The freedom of speech issue is crap. Corporations think that they are people, but they are not. They should not have the same rights that individuals have.
For example, I can say "Cigarettes make you strong. You will live forever if you smoke four packs a day." Philip Morris can not say that. There are limits on corporate speech.
If we can limit corporate speech in that way, we should be able to limit corporate speech in a Do-Not-Call-List way.
The author's comparing reseting a dead Windows computer with penicillin. Isn't penicillin used on unwanted infestations of bacteria? Not that far off, if you ask me.
But CTRL-ALT-DELETE wasn't discovered, as the article states. It was developed. Bradley made it up. Comparing it to the discovery of penicillin is like saying Tolkien discovered the lord of the rings.
Personally, I think anybody working with images who actually needs more than what the Gimp provides either has bad photographic technique or a bad workflow. If anything, the Gimp actually still is overkill for day-to-day imaging work.
You optimize your graphics for the Lynx browser, don't you?
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If you look at it you'll notice the colored line leading to Linux doesn't follow other lines the whole way, it does a magic jump in several places!
Also notice the lines going from linux into Open Server and UnixWare in several places.
The chart shows that SCO has GPLed code in their products. Woo!
Once a web project reaches 100 lines of code mixed with style & content, you should trash it and start over.
Just because you can mix code, content and style in PHP and etc, that doesn't mean you should. Keep these things as far apart as possible. In my experience it makes everything much easier to maintain.
I work for a small company. When I started they were desperate need of a database system. I convinced them to use PHP/MySQL with Apache by presenting them with a fully formed solution, as opposed to a request for thousands of dollars to start development with microsoft technologies.
We only have a few users, like I said it's a small company, so I didn't have to worry about big servers. In fact, it runs on my gateway win 98 workstation. The only hardware I've had to get was some extra memory. Eventually we'll get a server, but it's no big deal right now.
I know from experience elsewhere that if I tried a MS solution I would have crippled my little workstation. I would have probably needed an upgrade just to run Visual Studio. And forget about IIS at the same time.
I vote for embedding artist PayPal addresses in mp3s. Then we can send the money directly to the artist.
I'd imagine the RIAA wouldn't think too kindly of this idea...
I'm all for this one, or something like it.
I don't have a problem paying for quality music. But I hate to think that the artists that I respect and appreciate so much are only getting a nickel or something out of my fifteen dollars. I want the artist to get at least fiddy per-cent.
Enough people will be prosecuted and then people will stop.
But the more people they sue, the more people will start paying attention to boycott the riaa stickers. Yes, there will always be people that still go to the music stores, but numbers have been dropping already.
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I mean, you define market forces with litigation. The whole point of this 'capitalism' thing is that people do what they want to, and it's businesses job to figure out how to make money off of it. I think that's what people are reacting to.
People wanting to do a quick search and then download the tunes they want to hear is a market force. Napster's cat is out of the bag, and there's no putting it back in. Now it's the industries job to figure out how to profit from it. If they don't, we will do it anyway.
To be honest I don't mind the "Windows" key. Since I'm still using windows it has one use that I've come to love. Namely, [Windows-e] opens the file manager, and the good one too (the 'windows explorer' not the useless 'my computer' crap).
Other than that though, all the other goofy keys on my new logitech keyboard don't do me much good. The "F-lock" thing that the article poster mentioned is super lame. Every time you reboot the F keys turn in to a bunch of useless function keys until you hit the "F-lock" button. Grr.
pay the artists... THEY can pay their marketing and operating costs.
This is a nice idea. The artists can contract with distributors, marketeers, etc. They get to decide how much money to spend on these things and how much to keep for themselves. Not to mention which company to go with for distribution/marketing.
I haven't really thought it through yet, but it seems like it would actually promote competition in the industry. Money would flow through the system in the opposite direction from the way it does now. If a band makes enough money locally (and doing self promoted tours) they could decide to contract out for distribution, or not. The power would be in their hands. It could work, I think, and it could be very good for the average artist.
hmmm I don't mean to sound like MS pr or anything, but it's kind of scary in some ways that things like socialism are being spun as "not necessarily bad things".
So the article says that Gnutella et all are shooting themselves in the foot by trying to legalize music file sharing. I think he is operating under a bad assumption. He assumes that everyone that makes p2p software is doing it because they want to get rich.
