*This* Industry however is not necessarily the source of all entertainment. There was a time when the industry did not exist, but entertainment still existed.
The entertainment industry in the states dates back to Stephan Foster.
In 1850, P.T, Barnum paid Jenny Lind $167,600 in advance for her first American tour, plus expenses. That is $4,557,076 adjusted for inflation. The contract would be renegotiated upwards as Barnum's promotion machine built up steam.
There would be profits from sheet music sales, product endorsements and so on.
Barnum's share would come to about half a million good-as-gold tax-free dollars. In the first decade of the telegraph, The first quarter-century of the railroad, Everything essential is in place for the evolution of a mass popular culture rooted in professional entertainment.
The public is getting nothing but censorship out of the bargain... The world is caving to the slightest whims of an industry that we would survive just fine without.
Then why is the geek so obsessed with his free comic book movie fix? The big budget Hollywood production?
The paying customer is the censor here and he is getting exactly what he wants: The final say on future productions and budgets.
The projects which will be green lighted because they are reasonably likely to be profitable.
The paying customer gets "Gravity" into the IMAX theater, the director's cut on Blu-Ray and malware free downloads and HD streaming through Amazon, Netflix and others. The P2P geek whatever scraps that can be swept off the table.
There isn't much in these stories that would have surprised a telegraph operator in the 1850s.
With straight keys, side-swipers, and, to an extent, bugs, each and every telegraphist has their own unique style and pattern when transmitting a message. An operator's style is known as his 'fist'. To other telegraphers, every fist is unique, and can be used to identify the telegrapher transmitting a particular message. This had a huge significance in the world wars, as it could be used to track the location of individual ships and submarines. However, electronic keyers (single paddle or iambic) will produce 'perfect' morse at a set speed, thus only inter-character and inter-word spacing can produce a semblance of a fist.
2) This is bullshit. I don't think you realize how much FOSS is written/maintained with no expectation or want of compensation. These people do it because they like doing it - and generally they feed themselves doing something else.
But is this true when you look at the marquee FOSS programs like Firefox, OpenOffice/Libre Office and so on? How many of these big name projects are almost wholly dependent on the work of full time paid developers?
The stories the geeks think of as folk tales are far more likely to be the versions shaped and defined by the professional writer:
One of the most popular versions of Cinderella was written in french by Charles Perrault in 1697, under the name Cendrillon. The popularity of his tale was due to his additions to the story, including the pumpkin, the fairy-godmother and the introduction of glass slippers.
Over the decades, hundreds of films [and television productions] have been made that are either direct adaptations from Cinderella or have plots loosely based on the story
Maybe next year, maybe in 5 years, or maybe in 10 years but every single enterprise will eventually be forced to make this switch as Microsoft evolves and changes ('implodes' is the word that comes to mind) as it tries to maintain growth and earnings...
Microsoft is doing extraordinarily well in the enterprise market and talk of an implosion is nonsense.
Commercial Licensing revenue was $9.594 billion, with a gross margin of $8.801 billion. This is growth of 7 percent and 8 percent, respectively. SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync all achieved double digits growth, and multi-year licensing revenue was up 8 percent.
Commercial Other revenue was $1.603 billion and had a gross margin of $0.275 billion, growing by 28 percent and 161 percent, respectively. Cloud revenue was up by 103 percent, with both Office 365 seats and Azure customs both increasing by triple digits. Two thirds of Dynamics CRM customers are now opting for cloud deployments.
Windows Division notional revenue is up 4 percent at $4.581 billion, but operating income is down 20 percent at $2.242 billion. This shows just how significant the impact of the decline of the PC market is, as well Microsoft's continued failure to capture any significant share of the tablet market.
Server and Tools revenue was up 11 percent to $5.052 billion, and operating income was up 17 percent to $2.026 billion. In contrast to the Windows Division results, this shows the much greater resilience of the purely enterprise-focused offerings.
Note: the design is functional but unfinished, it needs additional work before it can be certified. There are also some known bugs in it. Most of the software is unimplemented.
This tells me that no matter how promising your hardware design and software, I am going to be spending a lot of money before I have anything close to a commercially viable product.
