One interesting note I remember from reading it: No independant artists. You have to come in through one of the independant labels. Apple pays the label. The label pays you.
Sabina, I am assuming from your name and comment that you are Romanian. What part? I spent some time pretty much all over, but it was years ago now. Si daca mai vorbesti romaneste, iti doresc toate cele bune! (Ce limba frumoasa!)
Bucharest is a pretty ugly city, but that is the worst of it. If you had the chance to head just an hour and a half north by train to Brasov, you would have been amazed at how gorgeous the country is. If you ever get a chance to go back, try to make some time to travel around a bit. You would love it!
I totally agree about the attractive women. The whole time I was there (2.5 years total) I was amazed at how many of them were so beautiful. Also, I knew an American businessman who had married a Romanian he met while over there. Beutiful country, beautiful language, and beautiful people. Let's just hope the economy gets beautiful too!
So from your post, you and corporate execs are guilty of the same selfishness (quote, "It's my job to prop myself up"), only *they* are rich and at least help someone else, even if they don't mean to. Why are you verbally crapping on them, again? Seems like you should be mad at yourself for not making your selfishness more productive.
You can't honestly be saying that 90% of Silicon Valley got laid off, and that 90% of India's tech workers will now be laid off. If you were one of the unfortunate who did lose a job a few years back, I could see how it might seem that way. I guess you now know how American steel-workers feel. You know what people told them? Get a new skill and a new job. They did. (My old boss was one of them.)
Man, how can you write such a strong-worded response without really saying anything? Have you ever asked a third-world worker what life was like *before* he got the job with GlobalCorp, Inc.? My guess is that you have no idea of how their standard of living improved.
I *personally* saw a group of Romanian engineers designing car parts for an American company. Their average monthly salary was $400-500/month. The average Romanian at the time was making $100-150/month. That hardly sounds like indentured service. Their wages aren't just higher, their *standard of living* is higher. India's economy has been growing at 4% for over a decade. That is not a measure of inflation.
Besides, rather than spewing vitriol against GlobalCorp, Inc. you might want to consider the question, what are *you* doing for these people?
I am having a hard time understanding what is bad about this cycle. The jobs move away? In America, they were replaced with higher-paying, higher-skilled jobs. The distribution of wealth became less even? Even if that is the case (and there is a lot of information disputing that), the *overall* standard of living became significantly higher. Just because a textile worker wasn't making as much as his boss doesn't mean he wasn't making more than before he got the job.
The example from America's history is proof that India did the *right* thing. Look where we are now in average standard of living compared to the rest of the world.
I was just wondering where you got that information about Romania's minimum wage. I would be suprised if it is really what you say. When I was there (admittedly four years ago), the average monthly income was below $200/month. I've heard from others that things have not improved much since I left. Just curious.
Your comment defeats itself. If a country can undersell India, it is likely that the income from GlobalCorp, Inc. will have a greater impact for good there than it had in India.
I *personally* saw a group of Romanian engineers designing car parts for an American company. They were getting paid $400-$500 per month. You might say it's deplorable to do that. What if I told you that the average Romanian income was $100-$150 per month at the time? All of a sudden it's not so bad.
The point is that they are not getting paid as well as an American, but they are better off than the alternative, namely leaving them to struggle out of their bad economy on their own. In fact, barriers on trade actually *cost* third-world countries $150 Billion/year.
Free trade proponents *don't* claim that GlobalCorp, Inc. is doing it out of the good of their heart, as you imply. The point, in fact, is that they are *not* doing it out of the good of their heart, i.e. they are being rationally motivated to produce more efficiently. I agree with the sister post here that said that moral considerations sometimes play a part (i.e. products of true slave labor). However, we will not get rid of poverty until we reduce scarcity. Encouraging efficient production is part of that process. Where would we be now if machines didn't replace many factory workers? We would probably be working in old factories, with much lower standards of living. (Efficiency has made life better for those who still work in factories today.) In the end, how else are these countries supposed to escape poverty?
