You assume those two theses don't co-exist.
Gulf I, likewise the perfect example. The OA of that war wasn't Iraq - it was Kuwait. When Iraq's ability to wage war in Kuwait was destroyed, the war was over.
While the long-term support is good, progress is stifled by the need to make sure that, say, Windows 98 can run the modern applications. There's no way you can do that without sacrificing some functionality.
I equally have a problem with Apple's abandonment of anything even remotely older - my parents have an iMac that works perfectly, but cannot run some applications that they'd find useful because the OS is too old, even though it's, y'know, less than five years old - and I think combined with it being such a closed system, the only way you'd be upgrading the hardware is by getting the Mac Pro, or doing some ridiculously complex surgery.
With Microsoft, there's got to be a point to where they have to go, "okay, we have to cut you loose." Windows 98 was twelve years ago. I think at that point, at least, you can safely stop support and not really catch any flack. I mean, come on, we're not still supporting 3.1, right? Sooner or later you just gotta allow yourself to grow, and that long-term support will, if you let it, anchor you.
Presentation is everything, these days. Being able to display your character sheets to everyone while you're on a more real-time version of IRC with group logging and archival is a big step forward.
Swap character sheets for "business plans," and you can see the potential, here.
There's also the convenience factor. It does everything for you. Unlike IRC, you can edit within the Wave itself. Logs don't have to be outputted to a.txt file before you can edit them. You just do it right there.
What'll be interesting is if/when Skype can be added to it in a gadget. VoIP with audio/video chat, the ability to display documents to an entire group, and to collaboratively write something with real-time editing.
If you want to say it's just a repackaging of IRC and a Wiki, sure, go right ahead. It's just shaping up to be a very well done and potentially ubiquitous repackaging.
Agreed. Once the ruling's come down, you abide by it.
This certainly looks to me like an attempt to circumvent what they owe the RIAA. And I hate the RIAA, but they do owe them. That's how it's how it works - you lose a dispute, you pay the price. If you think the dispute was lost unfairly, you appeal.
And if you want to look at it in more pragmatic terms for the PB people - don't look like you're trying to subvert the system when you're trying to appeal within it. That's just stupid and helping you lose your appeal before you file it.
What you see as "encouraging harassment," I see as enforcing the ostracizing of someone who most assuredly deserves it.
If the law isn't equipped to handle this - and judging by the lack of ability on its part to figure out just what to charge this person, I'm inclined to believe it isn't - sometimes you just have to take (lawful) measures to make sure she doesn't get to destroy a life and walk away from it.
It's not harassment; it's simply notifying employers that someone they may be hiring is a bad hire. Harassment would be sending her letter after letter, and that I wouldn't condone.
Which I'm sure a teenager has a full grasp of the law and the forethought to make a call to her local lawyer and move the process along.
This is an adult who pushed a minor, with malice aforethought, into a high state of agitation and personal anguish. In my mind, that's straight up child abuse.
Whether it's prosecutable or not is for others to figure out, but at the very least, an enormous wrongful death suit can and should commence following this case, if it comes to pass that she is acquitted - which she might be.
The case does threaten a piece of free speech, but this is an adult who communicated attacks on a minor, with intent and malice to cause emotional harm to her (and succeeded). The bitch is going to account for that crime, one way or the other.
The parents of that child should keep an eye on where Drew goes after all this is over, if she is free. If she gets a job, rents an apartment, and buys Internet service, they should have newspaper clippings and a letter in hand to deliver to each and every manager and employer. Let them know who they're serving/employing.
Maybe it doesn't provide justice, and maybe it won't do anything. But perhaps someone in a position to make something happen will read it, and decide not to let this woman live so comfortably with the lives she's so callously and indifferently destroyed.
Really? You're going to invoke Godwin's Law? Really?
I must be new, here.
Diplomacy is diplomacy. Throwing [Pick your weapon]s only serves to reinforce the idea that we have nothing to offer them, and anything they try to offer us will just get rejected, anyway.
So go on, make your self-fulfilling prophecy. I'm sure you'll have more fun doing it. Sometimes I wonder if the really hardcore open source people are about empowering the end user or empowering themselves.
Vista just absolutely ruins legacy support, acting as sort of an executioner for a lot of the laggards using Windows 98/2000. And it's loaded with bloat and slows PCs down to ensure that it really has no market viability.
So that when Windows 7 shows up, they don't have to worry about legacy support, because they killed it last time, and they don't have to worry about the transition, because XP will have been so old that most everyone's dying to upgrade and anyone who already upgraded to Vista will be dying to move on from that!
