I would really be surprised if Oracle reconsiders. Oracle and Ellison himself are alpha males with no compromise. Oracle revolves around Ellison and I doubt he cares. He probably just thinks, "screw off I am here to make money not be an open source hippie!"
Larry Ellison believes in growth by acquisition. He does not do it organically and so he really does not care about Java other than he has control and is able to sell it to the enterprise. He does not care about third parties! He only cares about how Oracle can make more money. It would not surprise me if Larry is thinking of taking Java private to f**k over IBM and everybody else. But hey I think IBM just signed a deal with Oracle...
Look at Oracle's head honcho Larry Ellison... A macho alpha male that MUST under all circumstances have control. The moment Ellison leaves Oracle will collapse since corporations like his do very badly with their hallowed leader.
Once you see that you see the angle of Oracle. Oracle I think really doesn't give a flying f**k and they are now starting to understand the jello nature of Open Source. By jello I mean you squeeze jello hard and all you get is ooze coming out between your fingers. I would be really surprised if Oracle caved in. I bet Ellison is thinking, "no f***g way some open source hippies are going to make me bend, me a billionaire"
If you think I am being harsh, look at Ellison when he takes "time off" like sailing! This is not a guy I would ever want to hang out with. At least with Bill Gates I could play cards...
Ok now a word from somebody who actually looks at the numbers... I am a quant and run my own money.
1) For the government to come out break even the GM stock price has to hit around 56 (stock has to almost double here).
2) GM behaving like a startup? Excuse while I barf. GM is not behaving like a startup. They are behaving like a financial institution. Look at who is running the show? Look at how they are selling themselves to the financial community. Wait I forgot GM is a car maker!!!
3) Only in the case of GM is there an income gap. Most other companies tend to not have such a huge gap. This is a play by GM to put on a good face that they are "clean" when in fact they are not. Look at the model lineup. They have 4 economical fuel efficient cars. YET they have 5 different Corvette models. Yeah a company that has its priorities straight.
4) GM is not staking its future in clean technology. Look at point 3, and look at their line up. Ford is staking a part of their future on clean cars. Ford is doing the right things. GM is once again putting lipstick on a pig!
Having said all this, it is not impossible to re-engineer GM, but GM has never shown a willingness to do so. GM thinks this little happening as a blip introduced by the market and not by them. Right now GM thinks that they have done everything they and it is smooth sailing from this point on. RIGHT... WRONG! What bothers me is that Ford did real change... They did not take money from the government, and they are going to get hit again below the belt by GM. I just hope the next time GM is let to collapse.
So I read the CNN article comments. And they spewed crap about Muslims and how they are the problem and how Americans would be biased. I find this REALLY funny because of all the people that would be biased against Muslims would be Israeli's. How many people in Israel know people in close circles that have died at the hands of Muslim terrorists? I am betting everybody in Israel has. What about in America? How many people know people that lost somebody? Probably not many. So I think the Israeli's would probably have a couple of axes to grind against Muslims. Yet the security people do their jobs. Because they are trained... The employees are treated like humans... Not like bots that can be replaced and optimized with outsourcing or robots.
I actually using behavior profiling in the stock market. It is REALLY easy to pick out and it is really easy to take advantage of it. BECAUSE people are so darn obvious.
Behavior profiling being equated with racism is the problem and shows the lack of understanding because amateurs do it. If you really want to see behavior profiling in action take a look at "Lie To Me". Yes yes it is over dramatized (its TV after all), but in essence that is what they are doing and it is very sophisticated. What you seek is a reaction from the other person. That is why the one guy is always in other people faces. He pushes the point and gets the emotions going as most people cannot hide them.
Thus if you think behavior profiling is about keeping tabs on people you are actually really missing the point. Personal history in the context of the airport has very little to do with it.
Now if you think that big brother will come to America as a result because of the Israeli technique, sorry but it is already by you folks. Do some googling and searching and you will find that the US tracks quite a few people. It just does not do it publicly.