Better yet Instead of corn, grow something actually nutritious to feed to people.
Despite the fact that it is a basic element of much of the world's diet, many people are unaware of the nutritional value of corn. Lovers of this grain will be happy to learn that it is a good source of some important nutrients, including several B vitamins, fiber, phosphorus, manganese, and vitamin C. It is also free of unhealthy saturated or trans fats. It is important to note that it is somewhat high in calories, and thus should be consumed in moderation.
One cup (approximately 130 grams) of corn kernels provides more than 18 percent of the recommended daily intake of fiber as determined by the United States Food and Drug Administration. When eaten regularly and in adequate quantities, fiber can provide a wide range of health benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease, assisting digestion, and providing a feeling of fullness that may discourage overeating.
The app is based on "Modernist Cuisine at Home" not the $500 50 pound reference set for the professional chef.
This is a "modern" (or Modernist) cookbook, so the recipes inside are going to be closer to what you'd find in a restaurant that uses an obscure adjective for it's title rather than what you'd see in your grandmother's kitchen. If the idea of cooking a beautiful cut of salmon in a Ziploc bag seems blasphemous, or using a digital scale instead of an elephant-shaped measuring cup is akin to high treason, you may not be ready to make the jump.
Modernist Cuisine at Home introduces a consolidated set of kitchen tools and gadgets that the home chef can reasonably afford. Don't have the funds for the laboratory-grade centrifuge featured in "Modernist Cuisine?" No problem. Not only does MCAH omit the prohibitively expensive tools from its recipes, but many of them are the same recipes found in the original, redone for the home cook. MCAH even goes as far as offering several options at varying price ranges for the equipment used within.
The same goes for the ingredients. MCAH mostly does away with the laundry list of exotic spices and chemicals featured in many "modernist" cookbooks and instead relies on ingredients you can find either at the local grocery store, or in reasonable quantities online. For the ingredients you are probably less familiar with (malic acid? agar agar?) there is a two-page spread detailing what each does, where it comes from, and what it costs. In many cases, the recipes will list alternatives if you choose not to add their recommendations to your shopping list.
When a geek hears that one of his own has been sentenced to do hard time, what follows is a rant posted to Slashdot. The words and music never change.
The geek in court is full of himself, arrogant, self-righteous, and self-pitying. "You can't do this to someone like me! " The geek on court is barely in full flight before the jury of his peers is longing to hit him where it hurts.
The other was to use "understandable" words that supposedly non-programmers could at least in theory be able to read. It is debatable if COBOL actually met those goals.
Common Business-Oriented Language
The goal was a program that could be read and audited by corporate accountants and integrated into systems and practices that in some cases dated back centuries.
Why try to develop the moon anyway? It's almost as extreme as space itself
Gravity.
Strong enough to simplify many problems. Weak enough to be good fun --- assuming you could build a large enclosed arena, you could have human flight with wings, an idea sci-fi writers have been playing with for three generations.
Wait, what? An F-16 capable of carrying near 18,000 lbs of weapons and flying at mach 2+ is replaced by a drone flying at 240Mph carrying 3800lbs? Well, I'll be danged if someone in the DOD should not be fired for that decision.
The usual fate of an upstate New York air base is to be closed or re-purposed. Keeping F-16s and their pilots at operational readiness is expensive --- and it is an expense that is increasingly hard to justify.
If you didn't screwup in any other way, your manager will put 'communication skills need work' just so it looks like he did something during the last review period.
This is the "feel good" answer that tells the geek he doesn't have a problem.
In real life, "Poor communication skills" often translates as "Doesn't work or play well with others."
Dead citizens in Tokyo were for certain not involved in massacring the Chinese
But the mass killing of Chinese civilians did not begin with the Doolittle Raid or even the Rape of Nanking. Nanking Massacre. Events which to this day the Japanese government has never been willing to deal with honestly.
No, we don't need the EPA. We need the legislative branch to stop ceding its responsibilities to the executive. Where laws are required, they must come from the legislature, not random executive departments gone haywire.
Legislators are not narrow technical specialists.
