I think they are media consumption tools, not communication tools. That's obvious for the iPod, and we'll see for the iPad, though the fact it doesn't include a phone is already a sign.
As far as tinkering is concerned, I'm a bit puzzled about what today's young are left to tinker with. It used to be bikes/cars, then moved on to computers... nowadays that isn't even fun anymore because whatever one can do is so useless and ridiculous compared to the abundant commercial stuff. If you can't brag about we you do, especially at that age...
It is great fun to eat steak tartare or carpaccio with americans or english people at the table. their faces get actually bluer than the meat !
In my experience, there seems to be a correlation between tender, juicy, and good. there must be a cause for all 3 to be linked... I'm happy if we can pinpoint it, though leery of the ensuing artificial manipulation we can trust meat producers to engage in.
You might have noticed in my original post that I said "getting to a point where it makes economical and practical sense to have an electric". That kinda of implied that people are free to choose, and that circumstances vary. But don't let that distract you from your "freedom" rant.
not very recent, and does not answer the question of how often very long trips occur, but still, range does not seem to matter a whole lot.
I think the issue is more about getting to a point where it makes economical and practical sense to have an electric car for daily use, and rent a fuel car for longer trips.
Yep, someone collecting pictures of my child while he happens to be naked is sick. no harm done top the child though.
Nowhere near as someone who unclothes my child. Or worse.
Take away the age factor. Not all watchers of fringe porn (whatever your definition of fringe is: gang bang, rape...) actually want to act the films out. Same as not all watchers of car chases want to launch into a car chase, etc, etc....
I understand criminalizing the possession of child porn to kill the market for it, thus the demand for "actors".
I don't understand censoring virtual stuff. Or, someone needs to explain to me why murder, torture, American Idol are OK on TV any pretty much any hour, but not sex.
first, because if you start thinking you can do it, you're wrong. sooner or later you'll be in a very engrossing or difficult conversation, combined with a very dangerous incident, which you won't be able to handle.
second, because if some can, and some can't, everybody will think they are in the roxxor category.
third, because if some do it and it's kinda socially accepted, too many will do it. so none must do it.
with new regime (like Apple now) or regime changes: at the beginning, you get very good guys (like Jobs obviously is). THen after a while, fast or slow, it starts to deteriorate, because of hubris, lack of motivation, greed, changing circumstances that make yesterday's good strategy bad...
Apple are bringing 2 things to consumer electronics: - sexy design (put a Macbook next to a Dell... you've got the point) - ease of use (try and use an iPhone, then a WinMob phone) - plus an understanding that computing is no longer the preserve of Knowledge Workers, but their kids, parents, and other relatives... which is funny because they coined the phrase.
They are NOT bringing - features (Apple stuff doesn't do anything you can't do with windows. it only requires a lot less tinkering) - performance (same hardware, no faster OS) - quality (really, it's not better or worse than similarly-price wintel stuff... better than el-cheapo stuff, of course) - openness (they manage to be even worse than MS)
The issue is, it's very dependent on design, especially since Apple never creates a market, they barge in as late comers, to take advantage that early suppliers couldn't design nor market their way out of a 2-inch puddle. When someone else finally wakes up to the importance of design and ease of use, things will get hairy. Hopefully they'll have enough people locked in to iTunes and AppStore by then.
It's not that bad. For what most people do, Windows and Linux, OOo and MS Office... work pretty much the same.
What has MS worried, and why they want ot make their stuff essentially free for schools (or , as in NZ, a once-off national license, implying no marginal costs when a school chooses Windows and Office), is that all students for that school will know about Linux.
Hopefully, Linux will be good enough so that the students will be satisfied with it.
nasty comments probably not... some may want to try irony, in Socrates' sense: pretend you're interested but naive, and lead the guy into deeper discussion, until he realizes by himself what's wrong about his thinking/beliefs.
that approach is both very optimistic, and very arrogant. it requires that you be able to control and orient the conversation in a completely underhanded way, and it requires the natural result of the discussion to be the one you want.
I object to religion and general, and churches in particular, but I don't think segregating by religiosity (let alone by religion) would be a good think. I disagree with them, but I like knowing WHAT I'm disagreeing with. And sometimes I don't disagree quite as much as other times. Also, there a bunch of stuff/lifestyles that not only don't interest me, but bother or irk me... should we segregate everything and everyone, like those sad people who live in a very small peer group of like-minded people ?