I completely agree here. I look at all of these "new methods", and yet we are stuck with the QWERTY. A typing arrangement that was meant to be slow. I think the core part of this problem is that we are used to this keyboard. And no matter how hard this keyboard is I am guessing it is completely hard wired into our brain to the point where we are pretty good at it. Not like that is a first oops moment in the evolution sequence.
I rather doubt we will have a "day after tomorrow", things don't happen like that. Instead I see a mechanization of our nature. For example, imagine a sort of nature where things are completely recycled? Sound far fetched? Consider how Switzerland is essentially self-sufficient in copper. Does Switzerland have copper mines? Nope not even close. Copper can be easily recycled and hence Switzerland recycles their own copper. This goes towards rare earths, etc, etc.
While many people believe that we waste, waste, waste, there are many pockets of the world that are now becoming adapt at living with little. Classic example is Israel. Israel can grow crops with water amounts that makes everybody else blush with embarrassment. That is the future...
"Requiring no water-cooling system, oil or catalytic converter, it will provide vehicle weight savings of up to 15% – with a consequent reduction in fuel consumption and carbon emissions – compared to a piston engine. Further environmental benefits will be gained from its fast warm up (a few seconds, as opposed to several minutes for a conventional engine), cleaner combustion and lower manufacturing energy requirements. "
This is what I REALLY don't get anymore with the open source community. Open Source in the beginning was a great way to empower the individual and small users. I myself use Open Source all the time.
However, to YET AGAIN demonstrate the power of tools is missing the point. I know Open source is great. I am very very aware of that fact. Yes Fact!
But when will there be a real movie? Here is the thing. A mock movie while great is not getting the voice of the paying public. As one individual says. Giving away software is a good feeling. But getting people to part with their money and give it to you is an even better feeling.
So what I would like to see is a movie that people are willing to pay for and watch...
Until then what's the difference between this movie and Numa Numa guy (YouTube). And this guy has a network, etc, etc... While the Numa Numa guy might add questionable value to the overall scheme of things he probably is getting people to part with money to pay him...
Here is the problem. You say that you would like private copying. But in fact what you are saying is that I want a personal exclusion due to my situation. A corporation can do the exact same thing.
The end result is this mess of laws where you are left interpreting what things mean. IMO copyright laws should be left strong with no exemptions. Thus if a vendor does not want private copying so be it. It also means that they will not be getting my monies. But in turn I want shorter copyright laws as you suggested.
But the question of greater societal value? According to whom? We cannot agree since well, that is what our society is about. Thus I tend to stick to monetary and being reasonable.
I really dislike people like you! Want to know why? Because you are the jerks that make this entire situation unbearable.
Let me illustrate...
GPL... What is it? It is law based on copyright! So if you are violating via piracy you are violating the GPL. Where people like you are jerks is because you will be the first ones yelling and screaming on how evil corporations are when they violate the GPL.
Well you can't have it both ways! Either you accept the copyright or you don't. Because if you don't accept copyright then you better accept the fact that vendors are completely free to take any GPL code and not share it. And let me tell you corporations can be more clever than you with respect to DRM. An example, take a look at how Bloomberg protects its IP. Absolutely stunning and very very very very difficult to crack. If you say, "hey it can be cracked..." Think again many have tried because Bloomberg is very expensive and people would love to have it for free. I actually challenge you to break into the Bloomberg system and get their terminals for free!
I for one accept the copyright and stand by the copyright. Not because I like content owners like the big studios. But because I like the rights of the open source community. I know with open source and my fair use with it, and my paying for each and every piece of binary only software I have the right to bitch and complain on dumb binary only vendors! And yes I do donate to open source. Regularly as a matter of fact.
Its crazy that Ryanair CEO does not understand risk...
Like you said you need a pilot when things go wrong. And there is the rub. When things go wrong you need experience. And experience costs.
What O'Leary is missing is that the calculation does not work.
Imagine you own a company of machines. You pay 100 USD for the maintenance crew and nothing goes wrong with the machines. At that point as a cost cutting CEO you think, "hey we could hire lesser maintenance and save money."
