The young are great for working 12 hours a day on implementing stuff, but lack the experience to know WHAT to spend that time on. How many IM clients in sourceforge? And they are dirt cheap.
The old have the experience to design reliable things that do things people actually want, but lack the energy to work 12 hours a day. So many go home to their "lives". And we need our naps.
Solution: older designers, younger workers. Every field other then technology figured this out thousands of years ago. One of these years we'll figure it out too, probably right after AI works and noone needs to write code anymore.
Our demographic may be worth a ton, but we're also (some of us) smart enough to never buy anything we've seen an ad for. The ad means they have to rip you off, to pay for the ad.
Most things I get are generic, food, drugs, electronics. 1/2 the price (more like 1/4 for food) and it's the exact same thing. It's not like Kraft ketchup comes from a magic farm in fairy land, it's still just corn syrup and tomatoes. Even my clothes are child slave labor made in China, sold at WalMart of course (other american companies foolishly shy away from such things).
Oddly enough organic locally grown fruit is the same cost as the poison apples they fly in from South America and picked a week ago.
Oh, and I sure as heck don't pay for downloads, I have better things to do. Oh, and BT is blocked here anyway.
Hurricane living below sealevel gets you killed Hurricane living on the beach destroys your house Hurricane this happens every year so move dumbass Hurricane there goes another $2000 from every taxpayer.
One or two more of these this year, and the US economy will collapse completely as we repeatedly bail out people too stupid to move.
For the 4 billion people that don't have a cellphone yet to annoy me with, they finally have a reason to get one after they find things like drinkable water, electricity, and food... the killer app. Theft!
When you can goto the library checkout an ebook for free. Swap with your friends, and resell.... on a reader that you can take anywhere, replace a battery on never (solar), and costs about $3.95...
So round about... oh... when hell freezes over and people quit using DRM.
Box/LCD 1: AMD64 platform, VMWare/VirtualPC Windows 2003 (VirtualPC) or Linux (VMware) host OS, your call VM'd WinXP, Win98 for testing VM'd Redhat, Suse and Debian at minimum (probably more needed for testing, !@#$% fork-happy Linux folks )
Box/LCD 2: Apple G5 OS X Tiger Xcode
Remember the golden rule, all GUI development MUST be native, or the users will think something is "wrong" with it.
The above is basicly my setup, but I use an iBook G4 on the Apple side.
Since the iron curtain fell the world hasn't really have to worry about some wacko killing every lifeform on the planet. Glad to see Bush and co have stepped in to fill the wacko position.
Why does ther rest of the world even talk to, trade with, or visit the US anymore?
1) Apple makes the stupid mistake of trusting Motorola again 2) Motorola makes a crap product 5 years behind the japanese cellphone technology. 3) Apple dumps Motorola and releases a real iPhone with a plan that's not $500+++/year for service, and works anywhere on earth. 4) Everyone finally gets a cellphone).
I use Firefox about half the day, and Safari the other half.
I really cannot see any features in either that the other lacks in a serious way. No sites work differently, other then some sites still block firefox demanding IE, but Sfarai is beter supported.
If anything the new features list looks like they are adding Safari features to Firefox, so what reason do you have for using Firefox on OS X?
How did you manage to get though that whole review without mentioning the distributed.net or the EFF, who also cracked DES. Yet you metion SETI@home many times which was started years after DESCHALL, EFF, and distributed.net, but has little resemblance to any of them.
Even funnier since I've seen Vint himself correct the Al Gore thing in a talk saying that Gore does deserve credit for getting the early internet funding that it needed. Vint even presented him an award.
But yea, the joke is funnier then the truth by far;)
$250 for the phone. $480 per YEAR for service (cheapest plan). ---------- Forget it.
I'll stick to iChat for anyone with enough money to buy a computer (everyone I would now), my 2.9c/minute calling card for people that don't, and keep on waiting for a cellphone plan that doesn't involve bending over.
I've been waiting for 14 years for the technology to become real
Exactly. So just 3 more years till the patents expire, and everyone will be using it. All physical inventions take 17 years to "develop" from the time the patents get filed.
Unless it's turning lead into gold, it's just not worth paying the patent holder 99% of your revenue, better to wait the 17 years.
Of course, that doesnt mean it's not vapor in the first place.
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The young are great for working 12 hours a day on implementing stuff, but lack the experience to know WHAT to spend that time on. How many IM clients in sourceforge? And they are dirt cheap.
The old have the experience to design reliable things that do things people actually want, but lack the energy to work 12 hours a day. So many go home to their "lives". And we need our naps.
Solution: older designers, younger workers. Every field other then technology figured this out thousands of years ago. One of these years we'll figure it out too, probably right after AI works and noone needs to write code anymore.
Our demographic may be worth a ton, but we're also (some of us) smart enough to never buy anything we've seen an ad for. The ad means they have to rip you off, to pay for the ad.
Most things I get are generic, food, drugs, electronics. 1/2 the price (more like 1/4 for food) and it's the exact same thing. It's not like Kraft ketchup comes from a magic farm in fairy land, it's still just corn syrup and tomatoes. Even my clothes are child slave labor made in China, sold at WalMart of course (other american companies foolishly shy away from such things).
Oddly enough organic locally grown fruit is the same cost as the poison apples they fly in from South America and picked a week ago.
