"or to have his webpage as a forum lauding open source"
Grr, just because you release source doesn't mean you are "lauding open source."
This site becomes whatever people make of it because of the comments. I could take the source and make a pro-ms site out of it, or whatever. And there's nothing they can do about it, really (hack the machine, maybe), once the source is out.
I didn't work new years. I'm lucky. What I did do was drive half-way across the country (Chicago to New Orleans) to stay down there for 5 days or so.
What makes this special?
I spent this all with 3 friends and my girlfriend. The days we spent there were interesting, learning and seeing new things, but what it comes down to is that the most important thing about any time that you have is that you spend it how you want, and if that's with people you love (as the author of the letter seems to imply), more power too you.
Every day is special, it's not every day that we (personal group) can get together and do what we did.
I didn't get drunk or high or anything like that. I was just with friends.
And I wouldn't want to work when I could do that.
At my work, we were told that there would be NO vacations (especially for IS personelle) for 30 days around New Years. But I told my boss at least a month beforehand that we had plans and reservations and all that.
I would have rather quit than to have missed out on what I had experienced.
"Clinical Depression? Some people just can't bring themselves to feel good. Its a facet of their PERSONALITY, not a disease."
I don't think clinicaldepression is the lack of feeling good, it's feeling like shit all the time.
I'm not gonna go "Depression is real man, after my dog died I was so depressed!" Real, clinical depression is the result of early events, which can be sorted out eventually through a lot of work but -
"Depression, and cram Prozac down *your* throat, it's simple false advertising"
I'm inclined to agree with this, and I'm sad to say it.
Instead of helping people realize what problems they have and working them out, they give them drugs. That's not how it used to be. A shrink would talk to you, now he/she will just give you prozac and call it an hour.
I've been involved in hospitals and (legal) drugs my whole life because of the jobs my parents had (working at hospitals), and they ALWAYS go for the easiest solution, because they're human.
I'm not sure of the truth of this, but I remember reading somewhere that the surface of Jupiter would be very compressed and very hot carbon. What would that produce?
Yes, a diamond.
Of course, both I could be remembering incorrectly and the book could have been wrong, but it would definatly kill the rare gem status that diamonds do have.
I can just see DeBeers (a diamond company) realizing what's gonna happen to the market. Two weeks later on the ads:
Okay, I don't particularly believe this or meet any these attributes, but I want to bounce this off of ya'll
I don't see anything wrong with total freedom of information. Why shouldn't everyone know that I have a tattoo of a butt on a butt on my butt. I don't care.
I'm too busy doing what I have to do and to old to concern myself that someone might find my lifestyle objectionable, and they shouldn't care if I feel the same way about theirs.
The irrational protection of privacy demonstrated in many posts here makes me wonder "What have these people to hide? Do they want to hide their individuality. Are they afraid that someone is going to see into their world and see that they're wrong or that they do something bad? What?"
There is no right and wrong, and no need for privacy in all reality. It's a false security blanket when you tell yourself that you know something. It helps you feel special if you've got that kiddie porn under your bed or whatever else you do that you want to "protect."
I admit, to have a society without privacy will only work if all individuals and corperations and government entities also have no privacy, then you can see everything, and what you can see you can rationally react to and act against. However, the letting loose of information on the world will make life better in an exponential manner, as wittnessed by open source software.
Not to nit pick, but since you said FBI, I assume US, and the Secret Service (yes, the same folk who guard the prez) take care of counterfeitting things.
I know, I work in a bank.
Funny other story:
I had an OLD 100 bill, and went to _____ and bought a new hard drive. They tried to confiscate the bill as counterfeit because it didn't have a stripe. I told them I worked at a bank and would take care of it. The bill was from 1950, and real.
Moral of the story: There's still old bills out there, and preventative measures, like changing the bills themselves, will take at least 20 years to get old currency out of circulation (especially when dumbsh-, err, clients don't want the new bills because they "might be counterfeit.")
