I must say, hearing that Raphsody developed their DRM from a Real technology surprised me. It does not change the fact that Real has too bad of a history to ever gain my trust again.
"I know I just stabbed that guy with this knife, but really, I've changed. Now I'm cutting pies with it. Here, let me cut a pie for you!"
Riiiiight. I'd go along with that.
Yeah, that's it. We want people to buy our stuff, so we're going to annoy the s%!t out of them until they do! The reason we want to get around commercials is because advertising today is ANNOYING and invasive, not because we mind hearing about products. I'm sure that most people would not mind hearing about products that they are interested in IF it was on their terms! Those who don't want to be advertised to ever most likely will not ever have advertising work on them, so why bother?!
I hate hearing such business-evolved terms such as "real estate" mentioned while talking about something that is so much larger than humanity. It makes me feel that our race is rather petty. lol
Nevertheless, it's the race we're a part of. So, any ideas as to if any particular location on Earth will have a better show?
There's really no wonder why this tactic works. The user ir provided with the ability to actually get hands-on experience with the product (one of the games from Arcade) and is able to play a decent amount of it. After this experience, much like iTunes, the user is able to simply hit a few buttons, enter a few bits of data (if that) and have the full version of the game they just became addicted to within minutes!
This is a much better system since the user has to do nearly nothing except enjoy playing a game in order to be sold on the product. It is truely a new era: They already purchased something they wanted (an Xbox 360), now they are doing something they wanted to do (playing a game), and are able to obtain that same game without leaving their home!
This will be interesting to see if this provides as much space as the Firefoxextension, Gmail Space provides. The way it works, apparently, is to allow access to the file attachment method used by Gmail, providing an interface which appears to be like a file management interface. Very useful!
Hopefully Google will be good and provided enough space to make hacks like this obsolete. Not that they are bad, just inconvenient!
No joke! Did they suddenly become standards compliant? If not, that is really bad news. It looks great, but if I can't design a website using web standards and have IE7 display it properly, then it's no good to me as a developer. What's the point? Ooo, new pretty interface that looks nearly EXACTLY like Firefox, but with a neat tab preview thingy... but does not display web pages worth poop. Sorry, did I miss something here? Isn't the point of a browser to be able to correctly display the majority of web pages currently on the web?
Not a flame, just a major concern.
Yeah, robotics is intelligent design, so it does not belong in a classroom either.
That makes no sense. If a being, like you and I, is discovered to be creating us, that is just as much science as us manipulating genes. It is a theory just as much as evolution is. Which might be a case to say that evolution does not belong in the classroom. Which brings us to the question, what defines "science."
Official declairation: I think both should be allowed in a classroom and both should be declaired a theory, since they both are.
"DMCA" is just one letter away (and only moving that letter up one position in the alphabet at that!) from being "ACME" spelled backwards. There's gotta be a large conspiracy here somewhere!:p
I'm certain that 100 years ago mapping the stars was an insane concept. Today, we're able to do it to a more greater extent than we were even able to conceive 100 years ago.
Admittedly the number of stars have not changed, but the distance we are able to see has. This means that there are a lot more stars to map now than there was 100 years ago...
Where am I going with this? The stars to astronomers, as information is to Google, have become increasingly complex over time but so has our ability to sort them out.
I can only assume that over the next 50 or even 100 years we will have developed new methods of sorting data. Once upon a time, the Dewey decimal system was "da bomb." Now, a SQL database would be able to dig through that information in about two seconds instead of a minute or two (although it may be much less in some cases).
So it may be a heck of a lot less than 300 years as time goes by. I just hope we DON'T stand still technologically.:/
I never envisioned The Rock playing Sarge. It's an interesting move and I'd certainly like to see how it plays out. I can see it from a few angles but not from other. After reading the book series, one gets a little more insight into the characters (though admittedly not much);)
I'm hoping that this poor move that Microsoft is about to make will only make people see more clearly the frantic attempts that M$ has been making to put themselves ahead. The application of this technology will only serve to further shelter users from being able to share their data with non-M$ companies, thus making that company much harder to work with in a network of companies if none of the other companies use this technology.
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I must say, hearing that Raphsody developed their DRM from a Real technology surprised me. It does not change the fact that Real has too bad of a history to ever gain my trust again. "I know I just stabbed that guy with this knife, but really, I've changed. Now I'm cutting pies with it. Here, let me cut a pie for you!" Riiiiight. I'd go along with that.
