They don't have this strange, abstract, dualistic notion of objective people. It's a ludicrous notion anyway.
I would suggest to you that this is only a first step in a very long process. I think this meeting is probably not intended to make any decisions. If it is a first step, they are probably just investigating. The "decision makers" probably aren't even at the meeting.
I have no idea of the actual composition of this meeting, but I would be surprised if representatives were present when a decision is made. It will probably happen when everyone agrees in private and nobody is sticking their neck (read: career) out.
If a guy drops a dollar in a beggars plate and goes to remove ten dollars as change, the beggar has every right to throw the dollar back in their face.
These people are NOT beggars. MICROSOFT APPROACHED THEM WITH SPONSORSHIP of a school program. They alrady have a functioning system running superior products.
They were giving Microsoft a chance to SHOWCASE MS technology in the hopes of demonstrating that Microsoft had a viable alternative, and as it turned out, Microsofts alternative was a con. There's a surprise!
I hope this is useful. I am not a useful programmer yet. The best I can offer you is the absolute minimum that I would need from a 3D modelling package before I could use it.
I am your 3D architectural design market. If you have any questions, I'd love to help.
1. An efficient and easy to manage object/group heirachy, that would allow the inheritance of a wide range of object properties from the group. min: materiality, visibility, snapability (snapping funtions are assumed), selection and line type/colour. This is a core modelling interface for anything more complicated than a chair. I would spend as much time on designing this as the modelling window interface. Everything else will REALLY only be accessed using hotkeys. I like the Gimps easy hotkey modification. It doesn't take too long to change them to photoshop defaults.
2. Object creation and editing at a range of geometry levels. Creation of solids, faces, lines and points in an intuitive way (an active plane and object snaps). Selection, deletion, translation, copying and insertion of geometry at all of these object levels.
note: I don't use nurbs or patches much, so ask someone else about control points and such. I understand that Maya has one of the most intuitive models for this.
3. Intuitive view creation, saving, switching and interpolation using a choice of cones of vision or camera to splines.
4. Viewports should be separate from the active plains to allow the editing of the model in a perspectival wireframe interface instead of some archaic three pane orthographic design system.
5. Easy creation, sharing and use of external objects or blocks.
note: If these could be scriptable to take key dimensions and co-ordinates from objects in the model, then this could also be a great model for complex object insertion tools. The scriptable blocks could have an interface of required points, paths, or whatever.
note: If these could be web accessible, it would be awesome for project development teams
6. An amazing raytraced rendering engine, a shadow mapping engine, a shader (openGL) and wireframe/hide engines (hide with line weights to postscript would be devastating). I advise using a range of external rendering engines. If these renderings could be converted into a range of video formats on the fly, it would be great.
note: Things like motion blur, super sampling, film grain and depth blur would be great too. Relating this to film cameras in the dialog boxes would be great too as these things are essentially imitating the clients past experiences of 2D AV to make it "real".
7. Whilst this is clearly intended as a modelling project, I would need either an easy way to take plans, elevations and sections out of a model (If these could be dynamically updatable then great. Viewports with clipping planes on the cones of vision would be a great way to do this) or to export it to a package that is able to do this.
note: If it's internal, then simple relational dimensioning (refer external object note above) and drafting tools (offset, bevel, clip to line/plane/extension etc) would be needed. This would allow the documentation to be a part of the model.
note: If documentation is internal then additional FLEXIBLE object data would be usefull for engineering calculations of loads (density) bills of quantity (cost per meter squared/cubed)
8. A practical note, a tool for making solid terrains from contours (or IGES points.)
9. Really good boolean operators.
With the exception of the external objects/blocks, projects like Blender do not have these features. I am a designer. I understand some programming principals, but I repeat, I am not a programmer. If you would find me useful in this capacity, then let me know.
p.s. for me a simple xml based file format with an internal binary format for speed would be cool, and would allow a grunt CAD jockey like me to play with the code. Most of us undersand HTML as a basic professional skill. XML isn't a big jump at all. It would also make the file format strictly formatted, unlike dxf, dwg, 3ds, max, and others.
Yes there are some people who are genuinely xenophobic. The guys in black trucks with loudspeakes saying that foreigners (gaijin) are destroying Japan are a good example.
They are xenophobic
Some people physically shake when you speak to them. Some shop staff run away from you in shops.
They are just scared of speaking English. They usually assume that I only speak English)
Other people want to practice their English with you. They seem very genuine, often for a long time.
