What do you call it when you collect additional money without performing additional work?
Does your boss continue to pay you for work he already paid you for years ago?
Can you bill your neighbor again for mowing his lawn years ago when he already paid you once?
Do manufacturers get to continue billing for parts that were manufactured and paid for years ago?
Does the waiter come to house and ask for another tip for the dinner you had months years ago?
Why is it IP owners are the only people that get to keep charging for a work they were already compensated for? I'm sorry but if you want to make more money you have to perform more work and get paid for that.
If it's illegal to effortlessly copy a work it should be illegal for everyone including the IP owners. Why should they make profit without performing additional work if no one else can? Stop demanding free handouts.
Where does the distinction between a life form and a machine lie? Let's say one day we create self replicating machines that can modify their design. What makes them different from any other life form?
I imagine once day broadband infrastructure will catch up with streaming demands and when that happens, more and more gaming companies will look into adopting services similar to OnLives model. You may laugh now, but consider that such a service is a DRM lovers wet dream. No game resources are sent to the consumer, only the final output. If consumers are only sold a simple client and all the processing can be done on company property then sent to the consumer, it will give publishers total control over where and when consumers have access to their product. We all know this is what these companies want, so you can bet each one of the major console makers are at least looking into this model.
Russians are on the street protesting.
Americans are on the street protesting.
Europeans are on the street protesting.
The middle east is on the street protesting.
Africa is on the street protesting.
Dose anyone know a place where people are actually happy with their government?
People ask me why I don't have a smart phone. Its because the majority of people just use them to play games or pass the time. Its more toy than a useful appliance. I make an occasional call or text with my old flip phone. Maybe a camera would be nice on occasion but I can count that number of times on one hand.
One comedian whose name escapes me had a great comment about the way people observe things now. They don't see things for themselves. They see things through the miniature screen on the phone instead of their own eyes.
Will I upgrade to a smart phone? Maybe eventually, but I'd rather have $200 in my pocket than a game system with poor phone capabilities.
Believe me I was the same way, up until a couple years ago all I used for a disposable phone that I loaded with prepay cards. Then I upgraded to a more expensive "semi-smart" phone that had a camera, web browser and google maps. It could only run java based apps so it was very limited in "apps". It was still extremely useful when my girlfriend and I went on vacation. It replaced our normal gps for navigation, It replaced my digital camera and took equally good photos. The web browser was useful for finding cheaper gas on gasbuddy,com and I could check my webmail.
I have an android phone now which has the same high usefulness and yes I loaded it with more games even though I hardly spend time on them. The only thing I would warn about is the 2 year contract, go over it very carefully, they can get you with an expensive plan and useless extra fees.
So I would say before going all out with an Android or iPhone try one of the $50-$75 prepaid phones that has a camera, web browser and maps application and see how much use you get out of it.
The other day in another thread someone touted the "obvious" superiority of iPhone over Android. I called him on it, asking what would make the iPhone wrth its higher asking price. The only answer he could come up with was "app availability." (note, I was in a Sprint store yesterday triying to get my phone fixes, and it appeared some Androids cost more than iPhones, but that may have been part of the cantract, with the iPhone subsidized)
No, many of the latest Android phones cost the same as the latest iPhone. As for older models they may be cheaper, but they don't receive OS upgrades as often if at all.
It looks like he was trolling. But I am curious, guys, wht with this thread and all, which one has more apps? More important, which one has more apps that are actually useful? If iPhone has 2 million apps and Android has 1.5 million apps, but 1.5 million iPhone apps are all Angry Birds clones, the "iPhone has more apps" would be a red herring; they're not all useful.
Note that these numbers aren't real, they're only illustrations. I'd really like to know which platform is better, iPhone or Android? How well are each built (and I realize that Android's quality is probably all over the board, since there are many different manufacturers).
And does the difference between phone company crippling make the question of Apple vs Android moot?