Just one question: Where does the Bible say "live and let live"? I don't remember it, but if it is there I would like to know the context.
Also, it seems a little wierd using the Bible to support your arguments considering Jesus ate meat, all of the prophets and Apostles ate meat, and most of the Old Testament involved the Mosaic practice of sacrificing animals.
I just didn't really feel all that motivated by the whole idea of Avatars being extensions of persons. If anything, copyright is a better analysis of them. For example, while I realize that having the same name for your avatar as someone else is restricted for logistical reasons, I know I would be bugged that someone would steal what I considered my *idea* by using the same avatar name as me. The whole avatar to me just seems like an idea, and perhaps a copyrightable one. If anything makes them property, I guess that would be it. I am sure the affinity and identification a player feels with an avatar is not too different from what an author feels with one of his/her characters.
Where the paper introduces the "Personality theories of property", it gets a little wobbly in my opinion. For example, a person can feel a close affinity to the character created by someone else (like some Star Wars fanboy who wishes he could be Anakin). That character does not become his property.
However, the tricky thing about competition is that you have to be *competetive*. I'm not too convinced this service really is. If there is no pressure on the other services (Apple especially, as I use that one occasionaly), there could be a hundred others charging $500 and a pint of blood per song and I wouldn't benefit. The only benefit I get is watching them go out of business, which I expect to see here if they don't ditch either the subscription or the burning fee.
Rumormongers in the Mac world are so prevalent (me being one of them) that there are at least a dozen rumor sites all groping for attention. eWeek likes to get in on the gig once a month or so. But Stevie runs a tight ship, so most of it is vague, or sometimes just made up (ala MacOSRumors.com). Hard evidence is a real rarity, and sometimes does more harm than good. (There are several examples in the past of rumor sites getting too close for Steve's comfort and suffering a backlash as a result.)
You can't directly blame Apple for any of this. It's just that Apple has often come out with something so new and cool that a lot of us are like kids willing to see their presents before Christmas.
Well, since tariffs result in directly higher prices for consumers, you are asking me to pay more for software so you can get a job they could pay someone else less to do. Tell you what, make your case, keeping these things in mind:
1) You are no more entitled to a paid job than the foriegn programmer doing the job you want to do.
2) You could learn a skill that *is* in higher demand in the US so paying you is actually the efficient thing to do.
3) Tariffs to preserve jobs are the equivalent of welfare in that they raise costs for everyone else (not that welfare is inherently bad, but that is what you are asking).
Now you know how American steel workers feel. Should they learn another skill? I think that they absolutely should. Here is an article for your consideration: link.
I guess I was out of touch with the analysts of late, because I didn't know they thought things were so bad. Still, it's a good thing I wasn't paying rapt attention to them, or I would've sold my PowerBook and bought it back about 5 times in the past two years.
What I don't get it why they haven't figured it out yet that Apple is strong and steady, unlike its counterparts. The blips on the rader are just that, blips. I find it quite ironic that the people who are supposed to have this figured out are the ones who understand it the least.
First, a full text search of Utah Code Annotated only pulls up the word "anal" in reference to children and rape. I assume those aren't the laws you call screwed up. Show me the law you are talking about, because I don't believe you.
Second, A full text search of all Utah state and federal cases brings up *not one result* for Universal Life Church, which means no case was tried involving it. The same for a full text search of Utah Code Annotated. Again, I don't belive you, so you will have to show me.
Finally, if you read the article and other posts here about the case, the reason he lost is fairly reasonable. Also, the clause exempting a previous business relationship is found in other state statutes, including Colorado, Delaware, and Ohio.
While your claims about Utah law are so far entirely unfounded, the message your post is stating pretty clearly is that you have some sort of emotional objection to Utah and the people there. I suggest you get over it, but the least you could do is verify your misinformation before spreading it around.
