full immersion VR is just around the corner (a dead concept, since there really isn't any compelling reason for it;
Are you kidding me? Besides the huge entertainment value, there would be plenty of educational opportunities. Now whether such technology becomes feasible any time soon is another story.
Because the people who generally like it enough to pay for it aren't the kind of assholes who would do that.
Is that just like every other "premium" content that has made it's way onto the net? All it takes is one person. Besides, these people aren't assholes, they're just sharing, right? The Free Internet doesn't have to support a failed business model. This comic person can go on book signing tours or something.
Disclaimer: I don't subscribe, because I haven't even read through the free archives yet.
As I said, dubious this person would get enough subscribers to make a living in the first place.
You responded to somebody complaining about versions of Java. I'm not really sure what your actual complaint was about "flavors" of Java. You know glibc is just one flavor of a library for C used by GNU's C compiler (itself just a "flavor" of C), and there are many versions of it. My experience with Java has been just to get it from Sun and it works about as well as any other library dependency.
That's bullshit. Having been through the school system, there were many, many peers who just weren't cut out for it. Just about anybody can be an actor, as we all act in our lives anyways.
Without moralizing, I'd say it's a lot harder to find people with the gift of sacrificing themselves to change someone else's life.
Quality of life. Children's theater. Which do I value more? How many people have what it takes to make all the things in life you take for granted, something as simple as toilet paper? Now consider stuff like making your car safer and more reliable, or the computer that you typed your post on. If your car breaks down people can die. What's the outcome if the children's play isn't up to Broadway standards?
I suppose the best way to prevent the piracy that the RIAA likes to complain about is to create a music store where music is sold at a reasonable price without DRM in a high quality format that works for almost everyone.
You say this in the very post you mention Amazon's DRM-free mp3 files. There's always going to be some audiophile that claims it isn't up to his standards, but come on, the vast majority of people that are still illegally downloading now do so because it's free, not because there aren't reasonable alternatives.
Of course this makes entirely too much sense and the odds that we'll see it before the dinosaurs running the RIAA are completely incapable of thinking in modern terms.
They changed after they shut down Napster. They went from selling CDs that cost near $20 to get a couple of songs you liked to being able to cherry pick music for $1 from iTunes. From there they licensed there music to lots of different sites, some with different models, and finally you have Amazon without DRM and cross-platfrom mp3s.
And still you'll have people screeching like outraged monkeys on Slashdot, because the RIAA decided they had to sue the illegal downloaders.
Back in the 80s my first computer had 640k of memory. After having owned this computer for some years, I remember talking to another kid in school and he said he was going to build a PC with 8 megs. I couldn't fathom such a thing, either that it was possible or why you would want all that memory.
Failure to adhere to all of the necessary regulations gets you tossed out of most countries and your imports seized at the border.
Region encoding isn't to comply with international laws. It's purely to segment the market into different price zones. Seriously, a government can forbid you from selling a movie in their country, but they don't force you to region encode the DVD.
There's a comic called Joyce & Walky. 1/3 of the comics during the week can be seen by everyone, and 2/3 of the comics can only be seen by subscribers.
Great. So say he gets moderately popular, where he actually has enough subscribers to make a living (dubious in itself). One subscriber puts the work on a p2p network. This being the Free Internet, where nobody has to support your failed business model, anybody who wants to will get the "premium" work for free. How many will still subscribe?
That's from last September when they were out of administrative money and asking for more. I'm too lazy to get up-to-date stats. Maybe you can provide more favorable figures?
Linux open source purists want special treatment from manufacturers, and it makes no sense.
What doesn't make sense is sellers of hardware treating the interface to the hardware as a trade secret. Do the CPU manufacturers do this? Why do the video guys do this? Obviously they don't have to, as Intel and ATI have released specs. These guys are selling hardware. Why do they want to make their hardware less useful to consumers, by limiting the after-market support for it?
Look at how long it took from the passage of the first civil-rights laws in the US to the point where blacks could assume fair treatment everywhere without having to think twice about it or push for it and where the Klan was non-existent as a political force. Oh, that's right, we haven't gotten there yet! Witness David Duke.
Oh come on. The Klan has been completely marginalized. David Duke made a minor splash 20 years ago. We just elected a black president. Bill Cosby goes around and tells the black community to stop blaming all their problems on others. Do racial tensions still exist? Of course. However, if you want to talk about rights in the 60s vs now it's night and day.
