I could swear that at some previous ST discussion will wheaton was identified as a regular slashdot reader.
has he chimed in here yet?
personal feelings about wesley crusher aside, I would be curious to hear from him, given that the last comment I recall from him was a transcript of a script where every third word was "(tech)"
Times like this I miss babylon 5 and farscape, shows that could actually sustain a story line for more than just a 2 parter. It's a good thing that B5 died when it did though, it was beginning to come apart a bit.
good TV shows and rock stars have a lot in common, they are frequently remembered better when they die too soon.
this may be an obvious point, but whether or not this macaque has any effect on the evolution of its species would only become clear if this particular macaque were eventually judged a good mate by another viable macaque, bred with this other macaque and then had children that it brought up to walk in this otherwise odd way and then this went on long enough for a supporting mutation to occur and be more viable and the actual genetic makeup of the creature changed to reinforce or support the act of walking on hind limbs only, no? (or at least something along those lines...)
Please forgive the long sentence.
As far as the other point someone earlier tried to make about being able to run faster on two legs, it has generally been shown that possible speed is governed by a number of factors, but stride length and weight are major ones. You can get a much longer stride between front and rear limbs than you can just between the two rear limbs. For example the cheetah's great (short term) speed is based more on the length of its back than on the length of its legs.
that said, how long til Nike tries to sign it to an endorsement contract?
as you say, You have the right to TRY and make a profit. you also have the right to gouge for whatever you can get from whatever poor suckers will give you. (unless you control the market in a monopoly, of course. then there are rules;)
the difficulty is that you have a social obligation as a member of a society not to screw over everyone on your way to wealth and fortune. this is the bit that most people forget or don't realize. so here you have a company that has managed to charge enough extra for their product that they now have, what was it, $56 billion?
that means that if they applied that amount of money evenly over every product they ever sold, the software might have been half the price and they still would be a profitable company did they have a right to do this? most of the time certainly.
did we (as the buying public) have a right to fall for this? also, certainly.
"everyone has the right to make an ass of themself." maude
actually, if you really want to kill Illustrator, the first thing that you would want to implement would be the ability to create multiple pages in a single document...
I grant you that is not a feature that is of grave importance in the web world, but in print, of all the people who I know who use Illustrator, this is definitely one of the biggest gripes. (never quite THE biggest, but always in the top 3-4.)
the most irritating thing about adobe products is that they have very firm lines of demarcation. while photoshop has gained some vector tools and illustrator now comes with all the photoshop filters for rasterized objects, neither can do a multiple page document like say, freehand. In adobe's world you need to have pagemaker, framemaker or indesign to do even a simple multiple page layout.
personally I feel that this is really annoying.
btw, i heard a rumor sometime back that the gimp would gain CMYK tools at some point, is that true? also, one of the biggest failings of the gimp, ( from a usability point of view, especially for someone new to it,) would appear to be the neccessity of double clicking for every tool. since it acts like every window, (toolbox etc.) is a separate application, you need to click once, and then click again to select the tool. this may be an osX eccentricity, if so please correct me.
anyway Inkscape looks delightful so far, I hope they keep it up and remember to put all the good stuff in first. (any chance of a cocoa version?)
bear in mind that there is a precedent set, in texas anyway, that says that you are in fact legally entitled to shoot someone who knocks at your door for tresspassing.
maybe someone can track down the story from about 4 or so years ago, but there was a student of asian extraction, who knocked on a door asking for directions, and was shot by the homeowner. the shooter got off as the student was considered to have been tresspassing.
michael caine, noel coward, and the greatest car chase of all time, good enough that the car in question had a special edition made with the movie logo on the grill
see, now I've used three button mice with AIX, two and three button mice with windows, and one button mice with mac.
I can't see any advantage to having all three buttons on the mouse except to cause repetetive stress injuries faster.
with the ctl and alt buttons on the mac, (laptop I might add,) I have been able to avoid repetetive stress injuries that plagued me as a windows and UNIX user in the past. my wrists thank me for using a mac.
what's your problem? wrist pains got you down???
some of us have better luck with women and cars, but hey, I work for a circus.
no one should be allowed to even think about writing a textbook without reading
lies my teacher told me
surely you're joking mr. feynman
in the latter, it was the chapter where feynman was asked to serve on a textbook selection comittee. very enlightening. and scary.
the first book is a rather scathing review of a dozen high school history books, how they are written, reviewed and edited, (read scrawled, mauled and gutted.) it's actually almost painful to read as you realize how much more interesting history class would have been had they just told you ALL of the facts.