Yes, but the difference is - with the proliferation of the Internet, people began to realize that, hey, this music actually sucks, because look over there! That music is way better.
In the 90s you were rock, metal, or a pussy. Now? Standards of music amongst the music hounds are way higher. Genres are much more diversified.
Britney Spears and her ilk are long gone. "Fergie" being the one exception, but note how quickly she transitioned from "musician" to just a brand, lending her name to everything. Her last album came in 2006.
The new faces of pop? Recently it's been British. Well, you've got Lily Allen (Capitol), Kate Nash (Interscope), Amy Winehouse (Republic), and then the one American KT Tunstall (Virgin). These are the leading ladies being shown on VH1. Throw Justin Timberlake out there on the male side and the field of up-and-coming pop music ain't so bad.
Perhaps the reason why the recording industry is allegedly losing money is because the amount of money they're pumping into touching up the voices and instruments of corporate hacks while the people above have never needed that, and they're starting to realize it. The problem is that for many of these new artists, they're also the predominant songwriters (Allen, Nash and Winehouse, I know, Tunstall I'm unsure), which means the labels aren't getting money for writing those songs, and the artists have a bit more power to say what the label can and cannot do with their songs.
As a show, I hate American Idol almost as much as I hate The Da Vinci Code as a book, but both are doing solid things for their prospective industries - getting audiences to think about the industry's inner workings. I certainly know a lot of people who had no idea the amount of money that gets pumped into a single artist by a major label until after they watched Idol and got to thinking about it. "And they still sound like that? Lame." It brings a smile to my face.
Exactly. I love to drive. On long trips I almost always insist on being the driver. I love going where I want, and I love controlling the steering of my vehicle. I absolutely enjoy deciding to take First street instead of Cedar because I just felt like it, and didn't have to override anything to do it - I just get in the correct lane, turn and go the moment I make that decision.
Self-driving tech is cool, but it's going to take a long and gradual process just to get people in a culture of having that done for you, rather than opting to steer the car yourself. I think in some ways it's being done bit by bit. A chip here to handle this, GPS here to help you navigate, etc.
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You assume those two theses don't co-exist. Gulf I, likewise the perfect example. The OA of that war wasn't Iraq - it was Kuwait. When Iraq's ability to wage war in Kuwait was destroyed, the war was over.
To make it more specific, the Military's purpose is to destroy any other military or militant group's ability to wage war.
While the long-term support is good, progress is stifled by the need to make sure that, say, Windows 98 can run the modern applications. There's no way you can do that without sacrificing some functionality.
I equally have a problem with Apple's abandonment of anything even remotely older - my parents have an iMac that works perfectly, but cannot run some applications that they'd find useful because the OS is too old, even though it's, y'know, less than five years old - and I think combined with it being such a closed system, the only way you'd be upgrading the hardware is by getting the Mac Pro, or doing some ridiculously complex surgery.
With Microsoft, there's got to be a point to where they have to go, "okay, we have to cut you loose." Windows 98 was twelve years ago. I think at that point, at least, you can safely stop support and not really catch any flack. I mean, come on, we're not still supporting 3.1, right? Sooner or later you just gotta allow yourself to grow, and that long-term support will, if you let it, anchor you.
Swap character sheets for "business plans," and you can see the potential, here.
There's also the convenience factor. It does everything for you. Unlike IRC, you can edit within the Wave itself. Logs don't have to be outputted to a .txt file before you can edit them. You just do it right there.
What'll be interesting is if/when Skype can be added to it in a gadget. VoIP with audio/video chat, the ability to display documents to an entire group, and to collaboratively write something with real-time editing.
If you want to say it's just a repackaging of IRC and a Wiki, sure, go right ahead. It's just shaping up to be a very well done and potentially ubiquitous repackaging.
What makes you think we couldn't offer it stimuli?
I'll offer it stimuli. I'll offer it stimuli three times a day, four if it tells me I'm cute.
Agreed. Once the ruling's come down, you abide by it. This certainly looks to me like an attempt to circumvent what they owe the RIAA. And I hate the RIAA, but they do owe them. That's how it's how it works - you lose a dispute, you pay the price. If you think the dispute was lost unfairly, you appeal. And if you want to look at it in more pragmatic terms for the PB people - don't look like you're trying to subvert the system when you're trying to appeal within it. That's just stupid and helping you lose your appeal before you file it.
If the law isn't equipped to handle this - and judging by the lack of ability on its part to figure out just what to charge this person, I'm inclined to believe it isn't - sometimes you just have to take (lawful) measures to make sure she doesn't get to destroy a life and walk away from it.
