While there may be an infinite number of content providers, there are only a finite number of advertisers paying a finite amount of money. What does the law of supply and demand suggest happens when you have a limited resource (advertiser dollars) that can be spread across a near-infinite resource (especially when any unique content that attracts advertising is cheaply and infinitely replicated).
they would probably invite you inside, then in front of everyone ask you to install it on a pc and ask you to demo some common tasks on it. when you fail miseribly with the sound and 3d video no working, you'll no doubt stammer something about it being the hardwares fault.
that or they might ask you to leave, and when you cause a scene they call the cops and we get the next "don't tase me bro".
I usually hate one line follow ups, but with an absence of mod points to award all I can say is Your comment = Win!
Here is a thought experiment. In 10 years time when physical textbook publishing is close to having died out and students have to buy individual texts through some Kindle like device, do you think the publishers will still revise textbooks constantly. They shouldn't have to right - because in SlashDot-Think the only reason for the constant revisions is to kill the secondary market. The reason for the constant revisions is that the people who select textbooks for courses are constantly tempted to jump ship by newer and shinier textbooks - sort of like Apple iPhone users who can't stick with the same phone for more than 12 months before needing to upgrade to whatever new shiny version is released. So even in the future where there is no secondary market (because you cannot transfer ownership of a DRM'd file) you'll still have constant revisions. If textbook publishers snooze, they loose. If they don't publish a new edition, some other text that offers something more enticing comes along and suddenly no one is buying that textbook.
One of the most fun things about Opera Unite is that it allows standard users to enable it and run websites from behind the corporate firewall. As long as Opera has been installed on a computer, a standard user doesn't need admin privileges to enable Unite. Most corporate firewalls won't block the traffic because the local version of opera will establish the session tunnel to the opera unite servers, through which all incoming web traffic will travel. More here: http://bit.ly/4gmpFv
Browser inclusion will be a bidding war. This means Opera will now have to pay to get its browser on machines initially. Google has deep pockets to get Chrome on new computers and can out-bid Opera. If users already have an alternate browser, they aren't going to bother using Opera or Firefox. The winner in this is Google. The losers will be Opera and Firefox because an alternate browser is going to gain market share and the one that gains the market share is the one that convinces OEMs, though a completely legal bidding process, to include its browser.
What we will probably see is a bidding war between brower manufacturers with each OEM to get their browser put on new computers running Windows 7. In terms of deep pockets, you'd have to say that Google is going to fork over to get Chrome on machines, which isn't going to help Opera (or Firefox) one bit. The ultimate outcome of Opera's complaint will most likely be to increase Chrome's market share. Who will pay OEMs to put FireFox on new Windows 7 computers?
Increasingly web users are blocking advertising content using tools like ad-block. This trend will only continue. As a content producer you have little to lose by switching to a pay model. What do you have to gain by giving your content away for free (with advertisements on the page) when increasing numbers of people visiting your site use software to block the very things that bring your site revenue? Most people, if they were aware of the option of blocking all advertisements on the Internet, would take it. How do you cover the costs of generating and serving your content if it gets to the stage where the majority of people block advertisements and aren't willing to pay a subscription fee?
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I cannot help but agree with your assessment of the book. One doesn't have to go far to guess which side of the concent walls the reviewer would live on. Go back to watching your Die Hard speelies reviewer!
And if you go look at Metacritic you'll find that Wii has 15% of the number of games that XBox 360 has that are rated over 80% (and very few games at all rated over 90%).
I've got a Wii, but have a devil of a time finding games that are worth playing on it.
You've got to wonder about a technology writer when their publication hasn't written a story about Linux since 2004 (though Manjoo will write an Apple story at least every other week).
Seriously, how can you do a tech blog and not ever mention Linux?
I'll remember your words when I'm unable to play those Russian kids shows on Blu-Ray disc for my son because Blu-Ray is region encoded and trying to get around that so I can play "unauthorized" (read foreign language) titles. Fine for everyone my arse.
