Is it me, or have they missed the most obvious point? I mean even the entire slashdot seems to have missed this point.
Let's say for the moment a bomb or cyber attack does happen. And let's say for the moment they have to reboot. So off they go and the folks from the Pacific have to travel to the US... Yes the US because it appears they have to be there physically.
Does anybody REALLY think that planes will be flying after a bomb or cyber attack? Remember 9/11 folks? Three days or such no plane went into or out of North America. So how will these folks from the Pacific, or Europe travel to the US to do a reboot? Magic carpet?
My point is not that they have to travel to the US, they could travel where ever they wanted. My point is that after an attack NOTHING, NADA, ZIP is going to move in the sky without being shot down. And EVEN if it was only a cyber attack, don't you think that planes, and travel agencies use the Internet to transfer data?
Sure they could go back to plain vanilla DNS, but that then takes the "zing" out of the five people have to get together to reboot the Internet. Actually makes all of this kind of lame... And frankly after having been a techy dweeb who moved to more business seeing that again techies fell in love with the idea without actually seeing the trees...
So people am I missing anything? Maybe I am not seeing the trees?
Look at the experiment I would say sure its possible because there is no resistance. As they say they can't do this on a gym floor, but a tread mill.
As a mechanical engineer who studied dynamics I would say the reason is because the resistance that is normally hit due to acceleration or keeping the thing moving is not present. Thus this thing could accelerate faster than the wind.
What I would find interesting is what are they exploiting in specific? As they say, is there some neato resistance, aero-dynamic trick that nobody has yet thought of?
It reminds me of the ram jet that below a certain speed is useless. YET at higher speeds it becomes more effective than a regular jet.
Or how about all of those stations that play 70's 80's or 90's music. You know the "real" music. 70's music is 40 YEARS ago...
Or what about all of those remakes, and rereleases? I mean let's not start on the discussion of which is the real Star Trek... You know the original series that is nearly 50 years old...
Open source is copyrighted. And if it were not then people would copy without any regards. For example the GPL works BECAUSE of copyright. It uses copyright to keep free.
No we don't even need to go that far back... Here is a simpler idea... Chinese, Japanese anyone? Why invent a new language when we just need to learn those languages and all of our problems will be solved...
People don't do anything unless they are clubbed on the head. Until then we are dumb as ever...
Ask yourself, ever been burnt? Or name somebody who has not been burnt. We all know we can be burnt and thus we don't need to experience the joys of a burn (regardless of the degrees). Yet we are all burn ourselves at one point in our lives...
I find your comment very interesting because it speaks quite a bit of truth.
First saying that bonuses gets you the melt down is saying that if I put chocolate in the sun it will melt. Gee duh yeah, and wall streets are stuffed with people who only see short term profits. The idea of wall street is short term quick money! You only need to look at Easy Money with Eddie Murphy to understand that.
Regarding open source, well the mystic of open source is failing. Recently on Slashdot they talked about the open sourcers getting old and not attracting new talent. Well duh yeah! I talked a few friends and asked where are the youngsters going? The conclusion, "first find youngsters going into IT period..." And if you have found some then yeah most likely they are going to develop for the iphone.
The world has changed and quite frankly us IT people are not as important or vital as we used to be... We have shifted from competitive advantage, to cost center... Not good...
I have found it very interesting in how people would play fishing, basketball, and other sports on video game consoles, but not yet think "hey maybe I should do this in real life..."
Hey I never noticed that... Though I completely agree with you. The internet is addictive and compulsive. Yet I ask is that bad? Why in my day that was called... drum roll... telephone! How many teenies would sit hour after hour after hour on the telephone? The only reason why it has become more obvious is because the devices are mobile. Back in the "good ol days" telephones had long cables, but cables none the less.
Ah grasshopper you have achieved the first level... But to reach zen you must go to the next level. And after that one day you might even reach the following:
This is a pile of crap! I live in Switzerland and our electronics are way cheaper than the rest of Europe (even taking VAT into account). Having French requirements is not a big deal for a multi-national corporation.
The reason why Canada is more expensive is due to the traditional Looney US exchange rate. Corporates gouge Canadians!
Sorry, but I do drive a Mercedes. And no I am not an idiot! And no you may not take it to any dealership that you want.
