while i agree with your original explanation of finding adequate profitability a barrier to developing accessibility tools, i think its a little ignorant to say any geek worth hiring can make said tools himself. there are plenty of geeks that arent incredible coders. thats like saying, why do you need a SCSI controller card, any geek worth his salt could build one. i cant code my way out of a shoebox, but i could build a SCSI card given the tools. eveyone has their niche. also consider this: if you have no hands (or no motor function to them) how are you supposed to create the tools in the first place, even with the know-how? not every business is your buisness.
perhaps... just perhaps his background (read: _not a stuffed shirt_ ) will allow him to say "look, this is a problem and if you dont realise it you're an idiot and these are the very real consequences" hes not beholden to any voter or company and has no political baggage. if the sky is falling he can definily say it is without worrying about constituents or political parties
sounds like you have a very limited pool of easily folding friends. while my friends may not agree on what they do want, none of us want McD, better to skip a meal than ingest a heart attack. same goes for WoW... i'll play no MMO before choosing to play that mind melting fecies... Hulu only claims to melt your brain because its clever advertizing, WoW really does, Blizzard reall _are_ aliens taking over the earth
agreed, if the content provider chooses to place the availability of their content as a higher priority than their rights to said content, then their loss, that's like leaving your front door open when you go on vacation.
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though the two are coming very close to merging in some way. there was a time when i would NEVER consider a console for games, but considering where the development has gone, i find very few appealing titles that are exclusive to the PC- most i can get on my console and not have to worry about compatibility, framerates etc. at an $800 price point you could get a PS3 and a netbook and do everything that gaming rig does, but do it better, have a laptop and a gaming rig and not really have to worry if the console breaks (not likely - save for the RROD on the360) you still can do your work on the laptop. it really is a valid counter point to a gaming rig, an i think to have a conversation about gaming hardware and not acknowledge the alternative is just ignorant. if you cant rationally consider that then you probably have no business spending $800 on a toy
i have the one around $500 and its great, only thing is i cant do spreadsheets, email,/. , etc with it. so thats my gaming rig but i still need a whitebox (like the one i'm typing on now) that doesnt always work for everyone
LeMans is not NASCAR buddy. there are plenty of "right turns" chicanes, hairpins etc.
also FYI the current F1 rules employ hybrid technology, they allow electric supplemental power (i believe up to 80hp) and regenerative braking. AFAIK most serious teams are using it.
a fort F250 isint a SUV, as you mentioned orignally, it is a truck. many "big rig" diesels average around 7.0 MPG with a gross vehicle weight of 80,000lbs.
not to rain on anyones pipe dream parade, but while i'd like to see ISPs doomed as much as the next guy, i begin to realize the "next guy" might work for an ISP and when he becomes unemployed, he starts looking to _my_ job.
i'm not saying that it necessarily would have worked i'm saying that his ideas werent taht far-fetched. sure he didnt get everything right, but he was definitely on to some good stuff. good pointing out though about the 2008 intel experiment, i think they used a directional antennae, IIRC.
it surprises me that people cant envision wireless power transfer, and free at that. its as though you've never seen lightning. just because you or i dont have the vision or ability to make it work dosent mean it cant be done!
wiki wireless power transmission. 2008: Intel reproduces Nikola Tesla's 1894 implementation and Prof. John Boys group's 1988's experiments by wirelessly powering a light bulb with 75% efficiency.
you do realize that many of the technologies mentioned in the article do exist today (like wireless video transmission, stock quotes etc.) but in 1903 few people if any could explain how to make that work. and the other ideas, about providing wireless electricity? those arent so far fetched either
2008: Intel reproduces Nikola Tesla's 1894 implementation and Prof. John Boys group's 1988's experiments by wirelessly powering a light bulb with 75% efficiency. wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transmission)
just because you and 99% of people dont understand something dosent make it a hoax. i mean hell look at how many people dont realise the internet isint some kind of truck.
How do we all feel about the possibility of Apple owning Twitter?
we feel like NOT being whipped into a mob frenzy.
"can Twitter decline an offer that is nearly three times their estimated worth?"
i could offer you $50 to sell me your genitals, and frankly thats probably 3 times their value, but i highly doubt you'd sell them to me for $50... OTOH, if you dont want em anymore...
any privately held company is under no compulsion to sell anything regardless of incentive.
by that logic just about all the consumer choices that are made are done to "brand ones self" our choices in what we wear, what we eat, what we eat, what we watch or listen to are motivated, in large part, to being able to claim a certain identity. a few examples:
starbucks
the Gap
Ferrari
indie music/film
this isint to pick on people who consume these things, but we have to recognize that these things are designed to accomplish the same task as the $3.99 ringtone.
