You're right, we should think to hard about anything that might be a potential problem. There's nothing to be afraid of in the world, and in fact fear is an outmoded emotion and should be ignored.
I've definitely seen a nosedive in morale among colleagues who are arbitrarily forbidden from telecommuting. The argument from on high was that Joe could telecommute because he "needed to", while the other guys just "want to". Nice.
There's a lot of esoterica in my closets, to be sure--but who would want a failure like this? It'd be like driving a nail into your palm every time you saw it, because you would really, really like a real flying car.
Yeah, I'll remember that next time I'm at the airport. I know, I'll just patronize the other airport that doesn't have tv's blaring CNN 24/7. Oh, wait, I can't, they all do that.
Dude, I think the right to a little peace and quiet is a basic human right. Our society has gone a little crazy thinking there's a need to have the fucking television on in public places. Sure, you have the right to speak, but if you stand next to my ear blathering at the top of your lungs and I can't leave--I'm going to punch you in the mouth to shut you up. I don't care if you don't like it, I don't care if you think it's not right.
Wake me up when mp3's are 4 cents a song. Then that'll be a value proposition I can go for.
After all, then I'll just pay 4 cents every time I want to hear a song, which is an appropriate payment for the small service they provide me. Why does anybody want to keep this stuff on their hard drive? It's just another thing to back up.
Hell, I own every Led Zeppelin studio album. But when I want to hear a song of theirs, I just download their whole catalog off a single torrent, listen to what I want to hear, then delete the whole thing again to save disk space. No biggie.
I'll pay you 4 cents to keep the right tracks in a constant volume and perfect availability for me. That's the value you provide...and nothing else.
I daresay those fuckers will end up making much more this way, however. Not that the stupid sons of bitches deserve it.
Except, you are out of your mind. They didn't do this because they weren't making enough money--iTunes has been mildly successful, you know.
They did it because they didn't like Apple's strangehold due to Apple's monopoly over Apple's own DRM'ed format. They just didn't like being under Apple's thumb, and that is all.
Wake me up when they're selling mp3's at a reasonable price...say, 4 cents. Then, I'll buy it every time I want to hear it, instead of "downloading" it and "keeping it on my hard drive for no good reason".
Sketchup (now Google Sketchup) is actually a very intuitive 3d modeling tool--probably the most intuitive by far, IMHO, but it actually suffers from a lack of depth. I'm waiting for Google to work their magic on it...still waiting, actually.
I think this sort of thing is all fine and good, but I don't think it will be sustainable until self-interest is the root cause of this sort of behavoir.
In other words, I'm okay with high gas prices, even at very great (I'm unemployed) inconvenience to myself, because I know it's the only way we'll ever wean ourselves off fossil fuels. Which is in my longer term self interest, since I enjoy breathing.
That is, if you've got the money for this monitor, the latest and greatest Nvidia or ATI card is a given. Most of the current generation of games are not really all that demanding on those cards.
It's easy to advocate open data standards when you believe it will allow hordes of new customers to abandon your competitors offerings and flock to your products.
Actually, this is probably why MS does not go for them. If they really believed in the quality of their products, they would be a sincere advocate of open standards.
And you thought laser pointers were annoying when they came out.
Seriously though, it is pretty cool.
That being said, I bought a cigarette lighter this week, and when I got home I discovered it had a laser pointer built into it, all for two bucks.
Soon my microwave will be able to use it's laser pointer to point at the projection it puts on my wall that my popcorn is done, as opposed to beeping, which would be oh so gauche.
You know what's funny? I look at a diamond, and I see a nice shiny thing, but nothing to get excited about. It's just not that pretty. I can't imagine spending much money on one.
It's VOLUNTARY. When you give your information up to a web site, you are giving them a gift of information. You can't control it after you've copied it over to them any more than the RIAA can control the dissemination of "their" strings of bytes.
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You're right, we should think to hard about anything that might be a potential problem. There's nothing to be afraid of in the world, and in fact fear is an outmoded emotion and should be ignored.
I've definitely seen a nosedive in morale among colleagues who are arbitrarily forbidden from telecommuting. The argument from on high was that Joe could telecommute because he "needed to", while the other guys just "want to". Nice.
They also intend to default 16-17 year olds profiles to "private". Not a bad idea, but how do they plan on verifying age?
There's a lot of esoterica in my closets, to be sure--but who would want a failure like this? It'd be like driving a nail into your palm every time you saw it, because you would really, really like a real flying car.
Does that mean MS only charges $20 per license to OEM's?
