No, I'd assume zero day is exactly that; zero day. It seems to be a term to discredit a piece of software... on the day its released there's already a hole, as opposed to a hole being discovered months after everyones had it.
Like I said, it matters greatly where the degree comes from. Also, there's that language barrier when dealing with someone from India. Add in the mix that the only reason to hire an Indian with a masters over an American, and well, you get what you pay for.
What makes you think a well known and highly regarded author couldn't make it work for a simple book? It hasn't been tried.
(Perhaps you're thinking of Stephen King's The Plant, but his model for that book was not what I'm advocating. It doesn't matter what proportion of readers pay; what matters is how much money you collect in total.)
The point was that he didn't collect enough to make it worth his time to write more books, I don't think he'd care if only 10% paid if he was able to do well enough to encourage him to write more.
If the author failed to deliver on his promises, then yes, he broke the deal and owes them a refund. If he delivered what he promised but people imagined that would mean something else, oh well, they're only out $10.
Who said anything about failing to deliver what he promised? Even good directors or authors make duds once in a while, which is part of the point. Oh, and I don't think many people (especially now) are going to be like "oh well, its only $10." People will bitch about $0.50. And yes, I've seen people demand (and get) their money back for not liking a movie.
That's for them and the author to work out. It'd be interesting to see what sort of models for group decision making came out of this. One extreme would be "none": the author describes his idea and people either support it or don't. The other extreme would be "everything": people vote on what they want and then an author steps in to provide it.
I don't see that working, for the simple reason that if people are only going to be paying a small amount, its not ever going to be feasible to allow any feedback. And of course it will only take a few times of not having input and not getting what they want to discourage this model in the future.
If your idea was workable, we'd be doing it already.
I don't think the degree is about status, I think its about showing you know the theory, not just the how.
I'm sure there are many great technical schools out there, but if you're focusing only one a skill to get things done. But you may not learn WHY to do things a certain way, a big help.
Also, there is something to be said for a well-rounded education. A degree says you've gone outside your job skill to learn more about the world in general, which is helpful in many other life situtations.
That said, where you get a degree also matters a great deal; some universities aren't good for certain degrees.
No, it doesn't. Today we have global communication and payment systems. You don't need to get all your funding from one person.
If a well known and highly regarded author can't make this work for a simple book, what makes you think this would even come close to funding something like a Hollywood movie.
You'll have a much easier time collecting $10 from a million people than collecting $10 million from one person, and of course that's what happens today anyway when tickets and copies are sold. You can still tap into that same demand if you treat your work as a service and get paid up front.
You won't get a million people to pay for something that hasn't even been created. What happens when they don't like the final product? Will people get thier money back if they end up not liking it? How much say does each individual have in the making of the work? How do you get 10 million people to agree on direction? Or do you expect them to pay their $10 and shut up? You really think that would fly?
But the people who can write the software, stories, movies, music, and games might do well to find a model where they get paid in advance... You're right, they're performing a valuable service; but once that service is performed, there's no particular reason why they should continue to reap benefits off of it forever. Is there?
Yes, because we've been down that road. It means the works will largely end up in the control of one person. The purpose of copyright isn't just to reward creative people, its to encourage common culture. Imaigine if something like 1984 was funded by a single person. It may never have gotten the chance to influnce our culture.
As I said, if YOU don't want useful software, then continue with your thinking. But I for one am glad that someone else is writing an OS for me at an affordable price.
Whatever speed improvements were made in Vista or Windows 7 are irrelevant as we dumped MS with XP.
If you were having speed problems with WinXP, your company didn't know what it was doing. XP does far less than the newer MS OSes, and given that its eight years old at this point one can hardly say XP is slow. Perhaps it was some OSS software you were using; while OSS zealots are quick to bash MS for not doing things "the unix way," when OSS ports an app to Windows they rarely try to make it work well and do things the MS platform expects. They then bash MS saying it can't run their "lete" software and it sucks, meanwhile ignoring that any platform means you need to do things the way the platform expects.
