A screenshot is as much a work of art as a passport photo. Put your own copyright notice on it; register it even. It's yours..... copyright is completely broken.
So is your head. I'm familiar with the whole Dada/post-modern argument that art is whatever someone declares to be art and the philosopher in me finds it intriguing. But from any real-world practical standpoint, saying that screenshots are inherently "art" is laughable. Copyright law doesn't regard it as such (it's a derivative work, so you cannot register it or claim it for yourself), and if it ever does, then it would be broken.
1) That DLP set was $3000 only a year ago. It instantly went from unattainable to possible - if things continue scaling like this, Big Screens will only continue to trickle down in affordability.
What part of "[That] is not what I'd call 'affordable'" did you find unclear? Yes, prices have come down, but so far only from "utterly unattainable" to merely "unaffordable"... at least that's how it looks from down here among the working classes, where $1800 may be more than a month's take-home pay.
"Well, if they can't afford DLP sets, let them buy plasma!" -Marie Antoinette
I understand that parents are people too, and don't give up their movie going rights at the birth of their child.
One of the local cineplex chains has a "Monday Movies for Moms" feature, in which they show current movies with the house lights on, the sound turned down a bit, and a little extra tolerance for noisy babies. Seems like a win-win-win idea to me.
Big Screen TV's are getting affordable. I just bought a brand new 46" DLP set for only $1800
Either that was a complete non-sequitur or this is some new definition of the word "affordable" with which I am unfamiliar... perhaps some kind of slang like how "bad" means "good"? A signficant fraction of my annual rent is not what I'd call "affordable".
The technology is now easy to use/hook-up, readily accessible, and affordable. Back in the days of Laserdisc this wasn't the case.
Ah, now I see: you're joking. My parents never had any real setup problems with their old skool (top-loading) VCR. But I've spent countless hours helping them to get their current TV/cable/DVD setup to work, and to explain to them which buttons (out of 40 on the remote) they have to push in what order to switch from watching a DVD to watching the Golf Channel.
a new 18 cinema theater just opened... another one is under construction and a third is in the planning stages.... there are a bunch of theaters.... multi-screen theaters showing second run movies. None of them lose money.
Even if they aren't losing money yet, some of them probably will. The same sort of construction is going on around here, with a couple multiplexes planned to join a couple other recently-built multiplexes. But meanwhile, most of the "old" cinemas (I actually remember most of them being built) have been shutting down, because there just isn't enough business to sustain them all and the newer ones (further and further from the city center) get all the business. The oldest surviving cinema (an old-style movie palace that expanded into a 20-screen multiplex over the course of the 1970s-80s and was heavily renovated in the 1990s) is nearly deserted sometimes, and even on Friday nights they don't even bother opening the second concession stand anymore. I half expect the next major multiplex to kill it. This isn't construction to meet demand, it's to put competitors out of business.
If your site has been registered for less than a year, then it counts against you.
Interesting. This means that registering domain names as soon as I think of them, even though I tend to not get around to actually building the site for them for a while, is to my advantage (and not just for the sake of securing the name). I have one domain that I registered four years ago, but didn't have time to put anything more than a simple placeholder site on it until now. Now that I finally have it going, Google may like it better than if I'd waited.
Stop fixating on the fact that he "dropped out" and consider the point that he "dropped in".
If the only reason you're going to classes (or college at all) is to get the degree, you're going to end up a failure on some level. But if you're going there to learn and you'd go to classes even if you wouldn't get credit for them... that's a completely different situation.
Bottom line: Jobs succeeded because he went to college classes for the right reason, not the wrong reason.
Yeah, and most of them end up as failures. Both financially, and by any other standard. Pro sports is where a few people make a lot of money and just about everyone else gets screwed.
I have lived most of the past decade and a half in the "Agenda" programs included in Psion's PDAs. The EPOC5 version has everything I need: customised alarms, recurring events (by almost any formula), multiple prioritised to-do lists, embedded notes... I seriously haven't figured out what features it could be missing. Maybe someone who's used the more recent Symbian versions can clue me in.
As a 5-year-old release, the Agenda version I'm using is probably getting hard to synch up with desktop- or network-based apps, but I've never really seen much point in doing that. I can check it whether I'm at the office, at home, or anywhere else, after all.
For what it's worth, I was curious enough to get a throw-away Passport.net, managed to download it easily enough, installed it... and couldn't get the app to do anything beyond showing the splash screen and a few tool palletes (no parent window with aa menu). I used a reasonably current and vanilla WinXP system with plenty of RAM, and even rebooted, then disabled a bunch of background processes, with no luck. {shrug}
So maybe there's something to the notion that Adobe bought Macromedia (who also have an hybrid vector/bitmap graphics program) as a defensive move against Microsoft.
