You might want to do some research on the history of corporations. They were designed to allow a group of people to do something the government wanted done but couldn't afford to do in exchange for limited liability and a time-limited share of the profits. Take toll roads for example. Instead of building an expensive road, the government would give a group of people the authorization to build the road, charge for passage (for a limited time) and be mostly free from individual liability if something goes wrong. The ownership of the road would revert to the entity that granted its charter upon completion of its duties (after the profit-taking). Modern corporations are not the norm.
Only since the Civil War have we had corporations that focus 100% on profit over benefit to their community, think they have free speech, etc. I believe that most corporate charters today still list the expected societal benefit that the corporation must fulfill its obligations and remain in existence. If the state governments would be willing to enforce the rules set down in corporate charters that they issue, there would be much fewer abuses like those committed by Enron, WorldCom, etc.
The 1834 Pennsylvania legislature declared "A corporations in the law is just what incorporation act makes it. It is the creature of the law and may be moulded to any shape or for any purpose that the Legislature may deem most conductive for the common good."
I should have been clearer. I was not talking about communism or the system implemented by any particular government. I never even said that socialism is a good thing. I did write about the specific benefits that we all enjoy because of the actions (and sacrifices) of the American socialists. To deny those benefits is to deny history.
I'd say the results from U.S. defense budget spending and foreign policy are pretty tangible. Have you ever wondered why the rest of the world hates us? It's because we're the dumb kid with an inferiority complex and a big honkin' baseball bat. We go around beating people up for their lunch money.
Our "defense" budget is used for making the lives of people around the world miserable in order to increase some filthy rich white guys' net-worth. My family has been at the wrong end of U.S. foreign policy twice in South America. Both of my parents were in living in South American countries when the U.S. backed a military coup. Thousands died. Now, a lot of my parents' contemporaries back in South America hate the U.S. Boy, did that ever make us more secure! Let's not forget that this "defense" budget is what we used to train Bin-ladin in how to terrorize the Soviets. That really did wonders at defending us, didn't it. If we would just get the heck out of other people's countries, we might be able to foster a bit of world-wide good will and save some cash for use on improving our own country instead of messing up someone else's.
A union can say, "If you move those jobs overseas, the rest of us will strike." That means that when the next worm comes along, the network will be hosed. Suddenly there's a profit motive for hiring local workers. We could also get portable heath care and pensions. But no, lets avoid collective bargaining so that we can all be screwed individually.
The following is a general rant, not directly in reply to the parent.
I'm sick of people here trashing the Socialists. I'm not saying that they're perfect, but if it weren't for them, we'd be working 100hr 7-day weeks. That's right, the socialists brought us such terrible things as weekends off, medical benefits, safety regulations, and the 40hr work week. That's what you get when you put people before profit. It can work in a 100% capitalistic society too -- just add human, social, and environmental costs into the profit/loss equations and you'd have a much fairer system.
If we had fair trade laws, there wouldn't be a benefit to moving work to India because it would be balanced by a penalty tariff against India for having poor working conditions. By putting all of the worlds workers of equal footing, we could end this off-shoring trend. We could make all American companies pay the U.S. minimum wage to all of their workers everywhere. That would bring jobs back home real fast.
Actually Apple invented the FireWire standard to replace SCSI back when the average PC was running DOS. They didn't start using it until the later '90s, but it is an Apple product.
The solution to the problems you describe is simple. Define a system level commit function. Have close() call it. That way, older apps still commit on close. and newer apps only commit when necessary. You might want to do that whenever a file is flushed too.
It would be easy to modify any application to use the new system anyway. Just redefine the save function in the binary. It'd probably be trivial to alter the address of the save function so that it calls commit() and then calls the old save function.
From a financial standpoint, Democrats tax and spend while Republicans just spend. I'm not saying that Democrats are liberal. They are all conservative to me. It doesn't matter that the Democrats claim to be liberal, they don't back it up with action. Both the Democrats and Republicans are full of corporatists and that is the problem.
There used to be lots of ads for SUVs driving fast off road in snow or hilly terrain. When people bought the SUVs and tried to do what they had seen in the advertising, the rear axle snapped. There was a big stink about it in the news a few years ago.
using this to sell iPods isn't exactly the greatest idea, IMO
I'd trust Steve Job's business sense over yours any day unless you've managed to start a company as successful as Apple and then managed to save it from the administrative blunders of the next few CEOs.
