An organization dedicated to promoting open sharing of code among tech professionals has gone horribly wrong. Now, they decide that disrupting a legitimate business that many people love will make them somehow relevant. Have they been drinking the Kool-Aid at Greenpeace?
Apple owns 10% of the market, yet FSF believes that they must be targeted for attack, disrupting tech support for hundreds of non-techies who just need to know how to set up their printer. Why? Because Apple isn't doing everything that FSF wants.
For shame, FSF. You've lost all support from another old-time hacker who once believed in you.
"That's it. What's your name? You're blacklisted. Now take yourself and your little bitch friend out of my store - and don't come back." I barked. Cravenly, they complied and scampered off. ...right to Amazon, where they bought CDs without a mean old man physically accosting them, insulting them, and refusing to sell to them.
Is there some religion or another that insists on reality? So that I can claim religious persecution by these fundies? Of course, the Church of Reality.
There is no gray area here. Imagine what photography would be like if this applied to *everything*. Photographers could not shoot interiors of homes without getting permission from the furniture makes, appliance manufacturers, or paint companies. You could not shoot a city streetscape without getting the permission of the makers of every visible sign, every shingle, every window. This is clearly insanity.
Ahem... From the US Constitution, Article III, Section 3:
Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. Ahh, so it's Bush and Cheney who should be tried for treason? Clearly, the two of them did more to recruit for Al Quaeda than probably anyone else in the world. Plus they did a lot to destroy the United States (in slow motion, but the process is well underway.)
We wouldn't know how bad or good apple was without somebody taking the effort. Greenpeace was doing their job and were not trying to get elected to office. Mull over that one.
I write this as a life-long environmentalist, Sierra Club member, and huge liberal.
Greenpeace is evil.
They rate companies not based on their impact on the environment, but rather what they say they will do at some future point. Their website rates Apple last, not because they polute or because they're killing baby seals, but because they refuse to tell Greenpeace what they're doing. We now know that Apple was innovating in a green way, they just didn't brag about their future plans. Despite this, Greenpeace still rates Apple as the worst company in the list.
Meanwhile, companies are rated 'good' based on their statements, and not their actions.
Greenpeace was not trying to get elected to office, true, but they are raising money. And that's what drives the organization these days, not saving the planet.
The decision to sell style is one of the best business moves Apple ever made. This reminds me of the old (spot-on) parody ad, "Microsoft designs the iPod packaging".
Because we don't like to think much, I spent about 3 months deciding on which one to buy. Most people aren't independently wealthy or as obsessed with consumer electronics, and need those three months to work so that they can afford an MP3 player.
That's an anecdote, all right. And when Madadam, a neighborhood Macintosh store, closed here in San Francisco they blamed "The consistent bad behavior of our number one supplier, Apple Computer."
But every time I went to Macadam, I was ignored by the sales staff, who largely seemed focussed on playing games on the sales-floor macs. Did I say 'sales floor'? That may be a bit of an exageration... it was more like a warren-like maze of stacked product. They charged more than the MSRP. (For example, they charged me $350 for one of the original Airport base stations, when list was $299. I returned it when I realized I had been overcharged.) And my experience wasn't unique. Mac users in the South of Market area would laugh and grimace knowingly when Macadam was mentioned. The service was so consistently bad, it became a running joke. The service at Macadam was worse than the service at Fry's!
My point? Perhaps your local music store closed because they sucked. Americans (heck, humans) don't like to take responsibility for fracking up.... so point the finger! At pirates, at Apple, at whomever you think will take focus away from your driving your business into the ground.
To wit, Essjay was hired by Wikia *this* January (i.e., about 60 days ago) not *last* January.
Perhaps I'm being picky, but I interpret 'last January' to mean 'the January that has most recently occurred in the past'. I interpret 'this January' to mean 'the January to occur in the immediate future, i.e., January 2008.
Again, perhaps I'm being picky, but then so are you.
Not to attack you personally, because I know that many people believe as you do thanks to the DaVinci Code, but what you are saying as fact came from a FICTIONAL NOVEL, and is by no means even close to accurate, any more than Superman or Star Wars.
And of course the bible itself is also a fictional novel. Probably based on historical fact, but widely embelished and full of contradictions (probably because it was written and edited by committees.)
I used a urinal like this several times in Amsterdam, where they are even more exposed. Once you've gotten past the weirdness of using it the first time, you quickly get used to it.
Frankly, these seem like a good idea, and we could use them here in San Francisco. (Our current enclosed 'euro-toilets' are mainly used by addicts for shooting up.) You would have to clean the pop-up street urinals daily, however. I can imagine that drunk party boys can't aim very well.
It's hard to argue "fair use" when someone is making money by making a copy... that's the whole point of copyright.
By this same logic, companies that transfer old LP's to CD are breaking the law. The end-user has no choice but to re-purchase their music, if it's available, and to throw out the media in it's old format.
Being a Mac user doesn't make David Pogue biased, just as having written a book on using Windows wouldn't make him biased. Likewise it doesn't keep him from being an objective reporter for the Paper of Record. Your extrapolation from "Author of book about Macs" to "Mac zealot" is tellling in your leanings, but not those of Mr. Pogue.
