Because creating a new market is synonymous with fulfilling a previously unrecognized need. It actually is something useful. Not useful in the same way as inventing agriculture was, but useful nonetheless.
Apple's savior is an MP3 player. They didn't invent the market, they just made it shinier than it was before.
If you've read Jobs's bio, he was ready to go nuclear on Google over Android, so yes, Apple's just as ready as anybody else to pound you into sand if you dare try to make anything resembling their products. Apple is not a good guy. If you love Apple products, they're just YOUR bad guy.
Finally, few people are qualified to tell whether the newly appointed head of a half TRILLION dollar company is going to be successful. Woz is probably more qualified than I am, but not by much. Tbh, I truly believe the only people who are really qualified to know are living in 2017, if not 2022 or so. Ask one of them.
Open source is a solution for certain problems. You're coming at this from entirely the wrong end, trying to find some reason to apply a solution that certain people like without identifying some reason to do so. Don't do that. If you have a reason to open source it, do. If you don't, don't.
Have you considered that maybe the majority of/. readers simply doesn't want videos?
Dingdingding! We have a winner! Slashdot, you are not youtube. Don't try to be. In fact, if you REALLY want to do this, just create a slashdot channel there and be done with it. The people who want to watch your videos will. There. Not here.
Well, of course. It was produced by lawyers. The CP argument is awful and I'd love to see the lawyer fired, disbarred, or tarred and feathered for it. Guesswork has no place in court. It MIGHT contain nothing but complete copies of the Bible. It probably doesn't, but it MIGHT.
It SHOULD be considered entirely legitimate data until evidence is presented that it isn't.
I agree with you. I'm technically obese and I just ran 5 miles. I am not slender, but people don't look at me and think "fat guy", either. I googled a bit and found this:
Still, as I walk the streets of this fine country, it's painfully obvious we have not become a nation of bodybuilders and multisport athletes. While I agree that a better measure than BMI should be used, that obesity metric has trended upward, I see a lot of fat people, and rates of obesity related diseases have gone up. I think my inference stands. Part of the reason we spend a lot of money on healthcare is because we spend a lot of time and money being unhealthy.
More than one-third of U.S. adults (35.7%) are obese. (CDC)
This is not sickness. This is the consequence of eating too much food and not exercising. It would be entirely reasonable to ask if healthcare dollars should go to treating people for eating too many twinkies.
An Estimated 1 in 10 U.S. Adults Report Depression. (CDC)
Depression is horribly overreported. Being bummed out because your life is not going as you wish is not depression. It's just being sad.
"Do you have a best buy rewards card? No. Do you want one? No. Can I have your zip code and phone number? Why?". This was terribly annoying.
I really think this has gotten a lot better. I remember when this stuff started, people just had a meltdown when I wouldn't give them my phone number. They had no idea what to do. It wasn't uncommon for them to claim I couldn't buy whatever if I didn't give it out. Radio Shack used to be really bad about it, and I quit shopping there for a good many years. These days, I just say "I don't give that out." and they don't even blink. They type something in. Maybe it's the store number. I don't know and don't care. 95%+ of the time when someone asks me if I have their loyalty card, they don't even ask me if I want one. I suppose people have figured out that these cards have been around forever, and if I still don't have one, I obviously don't want one.
Exactly. This is why I don't shop at Best Buy. Once you have my money, the item belongs to me and I don't have to prove to you I own it. If you don't like that, set up your store so that the only place I can go past the cash register is out the door. I'd be completely happy with that, but what I will NOT do is hand over my money, then have some minimum wage idiot demand I prove I'm not a thief 15 feet away.
The last thing I did buy there was either a hard drive or memory. Whatever it was, the sales weasel wouldn't give it to me. He insisted on hand carrying it up to the register, as if I couldn't be trusted with a $100 item. You know what, Best Buy? You can go straight to hell. I won't miss you.
Most likely no. I used to be in the field. Cancer is a name applied to a complex class of diseases. I've watched a number of very promising developments, some of which looked like they might be "cures", come and go. I've watched friends die of it in spite of this. Cancer will probably be cured someday. I wouldn't put any money on it being in our lifetimes.
This one doesn't inspire me because they're attacking human tumors in mice. Human tumors in mice already look like foreign tissue. Your own tumors don't, because they ARE you. I won't be surprised if they try this in people and it doesn't do anything. If I'm wrong, great.