I'd say that was a fair price for Windows.
Yeah, I'll remember that next time I'm at the airport. I know, I'll just patronize the other airport that doesn't have tv's blaring CNN 24/7. Oh, wait, I can't, they all do that.
Dude, I think the right to a little peace and quiet is a basic human right. Our society has gone a little crazy thinking there's a need to have the fucking television on in public places. Sure, you have the right to speak, but if you stand next to my ear blathering at the top of your lungs and I can't leave--I'm going to punch you in the mouth to shut you up. I don't care if you don't like it, I don't care if you think it's not right.
TV-b-gone is relatively civil.
What I think is a trip is the new trend of mp3's ripped from vinyl at a high bitrate.
Now that's weird. And cool. And weird.
Just charge people a buttload more when the system is overloaded. Only that will motivate people to conserve.
Or, regulate the industry. Power privatization has been a perfect example of the failure of the free market. All it's been is a money grab. Bastards.
Already, IT people who use or promote IE are considered bitches, and everyone knows it. Is there any more powerful incentive to use Firefox?
But more importantly, who cares? It's not like Firefox's stockholders are going to revolt.
Wake me up when mp3's are 4 cents a song. Then that'll be a value proposition I can go for.
After all, then I'll just pay 4 cents every time I want to hear a song, which is an appropriate payment for the small service they provide me. Why does anybody want to keep this stuff on their hard drive? It's just another thing to back up.
Hell, I own every Led Zeppelin studio album. But when I want to hear a song of theirs, I just download their whole catalog off a single torrent, listen to what I want to hear, then delete the whole thing again to save disk space. No biggie.
I'll pay you 4 cents to keep the right tracks in a constant volume and perfect availability for me. That's the value you provide...and nothing else.
I daresay those fuckers will end up making much more this way, however. Not that the stupid sons of bitches deserve it.
Except, you are out of your mind. They didn't do this because they weren't making enough money--iTunes has been mildly successful, you know.
They did it because they didn't like Apple's strangehold due to Apple's monopoly over Apple's own DRM'ed format. They just didn't like being under Apple's thumb, and that is all.
Wake me up when they're selling mp3's at a reasonable price...say, 4 cents. Then, I'll buy it every time I want to hear it, instead of "downloading" it and "keeping it on my hard drive for no good reason".
Sketchup (now Google Sketchup) is actually a very intuitive 3d modeling tool--probably the most intuitive by far, IMHO, but it actually suffers from a lack of depth. I'm waiting for Google to work their magic on it...still waiting, actually.
I think this sort of thing is all fine and good, but I don't think it will be sustainable until self-interest is the root cause of this sort of behavoir.
In other words, I'm okay with high gas prices, even at very great (I'm unemployed) inconvenience to myself, because I know it's the only way we'll ever wean ourselves off fossil fuels. Which is in my longer term self interest, since I enjoy breathing.
Oh yeah, not a problem at all.
:)
That is, if you've got the money for this monitor, the latest and greatest Nvidia or ATI card is a given. Most of the current generation of games are not really all that demanding on those cards.
Now my game...that's different
It's easy to advocate open data standards when you believe it will allow hordes of new customers to abandon your competitors offerings and flock to your products.
Actually, this is probably why MS does not go for them. If they really believed in the quality of their products, they would be a sincere advocate of open standards.
And you thought laser pointers were annoying when they came out.
Seriously though, it is pretty cool.
That being said, I bought a cigarette lighter this week, and when I got home I discovered it had a laser pointer built into it, all for two bucks.
Soon my microwave will be able to use it's laser pointer to point at the projection it puts on my wall that my popcorn is done, as opposed to beeping, which would be oh so gauche.
They must have meant Mike Rosoff.
So basically what you are saying is that if they have any response at all, then your statement is proven correct?
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Ironically, I often wish other sites had Slashdot type moderation.
You know what's funny? I look at a diamond, and I see a nice shiny thing, but nothing to get excited about. It's just not that pretty. I can't imagine spending much money on one.
...that they think they're about to get caught out abusing an Open license in one of their products?
No, but you see, theirs goes to green-leven.
It's VOLUNTARY. When you give your information up to a web site, you are giving them a gift of information. You can't control it after you've copied it over to them any more than the RIAA can control the dissemination of "their" strings of bytes.
And where on Earth could they have gotten a sufficient sample of frustrated people? Not Windows users, surely?
Jesus or I could just use LAMP. You made my head hurt with your explanation. What a nightmare. Why would anybody want that?