And Slashdot still posts dupes. Avoiding any attempt to connect the two, I just want to say that some things never change, or at least not in the last 24 hours...
You must have missed the last State of the Union address where Bush said he wanted $1.2 Billion put towards developing fuel cell technologies. I know, I know, it isn't the same as the military budget, but it shows that he isn't ignoring the alternatives, as you implied. See it here: link.
I remember as a kid playing the arcade version, the playing the console version. Naturally the console version was noticably of lower quality in terms of graphics, and even sometimes in features (Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat come to mind as examples I recall).
I imagine the days may be upon us, if not already here, where this is no longer the case. That said, if the console is a good as the arcade version, why does it influence it anymore? This rings especially true when I compare the popularity of arcades today with the days of my childhood. Before, they were all hopping, happening places where you had to stand in line to play a game. Today they are barely-staffed ghost towns, at least all of them within 20 miles of me. Sure you still have the Chucky Cheeses, but the days of the mall arcade, where people went just to play a game, seem numbered.
Another way to log back in, that is free, is to use the Apple UI Scripting Beta. First, it also is not secure, so use it at your own risk.
Secondly, you will need the GUI interface scripting beta,
downloadable from Apple at http://www.apple.com/applescript/GUI/. Be
sure to follow all of the directions of the readme when installing.
Thirdly, the coordinates for the "click at" command are probably
specific to my computer (PBTi), so you will need to set these
yourself. (I did it using the UI element inspector downloadable from
Apple at the link above. Start it. Start the screensaver. Hit
Apple-F10. It will be in the red text in the UI element inspector.)
Finally, you need this text:
set pword to "password" as text
tell application "ScreenSaverEngine" to activate
tell application "System Events" tell process "ScreenSaverEngine" repeat with i from 1 to number of text items in pword keystroke (text item i of pword) end repeat delay 1 click at {730, 610} end tell end tell
For whatever reason, this generates an error in Applescript, but it
still works. Go figure. Set this to a new action and then to act when
you come into range.
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One interesting note I remember from reading it: No independant artists. You have to come in through one of the independant labels. Apple pays the label. The label pays you.
Sabina, I am assuming from your name and comment that you are Romanian. What part? I spent some time pretty much all over, but it was years ago now. Si daca mai vorbesti romaneste, iti doresc toate cele bune! (Ce limba frumoasa!)
Bucharest is a pretty ugly city, but that is the worst of it. If you had the chance to head just an hour and a half north by train to Brasov, you would have been amazed at how gorgeous the country is. If you ever get a chance to go back, try to make some time to travel around a bit. You would love it!
I totally agree about the attractive women. The whole time I was there (2.5 years total) I was amazed at how many of them were so beautiful. Also, I knew an American businessman who had married a Romanian he met while over there. Beutiful country, beautiful language, and beautiful people. Let's just hope the economy gets beautiful too!
So from your post, you and corporate execs are guilty of the same selfishness (quote, "It's my job to prop myself up"), only *they* are rich and at least help someone else, even if they don't mean to. Why are you verbally crapping on them, again? Seems like you should be mad at yourself for not making your selfishness more productive.
They cost Americans $50B/year and the third world $150B/year. See here.
You can't honestly be saying that 90% of Silicon Valley got laid off, and that 90% of India's tech workers will now be laid off. If you were one of the unfortunate who did lose a job a few years back, I could see how it might seem that way. I guess you now know how American steel-workers feel. You know what people told them? Get a new skill and a new job. They did. (My old boss was one of them.)
Man, how can you write such a strong-worded response without really saying anything? Have you ever asked a third-world worker what life was like *before* he got the job with GlobalCorp, Inc.? My guess is that you have no idea of how their standard of living improved.
I *personally* saw a group of Romanian engineers designing car parts for an American company. Their average monthly salary was $400-500/month. The average Romanian at the time was making $100-150/month. That hardly sounds like indentured service. Their wages aren't just higher, their *standard of living* is higher. India's economy has been growing at 4% for over a decade. That is not a measure of inflation.
