Talk about a false dichotomy! Do you really think the two are at all related?
There were people who understood the flaws, but (correctly) thought that moving to OS X should not require giving up good performance (which took years to get back), or UI niceties like the way the classic Finder worked. As to the latter, unfortunately Steve apparently didn't like the old Finder and never allowed the OS X Finder to work the same way. Spatial mode is still broken to this day, the "Show Package Contents" feature is inferior to the one from OS 9, the 1-1 relationship between folders and windows is still not as well enforced as it was in OS 9, and as the previous poster mentioned, it took years to get spring loaded folders back (and even longer than that to get its behavior on par with the old implementation), just to name a few examples.
None of that has anything to do with multitasking or event loop handling and you know it. Or hell, maybe you don't, in which case you're pretty dumb.
production costs can be trimmed to 2 or 3 good mics, some software and a laptop
If you want it to sound like complete ass, sure. Digital technology has helped to somewhat reduce a few of costs associated with recording, but a controlled acoustic environment is still necessary to capture a clear record of the sound.
I notice they've got Deutsche Grammophon stuff, which is owned by Universal. Funny, I thought Universal was very pro-DRM (they are so far not participating in iTunes's DRM-free system).
The most hilarious quote from the article is this:
0. To run the program as you wish. 1. To study the source code and change it so the program does what you wish. 2. To redistribute exact copies when you wish, either giving them away or selling them. 3. To distribute copies of your modified versions when you wish.
The only "schedule" he's under is blackout periods. Other than that he can see any time he wants. And as I showed earlier, that was clearly a decision to sell made within days of the actual sale.
It has nothing to do with compensation. If he'd merely gotten a fat bonus that would be different. What it has to do with is him divesting from the company he is supposed to be overseeing the finances of, and timing that sale using his unique foreknowledge of events that he knew would negatively impact the stock price. He used his position to give himself an advantage over other traders. That makes everyone who held on to their shares after he sold a chump, me and you included. At least I can admit it.
Do you know what it means? He placed a limit order with a specific price. It certainly doesn't mean there was no human decision making involved.
He sold at 144.28 on July 30. However the stock briefly hit 146 just four days earlier. That means his limit order could not have been more than four days old. He consciously decided to sell nearly his entire remaining stake in the company sometime during the last week in July.
His stake has been reduced to a tiny pittance. He now has approximately only 1/10th as many shares as he sold in that single transaction. The guy cashed out. He's got virtually nothing left.
He timed that sale almost exactly at the stock's all-time high. And he's the CFO, meaning he's got the ultimate insider knowledge. Yeah, I'm sure that was just a coincidence. Also, I was born yesterday.
Of course he knew. He sold virtually all his shares around that time. The stock is down dramatically today, and will probably be down even more tomorrow. He's probably laughing behind every shareholder's back right now over how fucked they all are.
I don't know if you were watching AAPL a few years ago, but there was a time when 5 execs (including then-CFO Fred Anderson) sold a bunch of shares right before a bad quarterly announcement (which precipitated a huge drop). The SEC said the trades were "well timed" but didn't do anything about it. This feels like a repeat.
I almost sold everything this morning while it was still at 144, but I checked the history and saw that the stock went up after last year's Sept. iPod announcement, so I figured this year might be similar and waited. Boy do I feel like a chump now. CFOs are scum, and if you don't sell when they do, you lose big time.
At my house, their "free" network is just strong enough to cause interference, but too weak to be useful.
In my experience, nearly all free WiFi efforts are like that. All they do is pollute the spectrum. WiFi isn't meant for city-wide blanket coverage. If people try to force it to work like that anyway, pretty soon no one will have working WiFi.
Yeah, and they even gave credit to the 3rd-party researcher who reported the issue. If this dude really has found an previously unknown flaw, and really wanted to make a name for himself as a legit security researcher, he could have just submitted the info to Apple and let them fix it. Then he'd have his name on one of those release notes, too.
It was a proprietary process that Disney owned. Peter Ellenshaw was the effects supervisor who used it. His son Harrison Ellenshaw reused the technique in 1990's "Dick Tracy".
Wow, it's pretty sad to read your comment and think people like you are going away, and that I might never see good printed output again. Damn, that's depressing.
I work with video and I encouter more and more people every day who don't give a fuck about quality. What is the world going to look ilke in 20 years? Will there be anything of any quality left anywhere? Will people even know what a "craftsman" is or that they even existed?
Wow, that's pretty cheap. Shit, I could afford to buy a senator. I think I'll have someone introduce the "Apotsy doesn't have to pay taxes anymore" bill. That would be cheaper than actually paying taxes for real.
(You might think I'm joking, but this is exactly what big business does.)
Bankruptcy was originally intended to be privilege that would be exercised responsibly by the citizens. Unfortunately however, enough of us proved to be irresponsible enough to ruin it for the rest of us who might need it at some point in our lives for legitimate reasons. The specifics of the bill in question are debatable, but pretty much everyone agreed that *some* type of reform was needed to reign in the freeloaders.
Unfortunately the "reform" we got was notexactly what we needed. When bankruptcy judges themselves are saying the law is too harsh, it seems like it is doing more than just trying to "reign in the freeloaders".
Yes, I do remember that, and it's not the same thing. It was legal to filter out Macrovision. There were cheap devices for sale in video magazines that you could buy.
