So how exactly is an author supposed to get paid for writing a book? In the case of books, the only performance is the initial writing.
There's already not much money in writing, unless you're named King or your initials are JKR.
It takes a long time to write, for example, a good fantasy or sci-fi novel. Yet they could be reproduced costless digitally.
Books are generally written by a single person, so it would take a very long time to write a book and work full time (which can be seen in the cases of authors who have to do that), which reduces the number of books a person can write in a lifetime.
How about, and this is really revolutionary, if you want to enjoy someone's work, you kick some money their way so they can continue to produce the things you enjoy?
Basically, you just don't want to pay for stuff because it can be copied cheaply/freely.
There were tens of thousands of protestors. And the NYPD isn't exactly known for being a kinder, gentler police force; outside of the LAPD I can't think of a police force I'd trust less. Most of it seems to be the NYPD once again being overzealous*, not some effort by Republicans to sweep things up. Had the DNC been in NYC, I imagine it would have been just as bad.
It just irritates me that people always point to the RNC situation like it's the only time free speech is trampled. There were people marching in the streets in NYC with large boxes representing coffins. Nothing like that was allowed to go on at the DNC -- they were all coralled into the "Free Speech Zone."
I'm not excusing what happened at the RNC, in any way, just pointing out that it's not the only time a major party shit all over free speech rights at a major convention.
(and if I were either party, I'd avoid NYC like the plague for my convention, but that's just me)
*Let's not forget how many unarmed black men the NYPD have shot, usually multiple times, sometimes dozens of times.
If you didn't know *for a fact* in 2000 that a vote for Bush was a vote for misusing an attack on the US as an excuse to invade Iraq then you have no fucking business voting.
Wow. It's official: You are the dumbest person I've ever seen commenting on Slashdot.
As opposed to the Free Speech Zones outside the DNC in 2004? I saw the RNC protests, they were a whole lot more "free" to protest than anyone at the DNC.
A lot of politicians have forgotten a lot of things. "Liberal" politicians now just represent their own special interest groups, just like "conservative" politicians represent theirs. Sometimes, they're even the same groups (MPAA/RIAA), but there are so very few elected officials who don't cozy upto people that want to screw us over.
Eh, states get picky about things crossing their borders that they could tax or sell. It isn't just alcohol. New York is really pissy about cigarettes being brought in, for example. They'd do it for everything else if they could justify it.
The RIAA pisses pretty much everyone off. There's enough buzz that people I know that have never visited slashdot, know next to nothing about DRM (other than "this annoys me"), hate the RIAA. Most of them aren't even sure what it is, but they hate the RIAA. I don't understand why the Democrats are cozying up to these assholes. They go all out claiming to represent the very people the RIAA sues.
I half agree. I had a pretty easy time setting up my nVidia card in Linux, compared to the crap I had to go through for the ATi card.
But trying to get the card to work after a kernel upgrade? Dear *GOD* that was a bastard. I wanted to throw a chair at nVidia workers, and I've got all my hair.
Not to say that I've never had a wonky driver issue in Windows. My laser printer (which worked instantly in Ubuntu and after an hour of work in Slackware) printed out 20 pages of junk as a "test page." I'm not sure what the hell went wrong there, but I'm not about to waste toner trying to figure it out...
Yes, I meant the one rear-ended. Sorry for not being clear.
And I'm not sure either, but it's apparently how it works. Every insurance company I've talked to wants to know if you've been in a wreck in the last 3 years, "regardless of who was at fault." Which is just ridiculous.
That's all well and good in a perfect world. But some people DON'T stop at a yellow light if they think they can make it, and they WILL rear-end someone. I know because it happened to someone I know. Stopped at a yellow light, and was rear-ended by someone who wasn't paying enough attention. It wasn't a bad wreck, but it still made her insurance go up, even though she was not at fault and was driving safely.
If you live where everyone drives safely and keeps safe distance, pays attention all the time, and actually stops at yellow lights, good for you. But a lot of drivers are complete and total idiots, especially about yellow lights, and I'd rather not have my insurance go up and my car fucked up by some simpleton just because there's a chance the light will go from yellow to red before I make it through.
Be sure to include as much information as you possibly can, about hardware, version of Ubuntu, and obviously, the nature of the problem. It also doesn't hurt to point out that you've sought help before and didn't get answered/understand the answer, but do it politely because sometimes people on the internet totally read more bitching than is actually in a post.
Did anybody notice that for the most part, their bad extensions are extensions that let you control your browsing experience? "Oh, noez, you MUST LOAD PDF FILES AND ADS!" This passes for an actual article? One of their "must have" extensions was "colored tabs." I'm sorry, but adblock is way, way more useful and makes my day a whole hell of a lot better than changing the color of my tabs to pastel colors. And I'm not even going to rant about the stupid "ruler" extension being considered a must have.
Also, a lot of their reasons? "Because if you're not an advanced user..." And a bunch of their "must have" extensions do things the average user won't -- FTP, stuff for web developing, ColorZilla. It's kind of contradictory and basically reads like "this is what WE want you to use."
