Dunno why you're rated +5 Funny, when what you say would be a plausible alternative, if only one could be sure the secretary doesn't pinch the dough.
There are some artists who have big bucks and who also have a hate-on for RIAA. These artists need to get off their duff and help others record and sell their music without RIAA.
We're all savvy enough these days to be able to sample music through the Internet, and search out other people who share our taste in music. Getting known in the music community to the point which you can make a living off your music will not be difficult if you're any good at all.
Once a band realizes that the only thing RIAA's doing is bribing disk jockeys and five-fingering their freakin' wallets, it shouldn't take much smarts to understand that there's more money to be made through small-scale touring than there's ever to be made from RIAA.
That's where the RIAA-hating successful artists come in. A few million to get a non-profit music sharing/sales site set up would be just the ticket. Make it easy for people to explore musical styles, provide reasonable wages to employees, keep away from money-grubbin' CEOs, and have an up-front accounting of money flow.
I'd get a real kick out of seeing my $5 CD purchase get distributed fairly. Let me know how much of that money goes to web operations, how much to the band, how much to pay back Elton's loan.
I have no problem supporting artists that I like. I WANT to support them. But I'll be goddamned if I'll support the blood-sucking leeches and lawyers in RIAA!
"This vest looks like it has serious potential to create a situation faced by Ralphie's brother in "A Christmas Story". (Think 'big snow suit', and 'can't move') "
I was all about to make jokes about bouncing down the road and all that, when I realized that the thing probably deflates almost as quickly as it inflated.
The whole point of this device, then, is to prevent the bone-cracking injuries of an impact. Once you've hit the road, you slide like normal.
As long as evisa isn't offering the kind of products Visa does, it can use the evisa trademark. Were evisa offering financial products of any sort, they'd have to give up the name: there is a significant likelyhood of consumer confusion between the names.
And which is now the default email client for my university; they tossed Pine the other week because it's a security risk...
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True, except the bit about the B&O engine. That'd be his stereo system. The engine was a B&S (Briggs & Stratton). DOH!
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... he used to mow his lawn with it. Rotary push-mower, I believe it was called.
There's an amusing but morbid story of how he connected a B&O engine to the mower, and ended up flying over two counties and setting a new altitude record before running out of gas and thereby learning that the thing simply does not and, rather terminally, will not autorotate.
Ol' Ms. Winslow's petunias were crushed when he hit the ground, and she went rather catatonic for several months, what with having been working on the begonias a few feet away when the old man splattered, but the story goes that they were prize-winners the following year.
Within my own family, it led to an everlasting fear of lawnmowers. My grannie had her yard turned into a gravel Zen garden, and my father took it even a step further when he married and moved out of the home, choosing to encase the yard in a foot-thick pad of reinforced concrete painted a nasty, hinky green.
I'm the renegade of the family, though, what with being several generations removed from this early air disaster, and have planted my own yard with low-growing, never-needs-mowing golf green fescue. It doesn't need trimming, and I've every opportunity to practice my putting.
- WordPerfect. Matches every feature of Word, and throws in a few more: Reveal Codes, and a SGML mode, plus frame placement that actually works.
- Paradox. An awesome database engine. Far better than Access, last I read from the pointy-heads that know this sort of thing.
- Quattro. At least up to Office 97, it matched Excel for features. I haven't the foggiest what either company has added (or even could add!) to the spreadsheets, so I don't know how they compare now.
- Ventura Publisher. Its only competition is FrameMaker. It has far better typographic controls and UI, plus it comes with a database publisher that simply rocks, and XML import that appears to be more powerful than FrameMaker's.
- Corel Draw. It is awesome. I think it can be argued that it's the best general-purpose vector illustration program out there.
- PhotoPaint. It's easily as good as Photoshop. It does have a rather different UI, but the power is there.
- XMetaL. From the recent SoftQuad purchase, it is one of the best XML creation/maintenance engines out there. Coupled with Ventura for publishing to print, and it's beyond compare.
- iGrafx. From another recent purchase, these are a set of Process/Workflow tools that are incredible.
- Painter. From its Metacreations purchase, Painter is an incredible "natural media" simulation. It's a world apart from Draw and Paint, and a helluva lot of fun.
I think that pretty much covers their major product list.
