After all this time, I can't believe that the gummint hasn't figured that going after the PopUp merchants is a mugs game.
Go after the viagra retailers, fine them ten times what it would cost to print an ad, leave it to the local jurisdiction to collect, and they'll be gone in a day.
Destroy the market. Don't waste time and energy on the people trying to make a buck from it. Destroy the market...
Some one come up with a way that opening their hardware to the Virgin megastore does that and you've got it.
That would mean that Virgin would have to garantee that a link to the Apple store be on every page and that they WON'T start a competing line of hardware.
And if I'm stupid enough to drop it, or drop something in it, coffee or Real's player, then I'm the guy who'se out the bucks.
But Apple still sells an iPod.
People will just have to be red-faced when their iPod fills up with inaudible/unusable crap and the iPod doesn't run anymore. They'll bring it back to Apple and it will be wiped out because it not 'stock'. Apple can sell that service too.
It isn't Apple's lot to support somebody else's player so it isn't theirs to bitch about.
Just like I can't bitch to BMW about my after market add on, Apple doesn't need to hear about how stupid I might have been installing whatever.
Its "The Innovator's Dilemma"
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As an organization get larger, (enough to afford a $3 million conference room) the costs of promoting any ideology or technology get larger until they become insurmountable.
That's when some fool with more brains that money eats the lunch of some bigger fool with more money than brains.
I'm just waiting for the inevitable comparison of a company that went higher and higher up-market until there was nowhere to go.
In the meantime, the lower, broader-based competition ate their potential market by coming out with new competitively attactive, but not forward looking, product.
So called innovators in computing are just commiditizers. The difference is that now the time gap between innovation, read profit, and commodity , read cheap-ass knock-off, is shrinking (which USED to be the purpose of a patent system.)
Sun is not a viable company in the long term unless the do what Apple did and head in another direction.
Seriously, if you want something banned in this country (the Good Ol' USofA,) just say it gives you a throbbin' nob.
I'm sure that people will get up in arms (which would not get them upset in the least,) and parade against the game.
You don't have to take it that far...
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Almost all software in container based. Indeed, all of our systems' designs are fundamentally based on the Five Normal Forms.
The world can't be modeled that way.
Instead of containing data object relationships, you need to design your software with relationship objects and connection instances that are in a separate object space.
You get reusability benefits because you don't have to alter the objects when its relationships change. Most of our system maintenance is due to relationship changes, not object changes.
n\but suffers from the same blind spot as everyone else concerning data relationships.
Smalltalk (and all of OO disciplines) are blinded by the Five Normal Forms which posits that links are to be carried internally (through pointers or foreign keys) when they would gain flexibility and object reusability by carrying relationships in a schema and implementing them and (existential) connections.
You could achieve the same things that relational databases are getting now but you would be able to articulate so much more flexibility from your database designs.
I'm not writing this for his benefit (he's not going to read this) but to get an historical audit trail established.
Maybe one of you could even get the damn idea:-) Remember, you got it from me.
First M$ commoditized hardware. They got to sell a whole lot more copies of their OS that way. IBMs loss of that maret was everybody's gain. Specially the man who would become the world's richest.
Apple dealt him a surprise with the Mac OS but he recovered because he alreadyu had a base.
Now Linux is commoditizing OS's. There goes his base. He's rich but there are those who could buy and sell him and his company. What they lack in money (personal wealth) they make up for in power.
Maybe not now, but inevitably, he'll end up in a small suburban office, supporting his shrinking base of users. More likely he'll have sold off the operation and somebody else will make a few bucks from the slow death spiral.
Real systems, ones that cost beaucoup bucks, have akways been open source. Open to their customer base anyway.
Would YOU pay 6 figures for software and NOT get the source? I thought not.
They are __sponsoring__ the Diebolds to ensure that their side wins.
They know that out-sourcing and the redistribution of poverty, not to mention the federalization of protection, not for me and thee, but for some 'influential' people, is a sell; so hard that they aren't even trying.
That would be like trying to rally people around a battle cry of "Rape Nuns!"
Nobody's going to go for it any more than they went for the almost total absence of safety features in the Corvair.
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the trick is easy tho :
1) unplug network
No more problems.
I keep a Dell with Win2k installed turned OFF on my desktop. (I actually use the slackware box under my desktop.)
Would CA go for developing an Smalltalk-like IDE but for more than just Ingres?
You would be able to manipulate objects, their functionality, and object relationships, in a single environment for multiple SQL data bases.
I've learned the hard way never to run without back-ups, redundancy and multiple machines.
Hell! I expect to supper hardware failure personally once myself.
By spreading their 'industrial strength' OS to every platform and trading on their reputation, they are hoping to survive the shift.
Actually its a smart move.
Hardware has been commiditized into oblivion...
After all this time, I can't believe that the gummint hasn't figured that going after the PopUp merchants is a mugs game.
Go after the viagra retailers, fine them ten times what it would cost to print an ad, leave it to the local jurisdiction to collect, and they'll be gone in a day.
Destroy the market. Don't waste time and energy on the people trying to make a buck from it. Destroy the market...
I guess he was talking about McDonalds' university.
Employer: "Got a degree?"
Stoont: "I even gots a special course in deep fryin' "
Computers innards/logic should not be touched by people who don't "get it."
What's supposed to work them? Forgetable passwords?
Biometrics work. And the level of detail beats the snot out of some password.
Who you are can't be based on what you. and anybody else, can know.