"US constitution, the British, or the Frensh one "
If I remember correctly, and I may not, the British don't have a Constitution in the way the US does because they work on the concept of common law.
I could be wrong, could a English-person or someone with more of a clue clerify this for me.
As for the rest of the post, I pretty much agree with it. I mean, people have different biases, and some people have an unfortunate history that some think will (and may) repeat itself.
"pointing at a small, twinkling red dot in the sky, and dreaming."
That's it.
I'm inclined to agree with you, that we're capitalists, interested in gaining things, but the things that we deem as valuable are set by society.
When a child dreams of going to another planet, who tells them they can't (not that it's hard, but that they CAN'T). An older adult. Now, the adult is trying to be realistic.
We're gonna change what we see as valuable, hopefully soon. I want to live in a society where money is pretty irrelevent because needs are all met and the things that we want are, uhh, less materialistic.
Would you help in that? I would. I want to. I want to raise the money for a private space venture (Mars, probably, maybe the moon). Would you contribute? Seriously. Estimates (if I remember correctly) that a privatly funded space program would run about 1 billion dollars.
Until we find out about things more valuable than money, we'll stay here unless the advantages outweigh the cost, you're right. Columbus wasn't an explorer, he was a marketer.
It makes me sad; it makes me realize that we haven't gotten that far. It makes me want to change the world again, like I did, when I wanted to walk on the moon instead of writing or dreaming about it.
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Danielle Steele, sure, bite her head off.:-)
"The artistic equivalent of this would be work on commission or retainer."
The retainer is rare, and it has questionable artistic standards today. I mean, some people do it, and I'm not one to judge that. It was popular before.
If you're family members get it to work, let me know, but I don't exactly write "accessable" works. The stuff on my web page is not representative, it's just whatever I got on there.
It's easier, I suppose, though I don't know, to be a painter or other materials artist (sculptor, etc) and do the retainer thing. And I have been offered an oppertunity (no money) to write a biography (like the people that write all those autobiographys to the stars), but that person has never even seen my writing, and would, at once, be put off by it.
Many good writers now have another job, either a professorship at a university (David Foster Wallace or Ricardo Cortez Cruz or Curtis White to name the fiction writers within 10 miles of me at the university) or a journalistic position (William T. Vollman). Some can make a living on their writing (Gary Gildner writes some very "nice" things [and I use that in the kind of derrogatory way]), but they're very rare now. Poets who can do that are even rarer.
But, retainers are not quite an option, unless you don't mind ghostwriting autobiographies for OJ Simpson or Cassie "I got shot at Columbine and all I got was this bloody t-shirt, but my parents make millions" whatever-her-last-name-is.
I'm sorry, I don't think I can do that unless there's more to it than money.
"Technology is a tool, a thing, an it. We cannot draw philosophy from a thing, we cannot use it to judge"
Agreed, mostly, but technology offers us a new view of things. When we go to another solar system, we'll view things differently, another galaxy. When we find other beings, boy, will things be different.
Techonology is a MEANS to and end, and we ain't there yet, either the means or the end way.
"Why is it man created our problems by eating the apple and now we think we might be able to fix it ourselves by using our MacIntoshes?"
Dude, I love that quote, and I hate to ask this, but is it yours? I've got a big quote file that I save cool stuff in.
Thanks
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"For artists or developers, the lesson is the same: give up the dreams of mega-bucks, and do what makes you happy, and all the rest of us richer."
Fine. Will you buy me food too? My dreams of mega-bucks are not tied to my art, well, maybe in an abstract, so I can do my art without worrying about living.
"Put your works on the net. Make it clear that anyone can distribute them. Also make it clear that your authorship must be recognized, and no others can claim copyright. Your work will be enjoyed, and will be experienced by many more people than any studio or publisher could ever offer. That's what you really want. "
That's what I want, really, and some of my stuff is on the 'net. But what I REALLY want is to be able live while only doing my artistic endevors. It will allow me to focus on doing them, which is reason #1 why I don't have a job while I'm in school (well, actually, it's reason #3, but it doesn't matter that I'm lazy about work and I have a funky schedule).
