Go and have a history lesson youngling. The activity of unions in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century brought you many of the things you presume to call rights in the modern era. Unions in the 30s were fighting against what would these days often be considered criminal neglect and exploitation.
Your bias against modern unions is (probably) based on a very different kind of unionism to what Uncle Walt was against during the depression.
That's still an improvement on the Aluminium powerbooks, you might squeeze three hours out of them if you turned the brightness down to one bar and didn't run any applications on them...
The rest of us have to contend with IT management that have little to no IT experience, skill or qualification, why should the MA state IT dept be any different?
People behave on behalf of the company. People do things in the name of doing their job that they wouldn't consider doing in a purely personal relationship. People at several removes make policy decisions, the policy permeates the corporation, people implement the policy and blame the corporation. Yes those people are cowardly, OTOH if they spoke out against the wrong policies, they would be hungry, because someone less brave would implement a policy on them.
The behaviour of a corporation would be considered properly psychopathic if it was displayed by an individual. Have a read of this article :
Think about Metallica's response to Napster. People like Fred Durst own music publishing companies, you can bet he'll side with the RIAA without a thought for fans.
Just about the only path to an increased audience is through the major publishers. Look at the garbage they sell though, do you think many of the people getting famous today are actually artists in the sense of creating and deeply caring for what they do?
I wish I had a mod point for you. It sucks to be trapped in wage slavery and missing most of your children's growing up. I would quit and live simply but it's a bigger change than my wife is willing to make.
As far as most 'pop' music goes, the songwriters and composers are in the employ of, or at least part of the machine with, the record companies, and still little or nothing to do with the perceived 'artist'.
This will confuse creationists - on one hand, they have to forbid it as meddling with God's work, but on the other hand, it's the best chance they have of getting 'intelligent design' considered a science.
GIMP's not great for professional print - doesn't have any CMYK management. Having gone to photoshop I find it frustrating to go back to Gimp, but YMMV. Won't cost you anything to try it:)
Not really. iPhoto is so simple your grandma can use it. Gimp's interface takes a lot of getting used to, it's another great example of where open source falls down - it's all run by geeks and programmers. Where are the interface experts, usability consultants, test groups etc? One thing commercial softwaredoes have that open source generally doesn't, is wholeness and polish. Geeks write features when they need them, and get used to the interface on the way. Nobody turns around and says "Hey you know what? the behaviour of the windows in Gimp is painful. How come if I click a tool on the toolbar, I have to click back in the job window before I can use the tool? And why do they clutter up my taskbar like that?"
As far as function goes, you can't compare it to Photoshop elements either. The pixel wrangling is so much smoother in Photoshop, the tools are so much more mature and cooperative. Gimp looked ok up against Photoshop 4, but whereas Photoshop is now up to version umm...8 I think, with matured tools and interface improvements, the latest version of Gimp looks like and feels like a point release of the same version we had 6 years ago. Photoshop Elements doesn't have the feature set of full photoshop, but it does have the maturity and polish
No disrespect to the Gimp developers intended - you do what you can with the people and time available, and they've done well. But people like to roll it out as an example of why Open Source 'has the apps' too, and it's really a good example of why Open Source apps just don't compare for normal users.
That's no analogy. I think the parent is suggesting that instead of paying for the full range of cable channels when he only wants a few shows, they could have a pay for download service where you pay less and just get what you want. He never said free
If all cars cost the same amount, and the owners of Ford Fiestas were subsidising the Ferrari owners you might be making a better analogy.
I could be wrong of course
There is no car analogy to this. If I steal your car, you no longer have a car. If I copy your DVD, you still have your DVD. There is a per unit cost to the manufacturer for each car they sell. TV shows on the other hand, have a once off development/production cost, but creating each 'unit' costs close enough to zero.
It's probably no worse than any of those, at least as far as landfill goes. But it is yet another thing to add to the growing list of things we just throw away, and pretty much an unnecessary addition.
That said, you have to factor in production waste, energy use in production, greenhouse emissions in producing said energy, plus transport costs, including pollution from transport, and the fact that where your local blockbuster will hire the same physical disc maybe hundreds of times, getting hundreds of views per disc manufactured, the disposable method means manufacturing hundreds of discs to get hundreds of views, and all the above waste factors included
The problem is though that the idiots usually manage to reproduce before they knock themselves off, so hoping Darwin will save you won't get you anywhere.
