You and I are both cyclists. We both own the same bike with the same user-friendly, "just works" components. You take your bike to the bike store for servicing. I do all my own work in my house. You prefer someone else get grease under their fingernails. I like getting my hands dirty.
that religion was introduced in ancient times as a deterrent against perceived immoral/harmful behavior
Religion, or, more properly, a belief in the numinous, is one of the oldest and most enduring of human endeavors. The drawings in the caves at Lascaux, France (~35,000 BCE) are religious and numinous in meaning, and signs of religious belief can be found among our Neanderthal ancestors, which go back as far as ~150,000 years BCE.
The Koran was written in the Arabic of the Fifth Century BCE, which is considerably different from the written and spoken Arabic of today. Furthermore, the Koran is written in a highly poetic, highly eliptical form of that Arabic, making it difficult to understand for the average Arabic speaker.
Bought a Powerbook G3 (Firewire) - the Pismo - in February 0f 2000, didn't get the extended warranty. Four months after I got it Apple diagnosed a problem with the machine which required it to be sent back to them for repair, which it did with no problems - there and back in four days with no cost to me. The only other problem I've had with the machine was the DVD drive going flaky about a year ago. I bought one for $50 from a guy who had replaced his DVD drive with a DVD/CD-R combo drive and swapped out the flaky one in ten minutes. No problems since.
So, in other words, I haven't needed any extended warranty. My experience may have been influenced by that fact that the Pismo was the last of the black-bodied Powerbooks, and Apple had been working the bugs out of that model for two years.
Not in the least. There are plenty of people now who are seriously pushing for permanent copyrights. They want to still be making money from their works thousands of years from now. It'll hurt people in the future if we make such a stupid mistake now, just as it would hurt us now if our ancestors had made such a stupid mistake in their time.
Ah - now we're on the same page. I had interpreted your earlier comment as completely anti-copyright. I agree with you on this point.
No, they don't. That would amazingly disasterous for society. Imagine if we were still paying the descendents of the guy that invented fire, or the wheel, or the letter 'e' -- they did hard work doing that stuff, and your stupid argument is perfectly applicable to them.
This is a straw man, and not applicable to the point at hand.
The better solution is that they can have whatever people choose to give them. We don't give artists a copyright because they deserve it. We give it to them because it suits _our_ purposes to give it to them. If it didn't, they wouldn't get it. When they do get it, the idea is that they'll play right into our hands and leave us better off than if we hadn't bothered. If artists happen to profit or not profit, that's irrelevant, except for insofar as it has an impact on everyone generally.
It is fascinating that you see artists as somehow different from you. I do not understand this point of view. You seem to imply that artists should be grateful to receive any compensation for their work, and that their work is somehow not as important as the work of "other" people. Is this what you are saying?
Her point was that the experience of trying to use BuyMusic.com was bad enough to make her use the competing product when it becomes available. She was commenting on their implementation of this idea, not any of the stuff you said.
BTW: "info" is "real, tangible property" when that "info" consists of a unique creative work someone took their time to create. Such a person deserves to be compensated for that work just as much as do you for working your job.
I've been going for the past few years. This the narrow focus took a lot of the fun out of it for me: no greasy hands on the G5s, no games, so small companies with some seriously cool software. I don't want to stand around while some guy pitches FCP or Avid at me: if I want to check out some software, I will check it out on my own.
Guess I gotta go to the Apple Store in SoHo to dirty up a G5.
Having used Photoshop since 1.0 came out, I call bullshit. 1.0 is primitive compared to even 5.0 - no layers, primitive color controls, limited support for multiple color spaces, etc. I would be surprised if anyone is using 1.0 for anything other than a xeroxed newsletter.
I see you are more proficient with sarcasm than with logic, although this doesn't say much for either ability.
IBM grafted AltiVec onto the PPC970 specifically at Apple's request. There was no need for them to do this for their established markets. Apple and IBM worked closely together to tailor this chip for Apple's new desktops, as Moto obviously sucks major ass.
I hate to be a ballbreaker, but the PPC970 was designed as a server/workstation chip also
Hate to break your balls, ballbreaker, but the PPC970 is NOT a server chip. It is based on the POWER4, which is definitely a server ship, but was significantly re-engineered to make it work as a desktop chip. Had the re-regineering not been been necessary, Apple could've just popped POWER4s in their machines years ago. Although you will see Apple market it in the XServe, this is no different than people using the P4 in servers.
Both Dune movies were disappointing in their own rights. The first made a mess of the story and threw out H.R. Giger's brilliant art direction. The second was a made for TV melodrama, and it showed.
Most vector graphics are done on the PC, using Photoshop or some paired down software.