They can only make such decisions based on the opinions of experts ---- lobbyists --- from within the government and outside --- some few days or hours of testimony at most, and only as fair and balanced a presentation as the committee chair allows it to be.
I'm not entirely against this rule, but I think it should be a local law not a national one.
That makes life much more difficult for both manufacturer and customers. US --- and Canadian --- certification means that you have a clearly defined goal and significant economies of scale.
The population of Alaska is 741,000.
The population of New York. 20 million, California, 38 million.
You build for the markets that will deliver the biggest return on your investment --- not those that have the greatest need for a clean-burning stove.
Yeah how dare they live where natural disasters could hit! They should be in one of the few regions in North America or Europe which have an unusually low number of natural disasters.
People tend to live in places which have some unique economic advantage: fertile ground, a navigable river or deep water port. The miner will be looking for mountain-building, the rancher, grasslands on which to raise cattle. To get what you want you can't always play it safe.
And yet, in and of itself, "I Robot" was not a bad movie. It just didn't have much to do with the book.
The book is a collection of logic problems and puzzles disguised as short stories.
The geek tends to forget that the "Laws of Robotics" were originally framed --- in story --- as a solution to a P.R. problem. fear of the out-of-control machine. The engineer in "The Naked Sun" uses robots as killers by proxy, realizing that the Three Laws are trivially easy to subvert.
Slashdot Mirror
*This* Industry however is not necessarily the source of all entertainment. There was a time when the industry did not exist, but entertainment still existed.
The entertainment industry in the states dates back to Stephan Foster.
In 1850, P.T, Barnum paid Jenny Lind $167,600 in advance for her first American tour, plus expenses. That is $4,557,076 adjusted for inflation. The contract would be renegotiated upwards as Barnum's promotion machine built up steam.
There would be profits from sheet music sales, product endorsements and so on.
Barnum's share would come to about half a million good-as-gold tax-free dollars. In the first decade of the telegraph, The first quarter-century of the railroad, Everything essential is in place for the evolution of a mass popular culture rooted in professional entertainment.
The public is getting nothing but censorship out of the bargain... The world is caving to the slightest whims of an industry that we would survive just fine without.
Then why is the geek so obsessed with his free comic book movie fix? The big budget Hollywood production?
The paying customer is the censor here and he is getting exactly what he wants: The final say on future productions and budgets.
The projects which will be green lighted because they are reasonably likely to be profitable.
The paying customer gets "Gravity" into the IMAX theater, the director's cut on Blu-Ray and malware free downloads and HD streaming through Amazon, Netflix and others. The P2P geek whatever scraps that can be swept off the table.
Ha!
There isn't much in these stories that would have surprised a telegraph operator in the 1850s.
With straight keys, side-swipers, and, to an extent, bugs, each and every telegraphist has their own unique style and pattern when transmitting a message. An operator's style is known as his 'fist'. To other telegraphers, every fist is unique, and can be used to identify the telegrapher transmitting a particular message. This had a huge significance in the world wars, as it could be used to track the location of individual ships and submarines. However, electronic keyers (single paddle or iambic) will produce 'perfect' morse at a set speed, thus only inter-character and inter-word spacing can produce a semblance of a fist.
Telegraph key
2) This is bullshit. I don't think you realize how much FOSS is written/maintained with no expectation or want of compensation. These people do it because they like doing it - and generally they feed themselves doing something else.
But is this true when you look at the marquee FOSS programs like Firefox, OpenOffice/Libre Office and so on? How many of these big name projects are almost wholly dependent on the work of full time paid developers?
Ask Disney.
The stories the geeks think of as folk tales are far more likely to be the versions shaped and defined by the professional writer:
One of the most popular versions of Cinderella was written in french by Charles Perrault in 1697, under the name Cendrillon. The popularity of his tale was due to his additions to the story, including the pumpkin, the fairy-godmother and the introduction of glass slippers.
Over the decades, hundreds of films [and television productions] have been made that are either direct adaptations from Cinderella or have plots loosely based on the story
Cinderella
The geek's rants about Disney's "rape of the public domain" simply fall to pieces when you look at the evidence.
