Photoshop has a solid identity in the market, even among casual photographers. Walk into a camera shop and mention GIMP to some random person looking at the point and shoots and you'll probably get punched in the eye. That same person almost certainly recognizes what Photoshop is and does.
I'm a professional photographer but I am far less Photoshop oriented than most of my peers. But it is an indespensible tool. I've tried dozens of other apps, online and off, and even for my relatively simple needs Photoshop has no replacement. Not even other less expensive Adobe products like Elements or Lightroom. From the way the article reads this online version won't actually have the same features as a local version of Photoshop. My guess would be that it would be better named after Elements or Lightroom but neither of those have the kind of ubiquitous name recognition that Photoshop does.
Well, I don't know about all that, but if you translated
negotiate compensation for the value chain and sell targeted advertising for related goods and services
Into what photographers being protected you're a better man than me.
Could you also do the rest of the paragraph for me, because I'm not getting it either:
In fact, the specific identification of the content could guide provision of related goods, services and community designed to maximize the consumer's enjoyment of the entertainment experience.
Having read your arguments here I still don't understand why you care at all about copyright one way or the other.
The entire point of this submission is that there is plenty of music available without any DRM. There is also plenty from non-RIAA affiliated labels. Some released under Creative Commons licenses. Some of it is even out there with explicitly renounced copy rights.
Yet you still care whether or not I release a piece of music (or in my case, a photograph) with the expectation of some exclusive right of distribution.
Despite the availability of a significant quantity of unencumbered music you seem to still want the RIAA label produced stuff. To me, that indicates that it has value beyond whatever marginal costs is associated with its replication.
Yes, that is just what is needed. Someone else, in the aggregate sense this time, the 'community', telling you what to listen to. Art by a committee.
Things like that will go down in history as the great contribution to the world made by Web 2.0. The radio call in show of the 21st century.
It works so wonderfully well with photographs. I am a photographer who often does some 'photography as art' type stuff, so I regularly visit the popular photography sites like Flickr and PBase to get pointers from the legions of experts who swarm those places. I would like to have the opportunity to see this applied to the music I listen to.
I assure you, now that the Slashdot community has been alerted a solution will be ready in not time at all. And you can rest assured that it will be freely downloadable in an open format via some FTP server somewhere (CD mailed to you for a nominal processing fee).
Really. Read through the posts in this topic. I had no idea Slashdotters were expert on the subject of bees. It seems that once you know how to program a computer, or at least download what someone else has programmed, everything else falls in line.
I'm not really a fanboy of any particular piece of software, but most of the problems I have noticed with various Linux systems relative to Windows revolve around either the unavailability of an application I needed or the ass brained process of actually installing an app once found. That goes double for hardware.
In the case of military systems I would think both of those problems would be avoided as they are going to be running hardware and software designed specifically for the application and none of it would be user installed.
As for the interface I suspect it would take some digging to figure out that a finished battleship control system was running Windows. I doubt there will be a Start -> Games -> Pinball menu choice next to the window running the radar console. Most popular HMI packages for manufacturing equipment run on Windows and any good setup will hide any component of the OS that isn't needed to run that machine. Or if an intuitive UI really is a big deal, there is always OSX.
The biggest advantage Windows has over everything else is that it will generally work with any hardware or software a person might pick off the shelf of any podunk software store anywhere on earth. For desktops that trumps all its disadvantages. For installing on a battleship I don't see how that gives it a leg up.
I don't know what 'major factor of evidence' means in your context but I think Microsoft Powerpoint should shoulder more blame for the Columbia disaster than groupthink. Maybe I have been reading too much Edward Tufte though.
You may want to consider that your definition of groupthink is overbroad. Part of how a business motivates its employees is to convince them to align their personal goals with those of the company. Done properly, satisfying oneself in a business setting means furthering the goals of the company.
