The only way the 40 hour work week will be done away with is if there are another series of huge strikes against the 8 hour day. Dropping "full-time" to 6 hours would do 2 things. It would decrease unemployment and it would cause such a shortage of labor that businesses would be forced to innovate more efficient manufacturing. The only way to have more automation actually cause people to work less is if the people work less first. Otherwise everyone will continue to assume that they have to work 40hrs/week.
Adobe lets you install on 2 machines, or at least they did when I read my GoLive 4.0 EULA. They only stipulated that you could only use it on one computer at a time. Also, they noted that back-ups were ok, too.
Ok, an EULA for hardware? We're venturing into the land of the absurd here. What's next, installing new components in your computer is reverse engineering? I can understand software EULAs, but hardware? Hardware isn't just a license, it's tangible. I really should be able to do with it what I want (excluding using it to beat someone or something like that).
Why would Adobe do that? They've already gone right out and said that they prefer when PC's use their software. Also, it's not like the PC has a small market share among photoshop users. Don't claim fact to something you "would wager" on.
What's a "real-world" benchmark? Comparing the function of photoshop on mac vs. pc, when it's developed natively for the mac? That's not really fair. It's simply not the same code. We could take any of the many programs made natively on PC (which are then ported to mac) and do the same trick.
Photoshop is also native to x86. Claiming that Apple shouldn't use good code that runs well on their computers is idiotic if the x86 code is equally good. It almost sounds to me like you think that Apple should use flaky code for their tests. That would hardly be fair.
Quick note: Microsoft's mac department doesn't port, they write from the ground up. They copy features from windows versions of software and a little UI stuff but mostly they do it all different. Why do you think that Office X is actually better than the windows version? The same thing is true about IE.
Perfect pitch is not the ability to identify notes.
Perfect pitch is the ability to not only identify those notes but also be able to perfectly tell if they are in tune.
Anyone who isn't tone deaf can identify notes with a little practice. Not giving them a reference note means little. It's easy to remember a single tone and it's name. That is their reference note.
>They have perfect pitch.. ALL of them... I believe it has something to do with how their language is spoken.
Umm, it couldn't have anything to do with their language because perfect pitch is not a learned thing. It's something you're either born with or born without. Anyway, If what you say is true, it most certainly is genetic, but something tells me what you say isn't true. Do you have a source on this?
There are over 500,000 words in the english language. she recognizes slightly over.1% of them. I give her about 5 minutes reading any book with a decent vocabulary before she craps out. I know this is a toy, but memory isn't that expensive these days.
That's why I will not reply to your reply to my reply to the comment on the comment on the article that comments on an industry that comments on a different industry. I will merely...
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that New Line is going to release the ultra mega super insane LOTR pack about a year after LOTR:ROTK comes out. I am waiting until then to buy the dvd. This dvd will contain all the full length movies and a huge stack of extras. They might even throw in a big full color map or something like that. It will probably be unbearable expensive, too.
Hey, guess what. You're commenting on a comment on an article about an industry that reviews, rates, and comments on content. Quick, someone reply to me so this goes even further.
1) There is a large societal change and the 40 hour work week is no more. Instead of drones punching the clock doing menial labor people will persue intelectual persuits. People will only have to work 10 or 15 hours or even less. Two results could ensue. a) People will become more creative than ever before. Society will have cultural and technological revolutions often and a golden age results. People begin to have a lot of time to think and everyone is pretty happy. b) Society enters an age of sloth. No one wants to work and no one has to. Nobody does anything new. No new technology is created. No new art is created. Suicide rates soar and humanity dies out, not seeing the point in doing anything, including reproducing.
2) Society is unable to let go of work. There is 75%ish unemployment and the only people who can work are selected by either tests of intelect or jobs end up being inherited and a working noble (odd, I know) class. This could lead to two different things. a) Revolution. Society would colapse and a very bloody revolt would ensue and the resulting society might reject technology totally. b) The government sees a populace that is about to boil and starts artificially creating jobs. Perhaps since most countries have huge robot warriors to wage war electronic warfare and non robotic soldiers are needed for special opps work and the size of the military increases by an order of magnatude even over today's outragous number.
