While I agree to some extent, in the case of patents there are actual numbers we should be able to use to show the losses. Take the price paid to the lawyers for patent suits, add the settlement amounts paid to firms that don't produce anything using the patent in question, and you should have a rough idea of how much money is lost due to patents. 80B sounds high, but I could well believe that it's into the billions with some of the astoundingly high dollar amounts the courts award for these cases.
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Digital voting is voting that can be done with a gun to your head. It's voting that can be directly paid for. Much as I can't imagine having to do banking offline, I can't think of any good way to move voting online.
IT startups devoured the carefully cultivated talent the old school companies had developed
Must be an area with lots of VC money, where I am it goes the opposite way. The startups hire new grads almost exclusively because new grads are cheap, and then when they get towards 5 years experience they go work at one of the bigger companies around. I made that jump a while ago and got a 50% pay increase over what the small company had been paying me. It works well for pretty much everyone, the startups get workers cheap, the big companies have a large pool of workers with a few years of experience looking for better pay, and the new grads can find jobs reasonably easily.
You can pull it up on Google Maps and take a look at the island. The 2% not owned is probably most of Lanai City and the airport. The rest of the island looks to be pretty much undeveloped, just a few roads. Even in Hawaii, land is cheap if you need to build your own roads, wells, sewage treatment plants, and are in a hurricane zone.
Formats sometimes become obsolete. I have VHS tapes with no way to play them anymore, anyone with old 8-tracks probably can't play them. With streaming if the service goes under I no longer pay them and switch to a different provider. With 'owning' (direct licensing really, you don't own the music) if the format becomes obsolete you need to pay the full price to replace all the content you still care about. So you can either pay a lot every now and then when your last player for your obsolete format breaks, or you can constantly pay a little to have streaming access to whatever you want. I'll take the latter, personally. I'll also take the added benefit that my streaming services can't be broken or lost when I move, and that keeping backups is someone else's problem.
No, that would be an idiotic conclusion. The wood could be used anywhere, even once it's cut it is just a commodity good. A prefabbed room would be the same if there were a lot of towers using identical rooms and they all just put in orders for how many they need, but that isn't the case. The rooms are almost certainly being made specifically for this tower, there is probably no other use for them, which means they should be included in the build time for the tower.
The issue with doing the hash client-side is that now the hash has become the password. If someone steals the list of hashes it's game over, they can just emulate the client sending the hash and the server won't know that they didn't start from the password and perform a hash. The hash must be done server-side.
He claims to out-geek most people, but he misses the obvious economics. Every year the supply of music grows, every modern band has to compete not only with all the other bands recording today, but with every band that has recorded a song since we started recording music. Most of us aren't going to greatly increase the amount of money we spend on music, so as the music selection grows each individual artist should expect to get less. Add to that that it is now possible to go find public domain or creative commons music and you're trying to compete with 'free', which is hard to do in general. There will probably always be a few bands that can make millions just making music and putting on a show, and there will always be money for the teenage pop junk since that's never really been about the music anyway, but beyond that it will probably only become harder for a band to make a living solely from music.
no artists, except those at the absolute top of the heap, are making a living selling their music anymore
This is fairly common in a lot of areas. No one makes money playing sports except the few at the very top. Actors are the same way. The issue is that anyone can do these things. Most of us can't do them overly well, we don't practice enough, but people play music for fun and can achieve a pretty decent level of expertise without ever expecting to be paid for it. In order to make money you need to be significantly better than the laymen that do it for free for their own enjoyment.
Want to make a living wage in a creative field? Go work for Disney, or Paramount, or some company that makes commercials, or any other established industry that needs those skills constantly. No, you don't get to decide what kind of music you're writing if you're writing the background track for a movie, but that's part of making money without taking a major risk.
You would think so, but if you can sell these for $10 instead of $100 people won't care than they generate half the power and last 1 year instead of 30. If people cared about quality Wal-Mart would have trouble pulling a profit.
Ask yourself this: What are your clients paying you for?
Now, whatever you do, don't outsource that!!!
If you're really good at designing games that meet your clients needs then it may be worthwhile to outsource the actual development of the game once it's designed. In my personal experience this is unlikely, as the design and coding phases tend to be highly coupled, especially in smaller companies. Likely you don't create detailed enough design documents for an outsourced team to fully understand and execute your vision.
