Maybe what he means is, like MTV, the internet has become so commercial and lost so much of what made it good, that it is effectively dead. All it takes is a little more DRM and a little less net neutrality and it will be there. No small site would be able to make it, so everything would come from corporations. After they get to control what you see, it will be very much like MTV.
Or maybe he just has no clue...
I think, at least for my church, anything they don't pay taxes on has more to do with being a nonprofit organization than believing in God. As for those places in which people actually live in the church, I don't know.
I personally think Microsoft tries to kill computer resources on purpose, maybe to get people to buy new computers and copies of Windows. I think this because every time a new version of Windows comes out, it somehow takes up much more memory than the previous one, without doing many new things. I can't help but think the way they designed the registry to get bigger and slower, until it grinds the computer to a halt, was not an accident. They couldn't be that stupid. And soon after people started finding ways to use the graphics hardware for software execution, Microsoft made the window manager start to use up the graphics accelerator. Now they're making IE do it. They'll keep going until they kill the graphics card the way they've killed everything else. And the only reason Windows 7 doesn't suck too is because that one was my idea. But this applies to all the Windows versions before it.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but good artists are much harder to find than programmers.
I think good programmers are much harder to find than artists also. But if you're comparing good artists to good programmers, or comparing artists to programmers, then maybe the ratio is more even.
I don't think that's the same. In a team sport, team members can do things to cause trouble for team-mates in order to make themselves look better. In a programming competition, programmers can make themselves look good but can't easily sabotage the other programmers. Eliminating teamwork is bad for a team, but not bad for competition among individuals.
The problem is they think anybody who isn't playing something like Modern Warfare or Halo is a casual gamer. A person could play Tetris and Mario Kart 16 hours a day and still be called a casual gamer here.
At the risk of getting whooshed, I would like to point out that the software also can edit EXIF and IPTC data, as well as file timestamps. It also lets you add metadata that it stores in a separate database. It can do these things on individual files or do a batch job on a whole group of them. Also, all of this data is searchable. I'm just saying, I think it does what the user requested unless he can't use Windows.
While working Cash For Clunkers in the United States, a lot of people were griping about how (people who got some new pickup truck with a 2mpg increase over told one) were getting the same credit as people who replaced their old car with a new one that gets like 10 or 15mpg more. Maybe if they had known about this, they'd understand.
I wish we had a Telecommunications Interception Act in the United States, and they'd investigate whether collecting IP addresses from bittorrent trackers was done for a purpose authorized by the bittorrent tracker.
It's not even so scary to remove somebody from your friends list. It doesn't even tell them. The only way they'd find out is if they:
1. were actually paying attention to you
2. noticed there weren't any posts from you for a while and
3. cared enough to go to your page and noticed the "add as friend" button is back.
Given that there's probably 600 other people on their list, step 1 is a stretch. If they don't even like you and only added you because they remember your name, step 2 and 3 are a stretch.
Well the dead battery thing would definitely have been a problem for me. My battery died and I had to get the car jumpstarted. That meant I had to make it to the battery shop using only the power from my alternator. A red light that kills engines would have left me stuck at the red light.
I think I prefer being called "girl" rather than "woman" because it implies youth. But if I'm involved in sex, sometimes I prefer being called "woman" because it implies I'm at my sexual peak. So for me, since whatever a "geek" does has nothing to do with sex, "girl" seems more fitting.
True. But I have a friend who is trying to get her husband to have a vasectomy. I bet this would be a much easier sell. Especially if it comes up after the vasectomy argument.
2. Before you post, pretend your future (or current) employer is reading
This will assist you in deciding whether it's a good idea to post those hilarious drunken half-naked pictures of you groping that dude dressed up in a Grimace costume.
Those pictures would probably get me a higher rating where I work. But a decentralized social network has to happen because it's the only way to make a social network that isn't controlled by a company. The problem is the people who would make it are like the Slashdot and Linux crowds. They are completely against everything that makes a social network work. And the people who know what would make a social network work are not going to build a distributed computer network.
The moral of this story is, if you don't like Facebook, you're going to have to build something just like Facebook. They're not unbeatable. The more crap they put in to make money, the easier they will be to replace. As soon as they get crappy enough, people will be ready to abandon them, just like they did with MySpace. There just has to be a place for them to go. And for goodness sake, there better not be a moderation system.
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I would argue that "young, hip developers" is an oxymoron.
Maybe what he means is, like MTV, the internet has become so commercial and lost so much of what made it good, that it is effectively dead. All it takes is a little more DRM and a little less net neutrality and it will be there. No small site would be able to make it, so everything would come from corporations. After they get to control what you see, it will be very much like MTV. Or maybe he just has no clue...
Which depends on Slashdotters and regular people hanging out together...
