From the article:
"The virtual world is the next great frontier and in some respects is still very much a Wild West environment," a recent paper by the government's new Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity said. Well to me it looks like fear of freedom... it looks like some some kind of newspeak catchphrase
Concerning HiPiHi:
"The residents are the Gods of this virtual world; it is a world of limitless possibilities for creativity and self-expression, within a complex social structure and a full functioning economy," the promotional material says. It looks like the kind of idea introduced in the last Werber book.
I'm sure once They realize how comic their attempts to justify their jobs are, they will return all the tax money and do something productive. And they will apologize to 2nd life users whose avatars have been kidnaped and shipped to the new secret CIA servers... Just like they did in the real life... Right?
None the less, this is great news! It will be a great replacement for the 40 years old and now defunct French Concorde.
This kind of engine will make flights shorter and much more supportable between continents...
Let's hope the boarding requirements won't be as restrictive as for Space Mountain...
You are off the point. Nothing in the post was informative. The post explains nothing and clarifies nothing... the simple fact of marking it as informative is wrong. This is something I don't get.
I don't understand how this post became informative. It brings no information whatsoever and explains nothing.
a 'workstation' is some 'station' (a desk with a computer) that you do your 'work' on. Did the people vote without reading or did they consider this bit informative without reading further?
As posted bellow a workstation is a high end computer with a professional (heavy on OpenGL) graphic card. If not it costs nothing to Google "Workstation Graphic card".
This person just like the music industry itself has failed to realize that the music industry's interests and consumer's habits are diverging strongly today.
First thing when you buy music you expect to play it on your home theatre/HiFi, on your laptop, on your mobile phone, on your iPod and other devices... No one will pay more than once for one song without feeling like being robed.
Speaking about paying. I believe music consumers are in majority young people whose wallet is not stretchable. When the video media industry introduced DVDs the music industry saw a strong decline in it's CD sales and started screaming in pain... Young people in Europe tend to have 100 to 600 mobile phones at the age of 16, they invest in bluetooth accessories and wireless plans... this money can't be spent twice and it's taken away from some media conglomerates and ends up in the pockets of others. You can not expect 100% growth in one sector without impacting another one.
These music companies did not foresee the changes ahead when mp3 players started appearing, and when the interned was getting all the hype they must have been in a cave, they never heard of it. They failed to adapt in time and utterly ignored the need to create new business models when they were confronted with the problem. Those companies not only failed in front of their consumers... They also failed in front of their share holders by ignoring an extremely popular new medium (the internet!).
The fear of repercussions on the shares and laziness gave the poor americans the RIAA. Their desperate move to vilify the consumers changing habits just created more resent and a new generation of young who now despise them and laughs at the poor adverts "downloading is stealing"... These companies can survive on their current customer base but they already lost the large part of the current youth and continue to make the consumer the enemy. I believe this is already gone too far to be ignored or forgotten.
I don't see Warner or Sony disappear... music is only a part of their business. But they are out of their comfort zone now and will have to start working harder.
Saying that music will die because of the digital age is like saying concerts will die because of the audio tape... that cinema will die because of the TV or that news papers will die because of the internet.
It's just a lack of foresight and effort. It's due to old age and to a tendency to get comfortable in old habits. As soon as some things change you don't want to make the effort to adapt or to innovate you sent lawyers to put thing like they were...
As a consequence people get sued by an old grandpa waving his stick. It also happened to Copernicus... but it's round none the less.
Yay! At last! I will be able to use my girlfriend as an efficient energy source! All this unbearable heat will not be wasted anymore!
Now it's time to start a new company to sell special device recharging PJs: Recharge-wear, the PJs for hot chicks.
These are the usual useless answers... but for the sake of being clear and precise I will answer:
Anyone can borrow an external DVD drive:) And people tend to already have these (mainly with laptops).
Anyway It can probably cost you around 30$ to simply buy an USB enclosure for your auld ugly IDE/SATA/whatever DVD Drive.