Maybe next year, maybe in 5 years, or maybe in 10 years but every single enterprise will eventually be forced to make this switch as Microsoft evolves and changes ('implodes' is the word that comes to mind) as it tries to maintain growth and earnings...
Microsoft is doing extraordinarily well in the enterprise market and talk of an implosion is nonsense.
Commercial Licensing revenue was $9.594 billion, with a gross margin of $8.801 billion. This is growth of 7 percent and 8 percent, respectively. SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync all achieved double digits growth, and multi-year licensing revenue was up 8 percent.
Commercial Other revenue was $1.603 billion and had a gross margin of $0.275 billion, growing by 28 percent and 161 percent, respectively. Cloud revenue was up by 103 percent, with both Office 365 seats and Azure customs both increasing by triple digits. Two thirds of Dynamics CRM customers are now opting for cloud deployments.
Windows Division notional revenue is up 4 percent at $4.581 billion, but operating income is down 20 percent at $2.242 billion. This shows just how significant the impact of the decline of the PC market is, as well Microsoft's continued failure to capture any significant share of the tablet market.
Server and Tools revenue was up 11 percent to $5.052 billion, and operating income was up 17 percent to $2.026 billion. In contrast to the Windows Division results, this shows the much greater resilience of the purely enterprise-focused offerings.
Microsoft posts record Q1 revenue, increased operating income: Windows OEM revenue sharply down, but enterprise sales buoyant.
The US is being gently pushed into a beginning of rrelevance.
If the US is so irrelevant, why is the geek so obsessed over its cultural exports and IP?
Do you intend to take the idea of wearable computing much beyond the eye-candy fashion accessories AdaFruit currently offers?
The problem is whether you can risk taking your small business into anything as volatile, price and fashion conscious as the clothing market.
Note: the design is functional but unfinished, it needs additional work before it can be certified. There are also some known bugs in it. Most of the software is unimplemented.
This tells me that no matter how promising your hardware design and software, I am going to be spending a lot of money before I have anything close to a commercially viable product.
With the advent of national security letters and all the NSA issues of late perhaps the web needs to implement a warrant 'warrant canary' metatag
"The web" doesn't implement anything. You do.
The exposure of a warrant in violation of a court order will land you in jail.
The judge won't give a damn about how cleverly you went about it --- until you come up for sentencing, of course.
Better yet Instead of corn, grow something actually nutritious to feed to people.
Despite the fact that it is a basic element of much of the world's diet, many people are unaware of the nutritional value of corn. Lovers of this grain will be happy to learn that it is a good source of some important nutrients, including several B vitamins, fiber, phosphorus, manganese, and vitamin C. It is also free of unhealthy saturated or trans fats. It is important to note that it is somewhat high in calories, and thus should be consumed in moderation.
One cup (approximately 130 grams) of corn kernels provides more than 18 percent of the recommended daily intake of fiber as determined by the United States Food and Drug Administration. When eaten regularly and in adequate quantities, fiber can provide a wide range of health benefits, including reducing the risk of heart disease, assisting digestion, and providing a feeling of fullness that may discourage overeating.
What Is the Nutritional Value of Corn?
This is a "modern" (or Modernist) cookbook, so the recipes inside are going to be closer to what you'd find in a restaurant that uses an obscure adjective for it's title rather than what you'd see in your grandmother's kitchen. If the idea of cooking a beautiful cut of salmon in a Ziploc bag seems blasphemous, or using a digital scale instead of an elephant-shaped measuring cup is akin to high treason, you may not be ready to make the jump.
Modernist Cuisine at Home introduces a consolidated set of kitchen tools and gadgets that the home chef can reasonably afford. Don't have the funds for the laboratory-grade centrifuge featured in "Modernist Cuisine?" No problem. Not only does MCAH omit the prohibitively expensive tools from its recipes, but many of them are the same recipes found in the original, redone for the home cook. MCAH even goes as far as offering several options at varying price ranges for the equipment used within.
The same goes for the ingredients. MCAH mostly does away with the laundry list of exotic spices and chemicals featured in many "modernist" cookbooks and instead relies on ingredients you can find either at the local grocery store, or in reasonable quantities online. For the ingredients you are probably less familiar with (malic acid? agar agar?) there is a two-page spread detailing what each does, where it comes from, and what it costs. In many cases, the recipes will list alternatives if you choose not to add their recommendations to your shopping list.
