Instead of having many stoopid ones, what they should do is have one extremely clever one. That would be funny. But then that would require effort and preparation. Not copy and paste.
Also I see more and more companies doing the Aprils Fools day so they can show how 'real' they are and not at all a serious company. However they are still aware that they do it and are so afraid of their image that they make it extremely obvious and it becomes just another marketing trick.
So please stop doing that.
What I did as a kid was NOT fool anybody. At the end of the day everybody was almost killing them selves, because they were waiting for it. Then when asking if they thought I was going to fool them (or already did) and they said yes, I said : Fooled ya!
Many adults did not understand what I was talking about and why I thought that was extremely funny.
Some people do. Other people do it because they do not want to pay anything, not even cable. And other do it because they are paying for the cable, but are unwilling to buy the DVDs later.
There is not one specific reason why people pirate. And even a single person can have multiple reasons, depending on what they pirate.
I know people who pirate just so they have it. Not even to look or (in case of software) use it. Others use it as some sort of video recorder, because they are limited with the ones that comes with their cable.
It will force the masses to buy a new phone because advertising will make the people believe that you must have it. Whether this is because of security or because it is the latest gimmick is irrelevant.
Your 4 digit code is enough security. If people steal your phone, they want to sell it. They are not interested in your data. If people are after the data on your phone, then biometric security will not stop them.
If your data is something they might be after, then you should also think if having it on a phone (that might get stolen) is the right place to have it.
One scenario if I am after your data could be that I call you from another stolen phone when you are in public. The moment you are saying hello, I grab the phone and have your phone while it is unlocked. I then change the lock settings. There are many flaws with this idea, but I am sure there will be many more options if you think about then the 2 seconds I have.
Not to say that you are wrong on your point, except on the weird part. Unless you are okay with double standards, or you also consider anybody who keeps photos of parties/graduations/etc weird... Just saying.
I would. In the olden days you would have 24 photos of a whole week. I have been on holidays for 6 weeks and have a film of 36 photo's to prove it. Now you have 300 photo's of just packing your suitcase. So yes, if you keep all those thousands of photo's that are completely irrelevant, then you are weird. So limit yourself to a reasonable number of pictures per year that you are allowed to keep. And no, 3000 pictures of your baby is not reasonable. It is punishment for the baby when it gets older. It is as if you are saying that it used to be cute and now you hate it.
Als when you are old and nothing else to do, then there is your memory. My great-aunt was 155 when she died and the last several years of her life when she did not have any visitors, she would just REMEMBER the events. With her brain.
And keeping all your letters? Good luck when your wife finds your love letters. It does not matter if that was 10 years before you met her, you will sleep on the couch till they are burned.
you can't ask some guy with a guitar to come over to your house and some other guys to listen? WHO THE FUCK LOBBIED FOR THIS? the bar owners association? mobsters who get a cut from bouncers?
It is the last one. They are called the MAFIAA. Playing music for tens of people who do not pay to listen to it? This means the musicians are not being payed. What? The musicians playing at those venues are being payed and are not a member of the system? Well, there you go. You do not want those musicians being payed who, uhm, well, paying those that are not, uh, the rest that are, well.... IT IS BAD and against America, so we must stop it at all costs. We have the law on our side. We have bought and payed them fair and square. It is ours. If you want your own laws, buy them yourself. Laws are not like music. When you buy a law, it is yours. When you buy music, it is still ours.
Just what we need. More advertisement. We do not have enough of it it, so please fill the sky with it.
We all saw the formation flying quads before in lab environment and what do they decide to do with this knowledge? Advertisement! I am sure that when we will have effective robots, they will not be used to do anything you think they can do, but rather walk in the streets, tap your shoulder and when you look, they say "Hey mister, did you hear about this great new product...." It will then follow you around till you placed an order. At that moment the next one comes along.
I recommend you do not mess with what others prefer.
Why give people an 'antidote'? They prefer it that way.