I install two they recommend against -- Adblock and Tabbrowser Preferences. Those are the first and most important two. Then I get TargetAlert, Forecastfox (one they recommend, actually), and the filterset.g updater. Everything else? I don't really need, but some might be nice. The whole point of extensions is that you personalize the browser and webpages. Including hosing ads if you want.
If ad companies hadn't resorted to "punch the monkey" ads, talking ads, flash, flashy annoying.gif ads, and pop ups, people wouldn't be all that keen on blocking ads.
Their lists -- both positive and negative -- seem to be "we just want you to look at ads and we want to yap about how we don't like other people controlling their browsing experience. Oh and we're going to split it up onto five pages with a grand total of two hundred fifty words a page so you have to see MORE ads. Oh, and we like pretty colors and shiny buttons."
But that's just my opinion, I'm not a highly paid Extension Examiner Egghead.
Last I heard, more people recognized Mario than Mickey Mouse. I don't know anyone who doesn't know about those games. Even non-gamers. That may be anecdotal, but so is "go ask random people in the street." Just sayin'.
That said, I don't agree with anyone who says "Mario, Metroid, and Zelda will make the Wii." Sure, *I* will get one just for those games, but I don't think the masses want them. It's like Linux; I use Linux because I can easily tinker with a lot more options than in Windows (one of the reasons), but a massive number of people just want to click the E and see porn/ebay.
not that I want an IE icon on the wii, or something.
but imagine the interactive porn with the wiimote... okay that's off track big time, but it popped into my head and now I think I know how to make sure everyone wants the wii...
I considered finding a newsgroup reader that can also download binaries but from the forums I read those these apps seem to be a crapshoot too. They work on some peoples computers, not on others, they can download but they can't post, and of course to get some of the features you want you have to compile from source (I prefer to avoid this when I can).
I've never had any trouble at all with Pan. I've had it for over a year now with no issues. And I never compiled it from source. It was default with Ubuntu and came with FreeRock Gnome in Slackware.
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So how exactly is an author supposed to get paid for writing a book? In the case of books, the only performance is the initial writing.
There's already not much money in writing, unless you're named King or your initials are JKR.
It takes a long time to write, for example, a good fantasy or sci-fi novel. Yet they could be reproduced costless digitally.
Books are generally written by a single person, so it would take a very long time to write a book and work full time (which can be seen in the cases of authors who have to do that), which reduces the number of books a person can write in a lifetime.
How about, and this is really revolutionary, if you want to enjoy someone's work, you kick some money their way so they can continue to produce the things you enjoy?
Basically, you just don't want to pay for stuff because it can be copied cheaply/freely.
I don't care how many branches there are. The DVD division ought to make sure their damn product plays.
Making Grandma update the firmware on a DVD player just to make it take two minutes longer for a pirate to copy a DVD is stupid.
Sony DRM pissing customers off. Why does that sound so familiar?
There were tens of thousands of protestors. And the NYPD isn't exactly known for being a kinder, gentler police force; outside of the LAPD I can't think of a police force I'd trust less. Most of it seems to be the NYPD once again being overzealous*, not some effort by Republicans to sweep things up. Had the DNC been in NYC, I imagine it would have been just as bad.
It just irritates me that people always point to the RNC situation like it's the only time free speech is trampled. There were people marching in the streets in NYC with large boxes representing coffins. Nothing like that was allowed to go on at the DNC -- they were all coralled into the "Free Speech Zone."
I'm not excusing what happened at the RNC, in any way, just pointing out that it's not the only time a major party shit all over free speech rights at a major convention.
(and if I were either party, I'd avoid NYC like the plague for my convention, but that's just me)
*Let's not forget how many unarmed black men the NYPD have shot, usually multiple times, sometimes dozens of times.
If you didn't know *for a fact* in 2000 that a vote for Bush was a vote for misusing an attack on the US as an excuse to invade Iraq then you have no fucking business voting.
Wow. It's official: You are the dumbest person I've ever seen commenting on Slashdot.
As opposed to the Free Speech Zones outside the DNC in 2004? I saw the RNC protests, they were a whole lot more "free" to protest than anyone at the DNC.
*cough* *cough*
Or they'd be pissed off that they were late for work/lunch/picking the kids up because a bunch of dumbasses with signs were blocking the street.
You have the right to free speech, but not to fuck up my day with it.
You should write to remind him that you're a citizen, not a consumer.
;)
I know that DiFi is ugly, but she's a woman.
A lot of politicians have forgotten a lot of things. "Liberal" politicians now just represent their own special interest groups, just like "conservative" politicians represent theirs. Sometimes, they're even the same groups (MPAA/RIAA), but there are so very few elected officials who don't cozy upto people that want to screw us over.
Eh, states get picky about things crossing their borders that they could tax or sell. It isn't just alcohol. New York is really pissy about cigarettes being brought in, for example. They'd do it for everything else if they could justify it.
Because politicians of both parties represent the same thing: "whatever it takes to get re-elected."
She's also the biggest gun control advocate in the Senate, so she's not really conservative, either.
I think the word "bitch" applies, though.
And it isn't just left-wing.
