RIAA is a Recording Industry Association of America.... not an organization of the government in any way. They have no special privilege, excepting that granted them by money, power and influence.. mostly money, meaning they have no 'special' privilege in a court of law.
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I suspect most Vista users will still just push the little button on their PCs labeled 'power' and then watch their PC run diagnostics in the morning when they start it up again in the same way.
How about if applications keep a known good copy in their own space... but check the system to see if a newer version is available each time you run, then if there is one available it does a diagnostic execution to see if it is compatible with the newer version and if so copies the new version to it's local library and links up, if not it generates a log and flags the new version as incompatible and continues using the old version. Best of both worlds. You get automatic upgrades and legacy compatibility. Add to this that the next upgrade installer for the app in question can do the same thing, ie: it will install it's own lib or can check to see if the newer existing system lib is compatible, which for demonstration purposes, this time it is... so it uses the latest lib available.
This would be a huge advantage for app developers as they wouldn't have to release a patch just to support an upgraded library in the system that breaks their app. In the case of a security patch they would still want to do so, but otherwise they could continue developing their apps without taking time to do an emergency build for compatibility, which is a stupid time suck for both developers and users...especially if by doing so they end up introducing new bugs, which I've seen happen.
"Classical historians regularly say that in the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire the daily wage for an unskilled laborer was 1 denarius, estimated at $20. (By comparison, an American laborer earning the Federal minimum wage makes $41 for an 8-hour day, while the average American makes $180 a day.) "
It's true... while the international value of a Euro is higher than a US Dollar... the buying power of a Euro in Europe is equivalent to the estimated value of a Denarius. 1500 years you say, hmmm interesting and dryly humorous.
Oh wait, flash video is the only thing stopping MS domination of free web video, nevermind... oh but for everything else, flash sucks, except for online cartoons... those are kind cool too.
In Safari RSS you can set up a group of RSS feeds, show them all by date, by title, by keyword or just filter them with a search... so say you have 40 science feeds and you want to see if there's anything new in nano tech... (given that you've created a bookmark folder and put all the feeds in it) you can just click on 'show all feeds' in this folder... then use the search box to filter it on 'nano' or some other keyword... then adjust what you want to see with the content length slider (let's you see title, short summary, long summary or anything in between) and if there's a photo it shows as well. You can also set it to see today's feeds, all week or all feeds...
This is a quick way to look for something to read, get up to date on news headlines or whatever... in any case it is much faster and better than tabs or some other method of viewing 40 website news listings at once, sorted by date, categorized prior and filtered by a keyword.
I forgot to mention that now with Parallels I have Win XP open as well for testing in IE and FF there too.
BTW I do all this on a MacBook Pro w/ 2GB Ram and all hooked up to a 30in. ACD (so the GPU is pretty well taxed to it's limits on rendering the screen).
OS X is really really snappy with a good GPU in place. Also, try opening 5 or 6 big memory footprint apps in Windows XP and then start testing. Things slow down to a crawl, you can't even get a response from mouse clicks, and overall you just have to close some apps to continue doing anything at all... even explorer stops responding. I've tried this with a PC that had 2GB Ram a nice 256 MB GPU and plenty of HDD for VM space... still slow as it gets, to the point of unusable.
This means that for my workflow: Draw something in Illustrator, copy it to Photoshop, apply a few filters, Export to PNG, Import into Dreamweaver, upload to staging site, Preview in 4 Browsers, Mail notification of the update to Project Manager... get approval of basic look and feel, Re-Import into Flash from Illustrator as Vectors, Animate, Export to SWF, Import to Dreamweaver, upload to staging site, Preview in 4 Browsers, Mail notification to PM... all in about 2 hours time...
Well I just can't spend 4 hours on it because I have to wait for Apps to Open and Close all the time... I need a good multi-tasking environment that won't bog down on me. OS X handles this like a pro. Win XP, well you've already read what happens there.
I only have this problem with the clients... and wish I could use an ASB on 'em but unfortunately I'm not italian or russian so they'd just laugh at me.
And they are doing it by showing 'copyrighted' works.
Think for example of a pirate drive in theatre... say someone is showing movies projected against the back of their house and they are charging a few bucks for people to come watch it. Now if ten people show up and the person makes $30 no big deal... but if they get 100,000 people to come by every day and watch a movie... that's $300,000.00 per day with no money going back to the content creator for the rights to use their content to make money.
The guy can say... hey I'm giving the movie away for free and just charging for parking but those people wouldn't be paying him just to park... they are paying to park AND watch a movie.
SO YouTube is wrong on this one, even if the quality of the content is poor, people are still coming there to see the content (a lot of the times the copyrighted stuff)... not the ads or whatever it is YT is making money off of.
A hurricane hit the state of Louisiana, creating an estimated 100,000 new jobs. 99% of the jobs created were in the field of Re-Construction, the other 1% were estimated to be in the Legal field....