Want to know why? Because Mercedes like many other car manufacturers have computers that are not being sold to other garages. And if you were to do that then your warranty would go poof!
Mercedes has very very cleverly made it such that they offer everything. And if you take advantage of it then all is good. BUT, if you decide to use outside help. Well, then things not so good. Mercedes will charge you through the nose!
Mercedes is not the only car maker to do this. I have owned a BMW as well, and they are the same.
The reality is that the car makers don't want anyone but an authorized dealership to touch their cars.
So sure you can get your neighbor to fix your Mercedes. Just don't expect to take that Mercedes to a dealership for further repair. Mercedes will know and indicate that you have problems that will cost money.
This what gets me with techies... They don't understand the legal framework.
Let's say I have a Mercedes, can I expect my car to be repaired by a Ford dealership? Or some dealership down the road? Answer NO. Mercedes and all of the car makers are very well in their right to repair their own cars. Just as people are very well in their right to choose whichever vehicle they want.
Apple has the right to choose whomever they want in their app store. Apple is not holding you back from buying another phone.
Microsoft on the other hand did hold people back. They said, if you sell a PC with another OS you will get worse conditions. Apple makes no such pre-conditions. This is also why I doubt Apple will be charged with being a monopoly. They have clear terms, and do not play favoritism. Apple does not say, "hey you make a RIM app and therefore I punish you." Apple says, "I don't care if you make RIM, Android or Windows apps, but if you make an iPhone app you will use the following tools."
You might not like the conditions, but you are able to choose a competitor. But if you choose Apple then STFU because you knew what you were getting into...
My point is that America is neither better nor worse with respect to breaking the trade rules games.
But because of jackass's like you, you think that it is poor poor America that always suffers! BS!
Again I am not saying America is good, nor bad. America is dealt bad cards at times, and deals bad cards as well. So if you are going to complain please keep the argument to Google and the ISP's and not "America" and "Europe"
Here is the problem. Kid A.... "Parent parent parent I need to get a project done and you shut down my computer at 10PM. And if I don't get this project done I will get an F!"
At this point the parent's security is blown to bits because they need to make an exception. And how often will this kid say, "parent parent I have a "project""
The easiest way to answer this is as follows:
1) Own the route to the Internet. That means you give or deny access to the Internet. Kids loose interest REAL quick if they can play with the Internet.
2) Let the kids have access to the computer anytime they want. WITH the exception that you can remotely log in at any time. Install VNC server and periodically log onto the machine and see what your kids are doing. Yes it is big brother, but it also keeps people honest when they know you can log in at any time.
3) NEVER give out the password. And that means you as the parent need remote access to the home network. Because imagine being out for the day, kid comes home and needs access to the Internet. They phone you, and unless you give them access you are going to have one angry kid. Thus make sure that you can remotely access your network, make the changes and move on...
Otherwise the rest is silly and life should be fine...
I now surf with Firefox which does not download flash files by default. Ever since that my CPU has not gone to 90% to show some ad flipping oranges and bananas and asking which I would prefer...
I am not against ads. I am against ads that suck all of the horsepower out of my computer.
What are all of those GPL applications? Those applications rely on copyright to keep things free! If you say anybody can copy anything, what would happen is that corporations would develop more draconian DRM that would make it virtually impossible to run any application unless a specific set of conditions are met. And what we would have is corporations stealing GPL, making a few tweaks, adding DRM and selling it.
I personally like copyrights because they give me the right to restrict or ensure that there are no restrictions. And guess what most of the world and people own copyrights because copyrights are easy to get and basically automatic.
If you don't like the big corporations and their copyright then don't buy any of their stuff. Buy the stuff from small independents on the Internet. But if you want stuff for free where you have to give nothing, then sorry dude you are a leech! I have donated money to wikipedia, and several smaller developers who develop free products or open source. I do so because those developers have given me something I can use and hence am quite happy to support their work.
I read part of his book since his book uses what one would call behavioral economics. A very interesting field. What I don't like about him is that he manipulates (read the book). And as such believes that manipulation is everything. I stopped reading half way because I hated his style. That is his flaw since not everybody can be manipulated. People can act irrationally. That he does not account for in his model, and is what I would think is a major flaw. It is sort of like saying, "Greece will be bailed out, Greece will be bailed out" Why? Because that the logical choice and would be according to this guy who does predictions.
