Yes! When he said it would cost 999 for a MONITOR STAND the crowd grunted and scoffed. I don't think he was expecting that. The whole presentation is a shit show. A Radeon 580x is a $700 retail GPU. So, you know that they're getting it for half or less. For a $6000 computer. Who the fuck are these people kidding?

Anyone remotely serious about their music - and, equally, their willingness to pay for a decent service and support the artists they like - could do a lot worse than checking out Bandcamp.

Pay only for what you want, download FLACs (plus many other formats) and stream everything you've ever bought via their app if you'd rather not download any files. They're also far more artist-friendly than the likes of Spotify; I've got a fair amount of music on Spotify and have never seen a cent from them whereas Bandcamp give you a significant percentage of any sales.

Admittedly, Bandcamp doesn't have the breadth of music on there that some other options do - many artists need to do a better job of uploading their libraries, myself included - but right now it's by far the best option for both listeners and artists out there (though I'd absolutely be interested to hear of others). It's unquestionably a better alternative to any option that either gives zero support to the artist, provides a poor service to listeners, or both.

that beats the new FB changes in 1... 2... 3....

I would suggest you take a look at Media Monkey. It's awesome. I've used it for 3 years now. It rocks, and can be modified with plug ins.

Canada is still a nightmare - Netflix.ca has got jack shit to view. The only way to make netflix useful in Canada is by way of proxies to access American Netflix. Otherwise, it's a waste of money.

Twitter is dying because of its open structure and limited message size. Facebook is eating their lunch. The basic difference? Message size. So, Twitter thinks they can out FB Facebook. I dunno. I don't bother with twitter because of the 140 char limit. Hmmmmm... This might lure me into bothering with it. But can I control who follows me? No. Nemmind.

It's just IRONIC science, per John Horgan.

RS

"Why should it ever "meet the designs that the public wants?" Seriously, why would anyone consider that as a goal?"

Are you making software for the public to use or not? If no, then fine - go back to text based interfaces. If you're making software for others to use, and these others may not be as smart and savvy as you, then fuck off - grow up and design what the public wants and needs.

5... 4... 3... 2... 1...

I used to work for Macromedia - from 1995 - 1998. I was there when they bought Flash (It was called "FutureSplash") and yes, it was originally supposed to simply do vector based animation, because bandwidth back in the mid 90s sucked balls. Fairly quickly it became painfully obvious that Macromedia's flagship product, Director was doomed. Director did pixel based animations and a lot of other things thanks to its programming language, Lingo. A HUGE portion of the development cost for Director went into Lingo. Now with Director made (mostly) redundant by Flash they had to figure out what to do with the people. So, what better way to fuck it up than to shoehorn some crazy language into it and give it superpowers like Director? Enter ActionScript.

There was no reason to think about security - it was a tool to make stupid games and animations on the interweb thingie. And, like Director it became increasingly bloated and complex and pointless. Flash was dead long before the security gremlins appeared. Then Adobe bought the whole mess, hook, line, and sinker. Suckers. Between the headache that was Flash and the eye watering bilge that was ColdFusion, Macromedia got even with Adobe by serving them a hot buttered plate full of digital poo. The only thing, IMHO, that was worth a right flying fuck from Macromedia that Adobe got was FreeHand, and, Adobe, in it's infinite wisdom, killed FreeHand, even though it was a demonstrably better product.

Macromedia was poorly run by a bunch of wolverines. They got bought by the Borg. And now there's basically nothing left of value except Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, and inDesign. And I'm not that certain about Premiere....

RS

FUCK YOU!

" Nonetheless, the results indicate that either humanity really is the only intelligent species in this part of the universe, or advanced civilizations are far more efficient in their use of energy than is reasonable to assume."

Or:

Advanced species abandon or never develop the human invention of "civilisation". These other species may be the dominant species on their planet, they just know how to live in harmony with its biospere and have no need to invade other planets, much less each other's social groups.

I coulda sworn that prior to OSx there was this Apple Menu Item thingie and you could pretty much modify it to your heart's content. But hey - that was 1990s before CSS turned everything into rounded edges and HTML5 turned everything into swingie woo woo stuff and httprequest made bilge like Facebook possible....

dream on yourself - you stand a better chance of finding a consultant with a particular set of skills who can hit the ground running than the general public who will lie through their teeth to snag something and then do an afterburn on catch up.

I agree. Americans are just weird and not too bright that way. The whole "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" syndrome and all that. It's like when you meet an american they want to find out what your job is, as if that matters to what kind of a person you are to them.