So off you go and hire a maintenance crew for 25 USD, saving 75 USD. But the problem is that the 25 USD crew sucks! And thus your machines blow up and your repairs cost you an additional 75 USD. Bringing you back to the original total. Which crew do you keep? After all its a zero sum equation and things can't go wrong all the time, right? Maybe this machine blow up was a "freak occurance".
Here is where people like O'Leary don't understand statistics. What you have done is included a drift factor. Namely your statistics are drifting to a new steady state since the original conditions, or general conditions don't hold.
I see idiots like this all the time. Actually I work in the market and it is scary how often CEO's just don't get stats, and how the entire financial advisers are stuck on the old way of calculating odds.
Want to know something here. I hated GYM! I truly despised GYM, and I always got a C. Except one semester I got an A. In that semester instead of focusing on football, basketball, and so on, we did track and field. I happened to be one of the fastest long distance runners in our class and my grades showed it. Yet did the Gym teach support me and say, "hey you are pretty fast why not do track and field?" No they ignored me because I was a geek. An out of place cog...
I would have preferred a 2 mile run, 45 situps, and 45 pushups over the football games where I did nothing anyways. That's the rub. Those that are not good are moved to the side ignored... I would prefer if they matched the Gym class to what people wanted to do...
I have a tablet PC (along with an iPad, and iPhone). No Macs here nor wanted. The reality is that Flash on my tablet bites BIG TIME! Windows 7 is already difficult with touch, but Flash just makes it downright painful.
Here is a dumb one... Because of my carpal tunnel syndrome I reversed the mouse buttons. Windows understands this, my touch screen understands this... But Flash for some freaken reason doesn't. It does what it wants to.
Next I am listening to a movie, or song, and then all of the sudden I hear music, or voices! What is it? Its a flash ad. With Firefox I have an extension that yanks flash. But sometimes I use chrome and see the flash ads.
Next I use a notebook (tablet) and with flash running, even in low it just keeps sucking up battery power.
Face it... Flash BITES!
If you don't like an iPad then don't buy one! As many have pointed out, Apple solve's peoples problems in an easy to use manner. Maybe if the PC industry started to learn this they would be further along. But NO we have geeks still designing UI's...
>Piracy is sometimes their only choice. I'm not saying that's right, but if my fictional next door neighbor who lives paycheck to paycheck and has no disposable income pirates a game, I don't consider that a loss to anyone.
Hey lets rephrase this:
Piracy is sometimes their only choice. I'm not saying that's right, but if my fictional next door neighbor who lives paycheck to paycheck and has no disposable income takes some food from the store, I don't consider that a loss to anyone.
After all they have no disposable income and hence could not buy that food in the store ANYWAYS... So no loss right?
F**K off! I am sorry for blowing my top here, but piracy has gone overboard. Yes there are some who would like to try before they buy, and some who would never buy. But these days it is a sport! People would rather just get the pirated edition then actually pay any monies whatsoever. And what bothers me is that these are the people who talk about freedom and open source, and what have you. Open source and free as in free beer are not the same thing! I donate money to open source! I do it because everybody needs to live on something.
I for one am not for 100% DRM, but then again I buy all of my DVD's and buy all of my music because I want to support those actors or musicians I like. I want fair use for my music and my movies. But with 90% piracy rates we ain't gonna get balance. I think if there were only say 50% piracy rates most of the companies would just close their eyes. But 90 is over the top. Come on people! We need some balance.
RIM = 1 company Apple = 1 company Android = oodles of companies...
Its comparing apples to oranges here.
Of course you do see that Android is doing well. Something that I expected and it will continue. This is why I question RIM's, Microsoft's and Nokia's sanity of trying to go against either Apple or Android.
Though I wonder how long Android will do well. Here is the thing, people buy gadgets, but upgrade devices. With the iPhone 4 people upgraded. With RIM people upgraded. Nokia less so, and Android is an open question mark. I don't know either way and only time will tell.
I wish the Indian government would stop grandstanding in general...