Unfortunately, living on an artists income isn't happening any time soon. I have ideas for some artists, and their time WILL come.:-) But not all.
Like a Wizard of Id cartoon:
"What do you do for employment?" "I'm a poet." "We have enough beggars."
This is only a side note: "Artists need to make the same leap. Do you all *really* want to be the next Stephen King,"
Boo. As a writer, I respect King when he's not off chasing ghosts. His more ambitious works (like The Stand and The Gunslinger series) will probably not be forgotten, and for good reasons. I don't want to go on about this, because I could do a Doctoral dissertation on those two stories alone, and I wouldn't be stretching for things.
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"the calender is based on the estimated birth of Christ"
Bzzt. Wrong, sorry. Ole J.C. was born ~4 B.C., if you believe he was born at all. Which means that 1996 was 2000 years after his birth.
The 0 has something to do with the crowning of a king in Rome. I mean, they didn't even have English as we know it in 0, or even 1000. So B.C. = before Christ and A.D. = After death are both pretty silly. Especially when you realize he was 30 (supposedly) when he keeled over. What? 30 years without a year?
Of course, I could be wrong.
But, if I were god, I would like really big round numbers.
I know it's windows only, I think. But, still, it's got to be the best game I've played in a long time (and I love FPS). I'm using it for a series of maps I haven't worked on for about six months now, but still . . .
"Never mind that film and music are the art of our age, and the price for enjoying that art has become too steep (just consider CD prices, versus the 70 cents per CD sold an artist would be lucky to get). "
Don't forget books too. I mean, an author is likely to get more than 70 cents per item sold, but how many real authors sell as many books as CD's get sold? (like Stephen King, though I respect him as a good author, he's great, but an exception)
I mean, someone like David Foster Wallace or William T. Vollmann doesn't make a shitload off their book sales.
As for the music industry.:-) I'm working on that.
Thank you for responding to my site, but I don't know which one. Is it the one with the yellowish colored background or the one with the scribbled background?
I was wondering what could be done to make the page(s) better. Any suggestions?
It wouldn't be something I would be proud of. I mean, it's something you use every day.
"assuming that I think computers are life? "
The statement "it's an OS for simpletons"
Windows is not designed to be an OS for a user who wants infinate customiziblity. It's designed for poeple who don't know what they're doing to get some actual work done.
To regard people that use windows as simpletons relegates me to believing that you like another OS better, which is fine, but one that isn't made for a "basic" computer. You demand an "advanced" operating system, which could be anything. BeOS, Linux, Mac, Windows 2000, BSD, TAO? I have no clue. But windows works for many people, and to ask them to relearn everything is unfair if it works.
I mean, my sister has a p60, windows 95 (first service pack), and microsoft works on the thing, THIS IS ALL SHE NEEDS.
I mean, what the hell, I got along fine with a typewriter with a little chip that beeped when I misspelled a word in it's pitifully small 50,000 word dictionary. This doesn't mean that everyone has to, but I understand the concept of scalability and learning curves.
When my little sister wants to upgrade her system, I'll ask her what she wants to do, and if it doesn't change from what she does do, I'll tell her not to bother.
Asking someone to learn something new is, while admirable, annoying at the least. This is why I think I "assumed", probably incorrectly, admittedly, that you thought computers were a big part of life.
For some people, like my sister, right now school and boys are more a part of her life than the products on her computer, and if she wants to do something more with it, maybe I'll put linux on it. But only if she wants it. And she isn't a simpleton. She's comfortable.
Do I need to point out the grammatical error? No, I don't think so. (For the reccord it's "accept".)
I don't point out grammar errors (especially common ones such as this one), but I feel that this is important.
This man is ignorant in grammar.
Is he a simpleton? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say "no", though I haven't checked his user history, so I don't have proof of this. But he doesn't know every Windows user, now does he?
