If you don't copy the market leader, you are dismissed out of hand.
Did Apple copy the market leader when they released the first iPod? Did they copy the market leader when they released the iPhone? Or the iPad? Or the MacBook Air?
I agree. While I do think that fusion power is worth researching, it should be a long term research project. LFTR is a "right now" project that will yield immediate results. Oak Ridge National Laboratories had a working LFTR reactor back in the 60s. We could have LFTR up and running on a global scale in 10 years if we could get just a little funding for it, say 1 billion dollars, which is a fraction of what has been spent so far on Fusion so far with no practical application yet.
"You're right that Baidu probably beat Google by offering free searches for piracy sites. If you stop with the copyright maximalist viewpoint for a minute, that's exactly what you'd expect in a free-market situation."
This has nothing to do with a free-market. A free market says you have the choice to either make something or not make something, and also, the choice to purchase something or not purchase something. Doesn't say anything about the right to steal something, or in the case of Baidu, aid you in stealing something.
What if Baidu helped me find all your bank account numbers and I "downloaded" all your money? How would you feel about their service then?
My thoughts exactly!!! Let them come in and compete fairly with the rest of us.
This will also give them less of a reason to eventually leave the US, go home and set up competing companies back in their home countries, using all the knowledge they gained while working as an indentured servant in the US.
Japanese phones have been way ahead of American phones in terms of advanced features for years. They regularly make purchases right from their phone using "smart wallet" functions, something even the iPhone lacks.
So I take this news with a HUGE grain of salt.
I'm not doubting that the iPhone is popular in Japan, but when you consider that almost all phones in Japan could reasonably be called "Smart Phones" then I don't think that the iPhone represents 40% of that market.
I had this very same issue two years ago. I did some searching around and after a long comparison to the Email only providers that I found, Fusemail came out on top by a mile. They are cheap, storage is cheap and they have awesome features! I've been very happy with them and hope they never go out of business! I've even suggested them to several small businesses and these business are using them and very happy with Fusemail as well. Give them a look. www.fusemail.com
The lack of fast internet in America is crippling all the business that relies on fast internet speeds. Sorry to burst your bubble but the Internet is actually used for more that just surfing the web. If America is supposed to be moving away from a manufacturing economy and toward a service economy (specifically an information service economy) then we need to have the infrastructure to handle the demands of that economy. Just like when we invested tons of money in the railroad infrastructure in the beginnings of the Industrial revolution and then again on our highway system in the 50â(TM)s for trucking; we need to invest heavily in our Internet infrastructure. If we donâ(TM)t then we will surely fail as an Information Economy. Iâ(TM)ve had direct experience with this as I worked for a Medical ASP and we were constantly crippled by crappy Internet speeds that would not have been an issue in most of Europe and much of Asia. Itâ(TM)s shameful how our economic growth is being hampered by a few very greedy Telco companies.
I'd rather have a great single player game than a crappy single player game + multiplayer. It takes a lot of extra time and money to add multiplayer to a game and that distracts from development. Also, I didn't read anything that said the game was in "early" stages of development, it just said that the game was "at least a year off." Sounds like they are just putting more work into the game, or did you actually get to see it?
This is the most redicules thing I've ever heard of from supposedly Buddhist monks! What the Hell? I'm pretty sure that the whole freaking idea behind Buddhism is to let go of your ego. This is the most ego related thing I've ever heard of.
but he forgot to mention that the Xbox360 only has a 2 core Cell processor and the PS3 has a 7 core Cell processor, it's a huge difference; also the PS3 comes with a 50GB built in optical drive and the Xbox360 only comes with a 4.8GB built in optical drive. Those are two huge differences in hardware capabilities that are rarely highlighted in discusions about the two systems.
I'd love it if they would just focus on finishing the International Space Station, with all of it's modules so that we can actually have it staffed with a full (read useful) crew, instead of a skeleton 3 person crew.
I like this idea, but it might only be fitting for some sectors of the IT realm, namely those that can lay claim to some type of product that they have produced, e.g. programmers, web developers, graphic artists, etc. It does not seem to pertain so much to systems and network admins and desktop support types who are the ones typically underpaid and over worked.
I and several of my friends have done the same. We realized that we were addicted to video games and, as much as we loved them and cherished our memories playing those games, we realized that it was disrupting our lives in un-healthy ways. Not everyone has this problem with video game, just as not everyone who takes drugs has a drug problem. However, if you think your girlfriend's life is being seriously disrupted by her video gaming, then there are only two things you can do to help her. Talk to her about it and see if she's willing to make an effort to change things, and if she is, then throw out everything you have that pertains to video games, no not the computer, just the video games and all the magazines, whatever. Having this stuff around just makes it impossible to stop thinking about playing games. I did this myself and have never looked back. I've been playing video games since the days of the text based adventure Bedlam played on the TRS-80 II. I've played a lot of video games but realized that it was something that was distracting me from taking care of other important parts of my life. Sadly I realized that this very fun part of my life was not a healthy part of "my" life, so I gave it up. Anyway, if she decides to go along with this, then have other activities planned to divert her and your attention away from not playing video games. Figure out what you both like doing, outside of video gaming and do that instead. Anyway, I hope this helps. Good luck.
