Dude, it's the fucking IPHONE!!! That bitch comes with three kinds of wipers; and you know what? They're DIGITAL! No SDK, but who needs them? They'll revolutionize the industry, and your life.
To paraphrase the sibling node, they probably understand the internet a whole lot better and have therefore adapted a lot better to it.
Battle.Net was one of the first really great integrations of games and the internet. The first (and, really, only) great integration of music and the 'net is iTunes, which is making money hand over fist. But the point is that Battle.Net isn't alone in great online gaming, whereas iTunes is. Add Steam and Gametap on top of that and gaming companies are decades ahead of the music industry.
On the other hand you have the people who want to make their games next to impossible to copy. Gaming has done this by releasing consoles that only accept their discs, but it works (nearly) perfectly and gives a hard copy and doesn't restrict the user any more than that. Successful DRM + successful digital integration + successful digital distribute + making a quality product = ridiculous profits. It's that simple.
From the summary,
What advanced infrastructure exists on the African continent is mostly in South Africa, and a blogger from there speculates on what Google might have been thinking in choosing Kenya over SA Probably just skimmed over it.
Remember for a lot of people, AOL *was* the internet...Now imagine in 10 years that 4/5ths of the worlds population thinks that Google is the internet. Everything else will cease to be relevant Yes, because AOL drove all their competition out of the market so very thoroughly.
My guess is that Google's trying to tap otherwise untapped markets for talent. It's advertising for south african jobs and it's setting up in the middle of the continent rather than the southern tip. With Google's resources, they should be able to attract anyone with mathematical skills in the (well educated) country and its neighbors. They can do this while building up the African economies and tech base, which will open up markets to them (and allow them to be the first, but not the only, player there) and give them good will around the world.
Besides, what's the benefit of owning a country's government? What would that allow them to do for their business that US laws won't allow them to do here?
This thing is going to become the norm before too long Before too long compared to what? The lifespan of a human? Not likely, it'll probably be another 5 or 6 years before it gets into the homes of disabled people, much less a normal person. It'll probably be at least a decade before it becomes commonplace in homes without someone who can't use another input device. However, if this turns out to be like speech recognition in accuracy and speed, it may take closer to 20 or 30 years.
So unless you're comparing the timespan to the age of the earth, or the age of a nation, or how long it's taken Duke Nukem Forever to be developed, it's still going to be a long time.
There have been a lot of articles about the iPhone, but they make sense in light of the industry's past and Apple's in particular. When the iPod came out, every criticism you've leveled at the iPhone could have been said about the iPod. The iPod took a previously rather small market and expanded it rapidly, taking a huge market share in a now much larger market. If the same happens with phones that are more than phones (a market that's still relatively small and untapped), it will be a big deal. Given where the smart phone market is now and what Apple did with the portable music player, it makes sense to keep an eye on the iPhone.
Since you're pointing out technicalities, I'm going to go ahead and point out that "of" will almost never follow most, but "have" quite often will. Your situation is the latter.
It's the lack of objective proof, actually, which means that were you to experience something miraculous, you would be unable to use it to prove to other people that it happened. You could share the story, but it's no more proof than the bible is.
It matters because it highlights how well Nintendo is doing compared to Sony, two companies from the same region dealing with gamers. Sony is a huge company with multiple divisions as large as their gaming division. Nintendo, which just does games, briefly surpassing Sony outlines that a lot of investors believe Nintendo to be a better company (considering how the Wii and DS are making money hand over fist, I'd have to agree with them).
IMHO, they're not overvalued enough to justify much of a fall in stock price, if any at all. The DS is one of the most successful gaming systems of all time and the Wii is looking to do just as well. The DS had a rough time just after its launch with a lack of games as well. So while I think Nintendo is overvalued for now, I think that it's just a waiting game at this point, with more AAA titles from Nintendo and developer support ramping up.
I found this ironic as well:
If you want human values, if you want qualitative distinctions, then your theoretical constructs must retain those values and distinctions every step of the way. The minute you allow them to collapse into number alone, you have no way to get back from there to the qualitative world. The problem stems from our brains collapsing everything into chemical reactions and electrical potential, all of which can be quite easily represented by numbers. The author also fails to mention that the quality of life has gone up.
Librarian: I don't know where the book is, but John Morihan on the third floor does.
John Morihan (1000 xp): Ah yes, that book was stolen by treacherous orcs years ago. One portion can be found on the first floor, but you'll have to kill about 30 patrons before one of them will randomly have it. The second portion is in a chest on the fourth floor.
Better yet, genocide of the Palestinians and the Israelis. Might as well be equal opportunity about it. While we're at it, jail time for the rapist and the victim. Fighting back is assault, right?
To be honest, I wonder if all laws are destined to be behind technology by a generation. My guess is that in twenty years, when you have a whole generation of people who grew up ripping CDs and trading them over the internet, laws governing copyright will be banned and the RIAA will be much more powerless. In twenty years net neutrality debates will be a thing of the past because people who actually understand the internet will be old enough to realize the difference between metering by packet types and meter by packet origin. There are a lot of issues that are further muddied by the fact that the average age of Congress is over 50. Working under the assumption (and I know a lot of you will disagree, but I think it's a good one) that these laws will be straightened out and sent right, I believe it will take an average of 15 years for technology to have the legal atmosphere it deserves.