Darl McBride is better than Ballmer? So running your company to ridiculous profits quarter-after-quarter is worse than running your company into the ground in losing lawsuits?
Please, tell me how public transit can get me from my front door on a minor city street with no bus service to my parents' house outside of a small town about 30 miles away. Public transit is a fantastic option if you live in a large city and don't leave it very often, but it's no where near good enough to replace a car for a lot of people.
Einstein also said “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” Saying China outranks the US is somewhat misleading since it rests on test scores and tests have a bad habit of measuring memorization rather than understanding. Memorization is so simple that a computer can do it, without understanding what is memorized you can never push back the boundaries of our understanding. Richard Feynman had a good article on this with respect to Brazil: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
Personally I want a laptop with the ability to drop in 2 monitors. When I'm at my desk having side-by-side monitors is much nicer than the laptop screen.
Actual court cases prove you incorrect. If you were right patent trolls wouldn't be an issue. See NTP vs RIM or i4i vs Microsoft. Simply having more money isn't going to win you any trial where a layer could retire on 1% of the potential payout.
I saw Pirates, and while I don't regret spending the money on it I wouldn't see it again, it just isn't a very good movie. It's different in style, yes, but at best it may become a cult-classic B-movie. The story is grossly lacking, the characters aren't interesting, and the jokes aren't good enough to make up for it.
Bell switched to GSM over a year ago. I doubt they'll drop the CDMA network as long as they can charge Verizon users massive roaming charges when they come to Canada, but they only sell GSM phones now.
The tech of Facebook is the easy part. Building the community to the point that 90% of the people you know are on it, that's much more difficult. Google is on attempt 3 or 4 right now and they still can't get there, no matter how much money they throw at it.
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That describes pretty much every scrum retrospective I've been a part of.
While I agree to some extent, in the case of patents there are actual numbers we should be able to use to show the losses. Take the price paid to the lawyers for patent suits, add the settlement amounts paid to firms that don't produce anything using the patent in question, and you should have a rough idea of how much money is lost due to patents. 80B sounds high, but I could well believe that it's into the billions with some of the astoundingly high dollar amounts the courts award for these cases.
Mod up please
Digital voting is voting that can be done with a gun to your head. It's voting that can be directly paid for. Much as I can't imagine having to do banking offline, I can't think of any good way to move voting online.
Maybe it means a Microsoft employee who worked on the VB interpreter?
IT startups devoured the carefully cultivated talent the old school companies had developed
Must be an area with lots of VC money, where I am it goes the opposite way. The startups hire new grads almost exclusively because new grads are cheap, and then when they get towards 5 years experience they go work at one of the bigger companies around. I made that jump a while ago and got a 50% pay increase over what the small company had been paying me. It works well for pretty much everyone, the startups get workers cheap, the big companies have a large pool of workers with a few years of experience looking for better pay, and the new grads can find jobs reasonably easily.
You can pull it up on Google Maps and take a look at the island. The 2% not owned is probably most of Lanai City and the airport. The rest of the island looks to be pretty much undeveloped, just a few roads. Even in Hawaii, land is cheap if you need to build your own roads, wells, sewage treatment plants, and are in a hurricane zone.
Formats sometimes become obsolete. I have VHS tapes with no way to play them anymore, anyone with old 8-tracks probably can't play them. With streaming if the service goes under I no longer pay them and switch to a different provider. With 'owning' (direct licensing really, you don't own the music) if the format becomes obsolete you need to pay the full price to replace all the content you still care about. So you can either pay a lot every now and then when your last player for your obsolete format breaks, or you can constantly pay a little to have streaming access to whatever you want. I'll take the latter, personally. I'll also take the added benefit that my streaming services can't be broken or lost when I move, and that keeping backups is someone else's problem.
No, that would be an idiotic conclusion. The wood could be used anywhere, even once it's cut it is just a commodity good. A prefabbed room would be the same if there were a lot of towers using identical rooms and they all just put in orders for how many they need, but that isn't the case. The rooms are almost certainly being made specifically for this tower, there is probably no other use for them, which means they should be included in the build time for the tower.