So, is somone who is NOT ignorant in grammar have any real reason to be knowlagable in the ways that this man is? The short-short answer is "no."
Thanks for playing.
The longer answer is this:
Some people have things they would rather be doing than compiling a new kernel when they need to upgrade their kernel to support Quake IIXX. Sorry. If I want to type letters and play the new version of Grand Theft Auto and I don't have a clue how to use a computer, I'm sure as hell not gonna want to take it upon myself to learn Linux (yes, even one of the "easy" distros like RedHat.)
Some people have other things to do. Computers don't rule the world, and I fear the day they do, because they will learn how to unplug me before I realize I should've unplugged them.
End long answer.
I must be honest, people who think their occupation is the be-all-end-all of all occupations need to get their brains split open and examined and need to be dropped in whatever would be closest to an anti-thesis of that area. Computer geeks should play football; football players should learn poetry.
In an ideal world, everyone would have a working knowedge of everything, and specialties in some things. This is not an ideal world. You are not in the best company. As a writer, I don't have to learn linux, but I CHOOSE to, for personal gain, but to say that ALL writers should use something not designed for them is just stupid.
Oh yeah, I could get a friend to do it. I could, but when it screws up at two in the morning, he (or she) isn't gonna want to come and futz with my machine under the possible pressure that I may lose my train of thought.
"Don't make me learn more than I have to to finish my job." is a quote I hear often at work, and I respect it.
Open your mind; there's more than computers to life.
"Any help from microsoft needs to be looked at for other motives."
I think you are parinoid.
I mean, seriously, if I give 10 bucks to a girl I just met for a cab ride home, I immediatly, of course, want to have sex with her. Yeah, sure.
If I give a local church a computer, I'm a Christian and I think it'll help me get into heaven. Yeah, sure.
If I give a school district 100 computers and put windows on them, it's because I support an evil monopoly and I should be killed.
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Help is help. My second computer was a win 3.11 machine (first was a commie 64). I learned on this. Just because my father bought the thing, doesn't mean he only wanted me to know about Windows.
Jeez. There will always be the people that support the dominant paradigm, and those who will attempt to subvert it in any way possible, even for bad reasons.
Get off yourself, Corporations aren't evil, the people that run them are. And THEY WANTED TO ENSURE THEIR MARKET SHARE, which only MAKES SENSE!
Sorry it's in caps, but I want you to notice that part.
As a buisiness man, I have a vested intrest to make as many people buy my products as possible. If competition helps me by showing me how to improve my product (which is a point that can be argued against Microsoft), then I will.
Repeat after me
I will make the best product.
I will make the best product.
I will make the best product.
There, now say it again. This is the best way to win market share. Make a product and market it in any way you can.
And I'd like to think they gave the software to the schools so they could get off the . . . damn, I don't even remember the network we had.:-( I'm getting old.
In any case, any company realizes that it's life is finite. But they can extend their life by marketing and better products.
I don't know if I respond directly to your point as well as I'd like to, but I'm not gonna write the original (base level) reply I was going to . . .
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"or to have his webpage as a forum lauding open source"
Grr, just because you release source doesn't mean you are "lauding open source."
This site becomes whatever people make of it because of the comments. I could take the source and make a pro-ms site out of it, or whatever. And there's nothing they can do about it, really (hack the machine, maybe), once the source is out.
bye
I didn't work new years. I'm lucky. What I did do was drive half-way across the country (Chicago to New Orleans) to stay down there for 5 days or so.
What makes this special?
I spent this all with 3 friends and my girlfriend. The days we spent there were interesting, learning and seeing new things, but what it comes down to is that the most important thing about any time that you have is that you spend it how you want, and if that's with people you love (as the author of the letter seems to imply), more power too you.
Every day is special, it's not every day that we (personal group) can get together and do what we did.
I didn't get drunk or high or anything like that. I was just with friends.
And I wouldn't want to work when I could do that.
At my work, we were told that there would be NO vacations (especially for IS personelle) for 30 days around New Years. But I told my boss at least a month beforehand that we had plans and reservations and all that.