This is the geeks misunderstanding of natural selection - intellectuals love evolution because they think their superior brains will win in the end. This works in the work world to some extent, but on a species scale it's different.
The reality as far as evolution goes (and remember that evolution works on a macro scale, not in your lifetime or the foreseeable future) is that stupid people are at a distinct advantage. While intellectuals tend to have two or one children, the stupid masses are going at it like rabbits. Intelligent are at a selective disadvantage, because we don't pass our genes on as often as the trailer trash chicks that drop out of school by the time they are pregnant at 14 and have 8 kids by their 30th birthday.
*They* are the evolutionary giants, not us. We live side by side now, but when society breaks down in a few hundred years or whatever, the billions of big dumb kids will finish us off very quickly.
Of course, it's even less of an issue for most/.ers, because sitting at home by yourself with your 20 gig porn collection isn't gonna pass your genes on to anything but your keyboard...
The flooding on the other hand, was caused by the degradation of the surrounding swamplands, cleverly placed there by God/nature/whatever to absorb the excess water from exciting weather events
The levee system, it was forecast several years ago, was not even up to the task of resisting a smaller hurricane than Katrina. The Clinton administration had spent 500 mill on it, but funding dropped considerably under Bush.
The advance response was non-existent, the President being too busy with other affairs, and preferring to plead ignorance after the fact
Additionally, National Guard and Army troops, who would normally be called in to assist in major emergencies, were not available at this time, being elsewhere engaged.
Oh wait I see, you were being ironic. You're right, the poor levee maintenance and lack of military personnel and lack of preparatory response weren't caused by President Bush's domestic policies. They were caused by his obsession with foreign policy.
That's a very subtle and clever point you made, well done
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Do you reckon that might be because iTunes gets its info from CDDB?
Or you could go to B3ta anytime http://www.b3ta.com/ or worth1000 once you get good.
Go and have a history lesson youngling. The activity of unions in the late 19th and first half of the 20th century brought you many of the things you presume to call rights in the modern era. Unions in the 30s were fighting against what would these days often be considered criminal neglect and exploitation. Your bias against modern unions is (probably) based on a very different kind of unionism to what Uncle Walt was against during the depression.
That's still an improvement on the Aluminium powerbooks, you might squeeze three hours out of them if you turned the brightness down to one bar and didn't run any applications on them...
Called a shifter in Australia
The rest of us have to contend with IT management that have little to no IT experience, skill or qualification, why should the MA state IT dept be any different?
People behave on behalf of the company. People do things in the name of doing their job that they wouldn't consider doing in a purely personal relationship. People at several removes make policy decisions, the policy permeates the corporation, people implement the policy and blame the corporation. Yes those people are cowardly, OTOH if they spoke out against the wrong policies, they would be hungry, because someone less brave would implement a policy on them.
The behaviour of a corporation would be considered properly psychopathic if it was displayed by an individual. Have a read of this article :
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfThink about Metallica's response to Napster. People like Fred Durst own music publishing companies, you can bet he'll side with the RIAA without a thought for fans. Just about the only path to an increased audience is through the major publishers. Look at the garbage they sell though, do you think many of the people getting famous today are actually artists in the sense of creating and deeply caring for what they do?
I have yet to find a collection of the many seasons shows that wasn't (illegally) ripped from TV
Does anyone else find the phrase 'ripped from TV' just slightly weird?
Considering that you have broadband, you get the content faster and without the physical waist.
That's weird, having broadband and fast content have increased my physical waist.
No ads in my music files plz... You're pretty screwed then... brands mentioned in billboard top 20 Macdonalds buys way into rap lyrics There's millions of examples....
I wish I had a mod point for you. It sucks to be trapped in wage slavery and missing most of your children's growing up. I would quit and live simply but it's a bigger change than my wife is willing to make.
As far as most 'pop' music goes, the songwriters and composers are in the employ of, or at least part of the machine with, the record companies, and still little or nothing to do with the perceived 'artist'.
This will confuse creationists - on one hand, they have to forbid it as meddling with God's work, but on the other hand, it's the best chance they have of getting 'intelligent design' considered a science.
GIMP's not great for professional print - doesn't have any CMYK management. Having gone to photoshop I find it frustrating to go back to Gimp, but YMMV. Won't cost you anything to try it :)
Argh McBrain not McBrian!
Nicko McBrian from Iron Maiden refers to it as the "Bleedin' Bodge-up Company".
[Gimp] is very similar to iPhoto or Elements.
