"This is a silly game - for every intermedite form produced you'll simply shoehorn it into one category of the other and say "but what is between those?". The world's supply of discoverable fossil's is very much finite, while you can keep splitting hairs indefinitely."
And the irony of this game is a perfect fossil record, given the tumultuous history of plate techtonics, erosion, glacial eras, floods, all the factors that over millenia have twisted, cut, ground, subsumed and distorted the face of the earth, should properly be considered proof of a Loki-like Creator and nullify the fossil record as proof. A perfect fossil record would destroy the science of geology and is incoompatible with current science. I'ld go so far as to say an incomplete and imperfect fossil record should be considered a core tenant of evolution.
Beautifully put. I have electronic data relating to facilites and property the company will maintain for a generation. IT's responsibility is to assist in every possible way the retention of and access to that data, not question corporate operating models because it's inconvenient (as does happen.)
Too many assumptions in that conclusion, primarily that all those who download would have bought and those who do download never buy. In the latter category I've bought more music and DVDs after downloading than anything from TV or radio exposure. In fact I can't remember the last time I heard something on the radio and thought "man, I have to buy that." To the Hollywood media conglomerates' dismay though the music's been indie and the movies foreign, so you're right they haven't made a dime. And that's the real point point, Hollywood wants total control of what you see and buy so as to make alternatives too dificult for all but the most dedicated to find in order to create a federally mandated closed market for themselves. Oh right, 'and protect the artists'. From consumers of course, for RIAA memebers they're labour producing work for hire.
Here's a serious answer: download instead, but download music you don't know. Use newsgroups where people share similar interests, try forums, whatever it takes. On the analagous film side Usenet's introduced me to a who new world of Thai and Korean film. Apparently not just me either, it took a day for the entire stock of 'On Bak', a Thai movie about retreiving a stolen Buddha head, to sell out at a local chain store. Plenty of 'The Incredibles' DVDs left though.
At one time the RIAA claimed cassettes were the death of the music industry and fought manufacturers, back in the day before hardware and software companies combined into today's cartels. That's why the digital cassette format - DAT - was forced to carry copy protection flags.
When are people finally going to figure out the RIAA has nothing to do with "protecting artists" and promoting creativity and put that rabid dog down for good. The damage their self-proclaimed "rights" do to society at large outweights by multiple orders of magnitude whatever good is being claimed.
That raises an interesting question. What new method has MS discovered that doesn't require storing the Office executable and libraries on the hard drive? I know they're in a heavy aquisition phase, but inscribing software into the fabric of Time and Space, man that is innovation at its most impressive.
"OUTLOOK" is only important to a business running an Exchange server. Certainly that covers a lot of ground but it also misses a huge swath of small to mid-sized businesses and every home user. That's plenty "outside of the geek community."
Every, and I mean every, home user of Office I knew ran a 'free' copy, one that came either from work or was loaded on the machine by the freind who built it for them. As Microsoft continues to tighten its software on-line registration mechanism expect less expensive or free alternatives to become popular quick. 'Free' trumps 'Outlook' every time.
"Not only will this mandate undermine free market competition...."
Free market? Do these people even read their own bullshit any more? The OS marketplace and document 'standard' are owned by one convincted monopolist the current administration let off the hook. What free market? It's a meaningless boogeyman term these nitwits spout nowadays by reflex, much like "save the children" and "burn the witches".
This is a government. In their evaluation they've decided the best software for goverment use is one available to all their citizens, not just those who can pony up the coin. This is especially important for a country like Peru, one without a G7 GDP. Your implied definition of "best for the job" is good for a business but far too narrow for a goverment.
It had the misfortune of appearing in that period when the airwaves were being Chris Carter-ed to death and slipped away unnoticed. Too bad, had a lot of promise: tightly written scripts, young cast of decent talent, no cheap and lazy 'holodeck' plot contrivances.
Far from it. Industry groups have lobbied consistently to control all distribution of 'IP' since the Statute of Anne, and recently they've won by leaps and bounds. At stake for them is a lifetime, government guaranteed and enforced revenue stream, for the remaining 95% of society the open sharing of our common experience and culture. They're far from stupid. Irremediably evil perhaps but not stupid.