I would have rather quit than to have missed out on what I had experienced.
Thanks for your time
"Clinical Depression? Some people just can't bring themselves to feel good. Its a facet of their PERSONALITY, not a disease."
I don't think clinicaldepression is the lack of feeling good, it's feeling like shit all the time.
I'm not gonna go "Depression is real man, after my dog died I was so depressed!" Real, clinical depression is the result of early events, which can be sorted out eventually through a lot of work but -
"Depression, and cram Prozac down *your* throat, it's simple false advertising"
I'm inclined to agree with this, and I'm sad to say it.
Instead of helping people realize what problems they have and working them out, they give them drugs. That's not how it used to be. A shrink would talk to you, now he/she will just give you prozac and call it an hour.
I've been involved in hospitals and (legal) drugs my whole life because of the jobs my parents had (working at hospitals), and they ALWAYS go for the easiest solution, because they're human.
Scary, isn't it?
Total speculation:
I'm not sure of the truth of this, but I remember reading somewhere that the surface of Jupiter would be very compressed and very hot carbon. What would that produce?
Yes, a diamond.
Of course, both I could be remembering incorrectly and the book could have been wrong, but it would definatly kill the rare gem status that diamonds do have.
I can just see DeBeers (a diamond company) realizing what's gonna happen to the market. Two weeks later on the ads:
"Quartz, at least it tells time forever."
later . . .
Okay, I don't particularly believe this or meet any these attributes, but I want to bounce this off of ya'll
I don't see anything wrong with total freedom of information. Why shouldn't everyone know that I have a tattoo of a butt on a butt on my butt. I don't care.
I'm too busy doing what I have to do and to old to concern myself that someone might find my lifestyle objectionable, and they shouldn't care if I feel the same way about theirs.
The irrational protection of privacy demonstrated in many posts here makes me wonder "What have these people to hide? Do they want to hide their individuality. Are they afraid that someone is going to see into their world and see that they're wrong or that they do something bad? What?"
There is no right and wrong, and no need for privacy in all reality. It's a false security blanket when you tell yourself that you know something. It helps you feel special if you've got that kiddie porn under your bed or whatever else you do that you want to "protect."
I admit, to have a society without privacy will only work if all individuals and corperations and government entities also have no privacy, then you can see everything, and what you can see you can rationally react to and act against. However, the letting loose of information on the world will make life better in an exponential manner, as wittnessed by open source software.
thank you for your time.
Not to nit pick, but since you said FBI, I assume US, and the Secret Service (yes, the same folk who guard the prez) take care of counterfeitting things.
I know, I work in a bank.
Funny other story:
I had an OLD 100 bill, and went to _____ and bought a new hard drive. They tried to confiscate the bill as counterfeit because it didn't have a stripe. I told them I worked at a bank and would take care of it. The bill was from 1950, and real.
Moral of the story: There's still old bills out there, and preventative measures, like changing the bills themselves, will take at least 20 years to get old currency out of circulation (especially when dumbsh-, err, clients don't want the new bills because they "might be counterfeit.")
later
I remember reading in some faq that I can't seem to find right now that they said that they used assembly when they needed the speed.
Of course, I could've been halloucinating.
bye
I don't see what's wrong with another OS. Isn't competition good? Oh yeah, I forget, only when it's linux.
Flamebait? No. Just responding to other posts, all in one convienient package.
Another tidbit, BeOS uses some ASM coding "when we need the speed." ASM is not unheard of in other os's.
have a good one
"US constitution, the British, or the Frensh one "
If I remember correctly, and I may not, the British don't have a Constitution in the way the US does because they work on the concept of common law.
I could be wrong, could a English-person or someone with more of a clue clerify this for me.
As for the rest of the post, I pretty much agree with it. I mean, people have different biases, and some people have an unfortunate history that some think will (and may) repeat itself.
bye
"pointing at a small, twinkling red dot in the sky, and dreaming."
That's it.