But then if you have paid 200$ + 30$ you will not want to buy the 10$ USB cable...
Regards.
External USB DVD drives are more than common nowadays. I don't see what would stop anyone from actually plugging one and installing windows or whatever.
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Concerning HiPiHi: "The residents are the Gods of this virtual world; it is a world of limitless possibilities for creativity and self-expression, within a complex social structure and a full functioning economy," the promotional material says. It looks like the kind of idea introduced in the last Werber book.
LOL...
None the less, this is great news! It will be a great replacement for the 40 years old and now defunct French Concorde.
This kind of engine will make flights shorter and much more supportable between continents...
Let's hope the boarding requirements won't be as restrictive as for Space Mountain...
You are off the point. Nothing in the post was informative. The post explains nothing and clarifies nothing... the simple fact of marking it as informative is wrong. This is something I don't get.
a 'workstation' is some 'station' (a desk with a computer) that you do your 'work' on. Did the people vote without reading or did they consider this bit informative without reading further?
As posted bellow a workstation is a high end computer with a professional (heavy on OpenGL) graphic card. If not it costs nothing to Google "Workstation Graphic card".
This person just like the music industry itself has failed to realize that the music industry's interests and consumer's habits are diverging strongly today.
First thing when you buy music you expect to play it on your home theatre/HiFi, on your laptop, on your mobile phone, on your iPod and other devices... No one will pay more than once for one song without feeling like being robed.
Speaking about paying. I believe music consumers are in majority young people whose wallet is not stretchable. When the video media industry introduced DVDs the music industry saw a strong decline in it's CD sales and started screaming in pain... Young people in Europe tend to have 100 to 600 mobile phones at the age of 16, they invest in bluetooth accessories and wireless plans... this money can't be spent twice and it's taken away from some media conglomerates and ends up in the pockets of others. You can not expect 100% growth in one sector without impacting another one.
These music companies did not foresee the changes ahead when mp3 players started appearing, and when the interned was getting all the hype they must have been in a cave, they never heard of it. They failed to adapt in time and utterly ignored the need to create new business models when they were confronted with the problem. Those companies not only failed in front of their consumers... They also failed in front of their share holders by ignoring an extremely popular new medium (the internet!).
The fear of repercussions on the shares and laziness gave the poor americans the RIAA. Their desperate move to vilify the consumers changing habits just created more resent and a new generation of young who now despise them and laughs at the poor adverts "downloading is stealing"... These companies can survive on their current customer base but they already lost the large part of the current youth and continue to make the consumer the enemy. I believe this is already gone too far to be ignored or forgotten.
I don't see Warner or Sony disappear... music is only a part of their business. But they are out of their comfort zone now and will have to start working harder.
Saying that music will die because of the digital age is like saying concerts will die because of the audio tape... that cinema will die because of the TV or that news papers will die because of the internet.
It's just a lack of foresight and effort. It's due to old age and to a tendency to get comfortable in old habits. As soon as some things change you don't want to make the effort to adapt or to innovate you sent lawyers to put thing like they were...
As a consequence people get sued by an old grandpa waving his stick. It also happened to Copernicus... but it's round none the less.
Yay! At last! I will be able to use my girlfriend as an efficient energy source! All this unbearable heat will not be wasted anymore!
Now it's time to start a new company to sell special device recharging PJs: Recharge-wear, the PJs for hot chicks.
I'm a genius.
These are the usual useless answers... but for the sake of being clear and precise I will answer: Anyone can borrow an external DVD drive :) And people tend to already have these (mainly with laptops).
Anyway It can probably cost you around 30$ to simply buy an USB enclosure for your auld ugly IDE/SATA/whatever DVD Drive.
But then if you have paid 200$ + 30$ you will not want to buy the 10$ USB cable...
Regards.
If I were drinking 3 nights a week I would be a healthy person.
External USB DVD drives are more than common nowadays. I don't see what would stop anyone from actually plugging one and installing windows or whatever.
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