Neighbor state Mississippi is concerned that those 100,000 jobs are going to come from their labor pool, leaving them bereft of any Re-Construction laborers though they did say the lawyers and clerks will not be missed.
Alabama state said they were jealous as they hadn't seen that many new jobs created in the last decade... "Why can't a hurricane hit our state?"
Yep, otherwise it would be just like P2P cause everyone would be sharing ripped mp3 copies of songs rather than the WMV version. Though allowing that type of sharing would be revolutionary IMHO... but they'll never allow it. Someone will hack it a few months after release though... some sort of complex firmware update required though, so a no go for the masses.
Question... who would allow any form of permanent government in US?
The public might be fooled into it.
The hundreds of powerful corporations, non-profits and private enterprises would not stand for it and they individually have enough power and resources to stop it from happening. You think Bill Gates would allow GWB to stay in power, even if given some sweetheart deal? How about Steve Jobs or any of the other very wealthy anti-GWBs out there? No one could get them all on board for it and each has enough resources to stop it from happening. Billions may not buy you a whole lot of bombers but it will buy you enough influence to stop any single family or individual from gaining complete control over a trillion dollar economy.
Personally I find defecation debates over defitition debates. Not only are they not dry while still being productive... when they are carried out by monkeys in an enclosed space, they can be downright hilarious!
Ah but what's great about the iPod is that it is safe for ~all ages. Which means that a new generation of users is always 'just around the corner'. There will be millions of parents who will buy them for their kids this year... a) because they themselves weren't financially capable or b) the kid was too young and now isn't.
Hmm sorry but there are many many people running 2 year old OS X on their Macs... nothing about OS X requires and update unless you're running newer hardware or need to connect to a newer peripheral. With ebay there is an easy way to find older peripherals for cheap.
OS X is update neutral for many many situations. Linux is actually fairly similar but really only the newer distros are suitable for average users anyways so that's a strike against... and Windows, well you hit it on the mark there, required updates are the norm.
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Welcome our new Irradiated Insect Eating Mutant Swallow-Bat Hybrid Overlords
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Luckily we will be able to shoot them off the elevator with the laser beam that powers to climber
The big one is yet to come.... snakes will crawl up the tether using their sneaky snaky ways and then
SNAKES... IN SPACE!!!!
It's not special when everyone involved has enough money to hire a good team of lawyers.
RIAA is a Recording Industry Association of America.... not an organization of the government in any way. They have no special privilege, excepting that granted them by money, power and influence.. mostly money, meaning they have no 'special' privilege in a court of law.
I suspect most Vista users will still just push the little button on their PCs labeled 'power' and then watch their PC run diagnostics in the morning when they start it up again in the same way.
How about if applications keep a known good copy in their own space... but check the system to see if a newer version is available each time you run, then if there is one available it does a diagnostic execution to see if it is compatible with the newer version and if so copies the new version to it's local library and links up, if not it generates a log and flags the new version as incompatible and continues using the old version. Best of both worlds. You get automatic upgrades and legacy compatibility. Add to this that the next upgrade installer for the app in question can do the same thing, ie: it will install it's own lib or can check to see if the newer existing system lib is compatible, which for demonstration purposes, this time it is... so it uses the latest lib available.
This would be a huge advantage for app developers as they wouldn't have to release a patch just to support an upgraded library in the system that breaks their app. In the case of a security patch they would still want to do so, but otherwise they could continue developing their apps without taking time to do an emergency build for compatibility, which is a stupid time suck for both developers and users...especially if by doing so they end up introducing new bugs, which I've seen happen.
From Denarius link
"Classical historians regularly say that in the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire the daily wage for an unskilled laborer was 1 denarius, estimated at $20. (By comparison, an American laborer earning the Federal minimum wage makes $41 for an 8-hour day, while the average American makes $180 a day.) "
It's true... while the international value of a Euro is higher than a US Dollar... the buying power of a Euro in Europe is equivalent to the estimated value of a Denarius. 1500 years you say, hmmm interesting and dryly humorous.
Oh wait, flash video is the only thing stopping MS domination of free web video, nevermind... oh but for everything else, flash sucks, except for online cartoons... those are kind cool too.
Hello... Mexico just had an extremely controversial recount vote off. Sweden is having one (controversial election) as we speak.
If there is that much evidence... then prove it, in a court of law with cross examination.
'nuff said.
In Safari RSS you can set up a group of RSS feeds, show them all by date, by title, by keyword or just filter them with a search... so say you have 40 science feeds and you want to see if there's anything new in nano tech... (given that you've created a bookmark folder and put all the feeds in it) you can just click on 'show all feeds' in this folder... then use the search box to filter it on 'nano' or some other keyword... then adjust what you want to see with the content length slider (let's you see title, short summary, long summary or anything in between) and if there's a photo it shows as well. You can also set it to see today's feeds, all week or all feeds...
This is a quick way to look for something to read, get up to date on news headlines or whatever... in any case it is much faster and better than tabs or some other method of viewing 40 website news listings at once, sorted by date, categorized prior and filtered by a keyword.
