Yah well, I created something exactly like this back in 2004 called robonotary.com but the lack of interest was very palpable and I was no longer motivated to pursue it. (still own the domain).
I find it amusing that while all this is going on, nobody is able to shut it down. Which is great because that's where I like to search for my Linux ISO images.
Venture Capitalists are brainless, visionless bankers. They will invest money if it looks/behaves like something else that has already made money.
Business plans? they are a dime a dozen. There are companies that will produce an incredible business plan for you, and with the better business plan companies, you won't even have to answer too many questions - they will do the research and produce the projections for you. And it will be "VC Ready".
If I was in your shoes, I wouldn't even try to sell this to VC's. I would first create and expose an API for content companies to pass their clips through, charging a few cents per 100 frames, and returning to them an improved version of their clips. Now suddenly you have a product, and you can start offering this product to web sites that accept clips from users. Score one or two such customers, and your business plan people have incredible stuff to work with to make your business plans look extremely appetizing.
And if you decide you do want to do that API thing and turn your technology into a product, I can help you guys. Just contact me here:-)
This thinking is flawed. There were human beings alive 1000 years ago who were 1000 times smarter than the average human being living today. The simple truth is that most creatures prefer to have fun and be lazy.
A remote alien race wont be comprised of a population that is 100% smart. It will be more like what we have: 1% or less of the population are smarter than all the rest.
They will want to experience our culture, if only to mirror their own to themselves. Out of curiosity, out of wanting to have fun, out of wanting to experience something new. And maybe just because they can!
Just stick with Ubuntu 12.04 with the default window manager. Imagine you got a new Mac and you are getting used to a new UI/UX. It is actually quite usable, and very stable. Everything just works, and you get a very friendly App store concept just like you get with Apple products.
I find all the other distros are just not as user friendly as Ubuntu for newcomers.
One more thing to consider is how Ubuntu is now branching to Tablets, Phones, and TV's. It's not inconceivable that in the next 6 month, you'll have a totally seamless experience with your content being accessible from all those mediums (Should you choose to also get an Ubuntu TV device, and an Ubuntu Phone or Tablet).
They are going the Apple way, in the sense that you're going to have a fully working ecosystem where all devices speak perfectly with each other and everything just works out of the box.
It's amusing how with all their detailed explanations, you realize that the iPhone is exactly that. Not overwhelming with complex "multi tasking" stuff. Focusing on full screen apps. Simple UX, with simple visuals. Badges. And yet, a powerful graphics engine that enables "enchanting" animations. The iPhone is enchanting, useful, and helpful.
All this shows is that even if you try to go through the whole journey of researching this, you eventually get to the same conclusions about how to build it. Because the users are the same (human beings), have similar requirements overall, and face pretty much the same challenges.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Google making a shitload of money from all those "emasculated" people? And have we already reached the stage where Google tells us what to do with our bodies?:-)
Excuse me, but I'm from the planet where coders use a regular keyboard because it's faster than that junk rubber keyboard that Microsoft came up with, and also where coders use a netbook or a laptop because the screen can be set at any angle. I also want to belong to a planet where the disaster that's called "Windows" is either completely fixed beyond recognition, or is simply erased from the pages of history. A planet where a person like Ballmer is replaced with a better CEO that has an actual vision of the future, in which Microsoft actually innovates instead of copies. If I was a government that cares about the corporations of my country, I would outlaw Windows entirely in my country. And while at it, I would also outlaw Adobe Flash.
I know it's not going to happen any time soon, but it's totally OK to dream of better world!
I totally agree with you. And I think by the way that the disease starts at a much earlier stage - at the Venture Capital stage! You see, VC's do the same thing to high-tech ventures in the early stages of the company, as Wall Street does to large corporations at their later stages. This is why I have always favored Angel investments to VC's (or better yet, if you have the money to bootstrap it, just use your own money).
I think a small company should be able to create a solid, working prototype of their product, and bring it to the stage where the product can start selling and making money, without the help of a VC. That's also why I really like the Kickstarter/Indiegogo model, among other things because it's kicking VC's in the butt and showing them how flawed their operation is. Today's VC's are nothing more than glorified bankers - The word "Venture" does not belong there.
