Except "squishing your head," because thousands of people know it and you can bring it up any time and people think you know this show that everybody's seen but no-one knows that anyone else watched.
It's like saying "I played Bumbury in my school's rendition of 'The Importance of Being Earnest'." except people know what you're talking about.
(Not that they shouldn't know about Earnest . . . they just don't because it was written by some uppity victorian guy, wasn't it?)
Occasionally, I substitute teach, so I don't think I'm qualified for Apple's give-away, so.
But, from what I've seen, the worse of this advertising stuff is the Channel 1 network.
In exchange for free TVs in every room (and the cable infrastructior [sp] along with it), the school agrees to broadcast this news program into the school rooms.
The actual content of the Channnel one network is supposedly news, but it's biased, heavily, but I suppose that it's hard to keep bias out of news. I mean, just by choosing which stories to cover you've got bias.
CNN's Anderson Cooper and MTV's Serena Alschule (however you spell it) got their start at channel one. It also allowed for a lot of schools to have the means to make their own news shows, some of which were basically some kid reading in monotone the events of the day and the sports scores, along with the cheesy Video Toaster graphics.
But they (Channel 1) pay for it by showing about 4 segments of 4 ads in about 15 minutes to a very specific and very captive audience.
But I remember this stuff back when I was in school. I remember that they had thousands of ads that students were forced to watch, mostly involving OXY cleansers and Pepsi.
Vaguely depressing, because they had the demographic they wanted and the kids had to watch, sometimes there were quizzes based on the content of the show. (Of course, depending how the student cared about his/her grade.)
There's your advertising in schools for you.
At least my school had a pepsi and a coke machine, for choice, you know. They turned them off before first hour started, though my experiences show that the availability has little effect on the students themselves in the classroom. It's more likely the location and the towns' economic situation.
To try and push this into vaguely on topic-ness, I haven't seen an Apple (other than a few Apple IIs [even still]) in a school I've taught at or attended since my college's graphic design lab.
Reminds me of that Dolf Lundgren movie "We Come in Peace," where the bad guy has this gun that shoots this CD like thing and it chops off arms or legs. Yeah, I know, it was magnetically propelled, but still. Maybe there's enough metal in the pressed CDs.
Having worked in the financial industry, I'm willing to agree.
They're afraid of software without a final source. Yes, there are the free software developers, but they understand that linux is made by hackers.
Red Hat et al. is actually making inroads in this, because they can be a "final source".
But until the huge amount of software that an average bank uses that is seen as important for their job is available on another platform, then linux will be on the sidelines.
Uhh, it seems to me many buisinesses have standardized with Netscape due to security issues.
Of course a lot of users still use IE, but whatever.
I personally go through spurts of it being REALLY important that everyone can view my web site, then I realize few people surf any more and I don't know how many hits in the past year I've gotten. Personal web pages are like the great american novel that everyone works on but no-one reads or actually gets published. (Bad analogy, I know).
"Don't blame me, my vote wouldn't have counted anyway."
Yes, you should vote for local officials, but the electoral college needs to be abolished, too, if for nothing else so we don't have to see the california take up all that space in the population-size based map.
They give new perspectives, and while many of those are crap, you can never forget the power of the new viewpoint on a problem/issue.
My 3d project now-adays is character creation/animation for a short movie I'm doing. (More like a sitcom episode, about 20 minutes.) Dozens of characters interacting in an environment.
I just don't feel like blender is capable of doing what I want/need. I know I could be wrong on this point, but it's too much hassle now to make me prove it wrong because I think the UI is dumb.
But I'd like it to be.
I've been using 3d editors for a little while, about 4 years, and have yet to actually find one that feels good at all, and I give them time.
So, my issue is that the keepers of the code should work on it to make sure it works as best as possible for as many users as possible. If that includes a variable environment that a user can select, then so be it.
God knows i'd be willing to use a GPL tool. Another reason to ditch Windows. (Next, multi-track sound editing!)