Each and every one of those products ranks in the top three for its category in terms of functionality.
Unfortunately, Corel has several things going against it:
- Major (and foolish) Mac bias in the graphics/publishing market.
- An incompetant marketing department.
- A history of buggy product releases (though the inevitable service packs always help a lot).
And, of course, there's always the harsh reality that the best products don't always come out on top... and we're all familiar with some really crappy products that are dominating the market.
"Tactical high energy lasers have the capacity to change the face of the battlefield," he [Lt. Gen. Joseph Cosumano] added.
Not nearly as much as, say, PEACE would change it.
Gahd. If we put 1/3rd as much money into peace as we do war, there'd be no wars.
(Globally, some $800 billion is spent on the military. We need all of about $20 billion to feed everyone, and another $10 billion to provide clean water. It'd take only $30 billion to retire the debts of all developing nations.
And then there'd be a lot of happier, healthier people ready to make a go at bringing peace to earth.)
First off, Adobe isn't the only nor the best publisher of PDF creation software.
There is competition, including Global Graphics, who are responsible for the Harlequin RIP engine, which is one of the most-respected high-end Postscript rasterizers on the market.
Secondly, PDF is now the standard for commercial printing. Used to be Postscript (and there are still presses that want to run PDF through Quark to get PS for their RIP, as fucked-up an idea as that is), but PDF has made great strides the past couple years.
Microsoft will NOT be pushing PDF out of the commercial press market.
Finally, PDF is the standard for non-interactive, cross-platform web-accessed information. Nothing from Microsoft will be bumping that.
In short, much fuss about nothing. Buy Adobe stock while it's down.
Maybe you should do some research. Quebec sucks five times as much money out of the pot than any other province. That's half of the kitty.
It's called "equalization" payments, and is supposed to help the "have-not" provinces. Somehow, beyond all rational belief, Quebec is a have-not province. A whole lotta people there, a couple huge cities, lots of manufacturing and resource extraction, yet they need my money?!
Five billion dollars were given to Quebec the other year. Alberta, BC, and Ontario got NOTHING.
Why do Quebec and Manitoba get equalization payments? NOT because they are have-not provinces, but because they do not charge appropriate taxes on their resource bases. They have consistently ignored consultants recommendations for increasing their tax base, bringing their provincial capacity up to spec.
An additional problem is that equalization payments encourage public sector inefficiency: they must spend the money, lest the funding be decreased. Costs of government are higher in equalization provinces.
I have no problem taking part in Canada's wonderful semi-socialist society. I'm quite happy to have some of my tax money going to the Atlantic provinces as they get their feet back under themselves and establish a good oil & gas resource industry: after all, such is what made it possible for Alberta to develop their's.
But I am extremely intolerant of being taken gross advantage of by provinces that have absolutely no need to steal my money. Both Manitoba and Quebec are outright thieves, choosing to take easy money from the feds instead of getting their shit together and exploiting their resource and manufacturing sectors appropriately.
Re:How about taking over a Canadian province?
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Or, hell, take over Quebec. 20000 more votes in their last dumb-ass attempt to separate would have put them over the top.
Nevermind that Quebec is a money-loser province, and that if it separates, it will lose all funding from every other province, putting into one helluva economic death-spiral...
a brand of health care system stressed because of its communal nature?
You've been hoodwinked by the media. The Canadian health care system is, in fact, in better shape than the US system. It costs less to deliver health care in Canada, and it covers more people at the same time.
They do, however, hold copyright over the structure of the document. That's where WestLaw got off: their line numbering is copyright. You're free to publish your own... but not using their numbering scheme.
Ditto for Alderson. They hold copyright over the structure -- ie.) the HTML or PDF or whatever formatting they have applied to the document.
Oooh, the token idea rocks! Especially if one can have unlimited tokens. 'cause then one can assign an individual token to each friend, a set of tokens to various types of acquaintances, and one-off tokens to the gimboits that you just know will end up either using it to spam you or to sell to some marketer.
One can then define acceptance parameters for the tokens. And will be able to trace just who the sonuffabitch is that leaked their token to a spam agency.
"Token #275 is being used for spam? Dammit, Mom, I told you to never give that number out to strangers! I'm gonna revoke it. Here's your new token... and if you leak it, I'll revoke it and not give ya a new one!"