I don't know if it is just cosmic irony or what, but the lower banner ad on this story when I first looked, said "get Microsoft behind your business..."
the only thing that they have said that they are going to do in 2003 is to finish broadcasting season 4...
not really surprising
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from working two years trying to sell a piece of technology to the members of the entertainment industry, I have come to realize that there is no group more interested in getting something for nothing than the entertainment industry.
as a result, I'm not at all surprised to find OSS in the major studios, being used to create stuff.
places like ILM exist successfully largely because people give them hardware for the joy of being known as the hardware that ILM chooses. then people ignore the fact that the reason they choose that hardware is largely based on it being free.
Ties are descendents of napkins. how did they get to be a fashion/power statement?
Suits and Ties are a completely arbitrary fashion statement that someone has decided is the "correct" way to be impressive and important. Look back 20-30 years and see if any of the suits available then, (and considered the 'proper' suit,) would be correct now. (It's worth noting perhaps, that with all the alterations to the design of the suit, lapel width, tie width, single or double breasted etc. that the casual outfit-jeans and a shirt- has remained almost unchanged for decades.)
better yet, look back 100 years and see what the fashions were. I still find it mysterious that with all of the history of clothing, that we have managed to progress to the current suit as being the "corporate image."
I actually had a long running battle with a former employer about my dress, to the point where they offered everybody in my level a $1200 clothing allowance in the hopes that I might buy a suit. Then the company folded, go figure.
(I might consider dressing up if the frock coat ever makes a comeback.)
If you want to go see a good comment/performance on this subject, and you happen to be in the CSU hayward area on the 29th, check out this show. Basic premise, "if we're smart enough to make a robot that can do the dishes, will it be smart enough to find them boring?"
If you're in the Sacramento area, there's a show tonight, (10/28 7pm)
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<disclaimer> I'm related to the performer</disclaimer>
by the same token you won't ever pay for a movie, but you will pay to see it being made?
on behalf of all of us who have ever attempted to work at being a musician, your dedication to helping the musician remain a musician is touching. truly. what do you say to those in the world who are composers? for whom live performance may not be an option? for an extreme example take the guy from I think it was XTC who developed stage fright to such an extent that one of their tours was conducted in radio station studios.
there are a large number of musicians for whom performing is not the primary reason for creating music. Their primary focus is (gasp)to create the music! not re-create it over and over and over again. perhaps your concept of a musician is a band on a stage, jamming for hours, in a club not beholden to ticket master, but that need not be everyone's. the difficulty with a number of the arguments is that as much money that goes to the RIAA with every purchase, there is at least a little bit (not much) that goes back to the musician. I agree whole heartedly that the RIAA does not deserve the percentage of the cost of a recording that they currently get, and even less (or none) should go to them if a reasonable alternative distribution method comes up that will get some remuneration back to the musician.
it is a very depressing thing to be an artist, of any sort, without a method of distribution. It is just as, if not more, depressing to be an artist who cannot afford to spend every waking moment creating that which gives your life meaning.
lastly, and I know this may be hard sell in parts of this community, but as it has been noted over the last couple or so years, it is apparently somewhat difficult to run a successful business based on a product that is inherently free. And unlike software, musicians can not make money on support contracts.
Also bear in mind that bands, especially in small clubs, stand to make about half the gate if they are the headliner, less if there is an opening band. minus transportation costs, roadies, tips, beer, (or something stronger.) Historically, the idea of the tour is TO PROMOTE THE RECORD, not the other way around. especially indie bands on small labels, who are not necessarily beholden to the RIAA or the large labels for distribution yet, and consequently make a bigger fraction of the (somewhat lower) price.
cheers
if I didn't care about the money, I would have just sat in my bedroom with a four-track and sent tapes to my mother...--Bob Dylan (paraphrased)
it's probably worth noting that sony has voluntarily, and probably against better judgement, held up a relatively dead technology for years, supporting legacy software owned by their customers.
who else does that?
this does not mean however that sony is discontinuing betaCAM, which is still the absolute gold standard in video acquisition formats. DV and other sorts of digital video still suck for acquisition due to digital artifacts, which make it impossible to make good composites.
the unpleasant truth is that this is not just a software issue. I have lost out as often for asking for too little as I have for too much. some of the "how to get a job in today's market" books I've been looking at points out that a low asking price shows that (among other things,):
you don't understand the project
you are desperate for the contract
you aren't very good
"you get what you pay for"
you obviously don't understand the market you are playing in
you're obviously not an astute businessman
advertising and college tuitions are other places where this sort of pricing happens. I'm not entirely sure of the motivation there, but I really do wonder what goes through people's minds when they look at a group of contract proposals.