The iPod is now Apple's highest margin product. If they sell $2000 of computer or $2000 of iPods, they make more money on the iPods. The iPod is the most popular portable mp3 player on the planet, so Apple must be doing something right with their sales strategies.
The majority of your 99 cents goes to the RIAA. I highly doubt that the RIAA trickles any of that money down to the labels who will spread it out amongst their artists.
The RIAA's cut is exactly $0.00. The money goes to the label, whose job it is to pay the artists. If an artist doesn't want to deal with a big label, they can always use CDBaby and put their music on the iTMS and get a very large cut of the profits.
You are inventing restrictions of the giveaway with no basis in fact. You make a statement about how you "doubt they are going to be kind enough to give away just ANY free download." You then use that statement to back up your belief that "they are already entered talks with various record labels about which bands will get pushed." Why spread FUD?
The previous arrangement with Pepsi lets you download whatever you want. Apple has stated repeatedly that they want to give all labels equal exposure (as in you can't buy better placement) in the Music Store.
NO 3rd party software should ever have the right to maniuplate the content on an internet site, it completely destroys what the purpose of the internet is.
The web is designed for transfer of hypertext. That's it. What you choose to do with that hypertext (and now images, video, audio, etc.) is up to you, the recipient of the data.
If I buy a book, I have no obligation to read it. Heck, I can use it to prop up my desk lamp if I feel like it. The same goes for web content. I can use the checksums of randomly selected web pages to seed my random number generator. I can use the web to get files to test my html to pdf converter.
I make the HTTP request, I choose what to do with the data returned. It's that simple.
Phone cards usually carry a hefty connection fee -- particularly if you call from a pay-phone. I've seen $5 cards that charge $0.75 per call. At $0.01 per minute, that's a loss of 1:15 of talk time. That is not acceptable.
As far as the restaurants go, this could be beneficial to them. If there are two neighboring restaurants, and one of them sends you a coupon over bluetooth, you might go to that one to get the better deal. I see this becoming prevalent in the fast food business where you often see several competitors in close proximity. A Burger King next to a McDonalds could send send out 10% off coupons to pull drivers into their drive-thru.
The trick with OS 10 was to install MacsBug and kill frozen apps that way. It worked for me 90% of the time. I wish that MacsBug was still alive, I prefer it to gdb in most cases and it was always running so you could instantly debug any app. I used to use it to find out which files were likeley to crash an application (bad prefs, etc) by listing which files the current process was reading. I do miss MacsBug.
Oh, and get the PB. I'm writing this from one. If you replace the ram yourself (it costs less) you get to sell the old ram online later. Otherwise, they charge you for one dimm and keep the two you already paid for -- unless you get it done at an Apple Store.
As I was reading this I began to wonder... Who owns the water system? If it's governement owned, don't they have the right to regulare consumption? I understand complaining if they metered your cistern (sp?) but even a well would fall under government control unless you own the water rights to your land. In the case of a rental unit, the argument is between the owner and the government, the renter can complain to their landlord, but it is not their property that is being modified.
The authorization is for online sharing with other users. If you don't mind putting your store ID and PW into iTunes on another machine, you can just copy the files over.
I've coppien my purchased music to my office computer and after I loggged in to the iTMS, I was able to play all of it w/out authorizing anything.
When did that happen? IE never supported the more interesting features of JavaScript (.prototype anyone?) Long ago, I would wright really neat JavaScripts that extended the functionality of the browser tremendously using JavaScripts great runtime object definition manipulation system. IE did not play well with those systems. MS just skipped the interesting parts of the language. To this day, I hate having to make JavaScripts play well with IE. I do it because I have to, but I wish the damned thing would just behave consistently!
That's a perfect example. It's amazing that the whole 1-click thing was actually granted a patent when anyone who has ever been a "regular" at just about any establishment is already familliar with it. Heck, if you've ever ordered room service at a hotel you've already done the same thing!
What's the speed like on those searches? iTunes is instantaneous and I haven't seen anything like it (although I heard that BeOS had a similar system). If there's a way to get actual manegable playlists on pre XP/2k machines, I'd like to know. I use iTunes/Mac at home and iTunes/XP at work, but every once in a while I use an older OS and would like a good playlist management system.