What Dell said is standard business/political talk. It's a polite way of asking, "Is there anything we can invest in that would make both of us rich?"
That was certainly his intention, though it's easy to offend somebody in foreign relations. Here's what Dell said:
"...but when we look at the level of talent, scientific and technical talent, there is still room to further utilize the IT sector. So my question to you really is, how can we as an IT sector help you [here Putin raises his eyebrows at Dell] broaden the economy as you move out of the crisis and take advantage of that great scientific talent that you have."
Even if there are no specific opportunities for Dell right now, it is incredibly stupid for Putin to respond this one. It just sends a message to foreign investors that they are not wanted in Russia
At one point during his reply he said:
"and it is with great pleasure that we will accept, as we've done before, investments into this sector".
I think Putin was just sensitive to the idea that Russia needed IT help as some backwards country from the United States. If Dell had just asked where there was room for cooperation, Putin wouldn't have gone on his tirade.
Of course the opposition (in my case, the RIAA) will try to find ways to outsmart thieves, but by the thieves' very existence it seems to me that they're smarter.
There's no such thing as 100% victory. What the RIAA is trying to do is keep the activity criminal, instead of de facto legal. If you're looking over your shoulder and worried about getting caught, then they won.
The last way they are getting screwed over is by the government propping up the existing housing market and keeping people in homes they shouldn't have bought in the first place.
You link to an article about a 1930s disaster in America. The article states lessons were learned and successfully applied. Are these lessons being applied elsewhere? You can't blame all the world's problems on rich countries.
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full immersion VR is just around the corner (a dead concept, since there really isn't any compelling reason for it;
Are you kidding me? Besides the huge entertainment value, there would be plenty of educational opportunities. Now whether such technology becomes feasible any time soon is another story.
Because the people who generally like it enough to pay for it aren't the kind of assholes who would do that.
Is that just like every other "premium" content that has made it's way onto the net? All it takes is one person. Besides, these people aren't assholes, they're just sharing, right? The Free Internet doesn't have to support a failed business model. This comic person can go on book signing tours or something.
Disclaimer: I don't subscribe, because I haven't even read through the free archives yet.
As I said, dubious this person would get enough subscribers to make a living in the first place.
You responded to somebody complaining about versions of Java. I'm not really sure what your actual complaint was about "flavors" of Java. You know glibc is just one flavor of a library for C used by GNU's C compiler (itself just a "flavor" of C), and there are many versions of it. My experience with Java has been just to get it from Sun and it works about as well as any other library dependency.
I see what you mean. Yes, it is a bit aggressive.
I really don't know why we haven't left already. Out There is where the money is.
Can I see your return on investment business plan that would pay within a lifetime?
Just about any old bloke can become an engineer.
That's bullshit. Having been through the school system, there were many, many peers who just weren't cut out for it. Just about anybody can be an actor, as we all act in our lives anyways.
Without moralizing, I'd say it's a lot harder to find people with the gift of sacrificing themselves to change someone else's life.
Quality of life. Children's theater. Which do I value more? How many people have what it takes to make all the things in life you take for granted, something as simple as toilet paper? Now consider stuff like making your car safer and more reliable, or the computer that you typed your post on. If your car breaks down people can die. What's the outcome if the children's play isn't up to Broadway standards?
I suppose the best way to prevent the piracy that the RIAA likes to complain about is to create a music store where music is sold at a reasonable price without DRM in a high quality format that works for almost everyone.
You say this in the very post you mention Amazon's DRM-free mp3 files. There's always going to be some audiophile that claims it isn't up to his standards, but come on, the vast majority of people that are still illegally downloading now do so because it's free, not because there aren't reasonable alternatives.
Of course this makes entirely too much sense and the odds that we'll see it before the dinosaurs running the RIAA are completely incapable of thinking in modern terms.
They changed after they shut down Napster. They went from selling CDs that cost near $20 to get a couple of songs you liked to being able to cherry pick music for $1 from iTunes. From there they licensed there music to lots of different sites, some with different models, and finally you have Amazon without DRM and cross-platfrom mp3s.
And still you'll have people screeching like outraged monkeys on Slashdot, because the RIAA decided they had to sue the illegal downloaders.
the thing that looks like a glass Christmas ornament is our official logo
Hah, it does indeed look like a Christmas ornament. Except for Satan worshipers.
Back in the 80s my first computer had 640k of memory. After having owned this computer for some years, I remember talking to another kid in school and he said he was going to build a PC with 8 megs. I couldn't fathom such a thing, either that it was possible or why you would want all that memory.
