Seriously though, it's unlikely. Runaway consumerism is such a self-destructive state of existence that it's unlikely that any planet could sustain it for more than a few centuries before completely collapsing. Look at our own as an example; a single century of consumerist society in the presence of industrial technology has brought us to the most rapid phase of extinction in the history of the world. Given that this process is only accelerating as our industrial might increases, what are the chances that the agricultural resources of the planet will be able to continue to feed us?
Most people don't know how many acres of land are required to stock a single square foot of supermarket space. Most people also don't know just how badly areas in the third world have been devastated by strip mining and other activities that have been brought about by the insatiable appetite of the first world for the trappings of consumerism.
No, if aliens were ever like us, they either killed themselves long ago, or ceased to be this way after a very short period of stupidity. We now face a decision: become rational really fast, or die.
He compares the PP to the International Socialist Org. I think his *real* problem is that he's rabidly against all that even slightly fetters corporate power due to his blind hatred of anything that smells like socialism. I wonder if he can spell "McCarthyism".
Your rather eloquent expression of the invalid conflation between egregious breaches of social morality and insignificantly trivial breaches of consumer behavior is misplaced.I think what you mean to say is "ARRRR!"
There's no FLOSS alternative to the Adobe suite. Photoshop vs GIMP = No contest Illustrator vs Inkscape = Maybe passable alternative Premiere vs Cinelerra = Don't make me vomit OnLocation vs dvgrab+kino+some other misc tools = Well, it's like saying that you can do anything emacs can do with sed, awk, grep and cat.
InDesign has no FLOSS alternative. Yea, there are toolsets that can do the things that OnLocation, Encore, AfterEffects etc can do, but they're just a bunch of tools with no integration. The Adobe suite is a whole, integrated polished set of products.
I think if you want to see an example of what the open source method of software design (many people scratching their own little itch and putting the resultant code into a gigantic unsorted global code library) can *not* do, look at the Adobe Suite.
There are some extra requirements (like breaking intercompatability, sabotaging the competition, throwing chairs etc).
1. breaking intercompatability: iTunes. Works with other media players in the way that Internet Explorer works on other operating systems. Ever tried syncing iPhone with anything other than iTunes? Ever tried putting MacOSX on anything other than Apple hardware?
I'm sorry. I can't swallow this shit. The PC industry owes its existence to Microsoft. While just about every other player in the industry was working on either big iron type systems (IBM, DEC) or absurdly unprofitable business models (Apple, BBC), Microsoft was paving the way with a simplified operating system that was cheap enough to develop that there were no huge R&D costs to recoup and that worked on commodity hardware cheap enough to become the modern day one-in-every-home PC.
Nobody else at the time would have done it, and it possibly would have happened eventually without MS, but give credit where credit is due. That they have become too big for their boots, turning into a bully does not take away from their past achievements. It's like criticizing Mohamed Ali's sporting record on account of his present poor level of physical fitness.
It's easy for us to look at them now and claim to have been all visionary like "oo I never liked them I knew they were bad guys". Bullshit. You had a PC, and you loved it. You played games on it. You did *not* know that in the late 90s MS would become an industrial and political bully.
Kinda like now, really. In 5-10 years all you groupies will be saying the same thing "oo I was never an Apple/Google fan, I always knew they were up to no good!".
Being a big corp means they can find some tangentially related idea within the bowels of the Cupertino campus and call that prior art. Hell, with enough research, investigation and imagination I'm pretty sure I can find prior art for just about any modern invention going from ancient Sumeria.
Regarding Will Farrell, if by "strong direction" you mean "firing him into the Sun's gravity well" then I agree. Robin Williams can handle himself, movies like Patch Adams and Good Will Hunting really showcase his ability to regulate his demeanor.
Agreed. Every time there is a single incident involving some specific risk, there's a law made about it. We need to recognize that driving is a *generally* dangerous activity, and care needs to be taken. If we have bleepers, lights, voices and vibrations warning us of all the dangers, we make driving more dangerous by adding unnecessary distraction that won't address the underlying problem; the absent minded driver.
"Trying to get around a law aimed at safety makes the crime less safe".
Dumb. That's like saying the law makes bank robbery more dangerous. I hate government oversight as much as the next citizen, but this is a good idea. So long as law enforcement doesn't have a line into my car's logs or the warning mechanism.
Why on Earth does HTML5 need to even specify the codec? I mean the tag doesn't specify an image format, why should not just have a src= attribute and any video supported by the system will play in it. That way it'd be the same as the change from GIF to PNG all those years ago, where those who want to use GIF could, and those who needed / wanted the free option (which was also superior) could use it without killing support for the other.
I recognize the need for the rule of law. I know that vigilantism is wrong, that we should all adhere to the rules of a civilized society. I know that we should allow everyone their fair chance in a court of law, and that no man should be considered guilty until proof has been provided.
No, it won't be better. Think about why the metal is there. If the metal in the concrete is too flexible, the greater brittleness of the concrete will result in the concrete cracking and breaking due to the metal not providing sufficient support.