Some people are genuinely nice. Treat you like a human being instead of a curiosity and are able to be civil and kind. These people have usually travelled or lived overseas.
But my experience of MOST businessmen and A FEW women in Tokyo is that they are perhaps a little xenophobic, but mostly they are just REALLY CHILDISH AND FUCKING RUDE!
People in the country are usually much more polite, and much less cut throat. They are also more likely to fall into the shaking or eager to speak to a foreigner baskets.
Actually he started the whole mess by saying:
Take a look at the total absence of foreigners from western European countries.
Oh, I see. This comment must have been edited by my bullshit exageration auto-filter. I consciously joined the string a little later with his perception that he didn't know anyone who had moved from Western Europe recently. This is not such a strong statement of fact.
Washington stablised returns on investment for US companies in South (not latin) American countries long before the 1980s. After WWII, the USA found itself in by far the most dominant economic possition of any country (some say in history). You then shaped world economic and political structures in your favour, did you not? (Interesting asside: have a listen to Eisenhower's fairwell address. What a guy)
I would put it to you that India's economy and industries were destroyed by GB long before they had the ability to form independent policy. Hasn't the "UNITED" states of "AMERICA" had a similarly imperial approach to 'free trade' as the British Empire as of late my "AMERICAN" compadre?
Australia is also not unknown for trade tarrifs, but America is and has been one of the most protectionistic countries on earth in any industry where you are not going to K.O. all comers, most notably during the Regan administration! You have been K.O.ing South American industries for more than ten or twenty years. Why DID they TRY to protect growing markets? Yeah it didn't work for them, but it worked quite well for your aeronautical and computing industries. The Asian miracle didn't come from open markets either. ARGUEABLY the East Asian economic CRISIS was contributed to BY openning markets (and your IMF).
South American industry has a hard time surviving long enough to develop economies of scale. I guess that's what comes from living next to a 'shining city on a hill':-)
p.s. They also lacked East Asian and North American business accumen.
p.p.s. Yeah, It's a little concerning when the hawks are the voice of restraint in an administration. Rumsfeld is the guy who freaks me out. He should be committed along with our foreign minister. If you want a good laugh, look into the life of the Honourable Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer. The name says it all!
His OPINION was that the number of people coming to America from western Europe appeared to have DECREASED markedly as of late. I fail to see how this is not supported by those figures. Please enlighten me.
Re: South America, yes they were shafted by an old, barbaric, imperialistic, European colonial power. Many of these economic policies (where they opened their markets in accordance with the Washington Concensus (This is probably what you studied in economics)) has not helped them to improve the lifestyle of the general populace.
The propensity of the US government, to remove democratically elected governments that favour the interests of their own people, and replace them with authoritarian governments that favour the ability of American companies to strip profits from their countries as efficiently as possible, does not assist the South American continent in developing themselves. Perhaps manifest destiny is still running strong and true in US internal policy:-)
Yeah, Iraq. I was being a little playful with that one. It's a shame you didn't go for the bait. On the one hand, the motivation of Mr Bush (The oil industry sell out you have for a president) is questionable, (the Russians have made it pretty clear that if your guys move in, wack up a new _.gov & grab the oil, they will be pretty pissed, as they have pretty strong debt based claims in the region. Next in line is probably the French, as I understand it.) On the other hand, you guys helped make Saddam, maybe you should help fix him too.:-)
It's a bit hard to get anything from Murdoch or Packer here in Japan. I wish I could say I was disapointed. I will grant that many of the rants around are not so well informed. This occurs on both sides.
Many of the criticisms come from referied work originating inside the USA about countries where their own problems are the USA. South America is an interesting case in point.
My first point was simply that your evidence did not support the claims in your post as well as they did the opinions of the person you sought to bag.
MY second point was that you shouldn't be pointing fingers at anyone (arguably not even Iraq (there's a little bait for your next post)).
West Europe, Oz, NZ, CA, and, yes, the US are all pretty good places to live and work. Each has their own unique advantages and disadvantages and none is really any better than another.
Thank you. I ask you to note that these antiUS diatribes, as you put it, come in response to one of two things:
1. a statement explaining why the USA is the best country on earth, the land of the free, the home of the brave (I'll give you that one), the worlds police force (rather than their greatest theives), and just the hottest shit that everyone wants to be
or
2. a statement/news article that blatantly ignores the existence of a world outside the USA.
