Err. Sorry : artists don't get screwed THAT (8 cents * 1 million albums = 80 000 dollars, which is not that much for artists selling THAT much albums) much by majors. They get roughly the same share as what they get with iTMS.
Just accept that Apple is playing Janus regarding the music industry. They screw up artists exactly the same way. Want some more details ?
Stop defending Apple against common sense, please...
I'm not going to put some more oil, because I know I will be wrong nonetheless. This is something you can't say. And especially on/.
But come on, you really think you are helping a country crippled by war and the result of 20 years of both dictatorship and embargo by playing with computers ?
I really wonder how a regular Iraqi fellow would react, considering that some of his fellowcitizens are answering questions such as : 'which distribution do you like most'?
You are right on one point : this can be said in every fucking country in the world. What I was saying was more of an ironic statement than anything else.
So, if you don't mind, let's go away for a little while from economics and let's look at what is happening in *our* streets. Please tell me how you relieve, by being a computer-scientist, people that live there. Easy answer : you don't. The only way to do it is to get involved in some charity. Now you are helping people. Let's take apart the criticisms implying that this is one more manifestation of western-centred mentality, or maybe of a void try to get rid of my guilt feelings. This is what I do, twice a week, in *every* fucking country I live in. It's a fucking pain in the ass for somebody who is not born with that job in blood, but I do it whatsoever. This is some kind of personal acountability, if you want.
This is already a fucking mess in my mind to see 90% of people, entranched in specializations and fileds and areas, not doing anything for their people. But trying to promote such a ill-suited concept to other countries ? And trying to divert people for what should be their prime objective (don't you remember about patriotic huge movements like women at work during WWII) ? What is that ?
Again I guess this is something you can't say.
And I have no hard feelings. But Life is a matter of priority.
Fog Creek Software, a small and friendly startup...
I'm dying to meet the guys in charge of the resumes there : sure enough they'll be pretty cool.
Jokes apart, this guy really makes me the impression of a overly-frustrated guy that whips himself incousciously because he received some letter telling him that his resumes were plain shit.
Honestly, who is this fucking guy to be so ruthlessly mocking about people ?
Don't get me wrong : I never wrote a resume. But being so overzealously critical towards the Indian community for example... blaming people for making typing mistakes when he sincerely wishes to read human papers. Fuck.
I mean I can understand that this is a pretty boring part of his job, but at least he could be making fun of these people in a gentle way, instead of yelling virtually at everyone : "We didn't hire you because you are a fucking cocksucker". And if still he is not happy with it, he can still resign, huh ?
Seems like he doesn't want to understand that the situation has two faces : the applicant who is tired of writing highly-customized resumes, and the reader who is tired of examining 50% of resumes with spell mistakes etc.
I, very personnaly, think that this kind of guy makes the world worse than what it needs to be.
Go, and write us a good resume, man.
Hey, man.
It's been a while since I didn't hear your electronic voice on AIM.
Guess you've been pretty busy these last days.
Hope to see you soon.
Biyyyyaaatch.
jdifool
Maybe you should read between the lines, instead of focusing on the headlines. When Microsoft gives $1 billion of computer aid to the United Nations, in both cash AND software, don't you think this is a good investment, both for commercial and public image purposes ?
The main reason to give such a large amount of money is that the United Nations will not change their OS, because it will have been provided, and because the very proper ways of using it will have been taught for free by Microsoft experts.
Furthermore, it will make Microsoft a good contributor to the probably most useless NGO (unfortunately, I'd say). And what does Microsoft can look for now that it is wrongly aknowledged by 98% of the world population that Windows is the Os to have ? Public image.
This is called an investment, not a donation.
Use you head.
I told it to the mods, so I guess you kind of deserve it.
Take it easy man when I say : fuck off.
You are exactly the kind of people who prevent the men of good-will to discuss that point.
I guess you don't realize how the editors are taking advantage of what you are doing. "Look at all these suckers there, if this is supposed to be criticism, then we feel ok about it". And just because the average/. reader is too fucking lazy to go through a -1 threshold, it is widely assumed that yes,/. editors are right.
Don't get me wrong. I personnally think that some editors are worth it. But michael really is a problem, and you fucking morons are not the solution.
What really upsets me here is that I find some bright people, who are posting some leftist rants, thirsty of justice, and that can't realize they are using a system at least as fucked up as every government in this world.
Of course some lame poster will answer, "this is a news site, chill out and get a life". Fuck you too. I'm sure the best layer of/. posters can be brought away of a system they wouldn't accept if they knew it a bit more. Whatever.
But you are what really pisses me off. Some fucking assholes spitting your frustration. Make your move, build a news site, fucker.
jdif
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Please stop posting as AC.