I forgot to mention that now with Parallels I have Win XP open as well for testing in IE and FF there too.
BTW I do all this on a MacBook Pro w/ 2GB Ram and all hooked up to a 30in. ACD (so the GPU is pretty well taxed to it's limits on rendering the screen).
OS X is really really snappy with a good GPU in place. Also, try opening 5 or 6 big memory footprint apps in Windows XP and then start testing. Things slow down to a crawl, you can't even get a response from mouse clicks, and overall you just have to close some apps to continue doing anything at all... even explorer stops responding. I've tried this with a PC that had 2GB Ram a nice 256 MB GPU and plenty of HDD for VM space... still slow as it gets, to the point of unusable.
This means that for my workflow: Draw something in Illustrator, copy it to Photoshop, apply a few filters, Export to PNG, Import into Dreamweaver, upload to staging site, Preview in 4 Browsers, Mail notification of the update to Project Manager... get approval of basic look and feel, Re-Import into Flash from Illustrator as Vectors, Animate, Export to SWF, Import to Dreamweaver, upload to staging site, Preview in 4 Browsers, Mail notification to PM... all in about 2 hours time...
Well I just can't spend 4 hours on it because I have to wait for Apps to Open and Close all the time... I need a good multi-tasking environment that won't bog down on me. OS X handles this like a pro. Win XP, well you've already read what happens there.
I only have this problem with the clients... and wish I could use an ASB on 'em but unfortunately I'm not italian or russian so they'd just laugh at me.
Are u trying to liken a HILF to a MILF or a GILF? That's just plain disgusting....
And they are doing it by showing 'copyrighted' works.
Think for example of a pirate drive in theatre... say someone is showing movies projected against the back of their house and they are charging a few bucks for people to come watch it. Now if ten people show up and the person makes $30 no big deal... but if they get 100,000 people to come by every day and watch a movie... that's $300,000.00 per day with no money going back to the content creator for the rights to use their content to make money.
The guy can say... hey I'm giving the movie away for free and just charging for parking but those people wouldn't be paying him just to park... they are paying to park AND watch a movie.
SO YouTube is wrong on this one, even if the quality of the content is poor, people are still coming there to see the content (a lot of the times the copyrighted stuff)... not the ads or whatever it is YT is making money off of.
A hurricane hit the state of Louisiana, creating an estimated 100,000 new jobs. 99% of the jobs created were in the field of Re-Construction, the other 1% were estimated to be in the Legal field....
Neighbor state Mississippi is concerned that those 100,000 jobs are going to come from their labor pool, leaving them bereft of any Re-Construction laborers though they did say the lawyers and clerks will not be missed.
Alabama state said they were jealous as they hadn't seen that many new jobs created in the last decade... "Why can't a hurricane hit our state?"
Yep, otherwise it would be just like P2P cause everyone would be sharing ripped mp3 copies of songs rather than the WMV version. Though allowing that type of sharing would be revolutionary IMHO... but they'll never allow it. Someone will hack it a few months after release though... some sort of complex firmware update required though, so a no go for the masses.
Question... who would allow any form of permanent government in US?
The public might be fooled into it.
The hundreds of powerful corporations, non-profits and private enterprises would not stand for it and they individually have enough power and resources to stop it from happening. You think Bill Gates would allow GWB to stay in power, even if given some sweetheart deal? How about Steve Jobs or any of the other very wealthy anti-GWBs out there? No one could get them all on board for it and each has enough resources to stop it from happening. Billions may not buy you a whole lot of bombers but it will buy you enough influence to stop any single family or individual from gaining complete control over a trillion dollar economy.
True they should have stated the obvious... these are the:
Top Ten Digital Cameras Used by People on Flickr
aka
10 most popular digital cameras on Flickr
Shootin' the WEEEEEEEEEAZELLLLLLLL..... chkcchckhckhckchck
Personally I find defecation debates over defitition debates. Not only are they not dry while still being productive... when they are carried out by monkeys in an enclosed space, they can be downright hilarious!
Ah but what's great about the iPod is that it is safe for ~all ages. Which means that a new generation of users is always 'just around the corner'. There will be millions of parents who will buy them for their kids this year... a) because they themselves weren't financially capable or b) the kid was too young and now isn't.
Hmm sorry but there are many many people running 2 year old OS X on their Macs... nothing about OS X requires and update unless you're running newer hardware or need to connect to a newer peripheral. With ebay there is an easy way to find older peripherals for cheap.
OS X is update neutral for many many situations. Linux is actually fairly similar but really only the newer distros are suitable for average users anyways so that's a strike against... and Windows, well you hit it on the mark there, required updates are the norm.
Why not just get one of these:
G4 Mac Mini on ebay for under $150 used but in great working condition.. not my item just a search result.
No viruses, runs a great OS... has a combo CD burner DVD drive, etc. etc.