He is missing an important point. A large number of people that make p2p software do it because they want to be able to share music on the internet. That's it. That's the motivation. That ability is riches enough. Screw the money.
In a business context there are reasons to keep conversations for years. I've actually worked at places that more or less required it.
Also, more and more is being done online. Banking, billing, etc. If I'm going to take the time to replace paper bills and bank statements in hanging file folders with ebills in email folders, why not organize them new and more useful ways. I think the ability to organize data differently than in the physical world is the biggest advantage of the digital revolution.
You could always make a pop up window that says "This will delete ALL copies of this email. Are you sure you want to do this?" Let expert users turn it off, but make sure it's on by default.
This is good advice. For myself, I've left the corporate IT world, and as the article suggested, entered into another industry. The ATM sales and placement company that I work for now didn't know how much they needed a computer guy. Now that they have fancy databases and web pages they do know how much they need someone like me. Sure I make a lot less then I did at Lucent, but I have a much less stressful job that lets me program, and I can keep it as long as I want.
Ok, the whole point is that having volatile chemicals under pressure is more dangerous than having volatile chemicals stored in little pellets that you have to pass a current through to make it do anything.
Of course they would bolt it down. Duh.
Next thing you'll tell me is that the plastic in plastic explosives is just for sissies. "Just be careful. Don't sneeze."
Question: If you frequently need an SUV (for its combination of size, power and off-road capability), is it more environmentally-friendly to purchase two vehicles (one SUV and one minivan) and drive the one appropriate to the particular trip, or is it better to only own one large chunk of steel and petrochemicals?
A good question. I don't know the answer. It seems like you'd have to balance the frequency you need SUV capabilities versus the frequency you don't.
I really can't imagine most suv owners needing a combination of size, power and off-road capability on a frequent basis. I say this since I know a lot of suv owners and I don't know a single one that drives anywhere a nissan sentra can't go.
I would also like to point out that whenever any of my coworkers with suvs need to move something big (sometimes only as big as a lawnmower) they borrow the minivan from work.
I can't claim to know anyone that actually goes serious 4 wheeling, but from what I know about it, most people do it in smaller jeeps and the like, with big tires and jacked up suspension.
What's all this leading up to? I don't think most suv owners (not all, I know there are exceptions) do not really need an suv for any practical reason.
Yeah, so what I was talking about, as you probably could have figured out if you followed the thread from the beginning, was a tank with pressurized hydrogen in it. A fuel tank for a hydrogen powered car. A metal tank with its contents under pressure getting burst by an impact could accelerate as the pressures equalize, thus exceeding the momentum of the vehicle carrying it.
Did I actually calculate the velocity a theoretical hydrogen tank could obtain in such a circumstance, and come up with 400 mph? No. Because we were talking in generalities. The figure that I used, 400 mph, was just a placeholder. The point is that it would hurt.
It's not the flammability that's the hazard associated with pressurized gas cylinders (like hydrogen). It's the pressure. Heck, a *helium* cylinder can kill you if mishandled.
True dat. If a 100 lb metal tank hits your head at 400 mph it doesn't matter if it's flamming. That's just more reason to not have a tank of compressed hydrogen in your car. Pellets man. It's all about the pellets.
I think we should go farther. Encourage the use of energy efficient technologies by forcing the consumer to pay the cost up front. Tax the incandescents till so that they're the same price as the LEDs (or floresents currently ~$10-15).
While we're at it, lets make SUV owners pay a yearly environment tax that pays for the damage they wouldn't have done if they drove a more efficient vehicle.
Hydrogen is not that explosive, maybe, but it is highly flammable. And when you mix it with oxygen it can really get going. The thing about oxygen is that the air is full of it.
Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable driving at high speeds on roads with SUVs and a big tank of gaseous hydrogen in the tank.
What I'm interested in is those hydrogen pellets we saw mentioned here a month or two back.
Maybe it's because I'm not a Mac PersonTM, but if I was forced to use one of those desks I would hit somebody with a stick. If, when they recovered, they asked me to sit at the desk again, I would feel compelled to hit them with the stick again.
Perhaps the best plan of action would be to hit the person with the Desk itself. Hopefully ruining both in one shot.
