Citation needed. Especially considering the fact that there are wide discrepancies in the quality of education in the U.S. And double-especially considering the place of bribes in the Russian educational system.
Speaking personally, I'd go with Linux. Heck, I am able to pay full price for those pro apps right now, and I own many of them. And I still use Linux on my work machine, for creative work, day in and day out. I wouldn't discount the fact that a) Linux is very capable, b) it just feels gross to buy/download/use pirated software, no matter *what* state your personal finances are in, and c) people who complain that they need proprietary app X, Y, or Z to work in the creative field are usually not worth their hire (I say that because I have taught many such people).
Let's face it, people want to do the right thing. If it's hard to push Open Source there, I'd say stop pushing it, and start using it. People learn by example, eventually.
Anybody else notice the nuclear weapons elephant in the room lately? I mean, beyond just the rhetoric level? I've noticed some people are re-evaluating their approach to nuke proliferation by deciding, "hey, let's build a shelter in the garage anyway, rather than just assuming everyone will be wiped out." Sort of a frightening trend, albeit more realistic than the idea that everybody's gonna die.
I was also watching a C-SPAN panel of economists a couple weeks ago, and one of the panelists was extrapolating based on the current economic situation. He weaved a short scenario that ended in nuclear war, and *nobody*, not *one* of the other panelists, batted an eyelash. Yikes.
As a WP user myself, I have to say that the editing process inculcates editors with a "truth has been established"ãmindset. I've never seen the ideal of a "search for truth"ãso subtly yanked out of the toolset of a group of intellectuals so fast as has happened at WP. When "Citation Needed" is used as a weapon much more often than an honest inquiry, you know that you're standing in the midst of hypocrites.
Oh, and I *am* a hypocrite too. But I'm trying to get better at defining what lengths I will or will not go to in an intellectual argument. It's really easy to pull the carpet right out from beneath your own education by attempting to bring down others' viewpoints for the sake of ego.
The guy that's been doing the 3D animations for high-profile NASA projects usually goes as close as possible to the reference. There don't appear to be any solar panels on the rover - is it nuclear-powered, or what?
Sorry, my friend. Google tells me that my cult of podner-using fanatics is around 20,000 results strong. That aligns with my opinion as to just who would use podner and who would use "pardner" and get shot. City slickers. Also, I'm guessing you think I mistook Parlous for some other word or something...? I don't really understand why you felt the need to bring Bartleby-san into this discussion.
"Them's parlous times, pod'ner!" "Parlous Linux 2008: Because life sucks" "ParlOS - optimized for low latency thin client computing over parsec-level distances" "Parlous Santana"
...is it that makes it "unrepresentative?" Is this like those people who hand you their resume and say, "actually this doesn't really represent me so please feel free to call if you have any questions?"
I was in a similar situation...I was going to pick up a Mac, and possibly go all-mac, until I learned how badly most open source software originally written for Linux worked/looked on it. I looked at all my needs (pretty much everything, across the board, since I run my own studio), and said, "screw it, this is gonna be too expensive and way too proprietary." I bought an Ubuntu laptop (with a firewire port) and installed Ubuntu on another two machines, and have since only bought hardware that I know is compatible.
Linux always seemed like a pain in the @$$ until I realized that if you have to have an ecosystem of many machines in your studio, you might as well make it an open ecosystem. It turned out to be a good decision.
Well, let's face it. People aren't as good to each other as they used to be. Criminals want *their* freedoms too, ya know. So *somebody* has to take care of the problem. If government does it, you end up with Big Brother and a huge risk of banished democracy.
If the citizenship do it, the government will find itself mixed up with ordinary criminals; normal citizens don't distinguish between "bad people" and "bad people working on behalf of the government." So the government has a vested interest in 1) taking care of the problem and 2) making sure the citizenry don't try to do things their own way. Ever.
If I were you, I'd start at the local level and identify people of influence who are willing to help you. Write down areas they can influence, identify peoplpe who have influence in areas you lack, and try to convert them to your POV. Rinse and repeat - and keep committing people to help out. Good luck!
I swear, Microsoft must be paying millions to promote Photosynth through teh grassrootz. It's absolutely hilarious to watch my friends who are Mac fangirls complain about how IE sucks, MS is going down the tubes, etc. but when it gets to PHOTO-freaking-synth, NOW we're talking. I get Photosynth Youtube videos and TED talks and all this made-for-hype stuff in my inbox and yet the coolest projects I see are again and again made by people who don't have money to promote their stuff.
...that I got from playing the original Doom and other FPS's with tons of blood and gore after that. I wish I had never played those games beyond the first menu screen, because I'll never get that time back. And there's a part of my mind that will always know what dismemberment looks like from 30 different angles (or in the case of Doom, one very pixelated angle). I just don't think that's very cool anymore...too much crap happens while people sit by an accept it without doing anything positive or optimistic.