The next time you see a string of these diatribes, look to the statement that trigered them and try to understand that these people are trying to change the world view of an ignorant hick.
p.s. Yes Aussie police / ASIO are not our best & finest or most competent. I don't approve of child pornography either, Yes, there are reasons from our past as to why we won't ratify the genocide conventions, yes we have racist ignorant fucks too (our PM is a sterling example), and yes we favour people who seek refugee status legitimately instead of trying to jump the que. By the way, the incidence of health problems by socio-economic group is more to do with lifestyle, and less to do with our public health system, (which is getting weaker as our fucking idiot of a P.M. makes our health system more and more like yours (without all the bribes your pollies get)). I fully recognise that our present government has taken us from being world leaders in most socio/politico/environmental agenda to being near the bottom, second only to your great nation.
p.p.s. What's your point? Do you seriously want a list of references finding negative points of the USA's existence in the world? Maybe a CD would be more practicle than a post.
Thank you for providing evidence to demonstrate how wrong you are. The fact that "Temporary Workers, FY 1996:", "Lowest Pct. Naturalized:" and "Immigration, 1820-1996:" were the only sections where Western Europeans featured strongly. The UK featured in many places and in your arguement, but they are quite note worthy for their absolute abuse of their health, education and wellfare systems under Ms. Thatcher. She was possibly more destructive than her contemporary Mr. Regan.
You mentioned unemployment levels. I don't accept jobs below a living wage as fully employed. Unemployed people in western Europe are not going to die of hunger. Their children will be educated. They and their families will get medical attention when they get sick, and when their children graduate from university, they can go and get a better job than their parents could have had.
I am Australian. We don't earn as much in absolute value. We pay much more tax if we aren't company owners and finding investment capital is a bitch. On the other hand, our standard of living is much better in most areas in real terms.
Oh, people also go to the USA on holiday, so they know what they are not choosing. Maybe you should do the same.
or are you serious, because it sounds to me like your serious.
perhaps I'm being a little harsh. Some of your points are quite valid. People should have the right to what they create. The German model of inalienable copyright for the creator is perhaps the best reflection of this idea in my opinion. I think that the INTERNATIONAL model for patents is significantly more in keeping with their original intention of avoiding an second dark age by targeting trade secrets. (I hope you are familiar with the dark ages as something other than a figure of speech)
The humerous aspect of your post is the suggestion that this intelectual property gig is somehow something unique to the USA. The only thing special about IP law in america is that (as per the usual) it favours your companies over your people. It's nice that America is starting to address this rights issue, but suggesting that it somehow makes the USA special is funny. At least I hope it was supposed to be funny. Otherwise it's just sad.
It seems to me, (From looking at the screenshots:-) that a great deal of her objections seem to come from having no concept of the situations in which these screens may come to be presented to the user.
If I want to remove glibc then of course there will be one or two dependency issues. This screen is just showing that if the humble user does decide to remove glibc then they will be told that it would break a LOT of stuff in their box. They have three options. if they ignore a warning like that then... they should expect a lot of things to be broken in their box. It tells the new user to go back and try again and gives the 'power user' a nice overview of how messed up their system would be if they ever trashed glibc.
I think that despite her claims she is no 'power user'. She demonstrates how completely incapable people are of seeing the virtues of something when they have sold out to the competition.
I am no power user, but I can see that she is far from it (VERY FAR).
p.s. when you are installing linux you don't have to deal with these scary dependancy issues unless you want to. Even if you do a custom install and have conflicts in your installation, you just press a button and they are all magically resolved for you. I think someone said something about her being bitter because she couldn't install gentoo. Maybe she hasn't installed Redhat either. No wonder she has to use the screen shots.
Cindy isn't paying for the shoot. The magazine is paying for the shoot, and they are paying the photographer a LOT of money for his/her technical skill.
If they want to own the negative of a one of a kind photograph of Cindy getting her toe sucked in a pool they will pay an obscene amount of money.
If you want to buy the negatives, buy the negatives. If you want to buy the prints, buy the prints. The photographer is supplying a number of services. These services are not just the click of a button on an expensive camera. These services cost them time and money to provide, and they need to recoup these costs. Photographers need to eat too and unless they are getting photographs of Cindy's toe, they aren't making much money.
Most photographers take photographs for the joy of it too. Imagine if people offered you a coding job where they only paid you for the time you spent asking for the project brief, and not for the coding, or the debugging, or for the maintenance of your equipment and that they decided you should debug their program for free because their ignorance tells them code should be perfect first time. What if they asked for a new feature and want that to be coded for free too. What would YOU do. They would probably walk away thinking you were a crook taking advantage of them in a difficult situation.
