The Olympic ideal is that if you're 0.02 seconds slower than someone else you're worthless. When's the last time you recalled the name of someone who came 5th at a non-current Olympic event. Stuff that for a joke. That ain't something I'm teaching my kid.
I especially like this side note: "For additional absurdity, imagine further that the Industry actually got judgments of $18 million in damages from roughly 30,000 teenagers, which is approximately the number of lawsuits they filed against consumers until the end of 2008. That would mean they had outstanding judgments for $540 billion dollars - or more than the total revenue the recording industry can expect to earn in about 50 years at its current size of $11 billion per year."
And yet, in view of so many incomprehensible RIAA decisions to date, it's hard to be hopeful.
RIAA version: "Additional $11 billion lost to piracy each year".
'... Most of them are just not mature enough to handle that,'...and they never will be as long as we continue to treat them like little children instead of young adults.
Yeah. How dare you treat a 12 year old like a child?
Here's a thought. Allow them to learn advanced material, at their own pace, and don't force them into an adolescent environment prematurely.
Nature or nurture? We really have no way of knowing. I suspect that we find 19 year olds becoming adults precisely because we expect that to be the case. Not too long ago, 14 was a marrying age, and I don't recall anyone of that time period thinking that this was odd or 'too much for them to handle'.
Nor was 14 too young to fall prey to an industrial accident causing death with no compensation whatsoever. We also didn't have anti-biotics and didn't pasteurise or refrigerate milk not too long ago. Oh and for that matter, reading and writing were not as common. Your short life expectancy was only mitigated by the fact that your life would suck unless you belonged to a privileged class. That's not something we should be aiming for. Let a child have a childhood for pity sake.
Do we want to extend childhood into a person's 30s and have them live at home as we're seeing a lot of people do? Do we want teenagers with little more maturity than 10 year olds? Let's increase the drinking, driving and voting age, because they can't handle it.
Or do we want to cut short a kid's childhood so that they start working at 15? Send them to the salt mines young so they can learn their trade early! Never mind the ones that can't handle it and end up depressed or suicidal. Never mind that you've robbed them of the chance to just be kids while they can be. From what I understand you've got enough trouble keeping your kids from coming to school armed.
Society is messed up, doesn't know what it expects from children, or even where childhood ends. Then people wonder why kids play up and go wild. They've got no clue what's expected of them.
What's wrong with the middle ground of letting a child have their childhood but not letting it extend into their 20s and 30s? If a child has special needs because they're particularly mature or particularly developed give them that option, but don't make it the norm.
The way I see it, Photoshop is for professionals, and is priced as such.
They do dual licensing but limit it to students. Good old "your first hit is free, kid" technique.
A lot of home users pirate it for the prestige (the same way they think using Dreamweaver makes them a "pro"), not because they actually need all the powerful features of the software.
There are a few good reasons to want to use Photoshop.
1) It's the industry standard. If you progress from amateur, you need to know it to get any work. If you do it formally, student pricing is available. If you do it of your own accord, you either buy it at stupid prices, pirate, or do without.
2) You need even one of those advanced features. Pro or amateur work, if you're looking to use a particular filter or technique that's not available in a cheaper (or free) editor, you're left with the same dilema. A lot of those features do not require advanced knowledge. Adjustment layers is a good example. There's no free product that does them. GIMP certainly doesn't. Paint Shop Pro is cheaper than Photoshop and does, but it's layer implementation is inferior. There are literally dozens of such features, and if you need them going without means a lot more work.
Obviously Adobe make the vast majority of their profits from corporate customers, much like Microsoft does.
Secret laws are a slippery slope that eventually encourage lawlessness and act against the interests of the citizenry. Why should any citizen obey the laws they do know, if they can always be punished severely for breaking laws they aren't permitted to know about? It's unconstitutional in most places, and especially the US that is founded on rule "by the people for the people". Anyone enacting these laws should be brought up on charges of treason, as should anyone attempting to enforce them. Quite ironically, there are probably anti-terror laws that apply too.
What version started requiring a mortgage?