Not really. iPhoto is so simple your grandma can use it. Gimp's interface takes a lot of getting used to, it's another great example of where open source falls down - it's all run by geeks and programmers. Where are the interface experts, usability consultants, test groups etc? One thing commercial softwaredoes have that open source generally doesn't, is wholeness and polish. Geeks write features when they need them, and get used to the interface on the way. Nobody turns around and says "Hey you know what? the behaviour of the windows in Gimp is painful. How come if I click a tool on the toolbar, I have to click back in the job window before I can use the tool? And why do they clutter up my taskbar like that?"
As far as function goes, you can't compare it to Photoshop elements either. The pixel wrangling is so much smoother in Photoshop, the tools are so much more mature and cooperative. Gimp looked ok up against Photoshop 4, but whereas Photoshop is now up to version umm...8 I think, with matured tools and interface improvements, the latest version of Gimp looks like and feels like a point release of the same version we had 6 years ago. Photoshop Elements doesn't have the feature set of full photoshop, but it does have the maturity and polish
No disrespect to the Gimp developers intended - you do what you can with the people and time available, and they've done well. But people like to roll it out as an example of why Open Source 'has the apps' too, and it's really a good example of why Open Source apps just don't compare for normal users.
Great, now even plasticine has DRM on it.
That's no analogy. I think the parent is suggesting that instead of paying for the full range of cable channels when he only wants a few shows, they could have a pay for download service where you pay less and just get what you want. He never said free
If all cars cost the same amount, and the owners of Ford Fiestas were subsidising the Ferrari owners you might be making a better analogy.
I could be wrong of course
There is no car analogy to this. If I steal your car, you no longer have a car. If I copy your DVD, you still have your DVD. There is a per unit cost to the manufacturer for each car they sell. TV shows on the other hand, have a once off development/production cost, but creating each 'unit' costs close enough to zero.
It's probably no worse than any of those, at least as far as landfill goes. But it is yet another thing to add to the growing list of things we just throw away, and pretty much an unnecessary addition.
That said, you have to factor in production waste, energy use in production, greenhouse emissions in producing said energy, plus transport costs, including pollution from transport, and the fact that where your local blockbuster will hire the same physical disc maybe hundreds of times, getting hundreds of views per disc manufactured, the disposable method means manufacturing hundreds of discs to get hundreds of views, and all the above waste factors included
He's clearly trying to get the job as Dupe Manager on Slashdot
The problem is though that the idiots usually manage to reproduce before they knock themselves off, so hoping Darwin will save you won't get you anywhere.
This is the geeks misunderstanding of natural selection - intellectuals love evolution because they think their superior brains will win in the end. This works in the work world to some extent, but on a species scale it's different.
The reality as far as evolution goes (and remember that evolution works on a macro scale, not in your lifetime or the foreseeable future) is that stupid people are at a distinct advantage. While intellectuals tend to have two or one children, the stupid masses are going at it like rabbits. Intelligent are at a selective disadvantage, because we don't pass our genes on as often as the trailer trash chicks that drop out of school by the time they are pregnant at 14 and have 8 kids by their 30th birthday.
*They* are the evolutionary giants, not us. We live side by side now, but when society breaks down in a few hundred years or whatever, the billions of big dumb kids will finish us off very quickly.
Of course, it's even less of an issue for most /.ers, because sitting at home by yourself with your 20 gig porn collection isn't gonna pass your genes on to anything but your keyboard...
The real problem that faces paper publishers is the rise of e-readers and the same threat that faces the music industry.
That their product will become so homogenised and banal that people will spend their dollars on completely different types of entertainment?
The hurricane wasn't caused by policy. Obviously
The flooding on the other hand, was caused by the degradation of the surrounding swamplands, cleverly placed there by God/nature/whatever to absorb the excess water from exciting weather events
The levee system, it was forecast several years ago, was not even up to the task of resisting a smaller hurricane than Katrina. The Clinton administration had spent 500 mill on it, but funding dropped considerably under Bush.
The advance response was non-existent, the President being too busy with other affairs, and preferring to plead ignorance after the fact
Additionally, National Guard and Army troops, who would normally be called in to assist in major emergencies, were not available at this time, being elsewhere engaged.
Oh wait I see, you were being ironic. You're right, the poor levee maintenance and lack of military personnel and lack of preparatory response weren't caused by President Bush's domestic policies. They were caused by his obsession with foreign policy.
That's a very subtle and clever point you made, well done