A bunch of companies have different solutions which disrupt the original shared code cooperative model and Unix dies.
A bunch of companies have different solutions which disrupt the opriginal standards based model and the Internet dies.
I might accept the idea but it does not belong to Intel, Princeton, AT&T, nor Cambridge. It belongs in the bucket with all the other ideas that eventually get implemented. Otherwise the Net will be just like television.
I actually signed up with Palm's dev site to work on this. Problem: horrid documentation and nothing to test it on. While I have no Palm experience I am comfortable finding my way around code and docs.
You can't separate creativity from expression. Music that is purely different is not creative, and music that is purely the same is not expressive.
Music is communication. You only want it new because you've heard it all your life on radio and television which are one way communication-challenged media. Talk radio and talk TV (frankly TV talk shows are even worse because the only communication encouraged is adversarial) aren't much better.
What's missing in these media is songs that evolve greatly when one artist does a piece and then another interprets it. And I'll agree electronic artists have yet to pull that off.
It maybe much cleaner in the browser, but it depends on your implementation. Is it cleaner to have an automatically created file in a format that may be lacking in support or to animate a set of images which can have all the features you could want in each since the format iself doesn't have to anything to do with animation? If my server needs to compute a lot while serving animations I would at least offload the animation script to the client. If my server isn't actually computing anything I can spare the cycles of running an auto-GIF program.
One where products advertised must be imported from the US.
France can make it illegal to import. Therefore it would be somewhat of a problem to export something that is banned from import in the country of destination.
France cannot force the US to remove the items.
My personal opinion is that a country that gladly kept all sorts of records on its citizens making it easy for the Nazis to find their victims got what was coming to them. That should teach them about privacy.
And if I were interested in history for personal research and enrichment, having an item from that era might allow me to appreciate the reality of thpse years not just the recorded history. It's a bit disturbing for someone to collect such things (and from an Erich Fromm perspective any kind of repetitive collecting is a sign of voluntary mentally deteriorating behavior - we call it an obsession whether it makes for Hollywood thrillers or not), but the past should and must be allowed to bite us or we'll forget the value of it.
Outsourcing is the biggest legalized pyramid scheme there is.
1. Cheaper workforce = cheaper products Assuming the companies are nice enough to lower their prices for us is just plain stupid.
In the absence of competition via innovation not just price there's no reason for competitors to drop prices much.
Why lower the price when you're already making bank on the cheap labor? The only companies able to consider outsourcing are those who are already established. New companies have no recognition onshore nevermind offshore.
Since when does getting an outsourced job encourage anyone to put in the effort and personal energy to innovate for a company that is interested in the bottom line not the ideas?
Also I still only see outsourcing potentially benefiting consumers. When does the outsourcing improve my rent, my college loans, and my mortgage? I couldn't careless if an HDTV would cost less.
I want off this planet now. Yes, Mr. conductor throw me off the universal train ride. This is so stupid and wrong I can't believe I'm even posting.
I thought destroying arcade machines was wrong. I thought crushing CDs in the middle of the street was moronic. But now... I could for a round of golf with one of these gadgets on the tee. Cue Bush: Watch this drive. Uncue.
Using Microsoft so you can blame Microsoft is like drinking from an abundant polluted water source because you can blame the companies that trashed it and you don't know what you will do when the clean not-so-abundant water source runs out,
Excuse me, but when was the last time someone who chose Microsoft happily went out and sued Microsoft for all the security holes. And you can apply this to any large "unsuable" company. Have you ever read an EULA? The amount of non-compete indemnification language infused in those loaded documents should automatically invalidate your argument.
What's really wrong here is that commercial and non-commercial FOSS hasn't developed a model of taking responsibility to compete with the complete lack of it in the proprietary offerings.
I might just do it myself.
Back in the day when 50 programmers was a large team the notion of tracking responsibility after someone else had played with the source was unthinkable. The Internet meant "far, far, away". With tools available now the exact opposite exists as a possibility. The Internet is as close and personal as you can get. FOSS has been touting the many eyes advantage long enough to formally integrate it into the paperwork given to customers regarding their rights and benefits in choosing FOSS.
I really ought to write a proposal for this. It's getting highly ridiculous no one has yet put their liability where their mouth is.
It's the absolutely isolationist mentality of Hollywood that produces this crap. People watch together. People watch to enjoy the movie. People watch to laugh at the movie. TOGETHER. People replay.