I would say Apple probably has more higher quality apps but that's also because Apple has more pay-for apps. Android has more free apps that are ad supported or games that are free to play but try to sell you in game upgrades. I have noticed recently some of the bigger name mobile developers that were previously iOS only have started porting some of their products over to Android, probably as market share of Android slowly catches up.
Interestingly enough when I was in college in 2005 one of the labs had a shelf with some old equipment from the late 90's early 2000. There sat an old wired VoIP phone with a plasticy label on top, it said "iPhone". I wish I could find a picture of it.
Edit: Found it on wikipedia Linksys iPhone it was created by InfoGear in '98.
Think about this though: the squishy frail material that makes up our bodies is also extremely energy efficient. Yes, it is much easier to damage us but it is likewise much easier to repair and even replicate. Compare that to durable artificial machines, yes they are more durable but compared to us require an extreme amount of energy to repair or replicate.
So you see there is a trade off. We *could* be made of more durable chemicals, but then we would require more time and energy to heal or procreate. So then the next question is which is more important, the durability and longevity of the individual, or the growth rate and adaptability of the collective?
At this point I think it would be easier to invent some kind of optic implant to fool your brain into thinking you're looking at a 3d display, rather than actually trying to find some way to reflect photons in mid air.
This would have the added bonus of privacy unless you opt to "share" your display with others nearby. Anyone you're not sharing the display with would just see you waving your hands around like a lunatic.
The one noone ever talks about. Socializing. There are a ton of people out there that are obsessed with each other, and I mean to an unhealthy level. I know people who literally cannot stand being "single" for a day. They fall into depression when there is no drama circling their lives.
Why don't people ever discuss *that* addiction?
I'm an introvert but I've been quite happy with my life despite coming off as quiet and reserved compared to most people. I just do not find human culture as the pinnacle of my interest. Science and nature interest me just as much if not more than what we primates are doing with each other.
world renowned for having not done a damn thing worth mentioning since the SoundBlaster
Chronology of most tech companies:
-Genius Engineer develops tech
-Salesman buddy helps start company
-Product becomes sucessfull
-Salesman brings in more of his salesman/lawyer buddies to grow company
-Group of salesmen/lawyers push genius engineer to some obscure corner of the company
-Innovation slows to crawl or stops entirely
-Company floats for the next decade or two off litigation and anti-competitive licensing while salesmen/lawyers rake in $$
-Another genius engineer somewhere else develops better tech
-Company devoid of any innovation fades into obscurity
A lot of MMOs now a days ship with not much content. The problem is the publishers only care about pushing boxes off the shelves, not maintaining the game world. Once 20-40 hours of content are made they pack it and ship with a cursory note that the game can always be patched later. They then migrate 98% of the developers to the next project and leave a skeleton crew to maintain it and on rare occasion toss a crumb of content like a new equipment model or recolored monster. The marketing department goes to town getting you to slap down $40-$60 for the shiny box and once you played it for a week that's all there is to do.
So the problem is many games that are marketing themselves as MMOs aren't growing evolving worlds, they are mediocre standalone games with multiplayer functionality tacked on almost as an afterthought.
To compound LEGOs problem they tried selling a subscription based model and their target demographic is children too young to have jobs and stable income. Most of them don't have enough allowance to pay a monthly fee. The whole game should have been free to play to begin with and make money off an item shop that way the kids can occasionally fork over cash for a shiny mount or costume.
I use a simple mnemonic password formula that incorporates the name of whatever I'm securing with the password. For example each websites password will use some characters from its URL, so it is then unique and I don't have to memorize a thousand of them.
Slashdot Mirror
Seriously I don't care if it's thinner. I'll trade a thicker iphone if it gives me a longer battery life.
What do you call it when you collect additional money without performing additional work?
Does your boss continue to pay you for work he already paid you for years ago?
Can you bill your neighbor again for mowing his lawn years ago when he already paid you once?
Do manufacturers get to continue billing for parts that were manufactured and paid for years ago?
Does the waiter come to house and ask for another tip for the dinner you had months years ago?
