Adobe will provide you with a new CD for your copy of their programs. Computer games from Blizzard shit the mac and windows versions on the same media.
I don't think Microsoft will. They should, but it could be argued that Office for Mac and Office for windows are not equivalent features-wise (they aren't). I think a heavy discount would be enough in a case like that.
I bet that if you bought an intel mac now, and then after 10.5 was released bought the PPC, but then decided to ditch your PPC mac, apple would gladly replace your media (if they didn't ship on the same disc already.
Apple has always said that their operating system was to be run on their hardware only. I think they should have that right (controlling the distribution of their creative endeavor).
I suppose the real-world implications of this are: should an artist be allowed to control how their work is curated? I think yes, if there is a prior agreed upon contract. In the software case that's the EULA.
EULAs should be a lot shorter, much easier to read, and available to read in the store. It should also be possible to return software if it doesn't function as advertised.
For music/movies/etc: If I buy a DVD or a CD I should have get a license to own a copy of that work in whatever format I choose. If this means that as soon as I buy the CD I go and rip it to OGG, I should be able to do that, and if as soon as I buy a DVD if I want to rip it to AVI to have on my computer, that should be my right. I should also, upon a new format coming out (such as HD-VD) should be able to get my DVD replaced for the cost of the new media, no more.
For industrial patents, I admit I don't have an answer. If the system is abolished entirely, then all research will have to be conducted by the government. On the other hand, today we find ourselves in a world of overpriced medication and the inability for third-world countries (and even the US) to treat their citizens.
Yes, copyright laws need a total rewrite and cartels like the RIAA abuse our current system.
Does that mean that intellectual property is bad? No.
We live in a time when we don't have to spend all of our time working on finding food and building shelter. As a result we have extra time (as a society) to pursue creative endeavors. People's creative energy needs to be protected by allowing them to control how their work is distributed. However, the double-dipping of the RIAA and MPAA (buy it now on DVD and PSP today!), the lack of compensation offered to the actual artists by the RIAA (you have to pay for the breakage fee, and pay for recording, and pay for publicity, and we'll just keep almost all of the sale price), and people need to be able to do what they want with physical things that they buy (like mod their XBoxes).
Have different settings for different monitors?
I'm not sure of any OSs currently let you do this. However, perhaps as more and more dual video cards come out there will be a demand for this sort of thing. I can't image it would be particularly hard for an OS that already supported dual monitors and GUI size-changing.
Why shouldn't everything be well designed. The very fact that people settle for mediocrity guarantees that they will receive no better. Do you really think Microsoft would still be around of people demanded more? Do you think Linux would still be in its sorry state? Do you think Apple would be starting to show bloat?
Any decent OS or web browser will let you scale up font sizes. The end result is that your text is the same size, but smoother. The only problem occurs when sites do stupid things like make navigation bars images of text.
Images, I admit, are another matter. I suppose the best thing here is to switch to all vector graphics that can be scaled up smoothly just like fonts.
I said any OS worth anything. Windows doesn't apply.:-)
Seriously, what matters here software running on that OS. Perhaps the codec you're using is too complex for your P4? Perhaps the software isn't good about pre-caching decompressed video so that a temporary spike in proc usage doesn't cause it to bork.
So, you're saying that no one should be able to make a living on their art, save through grants (hah!) and patronage (what is this, the 1700s?)?
Admittedly, musicians can make money on performances and use their albums as a marketing tool, but authors and composers, who deal in art without a live performance component need copyright to make any money on their work.
All this 'everything should be free' stuff is really short-sighted. Artists deserve to be compensated for their work, and in an era of extremely good copies of recordings and video, there need to be legal protections.
Yes, cartels like the RIAA have are abusing these laws, and copyright laws are due for a serious re-write. Clauses need to be put into place to allow for abandon-ware. The ridiculous lengths given to copyrights (author's lifetime plus seventy years) need to be cut down (how about just seventy years?). Also, there should be no copyright extensions, ever. Finally, once something is in the public domain, it STAYS THERE; under no circumstances should something be re-copyrighted because it is merely repackaged or re-mastered.
I would call bacteria resistant to most forms of anti-biotics a super germ, and that's a serious problem, too. I think this article used apt nomenclature, even if the science was off.
I seriously doubt that they would have to do the actual writing (just as I doubt they did all of the research), but that doesn't mean that their show couldn't do the preliminary work to demonstrate that research needed to be done.
If the sound of a belt being removed bothers you then you are emotionally scarred, proving the point of the other reply to this. Doesn't it bother you? I'm honestly curious. Have you ever tried to get rid of this phobia?
If a kid ever threatens to call social services and is seriously considering it then I think their relationship with their parents is very bad, probably too bad to save without serious effort on both sides.