You will probably say that this is different, and yes they are different industries. The similarity is that they stem from a misunderstanding of the reality of working in the industry involved. If someone asks you to make a chair, and you do, that doesn't give them the rights to your working drawings for the chair, and the rights to the future reproduction of the chair. It's the same thing. It's from the age of mechanical reproduction, but so is the profession of photography on film. If you want a new business model, make it.
Option 3, make copyright a non transferable possession of the actual artists and base redistribution requirements upon suitable referencing of the original artists/creators
Result:creators alone have rights to claim what they create as a possession. Freedom is maintained, owners of IP houses have nervous breakdown, the Great Beast (us) lives happily ever after.
Some people (a lot of Germans apparently) have been using gaming engines to make movies quickly and easily. Perhaps you could output frames from something like that to a cluster server running lots of little povrays. WOW! THAT would be cool. Even if it wasn't a cluster, you could render an 8 min raytraced animation in a small office overnight.
Perhaps they could have an OS short film industry. NOW THAT WOULD FREAK OUT THE RIAA!
The second biggest internet using country is I think Korea, Certainly for high speed connections they are number two. Here in jp I get 8M ADSL flat rate always on for 5000 yen a month and saying that people in EU/US have more money is REALLY REALLY REALLY general. Go to Singapore or Hong Kong or Tokyo and say that again. The suburb in Tokyo where I work about one in five women have a GENUINE LV bag (only about 400,000 yen for a handbag.)
I bought a cdrom drive for my powerbook 1400 to replace the floppy drive. It had a three month waranty and broke after four months. I have had similar reliability issues with some aspect of the hardware of every mac I have encountered. No doubt I will be told that there are perfect macs and that pcs have errors too, but if the mac hardware has a problem, you have no choice of vendor. Hope that nothing goes wrong with mac DVD because they don't want to support any other supplier. For the difference in cost you may be able to get an extra year or two of service.
Mac socialises its users very well as to the party line. Speaking as someone who has switched, Mac is evil. They fight hard to decomoditise hardware, software and network protocols. GET A DELL.
I think perhaps we are having a linguistic disagreement on many issues.
I'm not saying the philosophy of the coding of the GUI is bad. Of course you model with one hand on the keyboard. Some elements of the GUI make it unusable with modern modelling techniques. THIS is my problem with blender. The GUI is archaic because it only streamlines archaic modelling techniques and so cannot efficiently produce big models. It seems to be more focussed on animation.
I think that Blender is amazing and has a great deal of potential. When I say that it cannot support big/complex files I am not refering to its program structures. I am refering to its user interface. It seems to be well suited to the development of small characters or furniture but it lacks a few things needed for fast development of big/complex files, most notably:
1. separate the co-ordinate system from the viewpoint. (This will require some very difficult mapping with possibly very big numbers in perspective towards the horizon). The grid that is already there for the absolute co-ordinate system could be used to mark the active co-ordinate system. It could easily be set to automatically change the co-ordinate system to the viewpoint's plane for authographic views to allow older style 3D modelers and people who think in 2D to keep using the four pane system.
2. Fix/make the layer structure. (Perhaps merge it with the object hierachy pane from the main window) If you want to unhide a building, unhide the building's group . If you want to texture map every piece of timber in the building then select the timber group. If you want to switch off snapping for the timber wall framing, swith it off and if you want to move the nogging between all of the studs in the building, then select that. This for me is the primary function of a layer/object/group structure. If multiple group structures were possible, then that would be cool but the tools for doing this efficiently don't exist. I have maintained a dual heirachy (Layer and group) for a number of models and it's a head fuck. (a very usefull head fuck when it comes to documentation.) Make it automatically structure the object heirachy in a usable manner that can be viewed in a THIN window and it'll be fantastic.
I hold these to be BIG problems with elements of the GUI
Fixing the button pane somehow is just to make the thing more convenient, It doesn't actually prevent using the program for big models. I suggested perhaps by running it vertically or putting it into dialogs (That can be moved onto other monitors). It is annoying on small monitors and laptops to have to resize the button box to see all of the buttons. I remember using little monitors at Uni. Not everyone has a 21 inch monitor. Even on a 21" monitor, people usually like big view windows.
Fix these two elements and blender will be usable. I repeat, blender has the potential to be fantastic. At the moment it's a bit like writing an OS in fortran.
p.s. perhaps saying MAX is "low end" was a little cheeky:-)
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This isn't America, ya'll
They don't have this strange, abstract, dualistic notion of objective people. It's a ludicrous notion anyway.
