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by alexqgb 15y ago
I've lost the reference, but I understand that performing musicians find they need more sleep than than most people, with 9-10 hours a night being entirely normal. This suggests that sleep has less to do with recovery from physical exertion
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by alexqgb 15y ago
As recently as 18 months ago, I routinely got solid customer service from AT&T. While the wireless service itself was really sketchy in NY and SF, any account problems were handled with competence and care. Given the incredible blowback
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by alexqgb 15y ago
The notorious bandit Willie Sutton was finally apprehended, and as he was being led away from the courthouse in irons an outraged woman asked him WHY he robbed all those banks. "Because, Ma'am" he replied "that's where the money was." Distr
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Excuse me? Exactly where did I say that "people who support IP are just like those slave owners"? (Hint: nowhere) For the record, I happen to be quite a strong supporter of IP in general (and no, I don't support slavery). However, I also kn
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by alexqgb 15y ago
If you honestly think this is just about Hollywood, you're not being cynical enough. Hollywood's agenda (censorship, invasive control, panopticon style policing) just happens to coincide with the natural tendency of every government that ha
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by alexqgb 15y ago
And calling people "intellectually dishonest" isn't inflammatory? More to the point, I was asking you if you saw anything unserious and dishonest about my perspective as a whole. And that perspective is not summed up in the single line you
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Uh, the point was that the definition of "property" not only changes over time, but that it can change quite radically. The idea seemingly lost on you is that while property in some sense has always been fundamental to civilized orders, it
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by alexqgb 15y ago
So what? The industry has changed. It's no longer possible to make outrageous profits by selling copies with tremendous markups. So people increase the price for live events. Other people pay them. The world changes. Life goes on. I mean, w
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Actually, the previous versions of FCP 7 did stop working in one very important way; a multi-seat system built around FCP 7 could no longer be expanded legally. Sure, you could finish what you were doing, provided you needed no additional r
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by alexqgb 15y ago
@nirvana: "XML is a feature, not a creative feature." Reality: XML is what allows creatives to work together. It represents the very core of collaboration. In collaborative arts, the collaboration is a driver of creativity. No creative team
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Don't know why you're getting down-voted. This is absolutely true. And the reason that it's true is because post houses can't integrate FCP X with the rest of their workflows even if they want to. Apple inexplicably stopped supporting the e
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by alexqgb 15y ago
It's hard to address your points directly when they reflect a near-total ignorance of the actual situation. I'm sorry, but "idiot" is really the best that I can do. And if you honestly think people who have spent literally decades working d
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by alexqgb 15y ago
"You, not a single person complaining about FCP X here or elsewhere, has named a single creative feature missing from FCP X" If you've managed to follow this issue at all without seeing (repeated) references to the lack of XML support, then
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by alexqgb 15y ago
If you don't want people treating you like an asshole, stop behaving like one. Case in point: "Now, however, the outcry about FCPX from "professionals" is really about those "professionals" not wanting to learn anything new, because they re
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by alexqgb 15y ago
That's an highly superficial assessment. The real uproars had little to do with the UI, which had actually been previewed to favorable responses some time before the release. No, what people were truly furious about were things under the ho
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Sorry accidental downvote. I actually couldn't agree more. As a professional post producer, I work with a lot of editors and post houses, and know many more. And what your friends are telling you is right; Apple didn't "change" the product.
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Why the shift in focus? ACTA is still alive and evil, and it's even more overtly anti-democratic than SOPA/PIPA. Also, it's being run through the Executive branch in near-total secrecy, making it that much harder to fight. Startup America i
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by alexqgb 15y ago
For money / no money isn't such a great distinction either. After all, the Minute Maid corporation and a kid's 25 cent lemonade stand are both "for money". However, there's a bright and shining line between corporate entities, and actual hu
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Thanks for the kind words. And I actually see three separate concerns in your first question. 1. "How do we know that we can govern/enforce that law?" The same way we currently do. This plan changes nothing about the way established compani
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Excellent point. I stand corrected. And thanks for the really solid example.
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by alexqgb 15y ago
"The problem is with these companies pushing outdated, annoying business models instead of embracing the hundreds of amazing startups trying to fix the problems these companies have." It's worse than that, in that the business models aren't
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Indeed. And this goes both ways. The near-miss sent a powerful message to people with a stake in the open internet; one that that led them to re-evaluate the state of their complacence about corruption in Washington. This is a problem that
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Yes, and excellent. Bravo.
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Meanwhile, Reuters investigation yields fresh evidence of bottomless corruption at the very highest level of the DOJ. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/20/us-usa-holder-mort...
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by alexqgb 15y ago
"Well you've obviously got a better working grasp of names and dates than I do," Understatement of the week. "but I think you're mistaking precision for accuracy." Those are synonyms, making this a distinction without a difference. You eith
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by alexqgb 15y ago
I can see learning a lot more than that. For instance, my takeaways would be: (a) This a global company, and distance is irrelevant. Whether it's the other side of campus, or the other side of the world, if you need to be there now, you nee
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by alexqgb 15y ago
In that regard, the play has been a lot like the NDAA. In reality, we're already detaining Americans indefinitely without charge - and those are the 'lucky' ones. With others, we simply dispatch drones to assassinate them. "All this bill do
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Personally, I prefer 'nerd' to 'geek', but that's just because the former has a more appealing sound. In terms of actual meaning, it seems like difference without distinction. But I agree about the way that either can be used as positive ex
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by alexqgb 15y ago
Oh wait, I just found ANOTHER error. Or at least another expression of the same big error. "In addition, from the very beginning, copyright was an individual author right that accrued to people, not companies." Assuming that you mean "from
930.
by alexqgb 15y ago
Bonus error: "At that time (about 400 years ago), there were no "well capitalized industrialists...and the few corporations that existed at all were captives of the sovereign rulers who created them." Again, not so! Indeed, 400 years ago is

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