I hope that Wall Street and VC's, at least the way they operate right now, will disappear and be remembered as a bad episode in human history.
Good for Dell. Bad for Wall Street. By not looking beyond their noses, and caring only for short term bottom line, the Wall Street culture is going to either destroy companies by forcing them to focus on profits rather that quality, or make them run away and go private, like Dell is doing right now.
And how exactly is Kim related to the stealing of movies? After all, files can be saved anywhere. He is not the only person offering a file sharing service.
Ultimately, the thieves are people who rip movies and distribute them to others for free or worse, for a fee! I don't remember Kim dotcom ever being accused of ripping and distributing movies for a fee?
There are double standards here: Just like the Gun industry is not held responsible for lunatics killing innocent people with guns, file sharing providers should not be held accountable to the actions of people sharing recipes of how to build your own uranium enrichment facility, or the latest LOTR movie.
It appears the "powers that be" are already working on hijacking SSL traffic to mega.co.nz judging by the SSL errors I'm now getting. They must have some major SSL decryption hardware if they plan on routing and decrypting all SSL traffic of files uploaded to mega.co.nz.
Because remember, they don't need to inspect what's on mega's storage if they successfully inspect & grab the files that people upload, in order to catch "t3rr0r1sts" in "the 4ct".
But for people like me who just store family photos and backups of word documents, it's a great service, and with 50 gigs of space, that's absolutely fantastic. I just hope Kim manages to make money from this so that the project won't succumb under the weight of a flawed business model.
For grossly abusing their position, and exaggerating the charges, they should be jailed, or at least dismissed entirely. It's ridiculous that in America a person is guilty until proven innocent, especially when JSTOR asked to drop the charges.
I also blame the MPAA and the RIA for creating this trend of exaggerating impact in the first place. They are indirectly accountable for this.
You could use any of those two CRM's, with SugarCRM being more mature than X2Engine, as well as having a pretty good development studio built into the CRM. This allows you to create custom modules, with custom fields & forms. That's what you might use to manage equipment inventories for example.
You can also use hooks in the code, to call various API's to provision services. For example if a customer is assigned a new product, you can hook that event to make something happen in the real world.
If you don't have anyone skilled enough to do this, you can hire a developer to implement that for you. The advantage with this approach is that for very little money you will get a custom tailored solution. It will be so cheap that even if you throw the system away after 2 years, it's still worth it.
And as an aside, I can hook you up with such a team if you can't find one of your own:-)
On Thursday, Anonymous reported that it took down close to 300 sites of diplomatic representatives from neighboring galaxies, although the single website that they presented as having been attacked belonged to the famous Roger Wilco Janitorial services company. The report came after Zork Boga Bulubulu of planet Zerga 5 announced earlier in the week that his website had been taken down by a group calling itself TeaM L33t HyPn0 H4ck3rZ. Bulubulu's website had been hosting an online petition to stop alien abductions, and to impose a ban on anal probing.
I use cloudflare successfully. You could have just spend the $20/month and had DDoS protection (as well as acceleration / CDN) for a very long time for those $400.
Well, I personally didn't hear about it until the riots started and it suddenly became news. Now I've seen it, and I believe that chances are, if they just kept their mouths shut, nobody would have noticed the (extremely) poorly produced video.
The reason they hate it so much, is that deep inside, they feel the same way; that their own religion is inadequate and ridiculous and based on the ramblings of a false prophet. But it's so popular now in Arab countries, they really can't do anything about it without looking even more ridiculous. The difficult part is admitting that the religion you and your parents and grandparents grew up believing in, is absolute crap.
Muslims are spiritual people, which is great - they just need to understand that Islam is not the only way. Maybe they should consider the Bahai faith - it at least preaches true peace and harmony between humans of all faiths and paths in life.
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Guess they should have waited a bit before upgrading...
Yah well, I created something exactly like this back in 2004 called robonotary.com but the lack of interest was very palpable and I was no longer motivated to pursue it.
(still own the domain).
That's the kind of comment I was hoping for.
Thank you.
I find it amusing that while all this is going on, nobody is able to shut it down.
