You can never have too much money. Now that their idea man Steve Jobs is gone, they're probably going to have to ramp up on R&D. They'll probably try TV next, but there is still so much room to innovate in new markets.
For starters, Apple could revolutionize the kitchen. Or the car. There is so much opportunity, and entering new markets cost money. Look how much the telcos have to pay for infrastructure. Or Tesla pays for vehicle manufacturing.
Apple, save your money, watch some Sci-Fi movies, focus on innovating what comes next, and you'll have the cash to make it happen.
Not if the little power plant is in your backyard, lines underground. After experiencing a total cascading blackout here in Southern California from some dude in the desert a thousand miles away, that's what I want! Just enough juice to run my home and cars. That's all I want.
They really need to come up with a solution for more intelligent advertising. I for one would gladly opt into providing some central database with my basic demo/interest data, so when I turn on the TV I don't have to see Tampax and Viagra commercials.
I don't understand this. The Hollywood studios create the content. They have it. So they will always make money selling it, regardless of who is distributing it. In fact, iTunes is really just a middle man who distributes it and takes a "distribution fee". But there is nothing stopping Hollywood from getting together, hiring some tech guys like us, creating their own iTunes, and distributing it directly to consumers themselves.
Already "exists"? Hardly. No, the author explains the market demand for a universal service that offers *everything* anytime, anywhere, easily and instantly. Reasonably priced, buy it, own it forever. In other words, getting rid of all the crap artificial controls they attempt to put in place to limit the market, and give the market what it actually wants.
If you go to iTunes, Netflix, etc... you can only find a fraction of what exists, and rarely when you want it. Striking "deals" for content licensing is so ridiculous, particularly with Hollywood, it prevents a real solution from ever becoming a reality.
The solution is innovation, not legislation or litigation.
Why the hell do only lobbies get legislation that benefits them? It's the PEOPLE who should be getting laws that expand freedom and make OUR lives better. It's time for us to push back, and move this the other way, starting with the Fair Use and Personal Internet Freedom Act - http://wh.gov/K1L
"While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response"
People like to focus on right and wrong, but no one is scrutinizing whether a "legislative response" is EVEN NECESSARY at all. Show me data, independent verifiable data of the "losses". The GAO has already concluded:
"Three widely cited U.S. government estimates of economic losses resulting from counterfeiting cannot be substantiated due to the absence of underlying studies."
Source: www.gao.gov/new.items/d10423.pdf
As reported by Ars: http://ars/technica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/us-government-finally-admits-most-piracy-estimates-are-bogus.ars
This industry over blows perceived threats of technology, just as it did with the VCR and the MP3 player. The solution is innovation, not legislation or litigation.
Since it is about money, I had an idea. Why do we have to limit our votes to a person? Why can't they be for specific issues?
I thought about creating a website, even registered a domain, peoplelobby.org, where you could create an issue, and allow people to vote. They could donate $1 per vote. Then the site would donate all of those funds for that issue to the most relevant legislator's campaign if and when they vote accordingly. With all the rules and "super-pacs" out there, is this idea legal?
"On the Iraq war: Democrats were opposed 126-82, Republicans in favor 215-6. If Democrats had controlled congress, it would never have happened."
Funny how vocally and vociferously "opposed" the Democrats were when they were running for re-election. Funny how after they won their elections, you barely heard a peep from the Democrats on how "opposed" to the wars they are.
And in practice, after gaining a majority in both houses in Congress and winning the White House the Democrats decided to end the Iraq war a mere 3 years later, not to mention continuing the pointless war in Afghanistan, the longest war in US history, even after getting Bin Laden over in Pakistan.
The only thing the Democrats are really opposed to, is losing an election.
What specifically wouldn't scale? Many of the strategies and defenses I saw and have read about that are used at Ben Gurion could be applied here just fine.
For what it's worth, I'm fully Caucasian, as white as it gets, and I was stopped outside before entering on my return flight, and interviewed for a good 15-20 minutes. I had some time to kill, so I checked my luggage at the airport storage, then caught a cab and explored Tel Aviv for a few hours. On my return, the taxi dropped me off, and all I had with me was my camera. The outer perimeter security guy thought that it was unusual I didn't have any luggage, so he had me explain my story several times.
Efficiency is generally measured by administrative costs vs program costs, and can be found on Charity Navigator. But I would say pick a cause that really matters to you, then take the time to do your research into what the best solutions are out there, and then pick the charity that focuses on those solutions.
For me, I am passionate about poverty relief. Specifically, clean water and feeding starving human beings. I like Thirst Relief International for clean water. And for feeding starving people, I did some research and found one of the biggest problems was that for many years programs used a dry-milk based food that required mixing with water, which going back to the need for clean water, is hard to come by in these parts of the world.
