The thing is that it is impossible to have an apples to apples comparison over centuries of copyright law. One issue that specifically affects music is the reproducibility argument. In the 19th century, live performance was the only option, and Uncle Freddy's Village Band played at all the weddings, funerals, and festivals. "Copyright violations" of the "Happy Birthday" sort were undoubtedly commonplace, as any popular song would necessarily be performed by hundreds if not thousands of "cover bands".
Recorded music changed all that. The RIAA can be seen as a single episode in a centuries long evolution of what music means, but "music" sure doesn't mean what it used to.
There are a lot of these kinds of issues in laguage. damp/dampen is similar to use/utilize and affect/effect. People who utilize the word utilize when they could utilize the word use instead are promoting inefficiency in a transparently shallow attempt to appear intelligent. People who don't relize that affect and effect both have noun and verb meanings with different but related meanings are simply confused, as is likely with damp/dampen.
The US itself is not a free market when it comes [...] to the products of agriculture.
To be fair, I don't think that many people would support changing this. There are real national security interests in keeping food production within your borders, even if it uncompetitive.
What's hard is that Apple doesn't really have a competitor in the Macintosh market. In the Windows world, Dell competes against HP who competes against Gateway who competes against Joe Schmoe Computers etc. They all try to make a better product for a cheaper price. Competition inspires innovation (well, Apple can still innovate pretty well).
Apple stumbled hardcore in the late 80's/early 90's. Think IIsi and LC. When they were specifically reducing the capabilities of certain models to not cannibalize upscale model sales. That's a mark of stupid and mediocre leadership, and it made customers wary.
I also think that despite the shift to the PowerPC architecture, Apple misjudged just how quickly the CPU power curves were going to ramp up. Thus by 1996-97, you went from a situation where 6 to 8 year old machines could still run recently released applications to a situation where 3 year old hardware was nearly useless. I think that they could have taken much more significant marketshare percentages with a little bit better forecasting there.
Easy -- unless the money directly attributable to lottery receipts is greater than the school budget pre-lottery, the state is just engaging in a shell game. They are claiming to send the required lottery receipts to schools, and indeed are, but nothing has changed -- the total budget for schools is unchanged, state revenue from other sources is going to other efforts, etc. Thus "illusory" gains from taxing lotteries for education spending.
It wouldn't be hard, and it would be far better than any modern RTS. Although if you remade AAoW, you would want to remove the RT aspect. That was always one of the most irritating things about the game.
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I don't know if Best Buy sells them, but my mother's house has had a 3com OfficeConnect 56k for the last 18 months. It's worked wonderfully.
One thing we must understand is that the cost of living in the United States is so high that we literaly CAN'T AFFORD (monitarily speaking) to compete with off-shore jobs.
So buy less stuff. Or live in a smaller house. If the average house in 1950 was 900 sq ft with 5 people living in it, and the average house of today is 2200 sq ft with 2 people living in it, what does that tell you about housing costs? Why does everyone today need what was a mansion to our grandparents?
Maybe if healthcare, housing (especialy housing), education, and food were cheaper in the US we could compete, but the fact is you're lucky if you can even find a nearly condemned hole in the wall to live in for $320 a month, let alone pay for food, transportation and medical costs.
BS. I lived for 12 years in a Midwestern city of over 100K people. Never once did I spend more than $290/mo for housing, and the next-to-last year there lived in a 2-story house with full basement for $500/mo split with my roommate. Seems to me that you need to find a different place to live.
Let's face it, open source software doesn't seem to employ very many people. It's not good business for Governments to push products that are detrimental to the welfare of its citizens.
Your statements are entirely neutral, and have nothing to do with each other. Stringing them together the way that you do is dishonest, without providing more support.
If OSS software can be produced to the same or better quality as closed source with fewer people or less total labor, then that is a good thing. To do otherwise would be inefficient. The remaining people should be retrained into some other productive sector, or working hours can be reduced. None of this is bad, either in absolute or in communion with other ideas. I know I'd be happy to work a shorter work week if it meant more full employment by competent people.
