Thumbprints and retinal scans require you to be physically present at the point of scanning, so that pretty much rules them out for online identification, right?
I think the problem is the differing opinions that people like you and people like me have of the respective sectors of society. You consider government to be inherently bloated, inefficient, and slow, and I consider the private sector to be inherently ruthless, greedy, and malicious. The problem is that we're both right.
I agree that the private sector can produce many goods and services better (at least compared to our current, outdated model of government bureaucracy) but it is only the government that has a vested interest in ensuring that services are equally available to 100% of the population. Private enterprise is based on cost/benefit analysis. If they can make more money providing botique service to a fraction of the populace vs. providing adequate service to everyone, they will do that. Only government has as its mission statement the welfare of all.
Yeah, there were actually plenty of those. Hell, my old 8088 clone had a CGA card with composite out. I was pissed when I finally got a new machine and found out VGA cards didn't have them.
It seems to me the point of the short is not to sell computers, but to lampoon Mac users. For this purpose, comparison to a known political/religious figure is fair game.
Now, if Apple used Malcolm in a "Think Different" ad, that would be different. I myself get pretty pissed at the use of Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, etc. to sell computers. Frank Sinatra, not so much...:)
Re:so XFree86 = usage stattistics?
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Morever, those sites that are `graphical only' quite often suck even with a graphical browser (you know the sort, each page a single GIF, or composed entirely of a giant flash animation; yuck!).
First, I agree.
Second, you're wrong.:)
It is true that it is sucky to create a site that can only be viewed by a graphical browser. But keep in mind that the bare minimal browsers many people design web sites for are indeed graphical, and most people use the web as their medium precisely because of its graphicality. Assuming, of course, "graphicality" is a word. They may SUCK with a graphical browser, but at least the content they are trying to present is VIEWABLE with one.
A person in a position to say "I use Lynx for all my web browsing needs, I don't need a graphical interface -- all the sites that are nothing but graphics suck" is right in regards to the design of those sites -- they suck -- and obviously has the luxury of picking and choosing the design qualities of the websites from which he gets his information. Those who use the web as a resource do not often have that luxury, so they need a browser that is capable of delivering, if not all, then MOST of that information. This goes beyond graphics and includes browsers (such as, sadly, my beloved OmniWeb) that mangle CSS in ways that make some content unviewable.
In short, yes, designers should design for Lynx. I try to make my site Lynx-friendly, even though it is a webcomic and makes absolutely no sense to view it in Lynx. But the fact remains that extant websites are unlikely to have been designed with text browsers in mind, so graphics do come in handy.
Re:I was making $33,000 a year when I was 19
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33,000 a year when you are 19 is a good amount. There are plenty of people who would be glad to start out at that amount.
Yeah. It all depends on where you live. $33,000 in NYC = not so good. When I was 19, I was in Iowa, and if you told me there were jobs that paid $33,000, I would have plotzed.
My sister lives in Indiana, and she pays something like $300 a month for a two-bedroom apartment. It made me want to cry.
in the USA you must actively defend them (TrademarkMan to the rescue!) or you lose them.
I'm kind of unclear how this works. The way I understand it is this: I create a superhero, and I call him PublicDomainMan. I make it clear that he's not actually IN the public domain, but is trademarked, but I will allow anyone to use him if not for anything horribly offensive.
So someone comes out with "PublicDomanMan Saves a Puppy" and I don't sue for infringement, because I don't WANT to.
Then, someone else comes out with "PublicDomainMan rapes a puppy while helping Adolf Hitler gas Jews" and I feel that's in poor taste and I would like to sue. Is it true that I can't sue, just because I didn't sue the first guy?
If this is the case, it's no wonder so many companies are rat bastards, if the only way to keep ownership of your property is to BE a rat bastard...
I have no idea how long it takes to code a game, but if it takes three months, as you say, then $11,000 is pretty damn good. That would be $44,000 a year.
If it takes two months, that's even better. Then you'd be making the equivalent of $66,000 a year.
Its ordinary working people and the companys they work for on one side...
Working people and the companies they work for are on the same side? Thank God! We've finally solved those pesky labor relations issues that have been such an irritation for the last ten thousand years!
What? No link? Surely you have a website. Or do I need to buy your book?
