The thing is, we (and you and I share a disapproval for downloading music without paying for it while being opposed to the RIAA and other IP-mafiaas) have a difficult contradiction to work out. We oppose something, but also oppose all the effective mechanisms for dealing with it. What alternatives are there to what the RIAA is doing? Realistic alternatives, at least - knowing full well that an economically very significant number of people will choose "free" if they think they can get away with it.
Personally, I'm in favor of a system by which musicians are funded by other means, including public funds - but I'm also a socialist, and I know that a greatly expanded NEA that funds pop musicians isn't going to be too popular any time soon. So, how do you resolve the contradiction? What is the enforcement mechanism?
Apple only makes computers as long as the story isn't about overworked, stressed employees killing themselves. Then, some third-party in China makes computers and Apple is just an innocent customer.
1. Yes - after I installed an experimental build of Android.:-) Never with a stock build, nor with a "stable" build of Cyanogen.
2. Consistent, but mediocre. The G1 is sub-par for battery life. However, it isn't random, so that I can fairly safely predict how long it will last. Other HTC/Android models have better battery life.
3.Finding apps is easy. Installing them is pretty good, although if you are running an Apps2SD utility (that lets you install software onto external memory, instead of the internal memory store) there sometimes is a little lag in installation. To answer your question, very nearly as nice as the iPhone and much nicer than anyone else.
I do pay the price of a couple quirks to run home-brew versions of the OS. The reason I installed the CyanogenMod initially was to root the phone and use it as a WiFi access port - a bit of functionality that makes my iPhone-owning friends very, very envious, when I drop my phone on the ground in a public space and tell them that they can log into it with their laptops.
There are still some bits of polish which I think the iPhone has over my G1, and I think that's largely because of the relatively underpowered CPU. Apple is good at managing the split-second responsiveness of its UI better, and I don't see that changing too quickly. And to this date, I think that the iPhone still occupies a lot of mindshare, with some developers and vendors targeting it for niche products that aren't targeted on Android (though I feel that is changing quickly.) But app installs do not brick Android phones as far as I can tell. There is a kind of solidness "under the hood."
All that said, I wouldn't get the G1 today, and to be honest, if I were about to go on the market for a new smartphone and money wasn't an issue, I'd wait for one from either HTC or Motorola that supports HSDP+.
Your premise is incorrect, though: Dell and HP both sell Linux-based systems. Making Microsoft the villain of the piece is misguided: if Microsoft made its own hardware and forbade anyone from running its software (including Office - and then using the dominance of office to seal the deal) on anything else, the analogy would apply.
Of course. They have no competition (for systems which run MacOS.) PC makers compete with each other. When you have no competition, you can raise prices as high as the market will bear. The golden road to profit.
When they shut down PsyStar, they kept the cash cow mooing without missing a beat. If other hardware vendors were allowed to sell Mac OS X compatible systems, their profits would drop.
My G1: it's not only reliable as an alarm, it can be damn cool as one. And there is an app that even optimizes it as an alarm by letting it drop into very low power mode when the battery is running low, yet still work as an alarm clock.
When I first got my G1, I was somewhat disappointed with some of its limitations. Most of those limitations have been overcome, and its openness (including the subtle yet real cooperation between Google and home-brew types like Cyanogen) have contributed to its improving. I started out treating it as a "poor man's iPhone" - I got it because I don't like AT&T more than I admired the iPhone UI. At this point, however, I have no interest in getting an iPhone - my next phone will be an HDSP+ capable Android-based one.
There are many models of communism which are very decentralized - based on ground-up, local community ownership and management of productive systems, with factories running more like workshops (think of the way research labs are often organized.) Anarcho-syndicalism is an implementation of Communist ideas.
The EU actually provides a model of the "state after the state" - the nation-state being superseded by a collection of agreements, treaties, and organizations into which local governments buy-in or not as they feel fit. What I like most about the EU is its very "ineffectiveness" by the norms of the traditional nation-state.
The core idea of communism, the principle which ultimately distinguishes it from capitalism, is the claim that economics are not truly a separate sphere from politics, and that the separation of economics from politics is a trick - a convenient fiction - used to make people who effectively rule via economic dominance still look as if they are equal citizens in a "political" state. When the understanding of the polis includes the productive aspects of a society, you move toward communism.
He worked incredibly hard. Simply at something that wasn't remunerated (at the time.) If people didn't do that, there would be a lot less great art, music and literature in the world.
You may oppose both his ideas and his priorities, but laziness is not valid accusation.
Yes, rapid decline. I'll echo what babyrat said: very few desktops are being refreshed by desktops in almost every large organization (both educational and enterprise) that I have visited in the past several years. Cloud + laptop replaces it all except for a handful of production tasks (rendering, etc.)
The book is well-known. Nabokov is one of the most famous novelists of the 20th century. To consider it canonical over the film is by no means unusual among educated people: it's one of the most widely read novels in English.