When I go and listen to live music, I miss a LOT more in quality then when I listen to a record. I am not sitting or standing in the right position according to how the music boxes are standing. The sound person was off. There are people singing along with the song. I am snogging a girl. I might even order a beer during the highlight of the evening.
Music is not about the quality of the recording. It is about the emotion that is brings and the memories that it feeds.
This one time as a kid, I was listening at a live classical concert and they were singing some opera. We were there with some 10 friends. All around the age of 17-19 and it started of very boring. Then we started to listen to the lyrics and he was singing about the butler doing the wife and the maid doing the man of the house. It was one big orgy. Some other hilarious stories were told as well. We were a bit immature and we started to laugh. Loud and hysterically. I mean come on, it was funny as hell.
The adults in the concert hall were all shushing us, because they could not hear the quality of his music. They were pointing to us and urged us to be quiet.
After the concert the performer came to us and he congratulated us for not only listening but also understanding the music. He specially picked that music, so people would react to it and we were the only ones that did. And this was some big name in the opera industry (no, I do not remember his name.)
He was happy, as a performer, that we looked beyond the mere quality for which he was famous, but listened, really listened to the music. And he was right. The fact that it was a superior quality sung by some big name was a nice bonus. It was not the main thing. The quality of the music, the quality of the performer, the quality of the music hall. None of that was really important.
So if you think that music is all about quality, you are now officially an adult. You are incapable of listening to the music and I feel sorry for you.
Sure it is possible, but i can cause problems. So the best thing to do is to first have a partition available. A dedicated HD is even easier. Then download something lik the openSUSE DVD, boot from that and away you go.
What can be even better is a dedicated machine. If you have a bit older machine (some 3-5 years old) you can use that and not worry about breaking stuff.
But there is a trap. You will be tempted to go back to the other faster machine, so perhaps install Windows on the slower machine and Linux on the fast one.
You can also use SuSE Studio to make a custom image if you have weird hardware.
I would not recommend SUSE Studio for somebody who begins with Linux. If openSUSE does not work for you due to your hardware, it is better to look for a distro that does.
Studio is great, but I would not use it as an alternative for the already many available installation processes. If you know what you might need to get the installation working with Studio, then you are not a beginner anymore and know already what distro you are going to run.
And if you do not like KDE, you can get GNOME, XFCE and LXDE all from the same media.
It is possible to add them, but I would recommend on starting over again. Just download the DVD.
Sure, it is not needed to start the installation process all over again, but it makes you learn things on how to do it when things break. When I started with Linux (SuSE 5.4 I think) I did a LOT of re-installations.
The big point for openSUSE is YaST. Much more then just a shell around the RPM installer. I configures a lot of things.
the owner [...] says the building's location [...] an ideal location [...]
What else would they say? Press release : The location is heavily overpriced and actually the worst location one could ever build a datacenter. Everything is so much more expensive and we never thought it trough.
Apple does not sell you the phones if you don't sign the contract,
Many companies wanted to start selling the iPhone, but were not allowed because they did not have any contract.
OTOH you can easily buy unlocked phones with or without contract. iPhone 5 64GB for 900EUR or 919 at the apple store. The difference is that it can not be used on CDMA networks or on LTE networks in _other_ countries. They even tell you when non-locked is the best option here (in Dutch)
And you can buy ANY phone unlocked without contract, You just go into the store and buy the phone. Put in any sim card that fits from any country and you are done.
I use both Kdenlive and OpenShot and what I miss in both is the ability to play a segment reverse. e.g. play for 20 seconds, play reverse 10 seconds and then start playing again from that point on. As long as that is not implemented, I am sure most people will still be using applications where this is possible.
My guess is that OpenShot will be the first to have it.
Great thing about OpenShot is the integration with Blender. I am sure there will be a lot more things coming from the Blender part as plugins once Windows people start using it and perhaps not only for the Animated Title part.
In Europe (at least in Belgium and the Netherlands and probably in other countries as well) VISA, MasterCard nor any other credit card company will know what you used your card for. They will see where you bought it, but not for what. So if you pay with it at a supermarket, they will not know if you bought only alcohol or baby food or condoms.
