has been increased support for gifted and talented and magnet school programs. It is not uncommon to see dedicated high schools for the arts in school districts these days. Although there can be too much faith placed in schooling for the creative. One of the best shows I ever saw was a huge exhibit by working artists who had never had even a single day on art classes, at any level. There is plenty of protection for you works as an artist, in truth you are more likely to be ripped off by a big company stealing your stuff than individuals.
You totally missed the point on this. The industry is shrinking, and if the industry shrinks guess who misses out the most. The smaller independent artists. Now one might say well they were small already maybe they would stay small... maybe not... but if things keep going the way things are the ceiling is getting lower, and that's bad for art in general.
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That's not what I see happening. Firstly I don't know a single artist who does only one thing, they are usually working on all sorts of types of creative endeavors at once. They have many directions to move in if they need to. It actually seems that when the economy gets slack that people start pulling together and collaborating more, especially when space can be found for cheap.
Yeah "used to" have patrons. Lots of things are eroding. Things are staying the same things are getting worse... People expect art to be free now.. That's bad. If it is free then the artist does have a take a "day job" and guess what. Less Art. As a member of the art community you should be more encouraging of more art than pushing people away from it. I understand industry changes and what not, but if I can't get a distributor because the profit margin is razor thin now as opposed to 4 years ago well I might agree with you.
Distributor? What on earth are you talking about that you need a distributor? And god forbid an artist has a day job. Hell even pro football players used to have day jobs in the off season. This is the exact same mentality that used to disgust me about the trust-fund kids at the art school. Some of us were there taking full time classes and working 40+ hrs a week to pay for it all. Artists who love their craft will produce artwork, period.
Completely untrue. I have worked with lots of artists and there are great organizations that work on behalf of artists to get them there share. The problem actually is in when artists sign contracts. They typically can get a lot more, but because they are "Artists" and not "attorneys" they often get less. The smart ones do very very well for themselves. The not so bri
...they only give you answers.
Could you please take a moment to estimate how much bandwidth "corresponds" to 65TB of disk space?
A '68 Buick Roadmaster Stationwagon full of DATs and travelling at 75MPH.
I went to art school. I have made and sold artworks. You are so ignorant of reality it isn't funny.
Art is eternal, but the means for Artists to make money is evaporating.
No it isn't. If making money is their only concern then there are many other ways to do it, including commercial artist jobs.
As you stated Art school people make less. They do have to take jobs unrelated to there passion. Why is that?
So does pretty much everyone else, why is that? Also, how come you seem to be measuring a person's achievements by how much money they make? How vile is that?
Because unfortunately there are very few ways for artists to make a decent living wage.
Bullshit. Be good at what you do. Pursue whatever work you need to to pay the bills and continue with your artistic pursuits. And here's a hint for you, there are an aweful lot of non-artists who make shittier wages than the artists, most of the artists have at least some college under their belt. Artists used to have patrons, if all they wanted to do was artwork they found one.
So why take away from the industry that helps artists make money?
The only industry that helps artists make money is the one that manufactures the supplies they use. You severely misspelled "profits like a leech off an artist's hard work with no concern or care for the creations involved"
Yes some people are still doing well, but there is a whole new generation that are still trying to figure out if it's even worth it at all to pursue.
How is this different for ANYTHING else at any time? I'm sure at some point there were people wondering if it was worth it to go into buggywhip making, or take over the family ranch, or thousands of other professions that have waned throughout history. Try finding someone who hand-carves decorative stonework sometime, there used to be hundreds of them in any city.
This is pretty typical of PC Mag of late. No research done, slap-dash work. Perhaps they too are outsourcing their work.
Yeah, I'm amazed at some of the stupid things I read in PC Mag, World, etc these days.
Like recently I read an article that was reviewing an app that's purpose was to compress Office files.
Never once was it compared to anything! Not any other zip, rar, arj, or other compression utility, not even the built in compression Windows provides.
And they wanted $50 for it.
Idiotic.
I'd have to say The Killing Joke.
I &%@!$%! hate Pod 6!
Easier way is: people were confused by the HDTV switch despite 6 months of increasingly heavy advertising.
Case in point. Despite 6 months of advertising you are under the impression that the switch to Digital TV has anything at all to do with High Definition. And you are probably much more tech savvy than most if you are hanging out on /.
The most overlooked product you can recycle though, is the Microsoft OS license on the system itself. I don't know how many hundreds of millions have been wasted because people did know that little piece of information.
If it's an OEM license it's tied to the hardware and cannot be transferred. At least not legally.
virii
This is not a word, please stop using it. The plural of 'virus' is 'viruses', its Greek not Latin.
Why would the OP call him "B. Hussein Obama"? Is that supposed to mean something?
It means the OP is an ignorant idiot who doesn't know a damn thing about names in use for humans on planet Earth. The name "Hussein" means something like "handsome" if I recall and it's usually a surname. It also happens to be the family name of the Jordanian royal family.
Making a big deal out of his name is rather 3rd grade if you ask me.