I agree with you in theory - that a custody meant to protect society at large should be distinguished from a punitive one. But we don't really agree that incarceration is meant to be punitive: we think it might be rehabilitative, or protective, as well. Prisons have become places that have slid back into pre-modern forms of punishment, meted out by other prisoners rather than by the state. Perhaps the anxiety about distinguishing between punitive and protective incarceration after conviction is about a reluctance to recognize that other prisoners are now effectively delegated by the state to punish each other.
What if my understanding of democracy is such that I find the private ownership of land outrageous, and I happen to have a big enough army that I can bring that understanding to where you live and wipe you out to implement it?
That's what the "democratic" jihad that was Manifest Destiny wrought, albeit in the other direction (from land as common to land as property.)
You might prefer the theocratic kind, because, oddly enough, there are more non-Arabs in places that experienced the theocratic kind of jihad than there are Native Americans in those that experienced the "democratic" kind.
That assumes that no practical knowledge has been lost between then and now. One may actually do better with 18th cent knowledge and 18th cent tech than with 21st cent knowledge and 18th century tech. How many people do you think would know how to survive a winter without central heating?
There is also infrastructure and organization to consider. All the knowledge in the world doesn't do a lot of good in the hands of a small group of isolated people with 18th century tech on their hands.
Well, the fact that the code is to circumvent DRM measures, and was written by people that said programmers treat as "the enemy," makes the story a bit more interesting, doesn't it?
If Apple can define something like retrieving podcasts as "core iPhone functionality," it can pretty much use that excuse to stop any competition. And it does.
You are moving the goal posts. Again, you know that this is wrong.
So, Google Voice didn't make their quality standards? And what about code that is developed originally in another language that affects the quality standard as well? You are speaking on both sides of your mouth here, and I think, deep down, you know it.
But when they "pushed" IE, they in no way prevented other browsers from being distributed, or from running on Windows.
Look, I don't object that Apple is vetting applications that get put onto the App Store. What I mind is using that vetting process to squelch fair competition. Microsoft isn't doing anything like that on the Xbox.
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The thing is, we (and you and I share a disapproval for downloading music without paying for it while being opposed to the RIAA and other IP-mafiaas) have a difficult contradiction to work out. We oppose something, but also oppose all the effective mechanisms for dealing with it. What alternatives are there to what the RIAA is doing? Realistic alternatives, at least - knowing full well that an economically very significant number of people will choose "free" if they think they can get away with it.
Personally, I'm in favor of a system by which musicians are funded by other means, including public funds - but I'm also a socialist, and I know that a greatly expanded NEA that funds pop musicians isn't going to be too popular any time soon. So, how do you resolve the contradiction? What is the enforcement mechanism?
Apple only makes computers as long as the story isn't about overworked, stressed employees killing themselves. Then, some third-party in China makes computers and Apple is just an innocent customer.
I dare anyone to name something as emotionally satisfying as facing a seemingly insurmountable problem...and then finding a solution.
Too easy, and I enjoy overcoming problems with elegant solutions, too:
1. Helping someone who is suffering.
2. Playing music with others and having everything come together.
3. Parenting, teaching.
4. Reconciling with an estranged friend or relative. (An extraordinary feeling, that.)
5. Crossing a chasm in cultural differences and communicating.
And that wasn't even trying hard.
Is an American car a car made in Mexico with the word "Ford" printed on it, or one made in Alabama or Kentucky with the word "Toyota" on it?
1. Yes - after I installed an experimental build of Android. :-) Never with a stock build, nor with a "stable" build of Cyanogen.
2. Consistent, but mediocre. The G1 is sub-par for battery life. However, it isn't random, so that I can fairly safely predict how long it will last. Other HTC/Android models have better battery life.
3.Finding apps is easy. Installing them is pretty good, although if you are running an Apps2SD utility (that lets you install software onto external memory, instead of the internal memory store) there sometimes is a little lag in installation. To answer your question, very nearly as nice as the iPhone and much nicer than anyone else.
I do pay the price of a couple quirks to run home-brew versions of the OS. The reason I installed the CyanogenMod initially was to root the phone and use it as a WiFi access port - a bit of functionality that makes my iPhone-owning friends very, very envious, when I drop my phone on the ground in a public space and tell them that they can log into it with their laptops.
There are still some bits of polish which I think the iPhone has over my G1, and I think that's largely because of the relatively underpowered CPU. Apple is good at managing the split-second responsiveness of its UI better, and I don't see that changing too quickly. And to this date, I think that the iPhone still occupies a lot of mindshare, with some developers and vendors targeting it for niche products that aren't targeted on Android (though I feel that is changing quickly.) But app installs do not brick Android phones as far as I can tell. There is a kind of solidness "under the hood."
All that said, I wouldn't get the G1 today, and to be honest, if I were about to go on the market for a new smartphone and money wasn't an issue, I'd wait for one from either HTC or Motorola that supports HSDP+.