I would suggest to you that this is only a first step in a very long process. I think this meeting is probably not intended to make any decisions. If it is a first step, they are probably just investigating. The "decision makers" probably aren't even at the meeting.
I have no idea of the actual composition of this meeting, but I would be surprised if representatives were present when a decision is made. It will probably happen when everyone agrees in private and nobody is sticking their neck (read: career) out.
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If a guy drops a dollar in a beggars plate and goes to remove ten dollars as change, the beggar has every right to throw the dollar back in their face.
These people are NOT beggars. MICROSOFT APPROACHED THEM WITH SPONSORSHIP of a school program. They alrady have a functioning system running superior products.
They were giving Microsoft a chance to SHOWCASE MS technology in the hopes of demonstrating that Microsoft had a viable alternative, and as it turned out, Microsofts alternative was a con. There's a surprise!
I am your 3D architectural design market. If you have any questions, I'd love to help.
1. An efficient and easy to manage object/group heirachy, that would allow the inheritance of a wide range of object properties from the group. min: materiality, visibility, snapability (snapping funtions are assumed), selection and line type/colour. This is a core modelling interface for anything more complicated than a chair. I would spend as much time on designing this as the modelling window interface. Everything else will REALLY only be accessed using hotkeys. I like the Gimps easy hotkey modification. It doesn't take too long to change them to photoshop defaults.
2. Object creation and editing at a range of geometry levels. Creation of solids, faces, lines and points in an intuitive way (an active plane and object snaps). Selection, deletion, translation, copying and insertion of geometry at all of these object levels.
3. Intuitive view creation, saving, switching and interpolation using a choice of cones of vision or camera to splines.
4. Viewports should be separate from the active plains to allow the editing of the model in a perspectival wireframe interface instead of some archaic three pane orthographic design system.
5. Easy creation, sharing and use of external objects or blocks.
6. An amazing raytraced rendering engine, a shadow mapping engine, a shader (openGL) and wireframe/hide engines (hide with line weights to postscript would be devastating). I advise using a range of external rendering engines. If these renderings could be converted into a range of video formats on the fly, it would be great.
7. Whilst this is clearly intended as a modelling project, I would need either an easy way to take plans, elevations and sections out of a model (If these could be dynamically updatable then great. Viewports with clipping planes on the cones of vision would be a great way to do this) or to export it to a package that is able to do this.
8. A practical note, a tool for making solid terrains from contours (or IGES points.)
9. Really good boolean operators.
With the exception of the external objects/blocks, projects like Blender do not have these features. I am a designer. I understand some programming principals, but I repeat, I am not a programmer. If you would find me useful in this capacity, then let me know.
p.s. for me a simple xml based file format with an internal binary format for speed would be cool, and would allow a grunt CAD jockey like me to play with the code. Most of us undersand HTML as a basic professional skill. XML isn't a big jump at all. It would also make the file format strictly formatted, unlike dxf, dwg, 3ds, max, and others.
Yes there are some people who are genuinely xenophobic. The guys in black trucks with loudspeakes saying that foreigners (gaijin) are destroying Japan are a good example.
They are xenophobic
Some people physically shake when you speak to them.
Some shop staff run away from you in shops.
They are just scared of speaking English. They usually assume that I only speak English)
Other people want to practice their English with you.
They seem very genuine, often for a long time.
Some people are genuinely nice. Treat you like a human being instead of a curiosity and are able to be civil and kind. These people have usually travelled or lived overseas.
But my experience of MOST businessmen and A FEW women in Tokyo is that they are perhaps a little xenophobic, but mostly they are just REALLY CHILDISH AND FUCKING RUDE!
People in the country are usually much more polite, and much less cut throat. They are also more likely to fall into the shaking or eager to speak to a foreigner baskets.
Actually in_.jp it'll probably be more like 60G.
At least that's what the DoCoMo FOMA 3G phones cost.
Can someone explain why the FOMA phones don't meet the 3G standard?
They seem to make the same bandwidth requirements. I fail to see whats new about this. Is it the multitasking?
Oh, I see. This comment must have been edited by my bullshit exageration auto-filter. I consciously joined the string a little later with his perception that he didn't know anyone who had moved from Western Europe recently. This is not such a strong statement of fact.
