Anyone have any plans or ideas for how to build an LCD and keyboard/mouse arm? In case you're wondering what I mean, its those things you sometimes see at kiosks in the mall where the lcd and keyboard/mouse are supported by arms attached to the wall so it effectively eliminates the need for a desk.
To comment on this, obviously it is all relative on what you do and what your work environment is. To make a statement such as
"When I see people with extensive body modifications, I see people who were so desperate to fit in that they disfigured their bodies"
is asinine and comes from someone who has a very narrow view of what is acceptable. Unless you wear the same clothing every day and base your entire appearance on those that surround you, you yourself engage in some form of self expression. Granted, there are limits to what what would be socially acceptable, but in todays globalized world, it will not be restricted to what is acceptable to upper class white america. What has happened over the past 15 years is piercings and tattoos have become acceptable to most people and are not restricted to sailors and war vets anymore. Again, each company can enforce their own policy in terms of dress code to maintain a certain level of professionalism, but at some point in the near future it will be the CEOs and upper level management that you'll see with a tattoo or piercing they got as a kid. At that point, this discussion will be taboo and it will be some new trend that becomes a debate
Not that this has anything to do with this, but what if for a p2p service, you pay nothing to listen to a song(songs are streamed from various users, sort of like peercast but with no preset station), and if you wanna actually download a copyrighted song, you pay a fee like 99 cents. This way, people who download music to listen to new stuff on their pc can do it without paying, major labels would kill for the stats on songs, and if you really want a song to put on a cd, you pay the fee and download it. I don't know about everyone else, but 95% of the time i listen to music, its while im doing stuff on my pc. I'd be willing to pay money to burn it to cd if i really liked a song
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Anyone have any plans or ideas for how to build an LCD and keyboard/mouse arm? In case you're wondering what I mean, its those things you sometimes see at kiosks in the mall where the lcd and keyboard/mouse are supported by arms attached to the wall so it effectively eliminates the need for a desk.
To comment on this, obviously it is all relative on what you do and what your work environment is. To make a statement such as "When I see people with extensive body modifications, I see people who were so desperate to fit in that they disfigured their bodies" is asinine and comes from someone who has a very narrow view of what is acceptable. Unless you wear the same clothing every day and base your entire appearance on those that surround you, you yourself engage in some form of self expression. Granted, there are limits to what what would be socially acceptable, but in todays globalized world, it will not be restricted to what is acceptable to upper class white america. What has happened over the past 15 years is piercings and tattoos have become acceptable to most people and are not restricted to sailors and war vets anymore. Again, each company can enforce their own policy in terms of dress code to maintain a certain level of professionalism, but at some point in the near future it will be the CEOs and upper level management that you'll see with a tattoo or piercing they got as a kid. At that point, this discussion will be taboo and it will be some new trend that becomes a debate
Not that this has anything to do with this, but what if for a p2p service, you pay nothing to listen to a song(songs are streamed from various users, sort of like peercast but with no preset station), and if you wanna actually download a copyrighted song, you pay a fee like 99 cents. This way, people who download music to listen to new stuff on their pc can do it without paying, major labels would kill for the stats on songs, and if you really want a song to put on a cd, you pay the fee and download it. I don't know about everyone else, but 95% of the time i listen to music, its while im doing stuff on my pc. I'd be willing to pay money to burn it to cd if i really liked a song