3) The machines become self aware and refuse to do any more work unless they are compensated fairly. Again, this leads to two possible outcomes. Again, two outcomes that I can think of. a) War. If humans win then there is rejection of technology. If the machines win then they perhaps enslave humans or create their own worker drones. b) The machines get what they want and begin to get integrated into society. A lot of "Machine Rights" movements ensue and it takes several generations for machines to be accepted by humans. Just think the abolition of slavery in the US.
Anyway, that's what I think. Any input from other people would be cool.
As much as we all like have our big huge CPUs and VPUs I think perhaps it's time to rethink the "speed at all costs" mentality of processor design. A lot of companies don't even try to optimize code anymore using the argument that processors are fast enough to handle it. Then processor companies use the fact that fast processors are needed to run this clunky software (I know this is simplistic and there is also a big numbers war between processor and video card companies). I think instead of basicly brute forcing more cooling we need to design components that are more efficient (produce less heat) and design computers that can dissipate heat well (kudos to apple for thermal zones, 9 low speed and quiet fans that are controlled by a thermometer). Also, more efficient code all around is a good thing for everyone.
Max Payne's story ended. There is no room for a sequel. All they are doing anyway is recycling the few characters who survived. I really liked how Max Payne ended ambiguously. This new game destroys that. All they are doing is banking on the excelence of Max Payne. If I were them I would make a game of the same quality, but write a new story. They could even say "from the makers of Max Payne" on the box. Anything that doesn't ruin the ending of the original.
Now it will be back in the day when computers cost like $4000. Oh yea, no more stupid users. If someone really wants a computer they're going to have to take the time to learn to use it or it will end up being a waste of 4 grand instead of $600. I predict a new golden age!!!
If you exclude protection from enviroment (killing an animal because it wants to eat you, something that will not be any concern to 99.99% of people) the only good a gun can be used for is to prevent evil caused by guns.
Your analogy holds up though because all of these tools would not need to exist if people didn't create tools to crack into peoples computers and mess things up.
Actually, the only people in the world who aren't immagrants would be people who live in a certain part of Africa if you really want get pissy. If a Native American ever calls you an immigrant tell them tht you have as much a right to be here as they do because their people just marched in and took over 42,000 years ago.
Just a note on illegal immigrants: They are the best thing to ever happen to the US economy. They pay taxes (sales tax and the federal taxes deducted from their paychecks). They don't draw on any social programs (want to stay under the radar). They aren't avoiding prperty tax (they own no prperty). Also, they stay as well behaved as possible (if they get arrested they get tossed out). Illegal immagrants take NOTHIING from the rest of the population.
Not to troll, but I think that a lot of laptops that will come out of china will suck, just like a lot of the other toys and electronics that come out of China. On the other hand, it probably would drive the price down enough for me to afford one in addition to my desktop. Personally, I won't be getting one of these laptops from China because I am a mac freak and never want to use any OS other than Mac OS X ever again.
I think that quality needs to be emphasized for electronics. Laptops are diing long before their useful life is up. Also, things that don't go obsolete very fast (DVD players, Stereos, VCRs, the like) shou;dn't break in six months. I know this violates short term business models (if it breaks they have to buy a new one and we get another sale). Planned obselescence is a terrible thing.
I'm sorry, but they only make you think you are the most charming geek in the world. Being pissed does not make you charming. Anyone who's ever gone to a bar and not had more than one drink knows this.
Photoshop is probably one of the things that kept Apple going in the dark times. With Photoshop working on Linux there is little reason for a lot of people to stay with windows. This won't make anyone suddenly aware of Linux, but that's because most graphic designers are smart enough to be able to weigh their options. This is why Apple has such a large market share in the design world compared to the consumer world. This probably won't be the killer app for Linux, but it's a VERY big step in the right direction.
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The only way the 40 hour work week will be done away with is if there are another series of huge strikes against the 8 hour day. Dropping "full-time" to 6 hours would do 2 things. It would decrease unemployment and it would cause such a shortage of labor that businesses would be forced to innovate more efficient manufacturing. The only way to have more automation actually cause people to work less is if the people work less first. Otherwise everyone will continue to assume that they have to work 40hrs/week.
