All apps should run on all devices OS agnostic. AppleTV, iOS, MacOS, Classic (PPC/68K/Intel), Windows, DOS, CPM, Unix. With rare exceptions everything should run. The computing power to do the emulation is there on even the lowliest Apple device.
Likewise we should be able to access and manipulate our data sets in our applications on any device.
Assume all communications are open to government, and corporate, snooping unless you're whispering in someone's ear, and pssst... between you and me, I don't trust you.
Vendors, such as Apple, Microsoft, etc, should be required to continue to support older software in their new hardware and OS releases.
There is no excuse, except greed, for them to drop support for Classic, Rosetta, PPC, etc. The new hardware, even a lowly iPodTouch, can easily emulate the old systems by orders of magnitude. There is a tremendous amount of not just mission critical software such as the above article discussed but also simply good software like what came out of the hay-day of educational software programming during the 1990's.
Apple and Microsoft have committed cultural and intellectual crimes by dropping compatibility such that older software can't run on the new OSs. They have HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS (yes, I'm shouting) of dollars and could not just afford but should be required to provide backward compatibility.
If they plan to stop providing backward compatibility then they should be required to give up all copyright, trademarks and patents related to the hardware, OS and software and provide full documentation five years before they sunset it so that others can pickup the software, OS or hardware.
In a really weird turn of events this could be very good for the anti-GMO movement. Imagine: 1. GMO wheat found in the wild in the USA (maybe Oregon wheat field...) 2. Foreign countries ban USA wheat (maybe Japan, Russia, Europe...) 3. Consumers boycott wheat. 4. Walmart and other big sellers declare they are verifying that their products are GMO free (on the horizon...) 5. Monsanto looks at its navel and implodes. Presto, magic, we're GMO free!
Global warming is a very good thing. It is a heck of a lot better than the alternative. We are coming out of a cold period. Cold is bad. Warm is good. During the warming periods is when biodiversity has exploded and life has bloomed. It is during the cold periods that we've gotten the worst of the great extinctions.
The problem is that people are used to the very recent planetary temperature setting and built their cities down too close to the ocean. The oceans have gone up and down over time. Now they're rising again and the big cities which have too many people in them are going to suffer. This is unfortunate but that is how normal climate change operates.
The real problem is not climate change. Climate change is normal. The Earth has been much warmer and much colder in the past. The real problem is toxic pollution that mankind is spewing into the environment, untested genomes that are being spilled into nature (GMOs) and all the waste. Global warming is just a distraction. Things like Earth Day, Carbon Credits and cloth shopping bags are just feel good measures that fail to address the real issues while letting people get a false sense that they have done something to 'save the world' when in reality they've done nothing.
I'm glad to see Vermont have passed the related legislation, initiated this lawsuit and hope they kill the troll. Quite frankly the legislation needs to be far stronger. If someone sues over a paten without actively marketing or producing a product with said patent then they should be considered a patent troll. Ideas are a dime a dozen. It is implementation, production, marketing and sales that bring the products to the users. The whole patent system should be simply eliminated. It was designed for a time when a much longer term was needed. Now that does not make sense with the rapid changes in technology and with the abuses of the system. Simple fix: eliminate all patents including all existing ones as well as not allowing new ones.
"He sees a day when every kitchen has a 3-D printer, and the earth's 12 billion people feed themselves customized, nutritionally-appropriate meals synthesized one layer at a time, from cartridges of powder and oils they buy at the corner grocery store."
What he is salivating about is a day when everyone pays him a royalty for every bite they eat.
There are no "corner grocery stores" in most of the world and especially not in the places starving.
We can already, without any electricity or fancy technology, turn sunshine into forages to grow meat. That he'll never beat.
Unfortunately, voting is not science. 99% of scientist used to say that "the Earth was flat", that "the Earth was the center of the Universe", that... All proved wrong.
I'm not arguing one way or the other on global warming but rather that having agreement is not a good metric.
By the way, I'm not a global warming skeptic. In fact, I'm pro-warming, it's better than the alternative of global cooling!
What he meant was tenure is being eliminated so all professors who make silly predictions like this will be out of a job. Pundits are also going to be unemployed.
Factory and lab production are far more energy intensive than natural production.
We graze livestock on pasture. Solar energy in. Meat out. Very minimal use of petroleum products or other manmade energy. It's a simple easy system that uses our available resources efficiently.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum you have Confinement Animal Feeding Operations, factories and laboratory production which require enormous inputs of petroleum products and energy for powering machinery, producing fertilizer, transporting raw materials, moving air, water and wastes, etc. All of these are energy intensive production.
The former, pasture raising, lets it self well to small farms. The latter, CAFOs, factories and labs, are the domain of Big Business and central economic controls.
Get involved in food production and this all becomes very obvious.
Food manufactured in a lab for factory production. This is even further down the spectrum of the absurdity of processed foods and the exact opposite of what we need. This will be far more energy intensive and economically controlled.