If you have a large library, use the search feature. It's to the left of the Burn CD button. After doing that, how can you go back to using WinAmp? Seriously, I used to like WinAmp and it's Mac clones before iTunes. I can't stand using anything but iTunes now because of the search feature -- to say nothing about iTunes other great features.
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Only since the Civil War have we had corporations that focus 100% on profit over benefit to their community, think they have free speech, etc. I believe that most corporate charters today still list the expected societal benefit that the corporation must fulfill its obligations and remain in existence. If the state governments would be willing to enforce the rules set down in corporate charters that they issue, there would be much fewer abuses like those committed by Enron, WorldCom, etc.
I just found this site: http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/cpg.htm
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I should have been clearer. I was not talking about communism or the system implemented by any particular government. I never even said that socialism is a good thing. I did write about the specific benefits that we all enjoy because of the actions (and sacrifices) of the American socialists. To deny those benefits is to deny history.
I'd say the results from U.S. defense budget spending and foreign policy are pretty tangible. Have you ever wondered why the rest of the world hates us? It's because we're the dumb kid with an inferiority complex and a big honkin' baseball bat. We go around beating people up for their lunch money.
Our "defense" budget is used for making the lives of people around the world miserable in order to increase some filthy rich white guys' net-worth. My family has been at the wrong end of U.S. foreign policy twice in South America. Both of my parents were in living in South American countries when the U.S. backed a military coup. Thousands died. Now, a lot of my parents' contemporaries back in South America hate the U.S. Boy, did that ever make us more secure! Let's not forget that this "defense" budget is what we used to train Bin-ladin in how to terrorize the Soviets. That really did wonders at defending us, didn't it. If we would just get the heck out of other people's countries, we might be able to foster a bit of world-wide good will and save some cash for use on improving our own country instead of messing up someone else's.
A union can say, "If you move those jobs overseas, the rest of us will strike." That means that when the next worm comes along, the network will be hosed. Suddenly there's a profit motive for hiring local workers. We could also get portable heath care and pensions. But no, lets avoid collective bargaining so that we can all be screwed individually.
The following is a general rant, not directly in reply to the parent.
I'm sick of people here trashing the Socialists. I'm not saying that they're perfect, but if it weren't for them, we'd be working 100hr 7-day weeks. That's right, the socialists brought us such terrible things as weekends off, medical benefits, safety regulations, and the 40hr work week. That's what you get when you put people before profit. It can work in a 100% capitalistic society too -- just add human, social, and environmental costs into the profit/loss equations and you'd have a much fairer system.
If we had fair trade laws, there wouldn't be a benefit to moving work to India because it would be balanced by a penalty tariff against India for having poor working conditions. By putting all of the worlds workers of equal footing, we could end this off-shoring trend. We could make all American companies pay the U.S. minimum wage to all of their workers everywhere. That would bring jobs back home real fast.
Actually Apple invented the FireWire standard to replace SCSI back when the average PC was running DOS. They didn't start using it until the later '90s, but it is an Apple product.
The solution to the problems you describe is simple. Define a system level commit function. Have close() call it. That way, older apps still commit on close. and newer apps only commit when necessary. You might want to do that whenever a file is flushed too.
It would be easy to modify any application to use the new system anyway. Just redefine the save function in the binary. It'd probably be trivial to alter the address of the save function so that it calls commit() and then calls the old save function.
From a financial standpoint, Democrats tax and spend while Republicans just spend. I'm not saying that Democrats are liberal. They are all conservative to me. It doesn't matter that the Democrats claim to be liberal, they don't back it up with action. Both the Democrats and Republicans are full of corporatists and that is the problem.
There used to be lots of ads for SUVs driving fast off road in snow or hilly terrain. When people bought the SUVs and tried to do what they had seen in the advertising, the rear axle snapped. There was a big stink about it in the news a few years ago.
using this to sell iPods isn't exactly the greatest idea, IMO
I'd trust Steve Job's business sense over yours any day unless you've managed to start a company as successful as Apple and then managed to save it from the administrative blunders of the next few CEOs.
The iPod is now Apple's highest margin product. If they sell $2000 of computer or $2000 of iPods, they make more money on the iPods. The iPod is the most popular portable mp3 player on the planet, so Apple must be doing something right with their sales strategies.
The majority of your 99 cents goes to the RIAA. I highly doubt that the RIAA trickles any of that money down to the labels who will spread it out amongst their artists.