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Next generation technology to fight enemies that are 2 generations behind? WHY?
I can give you three reasons, and they're all money.
The freedom of speech issue is crap. Corporations think that they are people, but they are not. They should not have the same rights that individuals have.
For example, I can say "Cigarettes make you strong. You will live forever if you smoke four packs a day." Philip Morris can not say that. There are limits on corporate speech.
If we can limit corporate speech in that way, we should be able to limit corporate speech in a Do-Not-Call-List way.
The author's comparing reseting a dead Windows computer with penicillin. Isn't penicillin used on unwanted infestations of bacteria? Not that far off, if you ask me.
But CTRL-ALT-DELETE wasn't discovered, as the article states. It was developed. Bradley made it up. Comparing it to the discovery of penicillin is like saying Tolkien discovered the lord of the rings.
Personally, I think anybody working with images who actually needs more than what the Gimp provides either has bad photographic technique or a bad workflow. If anything, the Gimp actually still is overkill for day-to-day imaging work.
You optimize your graphics for the Lynx browser, don't you?
If you look at it you'll notice the colored line leading to Linux doesn't follow other lines the whole way, it does a magic jump in several places!
Also notice the lines going from linux into Open Server and UnixWare in several places. The chart shows that SCO has GPLed code in their products. Woo!
Just because you can mix code, content and style in PHP and etc, that doesn't mean you should. Keep these things as far apart as possible. In my experience it makes everything much easier to maintain.
I work for a small company. When I started they were desperate need of a database system. I convinced them to use PHP/MySQL with Apache by presenting them with a fully formed solution, as opposed to a request for thousands of dollars to start development with microsoft technologies.
We only have a few users, like I said it's a small company, so I didn't have to worry about big servers. In fact, it runs on my gateway win 98 workstation. The only hardware I've had to get was some extra memory. Eventually we'll get a server, but it's no big deal right now.
I know from experience elsewhere that if I tried a MS solution I would have crippled my little workstation. I would have probably needed an upgrade just to run Visual Studio. And forget about IIS at the same time.
I vote for embedding artist PayPal addresses in mp3s. Then we can send the money directly to the artist. ...
I'd imagine the RIAA wouldn't think too kindly of this idea
I'm all for this one, or something like it. I don't have a problem paying for quality music. But I hate to think that the artists that I respect and appreciate so much are only getting a nickel or something out of my fifteen dollars. I want the artist to get at least fiddy per-cent.
Let's cut the riaa out of the picture.
Enough people will be prosecuted and then people will stop.
But the more people they sue, the more people will start paying attention to boycott the riaa stickers. Yes, there will always be people that still go to the music stores, but numbers have been dropping already. 1 2
I mean, you define market forces with litigation. The whole point of this 'capitalism' thing is that people do what they want to, and it's businesses job to figure out how to make money off of it. I think that's what people are reacting to.
People wanting to do a quick search and then download the tunes they want to hear is a market force. Napster's cat is out of the bag, and there's no putting it back in. Now it's the industries job to figure out how to profit from it. If they don't, we will do it anyway.
To be honest I don't mind the "Windows" key. Since I'm still using windows it has one use that I've come to love. Namely, [Windows-e] opens the file manager, and the good one too (the 'windows explorer' not the useless 'my computer' crap).
Other than that though, all the other goofy keys on my new logitech keyboard don't do me much good. The "F-lock" thing that the article poster mentioned is super lame. Every time you reboot the F keys turn in to a bunch of useless function keys until you hit the "F-lock" button. Grr.
pay the artists... THEY can pay their marketing and operating costs.
This is a nice idea. The artists can contract with distributors, marketeers, etc. They get to decide how much money to spend on these things and how much to keep for themselves. Not to mention which company to go with for distribution/marketing.
I haven't really thought it through yet, but it seems like it would actually promote competition in the industry. Money would flow through the system in the opposite direction from the way it does now. If a band makes enough money locally (and doing self promoted tours) they could decide to contract out for distribution, or not. The power would be in their hands. It could work, I think, and it could be very good for the average artist.
hmmm I don't mean to sound like MS pr or anything, but it's kind of scary in some ways that things like socialism are being spun as "not necessarily bad things".
Why?