I find it amusing to see how you Microsoft-users bend over backwards to accept all the problems that come with the MS ecosystem.
I don't have problems, as I've stated. My server is 100% stable, as is my desktop OSes. Contrary to what you think, nothing is perfect, and Macs have their flaws, and while you attempt to tell me that MS is crap, you totally ignore any critism of Macs. In your eyes, Jobs can do no wrong. Keep towing that line, and enjoy your overpriced OS + hardware lock-in. Be sure to buy the new Mac as soon as it comes out (or when yours breaks; I wasn't kidding about my experience in the Apple store).
As for what I do in my free time, I will wait until the thriller novel I just turned into my agent Oct 25th is published.
I can't wait to see it, sitting unsold, in my grocery store bargin bin. But somehow, I doubt it will end up there. Seriously, you think writing a book is somehow better than anything I'm doing, which includes helping people get their health under control so they can enjoy their life? Please, get over yourself, and realize that in the end, nothing anyone does on the rock matters in the least.
At one time I played games and watched sports on TV and now I have put away childish things. Go ahead and blast away, dude. When you're gray haired, you call tell your grandkids about all the games you played in your life... I'm sure they'll be really impressed. And thank you for the final "f. U." as that tells me my point hit home... Personally, I have lots to occupy my life without resorting to playing some game.
Yes, you clearly do think really highly of yourself and believe you're more important than you really are. If that makes your looming death more comfortable for you, whatever. But maybe you should consider stepping off your high horse, and accept that your grandkids grandkids will likely not even know you're name.
Your point doesn't hit home, its aimed at your arrogant, holier-than-thou attitude that makes you think you really matter. The truth my games have been sitting idle for the better part of the quarter, but since many of the other things in my life don't involve a computer at all, its hard to use them in a discussion on the merits of different computers. As I said, its one of many things I do, but unlike you, I don't believe myself any better than anyone else because of how they chose to spend their time.
Technlogy is NOT "changing everything." Not many peope can write software, compelling stories, make good movies, video games, etc. As long as THAT doesn't change (and I don't see it changing anytime soon), copyright is just as valid today as it was 200 years ago.
Someone is providing a benefit, which, while not physical property, does mean they deserve to be paid.
There's not a large demand for non-contract phones because the wireless carriers collude to make non-contract phones unappealing. TMO offering more non-contract plans isn't going to help if people still aren't covered everywhere they are with other carriers. I might no wnat a contract, but I certainly want a phone that gets a signal.
The guilty know they are guilty and the ones that walk on technicalities do so because they plan for the eventuality, or pay someone to.
But we don't KNOW they are guilty. And evidence which may lead to one person being guilty may be misleading, because we don't have all of the facts. Most people commiting crimes though aren't planning as far ahead as you think, and even when they do we still manage to catch and convict them. The technicalities that you refer to are things like searches without a warrant, illegal wiretaps, etc. As I said, they are their for OUR protection against a tyrant state.
The innocent don't have the luxury of planning in advance to beat the wrap for a crime they didn't commit. So the system is broken both in that the guilty walk, and that the innocent do not.
The innocent go to jail because juries decide guilt on nothing but circumstatial evidence, or they were railroaded by those in power, not because innocent people can't plan ahead.
Even guilty people don't think they're going to get caught; if they did, they'd not commit the crime to begin with. Therefore, they don't plan on a defense, because they don't think they're going to get caught anyway.
All our Macs came with VMWare boot camp to allow us to run Windows but no one does.
Its irrelevent what you in particular are doing. The point is that even Apple reconizes that they don't have many applications, and felt compeled to offer as a feature the ability to boot into MS Windows. They offered it because many are rightly concerned about being able to run ALL the software they currently do on Windows. Or do you think Apple is actually trying to help MS sell copies of Windows?
The major reason we switched to Macs was speed. Our old Windows boxes were top end but they were overwhelmed and the running the same applications on Mac is trivial.