The RIAA's cut is exactly $0.00. The money goes to the label, whose job it is to pay the artists. If an artist doesn't want to deal with a big label, they can always use CDBaby and put their music on the iTMS and get a very large cut of the profits.
You are inventing restrictions of the giveaway with no basis in fact. You make a statement about how you "doubt they are going to be kind enough to give away just ANY free download." You then use that statement to back up your belief that "they are already entered talks with various record labels about which bands will get pushed." Why spread FUD?
The previous arrangement with Pepsi lets you download whatever you want. Apple has stated repeatedly that they want to give all labels equal exposure (as in you can't buy better placement) in the Music Store.
NO 3rd party software should ever have the right to maniuplate the content on an internet site, it completely destroys what the purpose of the internet is.
The web is designed for transfer of hypertext. That's it. What you choose to do with that hypertext (and now images, video, audio, etc.) is up to you, the recipient of the data.
If I buy a book, I have no obligation to read it. Heck, I can use it to prop up my desk lamp if I feel like it. The same goes for web content. I can use the checksums of randomly selected web pages to seed my random number generator. I can use the web to get files to test my html to pdf converter.
I make the HTTP request, I choose what to do with the data returned. It's that simple.
You necrophiliac! She's dead
Phone cards usually carry a hefty connection fee -- particularly if you call from a pay-phone. I've seen $5 cards that charge $0.75 per call. At $0.01 per minute, that's a loss of 1:15 of talk time. That is not acceptable.
As far as the restaurants go, this could be beneficial to them. If there are two neighboring restaurants, and one of them sends you a coupon over bluetooth, you might go to that one to get the better deal. I see this becoming prevalent in the fast food business where you often see several competitors in close proximity. A Burger King next to a McDonalds could send send out 10% off coupons to pull drivers into their drive-thru.
That should have read "The trick with OS < 10"
The trick with OS 10 was to install MacsBug and kill frozen apps that way. It worked for me 90% of the time. I wish that MacsBug was still alive, I prefer it to gdb in most cases and it was always running so you could instantly debug any app. I used to use it to find out which files were likeley to crash an application (bad prefs, etc) by listing which files the current process was reading. I do miss MacsBug.
Oh, and get the PB. I'm writing this from one. If you replace the ram yourself (it costs less) you get to sell the old ram online later. Otherwise, they charge you for one dimm and keep the two you already paid for -- unless you get it done at an Apple Store.
As I was reading this I began to wonder ...
Who owns the water system? If it's governement owned, don't they have the right to regulare consumption? I understand complaining if they metered your cistern (sp?) but even a well would fall under government control unless you own the water rights to your land. In the case of a rental unit, the argument is between the owner and the government, the renter can complain to their landlord, but it is not their property that is being modified.
Hmmm.... Thanks for the info. I'm surprised that the dialog box was not more informative.
The authorization is for online sharing with other users. If you don't mind putting your store ID and PW into iTunes on another machine, you can just copy the files over.
I've coppien my purchased music to my office computer and after I loggged in to the iTMS, I was able to play all of it w/out authorizing anything.
Because IE was better than netscape.
When did that happen? IE never supported the more interesting features of JavaScript (.prototype anyone?) Long ago, I would wright really neat JavaScripts that extended the functionality of the browser tremendously using JavaScripts great runtime object definition manipulation system. IE did not play well with those systems. MS just skipped the interesting parts of the language. To this day, I hate having to make JavaScripts play well with IE. I do it because I have to, but I wish the damned thing would just behave consistently!
That's a perfect example. It's amazing that the whole 1-click thing was actually granted a patent when anyone who has ever been a "regular" at just about any establishment is already familliar with it. Heck, if you've ever ordered room service at a hotel you've already done the same thing!
What's the speed like on those searches? iTunes is instantaneous and I haven't seen anything like it (although I heard that BeOS had a similar system). If there's a way to get actual manegable playlists on pre XP/2k machines, I'd like to know. I use iTunes/Mac at home and iTunes/XP at work, but every once in a while I use an older OS and would like a good playlist management system.
If you have a large library, use the search feature. It's to the left of the Burn CD button. After doing that, how can you go back to using WinAmp? Seriously, I used to like WinAmp and it's Mac clones before iTunes. I can't stand using anything but iTunes now because of the search feature -- to say nothing about iTunes other great features.