Short-term technical limitation aside it seems that you actually do get it quite well... It is a game only to the extent that life is a game. Therefore you are quite right when you say "'playing' isn't accurate."
Never-the-less interacting with digital representations of physical objects is a lot more intuitive than 'click this' or 'click that' blah blah blah that you get on current websites. Consider the possibility of an integration of something like SecondLife with something like Google Earth and replace all those web servers on the Internet with 'web servers' that can model the objects and then you would truly have the real Web 2.0.
I believe IBM has it right and have a big stake in it. If they integrate the Linden technology into Websphere.... wow that would be awesome.
Perhaps... but it was more of an example of lack of innovative market leadership rather than a reference to a specific technology. I first came across the patent while doing unrelated research back in 2001.
Case in point. One of the telcos is sitting on a patent for a cradle that goes in your home that turns your mobile device into an in-home pbx. You come home place the mobile phone in the cradle to which all your home extensions are connected to, and you can answer the mobile number from any phone in the home.
Where can you buy this cool gadget? Nowhere cause the telco that owns the patent was not manufacturing it.
The fact that communication is regulated by the Federal Communist Commission does not help much either. How I would love to see OpenCommunication and real competition...
America is an ownership society, big business owns you now sit down and shut up.
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
You are always free to donate funds to a variety of development projects for media players, operating systems, tools, utilities, etc... to facilitate widely available OpenSource software free of the threats of legal doom.
Clearly this author has a 2-dimensional decision pattern. If you are offered the choice between an apple and an orange you actually have 4 choices: apples, oranges, both, neither. That is what the "Free" in Free Software is all about.
Sure it's your choice to pay Jobs or Gates, but don't forget you can also contribute to OpenSource projects.
"Who do you want to sue today" is not a sustainable business strategy in software, cosmetics, or for any other product or service. There's plenty if other makeup out there to be sold.
"beauty consultants" who are "specially trained in proper hygienic practices"???? wtf specially trained for what? My cat grooms itself with proper hygienic practices, and she never even went to college, no special training, not even trade school.
Look in the mirror and face the hard facts, if you're that ugly that you need a "specially trained" consultant to put overpriced make-up on you honey, just buy a 10 cent paper bag and call it a day, we still love you.
If they were the best of the best of the best they would not be shutting down....
The best of the best find a way, and when they're done they go home and show the prom queen the difference between ROM and RAM!!
Just think of the great and functional technologies MS could develop if they would invest the time and resources into their product instead of ganking the system.
Ballmer seems desperately desperate, I think he might depart MS by November 08.
Drop the vista kernel, lay the interface on top of Linux like what Apple did and join 'mainstream' computing again. Get with the program bill, lose the lawyers, get more geeks.
Cars seem to have become useless in large metro areas. At best all they can do is create traffic jams. I'd prefer not to have to drive at all, and let someone/something else do the driving.
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You will see precious, oh yes!!! you will see...
Short-term technical limitation aside it seems that you actually do get it quite well... It is a game only to the extent that life is a game. Therefore you are quite right when you say "'playing' isn't accurate."
Never-the-less interacting with digital representations of physical objects is a lot more intuitive than 'click this' or 'click that' blah blah blah that you get on current websites. Consider the possibility of an integration of something like SecondLife with something like Google Earth and replace all those web servers on the Internet with 'web servers' that can model the objects and then you would truly have the real Web 2.0.
I believe IBM has it right and have a big stake in it. If they integrate the Linden technology into Websphere.... wow that would be awesome.
"but Hungary is FUBAR now :(" that is a shame... beautiful place especially along the Danube in Budapest and by Lake Balaton.
Hungarian for we love Windows
He said "there's a sucker born every minute..." Based on Ballmer's claim and their 30 year history it's more like every second.
Perhaps... but it was more of an example of lack of innovative market leadership rather than a reference to a specific technology. I first came across the patent while doing unrelated research back in 2001.
... much appreciated.
Thanks for the link though
Case in point. One of the telcos is sitting on a patent for a cradle that goes in your home that turns your mobile device into an in-home pbx. You come home place the mobile phone in the cradle to which all your home extensions are connected to, and you can answer the mobile number from any phone in the home.
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Where can you buy this cool gadget? Nowhere cause the telco that owns the patent was not manufacturing it.
The fact that communication is regulated by the Federal Communist Commission does not help much either. How I would love to see OpenCommunication and real competition
America is an ownership society, big business owns you now sit down and shut up.
Internet begins with I, and I want to choose how long any of them would be able to save identifying data.
Well... at least 1 of the 4 got it right.
The "questionable quality" part refers to Microsoft's 235 patents.
You are always free to donate funds to a variety of development projects for media players, operating systems, tools, utilities, etc... to facilitate widely available OpenSource software free of the threats of legal doom.
Clearly this author has a 2-dimensional decision pattern. If you are offered the choice between an apple and an orange you actually have 4 choices: apples, oranges, both, neither. That is what the "Free" in Free Software is all about.
Sure it's your choice to pay Jobs or Gates, but don't forget you can also contribute to OpenSource projects.
"Who do you want to sue today" is not a sustainable business strategy in software, cosmetics, or for any other product or service. There's plenty if other makeup out there to be sold.
"beauty consultants" who are "specially trained in proper hygienic practices"???? wtf specially trained for what? My cat grooms itself with proper hygienic practices, and she never even went to college, no special training, not even trade school.
Look in the mirror and face the hard facts, if you're that ugly that you need a "specially trained" consultant to put overpriced make-up on you honey, just buy a 10 cent paper bag and call it a day, we still love you.
If they were the best of the best of the best they would not be shutting down.... The best of the best find a way, and when they're done they go home and show the prom queen the difference between ROM and RAM!!
"Here we use the invariant variational bicomplex formalism...." I can comprehend the first four words.
Who the hell talks like that?
Pamela "Handerson" was getting tired.
Just think of the great and functional technologies MS could develop if they would invest the time and resources into their product instead of ganking the system.
Ballmer seems desperately desperate, I think he might depart MS by November 08.
Scratch your balls...
Most readers here would find their TV's always switched to the Playboy channel...
Drop the vista kernel, lay the interface on top of Linux like what Apple did and join 'mainstream' computing again. Get with the program bill, lose the lawyers, get more geeks.
Cars seem to have become useless in large metro areas. At best all they can do is create traffic jams. I'd prefer not to have to drive at all, and let someone/something else do the driving.