It's not that torrent sites and others are making live shows and other bootlegs available, it's that there are still millions of folks who are downloading and trading stuff that IS copyrighted. I shudder to think, but I guess enough people want to download the latest top 40 pop sh1t that it's beginning to hurt the record cos. Which is why now we're in for a season or twelve of Brittany's new reality show.
*gags*
If people were only trading and downloading unsigned bands, the outcry from the industry would not be so loud. And I might actually be able to quit my dayjob to pursue MY unsigned band's future.
Most pro-users like myself use external font management software for which we can preview and select fonts for a project.
I take offence to that a bit. I consider myself a pro user, yet my company could not and would not buy something as "trivial" as a font-management system. I am ashamed to say this, and will likely have a few trolls fling poo at me, but I sometimes open MS Word to "see" my fonts, find the one I want out of the over 600 available, and then go back to Photoshop.
Is there an easy way to print a WYSIWYG font listing without fancy software?
For your own safety, refrain from commenting on this story here. It could be seen as contributing to the future presidential campaigns of either CowboyNeal or Cthulhu.
I think, too, there's a bit of the planned obsolescence attitude. We're used to throwing stuff out instead of fixing it. When have you ever taken an old television set to be repaired? It's cheaper to buy a new one (which will be bigger than the old one, and have a universal remote - universal my ass - but that's another rant). I don't continue pasting my nylons together with clear nail polish - I get a run, I toss 'em and get a new pair. Why won't NASA invent the runless pantyhose? (What are those people with the goat-milk-spider-web creatures doing, anyway?)
"Our president wants to "spread democracy" around at the point of a sword, because America doesn't feel safe in a world where there are people who look, think, act, govern and worship in ways other than what we believe to be right. For if we tolerate other ways, that might mean that other ways are right, and we are therefore wrong."
each of us has to try to accumulate enough wealth to get into the category of people that can afford it before the end of our natural lifespan. It's a race against time.
Um, I don't think it would necessarily be limited to the wealthy. How many credit card and loan offer pieces of junk mail do you get per day? I can just see the drool on the face of a VISA account rep as he imagines you paying off your immortality treatment with your platinum card. $40/month at 15% for 1200 months?
I don't think the lessons here are about businesses surviving as much as people. Really, if Americans had to deal with the level of terrorism that Isrealis do on a daily basis, society would fall right apart.
"But he notes that in Israel, office are repopulated after they are bombed, and customers frequent bombed cafes and restaurants as soon as they are repaired."
Would you go back to your office after an attack? No. And then they'd raze the building and put up a monument.
VA people are telling me that their polls had lines in record numbers.
I vouch for that. I waited nearly an hour; the line was out the door at one point. Never have I seen the place look like that - usually it's just me and a handful of old people. Today it looked like the pharmacy line at Wal-Mart during flu season.
Lots of single moms and minorities out this morning. Maybe VA has gone Republican more than not in the past, but I feel semi-hopeful today.
Dude, if you could get people on a mass scale (and I think/. is massive) to accept all that, we would not currently be at war.
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Perhaps for non-Pagan folk, yes, it's another commercialized hunk of crap, like Christmas has become.
But for those of us for whom it is a spiritual holiday, it's nice to have the rest of the world at least looking like they're in step with the cycles of nature for a change. Halloween, or Samhain, is a night when the "veil between the worlds" is at its thinnest, and it is when we invite our ancestors who have passed on to come back and celebrate the final harvest of the year. Little kids running around threatening tricks or treats and carved, lit gourds are to deter any less-than-friendly spirits from crashing your party.
Anyway, in a nutshell, Halloween will always be important to a great many of us, whether the rest of the world continues celebrating it or not. I'm sure other geeks can find appropriate links to post for further reading...
How many "normal" people know more than the.com domain?
Indeed. You think everybody and their mom is online, but still, every day, more folks are getting "the internet" without knowing a thing about it. Once you show them how the address bar works, they try everything ".com" by default. The only saving grace is search engines, namely Google.
I'm waiting for the big shakedown when TLDs die off, and the search engines all merge (face it, who uses anything besides Google anymore? Even their image search has blown AltaVista's away) and we can find anything and go anywhere without ever having to mess with dot-*.
Not to mention all the riders and other hidden poo that end up in bills - if Senator A didn't vote on Bill X, it may have nothing to do with the main thrust of what Bill X is about at all, but because of Hidden Clause Z which supports massive deforestation of Senator A's hometown parks, or some such. Most folks tend to forget that NOTHING in DC is as black and white as the media makes it out to be.
Why don't you ever hear KMFDM or Ministry on the radio? They've both been around for YEARS, have a pretty large following, yet are relegated to online stations or sporadic college playlists. There a quite a few bands who have the following, the history, and the talent to sell more music, but because of their message, or image, or some other unsavory factor, are kept off corporate radio.
They had it down here in Virginia, too. They got a bad write-up in the local paper (FUD mostly) so the billboards went away as quickly as they had come...
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It's not that torrent sites and others are making live shows and other bootlegs available, it's that there are still millions of folks who are downloading and trading stuff that IS copyrighted. I shudder to think, but I guess enough people want to download the latest top 40 pop sh1t that it's beginning to hurt the record cos. Which is why now we're in for a season or twelve of Brittany's new reality show.
*gags*
If people were only trading and downloading unsigned bands, the outcry from the industry would not be so loud. And I might actually be able to quit my dayjob to pursue MY unsigned band's future.
Most pro-users like myself use external font management software for which we can preview and select fonts for a project.