...it's called "The Last Enemy." I caught an episode and the thrust of it seemed to be that these powerful surveillance tools become an instant menace once *one* person uses them for the wrong purpose.
So, apparently some people in the UK care enough to get the word out. These tools are being entrusted to people who don't get it.
It's like giving a nuclear-powered car filled with laser-armed sharks to your local branch of Neo-Nazis. (Sorry, had to get the triple analogy in there)
Ahahaha. That's awesome, never heard of it. However, I'm more interested in some sort of Skype auto-answer setup that I could probably set up without waiting for this iRobot thing to be released.
If the monopolists let this stuff continue, they begin to lose their monopoly, too. A loss for the RIAA here will push music and other media (likely movies) back into the hands of the competitive market. Then you'd see the industry start to equalize, with less-common artists making more money, and famous artists making less. Mostly, though, the monopolists wouldn't make as much money anymore, and that's what counts.
Go by the year. Tell them about grassroots activism, show them examples of companies being publicly shamed by bloggers picking up tips like "software is actually 1.0 but advertised as version 6", and then tell these guys, "look, we can both have our cake and eat it too if we just call it $SOFTWAREPCKG 2009" or similar.
Now that everything is The Internet This or The Internet That, you just go out, grab some anecdote from somebody's website, and create a "crucial lesson you musn't forget" out of it. This is the answer to many a dumb question by sales guys, clients, etc.:-)
Even if corporations give parents power to control this stuff, public schools in the U.S. are still forcing all sorts of stuff down kids' throats, regardless of how parents feel. Everything from politically motivated "scientific" teachings regarding creationism to the definition of marriage, over which a Mass. man was arrested because he refused to leave a meeting until the school reached a compromise about teaching his child (a practicing Mormon) to accept gay marriage. The school didn't compromise.
Things like the gay marriage debate put church and state on a collision course, setting up the state with its own particular belief system even to the persecution of those who want to worship their own way. Far from being able to exercise religious freedoms, those with differing opinions are being labeled hate criminals.
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You seem to be indicating, perhaps unwittingly, that what they are really good at is authoritarianism.
Citation needed. Especially considering the fact that there are wide discrepancies in the quality of education in the U.S. And double-especially considering the place of bribes in the Russian educational system.
Speaking personally, I'd go with Linux. Heck, I am able to pay full price for those pro apps right now, and I own many of them. And I still use Linux on my work machine, for creative work, day in and day out. I wouldn't discount the fact that a) Linux is very capable, b) it just feels gross to buy/download/use pirated software, no matter *what* state your personal finances are in, and c) people who complain that they need proprietary app X, Y, or Z to work in the creative field are usually not worth their hire (I say that because I have taught many such people).
Let's face it, people want to do the right thing. If it's hard to push Open Source there, I'd say stop pushing it, and start using it. People learn by example, eventually.
Anybody else notice the nuclear weapons elephant in the room lately? I mean, beyond just the rhetoric level? I've noticed some people are re-evaluating their approach to nuke proliferation by deciding, "hey, let's build a shelter in the garage anyway, rather than just assuming everyone will be wiped out." Sort of a frightening trend, albeit more realistic than the idea that everybody's gonna die.
I was also watching a C-SPAN panel of economists a couple weeks ago, and one of the panelists was extrapolating based on the current economic situation. He weaved a short scenario that ended in nuclear war, and *nobody*, not *one* of the other panelists, batted an eyelash. Yikes.
As a WP user myself, I have to say that the editing process inculcates editors with a "truth has been established"ãmindset. I've never seen the ideal of a "search for truth"ãso subtly yanked out of the toolset of a group of intellectuals so fast as has happened at WP. When "Citation Needed" is used as a weapon much more often than an honest inquiry, you know that you're standing in the midst of hypocrites.
Oh, and I *am* a hypocrite too. But I'm trying to get better at defining what lengths I will or will not go to in an intellectual argument. It's really easy to pull the carpet right out from beneath your own education by attempting to bring down others' viewpoints for the sake of ego.
The guy that's been doing the 3D animations for high-profile NASA projects usually goes as close as possible to the reference. There don't appear to be any solar panels on the rover - is it nuclear-powered, or what?
Sorry, my friend. Google tells me that my cult of podner-using fanatics is around 20,000 results strong. That aligns with my opinion as to just who would use podner and who would use "pardner" and get shot. City slickers.
Also, I'm guessing you think I mistook Parlous for some other word or something...? I don't really understand why you felt the need to bring Bartleby-san into this discussion.
"Them's parlous times, pod'ner!"
"Parlous Linux 2008: Because life sucks"
"ParlOS - optimized for low latency thin client computing over parsec-level distances"
"Parlous Santana"
Classic /. cliche...stand back and lob stones from your glass user account.
