What makes a person a good writer is doing a lot of writing and having to respond to criticism. There's nothing about it which requires an editor, some people are just naturally gifted for telling stories and really only need to know how it's coming across.
The book industry really doesn't work the way that you think it does. They invest in order to get a product out of it, and if you're not relatively close already they probably won't sign you.
If you're already that close, then there's no reason why a few neutral friends or acquaintances couldn't do the same thing.
Citation necessary. What you're suggesting is fraught with problems, people tend to hang out with people that are similar to them and consequently get a magnified view of their importance. Meaning that you're not correcting for the fact that you're group of friends is not a representative sample.
Indeed, and what's brilliant about it is that while he's making the same amount per book that he would've previously, it's almost certain that he'll end up selling quite a few more than previously.
But if you take that away, what will the anti-nuke people say? I mean seriously, the people that argue against nuclear whatever tend not to bother with the science and reality and focus on nightmare scenarios which already have reliable procedures in place to prevent.
I wouldn't say strike, more like more evidence that times are changing. Now that general use products are powerful enough to be adapted to these tasks, the developers will likely start to shift to the software aspect of it. But it wasn't that long ago that you needed the specialization to get it to work at all.
First off, the last time I watched the Marx Brothers it was just as funny as when I was a kid, and while I wasn't there at the time, I'm willing to bet that it was just as funny as it was a half century earlier.
Second off, the the Republicans are indeed for more bureaucratic inefficiency. It's what allows them to rail against the government election after election. Were there to be actual change and efficiency gains they'd have to come up with a new strategy. It's something they figured out during the Regan administration and had to wait for Clinton to be elected to put into play.
There's nothing inconsistent about it, it's a matter of self interest. While it's terrible for the country, it's been a really long time since the Republicans were making any meaningful effort to improve things for anybody else. Ever notice how there's no money for education or the VA, but always plenty of money to start another war?
I was just thinking of that. Perhaps put in some interface tweaks that are legitimately aimed at making it more useful to that segment, and perhaps license some of the software apps for inclusion. Seems like there'd be no real losers involved. Apple makes more money and there's a cost savings over the current solutions.
Plus Apple is really good at crippling their products for things they don't intend it to be used for.
Indeed. Around here our unemployment insurance fraud rate is about 1 or 2%, but the amount of time and energy that the employment security department spends on it is, well it's way more than 1 or 2% of the total budget. While it's not quite apples to oranges there, one has to question the wisdom of humiliating and abusing the whole group over what is essentially a non-issue.
Not to mention the fact that the rules have become some convoluted and counter intuitive that it's very hard to avoid getting accused of fraud without really selling yourself short. And good luck getting meaningful help, especially with disabilities, as the state doesn't think that the ADA applies to it.
But as for the matter at hand, it's great to see general use hardware being used for a group that clearly needs more help.
Back then that largely applied to PC releases as well. Because it was difficult to impossible to apply patches after the fact, the portion of the budget spent on QA ahead of time was much greater than it is today. A lot of what's released today would have been considered completely unacceptable to developers of yore.
But it's also the release schedule, while 3D Realms took it too far, there is something to be said for releasing a product when it's done. The main mistake they made was not sticking with an engine and not defining a fixed list of features. Had they done that and released it when the bugs were fixed, we wouldn't be waiting for Gearbox to finish it up.
Nothing against Gearbox, I've been playing borderlands for a few days now and have yet to come across a single bug. Which I couldn't say at that point for the poster boy for incompetent QA that is Fallout 3.
Unfortunately, that's not that much worse than the status quo. Subscription based services rarely if ever give you money back for unused time if you cancel early. Carbonite kind of pissed me off in that the service seemed fine through the trial, but later on when it was trying to cope with more data I started to see problems which you wouldn't see during the trial.
But outright disabling the account before the paid time is up is dickish.
Since Libertarianism gained credibility around here. I think this has more to do with geeks and our wireless toys. It's not particularly useful to have an iPhone if you don't have a carrier. Although, you can use a Nexus One completely without carrier if you wish. But that basically makes it a very expensive PDA/Skype client.
Yeah, I thought it was just there to try and bias the reader in opposition to the move. You might not notice the evil at first, but you will, unlimited plans which are somehow less than limited, roaming charges when you're in your own dinning room and don't even think about using your phone if you're within a few miles of the border.
We could use this for textbooks as well. You know that a market is distorted when it's literally cheaper to reimport books that were exported than it is to buy in ones primary market. Retailers hate these sorts of things, but they'll ultimately have to deal with it as the alternative is likely to be people not going to their store to begin with.
The only aspect of this which bothers me is that sellers are restricted somewhat in terms of looking up the information as doing so could easily run afoul of antitrust regulation.
