I challenge you to name another tech company that innovates like Apple—with game-changing technologies like the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, and iPad
False challenge. none of those products are game changing in and of themselves. None of the products mentioned are technical innovations, they are all copies from someone else's work. These products are are examples of terrific marketing and and understanding that modern life is becoming more about style over substance.
Apple doesn't really sell technology products, they sell a "style" and an "appearance of superiority".
Apple is very good at giving people what they want. Unfortunately it seems that people these days want selfishness and ego stroking. The very fact that they put "i" infront of all their product names demonstrates their selling of selfishness.
eg. iPod - a pod of sound designed to keep others out of your bubble and away from the "i"
a perfect mechanical system will eventually fail. Moving parts suck.
Of course, there is no such thing as a perfect software system (well other than int main(void) { while(1); return 0; } -- that system does exactly what it should and will never stop).
I work with plenty of geniuses originally from India/Bangladesh. I've gone to school with Indians of average Intelligence, and I've had to deal with less than inspired Indians over the telephone.
There is only one constant between the three groups... poor English grammar.
The only brown people I know with a good grasp of English grammar were either born in this country (canada), or raised from 3yo.
Of course, one of my early software mentors is the exception that proves the rule. He is an extremely eloquent speaker in multiple languages; not a hint of an accent.
One thing that is an absolute must in dealing with ESL folk is patience. I can't speak another language other than English, so i have mad respect for anyone who can learn a second language. If they are willing to take the time to learn my language so that they can communicate with me, the least I can do is be patient and give them the time they need to communicate as best they can.
All this is of course anecdotal. Im old enough to know that stereotypes are just another assumption (making an ass of u and me). One other anecdotal finding about Indians that I have found is their passion for doing a good job. I think that this passion totally outweighs any communication issues.
So a farmer has an apple orchard with a very exclusive hybrid apple being grown. the farmer sells the apples and will not prosecute anyone for planting the seeds contained within those sold apples... but you can still safely assume that this farmer "controls the fate" of the new hybrid apple
You're side-stepping the question. How many of those 90% would have bought it if it had had unbreakable DRM (and, on a related note, how many of the 10% would have not bought it if it had unbreakable DRM)?
I think you're STILL side stepping the question.
If you could eliminate piracy from ALL games, how many people would start buying?
If a single game is uncrackable DRM'd, pirates will simply move to a different game, but if ALL games were uncrackable DRM'd, well they'd either have to stop playing or start paying.
Here in Canada, we have Chapters as our local book megastore.
I rarely visit now a-days because I'm nearly 100% ebooked... however, the few times I have been in the store is always PACKED, with extremely long lines at the checkout counter.
The days of mom-and-pop bookstores will not be returning any time soon to Canada.
According to this page (http://www.ecolibris.net/bookpublish.asp) and then doing some maths, around 7250.
Since Larsson's books are so big, I would up that number to 10000 to 14000.
The page also says that there is 8.85lbs of carbon footprint per book... so thats nearly 9 million lbs of carbon footprint per book (again... lets go to 15->18 mil lbs for Larsson's books).
Thats about 900 to 1800 cars worth of CO2.
Other sites on the internets claim that 1 ebook reader = 22.5 books as far as carbon footprint goes... hopefully people read 23 or more books on their kindles.
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I challenge you to name another tech company that innovates like Apple—with game-changing technologies like the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, and iPad
False challenge. none of those products are game changing in and of themselves. None of the products mentioned are technical innovations, they are all copies from someone else's work. These products are are examples of terrific marketing and and understanding that modern life is becoming more about style over substance.
Apple doesn't really sell technology products, they sell a "style" and an "appearance of superiority".
Apple is very good at giving people what they want. Unfortunately it seems that people these days want selfishness and ego stroking. The very fact that they put "i" infront of all their product names demonstrates their selling of selfishness.
eg. iPod - a pod of sound designed to keep others out of your bubble and away from the "i"
-- posted from my apple iPad.
thats ok, my mom will get me a sammich afterwards.
not quite, but very close actually.
a perfect mechanical system will eventually fail. Moving parts suck.