In Belgium it is even illegal to do any analysis of what type of stores or how you use your credit card. So no analysis if you spend it in other countries, online, at gas stations or just for getting cash from a machine. (In the Netherlands this is allowed)
This all because of privacy and protection of the consumer and other communist shit. Yet those companies still make money.
So if Europe can do it, so should the US be able to pass a law for the people to not let credit card companies know this kind of detail (or any other type of company).
Also when I pay with my card, the company that I do my payment is not allowed to do anything with it. The companies I worked for were not able to do any analysis on credit card sales, because we only had the transaction number, the last four numbers of the card and some other stuff to make it possible to identify the sale, but not enough to link different sales to one person even when done with the same card.
Oh, and while you are at it, change to using the chip reader like the rest of the world. It is so much safer (not perfectly safe). If the rest of the world was able to pay for the change, I am sure you could bare the cost as well.
Subsidizing is supposed to be indirect pouring money into research and development. What would happen in an ideal world is that due to subsidizing, the cost for early adapters will go down. This would mean that more people will be interested, which means prices should go down.
At some point the price will be so low that it will make a profit without the subsidizing.
Directly pouring the money into R&D will do less good, because you will still have the high initial price, which will mean a lower amount of people using it.
but there are plenty of individuals in those age groups who are able to come up with stuff like this, design it, then build and program it.
I am upset as anybody that not all kids can do this. No kid left behind, remember? So these kids must wait for all the others to either catch up or at least stopping offending the children by showing they can do something others can't. Should happen with everything (except sports where there are only winners and loosers and the loosers are worth nothing and should know it.)
If you need a company to defend your rights, you are doing it wrong.
Companies are interested in their own goals. You could look if these goals are identical to yours (which they will not be in most cases) or not, but that is only currently.
Most likely the companies goal is to make money for their owners. You can then look at how these companies go about in doing that and you might even find one that does it in a way that you like and agree with. However if they think that to achieve their goals it might be best to change the way they do business, then they will.
Companies have changed the way they do business for the better. e.g. no sweatshop. The reason they do this is not so much because they disagree with it, but because it got in the way of their real goal: making money.
Do not hope for a company to defend your rights unless it is your company.
If it is a contract, then that means it has to follow certain laws. That is the part where the state has business of regulating things.
Even more then religion, the state has a business of regulating these contracts. Especially because of this contract other laws will become valid or non-valid.
Sure, part of marriage is symbolic and that part is great for religions. So have two marriages,. The legal one. The one by the city, state, country and done at that place. That one you will use to fill out your IRS papers and will be what will be discussed at the divorce. The other at your choice. This will be the one with all the flowers and the white dress and what not. Or with the jedi or a head smurf or an SM Mistress or whatever you like. It has no real world value, other then ceremonial, which might be more important for many people.
Separation of church and state and all that.
And if your religion disagrees with mixed-sex marriage, they do not marry people of different sex, for all I care. The state will allow it, the religion will not. People who will can still get married officially and get all the LEGAL benefits as written in the law.
So why would religion have a business in regulating my contract?
In Belgium people often marry twice. Once is legally binding. It is in front of an official person of the government. This happens in the city hall. This is the part where you get married. This is when you fill out the paperwork.
The other is a ceremonial marriage. In front of the people of your religion of choice. For the law this means nothing.
Most of the time this is done in a church, mosque or synagogue. Other times it can be done according to your believes and sometimes that part is done in a different country.
The great thing about this is: 1) You have a separation between state and church 2) Each person can do the second unofficial marriage as they please according to whatever random ritual you might want to do (as long as that does not involve illegal activities)
I know people who got asked for an afternoon off to get married (for the law). Just went to town hall, signed some papers and that was it. They were married. No party, no flowers. Nothing.
There is no reason to get other people involved in the official part. If you also want to have some sort of ceremony held, then please do so. Do that each and every day of the week, for all I care. Do it before or after the official marriage.