Easy, all the carriers are pretty much equally sucktastic, and there's a lot of people that are morally opposed to regulations. I'm not sure how this could end any other way.
Indeed, it is more than just the research. One of the problems is that one doctor can't remove the diagnoses of another doctor. And there's an unhealthy obsession with common ailments. It happens all the time and it's hard to know whether it's a new awareness of missed cases, or whether it's become the diagnosis de jour. During the 90s it was carpal tunnel syndrome, now it's ADHD. Unfortunately it's hard to say how much of it is over diagnosis and how much of it is just noticing missed cases.
Anytime a record follows a person there needs to be some form of error checking involved and the ability to fix it.
That's why they use ventilation systems. One of our railway tunnels had that problem. That was over a hundred years ago, and they finished electrifying it just over a hundred years ago. Even in parking garages, they'll still typically have ventilation fans, though they may or may not need to be on at all times.
Cascade Tunnel
Citation please. How many people use Windows because they've come to believe that it's better than the alternatives. And how many use it because they've always used it and it's what they've learned on? It's an important thing to understand that most people that use Windows, Office and IE haven't tried the other options. They aren't expressing any sort of sincere informed preference, they just don't want change.
I temporarily switched my mother over to Linux for a bit because Vista wasn't dealing well with the network topology and it was going to be a bit before the replacement switch arrived. Admittedly that was my fault, but when she started using it, she found that OpenSUSE was quite snappy and did the web part of what she needs quite efficiently.
I've got the problem fixed and she's still using it. I'll probably switch her back, just because it's easier than trying to set up MS Office on Linux. Well, that and there still isn't any good unlimited online backup software available for Linux. Or at least not that I could find.
Except geeks and IT professionals who tend to shockingly enough make recommendations that make their work easier. Ultimately you can buy what you like, but if you expect me to help out with it, particularly on a voluntary basis, you damn well better be buying something that I can work with.
And, likewise when I'm giving recommendations about hardware, I'm considering how well supported it is in terms of the standards. While I've no particular objection to other people using Windows if need be, I do realize that a lot of people aren't going to need to upgrade their hardware just because MS has pulled support of their version of Windows.
I think you'll find that there's more interest in this than you'd expect. Particularly if it starts to be perceived as representing goods of higher quality.
Not really, what they refer to as free is really freedom from restrictions. Meaning that they're focused on the end user being free to use the whatever as they please. Hardware manufacturers by both necessity and practice don't have that luxury. If they want their USB doodad to function, then it damn well better fit in the port, and it has to be able to function with the USB chip and if they want it to function there must be a driver, either generic or provided to make it work.
What the FSF is saying here is that if you want to distribute hardware that we've endorsed, then the end user needs to be able to do certain things. What you do internally with the hardware is up to you, but it must interface with free software
Beyond that there's some clauses that are just general if you want to associate with us, you must behave in a way which is of reasonable ethics. No spying for instance.
Not really, this whole present bit is the direct result of manufacturers failing to implement things to the appropriate standard. And the reality is that some manufacturers are already moving in a direction which would allow them to get the endorsement.
But ultimately, there's the very real possibility of cost savings here, as if they're using freely available tools and using open standards, they don't have to worry about supporting a hundred different platforms, as the tools would be there to add the support.
I may have missed it, but I didn't see any requirements that a manufacturer support platform X, just that the tools and the other necessities be free software.
It's not that simple. The problem is that I can control what I put on the internet, but I have no control over what others put on the net. I learned that the hard way when TD Ameritrade lost my contact information to spammers.
That was my thought, what kind of an idiot would type their own name into that. A handle sure, but actual name? On the plus side if you choose a common first initial, common last name it's almost impossible for them to figure out who you really are. And muddies things up for people that are legitimately using. And when the name is used, just throw on a few random digits and you're set.
Or perhaps we need to rethink the ways that we regulate companies. There is an adjustment that needs to be made to our thinking, but that's mainly because of blackmail and possible random chance.
What you're suggesting is that just because corporations now have the affordable tools necessary to spy on us constantly that we should deal with it and they should be allowed to do it. Which is complete bullshit.
The real answer is requiring companies to ask permission and bar them from trying to compel people to give them the permission. It's one thing to require a drug test and background check for a job, but it's quite another to include in that background check data scraping off the net.
More like fascism, this is just a form of corporate welfare. The industry couldn't figure out how to deal with piracy so now the government is subsidizing their products.
Ultimately it won't work, I doubt very much that this will really convince people to stop pirating. And on the unlikely event that it works, the question really is why does the French government need to provide a subsidy to what was apparently an issue of supply and demand.
By all means crack down on those that are distributing the copies, but that's the responsibility of the recording industry, not the government.