Washington stablised returns on investment for US companies in South (not latin) American countries long before the 1980s. After WWII, the USA found itself in by far the most dominant economic possition of any country (some say in history). You then shaped world economic and political structures in your favour, did you not? (Interesting asside: have a listen to Eisenhower's fairwell address. What a guy)
I would put it to you that India's economy and industries were destroyed by GB long before they had the ability to form independent policy. Hasn't the "UNITED" states of "AMERICA" had a similarly imperial approach to 'free trade' as the British Empire as of late my "AMERICAN" compadre?
Australia is also not unknown for trade tarrifs, but America is and has been one of the most protectionistic countries on earth in any industry where you are not going to K.O. all comers, most notably during the Regan administration! You have been K.O.ing South American industries for more than ten or twenty years. Why DID they TRY to protect growing markets? Yeah it didn't work for them, but it worked quite well for your aeronautical and computing industries. The Asian miracle didn't come from open markets either. ARGUEABLY the East Asian economic CRISIS was contributed to BY openning markets (and your IMF).
South American industry has a hard time surviving long enough to develop economies of scale. I guess that's what comes from living next to a 'shining city on a hill':-)
p.s. They also lacked East Asian and North American business accumen.
p.p.s. Yeah, It's a little concerning when the hawks are the voice of restraint in an administration. Rumsfeld is the guy who freaks me out. He should be committed along with our foreign minister. If you want a good laugh, look into the life of the Honourable Minister for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Downer. The name says it all!
His OPINION was that the number of people coming to America from western Europe appeared to have DECREASED markedly as of late. I fail to see how this is not supported by those figures. Please enlighten me.
:-)
Re: South America, yes they were shafted by an old, barbaric, imperialistic, European colonial power. Many of these economic policies (where they opened their markets in accordance with the Washington Concensus (This is probably what you studied in economics)) has not helped them to improve the lifestyle of the general populace.
The propensity of the US government, to remove democratically elected governments that favour the interests of their own people, and replace them with authoritarian governments that favour the ability of American companies to strip profits from their countries as efficiently as possible, does not assist the South American continent in developing themselves. Perhaps manifest destiny is still running strong and true in US internal policy
Yeah, Iraq. I was being a little playful with that one. It's a shame you didn't go for the bait. On the one hand, the motivation of Mr Bush (The oil industry sell out you have for a president) is questionable, (the Russians have made it pretty clear that if your guys move in, wack up a new _.gov & grab the oil, they will be pretty pissed, as they have pretty strong debt based claims in the region. Next in line is probably the French, as I understand it.) On the other hand, you guys helped make Saddam, maybe you should help fix him too.:-)
Good luck with your Co.
It's a bit hard to get anything from Murdoch or Packer here in Japan. I wish I could say I was disapointed. I will grant that many of the rants around are not so well informed. This occurs on both sides.
:-) :-) :-)
Many of the criticisms come from referied work originating inside the USA about countries where their own problems are the USA. South America is an interesting case in point.
My first point was simply that your evidence did not support the claims in your post as well as they did the opinions of the person you sought to bag.
MY second point was that you shouldn't be pointing fingers at anyone (arguably not even Iraq (there's a little bait for your next post)).
Have a happy and stress free day.
Thank you. I ask you to note that these antiUS diatribes, as you put it, come in response to one of two things:
1. a statement explaining why the USA is the best country on earth, the land of the free, the home of the brave (I'll give you that one), the worlds police force (rather than their greatest theives), and just the hottest shit that everyone wants to be
or
2. a statement/news article that blatantly ignores the existence of a world outside the USA.
The next time you see a string of these diatribes, look to the statement that trigered them and try to understand that these people are trying to change the world view of an ignorant hick.
p.s. Yes Aussie police / ASIO are not our best & finest or most competent. I don't approve of child pornography either, Yes, there are reasons from our past as to why we won't ratify the genocide conventions, yes we have racist ignorant fucks too (our PM is a sterling example), and yes we favour people who seek refugee status legitimately instead of trying to jump the que. By the way, the incidence of health problems by socio-economic group is more to do with lifestyle, and less to do with our public health system, (which is getting weaker as our fucking idiot of a P.M. makes our health system more and more like yours (without all the bribes your pollies get)). I fully recognise that our present government has taken us from being world leaders in most socio/politico/environmental agenda to being near the bottom, second only to your great nation.
p.p.s. What's your point? Do you seriously want a list of references finding negative points of the USA's existence in the world? Maybe a CD would be more practicle than a post.