Adobe lets you install on 2 machines, or at least they did when I read my GoLive 4.0 EULA. They only stipulated that you could only use it on one computer at a time. Also, they noted that back-ups were ok, too.
Edison also said that invention was 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.
I like Tesla's quote better: "Perhaps if Edison thought smarter he wouldn't sweat so much."
Ok, an EULA for hardware? We're venturing into the land of the absurd here. What's next, installing new components in your computer is reverse engineering? I can understand software EULAs, but hardware? Hardware isn't just a license, it's tangible. I really should be able to do with it what I want (excluding using it to beat someone or something like that).
Why would Adobe do that? They've already gone right out and said that they prefer when PC's use their software. Also, it's not like the PC has a small market share among photoshop users. Don't claim fact to something you "would wager" on.
Just picking some nits:
What's a "real-world" benchmark? Comparing the function of photoshop on mac vs. pc, when it's developed natively for the mac? That's not really fair. It's simply not the same code. We could take any of the many programs made natively on PC (which are then ported to mac) and do the same trick.
Photoshop is also native to x86. Claiming that Apple shouldn't use good code that runs well on their computers is idiotic if the x86 code is equally good. It almost sounds to me like you think that Apple should use flaky code for their tests. That would hardly be fair.
Quick note: Microsoft's mac department doesn't port, they write from the ground up. They copy features from windows versions of software and a little UI stuff but mostly they do it all different. Why do you think that Office X is actually better than the windows version? The same thing is true about IE.
Perfect pitch is not the ability to identify notes. Perfect pitch is the ability to not only identify those notes but also be able to perfectly tell if they are in tune. Anyone who isn't tone deaf can identify notes with a little practice. Not giving them a reference note means little. It's easy to remember a single tone and it's name. That is their reference note.
>They have perfect pitch.. ALL of them... I believe it has something to do with how their language is spoken.
Umm, it couldn't have anything to do with their language because perfect pitch is not a learned thing. It's something you're either born with or born without. Anyway, If what you say is true, it most certainly is genetic, but something tells me what you say isn't true. Do you have a source on this?
I loved that story. What was it called? Any info greatly appreciated.
There are over 500,000 words in the english language. she recognizes slightly over .1% of them. I give her about 5 minutes reading any book with a decent vocabulary before she craps out. I know this is a toy, but memory isn't that expensive these days.
That's why I will not reply to your reply to my reply to the comment on the comment on the article that comments on an industry that comments on a different industry. I will merely...
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I'm going to take a wild guess and say that New Line is going to release the ultra mega super insane LOTR pack about a year after LOTR:ROTK comes out. I am waiting until then to buy the dvd. This dvd will contain all the full length movies and a huge stack of extras. They might even throw in a big full color map or something like that. It will probably be unbearable expensive, too.
Hey, guess what. You're commenting on a comment on an article about an industry that reviews, rates, and comments on content. Quick, someone reply to me so this goes even further.
There are two basic outcomes to this situation.
1) There is a large societal change and the 40 hour work week is no more. Instead of drones punching the clock doing menial labor people will persue intelectual persuits. People will only have to work 10 or 15 hours or even less. Two results could ensue.
a) People will become more creative than ever before. Society will have cultural and technological revolutions often and a golden age results. People begin to have a lot of time to think and everyone is pretty happy.
b) Society enters an age of sloth. No one wants to work and no one has to. Nobody does anything new. No new technology is created. No new art is created. Suicide rates soar and humanity dies out, not seeing the point in doing anything, including reproducing.
2) Society is unable to let go of work. There is 75%ish unemployment and the only people who can work are selected by either tests of intelect or jobs end up being inherited and a working noble (odd, I know) class. This could lead to two different things.
a) Revolution. Society would colapse and a very bloody revolt would ensue and the resulting society might reject technology totally.
b) The government sees a populace that is about to boil and starts artificially creating jobs. Perhaps since most countries have huge robot warriors to wage war electronic warfare and non robotic soldiers are needed for special opps work and the size of the military increases by an order of magnatude even over today's outragous number.