I've worked at a medium-sized liberal arts college, a large community college, and a small college in a large university... i.e. not quite the setting being asked about, but there are some commonalities. I've had some horrible experiences at two of the three places (related to petty politics, anti-productive bureaucracy, and unvarnished medieval bigotry), but overall, I've found colleges to be really comfortable places to work, especially compared to the businesses I've worked for. I think there's something about working among people whose goals are related to learning and teaching that makes it different from being around people whose goals are about selling. There are jerks and saints and assholes and heroes in both fields, but overall it feels different to me. But it's not for everyone, and there are a few red flags in the OP's comments.
If you're concerned about how much you'd be paid because you're afraid you won't be able to maintain the lifestyle you're used to, it might not be a good idea. You've been working in business too long, and the college lifestyle may not actually appeal to you. But if you're concerned because you've willingly started comparison-pricing ramen and generic mac-and-cheese, then you might actually have the personal fiscal flexibility to make it go... because it shows that money's just a means to you, not an end in itself.
Funnel all your own sysadmin work through it too. If you find a problem, create a ticket, then solve it.
That's such a brilliant suggestion, that I thought of it myself, years ago. {grin}
Seriously, every support task (i.e. not scheduled operational tasks like "rotate backup media") should get logged in a system of that sort. Not only does this create documentation of how you're spending your time, it also builds up a knowledge base that can help you find solutions to infrequent but previously-encountered problems, track patterns of when things go wrong, etc. To say nothing about making it easier for you to hand the job off to someone else, because the "how to" stuff will all be in there.
Having an e-mail address linked on web sites is one good way to get on a lot of spam lists. Using your address on Usenet postings will get it on even more.
How many commodity video cards are there out there any more?
For someone who's got such a thing for old hardware, you have a remarkably large blind spot here. There are dozens of other video architectures "out there". Some of them notorious for making things difficult for third-party driver developers. And video cards are just one example; there are store shelves loaded with hardware (CD burners, firewire cards, NICs, printers, etc.) that isn't supported by OS X. Recompiling it for x86 isn't going to change that. And even if it did, that heterogenous mishmash of off-brand hardware is one of the reasons Windows is so flaky; OS X isn't going to be substantially better running on it, thereby eliminating one of the key reasons for switching to it.
The rest run in 2d unaccelerated mode like older cards did under OS X.
Yeah, that was my point. How many people are eager to hack OS X so they can run it with crappy VESA-compatibility-mode video performance? As much as you apparently want it to be otherwise, in the real world, the answer is "not very many". Please stop projecting your own obsessions on the larger population.
Xpostfacto should be causing Apple distress. OS X has purposely shipped with support disabled for older systems as a means of encouraging upgrades.
You seem to see a far larger population of people who want to run OS X on their old beige Macs than I see.
Microsoft doesn't worry about this because MS doesn't produce systems. If they did, you can bet they'd do all they could to prevent the new OS release from running on the past generation of systems.
Um, have you read the hardware specs for Longhorn (or even XP)? They seem to have done a good job of dropping support for 1997-vintage 266MHz Pentium II's (comparable to the machines Apple is dropping).
Apple cannot stop OS X x86 from landing on commodity boxes.
...and typically running in slow 640x480/16-color mode or crashing a lot, because no one's written good OS X drivers for all those commodity video cards. Again, you seem to see a lot more people willing to put up with this than Apple does.
I've yet to see an example of a communist government that wasn't totalitarian.
That's because you're only looking at oversized nation-states. Communism works better on much smaller scales, e.g. communes. (So does Democracy, for that matter, e.g. communes.)
More importantly, what makes you think Apple CAN lock down OS X this way? They haven't been able to block xpostfacto and maconlinux from running OS X on unsupported hardware, why would an x86 port be any different?
What's different is they aren't trying to "block xpostfacto". XPF is just doing some extra work that Apple doesn't want to bother with, and which doesn't cause Apple any distress because if someone really wants to run Tiger on a beige G3 and it doesn't work quite right... that's the geek's problem, not Apple's. Furthemore XPF is taking advantage of the openness of Darwin; if Apple keeps the hardware-detection code closed-source, that's going to make it a lot harder to get around.
Yet another example of someone not understanding the difference between communism (an economic system) and totalitarianism (a political system). They may sometimes go hand in hand, but you can easily have totalitarianism (of which this is an example) without communism. Why, I've even seen it growing in market-based economies.