Also, generally speaking, you don't want segregation: - it breeds intolerance. If we are not regularly exposed to different people, way of thoughts, philosophies, sexualities... we become bigots. Religion is one lifestyle choice, one culture... it's nothing so special that it should be treated differently. - it narrows the mind: some people are fascinated by things I don't care about, in favour of things I dislike, or the converse... occasional exposure to these gives me a chance to update my thoughts/feelings/attitude... or to keep them, but with good reason - segregation works both ways: if those idiots bigoted holier-than-thou religious types start to engage other people, may be THEY will also get something out of the ensuing discussion.
Once upon a time, the "service economy" was portrayed as flipping each other's burgers. Now that it's getting closer, it seems indeed to be about suing each other's asses off.
Flash vs Silverlight: don't worry, as soon as they feel the have enough traction, they'll do just that. I wouldn't know about the rest of you comment, I've yet to try Bing. It's good news if it's both a good and an ethical Search engine.
The one thing that puzzles me: why doesn't Apple go their own way ? On the purely Search part, they have the money, and probably the know-how, to do it. On the linked advertising part, they may pull that off too. Or buy into either of both businesses.
If I were them I would consider buying Yahoo for the search business, and to break into the non-Mac, non-iPhone market. If they're going up against Google, they probably need to match them in the end, which means search, ads, youtube, social site... All of which are fairly open to another large entrant, especially given how pathetic the attempts by MS and old media in those spaces have been ?
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by not getting boxed in in the middle lane to start with ?
by ducking the spike because you ARE alert and see the crash coming ?
by not driving when there's ice on the road (always a good idea)
Could you please elaborate on which parts of 7 use the .NET VM ? Or any non-natively compiled code for that matter ?
PS Ad Hominem is fail.
The point about going the extra step and, beyond the tinkering, thinking of making it usable is interesting.
I think they are media consumption tools, not communication tools. That's obvious for the iPod, and we'll see for the iPad, though the fact it doesn't include a phone is already a sign.
As far as tinkering is concerned, I'm a bit puzzled about what today's young are left to tinker with. It used to be bikes/cars, then moved on to computers... nowadays that isn't even fun anymore because whatever one can do is so useless and ridiculous compared to the abundant commercial stuff. If you can't brag about we you do, especially at that age...
It is great fun to eat steak tartare or carpaccio with americans or english people at the table. their faces get actually bluer than the meat !
In my experience, there seems to be a correlation between tender, juicy, and good. there must be a cause for all 3 to be linked... I'm happy if we can pinpoint it, though leery of the ensuing artificial manipulation we can trust meat producers to engage in.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/census/cps2k.htm
US, 2000 : population = 80% urban, 20% country.
You might have noticed in my original post that I said "getting to a point where it makes economical and practical sense to have an electric". That kinda of implied that people are free to choose, and that circumstances vary. But don't let that distract you from your "freedom" rant.
http://www.bts.gov/publications/bts_special_report/2007_10_03/html/table_02.html
not very recent, and does not answer the question of how often very long trips occur, but still, range does not seem to matter a whole lot.
I think the issue is more about getting to a point where it makes economical and practical sense to have an electric car for daily use, and rent a fuel car for longer trips.
a pizza or a car analogy would work better. Nobody understood that one.
... all posts less than 2...
come on slashcode !
Cowboyneal has worked out a system to automatically transfer all 2 posts where they belong.
Or someone sold out.
Yep, someone collecting pictures of my child while he happens to be naked is sick. no harm done top the child though.
Nowhere near as someone who unclothes my child. Or worse.
Take away the age factor. Not all watchers of fringe porn (whatever your definition of fringe is: gang bang, rape...) actually want to act the films out. Same as not all watchers of car chases want to launch into a car chase, etc, etc ....
I understand criminalizing the possession of child porn to kill the market for it, thus the demand for "actors".
I don't understand censoring virtual stuff. Or, someone needs to explain to me why murder, torture, American Idol are OK on TV any pretty much any hour, but not sex.
I wanted to look at your project... /. journal
- no link in the post
- no link on your blog
- no link on your
so, step 1 would be to let people know what you're working on.