Why is it IP owners are the only people that get to keep charging for a work they were already compensated for? I'm sorry but if you want to make more money you have to perform more work and get paid for that.
If it's illegal to effortlessly copy a work it should be illegal for everyone including the IP owners. Why should they make profit without performing additional work if no one else can? Stop demanding free handouts.
Let's tax westerns and football and rock and roll while we're at it, after all they promote violence.
What's that? Nooo? You don't want *your* favorite media having the tax?
I guess it should only apply to video games then, since todays kids are so much more worse.
Parsing the dominate personality amid the cacophony of voices in my head.
If we can't sell used IP, you can't sell "used" stock shares.
Where's your righteous ideology now?
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Where does the distinction between a life form and a machine lie? Let's say one day we create self replicating machines that can modify their design. What makes them different from any other life form?
Americans don't own anything anymore because Americans don't *make* anything anymore.
Empty laptop shell loaded with explosive paint packs.
I imagine once day broadband infrastructure will catch up with streaming demands and when that happens, more and more gaming companies will look into adopting services similar to OnLives model. You may laugh now, but consider that such a service is a DRM lovers wet dream. No game resources are sent to the consumer, only the final output. If consumers are only sold a simple client and all the processing can be done on company property then sent to the consumer, it will give publishers total control over where and when consumers have access to their product. We all know this is what these companies want, so you can bet each one of the major console makers are at least looking into this model.
Russians are on the street protesting. Americans are on the street protesting. Europeans are on the street protesting. The middle east is on the street protesting. Africa is on the street protesting. Dose anyone know a place where people are actually happy with their government?
Corruption Perceptions Index
Eurozone
Pick anyone that is high on the first list but not on the second list.
Granted everyone has their own sets of challenges to deal with.
People ask me why I don't have a smart phone. Its because the majority of people just use them to play games or pass the time. Its more toy than a useful appliance. I make an occasional call or text with my old flip phone. Maybe a camera would be nice on occasion but I can count that number of times on one hand.
One comedian whose name escapes me had a great comment about the way people observe things now. They don't see things for themselves. They see things through the miniature screen on the phone instead of their own eyes.
Will I upgrade to a smart phone? Maybe eventually, but I'd rather have $200 in my pocket than a game system with poor phone capabilities.
Believe me I was the same way, up until a couple years ago all I used for a disposable phone that I loaded with prepay cards. Then I upgraded to a more expensive "semi-smart" phone that had a camera, web browser and google maps. It could only run java based apps so it was very limited in "apps". It was still extremely useful when my girlfriend and I went on vacation. It replaced our normal gps for navigation, It replaced my digital camera and took equally good photos. The web browser was useful for finding cheaper gas on gasbuddy,com and I could check my webmail.
I have an android phone now which has the same high usefulness and yes I loaded it with more games even though I hardly spend time on them. The only thing I would warn about is the 2 year contract, go over it very carefully, they can get you with an expensive plan and useless extra fees.
So I would say before going all out with an Android or iPhone try one of the $50-$75 prepaid phones that has a camera, web browser and maps application and see how much use you get out of it.
The other day in another thread someone touted the "obvious" superiority of iPhone over Android. I called him on it, asking what would make the iPhone wrth its higher asking price. The only answer he could come up with was "app availability." (note, I was in a Sprint store yesterday triying to get my phone fixes, and it appeared some Androids cost more than iPhones, but that may have been part of the cantract, with the iPhone subsidized)
No, many of the latest Android phones cost the same as the latest iPhone. As for older models they may be cheaper, but they don't receive OS upgrades as often if at all.
It looks like he was trolling. But I am curious, guys, wht with this thread and all, which one has more apps? More important, which one has more apps that are actually useful? If iPhone has 2 million apps and Android has 1.5 million apps, but 1.5 million iPhone apps are all Angry Birds clones, the "iPhone has more apps" would be a red herring; they're not all useful.
Note that these numbers aren't real, they're only illustrations. I'd really like to know which platform is better, iPhone or Android? How well are each built (and I realize that Android's quality is probably all over the board, since there are many different manufacturers).