...er, not to piss on the fire from afar, but I'm under the impression that NASA's public funding is something well under 1% of the US budget, meaning that it basically has no effect on your taxes at all.
Hell, the US Government could triple NASA's budget and it wouldn't make a noticeable dent on your tax bill.
I mean, hell, something close to 45% of your tax dollar goes towards the US war machine, to the tune of about $800 *billion* dollars. Whack that back to something reasonable, and you'd likely see your taxes drop significantly.
I've been thinking the same thing, but applied to my Provincial Government. Start up a pool, a buck per citizen. Whoever removes Gordon Campbell, our current, fascist prick-in-office, takes the pot.
I'm pretty sure there'd be enough donations to make it well worth someone's time...
We're not there. There are pixel counts that are at or above film resolution (it really depends on what kind of film you're comparing to: that bulk-pack 10-for-$10, or pro-grade slow-speed b&w...).
But digital isn't touching two other important advantages of film: colourspace and dynamic range.
Still, it's rapidly coming to the point where film is going to be replaced. For most purposes most of the time, digital seems to be there...
But I use it on MY vehicle, and it has never fogged. Looks like there's a YMMV difference. Did you apply and the *buff* the window? Perhaps you put too much on...??
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Dunno why you're rated +5 Funny, when what you say would be a plausible alternative, if only one could be sure the secretary doesn't pinch the dough.
There are some artists who have big bucks and who also have a hate-on for RIAA. These artists need to get off their duff and help others record and sell their music without RIAA.
We're all savvy enough these days to be able to sample music through the Internet, and search out other people who share our taste in music. Getting known in the music community to the point which you can make a living off your music will not be difficult if you're any good at all.
Once a band realizes that the only thing RIAA's doing is bribing disk jockeys and five-fingering their freakin' wallets, it shouldn't take much smarts to understand that there's more money to be made through small-scale touring than there's ever to be made from RIAA.
That's where the RIAA-hating successful artists come in. A few million to get a non-profit music sharing/sales site set up would be just the ticket. Make it easy for people to explore musical styles, provide reasonable wages to employees, keep away from money-grubbin' CEOs, and have an up-front accounting of money flow.
I'd get a real kick out of seeing my $5 CD purchase get distributed fairly. Let me know how much of that money goes to web operations, how much to the band, how much to pay back Elton's loan.
I have no problem supporting artists that I like. I WANT to support them. But I'll be goddamned if I'll support the blood-sucking leeches and lawyers in RIAA!
Make it possible for me to help artists. Please.
"This vest looks like it has serious potential to create a situation faced by Ralphie's brother in "A Christmas Story". (Think 'big snow suit', and 'can't move') "
I was all about to make jokes about bouncing down the road and all that, when I realized that the thing probably deflates almost as quickly as it inflated.
The whole point of this device, then, is to prevent the bone-cracking injuries of an impact. Once you've hit the road, you slide like normal.
Buying an XBox, 'cause each one of 'em is a money-loser. :-)
The trademark laws are pretty clear on this.
As long as evisa isn't offering the kind of products Visa does, it can use the evisa trademark. Were evisa offering financial products of any sort, they'd have to give up the name: there is a significant likelyhood of consumer confusion between the names.
At least, that's how it sensibly works in Canada.
And which is now the default email client for my university; they tossed Pine the other week because it's a security risk...
True, except the bit about the B&O engine. That'd be his stereo system. The engine was a B&S (Briggs & Stratton). DOH!
... he used to mow his lawn with it. Rotary push-mower, I believe it was called.
There's an amusing but morbid story of how he connected a B&O engine to the mower, and ended up flying over two counties and setting a new altitude record before running out of gas and thereby learning that the thing simply does not and, rather terminally, will not autorotate.
Ol' Ms. Winslow's petunias were crushed when he hit the ground, and she went rather catatonic for several months, what with having been working on the begonias a few feet away when the old man splattered, but the story goes that they were prize-winners the following year.
Within my own family, it led to an everlasting fear of lawnmowers. My grannie had her yard turned into a gravel Zen garden, and my father took it even a step further when he married and moved out of the home, choosing to encase the yard in a foot-thick pad of reinforced concrete painted a nasty, hinky green.