Worth looking at Woz' biography, iWoz, which discusses the incident in detail. Jobs also messed with Woz (at least according to Woz) when he make the company that Woz had designing his Universal Remote give up Woz as a customer. Jobs also would not write the intro to iWoz, so he does come off as treating Woz a little shabbily (not that Woz would really hold a grudge)
There are a few places that you can start, but I'd start with books like Moenssens books on scientific evidence which go into some detail in terms of the admissability of this sort of evidence.
Although this doesn't counter your point... some studies into voter psychology have found that people that tend to vote conservative also tend to have more trust in authority figures than people that tend to vote progressive/liberal. I'm not sure if it counts as cognitive dissonance, but conservatives tend to dislike "big government" but also trust authority figures whereas progressive/liberals tend to be less suspicious of big government, but less trusting of authority figures.
Where I'm going with this is that although both sides pass this crap, voters on one side tend to be less trusting about authority having this power than voters on the other side.
I've only ever had the bottled Pocari when in Japan.
Though I do wish that the 500 ml cans of Coke and Pepsi that I found available in the rest of the world.
If you think Jones is wrong, you should suggest (and justify) an alternate method to him. I've seen him speak and one of the things he said is that he's happy to look at any method of evaluating security issues as long as its justified and can be applied equally across all operating systems.
What he is trying to do is come up with a metric for measuring different OS by security issues. It isn't as straightforward as you might think. What you should also note is that he'll keep working on his method and responding to (reasonable) criticism until you can't fault his methodology. It won't matter where he works if his methodology is open and unimpeachable.
At some point there will need to be a standard for saying that one OS is more secure than another. Jones is attempting to create that standard and he's being open about it. Just because he works for Microsoft doesn't automatically invalidate the standard.
Anyway - take it up with him. I've seen him discuss the issue in a lecture with Open Source advocates before.
Not sure why this was modded insightful, but as someone who has travelled and used Virtual Machines under Parallels, VMWare and Virtual PC/Server in Australia, Japan and Russia I know that you don't get a reactivation trigger from changing location. If location changes triggered reactivation, it would happen to the host OS as well as any virtualized OS.
You can get a reactivation trigger if you switch VM software. For example, if you take a Virtual PC image and open it in VMWare. Also be careful about switching product editions, if you have a VM you created in a really old version of VMWare workstation that you open in a brand new version of VMWare server, you may trigger reactivation.
You can switch interface languages in Vista by downloading a freely available language pack - so the "Spanish" version of Vista can be made "English" in a couple of minutes. I purchased a Vista laptop in Japan in the weekend and had it running in English with just a few clicks in the control panel (the English language pack appears to always be installed - it is stuff like Russian you have to get from Windows Update). This is a free and simple operation - so your scenario about the American with the brand-new cheap copy of Spanish Windows won't work (at least not with Vista onward) as it is trivial to switch the interface to another language.
If you'd read the Postscript to the 2nd edition of SSR you'd know that Kuhn owned up to 27 separate uses of the word paradigm in the original text. Kuhn stopped using Paradigm as a term all together by the 80's. But hey, if you think Wikipedia is a better resource than the original text itself...
If they migrate to Mac OSX, does that make it less likely that at some point in the future they would switch to Linux? If people are having a hard time convincing people to move from Windows to Linux, isn't the job going to be harder getting them to move from Mac to Linux? It isn't really Windows that is the challenge to Linux, it is Mac OSX. Is it really a great thing for Free/Open Source software that people that many who are migrating from Windows are choosing Mac OSX?
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While there may be an infinite number of content providers, there are only a finite number of advertisers paying a finite amount of money. What does the law of supply and demand suggest happens when you have a limited resource (advertiser dollars) that can be spread across a near-infinite resource (especially when any unique content that attracts advertising is cheaply and infinitely replicated).
they would probably invite you inside, then in front of everyone ask you to install it on a pc and ask you to demo some common tasks on it. when you fail miseribly with the sound and 3d video no working, you'll no doubt stammer something about it being the hardwares fault. that or they might ask you to leave, and when you cause a scene they call the cops and we get the next "don't tase me bro".