It doesn't matter that CS6 includes all those other software packages. I only use Illustrator and Photoshop. I don't need or want all those other things. They're a waste of money, time and disk space. I shed on Adobe, cutting the package to just what I use. Adobe's move a subscription model means I won't bother upgrading ever again. When I am finally forced to buy new software because the current software won't work on new hardware then I'll buy from Adobe's competition.
No, I pay for an upgrade about every three to six years and the upgrade is only around $400 to $600 so the $400 quote was much more reasonable than your overpriced quote.
"it's easy to see that, over a long enough timeline, and with the right financial model in place, the companies providing those services stand to benefit even more than they did with boxed software."
Not really. Adobe stands to lose a lot of customers. There are alternatives to all of their software. Adobe's move just makes look more closely to the competition.
Wrong. Many customers want to be able to work without an active internet connection. Many places internet connections are not available, not reliable and slow. Now customers will just not bother upgrading or buying. This loses customers from Adobe.
Pirates will run with the old versions selling those or they'll crack the new versions. The pirate customers won't care either way. This only hurts customers and then in the long run Adobe and their stockholders.
Flying cars are a really bad idea. As shown by the accident reports the vast majority of people can not handle driving in two dimensions. Add another dimension and the accident rate will skyrocket. Even with autopilots they will be dangerous. Add altitude and speed and the death rate will climb even more dramatically. Perhaps we should consider this evolution at work. Call the car "Darwin".
Your cost estimates are too high. Most users don't upgrade all the time. I haven't upgrade for years. The software I have does the job I need. No need to keep upgrading at a significant cost. No need for subscriptions. Adobe is just limiting their market to a smaller group. Most of us won't bother buying or upgrading so that means our kids won't learn to use Adobe's software either. Adobe loses.
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All apps should run on all devices OS agnostic. AppleTV, iOS, MacOS, Classic (PPC/68K/Intel), Windows, DOS, CPM, Unix. With rare exceptions everything should run. The computing power to do the emulation is there on even the lowliest Apple device.
Likewise we should be able to access and manipulate our data sets in our applications on any device.
Because frankly, it isn't paranoia.
Assume all communications are open to government, and corporate, snooping unless you're whispering in someone's ear, and pssst... between you and me, I don't trust you.
Fascinating... except we'll need to wait a few decades to finish collecting the data before we can analyze it and draw conclusions.
This is just greed by the government to collect all those little items. They're like pack rats.
China: "It's your fault, you wore a red dress!"
USA: "Oo... You big bad boy... I love your money!"
These two need couple's counseling.
Ah, yes, the results, for the patient, might not be any better but the profits on new patents is far higher.
Vendors, such as Apple, Microsoft, etc, should be required to continue to support older software in their new hardware and OS releases.
There is no excuse, except greed, for them to drop support for Classic, Rosetta, PPC, etc. The new hardware, even a lowly iPodTouch, can easily emulate the old systems by orders of magnitude. There is a tremendous amount of not just mission critical software such as the above article discussed but also simply good software like what came out of the hay-day of educational software programming during the 1990's.
Apple and Microsoft have committed cultural and intellectual crimes by dropping compatibility such that older software can't run on the new OSs. They have HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS (yes, I'm shouting) of dollars and could not just afford but should be required to provide backward compatibility.
If they plan to stop providing backward compatibility then they should be required to give up all copyright, trademarks and patents related to the hardware, OS and software and provide full documentation five years before they sunset it so that others can pickup the software, OS or hardware.
The writer of this thesis is self-centered. They think they know what is important. Evolution shows they're probably wrong.
'Electric vehicles charged on the power grid have lower global warming emissions than the average gasoline-based vehicle sold today.'
Well there's your problem. They're comparing the best (electric vehicles) against the AVERAGE for gasoline. This is bogus biasing.
Instead they should compare the BEST electric against the BEST gasoline. That would be scientific.
In a really weird turn of events this could be very good for the anti-GMO movement. Imagine:
1. GMO wheat found in the wild in the USA (maybe Oregon wheat field...)
2. Foreign countries ban USA wheat (maybe Japan, Russia, Europe...)
3. Consumers boycott wheat.
4. Walmart and other big sellers declare they are verifying that their products are GMO free (on the horizon...)
5. Monsanto looks at its navel and implodes.
Presto, magic, we're GMO free!
Try a Vermont winter on for size and then you'll appreciate warming.
Global warming is a very good thing. It is a heck of a lot better than the alternative. We are coming out of a cold period. Cold is bad. Warm is good. During the warming periods is when biodiversity has exploded and life has bloomed. It is during the cold periods that we've gotten the worst of the great extinctions.
The problem is that people are used to the very recent planetary temperature setting and built their cities down too close to the ocean. The oceans have gone up and down over time. Now they're rising again and the big cities which have too many people in them are going to suffer. This is unfortunate but that is how normal climate change operates.
