I'm not sure I agree with you, but to pick the 2 that are apropos here: Peaceful and leftist.
This bunch of loosely assembled hippies, anarchists, socialists and new agers doesn't have a coherent voice what-so-ever.
I haven't been down to Wall St. to see the current incarnation, but several dozen camped outside of the my office at the Woolworth building for a couple of weeks while protesting the mayor's budget a month or two ago. They were a nuisance, but certainly not threatening.
That's a stupefyingly facile take on the situation.
The wealth does not belong to the country, nor could the wealth exist without the structure of the civilization upon which it hangs. Should 90% of the cost to run the country be paid by those who take in 90% of the wealth benefit of the society? Sure seems like a fair way to approach the situation to me.
This is yet another example of assuming that Windows is good enough for any purpose and the hardware is all that matters. Clearly it doesn't, or one of those products 'like the iPad' would have been a runaway success 10 years ago.
The single most important part of a computer from a usability standpoint is the human-computer interface. In the consumer market, usability is king. Good enough is fine for functionality (i.e. can it play music, movies, look at pictures and browse the web without looking at a manual or even thinking about the interface? Great, then it doesn't need 2 cameras, 3 USB ports and a terminal shell app built in). Apple is the only company that gets this, though Microsoft seems to slowly be learning. I haven't touched a WP7 yet, but it at least looks promising in the videos.
You should stop by the ESB on a week day evening sometime, especially on a clear though not particularly warm autumn night, and the lines will be almost non-existent. I avoided it for years until finally having a friend talk me into going up and we were up there in minutes. It's a bit chilly, but I wouldn't want to hang up there very long anyways.
The views are stunning.
is determined by the portion of the map within active view. If you are looking at China and search for a restaurant, it isn't going to be anywhere near you (unless you are actually in China, of course).
I agree about the 'competent enough to actually do any of this' part. I just don't think that they are educated enough. They COULD be competent enough with a little training. In a computer repair shop I used to work at, we came across a fellow with kiddy porn on his computer (obviously so, no one was digging for stuff) and so we were obligated to call the cops (incidentally, if you weren't aware kiddy porn is one of the few, maybe only, things that your computer repair guy is obligated, compelled by law to report to the police. anything else, cracked software, 200 ripped movies or whatever and they don't need to say anything, but if they don't report KP it is obstructing justice or some such and the person who found it is liable for prosecution).
Anyhow, after we reported it I was talking to an officer and he gave me the number of the computer crimes division, because according to him the beat cops (we just called the precinct) were notorious for screwing around with computers and rendering the evidence inadmissible in court because it had been tampered with.
I digress. The point being they just don't know any better. It's just another piece of evidence to them, and they don't understand that just by turning it on they are modifying it. Data on an HD is not static like a gun on the floor or a finger print. Even just looking at it can change it, and the average person just doesn't understand that yet.
Oh, shit, someone is teaching and actually getting paid a fair wage! Sound an alarm!
And for something as boring and unnecessary as MATH for chrissakes!
I don't know where your living, but while $55K is certainly a decent wage, I wouldn't call it GOOD. Particularly not when your job is to teach math in the ghetto. Teachers should be paid at least that much for teaching ANYWHERE, but if you look at the average teacher income around the country you'll find that it's MUCH lower (poking around google it appears to be in the $40k range, more or less depending on grade, specialization and location).
Bottom line people, the right to protest DOES not include the right to anarchy, terror and violence.
How could you read the entire article and come to the conclusion that the NYPD only filtered out the ones with a potential for violence?
I know that I don't fear a graduate student with a chalk spraying bicycle. Saying that they overstepped their bounds isn't saying that they didn't nab any legitimate threats, but that they used those legitimate threats as an excuse to quash nonthreatening, legal opposition.
That sounds like a gigantic pain in the ass to me. Maybe if I were receiving dozens of voicemails per day it would be useful, but it would take me longer to text than it would to just call and listen through the handful I have. I think it is safe to say that looking at a list of them and clicking is far simpler and more intuitive than texting back and forth.
And I don't know what GPRS web service you are using, but I haven't found it particularly tolerable in terms of speed.
These are better than nothing, but I don't think that they are comparable to the demo of the iPhone's voicemail system
I disagree with just about everyone in this thread re: definition of musician vs. composer vs. editor etc., but I'm replying to you because I feel that this point of view is particularly damaging to good, original, modern music, and it's acceptance by a wider audience.