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Thank you for providing evidence to demonstrate how wrong you are. The fact that "Temporary Workers, FY 1996:", "Lowest Pct. Naturalized:" and "Immigration, 1820-1996:" were the only sections where Western Europeans featured strongly. The UK featured in many places and in your arguement, but they are quite note worthy for their absolute abuse of their health, education and wellfare systems under Ms. Thatcher. She was possibly more destructive than her contemporary Mr. Regan.
You mentioned unemployment levels. I don't accept jobs below a living wage as fully employed. Unemployed people in western Europe are not going to die of hunger. Their children will be educated. They and their families will get medical attention when they get sick, and when their children graduate from university, they can go and get a better job than their parents could have had.
I am Australian. We don't earn as much in absolute value. We pay much more tax if we aren't company owners and finding investment capital is a bitch. On the other hand, our standard of living is much better in most areas in real terms.
Oh, people also go to the USA on holiday, so they know what they are not choosing. Maybe you should do the same.
I have 8M adsl here in Japan. I totally agree with you Lars Clausen
I think this whole discussion is rather sad for a supposedly international discussion list. Who keeps posting these small minded topics?
Whoever it is, take a holiday in the outside world.
HEAR HEAR
How do we mod this guy up?
The next guy's good too!
or are you serious, because it sounds to me like your serious.
perhaps I'm being a little harsh. Some of your points are quite valid. People should have the right to what they create. The German model of inalienable copyright for the creator is perhaps the best reflection of this idea in my opinion. I think that the INTERNATIONAL model for patents is significantly more in keeping with their original intention of avoiding an second dark age by targeting trade secrets. (I hope you are familiar with the dark ages as something other than a figure of speech)
The humerous aspect of your post is the suggestion that this intelectual property gig is somehow something unique to the USA. The only thing special about IP law in america is that (as per the usual) it favours your companies over your people. It's nice that America is starting to address this rights issue, but suggesting that it somehow makes the USA special is funny. At least I hope it was supposed to be funny. Otherwise it's just sad.
They should put Bill in a dress and make him superwoman. Imagine THE MEGA SEQUEL OF THE CENTURY.
Superman, Superwoman and Bill & Ted all rapped into one. Hey, maybe Keanu should play Batman! (:-)
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It seems to me, (From looking at the screenshots:-) that a great deal of her objections seem to come from having no concept of the situations in which these screens may come to be presented to the user.
If I want to remove glibc then of course there will be one or two dependency issues. This screen is just showing that if the humble user does decide to remove glibc then they will be told that it would break a LOT of stuff in their box. They have three options. if they ignore a warning like that then... they should expect a lot of things to be broken in their box. It tells the new user to go back and try again and gives the 'power user' a nice overview of how messed up their system would be if they ever trashed glibc.
I think that despite her claims she is no 'power user'. She demonstrates how completely incapable people are of seeing the virtues of something when they have sold out to the competition.
I am no power user, but I can see that she is far from it (VERY FAR).
p.s. when you are installing linux you don't have to deal with these scary dependancy issues unless you want to. Even if you do a custom install and have conflicts in your installation, you just press a button and they are all magically resolved for you. I think someone said something about her being bitter because she couldn't install gentoo. Maybe she hasn't installed Redhat either. No wonder she has to use the screen shots.
Cindy isn't paying for the shoot. The magazine is paying for the shoot, and they are paying the photographer a LOT of money for his/her technical skill.
If they want to own the negative of a one of a kind photograph of Cindy getting her toe sucked in a pool they will pay an obscene amount of money.
If you want to buy the negatives, buy the negatives. If you want to buy the prints, buy the prints. The photographer is supplying a number of services. These services are not just the click of a button on an expensive camera. These services cost them time and money to provide, and they need to recoup these costs. Photographers need to eat too and unless they are getting photographs of Cindy's toe, they aren't making much money.
Most photographers take photographs for the joy of it too. Imagine if people offered you a coding job where they only paid you for the time you spent asking for the project brief, and not for the coding, or the debugging, or for the maintenance of your equipment and that they decided you should debug their program for free because their ignorance tells them code should be perfect first time. What if they asked for a new feature and want that to be coded for free too. What would YOU do. They would probably walk away thinking you were a crook taking advantage of them in a difficult situation.
You will probably say that this is different, and yes they are different industries. The similarity is that they stem from a misunderstanding of the reality of working in the industry involved. If someone asks you to make a chair, and you do, that doesn't give them the rights to your working drawings for the chair, and the rights to the future reproduction of the chair. It's the same thing. It's from the age of mechanical reproduction, but so is the profession of photography on film. If you want a new business model, make it.