I don't use e-mail in the way described by the article, not at all. It is too full of utterly useless garbage to be of any use as a reminder or storage system. I routinely go "a day without e-mail", and the only disruption it causes me is the extra time it then takes the next time I sift through my inboxes for things I might actually want to read.
Once upon a time when TLDs all had some sort of eligibility requirements (however tacit) and were usually treated as the first branches of a mutually exclusive hierarchy, adding more of them would have been of value. Heck, even.xxx would have made sense if it had existed back in the days before sex.com was registered.
But the domain name system has become a flat file, already substantially replicated across several TLDs..xxx will solve no problems whatsoever, will probably introduce a few, and of course will make the registrars and the registry operator some nice cash.
But I think.cat is the more signficant gTLD to gain ICANN approval in this round, because it indicates that they're open just about anything if there's a technically competent sponsor behind it. If a language/culture can get a gTLD, why don't the Basques, the Chechens, the Tamils, the Palestinians, les Québécois, the Amish, the Yoopers, etc. petition for their own? It won't be long before I'm typing in www.pasty.up to order meat-and-potater pies online.
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So is your head. I'm familiar with the whole Dada/post-modern argument that art is whatever someone declares to be art and the philosopher in me finds it intriguing. But from any real-world practical standpoint, saying that screenshots are inherently "art" is laughable. Copyright law doesn't regard it as such (it's a derivative work, so you cannot register it or claim it for yourself), and if it ever does, then it would be broken.
Have you ever seen someone who calls people "ghey" (with whatever spelling) who wasn't that insecure?
What part of "[That] is not what I'd call 'affordable'" did you find unclear? Yes, prices have come down, but so far only from "utterly unattainable" to merely "unaffordable"... at least that's how it looks from down here among the working classes, where $1800 may be more than a month's take-home pay.
Um, his link has a typo. This will work better.
One of the local cineplex chains has a "Monday Movies for Moms" feature, in which they show current movies with the house lights on, the sound turned down a bit, and a little extra tolerance for noisy babies. Seems like a win-win-win idea to me.
Either that was a complete non-sequitur or this is some new definition of the word "affordable" with which I am unfamiliar... perhaps some kind of slang like how "bad" means "good"? A signficant fraction of my annual rent is not what I'd call "affordable".
The technology is now easy to use/hook-up, readily accessible, and affordable. Back in the days of Laserdisc this wasn't the case.
Ah, now I see: you're joking. My parents never had any real setup problems with their old skool (top-loading) VCR. But I've spent countless hours helping them to get their current TV/cable/DVD setup to work, and to explain to them which buttons (out of 40 on the remote) they have to push in what order to switch from watching a DVD to watching the Golf Channel.
Even if they aren't losing money yet, some of them probably will. The same sort of construction is going on around here, with a couple multiplexes planned to join a couple other recently-built multiplexes. But meanwhile, most of the "old" cinemas (I actually remember most of them being built) have been shutting down, because there just isn't enough business to sustain them all and the newer ones (further and further from the city center) get all the business. The oldest surviving cinema (an old-style movie palace that expanded into a 20-screen multiplex over the course of the 1970s-80s and was heavily renovated in the 1990s) is nearly deserted sometimes, and even on Friday nights they don't even bother opening the second concession stand anymore. I half expect the next major multiplex to kill it. This isn't construction to meet demand, it's to put competitors out of business.
Interesting. This means that registering domain names as soon as I think of them, even though I tend to not get around to actually building the site for them for a while, is to my advantage (and not just for the sake of securing the name). I have one domain that I registered four years ago, but didn't have time to put anything more than a simple placeholder site on it until now. Now that I finally have it going, Google may like it better than if I'd waited.
If the only reason you're going to classes (or college at all) is to get the degree, you're going to end up a failure on some level. But if you're going there to learn and you'd go to classes even if you wouldn't get credit for them... that's a completely different situation.
Bottom line: Jobs succeeded because he went to college classes for the right reason, not the wrong reason.
Yeah, and most of them end up as failures. Both financially, and by any other standard. Pro sports is where a few people make a lot of money and just about everyone else gets screwed.
As a 5-year-old release, the Agenda version I'm using is probably getting hard to synch up with desktop- or network-based apps, but I've never really seen much point in doing that. I can check it whether I'm at the office, at home, or anywhere else, after all.
For what it's worth, I was curious enough to get a throw-away Passport.net, managed to download it easily enough, installed it... and couldn't get the app to do anything beyond showing the splash screen and a few tool palletes (no parent window with aa menu). I used a reasonably current and vanilla WinXP system with plenty of RAM, and even rebooted, then disabled a bunch of background processes, with no luck. {shrug}
84.5% are lying.