No one, other than academics who over intellectualize most music, really cares whether there is a 12-tone row in a piece of music. Why would you expect one to show up in a song by Aphex Twin? Would it make it a better piece of music? Aperiodic rhythms? Who cares?
Music is judged by the vast majority of people in subjective, opinionated terms. Arguing that someone should justify the use of sampling in music by citing an unknown, and in most people's opinion unlistenable (though innovative), composer is ridiculous. I appreciate those on the vanguard like Stockhausen for pushing boundaries and bringing new ideas to the table, but that doesn't necessarily make what they do 'good' music in a conventional (i.e. layman's) sense.
You sound like a pompous asshole. I guess what bothers me most is the tone of superiority that is expressed through statements like yours and by most people who hold similar opinions, and the insinuation that if someone disagrees they are stupid and wrong. It does nothing to encourage communication and exchange of ideas, and everything to turn people off of the fringe completely.
What hacks me off about the letter the lawyers sent was that they did all this ranting about podcast ready in the first 2/3 of the letter, then note in the 2nd to last paragraph, that they're not asking them to do change anything with podcast ready -- just mypodder. Clearly a scare tactic, which pretty much puts Apple on par with the RIAA.
And, to quote you again: "Apparently, you didn't RTFA either". Now, in your defense I was a little confused on first reading also. But the letter is clearly referring to two different uses of the term "podcasting".
The first: "... we must insist that your clients withdraw both Int. Cl. 9 applications for PODCAST READY..."
and the second: "Please note that we have not requested abandonment of Pocast Ready, Inc.'s Int. Cl. 38 application for PODCAST READY because the services description indicates the mark will be used for podcasting-related services; if that assumption is incorrect, please let us know."
While IANAL, it seems pretty clear that they are referring to two different applications, or different parts of the same application. And yes, I think this is a legitimate defense of their trademarks and not simple bullying. And no, I, like most of the public, could give two shits about Apple defending its trademarks as it is required to by law (or risk losing them).
Inaccuracy of information, however, does hack me off.
that he actually used the thing with any sort of regularity, and/or in any way related to the kidnapping. The article doesn't exactly go in to detail of how they thought a Commodore 64 would have been used, whether it was outfitted for net access or anything else at all. It may have been nothing more than an old typewriter to the guy, maybe a paperweight. And it's 'discovery' 2 weeks after she escaped suggests it may have been 'hidden' in a closet or something.
What are the odds that this guy didn't use it at all since the 80's, it has nothing to do with the crime and is merely an intriguing story for a slow news day, in a climate obsessed with 'net based child predators?
I'm not saying they shouldn't check it out, but I wouldn't expect to find anything.
That's the original site, the current is here for the intro, and here for the current saga.
Stuart may relate this on his page (it's been a while since I read it), but from talking to him it basically has escalated, and they chose to sue, because despite an order to only contact him through his lawyers at the EFF, Barney's folks have continued to mail him nastygrams directly.
Since when is it cheaper to produce a flawed product and then fix it rather than producing a product that works the first time?
Didn't you just lose money fixing the problem that could have been avoided in the first place?
Hardware repairs are not so cheap as a simple software patch that can be posted online and downloaded... nowhere NEAR as cheap. Like, so dissimilar as to be a laughable analogy if you didn't seem so serious about it.
You don't even consider the damage to a company's reputation which, though Microsoft is disdained amongst geeks, most consumer's expect quality from.
Perhaps they are the minority. My anecdotal evidence to the contrary comes from the mountains of North Carolina where I spent about 6 years (and also the Charlotte area briefly). I found that it was nearly impossible to have a conversation with an evangelical and not have the topic turn to God, and why I should come to church with them sometime.
I quickly but politely disabused them of this idea.
Then there was the girl I dated for two and a half years. The daughter of a presbyterian minister, the entirety of her bible study friends refused to speak to me, and did a fair job of shunning her, when they discovered that I was a long-haired, jazz playing atheist. Not that they had a problem with Jazz in particular, just musicians in general were not to be trusted unless they were evangelical also.