Somehow I doubt any objective analysis here. Windows XP is very fast, SP2 solved many of the speed issues for Vista, and 7 resolves the rest. All for less than the cost of a Mac.
You say that Macs are not intuitive but you're forgetting that your idea of what is "intuitive" is colored by your Microsoft-centric experience. I started on Macs and then for a few years switched to Windows and then back to Macs forever.
My first experience with a Mac was before I had even know there was a Windows that could run on top of DOS. I'm sure you might think that dragging a floppy icon to the trash can is the intitutive way to eject a disc, or that selecting a menu item to close an application instead of it closing when the last window is closed is intitutive, but I do not.
You people who are in bed with Microsoft don't realize that it truly is better to run on mac.
In bed with MS implies I'm being paid by them, which I"m not. I'm simply someone that wants my computer to work effectively, has plenty of software to chose from, and is a good value. You mac people need to tell yourself this so you can keep rationalizing paying twice or more for the EXACT SAME HARDWARE, with less options and less expandability.
You also may be right about the availability of "games" but frankly I cannot think of a less useful thing to spend my time on. If your goal is to waste your one and only life playing games, then be my guest. At the end of your life are you going to be glad you spent it chasing the Gorgon or blasting away? If that is your idea of a satisfying life then I wish you the best...
Oh, and I'm sure you're going to look back at your life and "hardcore enterprise development" will be some great fulfilling then too. Get off your high horse, because I'm certain you do more than work 24/7 as well. Keeping telling yourself that reading a book is somehow morally higher than a video game.
STFU, you don't know what I do; I mention video games and you somehow assume thats a large part of my life. Fuck you.
If that worked, everyone would be giving out the wrong address.
Nobody "gives out" their address. The police office is COPYING it from your drivers license. The fact that he screwed up shouldn't have caused more problems for the OP.
Also, people move all the time. It's a bigger PITA for the state to track you down than they're willing or able to deal with.
Then perhaps we shouldn't be worrying so much about such minor offenses. If its not worth tracking somebody down, its probably not worth it for the law to exist to begin with.
Guilty people walking on technicalities is exactly what we want. Those technicalities also protect us. We can't really have it both ways, because any system will be flawed... so I think the theory is its better to let a guilty person go than send an innocent man to prision.
Of course you haven't encountered problems; your company switched you knowing the only applications you use were there on mac, which leads me to believe you're targeting linux. Which is fine, but there's no denying that Mac has a much smaller software library. Are there equivolents? Maybe, but there's less of them. Especially in the games department. Fallout 3 has no mac version. I can't even find a category for Mac games @ gamestop. Its telling that MS Office for Mac is the number one office suite on Mac. Seriously, they have to include a way for you to INSTALL WINDOWS ON MAC to make Macs appealing, because they know their software selection is small.
Its the same with hardware; yes, there's a webcam for mac, but its going to be more expensive.
As far as your windows problems, its very likely you have people that didn't know what they are doing. I do hardcore enterprise application development all day too, and have zero problems. No BSOD, no driver issues, no crashing. I haven't drunk the MS koolaid because there was a time years ago where I desperately wanted to leave MS. And I did, and I tried to make it work for years.
My experience with mac is osx, we have it for testing. I fucking hate sitting at that thing. Its not intutive, and it DOES have crashes. With just the stupid browser that comes with it. WTF? Nothing beats going to the apple store and talking to their "geniuses" about problems. "Oh, well, I'm sorry its not working, but that is last year's model. Buy a new one and you'll be all set!" I heard this answer six times in a row regarding everything from Macs to iPods. I know tons of people on their FIFTH iPod version, not because they WANTED the new one, but because the old one just stopped working for no appearnet reason.
Dude, if anyone is drinking koolaid, its people buying apple. Apple is selling well because its a cute fad product where people overlook the flaws. MS isn't pefect, but its better than Apple, but for some reason people ignore any flaw of a mac.