Photoshop has very limited support for vector graphics. It is, however, the premier program for the creation and editing of bitmap graphics. Vector graphics are handled by Illustrator and Freehand. Furthermore, in fifteen years in the design/production/pre-press industry, I have seen only one company which was not Mac-based. If you're not Mac-proficient, you won't work in that field.
Anyone i know in professional video editing these days have been WinTel in the past two years, justifying their transition from Mac to Intel by "Premiere works the same on both".
Then you don't know anyone who really does this for a living. My ex-girlfriend is an Avid editor, my best friend is a film maker. Everyone I know in the industry is Mac-based, using either Avid or, more and more, FCP. Apple has something like 70% of this market, and if you work around New York you will almost never see a Wintel system. Premiere is used by home hobbyists or very small businesses who need to pop out a simple, cheap video once and a while.
The relative merits of Freehand and Illustrator aside, Illustrator owns the vector-based drawing market, despite increasingly crappy programming from Adobe.
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Why? Just cause.
As an ex-general, Ike knew the dangers of limitations of military power.
Religion, or, more properly, a belief in the numinous, is one of the oldest and most enduring of human endeavors. The drawings in the caves at Lascaux, France (~35,000 BCE) are religious and numinous in meaning, and signs of religious belief can be found among our Neanderthal ancestors, which go back as far as ~150,000 years BCE.
The Koran was written in the Arabic of the Fifth Century BCE, which is considerably different from the written and spoken Arabic of today. Furthermore, the Koran is written in a highly poetic, highly eliptical form of that Arabic, making it difficult to understand for the average Arabic speaker.
is just silly. English has had no zenith: it is in a constant process of development and change.
So, in other words, I haven't needed any extended warranty. My experience may have been influenced by that fact that the Pismo was the last of the black-bodied Powerbooks, and Apple had been working the bugs out of that model for two years.
YMMV.
Ah - now we're on the same page. I had interpreted your earlier comment as completely anti-copyright. I agree with you on this point.
This is a straw man, and not applicable to the point at hand.
It is fascinating that you see artists as somehow different from you. I do not understand this point of view. You seem to imply that artists should be grateful to receive any compensation for their work, and that their work is somehow not as important as the work of "other" people. Is this what you are saying?
BTW: "info" is "real, tangible property" when that "info" consists of a unique creative work someone took their time to create. Such a person deserves to be compensated for that work just as much as do you for working your job.
Dude, I don't know why you're having the problems you're having, but I have never had so much as a hiccup from the iTMS.
who don't care if their 2G iPods can use On the Fly Playlists, or whatever. I don't even use playlists.
All the music I've bought from the iTMS are on my iPod. I don't think they would be effected if I travelled.
Guess I gotta go to the Apple Store in SoHo to dirty up a G5.
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Having used Photoshop since 1.0 came out, I call bullshit. 1.0 is primitive compared to even 5.0 - no layers, primitive color controls, limited support for multiple color spaces, etc. I would be surprised if anyone is using 1.0 for anything other than a xeroxed newsletter.
As sands through the hourglass, these are the trolls of our lives. . .
IBM grafted AltiVec onto the PPC970 specifically at Apple's request. There was no need for them to do this for their established markets. Apple and IBM worked closely together to tailor this chip for Apple's new desktops, as Moto obviously sucks major ass.
Hate to break your balls, ballbreaker, but the PPC970 is NOT a server chip. It is based on the POWER4, which is definitely a server ship, but was significantly re-engineered to make it work as a desktop chip. Had the re-regineering not been been necessary, Apple could've just popped POWER4s in their machines years ago. Although you will see Apple market it in the XServe, this is no different than people using the P4 in servers.
Huh?
Long live the Harkonnen Chair!
If you didn't spend so much of time your time playing video games, you'd have an entire life.
You wanna disprove me, post a link.
Photoshop has very limited support for vector graphics. It is, however, the premier program for the creation and editing of bitmap graphics. Vector graphics are handled by Illustrator and Freehand. Furthermore, in fifteen years in the design/production/pre-press industry, I have seen only one company which was not Mac-based. If you're not Mac-proficient, you won't work in that field.
Then you don't know anyone who really does this for a living. My ex-girlfriend is an Avid editor, my best friend is a film maker. Everyone I know in the industry is Mac-based, using either Avid or, more and more, FCP. Apple has something like 70% of this market, and if you work around New York you will almost never see a Wintel system. Premiere is used by home hobbyists or very small businesses who need to pop out a simple, cheap video once and a while.
The relative merits of Freehand and Illustrator aside, Illustrator owns the vector-based drawing market, despite increasingly crappy programming from Adobe.
You dare speak to the king of thread drift?
I'm sure T3 sucks. T2 was a flaming pile of shit after T1.