It's not harassment; it's simply notifying employers that someone they may be hiring is a bad hire. Harassment would be sending her letter after letter, and that I wouldn't condone.
This is an adult who pushed a minor, with malice aforethought, into a high state of agitation and personal anguish. In my mind, that's straight up child abuse.
Whether it's prosecutable or not is for others to figure out, but at the very least, an enormous wrongful death suit can and should commence following this case, if it comes to pass that she is acquitted - which she might be.
The case does threaten a piece of free speech, but this is an adult who communicated attacks on a minor, with intent and malice to cause emotional harm to her (and succeeded). The bitch is going to account for that crime, one way or the other.
The parents of that child should keep an eye on where Drew goes after all this is over, if she is free. If she gets a job, rents an apartment, and buys Internet service, they should have newspaper clippings and a letter in hand to deliver to each and every manager and employer. Let them know who they're serving/employing.
Maybe it doesn't provide justice, and maybe it won't do anything. But perhaps someone in a position to make something happen will read it, and decide not to let this woman live so comfortably with the lives she's so callously and indifferently destroyed.
Maybe you're right, unless that long time schoolyard bully is a multinational corporation and we were fucking adults.
Dude, what're you doing? 'Shrooms are the initiation to Apple!
I must be new, here.
Diplomacy is diplomacy. Throwing [Pick your weapon]s only serves to reinforce the idea that we have nothing to offer them, and anything they try to offer us will just get rejected, anyway.
So go on, make your self-fulfilling prophecy. I'm sure you'll have more fun doing it. Sometimes I wonder if the really hardcore open source people are about empowering the end user or empowering themselves.
Well, that's one more reason to wait and see how the HTC Dream and other Android-using devices work out.
The ACLU (in this case, NYCLU) is an irritating entity in its own right, but it has its uses - this is one of them.
Please, you think the Linux hordes would be at a riot? The sunburns they'd incur would be catastrophic.
People die and you don't care.
Operating Systems get fucked with and it carries more weight than people dying.
What scares me is that sometimes I meet people who make Jack Thompson sound like he might be right.
Zimbabwe is a great struggle. We're just talking about computer operating systems.
Vista just absolutely ruins legacy support, acting as sort of an executioner for a lot of the laggards using Windows 98/2000. And it's loaded with bloat and slows PCs down to ensure that it really has no market viability.
So that when Windows 7 shows up, they don't have to worry about legacy support, because they killed it last time, and they don't have to worry about the transition, because XP will have been so old that most everyone's dying to upgrade and anyone who already upgraded to Vista will be dying to move on from that!
I think I cracked the code.
It will never be. Companies do not lower price points on services still in high demand, even if it is cheaper to produce.
It works for Trent Reznor with Ghosts, does it not?
In the 90s you were rock, metal, or a pussy. Now? Standards of music amongst the music hounds are way higher. Genres are much more diversified.
Britney Spears and her ilk are long gone. "Fergie" being the one exception, but note how quickly she transitioned from "musician" to just a brand, lending her name to everything. Her last album came in 2006.
The new faces of pop? Recently it's been British. Well, you've got Lily Allen (Capitol), Kate Nash (Interscope), Amy Winehouse (Republic), and then the one American KT Tunstall (Virgin). These are the leading ladies being shown on VH1. Throw Justin Timberlake out there on the male side and the field of up-and-coming pop music ain't so bad.
Perhaps the reason why the recording industry is allegedly losing money is because the amount of money they're pumping into touching up the voices and instruments of corporate hacks while the people above have never needed that, and they're starting to realize it. The problem is that for many of these new artists, they're also the predominant songwriters (Allen, Nash and Winehouse, I know, Tunstall I'm unsure), which means the labels aren't getting money for writing those songs, and the artists have a bit more power to say what the label can and cannot do with their songs.
As a show, I hate American Idol almost as much as I hate The Da Vinci Code as a book, but both are doing solid things for their prospective industries - getting audiences to think about the industry's inner workings. I certainly know a lot of people who had no idea the amount of money that gets pumped into a single artist by a major label until after they watched Idol and got to thinking about it. "And they still sound like that? Lame." It brings a smile to my face.
The **AA isn't going to die until it's dead.
Self-driving tech is cool, but it's going to take a long and gradual process just to get people in a culture of having that done for you, rather than opting to steer the car yourself. I think in some ways it's being done bit by bit. A chip here to handle this, GPS here to help you navigate, etc.
Don't use his words anymore. Maybe if you spent a little less time ripping on education you might've found some words of your own to use.
SDTV Loses Out On: 1) Sucking.
Because, they, y'know, write the music.