Rather than say that gets lost due to groupthink I would say that it gets lost amid all the ass covering and finger pointing that often goes on. In Columbia's case, Lockheed Martin's main goal during the investigation was not to uncover the actual cause but defend against any possibility that they might have been at fault. They offer up test results of their insulation hitting a part of the shuttle that the actual insulation didn't hit, then claim that their insulation could not possibly have caused enough damage to be a problem on reentry. Maybe groupthink led people to believe them, I don't know.
So many companies are managed for the short term that this kind of thing is nearly impossible to prevent. The shuttle blows up, someone looks at a spreadsheet that shows the shuttle business is only 3% of revenue, so whatever future business LHM might have with NASA is sacrificed for the goal of protecting the company.
Unless, of course, the labels just start giving the music away free of charge. And pay for the bandwidth to transmit it to everyone. And buy us all MP3 players. With headphones. And apologize for being mean.
The impression I took from the article is that there was strong suspicion that her CDs were fakes but no one could determine exactly which recordings from other artists had been used. iTunes, by way of CDDB, pointed the guy from Gramophone in the right direction.
So no, not iTunes directly, but since it is the Windows of music management applications it was in the right place at the right time. Also recall that these are music people and we are geeks. We may know all about CDDB and music players and which bit of software performs which task, but most normals don't know or care. Even if you try to explain it to them they will stare off in the distance, blankly, wishing they were listening to a modified version of Nojima being passed off as Hatto playing Liszt.
The important thing in the first link that trumps all discussion of the mechanics of the rifle they used is Neither shooter was legally allowed to acquire firearms in the U.S.
I never bought the story that one of them shoplifted it. I have been in some pretty raggedy gun shops, and my misspent youth taught me some things about theft, but I have never felt like I could shove an AR down my pants and get out the door.
Maybe what would be most helpful would be to actually enforce existing laws. Maybe even wipe a bunch of them away and concentrate on the important ones. That applies to nearly everything, not just firearms related stuff.
Most of mine are in a gun safe, but none of those have trigger/bolt locks installed so depending on where a person lives they may or may not be properly locked up. There are a few scattered around my house. I live in a rural area so you never know when a coyote or something might be wandering around outside and there will be no time to fumble with any kind of gun lock.
I don't understand the mentality that places some portion of the blame on me for not locking up my possessions against someone stealing them.
Do you have their serial numbers recorded so that the police can seize them when they catch the asshat(s) who stole your guns?
The likelihood of them being stolen is pretty low and the likelihood of the police actually finding them if they are is too small to even bother considering. But I do have the serial numbers recorded (and backed up!), but mostly because I am a geek and I enjoyed building the database. And my insurance company required them to extend my policy.
Like when the original restrictions were allowed to sunset and we were assured by Millions of Moms that we'd be awash in ruthless killing machines. We have to do something to protect our kind hearted, well intentioned, peace loving peace officers, whether from violence thirsty lunatics with sandbagged machine gun nests or from speed gun toting stalker weirdo suburbanite couples. These people, hell bent on their vigilante campaigns against docile doe eyed public servants, have to be stopped.
I want one as well, mostly for the high res B&W screen.
Early on in this project I thought the public would be able to buy one at an inflated price (something like $300), the inflated portion of which would be used to send more laptops to more kids.
OLPC can make mine any color they want and I'd happily give them 3x their cost today. I'd buy two or three for myself at that price if it helped further the project's aim.
It would even more like if Amazon.com advertised a 'buy one get one free' promo on box sets, but their shopping cart screwed up and didn't charge anything at all, and then several days later Amazon.com tried to buyers what they should have charged in the first place.
Actually no, at least in the US. Either party being intoxicated at the time a contract is made can negate any legal libility to its terms.
If one party was just drunk from alcohol and it wasn't obvious from the contract terms that the other party was taking advantage a court probably won't void it. Prescription meds, obviously onerous terms, etc, can get it voided pretty fast.