The real problem is not climate change. Climate change is normal. The Earth has been much warmer and much colder in the past. The real problem is toxic pollution that mankind is spewing into the environment, untested genomes that are being spilled into nature (GMOs) and all the waste. Global warming is just a distraction. Things like Earth Day, Carbon Credits and cloth shopping bags are just feel good measures that fail to address the real issues while letting people get a false sense that they have done something to 'save the world' when in reality they've done nothing.
Focus.
I'm glad to see Vermont have passed the related legislation, initiated this lawsuit and hope they kill the troll. Quite frankly the legislation needs to be far stronger. If someone sues over a paten without actively marketing or producing a product with said patent then they should be considered a patent troll. Ideas are a dime a dozen. It is implementation, production, marketing and sales that bring the products to the users. The whole patent system should be simply eliminated. It was designed for a time when a much longer term was needed. Now that does not make sense with the rapid changes in technology and with the abuses of the system. Simple fix: eliminate all patents including all existing ones as well as not allowing new ones.
"He sees a day when every kitchen has a 3-D printer, and the earth's 12 billion people feed themselves customized, nutritionally-appropriate meals synthesized one layer at a time, from cartridges of powder and oils they buy at the corner grocery store."
What he is salivating about is a day when everyone pays him a royalty for every bite they eat.
There are no "corner grocery stores" in most of the world and especially not in the places starving.
We can already, without any electricity or fancy technology, turn sunshine into forages to grow meat. That he'll never beat.
Unfortunately, voting is not science. 99% of scientist used to say that "the Earth was flat", that "the Earth was the center of the Universe", that... All proved wrong.
I'm not arguing one way or the other on global warming but rather that having agreement is not a good metric.
By the way, I'm not a global warming skeptic. In fact, I'm pro-warming, it's better than the alternative of global cooling!
What he meant was tenure is being eliminated so all professors who make silly predictions like this will be out of a job. Pundits are also going to be unemployed.
Factory and lab production are far more energy intensive than natural production.
We graze livestock on pasture. Solar energy in. Meat out. Very minimal use of petroleum products or other manmade energy. It's a simple easy system that uses our available resources efficiently.
Meanwhile, at the other end of the spectrum you have Confinement Animal Feeding Operations, factories and laboratory production which require enormous inputs of petroleum products and energy for powering machinery, producing fertilizer, transporting raw materials, moving air, water and wastes, etc. All of these are energy intensive production.
The former, pasture raising, lets it self well to small farms. The latter, CAFOs, factories and labs, are the domain of Big Business and central economic controls.
Get involved in food production and this all becomes very obvious.
Food manufactured in a lab for factory production. This is even further down the spectrum of the absurdity of processed foods and the exact opposite of what we need. This will be far more energy intensive and economically controlled.
Stick with natural, pasture raised meat.
It doesn't matter that CS6 includes all those other software packages. I only use Illustrator and Photoshop. I don't need or want all those other things. They're a waste of money, time and disk space. I shed on Adobe, cutting the package to just what I use. Adobe's move a subscription model means I won't bother upgrading ever again. When I am finally forced to buy new software because the current software won't work on new hardware then I'll buy from Adobe's competition.
No, I pay for an upgrade about every three to six years and the upgrade is only around $400 to $600 so the $400 quote was much more reasonable than your overpriced quote.
"it's easy to see that, over a long enough timeline, and with the right financial model in place, the companies providing those services stand to benefit even more than they did with boxed software."
Not really. Adobe stands to lose a lot of customers. There are alternatives to all of their software. Adobe's move just makes look more closely to the competition.
"This only hurts pirates, not customers."
Wrong. Many customers want to be able to work without an active internet connection. Many places internet connections are not available, not reliable and slow. Now customers will just not bother upgrading or buying. This loses customers from Adobe.
Pirates will run with the old versions selling those or they'll crack the new versions. The pirate customers won't care either way. This only hurts customers and then in the long run Adobe and their stockholders.
Flying cars are a really bad idea. As shown by the accident reports the vast majority of people can not handle driving in two dimensions. Add another dimension and the accident rate will skyrocket. Even with autopilots they will be dangerous. Add altitude and speed and the death rate will climb even more dramatically. Perhaps we should consider this evolution at work. Call the car "Darwin".
Your cost estimates are too high. Most users don't upgrade all the time. I haven't upgrade for years. The software I have does the job I need. No need to keep upgrading at a significant cost. No need for subscriptions. Adobe is just limiting their market to a smaller group. Most of us won't bother buying or upgrading so that means our kids won't learn to use Adobe's software either. Adobe loses.
Or you could go play with the fence energizer...
http://sugarmtnfarm.com/2007/07/23/calibrating-pain-fence-testing/
Farmville deluxe and with real bacon!