"Well, if you'd check the links in the news item you'd notice this is an enforcement of the law."
No, it's not, at least in the US. You're allowed to copy currency here and use it in illustration and design as long as it's 150% of actual scale.
Adobe's gone way beyond the law to make it impossible to do anything with currency at all. Never mind the basic fact that the software is *spying on what you're doing.*
Did you notice this?
"If copyright dies, if patents die, if the protection of intellectual property is eroded, then people will stop investing. That hurts everyone."
So much for Jobs' and Apple's commitment to Open Source. Then again, everybody who isn't a total moron knew that was crap, anyway: Apple's history is one of total, anal control. I don't see that ending anytime soon.
(And note the speculation about, essentially, becoming a record label in the future. Hey, that suit by the Beatles' label doesn't sound so stupid after all, now does it?)
...er, I worked on micropayment music projects, professionally, in the late nineties. The notion's been flying around since before Napster hit. Bertelsmann has been trying to turn Napster into this since they bought the thing, what, three years ago?
I don't mean to be some kind of kneejerk anti-Apple freak, here, but what the hell? Does this company ever walk into an existing space without claiming they invented it? First the GUI, then desktop publishing...now, what, by getting into MP3 players late in the game (with a very cool player, to give Apple their props) they somehow invented that space and now, they somehow innovated in pay-per-download music, merely by virtue of beating everybody else to market by a margin of months? (Then again, that's pretty much their real claim to fame with the GUI OS: first to market, so that fits, I guess.)
I must confess, beyond the consistent design esthetic, I do not get the Cult of Apple at all.
"Buh Bye Billy Gates; I knew you shouldn't have pissed off most of your users."
Yeah, you'll be able to say this when my mom starts using Linux, and...given that she's pushing sixty now and still terrified by Windows, I don't see that happening, ever.
On a related note, a few years back I worked as the UI guy for (big giant anti-virus company), and at one point, we got an off-the-record heads-up in my dept that the VP in charge of the division had installed tracking software and was going to be monitoring web usage for all employees and posting lists of the biggest time-wasters weekly.
Not one list ever went up. Try and figure out why.
But...but I didn't give up and I did remember the name "Metaverse." You wave points in my face and cruelly retract them, a hard taskmaster indeed.
I wouldn't know if Curry's a good guy or not. I still think trying to keep "mtv.com" just because he registered it for the network was weasely, and suspect it was just an early run at domain squatting and a presumed bigger severence package (and his posturing as some kind of "people's champion" was irritating as hell--how dare he steal pages from the Apple playbook?), but that's neither here nor there. I think we can all agree that adamcam.org would have been frightening, indeed.
"Remember the coffee cam? Now that was cool. Wasn't it at MIT?"
Yep. It's all been downhill since then. The only thing that would have been worse than jennicam would have been if Adam Curry, fresh from freaking out and running away with MTV's domain name (if you remember that, you're a real web old timer) had started the first 24-hour nekkid cam, and he'd been the star.
Eh, whatever. Until two minutes ago when I saw this, if I'd thought about who the first girl to get nekkid in front of a webcam was, I'd have thought of her just that way: "Who was that first chick who shat and screwed on camera for all of us?"
...and that's exactly how I'll think of her as soon as this thread is over and "jennicam" has once again faded mercifully from my mind.
A moment of one-handed typing, though, sure, I'll go for that.
1. All I can think of when I hear the title of this book is the old S. Gross NatLamp cartoon, where the sixth blind guy has his hands buried in elephant shit.
2. Okay, I lied. The other thing I think of is two years ago, when every high tech company that wanted to fire people and let them down easy was handing them "Who Moved My Cheese?" first?
So, who moved my elephant shit?
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"Well, if you'd check the links in the news item you'd notice this is an enforcement of the law." No, it's not, at least in the US. You're allowed to copy currency here and use it in illustration and design as long as it's 150% of actual scale. Adobe's gone way beyond the law to make it impossible to do anything with currency at all. Never mind the basic fact that the software is *spying on what you're doing.*
Did you notice this? "If copyright dies, if patents die, if the protection of intellectual property is eroded, then people will stop investing. That hurts everyone." So much for Jobs' and Apple's commitment to Open Source. Then again, everybody who isn't a total moron knew that was crap, anyway: Apple's history is one of total, anal control. I don't see that ending anytime soon. (And note the speculation about, essentially, becoming a record label in the future. Hey, that suit by the Beatles' label doesn't sound so stupid after all, now does it?)
I don't mean to be some kind of kneejerk anti-Apple freak, here, but what the hell? Does this company ever walk into an existing space without claiming they invented it? First the GUI, then desktop publishing...now, what, by getting into MP3 players late in the game (with a very cool player, to give Apple their props) they somehow invented that space and now, they somehow innovated in pay-per-download music, merely by virtue of beating everybody else to market by a margin of months? (Then again, that's pretty much their real claim to fame with the GUI OS: first to market, so that fits, I guess.)
I must confess, beyond the consistent design esthetic, I do not get the Cult of Apple at all.
"Buh Bye Billy Gates; I knew you shouldn't have pissed off most of your users." Yeah, you'll be able to say this when my mom starts using Linux, and...given that she's pushing sixty now and still terrified by Windows, I don't see that happening, ever.
Not one list ever went up. Try and figure out why.
That wouldn't be hard, considering that the now-misplaced GPS locator would be everywhere you weren't supposed to be all day.
Yeah, that's a great idea...
I need more coffee or a different sleep schedule.
But...but I didn't give up and I did remember the name "Metaverse." You wave points in my face and cruelly retract them, a hard taskmaster indeed.
I wouldn't know if Curry's a good guy or not. I still think trying to keep "mtv.com" just because he registered it for the network was weasely, and suspect it was just an early run at domain squatting and a presumed bigger severence package (and his posturing as some kind of "people's champion" was irritating as hell--how dare he steal pages from the Apple playbook?), but that's neither here nor there. I think we can all agree that adamcam.org would have been frightening, indeed.
Agghhhh...wha? I'm Stacey! This is my big brother's computer! Want to see me naked?
"Remember the coffee cam? Now that was cool. Wasn't it at MIT?" Yep. It's all been downhill since then. The only thing that would have been worse than jennicam would have been if Adam Curry, fresh from freaking out and running away with MTV's domain name (if you remember that, you're a real web old timer) had started the first 24-hour nekkid cam, and he'd been the star.
Eh, whatever. Until two minutes ago when I saw this, if I'd thought about who the first girl to get nekkid in front of a webcam was, I'd have thought of her just that way: "Who was that first chick who shat and screwed on camera for all of us?"
...and that's exactly how I'll think of her as soon as this thread is over and "jennicam" has once again faded mercifully from my mind.
A moment of one-handed typing, though, sure, I'll go for that.
1. All I can think of when I hear the title of this book is the old S. Gross NatLamp cartoon, where the sixth blind guy has his hands buried in elephant shit. 2. Okay, I lied. The other thing I think of is two years ago, when every high tech company that wanted to fire people and let them down easy was handing them "Who Moved My Cheese?" first? So, who moved my elephant shit?