I don't think your moderation is fair, if I had any points I'd send you an underrated and post this anonymously. You're clearly not trolling.
"Chase thought Wikipedia was a joke site and he made the edit to amuse a colleague. From which we conclude that the spoof site Uncyclopedia, which consists entirely of fictional entries, is doing far better than expected, and that Wikipedia has a long way to go to rid itself of the image that it's a massive, multiplayer shoot-em-up game, or MMORPG."
If he meant it to be two different genres, he should have removed both of the commas. He only has two things in his list.
GPS certainly does not provide centimeter accuracy, unless you mean 400 centimeter. Stop watching CSI.
On a spectacularly clear day in the middle of a field where I can see every satellite in the sky, I get at best 4 meter accuracy, and that's with WAAS correction.
Fortunately, in many cities we already have ways to get around that allow us to work and talk, public transportation.
Users don't ignore software update dialogues because they don't know what it's doing, they ignore them because they've been trained that they won't know what it's talking about. If they actually took a minute to READ the dialogue, I think all but the most naive and illiterate would find it pretty self-explanitory. The window is titled "Software Update," and that is the extent of the vocabulary required to know what's going on. The word update is a common english word, so everyone should be able to get it, and the word software is far from obscure computer vocabulary. Right below that is a text space that says in bold "New software is available for your computer." Finally, the words "Security Update" are in the name of the patch itself, which is visible and the user can click on it to get a more detailed description.
This is a not a difficult dialog box, and it's explained in the (very short) OS X manual. If a user can't figure this one out either they're illiterate or they just don't want to (much more likely). An absolute worst case scenario would be to ask someone else what it was. The explanation would take mere minutes.
Conservatories in general creep me out, especially for things like composition. I think it's really important to have a grasp of the liberal arts before the extreme specialization that conservatories seem to endorse. We tend to get musical robots with no depth.
If you ever want to really piss off someone from a conservatory, just describe it as vocational school for musicians.
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Exactly my point.
Adobe will provide you with a new CD for your copy of their programs. Computer games from Blizzard shit the mac and windows versions on the same media.
I don't think Microsoft will. They should, but it could be argued that Office for Mac and Office for windows are not equivalent features-wise (they aren't). I think a heavy discount would be enough in a case like that.
I bet that if you bought an intel mac now, and then after 10.5 was released bought the PPC, but then decided to ditch your PPC mac, apple would gladly replace your media (if they didn't ship on the same disc already.
Apple has always said that their operating system was to be run on their hardware only. I think they should have that right (controlling the distribution of their creative endeavor).
I suppose the real-world implications of this are: should an artist be allowed to control how their work is curated? I think yes, if there is a prior agreed upon contract. In the software case that's the EULA.
EULAs should be a lot shorter, much easier to read, and available to read in the store. It should also be possible to return software if it doesn't function as advertised.
What do you think?
Here's my position:
For music/movies/etc: If I buy a DVD or a CD I should have get a license to own a copy of that work in whatever format I choose. If this means that as soon as I buy the CD I go and rip it to OGG, I should be able to do that, and if as soon as I buy a DVD if I want to rip it to AVI to have on my computer, that should be my right. I should also, upon a new format coming out (such as HD-VD) should be able to get my DVD replaced for the cost of the new media, no more.
For industrial patents, I admit I don't have an answer. If the system is abolished entirely, then all research will have to be conducted by the government. On the other hand, today we find ourselves in a world of overpriced medication and the inability for third-world countries (and even the US) to treat their citizens.
Yes, copyright laws need a total rewrite and cartels like the RIAA abuse our current system.
Does that mean that intellectual property is bad? No.
We live in a time when we don't have to spend all of our time working on finding food and building shelter. As a result we have extra time (as a society) to pursue creative endeavors. People's creative energy needs to be protected by allowing them to control how their work is distributed. However, the double-dipping of the RIAA and MPAA (buy it now on DVD and PSP today!), the lack of compensation offered to the actual artists by the RIAA (you have to pay for the breakage fee, and pay for recording, and pay for publicity, and we'll just keep almost all of the sale price), and people need to be able to do what they want with physical things that they buy (like mod their XBoxes).
Whew...
It's Apple-related because these are products demoed at MacWorld.
They've been right in the past.
They predicted the G5s when they came out. The lid was just tighter this time around.
Have different settings for different monitors? I'm not sure of any OSs currently let you do this. However, perhaps as more and more dual video cards come out there will be a demand for this sort of thing. I can't image it would be particularly hard for an OS that already supported dual monitors and GUI size-changing.
You know, I thought it went without saying that any decent OS lets you turn off things like that, too.
Why shouldn't everything be well designed. The very fact that people settle for mediocrity guarantees that they will receive no better. Do you really think Microsoft would still be around of people demanded more? Do you think Linux would still be in its sorry state? Do you think Apple would be starting to show bloat?