I just have to learn to code, now, to make it the way I want. (Is that good UI design?)
That's all well and good for regular musicians with guitar/bass/drums format or even something possibly able to "perform," but what about artists whose performance is purely "virtual"? (I hate that word, but it seems to fit.)
I've made about a half dozen songs using a tone generator and that's about it. There's no vocals, a handful of samples in a half-dozen songs. They're programed to repeat in rythym, etc. etc. I didn't say it was very good, but I don't think you, or any one else for that matter, would want to watch play the wav on xmms for my concert, or even twiddle behind the soft glow of my laptop. Shit, the stuff ain't even dancable. (Though it scares the crap out of my dogs.)
Would you want to see that?
I'm not claiming I deserve a record deal or anything like that, but think your solutions through, eh? Not all music can be performed any more.
Now laser light shows. . ..that's entertainment! (zzz)
Any elietist comments about electronic stuff not being music is ignoring the point of the argument.
Now, in my _band_ band, I play guitar, and I can see your point, but my solo "project" as it was, even when I collaborated once or twice, well . ..
I see what you mean, and really kind of agree with you, but it's not a solution to everything as you seem to make it.
I ain't a lawyer, either, but what you're referring to is the creation of laws. Striking down laws as unconstitutional doesn't have quite the same restriction.
Uhh, a consultant friend of mine can get the Microsoft manager in charge of whatever project he wants on the phone when he needs.
FUD is right, though. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, these can be non-profitable things, and so, in many a buisinesspersons' mind, must be eliminated.
I, once again, didn't say it was a good argument, but conservative folks at buisiness want professionals coding their apps, not long-hair hippies and neo-communists. Doesn't matter if they are hippies, as long as the (wo)man buying the code doesn't know.
When a machine fucks up, you want to be able to say X did this, X being a company with a support line and technicians working to solve your problem.
Linux has that, but it's not a phone line or a company (generally, this is getting better), and when many people will tell you to fix the source yourself. The people who say this have obviously never worked in a busy office.
During the bubble, I had a job (didn't we all?), Red Hat was about to go IPO, and I had a single Linux test machine among about a hundred Windows PCs. The business was a bank, and a conservative one at that. There is commercial software that is windows only that they need to do their buisness. I tried to say that many PCs could forgo a hardware upgrade when 3270 connectivity along with the Netware file server shouldn't be a problem in Linux. Unfortunately, I didn't know as much then as I do now, and it really doesn't matter, because the order came on high that there would be no non-windows PC's on the network (the fact that they have a Novell server that violates the policy is ironic). They wanted accountablility, and companies rely on other companies to get stuff done.
With big names like IBM and Red Hat in the Linux game now, perhaps more companies will feel more comfortable. But windows is entrenshed on policies and minds of users. In order for actual users to use linux, people are gonna have to offer something above and beyond what windows has.
Never underestimate the need for companies to have a sense of security. Single vendor-dependency be damned.
I'm not saying it's a good reason, but that's the one I was given.
You are going to have to adapt to the environment, bitching on slashdot isn't going to get you as far as letters and votes to your congresscritter.
That is, if you fear change. That's your call and your business, literally and figuratively. You're not willing to change, then don't expect much growth, if you're comfortable, great, and be sure to be respectful when the steamroller comes.
I'm no fan of DRM, and intend to buy a mac soon as a partial attempt to avoid it (I do need a couple Adobe programs, and sound editing sucks in linux, etc. etc.)
I give away my music for free, hell, if someone wants a copy on CD, I'd give it to 'em. I know it's not good to most people, and I have no pretentions any more about making it in the music biz.
Unfortunately, the stuff I make doesn't translate to live music quite so well. "Did you see that, man! He put so much emotion into hitting the 'Play' button."
The RIAA, MPAA, and small frys like you are scared of each-other, scrambling to save buisness models. It's just a matter of scale. They complain (read: lobby) to congress, you complain on Slashdot.