I usually hate one line follow ups, but with an absence of mod points to award all I can say is Your comment = Win!
Here is a thought experiment. In 10 years time when physical textbook publishing is close to having died out and students have to buy individual texts through some Kindle like device, do you think the publishers will still revise textbooks constantly. They shouldn't have to right - because in SlashDot-Think the only reason for the constant revisions is to kill the secondary market. The reason for the constant revisions is that the people who select textbooks for courses are constantly tempted to jump ship by newer and shinier textbooks - sort of like Apple iPhone users who can't stick with the same phone for more than 12 months before needing to upgrade to whatever new shiny version is released. So even in the future where there is no secondary market (because you cannot transfer ownership of a DRM'd file) you'll still have constant revisions. If textbook publishers snooze, they loose. If they don't publish a new edition, some other text that offers something more enticing comes along and suddenly no one is buying that textbook.
One of the most fun things about Opera Unite is that it allows standard users to enable it and run websites from behind the corporate firewall. As long as Opera has been installed on a computer, a standard user doesn't need admin privileges to enable Unite. Most corporate firewalls won't block the traffic because the local version of opera will establish the session tunnel to the opera unite servers, through which all incoming web traffic will travel. More here: http://bit.ly/4gmpFv
Browser inclusion will be a bidding war. This means Opera will now have to pay to get its browser on machines initially. Google has deep pockets to get Chrome on new computers and can out-bid Opera. If users already have an alternate browser, they aren't going to bother using Opera or Firefox. The winner in this is Google. The losers will be Opera and Firefox because an alternate browser is going to gain market share and the one that gains the market share is the one that convinces OEMs, though a completely legal bidding process, to include its browser.
What we will probably see is a bidding war between brower manufacturers with each OEM to get their browser put on new computers running Windows 7. In terms of deep pockets, you'd have to say that Google is going to fork over to get Chrome on machines, which isn't going to help Opera (or Firefox) one bit. The ultimate outcome of Opera's complaint will most likely be to increase Chrome's market share. Who will pay OEMs to put FireFox on new Windows 7 computers?
Increasingly web users are blocking advertising content using tools like ad-block. This trend will only continue. As a content producer you have little to lose by switching to a pay model. What do you have to gain by giving your content away for free (with advertisements on the page) when increasing numbers of people visiting your site use software to block the very things that bring your site revenue? Most people, if they were aware of the option of blocking all advertisements on the Internet, would take it. How do you cover the costs of generating and serving your content if it gets to the stage where the majority of people block advertisements and aren't willing to pay a subscription fee?
I cannot help but agree with your assessment of the book. One doesn't have to go far to guess which side of the concent walls the reviewer would live on. Go back to watching your Die Hard speelies reviewer!
And if you go look at Metacritic you'll find that Wii has 15% of the number of games that XBox 360 has that are rated over 80% (and very few games at all rated over 90%). I've got a Wii, but have a devil of a time finding games that are worth playing on it.
You've got to wonder about a technology writer when their publication hasn't written a story about Linux since 2004 (though Manjoo will write an Apple story at least every other week). Seriously, how can you do a tech blog and not ever mention Linux?
As several other posts have pointed out, Silverlight does include accessibility support: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb980136.aspx
Linus also said that the Mac filesystem was crap last week and that OSX was worse to program for than Vista http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/utter-crap-torvalds-pans-apple/2008/02/05/1202090393959.html but that little nugget didn't seem to make its way to Slashdot (though a story about what RMS thinks of the OLPC did).
How can Open Source get their first? Speech recognition is built into Vista! The "Speech Recognition" Icon in the Control Panel kinda gives it away.