Another plus point is that it is then very easy to allow same sex marriage as it is done on state (country) level. There you can still get married and the church still can refuse you.
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Instead of having many stoopid ones, what they should do is have one extremely clever one. That would be funny. But then that would require effort and preparation. Not copy and paste.
Also I see more and more companies doing the Aprils Fools day so they can show how 'real' they are and not at all a serious company. However they are still aware that they do it and are so afraid of their image that they make it extremely obvious and it becomes just another marketing trick.
So please stop doing that.
What I did as a kid was NOT fool anybody. At the end of the day everybody was almost killing them selves, because they were waiting for it. Then when asking if they thought I was going to fool them (or already did) and they said yes, I said : Fooled ya!
Many adults did not understand what I was talking about and why I thought that was extremely funny.
I admit, I have no friends.
Some people do. Other people do it because they do not want to pay anything, not even cable. And other do it because they are paying for the cable, but are unwilling to buy the DVDs later.
There is not one specific reason why people pirate. And even a single person can have multiple reasons, depending on what they pirate.
I know people who pirate just so they have it. Not even to look or (in case of software) use it. Others use it as some sort of video recorder, because they are limited with the ones that comes with their cable.
Many people, many reasons.
One thing is proven: Scientific research causes cancer in rats.
Are more ethical people more interested in science?
It will force the masses to buy a new phone because advertising will make the people believe that you must have it. Whether this is because of security or because it is the latest gimmick is irrelevant.
Your 4 digit code is enough security. If people steal your phone, they want to sell it. They are not interested in your data. If people are after the data on your phone, then biometric security will not stop them.
If your data is something they might be after, then you should also think if having it on a phone (that might get stolen) is the right place to have it.
One scenario if I am after your data could be that I call you from another stolen phone when you are in public. The moment you are saying hello, I grab the phone and have your phone while it is unlocked. I then change the lock settings.
There are many flaws with this idea, but I am sure there will be many more options if you think about then the 2 seconds I have.
I just delete them once in a while. Why would I keep mails that say "OK, I will see you later". Anything you say can and will be used against you.
No idea what they will use it for, but I know it will not be in my favor.
I generally trow away everything that I have not used in one or two years. Obviously there are some exceptions, but they are few and far between.
I would. In the olden days you would have 24 photos of a whole week. I have been on holidays for 6 weeks and have a film of 36 photo's to prove it.
Now you have 300 photo's of just packing your suitcase. So yes, if you keep all those thousands of photo's that are completely irrelevant, then you are weird.
So limit yourself to a reasonable number of pictures per year that you are allowed to keep. And no, 3000 pictures of your baby is not reasonable. It is punishment for the baby when it gets older. It is as if you are saying that it used to be cute and now you hate it.
Als when you are old and nothing else to do, then there is your memory. My great-aunt was 155 when she died and the last several years of her life when she did not have any visitors, she would just REMEMBER the events. With her brain.
And keeping all your letters? Good luck when your wife finds your love letters. It does not matter if that was 10 years before you met her, you will sleep on the couch till they are burned.
When my dad was in Egypt, people thought he was Egyptian. When he was in Israel, people thought he was Israeli.
Just saying.
Just what we need. More advertisement. We do not have enough of it it, so please fill the sky with it.
We all saw the formation flying quads before in lab environment and what do they decide to do with this knowledge? Advertisement! ..."
I am sure that when we will have effective robots, they will not be used to do anything you think they can do, but rather walk in the streets, tap your shoulder and when you look, they say "Hey mister, did you hear about this great new product.
It will then follow you around till you placed an order. At that moment the next one comes along.
I recommend you do not mess with what others prefer.
Why give people an 'antidote'? They prefer it that way.
When I go and listen to live music, I miss a LOT more in quality then when I listen to a record. I am not sitting or standing in the right position according to how the music boxes are standing. The sound person was off. There are people singing along with the song. I am snogging a girl. I might even order a beer during the highlight of the evening.