So the article says that Gnutella et all are shooting themselves in the foot by trying to legalize music file sharing. I think he is operating under a bad assumption. He assumes that everyone that makes p2p software is doing it because they want to get rich.
He is missing an important point. A large number of people that make p2p software do it because they want to be able to share music on the internet. That's it. That's the motivation. That ability is riches enough. Screw the money.
There doesn't seem to be a clear line seperating the two [government and big business] anymore.
Is Cheney a VP of the US or CEO of Halliburton? He seems to claim the former but act the latter. When you have to ask, you know you're in trouble.
Memphis, or TN, (I'm not sure if it's city, county or state) has a website where you can get the names and current addresses of everyone on probation.
I'm not sure if that's a good thing.
In a business context there are reasons to keep conversations for years. I've actually worked at places that more or less required it.
Also, more and more is being done online. Banking, billing, etc. If I'm going to take the time to replace paper bills and bank statements in hanging file folders with ebills in email folders, why not organize them new and more useful ways. I think the ability to organize data differently than in the physical world is the biggest advantage of the digital revolution.
You could always make a pop up window that says "This will delete ALL copies of this email. Are you sure you want to do this?" Let expert users turn it off, but make sure it's on by default.
This is good advice. For myself, I've left the corporate IT world, and as the article suggested, entered into another industry. The ATM sales and placement company that I work for now didn't know how much they needed a computer guy. Now that they have fancy databases and web pages they do know how much they need someone like me. Sure I make a lot less then I did at Lucent, but I have a much less stressful job that lets me program, and I can keep it as long as I want.
Ok, the whole point is that having volatile chemicals under pressure is more dangerous than having volatile chemicals stored in little pellets that you have to pass a current through to make it do anything.
Of course they would bolt it down. Duh.
Next thing you'll tell me is that the plastic in plastic explosives is just for sissies. "Just be careful. Don't sneeze."
A good question. I don't know the answer. It seems like you'd have to balance the frequency you need SUV capabilities versus the frequency you don't.
I really can't imagine most suv owners needing a combination of size, power and off-road capability on a frequent basis. I say this since I know a lot of suv owners and I don't know a single one that drives anywhere a nissan sentra can't go.
I would also like to point out that whenever any of my coworkers with suvs need to move something big (sometimes only as big as a lawnmower) they borrow the minivan from work.
I can't claim to know anyone that actually goes serious 4 wheeling, but from what I know about it, most people do it in smaller jeeps and the like, with big tires and jacked up suspension.
What's all this leading up to? I don't think most suv owners (not all, I know there are exceptions) do not really need an suv for any practical reason.
Yeah, so what I was talking about, as you probably could have figured out if you followed the thread from the beginning, was a tank with pressurized hydrogen in it. A fuel tank for a hydrogen powered car. A metal tank with its contents under pressure getting burst by an impact could accelerate as the pressures equalize, thus exceeding the momentum of the vehicle carrying it.
Did I actually calculate the velocity a theoretical hydrogen tank could obtain in such a circumstance, and come up with 400 mph? No. Because we were talking in generalities. The figure that I used, 400 mph, was just a placeholder. The point is that it would hurt.
True dat. If a 100 lb metal tank hits your head at 400 mph it doesn't matter if it's flamming. That's just more reason to not have a tank of compressed hydrogen in your car. Pellets man. It's all about the pellets.
I think we should go farther. Encourage the use of energy efficient technologies by forcing the consumer to pay the cost up front. Tax the incandescents till so that they're the same price as the LEDs (or floresents currently ~$10-15).
While we're at it, lets make SUV owners pay a yearly environment tax that pays for the damage they wouldn't have done if they drove a more efficient vehicle.
Hydrogen is not that explosive, maybe, but it is highly flammable. And when you mix it with oxygen it can really get going. The thing about oxygen is that the air is full of it.
Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable driving at high speeds on roads with SUVs and a big tank of gaseous hydrogen in the tank.
What I'm interested in is those hydrogen pellets we saw mentioned here a month or two back.
Maybe it's because I'm not a Mac PersonTM, but if I was forced to use one of those desks I would hit somebody with a stick. If, when they recovered, they asked me to sit at the desk again, I would feel compelled to hit them with the stick again.
Perhaps the best plan of action would be to hit the person with the Desk itself. Hopefully ruining both in one shot.