Slashdot Mirror
No one knows what color the sky is, a giant pie with "DRM" inscribed on it blocks all from viewing.
Photoshop has a solid identity in the market, even among casual photographers. Walk into a camera shop and mention GIMP to some random person looking at the point and shoots and you'll probably get punched in the eye. That same person almost certainly recognizes what Photoshop is and does.
I'm a professional photographer but I am far less Photoshop oriented than most of my peers. But it is an indespensible tool. I've tried dozens of other apps, online and off, and even for my relatively simple needs Photoshop has no replacement. Not even other less expensive Adobe products like Elements or Lightroom. From the way the article reads this online version won't actually have the same features as a local version of Photoshop. My guess would be that it would be better named after Elements or Lightroom but neither of those have the kind of ubiquitous name recognition that Photoshop does.
This thing is going to provide the missing link between copyright and extortion.
negotiate compensation for the value chain and sell targeted advertising for related goods and servicesInto what photographers being protected you're a better man than me.
Could you also do the rest of the paragraph for me, because I'm not getting it either:
In fact, the specific identification of the content could guide provision of related goods, services and community designed to maximize the consumer's enjoyment of the entertainment experience.I await your results.
Having read your arguments here I still don't understand why you care at all about copyright one way or the other.
The entire point of this submission is that there is plenty of music available without any DRM. There is also plenty from non-RIAA affiliated labels. Some released under Creative Commons licenses. Some of it is even out there with explicitly renounced copy rights.
Yet you still care whether or not I release a piece of music (or in my case, a photograph) with the expectation of some exclusive right of distribution.
Despite the availability of a significant quantity of unencumbered music you seem to still want the RIAA label produced stuff. To me, that indicates that it has value beyond whatever marginal costs is associated with its replication.
How does the logic work here?
Yes, that is just what is needed. Someone else, in the aggregate sense this time, the 'community', telling you what to listen to. Art by a committee.
Things like that will go down in history as the great contribution to the world made by Web 2.0. The radio call in show of the 21st century.
It works so wonderfully well with photographs. I am a photographer who often does some 'photography as art' type stuff, so I regularly visit the popular photography sites like Flickr and PBase to get pointers from the legions of experts who swarm those places. I would like to have the opportunity to see this applied to the music I listen to.
I assure you, now that the Slashdot community has been alerted a solution will be ready in not time at all. And you can rest assured that it will be freely downloadable in an open format via some FTP server somewhere (CD mailed to you for a nominal processing fee).
Really. Read through the posts in this topic. I had no idea Slashdotters were expert on the subject of bees. It seems that once you know how to program a computer, or at least download what someone else has programmed, everything else falls in line.
Also, he just bottled a Mint varietal. It is nice.
In the case of military systems I would think both of those problems would be avoided as they are going to be running hardware and software designed specifically for the application and none of it would be user installed.
As for the interface I suspect it would take some digging to figure out that a finished battleship control system was running Windows. I doubt there will be a Start -> Games -> Pinball menu choice next to the window running the radar console. Most popular HMI packages for manufacturing equipment run on Windows and any good setup will hide any component of the OS that isn't needed to run that machine. Or if an intuitive UI really is a big deal, there is always OSX.
The biggest advantage Windows has over everything else is that it will generally work with any hardware or software a person might pick off the shelf of any podunk software store anywhere on earth. For desktops that trumps all its disadvantages. For installing on a battleship I don't see how that gives it a leg up.
I don't know what 'major factor of evidence' means in your context but I think Microsoft Powerpoint should shoulder more blame for the Columbia disaster than groupthink. Maybe I have been reading too much Edward Tufte though.
You may want to consider that your definition of groupthink is overbroad. Part of how a business motivates its employees is to convince them to align their personal goals with those of the company. Done properly, satisfying oneself in a business setting means furthering the goals of the company.