Take for example the Nano. Great, its cheap nice concept... So why are they running out of them? I would even like to see the bottom line on that car and I am willing to bet its a money looser.
Here are the classic indicators; waiting list, price hike and very low sales. If the Nano had any profit Tata would be building them like there is no tomorrow. After all why not? So why not? Its a money looser...
Just like this 35 USD touchscreen device will be a money looser!
What this machine will do is catch the idiots! You know the ones who could not even do things right if they were given all of the steps... Sure its nice to catch the idiots, but I feel evolution will take care of them quite nicely just as well.
What gets me in all of this (including the reading the future article where Google and the CIA want to predict the future) is that if it was so easy I would be a freaken trillionaire because all I would need to do is bet on a single stock in the stock market.
The problem and this is the issue that all of these folks are dancing around thinking it does not matter is the unknown known. The unknown unknown is what they are trying to predict and people feel that is our major problem. In fact it is not. Our major problem is that we know what are problems, but we never think it cannot happen.
9/11 is a prime example. They had oodles of clues and yet did nothing about it. The reason is because people thought it would be crazy to fly a plane into a building. In their minds it would achieve nothing (HA!) (unknown known). Had instead the plane stunt been an unknown unknown then they would have taken it seriously since the mind wanders on how bad things could get.
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I would really be surprised if Oracle reconsiders. Oracle and Ellison himself are alpha males with no compromise. Oracle revolves around Ellison and I doubt he cares. He probably just thinks, "screw off I am here to make money not be an open source hippie!"
Larry Ellison believes in growth by acquisition. He does not do it organically and so he really does not care about Java other than he has control and is able to sell it to the enterprise. He does not care about third parties! He only cares about how Oracle can make more money. It would not surprise me if Larry is thinking of taking Java private to f**k over IBM and everybody else. But hey I think IBM just signed a deal with Oracle...
Look at Oracle's head honcho Larry Ellison... A macho alpha male that MUST under all circumstances have control. The moment Ellison leaves Oracle will collapse since corporations like his do very badly with their hallowed leader.
Once you see that you see the angle of Oracle. Oracle I think really doesn't give a flying f**k and they are now starting to understand the jello nature of Open Source. By jello I mean you squeeze jello hard and all you get is ooze coming out between your fingers. I would be really surprised if Oracle caved in. I bet Ellison is thinking, "no f***g way some open source hippies are going to make me bend, me a billionaire"
If you think I am being harsh, look at Ellison when he takes "time off" like sailing! This is not a guy I would ever want to hang out with. At least with Bill Gates I could play cards...
Ok now a word from somebody who actually looks at the numbers... I am a quant and run my own money.
1) For the government to come out break even the GM stock price has to hit around 56 (stock has to almost double here).
2) GM behaving like a startup? Excuse while I barf. GM is not behaving like a startup. They are behaving like a financial institution. Look at who is running the show? Look at how they are selling themselves to the financial community. Wait I forgot GM is a car maker!!!
3) Only in the case of GM is there an income gap. Most other companies tend to not have such a huge gap. This is a play by GM to put on a good face that they are "clean" when in fact they are not. Look at the model lineup. They have 4 economical fuel efficient cars. YET they have 5 different Corvette models. Yeah a company that has its priorities straight.
4) GM is not staking its future in clean technology. Look at point 3, and look at their line up. Ford is staking a part of their future on clean cars. Ford is doing the right things. GM is once again putting lipstick on a pig!
Having said all this, it is not impossible to re-engineer GM, but GM has never shown a willingness to do so. GM thinks this little happening as a blip introduced by the market and not by them. Right now GM thinks that they have done everything they and it is smooth sailing from this point on. RIGHT... WRONG! What bothers me is that Ford did real change... They did not take money from the government, and they are going to get hit again below the belt by GM. I just hope the next time GM is let to collapse.