I know you were joking.
To be fair, those images can be 'converted'. IIRC, this is how Photoshop interpolates when you scale up bit-map images.
HIgher resolution != Smaller text
Any decent OS or web browser will let you scale up font sizes. The end result is that your text is the same size, but smoother. The only problem occurs when sites do stupid things like make navigation bars images of text.
Images, I admit, are another matter. I suppose the best thing here is to switch to all vector graphics that can be scaled up smoothly just like fonts.
Good one. it's been 9 seconds since you've hit reply...
I said any OS worth anything. Windows doesn't apply. :-)
Seriously, what matters here software running on that OS. Perhaps the codec you're using is too complex for your P4? Perhaps the software isn't good about pre-caching decompressed video so that a temporary spike in proc usage doesn't cause it to bork.
Last time I checked, porn didn't require a special OS, or even a computer. Have you forgotten DVDs? Magazines?
Even so, any OS worth anything can play video. It's not hard. There's nothing special about OSes that do.
So, you're saying that no one should be able to make a living on their art, save through grants (hah!) and patronage (what is this, the 1700s?)?
Admittedly, musicians can make money on performances and use their albums as a marketing tool, but authors and composers, who deal in art without a live performance component need copyright to make any money on their work.
Thank you...
All this 'everything should be free' stuff is really short-sighted. Artists deserve to be compensated for their work, and in an era of extremely good copies of recordings and video, there need to be legal protections.
Yes, cartels like the RIAA have are abusing these laws, and copyright laws are due for a serious re-write. Clauses need to be put into place to allow for abandon-ware. The ridiculous lengths given to copyrights (author's lifetime plus seventy years) need to be cut down (how about just seventy years?). Also, there should be no copyright extensions, ever. Finally, once something is in the public domain, it STAYS THERE; under no circumstances should something be re-copyrighted because it is merely repackaged or re-mastered.
I would call bacteria resistant to most forms of anti-biotics a super germ, and that's a serious problem, too. I think this article used apt nomenclature, even if the science was off.
I'm a huge fan of SubEthaEdit.
It's free for personal use and available at http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/
The collaborative text editing feature is cool, but I never really found a use for it.
I seriously doubt that they would have to do the actual writing (just as I doubt they did all of the research), but that doesn't mean that their show couldn't do the preliminary work to demonstrate that research needed to be done.
That sentence was just fine. I enjoy their entries quite a bit. However, I disagree with what he has to say about Wikipedia.
If the sound of a belt being removed bothers you then you are emotionally scarred, proving the point of the other reply to this. Doesn't it bother you? I'm honestly curious. Have you ever tried to get rid of this phobia?
If a kid ever threatens to call social services and is seriously considering it then I think their relationship with their parents is very bad, probably too bad to save without serious effort on both sides.
I don't think your moderation is fair, if I had any points I'd send you an underrated and post this anonymously. You're clearly not trolling.
"Chase thought Wikipedia was a joke site and he made the edit to amuse a colleague. From which we conclude that the spoof site Uncyclopedia, which consists entirely of fictional entries, is doing far better than expected, and that Wikipedia has a long way to go to rid itself of the image that it's a massive, multiplayer shoot-em-up game, or MMORPG."
If he meant it to be two different genres, he should have removed both of the commas. He only has two things in his list.
GPS certainly does not provide centimeter accuracy, unless you mean 400 centimeter. Stop watching CSI.
On a spectacularly clear day in the middle of a field where I can see every satellite in the sky, I get at best 4 meter accuracy, and that's with WAAS correction.
Fortunately, in many cities we already have ways to get around that allow us to work and talk, public transportation.
Users don't ignore software update dialogues because they don't know what it's doing, they ignore them because they've been trained that they won't know what it's talking about. If they actually took a minute to READ the dialogue, I think all but the most naive and illiterate would find it pretty self-explanitory. The window is titled "Software Update," and that is the extent of the vocabulary required to know what's going on. The word update is a common english word, so everyone should be able to get it, and the word software is far from obscure computer vocabulary. Right below that is a text space that says in bold "New software is available for your computer." Finally, the words "Security Update" are in the name of the patch itself, which is visible and the user can click on it to get a more detailed description.
This is a not a difficult dialog box, and it's explained in the (very short) OS X manual. If a user can't figure this one out either they're illiterate or they just don't want to (much more likely). An absolute worst case scenario would be to ask someone else what it was. The explanation would take mere minutes.
Conservatories in general creep me out, especially for things like composition. I think it's really important to have a grasp of the liberal arts before the extreme specialization that conservatories seem to endorse. We tend to get musical robots with no depth.
If you ever want to really piss off someone from a conservatory, just describe it as vocational school for musicians.