People sometimes want to continue watching later. Sometimes people play the nifty DVD games over and over. Sometimes kids want to watch it again and again but they won't watch it ever again for five years afterwards. Some families have more than one child, of which one may be at an activity.
People are rarely together more than four hours at a time.
The 48 hour one has some use, barely. The 8 hour one um... no.
In either case, this is insulting. But it makes good/. fodder for a slow day.
An improvement might be to make the degrading stop when it's back in the case.
Are we too worn out to to do it again, or is everyone trying so hard to be honest (not steal) that they're helping *AA to pretty much lock out new technologies in the service of those who know more about tech than they do (MS).
The consumer comes first as far as I'm concerned so yes I'm biased.
1. Old games competing with new games? Tough cookies. Sorry, but he way i see it is if an old game is free, then I still have money left over for the new game. This is similar to why filesharing increases profits rather than aroding profits. And of course, maybe the real problem is the new team working on the new game have too many $'s in their eys and not enough love for the the project to make it worth the purchas.
2. It makes it harder for competitors to sell new games. Isn't that a good thing for the other company? Sounds like a good reason to promote free copies of old games to remind the customer who the king of entertainment is (assuming you have good titles, see if the old game sucked then it would be great for the competition). Wait it gives the consumer a way to evaluate the company's record in the business? Heavens to Mergatroid, we can't have that. Consumers already have too much information as it is.
3. Official distribution? Oh please, do we have to buy a new basketball when we got to the neighborhood playground? Hey kid, you can't lend your blades to your friend, that's not nice to your friendly rep at the sports shop, tell that cheapskate friend of yours to buy his own. Yes, the building blocks of society are destroyed by sharing.
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It was Froogle not Froggle. Otherwise Miss Piggy and that freaky looking thing from The Dark Crystal would be banging on the door.
A bunch of companies have different solutions which disrupt the original shared code cooperative model and Unix dies.
A bunch of companies have different solutions which disrupt the opriginal standards based model and the Internet dies.
I might accept the idea but it does not belong to Intel, Princeton, AT&T, nor Cambridge. It belongs in the bucket with all the other ideas that eventually get implemented. Otherwise the Net will be just like television.
I actually signed up with Palm's dev site to work on this. Problem: horrid documentation and nothing to test it on. While I have no Palm experience I am comfortable finding my way around code and docs.
Oh well. Back to googling for bounties.
You can't separate creativity from expression. Music that is purely different is not creative, and music that is purely the same is not expressive.
Music is communication. You only want it new because you've heard it all your life on radio and television which are one way communication-challenged media. Talk radio and talk TV (frankly TV talk shows are even worse because the only communication encouraged is adversarial) aren't much better.
What's missing in these media is songs that evolve greatly when one artist does a piece and then another interprets it. And I'll agree electronic artists have yet to pull that off.
Globally Incestuous Governments.
There should be some sort of psychotherapy for governments that are so ready to bend over for each other.
You forgot to say Thank You.
Thank You.
WTF does oil have to do with outsourcing pennycoders?
Er, what now?
America acting like it owns the place?
This is news?
Extreme claims demand extreme evidence.
Are all the people calling mostly creditors or mostly vacation opportunity scammers? I thought so. Next...
It maybe much cleaner in the browser, but it depends on your implementation. Is it cleaner to have an automatically created file in a format that may be lacking in support or to animate a set of images which can have all the features you could want in each since the format iself doesn't have to anything to do with animation? If my server needs to compute a lot while serving animations I would at least offload the animation script to the client. If my server isn't actually computing anything I can spare the cycles of running an auto-GIF program.
One where products advertised must be imported from the US.
France can make it illegal to import. Therefore it would be somewhat of a problem to export something that is banned from import in the country of destination.
France cannot force the US to remove the items.
My personal opinion is that a country that gladly kept all sorts of records on its citizens making it easy for the Nazis to find their victims got what was coming to them. That should teach them about privacy.
And if I were interested in history for personal research and enrichment, having an item from that era might allow me to appreciate the reality of thpse years not just the recorded history. It's a bit disturbing for someone to collect such things (and from an Erich Fromm perspective any kind of repetitive collecting is a sign of voluntary mentally deteriorating behavior - we call it an obsession whether it makes for Hollywood thrillers or not), but the past should and must be allowed to bite us or we'll forget the value of it.
Outsourcing is the biggest legalized pyramid scheme there is.
1. Cheaper workforce = cheaper products
Assuming the companies are nice enough to lower their prices for us is just plain stupid.
In the absence of competition via innovation not just price there's no reason for competitors to drop prices much.