I'm inclined to agree with you, that we're capitalists, interested in gaining things, but the things that we deem as valuable are set by society.
When a child dreams of going to another planet, who tells them they can't (not that it's hard, but that they CAN'T). An older adult. Now, the adult is trying to be realistic.
We're gonna change what we see as valuable, hopefully soon. I want to live in a society where money is pretty irrelevent because needs are all met and the things that we want are, uhh, less materialistic.
Would you help in that? I would. I want to. I want to raise the money for a private space venture (Mars, probably, maybe the moon). Would you contribute? Seriously. Estimates (if I remember correctly) that a privatly funded space program would run about 1 billion dollars.
Until we find out about things more valuable than money, we'll stay here unless the advantages outweigh the cost, you're right. Columbus wasn't an explorer, he was a marketer.
It makes me sad; it makes me realize that we haven't gotten that far. It makes me want to change the world again, like I did, when I wanted to walk on the moon instead of writing or dreaming about it.
bye
Danielle Steele, sure, bite her head off. :-)
"The artistic equivalent of this would be work on commission or retainer."
The retainer is rare, and it has questionable artistic standards today. I mean, some people do it, and I'm not one to judge that. It was popular before.
If you're family members get it to work, let me know, but I don't exactly write "accessable" works. The stuff on my web page is not representative, it's just whatever I got on there.
It's easier, I suppose, though I don't know, to be a painter or other materials artist (sculptor, etc) and do the retainer thing. And I have been offered an oppertunity (no money) to write a biography (like the people that write all those autobiographys to the stars), but that person has never even seen my writing, and would, at once, be put off by it.
Many good writers now have another job, either a professorship at a university (David Foster Wallace or Ricardo Cortez Cruz or Curtis White to name the fiction writers within 10 miles of me at the university) or a journalistic position (William T. Vollman). Some can make a living on their writing (Gary Gildner writes some very "nice" things [and I use that in the kind of derrogatory way]), but they're very rare now. Poets who can do that are even rarer.
But, retainers are not quite an option, unless you don't mind ghostwriting autobiographies for OJ Simpson or Cassie "I got shot at Columbine and all I got was this bloody t-shirt, but my parents make millions" whatever-her-last-name-is.
I'm sorry, I don't think I can do that unless there's more to it than money.
"Technology is a tool, a thing, an it. We cannot draw philosophy from a thing, we cannot use it to judge"
Agreed, mostly, but technology offers us a new view of things. When we go to another solar system, we'll view things differently, another galaxy. When we find other beings, boy, will things be different.
Techonology is a MEANS to and end, and we ain't there yet, either the means or the end way.
"Why is it man created our problems by eating the apple and now we think we might be able to fix it ourselves by using our MacIntoshes?"
Dude, I love that quote, and I hate to ask this, but is it yours? I've got a big quote file that I save cool stuff in.
Thanks
"For artists or developers, the lesson is the same: give up the dreams of mega-bucks, and do what makes you happy, and all the rest of us richer."
:-) But not all.
Fine. Will you buy me food too? My dreams of mega-bucks are not tied to my art, well, maybe in an abstract, so I can do my art without worrying about living.
"Put your works on the net. Make it clear that anyone can distribute them. Also make it clear that your authorship must be recognized, and no others can claim copyright. Your work will be enjoyed, and will be experienced by many more people than any studio or publisher could ever offer. That's what you really want. "
That's what I want, really, and some of my stuff is on the 'net. But what I REALLY want is to be able live while only doing my artistic endevors. It will allow me to focus on doing them, which is reason #1 why I don't have a job while I'm in school (well, actually, it's reason #3, but it doesn't matter that I'm lazy about work and I have a funky schedule).
Unfortunately, living on an artists income isn't happening any time soon. I have ideas for some artists, and their time WILL come.
Like a Wizard of Id cartoon:
"What do you do for employment?"
"I'm a poet."
"We have enough beggars."