How capitalism can indeed serve social interests
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As Ayn Rand and her followers put forward clearly, the world's needs (what the author considers the commons) can indeed be served by private interests, since doing so would be profitable to them. I have staged a skit to illustrate this:
CITIZEN #1: Please, Mr. Capitalist, for a profit of $1, will you feed, clothe, and care for this child? CAPITALIST: Of course! I will do this for a mere profit of one dollar, for private enterprise is happy to take on these public burdens if there is even the slightest profit! CITIZEN #1: Thank you, Mr. Capitalist. I knew we could come to some sort of an arrangement.
So you see, private enterprise can be trusted to... oh. Wait... here comes another citizen...
CITIZEN #2: Here, Mr. Capitalist, for a profit of $2, will you kill, cook, and serve this child? CAPITALIST: Hot damn! TWO dollars! Where's the salt?
How are we to understand that we are controlled, when we embrace resident over Citizen; person over man; vehicle over car, democracy over republic; firearm over gun; real estate over land? How does one defend his God-given liberties, when he can only represent himself with Constitutional rights?
Some intriguing ideas, but I'm not sure I take your point. Are you saying that it is better to use the phrases "citizen", "man", "land", etc. rather than the alternatives you name, and if so, why?
Jesus people, is this REALLY that big of an issue?
Is it a big issue what state you live in? Uh, yeah, kinda. Who gets your tax money? How much tax money? If the border of Texas and New Mexico were redrawn, and I ended up on the New Mexico side (not likely, since I live in Austin:) ) I would suddenly have to start paying income tax. Will the world end? No. In fact, I would prefer it. But my neighbors (the ones with the tattoos of eagles and the gunracks on their trucks) probably wouldn't.
We just had 'The Velvet Underground and Nico' released as a double CD so that you can listen to the mono version of the album, or the stereo.
Ack! That has got to be the WORST excuse for a double album I've ever heard. But I must admit, if the second disc had anything to recommend it (B-sides, demos, etc) I'd pick it up, as I probably would for any band I really dig. For instance, Rhino's reissues of Elvis Costello's entire catalog as double CD's -- that's cool.
But a mono version? I think I can make my stereo do that, right?:)
Well, Slashdot often has sci-fi-related articles, and "Ziggy Stardust" is a rather important album bridging the worlds of rock'n'roll and science fiction, so why not? Bowie has always been a geek-friendly artist, and I'm sure there are a lot of geeks who are totally into Ziggy. Or should be.
My trusty old turntable died last year, and I made the hard decision not to replace it. So far I've been reluctant to re-buy my LP's on CD... now, at least, I see why I hadn't bought "Ziggy" again -- I was waiting for this re-issue!
OK, getting off topic perhaps, but I totally want that version of cdrdao that you got to work. I have never gotten cdrdao to work on my OS X machine at all, and it is probably the program I loved most under Linux...
How'd you get it going? Can I get a tarball, or at least the steps you went through?
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Thumbprints and retinal scans require you to be physically present at the point of scanning, so that pretty much rules them out for online identification, right?
I think the problem is the differing opinions that people like you and people like me have of the respective sectors of society. You consider government to be inherently bloated, inefficient, and slow, and I consider the private sector to be inherently ruthless, greedy, and malicious. The problem is that we're both right.
I agree that the private sector can produce many goods and services better (at least compared to our current, outdated model of government bureaucracy) but it is only the government that has a vested interest in ensuring that services are equally available to 100% of the population. Private enterprise is based on cost/benefit analysis. If they can make more money providing botique service to a fraction of the populace vs. providing adequate service to everyone, they will do that. Only government has as its mission statement the welfare of all.
Yeah, there were actually plenty of those. Hell, my old 8088 clone had a CGA card with composite out. I was pissed when I finally got a new machine and found out VGA cards didn't have them.
Now, if Apple used Malcolm in a "Think Different" ad, that would be different. I myself get pretty pissed at the use of Gandhi, Cesar Chavez, etc. to sell computers. Frank Sinatra, not so much... :)
Morever, those sites that are `graphical only' quite often suck even with a graphical browser (you know the sort, each page a single GIF, or composed entirely of a giant flash animation; yuck!).
:)
First, I agree.
Second, you're wrong.
It is true that it is sucky to create a site that can only be viewed by a graphical browser. But keep in mind that the bare minimal browsers many people design web sites for are indeed graphical, and most people use the web as their medium precisely because of its graphicality. Assuming, of course, "graphicality" is a word. They may SUCK with a graphical browser, but at least the content they are trying to present is VIEWABLE with one.