Some years ago is quite a while now, and MS has been mucking with it since, adding a bunch of new features... and the product continues to improve. I don't think your argument stands up.
Well to be fair the Windows version of VSS really sucks too. Oh, and 2005 STILL isn't really client server based; they tacked a Web server onto it that VSS can use over the internet, but its still handling the database format in the exact same way. And you don't have to use the web service feature at all.
I had no idea SourceGear had this project going at all, which suprises me a bit because I use their Fortress project in place of VSS.
Choice three: No corporate content producers, music art and drama are produced by everyone "in the small". No blockbusters. Everyone enjoys gathering around telling stories, playing music, singing.
Gah.. I've seen small time acts. They suck. No thanks.
Particularly creative people make videos, movies, write plays, books, lyrics. Shakespeare wasn't signed by a label.
He also had the only copy of his script, and a troop of actors to perform it. Oh... and a script and some costumes are a bit easier to execute than multimillion dollar movies with excellent special effects.
The way "content" is owned controlled and restricted now most people only "consume" entertainment. In my grandparent's time everyone produced entertainment. Sure, it wasn't as polished or grand as the professionally produced entertainment we are fed today. But is passive consumption of entertainment really that entertaining compared to interacting?
Given that many people CHOOSE to engage in this passive entertainment, yes. I've already worked all day, sometimes its just just to be able to sit back and enjoy without any effort. Sometimes I want something more interactive, where a video game comes in. Of course, if I were making the game I'd already know the ending, which kinda ruins it for me.
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No, I'd assume zero day is exactly that; zero day. It seems to be a term to discredit a piece of software... on the day its released there's already a hole, as opposed to a hole being discovered months after everyones had it.
Like I said, it matters greatly where the degree comes from. Also, there's that language barrier when dealing with someone from India. Add in the mix that the only reason to hire an Indian with a masters over an American, and well, you get what you pay for.
What makes you think a well known and highly regarded author couldn't make it work for a simple book? It hasn't been tried.
(Perhaps you're thinking of Stephen King's The Plant, but his model for that book was not what I'm advocating. It doesn't matter what proportion of readers pay; what matters is how much money you collect in total.)
The point was that he didn't collect enough to make it worth his time to write more books, I don't think he'd care if only 10% paid if he was able to do well enough to encourage him to write more.
If the author failed to deliver on his promises, then yes, he broke the deal and owes them a refund. If he delivered what he promised but people imagined that would mean something else, oh well, they're only out $10.
Who said anything about failing to deliver what he promised? Even good directors or authors make duds once in a while, which is part of the point. Oh, and I don't think many people (especially now) are going to be like "oh well, its only $10." People will bitch about $0.50. And yes, I've seen people demand (and get) their money back for not liking a movie.
That's for them and the author to work out. It'd be interesting to see what sort of models for group decision making came out of this. One extreme would be "none": the author describes his idea and people either support it or don't. The other extreme would be "everything": people vote on what they want and then an author steps in to provide it.
I don't see that working, for the simple reason that if people are only going to be paying a small amount, its not ever going to be feasible to allow any feedback. And of course it will only take a few times of not having input and not getting what they want to discourage this model in the future.
If your idea was workable, we'd be doing it already.
Forget that... captain and coke? That's been around for ages.
I don't think the degree is about status, I think its about showing you know the theory, not just the how.
I'm sure there are many great technical schools out there, but if you're focusing only one a skill to get things done. But you may not learn WHY to do things a certain way, a big help.
Also, there is something to be said for a well-rounded education. A degree says you've gone outside your job skill to learn more about the world in general, which is helpful in many other life situtations.
That said, where you get a degree also matters a great deal; some universities aren't good for certain degrees.
No, it doesn't. Today we have global communication and payment systems. You don't need to get all your funding from one person.
If a well known and highly regarded author can't make this work for a simple book, what makes you think this would even come close to funding something like a Hollywood movie.