This is only a side note:
"Artists need to make the same leap. Do you all *really* want to be the next Stephen King,"
Boo. As a writer, I respect King when he's not off chasing ghosts. His more ambitious works (like The Stand and The Gunslinger series) will probably not be forgotten, and for good reasons. I don't want to go on about this, because I could do a Doctoral dissertation on those two stories alone, and I wouldn't be stretching for things.
"the calender is based on the estimated birth of Christ"
Bzzt. Wrong, sorry. Ole J.C. was born ~4 B.C., if you believe he was born at all. Which means that 1996 was 2000 years after his birth.
The 0 has something to do with the crowning of a king in Rome. I mean, they didn't even have English as we know it in 0, or even 1000. So B.C. = before Christ and A.D. = After death are both pretty silly. Especially when you realize he was 30 (supposedly) when he keeled over. What? 30 years without a year?
Of course, I could be wrong.
But, if I were god, I would like really big round numbers.
Later . . .
Ever play Half-Life?
I know it's windows only, I think. But, still, it's got to be the best game I've played in a long time (and I love FPS). I'm using it for a series of maps I haven't worked on for about six months now, but still . . .
No, only physical media (floppies, etc). You can download it, e-mail it, whatever, as long as you don't put it on something you transport by hand.
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"Never mind that film and music are the art of our age, and the price for enjoying that art has become too steep (just consider CD prices, versus the 70 cents per CD sold an artist would be lucky to get). "
:-) I'm working on that.
Don't forget books too. I mean, an author is likely to get more than 70 cents per item sold, but how many real authors sell as many books as CD's get sold? (like Stephen King, though I respect him as a good author, he's great, but an exception)
I mean, someone like David Foster Wallace or William T. Vollmann doesn't make a shitload off their book sales.
As for the music industry.
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"Why not give the device the capability to play wav files as well"
.wav file format is about 650 megs, assuming stereo, 44100(I think) encoding, whatever.
Because wav files are digital data, which is precisely what an audio CD.
~74 minutes of
It'd be stupid to burn a wav of an entire song onto a CD. You may as well just burn an audio CD, it's the same thing.
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"the subject of PCI modems, does anyone make a non winmodem for the PCI bus? I have looked a little, and only found winmodems."
I got a creative modem for my mom, PCI, regular modem. I would have gotten her an external, but they're more expensive.
USR/3com makes a PCI non-windmodem, I'm sure of it . . . almost.
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"your page is lame!"
Thank you for responding to my site, but I don't know which one. Is it the one with the yellowish colored background or the one with the scribbled background?
I was wondering what could be done to make the page(s) better. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
"I am ignorant in grammer thank you 8"
It wouldn't be something I would be proud of. I mean, it's something you use every day.
"assuming that I think computers are life? "
The statement "it's an OS for simpletons"
Windows is not designed to be an OS for a user who wants infinate customiziblity. It's designed for poeple who don't know what they're doing to get some actual work done.
To regard people that use windows as simpletons relegates me to believing that you like another OS better, which is fine, but one that isn't made for a "basic" computer. You demand an "advanced" operating system, which could be anything. BeOS, Linux, Mac, Windows 2000, BSD, TAO? I have no clue. But windows works for many people, and to ask them to relearn everything is unfair if it works.
I mean, my sister has a p60, windows 95 (first service pack), and microsoft works on the thing, THIS IS ALL SHE NEEDS.
I mean, what the hell, I got along fine with a typewriter with a little chip that beeped when I misspelled a word in it's pitifully small 50,000 word dictionary. This doesn't mean that everyone has to, but I understand the concept of scalability and learning curves.
When my little sister wants to upgrade her system, I'll ask her what she wants to do, and if it doesn't change from what she does do, I'll tell her not to bother.
Asking someone to learn something new is, while admirable, annoying at the least. This is why I think I "assumed", probably incorrectly, admittedly, that you thought computers were a big part of life.
For some people, like my sister, right now school and boys are more a part of her life than the products on her computer, and if she wants to do something more with it, maybe I'll put linux on it. But only if she wants it. And she isn't a simpleton. She's comfortable.