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I could swear that at some previous ST discussion will wheaton was identified as a regular slashdot reader.
has he chimed in here yet?
personal feelings about wesley crusher aside, I would be curious to hear from him, given that the last comment I recall from him was a transcript of a script where every third word was "(tech)"
Times like this I miss babylon 5 and farscape, shows that could actually sustain a story line for more than just a 2 parter. It's a good thing that B5 died when it did though, it was beginning to come apart a bit.
good TV shows and rock stars have a lot in common, they are frequently remembered better when they die too soon.
this may be an obvious point, but whether or not this macaque has any effect on the evolution of its species would only become clear if this particular macaque were eventually judged a good mate by another viable macaque, bred with this other macaque and then had children that it brought up to walk in this otherwise odd way and then this went on long enough for a supporting mutation to occur and be more viable and the actual genetic makeup of the creature changed to reinforce or support the act of walking on hind limbs only, no? (or at least something along those lines...)
Please forgive the long sentence.
As far as the other point someone earlier tried to make about being able to run faster on two legs, it has generally been shown that possible speed is governed by a number of factors, but stride length and weight are major ones. You can get a much longer stride between front and rear limbs than you can just between the two rear limbs. For example the cheetah's great (short term) speed is based more on the length of its back than on the length of its legs.
that said, how long til Nike tries to sign it to an endorsement contract?
note that while the original poster's on topic correction was modded "offtopic" these chicken jokes have, (as yet) not.
curious?
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what's the smiley for a big sigh?
sorry, perhaps I should have been more clear.
as you say, You have the right to TRY and make a profit. you also have the right to gouge for whatever you can get from whatever poor suckers will give you. (unless you control the market in a monopoly, of course. then there are rules;)
the difficulty is that you have a social obligation as a member of a society not to screw over everyone on your way to wealth and fortune. this is the bit that most people forget or don't realize. so here you have a company that has managed to charge enough extra for their product that they now have, what was it, $56 billion?
that means that if they applied that amount of money evenly over every product they ever sold, the software might have been half the price and they still would be a profitable company
did they have a right to do this? most of the time certainly.
did we (as the buying public) have a right to fall for this? also, certainly.
"everyone has the right to make an ass of themself."
maude
no, no, you have a right to profit, but an obligation to civilization not to overdo it.
actually, if you really want to kill Illustrator, the first thing that you would want to implement would be the ability to create multiple pages in a single document...
I grant you that is not a feature that is of grave importance in the web world, but in print, of all the people who I know who use Illustrator, this is definitely one of the biggest gripes. (never quite THE biggest, but always in the top 3-4.)
the most irritating thing about adobe products is that they have very firm lines of demarcation. while photoshop has gained some vector tools and illustrator now comes with all the photoshop filters for rasterized objects, neither can do a multiple page document like say, freehand. In adobe's world you need to have pagemaker, framemaker or indesign to do even a simple multiple page layout.
personally I feel that this is really annoying.
btw, i heard a rumor sometime back that the gimp would gain CMYK tools at some point, is that true? also, one of the biggest failings of the gimp, ( from a usability point of view, especially for someone new to it,) would appear to be the neccessity of double clicking for every tool. since it acts like every window, (toolbox etc.) is a separate application, you need to click once, and then click again to select the tool. this may be an osX eccentricity, if so please correct me.
anyway Inkscape looks delightful so far, I hope they keep it up and remember to put all the good stuff in first. (any chance of a cocoa version?)
cheers all.
talk about voiding a warranty...
bear in mind that there is a precedent set, in texas anyway, that says that you are in fact legally entitled to shoot someone who knocks at your door for tresspassing.
maybe someone can track down the story from about 4 or so years ago, but there was a student of asian extraction, who knocked on a door asking for directions, and was shot by the homeowner. the shooter got off as the student was considered to have been tresspassing.
the plex lives!
long live "american flagg"
howard chaykin you visionary!
michael caine, noel coward, and the greatest car chase of all time, good enough that the car in question had a special edition made with the movie logo on the grill
the movie that made the mini!
I hope the remake doesn't screw it up...
see, now I've used three button mice with AIX, two and three button mice with windows, and one button mice with mac.
I can't see any advantage to having all three buttons on the mouse except to cause repetetive stress injuries faster.
with the ctl and alt buttons on the mac, (laptop I might add,) I have been able to avoid repetetive stress injuries that plagued me as a windows and UNIX user in the past. my wrists thank me for using a mac.
what's your problem? wrist pains got you down???
some of us have better luck with women and cars, but hey, I work for a circus.
cheers!
in the latter, it was the chapter where feynman was asked to serve on a textbook selection comittee. very enlightening. and scary.
the first book is a rather scathing review of a dozen high school history books, how they are written, reviewed and edited, (read scrawled, mauled and gutted.) it's actually almost painful to read as you realize how much more interesting history class would have been had they just told you ALL of the facts.
I just wish they had put some of this money into another season of farscape...
the san francisco chronicle is reporting the possibility of a sprite lightning strike.