The issue with doing the hash client-side is that now the hash has become the password. If someone steals the list of hashes it's game over, they can just emulate the client sending the hash and the server won't know that they didn't start from the password and perform a hash. The hash must be done server-side.
Except he's wrong. The research in countries that have increased the size and shock value of the warnings shows that they do work. Source: http://www.itcproject.org/documents/keyfindings/crosscountry-comparisons/itc-crosscountrylabelfinalwebpdf
He claims to out-geek most people, but he misses the obvious economics. Every year the supply of music grows, every modern band has to compete not only with all the other bands recording today, but with every band that has recorded a song since we started recording music. Most of us aren't going to greatly increase the amount of money we spend on music, so as the music selection grows each individual artist should expect to get less. Add to that that it is now possible to go find public domain or creative commons music and you're trying to compete with 'free', which is hard to do in general. There will probably always be a few bands that can make millions just making music and putting on a show, and there will always be money for the teenage pop junk since that's never really been about the music anyway, but beyond that it will probably only become harder for a band to make a living solely from music.
no artists, except those at the absolute top of the heap, are making a living selling their music anymore
This is fairly common in a lot of areas. No one makes money playing sports except the few at the very top. Actors are the same way. The issue is that anyone can do these things. Most of us can't do them overly well, we don't practice enough, but people play music for fun and can achieve a pretty decent level of expertise without ever expecting to be paid for it. In order to make money you need to be significantly better than the laymen that do it for free for their own enjoyment.
Want to make a living wage in a creative field? Go work for Disney, or Paramount, or some company that makes commercials, or any other established industry that needs those skills constantly. No, you don't get to decide what kind of music you're writing if you're writing the background track for a movie, but that's part of making money without taking a major risk.
I think they're getting wise to that now. Try '...on a social network'.
You would think so, but if you can sell these for $10 instead of $100 people won't care than they generate half the power and last 1 year instead of 30. If people cared about quality Wal-Mart would have trouble pulling a profit.
Ask yourself this: What are your clients paying you for?
Now, whatever you do, don't outsource that!!!
If you're really good at designing games that meet your clients needs then it may be worthwhile to outsource the actual development of the game once it's designed. In my personal experience this is unlikely, as the design and coding phases tend to be highly coupled, especially in smaller companies. Likely you don't create detailed enough design documents for an outsourced team to fully understand and execute your vision.
Darl McBride is better than Ballmer? So running your company to ridiculous profits quarter-after-quarter is worse than running your company into the ground in losing lawsuits?
New natural disaster: democracy.
Please, tell me how public transit can get me from my front door on a minor city street with no bus service to my parents' house outside of a small town about 30 miles away. Public transit is a fantastic option if you live in a large city and don't leave it very often, but it's no where near good enough to replace a car for a lot of people.
Einstein also said “It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” Saying China outranks the US is somewhat misleading since it rests on test scores and tests have a bad habit of measuring memorization rather than understanding. Memorization is so simple that a computer can do it, without understanding what is memorized you can never push back the boundaries of our understanding. Richard Feynman had a good article on this with respect to Brazil: http://v.cx/2010/04/feynman-brazil-education
Personally I want a laptop with the ability to drop in 2 monitors. When I'm at my desk having side-by-side monitors is much nicer than the laptop screen.
Explain i4i vs Microsoft then.
Actual court cases prove you incorrect. If you were right patent trolls wouldn't be an issue. See NTP vs RIM or i4i vs Microsoft. Simply having more money isn't going to win you any trial where a layer could retire on 1% of the potential payout.
I saw Pirates, and while I don't regret spending the money on it I wouldn't see it again, it just isn't a very good movie. It's different in style, yes, but at best it may become a cult-classic B-movie. The story is grossly lacking, the characters aren't interesting, and the jokes aren't good enough to make up for it.
Bell switched to GSM over a year ago. I doubt they'll drop the CDMA network as long as they can charge Verizon users massive roaming charges when they come to Canada, but they only sell GSM phones now.
The tech of Facebook is the easy part. Building the community to the point that 90% of the people you know are on it, that's much more difficult. Google is on attempt 3 or 4 right now and they still can't get there, no matter how much money they throw at it.