>> ^Auger8:

@dag @ant @pumkinandstorm @mintbbb Someone help me out here and promote this, due to it's relevance in the recent lawsuit. I'd flag it as quality(I only have one Power Point) but I don't think it works the same as a promote does. Thanks guys. Promote the Arrogant Hypocrisy!


Sunday morning might now get toop many views/votes, but let's just start with
*promote
*quality
and hope that helps!

>> ^Auger8:

@dag @ant @pumkinandstorm @mintbbb Someone help me out here and promote this, due to it's relevance in the recent lawsuit. I'd flag it as quality(I only have one Power Point) but I don't think it works the same as a promote does. Thanks guys. Promote the Arrogant Hypocrisy!


I used all my points, but I already upvoted this vidoe.

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I can understand why google did that - they don't want to be a general URL file host, but it does seem that Dropbox still "gets it" a bit more.

Steve Jobs said DropBox was a "feature" not a business, but they seem to be doing pretty well and have an easier model to understand than Apple's iCloud.

I'll give Google drive a go - and give gdurl a try too.

copying and then tweaking is how technology really progresses fast. a la steve jobs
our copyright laws essentially limit how fast we can evolve (technologically)

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation

Steve jobs was cool but bill gates is an incredible force for good in the world.

I think this has a lot to do with zeitgeist as well. The market for degrading porn is there, so it gets produced. There are different ways to quell it, like outlawing, or affecting the market in some way. Essentially, we would want to make people want the "good stuff" and not want the "bad stuff", but this is a problem with all sorts of things.

Some places, like denmark, have a "fat tax", to make people eat more healthy. You can also subsidize healthy food/porn from a government perspective. Alternatively, you need someone high in the industry that says "fuck this, we're only making good things now" like a steve jobs of porn. Heh.

When peoples' tastes change, the market changes with it. It's a shame that we're being driven towards wilder and wilder stuff, but I'm not sure what it takes to push back.
>> ^spoco2:

@gwiz665
I agree that the 'control group' isn't really one, as it is, as you said, severely skewed, it's just the best he had to work with.
I haven't looked at the studies at all, but you would think they could do ones that looked at frequency of porn use vs affects. They said they couldn't find anyone who didn't use it, but there sure as hell will be big differences between the amount people do.
And surely they could have a trial where they prescribe the amount of porn watched, and types for a period of time.
All of these things can be done even without a 'clean' control group.
So yeah, it seems like there isn't 'good' data on this.
But I certainly dislike the way that porn is so mainstream, and so anti female now. If you look hard enough you can find pockets of porn where everyone in it is respected and you see her feelings and arousal being addressed as well as his, but it's rare. There's far more 'Bangbus' and 'drunk coeds' shit.
I'd love to know a way to swing porn back to the respectful side of the spectrum, so that when people did just random porn searches, more often than not they saw real looking people having loving sex.... but I have no idea how that could ever be done.

@bmacs27

I am all for good lending practices, but what is happening now goes beyond that. I know of several instances of developers having signed leases from investment grade tenants (large pharmaceutical companies , retailers etc.)who have had significant challenges obtaining financing, even with putting up 40% equity.

At the end of the day the fewer 'good' projects that get done means fewer jobs that are created, both on a temporary (construction) and permanent basis.

I am not on the development side so I don't have first hand experience with the above.

I don't disagree that speculative real estate developments should have trouble getting financing, but that isn't the only kind of product being effected by the new standards.

My take on Jamie Dimon is he isn't Bill Gates. He is a banker and he wants to make money for his company and his shareholders. So did Steve Jobs. I don't fault him for looking out for his interests and I don't fault those who seek to restrain them reasonably. I don't view him as a hero or a demon. He is just a banker - and he seems to be a very 'good' one.

>> ^Fade:

Dell and HP are overpriced too. They defo aren't the value proposition. I know, I worked for Dell for 5 years. Made a lot of money ripping uninformed consumers off.


Didn't say they Dell and HP were a better value prop. Said Apple's pricing is not that far out of line to people who are into "high end" PCs, and their luxury rep comes from not servicing the low-end segments that HP and Dell fought over for years (and are still fighting over).

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http://blog.videosift.com/dag/Apple-Fanboy-Since-1983
>> ^direpickle:

>> ^dag:
Are you implying that Apple would copy the UI from another software vendor? That's unpossible.>> ^direpickle:
>> ^dag:
Fruity Loops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL_Studio
Looks a lot like Logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Studio

And Fruity Loops is ten years older than Logic.


Haha, sorry. I kinda thought you were trying to imply the opposite, for a moment.

>> ^dag:

Are you implying that Apple would copy the UI from another software vendor? That's unpossible.>> ^direpickle:
>> ^dag:
Fruity Loops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL_Studio
Looks a lot like Logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Studio

And Fruity Loops is ten years older than Logic.



Haha, sorry. I kinda thought you were trying to imply the opposite, for a moment.

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Are you implying that Apple would copy the UI from another software vendor? That's unpossible.>> ^direpickle:

>> ^dag:
Fruity Loops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL_Studio
Looks a lot like Logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Studio

And Fruity Loops is ten years older than Logic.

>> ^dag:

Fruity Loops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL_Studio
Looks a lot like Logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Studio


And Fruity Loops is ten years older than Logic.

Yeah, they got a majority of it right, so I'll give that minor flub to them. Also, glad to see Linux got an appearance.
>> ^AeroMechanical:

>> ^lucky760:
Awesome, except "I'm running C++" which doesn't make sense, strictly speaking. (You can run binary code compiled from C++ source code, but you can't run C++ itself.)

You could run a compiler, which I believe would qualify as "running C++" if only on a technicality.

>> ^lucky760:

Awesome, except "I'm running C++" which doesn't make sense, strictly speaking. (You can run binary code compiled from C++ source code, but you can't run C++ itself.)


You could run a compiler, which I believe would qualify as "running C++" if only on a technicality.