Rather than say that gets lost due to groupthink I would say that it gets lost amid all the ass covering and finger pointing that often goes on. In Columbia's case, Lockheed Martin's main goal during the investigation was not to uncover the actual cause but defend against any possibility that they might have been at fault. They offer up test results of their insulation hitting a part of the shuttle that the actual insulation didn't hit, then claim that their insulation could not possibly have caused enough damage to be a problem on reentry. Maybe groupthink led people to believe them, I don't know.
So many companies are managed for the short term that this kind of thing is nearly impossible to prevent. The shuttle blows up, someone looks at a spreadsheet that shows the shuttle business is only 3% of revenue, so whatever future business LHM might have with NASA is sacrificed for the goal of protecting the company.
That is the preferred disclaimer throughout most of the world. Lon Horiuchi has to have something to keep him busy.
I paid $5!
Unless, of course, the labels just start giving the music away free of charge. And pay for the bandwidth to transmit it to everyone. And buy us all MP3 players. With headphones. And apologize for being mean.
Are you an SCO attorney?
I think it would be hilarious if Audacity was used to do this rather than Pro Tools or the like.
So no, not iTunes directly, but since it is the Windows of music management applications it was in the right place at the right time. Also recall that these are music people and we are geeks. We may know all about CDDB and music players and which bit of software performs which task, but most normals don't know or care. Even if you try to explain it to them they will stare off in the distance, blankly, wishing they were listening to a modified version of Nojima being passed off as Hatto playing Liszt.
Beautiful post.
I never bought the story that one of them shoplifted it. I have been in some pretty raggedy gun shops, and my misspent youth taught me some things about theft, but I have never felt like I could shove an AR down my pants and get out the door.
Maybe what would be most helpful would be to actually enforce existing laws. Maybe even wipe a bunch of them away and concentrate on the important ones. That applies to nearly everything, not just firearms related stuff.
Most of mine are in a gun safe, but none of those have trigger/bolt locks installed so depending on where a person lives they may or may not be properly locked up. There are a few scattered around my house. I live in a rural area so you never know when a coyote or something might be wandering around outside and there will be no time to fumble with any kind of gun lock.
Do you have their serial numbers recorded so that the police can seize them when they catch the asshat(s) who stole your guns?I don't understand the mentality that places some portion of the blame on me for not locking up my possessions against someone stealing them.
The likelihood of them being stolen is pretty low and the likelihood of the police actually finding them if they are is too small to even bother considering. But I do have the serial numbers recorded (and backed up!), but mostly because I am a geek and I enjoyed building the database. And my insurance company required them to extend my policy.
In order to protect law enforcement, certainly.
Like when the original restrictions were allowed to sunset and we were assured by Millions of Moms that we'd be awash in ruthless killing machines. We have to do something to protect our kind hearted, well intentioned, peace loving peace officers, whether from violence thirsty lunatics with sandbagged machine gun nests or from speed gun toting stalker weirdo suburbanite couples. These people, hell bent on their vigilante campaigns against docile doe eyed public servants, have to be stopped.
Do you work for Diebold?
I bet Quanta has.
I want one as well, mostly for the high res B&W screen.
Early on in this project I thought the public would be able to buy one at an inflated price (something like $300), the inflated portion of which would be used to send more laptops to more kids.
OLPC can make mine any color they want and I'd happily give them 3x their cost today. I'd buy two or three for myself at that price if it helped further the project's aim.
It would even more like if Amazon.com advertised a 'buy one get one free' promo on box sets, but their shopping cart screwed up and didn't charge anything at all, and then several days later Amazon.com tried to buyers what they should have charged in the first place.
Actually no, at least in the US. Either party being intoxicated at the time a contract is made can negate any legal libility to its terms.
If one party was just drunk from alcohol and it wasn't obvious from the contract terms that the other party was taking advantage a court probably won't void it. Prescription meds, obviously onerous terms, etc, can get it voided pretty fast.