What they all forget is Germany... Germany is now saying, "hey Greece head over to the IMF" It is at that point the financial community says, "ooops..." But if you are investing money it is a big f****g oops! And that big f****g oops is what causes financial companies to loose money...
Well... Not so quick... I kept the discussion at a higher level because people's eyes tend to glaze over when I talk details. I am a mechanical engineer...
But the argument you are making is exactly the reason why Apple does. This detail that automatics are X, and the other being a manual transmission with clutches is actually lost on people. They REALLY don't care about the minutia.
People get into cars, they step on the gas pedal, and they can either let the car shift or press a little button that lets them shift. For people this is called an automatic transmission...
Have you looked at the transmission of a Ferrari? Or an Alfa Rameo? Drum roll...
Its an automatic! Ok, Ok, its a choose your gear automatic. Even in Formula 1 the days of clutching and shifting are long gone. These days most high end cars have something called tiptronic. My Mercedes has this. It is quite impressive actually. Its an automatic when you are lazy, but can be shifted when needed.
Thus this slagging of Apple is pretty pointless. Since if we were to mince our metaphors, Linux would have an automatic transmission by now...
You hit the nail on the head... What developers need to understand is that they [users] don't care about "openness" "extensibility" and all of the metaphors that developers like to throw around.
Users care about one thing... Can I use the product? Which interestingly is not one of the questions that developers seem to raise.
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Is it me, or have they missed the most obvious point? I mean even the entire slashdot seems to have missed this point.
Let's say for the moment a bomb or cyber attack does happen. And let's say for the moment they have to reboot. So off they go and the folks from the Pacific have to travel to the US... Yes the US because it appears they have to be there physically.
Does anybody REALLY think that planes will be flying after a bomb or cyber attack? Remember 9/11 folks? Three days or such no plane went into or out of North America. So how will these folks from the Pacific, or Europe travel to the US to do a reboot? Magic carpet?
My point is not that they have to travel to the US, they could travel where ever they wanted. My point is that after an attack NOTHING, NADA, ZIP is going to move in the sky without being shot down. And EVEN if it was only a cyber attack, don't you think that planes, and travel agencies use the Internet to transfer data?
Sure they could go back to plain vanilla DNS, but that then takes the "zing" out of the five people have to get together to reboot the Internet. Actually makes all of this kind of lame... And frankly after having been a techy dweeb who moved to more business seeing that again techies fell in love with the idea without actually seeing the trees...
So people am I missing anything? Maybe I am not seeing the trees?
No this is not old news. I thought it was this trick as well. Its not. It the direct downwind problem, not side to wind problem.
Look at the experiment I would say sure its possible because there is no resistance. As they say they can't do this on a gym floor, but a tread mill.
As a mechanical engineer who studied dynamics I would say the reason is because the resistance that is normally hit due to acceleration or keeping the thing moving is not present. Thus this thing could accelerate faster than the wind.
What I would find interesting is what are they exploiting in specific? As they say, is there some neato resistance, aero-dynamic trick that nobody has yet thought of?
It reminds me of the ram jet that below a certain speed is useless. YET at higher speeds it becomes more effective than a regular jet.
Huh???
Let's try Mickey Mouse shall we?
Or how about all of those stations that play 70's 80's or 90's music. You know the "real" music. 70's music is 40 YEARS ago...
Or what about all of those remakes, and rereleases? I mean let's not start on the discussion of which is the real Star Trek... You know the original series that is nearly 50 years old...
The speaker is getting her things mixed up.
Open source is copyrighted. And if it were not then people would copy without any regards. For example the GPL works BECAUSE of copyright. It uses copyright to keep free.
No we don't even need to go that far back... Here is a simpler idea... Chinese, Japanese anyone? Why invent a new language when we just need to learn those languages and all of our problems will be solved...
Wow, I never thought of this. Offtopic? No wonder most people fail in the stock market. They don't understand basic psychology.
Read Talebs Fooled by Randomness
People don't do anything unless they are clubbed on the head. Until then we are dumb as ever...
Ask yourself, ever been burnt? Or name somebody who has not been burnt. We all know we can be burnt and thus we don't need to experience the joys of a burn (regardless of the degrees). Yet we are all burn ourselves at one point in our lives...
I find your comment very interesting because it speaks quite a bit of truth.