Interestingly (to me anyway), I thought I left these encounters behind when I moved to NYC, only to have that idea disabused in Long Island last week. Incidentally, he was more easily dissuaded than his Southern counterparts.
Right. Brainwashing. Which is why I went through 8 years of Catholic school, started as a Catholic and ended up an atheist.
Hella good brainwashing.
It's also the reason that approximately 80% of my peers (without taking a formal poll) don't practice their faith regularly, if they haven't denounced it out right. Brainwashing.
I think you may be confusing Catholics with Evangelicals. Catholics (based upon my personal experience in youth groups, Churches and School) don't go actively trying to convert you. They do force you to adhere to their codes of conduct while at school and school functions, and they expect their good example to attract you to the fold. But this is a far cry from the evangelical's idea that the more souls that they save the more secure their spot in heaven.
Am I the only person here who understood that any educational use is allowed as 'Fair Use'? So, as long as they aren't selling it, can't students use and share recordings of lectures (assuming they were given permission to record in the first place)?
I don't like registration screens either, but I've never had to register to read Salon... I just have to look at an ad for 20 seconds then I get to read all I want on their site for free.
The consortium said an HVD disc could hold as much data as 200 standard DVDs and transfer data at over 1 gigabit per second, or 40 times faster than a DVD.
Most of the really great music in the world has come about because someone cared enough to pay an artist so that they could live off of their craft.
If the rest of the world shared your ignorant opinion that musicians don't deserve to be able to support themselves though their art, most of the really great music wouldn't exist.
This isn't to say that only paid musicians make good, or even great, music, but that pretending that you deserve to hear great music for free because a musician loves his craft is repugnant.
Would you ask a potter to make you a set of custom plates for free because he "loves" his craft and shouldn't need money to motivate him?
Nothing pisses me off more than some asshole venue owner asking me to play for food and some beer because, "You love to play, right?" Fucking right I love to play, but it's cheaper, easier and more fun to play at home for friends and family, none of whom would mind bringing over some pizza and beer.
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If you watched the clip he linked to you might have picked that up from context clues, even if you weren't aware of the word.
I'm not sure I agree with you, but to pick the 2 that are apropos here: Peaceful and leftist.
This bunch of loosely assembled hippies, anarchists, socialists and new agers doesn't have a coherent voice what-so-ever.
I haven't been down to Wall St. to see the current incarnation, but several dozen camped outside of the my office at the Woolworth building for a couple of weeks while protesting the mayor's budget a month or two ago. They were a nuisance, but certainly not threatening.
That's a stupefyingly facile take on the situation.
The wealth does not belong to the country, nor could the wealth exist without the structure of the civilization upon which it hangs. Should 90% of the cost to run the country be paid by those who take in 90% of the wealth benefit of the society? Sure seems like a fair way to approach the situation to me.
And to the AC below who claims that the 90%ers pay 90% of the taxes already, you are sorely mistaken. Do a little research into income tax vs. capital gains tax and what proportion of income is derived from each stream at various income levels. This is how Warren Buffett gets away with paying a lower tax rate than his secretary.
Windows XP + Stylus != iPad
Not even close.
This is yet another example of assuming that Windows is good enough for any purpose and the hardware is all that matters. Clearly it doesn't, or one of those products 'like the iPad' would have been a runaway success 10 years ago.
The single most important part of a computer from a usability standpoint is the human-computer interface. In the consumer market, usability is king. Good enough is fine for functionality (i.e. can it play music, movies, look at pictures and browse the web without looking at a manual or even thinking about the interface? Great, then it doesn't need 2 cameras, 3 USB ports and a terminal shell app built in). Apple is the only company that gets this, though Microsoft seems to slowly be learning. I haven't touched a WP7 yet, but it at least looks promising in the videos.
You should stop by the ESB on a week day evening sometime, especially on a clear though not particularly warm autumn night, and the lines will be almost non-existent. I avoided it for years until finally having a friend talk me into going up and we were up there in minutes. It's a bit chilly, but I wouldn't want to hang up there very long anyways. The views are stunning.
is determined by the portion of the map within active view. If you are looking at China and search for a restaurant, it isn't going to be anywhere near you (unless you are actually in China, of course).