I take offence to that a bit. I consider myself a pro user, yet my company could not and would not buy something as "trivial" as a font-management system. I am ashamed to say this, and will likely have a few trolls fling poo at me, but I sometimes open MS Word to "see" my fonts, find the one I want out of the over 600 available, and then go back to Photoshop.
Is there an easy way to print a WYSIWYG font listing without fancy software?
For your own safety, refrain from commenting on this story here. It could be seen as contributing to the future presidential campaigns of either CowboyNeal or Cthulhu.
...but doesn't anyone carry CASH anymore?
EXACTLY.
The receptionist at the local doctor-in-a-box does not need my social security number in order to give me antibiotics for a bladder infection. Jeeez.
Yeah - all along I thought Chaz was fictional...
I think, too, there's a bit of the planned obsolescence attitude. We're used to throwing stuff out instead of fixing it. When have you ever taken an old television set to be repaired? It's cheaper to buy a new one (which will be bigger than the old one, and have a universal remote - universal my ass - but that's another rant). I don't continue pasting my nylons together with clear nail polish - I get a run, I toss 'em and get a new pair. Why won't NASA invent the runless pantyhose? (What are those people with the goat-milk-spider-web creatures doing, anyway?)
Excerpt from my latest column:
"Our president wants to "spread democracy" around at the point of a sword, because America doesn't feel safe in a world where there are people who look, think, act, govern and worship in ways other than what we believe to be right. For if we tolerate other ways, that might mean that other ways are right, and we are therefore wrong."
each of us has to try to accumulate enough wealth to get into the category of people that can afford it before the end of our natural lifespan. It's a race against time.
Um, I don't think it would necessarily be limited to the wealthy. How many credit card and loan offer pieces of junk mail do you get per day? I can just see the drool on the face of a VISA account rep as he imagines you paying off your immortality treatment with your platinum card. $40/month at 15% for 1200 months?
I don't think the lessons here are about businesses surviving as much as people. Really, if Americans had to deal with the level of terrorism that Isrealis do on a daily basis, society would fall right apart.
"But he notes that in Israel, office are repopulated after they are bombed, and customers frequent bombed cafes and restaurants as soon as they are repaired."
Would you go back to your office after an attack? No. And then they'd raze the building and put up a monument.
Ah, Soma! I used to dig that vibe myself. Lately I've found that FrostByte Groove Lounge is a good substitute. http://www.overxposure.fm/
Shameless plug: Cured By Porno - Electronic Lounge - what if George Clinton and Debbie Harry had a baby?
Sorry about your karma - if I had points you'd get 'em. This is by far the most insightful comment on this whole stinking mess.
But of course, you've pissed off parents. They hate to be reminded that they're the ones responsible for how their kids turn out.
No, Jen, heal the crystal!
(Sheesh, how many seperate threads are there for this joke?)
Thank you. That was the first laugh I've had in about 16 hours.
Now back to crying and looking up real estate listings for Toronto...
At least in my district, we use the dreaded Diebold boxen. I shuddered at the sight, but stood in line anyway...
Do ya have a login we can use, perhaps?
VA people are telling me that their polls had lines in record numbers.
I vouch for that. I waited nearly an hour; the line was out the door at one point. Never have I seen the place look like that - usually it's just me and a handful of old people. Today it looked like the pharmacy line at Wal-Mart during flu season.
Lots of single moms and minorities out this morning. Maybe VA has gone Republican more than not in the past, but I feel semi-hopeful today.
Dude, if you could get people on a mass scale (and I think /. is massive) to accept all that, we would not currently be at war.
Perhaps for non-Pagan folk, yes, it's another commercialized hunk of crap, like Christmas has become.
But for those of us for whom it is a spiritual holiday, it's nice to have the rest of the world at least looking like they're in step with the cycles of nature for a change. Halloween, or Samhain, is a night when the "veil between the worlds" is at its thinnest, and it is when we invite our ancestors who have passed on to come back and celebrate the final harvest of the year. Little kids running around threatening tricks or treats and carved, lit gourds are to deter any less-than-friendly spirits from crashing your party.
Anyway, in a nutshell, Halloween will always be important to a great many of us, whether the rest of the world continues celebrating it or not. I'm sure other geeks can find appropriate links to post for further reading...
How many "normal" people know more than the .com domain?
Indeed. You think everybody and their mom is online, but still, every day, more folks are getting "the internet" without knowing a thing about it. Once you show them how the address bar works, they try everything ".com" by default. The only saving grace is search engines, namely Google.
I'm waiting for the big shakedown when TLDs die off, and the search engines all merge (face it, who uses anything besides Google anymore? Even their image search has blown AltaVista's away) and we can find anything and go anywhere without ever having to mess with dot-*.
Oh wait, that was Star Trek.
Voting verified: your server is fubar.
That was lovely, really. What other tricks do you know?
Not to mention all the riders and other hidden poo that end up in bills - if Senator A didn't vote on Bill X, it may have nothing to do with the main thrust of what Bill X is about at all, but because of Hidden Clause Z which supports massive deforestation of Senator A's hometown parks, or some such. Most folks tend to forget that NOTHING in DC is as black and white as the media makes it out to be.
Exactly! Quit yer whining and do something about it, like refuse to produce food for the males in the game - or withhold sex IRL. Works for me. ;-P
Why don't you ever hear KMFDM or Ministry on the radio? They've both been around for YEARS, have a pretty large following, yet are relegated to online stations or sporadic college playlists. There a quite a few bands who have the following, the history, and the talent to sell more music, but because of their message, or image, or some other unsavory factor, are kept off corporate radio.
They had it down here in Virginia, too. They got a bad write-up in the local paper (FUD mostly) so the billboards went away as quickly as they had come...