I'm the renegade of the family, though, what with being several generations removed from this early air disaster, and have planted my own yard with low-growing, never-needs-mowing golf green fescue. It doesn't need trimming, and I've every opportunity to practice my putting.
True story, all of it, I swear.
Let's take an overview of what Corel sells:
- WordPerfect. Matches every feature of Word, and throws in a few more: Reveal Codes, and a SGML mode, plus frame placement that actually works.
- Paradox. An awesome database engine. Far better than Access, last I read from the pointy-heads that know this sort of thing.
- Quattro. At least up to Office 97, it matched Excel for features. I haven't the foggiest what either company has added (or even could add!) to the spreadsheets, so I don't know how they compare now.
- Ventura Publisher. Its only competition is FrameMaker. It has far better typographic controls and UI, plus it comes with a database publisher that simply rocks, and XML import that appears to be more powerful than FrameMaker's.
- Corel Draw. It is awesome. I think it can be argued that it's the best general-purpose vector illustration program out there.
- PhotoPaint. It's easily as good as Photoshop. It does have a rather different UI, but the power is there.
- XMetaL. From the recent SoftQuad purchase, it is one of the best XML creation/maintenance engines out there. Coupled with Ventura for publishing to print, and it's beyond compare.
- iGrafx. From another recent purchase, these are a set of Process/Workflow tools that are incredible.
- Painter. From its Metacreations purchase, Painter is an incredible "natural media" simulation. It's a world apart from Draw and Paint, and a helluva lot of fun.
I think that pretty much covers their major product list.
Each and every one of those products ranks in the top three for its category in terms of functionality.
Unfortunately, Corel has several things going against it:
- Major (and foolish) Mac bias in the graphics/publishing market.
- An incompetant marketing department.
- A history of buggy product releases (though the inevitable service packs always help a lot).
And, of course, there's always the harsh reality that the best products don't always come out on top... and we're all familiar with some really crappy products that are dominating the market.
"Tactical high energy lasers have the capacity to change the face of the battlefield," he [Lt. Gen. Joseph Cosumano] added.
Not nearly as much as, say, PEACE would change it.
Gahd. If we put 1/3rd as much money into peace as we do war, there'd be no wars.
(Globally, some $800 billion is spent on the military. We need all of about $20 billion to feed everyone, and another $10 billion to provide clean water. It'd take only $30 billion to retire the debts of all developing nations.
And then there'd be a lot of happier, healthier people ready to make a go at bringing peace to earth.)
First off, Adobe isn't the only nor the best publisher of PDF creation software.
There is competition, including Global Graphics, who are responsible for the Harlequin RIP engine, which is one of the most-respected high-end Postscript rasterizers on the market.
Secondly, PDF is now the standard for commercial printing. Used to be Postscript (and there are still presses that want to run PDF through Quark to get PS for their RIP, as fucked-up an idea as that is), but PDF has made great strides the past couple years.
Microsoft will NOT be pushing PDF out of the commercial press market.
Finally, PDF is the standard for non-interactive, cross-platform web-accessed information. Nothing from Microsoft will be bumping that.
In short, much fuss about nothing. Buy Adobe stock while it's down.
Or there are the several instances where politician's kids get away with stuff the rest of us would never, ever be allowed to do.
Like, for a recent instance, that Bush girl who's been snorting coke -- does she get mandatory sentencing? Heck, no!
But if she were an ordinary black kid? Her ass would be grass.
Justice isn't blind, not at all.
...when someone is successfully sued for a lot of money for causing an accident while yammering on the g.d. thing.
Using a cell phone while driving is akin to driving shit-faced drunk: there have been several experiments that have shown this.
You drive drunk and cause an accident, your ass is toast.
It won't be long 'til you drive chatting on the phone and cause an accident, your ass is toast.
And IMO, the sooner the better. Endanger yourself if you wish, but leave me out of it!
....by Tomita. He sampled radio waves from a number of stars and used those as the base waveforms for some Moog synthesizer compositions.
The public is helping with this research. Hell, the global public is helping.
Who gets to hold any patents that arise?
Maybe you should do some research. Quebec sucks five times as much money out of the pot than any other province. That's half of the kitty.