There will be lots of people they asked the questions of, and some of them will testify to this. One person might be lying. Lots are probably not, and that becomes very credible testimony. You'll also find that HR drones that are merely doing what they were told to do may not be willing to enter into personal criminal conduct by perjuring themselves over it. If you'd read any of the stories about this, some of them feature pictures of the application forms with spaces for your social media login information. It becomes very, very hard to deny doing this very quickly.
Obviously, "You must be new here." is a joke, though tbh I don't count digits before I reply. Old IDs aren't necessarily still owned by the original holder, not that that matters.
But yeah, I was merely taking a swipe at the nutty people out there who worry about nonsensical things, and saying that another instance of people worrying about nonsensical things is just par for the course.
That's the part that annoys me. Putting genes into organisms with viruses is bog standard and has been for a long time. That step IS obvious to one skilled in the art. It's even obvious to me, and I am not skilled in the art. I am familiar enough that I've injected those modified viruses into other organisms, but not so skilled that I was the guy making the viruses.
You must be new here. This is the planet where primitive Mayans chip out calendars on stone and present day idiots believe the world is ending because the Mayan calendar is. Special idiots spend their life savings building bunkers to prepare for this predicted-by-primitives apocalypse.
If anything, you should be surprised people aren't cowering in their basements wrapped in tin foil.
Some famous person, perhaps Mark Twain, said that was bad advice. Instead, DO put all your eggs in one basket...and then watch the basket! The problem with cloud is you're putting your eggs in someone else's basket and you aren't allowed to watch it.
This is also why, after being briefly enamored of e-books, I've gone back to buying the real thing. I still sometimes reread books I bought 20+ years ago. Will the Kindle ones I've bought still work in 20 years? I doubt it. Are they required to? Certainly not. But I have dead-tree-and-ink versions ranging from days old to 130+ years on my bookshelf. Most of them work as well as the day they were purchased.
I'll still buy them if they satisfy an immediate need and are significantly cheaper than the dead tree version. Last one I bought was three bucks, not stocked in bookstores, and I wanted something to read Right Now. Disposable entertainment. The problem with that is that it doesn't scale. I don't mind blowing $3 on a few hours amusement. I'm much happier having $20k or so in books lying about my house than spending $10k on digital versions that will one day go poof.
I'm not sure how they would respond. I expect they would either forget about it, send a threatening but bluffing letter, or send a real threatening letter. I wouldn't let them into my premises unless I thought they could back it up with a court order.
Why not go all the way and just require a court order?
I wonder how they could legally force you to let them investigate.
I don't know that they can force you to let them investigate, but some software licenses include a clause requiring you to cooperate with software audits. If you're licensed for such software, you're now in breach and they can probably revoke the license. All they need is evidence you're still using the software after that and that's grounds for a lawsuit, which includes discovery.
Also, try not to actually have pirated software. Even companies that claim in policy not to use pirated software sometimes do. Even those that are really serious about only using licensed software (which includes OSS, by the way) sometimes have bad apples who do it anyway. If you don't want to end up on the wrong end of a lawsuit, don't break the law.
This is not in favor or support of the BSA at all, you just left out the point that actually not breaking the rules they're claiming you're breaking is a good idea.
The issue is not that they were unclear, it's that they LIED about it.
I have an iPhone. I have an unlimited data plan. I expect that means whenever I try to use it, AT&T will not impose limits on how much of that data I use. Now, there are a couple ways they might limit me. They could impose a cap after which I get zero data. They don't do that. They could restrict my data rate after I reach some threshold. They DO that. I know some people don't get that it's a limit, but it is, especially if they're throttling you to 1% of your normal speed. That's a cut off in all but name.
I'm not saying AT&T needs to provide me a Gb/s or infinite bandwidth, but if they sell me an "unlimited" plan, I should be able to get whatever their network is technically capable of delivering whenever I ask for it. I can accept that it may be slow if 10,000 other people are on the same pipe. That is not AT&T limiting me. When AT&T singles me out for using too much data on an unlimited plan and artificially restricts how much more data I can use, that's a limit, plain and simple.
The part that really galls me is how aggressively they advertised these things. Come and get an iPhone, they said. Browse the web! Stream music and video! The entire intarwebz are at your fingertips! NOW they want to back away from that. No. Honor your contracts, AT&T.
Mind you, this "work zone" camera has been in operation since June 2010. Not sure why ANY construction zone should exist that long.