Your premise is incorrect, though: Dell and HP both sell Linux-based systems. Making Microsoft the villain of the piece is misguided: if Microsoft made its own hardware and forbade anyone from running its software (including Office - and then using the dominance of office to seal the deal) on anything else, the analogy would apply.
Of course. They have no competition (for systems which run MacOS.) PC makers compete with each other. When you have no competition, you can raise prices as high as the market will bear. The golden road to profit.
When they shut down PsyStar, they kept the cash cow mooing without missing a beat. If other hardware vendors were allowed to sell Mac OS X compatible systems, their profits would drop.
My G1: it's not only reliable as an alarm, it can be damn cool as one. And there is an app that even optimizes it as an alarm by letting it drop into very low power mode when the battery is running low, yet still work as an alarm clock.
When I first got my G1, I was somewhat disappointed with some of its limitations. Most of those limitations have been overcome, and its openness (including the subtle yet real cooperation between Google and home-brew types like Cyanogen) have contributed to its improving. I started out treating it as a "poor man's iPhone" - I got it because I don't like AT&T more than I admired the iPhone UI. At this point, however, I have no interest in getting an iPhone - my next phone will be an HDSP+ capable Android-based one.
There are many models of communism which are very decentralized - based on ground-up, local community ownership and management of productive systems, with factories running more like workshops (think of the way research labs are often organized.) Anarcho-syndicalism is an implementation of Communist ideas.
The EU actually provides a model of the "state after the state" - the nation-state being superseded by a collection of agreements, treaties, and organizations into which local governments buy-in or not as they feel fit. What I like most about the EU is its very "ineffectiveness" by the norms of the traditional nation-state.
The core idea of communism, the principle which ultimately distinguishes it from capitalism, is the claim that economics are not truly a separate sphere from politics, and that the separation of economics from politics is a trick - a convenient fiction - used to make people who effectively rule via economic dominance still look as if they are equal citizens in a "political" state. When the understanding of the polis includes the productive aspects of a society, you move toward communism.
He worked incredibly hard. Simply at something that wasn't remunerated (at the time.) If people didn't do that, there would be a lot less great art, music and literature in the world.
You may oppose both his ideas and his priorities, but laziness is not valid accusation.
As a possible alternative to Zotero, check out Mendeley.
Funny, almost the entire page of search results was people just seeing mountain lions or fighting them off, not losing kids to them.
Yes, rapid decline. I'll echo what babyrat said: very few desktops are being refreshed by desktops in almost every large organization (both educational and enterprise) that I have visited in the past several years. Cloud + laptop replaces it all except for a handful of production tasks (rendering, etc.)
Normally, I think the application of evolutionary psychology to policy questions produces raw bullshit, but in this case: pure brilliance.
The book is well-known. Nabokov is one of the most famous novelists of the 20th century. To consider it canonical over the film is by no means unusual among educated people: it's one of the most widely read novels in English.
I'm sure you did well in maths, though.
I agree with you in theory - that a custody meant to protect society at large should be distinguished from a punitive one. But we don't really agree that incarceration is meant to be punitive: we think it might be rehabilitative, or protective, as well. Prisons have become places that have slid back into pre-modern forms of punishment, meted out by other prisoners rather than by the state. Perhaps the anxiety about distinguishing between punitive and protective incarceration after conviction is about a reluctance to recognize that other prisoners are now effectively delegated by the state to punish each other.
What if my understanding of democracy is such that I find the private ownership of land outrageous, and I happen to have a big enough army that I can bring that understanding to where you live and wipe you out to implement it?
That's what the "democratic" jihad that was Manifest Destiny wrought, albeit in the other direction (from land as common to land as property.)
You might prefer the theocratic kind, because, oddly enough, there are more non-Arabs in places that experienced the theocratic kind of jihad than there are Native Americans in those that experienced the "democratic" kind.
That assumes that no practical knowledge has been lost between then and now. One may actually do better with 18th cent knowledge and 18th cent tech than with 21st cent knowledge and 18th century tech. How many people do you think would know how to survive a winter without central heating?
There is also infrastructure and organization to consider. All the knowledge in the world doesn't do a lot of good in the hands of a small group of isolated people with 18th century tech on their hands.
Well, the fact that the code is to circumvent DRM measures, and was written by people that said programmers treat as "the enemy," makes the story a bit more interesting, doesn't it?
If Apple can define something like retrieving podcasts as "core iPhone functionality," it can pretty much use that excuse to stop any competition. And it does.
You are moving the goal posts. Again, you know that this is wrong.
Podcaster. Denied distribution for competing with iTunes.
So, Google Voice didn't make their quality standards? And what about code that is developed originally in another language that affects the quality standard as well? You are speaking on both sides of your mouth here, and I think, deep down, you know it.
So, how are things in Glasgow these days?
But when they "pushed" IE, they in no way prevented other browsers from being distributed, or from running on Windows.
Look, I don't object that Apple is vetting applications that get put onto the App Store. What I mind is using that vetting process to squelch fair competition. Microsoft isn't doing anything like that on the Xbox.