First saying that bonuses gets you the melt down is saying that if I put chocolate in the sun it will melt. Gee duh yeah, and wall streets are stuffed with people who only see short term profits. The idea of wall street is short term quick money! You only need to look at Easy Money with Eddie Murphy to understand that.
Regarding open source, well the mystic of open source is failing. Recently on Slashdot they talked about the open sourcers getting old and not attracting new talent. Well duh yeah! I talked a few friends and asked where are the youngsters going? The conclusion, "first find youngsters going into IT period..." And if you have found some then yeah most likely they are going to develop for the iphone.
The world has changed and quite frankly us IT people are not as important or vital as we used to be... We have shifted from competitive advantage, to cost center... Not good...
I have found it very interesting in how people would play fishing, basketball, and other sports on video game consoles, but not yet think "hey maybe I should do this in real life..."
Hey I never noticed that... Though I completely agree with you. The internet is addictive and compulsive. Yet I ask is that bad? Why in my day that was called... drum roll... telephone! How many teenies would sit hour after hour after hour on the telephone? The only reason why it has become more obvious is because the devices are mobile. Back in the "good ol days" telephones had long cables, but cables none the less.
He is hypocritical...
Check out the following article:
http://news.cnet.com/Google-balances-privacy,-reach/2100-1032_3-5787483.html?tag=nl
Reaction from Google? CNET is barred one year from google.
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Google-Angry-at-CNET-66164
Ah grasshopper you have achieved the first level... But to reach zen you must go to the next level. And after that one day you might even reach the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNG3sgk02Lc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q395-F6hAcg
I want a machine to beat that! My head just spins thinking, ok so where did that cup move to?
This is a pile of crap! I live in Switzerland and our electronics are way cheaper than the rest of Europe (even taking VAT into account). Having French requirements is not a big deal for a multi-national corporation.
The reason why Canada is more expensive is due to the traditional Looney US exchange rate. Corporates gouge Canadians!
Sorry, but I do drive a Mercedes. And no I am not an idiot! And no you may not take it to any dealership that you want.
Want to know why? Because Mercedes like many other car manufacturers have computers that are not being sold to other garages. And if you were to do that then your warranty would go poof!
Mercedes has very very cleverly made it such that they offer everything. And if you take advantage of it then all is good. BUT, if you decide to use outside help. Well, then things not so good. Mercedes will charge you through the nose!
Mercedes is not the only car maker to do this. I have owned a BMW as well, and they are the same.
The reality is that the car makers don't want anyone but an authorized dealership to touch their cars.
So sure you can get your neighbor to fix your Mercedes. Just don't expect to take that Mercedes to a dealership for further repair. Mercedes will know and indicate that you have problems that will cost money.
Who's the wannabe now?
This what gets me with techies... They don't understand the legal framework.
Let's say I have a Mercedes, can I expect my car to be repaired by a Ford dealership? Or some dealership down the road? Answer NO. Mercedes and all of the car makers are very well in their right to repair their own cars. Just as people are very well in their right to choose whichever vehicle they want.
Apple has the right to choose whomever they want in their app store. Apple is not holding you back from buying another phone.
Microsoft on the other hand did hold people back. They said, if you sell a PC with another OS you will get worse conditions. Apple makes no such pre-conditions. This is also why I doubt Apple will be charged with being a monopoly. They have clear terms, and do not play favoritism. Apple does not say, "hey you make a RIM app and therefore I punish you." Apple says, "I don't care if you make RIM, Android or Windows apps, but if you make an iPhone app you will use the following tools."
You might not like the conditions, but you are able to choose a competitor. But if you choose Apple then STFU because you knew what you were getting into...
All I can say is Jackass!
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/07/business/canadian-lumber-penalized.html?pagewanted=1
Canadian Lumber penalized
http://www.google.ch/search?hl=en&ei=J0PES87yPOiXOP3XjdkP&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CAcQBSgA&q=American+steel+tariffs&spell=1
"American steel tarriffs"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2004/apr/28/brazil.usnews
"American Cotton Subsidies illegal"
My point is that America is neither better nor worse with respect to breaking the trade rules games.
But because of jackass's like you, you think that it is poor poor America that always suffers! BS!
