The most recent issue of Consumer Reports gave Apple by far the best scores in customer service for their computers. They got basically double the points of the next best company.
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treating us as part of the effort of making the movie instead of $TARGET_DEMOGRAPHIC -- is really damn cool.
You don't think Whedon knows this? People who want to feel like they are involved in the making of the movie ARE the demographic Whedon is going after.
No. They are partnering with a marketing company, meaning that when you verify your data the marketinrg company will sell it to companies and spammers and the like. That way the government can get the marketing company to create the database for free, and the marketing company gets all its data on customers accurate under penalty of law, which it would not otherwise get. It is really a win-win for both. The only one who loses here is me, being a 20 year old male and such.
Except for the cash isn't bigger when done smartly because they never succeed. Can anyone name even one example of a successful stealth startup?
That being said, his point about the first-mover advantage being huge is bullshit. Look at Google. They entered a market that was already at 100% saturation and they are now dominating it.
Except for that if we were trying to make them surrender, why would we censor stories about the bomb? If we were trying to make them surrender then we would want as many people to know about it as possible. I always believed your point of view, but this new story published today is definitely evidence that that point of view may be revisionist history.
This is ridiculous. Websites that update their content are usually topic, like blogs and news sources. The New York Times has to update its content every day because there has been new news. Reading yesterday's news is not as valuable as reading today's news. However, porn is not topical, and thus can be viewed again and again. Porn doesn't really get any worse if you have already seen it before. It is similar to music. People listen to the same music over and over without ever getting bored of it because it is entertainment that isn't topical. How is a favorite porn site any different than a mozart CD or my Star Wars DVDs?
1. By viewing the images of exploited children you are creating a demand. Higher demand means more kids life's are ruined to create more pictures.
Except that this doesn't apply in a post scarcity economy. If you buy apples, then you create demand for more apples. But by your logic then if you download music from a p2p site then you are creating demand for more music and thus more music will be created. However, in reality it is very hard to determine if this is the case, and if anything the opposite seems more likely to be true. But in any event, this many didn't 'use up' any of the pictures so by downloading them there aren't any less pictures for others to download, so no new ones need to be created.
I agree completely. If I have pictures of airplanes on my computer, it isn't the equivalent of hijacking an airplane and flying it into the world trade centers. If I have pictures of my front lawn, that isn't the same as making a fertilizer bomb and blowing up the federal building. But for some reason having pictures of naked kids means that you are going to commit child rape. Granted, I think kiddy porn is disgusting myself, but 20 years in prison seems a bit excessive. People who rape actual kids get less than that.
I just finished his book Hackers and Painters last night, and I highly recommend it. It has given me a much better understanding of economics, and has made me understand the conservative economic point of view much better. Of course I am also in the process of starting a startup, which is exactly what Graham recommends as the fastest way to wealth (for the most talented 1%, but indulge me here for a bit), so I may be a bit biased. But I do this that it is worthwhile for everyone to read, both for the life/economic advice as well as his technical insight into programming languages. Of course you should give it to your boss to read after you finish with it, as it is really in large part to help non-nerds understand nerds.
Actually, half of the people who were on the Macintosh engineering team didn't have engineering degrees. Maybe it has changed recently, but I would suspect that regardless of what the website says there are still a lot of people who don't have engineering degrees. My source here is The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki.
As someone who dropped out of college last fall to start my own company like Steve did, this makes me really happy that he said that. That being said, it was also totally a douchebag thing to do. Not exactly out of character for Steve though. For those who don't know, around half of Apple's engineers don't have college degrees in engineering.
Honestly, Steve is my hero, and this is why. The guy didn't have a product, great technical understand, business skills, personal or social skills. And if he was a visionary, then what was his vision? No, Steve Jobs made his money as a philosopher. He had the philosophy that every computer should be simple enough for the average human to use, and it should be beautiful. Of all the things Steve has fucked up over the years, this one philosophy has remained, and he has carried Apple on this alone.
A few weeks ago Larry Lessig gave a great talk along with Jeff Tweedy at the New York Public Library. In it Lessig talks a lot about Brazil and how they are totally nuts about open source, and how it isn't only overweight nerds with ponytails who are into it (his words, not mine). Definitely worth watching, there is some great new material that wasn't in his book Free Culture or anywhere else that I know of.
Perhaps one could create a program that could be used in real casinos to automatically calculate the odds. The player would type in their own cards on a device in their pocket, and a second person would keep track of the pot and the community cards. Thus after the player was done entering their own cards, they could concentrate purely on watching for tells instead of calculating the odds at the same time. The data would be displayed to the player secretly through glases that projected an image over the persons eyes. This would actually work, because Poker is the one time where it isn't suspicious to be wearing sunglasses indoors.
Most reasonable environmentalists are for nanotech, they just want products to be tested to make sure they don't harm humans before products are shipped. Is that really so unreasonable? My dad is an environmentalist, and he was telling me that he might right a syndicated column on nanotech and the environment in the future, so maybe I can get him to do a/. interview at some point.
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The most recent issue of Consumer Reports gave Apple by far the best scores in customer service for their computers. They got basically double the points of the next best company.
treating us as part of the effort of making the movie instead of $TARGET_DEMOGRAPHIC -- is really damn cool.