Of course, there is no such thing as a perfect software system (well other than int main(void) { while(1); return 0; } -- that system does exactly what it should and will never stop).
20mpg? Dude that must suck to be putting so much gas in your car.
We are in the second decade of the third millennium, we should have better gas mileage than 20mpg for city driving.
I work with plenty of geniuses originally from India/Bangladesh. I've gone to school with Indians of average Intelligence, and I've had to deal with less than inspired Indians over the telephone.
There is only one constant between the three groups... poor English grammar.
The only brown people I know with a good grasp of English grammar were either born in this country (canada), or raised from 3yo.
Of course, one of my early software mentors is the exception that proves the rule. He is an extremely eloquent speaker in multiple languages; not a hint of an accent.
One thing that is an absolute must in dealing with ESL folk is patience. I can't speak another language other than English, so i have mad respect for anyone who can learn a second language. If they are willing to take the time to learn my language so that they can communicate with me, the least I can do is be patient and give them the time they need to communicate as best they can.
All this is of course anecdotal. Im old enough to know that stereotypes are just another assumption (making an ass of u and me). One other anecdotal finding about Indians that I have found is their passion for doing a good job. I think that this passion totally outweighs any communication issues.
Is it just me, or do other people think of a "flux capacitor" whenever someone mentions the words "catalytic converter" ?
ONE POINT TWENTY ONE GIGAWATTS!
It's not, though. He didn't get the humour, and TFGP makes no mention of Achilles. He did, however, mention Linux.
Sadly, this kind of reportage is absolutely in the mainstream of British journalism, where tabloid mentality is king
England: Home of the degenerate English.
you literally dropped a bomb on that metaphor.
if literally means metaphorically, can we let metaphorically mean literally? This is metaphorically speaking of course.
any decent hacker knows that users are simply one more (error prone) object to satisfy the needs of the software!
Shes not a queue, shes a stack.
A girl I rented out
How much?
yes you can.
analogy time.
So a farmer has an apple orchard with a very exclusive hybrid apple being grown. the farmer sells the apples and will not prosecute anyone for planting the seeds contained within those sold apples... but you can still safely assume that this farmer "controls the fate" of the new hybrid apple
end analogy
the databass nose everything!
damn having sex with your mom last weekend kicked ass!
Can you do masturbation wrong? I think I do it ok.
You're side-stepping the question. How many of those 90% would have bought it if it had had unbreakable DRM (and, on a related note, how many of the 10% would have not bought it if it had unbreakable DRM)?
I think you're STILL side stepping the question.
If you could eliminate piracy from ALL games, how many people would start buying?
If a single game is uncrackable DRM'd, pirates will simply move to a different game, but if ALL games were uncrackable DRM'd, well they'd either have to stop playing or start paying.
Here in Canada, we have Chapters as our local book megastore.
I rarely visit now a-days because I'm nearly 100% ebooked... however, the few times I have been in the store is always PACKED, with extremely long lines at the checkout counter.
The days of mom-and-pop bookstores will not be returning any time soon to Canada.
Multi Negatives never don't not mean what you don't think they don't not mean.
you ment "plz" right?
Yeah, I guess the next question is how many people pirated the book (and read it).
9 million lbs of carbon footprint per book
Sorry, I meant 9 million lbs of carbon footprint period... Fixed that for myself.
According to this page (http://www.ecolibris.net/bookpublish.asp) and then doing some maths, around 7250. Since Larsson's books are so big, I would up that number to 10000 to 14000. The page also says that there is 8.85lbs of carbon footprint per book... so thats nearly 9 million lbs of carbon footprint per book (again... lets go to 15->18 mil lbs for Larsson's books). Thats about 900 to 1800 cars worth of CO2. Other sites on the internets claim that 1 ebook reader = 22.5 books as far as carbon footprint goes... hopefully people read 23 or more books on their kindles.