Again I am not saying America is good, nor bad. America is dealt bad cards at times, and deals bad cards as well. So if you are going to complain please keep the argument to Google and the ISP's and not "America" and "Europe"
The person does not know how to do security...
Here is the problem. Kid A.... "Parent parent parent I need to get a project done and you shut down my computer at 10PM. And if I don't get this project done I will get an F!"
At this point the parent's security is blown to bits because they need to make an exception. And how often will this kid say, "parent parent I have a "project""
The easiest way to answer this is as follows:
1) Own the route to the Internet. That means you give or deny access to the Internet. Kids loose interest REAL quick if they can play with the Internet.
2) Let the kids have access to the computer anytime they want. WITH the exception that you can remotely log in at any time. Install VNC server and periodically log onto the machine and see what your kids are doing. Yes it is big brother, but it also keeps people honest when they know you can log in at any time.
3) NEVER give out the password. And that means you as the parent need remote access to the home network. Because imagine being out for the day, kid comes home and needs access to the Internet. They phone you, and unless you give them access you are going to have one angry kid. Thus make sure that you can remotely access your network, make the changes and move on...
Otherwise the rest is silly and life should be fine...
THANK-YOU...
I now surf with Firefox which does not download flash files by default. Ever since that my CPU has not gone to 90% to show some ad flipping oranges and bananas and asking which I would prefer...
I am not against ads. I am against ads that suck all of the horsepower out of my computer.
This is so full of crap!
What are all of those GPL applications? Those applications rely on copyright to keep things free! If you say anybody can copy anything, what would happen is that corporations would develop more draconian DRM that would make it virtually impossible to run any application unless a specific set of conditions are met. And what we would have is corporations stealing GPL, making a few tweaks, adding DRM and selling it.
I personally like copyrights because they give me the right to restrict or ensure that there are no restrictions. And guess what most of the world and people own copyrights because copyrights are easy to get and basically automatic.
If you don't like the big corporations and their copyright then don't buy any of their stuff. Buy the stuff from small independents on the Internet. But if you want stuff for free where you have to give nothing, then sorry dude you are a leech! I have donated money to wikipedia, and several smaller developers who develop free products or open source. I do so because those developers have given me something I can use and hence am quite happy to support their work.
In my early investing career I asked in a forum, "if somebody has a money making strategy why would they not use it themselves?"
Two answers:
1) They don't have enough capitalization and are trying to attract money.
2) Snakeoil...
1 does happen, albeit not that often, but it does. 2 is the more common answer.
I read part of his book since his book uses what one would call behavioral economics. A very interesting field. What I don't like about him is that he manipulates (read the book). And as such believes that manipulation is everything. I stopped reading half way because I hated his style. That is his flaw since not everybody can be manipulated. People can act irrationally. That he does not account for in his model, and is what I would think is a major flaw. It is sort of like saying, "Greece will be bailed out, Greece will be bailed out" Why? Because that the logical choice and would be according to this guy who does predictions.
What they all forget is Germany... Germany is now saying, "hey Greece head over to the IMF" It is at that point the financial community says, "ooops..." But if you are investing money it is a big f****g oops! And that big f****g oops is what causes financial companies to loose money...
Well... Not so quick... I kept the discussion at a higher level because people's eyes tend to glaze over when I talk details. I am a mechanical engineer...
But the argument you are making is exactly the reason why Apple does. This detail that automatics are X, and the other being a manual transmission with clutches is actually lost on people. They REALLY don't care about the minutia.
People get into cars, they step on the gas pedal, and they can either let the car shift or press a little button that lets them shift. For people this is called an automatic transmission...
Funny you mention automatic transmissions...
Have you looked at the transmission of a Ferrari? Or an Alfa Rameo? Drum roll...
Its an automatic! Ok, Ok, its a choose your gear automatic. Even in Formula 1 the days of clutching and shifting are long gone. These days most high end cars have something called tiptronic. My Mercedes has this. It is quite impressive actually. Its an automatic when you are lazy, but can be shifted when needed.
Thus this slagging of Apple is pretty pointless. Since if we were to mince our metaphors, Linux would have an automatic transmission by now...
You hit the nail on the head... What developers need to understand is that they [users] don't care about "openness" "extensibility" and all of the metaphors that developers like to throw around.
Users care about one thing... Can I use the product? Which interestingly is not one of the questions that developers seem to raise.