Its debated every time...
Oh really ? I guess that if it would have been debated a bit more than what you describe as every time, Seth Finkelstein wouldn't have been so bitter about his work, and then wouldn't have resigned (yes, I think that the/. effect, and the untouchable situation of whom needs to be labelled as a crook, at least, has to do with Seth demise as a censorware tracker).
I've been reading/. for some time now, and I couldn't find a place where it was debated in a constructive way. Please post some link.
jdif
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Can please someone tell to a naive/. reader, and frequent contributor, who is brave enough not to put himself into AC, why this post is modded down ?
I can understand the Offtopic tag, but where else can someone speak about these facts that are, if not true, supposed to be debated ?
As a part-time journalist, I'd like someone to justify why he has not been punished by the profession for hijacking the censorware domain.
I know this is going to be modded down, but sometimes I wonder why/. readers lack this very basic courage.
Or maybe, ironically, this is something you can't say ?
Asking you to devote some time for an not so coward anonymous guy... but could you explain a bit further how this works ? Didn't get it by viewing the source...;|
Miyazaki's probably my favorite animation designer in this world crippled with Pocahontas and Lion King 3 : The Return of the Evil Snake.
I have all the DVDs, from China, here at home (home=Vietnam until the end of the year). Which one do you miss ? Try to find one : The Cat Returns, the last one that never went out outside of Japan. More childish, but with the incredible wit and spirituality that you can find in any of his animations.
Don't know if you know these, but www.pathea.com and www.nausicaa.net are both excellent websites dedicated to anims in general, and Miyazaki in particular...
But still this is no good for my future 3-4 yo children ; it has been proved by experience (most of my 8 bros and sis, basically) that Miyazaki cartoons frighten the youngest kids...:)
Can't you remember watching some old Disney cartoons (don't know the english translations, so I'll keep my mouth shut here) with your parents ?
Disney's cartoons strength was their ability to make the whole family gathers around the TV, with the children crying when Bambi dies, and parents crying because of their children crying...:)
Now all they can dou is *crap*, *crap*, and some more *crap*. This is actually good for competition, if you ask me.
Disney is not even better in 3D animation. Basically, the 3D cartoons were produced by Disney. At least Toy Story and Finding Nemo have been done by Pixar Studios.
What this seems to mean is that Disney is turning into a production studio, instead of a genuine creator of cartoons. As said by the Pixar site, in February 1997, Pixar entered into the Co-Production Agreement (which superseded the Feature Film Agreement) with Disney pursuant to which we, on an exclusive basis, agreed to produce five original computer-animated feature-length theatrical motion pictures for distribution by Disney. One might guess that Disney will try to keep its dominant position by signing such agreements with the creative animation studios now that it's been recurrently proved (since the Lion King, mostly) that Disney 2D creations suck... Too bad I'll have to keep my old device to show Bambi to my children...:)
Exactly the same thing in Vietnam where I work right now. This country has such a gift for counterfeiting products than you can't even find a genuine copy of any Adobe products. They are all available for 0,5 euros at any cd store, however.
Canon and Photoshop make profits because of developped countries and businesses there that buy their copies, frightened by the shallow threat of being caught. After all this is only about cost of opportunity.
But these companies should really reconsider their policy in developing countries, where the culture of illegally copying software and hardware is going to spread so widely that, at some point, even selling Photoshop copies for 10 dollars will not be attractive enough. From that point of view, Microsoft already sold their Windows copies at inferior prices in Thailand (can't remember precisely how much). The practice is so common that, in Vietnam, you are dependant on what the illegal copiers of games/dvds/audio cds choose to copy ; and, in general, this is mostly mainstream products.
You have been dubbed Offtopic. Bad luck. Tough I might thank you for the backup, and say, just for the pleasure of having another lame mod point spent, fuck to all of our kind that don't understand that believing in something doesn't mean diverting counter-arguments into oblivion.
I agree with you on that point, Microsoft *gives* you *some* choice. Microsoft gives you the choice of applications you can install on your computer : Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, WMP, in that case.
The fact that, pragmatically, you are not given the choice of your OS when you buy a x86-based computer because Windows is pre-installed on 99% of them, doesn't mean that Joe feels his freedom of choice impaired. Basically for him freedom of choice is not, because he doesn't know what an OS is. What this MS guy told was not for us, it was for Joe...
Every pro-linux site should link to an educational site that teach you, in no good-bad manner, what an OS is, and why it is important to know that.
of course you are right, but mods must understand too that a post must not be modded up because it seems clever, or because it repeats something clever someone already said before.
I can cite my Oreilly's books all day if I want to. Beyond the awkward morality of such guys (you can criticize/., but the best thing is to do it correctly), this brings nothing.