Moving on to other news, an aircraft has been destroyed in a freak accident where an earthquake triggered a volcanic eruption and the resulting sudden plume of magma spewed upwards directly hitting the aircraft and causing it to crash. Witnesses reported hearing a deep grumbling sound from the shaking earth, with some claiming they heard the words "your move, puny humans" emanating from the ground.
Totally disagree. It has been found that the universe reflects math, and much discovery in the field of physics is driven by a previous understanding of mathematical principles.
Furthermore, there are extremely numerous cases where math skills come in handy for totally unexpected applications. For example, I learned about statistical concepts (standard deviation, interquartile ranges, median, mode, mean, etc) long before I had any application that actually meant anything in my life. In the 11 years since high school, I've lost count of the number of times that that has been useful. From analyzing web statistics to finding patterns in sales in my shop, I've used these skills to great effect. This is even more the case with trigonometry.
Math does not have to be limited by immediate application of the principles being taught, and doing so results in an unnecessarily constrained syllabus that denies students skills that they may find useful later in life. Mathematics' usefulness just appears in front of you as you go through life encountering problems, assuming you have the skills.
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But then they'd only need half as many politicians to accomplish the task. That would mean the other half of the politicians would have to enter the private sector work force. And I don't even want to *risk* having my Big Mac handled by an ex-politician thank you very much.
I think in Spain they realized just how much the corporate superstructure of the media industry contributes to civilized society: Nothing.
Art and entertainment have value. Paying suits huge amounts to "monetize" art is not only inefficient from the point of view of the economy as a whole (although it is lucrative to them) but undermines the art itself. These people actually end up eliminating the incentive for artists to practice art for art's sake, and replace it with a "make art that sells" incentive. The result is that we get art that does nothing more than appeals to populism, from artists who are only concerned with that agenda.
Exploration of niche areas of morality and challenging flaws in the social order are not serving to that agenda. Thus, we won't get art in the vein of James Joyce's writing, or Mozart's composition, or Shakespeare's plays. Instead, we get the trash that is modern music and cinema.
Thank you Spain, for moving to destroy the stranglehold that corporate interests have on the artistic output of society. Next on the agenda: kill all the fucking lawyers.
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Seriously though, it's unlikely. Runaway consumerism is such a self-destructive state of existence that it's unlikely that any planet could sustain it for more than a few centuries before completely collapsing. Look at our own as an example; a single century of consumerist society in the presence of industrial technology has brought us to the most rapid phase of extinction in the history of the world. Given that this process is only accelerating as our industrial might increases, what are the chances that the agricultural resources of the planet will be able to continue to feed us?
Most people don't know how many acres of land are required to stock a single square foot of supermarket space. Most people also don't know just how badly areas in the third world have been devastated by strip mining and other activities that have been brought about by the insatiable appetite of the first world for the trappings of consumerism.
No, if aliens were ever like us, they either killed themselves long ago, or ceased to be this way after a very short period of stupidity. We now face a decision: become rational really fast, or die.
He compares the PP to the International Socialist Org. I think his *real* problem is that he's rabidly against all that even slightly fetters corporate power due to his blind hatred of anything that smells like socialism. I wonder if he can spell "McCarthyism".
Your rather eloquent expression of the invalid conflation between egregious breaches of social morality and insignificantly trivial breaches of consumer behavior is misplaced.I think what you mean to say is "ARRRR!"
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There's no FLOSS alternative to the Adobe suite.
Photoshop vs GIMP = No contest
Illustrator vs Inkscape = Maybe passable alternative
Premiere vs Cinelerra = Don't make me vomit
OnLocation vs dvgrab+kino+some other misc tools = Well, it's like saying that you can do anything emacs can do with sed, awk, grep and cat.
InDesign has no FLOSS alternative. Yea, there are toolsets that can do the things that OnLocation, Encore, AfterEffects etc can do, but they're just a bunch of tools with no integration. The Adobe suite is a whole, integrated polished set of products.
I think if you want to see an example of what the open source method of software design (many people scratching their own little itch and putting the resultant code into a gigantic unsorted global code library) can *not* do, look at the Adobe Suite.
There are some extra requirements (like breaking intercompatability, sabotaging the competition, throwing chairs etc).
1. breaking intercompatability: iTunes. Works with other media players in the way that Internet Explorer works on other operating systems. Ever tried syncing iPhone with anything other than iTunes? Ever tried putting MacOSX on anything other than Apple hardware?
2. sabotaging the competition: here, here, here, here, here, here.
3. Alas, I was unable to find a YouTube vid of jobs throwing a chair. You win that point.
I'm sorry. I can't swallow this shit. The PC industry owes its existence to Microsoft. While just about every other player in the industry was working on either big iron type systems (IBM, DEC) or absurdly unprofitable business models (Apple, BBC), Microsoft was paving the way with a simplified operating system that was cheap enough to develop that there were no huge R&D costs to recoup and that worked on commodity hardware cheap enough to become the modern day one-in-every-home PC.
Nobody else at the time would have done it, and it possibly would have happened eventually without MS, but give credit where credit is due. That they have become too big for their boots, turning into a bully does not take away from their past achievements. It's like criticizing Mohamed Ali's sporting record on account of his present poor level of physical fitness.