Yes! Finally, someone who actually understands the whole crux of this farce. ID has no merit as a scientific theory and therefore, has no place in a class on or about science. It's just that simple, and the fact that the people who are in charge of debating this topic nationally don't get it, is just scary.
And for all those people who think that the judge has outlawed the teaching of ID in school at all need to read his statement closely, as he specifically identifies that "it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom." Which does not preclude it from being taught in other classes, just not in a science class.
I remember how absolutely buggy the first several versions of office was, especially compared to Word Perfect. However, tons of people used it because it was free, "it sucks but it's free." (actual quote)
I'm in charge of rolling out new Window's systems to Dr.'s offices and I've introduced them all to OpenOffice and they all love it. All they really want to do is to be able to compose letters and such and they love that they don't have to pay the expensive fee for having that on everyone's PC.
I think that OpenOffice is a sucess and that it will, in time, continue to get much better.
Prior to my discovering the online community in 1980, my longest stint off the grid was my three years in the Army '85-'88. Not only was I off the grid but completely computer-less. I made up for it by coming back to the fold with a nice new Amiga 2000. Man was that a sweet machine with tons of online community activity around it as well. So, even my year Studying abroad (or was that studying a-beer?) in Germany '93-'94 and my six months in Croatia (in a bombed out town during the tail end of the Yugoslavian war) were not so bereft of computers and online access as my time in the Army.
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I'm sure that, in retrospect, he did.
If you don't copy the market leader, you are dismissed out of hand.
Did Apple copy the market leader when they released the first iPod? Did they copy the market leader when they released the iPhone? Or the iPad? Or the MacBook Air?
http://forums.macnn.com/t/490589/court-docs-show-apple-took-design-inspiration-from-sony
Yes...they did.
Technicolor wants to sue companies to force them to license their patents. (this is how the patent system is supposed to work)
Apple wants to sue companies to prevent them from creating competitive products (THIS is an example of a broken patent system)
I agree. While I do think that fusion power is worth researching, it should be a long term research project. LFTR is a "right now" project that will yield immediate results. Oak Ridge National Laboratories had a working LFTR reactor back in the 60s. We could have LFTR up and running on a global scale in 10 years if we could get just a little funding for it, say 1 billion dollars, which is a fraction of what has been spent so far on Fusion so far with no practical application yet.
Here's the primer on LFTR called "Thorium in Five Minutes" it's a good watch.
http://thoriumremix.com/2011/
Here's a link to the Thorium petition.
http://thoriumpetition.com/
I've been reading Slashdot since I started at my first dot.com as their IT manager way back in 1999, and I still look at it every day.
Thanks for all the great posts Rob and I'm definitely going to miss choosing you as the "other" choice in all the polls.
Take care and good luck!
Dave
And wouldn't you know it...I wasn't logged in when I posted this. sigh
Man if this isn't a case of "The pot calling the kettle black" then I don't know what is!
"You're right that Baidu probably beat Google by offering free searches for piracy sites. If you stop with the copyright maximalist viewpoint for a minute, that's exactly what you'd expect in a free-market situation."
This has nothing to do with a free-market. A free market says you have the choice to either make something or not make something, and also, the choice to purchase something or not purchase something. Doesn't say anything about the right to steal something, or in the case of Baidu, aid you in stealing something.
What if Baidu helped me find all your bank account numbers and I "downloaded" all your money? How would you feel about their service then?
My thoughts exactly!!! Let them come in and compete fairly with the rest of us.
This will also give them less of a reason to eventually leave the US, go home and set up competing companies back in their home countries, using all the knowledge they gained while working as an indentured servant in the US.
Depends on what you call a "smart phone."
Japanese phones have been way ahead of American phones in terms of advanced features for years. They regularly make purchases right from their phone using "smart wallet" functions, something even the iPhone lacks.
So I take this news with a HUGE grain of salt.
I'm not doubting that the iPhone is popular in Japan, but when you consider that almost all phones in Japan could reasonably be called "Smart Phones" then I don't think that the iPhone represents 40% of that market.
8.5% is a good start but I'd like to see those numbers up to 12+% within a few years.
I had this very same issue two years ago. I did some searching around and after a long comparison to the Email only providers that I found, Fusemail came out on top by a mile. They are cheap, storage is cheap and they have awesome features! I've been very happy with them and hope they never go out of business! I've even suggested them to several small businesses and these business are using them and very happy with Fusemail as well. Give them a look. www.fusemail.com
The lack of fast internet in America is crippling all the business that relies on fast internet speeds. Sorry to burst your bubble but the Internet is actually used for more that just surfing the web. If America is supposed to be moving away from a manufacturing economy and toward a service economy (specifically an information service economy) then we need to have the infrastructure to handle the demands of that economy. Just like when we invested tons of money in the railroad infrastructure in the beginnings of the Industrial revolution and then again on our highway system in the 50â(TM)s for trucking; we need to invest heavily in our Internet infrastructure. If we donâ(TM)t then we will surely fail as an Information Economy. Iâ(TM)ve had direct experience with this as I worked for a Medical ASP and we were constantly crippled by crappy Internet speeds that would not have been an issue in most of Europe and much of Asia. Itâ(TM)s shameful how our economic growth is being hampered by a few very greedy Telco companies.
