Well, if you'd read the article (I know, slashdot, why would you read the article?) you'd know that he did buy an additional seat. But when he asked to be flown out on an earlier flight, you go onto standby. And *that* flight only had one spare seat available, so he tried to take it.
So in fact he *DIDN'T* have a second ticket for the flight he *actually* took. SO WHAT IS HE BITCHING ABOUT?
Even if they can get their butts between the armrests, the rest of them overflows into the next seat.
And that's exactly what Southwest requires. He could certainly have afforded the second ticket. From the LA Times:
Southwest Airlines measures whether a customers too large to fly based on the passenger's ability to lower both armrests while sitting on the plane. If the passenger cannot lower one or both armrests, the carrier typically requires the passenger to purchase an additional seat or make arrangements on other flights that may accommodate for extra space.
So why didn't he?
There is a segment of the hideously obese population that thinks there is nothing wrong with it, and society should accept it. That's fine for the most part, but clearly if a fat guy takes up two seats, the fat guy should pay for two seats. And THIS fat guy can certainly afford it.
That is a very good point. Sampling would be taking a short section of text and putting using in quotes, or otherwise acknowledging in your work that you are using something that someone else wrote.
No. Sampled music is *not* "put in quotes". It is generally fully integrated into the new work.
The correct analogy is a reference in the back of the book acknowledging the original author.
I think clearly there is a different standard being applied here. But I think that it might be perfectly fine to use a different standard, it's not at all, in my mind, valid to treat all media the same. We're not cutting up a block of cheese here.
It's official -- Haselton has gone off the deep end.
So basically, you're a shameless freeloader. Seriously, I'm not trolling. Where do *YOU* propose proxy server operators find the money to operate? Bandwidth isn't free, you know.
My hope is that the lawyers and representatives involved simply don't realize the magnitude of the number of people who think ACTA and unbalanced copyright in general is a bad idea, and that if a few thousand people write anything at all, they'll take notice.
Ethan, relatively few people care about copyrights, let alone know about ACTA. Yes, wishful thinking.
It's not like they really care what us little people think. The fact is, what gets put into law will be what the big copyright holders want. Think **AA.
Photoshop is irrelevant here. There are far cheaper and better "workalikes" for the vast majority of consumers.
This is exactly the attitude that will ultimatly keep Linux from serving the needs of most consumers.
Gimp *is not* an acceptable substitute for Photoshop. But seeting that app aside, people - consumers - *DON'T WANT* substitutes. They want the application they know to work on the platform they use. Thus, if the major commercial Windows apps do not port to Linux, neither will the average consumer.
Does anyone seriously think that 90% of the PC market will ditch MS Windows, and all the applications it has, in 3 years?
And this is the issue. The hassle with application installation management has largely been solved with things like Apt-Get and Yum. But there are still very few professional grade apps for the average user. OpenOffice is marginally acceptable, but with very few games, no Photoshop (sorry, Gimp doesn't cut it), very few consumer toys... Not going to happen in 3 years.
I believe that if Adobe jumped in with their image suite, others would follow suit.
The Tesla model S sedan will retail for $50,000+ which means that less than 20% (and that is being very generous) of Americans will be able to afford this car.
True, but a "sports car" is not what everybody wants anyway. And, have you priced a full-sized SUV recently? Saddly, many people spend close to 50k for conventional gas / disel "family" vehicles.
The anti-RIAA sentiment is so high these days, I'll bet we could use it against them.
Unfortunately, this is true only for a very small percentage of potential customers. The vast majority simply don't care, or are generally sheeple who do as The Authorities tell them (for example the general Police State we now live in is simply accepted as a part of life).
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...actor Peter Calveley...
I was in a "short film" once, too. Does that make me an "actor"?
Good grief.
Actually, since I own a telescope, I'm an astrophysicist.
yeh, you know, the guys who invented computers, robots, floppy disks, cell phone... etc....
No, no they didn't.
Seriously, any number of sci-fi authors have covered this problem in enormous detail over the last few decades
Sci-Fi AUTHORS .
More likely it'll prove this wasn't a joke.
So, IN FACT, he didn't have two tickets for two seats. WHY IS HE WHINING?
Well, if you'd read the article (I know, slashdot, why would you read the article?) you'd know that he did buy an additional seat. But when he asked to be flown out on an earlier flight, you go onto standby. And *that* flight only had one spare seat available, so he tried to take it.
So in fact he *DIDN'T* have a second ticket for the flight he *actually* took. SO WHAT IS HE BITCHING ABOUT?
