simply a different point. look at safari. subscribe and gain access to readily available copies of technical books. why can i not refer to an electronic copy of a work. i buy a hell of a lot of books and cds. why can i not get rather than burn mp3 tracks from the label site. just like i want a hi res version of music, i sometimes want a physical copy of a book. to me there should be a cost difference, but currently there is not. uses for music, movies and books are changing rapidly. just as the short story was created to meet new markets, we will witness new forms of current media types. until the publishers recognize these different forces, they will be fodder for the warez croud. get a clue.
perhaps you have read the paper/s by jim bell (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&i e=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=assassination+politics) . while you might be appalled by the thought of bidding on destruction, you might like to know of the many other beautiful things that capitalism has brought us! child labor, sex trade, cigarettes... predicting the unthinkable is not pretty.
nice pun! i've been taking yoga for about six months and taichichuan for a couple of years. i wouldn't say that it drastically improves your life, especially for somebody as caffeinated as myself, though it does really improve a small portion of the day. as an employer, i would say that anything which helps to improve the health and general motivation of your peeps is a good thing. it's about quality of life. i was describing yoga to o woman yesterday as your own internal chiropractor. just laying on the floor now readjusts my back. oooh, the popping sound! it is also much better than weight lifting for developing strength and toning muscles in my experience. just like running, the rush when i do a simple stretch is great, and being able to excercise in a hotel room is pretty damn helpful. also, a bunch of very fit females hanging around is never to be discouraged!
which is why it's annoying and not threatening!
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linux as a system, would simply replace that code which is offending. they are suing ibm over misplaced unix intellectual property, which they may or may not own. they have not presented a cease and desist to the linux community, nor could they without describing explicitly what is offending. "...but are they worth risking Linux to vagaries of the increasingly irrational legal system?" they've been told in germany to put up, or shut up... which did they do? vigilance is rational; paranoid is not. as the villan in the bruce lee movies says after sticking a couple knives in his opponents, "you must stay relaxed!"
i have watched kids (highschool) play games on phones during football games. i doubt that mobile gaming is making much money for anybody at the moment, but the market will emerge. hell, i downloaded asteroids and such, and was entertained for hours (pc not phone, but the phone would be better). certainly much cheaper than the buckets of quarters the game removed from my pocket as a youth!
"Well, I can tell you what doesn't workâ"and that is to have a whole bunch of people who are deep in their own technical domain but have no interest in engaging with the others. Then you end up with this "siloing" effect, but itâ(TM)s the joins between different disciplines where all the difficult stuff happens."
very simply, take your pile of cash, organize some osf foundation seminars on user interfac design, both experimental, and practical, and educate those closest to the technology. bottom up! not, top down. for everything that parc produced, much of it was never accepted or produced. open source needs a more interdisciplinary approach to interface design. somebody commented on a thread in the osx discussion, that apple has been great about incorporating open source technology with great user interface thinking (ymmv). they asked, why gnome or others could not do that. this is the reason why.
as a designer, i find your analysis on target. nobody wants to pay for thinking about the problem, it's requirements (both client and user), and the path to a finished solution (planning the process). ideo is fortunate enough to be able to dictate to a point, but smaller offices have to sell every line item. additionally, too many designers think of themselves as artists as opposed to engineers, something more than a few historic figures have thought of themselves as. engineers have to consider the entire picture. creativity is part of the process, not the whole process. That said, many managers and customers have no clue about what is an effective design or design process. when i hear somebody bitching about "design," i attribute about 50% too cluueless designers, and 50% to clueless customers and end users.
osx is absolutely blinded by nextstep, which is why it is successful. rapid application development tools, bsd underpinnings, windowing system, quartz... as they say, next engineered a takeover of apple. but, what they have is fanatical leadership with a vision of what the product should be. any company producing a product successfully is similar. not simply forward vision, but "brand" vision. what should using your product be like?
look at emacs. you may not like the vision, or find it productive, but those who do use it are fanatical. perhaps apple has the correct point at which to add the value... the user interface. additionally, the developer tools are getting very good. i think symbian is becoming equivalent in a product sense. good, open tools. a nice user interface. useful applications, and usability...
oqo now has to compete against the tablet pc. pda's are becomoing more powerful. cell phones are becoming pda's. this is not a market i would want to compete in, but is facinating none the less.
btw, how does a computer the size of a large book compete with something like a tablet which can fit in your pocket? poor comparison!