I'd rather have a great single player game than a crappy single player game + multiplayer. It takes a lot of extra time and money to add multiplayer to a game and that distracts from development. Also, I didn't read anything that said the game was in "early" stages of development, it just said that the game was "at least a year off." Sounds like they are just putting more work into the game, or did you actually get to see it?
I like black on teal, one of my programs used it back in college and it just stuck with me.
Something about the thick black lettering on a teal background is easy to look at.
This is the most redicules thing I've ever heard of from supposedly Buddhist monks! What the Hell? I'm pretty sure that the whole freaking idea behind Buddhism is to let go of your ego. This is the most ego related thing I've ever heard of.
When did the US Government ever care about what 18 to 25 year olds thought about anything?
but he forgot to mention that the Xbox360 only has a 2 core Cell processor and the PS3 has a 7 core Cell processor, it's a huge difference; also the PS3 comes with a 50GB built in optical drive and the Xbox360 only comes with a 4.8GB built in optical drive. Those are two huge differences in hardware capabilities that are rarely highlighted in discusions about the two systems.
I'd love it if they would just focus on finishing the International Space Station, with all of it's modules so that we can actually have it staffed with a full (read useful) crew, instead of a skeleton 3 person crew.
I like this idea, but it might only be fitting for some sectors of the IT realm, namely those that can lay claim to some type of product that they have produced, e.g. programmers, web developers, graphic artists, etc. It does not seem to pertain so much to systems and network admins and desktop support types who are the ones typically underpaid and over worked.
Hell Yes!! I've been suggesting this for years.
"Canada's Research In Motion Ltd. was suing U.S. rival Glenayre Electronics Inc. to enforce a newly acquired patent on its BlackBerry wireless device.
"BlackBerry knockoffs will now need a licence from us," RIM co-chief executive officer James Balsillie warned. "The amateurs out there have to stop.""
And now RIM is getting sued for pattent infringement...it looks to me as if RIM and Mr. Lazaridis are getting their just desserts!!
I and several of my friends have done the same. We realized that we were addicted to video games and, as much as we loved them and cherished our memories playing those games, we realized that it was disrupting our lives in un-healthy ways. Not everyone has this problem with video game, just as not everyone who takes drugs has a drug problem. However, if you think your girlfriend's life is being seriously disrupted by her video gaming, then there are only two things you can do to help her. Talk to her about it and see if she's willing to make an effort to change things, and if she is, then throw out everything you have that pertains to video games, no not the computer, just the video games and all the magazines, whatever. Having this stuff around just makes it impossible to stop thinking about playing games. I did this myself and have never looked back. I've been playing video games since the days of the text based adventure Bedlam played on the TRS-80 II. I've played a lot of video games but realized that it was something that was distracting me from taking care of other important parts of my life. Sadly I realized that this very fun part of my life was not a healthy part of "my" life, so I gave it up. Anyway, if she decides to go along with this, then have other activities planned to divert her and your attention away from not playing video games. Figure out what you both like doing, outside of video gaming and do that instead. Anyway, I hope this helps. Good luck.
Yes! Finally, someone who actually understands the whole crux of this farce. ID has no merit as a scientific theory and therefore, has no place in a class on or about science. It's just that simple, and the fact that the people who are in charge of debating this topic nationally don't get it, is just scary.
And for all those people who think that the judge has outlawed the teaching of ID in school at all need to read his statement closely, as he specifically identifies that "it is unconstitutional to teach ID as an alternative to evolution in a public school science classroom." Which does not preclude it from being taught in other classes, just not in a science class.
I remember how absolutely buggy the first several versions of office was, especially compared to Word Perfect. However, tons of people used it because it was free, "it sucks but it's free." (actual quote)
I'm in charge of rolling out new Window's systems to Dr.'s offices and I've introduced them all to OpenOffice and they all love it. All they really want to do is to be able to compose letters and such and they love that they don't have to pay the expensive fee for having that on everyone's PC.
I think that OpenOffice is a sucess and that it will, in time, continue to get much better.
Prior to my discovering the online community in 1980, my longest stint off the grid was my three years in the Army '85-'88. Not only was I off the grid but completely computer-less. I made up for it by coming back to the fold with a nice new Amiga 2000. Man was that a sweet machine with tons of online community activity around it as well. So, even my year Studying abroad (or was that studying a-beer?) in Germany '93-'94 and my six months in Croatia (in a bombed out town during the tail end of the Yugoslavian war) were not so bereft of computers and online access as my time in the Army.