Digital music is being sold well into the ten figures on iTunes/Amazon.
Digital games are being sold well into the nine figures on Steam/Google/iTunes.
Digital books are being sold well into the eight figures on Amazon/BN/iTunes.
Then there's Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, satellite radio, game consoles, etc. etc. etc.
If piracy were such a big issue, all of these things would be downloaded free, and nobody would be making money. The truth is piracy is very small, and the market for digital entertainment is very large.
Plus, keeping up with all the entertainment the market wants is a hell of a lot of work. Not many people want to do a hell of a lot of work for free. Even for piracy.
So go ahead and pirate all you want. The people making those products are still making money every day.
Publicly traded utilities should be prohibited from hiring foreign companies to perform these kinds of jobs, in much the same way those companies are also prohibited from hiring foreign attorneys, architects, construction companies, doctors and certified accountants.
Almost all utilities are regulated industries, since they enjoy government-enforced monopolies. They should not be allowed to leverage taxpayer-subsidized market exclusivity in order to engineer the destruction of those same taxpayer's careers.
This applies equally to cable television providers, ISPs, gas and water companies.
Linux takes over. It's a better development platform. It's a better operating system. It's easier to get things done.
Apple is a non-factor. Microsoft is fading. Sony is formidable, but has no mobile presence. This is a key inflection point in the market.
Linux will become the premiere indie platform, the premiere innovation platform and over time, it will move to the top of game platforms in general, including on mobile (where it is already dominant)
Don't look now, but Linux just leapfrogged the desktop into the living room. The rest is inevitable.
Congratulations, gentlemen. Success well deserved.
There is no such thing as post-PC for the same reason there is no such thing as "post-doorknob" or "post-handle."
The PC is the correct form factor for getting work done by humans. Mobile devices are not. This will only change if human physiology changes, which is unlikely in any time frame measured in intervals shorter than 100,000 years.
The "post-PC era" is a marketing slogan designed to make you buy things. It is designed to get you back on the upgrade treadmill starting from the beginning again. It is not technologically accurate.
PCs are here to stay for a very VERY long time. Get used to them.
Science is an academic discipline. It is not concerned with truth, morals or beliefs. It is concerned with fact. Science is the process of deriving fact from hypothesis through observation and experimentation.
Facts are data. Truth is meaning. No matter what experiment is being conducted, science cannot ever provide meaning. It can only provide facts.
Science has absolutely no connection whatsoever to morals. They are two utterly disconnected fields of human endeavor.
When people start advocating a greater "belief" in science, it leads one to conclude that either science is becoming a religion or these people are trying to fill a void in their lives.
It will never work already been invented oil is the pinnacle of man's energy technology I am scientist and I know everything because I watch mythbusters stupid idea they didn't think of this they didn't think of that thermodynamics makes everything impossible.
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Blah blah blaaaaaaah it'll never work blah /thread
Sounds like butthurt.
Piracy has failed.
Digital music is being sold well into the ten figures on iTunes/Amazon.
Digital games are being sold well into the nine figures on Steam/Google/iTunes.
Digital books are being sold well into the eight figures on Amazon/BN/iTunes.
Then there's Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, satellite radio, game consoles, etc. etc. etc.
If piracy were such a big issue, all of these things would be downloaded free, and nobody would be making money. The truth is piracy is very small, and the market for digital entertainment is very large.
Plus, keeping up with all the entertainment the market wants is a hell of a lot of work. Not many people want to do a hell of a lot of work for free. Even for piracy.
So go ahead and pirate all you want. The people making those products are still making money every day.
Publicly traded utilities should be prohibited from hiring foreign companies to perform these kinds of jobs, in much the same way those companies are also prohibited from hiring foreign attorneys, architects, construction companies, doctors and certified accountants.
Almost all utilities are regulated industries, since they enjoy government-enforced monopolies. They should not be allowed to leverage taxpayer-subsidized market exclusivity in order to engineer the destruction of those same taxpayer's careers.
This applies equally to cable television providers, ISPs, gas and water companies.
Linux takes over. It's a better development platform. It's a better operating system. It's easier to get things done.
Apple is a non-factor. Microsoft is fading. Sony is formidable, but has no mobile presence. This is a key inflection point in the market.
Linux will become the premiere indie platform, the premiere innovation platform and over time, it will move to the top of game platforms in general, including on mobile (where it is already dominant)
Don't look now, but Linux just leapfrogged the desktop into the living room. The rest is inevitable.
Congratulations, gentlemen. Success well deserved.
There is no such thing as post-PC for the same reason there is no such thing as "post-doorknob" or "post-handle."
The PC is the correct form factor for getting work done by humans. Mobile devices are not. This will only change if human physiology changes, which is unlikely in any time frame measured in intervals shorter than 100,000 years.
The "post-PC era" is a marketing slogan designed to make you buy things. It is designed to get you back on the upgrade treadmill starting from the beginning again. It is not technologically accurate.
PCs are here to stay for a very VERY long time. Get used to them.
The writing, of course, will still suck
Mankind has failed. Mainly because it invented spreadsheets, which made mankind obsessed with cheap, instead of vision.
They ran out of free web traffic.
Proof that there are few adults in 2013.
The for-profit corporation takes over your school and will dictate what the students are allowed to read and watch.
Quietly shutting out everyone but themselves in the process, naturally.
For the same reason we don't require authors to be licensed.
The fundamental difference between the PC and mobile devices:
On a mobile device, creativity is subject to corporate approval, and your tools aren't free.
Can't think of a better symbol for atheism than someone wearing a bowl on their head.
When can Alec Baldwin fuck Scarlett Johansson with Will Smith's dick?
What is our goal ? To fuck until we can't move ?
Word.
"Greater belief in science?"
"Emphasis on truth-seeking?"
"Science as a moral pursuit?"
Science is an academic discipline. It is not concerned with truth, morals or beliefs. It is concerned with fact. Science is the process of deriving fact from hypothesis through observation and experimentation.
Facts are data. Truth is meaning. No matter what experiment is being conducted, science cannot ever provide meaning. It can only provide facts.
Science has absolutely no connection whatsoever to morals. They are two utterly disconnected fields of human endeavor.
When people start advocating a greater "belief" in science, it leads one to conclude that either science is becoming a religion or these people are trying to fill a void in their lives.
Wins the motherfucking thread.
Take a bow, sir.
It will never work already been invented oil is the pinnacle of man's energy technology I am scientist and I know everything because I watch mythbusters stupid idea they didn't think of this they didn't think of that thermodynamics makes everything impossible.
Thread over.
If you start a sentence with "actually" or "nope" you're a gigantic dick.
Thank you.
They'll find a way to keep us out.
Glad I started my own company. I don't need a job, and I don't have a boss.
This is the same Huffington Post that hypocritcally moderates every thread to shape the discussion in favor of their own personal political agenda?
Kind of like that bigot Cory Doctorow?
Here's the cunt to explain everything is just fine while we climb into the railroad cars.
It will never work.
It's been done before.
They'll get bought out.
The laws of themodynamics make everything impossible.
You'll get laid off after the first game ships anyway.