It used to be possible as an independent business person to own and operate a retail shop. Independent retail has been nearly killed by big box stores and the internet.
When I read the summary I wondered if they'd be putting one of those on flying robot drones and then I realized that yes, it's 2009 and we live in the fucking future.
If people are having the same kind of fun, who cares?
The rule changes have been pretty logical and the increase in control has more to do with the increase in attendance. A stadium concert has far more rules than one in a small bar. This isn't the result of some corporate conspiracy.
If I was a manufacturer of, say, illegal DVDs, and I saw some Creative Commons License with a little addendum on it, I would immediately think to myself: "OK, cool, this guy can't afford even four or five hours of a lawyer's time."
If pirates aren't going to pony up for licenses composed by corporate firms that are very capable of bringing suit, why are they going to respond to "pay me, please?"
Google can simply withdraw its services from the country threatening suit. Public outcry would shut down the case in any half-functioning democracy.
The Pirate Bay had no such leverage. Clout and popularity matter a lot in these things.
For instance iTunes could be faulted for not checking downloaded MP3s against their library of copyrighted content, but the music industry simply isn't going to go that aggro on the world's largest music retailer.
This sounds a little too much like an Onion article or April Fool's post. I mean, I wouldn't put it past them, but I'd also like to see some better verification before I believe this one.
If this is true, whatever Linux distro is optional on these netbooks could advertise very simply "run more than 3 things at once. for free."
I mean, seriously. Wasn't the whole point of the Start Bar back in 1995 to make it easier to run more applications at the same time? Isn't this Microsoft going against their one significant usability success?
Yes but anonymous opponents online are miserable assholes who make competing depressing.
Whereas the first few people I played tennis or chess against were for the most part, totally pleasant and never made sexual inferences about my mother.
"Critical Mass" of what? Gear heads who are willing to read manuals and tinker with things until they work?
Sure. But there's a lot of the population who don't and never will have that relationship with their computers. And a lot of these people use their machines for more than just the mythical "web and email."
If someone knows Windows well enough, there simply isn't a non-partisan reason to make the switch. It's too much effort.
If he really is going on this ridiculous rich-kid cruise semester, I hope he'll be able to get some without resorting to prostitution. It's about half the point.
Bring a little dvd player for your room (or maybe they already have them) and some popular with the college kids shows and movies on DVD. Let one of the shows / movies come up in conversation. "Oh I have that back in my room."
These are really very good times for nerds having sex. Do you own Guitar Hero?
I know. I just get angry at politically-charged metaphors being used in the wrong place.
There have been plenty of destructive weather events and Katrina is the most famous recent one. But Katrina has all kinds of extra political baggage.
Is this space storm going to be inadequately recovered from? Is it going to signal the downfall of a corrupt administration? Will it disproportionately affect poor minorities?
It's pretty lazy writing to go for the closest shocking phrase available and it distracts from the point being made.
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It's not a movie for people who like a good script or interesting characters. It's a movie for people who like video game cutscenes.
Yeah, what that movie needed were a couple of good lectures and some slides.
I still have to believe that the movie could have had ONE interesting character.
The next great advance in special effects will be to free people from green screens. The acting is always terrible.
Eh, you're not missing much. It's Fern Gully with $300 Million special effects. Titanic was a better movie, and I didn't really like Titanic.
Great the solution is to make life even MORE of a panopticon.
I kind of hate the future.
You didn't read the summary. Someone else wrote his name in a low-circulation document that is now publicly indexable.
This stuff scares the crap out of me. If you live in a small town, ANY arrest will get you in the newspaper.
It used to be possible as an independent business person to own and operate a retail shop. Independent retail has been nearly killed by big box stores and the internet.
This is new.
Remember all those quirky startups? That was a dead end. The new economy is 3 or 4 giant retailers selling everything.
Huzzah!
When I read the summary I wondered if they'd be putting one of those on flying robot drones and then I realized that yes, it's 2009 and we live in the fucking future.
I bet you're just a hoot at parties.
2012 is Y2K for hippies.
Hey, IBM, you dropped your telescope.
Someone should pick it up, pick it up, pick it up, pick it up.
How exactly to in-house IT guys implement a fatter pipe? You can't create more bandwidth locally.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." - Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
Common place personal communicators with no long distance charges and internet access are downright miraculous. We just take them for granted.
If people are having the same kind of fun, who cares?
The rule changes have been pretty logical and the increase in control has more to do with the increase in attendance. A stadium concert has far more rules than one in a small bar. This isn't the result of some corporate conspiracy.
If I was a manufacturer of, say, illegal DVDs, and I saw some Creative Commons License with a little addendum on it, I would immediately think to myself: "OK, cool, this guy can't afford even four or five hours of a lawyer's time."
If pirates aren't going to pony up for licenses composed by corporate firms that are very capable of bringing suit, why are they going to respond to "pay me, please?"
So was there ever a single useful thing done in vrml?
I'm not trying to be snarky, I'm really curious.
This isn't going to happen.
Google can simply withdraw its services from the country threatening suit. Public outcry would shut down the case in any half-functioning democracy.
The Pirate Bay had no such leverage. Clout and popularity matter a lot in these things.
For instance iTunes could be faulted for not checking downloaded MP3s against their library of copyrighted content, but the music industry simply isn't going to go that aggro on the world's largest music retailer.
This sounds a little too much like an Onion article or April Fool's post. I mean, I wouldn't put it past them, but I'd also like to see some better verification before I believe this one.
If this is true, whatever Linux distro is optional on these netbooks could advertise very simply "run more than 3 things at once. for free."
I mean, seriously. Wasn't the whole point of the Start Bar back in 1995 to make it easier to run more applications at the same time? Isn't this Microsoft going against their one significant usability success?
As is usually the case with science articles:
While there's a chance the researchers are in error, it is less than the chance that random sniping from the internet is correct.
best reference I've seen on Slashdot in a long time.
Yes but anonymous opponents online are miserable assholes who make competing depressing.
Whereas the first few people I played tennis or chess against were for the most part, totally pleasant and never made sexual inferences about my mother.
"Critical Mass" of what? Gear heads who are willing to read manuals and tinker with things until they work?
Sure. But there's a lot of the population who don't and never will have that relationship with their computers. And a lot of these people use their machines for more than just the mythical "web and email."
If someone knows Windows well enough, there simply isn't a non-partisan reason to make the switch. It's too much effort.
If he really is going on this ridiculous rich-kid cruise semester, I hope he'll be able to get some without resorting to prostitution. It's about half the point.
Bring a little dvd player for your room (or maybe they already have them) and some popular with the college kids shows and movies on DVD. Let one of the shows / movies come up in conversation. "Oh I have that back in my room."
These are really very good times for nerds having sex. Do you own Guitar Hero?
I know. I just get angry at politically-charged metaphors being used in the wrong place.
There have been plenty of destructive weather events and Katrina is the most famous recent one. But Katrina has all kinds of extra political baggage.
Is this space storm going to be inadequately recovered from? Is it going to signal the downfall of a corrupt administration? Will it disproportionately affect poor minorities?
It's pretty lazy writing to go for the closest shocking phrase available and it distracts from the point being made.