Whatever. Maybe it's 'cuz I fancy myself some kind of designer, but I like the mac.
I have the geek skills to run linux (actually BSD, thank you very much), but I don't _want_ to. I did it for a while and it was fun to be all rebellious and stuff and confuse everyone else that uses my computer.
Don't get me wrong, I'll keep my PC around, with some appletalk protocol engaged so I can keep my massive amounts of data somewhere else. In a closet perhaps. And maybe to play the rare game not available on Mac.
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Ahh, you caught me.
don't tell my wife, I've only done it three or four times in a row now.
Bah, the French would have came back from behind eventually.
Oh, wait, you're not talking about football (soccer), are you?
Europeans that hate Americans are the funniest lot, because they forget that they're country sucked enough for people to go across oceans to avoid.
I hate nationalism.
Uhh, get a cereal box, preferably one with a cuddily mascot on the front, and a toy knife.
Impale the box and spread your sage blood liberally.
If you're creative, paint your face up like the mascot. (They're GRRReat!)
Go, cereal killer, go.
(Yeah, it sucks, but I usually go as a chick, but this year I cut my hair, so it's a bit tougher to pull off.)
And they weren't funny.
Except "squishing your head," because thousands of people know it and you can bring it up any time and people think you know this show that everybody's seen but no-one knows that anyone else watched.
It's like saying "I played Bumbury in my school's rendition of 'The Importance of Being Earnest'." except people know what you're talking about.
(Not that they shouldn't know about Earnest . . . they just don't because it was written by some uppity victorian guy, wasn't it?)
Don't worry, man, I thought it was funyn.
I know I can't speel.
This isn't the worst of it.
Occasionally, I substitute teach, so I don't think I'm qualified for Apple's give-away, so.
But, from what I've seen, the worse of this advertising stuff is the Channel 1 network.
In exchange for free TVs in every room (and the cable infrastructior [sp] along with it), the school agrees to broadcast this news program into the school rooms.
The actual content of the Channnel one network is supposedly news, but it's biased, heavily, but I suppose that it's hard to keep bias out of news. I mean, just by choosing which stories to cover you've got bias.
CNN's Anderson Cooper and MTV's Serena Alschule (however you spell it) got their start at channel one. It also allowed for a lot of schools to have the means to make their own news shows, some of which were basically some kid reading in monotone the events of the day and the sports scores, along with the cheesy Video Toaster graphics.
But they (Channel 1) pay for it by showing about 4 segments of 4 ads in about 15 minutes to a very specific and very captive audience.
But I remember this stuff back when I was in school. I remember that they had thousands of ads that students were forced to watch, mostly involving OXY cleansers and Pepsi.
Vaguely depressing, because they had the demographic they wanted and the kids had to watch, sometimes there were quizzes based on the content of the show. (Of course, depending how the student cared about his/her grade.)
There's your advertising in schools for you.
At least my school had a pepsi and a coke machine, for choice, you know. They turned them off before first hour started, though my experiences show that the availability has little effect on the students themselves in the classroom. It's more likely the location and the towns' economic situation.
To try and push this into vaguely on topic-ness, I haven't seen an Apple (other than a few Apple IIs [even still]) in a school I've taught at or attended since my college's graphic design lab.
Reminds me of that Dolf Lundgren movie "We Come in Peace," where the bad guy has this gun that shoots this CD like thing and it chops off arms or legs. Yeah, I know, it was magnetically propelled, but still. Maybe there's enough metal in the pressed CDs.
Anyone else seen this movie?
Anyone at all?
Anyone?
Beuller?
I know that.
You know that.
But does the CEO, or even the CTO know that?
What they do know, as a customer, if they bitch enough and they're big enough, they'll get a fix.
And the average bank has a lot of computers.
Having worked in the financial industry, I'm willing to agree.
They're afraid of software without a final source. Yes, there are the free software developers, but they understand that linux is made by hackers.