So maybe there's something to the notion that Adobe bought Macromedia (who also have an hybrid vector/bitmap graphics program) as a defensive move against Microsoft.
If you're concerned about how much you'd be paid because you're afraid you won't be able to maintain the lifestyle you're used to, it might not be a good idea. You've been working in business too long, and the college lifestyle may not actually appeal to you. But if you're concerned because you've willingly started comparison-pricing ramen and generic mac-and-cheese, then you might actually have the personal fiscal flexibility to make it go... because it shows that money's just a means to you, not an end in itself.
That's such a brilliant suggestion, that I thought of it myself, years ago. {grin}
Seriously, every support task (i.e. not scheduled operational tasks like "rotate backup media") should get logged in a system of that sort. Not only does this create documentation of how you're spending your time, it also builds up a knowledge base that can help you find solutions to infrequent but previously-encountered problems, track patterns of when things go wrong, etc. To say nothing about making it easier for you to hand the job off to someone else, because the "how to" stuff will all be in there.
Having an e-mail address linked on web sites is one good way to get on a lot of spam lists. Using your address on Usenet postings will get it on even more.
For someone who's got such a thing for old hardware, you have a remarkably large blind spot here. There are dozens of other video architectures "out there". Some of them notorious for making things difficult for third-party driver developers. And video cards are just one example; there are store shelves loaded with hardware (CD burners, firewire cards, NICs, printers, etc.) that isn't supported by OS X. Recompiling it for x86 isn't going to change that. And even if it did, that heterogenous mishmash of off-brand hardware is one of the reasons Windows is so flaky; OS X isn't going to be substantially better running on it, thereby eliminating one of the key reasons for switching to it.
The rest run in 2d unaccelerated mode like older cards did under OS X.
Yeah, that was my point. How many people are eager to hack OS X so they can run it with crappy VESA-compatibility-mode video performance? As much as you apparently want it to be otherwise, in the real world, the answer is "not very many". Please stop projecting your own obsessions on the larger population.
You seem to see a far larger population of people who want to run OS X on their old beige Macs than I see.
Microsoft doesn't worry about this because MS doesn't produce systems. If they did, you can bet they'd do all they could to prevent the new OS release from running on the past generation of systems.
Um, have you read the hardware specs for Longhorn (or even XP)? They seem to have done a good job of dropping support for 1997-vintage 266MHz Pentium II's (comparable to the machines Apple is dropping).
Apple cannot stop OS X x86 from landing on commodity boxes.
That's because you're only looking at oversized nation-states. Communism works better on much smaller scales, e.g. communes. (So does Democracy, for that matter, e.g. communes.)
What's different is they aren't trying to "block xpostfacto". XPF is just doing some extra work that Apple doesn't want to bother with, and which doesn't cause Apple any distress because if someone really wants to run Tiger on a beige G3 and it doesn't work quite right... that's the geek's problem, not Apple's. Furthemore XPF is taking advantage of the openness of Darwin; if Apple keeps the hardware-detection code closed-source, that's going to make it a lot harder to get around.
Yet another example of someone not understanding the difference between communism (an economic system) and totalitarianism (a political system). They may sometimes go hand in hand, but you can easily have totalitarianism (of which this is an example) without communism. Why, I've even seen it growing in market-based economies.
I don't use e-mail in the way described by the article, not at all. It is too full of utterly useless garbage to be of any use as a reminder or storage system. I routinely go "a day without e-mail", and the only disruption it causes me is the extra time it then takes the next time I sift through my inboxes for things I might actually want to read.
With all due respect to this Gary fella, I'd have to argue that Tom of Finland's Kake (prudish homophobes: do not click) is the ultimate leatherman.
Once upon a time when TLDs all had some sort of eligibility requirements (however tacit) and were usually treated as the first branches of a mutually exclusive hierarchy, adding more of them would have been of value. Heck, even .xxx would have made sense if it had existed back in the days before sex.com was registered.
But the domain name system has become a flat file, already substantially replicated across several TLDs. .xxx will solve no problems whatsoever, will probably introduce a few, and of course will make the registrars and the registry operator some nice cash.
But I think .cat is the more signficant gTLD to gain ICANN approval in this round, because it indicates that they're open just about anything if there's a technically competent sponsor behind it. If a language/culture can get a gTLD, why don't the Basques, the Chechens, the Tamils, the Palestinians, les Québécois, the Amish, the Yoopers, etc. petition for their own? It won't be long before I'm typing in www.pasty.up to order meat-and-potater pies online.