Why lower the price when you're already making bank on the cheap labor? The only companies able to consider outsourcing are those who are already established. New companies have no recognition onshore nevermind offshore.
Since when does getting an outsourced job encourage anyone to put in the effort and personal energy to innovate for a company that is interested in the bottom line not the ideas?
Also I still only see outsourcing potentially benefiting consumers. When does the outsourcing improve my rent, my college loans, and my mortgage? I couldn't careless if an HDTV would cost less.
Using the word propaganda is as thread invalidation as the word NAZI. Er, wait...
Fuck it this thread is dead either way.
I want off this planet now. Yes, Mr. conductor throw me off the universal train ride. This is so stupid and wrong I can't believe I'm even posting.
I thought destroying arcade machines was wrong. I thought crushing CDs in the middle of the street was moronic. But now... I could for a round of golf with one of these gadgets on the tee. Cue Bush: Watch this drive. Uncue.
I call bovine excrement.
Using Microsoft so you can blame Microsoft is like drinking from an abundant polluted water source because you can blame the companies that trashed it and you don't know what you will do when the clean not-so-abundant water source runs out,
Excuse me, but when was the last time someone who chose Microsoft happily went out and sued Microsoft for all the security holes. And you can apply this to any large "unsuable" company. Have you ever read an EULA? The amount of non-compete indemnification language infused in those loaded documents should automatically invalidate your argument.
What's really wrong here is that commercial and non-commercial FOSS hasn't developed a model of taking responsibility to compete with the complete lack of it in the proprietary offerings.
I might just do it myself.
Back in the day when 50 programmers was a large team the notion of tracking responsibility after someone else had played with the source was unthinkable. The Internet meant "far, far, away". With tools available now the exact opposite exists as a possibility. The Internet is as close and personal as you can get. FOSS has been touting the many eyes advantage long enough to formally integrate it into the paperwork given to customers regarding their rights and benefits in choosing FOSS.
I really ought to write a proposal for this. It's getting highly ridiculous no one has yet put their liability where their mouth is.
In Maine, some guy actually owns the highway and it so happens that that highway is better taken care of than any I've seen.
I would say getting them off Mars would be easier than getting them off Earth.
:)
On the other hand Australia was exile for British convicts. Look at what a wonderful place it is now
It's the absolutely isolationist mentality of Hollywood that produces this crap. People watch together. People watch to enjoy the movie. People watch to laugh at the movie. TOGETHER. People replay.
/. fodder for a slow day.
People sometimes want to continue watching later.
Sometimes people play the nifty DVD games over and over.
Sometimes kids want to watch it again and again but they won't watch it ever again for five years afterwards. Some families have more than one child, of which one may be at an activity.
People are rarely together more than four hours at a time.
The 48 hour one has some use, barely.
The 8 hour one um... no.
In either case, this is insulting. But it makes good
An improvement might be to make the degrading stop when it's back in the case.
it will never be called x786, because it is not an x86 architecture. x86 style code will never run on it.
Functionally sound, as much as taking 1000 tiny steps to get to my kitchen as opposed to asking someone else to get me that soda.
The response to that one made it optional.
Are we too worn out to to do it again, or is everyone trying so hard to be honest (not steal) that they're helping *AA to pretty much lock out new technologies in the service of those who know more about tech than they do (MS).
4: Interesting... you should be worried.
Just hire an extra guy and call him the Lieutenant Compiler.
We'll always have that confusion from those who don't know. Which is actually funnier.
The consumer comes first as far as I'm concerned so yes I'm biased.
1. Old games competing with new games?
Tough cookies. Sorry, but he way i see it is if an old game is free, then I still have money left over for the new game. This is similar to why filesharing increases profits rather than aroding profits. And of course, maybe the real problem is the new team working on the new game have too many $'s in their eys and not enough love for the the project to make it worth the purchas.
2. It makes it harder for competitors to sell new games. Isn't that a good thing for the other company? Sounds like a good reason to promote free copies of old games to remind the customer who the king of entertainment is (assuming you have good titles, see if the old game sucked then it would be great for the competition). Wait it gives the consumer a way to evaluate the company's record in the business? Heavens to Mergatroid, we can't have that. Consumers already have too much information as it is.
3. Official distribution? Oh please, do we have to buy a new basketball when we got to the neighborhood playground? Hey kid, you can't lend your blades to your friend, that's not nice to your friendly rep at the sports shop, tell that cheapskate friend of yours to buy his own. Yes, the building blocks of society are destroyed by sharing.
or for that matter African African.