I think it's about HP deriving most of its profits from printer ink.
nope. that's why you stop to do it.
it's not some people, it's all people.
first, because if you start thinking you can do it, you're wrong. sooner or later you'll be in a very engrossing or difficult conversation, combined with a very dangerous incident, which you won't be able to handle.
second, because if some can, and some can't, everybody will think they are in the roxxor category.
third, because if some do it and it's kinda socially accepted, too many will do it. so none must do it.
with new regime (like Apple now) or regime changes: at the beginning, you get very good guys (like Jobs obviously is). THen after a while, fast or slow, it starts to deteriorate, because of hubris, lack of motivation, greed, changing circumstances that make yesterday's good strategy bad...
Apple are bringing 2 things to consumer electronics:
- sexy design (put a Macbook next to a Dell... you've got the point)
- ease of use (try and use an iPhone, then a WinMob phone)
- plus an understanding that computing is no longer the preserve of Knowledge Workers, but their kids, parents, and other relatives... which is funny because they coined the phrase.
They are NOT bringing
- features (Apple stuff doesn't do anything you can't do with windows. it only requires a lot less tinkering)
- performance (same hardware, no faster OS)
- quality (really, it's not better or worse than similarly-price wintel stuff... better than el-cheapo stuff, of course)
- openness (they manage to be even worse than MS)
The issue is, it's very dependent on design, especially since Apple never creates a market, they barge in as late comers, to take advantage that early suppliers couldn't design nor market their way out of a 2-inch puddle. When someone else finally wakes up to the importance of design and ease of use, things will get hairy. Hopefully they'll have enough people locked in to iTunes and AppStore by then.
It's not that bad. For what most people do, Windows and Linux, OOo and MS Office... work pretty much the same.
What has MS worried, and why they want ot make their stuff essentially free for schools (or , as in NZ, a once-off national license, implying no marginal costs when a school chooses Windows and Office), is that all students for that school will know about Linux.
Hopefully, Linux will be good enough so that the students will be satisfied with it.
numbers and car plates.
I'd love to have 1.1.1.1, or 29.09.19.69 (my bday)
nasty comments probably not... some may want to try irony, in Socrates' sense: pretend you're interested but naive, and lead the guy into deeper discussion, until he realizes by himself what's wrong about his thinking/beliefs.
that approach is both very optimistic, and very arrogant. it requires that you be able to control and orient the conversation in a completely underhanded way, and it requires the natural result of the discussion to be the one you want.
if you can't see the difference between a bible, a mass, and a blog, I can't help you.
I object to religion and general, and churches in particular, but I don't think segregating by religiosity (let alone by religion) would be a good think. I disagree with them, but I like knowing WHAT I'm disagreeing with. And sometimes I don't disagree quite as much as other times. Also, there a bunch of stuff/lifestyles that not only don't interest me, but bother or irk me... should we segregate everything and everyone, like those sad people who live in a very small peer group of like-minded people ?
Also, generally speaking, you don't want segregation:
- it breeds intolerance. If we are not regularly exposed to different people, way of thoughts, philosophies, sexualities... we become bigots. Religion is one lifestyle choice, one culture... it's nothing so special that it should be treated differently.
- it narrows the mind: some people are fascinated by things I don't care about, in favour of things I dislike, or the converse... occasional exposure to these gives me a chance to update my thoughts/feelings/attitude... or to keep them, but with good reason
- segregation works both ways: if those idiots bigoted holier-than-thou religious types start to engage other people, may be THEY will also get something out of the ensuing discussion.
mmm.... a pyramid with a growth factor of 1... a "pole" scheme ?
i'm not sure there's that much air at 120.000 ft.
Once upon a time, the "service economy" was portrayed as flipping each other's burgers. Now that it's getting closer, it seems indeed to be about suing each other's asses off.
I'm wondering which is less greasy ?
Flash vs Silverlight: don't worry, as soon as they feel the have enough traction, they'll do just that. I wouldn't know about the rest of you comment, I've yet to try Bing. It's good news if it's both a good and an ethical Search engine.
The one thing that puzzles me: why doesn't Apple go their own way ? On the purely Search part, they have the money, and probably the know-how, to do it. On the linked advertising part, they may pull that off too. Or buy into either of both businesses.
If I were them I would consider buying Yahoo for the search business, and to break into the non-Mac, non-iPhone market. If they're going up against Google, they probably need to match them in the end, which means search, ads, youtube, social site... All of which are fairly open to another large entrant, especially given how pathetic the attempts by MS and old media in those spaces have been ?