I wish I had a spare point to mod this up.
It's very difficult (if not downright impossible) for an artist to achieve fame and fortune without the boost of the record companies, even if that boost comes with countless strings attached. Therefore, do bands whine and complain when they get signed? Of course not!
But they do pay a price for it; that's just how the game is played. Just don't try to offload a sob story onto *me*.
I would argue that the absence of government regulation allowed the 1929 crash. I fully support the SEC and FDIC to prevent economic anarchy, but anything beyond that is knee-jerk and frivolous in my book.
I don't particularly like Keynesian philosophy, but it does a better job than most to explain the stabilized economy in Hitler's Germany and WW2 U.S.A.
Suit yourself. I watched it again and again for the sheer fun and pace of the story, not because of any positive relationship to my over-protected view of what Star Wars would be if I ruled the world and controlled George Lucas's mind.
Do it in userspace, as a full database. IMO, filesystem-level searchability is an awkward half-measure; it usually limits you to the driver in kernel-space, which means more difficult programming and more resource limitations (not least of which is address space).
If that's what Thomas Paine said then Thomas Paine was wrong.
From time immemorial, the most basic reason for the existence of government has been a common defense. Entitlements have been the hallmark of civilizations on the decline, where the famed "bread and circuses" commentary comes to mind.
The New Deal was a knee-jerk reaction to the Great Depression, and the Great Society was an exercise in proven frivolity. Neither of those were around while the 13 colonies evolved into an empire of freedom, and neither were around around when slaves and women gained the right to vote.
Suffice it to say that neither of those were needed or transformed the status quo, then or today.
For years the care of the aged fell to the family unit. But nowadays we're all too keen to shove our older relatives into nursing homes and otherwise pawn them off so that anyone but us has to take care of them. After all, we're young! We're youthful! We want to be lazy and free!
There's nothing noble about that. What goes around comes around, and before too long *we'll* get old and our kids will stuff *us* in little institutions where we'll have nothing to do but lay in our piss and wonder why Uncle Sam doesn't wipe our heinies.
Keep it simple. If your company competes against a large one that believes this mud, then punch it in its soft spot. If their outsourcing and/or code factory leads to bad quality, then market your product as having better quality.
On the same token (though not necessarily in the context of this topic): If their outsourced customer support system is flimsy, then fight them with a local-hire system that gets the job done.
And if that doesn't work, then you've just legitimized their operation. Boo hoo, not much more to discuss.
Without knowing the man himself, it's pure speculation to say whether his cheating demonstrated ambition and cunning, or lack of knowledge.
I wonder if a degree is more of a one-time certification or an ongoing license. If the former, then his PhD is his forever to keep. If the latter, then they can take it away as long as they reserve the right in their "EULA".
Then for that matter, enlighten me:
What stage were they in when their armies were being turned back at Tours a millenium ago? Or is that one of the nasty little historical secrets we avoid talking about when we're bashing Bush?
Why hasn't anybody addressed the trend towards rendering 2-D windows as textures in a full-time 3-D environment? You honestly think that this will be polite to resource usage? It's coming around the corner with Longhorn; will X fight to keep up?
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I wish I had a spare point to mod this up. It's very difficult (if not downright impossible) for an artist to achieve fame and fortune without the boost of the record companies, even if that boost comes with countless strings attached. Therefore, do bands whine and complain when they get signed? Of course not! But they do pay a price for it; that's just how the game is played. Just don't try to offload a sob story onto *me*.
Not unless staring at a white rectangle gets you hard.
Fair enough.
I would argue that the absence of government regulation allowed the 1929 crash. I fully support the SEC and FDIC to prevent economic anarchy, but anything beyond that is knee-jerk and frivolous in my book.
I don't particularly like Keynesian philosophy, but it does a better job than most to explain the stabilized economy in Hitler's Germany and WW2 U.S.A.
World War 2 DID pull the U.S. out of the depression. You could use a little study of Keynesian economics.
Simple. Don't be a pushover that says, "Hey look guys! A hot chick!"
Suit yourself. I watched it again and again for the sheer fun and pace of the story, not because of any positive relationship to my over-protected view of what Star Wars would be if I ruled the world and controlled George Lucas's mind.
Do it in userspace, as a full database. IMO, filesystem-level searchability is an awkward half-measure; it usually limits you to the driver in kernel-space, which means more difficult programming and more resource limitations (not least of which is address space).
If that's what Thomas Paine said then Thomas Paine was wrong.
From time immemorial, the most basic reason for the existence of government has been a common defense. Entitlements have been the hallmark of civilizations on the decline, where the famed "bread and circuses" commentary comes to mind.
The New Deal was a knee-jerk reaction to the Great Depression, and the Great Society was an exercise in proven frivolity. Neither of those were around while the 13 colonies evolved into an empire of freedom, and neither were around around when slaves and women gained the right to vote.
Suffice it to say that neither of those were needed or transformed the status quo, then or today.
For years the care of the aged fell to the family unit. But nowadays we're all too keen to shove our older relatives into nursing homes and otherwise pawn them off so that anyone but us has to take care of them. After all, we're young! We're youthful! We want to be lazy and free!
There's nothing noble about that. What goes around comes around, and before too long *we'll* get old and our kids will stuff *us* in little institutions where we'll have nothing to do but lay in our piss and wonder why Uncle Sam doesn't wipe our heinies.
They aren't.
Keep it simple. If your company competes against a large one that believes this mud, then punch it in its soft spot. If their outsourcing and/or code factory leads to bad quality, then market your product as having better quality. On the same token (though not necessarily in the context of this topic): If their outsourced customer support system is flimsy, then fight them with a local-hire system that gets the job done. And if that doesn't work, then you've just legitimized their operation. Boo hoo, not much more to discuss.
My brand of revenge is a little different. To embarrass the HELL out of Penguin, I'd make Katie.com a porn site.
Without knowing the man himself, it's pure speculation to say whether his cheating demonstrated ambition and cunning, or lack of knowledge. I wonder if a degree is more of a one-time certification or an ongoing license. If the former, then his PhD is his forever to keep. If the latter, then they can take it away as long as they reserve the right in their "EULA".
Then for that matter, enlighten me: What stage were they in when their armies were being turned back at Tours a millenium ago? Or is that one of the nasty little historical secrets we avoid talking about when we're bashing Bush?
Nanomachines with the intent or programming to create grey goo will always be a bigger threat than bacteria that are just enjoying life.
Why hasn't anybody addressed the trend towards rendering 2-D windows as textures in a full-time 3-D environment? You honestly think that this will be polite to resource usage? It's coming around the corner with Longhorn; will X fight to keep up?
All of these things about innovation can be said of mainstream open source, which many people use because it comes "close enough".
I am not opposed to open source, but let's call a spade a spade.