Besides, rather than spewing vitriol against GlobalCorp, Inc. you might want to consider the question, what are *you* doing for these people?
I am having a hard time understanding what is bad about this cycle. The jobs move away? In America, they were replaced with higher-paying, higher-skilled jobs. The distribution of wealth became less even? Even if that is the case (and there is a lot of information disputing that), the *overall* standard of living became significantly higher. Just because a textile worker wasn't making as much as his boss doesn't mean he wasn't making more than before he got the job.
The example from America's history is proof that India did the *right* thing. Look where we are now in average standard of living compared to the rest of the world.
I was just wondering where you got that information about Romania's minimum wage. I would be suprised if it is really what you say. When I was there (admittedly four years ago), the average monthly income was below $200/month. I've heard from others that things have not improved much since I left. Just curious.
Your comment defeats itself. If a country can undersell India, it is likely that the income from GlobalCorp, Inc. will have a greater impact for good there than it had in India.
I *personally* saw a group of Romanian engineers designing car parts for an American company. They were getting paid $400-$500 per month. You might say it's deplorable to do that. What if I told you that the average Romanian income was $100-$150 per month at the time? All of a sudden it's not so bad.
The point is that they are not getting paid as well as an American, but they are better off than the alternative, namely leaving them to struggle out of their bad economy on their own. In fact, barriers on trade actually *cost* third-world countries $150 Billion/year.
Free trade proponents *don't* claim that GlobalCorp, Inc. is doing it out of the good of their heart, as you imply. The point, in fact, is that they are *not* doing it out of the good of their heart, i.e. they are being rationally motivated to produce more efficiently. I agree with the sister post here that said that moral considerations sometimes play a part (i.e. products of true slave labor). However, we will not get rid of poverty until we reduce scarcity. Encouraging efficient production is part of that process. Where would we be now if machines didn't replace many factory workers? We would probably be working in old factories, with much lower standards of living. (Efficiency has made life better for those who still work in factories today.) In the end, how else are these countries supposed to escape poverty?
Just one question: Where does the Bible say "live and let live"? I don't remember it, but if it is there I would like to know the context.
Also, it seems a little wierd using the Bible to support your arguments considering Jesus ate meat, all of the prophets and Apostles ate meat, and most of the Old Testament involved the Mosaic practice of sacrificing animals.
I am curious how you resolve all that.
The cube. 'nuff said. One of the coolest looking little computers ever, off the market about a year later.
I just didn't really feel all that motivated by the whole idea of Avatars being extensions of persons. If anything, copyright is a better analysis of them. For example, while I realize that having the same name for your avatar as someone else is restricted for logistical reasons, I know I would be bugged that someone would steal what I considered my *idea* by using the same avatar name as me. The whole avatar to me just seems like an idea, and perhaps a copyrightable one. If anything makes them property, I guess that would be it. I am sure the affinity and identification a player feels with an avatar is not too different from what an author feels with one of his/her characters.
Where the paper introduces the "Personality theories of property", it gets a little wobbly in my opinion. For example, a person can feel a close affinity to the character created by someone else (like some Star Wars fanboy who wishes he could be Anakin). That character does not become his property.
I wholeheartedly agree with you in principle...
However, the tricky thing about competition is that you have to be *competetive*. I'm not too convinced this service really is. If there is no pressure on the other services (Apple especially, as I use that one occasionaly), there could be a hundred others charging $500 and a pint of blood per song and I wouldn't benefit. The only benefit I get is watching them go out of business, which I expect to see here if they don't ditch either the subscription or the burning fee.
Rumormongers in the Mac world are so prevalent (me being one of them) that there are at least a dozen rumor sites all groping for attention. eWeek likes to get in on the gig once a month or so. But Stevie runs a tight ship, so most of it is vague, or sometimes just made up (ala MacOSRumors.com). Hard evidence is a real rarity, and sometimes does more harm than good. (There are several examples in the past of rumor sites getting too close for Steve's comfort and suffering a backlash as a result.)