Oh, and I sure as heck don't pay for downloads, I have better things to do. Oh, and BT is blocked here anyway.
At least Poland voted out their evil government.
One huge step ahead of the USA for sure...
Just sign your torrent files, then everyone can see who is publishing them and verify they are getting the right ones.
Since you're only distributing files you have the legal right to distribute, you should have no problem putting your name and address on it.
Oh wait, were we talking about bittorrent?
Glad to see nothing is standing in the way of Bush's war on our economy.
If you have a job, the terrorists win! Outsource now!
In soviet Russia... the government watches everything you do 24/7 and kills you when you write bad stories about them.
Here we have Google for that.
How about...
Hurricane living below sealevel gets you killed
Hurricane living on the beach destroys your house
Hurricane this happens every year so move dumbass
Hurricane there goes another $2000 from every taxpayer.
One or two more of these this year, and the US economy will collapse completely as we repeatedly bail out people too stupid to move.
For the 4 billion people that don't have a cellphone yet to annoy me with, they finally have a reason to get one after they find things like drinkable water, electricity, and food... the killer app. Theft!
You could just TAKE THE BOOK. Geez.
Who is this person still using paper anyway?
Lets see, $100 Million, divided by the ~1000 mainstream press people that simply parrot what MS tells them to say. That's $100K/reporter.
Did I mention I'm starting a Vista magazine? Please put the bribe^H^H^H^H^H donation in a plain brown paper bag and place it...
Pretty cheap I'd say.
When you can goto the library checkout an ebook for free. Swap with your friends, and resell. ... on a reader that you can take anywhere, replace a battery on never (solar), and costs about $3.95...
So round about... oh... when hell freezes over and people quit using DRM.
Box/LCD 1:
AMD64 platform, VMWare/VirtualPC
Windows 2003 (VirtualPC) or Linux (VMware) host OS, your call
VM'd WinXP, Win98 for testing
VM'd Redhat, Suse and Debian at minimum (probably more needed for testing, !@#$% fork-happy Linux folks )
Box/LCD 2:
Apple G5
OS X Tiger
Xcode
Remember the golden rule, all GUI development MUST be native, or the users will think something is "wrong" with it.
The above is basicly my setup, but I use an iBook G4 on the Apple side.
Since the iron curtain fell the world hasn't really have to worry about some wacko killing every lifeform on the planet. Glad to see Bush and co have stepped in to fill the wacko position.
Why does ther rest of the world even talk to, trade with, or visit the US anymore?
It's not new, Slashdot has been accepting ads for some time now.
I assume now that the market is only a couple players, that the Open Source (TM) CRM solution is 97% good enough to completely destroy that market?
And if not, what's so special about CRM? Not good enough to make free?
1) Apple makes the stupid mistake of trusting Motorola again
2) Motorola makes a crap product 5 years behind the japanese cellphone technology.
3) Apple dumps Motorola and releases a real iPhone with a plan that's not $500+++/year for service, and works anywhere on earth.
4) Everyone finally gets a cellphone).
We're just between step 2 and 3. Deja vu the G4.
Don't forget the $480 per year for crappy cell coverage. Everyone else forgets that too...
$480 enough for 24/7 iChat, VoIP, and 3c/min long distance to the grandparent types with no computers yet.
I use Firefox about half the day, and Safari the other half.
I really cannot see any features in either that the other lacks in a serious way. No sites work differently, other then some sites still block firefox demanding IE, but Sfarai is beter supported.
If anything the new features list looks like they are adding Safari features to Firefox, so what reason do you have for using Firefox on OS X?
*chuckles* anyone who has been around /. long enough to know about distributed.net knows I used to run it.
I have a bias against all non-productive uses of energy actually. RC5 and DES were about the legal battle, RC5-72 is just silly.
To get the laws that said you had to use little keys changed.
Back then, we couldn't even use encryption in web browsers. Try banking without that.
I think most everyone has moved on now. We did the key cracking, the laws got changed (which was a HUGE gain for the internet), and we won. Woohoo!
Now things like protein folding have much more benefit to the world. Pick your projects carefully.
How did you manage to get though that whole review without mentioning the distributed.net or the EFF, who also cracked DES. Yet you metion SETI@home many times which was started years after DESCHALL, EFF, and distributed.net, but has little resemblance to any of them.
:)
Amusing, now go install Folding@home
Shhhhhhhhhhh!
If people figure that out the stock price might go down. Then all the people they have collected will jump to the next pre-IPO company.
Just be happy for Vint, he just made a big pile of money. And he deserves it to.
Even funnier since I've seen Vint himself correct the Al Gore thing in a talk saying that Gore does deserve credit for getting the early internet funding that it needed. Vint even presented him an award.
;)
But yea, the joke is funnier then the truth by far
$250 for the phone.
$480 per YEAR for service (cheapest plan).
----------
Forget it.
I'll stick to iChat for anyone with enough money to buy a computer (everyone I would now), my 2.9c/minute calling card for people that don't, and keep on waiting for a cellphone plan that doesn't involve bending over.
I've been waiting for 14 years for the technology to become real
Exactly. So just 3 more years till the patents expire, and everyone will be using it. All physical inventions take 17 years to "develop" from the time the patents get filed.
Unless it's turning lead into gold, it's just not worth paying the patent holder 99% of your revenue, better to wait the 17 years.
Of course, that doesnt mean it's not vapor in the first place.