In the future, computers will be seamless extensions of our will and using them will require no more thought than moving our own hands For some of us it's already like that.
Or do I see that Microsoft was merely putting a link to a place where you can download Ubuntu? Wouldn't this free Microsoft from any obligations under the GPL?
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Yes, and when you're holding the iPhone there appears to be 17 of you because the iPhone is everything to everyone!
Dude, it's the fucking IPHONE!!! That bitch comes with three kinds of wipers; and you know what? They're DIGITAL! No SDK, but who needs them? They'll revolutionize the industry, and your life.
But what are these things that are illegal here but would benefit google if they were legal?
To paraphrase the sibling node, they probably understand the internet a whole lot better and have therefore adapted a lot better to it.
Battle.Net was one of the first really great integrations of games and the internet. The first (and, really, only) great integration of music and the 'net is iTunes, which is making money hand over fist. But the point is that Battle.Net isn't alone in great online gaming, whereas iTunes is. Add Steam and Gametap on top of that and gaming companies are decades ahead of the music industry.
On the other hand you have the people who want to make their games next to impossible to copy. Gaming has done this by releasing consoles that only accept their discs, but it works (nearly) perfectly and gives a hard copy and doesn't restrict the user any more than that. Successful DRM + successful digital integration + successful digital distribute + making a quality product = ridiculous profits. It's that simple.
My guess is that Google's trying to tap otherwise untapped markets for talent. It's advertising for south african jobs and it's setting up in the middle of the continent rather than the southern tip. With Google's resources, they should be able to attract anyone with mathematical skills in the (well educated) country and its neighbors. They can do this while building up the African economies and tech base, which will open up markets to them (and allow them to be the first, but not the only, player there) and give them good will around the world.
Besides, what's the benefit of owning a country's government? What would that allow them to do for their business that US laws won't allow them to do here?
So unless you're comparing the timespan to the age of the earth, or the age of a nation, or how long it's taken Duke Nukem Forever to be developed, it's still going to be a long time.
Let's see, senators and congressmen/women, presidential hopefuls, Florida lawyers...
I think you mean Internet Explorer won't go out of its way to accommodate them.
Welcome to the world of the DMCA, where people who think that ownership of hardware means that you can use it like you want to.
There have been a lot of articles about the iPhone, but they make sense in light of the industry's past and Apple's in particular. When the iPod came out, every criticism you've leveled at the iPhone could have been said about the iPod. The iPod took a previously rather small market and expanded it rapidly, taking a huge market share in a now much larger market. If the same happens with phones that are more than phones (a market that's still relatively small and untapped), it will be a big deal. Given where the smart phone market is now and what Apple did with the portable music player, it makes sense to keep an eye on the iPhone.
Since you're pointing out technicalities, I'm going to go ahead and point out that "of" will almost never follow most, but "have" quite often will. Your situation is the latter.
It's the lack of objective proof, actually, which means that were you to experience something miraculous, you would be unable to use it to prove to other people that it happened. You could share the story, but it's no more proof than the bible is.
It matters because it highlights how well Nintendo is doing compared to Sony, two companies from the same region dealing with gamers. Sony is a huge company with multiple divisions as large as their gaming division. Nintendo, which just does games, briefly surpassing Sony outlines that a lot of investors believe Nintendo to be a better company (considering how the Wii and DS are making money hand over fist, I'd have to agree with them).
IMHO, they're not overvalued enough to justify much of a fall in stock price, if any at all. The DS is one of the most successful gaming systems of all time and the Wii is looking to do just as well. The DS had a rough time just after its launch with a lack of games as well. So while I think Nintendo is overvalued for now, I think that it's just a waiting game at this point, with more AAA titles from Nintendo and developer support ramping up.
I'm sorry, but what's the Dmitry Sklyarov affair?
Worse yet:
Librarian: I don't know where the book is, but John Morihan on the third floor does.
John Morihan (1000 xp): Ah yes, that book was stolen by treacherous orcs years ago. One portion can be found on the first floor, but you'll have to kill about 30 patrons before one of them will randomly have it. The second portion is in a chest on the fourth floor.
Interestingly enough, the US is one of the few countries that bucks that trend and has a growing population (even without immigration...)
To be honest, I wonder if all laws are destined to be behind technology by a generation. My guess is that in twenty years, when you have a whole generation of people who grew up ripping CDs and trading them over the internet, laws governing copyright will be banned and the RIAA will be much more powerless. In twenty years net neutrality debates will be a thing of the past because people who actually understand the internet will be old enough to realize the difference between metering by packet types and meter by packet origin. There are a lot of issues that are further muddied by the fact that the average age of Congress is over 50. Working under the assumption (and I know a lot of you will disagree, but I think it's a good one) that these laws will be straightened out and sent right, I believe it will take an average of 15 years for technology to have the legal atmosphere it deserves.
Or do I see that Microsoft was merely putting a link to a place where you can download Ubuntu? Wouldn't this free Microsoft from any obligations under the GPL?
I love the "+5 interesting, expresses an unsubstantiated opinion with little or no hard evidence but hell, I agree with him" mod there.