Even if they can get their butts between the armrests, the rest of them overflows into the next seat.
And that's exactly what Southwest requires. He could certainly have afforded the second ticket. From the LA Times:
Southwest Airlines measures whether a customers too large to fly based on the passenger's ability to lower both armrests while sitting on the plane. If the passenger cannot lower one or both armrests, the carrier typically requires the passenger to purchase an additional seat or make arrangements on other flights that may accommodate for extra space.
So why didn't he?
There is a segment of the hideously obese population that thinks there is nothing wrong with it, and society should accept it. That's fine for the most part, but clearly if a fat guy takes up two seats, the fat guy should pay for two seats. And THIS fat guy can certainly afford it.
If you sample a female actress and you are a male singer, it's pretty obvious.
I saw that video. Grainy and overrated. It's already all over the Intertubes, gonna be hard to exert copyright control over it now!
I don't care if it's "a new generation". In the past, "new generations" did not claim they could rob or steal just because they feel like it, either.
Got an music on your iPod that you didn't pay for? Oh, right, that's different.
That is a very good point. Sampling would be taking a short section of text and putting using in quotes, or otherwise acknowledging in your work that you are using something that someone else wrote.
No. Sampled music is *not* "put in quotes". It is generally fully integrated into the new work.
The correct analogy is a reference in the back of the book acknowledging the original author.
I think clearly there is a different standard being applied here. But I think that it might be perfectly fine to use a different standard, it's not at all, in my mind, valid to treat all media the same. We're not cutting up a block of cheese here.
Al who? Yankavich?
'cause maybe they will think twice if they see the whole nation falling over this issue?
Are you serious? Dude, lay off the drugs.
It's official -- Haselton has gone off the deep end.
So basically, you're a shameless freeloader. Seriously, I'm not trolling. Where do *YOU* propose proxy server operators find the money to operate? Bandwidth isn't free, you know.
My hope is that the lawyers and representatives involved simply don't realize the magnitude of the number of people who think ACTA and unbalanced copyright in general is a bad idea, and that if a few thousand people write anything at all, they'll take notice.
Ethan, relatively few people care about copyrights, let alone know about ACTA. Yes, wishful thinking.
Would someone smarter than me please explain what is so evil about rebooting now and then?
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Seriously: Why?
It's not like they really care what us little people think. The fact is, what gets put into law will be what the big copyright holders want. Think **AA.
I'm guessing the Ubuntu powers that be have good 24/7 net connectivity, but forget that many people in the world only connect to the net sporadically
We're talking about the Ubuntu NET book Edition...
To clarify, this exploit is only for the configuration as shipped from the factory.
In other words, this is not news. Everyone know that you change the default factory pass and ID...
Photoshop is irrelevant here. There are far cheaper and better "workalikes" for the vast majority of consumers.
This is exactly the attitude that will ultimatly keep Linux from serving the needs of most consumers.
Gimp *is not* an acceptable substitute for Photoshop. But seeting that app aside, people - consumers - *DON'T WANT* substitutes. They want the application they know to work on the platform they use. Thus, if the major commercial Windows apps do not port to Linux, neither will the average consumer.
Gimp approximates 90% of Photoshop's features, and most users only use that subset of features.
I'm sorry, but this simply isn't true. As well, the "work flow" is certainly not as polished.
Does anyone seriously think that 90% of the PC market will ditch MS Windows, and all the applications it has, in 3 years?
And this is the issue. The hassle with application installation management has largely been solved with things like Apt-Get and Yum. But there are still very few professional grade apps for the average user. OpenOffice is marginally acceptable, but with very few games, no Photoshop (sorry, Gimp doesn't cut it), very few consumer toys... Not going to happen in 3 years.
I believe that if Adobe jumped in with their image suite, others would follow suit.
citation needed
What is this "citation needed" shit? Is this Wikipedia? God, I hpe not.
The Tesla model S sedan will retail for $50,000+ which means that less than 20% (and that is being very generous) of Americans will be able to afford this car.
True, but a "sports car" is not what everybody wants anyway. And, have you priced a full-sized SUV recently? Saddly, many people spend close to 50k for conventional gas / disel "family" vehicles.
The anti-RIAA sentiment is so high these days, I'll bet we could use it against them.
Unfortunately, this is true only for a very small percentage of potential customers. The vast majority simply don't care, or are generally sheeple who do as The Authorities tell them (for example the general Police State we now live in is simply accepted as a part of life).
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