Thanks
"It is an OS for simpletons"
then
"people who are too ignorant to except this"
Do I need to point out the grammatical error? No, I don't think so. (For the reccord it's "accept".)
I don't point out grammar errors (especially common ones such as this one), but I feel that this is important.
This man is ignorant in grammar.
Is he a simpleton? I'm gonna go out on a limb and say "no", though I haven't checked his user history, so I don't have proof of this. But he doesn't know every Windows user, now does he?
So, is somone who is NOT ignorant in grammar have any real reason to be knowlagable in the ways that this man is? The short-short answer is "no."
Thanks for playing.
The longer answer is this:
Some people have things they would rather be doing than compiling a new kernel when they need to upgrade their kernel to support Quake IIXX. Sorry. If I want to type letters and play the new version of Grand Theft Auto and I don't have a clue how to use a computer, I'm sure as hell not gonna want to take it upon myself to learn Linux (yes, even one of the "easy" distros like RedHat.)
Some people have other things to do. Computers don't rule the world, and I fear the day they do, because they will learn how to unplug me before I realize I should've unplugged them.
End long answer.
I must be honest, people who think their occupation is the be-all-end-all of all occupations need to get their brains split open and examined and need to be dropped in whatever would be closest to an anti-thesis of that area. Computer geeks should play football; football players should learn poetry.
In an ideal world, everyone would have a working knowedge of everything, and specialties in some things. This is not an ideal world. You are not in the best company. As a writer, I don't have to learn linux, but I CHOOSE to, for personal gain, but to say that ALL writers should use something not designed for them is just stupid.
Oh yeah, I could get a friend to do it. I could, but when it screws up at two in the morning, he (or she) isn't gonna want to come and futz with my machine under the possible pressure that I may lose my train of thought.
"Don't make me learn more than I have to to finish my job." is a quote I hear often at work, and I respect it.
Open your mind; there's more than computers to life.
"Any help from microsoft needs to be looked at for other motives."
:-( I'm getting old.
I think you are parinoid.
I mean, seriously, if I give 10 bucks to a girl I just met for a cab ride home, I immediatly, of course, want to have sex with her. Yeah, sure.
If I give a local church a computer, I'm a Christian and I think it'll help me get into heaven. Yeah, sure.
If I give a school district 100 computers and put windows on them, it's because I support an evil monopoly and I should be killed.
Sorry, but you're wrong.
Help is help. My second computer was a win 3.11 machine (first was a commie 64). I learned on this. Just because my father bought the thing, doesn't mean he only wanted me to know about Windows.
Jeez. There will always be the people that support the dominant paradigm, and those who will attempt to subvert it in any way possible, even for bad reasons.
Get off yourself, Corporations aren't evil, the people that run them are. And THEY WANTED TO ENSURE THEIR MARKET SHARE, which only MAKES SENSE!
Sorry it's in caps, but I want you to notice that part.
As a buisiness man, I have a vested intrest to make as many people buy my products as possible. If competition helps me by showing me how to improve my product (which is a point that can be argued against Microsoft), then I will.
Repeat after me
I will make the best product.
I will make the best product.
I will make the best product.
There, now say it again. This is the best way to win market share. Make a product and market it in any way you can.
And I'd like to think they gave the software to the schools so they could get off the . . . damn, I don't even remember the network we had.
In any case, any company realizes that it's life is finite. But they can extend their life by marketing and better products.
I don't know if I respond directly to your point as well as I'd like to, but I'm not gonna write the original (base level) reply I was going to . . .
bye
"So why learn dselect?"
Because it will come back to haunt you. Just ask anyone who never bothered with DOS commands when they use Windows. Or, in 1991:
"I just have a PC, I'll NEVER have to learn Unix commands."
Yes, I said that . . . and now guess what I'm trying to do.
Bye
"This house boat is great, Marge. If we don't like our neighbors, we can just sail away!"
Vroom . . .