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A full version of Photoshop CS4 costs more than a cheap second hand car. Elements is cheaper but crippled in ways that make it much less useful even for a casual amateur. You use to be able to get around those restrictions up to Elements 2.0. Now Elements is a very different piece of software (ironically with some unique features of its own). Photoshop is wonderful, but it's a pity it's either inaccessible or pirated for a great many people. It's probably more pirated than Windows.
These are Apple customers! Did you hear me? APPLE customers! Not some common Samsung owner on the street. They are Steve Job's chosen people!!! Don't you understand? How dare you insult them! It's a conspiracy! Anti-Appleism!!! We must strike a blow for freedom of religion! Quick, smite him!!!! I said SMITE the heathen now!!!! May you burn in IBM hell sir, and may all your phones be Nokias!!!!
For sale: One Death Star. Full size. Somewhat lumpy. Amateur construction. Needs work.
That'll never sell on Ebay!
Try this: Act now! One Death Star. Full size. Special lumps making it even more terrifying. Created same time and in same process as other more expensive objects! Condition as new. Comes with 3 free gifts. Free shipping. Why pay more for larger when this does so well? Hurry! This won't last. Seller has A++++ rating.
Everyone knows Ubuntu is an ancient African word for "I can't configure Debian". How come you can't configure Debian but were able to create a whole other distro?
The reason he feels gamers are more of a threat to his family is because a gamer left a threatening note under his door one night. No biker has done that.
Yeah the bikers will just sell his kid drugs, and give him no warning if they're going to harm his family.
I'm sure if he was threatened by a clown he'd be wanting to close all the circuses.
...and will not listen to reason, as he has repeatedly demonstrated. I'm not entirely clear what that agenda is, beyond being a douche. Perhaps he's in bed with the media organisations, and the filter censoring kiddie porn is only a side issue, while the real game is filtering music/tv/movie downloads. Perhaps he was teased as a child and this is his revenge on society. Either way he is an irresponsible man and I hope he's now infamous enough that people will vote him out at the next election (though I suspect I hope for too much).
I don't see a need for a dedicated reader. I use to read books on my Palm IIIe (and I have a later model Palm I rarely fire up) so I know the convenience is nice, but I'm just not willing to pay big money for a dedicated device to read books. In a world rabbiting on about green this and green that, it seems wasteful to have single purpose devices, let alone the DRM infested offerings of the last 5 years. My laptop reads most formats very well, provided they're not crippled. It'll read crippled books too, if I'm dumb enough to buy them.
Why is this a headline story on slashdot. It's a nice little achievement but hardly news. Anyway aren't Apple products suppose to "just work"? How dare this poster find a need for or better fit with something not specifically sanctioned by The Holy Jobs and his minions!;-)
Take a close look at your own post before you accuse me of descending into flame mode. I don't have a problem with you disagreeing with me. I have a problem with you telling me my argument doesn't make sense unless I'm in politics. Then you add to the irony with the whole "when you grow up" routine.
I don't know about this. I'd assume that if kids were behaving so wildly Internet access wouldn't help the situation. Kids would just beat each other up for mobile devices, surf for porn etc. Personally I think they've found a way to emit Ritalin waves via the wireless transmitter. Now please excuse me, I'm late to an appointment with the drycleaner. My tinfoil hat was getting rather dirty.
Well if you're dumb enough to take those pics, and you're dumb enough to forward them, and you're dumb enough to do that without stripping the EXIF, you deserve what you get.
He needs to document and comment as he goes. Otherwise others will need to repeat the process.
The best documentation is inline. Unfortunately our editing environments don't allow for diagrams to be embedded. That's where references to external docs are needed (but they can be part of the code repository!) It takes a lot longer to document code. Unfortunately managers often don't want to hear that and will think you're just slow picking up the code, so get them on board or warn them that others will need to do the same.
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The Olympic ideal is that if you're 0.02 seconds slower than someone else you're worthless. When's the last time you recalled the name of someone who came 5th at a non-current Olympic event. Stuff that for a joke. That ain't something I'm teaching my kid.
I especially like this side note:
"For additional absurdity, imagine further that the Industry actually got
judgments of $18 million in damages from roughly 30,000 teenagers, which is
approximately the number of lawsuits they filed against consumers until the end of 2008.