Music is not about the quality of the recording. It is about the emotion that is brings and the memories that it feeds.
This one time as a kid, I was listening at a live classical concert and they were singing some opera. We were there with some 10 friends. All around the age of 17-19 and it started of very boring. Then we started to listen to the lyrics and he was singing about the butler doing the wife and the maid doing the man of the house. It was one big orgy. Some other hilarious stories were told as well.
We were a bit immature and we started to laugh. Loud and hysterically. I mean come on, it was funny as hell.
The adults in the concert hall were all shushing us, because they could not hear the quality of his music. They were pointing to us and urged us to be quiet.
After the concert the performer came to us and he congratulated us for not only listening but also understanding the music. He specially picked that music, so people would react to it and we were the only ones that did. And this was some big name in the opera industry (no, I do not remember his name.)
He was happy, as a performer, that we looked beyond the mere quality for which he was famous, but listened, really listened to the music. And he was right. The fact that it was a superior quality sung by some big name was a nice bonus. It was not the main thing. The quality of the music, the quality of the performer, the quality of the music hall. None of that was really important.
So if you think that music is all about quality, you are now officially an adult. You are incapable of listening to the music and I feel sorry for you.
Sure it is possible, but i can cause problems. So the best thing to do is to first have a partition available. A dedicated HD is even easier.
Then download something lik the openSUSE DVD, boot from that and away you go.
What can be even better is a dedicated machine. If you have a bit older machine (some 3-5 years old) you can use that and not worry about breaking stuff.
But there is a trap. You will be tempted to go back to the other faster machine, so perhaps install Windows on the slower machine and Linux on the fast one.
Also give yourself several months and don't forget linux is not windows
I would not recommend SUSE Studio for somebody who begins with Linux. If openSUSE does not work for you due to your hardware, it is better to look for a distro that does.
Studio is great, but I would not use it as an alternative for the already many available installation processes. If you know what you might need to get the installation working with Studio, then you are not a beginner anymore and know already what distro you are going to run.
And if you do not like KDE, you can get GNOME, XFCE and LXDE all from the same media.
It is possible to add them, but I would recommend on starting over again. Just download the DVD.
Sure, it is not needed to start the installation process all over again, but it makes you learn things on how to do it when things break. When I started with Linux (SuSE 5.4 I think) I did a LOT of re-installations.
The big point for openSUSE is YaST. Much more then just a shell around the RPM installer. I configures a lot of things.
the owner [...] says the building's location [...] an ideal location [...]
What else would they say? Press release : The location is heavily overpriced and actually the worst location one could ever build a datacenter. Everything is so much more expensive and we never thought it trough.
Thousands of people had to die in a terrorist attack before we took airport security serious.
Apple does not sell you the phones if you don't sign the contract,
Many companies wanted to start selling the iPhone, but were not allowed because they did not have any contract.
OTOH you can easily buy unlocked phones with or without contract.
iPhone 5 64GB for 900EUR or 919 at the apple store. The difference is that it can not be used on CDMA networks or on LTE networks in _other_ countries.
They even tell you when non-locked is the best option here (in Dutch)
And you can buy ANY phone unlocked without contract, You just go into the store and buy the phone. Put in any sim card that fits from any country and you are done.
I use both Kdenlive and OpenShot and what I miss in both is the ability to play a segment reverse. e.g. play for 20 seconds, play reverse 10 seconds and then start playing again from that point on.
As long as that is not implemented, I am sure most people will still be using applications where this is possible.
My guess is that OpenShot will be the first to have it.
Great thing about OpenShot is the integration with Blender. I am sure there will be a lot more things coming from the Blender part as plugins once Windows people start using it and perhaps not only for the Animated Title part.
In Europe (at least in Belgium and the Netherlands and probably in other countries as well) VISA, MasterCard nor any other credit card company will know what you used your card for.
They will see where you bought it, but not for what.
So if you pay with it at a supermarket, they will not know if you bought only alcohol or baby food or condoms.