And does the difference between phone company crippling make the question of Apple vs Android moot?
I would say Apple probably has more higher quality apps but that's also because Apple has more pay-for apps. Android has more free apps that are ad supported or games that are free to play but try to sell you in game upgrades. I have noticed recently some of the bigger name mobile developers that were previously iOS only have started porting some of their products over to Android, probably as market share of Android slowly catches up.
Interestingly enough when I was in college in 2005 one of the labs had a shelf with some old equipment from the late 90's early 2000. There sat an old wired VoIP phone with a plasticy label on top, it said "iPhone". I wish I could find a picture of it.
Edit: Found it on wikipedia Linksys iPhone it was created by InfoGear in '98.
Think about this though: the squishy frail material that makes up our bodies is also extremely energy efficient. Yes, it is much easier to damage us but it is likewise much easier to repair and even replicate. Compare that to durable artificial machines, yes they are more durable but compared to us require an extreme amount of energy to repair or replicate.
So you see there is a trade off. We *could* be made of more durable chemicals, but then we would require more time and energy to heal or procreate. So then the next question is which is more important, the durability and longevity of the individual, or the growth rate and adaptability of the collective?
At this point I think it would be easier to invent some kind of optic implant to fool your brain into thinking you're looking at a 3d display, rather than actually trying to find some way to reflect photons in mid air.
This would have the added bonus of privacy unless you opt to "share" your display with others nearby. Anyone you're not sharing the display with would just see you waving your hands around like a lunatic.
The one noone ever talks about. Socializing. There are a ton of people out there that are obsessed with each other, and I mean to an unhealthy level. I know people who literally cannot stand being "single" for a day. They fall into depression when there is no drama circling their lives.
Why don't people ever discuss *that* addiction?
I'm an introvert but I've been quite happy with my life despite coming off as quiet and reserved compared to most people. I just do not find human culture as the pinnacle of my interest. Science and nature interest me just as much if not more than what we primates are doing with each other.
The universe is made from block transfer computations?
world renowned for having not done a damn thing worth mentioning since the SoundBlaster
Chronology of most tech companies:
-Genius Engineer develops tech
-Salesman buddy helps start company
-Product becomes sucessfull
-Salesman brings in more of his salesman/lawyer buddies to grow company
-Group of salesmen/lawyers push genius engineer to some obscure corner of the company
-Innovation slows to crawl or stops entirely
-Company floats for the next decade or two off litigation and anti-competitive licensing while salesmen/lawyers rake in $$
-Another genius engineer somewhere else develops better tech
-Company devoid of any innovation fades into obscurity
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A lot of MMOs now a days ship with not much content. The problem is the publishers only care about pushing boxes off the shelves, not maintaining the game world. Once 20-40 hours of content are made they pack it and ship with a cursory note that the game can always be patched later. They then migrate 98% of the developers to the next project and leave a skeleton crew to maintain it and on rare occasion toss a crumb of content like a new equipment model or recolored monster. The marketing department goes to town getting you to slap down $40-$60 for the shiny box and once you played it for a week that's all there is to do.
So the problem is many games that are marketing themselves as MMOs aren't growing evolving worlds, they are mediocre standalone games with multiplayer functionality tacked on almost as an afterthought.
To compound LEGOs problem they tried selling a subscription based model and their target demographic is children too young to have jobs and stable income. Most of them don't have enough allowance to pay a monthly fee. The whole game should have been free to play to begin with and make money off an item shop that way the kids can occasionally fork over cash for a shiny mount or costume.
Give it to the folks at CSI, they'll be able to extra alien DNA from that photo. Imagine what they could do with the Hubble deep field...
I use a simple mnemonic password formula that incorporates the name of whatever I'm securing with the password. For example each websites password will use some characters from its URL, so it is then unique and I don't have to memorize a thousand of them.
Duqu was cut off at the head.
*sunglasses*
YEEAHHH!!!
It has become self aware?