It's easy for us to look at them now and claim to have been all visionary like "oo I never liked them I knew they were bad guys". Bullshit. You had a PC, and you loved it. You played games on it. You did *not* know that in the late 90s MS would become an industrial and political bully.
Kinda like now, really. In 5-10 years all you groupies will be saying the same thing "oo I was never an Apple/Google fan, I always knew they were up to no good!".
Only if the data is modulated in a collimated, uniform wavelength beam of light known as a "laser".
Being a big corp means they can find some tangentially related idea within the bowels of the Cupertino campus and call that prior art. Hell, with enough research, investigation and imagination I'm pretty sure I can find prior art for just about any modern invention going from ancient Sumeria.
Regarding Will Farrell, if by "strong direction" you mean "firing him into the Sun's gravity well" then I agree. Robin Williams can handle himself, movies like Patch Adams and Good Will Hunting really showcase his ability to regulate his demeanor.
Agreed. Every time there is a single incident involving some specific risk, there's a law made about it. We need to recognize that driving is a *generally* dangerous activity, and care needs to be taken. If we have bleepers, lights, voices and vibrations warning us of all the dangers, we make driving more dangerous by adding unnecessary distraction that won't address the underlying problem; the absent minded driver.
"Trying to get around a law aimed at safety makes the crime less safe".
Dumb. That's like saying the law makes bank robbery more dangerous. I hate government oversight as much as the next citizen, but this is a good idea. So long as law enforcement doesn't have a line into my car's logs or the warning mechanism.
Why on Earth does HTML5 need to even specify the codec? I mean the tag doesn't specify an image format, why should not just have a src= attribute and any video supported by the system will play in it. That way it'd be the same as the change from GIF to PNG all those years ago, where those who want to use GIF could, and those who needed / wanted the free option (which was also superior) could use it without killing support for the other.
I don't see why this is an either / or issue.
Yea, but when confronted by a bag of nails, trying to use a screwdriver is stupid.
I recognize the need for the rule of law. I know that vigilantism is wrong, that we should all adhere to the rules of a civilized society. I know that we should allow everyone their fair chance in a court of law, and that no man should be considered guilty until proof has been provided.
But you know what? Fuck that. Kill them all, now.
It's wrong because it violates the third law of thermofinancials: Bills are always created and can never be destroyed.
No, it won't be better. Think about why the metal is there. If the metal in the concrete is too flexible, the greater brittleness of the concrete will result in the concrete cracking and breaking due to the metal not providing sufficient support.
Moving on to other news, an aircraft has been destroyed in a freak accident where an earthquake triggered a volcanic eruption and the resulting sudden plume of magma spewed upwards directly hitting the aircraft and causing it to crash. Witnesses reported hearing a deep grumbling sound from the shaking earth, with some claiming they heard the words "your move, puny humans" emanating from the ground.
Totally disagree. It has been found that the universe reflects math, and much discovery in the field of physics is driven by a previous understanding of mathematical principles.
Furthermore, there are extremely numerous cases where math skills come in handy for totally unexpected applications. For example, I learned about statistical concepts (standard deviation, interquartile ranges, median, mode, mean, etc) long before I had any application that actually meant anything in my life. In the 11 years since high school, I've lost count of the number of times that that has been useful. From analyzing web statistics to finding patterns in sales in my shop, I've used these skills to great effect. This is even more the case with trigonometry.
Math does not have to be limited by immediate application of the principles being taught, and doing so results in an unnecessarily constrained syllabus that denies students skills that they may find useful later in life. Mathematics' usefulness just appears in front of you as you go through life encountering problems, assuming you have the skills.
But then they'd only need half as many politicians to accomplish the task. That would mean the other half of the politicians would have to enter the private sector work force. And I don't even want to *risk* having my Big Mac handled by an ex-politician thank you very much.
Viva la surrender monkeys!
Wait, are we for or against the French today? Man, posting on Slashdot has become a minefield of post modernism these days...
If they did anything other than express themselves honestly, even if it alienates the "common people" then they're not artists.
Yea and I worked so hard to build up my karma :(
I think in Spain they realized just how much the corporate superstructure of the media industry contributes to civilized society: Nothing.
Art and entertainment have value. Paying suits huge amounts to "monetize" art is not only inefficient from the point of view of the economy as a whole (although it is lucrative to them) but undermines the art itself. These people actually end up eliminating the incentive for artists to practice art for art's sake, and replace it with a "make art that sells" incentive. The result is that we get art that does nothing more than appeals to populism, from artists who are only concerned with that agenda.
Exploration of niche areas of morality and challenging flaws in the social order are not serving to that agenda. Thus, we won't get art in the vein of James Joyce's writing, or Mozart's composition, or Shakespeare's plays. Instead, we get the trash that is modern music and cinema.
Thank you Spain, for moving to destroy the stranglehold that corporate interests have on the artistic output of society. Next on the agenda: kill all the fucking lawyers.
I'd provide a citation, but my source was taken away in the middle of the night by guys in a black van.