So I read the CNN article comments. And they spewed crap about Muslims and how they are the problem and how Americans would be biased. I find this REALLY funny because of all the people that would be biased against Muslims would be Israeli's. How many people in Israel know people in close circles that have died at the hands of Muslim terrorists? I am betting everybody in Israel has. What about in America? How many people know people that lost somebody? Probably not many. So I think the Israeli's would probably have a couple of axes to grind against Muslims. Yet the security people do their jobs. Because they are trained... The employees are treated like humans... Not like bots that can be replaced and optimized with outsourcing or robots.
I actually using behavior profiling in the stock market. It is REALLY easy to pick out and it is really easy to take advantage of it. BECAUSE people are so darn obvious.
Behavior profiling being equated with racism is the problem and shows the lack of understanding because amateurs do it. If you really want to see behavior profiling in action take a look at "Lie To Me". Yes yes it is over dramatized (its TV after all), but in essence that is what they are doing and it is very sophisticated. What you seek is a reaction from the other person. That is why the one guy is always in other people faces. He pushes the point and gets the emotions going as most people cannot hide them.
Thus if you think behavior profiling is about keeping tabs on people you are actually really missing the point. Personal history in the context of the airport has very little to do with it.
Now if you think that big brother will come to America as a result because of the Israeli technique, sorry but it is already by you folks. Do some googling and searching and you will find that the US tracks quite a few people. It just does not do it publicly.
I completely agree here. I look at all of these "new methods", and yet we are stuck with the QWERTY. A typing arrangement that was meant to be slow. I think the core part of this problem is that we are used to this keyboard. And no matter how hard this keyboard is I am guessing it is completely hard wired into our brain to the point where we are pretty good at it. Not like that is a first oops moment in the evolution sequence.
I rather doubt we will have a "day after tomorrow", things don't happen like that. Instead I see a mechanization of our nature. For example, imagine a sort of nature where things are completely recycled? Sound far fetched? Consider how Switzerland is essentially self-sufficient in copper. Does Switzerland have copper mines? Nope not even close. Copper can be easily recycled and hence Switzerland recycles their own copper. This goes towards rare earths, etc, etc.
While many people believe that we waste, waste, waste, there are many pockets of the world that are now becoming adapt at living with little. Classic example is Israel. Israel can grow crops with water amounts that makes everybody else blush with embarrassment. That is the future...
I am going to call BS...
http://kn.theiet.org/news/sep10/tata-blaydon-jets.cfm
This car is more fuel efficient, lower emissions, faster and more powerful than anything ever produced for the commercial road.
The trick with jet engines is not to run it lower, but use the power to run an electrical engine that can be ramped up and down.
http://www.bladonjets.com/applications/automotive/
"Requiring no water-cooling system, oil or catalytic converter, it will provide vehicle weight savings of up to 15% – with a consequent reduction in fuel consumption and carbon emissions – compared to a piston engine. Further environmental benefits will be gained from its fast warm up (a few seconds, as opposed to several minutes for a conventional engine), cleaner combustion and lower manufacturing energy requirements. "
This is what I REALLY don't get anymore with the open source community. Open Source in the beginning was a great way to empower the individual and small users. I myself use Open Source all the time.
However, to YET AGAIN demonstrate the power of tools is missing the point. I know Open source is great. I am very very aware of that fact. Yes Fact!
But when will there be a real movie? Here is the thing. A mock movie while great is not getting the voice of the paying public. As one individual says. Giving away software is a good feeling. But getting people to part with their money and give it to you is an even better feeling.
So what I would like to see is a movie that people are willing to pay for and watch...
Until then what's the difference between this movie and Numa Numa guy (YouTube). And this guy has a network, etc, etc... While the Numa Numa guy might add questionable value to the overall scheme of things he probably is getting people to part with money to pay him...
Get my drift?
Here is the problem. You say that you would like private copying. But in fact what you are saying is that I want a personal exclusion due to my situation. A corporation can do the exact same thing.
The end result is this mess of laws where you are left interpreting what things mean. IMO copyright laws should be left strong with no exemptions. Thus if a vendor does not want private copying so be it. It also means that they will not be getting my monies. But in turn I want shorter copyright laws as you suggested.