Wouldn't it be wild if it turned out the fish were following magnetic pulses and ignoring their plastic model?
I think, at least for my church, anything they don't pay taxes on has more to do with being a nonprofit organization than believing in God. As for those places in which people actually live in the church, I don't know.
I personally think Microsoft tries to kill computer resources on purpose, maybe to get people to buy new computers and copies of Windows. I think this because every time a new version of Windows comes out, it somehow takes up much more memory than the previous one, without doing many new things. I can't help but think the way they designed the registry to get bigger and slower, until it grinds the computer to a halt, was not an accident. They couldn't be that stupid. And soon after people started finding ways to use the graphics hardware for software execution, Microsoft made the window manager start to use up the graphics accelerator. Now they're making IE do it. They'll keep going until they kill the graphics card the way they've killed everything else. And the only reason Windows 7 doesn't suck too is because that one was my idea. But this applies to all the Windows versions before it.
And those are the types who could have played uninterrupted if it wasn't for Firefox.
There's an app called TextFree that my daughter used to send and receive text messages. So it's wrong to say an app can't do that.
I think good programmers are much harder to find than artists also. But if you're comparing good artists to good programmers, or comparing artists to programmers, then maybe the ratio is more even.
I don't think that's the same. In a team sport, team members can do things to cause trouble for team-mates in order to make themselves look better. In a programming competition, programmers can make themselves look good but can't easily sabotage the other programmers. Eliminating teamwork is bad for a team, but not bad for competition among individuals.
The problem is they think anybody who isn't playing something like Modern Warfare or Halo is a casual gamer. A person could play Tetris and Mario Kart 16 hours a day and still be called a casual gamer here.
At the risk of getting whooshed, I would like to point out that the software also can edit EXIF and IPTC data, as well as file timestamps. It also lets you add metadata that it stores in a separate database. It can do these things on individual files or do a batch job on a whole group of them. Also, all of this data is searchable. I'm just saying, I think it does what the user requested unless he can't use Windows.
I use ACDSee. I don't know how the cost compares to lightroom but I bet it's less.
While working Cash For Clunkers in the United States, a lot of people were griping about how (people who got some new pickup truck with a 2mpg increase over told one) were getting the same credit as people who replaced their old car with a new one that gets like 10 or 15mpg more. Maybe if they had known about this, they'd understand.
If only there were a game system that encouraged mild physical activity...
I wish we had a Telecommunications Interception Act in the United States, and they'd investigate whether collecting IP addresses from bittorrent trackers was done for a purpose authorized by the bittorrent tracker.
How much does this case increase their legal fees if the lawyers were employed full-time for a fixed salary anyway?
It's not even so scary to remove somebody from your friends list. It doesn't even tell them. The only way they'd find out is if they:
1. were actually paying attention to you
2. noticed there weren't any posts from you for a while and
3. cared enough to go to your page and noticed the "add as friend" button is back.
Given that there's probably 600 other people on their list, step 1 is a stretch. If they don't even like you and only added you because they remember your name, step 2 and 3 are a stretch.
Well the dead battery thing would definitely have been a problem for me. My battery died and I had to get the car jumpstarted. That meant I had to make it to the battery shop using only the power from my alternator. A red light that kills engines would have left me stuck at the red light.
I think I prefer being called "girl" rather than "woman" because it implies youth. But if I'm involved in sex, sometimes I prefer being called "woman" because it implies I'm at my sexual peak. So for me, since whatever a "geek" does has nothing to do with sex, "girl" seems more fitting.
My first thought was maybe things, that are really lightweight, don't make any adjustment when traveling over soft surfaces.
True. But I have a friend who is trying to get her husband to have a vasectomy. I bet this would be a much easier sell. Especially if it comes up after the vasectomy argument.
2. Before you post, pretend your future (or current) employer is reading
This will assist you in deciding whether it's a good idea to post those hilarious drunken half-naked pictures of you groping that dude dressed up in a Grimace costume.
Those pictures would probably get me a higher rating where I work. But a decentralized social network has to happen because it's the only way to make a social network that isn't controlled by a company. The problem is the people who would make it are like the Slashdot and Linux crowds. They are completely against everything that makes a social network work. And the people who know what would make a social network work are not going to build a distributed computer network.
The moral of this story is, if you don't like Facebook, you're going to have to build something just like Facebook. They're not unbeatable. The more crap they put in to make money, the easier they will be to replace. As soon as they get crappy enough, people will be ready to abandon them, just like they did with MySpace. There just has to be a place for them to go. And for goodness sake, there better not be a moderation system.
If you can't make your price lower than anybody else, wouldn't this be a high-price guarantee rather than a low-price guarantee?
With the cost of ink, it would cost less to just buy a car.