A person in a position to say "I use Lynx for all my web browsing needs, I don't need a graphical interface -- all the sites that are nothing but graphics suck" is right in regards to the design of those sites -- they suck -- and obviously has the luxury of picking and choosing the design qualities of the websites from which he gets his information. Those who use the web as a resource do not often have that luxury, so they need a browser that is capable of delivering, if not all, then MOST of that information. This goes beyond graphics and includes browsers (such as, sadly, my beloved OmniWeb) that mangle CSS in ways that make some content unviewable.
In short, yes, designers should design for Lynx. I try to make my site Lynx-friendly, even though it is a webcomic and makes absolutely no sense to view it in Lynx. But the fact remains that extant websites are unlikely to have been designed with text browsers in mind, so graphics do come in handy.
Yeah. It all depends on where you live. $33,000 in NYC = not so good. When I was 19, I was in Iowa, and if you told me there were jobs that paid $33,000, I would have plotzed.
My sister lives in Indiana, and she pays something like $300 a month for a two-bedroom apartment. It made me want to cry.
I'm kind of unclear how this works. The way I understand it is this: I create a superhero, and I call him PublicDomainMan. I make it clear that he's not actually IN the public domain, but is trademarked, but I will allow anyone to use him if not for anything horribly offensive.
So someone comes out with "PublicDomanMan Saves a Puppy" and I don't sue for infringement, because I don't WANT to.
Then, someone else comes out with "PublicDomainMan rapes a puppy while helping Adolf Hitler gas Jews" and I feel that's in poor taste and I would like to sue. Is it true that I can't sue, just because I didn't sue the first guy?
If this is the case, it's no wonder so many companies are rat bastards, if the only way to keep ownership of your property is to BE a rat bastard...
I liked the dubbed versions of most of John Woo's films, if only because the guy they got to voice Chow Yun-Fat sounded like Cary Grant. :)
Not if they were plotting murders. Or using the modems to create an electrical surge to actually murder people.
What? I watched too many movies in the 80's? Damn.
Absolutely right. What IS considered a living wage in California?
I have no idea how long it takes to code a game, but if it takes three months, as you say, then $11,000 is pretty damn good. That would be $44,000 a year. If it takes two months, that's even better. Then you'd be making the equivalent of $66,000 a year.
Working people and the companies they work for are on the same side? Thank God! We've finally solved those pesky labor relations issues that have been such an irritation for the last ten thousand years!
What? No link? Surely you have a website. Or do I need to buy your book?
CITIZEN #1: Please, Mr. Capitalist, for a profit of $1, will you feed, clothe, and care for this child?
CAPITALIST: Of course! I will do this for a mere profit of one dollar, for private enterprise is happy to take on these public burdens if there is even the slightest profit!
CITIZEN #1: Thank you, Mr. Capitalist. I knew we could come to some sort of an arrangement.
So you see, private enterprise can be trusted to... oh. Wait... here comes another citizen...
CITIZEN #2: Here, Mr. Capitalist, for a profit of $2, will you kill, cook, and serve this child?
CAPITALIST: Hot damn! TWO dollars! Where's the salt?
Uh... oops. Nevermind.
Some intriguing ideas, but I'm not sure I take your point. Are you saying that it is better to use the phrases "citizen", "man", "land", etc. rather than the alternatives you name, and if so, why?
Is it a big issue what state you live in? Uh, yeah, kinda. Who gets your tax money? How much tax money? If the border of Texas and New Mexico were redrawn, and I ended up on the New Mexico side (not likely, since I live in Austin :) ) I would suddenly have to start paying income tax. Will the world end? No. In fact, I would prefer it. But my neighbors (the ones with the tattoos of eagles and the gunracks on their trucks) probably wouldn't.
It's all a misunderstanding. What they meant to say was internet USERS double in size every ten days. I know I do.
"ACK! heart.... slash... dotted...."
Ack! That has got to be the WORST excuse for a double album I've ever heard. But I must admit, if the second disc had anything to recommend it (B-sides, demos, etc) I'd pick it up, as I probably would for any band I really dig. For instance, Rhino's reissues of Elvis Costello's entire catalog as double CD's -- that's cool.
But a mono version? I think I can make my stereo do that, right? :)
Well, Slashdot often has sci-fi-related articles, and "Ziggy Stardust" is a rather important album bridging the worlds of rock'n'roll and science fiction, so why not? Bowie has always been a geek-friendly artist, and I'm sure there are a lot of geeks who are totally into Ziggy. Or should be.
Nice packaging, too...
How'd you get it going? Can I get a tarball, or at least the steps you went through?