But the question of greater societal value? According to whom? We cannot agree since well, that is what our society is about. Thus I tend to stick to monetary and being reasonable.
Cool dude...
I really dislike people like you! Want to know why? Because you are the jerks that make this entire situation unbearable.
Let me illustrate...
GPL... What is it? It is law based on copyright! So if you are violating via piracy you are violating the GPL. Where people like you are jerks is because you will be the first ones yelling and screaming on how evil corporations are when they violate the GPL.
Well you can't have it both ways! Either you accept the copyright or you don't. Because if you don't accept copyright then you better accept the fact that vendors are completely free to take any GPL code and not share it. And let me tell you corporations can be more clever than you with respect to DRM. An example, take a look at how Bloomberg protects its IP. Absolutely stunning and very very very very difficult to crack. If you say, "hey it can be cracked..." Think again many have tried because Bloomberg is very expensive and people would love to have it for free. I actually challenge you to break into the Bloomberg system and get their terminals for free!
I for one accept the copyright and stand by the copyright. Not because I like content owners like the big studios. But because I like the rights of the open source community. I know with open source and my fair use with it, and my paying for each and every piece of binary only software I have the right to bitch and complain on dumb binary only vendors! And yes I do donate to open source. Regularly as a matter of fact.
Its crazy that Ryanair CEO does not understand risk...
Like you said you need a pilot when things go wrong. And there is the rub. When things go wrong you need experience. And experience costs.
What O'Leary is missing is that the calculation does not work.
Imagine you own a company of machines. You pay 100 USD for the maintenance crew and nothing goes wrong with the machines. At that point as a cost cutting CEO you think, "hey we could hire lesser maintenance and save money."
So off you go and hire a maintenance crew for 25 USD, saving 75 USD. But the problem is that the 25 USD crew sucks! And thus your machines blow up and your repairs cost you an additional 75 USD. Bringing you back to the original total. Which crew do you keep? After all its a zero sum equation and things can't go wrong all the time, right? Maybe this machine blow up was a "freak occurance".
Here is where people like O'Leary don't understand statistics. What you have done is included a drift factor. Namely your statistics are drifting to a new steady state since the original conditions, or general conditions don't hold.
I see idiots like this all the time. Actually I work in the market and it is scary how often CEO's just don't get stats, and how the entire financial advisers are stuck on the old way of calculating odds.
I am going to be cynical here...
"He gets juice:" Oh now that's MUCH better... Ever seen the calories in juice?
http://www.hookedonjuice.com/
The proper answer should have been... http://www.volvic.ch/
These volvic drinks have a slight taste of something, but very little calories... Or just plain water.
Want to know something here. I hated GYM! I truly despised GYM, and I always got a C. Except one semester I got an A. In that semester instead of focusing on football, basketball, and so on, we did track and field. I happened to be one of the fastest long distance runners in our class and my grades showed it. Yet did the Gym teach support me and say, "hey you are pretty fast why not do track and field?" No they ignored me because I was a geek. An out of place cog...
I would have preferred a 2 mile run, 45 situps, and 45 pushups over the football games where I did nothing anyways. That's the rub. Those that are not good are moved to the side ignored... I would prefer if they matched the Gym class to what people wanted to do...
That is really really really insightful I am going twitter this
ROTFL... Good one... That is REALLY funny...
No flash is crap! Point blank...
I have a tablet PC (along with an iPad, and iPhone). No Macs here nor wanted. The reality is that Flash on my tablet bites BIG TIME! Windows 7 is already difficult with touch, but Flash just makes it downright painful.
Here is a dumb one... Because of my carpal tunnel syndrome I reversed the mouse buttons. Windows understands this, my touch screen understands this... But Flash for some freaken reason doesn't. It does what it wants to.
Next I am listening to a movie, or song, and then all of the sudden I hear music, or voices! What is it? Its a flash ad. With Firefox I have an extension that yanks flash. But sometimes I use chrome and see the flash ads.
Next I use a notebook (tablet) and with flash running, even in low it just keeps sucking up battery power.