Actually, I did vote for him. He's doing a better job than his predecessor, but that's not saying much. If Ryan serves time for his scandal, that would be 5 of the last 8 governors of Illinois who have served prison time. Ya gotta know what par for the course is in this state.
If you're listening to albums that only have one good song on them (at most), then you need to find some better artists to listen to.
You just need to become more familiar with Sturgeon's Law. "Most albums" do indeed have 0-1 decent songs on them. I've never found an album where every included song was decent, in 15+ years of buying music.
there's a stigma attached to commercials as 'garbage'
Ummm... maybe because they are?
95% of product commercials tell you nothing useful. Either you've already seen the commercial, in which case it's useless and redundant, or you're not in the market, or something. Case and point -- the last car that I bought was in 1998. Hopefully the next car that I buy will be sometime after 2008. Every car commercial that I see in the intervening years are pretty much useless.
The only vaguely interesting commercials are those for other shows or events.
Just as one aspect of the problem, you'd be surprised how many actually want to play a damn game now and then. And I don't mean the dozen games total that got ported to the Mac in the last 5 years. Even if they're not hardcore gamers like myself, they might actually want to go play Backgammon on Microsoft's site, or download some freeware remake of PacMan, or whatnot.
Your hyperbole does you no credit. I have used a Mac as my major gaming platform for several years. Heroes of Might and Magic, NeverWinterNights, Civilization (1, 2, and 3), SMAC, Baldur's Gate, and dozens of other top-shelf titles all have Mac versions. Not to mention the wonderful Indie games like the Escape Velocity (http://www.ambrosiasw.com) series and TacOps (http://www.battlefront.com). You really need an education in the Mac game market. There are more games in the world than pointless twitch games, although America's Army also has a Mac version.
What do you play that has no analog on the Macintosh?
What I think will help solve the problem of "raising a skill by actually getting better at it" would be the incorporation of some twitch-gaming mixed in with the traditional MMORPG-gaming. What if you had a simulation of an actual hammer and the item you were trying to forge? What if you had to figure out where to hit it, how hard to hit it, and how long to let it cool? What if you had to actually move the hammer with the mouse?
Now apply this to other trade skills. It then becomes a challenge of not just learning the information necessary to accomplish the task successfully, but it also becomes a challenge of getting your physical motor skills up to the task of actually performing the craft well.
Yeow! I can't imagine a worse idea! All of the games that I have hated most required you to do exactly this. Click on your quiver to select an arrow. Click on your bow to nock it. Click on the target to fire. All in real time. With pixel-perfect precision required on all clicks. Awful, awful, awful.
I want games that tell a story. And allow me to choose interesting paths through it. Something like King of Dragon Pass (http://www.a-sharp.com) It should get as far away from physical skills as possible.
They don't even have to call at odd hours. For all four years of college, I worked grave shifts. I'd sleep in the evenings. Callers after 5pm regularly woke me up. Asking for their home phone number so that I could return the favor was an offer never accepted.
You shouldn't tease me with such a wonderful world.
Besides being irritating, advertising is obviously inefficient. If I want a car, I know where to find one. Registries like the Yellow Pages solve the lack of information problem far more efficiently than television, radio, postal mail, and billboard advertising.
I could not be happier if it all disppeared tomorrow.
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The thing is that it is impossible to have an apples to apples comparison over centuries of copyright law. One issue that specifically affects music is the reproducibility argument. In the 19th century, live performance was the only option, and Uncle Freddy's Village Band played at all the weddings, funerals, and festivals. "Copyright violations" of the "Happy Birthday" sort were undoubtedly commonplace, as any popular song would necessarily be performed by hundreds if not thousands of "cover bands".
Recorded music changed all that. The RIAA can be seen as a single episode in a centuries long evolution of what music means, but "music" sure doesn't mean what it used to.
