It sounds like Anshe is trying to regain some spotlight here. It never claims that she's actually "made" millions, just that she's got holdings of "millions of dollars worth of online real estate". That's a completely different thing, and if she were to liquidate, I doubt she would walk out with 7 figures.
This is just the singularity hub going along with nearly 10-year-old "wow, people can like own 'virtual property' on teh intarwebz!" typical Second Life garbage hype, I'm guessing at her behest.
However, there is a monopolistic danger if Amazon becomes the one major player in publishing, and controls all aspects of the chain from advances to the e-reader.
They can't (yet) prevent others from competing in the same market, but they do have a huge customer base as a bootstrapping advantage.
This wasn't even a science class; it was history. Sure, you can informatively cover the major viewpoints and beliefs of people over time, or the history and movements of religion in societies, if that's on the syllabus, but otherwise the comments in question seemed pretty tangential to teaching history.
As a teacher, you shouldn't insult your student's views in front of class, no matter the subject. On the flipside, if you do it's nonsense that it should bring a lawsuit.
Microsoft sells Office. Lots and lots of expensive, corporatastic Office. And a whole ton of other products that the home user really doesn't ever bother with. They could float their OS cheap. Nobody bothers pirating the big corporate packages anyway, because there's little use for them outside the legitimate deep-pocket places.
I think Shadow of the Colossus is an applicable example here. Many people were somewhere between disappointed and pretty cheesed off that they had spent full price on the game when it came out and experienced how short it was. Of course, it's a great game even for something you can beat in a couple of hours, and as time went on people could buy it used or the Greatest Hits version for much cheaper, and the complaint about length got much quieter.
See, I'd hate that, and I'm a "Wow, I'm really that old?" kind of guy with almost zero time left to play games. A big sense of enjoyment comes from overcoming challenges, and having the victory handed on a silver-plated platter of consolation offers no sense of accomplishment.
If you work for a place that can't spend a few hundred dollars on another monitor for new hires or to increase productivity of the employees who work with lots of data, then the problem isn't the workers.
I read the article, too. He makes some good points, but they're lost to his utterly whiny, passive-aggressive tone.
The distinction of uses, focus, and pros & cons between PCs, laptops/netbooks, and tablets can be reasonably discussed and should be, with all the fanboyism & head-in-the-sand-edness from all sides.
Paper is actually pretty good for content creation. It has very few limitations, but has only simple editing capabilities with erasing and sticky notes.
Paper is larger that many tablets, and MUCH higher resolution than most displays, desktop or portable. Plus, it goes "multi-display" indefinitely.
Flipping is not the only browsing traversal, you also side-by-side simultaneous display, and use things like earmarks or tabs in stacks.
Paper is also lighter than tablets, and can be folded up when not in use for easy transferring.
Problem is, such devices typically have a cover protecting their screen, or in the case of phones, are buried in your pocket when not in use. Unless you specifically leave it out/uncovered, it won't be able to trickle-charge from ambient light.
To expand on #1, touch tablets are decent for information consumption, but not content creation. And even in information consumption, tablets are only applicable where the information can be consumed on a small, low-resolution display. I don't think, for instance, that day traders with their arrays of cheap monitors will want to limit themselves to an iPad.
Touch is a reasonably nice interface for many info browsing traversal mechanisms, though.
I think the main issue is proving that you received something. If a registered letter is sent to a house and somebody must sign for it, or a representative of the court shows up at your house to hand you notice, then there is proof that it was delivered. For things like the shady photo-radar rackets (in the USA), they just mail you a notification asking you to pay & admit guilt via normal mail, and there's no actual evidence that you were ever notified.
With this pigeon-hole system, it means that there's no way to dodge receipt of official notices as is possible with street addresses, unless you stop checking it completely.
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It sounds like Anshe is trying to regain some spotlight here. It never claims that she's actually "made" millions, just that she's got holdings of "millions of dollars worth of online real estate". That's a completely different thing, and if she were to liquidate, I doubt she would walk out with 7 figures.
This is just the singularity hub going along with nearly 10-year-old "wow, people can like own 'virtual property' on teh intarwebz!" typical Second Life garbage hype, I'm guessing at her behest.
"Candidate's love of tuna + mac-n-cheese is extreme and wildly outside the mainstream..."
If the candidate has a political platform against tuna + mac-n-cheese, then yes.