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What makes a person a good writer is doing a lot of writing and having to respond to criticism. There's nothing about it which requires an editor, some people are just naturally gifted for telling stories and really only need to know how it's coming across.
The book industry really doesn't work the way that you think it does. They invest in order to get a product out of it, and if you're not relatively close already they probably won't sign you.
If you're already that close, then there's no reason why a few neutral friends or acquaintances couldn't do the same thing.
Citation necessary. What you're suggesting is fraught with problems, people tend to hang out with people that are similar to them and consequently get a magnified view of their importance. Meaning that you're not correcting for the fact that you're group of friends is not a representative sample.
Indeed, and what's brilliant about it is that while he's making the same amount per book that he would've previously, it's almost certain that he'll end up selling quite a few more than previously.
But if you take that away, what will the anti-nuke people say? I mean seriously, the people that argue against nuclear whatever tend not to bother with the science and reality and focus on nightmare scenarios which already have reliable procedures in place to prevent.
I wouldn't say strike, more like more evidence that times are changing. Now that general use products are powerful enough to be adapted to these tasks, the developers will likely start to shift to the software aspect of it. But it wasn't that long ago that you needed the specialization to get it to work at all.
First off, the last time I watched the Marx Brothers it was just as funny as when I was a kid, and while I wasn't there at the time, I'm willing to bet that it was just as funny as it was a half century earlier.
Second off, the the Republicans are indeed for more bureaucratic inefficiency. It's what allows them to rail against the government election after election. Were there to be actual change and efficiency gains they'd have to come up with a new strategy. It's something they figured out during the Regan administration and had to wait for Clinton to be elected to put into play.
There's nothing inconsistent about it, it's a matter of self interest. While it's terrible for the country, it's been a really long time since the Republicans were making any meaningful effort to improve things for anybody else. Ever notice how there's no money for education or the VA, but always plenty of money to start another war?
I was just thinking of that. Perhaps put in some interface tweaks that are legitimately aimed at making it more useful to that segment, and perhaps license some of the software apps for inclusion. Seems like there'd be no real losers involved. Apple makes more money and there's a cost savings over the current solutions.
Plus Apple is really good at crippling their products for things they don't intend it to be used for.
Indeed. Around here our unemployment insurance fraud rate is about 1 or 2%, but the amount of time and energy that the employment security department spends on it is, well it's way more than 1 or 2% of the total budget. While it's not quite apples to oranges there, one has to question the wisdom of humiliating and abusing the whole group over what is essentially a non-issue.
Not to mention the fact that the rules have become some convoluted and counter intuitive that it's very hard to avoid getting accused of fraud without really selling yourself short. And good luck getting meaningful help, especially with disabilities, as the state doesn't think that the ADA applies to it.
But as for the matter at hand, it's great to see general use hardware being used for a group that clearly needs more help.
Back then that largely applied to PC releases as well. Because it was difficult to impossible to apply patches after the fact, the portion of the budget spent on QA ahead of time was much greater than it is today. A lot of what's released today would have been considered completely unacceptable to developers of yore.
But it's also the release schedule, while 3D Realms took it too far, there is something to be said for releasing a product when it's done. The main mistake they made was not sticking with an engine and not defining a fixed list of features. Had they done that and released it when the bugs were fixed, we wouldn't be waiting for Gearbox to finish it up.
Nothing against Gearbox, I've been playing borderlands for a few days now and have yet to come across a single bug. Which I couldn't say at that point for the poster boy for incompetent QA that is Fallout 3.
Unfortunately, that's not that much worse than the status quo. Subscription based services rarely if ever give you money back for unused time if you cancel early. Carbonite kind of pissed me off in that the service seemed fine through the trial, but later on when it was trying to cope with more data I started to see problems which you wouldn't see during the trial.
But outright disabling the account before the paid time is up is dickish.
Since Libertarianism gained credibility around here. I think this has more to do with geeks and our wireless toys. It's not particularly useful to have an iPhone if you don't have a carrier. Although, you can use a Nexus One completely without carrier if you wish. But that basically makes it a very expensive PDA/Skype client.
Yeah, I thought it was just there to try and bias the reader in opposition to the move. You might not notice the evil at first, but you will, unlimited plans which are somehow less than limited, roaming charges when you're in your own dinning room and don't even think about using your phone if you're within a few miles of the border.
We could use this for textbooks as well. You know that a market is distorted when it's literally cheaper to reimport books that were exported than it is to buy in ones primary market. Retailers hate these sorts of things, but they'll ultimately have to deal with it as the alternative is likely to be people not going to their store to begin with.
The only aspect of this which bothers me is that sellers are restricted somewhat in terms of looking up the information as doing so could easily run afoul of antitrust regulation.