Some one come up with a way that opening their hardware to the Virgin megastore does that and you've got it.
That would mean that Virgin would have to garantee that a link to the Apple store be on every page and that they WON'T start a competing line of hardware.
You've got to dangle the right carrot.
Apple still sells an iPod.
And if I'm stupid enough to drop it, or drop something in it, coffee or Real's player, then I'm the guy who'se out the bucks.
But Apple still sells an iPod.
People will just have to be red-faced when their iPod fills up with inaudible/unusable crap and the iPod doesn't run anymore. They'll bring it back to Apple and it will be wiped out because it not 'stock'. Apple can sell that service too.
It isn't Apple's lot to support somebody else's player so it isn't theirs to bitch about.
Just like I can't bitch to BMW about my after market add on, Apple doesn't need to hear about how stupid I might have been installing whatever.
As an organization get larger, (enough to afford a $3 million conference room) the costs of promoting any ideology or technology get larger until they become insurmountable.
That's when some fool with more brains that money eats the lunch of some bigger fool with more money than brains.
Innovations come from without, not from within.
Seriously. This was a greal learning experience.
I'm just waiting for the inevitable comparison of a company that went higher and higher up-market until there was nowhere to go.
In the meantime, the lower, broader-based competition ate their potential market by coming out with new competitively attactive, but not forward looking, product.
So called innovators in computing are just commiditizers. The difference is that now the time gap between innovation, read profit, and commodity , read cheap-ass knock-off, is shrinking (which USED to be the purpose of a patent system.)
Sun is not a viable company in the long term unless the do what Apple did and head in another direction.
Seriously, if you want something banned in this country (the Good Ol' USofA,) just say it gives you a throbbin' nob.
I'm sure that people will get up in arms (which would not get them upset in the least,) and parade against the game.
Almost all software in container based. Indeed, all of our systems' designs are fundamentally based on the Five Normal Forms.
The world can't be modeled that way.
Instead of containing data object relationships, you need to design your software with relationship objects and connection instances that are in a separate object space.
You get reusability benefits because you don't have to alter the objects when its relationships change. Most of our system maintenance is due to relationship changes, not object changes.
n\but suffers from the same blind spot as everyone else concerning data relationships.
:-) Remember, you got it from me.
Smalltalk (and all of OO disciplines) are blinded by the Five Normal Forms which posits that links are to be carried internally (through pointers or foreign keys) when they would gain flexibility and object reusability by carrying relationships in a schema and implementing them and (existential) connections.
You could achieve the same things that relational databases are getting now but you would be able to articulate so much more flexibility from your database designs.
I'm not writing this for his benefit (he's not going to read this) but to get an historical audit trail established.
Maybe one of you could even get the damn idea
I smell BS from anywhere on the planet. And BS still smells like S regardless of whether it came out of a B A, or some other A.
Take him out Linus. Eat his lunch. Make the unethical worm turn.
First M$ commoditized hardware. They got to sell a whole lot more copies of their OS that way. IBMs loss of that maret was everybody's gain. Specially the man who would become the world's richest.
Apple dealt him a surprise with the Mac OS but he recovered because he alreadyu had a base.
Now Linux is commoditizing OS's. There goes his base. He's rich but there are those who could buy and sell him and his company. What they lack in money (personal wealth) they make up for in power.
Maybe not now, but inevitably, he'll end up in a small suburban office, supporting his shrinking base of users. More likely he'll have sold off the operation and somebody else will make a few bucks from the slow death spiral.
Real systems, ones that cost beaucoup bucks, have akways been open source. Open to their customer base anyway.
Would YOU pay 6 figures for software and NOT get the source? I thought not.
Go after spammers' customers. If they have to pay $10,000 for every spam sent on their behalf, they'll soon stop,
Fuck the spammers. They are merely supplying in response a demand.
Dry up the demand by an internationally (I know of NO govm't who'd turn down money,) backed law making it illegal to have spam sent on your behalf.
The response to spam is NOT going to be technical.
They are __sponsoring__ the Diebolds to ensure that their side wins.
They know that out-sourcing and the redistribution of poverty, not to mention the federalization of protection, not for me and thee, but for some 'influential' people, is a sell; so hard that they aren't even trying.
That would be like trying to rally people around a battle cry of "Rape Nuns!"
Nobody's going to go for it any more than they went for the almost total absence of safety features in the Corvair.
for that purpose deserves to be bitch-slapped.
Where Apple scored was in getting ALL the major companies to go for ITMS.
I SINCERELY doubt that Sony will engage in industry-wide marketing with the other majors.
Now, if only the ITMS would serve as a outlet for the Indies as well...
The answer to Spam in not technical. The answer to Spam is socio-political.
Its making the sending of span for commercial purposes, as if there was any other reason, expensive by imposing large fines.
Spammning will always be possible, but not as an agent of profit, if you fine the people who its sent FOR a whopping great deal of cash.
The delivery mechanisms, the spammers, are irelevant. Charge the people who would benefit. The phony pleasure enhancer pill pushers and their ilk.
The machine was taken over from Joe Sixpack in the first place.
He won't know why his box is just a bit slower than usual. Soo he thinks DSL is all bull because is hardly faster than his ol' dial-up.
Get a thousand zombies sending a hundred spam a minute and you see that its not so tough to send a hundred ACK signals as well...
Potential end result: 1,440,000,000 spams/day from ONE infected net.
Go after the spammer's clients instead. Spam and you get jail time and a whopping big fine, paid locally, regardless of the jurisdiction you're in.