Which is great because that's where I like to search for my Linux ISO images.
Venture Capitalists are brainless, visionless bankers. They will invest money if it looks/behaves like something else that has already made money.
Business plans? they are a dime a dozen. There are companies that will produce an incredible business plan for you, and with the better business plan companies, you won't even have to answer too many questions - they will do the research and produce the projections for you. And it will be "VC Ready".
If I was in your shoes, I wouldn't even try to sell this to VC's. I would first create and expose an API for content companies to pass their clips through, charging a few cents per 100 frames, and returning to them an improved version of their clips. Now suddenly you have a product, and you can start offering this product to web sites that accept clips from users. Score one or two such customers, and your business plan people have incredible stuff to work with to make your business plans look extremely appetizing.
And if you decide you do want to do that API thing and turn your technology into a product, I can help you guys. Just contact me here :-)
This thinking is flawed. There were human beings alive 1000 years ago who were 1000 times smarter than the average human being living today. The simple truth is that most creatures prefer to have fun and be lazy.
A remote alien race wont be comprised of a population that is 100% smart. It will be more like what we have: 1% or less of the population are smarter than all the rest.
They will want to experience our culture, if only to mirror their own to themselves. Out of curiosity, out of wanting to have fun, out of wanting to experience something new. And maybe just because they can!
Just stick with Ubuntu 12.04 with the default window manager. Imagine you got a new Mac and you are getting used to a new UI/UX. It is actually quite usable, and very stable. Everything just works, and you get a very friendly App store concept just like you get with Apple products.
I find all the other distros are just not as user friendly as Ubuntu for newcomers.
One more thing to consider is how Ubuntu is now branching to Tablets, Phones, and TV's. It's not inconceivable that in the next 6 month, you'll have a totally seamless experience with your content being accessible from all those mediums (Should you choose to also get an Ubuntu TV device, and an Ubuntu Phone or Tablet).
They are going the Apple way, in the sense that you're going to have a fully working ecosystem where all devices speak perfectly with each other and everything just works out of the box.
It's amusing how with all their detailed explanations, you realize that the iPhone is exactly that. Not overwhelming with complex "multi tasking" stuff. Focusing on full screen apps. Simple UX, with simple visuals. Badges. And yet, a powerful graphics engine that enables "enchanting" animations. The iPhone is enchanting, useful, and helpful.
All this shows is that even if you try to go through the whole journey of researching this, you eventually get to the same conclusions about how to build it. Because the users are the same (human beings), have similar requirements overall, and face pretty much the same challenges.
Pass this into law immediately. Thank TSM for that.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Google making a shitload of money from all those "emasculated" people? :-)
And have we already reached the stage where Google tells us what to do with our bodies?
Excuse me, but I'm from the planet where coders use a regular keyboard because it's faster than that junk rubber keyboard that Microsoft came up with, and also where coders use a netbook or a laptop because the screen can be set at any angle. I also want to belong to a planet where the disaster that's called "Windows" is either completely fixed beyond recognition, or is simply erased from the pages of history. A planet where a person like Ballmer is replaced with a better CEO that has an actual vision of the future, in which Microsoft actually innovates instead of copies. If I was a government that cares about the corporations of my country, I would outlaw Windows entirely in my country. And while at it, I would also outlaw Adobe Flash.
I know it's not going to happen any time soon, but it's totally OK to dream of better world!
Right, and you write Python under Windows... Quite the Python hacker, you are!
I totally agree with you. And I think by the way that the disease starts at a much earlier stage - at the Venture Capital stage! You see, VC's do the same thing to high-tech ventures in the early stages of the company, as Wall Street does to large corporations at their later stages. This is why I have always favored Angel investments to VC's (or better yet, if you have the money to bootstrap it, just use your own money).
I think a small company should be able to create a solid, working prototype of their product, and bring it to the stage where the product can start selling and making money, without the help of a VC. That's also why I really like the Kickstarter/Indiegogo model, among other things because it's kicking VC's in the butt and showing them how flawed their operation is. Today's VC's are nothing more than glorified bankers - The word "Venture" does not belong there.