(However, the embryonic vs non-embryonic is the difference at stake here)
So what we're actually seeing is the death of mass-market booksellers in preference to mega-mass-market Amazon
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However, there is a monopolistic danger if Amazon becomes the one major player in publishing, and controls all aspects of the chain from advances to the e-reader.
They can't (yet) prevent others from competing in the same market, but they do have a huge customer base as a bootstrapping advantage.
"And, perhaps most telling, you can't have a bubble when people are constantly screaming "Bubble!""
Has this person somehow avoided living through the real estate bubble, where everybody was screaming the same?
It's very difficult to read this article.
Does this guy work for the BSA?
This wasn't even a science class; it was history. Sure, you can informatively cover the major viewpoints and beliefs of people over time, or the history and movements of religion in societies, if that's on the syllabus, but otherwise the comments in question seemed pretty tangential to teaching history.
Is that like projecting your speed onto the windshield so you don't have to look down at the gauges?
And what does that have to do with freedom or protection of speech?
As a teacher, you shouldn't insult your student's views in front of class, no matter the subject. On the flipside, if you do it's nonsense that it should bring a lawsuit.
Microsoft sells Office. Lots and lots of expensive, corporatastic Office. And a whole ton of other products that the home user really doesn't ever bother with. They could float their OS cheap. Nobody bothers pirating the big corporate packages anyway, because there's little use for them outside the legitimate deep-pocket places.
I suspect there will be a quite expensive license to enable offline use for just such purposes... and will promptly be the source for pirated copies.
Either that, or there will be a separate license server sold to corporates to locally validate the OSes... and that server will be pirated.
Places that I can think of where "normal" people pirate:
Of course there's overlap, since piracy is linked to the act of installing the OS, but these aren't all that esoteric.
I think Shadow of the Colossus is an applicable example here. Many people were somewhere between disappointed and pretty cheesed off that they had spent full price on the game when it came out and experienced how short it was. Of course, it's a great game even for something you can beat in a couple of hours, and as time went on people could buy it used or the Greatest Hits version for much cheaper, and the complaint about length got much quieter.
See, I'd hate that, and I'm a "Wow, I'm really that old?" kind of guy with almost zero time left to play games. A big sense of enjoyment comes from overcoming challenges, and having the victory handed on a silver-plated platter of consolation offers no sense of accomplishment.
If you work for a place that can't spend a few hundred dollars on another monitor for new hires or to increase productivity of the employees who work with lots of data, then the problem isn't the workers.
How many of those apps were developed on an iPad itself, not on a "normal" computer?
I read the article, too. He makes some good points, but they're lost to his utterly whiny, passive-aggressive tone.
The distinction of uses, focus, and pros & cons between PCs, laptops/netbooks, and tablets can be reasonably discussed and should be, with all the fanboyism & head-in-the-sand-edness from all sides.
Paper is actually pretty good for content creation. It has very few limitations, but has only simple editing capabilities with erasing and sticky notes.
Paper is larger that many tablets, and MUCH higher resolution than most displays, desktop or portable. Plus, it goes "multi-display" indefinitely.
Flipping is not the only browsing traversal, you also side-by-side simultaneous display, and use things like earmarks or tabs in stacks.
Paper is also lighter than tablets, and can be folded up when not in use for easy transferring.
Problem is, such devices typically have a cover protecting their screen, or in the case of phones, are buried in your pocket when not in use. Unless you specifically leave it out/uncovered, it won't be able to trickle-charge from ambient light.
To expand on #1, touch tablets are decent for information consumption, but not content creation. And even in information consumption, tablets are only applicable where the information can be consumed on a small, low-resolution display. I don't think, for instance, that day traders with their arrays of cheap monitors will want to limit themselves to an iPad.
Touch is a reasonably nice interface for many info browsing traversal mechanisms, though.
Can government become more "fair" from within, or does it need to be actually torn down, rethought, and rebuilt?
I think the main issue is proving that you received something. If a registered letter is sent to a house and somebody must sign for it, or a representative of the court shows up at your house to hand you notice, then there is proof that it was delivered. For things like the shady photo-radar rackets (in the USA), they just mail you a notification asking you to pay & admit guilt via normal mail, and there's no actual evidence that you were ever notified.
With this pigeon-hole system, it means that there's no way to dodge receipt of official notices as is possible with street addresses, unless you stop checking it completely.
That's why it's opt-in.
Lisp yawns at how easily impressed you are.