/ 20 03/02/07/MN200326.DTL
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a
I don't know if it is just cosmic irony or what, but the lower banner ad on this story when I first looked, said "get Microsoft behind your business..."
did someone plan that?
the only thing that they have said that they are going to do in 2003 is to finish broadcasting season 4...
from working two years trying to sell a piece of technology to the members of the entertainment industry, I have come to realize that there is no group more interested in getting something for nothing than the entertainment industry.
as a result, I'm not at all surprised to find OSS in the major studios, being used to create stuff.
places like ILM exist successfully largely because people give them hardware for the joy of being known as the hardware that ILM chooses. then people ignore the fact that the reason they choose that hardware is largely based on it being free.
I must say I'm dissappointed to see that there's no pcmcia version for laptops... (or would firewire be more appropriate? iLink?)
Ties are descendents of napkins. how did they get to be a fashion/power statement?
Suits and Ties are a completely arbitrary fashion statement that someone has decided is the "correct" way to be impressive and important. Look back 20-30 years and see if any of the suits available then, (and considered the 'proper' suit,) would be correct now. (It's worth noting perhaps, that with all the alterations to the design of the suit, lapel width, tie width, single or double breasted etc. that the casual outfit-jeans and a shirt- has remained almost unchanged for decades.)
better yet, look back 100 years and see what the fashions were. I still find it mysterious that with all of the history of clothing, that we have managed to progress to the current suit as being the "corporate image."
I actually had a long running battle with a former employer about my dress, to the point where they offered everybody in my level a $1200 clothing allowance in the hopes that I might buy a suit. Then the company folded, go figure.
(I might consider dressing up if the frock coat ever makes a comeback.)
If you want to go see a good comment/performance on this subject, and you happen to be in the CSU hayward area on the 29th, check out this show. Basic premise, "if we're smart enough to make a robot that can do the dishes, will it be smart enough to find them boring?"
If you're in the Sacramento area, there's a show tonight, (10/28 7pm)
</shameless plug>
<disclaimer> I'm related to the performer</disclaimer>
everybody here, of course, remembers that, historically, the "southern democrat" held all the power of the south, and Lincoln was a republican.
The roles have certainly changed (well appeared to change,) over the years, but the southern democrat still exists.
it makes me tempted to register as a whig.
by the same token you won't ever pay for a movie, but you will pay to see it being made?
on behalf of all of us who have ever attempted to work at being a musician, your dedication to helping the musician remain a musician is touching. truly.
what do you say to those in the world who are composers? for whom live performance may not be an option? for an extreme example take the guy from I think it was XTC who developed stage fright to such an extent that one of their tours was conducted in radio station studios.
there are a large number of musicians for whom performing is not the primary reason for creating music. Their primary focus is (gasp)to create the music! not re-create it over and over and over again. perhaps your concept of a musician is a band on a stage, jamming for hours, in a club not beholden to ticket master, but that need not be everyone's. the difficulty with a number of the arguments is that as much money that goes to the RIAA with every purchase, there is at least a little bit (not much) that goes back to the musician. I agree whole heartedly that the RIAA does not deserve the percentage of the cost of a recording that they currently get, and even less (or none) should go to them if a reasonable alternative distribution method comes up that will get some remuneration back to the musician.
it is a very depressing thing to be an artist, of any sort, without a method of distribution. It is just as, if not more, depressing to be an artist who cannot afford to spend every waking moment creating that which gives your life meaning.
lastly, and I know this may be hard sell in parts of this community, but as it has been noted over the last couple or so years, it is apparently somewhat difficult to run a successful business based on a product that is inherently free. And unlike software, musicians can not make money on support contracts.
Also bear in mind that bands, especially in small clubs, stand to make about half the gate if they are the headliner, less if there is an opening band. minus transportation costs, roadies, tips, beer, (or something stronger.) Historically, the idea of the tour is TO PROMOTE THE RECORD, not the other way around. especially indie bands on small labels, who are not necessarily beholden to the RIAA or the large labels for distribution yet, and consequently make a bigger fraction of the (somewhat lower) price.
cheers
if I didn't care about the money, I would have just sat in my bedroom with a four-track and sent tapes to my mother...--Bob Dylan (paraphrased)
what with the mini, the beetle, and the fact that Ford marketing is mentioning the T, I'm actually expecting a new version in the next year or so.
it's probably worth noting that sony has voluntarily, and probably against better judgement, held up a relatively dead technology for years, supporting legacy software owned by their customers.
who else does that?
this does not mean however that sony is discontinuing betaCAM, which is still the absolute gold standard in video acquisition formats. DV and other sorts of digital video still suck for acquisition due to digital artifacts, which make it impossible to make good composites.
advertising and college tuitions are other places where this sort of pricing happens. I'm not entirely sure of the motivation there, but I really do wonder what goes through people's minds when they look at a group of contract proposals.