You can't directly blame Apple for any of this. It's just that Apple has often come out with something so new and cool that a lot of us are like kids willing to see their presents before Christmas.
Orisinal.com. The coolest collection of flash games you will ever find. Just have mercy on his server :)
Well, since tariffs result in directly higher prices for consumers, you are asking me to pay more for software so you can get a job they could pay someone else less to do. Tell you what, make your case, keeping these things in mind:
1) You are no more entitled to a paid job than the foriegn programmer doing the job you want to do.
2) You could learn a skill that *is* in higher demand in the US so paying you is actually the efficient thing to do.
3) Tariffs to preserve jobs are the equivalent of welfare in that they raise costs for everyone else (not that welfare is inherently bad, but that is what you are asking).
Now you know how American steel workers feel. Should they learn another skill? I think that they absolutely should. Here is an article for your consideration: link.
I guess I was out of touch with the analysts of late, because I didn't know they thought things were so bad. Still, it's a good thing I wasn't paying rapt attention to them, or I would've sold my PowerBook and bought it back about 5 times in the past two years.
What I don't get it why they haven't figured it out yet that Apple is strong and steady, unlike its counterparts. The blips on the rader are just that, blips. I find it quite ironic that the people who are supposed to have this figured out are the ones who understand it the least.
I'll bite Troll.
First, a full text search of Utah Code Annotated only pulls up the word "anal" in reference to children and rape. I assume those aren't the laws you call screwed up. Show me the law you are talking about, because I don't believe you.
Second, A full text search of all Utah state and federal cases brings up *not one result* for Universal Life Church, which means no case was tried involving it. The same for a full text search of Utah Code Annotated. Again, I don't belive you, so you will have to show me.
Finally, if you read the article and other posts here about the case, the reason he lost is fairly reasonable. Also, the clause exempting a previous business relationship is found in other state statutes, including Colorado, Delaware, and Ohio.
While your claims about Utah law are so far entirely unfounded, the message your post is stating pretty clearly is that you have some sort of emotional objection to Utah and the people there. I suggest you get over it, but the least you could do is verify your misinformation before spreading it around.
And Slashdot still posts dupes. Avoiding any attempt to connect the two, I just want to say that some things never change, or at least not in the last 24 hours...
You must have missed the last State of the Union address where Bush said he wanted $1.2 Billion put towards developing fuel cell technologies. I know, I know, it isn't the same as the military budget, but it shows that he isn't ignoring the alternatives, as you implied. See it here: link.
I remember as a kid playing the arcade version, the playing the console version. Naturally the console version was noticably of lower quality in terms of graphics, and even sometimes in features (Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat come to mind as examples I recall).
I imagine the days may be upon us, if not already here, where this is no longer the case. That said, if the console is a good as the arcade version, why does it influence it anymore? This rings especially true when I compare the popularity of arcades today with the days of my childhood. Before, they were all hopping, happening places where you had to stand in line to play a game. Today they are barely-staffed ghost towns, at least all of them within 20 miles of me. Sure you still have the Chucky Cheeses, but the days of the mall arcade, where people went just to play a game, seem numbered.
That is something I did not try. Keystroke return just highlighted the bullets of the password, and nothing else. I will try the delay 3. Thanks.
Secondly, you will need the GUI interface scripting beta, downloadable from Apple at http://www.apple.com/applescript/GUI/. Be sure to follow all of the directions of the readme when installing.
Thirdly, the coordinates for the "click at" command are probably specific to my computer (PBTi), so you will need to set these yourself. (I did it using the UI element inspector downloadable from Apple at the link above. Start it. Start the screensaver. Hit Apple-F10. It will be in the red text in the UI element inspector.)
Finally, you need this text: For whatever reason, this generates an error in Applescript, but it still works. Go figure. Set this to a new action and then to act when you come into range.