It's called "equalization" payments, and is supposed to help the "have-not" provinces. Somehow, beyond all rational belief, Quebec is a have-not province. A whole lotta people there, a couple huge cities, lots of manufacturing and resource extraction, yet they need my money?!
Five billion dollars were given to Quebec the other year. Alberta, BC, and Ontario got NOTHING.
Why do Quebec and Manitoba get equalization payments? NOT because they are have-not provinces, but because they do not charge appropriate taxes on their resource bases. They have consistently ignored consultants recommendations for increasing their tax base, bringing their provincial capacity up to spec.
An additional problem is that equalization payments encourage public sector inefficiency: they must spend the money, lest the funding be decreased. Costs of government are higher in equalization provinces.
I have no problem taking part in Canada's wonderful semi-socialist society. I'm quite happy to have some of my tax money going to the Atlantic provinces as they get their feet back under themselves and establish a good oil & gas resource industry: after all, such is what made it possible for Alberta to develop their's.
But I am extremely intolerant of being taken gross advantage of by provinces that have absolutely no need to steal my money. Both Manitoba and Quebec are outright thieves, choosing to take easy money from the feds instead of getting their shit together and exploiting their resource and manufacturing sectors appropriately.
Or, hell, take over Quebec. 20000 more votes in their last dumb-ass attempt to separate would have put them over the top.
Nevermind that Quebec is a money-loser province, and that if it separates, it will lose all funding from every other province, putting into one helluva economic death-spiral...
a brand of health care system stressed because of its communal nature?
You've been hoodwinked by the media. The Canadian health care system is, in fact, in better shape than the US system. It costs less to deliver health care in Canada, and it covers more people at the same time.
Read Canada's Burning! Media myths about universal health coverage from the Washington Monthly.
They don't hold copyright over the words.
They do, however, hold copyright over the structure of the document. That's where WestLaw got off: their line numbering is copyright. You're free to publish your own... but not using their numbering scheme.
Ditto for Alderson. They hold copyright over the structure -- ie.) the HTML or PDF or whatever formatting they have applied to the document.
AFAIK, YMMV, etc.
Oooh, the token idea rocks! Especially if one can have unlimited tokens. 'cause then one can assign an individual token to each friend, a set of tokens to various types of acquaintances, and one-off tokens to the gimboits that you just know will end up either using it to spam you or to sell to some marketer.
One can then define acceptance parameters for the tokens. And will be able to trace just who the sonuffabitch is that leaked their token to a spam agency.
"Token #275 is being used for spam? Dammit, Mom, I told you to never give that number out to strangers! I'm gonna revoke it. Here's your new token... and if you leak it, I'll revoke it and not give ya a new one!"
...curries favour with the Slashdot crowd.
[groan!]
...er, not to piss on the fire from afar, but I'm under the impression that NASA's public funding is something well under 1% of the US budget, meaning that it basically has no effect on your taxes at all.
Hell, the US Government could triple NASA's budget and it wouldn't make a noticeable dent on your tax bill.
I mean, hell, something close to 45% of your tax dollar goes towards the US war machine, to the tune of about $800 *billion* dollars. Whack that back to something reasonable, and you'd likely see your taxes drop significantly.
You are far, far too cynical.
Berman isn't acting only in the best interest of his masters.
He's acting in his own best interests. They only happen to coincide with RIAA's, insomuch that his interest is in getting big bucks from RIAA.
Offer him $194,642 and you'll find that his interests suddenly happen to coincide with yours!
You gotta love politicians, 'cause it's illegal to shoot 'em...
I've been thinking the same thing, but applied to my Provincial Government. Start up a pool, a buck per citizen. Whoever removes Gordon Campbell, our current, fascist prick-in-office, takes the pot.
I'm pretty sure there'd be enough donations to make it well worth someone's time...
We're not there. There are pixel counts that are at or above film resolution (it really depends on what kind of film you're comparing to: that bulk-pack 10-for-$10, or pro-grade slow-speed b&w...).
But digital isn't touching two other important advantages of film: colourspace and dynamic range.
Still, it's rapidly coming to the point where film is going to be replaced. For most purposes most of the time, digital seems to be there...
But I use it on MY vehicle, and it has never fogged. Looks like there's a YMMV difference. Did you apply and the *buff* the window? Perhaps you put too much on...??