In Belgium it is even illegal to do any analysis of what type of stores or how you use your credit card. So no analysis if you spend it in other countries, online, at gas stations or just for getting cash from a machine. (In the Netherlands this is allowed)
This all because of privacy and protection of the consumer and other communist shit. Yet those companies still make money.
So if Europe can do it, so should the US be able to pass a law for the people to not let credit card companies know this kind of detail (or any other type of company).
Also when I pay with my card, the company that I do my payment is not allowed to do anything with it. The companies I worked for were not able to do any analysis on credit card sales, because we only had the transaction number, the last four numbers of the card and some other stuff to make it possible to identify the sale, but not enough to link different sales to one person even when done with the same card.
Oh, and while you are at it, change to using the chip reader like the rest of the world. It is so much safer (not perfectly safe). If the rest of the world was able to pay for the change, I am sure you could bare the cost as well.
Subsidizing is supposed to be indirect pouring money into research and development. What would happen in an ideal world is that due to subsidizing, the cost for early adapters will go down. This would mean that more people will be interested, which means prices should go down.
At some point the price will be so low that it will make a profit without the subsidizing.
Directly pouring the money into R&D will do less good, because you will still have the high initial price, which will mean a lower amount of people using it.
It is one of the reasons I have an alias. It is one of the reasons I do not have a Facebook account.
I am upset as anybody that not all kids can do this. No kid left behind, remember? So these kids must wait for all the others to either catch up or at least stopping offending the children by showing they can do something others can't.
Should happen with everything (except sports where there are only winners and loosers and the loosers are worth nothing and should know it.)
If you need a company to defend your rights, you are doing it wrong.
Companies are interested in their own goals. You could look if these goals are identical to yours (which they will not be in most cases) or not, but that is only currently.
Most likely the companies goal is to make money for their owners. You can then look at how these companies go about in doing that and you might even find one that does it in a way that you like and agree with.
However if they think that to achieve their goals it might be best to change the way they do business, then they will.
Companies have changed the way they do business for the better. e.g. no sweatshop. The reason they do this is not so much because they disagree with it, but because it got in the way of their real goal: making money.
Do not hope for a company to defend your rights unless it is your company.
If it is a contract, then that means it has to follow certain laws. That is the part where the state has business of regulating things.
Even more then religion, the state has a business of regulating these contracts. Especially because of this contract other laws will become valid or non-valid.
Sure, part of marriage is symbolic and that part is great for religions. So have two marriages,. The legal one. The one by the city, state, country and done at that place. That one you will use to fill out your IRS papers and will be what will be discussed at the divorce.
The other at your choice. This will be the one with all the flowers and the white dress and what not. Or with the jedi or a head smurf or an SM Mistress or whatever you like. It has no real world value, other then ceremonial, which might be more important for many people.
Separation of church and state and all that.
And if your religion disagrees with mixed-sex marriage, they do not marry people of different sex, for all I care. The state will allow it, the religion will not. People who will can still get married officially and get all the LEGAL benefits as written in the law.
So why would religion have a business in regulating my contract?
In Belgium people often marry twice. Once is legally binding. It is in front of an official person of the government. This happens in the city hall. This is the part where you get married. This is when you fill out the paperwork.
The other is a ceremonial marriage. In front of the people of your religion of choice. For the law this means nothing.
Most of the time this is done in a church, mosque or synagogue. Other times it can be done according to your believes and sometimes that part is done in a different country.
The great thing about this is:
1) You have a separation between state and church
2) Each person can do the second unofficial marriage as they please according to whatever random ritual you might want to do (as long as that does not involve illegal activities)
I know people who got asked for an afternoon off to get married (for the law). Just went to town hall, signed some papers and that was it. They were married. No party, no flowers. Nothing.
There is no reason to get other people involved in the official part. If you also want to have some sort of ceremony held, then please do so. Do that each and every day of the week, for all I care. Do it before or after the official marriage.
Another plus point is that it is then very easy to allow same sex marriage as it is done on state (country) level. There you can still get married and the church still can refuse you.