Turns out there was a breakthrough in France, that eliminated the need for this. The new treatment called Plumpy Nut, is a peanut butter based RUTF (Ready to Use Therapeutic Food) for children who are suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition, that literally saves kids who are on the brink of death. There is a powerful video that rocked my world reported by Anderson Cooper for 60 minutes. Story: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/19/60minutes/main3386661.shtml Video: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4201082n
In addition to other poverty relief charities like Feeding America, my local food bank, and Heifer International, I give now to charities that specifically distribute peanut-butter based RUTFs. These include:
I thought they created the 16th amendment (income tax) to replace the loss in revenue preemptively ahead of the 18th Amendment (alcohol prohibition). At the time, 1/5 of the federal budget was paid for by taxes on alcohol. They knew at the time there was no way they could ever get the 18th passed, without some way to make up for the loss in revenue.
Is it safe to assume that if you're an EU company, the majority of your end users/clients/customers are in the EU? Wouldn't you want to host your data in the closest cloud geographically to reduce latency anyway? Perhaps the issue only comes into play when you're considering multiple geographic CDN's around the world, and one of these regions is the US.
People can pontificate about the efficiency of trains, but the reality is people love their cars. Particularly Americans, especially in California. We love them because we wanna go where we want to go, when we want to go there. And we don't want to wait on other people. Moreover, carpooling and their allocated carpool lanes are a waste because most people are going to different locations.
So how do we square this reality with some kind of innovation that solves the problem of congestion and improve efficiency?
If I were president or governor, I would re-purpose the carpool lanes for autonomous vehicles to something seen in the highway exchange system in the film Minority Report. Essentially, when you arrive at a highway onramp your car switches into autonomous mode and you are whisked into the designated lane with perfect precision. The lane would be packed tightly and at a constant rate of speed. Some further problem solving would be required to make it all work, but overall this would balance the reality of people who will always love their cars, and provide a more efficient transportation network. Over time I would designate more highway lanes for autonomous traffic.
Seconded. Hayden Planetarium has the best planetarium show I've ever seen so far. Natural History was cool too, I liked the big Redwood tree cross section.
The government made the right call, because our out of control nanny state shouldn't be trying to restrict or remove pizza from school lunches. When I was a kid in school, pizza day was a good day.
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The unfortunate thing is the Volt prototypes were pretty futuristic looking...
You can never have too much money. Now that their idea man Steve Jobs is gone, they're probably going to have to ramp up on R&D. They'll probably try TV next, but there is still so much room to innovate in new markets.
For starters, Apple could revolutionize the kitchen. Or the car. There is so much opportunity, and entering new markets cost money. Look how much the telcos have to pay for infrastructure. Or Tesla pays for vehicle manufacturing.
Apple, save your money, watch some Sci-Fi movies, focus on innovating what comes next, and you'll have the cash to make it happen.
To your point, Steve Jobs has said his most valuable contribution to the company is what he says no to.
Not if the little power plant is in your backyard, lines underground. After experiencing a total cascading blackout here in Southern California from some dude in the desert a thousand miles away, that's what I want! Just enough juice to run my home and cars. That's all I want.
They really need to come up with a solution for more intelligent advertising. I for one would gladly opt into providing some central database with my basic demo/interest data, so when I turn on the TV I don't have to see Tampax and Viagra commercials.
I don't understand this. The Hollywood studios create the content. They have it. So they will always make money selling it, regardless of who is distributing it. In fact, iTunes is really just a middle man who distributes it and takes a "distribution fee". But there is nothing stopping Hollywood from getting together, hiring some tech guys like us, creating their own iTunes, and distributing it directly to consumers themselves.
Already "exists"? Hardly. No, the author explains the market demand for a universal service that offers *everything* anytime, anywhere, easily and instantly. Reasonably priced, buy it, own it forever. In other words, getting rid of all the crap artificial controls they attempt to put in place to limit the market, and give the market what it actually wants.
If you go to iTunes, Netflix, etc... you can only find a fraction of what exists, and rarely when you want it. Striking "deals" for content licensing is so ridiculous, particularly with Hollywood, it prevents a real solution from ever becoming a reality.
The solution is innovation, not legislation or litigation.
LOL. So funny.
Why the hell do only lobbies get legislation that benefits them? It's the PEOPLE who should be getting laws that expand freedom and make OUR lives better. It's time for us to push back, and move this the other way, starting with the Fair Use and Personal Internet Freedom Act - http://wh.gov/K1L
Exactly how much time do they have on their hands, when they're not using their hands for utilizing said software?
"While we believe that online piracy by foreign websites is a serious problem that requires a serious legislative response"
People like to focus on right and wrong, but no one is scrutinizing whether a "legislative response" is EVEN NECESSARY at all. Show me data, independent verifiable data of the "losses". The GAO has already concluded:
"Three widely cited U.S. government estimates of economic losses resulting
from counterfeiting cannot be substantiated due to the absence of underlying
studies."
Source: www.gao.gov/new.items/d10423.pdf
As reported by Ars:
http://ars/technica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/04/us-government-finally-admits-most-piracy-estimates-are-bogus.ars
This industry over blows perceived threats of technology, just as it did with the VCR and the MP3 player. The solution is innovation, not legislation or litigation.
I don't mind having the most complex secure password in the world. I just mind having to remember it and type it in. Everywhere I go.
Since it is about money, I had an idea. Why do we have to limit our votes to a person? Why can't they be for specific issues?