You don't think Whedon knows this? People who want to feel like they are involved in the making of the movie ARE the demographic Whedon is going after.
If no one uses Microsoft's solution then it won't be incompatible. All you have to do is show a little self restraint.
Actually it is true. However what they don't tell you was that the graphite from the pencils got into the lungs of the cosmonauts and killed them.
they better not name it Kikipedia
I'm jewish you insensitive clod
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Uncle Sam: G00d tuch or b4d tuch??
No. They are partnering with a marketing company, meaning that when you verify your data the marketinrg company will sell it to companies and spammers and the like. That way the government can get the marketing company to create the database for free, and the marketing company gets all its data on customers accurate under penalty of law, which it would not otherwise get. It is really a win-win for both. The only one who loses here is me, being a 20 year old male and such.
You must be new around here. OS X on Intel isn't faster, it's snappier.
That being said, his point about the first-mover advantage being huge is bullshit. Look at Google. They entered a market that was already at 100% saturation and they are now dominating it.
Except for that if we were trying to make them surrender, why would we censor stories about the bomb? If we were trying to make them surrender then we would want as many people to know about it as possible. I always believed your point of view, but this new story published today is definitely evidence that that point of view may be revisionist history.
This is ridiculous. Websites that update their content are usually topic, like blogs and news sources. The New York Times has to update its content every day because there has been new news. Reading yesterday's news is not as valuable as reading today's news. However, porn is not topical, and thus can be viewed again and again. Porn doesn't really get any worse if you have already seen it before. It is similar to music. People listen to the same music over and over without ever getting bored of it because it is entertainment that isn't topical. How is a favorite porn site any different than a mozart CD or my Star Wars DVDs?
1. By viewing the images of exploited children you are creating a demand. Higher demand means more kids life's are ruined to create more pictures.
Except that this doesn't apply in a post scarcity economy. If you buy apples, then you create demand for more apples. But by your logic then if you download music from a p2p site then you are creating demand for more music and thus more music will be created. However, in reality it is very hard to determine if this is the case, and if anything the opposite seems more likely to be true. But in any event, this many didn't 'use up' any of the pictures so by downloading them there aren't any less pictures for others to download, so no new ones need to be created.
By your logic P2P should be not only legal but praiseworthy.
I agree completely. If I have pictures of airplanes on my computer, it isn't the equivalent of hijacking an airplane and flying it into the world trade centers. If I have pictures of my front lawn, that isn't the same as making a fertilizer bomb and blowing up the federal building. But for some reason having pictures of naked kids means that you are going to commit child rape. Granted, I think kiddy porn is disgusting myself, but 20 years in prison seems a bit excessive. People who rape actual kids get less than that.
I just finished his book Hackers and Painters last night, and I highly recommend it. It has given me a much better understanding of economics, and has made me understand the conservative economic point of view much better. Of course I am also in the process of starting a startup, which is exactly what Graham recommends as the fastest way to wealth (for the most talented 1%, but indulge me here for a bit), so I may be a bit biased. But I do this that it is worthwhile for everyone to read, both for the life/economic advice as well as his technical insight into programming languages. Of course you should give it to your boss to read after you finish with it, as it is really in large part to help non-nerds understand nerds.
Any idiot can post to K5 and most idiots do.
Blogs are to nothing as Napster is to music
Yeah, it sure sounds like they're heading for extinction to me.
Actually, half of the people who were on the Macintosh engineering team didn't have engineering degrees. Maybe it has changed recently, but I would suspect that regardless of what the website says there are still a lot of people who don't have engineering degrees. My source here is The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki.
Honestly, Steve is my hero, and this is why. The guy didn't have a product, great technical understand, business skills, personal or social skills. And if he was a visionary, then what was his vision? No, Steve Jobs made his money as a philosopher. He had the philosophy that every computer should be simple enough for the average human to use, and it should be beautiful. Of all the things Steve has fucked up over the years, this one philosophy has remained, and he has carried Apple on this alone.
A few weeks ago Larry Lessig gave a great talk along with Jeff Tweedy at the New York Public Library. In it Lessig talks a lot about Brazil and how they are totally nuts about open source, and how it isn't only overweight nerds with ponytails who are into it (his words, not mine). Definitely worth watching, there is some great new material that wasn't in his book Free Culture or anywhere else that I know of.
Perhaps one could create a program that could be used in real casinos to automatically calculate the odds. The player would type in their own cards on a device in their pocket, and a second person would keep track of the pot and the community cards. Thus after the player was done entering their own cards, they could concentrate purely on watching for tells instead of calculating the odds at the same time. The data would be displayed to the player secretly through glases that projected an image over the persons eyes. This would actually work, because Poker is the one time where it isn't suspicious to be wearing sunglasses indoors.
since when does PG-13 mean 15+? If PG-13 is 15+, then I guess that means I still shouldn't be allowed to see any R movies (age 20).
Most reasonable environmentalists are for nanotech, they just want products to be tested to make sure they don't harm humans before products are shipped. Is that really so unreasonable? My dad is an environmentalist, and he was telling me that he might right a syndicated column on nanotech and the environment in the future, so maybe I can get him to do a /. interview at some point.
is there a way that I can get a picocell for my house? Requirements are that it has to cheap, small, and legal (or at least not a felony.
Actually, I think your reality is too far from the joke to be funny.