That would mean they had outstanding judgments for $540 billion dollars - or more than
the total revenue the recording industry can expect to earn in about 50 years at its current
size of $11 billion per year."
And yet, in view of so many incomprehensible RIAA decisions to date, it's hard to be hopeful.
RIAA version: "Additional $11 billion lost to piracy each year".
'... Most of them are just not mature enough to handle that,' ...and they never will be as long as we continue to treat them like little children instead of young adults.
Yeah. How dare you treat a 12 year old like a child?
Here's a thought. Allow them to learn advanced material, at their own pace, and don't force them into an adolescent environment prematurely.
Nature or nurture? We really have no way of knowing. I suspect that we find 19 year olds becoming adults precisely because we expect that to be the case. Not too long ago, 14 was a marrying age, and I don't recall anyone of that time period thinking that this was odd or 'too much for them to handle'.
Nor was 14 too young to fall prey to an industrial accident causing death with no compensation whatsoever. We also didn't have anti-biotics and didn't pasteurise or refrigerate milk not too long ago. Oh and for that matter, reading and writing were not as common. Your short life expectancy was only mitigated by the fact that your life would suck unless you belonged to a privileged class. That's not something we should be aiming for. Let a child have a childhood for pity sake.
Do we want to extend childhood into a person's 30s and have them live at home as we're seeing a lot of people do? Do we want teenagers with little more maturity than 10 year olds? Let's increase the drinking, driving and voting age, because they can't handle it.
Or do we want to cut short a kid's childhood so that they start working at 15? Send them to the salt mines young so they can learn their trade early! Never mind the ones that can't handle it and end up depressed or suicidal. Never mind that you've robbed them of the chance to just be kids while they can be. From what I understand you've got enough trouble keeping your kids from coming to school armed.
Society is messed up, doesn't know what it expects from children, or even where childhood ends. Then people wonder why kids play up and go wild. They've got no clue what's expected of them.
What's wrong with the middle ground of letting a child have their childhood but not letting it extend into their 20s and 30s? If a child has special needs because they're particularly mature or particularly developed give them that option, but don't make it the norm.
The way I see it, Photoshop is for professionals, and is priced as such.
They do dual licensing but limit it to students. Good old "your first hit is free, kid" technique.
A lot of home users pirate it for the prestige (the same way they think using Dreamweaver makes them a "pro"), not because they actually need all the powerful features of the software.
There are a few good reasons to want to use Photoshop.
1) It's the industry standard. If you progress from amateur, you need to know it to get any work. If you do it formally, student pricing is available. If you do it of your own accord, you either buy it at stupid prices, pirate, or do without.
2) You need even one of those advanced features. Pro or amateur work, if you're looking to use a particular filter or technique that's not available in a cheaper (or free) editor, you're left with the same dilema. A lot of those features do not require advanced knowledge. Adjustment layers is a good example. There's no free product that does them. GIMP certainly doesn't. Paint Shop Pro is cheaper than Photoshop and does, but it's layer implementation is inferior. There are literally dozens of such features, and if you need them going without means a lot more work.
Obviously Adobe make the vast majority of their profits from corporate customers, much like Microsoft does.
Microsoft is cracking down on home users too.
Secret laws are a slippery slope that eventually encourage lawlessness and act against the interests of the citizenry. Why should any citizen obey the laws they do know, if they can always be punished severely for breaking laws they aren't permitted to know about? It's unconstitutional in most places, and especially the US that is founded on rule "by the people for the people". Anyone enacting these laws should be brought up on charges of treason, as should anyone attempting to enforce them. Quite ironically, there are probably anti-terror laws that apply too.
A full version of Photoshop CS4 costs more than a cheap second hand car. Elements is cheaper but crippled in ways that make it much less useful even for a casual amateur. You use to be able to get around those restrictions up to Elements 2.0. Now Elements is a very different piece of software (ironically with some unique features of its own). Photoshop is wonderful, but it's a pity it's either inaccessible or pirated for a great many people. It's probably more pirated than Windows.