Then what's the reasoning behind the Bay of Tonkin Incident? Why would Lyndon B. Johnson need lies to invade Vietnam if the president had such power? More info:
Great article in Harpers about this a few months back. 90% claim to be Christian, by far the great majority can't recite the Ten Commandments or have any working knowledge of the Bible. I believe the article was written by a member of the clergy.
A custom application we run at work makes use of the IE ftp client to make automated connects to our ftp server. Any other client, Linux or Windows, disconnects from the server on shutdown. IE or the IE-based ftp client don't, even if you exit IE. Because of this we've been forced to set a session idle timeout of 1 minute on the server to avoid hanging connections. Is this another example of the same technique, client-side?
Where do you think the Wall Street Journal checks for tech news? It's common where I live to hear a story on the news that Slashdot posted the day before. Articles on Slashdot generate articles in the mainstream press.
I glanced at that link. Ironically, Fitts' Law states "The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target", which seems directly counter to putting all the applications starts in a tiny box on the most unused corner of the screen as Windows does. The right-click desktop crew appear to be more in compliance.
I start Mozilla in Ion - a keyboard-centric windowmanager - by typing: 'F3' moz 'Enter'. Five keystrokes. All my usual applications are symlinked to three-letter starts. That's about as fast as humanly possible for someone with hands already on the keyboard. The link doesn't address the physical usability issues of removing hands from the keyboard to grab a mouse. Granted, I spend most of the time at the keyboard and not the mouse as a graphics artist might, so this is user and use dependent, as is most everything else in the world.
The GUI's advantage is that it is its own help file, the options available to a user are laid out in an easy to access form that requires no memorization. The disadvantages, and the root of the CLI's power, is that for the sake of managability the GUI must limit the options available, otherwise the interface becomes confusing and unmanageable, and that the GUI is locked from user changes. The CLI has no such limits, especially for those comfortable with creating simple BASH scripts. (For those who consider the latter a no-show, it was a normal occurence in the days of DOS.) So yes, experienced users can be much more efficient by combining CLI and GUI controls. It's not an illusion.
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And the irony of this game is a perfect fossil record, given the tumultuous history of plate techtonics, erosion, glacial eras, floods, all the factors that over millenia have twisted, cut, ground, subsumed and distorted the face of the earth, should properly be considered proof of a Loki-like Creator and nullify the fossil record as proof. A perfect fossil record would destroy the science of geology and is incoompatible with current science. I'ld go so far as to say an incomplete and imperfect fossil record should be considered a core tenant of evolution.
Beautifully put. I have electronic data relating to facilites and property the company will maintain for a generation. IT's responsibility is to assist in every possible way the retention of and access to that data, not question corporate operating models because it's inconvenient (as does happen.)
Too many assumptions in that conclusion, primarily that all those who download would have bought and those who do download never buy. In the latter category I've bought more music and DVDs after downloading than anything from TV or radio exposure. In fact I can't remember the last time I heard something on the radio and thought "man, I have to buy that." To the Hollywood media conglomerates' dismay though the music's been indie and the movies foreign, so you're right they haven't made a dime. And that's the real point point, Hollywood wants total control of what you see and buy so as to make alternatives too dificult for all but the most dedicated to find in order to create a federally mandated closed market for themselves. Oh right, 'and protect the artists'. From consumers of course, for RIAA memebers they're labour producing work for hire.
Here's a serious answer: download instead, but download music you don't know. Use newsgroups where people share similar interests, try forums, whatever it takes. On the analagous film side Usenet's introduced me to a who new world of Thai and Korean film. Apparently not just me either, it took a day for the entire stock of 'On Bak', a Thai movie about retreiving a stolen Buddha head, to sell out at a local chain store. Plenty of 'The Incredibles' DVDs left though.
When are people finally going to figure out the RIAA has nothing to do with "protecting artists" and promoting creativity and put that rabid dog down for good. The damage their self-proclaimed "rights" do to society at large outweights by multiple orders of magnitude whatever good is being claimed.