Easy, all the carriers are pretty much equally sucktastic, and there's a lot of people that are morally opposed to regulations. I'm not sure how this could end any other way.
Probably because people have a nasty habit of drowning when knocked out.
Indeed, it is more than just the research. One of the problems is that one doctor can't remove the diagnoses of another doctor. And there's an unhealthy obsession with common ailments. It happens all the time and it's hard to know whether it's a new awareness of missed cases, or whether it's become the diagnosis de jour. During the 90s it was carpal tunnel syndrome, now it's ADHD. Unfortunately it's hard to say how much of it is over diagnosis and how much of it is just noticing missed cases.
Anytime a record follows a person there needs to be some form of error checking involved and the ability to fix it.
That's why they use ventilation systems. One of our railway tunnels had that problem. That was over a hundred years ago, and they finished electrifying it just over a hundred years ago. Even in parking garages, they'll still typically have ventilation fans, though they may or may not need to be on at all times. Cascade Tunnel
Citation please. How many people use Windows because they've come to believe that it's better than the alternatives. And how many use it because they've always used it and it's what they've learned on? It's an important thing to understand that most people that use Windows, Office and IE haven't tried the other options. They aren't expressing any sort of sincere informed preference, they just don't want change.
I temporarily switched my mother over to Linux for a bit because Vista wasn't dealing well with the network topology and it was going to be a bit before the replacement switch arrived. Admittedly that was my fault, but when she started using it, she found that OpenSUSE was quite snappy and did the web part of what she needs quite efficiently.
I've got the problem fixed and she's still using it. I'll probably switch her back, just because it's easier than trying to set up MS Office on Linux. Well, that and there still isn't any good unlimited online backup software available for Linux. Or at least not that I could find.
Except geeks and IT professionals who tend to shockingly enough make recommendations that make their work easier. Ultimately you can buy what you like, but if you expect me to help out with it, particularly on a voluntary basis, you damn well better be buying something that I can work with.
And, likewise when I'm giving recommendations about hardware, I'm considering how well supported it is in terms of the standards. While I've no particular objection to other people using Windows if need be, I do realize that a lot of people aren't going to need to upgrade their hardware just because MS has pulled support of their version of Windows.
I think you'll find that there's more interest in this than you'd expect. Particularly if it starts to be perceived as representing goods of higher quality.
Not really, what they refer to as free is really freedom from restrictions. Meaning that they're focused on the end user being free to use the whatever as they please. Hardware manufacturers by both necessity and practice don't have that luxury. If they want their USB doodad to function, then it damn well better fit in the port, and it has to be able to function with the USB chip and if they want it to function there must be a driver, either generic or provided to make it work.
What the FSF is saying here is that if you want to distribute hardware that we've endorsed, then the end user needs to be able to do certain things. What you do internally with the hardware is up to you, but it must interface with free software
Beyond that there's some clauses that are just general if you want to associate with us, you must behave in a way which is of reasonable ethics. No spying for instance.
Not really, this whole present bit is the direct result of manufacturers failing to implement things to the appropriate standard. And the reality is that some manufacturers are already moving in a direction which would allow them to get the endorsement.
But ultimately, there's the very real possibility of cost savings here, as if they're using freely available tools and using open standards, they don't have to worry about supporting a hundred different platforms, as the tools would be there to add the support.
I may have missed it, but I didn't see any requirements that a manufacturer support platform X, just that the tools and the other necessities be free software.
It's not that simple. The problem is that I can control what I put on the internet, but I have no control over what others put on the net. I learned that the hard way when TD Ameritrade lost my contact information to spammers.
That was my thought, what kind of an idiot would type their own name into that. A handle sure, but actual name? On the plus side if you choose a common first initial, common last name it's almost impossible for them to figure out who you really are. And muddies things up for people that are legitimately using. And when the name is used, just throw on a few random digits and you're set.
Or perhaps we need to rethink the ways that we regulate companies. There is an adjustment that needs to be made to our thinking, but that's mainly because of blackmail and possible random chance.
What you're suggesting is that just because corporations now have the affordable tools necessary to spy on us constantly that we should deal with it and they should be allowed to do it. Which is complete bullshit.
The real answer is requiring companies to ask permission and bar them from trying to compel people to give them the permission. It's one thing to require a drug test and background check for a job, but it's quite another to include in that background check data scraping off the net.
More like fascism, this is just a form of corporate welfare. The industry couldn't figure out how to deal with piracy so now the government is subsidizing their products.
Ultimately it won't work, I doubt very much that this will really convince people to stop pirating. And on the unlikely event that it works, the question really is why does the French government need to provide a subsidy to what was apparently an issue of supply and demand.
By all means crack down on those that are distributing the copies, but that's the responsibility of the recording industry, not the government.