Yeah, that's it. We want people to buy our stuff, so we're going to annoy the s%!t out of them until they do! The reason we want to get around commercials is because advertising today is ANNOYING and invasive, not because we mind hearing about products. I'm sure that most people would not mind hearing about products that they are interested in IF it was on their terms! Those who don't want to be advertised to ever most likely will not ever have advertising work on them, so why bother?!
I hate hearing such business-evolved terms such as "real estate" mentioned while talking about something that is so much larger than humanity. It makes me feel that our race is rather petty. lol Nevertheless, it's the race we're a part of. So, any ideas as to if any particular location on Earth will have a better show?
There's really no wonder why this tactic works. The user ir provided with the ability to actually get hands-on experience with the product (one of the games from Arcade) and is able to play a decent amount of it. After this experience, much like iTunes, the user is able to simply hit a few buttons, enter a few bits of data (if that) and have the full version of the game they just became addicted to within minutes! This is a much better system since the user has to do nearly nothing except enjoy playing a game in order to be sold on the product. It is truely a new era: They already purchased something they wanted (an Xbox 360), now they are doing something they wanted to do (playing a game), and are able to obtain that same game without leaving their home!
This will be interesting to see if this provides as much space as the Firefox extension, Gmail Space provides. The way it works, apparently, is to allow access to the file attachment method used by Gmail, providing an interface which appears to be like a file management interface. Very useful!
Hopefully Google will be good and provided enough space to make hacks like this obsolete. Not that they are bad, just inconvenient!
No joke! Did they suddenly become standards compliant? If not, that is really bad news. It looks great, but if I can't design a website using web standards and have IE7 display it properly, then it's no good to me as a developer. What's the point? Ooo, new pretty interface that looks nearly EXACTLY like Firefox, but with a neat tab preview thingy... but does not display web pages worth poop. Sorry, did I miss something here? Isn't the point of a browser to be able to correctly display the majority of web pages currently on the web? Not a flame, just a major concern.
Yeah, robotics is intelligent design, so it does not belong in a classroom either.
That makes no sense. If a being, like you and I, is discovered to be creating us, that is just as much science as us manipulating genes. It is a theory just as much as evolution is. Which might be a case to say that evolution does not belong in the classroom. Which brings us to the question, what defines "science."
Official declairation: I think both should be allowed in a classroom and both should be declaired a theory, since they both are.
"DMCA" is just one letter away (and only moving that letter up one position in the alphabet at that!) from being "ACME" spelled backwards. There's gotta be a large conspiracy here somewhere! :p
lol - more well spent government funding. :)
I do think that the research regarding this color recognition business was a good move though!
I'm certain that 100 years ago mapping the stars was an insane concept. Today, we're able to do it to a more greater extent than we were even able to conceive 100 years ago.
:/
Admittedly the number of stars have not changed, but the distance we are able to see has. This means that there are a lot more stars to map now than there was 100 years ago...
Where am I going with this? The stars to astronomers, as information is to Google, have become increasingly complex over time but so has our ability to sort them out.
I can only assume that over the next 50 or even 100 years we will have developed new methods of sorting data. Once upon a time, the Dewey decimal system was "da bomb." Now, a SQL database would be able to dig through that information in about two seconds instead of a minute or two (although it may be much less in some cases).
So it may be a heck of a lot less than 300 years as time goes by. I just hope we DON'T stand still technologically.
Amen!
Yeah, but that's only because they were unable to get sharks with laser beams attached to their heads... they settled for flashlights.
I never envisioned The Rock playing Sarge. It's an interesting move and I'd certainly like to see how it plays out. I can see it from a few angles but not from other. After reading the book series, one gets a little more insight into the characters (though admittedly not much) ;)
Hmm, I noticed that the quote said "put to work for us." Perhaps he meant "for use?" That just sounded wrong.
I'm hoping that this poor move that Microsoft is about to make will only make people see more clearly the frantic attempts that M$ has been making to put themselves ahead. The application of this technology will only serve to further shelter users from being able to share their data with non-M$ companies, thus making that company much harder to work with in a network of companies if none of the other companies use this technology.
Another bad idea brought to you by Microsoft...