Face it... Flash BITES!
If you don't like an iPad then don't buy one! As many have pointed out, Apple solve's peoples problems in an easy to use manner. Maybe if the PC industry started to learn this they would be further along. But NO we have geeks still designing UI's...
So I am watching the video and cannot stop thinking, "man do I really want that big huge honken thing on my desk"
If Microsoft was really smart they would have asked, "hey see we have 3 rows of keys, show us what you can do..."
Instead we have a revival of Egyptian hieroglyphics...
Good going Microsoft, and I am sure you are going to patent this...
Get a smartphone... Get an account at say dropbox...
Go nuts!
>Piracy is sometimes their only choice. I'm not saying that's right, but if my fictional next door neighbor who lives paycheck to paycheck and has no disposable income pirates a game, I don't consider that a loss to anyone.
Hey lets rephrase this:
Piracy is sometimes their only choice. I'm not saying that's right, but if my fictional next door neighbor who lives paycheck to paycheck and has no disposable income takes some food from the store, I don't consider that a loss to anyone.
After all they have no disposable income and hence could not buy that food in the store ANYWAYS... So no loss right?
F**K off! I am sorry for blowing my top here, but piracy has gone overboard. Yes there are some who would like to try before they buy, and some who would never buy. But these days it is a sport! People would rather just get the pirated edition then actually pay any monies whatsoever. And what bothers me is that these are the people who talk about freedom and open source, and what have you. Open source and free as in free beer are not the same thing! I donate money to open source! I do it because everybody needs to live on something.
I for one am not for 100% DRM, but then again I buy all of my DVD's and buy all of my music because I want to support those actors or musicians I like. I want fair use for my music and my movies. But with 90% piracy rates we ain't gonna get balance. I think if there were only say 50% piracy rates most of the companies would just close their eyes. But 90 is over the top. Come on people! We need some balance.
Said by people who loose money...
Sorry I call'm as I see them...
For if you look closer at the market and attempted to understand it you would realize it is not a scam!
I am sorry, but this comparison is pretty crap.
RIM = 1 company
Apple = 1 company
Android = oodles of companies...
Its comparing apples to oranges here.
Of course you do see that Android is doing well. Something that I expected and it will continue. This is why I question RIM's, Microsoft's and Nokia's sanity of trying to go against either Apple or Android.
Though I wonder how long Android will do well. Here is the thing, people buy gadgets, but upgrade devices. With the iPhone 4 people upgraded. With RIM people upgraded. Nokia less so, and Android is an open question mark. I don't know either way and only time will tell.
I wish the Indian government would stop grandstanding in general...
Take for example the Nano. Great, its cheap nice concept... So why are they running out of them? I would even like to see the bottom line on that car and I am willing to bet its a money looser.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2010/07/tata-nano---worlds-cheapest-car----gets-price-hike/1
Here are the classic indicators; waiting list, price hike and very low sales. If the Nano had any profit Tata would be building them like there is no tomorrow. After all why not? So why not? Its a money looser...
Just like this 35 USD touchscreen device will be a money looser!
What this machine will do is catch the idiots! You know the ones who could not even do things right if they were given all of the steps... Sure its nice to catch the idiots, but I feel evolution will take care of them quite nicely just as well.
What gets me in all of this (including the reading the future article where Google and the CIA want to predict the future) is that if it was so easy I would be a freaken trillionaire because all I would need to do is bet on a single stock in the stock market.
The problem and this is the issue that all of these folks are dancing around thinking it does not matter is the unknown known. The unknown unknown is what they are trying to predict and people feel that is our major problem. In fact it is not. Our major problem is that we know what are problems, but we never think it cannot happen.
9/11 is a prime example. They had oodles of clues and yet did nothing about it. The reason is because people thought it would be crazy to fly a plane into a building. In their minds it would achieve nothing (HA!) (unknown known). Had instead the plane stunt been an unknown unknown then they would have taken it seriously since the mind wanders on how bad things could get.
Thanks for confirming... Its a media hype job then