I hope that Wall Street and VC's, at least the way they operate right now, will disappear and be remembered as a bad episode in human history.
Good for Dell. Bad for Wall Street. By not looking beyond their noses, and caring only for short term bottom line, the Wall Street culture is going to either destroy companies by forcing them to focus on profits rather that quality, or make them run away and go private, like Dell is doing right now.
And how exactly is Kim related to the stealing of movies? After all, files can be saved anywhere. He is not the only person offering a file sharing service.
Ultimately, the thieves are people who rip movies and distribute them to others for free or worse, for a fee! I don't remember Kim dotcom ever being accused of ripping and distributing movies for a fee?
There are double standards here: Just like the Gun industry is not held responsible for lunatics killing innocent people with guns, file sharing providers should not be held accountable to the actions of people sharing recipes of how to build your own uranium enrichment facility, or the latest LOTR movie.
It appears the "powers that be" are already working on hijacking SSL traffic to mega.co.nz judging by the SSL errors I'm now getting. They must have some major SSL decryption hardware if they plan on routing and decrypting all SSL traffic of files uploaded to mega.co.nz.
Because remember, they don't need to inspect what's on mega's storage if they successfully inspect & grab the files that people upload, in order to catch "t3rr0r1sts" in "the 4ct".
But for people like me who just store family photos and backups of word documents, it's a great service, and with 50 gigs of space, that's absolutely fantastic. I just hope Kim manages to make money from this so that the project won't succumb under the weight of a flawed business model.
I think they should try to use it to coordinate their own disasters first, maybe then Microsoft will start to suck a bit less?
For grossly abusing their position, and exaggerating the charges, they should be jailed, or at least dismissed entirely.
It's ridiculous that in America a person is guilty until proven innocent, especially when JSTOR asked to drop the charges.
I also blame the MPAA and the RIA for creating this trend of exaggerating impact in the first place. They are indirectly accountable for this.
Now we know who's been stealing all those bees that have been "Disappearing" around the world ;-)
You could use any of those two CRM's, with SugarCRM being more mature than X2Engine, as well as having a pretty good development studio built into the CRM. This allows you to create custom modules, with custom fields & forms. That's what you might use to manage equipment inventories for example.
You can also use hooks in the code, to call various API's to provision services. For example if a customer is assigned a new product, you can hook that event to make something happen in the real world.
If you don't have anyone skilled enough to do this, you can hire a developer to implement that for you. The advantage with this approach is that for very little money you will get a custom tailored solution. It will be so cheap that even if you throw the system away after 2 years, it's still worth it.
And as an aside, I can hook you up with such a team if you can't find one of your own :-)
Like most software and cars (Lada) coming from Russia, it looks like it was made sometime in the early 90's...
They are very busy trying to prevent hundreds of palestinians from dying in the hands of the Syrian regime.
Oh wait, oops... I guess not!
On Thursday, Anonymous reported that it took down close to 300 sites of diplomatic representatives from neighboring galaxies, although the single website that they presented as having been attacked belonged to the famous Roger Wilco Janitorial services company. The report came after Zork Boga Bulubulu of planet Zerga 5 announced earlier in the week that his website had been taken down by a group calling itself TeaM L33t HyPn0 H4ck3rZ. Bulubulu's website had been hosting an online petition to stop alien abductions, and to impose a ban on anal probing.
I use cloudflare successfully. You could have just spend the $20/month and had DDoS protection (as well as acceleration / CDN) for a very long time for those $400.
Well, I personally didn't hear about it until the riots started and it suddenly became news. Now I've seen it, and I believe that chances are, if they just kept their mouths shut, nobody would have noticed the (extremely) poorly produced video.
The reason they hate it so much, is that deep inside, they feel the same way; that their own religion is inadequate and ridiculous and based on the ramblings of a false prophet. But it's so popular now in Arab countries, they really can't do anything about it without looking even more ridiculous. The difficult part is admitting that the religion you and your parents and grandparents grew up believing in, is absolute crap.
Muslims are spiritual people, which is great - they just need to understand that Islam is not the only way. Maybe they should consider the Bahai faith - it at least preaches true peace and harmony between humans of all faiths and paths in life.