However, if you look into NoScript, it *SCREAMS* really shady, so looks can be very deceiving.
What do you mean? Details?
Failure to adhere to all of the necessary regulations gets you tossed out of most countries and your imports seized at the border.
Region encoding isn't to comply with international laws. It's purely to segment the market into different price zones. Seriously, a government can forbid you from selling a movie in their country, but they don't force you to region encode the DVD.
There's a comic called Joyce & Walky. 1/3 of the comics during the week can be seen by everyone, and 2/3 of the comics can only be seen by subscribers.
Great. So say he gets moderately popular, where he actually has enough subscribers to make a living (dubious in itself). One subscriber puts the work on a p2p network. This being the Free Internet, where nobody has to support your failed business model, anybody who wants to will get the "premium" work for free. How many will still subscribe?
The problem the author is incompetantly attempting to define
You spelled "incompetently" wrong :)
The handouts/coupons are only a few million dollars.
A little bit of Googling:
"Federal law allocated $1.5 billion toward the coupon program with a maximum of $160 million to be used toward administrative expenses."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-09-19-DigitalTV_N.htm
That's from last September when they were out of administrative money and asking for more. I'm too lazy to get up-to-date stats. Maybe you can provide more favorable figures?
Sean Kelly has previously stipulated that Java has become the COBOL of the 21st century. (See his webcast about 'Better Web App Development'.)
That looks to be from 2007. This "Java is the new COBOL" has been going around for a lot longer:
http://oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/editors/java_1004.html
The State of Java
Edited by chromatic
October 2004
"Has the big business-friendly approach turned Java into the new COBOL?"
There's one glibc.
Funny, I was just reading this today: Glibc hell
Linux open source purists want special treatment from manufacturers, and it makes no sense.
What doesn't make sense is sellers of hardware treating the interface to the hardware as a trade secret. Do the CPU manufacturers do this? Why do the video guys do this? Obviously they don't have to, as Intel and ATI have released specs. These guys are selling hardware. Why do they want to make their hardware less useful to consumers, by limiting the after-market support for it?
Love that dirty water.
I'm confused. Who's Rick?
He's engaged with Jane from the flower shop.
Look at how long it took from the passage of the first civil-rights laws in the US to the point where blacks could assume fair treatment everywhere without having to think twice about it or push for it and where the Klan was non-existent as a political force. Oh, that's right, we haven't gotten there yet! Witness David Duke.
Oh come on. The Klan has been completely marginalized. David Duke made a minor splash 20 years ago. We just elected a black president. Bill Cosby goes around and tells the black community to stop blaming all their problems on others. Do racial tensions still exist? Of course. However, if you want to talk about rights in the 60s vs now it's night and day.
What Dell said is standard business/political talk. It's a polite way of asking, "Is there anything we can invest in that would make both of us rich?"
That was certainly his intention, though it's easy to offend somebody in foreign relations. Here's what Dell said:
"...but when we look at the level of talent, scientific and technical talent, there is still room to further utilize the IT sector. So my question to you really is, how can we as an IT sector help you [here Putin raises his eyebrows at Dell] broaden the economy as you move out of the crisis and take advantage of that great scientific talent that you have."
Even if there are no specific opportunities for Dell right now, it is incredibly stupid for Putin to respond this one. It just sends a message to foreign investors that they are not wanted in Russia
At one point during his reply he said:
"and it is with great pleasure that we will accept, as we've done before, investments into this sector".
I think Putin was just sensitive to the idea that Russia needed IT help as some backwards country from the United States. If Dell had just asked where there was room for cooperation, Putin wouldn't have gone on his tirade.
Of course the opposition (in my case, the RIAA) will try to find ways to outsmart thieves, but by the thieves' very existence it seems to me that they're smarter.
There's no such thing as 100% victory. What the RIAA is trying to do is keep the activity criminal, instead of de facto legal. If you're looking over your shoulder and worried about getting caught, then they won.
The last way they are getting screwed over is by the government propping up the existing housing market and keeping people in homes they shouldn't have bought in the first place.
Thanks for adding your Talmudic remarks.
"[Overgrazing] is hardly a first world problem."
Oh really?
You link to an article about a 1930s disaster in America. The article states lessons were learned and successfully applied. Are these lessons being applied elsewhere? You can't blame all the world's problems on rich countries.