The RIAA pisses pretty much everyone off. There's enough buzz that people I know that have never visited slashdot, know next to nothing about DRM (other than "this annoys me"), hate the RIAA. Most of them aren't even sure what it is, but they hate the RIAA. I don't understand why the Democrats are cozying up to these assholes. They go all out claiming to represent the very people the RIAA sues.
I half agree. I had a pretty easy time setting up my nVidia card in Linux, compared to the crap I had to go through for the ATi card.
But trying to get the card to work after a kernel upgrade? Dear *GOD* that was a bastard. I wanted to throw a chair at nVidia workers, and I've got all my hair.
Not to say that I've never had a wonky driver issue in Windows. My laser printer (which worked instantly in Ubuntu and after an hour of work in Slackware) printed out 20 pages of junk as a "test page." I'm not sure what the hell went wrong there, but I'm not about to waste toner trying to figure it out...
Yes, I meant the one rear-ended. Sorry for not being clear.
And I'm not sure either, but it's apparently how it works. Every insurance company I've talked to wants to know if you've been in a wreck in the last 3 years, "regardless of who was at fault." Which is just ridiculous.
That's all well and good in a perfect world. But some people DON'T stop at a yellow light if they think they can make it, and they WILL rear-end someone. I know because it happened to someone I know. Stopped at a yellow light, and was rear-ended by someone who wasn't paying enough attention. It wasn't a bad wreck, but it still made her insurance go up, even though she was not at fault and was driving safely.
If you live where everyone drives safely and keeps safe distance, pays attention all the time, and actually stops at yellow lights, good for you. But a lot of drivers are complete and total idiots, especially about yellow lights, and I'd rather not have my insurance go up and my car fucked up by some simpleton just because there's a chance the light will go from yellow to red before I make it through.
As to Usenet: It's not like September is over yet...
Yeah, ATI under Linux is pretty horrid, in my experience. =/
For future reference, might want to try the forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/
Be sure to include as much information as you possibly can, about hardware, version of Ubuntu, and obviously, the nature of the problem. It also doesn't hurt to point out that you've sought help before and didn't get answered/understand the answer, but do it politely because sometimes people on the internet totally read more bitching than is actually in a post.
I'll concede that point, but the article as a whole still irks me.
Did anybody notice that for the most part, their bad extensions are extensions that let you control your browsing experience? "Oh, noez, you MUST LOAD PDF FILES AND ADS!" This passes for an actual article? One of their "must have" extensions was "colored tabs." I'm sorry, but adblock is way, way more useful and makes my day a whole hell of a lot better than changing the color of my tabs to pastel colors. And I'm not even going to rant about the stupid "ruler" extension being considered a must have.
.gif ads, and pop ups, people wouldn't be all that keen on blocking ads.
Also, a lot of their reasons? "Because if you're not an advanced user..." And a bunch of their "must have" extensions do things the average user won't -- FTP, stuff for web developing, ColorZilla. It's kind of contradictory and basically reads like "this is what WE want you to use."
I install two they recommend against -- Adblock and Tabbrowser Preferences. Those are the first and most important two. Then I get TargetAlert, Forecastfox (one they recommend, actually), and the filterset.g updater. Everything else? I don't really need, but some might be nice. The whole point of extensions is that you personalize the browser and webpages. Including hosing ads if you want.
If ad companies hadn't resorted to "punch the monkey" ads, talking ads, flash, flashy annoying
Their lists -- both positive and negative -- seem to be "we just want you to look at ads and we want to yap about how we don't like other people controlling their browsing experience. Oh and we're going to split it up onto five pages with a grand total of two hundred fifty words a page so you have to see MORE ads. Oh, and we like pretty colors and shiny buttons."
But that's just my opinion, I'm not a highly paid Extension Examiner Egghead.
I right clicked, copied the location, pasted to my friend Derek.
I'm pretty sure, judging by his reaction, that you were right not to click GP's link.
Now if you'll excuse me I need to assume a new identity...
Yeah, and people calling everything internet "AOL" and every pain pill "tylenol." I see your point.
Last I heard, more people recognized Mario than Mickey Mouse. I don't know anyone who doesn't know about those games. Even non-gamers. That may be anecdotal, but so is "go ask random people in the street." Just sayin'.
That said, I don't agree with anyone who says "Mario, Metroid, and Zelda will make the Wii." Sure, *I* will get one just for those games, but I don't think the masses want them. It's like Linux; I use Linux because I can easily tinker with a lot more options than in Windows (one of the reasons), but a massive number of people just want to click the E and see porn/ebay.
not that I want an IE icon on the wii, or something.
but imagine the interactive porn with the wiimote... okay that's off track big time, but it popped into my head and now I think I know how to make sure everyone wants the wii...
I considered finding a newsgroup reader that can also download binaries but from the forums I read those these apps seem to be a crapshoot too. They work on some peoples computers, not on others, they can download but they can't post, and of course to get some of the features you want you have to compile from source (I prefer to avoid this when I can).
I've never had any trouble at all with Pan. I've had it for over a year now with no issues. And I never compiled it from source. It was default with Ubuntu and came with FreeRock Gnome in Slackware.
What problem did you have with it?
What happens when 100 people all use their phones at the same time.
A gate to hell opens.