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I would also consider artistic/theatrical type shows, like The Residents use to do --things that are not tied to the typical "come to hear a band playing their same ole songs live".
Well, for some of us, music is what's RECORDED, not live shoes.
I can accept: "well, too bad, traditional recording profits are dwindling, just man it".
But, "it's no problem, just give live shows" is a stupid answer. At best, it's a non general enough one.
All those articles and blog posts hammering on the "make money by playing live shows" theme, feel to my European tastes as written by Texan rednecks, whose idea of music is Willie Nelson or something... (and DMB is not that far off).
It's 2011: there are tons of groups, music genres etc where it doesn't make sense to have traditional concerts. And there artistis that don't like to give them, anyways. Not all musicians want to be onstage, especially in electronica, ambient, etc genres. Heck, even the Beatles got bored and stopped playing live mid-career. Oh, and "selling t-shirts and merchandise"? Some people want to be in the MUSIC business, not that of Matel and Threadless.
Take it easy, man! I mean, whatever...
The odds would have been in your favor if you have said "odds are a search engine chosen at random does this too".
But, instead, you said: "odds are DDG does this too", thus binding the odds to DDG.
Since the general stance of DDG is pro privacy, you should have reasoned that the odds were in favor of DDG NOT doing this.
(Not to mention that posting that you "were close" didn't provide anything to the discussion --apart from some ill-conceived face saving from your part).
No, you sure didn't.
> Will it help if I admitted that Apple invented sliced bread?
It sure would. That kind of "irony" would place you firmly in the delusional group thinking there are "Apple fanboys" and that you and them are at war. You reeealllly think I think somewhat like that, huh?
> We agree that you are convinced of everything you said and we also agree not to investigate anything objectively
I never agreed to the second --but you seem hell bent on it. Notice how beside ad hominens you don't provide any arguments in this "reply"?
Yes. In the portable music and mobile market it has tried to compete with Apple and closed shop many times --only in MS case it is called "canceled a project" or "closed a department".
As for the OS/API space, it has slided into irrelevance. Do you really need me to bring out the big guns and quote Paul Graham on this one?
"""Android is not selling at all"""
You seemed to have missed the "manage to offer knock-offs a couple of years later", part.
"""Amazon hasn't continued to gain more music selling share"""
You seemed to have missed the "manage to offer knock-offs a couple of years later", part.
"""no one is buying Kindles as there is the iPad"""
The two are not really in the same market. The Kindle is an ebook reader. The iPad is a tablet computing platform with ebook reading capability thrown in. There is a Kindle app FOR the iPad, for heaven's sake.
"""And Adobe was going to be in serious trouble too"""
With regards to Flash dominance in the future of the web (the only relevant metric, i.e. pertaining to Apple, in this discussion)? You betsa.
A market of 10 people is not much of a market at all.
I know how you feel.
And the most annoying thing is how they always come out right: first the renaissance of Apple and the Mac, the iPod, then iTunes, then the iPhone, then the App Store now the iPad.
All of these getting great sales, redefining industry, and gathering higher market share, while tens of competitors sink or at best manage to offer knock-offs a couple of years later.
Why don't Gruber and company write more like enlightened pundits like Paul Thurrot, Rob Enderle and John Dvorak?
(Downvote freely)
Even more urgent than colonization is the achievement of immortality, but I don't see people urging to achieve it for the same reason, i.e they think it's not practically achievable.
And this is invalid, how?
A well designed syntax is a must for a good language.
If Erlang has a "funky syntax" (your words), then that is a real disadvantage that should raise concern. Syntax affects code readability, maintenance, etc.
It's not "public awareness" they raise (how condescending to think it takes a national foreign literacy program for the people to know what's happening in their country). They mainly act as hubs for foreign interest lackeys (disgruntled opposition leaders, shady figures and such), and propaganda.
Huh? Java "protected from decay and dilution"?
Witch the exception of SUN never liking native interface linking, Java was ANYTHING BUT protected from decay. Java went about adding and adopting stuff, from Swing to generics to annotations to functional stuff, to remoting, to various EE fads of the day, without ever thinking about whats best about the core language and how to keep it clean and agile.
I would have liked it if in place of Java we had a purer language, like, say, Smalltalk.
> I was wondering recently if it would be interesting to argue that forcibly teaching children a globally useless language for the sake of pleasing the adults who arbitrarily want it saved is a weak form of child abuse.
Actually, killing the language and the culture of a child because it is "useless globally" is cultural genocide.
And it has happened way too much.
Now for people conditioned to think that "evolution" should be applied to human matters, culture, this might not seem much.
But go read the experiences of smaller cultures oppressed and eliminated by "global" or local mightier forces, and you can plainly see it's a different kind of holocaust.
I want ways of life to change, die and whither organically, by their own cultural momentum. Not by "global forces" and market influence. And surely not by cultural imperialism.
Crazy, I know.
Also (from the wild intertubes):
amount of caffeine in an 8oz cup of various teas and coffee:
Coffee: 100 mg Black Tea: 40 to 50 mg Oolong Tea: 25 to 35 mg Green Tea: 20 to 30 mg Decaffeinated Black Tea: 4 mg Decaffeinated Green Tea: 4 mg
Ignoring the passive-aggressiveness, yes, I have an empirical basis for this statement.
Don't you?
Ever heard of the "broken window" theory? Ever heard of entropy? Ever read the history of any cultural aspect, from poetry to jazz, to teaching, to coding?
Everything needs protection --people putting in the effort, care, education, craftsmanship and hard work to keep it alive, to improve it and to resist the tendency to decay and dillution.
Yes, most designers do just fine with them. Most workspaces of high end design firms I've seen, or you can see photographed on the intertubes, are using Macs with Mac displays.
And they tend to do just fine against the competition at reviews too.
And it's Apple that "doesn't get designers"?
Aperture is a photography workflow app, it's not an image editor. If you want to compare it to something, compare it to Adobe's own Lightroom, to Capture One, et al.
While a nice line, it is wrong. Everything needs protection.
Especially great things, like the "language of Shakespeare".
Now, this protection need not necessarily be in the form of law, but it sure needs to be in the form of effort.
I'm not in an ASCII-english speaking country, and it's not like that at all. And all projects that started to rectify TeX with regards to unicode text, have fallen behind or are totally abandoned (I speak of stuff like LaTeX3e, Omega et al).
> Isn't this sort of the problem with WYSIWYG in general, though?
For some it's the problem, for others it's the allure. I like Framemaker style tools myself --but Adobe it has had it stagnate, and it's also not on the Mac.
> Can Word give me a nice, hierarchical view of all the paragraph and character styles and margin settings that have been applied to my article?
It has styles, and can present a list of them et al. Not many people use it that way, but it's quite powerful. Not as powerful as Framemaker though.
> My text editor does that for me, and I'm not distracted by presentation issues while I type my document.
No, but you are distracted of keeping a syntax NOT RELATED to the document content in your head.
> How so? Text flow around images is an issue in TeX - have Quark or InDesign really improved much otherwise?
There have been improved hyphenation/justification algorithms during the 90's that InDesign et al utilize, that provide better visual output even for simple paragraph text compared to plain ole TeX. Mainly utilizing the hz algorithm.