And one thing I haven't seen mentioned yet: it's not all genes.
The debate of nature vs. nurture is a very important one, and will not be solved for quite a long time.
You can pay ridiculous amounts of money to engineer your children all you want, folks. I'm just going to make sure mine have a good, strong upbringing.
I can't understand why some of you folks can't understand how these leaks are bad for Apple.
Here's a few situations for you to ponder:
1) Someone leaks about a product, overestimating the abilities of the product. A buzz is generated, but once the product finally ships, everyone's dissappointed because they thought it was going ot be better. It could be a perfectly good product, but since people were expecting more, they don't buy it.
2) Someone leaks about a product but underestimates how wonderful it's going to be. A buzz is generated and everyone thinks, "Eh, sounds okay, but no thanks". When it's finally released, people already have a preconceived idea about it and don't buy it despite it's wonderfulness.
3) Someone leaks about a product. Therefore no one buys any of the old systems. Apple loses lots of money. Companies go totally out of their way to make sure they don't shoot themselves in the foot this way. Apple's been losing money this way for a long time, too.
4) Someone leaks about a product. Other people say, "Woo! Great idea! I'll make one too!" and get a significant jump on putting out their own version and stealing a lot of Apple's sales.
I love Macs, I love UNIX, and I love PCs. And Commodores, Amiga's are kinda neat too. But I can't see how anyone could be a Mac fan and want to hurt the company by blasting them for this.
The employees who signed the NDA should pay for violating it. Simple. If they weren't willing to live up to it, they shouldn't have signed it.
"The End of Apple"? Do you have a date and time for this? Because the end of Apple has been predicted for quite a long time now and it sure hasn't happened yet.
My favorite quote along this line has to be, "Apple will still be going out of business long after I've retired." I can't remember who said it though... some writer.
Is the generation that grew up with all these toys in place really the techno-elite? Or is it the twentysomethings and thritysomethings that were hacking on 300-baud modems back in the 80's? I don't see a lot of geek culture among the set that grew up with Windows 95... but I could be wrong about that.
Shhhh... we're not supposed to have any memory or history, remember?
Exactly.:) If the music industry thinks this will stop piracy, they're stupid.
The software industry knows just how well pirates traded cracked copies of games well before most of us could get to the then government-controlled 'net.
Local BBSes did it just fine...
Heck, it'll be even easier with CD burners and high-bandwidth. Pirates were willing to make mutiple floppies of games or download them for 4 hours. I don't think MP3 will die.
It's completely true. You folks who work 60, 70, 80+ hours a week have built your own cage. You allow yourselves to get stressed, you allow yourselves to work so long.
If you don't like your job, tell you boss. If he doesn't care, get a new job. If no jobs exist that you like -- change careers! There's something wrong if you don't like your job. You can't have everything. A sys admin complaining about phone calls is like a doctor who doesn't want to be beeped. (Get another job!)
We all wish we could have exactly what we wanted, but we're not going to have it.
Now that I work in high tech, I don't check my email when I'm at home. Not at night, not on the weekend. No stress.:)
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Odd you mention the Spice Girls. Another group entirely manufactured by the record companies. *shudder*
-A. Aria
And one thing I haven't seen mentioned yet: it's not all genes.
The debate of nature vs. nurture is a very important one, and will not be solved for quite a long time.
You can pay ridiculous amounts of money to engineer your children all you want, folks. I'm just going to make sure mine have a good, strong upbringing.
-A. Aria, former molecular biologist
Here's a few situations for you to ponder:
1) Someone leaks about a product, overestimating the abilities of the product. A buzz is generated, but once the product finally ships, everyone's dissappointed because they thought it was going ot be better. It could be a perfectly good product, but since people were expecting more, they don't buy it.
2) Someone leaks about a product but underestimates how wonderful it's going to be. A buzz is generated and everyone thinks, "Eh, sounds okay, but no thanks". When it's finally released, people already have a preconceived idea about it and don't buy it despite it's wonderfulness.
3) Someone leaks about a product. Therefore no one buys any of the old systems. Apple loses lots of money. Companies go totally out of their way to make sure they don't shoot themselves in the foot this way. Apple's been losing money this way for a long time, too.
4) Someone leaks about a product. Other people say, "Woo! Great idea! I'll make one too!" and get a significant jump on putting out their own version and stealing a lot of Apple's sales.
I love Macs, I love UNIX, and I love PCs. And Commodores, Amiga's are kinda neat too. But I can't see how anyone could be a Mac fan and want to hurt the company by blasting them for this.
The employees who signed the NDA should pay for violating it. Simple. If they weren't willing to live up to it, they shouldn't have signed it.
-Aria
My favorite quote along this line has to be, "Apple will still be going out of business long after I've retired." I can't remember who said it though... some writer.
-Aria
Shhhh... we're not supposed to have any memory or history, remember?
-Aria, who still misses her Vic-20
I, for one, am really glad that the average citizen cannot vote on every law. If you think politicians are stupid or ignorant, try the average person.
Uh oh... am I being elitist again?
-Aria
-A. Aria
I know, I know, I should be shot. I like FreeBSD better. It feels more like UNIX.
-Aria
The software industry knows just how well pirates traded cracked copies of games well before most of us could get to the then government-controlled 'net.
Local BBSes did it just fine...
Heck, it'll be even easier with CD burners and high-bandwidth. Pirates were willing to make mutiple floppies of games or download them for 4 hours. I don't think MP3 will die.
-Aria
It's completely true. You folks who work 60, 70, 80+ hours a week have built your own cage. You allow yourselves to get stressed, you allow yourselves to work so long.
If you don't like your job, tell you boss. If he doesn't care, get a new job. If no jobs exist that you like -- change careers! There's something wrong if you don't like your job. You can't have everything. A sys admin complaining about phone calls is like a doctor who doesn't want to be beeped. (Get another job!)
We all wish we could have exactly what we wanted, but we're not going to have it.
Now that I work in high tech, I don't check my email when I'm at home. Not at night, not on the weekend. No stress. :)