"We cannot allow a Gopherspace Gap!"
" we paid for it.
In the end it always comes down to the wallet
Apple should just start a music label and sign artists. A natural affinity between the two public images.
That raises an interesting question. What new method has MS discovered that doesn't require storing the Office executable and libraries on the hard drive? I know they're in a heavy aquisition phase, but inscribing software into the fabric of Time and Space, man that is innovation at its most impressive.
Every, and I mean every, home user of Office I knew ran a 'free' copy, one that came either from work or was loaded on the machine by the freind who built it for them. As Microsoft continues to tighten its software on-line registration mechanism expect less expensive or free alternatives to become popular quick. 'Free' trumps 'Outlook' every time.
Free market? Do these people even read their own bullshit any more? The OS marketplace and document 'standard' are owned by one convincted monopolist the current administration let off the hook. What free market? It's a meaningless boogeyman term these nitwits spout nowadays by reflex, much like "save the children" and "burn the witches".
This is a government. In their evaluation they've decided the best software for goverment use is one available to all their citizens, not just those who can pony up the coin. This is especially important for a country like Peru, one without a G7 GDP. Your implied definition of "best for the job" is good for a business but far too narrow for a goverment.
You missed the word "plot" between "lazy" and "contrivances". To rephrase it: Worf and his kid in cowboy duds.
So do James Bond and Maxwell Smart.
It had the misfortune of appearing in that period when the airwaves were being Chris Carter-ed to death and slipped away unnoticed. Too bad, had a lot of promise: tightly written scripts, young cast of decent talent, no cheap and lazy 'holodeck' plot contrivances.
Far from it. Industry groups have lobbied consistently to control all distribution of 'IP' since the Statute of Anne, and recently they've won by leaps and bounds. At stake for them is a lifetime, government guaranteed and enforced revenue stream, for the remaining 95% of society the open sharing of our common experience and culture. They're far from stupid. Irremediably evil perhaps but not stupid.
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Great article in Harpers about this a few months back. 90% claim to be Christian, by far the great majority can't recite the Ten Commandments or have any working knowledge of the Bible. I believe the article was written by a member of the clergy.
A true zealot considers Longhorn revolutionary and improved without every using it only because it came from Redmond.
Yours is the only post so far raising the issue of licensing models.
Needless to say, I'm not looking forward to it.
I think you are.
I'll bet half the people on this forum would kill for your ID# :).
Apparently so is the F8 key when used during a reboot.
A custom application we run at work makes use of the IE ftp client to make automated connects to our ftp server. Any other client, Linux or Windows, disconnects from the server on shutdown. IE or the IE-based ftp client don't, even if you exit IE. Because of this we've been forced to set a session idle timeout of 1 minute on the server to avoid hanging connections. Is this another example of the same technique, client-side?
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Even Canada, who we like to put down as being scrawny....
support each other. Bullies never typically did well in school.
Where do you think the Wall Street Journal checks for tech news? It's common where I live to hear a story on the news that Slashdot posted the day before. Articles on Slashdot generate articles in the mainstream press.
I start Mozilla in Ion - a keyboard-centric windowmanager - by typing: 'F3' moz 'Enter'. Five keystrokes. All my usual applications are symlinked to three-letter starts. That's about as fast as humanly possible for someone with hands already on the keyboard. The link doesn't address the physical usability issues of removing hands from the keyboard to grab a mouse. Granted, I spend most of the time at the keyboard and not the mouse as a graphics artist might, so this is user and use dependent, as is most everything else in the world.
The GUI's advantage is that it is its own help file, the options available to a user are laid out in an easy to access form that requires no memorization. The disadvantages, and the root of the CLI's power, is that for the sake of managability the GUI must limit the options available, otherwise the interface becomes confusing and unmanageable, and that the GUI is locked from user changes. The CLI has no such limits, especially for those comfortable with creating simple BASH scripts. (For those who consider the latter a no-show, it was a normal occurence in the days of DOS.) So yes, experienced users can be much more efficient by combining CLI and GUI controls. It's not an illusion.