There are a lot of these kinds of issues in laguage. damp/dampen is similar to use/utilize and affect/effect. People who utilize the word utilize when they could utilize the word use instead are promoting inefficiency in a transparently shallow attempt to appear intelligent. People who don't relize that affect and effect both have noun and verb meanings with different but related meanings are simply confused, as is likely with damp/dampen.
The US itself is not a free market when it comes [...] to the products of agriculture.
To be fair, I don't think that many people would support changing this. There are real national security interests in keeping food production within your borders, even if it uncompetitive.
What's hard is that Apple doesn't really have a competitor in the Macintosh market. In the Windows world, Dell competes against HP who competes against Gateway who competes against Joe Schmoe Computers etc. They all try to make a better product for a cheaper price. Competition inspires innovation (well, Apple can still innovate pretty well).
Apple stumbled hardcore in the late 80's/early 90's. Think IIsi and LC. When they were specifically reducing the capabilities of certain models to not cannibalize upscale model sales. That's a mark of stupid and mediocre leadership, and it made customers wary.
I also think that despite the shift to the PowerPC architecture, Apple misjudged just how quickly the CPU power curves were going to ramp up. Thus by 1996-97, you went from a situation where 6 to 8 year old machines could still run recently released applications to a situation where 3 year old hardware was nearly useless. I think that they could have taken much more significant marketshare percentages with a little bit better forecasting there.
Easy -- unless the money directly attributable to lottery receipts is greater than the school budget pre-lottery, the state is just engaging in a shell game. They are claiming to send the required lottery receipts to schools, and indeed are, but nothing has changed -- the total budget for schools is unchanged, state revenue from other sources is going to other efforts, etc. Thus "illusory" gains from taxing lotteries for education spending.
I'm sorry O Great Powerful First Worlder. We shall try and be more humble in your presence. Should we bend over and open our buttcheeks for you too?
Now, now -- you know a statement like that isn't complete without a goatse.cx link.
It wouldn't be hard, and it would be far better than any modern RTS. Although if you remade AAoW, you would want to remove the RT aspect. That was always one of the most irritating things about the game.
I don't know if Best Buy sells them, but my mother's house has had a 3com OfficeConnect 56k for the last 18 months. It's worked wonderfully.
This my friends is the crux of the matter.
Agreed.
One thing we must understand is that the cost of living in the United States is so high that we literaly CAN'T AFFORD (monitarily speaking) to compete with off-shore jobs.
So buy less stuff. Or live in a smaller house. If the average house in 1950 was 900 sq ft with 5 people living in it, and the average house of today is 2200 sq ft with 2 people living in it, what does that tell you about housing costs? Why does everyone today need what was a mansion to our grandparents?
Maybe if healthcare, housing (especialy housing), education, and food were cheaper in the US we could compete, but the fact is you're lucky if you can even find a nearly condemned hole in the wall to live in for $320 a month, let alone pay for food, transportation and medical costs.
BS. I lived for 12 years in a Midwestern city of over 100K people. Never once did I spend more than $290/mo for housing, and the next-to-last year there lived in a 2-story house with full basement for $500/mo split with my roommate. Seems to me that you need to find a different place to live.
He's not got a flawless record, but as far as I can tell, he's basically honest. An idiot, perhaps, but an honest one.
Wow. I guess it just goes to show that people can draw completely contradictory conclusions from the same data.
Let's face it, open source software doesn't seem to employ very many people. It's not good business for Governments to push products that are detrimental to the welfare of its citizens.
Your statements are entirely neutral, and have nothing to do with each other. Stringing them together the way that you do is dishonest, without providing more support.
If OSS software can be produced to the same or better quality as closed source with fewer people or less total labor, then that is a good thing. To do otherwise would be inefficient. The remaining people should be retrained into some other productive sector, or working hours can be reduced. None of this is bad, either in absolute or in communion with other ideas. I know I'd be happy to work a shorter work week if it meant more full employment by competent people.