Red Hat et al. is actually making inroads in this, because they can be a "final source".
But until the huge amount of software that an average bank uses that is seen as important for their job is available on another platform, then linux will be on the sidelines.
I don't mind the baby thing as long as the parents leave the theatre post-haste when the infant starts. When they ignore it, then I have issues.
Jeez, either the baby wants food, wants to be changed, or wants to sleep. This is a multiple choice test.
The miracle isn't the actual child, it's raising an 8 year old that will sit still and be quiet during a movie.
Uhh, it seems to me many buisinesses have standardized with Netscape due to security issues.
Of course a lot of users still use IE, but whatever.
I personally go through spurts of it being REALLY important that everyone can view my web site, then I realize few people surf any more and I don't know how many hits in the past year I've gotten. Personal web pages are like the great american novel that everyone works on but no-one reads or actually gets published. (Bad analogy, I know).
I want a bumper sticker:
"Don't blame me, my vote wouldn't have counted anyway."
Yes, you should vote for local officials, but the electoral college needs to be abolished, too, if for nothing else so we don't have to see the california take up all that space in the population-size based map.
BTW, I vote third parties only.
Yeah, you need them.
They give new perspectives, and while many of those are crap, you can never forget the power of the new viewpoint on a problem/issue.
My 3d project now-adays is character creation/animation for a short movie I'm doing. (More like a sitcom episode, about 20 minutes.) Dozens of characters interacting in an environment.
I just don't feel like blender is capable of doing what I want/need. I know I could be wrong on this point, but it's too much hassle now to make me prove it wrong because I think the UI is dumb.
But I'd like it to be.
I've been using 3d editors for a little while, about 4 years, and have yet to actually find one that feels good at all, and I give them time.
So, my issue is that the keepers of the code should work on it to make sure it works as best as possible for as many users as possible. If that includes a variable environment that a user can select, then so be it.
God knows i'd be willing to use a GPL tool. Another reason to ditch Windows. (Next, multi-track sound editing!)
I just have to learn to code, now, to make it the way I want. (Is that good UI design?)
That's all well and good for regular musicians with guitar/bass/drums format or even something possibly able to "perform," but what about artists whose performance is purely "virtual"? (I hate that word, but it seems to fit.)
.that's entertainment! (zzz)
.
I've made about a half dozen songs using a tone generator and that's about it. There's no vocals, a handful of samples in a half-dozen songs. They're programed to repeat in rythym, etc. etc. I didn't say it was very good, but I don't think you, or any one else for that matter, would want to watch play the wav on xmms for my concert, or even twiddle behind the soft glow of my laptop. Shit, the stuff ain't even dancable. (Though it scares the crap out of my dogs.)
Would you want to see that?
I'm not claiming I deserve a record deal or anything like that, but think your solutions through, eh? Not all music can be performed any more.
Now laser light shows. . .
Any elietist comments about electronic stuff not being music is ignoring the point of the argument.
Now, in my _band_ band, I play guitar, and I can see your point, but my solo "project" as it was, even when I collaborated once or twice, well . .
I see what you mean, and really kind of agree with you, but it's not a solution to everything as you seem to make it.
I'm all for Eldred as opposed to Ashcroft, but did anyone look at the pictures of Lessig? I hope he has more gestures than the cupping hands one.
But seriously folks, that's what he's doing. Looks like he's cupping breasts.
I don't leave feedback on the rare auctions I do/win.
I've seen auctions that say they reserve the right to reject bidders who have left negative comments.
I've had sellers get pissed because you don't leave the A++++++++++++++++ GREAT JOB! comment.
I've even had a person try to get my wife's account removed by saying she didn't pay because she didn't leave a comment that was steller.
Those A+ things aren't useful. They don't tell me anything about the seller.
So I just don't leave anything if it isn't a negative experience.
I ain't a lawyer, either, but what you're referring to is the creation of laws. Striking down laws as unconstitutional doesn't have quite the same restriction.