You'll have a much easier time collecting $10 from a million people than collecting $10 million from one person, and of course that's what happens today anyway when tickets and copies are sold. You can still tap into that same demand if you treat your work as a service and get paid up front.
You won't get a million people to pay for something that hasn't even been created. What happens when they don't like the final product? Will people get thier money back if they end up not liking it? How much say does each individual have in the making of the work? How do you get 10 million people to agree on direction? Or do you expect them to pay their $10 and shut up? You really think that would fly?
But the people who can write the software, stories, movies, music, and games might do well to find a model where they get paid in advance... You're right, they're performing a valuable service; but once that service is performed, there's no particular reason why they should continue to reap benefits off of it forever. Is there?
Yes, because we've been down that road. It means the works will largely end up in the control of one person. The purpose of copyright isn't just to reward creative people, its to encourage common culture. Imaigine if something like 1984 was funded by a single person. It may never have gotten the chance to influnce our culture.
As I said, if YOU don't want useful software, then continue with your thinking. But I for one am glad that someone else is writing an OS for me at an affordable price.
VMWare is not provided by Mac. It's a 3rd party app so your comments about what "Apple recognizes" are really meaningless.
Its amazing how willfully ignorant Mac users are: http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
Whatever speed improvements were made in Vista or Windows 7 are irrelevant as we dumped MS with XP.
If you were having speed problems with WinXP, your company didn't know what it was doing. XP does far less than the newer MS OSes, and given that its eight years old at this point one can hardly say XP is slow. Perhaps it was some OSS software you were using; while OSS zealots are quick to bash MS for not doing things "the unix way," when OSS ports an app to Windows they rarely try to make it work well and do things the MS platform expects. They then bash MS saying it can't run their "lete" software and it sucks, meanwhile ignoring that any platform means you need to do things the way the platform expects.
I find it amusing to see how you Microsoft-users bend over backwards to accept all the problems that come with the MS ecosystem.
I don't have problems, as I've stated. My server is 100% stable, as is my desktop OSes. Contrary to what you think, nothing is perfect, and Macs have their flaws, and while you attempt to tell me that MS is crap, you totally ignore any critism of Macs. In your eyes, Jobs can do no wrong. Keep towing that line, and enjoy your overpriced OS + hardware lock-in. Be sure to buy the new Mac as soon as it comes out (or when yours breaks; I wasn't kidding about my experience in the Apple store).
As for what I do in my free time, I will wait until the thriller novel I just turned into my agent Oct 25th is published.
I can't wait to see it, sitting unsold, in my grocery store bargin bin. But somehow, I doubt it will end up there. Seriously, you think writing a book is somehow better than anything I'm doing, which includes helping people get their health under control so they can enjoy their life? Please, get over yourself, and realize that in the end, nothing anyone does on the rock matters in the least.
At one time I played games and watched sports on TV and now I have put away childish things. Go ahead and blast away, dude. When you're gray haired, you call tell your grandkids about all the games you played in your life... I'm sure they'll be really impressed. And thank you for the final "f. U." as that tells me my point hit home... Personally, I have lots to occupy my life without resorting to playing some game.
Yes, you clearly do think really highly of yourself and believe you're more important than you really are. If that makes your looming death more comfortable for you, whatever. But maybe you should consider stepping off your high horse, and accept that your grandkids grandkids will likely not even know you're name.
Your point doesn't hit home, its aimed at your arrogant, holier-than-thou attitude that makes you think you really matter. The truth my games have been sitting idle for the better part of the quarter, but since many of the other things in my life don't involve a computer at all, its hard to use them in a discussion on the merits of different computers. As I said, its one of many things I do, but unlike you, I don't believe myself any better than anyone else because of how they chose to spend their time.
Ya, those that say /.ers are irrational MS haters are really just spreading FUD...
Technlogy is NOT "changing everything." Not many peope can write software, compelling stories, make good movies, video games, etc. As long as THAT doesn't change (and I don't see it changing anytime soon), copyright is just as valid today as it was 200 years ago.