Actually, I did vote for him. He's doing a better job than his predecessor, but that's not saying much. If Ryan serves time for his scandal, that would be 5 of the last 8 governors of Illinois who have served prison time. Ya gotta know what par for the course is in this state.
I have a 1998 SL1, and I get 35-38 mpg. How are you getting down to 25?!?!
If you're listening to albums that only have one good song on them (at most), then you need to find some better artists to listen to.
You just need to become more familiar with Sturgeon's Law. "Most albums" do indeed have 0-1 decent songs on them. I've never found an album where every included song was decent, in 15+ years of buying music.
there's a stigma attached to commercials as 'garbage'
... maybe because they are?
Ummm
95% of product commercials tell you nothing useful. Either you've already seen the commercial, in which case it's useless and redundant, or you're not in the market, or something. Case and point -- the last car that I bought was in 1998. Hopefully the next car that I buy will be sometime after 2008. Every car commercial that I see in the intervening years are pretty much useless.
The only vaguely interesting commercials are those for other shows or events.
Oh, I already know that. I want at least 300dpi. 4096x3072 would be wonderful.
Yeah, the KKK's been pretty quiet lately. However, Matthew Hale doesn't seem to have learned any lessons.
Just as one aspect of the problem, you'd be surprised how many actually want to play a damn game now and then. And I don't mean the dozen games total that got ported to the Mac in the last 5 years. Even if they're not hardcore gamers like myself, they might actually want to go play Backgammon on Microsoft's site, or download some freeware remake of PacMan, or whatnot.
Your hyperbole does you no credit. I have used a Mac as my major gaming platform for several years. Heroes of Might and Magic, NeverWinterNights, Civilization (1, 2, and 3), SMAC, Baldur's Gate, and dozens of other top-shelf titles all have Mac versions. Not to mention the wonderful Indie games like the Escape Velocity (http://www.ambrosiasw.com) series and TacOps (http://www.battlefront.com). You really need an education in the Mac game market. There are more games in the world than pointless twitch games, although America's Army also has a Mac version.
What do you play that has no analog on the Macintosh?
What I think will help solve the problem of "raising a skill by actually getting better at it" would be the incorporation of some twitch-gaming mixed in with the traditional MMORPG-gaming. What if you had a simulation of an actual hammer and the item you were trying to forge? What if you had to figure out where to hit it, how hard to hit it, and how long to let it cool? What if you had to actually move the hammer with the mouse?
Now apply this to other trade skills. It then becomes a challenge of not just learning the information necessary to accomplish the task successfully, but it also becomes a challenge of getting your physical motor skills up to the task of actually performing the craft well.
Yeow! I can't imagine a worse idea! All of the games that I have hated most required you to do exactly this. Click on your quiver to select an arrow. Click on your bow to nock it. Click on the target to fire. All in real time. With pixel-perfect precision required on all clicks. Awful, awful, awful.
I want games that tell a story. And allow me to choose interesting paths through it. Something like King of Dragon Pass (http://www.a-sharp.com) It should get as far away from physical skills as possible.
You weren't paying a lot of attention on January 24-25, 2003, were you?
They don't even have to call at odd hours. For all four years of college, I worked grave shifts. I'd sleep in the evenings. Callers after 5pm regularly woke me up. Asking for their home phone number so that I could return the favor was an offer never accepted.
Writing "unlisted" into the phone number box on forms hasn't caused a problem for me yet. Most businesses have no need to know this information.
You shouldn't tease me with such a wonderful world.
Besides being irritating, advertising is obviously inefficient. If I want a car, I know where to find one. Registries like the Yellow Pages solve the lack of information problem far more efficiently than television, radio, postal mail, and billboard advertising.
I could not be happier if it all disppeared tomorrow.
Just a second for Exile III. Great game, and I registered it.
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