Option 3, make copyright a non transferable possession of the actual artists and base redistribution requirements upon suitable referencing of the original artists/creators
Result:creators alone have rights to claim what they create as a possession. Freedom is maintained, owners of IP houses have nervous breakdown, the Great Beast (us) lives happily ever after.
Some people (a lot of Germans apparently) have been using gaming engines to make movies quickly and easily. Perhaps you could output frames from something like that to a cluster server running lots of little povrays. WOW! THAT would be cool. Even if it wasn't a cluster, you could render an 8 min raytraced animation in a small office overnight.
Perhaps they could have an OS short film industry. NOW THAT WOULD FREAK OUT THE RIAA!
The second biggest internet using country is I think Korea, Certainly for high speed connections they are number two. Here in jp I get 8M ADSL flat rate always on for 5000 yen a month and saying that people in EU/US have more money is REALLY REALLY REALLY general. Go to Singapore or Hong Kong or Tokyo and say that again. The suburb in Tokyo where I work about one in five women have a GENUINE LV bag (only about 400,000 yen for a handbag.)
I hear a scandinavian invented DSL too. Oh and a kernel used for one or two servers.
I get 8MEG ADSL (always on, unlimited download) for ...
:-)
(7500/3=2500) + 2500 = 5000 yen, whats that, about US$50 give or take.
128k for $50 you say?
BARGAIN
I bought a cdrom drive for my powerbook 1400 to replace the floppy drive. It had a three month waranty and broke after four months. I have had similar reliability issues with some aspect of the hardware of every mac I have encountered. No doubt I will be told that there are perfect macs and that pcs have errors too, but if the mac hardware has a problem, you have no choice of vendor. Hope that nothing goes wrong with mac DVD because they don't want to support any other supplier. For the difference in cost you may be able to get an extra year or two of service.
Mac socialises its users very well as to the party line. Speaking as someone who has switched, Mac is evil. They fight hard to decomoditise hardware, software and network protocols. GET A DELL.
I think perhaps we are having a linguistic disagreement on many issues.
I'm not saying the philosophy of the coding of the GUI is bad. Of course you model with one hand on the keyboard. Some elements of the GUI make it unusable with modern modelling techniques. THIS is my problem with blender. The GUI is archaic because it only streamlines archaic modelling techniques and so cannot efficiently produce big models. It seems to be more focussed on animation.
I think that Blender is amazing and has a great deal of potential. When I say that it cannot support big/complex files I am not refering to its program structures. I am refering to its user interface. It seems to be well suited to the development of small characters or furniture but it lacks a few things needed for fast development of big/complex files, most notably:
1. separate the co-ordinate system from the viewpoint. (This will require some very difficult mapping with possibly very big numbers in perspective towards the horizon). The grid that is already there for the absolute co-ordinate system could be used to mark the active co-ordinate system. It could easily be set to automatically change the co-ordinate system to the viewpoint's plane for authographic views to allow older style 3D modelers and people who think in 2D to keep using the four pane system.
2. Fix/make the layer structure. (Perhaps merge it with the object hierachy pane from the main window) If you want to unhide a building, unhide the building's group . If you want to texture map every piece of timber in the building then select the timber group. If you want to switch off snapping for the timber wall framing, swith it off and if you want to move the nogging between all of the studs in the building, then select that. This for me is the primary function of a layer/object/group structure. If multiple group structures were possible, then that would be cool but the tools for doing this efficiently don't exist. I have maintained a dual heirachy (Layer and group) for a number of models and it's a head fuck. (a very usefull head fuck when it comes to documentation.) Make it automatically structure the object heirachy in a usable manner that can be viewed in a THIN window and it'll be fantastic.
I hold these to be BIG problems with elements of the GUI
Fixing the button pane somehow is just to make the thing more convenient, It doesn't actually prevent using the program for big models. I suggested perhaps by running it vertically or putting it into dialogs (That can be moved onto other monitors). It is annoying on small monitors and laptops to have to resize the button box to see all of the buttons. I remember using little monitors at Uni. Not everyone has a 21 inch monitor. Even on a 21" monitor, people usually like big view windows.
Fix these two elements and blender will be usable. I repeat, blender has the potential to be fantastic. At the moment it's a bit like writing an OS in fortran.
p.s. perhaps saying MAX is "low end" was a little cheeky:-)
Yeah I've installed windows systems before and its really not up to scratch. Cheers, I'll check out devfs.
however the issues with the kernel config and cd burners still seems to apply