Someone is providing a benefit, which, while not physical property, does mean they deserve to be paid.
Unless you don't want USEFUL software.
Bull. Turn them into the BSA, and let the fuckers get fined. use the reward money as income until you find your next gig.
That's why I said "more willing to screw you."
There's not a large demand for non-contract phones because the wireless carriers collude to make non-contract phones unappealing. TMO offering more non-contract plans isn't going to help if people still aren't covered everywhere they are with other carriers. I might no wnat a contract, but I certainly want a phone that gets a signal.
The guilty know they are guilty and the ones that walk on technicalities do so because they plan for the eventuality, or pay someone to.
But we don't KNOW they are guilty. And evidence which may lead to one person being guilty may be misleading, because we don't have all of the facts. Most people commiting crimes though aren't planning as far ahead as you think, and even when they do we still manage to catch and convict them. The technicalities that you refer to are things like searches without a warrant, illegal wiretaps, etc. As I said, they are their for OUR protection against a tyrant state.
The innocent don't have the luxury of planning in advance to beat the wrap for a crime they didn't commit. So the system is broken both in that the guilty walk, and that the innocent do not.
The innocent go to jail because juries decide guilt on nothing but circumstatial evidence, or they were railroaded by those in power, not because innocent people can't plan ahead.
Even guilty people don't think they're going to get caught; if they did, they'd not commit the crime to begin with. Therefore, they don't plan on a defense, because they don't think they're going to get caught anyway.
All our Macs came with VMWare boot camp to allow us to run Windows but no one does.
Its irrelevent what you in particular are doing. The point is that even Apple reconizes that they don't have many applications, and felt compeled to offer as a feature the ability to boot into MS Windows. They offered it because many are rightly concerned about being able to run ALL the software they currently do on Windows. Or do you think Apple is actually trying to help MS sell copies of Windows?
The major reason we switched to Macs was speed. Our old Windows boxes were top end but they were overwhelmed and the running the same applications on Mac is trivial.
Somehow I doubt any objective analysis here. Windows XP is very fast, SP2 solved many of the speed issues for Vista, and 7 resolves the rest. All for less than the cost of a Mac.
You say that Macs are not intuitive but you're forgetting that your idea of what is "intuitive" is colored by your Microsoft-centric experience. I started on Macs and then for a few years switched to Windows and then back to Macs forever.
My first experience with a Mac was before I had even know there was a Windows that could run on top of DOS. I'm sure you might think that dragging a floppy icon to the trash can is the intitutive way to eject a disc, or that selecting a menu item to close an application instead of it closing when the last window is closed is intitutive, but I do not.
You people who are in bed with Microsoft don't realize that it truly is better to run on mac.
In bed with MS implies I'm being paid by them, which I"m not. I'm simply someone that wants my computer to work effectively, has plenty of software to chose from, and is a good value. You mac people need to tell yourself this so you can keep rationalizing paying twice or more for the EXACT SAME HARDWARE, with less options and less expandability.
You also may be right about the availability of "games" but frankly I cannot think of a less useful thing to spend my time on. If your goal is to waste your one and only life playing games, then be my guest. At the end of your life are you going to be glad you spent it chasing the Gorgon or blasting away? If that is your idea of a satisfying life then I wish you the best...
Oh, and I'm sure you're going to look back at your life and "hardcore enterprise development" will be some great fulfilling then too. Get off your high horse, because I'm certain you do more than work 24/7 as well. Keeping telling yourself that reading a book is somehow morally higher than a video game.
STFU, you don't know what I do; I mention video games and you somehow assume thats a large part of my life. Fuck you.
Ya but any talent they might have is rendered ineffective due to their disgusting size.
No, jurys aren't just supposed to interepate fact.
Why didn't your lawyer argue that then? Would have been easier than a divorce I imagine.
If that worked, everyone would be giving out the wrong address.