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while i agree with your original explanation of finding adequate profitability a barrier to developing accessibility tools, i think its a little ignorant to say any geek worth hiring can make said tools himself. there are plenty of geeks that arent incredible coders. thats like saying, why do you need a SCSI controller card, any geek worth his salt could build one. i cant code my way out of a shoebox, but i could build a SCSI card given the tools. eveyone has their niche. also consider this: if you have no hands (or no motor function to them) how are you supposed to create the tools in the first place, even with the know-how? not every business is your buisness.
perhaps... just perhaps his background (read: _not a stuffed shirt_ ) will allow him to say "look, this is a problem and if you dont realise it you're an idiot and these are the very real consequences" hes not beholden to any voter or company and has no political baggage. if the sky is falling he can definily say it is without worrying about constituents or political parties
Oblig Star Wars:
"If money is all that you love, then that's what you'll receive"
you cant be serious... do you actually believe in the legal system or do you just believe in manipulating others rights away from them?
yeah, but do-overs go both ways. they can change horses because the RIAA wants to change jurys.
no, hes apparently billions in debt!
sounds like you have a very limited pool of easily folding friends. while my friends may not agree on what they do want, none of us want McD, better to skip a meal than ingest a heart attack. same goes for WoW... i'll play no MMO before choosing to play that mind melting fecies... Hulu only claims to melt your brain because its clever advertizing, WoW really does, Blizzard reall _are_ aliens taking over the earth
agreed, if the content provider chooses to place the availability of their content as a higher priority than their rights to said content, then their loss, that's like leaving your front door open when you go on vacation.
2 words... Game Stop.
though the two are coming very close to merging in some way. there was a time when i would NEVER consider a console for games, but considering where the development has gone, i find very few appealing titles that are exclusive to the PC- most i can get on my console and not have to worry about compatibility, framerates etc. at an $800 price point you could get a PS3 and a netbook and do everything that gaming rig does, but do it better, have a laptop and a gaming rig and not really have to worry if the console breaks (not likely - save for the RROD on the360) you still can do your work on the laptop. it really is a valid counter point to a gaming rig, an i think to have a conversation about gaming hardware and not acknowledge the alternative is just ignorant. if you cant rationally consider that then you probably have no business spending $800 on a toy
as does the ps3, ya know.
i have the one around $500 and its great, only thing is i cant do spreadsheets, email, /. , etc with it. so thats my gaming rig but i still need a whitebox (like the one i'm typing on now) that doesnt always work for everyone
Yeah but can it run windows7?
i kid i kid!
LeMans is not NASCAR buddy. there are plenty of "right turns" chicanes, hairpins etc.
also FYI the current F1 rules employ hybrid technology, they allow electric supplemental power (i believe up to 80hp) and regenerative braking. AFAIK most serious teams are using it.
all your bases are belong to primes.
a fort F250 isint a SUV, as you mentioned orignally, it is a truck. many "big rig" diesels average around 7.0 MPG with a gross vehicle weight of 80,000lbs.
not to rain on anyones pipe dream parade, but while i'd like to see ISPs doomed as much as the next guy, i begin to realize the "next guy" might work for an ISP and when he becomes unemployed, he starts looking to _my_ job.
be careful what you wish for.
i'm not saying that it necessarily would have worked i'm saying that his ideas werent taht far-fetched. sure he didnt get everything right, but he was definitely on to some good stuff. good pointing out though about the 2008 intel experiment, i think they used a directional antennae, IIRC.
it surprises me that people cant envision wireless power transfer, and free at that. its as though you've never seen lightning. just because you or i dont have the vision or ability to make it work dosent mean it cant be done!
wiki wireless power transmission.
2008: Intel reproduces Nikola Tesla's 1894 implementation and Prof. John Boys group's 1988's experiments by wirelessly powering a light bulb with 75% efficiency.
very. cool. stuff.
you do realize that many of the technologies mentioned in the article do exist today (like wireless video transmission, stock quotes etc.) but in 1903 few people if any could explain how to make that work. and the other ideas, about providing wireless electricity? those arent so far fetched either
2008: Intel reproduces Nikola Tesla's 1894 implementation and Prof. John Boys group's 1988's experiments by wirelessly powering a light bulb with 75% efficiency. wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transmission)
just because you and 99% of people dont understand something dosent make it a hoax. i mean hell look at how many people dont realise the internet isint some kind of truck.
isin't being pedantic like being redundant, only more annoying?
How do we all feel about the possibility of Apple owning Twitter?
we feel like NOT being whipped into a mob frenzy.
"can Twitter decline an offer that is nearly three times their estimated worth?"
i could offer you $50 to sell me your genitals, and frankly thats probably 3 times their value, but i highly doubt you'd sell them to me for $50... OTOH, if you dont want em anymore...
any privately held company is under no compulsion to sell anything regardless of incentive.
because, yeah, democracy works... /sarcasm
by that logic just about all the consumer choices that are made are done to "brand ones self" our choices in what we wear, what we eat, what we eat, what we watch or listen to are motivated, in large part, to being able to claim a certain identity. a few examples:
starbucks
the Gap
Ferrari
indie music/film
this isint to pick on people who consume these things, but we have to recognize that these things are designed to accomplish the same task as the $3.99 ringtone.