God, you don't even read the posts you reply to, do you? (Troll? Ah, well.)
It's how the executives view the product that counts in a corporate environment. Not necessarily how it actually performs or is.
Uhh, a consultant friend of mine can get the Microsoft manager in charge of whatever project he wants on the phone when he needs.
FUD is right, though. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, these can be non-profitable things, and so, in many a buisinesspersons' mind, must be eliminated.
I, once again, didn't say it was a good argument, but conservative folks at buisiness want professionals coding their apps, not long-hair hippies and neo-communists. Doesn't matter if they are hippies, as long as the (wo)man buying the code doesn't know.
Accountability.
When a machine fucks up, you want to be able to say X did this, X being a company with a support line and technicians working to solve your problem.
Linux has that, but it's not a phone line or a company (generally, this is getting better), and when many people will tell you to fix the source yourself. The people who say this have obviously never worked in a busy office.
During the bubble, I had a job (didn't we all?), Red Hat was about to go IPO, and I had a single Linux test machine among about a hundred Windows PCs. The business was a bank, and a conservative one at that. There is commercial software that is windows only that they need to do their buisness. I tried to say that many PCs could forgo a hardware upgrade when 3270 connectivity along with the Netware file server shouldn't be a problem in Linux. Unfortunately, I didn't know as much then as I do now, and it really doesn't matter, because the order came on high that there would be no non-windows PC's on the network (the fact that they have a Novell server that violates the policy is ironic). They wanted accountablility, and companies rely on other companies to get stuff done.
With big names like IBM and Red Hat in the Linux game now, perhaps more companies will feel more comfortable. But windows is entrenshed on policies and minds of users. In order for actual users to use linux, people are gonna have to offer something above and beyond what windows has.
Never underestimate the need for companies to have a sense of security. Single vendor-dependency be damned.
I'm not saying it's a good reason, but that's the one I was given.
Uhh, the thing that bothers me most is their claim that they are "fair and balanced" when it's really obvious that they ain't.
:-)
I'll make sure my grains of salt are of the corse variety.
And futurama rocked, damnit.
"If it ain't broke"
Then break it!
You are going to have to adapt to the environment, bitching on slashdot isn't going to get you as far as letters and votes to your congresscritter.
That is, if you fear change. That's your call and your business, literally and figuratively. You're not willing to change, then don't expect much growth, if you're comfortable, great, and be sure to be respectful when the steamroller comes.
I'm no fan of DRM, and intend to buy a mac soon as a partial attempt to avoid it (I do need a couple Adobe programs, and sound editing sucks in linux, etc. etc.)
I give away my music for free, hell, if someone wants a copy on CD, I'd give it to 'em. I know it's not good to most people, and I have no pretentions any more about making it in the music biz.
Unfortunately, the stuff I make doesn't translate to live music quite so well. "Did you see that, man! He put so much emotion into hitting the 'Play' button."
The RIAA, MPAA, and small frys like you are scared of each-other, scrambling to save buisness models. It's just a matter of scale. They complain (read: lobby) to congress, you complain on Slashdot.
Oh well, "to live is to be a hypocrite."
I need to find a job . . .
But the feel is more like "Cowboy Bebop" without the good music and more static characters.
My opinion, just in the first 20 minutes or so.
Bah.
Whatever. Maybe it's 'cuz I fancy myself some kind of designer, but I like the mac.
I have the geek skills to run linux (actually BSD, thank you very much), but I don't _want_ to. I did it for a while and it was fun to be all rebellious and stuff and confuse everyone else that uses my computer.
Don't get me wrong, I'll keep my PC around, with some appletalk protocol engaged so I can keep my massive amounts of data somewhere else. In a closet perhaps. And maybe to play the rare game not available on Mac.
It's a choice, not a mandate from God.
Nah, the pyramids were built in a copy of the Build editor for Duke Nukem. It actually says:
"You're not supposed to be here."