These are Apple customers! Did you hear me? APPLE customers! Not some common Samsung owner on the street. They are Steve Job's chosen people!!! Don't you understand? How dare you insult them! It's a conspiracy! Anti-Appleism!!! We must strike a blow for freedom of religion! Quick, smite him!!!! I said SMITE the heathen now!!!! May you burn in IBM hell sir, and may all your phones be Nokias!!!!
For sale: One Death Star. Full size. Somewhat lumpy. Amateur construction. Needs work.
That'll never sell on Ebay!
Try this:
Act now! One Death Star. Full size. Special lumps making it even more terrifying. Created same time and in same process as other more expensive objects! Condition as new. Comes with 3 free gifts. Free shipping. Why pay more for larger when this does so well? Hurry! This won't last. Seller has A++++ rating.
Everyone knows Ubuntu is an ancient African word for "I can't configure Debian". How come you can't configure Debian but were able to create a whole other distro?
Though as far as I'm concerned it's cheating looking up the frequency of the microwave. It should be measured, which isn't as easy.
If only Ole Rømer had had a microwave oven ;-)
The reason he feels gamers are more of a threat to his family is because a gamer left a threatening note under his door one night. No biker has done that.
Yeah the bikers will just sell his kid drugs, and give him no warning if they're going to harm his family.
I'm sure if he was threatened by a clown he'd be wanting to close all the circuses.
Loser.
soon robots will have better social skills than I do?
Exteeerrrmiiinnnnatteeeee! Exteeerrrmiiinnnnatteeeee!
...and will not listen to reason, as he has repeatedly demonstrated. I'm not entirely clear what that agenda is, beyond being a douche. Perhaps he's in bed with the media organisations, and the filter censoring kiddie porn is only a side issue, while the real game is filtering music/tv/movie downloads. Perhaps he was teased as a child and this is his revenge on society. Either way he is an irresponsible man and I hope he's now infamous enough that people will vote him out at the next election (though I suspect I hope for too much).
estimated 14 metres (46 ft), one of the largest living organisms)."
Gotta love Wikipedia. I have a palm tree that's longer. One of the largest living ANIMALS perhaps.
I don't see a need for a dedicated reader. I use to read books on my Palm IIIe (and I have a later model Palm I rarely fire up) so I know the convenience is nice, but I'm just not willing to pay big money for a dedicated device to read books. In a world rabbiting on about green this and green that, it seems wasteful to have single purpose devices, let alone the DRM infested offerings of the last 5 years. My laptop reads most formats very well, provided they're not crippled. It'll read crippled books too, if I'm dumb enough to buy them.
Did anyone else glance at the headline and think they were talking about the Apollo mission, then feel a fool when they read the story properly? ;-)
Make fucking backups. Test fucking backups regularly.
Tiger Woods tried that...and lost half his fortune
Why is this a headline story on slashdot. It's a nice little achievement but hardly news. Anyway aren't Apple products suppose to "just work"? How dare this poster find a need for or better fit with something not specifically sanctioned by The Holy Jobs and his minions! ;-)
Take a close look at your own post before you accuse me of descending into flame mode. I don't have a problem with you disagreeing with me. I have a problem with you telling me my argument doesn't make sense unless I'm in politics. Then you add to the irony with the whole "when you grow up" routine.
I don't know about this. I'd assume that if kids were behaving so wildly Internet access wouldn't help the situation. Kids would just beat each other up for mobile devices, surf for porn etc. Personally I think they've found a way to emit Ritalin waves via the wireless transmitter. Now please excuse me, I'm late to an appointment with the drycleaner. My tinfoil hat was getting rather dirty.
'We want to encourage people to share money as well as content'
I'm done working that side of the fence. Now I'll work this one and make a mint here too.
'people love things and they want to pay'.
I want people's money.
Well if you're dumb enough to take those pics, and you're dumb enough to forward them, and you're dumb enough to do that without stripping the EXIF, you deserve what you get.
He needs to document and comment as he goes. Otherwise others will need to repeat the process.
The best documentation is inline. Unfortunately our editing environments don't allow for diagrams to be embedded. That's where references to external docs are needed (but they can be part of the code repository!) It takes a lot longer to document code. Unfortunately managers often don't want to hear that and will think you're just slow picking up the code, so get them on board or warn them that others will need to do the same.