One of my pet peeves as well. A section of roadway with cones, barriers, and equipment abandoned for months at a time where no one actually does any work is NOT a work zone.
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Because creating a new market is synonymous with fulfilling a previously unrecognized need. It actually is something useful. Not useful in the same way as inventing agriculture was, but useful nonetheless.
Apple's savior is an MP3 player. They didn't invent the market, they just made it shinier than it was before.
If you've read Jobs's bio, he was ready to go nuclear on Google over Android, so yes, Apple's just as ready as anybody else to pound you into sand if you dare try to make anything resembling their products. Apple is not a good guy. If you love Apple products, they're just YOUR bad guy.
Finally, few people are qualified to tell whether the newly appointed head of a half TRILLION dollar company is going to be successful. Woz is probably more qualified than I am, but not by much. Tbh, I truly believe the only people who are really qualified to know are living in 2017, if not 2022 or so. Ask one of them.
Open source is a solution for certain problems. You're coming at this from entirely the wrong end, trying to find some reason to apply a solution that certain people like without identifying some reason to do so. Don't do that. If you have a reason to open source it, do. If you don't, don't.
Duh. They eat babies. Even I know that and I'm not Australian.
Dingdingding! We have a winner! Slashdot, you are not youtube. Don't try to be. In fact, if you REALLY want to do this, just create a slashdot channel there and be done with it. The people who want to watch your videos will. There. Not here.
It's also been said that all the people in the world could fit in a 1 mile cube. Not alive, mind you, but they'd fit.
Well, of course. It was produced by lawyers. The CP argument is awful and I'd love to see the lawyer fired, disbarred, or tarred and feathered for it. Guesswork has no place in court. It MIGHT contain nothing but complete copies of the Bible. It probably doesn't, but it MIGHT.
It SHOULD be considered entirely legitimate data until evidence is presented that it isn't.
I agree with you. I'm technically obese and I just ran 5 miles. I am not slender, but people don't look at me and think "fat guy", either. I googled a bit and found this:
http://www.bodystat.com/documents/Val%2090.pdf
Still, as I walk the streets of this fine country, it's painfully obvious we have not become a nation of bodybuilders and multisport athletes. While I agree that a better measure than BMI should be used, that obesity metric has trended upward, I see a lot of fat people, and rates of obesity related diseases have gone up. I think my inference stands. Part of the reason we spend a lot of money on healthcare is because we spend a lot of time and money being unhealthy.
This is not sickness. This is the consequence of eating too much food and not exercising. It would be entirely reasonable to ask if healthcare dollars should go to treating people for eating too many twinkies.
Depression is horribly overreported. Being bummed out because your life is not going as you wish is not depression. It's just being sad.
I really think this has gotten a lot better. I remember when this stuff started, people just had a meltdown when I wouldn't give them my phone number. They had no idea what to do. It wasn't uncommon for them to claim I couldn't buy whatever if I didn't give it out. Radio Shack used to be really bad about it, and I quit shopping there for a good many years. These days, I just say "I don't give that out." and they don't even blink. They type something in. Maybe it's the store number. I don't know and don't care. 95%+ of the time when someone asks me if I have their loyalty card, they don't even ask me if I want one. I suppose people have figured out that these cards have been around forever, and if I still don't have one, I obviously don't want one.
Exactly. This is why I don't shop at Best Buy. Once you have my money, the item belongs to me and I don't have to prove to you I own it. If you don't like that, set up your store so that the only place I can go past the cash register is out the door. I'd be completely happy with that, but what I will NOT do is hand over my money, then have some minimum wage idiot demand I prove I'm not a thief 15 feet away.
The last thing I did buy there was either a hard drive or memory. Whatever it was, the sales weasel wouldn't give it to me. He insisted on hand carrying it up to the register, as if I couldn't be trusted with a $100 item. You know what, Best Buy? You can go straight to hell. I won't miss you.
Most likely no. I used to be in the field. Cancer is a name applied to a complex class of diseases. I've watched a number of very promising developments, some of which looked like they might be "cures", come and go. I've watched friends die of it in spite of this. Cancer will probably be cured someday. I wouldn't put any money on it being in our lifetimes.
This one doesn't inspire me because they're attacking human tumors in mice. Human tumors in mice already look like foreign tissue. Your own tumors don't, because they ARE you. I won't be surprised if they try this in people and it doesn't do anything. If I'm wrong, great.