It's illegal to break DVDCSS. No one can sell you a device with DeCSS, not even if it's supposedly for personal use. The DMCA introduced the level of control that exists now. What's happening with HD formats is fundamentally no different than what happened with DVDs.
most people have thrown away all of their personal use rights in exchange for little more than a high-def picture and an ipod
Uh, I think it happened a lot less recently than that. How about DVDs and the original DMCA? It happened around 10 years ago. Yes, DRM existed before that, but DVDs were the first medium to really catch on with the mainstream that had DMCA-backed copy protection.
I'm surprised people pick on HD formats so much, when it goes back a lot further than that. Sticking with DVDs is just as bad. Unless people go back to Laserdisc and VHS, all home video formats have DRM issues.
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There were people who understood the flaws, but (correctly) thought that moving to OS X should not require giving up good performance (which took years to get back), or UI niceties like the way the classic Finder worked. As to the latter, unfortunately Steve apparently didn't like the old Finder and never allowed the OS X Finder to work the same way. Spatial mode is still broken to this day, the "Show Package Contents" feature is inferior to the one from OS 9, the 1-1 relationship between folders and windows is still not as well enforced as it was in OS 9, and as the previous poster mentioned, it took years to get spring loaded folders back (and even longer than that to get its behavior on par with the old implementation), just to name a few examples.
None of that has anything to do with multitasking or event loop handling and you know it. Or hell, maybe you don't, in which case you're pretty dumb.
If the doors to WalMart were locked and there was no food or other goodies on the shelves.
Anything short of that, and the shit train keeps on running. No one cares. Of course, that day is rapidly approaching, so take heart ... sort of.
I notice they've got Deutsche Grammophon stuff, which is owned by Universal. Funny, I thought Universal was very pro-DRM (they are so far not participating in iTunes's DRM-free system).
I guarantee you there is a frightening percentage of people who would have found it okay even if they had killed him.
... Go to their site. Telescopes --> Dobsonian --> Orion® SkyQuest(TM) XT10 IntelliScope® That's a reflector, dude.
It has nothing to do with compensation. If he'd merely gotten a fat bonus that would be different. What it has to do with is him divesting from the company he is supposed to be overseeing the finances of, and timing that sale using his unique foreknowledge of events that he knew would negatively impact the stock price. He used his position to give himself an advantage over other traders. That makes everyone who held on to their shares after he sold a chump, me and you included. At least I can admit it.
He sold at 144.28 on July 30. However the stock briefly hit 146 just four days earlier. That means his limit order could not have been more than four days old. He consciously decided to sell nearly his entire remaining stake in the company sometime during the last week in July.
His stake has been reduced to a tiny pittance. He now has approximately only 1/10th as many shares as he sold in that single transaction. The guy cashed out. He's got virtually nothing left.
He timed that sale almost exactly at the stock's all-time high. And he's the CFO, meaning he's got the ultimate insider knowledge. Yeah, I'm sure that was just a coincidence. Also, I was born yesterday.
I don't know if you were watching AAPL a few years ago, but there was a time when 5 execs (including then-CFO Fred Anderson) sold a bunch of shares right before a bad quarterly announcement (which precipitated a huge drop). The SEC said the trades were "well timed" but didn't do anything about it. This feels like a repeat.
I almost sold everything this morning while it was still at 144, but I checked the history and saw that the stock went up after last year's Sept. iPod announcement, so I figured this year might be similar and waited. Boy do I feel like a chump now. CFOs are scum, and if you don't sell when they do, you lose big time.
Huh? What if they discover you are lying? Lying to the cops is generally bad news. Might be better to just refuse to answer, yes?
Also, if he loses as you are hoping, those rights will be lost ... again, for everyone. Seems like that makes his principles a lot stronger than yours.
In my experience, nearly all free WiFi efforts are like that. All they do is pollute the spectrum. WiFi isn't meant for city-wide blanket coverage. If people try to force it to work like that anyway, pretty soon no one will have working WiFi.
Imagine that! The Theo de Raadt telling other people not to be mean! Still lollin'...
Yeah, and they even gave credit to the 3rd-party researcher who reported the issue. If this dude really has found an previously unknown flaw, and really wanted to make a name for himself as a legit security researcher, he could have just submitted the info to Apple and let them fix it. Then he'd have his name on one of those release notes, too.
In that case, Free Hans!
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It was a proprietary process that Disney owned. Peter Ellenshaw was the effects supervisor who used it. His son Harrison Ellenshaw reused the technique in 1990's "Dick Tracy".
Do you know if he had anything to do with the development of the OpenEXR format?
I work with video and I encouter more and more people every day who don't give a fuck about quality. What is the world going to look ilke in 20 years? Will there be anything of any quality left anywhere? Will people even know what a "craftsman" is or that they even existed?
Huh? It's $1099. The more expensive models are not "entry level".
Wait, do you not know about two-finger click and two-finger scroll for Mac trackpads? You can still do it with one hand.
(You might think I'm joking, but this is exactly what big business does.)
Unfortunately the "reform" we got was not exactly what we needed. When bankruptcy judges themselves are saying the law is too harsh, it seems like it is doing more than just trying to "reign in the freeloaders".
It's illegal to break DVDCSS. No one can sell you a device with DeCSS, not even if it's supposedly for personal use. The DMCA introduced the level of control that exists now. What's happening with HD formats is fundamentally no different than what happened with DVDs.
Uh, I think it happened a lot less recently than that. How about DVDs and the original DMCA? It happened around 10 years ago. Yes, DRM existed before that, but DVDs were the first medium to really catch on with the mainstream that had DMCA-backed copy protection.
I'm surprised people pick on HD formats so much, when it goes back a lot further than that. Sticking with DVDs is just as bad. Unless people go back to Laserdisc and VHS, all home video formats have DRM issues.