[purchaser review]
When a geek hears that one of his own has been sentenced to do hard time, what follows is a rant posted to Slashdot. The words and music never change.
The geek in court is full of himself, arrogant, self-righteous, and self-pitying. "You can't do this to someone like me! " The geek on court is barely in full flight before the jury of his peers is longing to hit him where it hurts.
In the words of Richard Speck: "If they knew what a good time I was having, they'd turn me loose."
The true psychopath is always playing you for a fool.
The other was to use "understandable" words that supposedly non-programmers could at least in theory be able to read. It is debatable if COBOL actually met those goals.
Common Business-Oriented Language
The goal was a program that could be read and audited by corporate accountants and integrated into systems and practices that in some cases dated back centuries.
Why try to develop the moon anyway? It's almost as extreme as space itself
Gravity.
Strong enough to simplify many problems. Weak enough to be good fun --- assuming you could build a large enclosed arena, you could have human flight with wings, an idea sci-fi writers have been playing with for three generations.
Wait, what? An F-16 capable of carrying near 18,000 lbs of weapons and flying at mach 2+ is replaced by a drone flying at 240Mph carrying 3800lbs? Well, I'll be danged if someone in the DOD should not be fired for that decision.
The usual fate of an upstate New York air base is to be closed or re-purposed. Keeping F-16s and their pilots at operational readiness is expensive --- and it is an expense that is increasingly hard to justify.
Really don't worry. It is commercial enough and if the community just winds down, the companies will just staff the kernel developer ranks.
Which companies exactly? --- and who gets to make the final decisions about the evolution of the kernel and Linux as a whole?
If you didn't screwup in any other way, your manager will put 'communication skills need work' just so it looks like he did something during the last review period.
This is the "feel good" answer that tells the geek he doesn't have a problem.
In real life, "Poor communication skills" often translates as "Doesn't work or play well with others."
Dead citizens in Tokyo were for certain not involved in massacring the Chinese
But the mass killing of Chinese civilians did not begin with the Doolittle Raid or even the Rape of Nanking. Nanking Massacre. Events which to this day the Japanese government has never been willing to deal with honestly.
No, we don't need the EPA. We need the legislative branch to stop ceding its responsibilities to the executive. Where laws are required, they must come from the legislature, not random executive departments gone haywire.
Legislators are not narrow technical specialists.
They can only make such decisions based on the opinions of experts ---- lobbyists --- from within the government and outside --- some few days or hours of testimony at most, and only as fair and balanced a presentation as the committee chair allows it to be.
I'm not entirely against this rule, but I think it should be a local law not a national one.
That makes life much more difficult for both manufacturer and customers. US --- and Canadian --- certification means that you have a clearly defined goal and significant economies of scale.
The population of Alaska is 741,000.
The population of New York. 20 million, California, 38 million.
You build for the markets that will deliver the biggest return on your investment --- not those that have the greatest need for a clean-burning stove.
and, like Internet Exploder and Fuckle Chrap...
It's at this point when I begin to tune out the geek.
Just use a text based browser like Lynx instead, uses almost no memory or processor resources and is virtually invulnerable to malware.
Accessibility makes the case for Lynx. Extreme constraints on bandwidth makes the case for Lynx. Cekkular
Yeah how dare they live where natural disasters could hit! They should be in one of the few regions in North America or Europe which have an unusually low number of natural disasters.
People tend to live in places which have some unique economic advantage: fertile ground, a navigable river or deep water port. The miner will be looking for mountain-building, the rancher, grasslands on which to raise cattle. To get what you want you can't always play it safe.
And yet, in and of itself, "I Robot" was not a bad movie. It just didn't have much to do with the book.
The book is a collection of logic problems and puzzles disguised as short stories.
The geek tends to forget that the "Laws of Robotics" were originally framed --- in story --- as a solution to a P.R. problem. fear of the out-of-control machine. The engineer in "The Naked Sun" uses robots as killers by proxy, realizing that the Three Laws are trivially easy to subvert.