This movie has the potential to revitalize the show.
IMHO I think it is a very bad idea to try to revitalize a show that long. As much as I can love "The Simpsons", there is pretty much nothing more to explore in the characters, nor anything new to show.
I'd prefer if the show stopped during his days of glory rather than continue in a long agony.
Obviously it's only a personal prevision and I will sure watch the movie if they decide to produce it anyway.
And this is *exactly* what I'll do from now on and for the foreseeble future; I will *not* entrust the future accessiblity of my visual data to such a company and its formats, and I will not render myself under their mercy given their manifest chauvinism. Does anyone know what suppliers are cooperating with openRAW? Those will get *all* my business.
You can not just change the supplier, because everyone does the same thing and after a while you'll be obliged to return to Canon and ask them for pardon. That's why they don't care about saying you such things.
A more effective way to push them into opening their RAW formats or adopting an open one is to take part to the Act Now! initiative.
> generally what I've noticed is that people who don't have the money to BUY music will download it via P2P.
> Nothing really lost, they weren't going to buy it anyways.
> BUT, when they DO have money...they BUY their music, either on CD or via iTunes or some other vendor.
It is not entirely true. Most people in Europe and North America have money to buy legal music, at least the music worth buying.
The reason why they continue to download it illegally on P2P networks is because they think that free as in beer is better (or because they think it will make music more cheap).
There are two categories of users on P2P, like in Free Software: those who appreciate the software free as in beer (e.g. people in the Third World Countries that haven't the money for commercial software or people that like freeware as those who put bunches of adware/spyware on they boxes) and those who want software free as in beer even if they can buy a lot of software from Microsoft.
You seam to have a rather new mail account. As for my spam stats the spam grow seam really stochastic.
I was wondering if someone is interested in gathering spam stats through XML-RPC or similar. I know that SpamHaus gives some general statistics of the number of spam, but they are not accurate and differentiated between the different types of people (people that read UseNET and have a website receive more spam).
I've started my own little 'myth busting' tour. Decided this summer to get more procative at a grass roots level, locally, just converting a bunch of new people over to linux.
Well, it is the way it always worked for linux, but apparently now it's changing: Microsoft will be out there organizing install-fests and other initiatives and linux will stay peacefully in the offices.
I wonder when Microsoft will go to Germany, now that also McDonald's joined the happy linux family along with Daimler-Chrysler, some government agency, the municipality of München and many others.
From the article: The other prong of Microsoft's rebuttal takes on security 'myths'.
Well, if someone comes out with a definition of what a Linux OS is I will be happy to compare the bugs, the problem is that the offers of Microsoft and the major Linux distributions are too different. You won't count a browser's bugs into Linux, it's not the OS IMHO, while IE is so tied to the OS that it cannot run without. Debian comes on a DVD, for Microsoft Windows a CD is enough.
It would be disponible to the end user as soon as Internet2 will be. As we have already seen the speed of that network makes work hard to hard disks that try to save the data flux.
For now we have a 100MB/s speed record across the Atlantic, but it will improve.
...someone adds the time cost of Windows to the total cost of the operating system.
When accounting the total operational cost of a Linux machine everybody counts the time that the sysadmins spend on it, because it's *free* of charge.
In the case of Windows most of the researchers think only about the cost of its license.
Personally, when I rarely boot in Windows, I spend half the time applying Microsoft patches.
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This movie has the potential to revitalize the show.
IMHO I think it is a very bad idea to try to revitalize a show that long. As much as I can love "The Simpsons", there is pretty much nothing more to explore in the characters, nor anything new to show.
I'd prefer if the show stopped during his days of glory rather than continue in a long agony.
Obviously it's only a personal prevision and I will sure watch the movie if they decide to produce it anyway.
And this is *exactly* what I'll do from now on and for the foreseeble future; I will *not* entrust the future accessiblity of my visual data to such a company and its formats, and I will not render myself under their mercy given their manifest chauvinism. Does anyone know what suppliers are cooperating with openRAW? Those will get *all* my business.
You can not just change the supplier, because everyone does the same thing and after a while you'll be obliged to return to Canon and ask them for pardon. That's why they don't care about saying you such things.
A more effective way to push them into opening their RAW formats or adopting an open one is to take part to the Act Now! initiative.
Personally I already mailed Canon representatives in the country where I live (BTW you can cut© my letter in French from my blog) to urge them into changing their format policy. Obviously it will not be enough, unless all major producers in all countries will be bombed with similar requests from their customers.
> generally what I've noticed is that people who don't have the money to BUY music will download it via P2P.
> Nothing really lost, they weren't going to buy it anyways.
> BUT, when they DO have money...they BUY their music, either on CD or via iTunes or some other vendor.
It is not entirely true. Most people in Europe and North America have money to buy legal music, at least the music worth buying.
The reason why they continue to download it illegally on P2P networks is because they think that free as in beer is better (or because they think it will make music more cheap).
There are two categories of users on P2P, like in Free Software: those who appreciate the software free as in beer (e.g. people in the Third World Countries that haven't the money for commercial software or people that like freeware as those who put bunches of adware/spyware on they boxes) and those who want software free as in beer even if they can buy a lot of software from Microsoft.
You seam to have a rather new mail account. As for my spam stats the spam grow seam really stochastic.
I was wondering if someone is interested in gathering spam stats through XML-RPC or similar. I know that SpamHaus gives some general statistics of the number of spam, but they are not accurate and differentiated between the different types of people (people that read UseNET and have a website receive more spam).
I've started my own little 'myth busting' tour. Decided this summer to get more procative at a grass roots level, locally, just converting a bunch of new people over to linux.
Well, it is the way it always worked for linux, but apparently now it's changing: Microsoft will be out there organizing install-fests and other initiatives and linux will stay peacefully in the offices.
I wonder when Microsoft will go to Germany, now that also McDonald's joined the happy linux family along with Daimler-Chrysler, some government agency, the municipality of München and many others.
From the article: The other prong of Microsoft's rebuttal takes on security 'myths'.
Well, if someone comes out with a definition of what a Linux OS is I will be happy to compare the bugs, the problem is that the offers of Microsoft and the major Linux distributions are too different. You won't count a browser's bugs into Linux, it's not the OS IMHO, while IE is so tied to the OS that it cannot run without. Debian comes on a DVD, for Microsoft Windows a CD is enough.
Spyware ? ... no spyware, it is called online support for your software :-)
It would be disponible to the end user as soon as Internet2 will be. As we have already seen the speed of that network makes work hard to hard disks that try to save the data flux.
For now we have a 100MB/s speed record across the Atlantic, but it will improve.
...that the scientists in JPL are already in an unhealthy state due to the difference between Earth's and Mars' day (as mentioned here).
This particular disequilibrium of sleep will accentuate the reactions to the loss.
Isn't it similar with ./ers?
...someone adds the time cost of Windows to the total cost of the operating system. When accounting the total operational cost of a Linux machine everybody counts the time that the sysadmins spend on it, because it's *free* of charge. In the case of Windows most of the researchers think only about the cost of its license. Personally, when I rarely boot in Windows, I spend half the time applying Microsoft patches.
In France this type of hunts is common in quite every Grande École. I don't find nothing so interesting in this articles.