I agree about the 'competent enough to actually do any of this' part. I just don't think that they are educated enough. They COULD be competent enough with a little training. In a computer repair shop I used to work at, we came across a fellow with kiddy porn on his computer (obviously so, no one was digging for stuff) and so we were obligated to call the cops (incidentally, if you weren't aware kiddy porn is one of the few, maybe only, things that your computer repair guy is obligated, compelled by law to report to the police. anything else, cracked software, 200 ripped movies or whatever and they don't need to say anything, but if they don't report KP it is obstructing justice or some such and the person who found it is liable for prosecution).
Anyhow, after we reported it I was talking to an officer and he gave me the number of the computer crimes division, because according to him the beat cops (we just called the precinct) were notorious for screwing around with computers and rendering the evidence inadmissible in court because it had been tampered with.
I digress. The point being they just don't know any better. It's just another piece of evidence to them, and they don't understand that just by turning it on they are modifying it. Data on an HD is not static like a gun on the floor or a finger print. Even just looking at it can change it, and the average person just doesn't understand that yet.
Oh, shit, someone is teaching and actually getting paid a fair wage! Sound an alarm!
And for something as boring and unnecessary as MATH for chrissakes!
I don't know where your living, but while $55K is certainly a decent wage, I wouldn't call it GOOD. Particularly not when your job is to teach math in the ghetto. Teachers should be paid at least that much for teaching ANYWHERE, but if you look at the average teacher income around the country you'll find that it's MUCH lower (poking around google it appears to be in the $40k range, more or less depending on grade, specialization and location).
I know that I don't fear a graduate student with a chalk spraying bicycle. Saying that they overstepped their bounds isn't saying that they didn't nab any legitimate threats, but that they used those legitimate threats as an excuse to quash nonthreatening, legal opposition.
That sounds like a gigantic pain in the ass to me. Maybe if I were receiving dozens of voicemails per day it would be useful, but it would take me longer to text than it would to just call and listen through the handful I have. I think it is safe to say that looking at a list of them and clicking is far simpler and more intuitive than texting back and forth.
And I don't know what GPRS web service you are using, but I haven't found it particularly tolerable in terms of speed.
These are better than nothing, but I don't think that they are comparable to the demo of the iPhone's voicemail system
I disagree with just about everyone in this thread re: definition of musician vs. composer vs. editor etc., but I'm replying to you because I feel that this point of view is particularly damaging to good, original, modern music, and it's acceptance by a wider audience.
No one, other than academics who over intellectualize most music, really cares whether there is a 12-tone row in a piece of music. Why would you expect one to show up in a song by Aphex Twin? Would it make it a better piece of music? Aperiodic rhythms? Who cares?
Music is judged by the vast majority of people in subjective, opinionated terms. Arguing that someone should justify the use of sampling in music by citing an unknown, and in most people's opinion unlistenable (though innovative), composer is ridiculous. I appreciate those on the vanguard like Stockhausen for pushing boundaries and bringing new ideas to the table, but that doesn't necessarily make what they do 'good' music in a conventional (i.e. layman's) sense.
You sound like a pompous asshole. I guess what bothers me most is the tone of superiority that is expressed through statements like yours and by most people who hold similar opinions, and the insinuation that if someone disagrees they are stupid and wrong. It does nothing to encourage communication and exchange of ideas, and everything to turn people off of the fringe completely.
You are, or just woefully ignorant.
Buy a $20 802.11b USB dongle and quit whining. It is possible have a preference in computers without having to bash the competition to justify it.
And, to quote you again: "Apparently, you didn't RTFA either". Now, in your defense I was a little confused on first reading also. But the letter is clearly referring to two different uses of the term "podcasting".
The first: "... we must insist that your clients withdraw both Int. Cl. 9 applications for PODCAST READY
and the second: "Please note that we have not requested abandonment of Pocast Ready, Inc.'s Int. Cl. 38 application for PODCAST READY because the services description indicates the mark will be used for podcasting-related services; if that assumption is incorrect, please let us know."
While IANAL, it seems pretty clear that they are referring to two different applications, or different parts of the same application. And yes, I think this is a legitimate defense of their trademarks and not simple bullying. And no, I, like most of the public, could give two shits about Apple defending its trademarks as it is required to by law (or risk losing them).