...is it that makes it "unrepresentative?" Is this like those people who hand you their resume and say, "actually this doesn't really represent me so please feel free to call if you have any questions?"
I was in a similar situation...I was going to pick up a Mac, and possibly go all-mac, until I learned how badly most open source software originally written for Linux worked/looked on it. I looked at all my needs (pretty much everything, across the board, since I run my own studio), and said, "screw it, this is gonna be too expensive and way too proprietary." I bought an Ubuntu laptop (with a firewire port) and installed Ubuntu on another two machines, and have since only bought hardware that I know is compatible.
Linux always seemed like a pain in the @$$ until I realized that if you have to have an ecosystem of many machines in your studio, you might as well make it an open ecosystem. It turned out to be a good decision.
Well, let's face it. People aren't as good to each other as they used to be. Criminals want *their* freedoms too, ya know. So *somebody* has to take care of the problem. If government does it, you end up with Big Brother and a huge risk of banished democracy.
If the citizenship do it, the government will find itself mixed up with ordinary criminals; normal citizens don't distinguish between "bad people" and "bad people working on behalf of the government." So the government has a vested interest in 1) taking care of the problem and 2) making sure the citizenry don't try to do things their own way. Ever.
If I were you, I'd start at the local level and identify people of influence who are willing to help you. Write down areas they can influence, identify peoplpe who have influence in areas you lack, and try to convert them to your POV. Rinse and repeat - and keep committing people to help out. Good luck!
I do. (Dangit, why do I have to be such a forthright person?)
I swear, Microsoft must be paying millions to promote Photosynth through teh grassrootz. It's absolutely hilarious to watch my friends who are Mac fangirls complain about how IE sucks, MS is going down the tubes, etc. but when it gets to PHOTO-freaking-synth, NOW we're talking. I get Photosynth Youtube videos and TED talks and all this made-for-hype stuff in my inbox and yet the coolest projects I see are again and again made by people who don't have money to promote their stuff.
...that I got from playing the original Doom and other FPS's with tons of blood and gore after that. I wish I had never played those games beyond the first menu screen, because I'll never get that time back. And there's a part of my mind that will always know what dismemberment looks like from 30 different angles (or in the case of Doom, one very pixelated angle). I just don't think that's very cool anymore...too much crap happens while people sit by an accept it without doing anything positive or optimistic.
This is because a long time ago, Rasterman refused to sign the NDA*, so the Powers that Be banished him to Japan to lock him out of the limelight.
*No Deodorant Agreement
lol, I wasn't talking about *that* Morales. Morales is such a common name. Stop with the Bolivian stuff already!
...when you see Karl Urban in the cast and wonder why he's not playing Pavel Chekov.
...it's called "The Last Enemy." I caught an episode and the thrust of it seemed to be that these powerful surveillance tools become an instant menace once *one* person uses them for the wrong purpose.
So, apparently some people in the UK care enough to get the word out. These tools are being entrusted to people who don't get it.
It's like giving a nuclear-powered car filled with laser-armed sharks to your local branch of Neo-Nazis. (Sorry, had to get the triple analogy in there)
Completely. And I won't hesitate to mention that if you think a Mexican could break into politics in the UK, you're raving mad.
Ahahaha. That's awesome, never heard of it. However, I'm more interested in some sort of Skype auto-answer setup that I could probably set up without waiting for this iRobot thing to be released.
If the monopolists let this stuff continue, they begin to lose their monopoly, too. A loss for the RIAA here will push music and other media (likely movies) back into the hands of the competitive market. Then you'd see the industry start to equalize, with less-common artists making more money, and famous artists making less. Mostly, though, the monopolists wouldn't make as much money anymore, and that's what counts.
...so I can talk to my cats while I'm on vacation? I have a Logitech webcam and a Linux box. Thankyouforyourtime.
Go by the year. Tell them about grassroots activism, show them examples of companies being publicly shamed by bloggers picking up tips like "software is actually 1.0 but advertised as version 6", and then tell these guys, "look, we can both have our cake and eat it too if we just call it $SOFTWAREPCKG 2009" or similar.
:-)
Now that everything is The Internet This or The Internet That, you just go out, grab some anecdote from somebody's website, and create a "crucial lesson you musn't forget" out of it. This is the answer to many a dumb question by sales guys, clients, etc.
Even if corporations give parents power to control this stuff, public schools in the U.S. are still forcing all sorts of stuff down kids' throats, regardless of how parents feel. Everything from politically motivated "scientific" teachings regarding creationism to the definition of marriage, over which a Mass. man was arrested because he refused to leave a meeting until the school reached a compromise about teaching his child (a practicing Mormon) to accept gay marriage. The school didn't compromise.
Things like the gay marriage debate put church and state on a collision course, setting up the state with its own particular belief system even to the persecution of those who want to worship their own way. Far from being able to exercise religious freedoms, those with differing opinions are being labeled hate criminals.