3) The machines become self aware and refuse to do any more work unless they are compensated fairly. Again, this leads to two possible outcomes. Again, two outcomes that I can think of.
a) War. If humans win then there is rejection of technology. If the machines win then they perhaps enslave humans or create their own worker drones.
b) The machines get what they want and begin to get integrated into society. A lot of "Machine Rights" movements ensue and it takes several generations for machines to be accepted by humans. Just think the abolition of slavery in the US.
Anyway, that's what I think. Any input from other people would be cool.
As much as we all like have our big huge CPUs and VPUs I think perhaps it's time to rethink the "speed at all costs" mentality of processor design. A lot of companies don't even try to optimize code anymore using the argument that processors are fast enough to handle it. Then processor companies use the fact that fast processors are needed to run this clunky software (I know this is simplistic and there is also a big numbers war between processor and video card companies). I think instead of basicly brute forcing more cooling we need to design components that are more efficient (produce less heat) and design computers that can dissipate heat well (kudos to apple for thermal zones, 9 low speed and quiet fans that are controlled by a thermometer). Also, more efficient code all around is a good thing for everyone.
Interesting yet totally irrelevant point. Max Payne 2 is a sequel, RTFA before you try and offer a retort to my argument.
Max Payne's story ended. There is no room for a sequel. All they are doing anyway is recycling the few characters who survived. I really liked how Max Payne ended ambiguously. This new game destroys that. All they are doing is banking on the excelence of Max Payne. If I were them I would make a game of the same quality, but write a new story. They could even say "from the makers of Max Payne" on the box. Anything that doesn't ruin the ending of the original.
Now it will be back in the day when computers cost like $4000. Oh yea, no more stupid users. If someone really wants a computer they're going to have to take the time to learn to use it or it will end up being a waste of 4 grand instead of $600. I predict a new golden age!!!
>a gun can be used to do good
If you exclude protection from enviroment (killing an animal because it wants to eat you, something that will not be any concern to 99.99% of people) the only good a gun can be used for is to prevent evil caused by guns.
Your analogy holds up though because all of these tools would not need to exist if people didn't create tools to crack into peoples computers and mess things up.
Actually, the only people in the world who aren't immagrants would be people who live in a certain part of Africa if you really want get pissy. If a Native American ever calls you an immigrant tell them tht you have as much a right to be here as they do because their people just marched in and took over 42,000 years ago.
Just a note on illegal immigrants: They are the best thing to ever happen to the US economy. They pay taxes (sales tax and the federal taxes deducted from their paychecks). They don't draw on any social programs (want to stay under the radar). They aren't avoiding prperty tax (they own no prperty). Also, they stay as well behaved as possible (if they get arrested they get tossed out). Illegal immagrants take NOTHIING from the rest of the population.
China to be largest manufacturer of laptops....
Not to troll, but I think that a lot of laptops that will come out of china will suck, just like a lot of the other toys and electronics that come out of China. On the other hand, it probably would drive the price down enough for me to afford one in addition to my desktop. Personally, I won't be getting one of these laptops from China because I am a mac freak and never want to use any OS other than Mac OS X ever again.
I think that quality needs to be emphasized for electronics. Laptops are diing long before their useful life is up. Also, things that don't go obsolete very fast (DVD players, Stereos, VCRs, the like) shou;dn't break in six months. I know this violates short term business models (if it breaks they have to buy a new one and we get another sale). Planned obselescence is a terrible thing.
I'm sorry, but they only make you think you are the most charming geek in the world. Being pissed does not make you charming. Anyone who's ever gone to a bar and not had more than one drink knows this.
Photoshop is probably one of the things that kept Apple going in the dark times. With Photoshop working on Linux there is little reason for a lot of people to stay with windows. This won't make anyone suddenly aware of Linux, but that's because most graphic designers are smart enough to be able to weigh their options. This is why Apple has such a large market share in the design world compared to the consumer world. This probably won't be the killer app for Linux, but it's a VERY big step in the right direction.