Repeating what you can learn by making your head work for 10 secs, it's ok. I'm not here for that.
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Just accept that Apple is playing Janus regarding the music industry. They screw up artists exactly the same way. Want some more details ?
Stop defending Apple against common sense, please...
Regards,
jdif
I'm not going to put some more oil, because I know I will be wrong nonetheless. This is something you can't say. And especially on /.
But come on, you really think you are helping a country crippled by war and the result of 20 years of both dictatorship and embargo by playing with computers ?
I really wonder how a regular Iraqi fellow would react, considering that some of his fellowcitizens are answering questions such as : 'which distribution do you like most'?
You are right on one point : this can be said in every fucking country in the world. What I was saying was more of an ironic statement than anything else.
So, if you don't mind, let's go away for a little while from economics and let's look at what is happening in *our* streets. Please tell me how you relieve, by being a computer-scientist, people that live there. Easy answer : you don't. The only way to do it is to get involved in some charity. Now you are helping people. Let's take apart the criticisms implying that this is one more manifestation of western-centred mentality, or maybe of a void try to get rid of my guilt feelings. This is what I do, twice a week, in *every* fucking country I live in. It's a fucking pain in the ass for somebody who is not born with that job in blood, but I do it whatsoever. This is some kind of personal acountability, if you want.
This is already a fucking mess in my mind to see 90% of people, entranched in specializations and fileds and areas, not doing anything for their people. But trying to promote such a ill-suited concept to other countries ? And trying to divert people for what should be their prime objective (don't you remember about patriotic huge movements like women at work during WWII) ? What is that ?
Again I guess this is something you can't say.
And I have no hard feelings. But Life is a matter of priority.
Regards,
jdif
Regards,
jdif
I'm dying to meet the guys in charge of the resumes there : sure enough they'll be pretty cool.
Jokes apart, this guy really makes me the impression of a overly-frustrated guy that whips himself incousciously because he received some letter telling him that his resumes were plain shit.
Honestly, who is this fucking guy to be so ruthlessly mocking about people ?
Don't get me wrong : I never wrote a resume. But being so overzealously critical towards the Indian community for example... blaming people for making typing mistakes when he sincerely wishes to read human papers. Fuck.
I mean I can understand that this is a pretty boring part of his job, but at least he could be making fun of these people in a gentle way, instead of yelling virtually at everyone : "We didn't hire you because you are a fucking cocksucker". And if still he is not happy with it, he can still resign, huh ?
Seems like he doesn't want to understand that the situation has two faces : the applicant who is tired of writing highly-customized resumes, and the reader who is tired of examining 50% of resumes with spell mistakes etc.
I, very personnaly, think that this kind of guy makes the world worse than what it needs to be.
Go, and write us a good resume, man.
Regards,
jdif
Regards,
jdif
Yoda is a woman. Regards, George.
Hey, man. It's been a while since I didn't hear your electronic voice on AIM. Guess you've been pretty busy these last days. Hope to see you soon. Biyyyyaaatch. jdifool
Maybe you should read between the lines, instead of focusing on the headlines. When Microsoft gives $1 billion of computer aid to the United Nations, in both cash AND software, don't you think this is a good investment, both for commercial and public image purposes ?
The main reason to give such a large amount of money is that the United Nations will not change their OS, because it will have been provided, and because the very proper ways of using it will have been taught for free by Microsoft experts.
Furthermore, it will make Microsoft a good contributor to the probably most useless NGO (unfortunately, I'd say). And what does Microsoft can look for now that it is wrongly aknowledged by 98% of the world population that Windows is the Os to have ? Public image.
This is called an investment, not a donation.
Use you head.
Regards,
jdif
Take it easy man when I say : fuck off.
You are exactly the kind of people who prevent the men of good-will to discuss that point. /. reader is too fucking lazy to go through a -1 threshold, it is widely assumed that yes, /. editors are right.
I guess you don't realize how the editors are taking advantage of what you are doing. "Look at all these suckers there, if this is supposed to be criticism, then we feel ok about it". And just because the average
Don't get me wrong. I personnally think that some editors are worth it. But michael really is a problem, and you fucking morons are not the solution.
What really upsets me here is that I find some bright people, who are posting some leftist rants, thirsty of justice, and that can't realize they are using a system at least as fucked up as every government in this world.
Of course some lame poster will answer, "this is a news site, chill out and get a life". Fuck you too. I'm sure the best layer of /. posters can be brought away of a system they wouldn't accept if they knew it a bit more. Whatever.
