If "many people" can't accept that... well what can you do?
Personally I try to isolate myself and have no interest in saving subhumans from themselves.
Where necessary, attach disclaimers to all of your work and continually state: "You begged me to help you, and I said that I couldn't - so don't complain if this fails."
This girl who basically hated the world for not being sexually attracted to her (now fired for other reasons, mainly underperformance caused by her medication-induced immaturity) was blogging at work. Total introvert, but online she had no problem extensively psychoanalyzing every boss and coworker she knew.
I am certain that she wanted us to read what she thought of random people - people she judged hard despite having NO relation to. She just didn't have the balls to tell them directly.
Banning something - like the careless disposal of batteries - generally moves the problem to areas you can't control. Before, waste could be dealt with on assumptions of what it contained.
After this, people will chuck their cell phones into the nearest river, even more directly polluting the environment they tried to protect.
If you want something that someone else produces, it is not unreasonable to pay for it.
I agree, and like the price of gasoline - my philosophy is either not to complain, or else don't buy it.
However I think that artists, recording companies, distributors... everyone, really, is very foolish to keep making a product that they know will be stolen. They have had many years to divest in their industry and find new professions - cooking burgers if need be. Instead they are wasting time trying to create an artificial market by using lawyers and technical measures that consistently fail.
(And if all music dies, then so be it.... It won't in any case, but if it did, then that's capitalism.)
"Profit Maximization does not always maximize profits"
If American car companies listened to you.... then they might stay in business.
However, executives would not be able to retire with the same bonuses. Unions would have to settle for less-than-perfect contracts.
As long as our culture de-values pure pride and quality (traits embodied by Apple and the Japanese for example) most American companies will only produce crap for however long it takes to loot the company and go bankrupt.
1920x1200 would be perfect, considering Blu-Ray/HD-DVD both use 1920x1080. Those extra 120 lines at the top or bottom would be just enough for a nice control strip, play/pause buttons, etc.
I have not fretted over any movie's sound since learning that Stanley Kubrick preferred mono for his films. To many great masters the message contains the inspiration, while the media is a distraction.
Expect a massive migration away from compressed formats, for example - JPEGs going to PNGs and TIFFs.
Your music collection of MP3/OGG/AAC may be re-sold to you in 32-bit (regular CDs use 16-bit, which was always just barely acceptable to critics of the format).
It looks like Philips wants to pretend to sell me a device, while keeping control over it. That's not a sale, and presenting it as one is a clear case of fraud.
This needs to be presented to a court. A very high court, where it will win.
"The material, described in the journal Nature, can be printed in wafer thin sheets that could transform walls, ceilings or even furniture into lights."
Sounds like Dave Bowman's bedroom in the last few minutes of 2001. (Too bad we can't post pictures here... thanks again "goatse.cx" commies for ruining things.)
If someone doesn't know what TCP/IP means or what a CNAME record is, I can direct him to appropriate RFCs that define them.
I worked at a computer education place where the CEO made up acronyms that stood for NOTHING. Even though they were all-caps, the individual letters had no meaning whatsoever; they were just capitalized words used to refer to her dumb programs, and nothing else.
I can see doing that as a joke - if you had a sick sense of humor - but this wasn't the case. She was just plain dumb. (... she was also so high on herself, she practically wanted a corporate chopper despite that we were only 40 people in the whole outfit).
I've actually thought about doing something like what you suggest but have been repulsed by the notion of not having a password required for sign-on.
Solution: spoof screens! The desktop is really a log-in screen (or vice versa?) that only YOU know where to click and access anything. You may need 2 layers of spoofing, the fake password and a fake desktop after that, followed by the real password prompt... I'm messing all of this up, but I think the idea is sound.
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Personally I try to isolate myself and have no interest in saving subhumans from themselves.
Where necessary, attach disclaimers to all of your work and continually state: "You begged me to help you, and I said that I couldn't - so don't complain if this fails."
I think that many people feel upset or offended that science naturally dissociates itself from such consequences.
I am certain that she wanted us to read what she thought of random people - people she judged hard despite having NO relation to. She just didn't have the balls to tell them directly.
"Attempted bashing" is usually more accurate, if one makes such an argument...
Have you never seen piles of litter RIGHT NEXT TO a public trash can? (And one that has plenty of room in it, of course...)
You don't know teenagers, nor general sociopaths -- they are everywhere. Spite is the LEAST malicious motive they have.
After this, people will chuck their cell phones into the nearest river, even more directly polluting the environment they tried to protect.
I agree, and like the price of gasoline - my philosophy is either not to complain, or else don't buy it.
However I think that artists, recording companies, distributors... everyone, really, is very foolish to keep making a product that they know will be stolen. They have had many years to divest in their industry and find new professions - cooking burgers if need be. Instead they are wasting time trying to create an artificial market by using lawyers and technical measures that consistently fail.
(And if all music dies, then so be it.... It won't in any case, but if it did, then that's capitalism.)
If American car companies listened to you.... then they might stay in business.
However, executives would not be able to retire with the same bonuses. Unions would have to settle for less-than-perfect contracts.
As long as our culture de-values pure pride and quality (traits embodied by Apple and the Japanese for example) most American companies will only produce crap for however long it takes to loot the company and go bankrupt.
1920x1200 would be perfect, considering Blu-Ray/HD-DVD both use 1920x1080. Those extra 120 lines at the top or bottom would be just enough for a nice control strip, play/pause buttons, etc.
This image is amplified when most people don't care to begin with; they may not be pro-child porn, but neither would they show that they're not.
By the same token, don't confuse "programming" with "playing computer games 21 hours a day".
I have not fretted over any movie's sound since learning that Stanley Kubrick preferred mono for his films. To many great masters the message contains the inspiration, while the media is a distraction.
Best Buy will simply "X" out the number 16 in its store displays, and write "32" in bold red figures. Believe me, it works.
Expect a massive migration away from compressed formats, for example - JPEGs going to PNGs and TIFFs.
Your music collection of MP3/OGG/AAC may be re-sold to you in 32-bit (regular CDs use 16-bit, which was always just barely acceptable to critics of the format).
Hmm.. increasing mutation rates where they are already sky-high, as opposed to the conventional wisdom of minimizing exposure.
It's like adding nature to nature. I like it.
Everything started out ad-free. Every communication medium, including radio, tv, the internet...
This needs to be presented to a court. A very high court, where it will win.
So did General Motors. That same unthinkable demise is now looming over Microsoft.
I have always favored caddys and cartridges; I think it's ridiculous to hold any media by its outer edge or risk ruining it.
Sounds like Dave Bowman's bedroom in the last few minutes of 2001. (Too bad we can't post pictures here... thanks again "goatse.cx" commies for ruining things.)
I worked at a computer education place where the CEO made up acronyms that stood for NOTHING. Even though they were all-caps, the individual letters had no meaning whatsoever; they were just capitalized words used to refer to her dumb programs, and nothing else.
I can see doing that as a joke - if you had a sick sense of humor - but this wasn't the case. She was just plain dumb. (... she was also so high on herself, she practically wanted a corporate chopper despite that we were only 40 people in the whole outfit).
Solution: spoof screens! The desktop is really a log-in screen (or vice versa?) that only YOU know where to click and access anything. You may need 2 layers of spoofing, the fake password and a fake desktop after that, followed by the real password prompt... I'm messing all of this up, but I think the idea is sound.