I thought about creating a website, even registered a domain, peoplelobby.org, where you could create an issue, and allow people to vote. They could donate $1 per vote. Then the site would donate all of those funds for that issue to the most relevant legislator's campaign if and when they vote accordingly. With all the rules and "super-pacs" out there, is this idea legal?
What do you guys think?
"On the Iraq war: Democrats were opposed 126-82, Republicans in favor 215-6. If Democrats had controlled congress, it would never have happened."
Funny how vocally and vociferously "opposed" the Democrats were when they were running for re-election. Funny how after they won their elections, you barely heard a peep from the Democrats on how "opposed" to the wars they are.
And in practice, after gaining a majority in both houses in Congress and winning the White House the Democrats decided to end the Iraq war a mere 3 years later, not to mention continuing the pointless war in Afghanistan, the longest war in US history, even after getting Bin Laden over in Pakistan.
The only thing the Democrats are really opposed to, is losing an election.
Has anyone considered the possibility that this price is reflective of the current commodity values for gold and silver right now?
What specifically wouldn't scale? Many of the strategies and defenses I saw and have read about that are used at Ben Gurion could be applied here just fine.
For what it's worth, I'm fully Caucasian, as white as it gets, and I was stopped outside before entering on my return flight, and interviewed for a good 15-20 minutes. I had some time to kill, so I checked my luggage at the airport storage, then caught a cab and explored Tel Aviv for a few hours. On my return, the taxi dropped me off, and all I had with me was my camera. The outer perimeter security guy thought that it was unusual I didn't have any luggage, so he had me explain my story several times.
Close... if they are for someone else, other than me or my family, they are evil. If they are for me, better not take them away!
Efficiency is generally measured by administrative costs vs program costs, and can be found on Charity Navigator. But I would say pick a cause that really matters to you, then take the time to do your research into what the best solutions are out there, and then pick the charity that focuses on those solutions.
For me, I am passionate about poverty relief. Specifically, clean water and feeding starving human beings. I like Thirst Relief International for clean water. And for feeding starving people, I did some research and found one of the biggest problems was that for many years programs used a dry-milk based food that required mixing with water, which going back to the need for clean water, is hard to come by in these parts of the world.
Turns out there was a breakthrough in France, that eliminated the need for this. The new treatment called Plumpy Nut, is a peanut butter based RUTF (Ready to Use Therapeutic Food) for children who are suffering from Severe Acute Malnutrition, that literally saves kids who are on the brink of death. There is a powerful video that rocked my world reported by Anderson Cooper for 60 minutes.
Story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/19/60minutes/main3386661.shtml
Video:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4201082n
In addition to other poverty relief charities like Feeding America, my local food bank, and Heifer International, I give now to charities that specifically distribute peanut-butter based RUTFs. These include:
UNICEF (Niger)
You can buy the PB RUTFs specifically:
https://secure.unicefusa.org/site/Ecommerce/1369610601?VIEW_PRODUCT=true&product_id=2320&store_id=4221
Project Peanut Butter (Malawi, Sierra Leone)
http://www.projectpeanutbutter.org/
Meds and Food for Kids (Haiti)
http://www.mfkhaiti.org/
What you've effectively done (in programming language) is:
Problem solve.
Take a large complex problem, and break it down into smaller solvable problems.
Two words.
El Al.
I thought they created the 16th amendment (income tax) to replace the loss in revenue preemptively ahead of the 18th Amendment (alcohol prohibition). At the time, 1/5 of the federal budget was paid for by taxes on alcohol. They knew at the time there was no way they could ever get the 18th passed, without some way to make up for the loss in revenue.
Is it safe to assume that if you're an EU company, the majority of your end users/clients/customers are in the EU? Wouldn't you want to host your data in the closest cloud geographically to reduce latency anyway? Perhaps the issue only comes into play when you're considering multiple geographic CDN's around the world, and one of these regions is the US.
People can pontificate about the efficiency of trains, but the reality is people love their cars. Particularly Americans, especially in California. We love them because we wanna go where we want to go, when we want to go there. And we don't want to wait on other people. Moreover, carpooling and their allocated carpool lanes are a waste because most people are going to different locations.
So how do we square this reality with some kind of innovation that solves the problem of congestion and improve efficiency?
If I were president or governor, I would re-purpose the carpool lanes for autonomous vehicles to something seen in the highway exchange system in the film Minority Report. Essentially, when you arrive at a highway onramp your car switches into autonomous mode and you are whisked into the designated lane with perfect precision. The lane would be packed tightly and at a constant rate of speed. Some further problem solving would be required to make it all work, but overall this would balance the reality of people who will always love their cars, and provide a more efficient transportation network. Over time I would designate more highway lanes for autonomous traffic.
Seconded. Hayden Planetarium has the best planetarium show I've ever seen so far. Natural History was cool too, I liked the big Redwood tree cross section.
"The government made the right call there."
The government made the right call, because our out of control nanny state shouldn't be trying to restrict or remove pizza from school lunches. When I was a kid in school, pizza day was a good day.