Nobody "gives out" their address. The police office is COPYING it from your drivers license. The fact that he screwed up shouldn't have caused more problems for the OP.
Also, people move all the time. It's a bigger PITA for the state to track you down than they're willing or able to deal with.
Then perhaps we shouldn't be worrying so much about such minor offenses. If its not worth tracking somebody down, its probably not worth it for the law to exist to begin with.
Guilty people walking on technicalities is exactly what we want. Those technicalities also protect us. We can't really have it both ways, because any system will be flawed... so I think the theory is its better to let a guilty person go than send an innocent man to prision.
Of course you haven't encountered problems; your company switched you knowing the only applications you use were there on mac, which leads me to believe you're targeting linux. Which is fine, but there's no denying that Mac has a much smaller software library. Are there equivolents? Maybe, but there's less of them. Especially in the games department. Fallout 3 has no mac version. I can't even find a category for Mac games @ gamestop. Its telling that MS Office for Mac is the number one office suite on Mac. Seriously, they have to include a way for you to INSTALL WINDOWS ON MAC to make Macs appealing, because they know their software selection is small.
Its the same with hardware; yes, there's a webcam for mac, but its going to be more expensive.
As far as your windows problems, its very likely you have people that didn't know what they are doing. I do hardcore enterprise application development all day too, and have zero problems. No BSOD, no driver issues, no crashing. I haven't drunk the MS koolaid because there was a time years ago where I desperately wanted to leave MS. And I did, and I tried to make it work for years.
My experience with mac is osx, we have it for testing. I fucking hate sitting at that thing. Its not intutive, and it DOES have crashes. With just the stupid browser that comes with it. WTF? Nothing beats going to the apple store and talking to their "geniuses" about problems. "Oh, well, I'm sorry its not working, but that is last year's model. Buy a new one and you'll be all set!" I heard this answer six times in a row regarding everything from Macs to iPods. I know tons of people on their FIFTH iPod version, not because they WANTED the new one, but because the old one just stopped working for no appearnet reason.
Dude, if anyone is drinking koolaid, its people buying apple. Apple is selling well because its a cute fad product where people overlook the flaws. MS isn't pefect, but its better than Apple, but for some reason people ignore any flaw of a mac.
If phones and plans were totally seperated, the phones would be much cheaper now.
VZW is just a greedy corporation more willing than the others to screw you.
So how's that project coming? Oh, been working on it for 10 years and still not done?
I think the green glow from your monitor has warped your mind..
Some years ago is quite a while now, and MS has been mucking with it since, adding a bunch of new features... and the product continues to improve. I don't think your argument stands up.
Well to be fair the Windows version of VSS really sucks too. Oh, and 2005 STILL isn't really client server based; they tacked a Web server onto it that VSS can use over the internet, but its still handling the database format in the exact same way. And you don't have to use the web service feature at all.
I had no idea SourceGear had this project going at all, which suprises me a bit because I use their Fortress project in place of VSS.
Choice three: No corporate content producers, music art and drama are produced by everyone "in the small". No blockbusters. Everyone enjoys gathering around telling stories, playing music, singing.
Gah.. I've seen small time acts. They suck. No thanks.
Particularly creative people make videos, movies, write plays, books, lyrics. Shakespeare wasn't signed by a label.
He also had the only copy of his script, and a troop of actors to perform it. Oh... and a script and some costumes are a bit easier to execute than multimillion dollar movies with excellent special effects.
The way "content" is owned controlled and restricted now most people only "consume" entertainment. In my grandparent's time everyone produced entertainment. Sure, it wasn't as polished or grand as the professionally produced entertainment we are fed today. But is passive consumption of entertainment really that entertaining compared to interacting?
Given that many people CHOOSE to engage in this passive entertainment, yes. I've already worked all day, sometimes its just just to be able to sit back and enjoy without any effort. Sometimes I want something more interactive, where a video game comes in. Of course, if I were making the game I'd already know the ending, which kinda ruins it for me.