Inaccuracy of information, however, does hack me off.
that he actually used the thing with any sort of regularity, and/or in any way related to the kidnapping. The article doesn't exactly go in to detail of how they thought a Commodore 64 would have been used, whether it was outfitted for net access or anything else at all. It may have been nothing more than an old typewriter to the guy, maybe a paperweight. And it's 'discovery' 2 weeks after she escaped suggests it may have been 'hidden' in a closet or something.
What are the odds that this guy didn't use it at all since the 80's, it has nothing to do with the crime and is merely an intriguing story for a slow news day, in a climate obsessed with 'net based child predators?
I'm not saying they shouldn't check it out, but I wouldn't expect to find anything.
That's the original site, the current is here for the intro, and here for the current saga.
Stuart may relate this on his page (it's been a while since I read it), but from talking to him it basically has escalated, and they chose to sue, because despite an order to only contact him through his lawyers at the EFF, Barney's folks have continued to mail him nastygrams directly.
Apple's US market share increased to between 4.6-4.8%, depending on who you ask.
Irrelevent to me either way, but if you are going to spout numbers please try to get them right.
Since when is it cheaper to produce a flawed product and then fix it rather than producing a product that works the first time?
... nowhere NEAR as cheap. Like, so dissimilar as to be a laughable analogy if you didn't seem so serious about it.
Didn't you just lose money fixing the problem that could have been avoided in the first place?
Hardware repairs are not so cheap as a simple software patch that can be posted online and downloaded
You don't even consider the damage to a company's reputation which, though Microsoft is disdained amongst geeks, most consumer's expect quality from.
Perhaps they are the minority. My anecdotal evidence to the contrary comes from the mountains of North Carolina where I spent about 6 years (and also the Charlotte area briefly). I found that it was nearly impossible to have a conversation with an evangelical and not have the topic turn to God, and why I should come to church with them sometime.
I quickly but politely disabused them of this idea.
Then there was the girl I dated for two and a half years. The daughter of a presbyterian minister, the entirety of her bible study friends refused to speak to me, and did a fair job of shunning her, when they discovered that I was a long-haired, jazz playing atheist. Not that they had a problem with Jazz in particular, just musicians in general were not to be trusted unless they were evangelical also.
Interestingly (to me anyway), I thought I left these encounters behind when I moved to NYC, only to have that idea disabused in Long Island last week. Incidentally, he was more easily dissuaded than his Southern counterparts.
Right. Brainwashing. Which is why I went through 8 years of Catholic school, started as a Catholic and ended up an atheist.
Hella good brainwashing.
It's also the reason that approximately 80% of my peers (without taking a formal poll) don't practice their faith regularly, if they haven't denounced it out right. Brainwashing.
I think you may be confusing Catholics with Evangelicals. Catholics (based upon my personal experience in youth groups, Churches and School) don't go actively trying to convert you. They do force you to adhere to their codes of conduct while at school and school functions, and they expect their good example to attract you to the fold. But this is a far cry from the evangelical's idea that the more souls that they save the more secure their spot in heaven.
Am I the only person here who understood that any educational use is allowed as 'Fair Use'? So, as long as they aren't selling it, can't students use and share recordings of lectures (assuming they were given permission to record in the first place)?
Or it could be that Google would like to index their own support site but don't what it to randomly appear in searches on other sites?
I don't like registration screens either, but I've never had to register to read Salon ... I just have to look at an ad for 20 seconds then I get to read all I want on their site for free.
Have you ever even gone to Salon.com?
according to TFA:
The consortium said an HVD disc could hold as much data as 200 standard DVDs and transfer data at over 1 gigabit per second, or 40 times faster than a DVD.
enough to expect it for free.
Most of the really great music in the world has come about because someone cared enough to pay an artist so that they could live off of their craft.
If the rest of the world shared your ignorant opinion that musicians don't deserve to be able to support themselves though their art, most of the really great music wouldn't exist.
This isn't to say that only paid musicians make good, or even great, music, but that pretending that you deserve to hear great music for free because a musician loves his craft is repugnant.
Would you ask a potter to make you a set of custom plates for free because he "loves" his craft and shouldn't need money to motivate him?
Nothing pisses me off more than some asshole venue owner asking me to play for food and some beer because, "You love to play, right?" Fucking right I love to play, but it's cheaper, easier and more fun to play at home for friends and family, none of whom would mind bringing over some pizza and beer.
How are you going to heat an entire building to 3,000 degrees?