I'll remember your words when I'm unable to play those Russian kids shows on Blu-Ray disc for my son because Blu-Ray is region encoded and trying to get around that so I can play "unauthorized" (read foreign language) titles. Fine for everyone my arse.
Worth looking at Woz' biography, iWoz, which discusses the incident in detail. Jobs also messed with Woz (at least according to Woz) when he make the company that Woz had designing his Universal Remote give up Woz as a customer. Jobs also would not write the intro to iWoz, so he does come off as treating Woz a little shabbily (not that Woz would really hold a grudge)
There are a few places that you can start, but I'd start with books like Moenssens books on scientific evidence which go into some detail in terms of the admissability of this sort of evidence.
Although this doesn't counter your point ... some studies into voter psychology have found that people that tend to vote conservative also tend to have more trust in authority figures than people that tend to vote progressive/liberal. I'm not sure if it counts as cognitive dissonance, but conservatives tend to dislike "big government" but also trust authority figures whereas progressive/liberals tend to be less suspicious of big government, but less trusting of authority figures.
Where I'm going with this is that although both sides pass this crap, voters on one side tend to be less trusting about authority having this power than voters on the other side.
I've only ever had the bottled Pocari when in Japan. Though I do wish that the 500 ml cans of Coke and Pepsi that I found available in the rest of the world.
And then there is Pocari Sweat. What is a Pocari? Why do they bottle its sweat?
If you think Jones is wrong, you should suggest (and justify) an alternate method to him. I've seen him speak and one of the things he said is that he's happy to look at any method of evaluating security issues as long as its justified and can be applied equally across all operating systems. What he is trying to do is come up with a metric for measuring different OS by security issues. It isn't as straightforward as you might think. What you should also note is that he'll keep working on his method and responding to (reasonable) criticism until you can't fault his methodology. It won't matter where he works if his methodology is open and unimpeachable. At some point there will need to be a standard for saying that one OS is more secure than another. Jones is attempting to create that standard and he's being open about it. Just because he works for Microsoft doesn't automatically invalidate the standard. Anyway - take it up with him. I've seen him discuss the issue in a lecture with Open Source advocates before.
Not sure why this was modded insightful, but as someone who has travelled and used Virtual Machines under Parallels, VMWare and Virtual PC/Server in Australia, Japan and Russia I know that you don't get a reactivation trigger from changing location. If location changes triggered reactivation, it would happen to the host OS as well as any virtualized OS. You can get a reactivation trigger if you switch VM software. For example, if you take a Virtual PC image and open it in VMWare. Also be careful about switching product editions, if you have a VM you created in a really old version of VMWare workstation that you open in a brand new version of VMWare server, you may trigger reactivation.
You can switch interface languages in Vista by downloading a freely available language pack - so the "Spanish" version of Vista can be made "English" in a couple of minutes. I purchased a Vista laptop in Japan in the weekend and had it running in English with just a few clicks in the control panel (the English language pack appears to always be installed - it is stuff like Russian you have to get from Windows Update). This is a free and simple operation - so your scenario about the American with the brand-new cheap copy of Spanish Windows won't work (at least not with Vista onward) as it is trivial to switch the interface to another language.
Ah, so it isn't a Tunnel if Ted Stevens is involved, its a TUBE!
If you'd read the Postscript to the 2nd edition of SSR you'd know that Kuhn owned up to 27 separate uses of the word paradigm in the original text. Kuhn stopped using Paradigm as a term all together by the 80's. But hey, if you think Wikipedia is a better resource than the original text itself ...
If they migrate to Mac OSX, does that make it less likely that at some point in the future they would switch to Linux? If people are having a hard time convincing people to move from Windows to Linux, isn't the job going to be harder getting them to move from Mac to Linux? It isn't really Windows that is the challenge to Linux, it is Mac OSX. Is it really a great thing for Free/Open Source software that people that many who are migrating from Windows are choosing Mac OSX?