There will be lots of people they asked the questions of, and some of them will testify to this. One person might be lying. Lots are probably not, and that becomes very credible testimony. You'll also find that HR drones that are merely doing what they were told to do may not be willing to enter into personal criminal conduct by perjuring themselves over it. If you'd read any of the stories about this, some of them feature pictures of the application forms with spaces for your social media login information. It becomes very, very hard to deny doing this very quickly.
It's also been best security practice for as long as I can remember. This is not really news.
Obviously, "You must be new here." is a joke, though tbh I don't count digits before I reply. Old IDs aren't necessarily still owned by the original holder, not that that matters.
But yeah, I was merely taking a swipe at the nutty people out there who worry about nonsensical things, and saying that another instance of people worrying about nonsensical things is just par for the course.
That's the part that annoys me. Putting genes into organisms with viruses is bog standard and has been for a long time. That step IS obvious to one skilled in the art. It's even obvious to me, and I am not skilled in the art. I am familiar enough that I've injected those modified viruses into other organisms, but not so skilled that I was the guy making the viruses.
You must be new here. This is the planet where primitive Mayans chip out calendars on stone and present day idiots believe the world is ending because the Mayan calendar is. Special idiots spend their life savings building bunkers to prepare for this predicted-by-primitives apocalypse.
If anything, you should be surprised people aren't cowering in their basements wrapped in tin foil.
Then again, Congressmen are potentially damaging, and much more so. I think they should be branded.
Some famous person, perhaps Mark Twain, said that was bad advice. Instead, DO put all your eggs in one basket...and then watch the basket! The problem with cloud is you're putting your eggs in someone else's basket and you aren't allowed to watch it.
Yes, and the amount of data we work with is massively bigger. "Cloud" is a massive victory of marketing, not of technology.
This is also why, after being briefly enamored of e-books, I've gone back to buying the real thing. I still sometimes reread books I bought 20+ years ago. Will the Kindle ones I've bought still work in 20 years? I doubt it. Are they required to? Certainly not. But I have dead-tree-and-ink versions ranging from days old to 130+ years on my bookshelf. Most of them work as well as the day they were purchased.
I'll still buy them if they satisfy an immediate need and are significantly cheaper than the dead tree version. Last one I bought was three bucks, not stocked in bookstores, and I wanted something to read Right Now. Disposable entertainment. The problem with that is that it doesn't scale. I don't mind blowing $3 on a few hours amusement. I'm much happier having $20k or so in books lying about my house than spending $10k on digital versions that will one day go poof.
Why not go all the way and just require a court order?
I don't know that they can force you to let them investigate, but some software licenses include a clause requiring you to cooperate with software audits. If you're licensed for such software, you're now in breach and they can probably revoke the license. All they need is evidence you're still using the software after that and that's grounds for a lawsuit, which includes discovery.
Also, try not to actually have pirated software. Even companies that claim in policy not to use pirated software sometimes do. Even those that are really serious about only using licensed software (which includes OSS, by the way) sometimes have bad apples who do it anyway. If you don't want to end up on the wrong end of a lawsuit, don't break the law.
This is not in favor or support of the BSA at all, you just left out the point that actually not breaking the rules they're claiming you're breaking is a good idea.
The issue is not that they were unclear, it's that they LIED about it.
I have an iPhone. I have an unlimited data plan. I expect that means whenever I try to use it, AT&T will not impose limits on how much of that data I use. Now, there are a couple ways they might limit me. They could impose a cap after which I get zero data. They don't do that. They could restrict my data rate after I reach some threshold. They DO that. I know some people don't get that it's a limit, but it is, especially if they're throttling you to 1% of your normal speed. That's a cut off in all but name.
I'm not saying AT&T needs to provide me a Gb/s or infinite bandwidth, but if they sell me an "unlimited" plan, I should be able to get whatever their network is technically capable of delivering whenever I ask for it. I can accept that it may be slow if 10,000 other people are on the same pipe. That is not AT&T limiting me. When AT&T singles me out for using too much data on an unlimited plan and artificially restricts how much more data I can use, that's a limit, plain and simple.
The part that really galls me is how aggressively they advertised these things. Come and get an iPhone, they said. Browse the web! Stream music and video! The entire intarwebz are at your fingertips! NOW they want to back away from that. No. Honor your contracts, AT&T.
One of my pet peeves as well. A section of roadway with cones, barriers, and equipment abandoned for months at a time where no one actually does any work is NOT a work zone.