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If you can't tell which word is being used improperly in the above sentence, then having it explained to you won't help.
Yes, clearly he means 'borderline'.
An organization dedicated to promoting open sharing of code among tech professionals has gone horribly wrong. Now, they decide that disrupting a legitimate business that many people love will make them somehow relevant. Have they been drinking the Kool-Aid at Greenpeace?
Apple owns 10% of the market, yet FSF believes that they must be targeted for attack, disrupting tech support for hundreds of non-techies who just need to know how to set up their printer. Why? Because Apple isn't doing everything that FSF wants.
For shame, FSF. You've lost all support from another old-time hacker who once believed in you.
Your business faces ruin? I wonder why?
Help us, Al Gore! You are our only hope!
It could just as easily be explained by the destruction of the value of the dollar.
It just seems to me that most of the 'high tech' in this satellite will be melted or burned into unrecognizable slag.
There is no gray area here. Imagine what photography would be like if this applied to *everything*. Photographers could not shoot interiors of homes without getting permission from the furniture makes, appliance manufacturers, or paint companies. You could not shoot a city streetscape without getting the permission of the makers of every visible sign, every shingle, every window. This is clearly insanity.
Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. Ahh, so it's Bush and Cheney who should be tried for treason? Clearly, the two of them did more to recruit for Al Quaeda than probably anyone else in the world. Plus they did a lot to destroy the United States (in slow motion, but the process is well underway.)
Please clarify. Since you use the term 'literal', do you mean that the car is not a bucket containing rust, or a metal bucket which has become rusty?
Mull over that one.
I write this as a life-long environmentalist, Sierra Club member, and huge liberal.
Greenpeace is evil.
They rate companies not based on their impact on the environment, but rather what they say they will do at some future point. Their website rates Apple last, not because they polute or because they're killing baby seals, but because they refuse to tell Greenpeace what they're doing. We now know that Apple was innovating in a green way, they just didn't brag about their future plans. Despite this, Greenpeace still rates Apple as the worst company in the list.
Meanwhile, companies are rated 'good' based on their statements, and not their actions.
Greenpeace was not trying to get elected to office, true, but they are raising money. And that's what drives the organization these days, not saving the planet.
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Clearly, you should know what you're talking about before posting.
ITunes does not add DRM, nor does it require DRM. It doesn't lock your music when copying it to the iPod.
Since you've clearly not tried this yourself, you should find and slap whoever told you this is the case.
That's an anecdote, all right. And when Madadam, a neighborhood Macintosh store, closed here in San Francisco they blamed "The consistent bad behavior of our number one supplier, Apple Computer."
But every time I went to Macadam, I was ignored by the sales staff, who largely seemed focussed on playing games on the sales-floor macs. Did I say 'sales floor'? That may be a bit of an exageration... it was more like a warren-like maze of stacked product. They charged more than the MSRP. (For example, they charged me $350 for one of the original Airport base stations, when list was $299. I returned it when I realized I had been overcharged.) And my experience wasn't unique. Mac users in the South of Market area would laugh and grimace knowingly when Macadam was mentioned. The service was so consistently bad, it became a running joke. The service at Macadam was worse than the service at Fry's!
My point? Perhaps your local music store closed because they sucked. Americans (heck, humans) don't like to take responsibility for fracking up.... so point the finger! At pirates, at Apple, at whomever you think will take focus away from your driving your business into the ground.
...with a 40 MHz 68030! I'm typing this missive on mine right now!
Note that RAM and drives purchased from Apple are covered by their extended 3-year warranty. (And I always buy this... it's worth the peace-of-mind.)
Ummm, slavery ?
Perhaps I'm being picky, but I interpret 'last January' to mean 'the January that has most recently occurred in the past'. I interpret 'this January' to mean 'the January to occur in the immediate future, i.e., January 2008.
Again, perhaps I'm being picky, but then so are you.
And of course the bible itself is also a fictional novel. Probably based on historical fact, but widely embelished and full of contradictions (probably because it was written and edited by committees.)
coyote
Um, wouldn't that be all religions? Not the Church of Reality.
coyote
I used a urinal like this several times in Amsterdam, where they are even more exposed. Once you've gotten past the weirdness of using it the first time, you quickly get used to it.
Frankly, these seem like a good idea, and we could use them here in San Francisco. (Our current enclosed 'euro-toilets' are mainly used by addicts for shooting up.) You would have to clean the pop-up street urinals daily, however. I can imagine that drunk party boys can't aim very well.
By this same logic, companies that transfer old LP's to CD are breaking the law. The end-user has no choice but to re-purchase their music, if it's available, and to throw out the media in it's old format.
Being a Mac user doesn't make David Pogue biased, just as having written a book on using Windows wouldn't make him biased. Likewise it doesn't keep him from being an objective reporter for the Paper of Record. Your extrapolation from "Author of book about Macs" to "Mac zealot" is tellling in your leanings, but not those of Mr. Pogue.
Look, I'm a doctor, not a server administrator who should design machines that can handle being slashdotted!
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Anyhow, here's the mirror:
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/c99b53edbf927e1d