But you are what really pisses me off. Some fucking assholes spitting your frustration. Make your move, build a news site, fucker.
jdif
Its debated every time... Oh really ? I guess that if it would have been debated a bit more than what you describe as every time, Seth Finkelstein wouldn't have been so bitter about his work, and then wouldn't have resigned (yes, I think that the /. effect, and the untouchable situation of whom needs to be labelled as a crook, at least, has to do with Seth demise as a censorware tracker).
I've been reading /. for some time now, and I couldn't find a place where it was debated in a constructive way. Please post some link.
jdif
I can understand the Offtopic tag, but where else can someone speak about these facts that are, if not true, supposed to be debated ?
As a part-time journalist, I'd like someone to justify why he has not been punished by the profession for hijacking the censorware domain.
I know this is going to be modded down, but sometimes I wonder why /. readers lack this very basic courage.
Or maybe, ironically, this is something you can't say ?
jdif
jdif
I have all the DVDs, from China, here at home (home=Vietnam until the end of the year). Which one do you miss ? Try to find one : The Cat Returns, the last one that never went out outside of Japan. More childish, but with the incredible wit and spirituality that you can find in any of his animations.
Don't know if you know these, but www.pathea.com and www.nausicaa.net are both excellent websites dedicated to anims in general, and Miyazaki in particular...
But still this is no good for my future 3-4 yo children ; it has been proved by experience (most of my 8 bros and sis, basically) that Miyazaki cartoons frighten the youngest kids... :)
jdif
Disney's cartoons strength was their ability to make the whole family gathers around the TV, with the children crying when Bambi dies, and parents crying because of their children crying... :)
Now all they can dou is *crap*, *crap*, and some more *crap*. This is actually good for competition, if you ask me.
jdif
I guess that artists are more than happy with such a system.
Want to know how much iTunes gives ?
What this seems to mean is that Disney is turning into a production studio, instead of a genuine creator of cartoons. As said by the Pixar site, in February 1997, Pixar entered into the Co-Production Agreement (which superseded the Feature Film Agreement) with Disney pursuant to which we, on an exclusive basis, agreed to produce five original computer-animated feature-length theatrical motion pictures for distribution by Disney. One might guess that Disney will try to keep its dominant position by signing such agreements with the creative animation studios now that it's been recurrently proved (since the Lion King, mostly) that Disney 2D creations suck... Too bad I'll have to keep my old device to show Bambi to my children... :)
jdif
Canon and Photoshop make profits because of developped countries and businesses there that buy their copies, frightened by the shallow threat of being caught. After all this is only about cost of opportunity.
But these companies should really reconsider their policy in developing countries, where the culture of illegally copying software and hardware is going to spread so widely that, at some point, even selling Photoshop copies for 10 dollars will not be attractive enough. From that point of view, Microsoft already sold their Windows copies at inferior prices in Thailand (can't remember precisely how much). The practice is so common that, in Vietnam, you are dependant on what the illegal copiers of games/dvds/audio cds choose to copy ; and, in general, this is mostly mainstream products.
jdif
I guess another evidence that mods shouldn't be unleashed like that.
Hint for you guys : it was a joke (Look at the '...' and the spelling...).
jdif
'Told ya that the fucking chinese were everywhere..'
jdif
I was not speaking about Apple whatsoever. I guessed before they have some other multimedia apps than qt/iTunes ; now I know their names... thanks.
jdif
Tough I might thank you for the backup, and say, just for the pleasure of having another lame mod point spent, fuck to all of our kind that don't understand that believing in something doesn't mean diverting counter-arguments into oblivion.
jdif
Why is this flamebait ? Troll, maybe, even though most of them lost the core definition of troll, but flamebait ?
Take it easy when I say : mods, fuck you.
jdif
Microsoft gives you the choice of applications you can install on your computer : Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, WMP, in that case.
The fact that, pragmatically, you are not given the choice of your OS when you buy a x86-based computer because Windows is pre-installed on 99% of them, doesn't mean that Joe feels his freedom of choice impaired. Basically for him freedom of choice is not, because he doesn't know what an OS is. What this MS guy told was not for us, it was for Joe...
Every pro-linux site should link to an educational site that teach you, in no good-bad manner, what an OS is, and why it is important to know that.
jdif
Ticking the 'do not want to moderate box' right now. It's of no use with so many ignorant people.
Thanks for your vigilance.
jdif
of course you are right, but mods must understand too that a post must not be modded up because it seems clever, or because it repeats something clever someone already said before.
I can cite my Oreilly's books all day if I want to. Beyond the awkward morality of such guys (you can criticize /., but the best thing is to do it correctly), this brings nothing.
Repeating what you can learn by making your head work for 10 secs, it's ok. I'm not here for that.
Regards,
jdif