...buying tens of thousands of dollars in new software! i buy computers to match the software i use. designing an a windows machine is not fun. color control, type control, established standards... ymmv!
macs have always been highly priced, but i have found that the value is pretty good. we replace our machines every other year or so, but i have an osx (the first one) server from 1999. new scci and hard drives, off it goes. but on a hundred or two thousand per year, per station, i'm not complaining about a grand or two!
as i was driving home listening to wnur (northwestern university radio), the student dj refused to play a request, mr. bungle, because it was warner brothers. your customer is getting pissed! but alas, you deserve it!
Nothing quite like being ignored! I have to agree that they were lucky to have the opinion of somebody who actually has sold a few products. Woz was a great engineer, but selling is unfortunately the litmus test.
i do hate say that chicago is an hour and a half away, but i really wouldn't mind living in madison. it's a nice university town.
but, i think society at large is really in the same boat. pretty much nothing is happening since 911, it's bizarre. tv, big gulps, too much crap! it's getting old. look at the response that the review of "what should i do with my life" got here! (http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/03/1858203&mode=thread&tid=98) so, do not feel like you're alone in your feelings! though, "hate" is a bit much; people are pretty similar everywhere. enlightenment does not come cheap.
i have recently read "siddhartha." quite affective. the meaning of life is not a new problem, but not searching for it is a tragedy.
which is why i'm an entrepreneur! having walked out in my youth on poor decision making, and subsequently losing said job, i learned young the idea of planning your departure. plan, work, plan, work, work, work...
get set up with a small efficient office space and the equipment you need (used office stuff of course). with say 6-12 people this may constitute a few hundred a month in contibutions. this weeds out the cheerleaders. working very long hours is rarely cheerful! comedians come in handy however!
look for clients... establish the work, and jump one at a time, when doing both jobs becomes intolerable. value the office manager position! have somebody selling continuously not letting this person actually work on the projects other than communicating their value and requirements. of course, if you are indepndently wealthy, ignore all of this.
drama can be fun, but not when money or death is on the line. quiete determination is where it's at. save your revenge for living well!
the idea of the global village is very much about how information technology makes the concept of individuality obsolete. as people become more aware of those around them, in the sense that a small tribe is aware of the individual members of the tribe, our society is going to become much more aware of the citizens. good/bad? bad for individuality. but, this also implies something that bush et al are not likely to fathom. with citizenship comes reponsibility to each other. complex economies are not likely to function when our trust is breaking down in the government, corporations, and those around us. as china collapsed economically after the physical wall was built around it, we are likely to not function as well after the ethereal wall is built around us. or, a newly hyper aware citizenship may demand more than the government ever expected. the real problem is that few people are actually concerned about their rights, or about excercising their citizenship. just wait until the baby boomers want to retire!
there is an ocean of difference between an idea and an implementation of complex electronic or mechanical devices. all sorts of ideas are introduced, but actually getting people to invest in them, collaborate on them, and finally getting them out the door to a receptive audience is an effort just shy of miraculous. now add the requirement of utterly high standards. how many car companies pull this off?
i use the happy hacker with my fujitsu tablet. very nice. i hope they make a bluetooth version someday. all the wires hanging around the tablet are annoying as hell. the fujitsu tablet is certainly pricey, but a 60gig hard disk and 768 of ram make it very useful. who uses pda's?
a couple thousand cd's takes up a lot of space! and, there is always more to buy. i would much rather have constant availability of whatever i wanted to listen to than own it. same with movies. but quality is important, and i am not sure we are quite there yet. perhaps a higher bit rate acc--double 128... how does this change the economics though? do more subscribers at $120 translate into higher earnings than with cd sales?
It's called a sociopath...
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I, Spammer
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As the child of a criminal, you get to see first hand the selfishness and excuses which drive these personalities. A friend's mother runs a prison system, and insists that there is really no cure for this--the sociopath. He will likely be on to the next nearly illegal exploit after spam is made completely illegal--if ever. at least he's not stealing from or killing people!
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with the biggest, badest guy i could find, and all i got was this black eye! weep for me! pitty me! the bully!
simply a different point. look at safari. subscribe and gain access to readily available copies of technical books. why can i not refer to an electronic copy of a work. i buy a hell of a lot of books and cds. why can i not get rather than burn mp3 tracks from the label site. just like i want a hi res version of music, i sometimes want a physical copy of a book. to me there should be a cost difference, but currently there is not. uses for music, movies and books are changing rapidly. just as the short story was created to meet new markets, we will witness new forms of current media types. until the publishers recognize these different forces, they will be fodder for the warez croud. get a clue.
perhaps you have read the paper/s by jim bell (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&i e=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=assassination+politics) . while you might be appalled by the thought of bidding on destruction, you might like to know of the many other beautiful things that capitalism has brought us! child labor, sex trade, cigarettes... predicting the unthinkable is not pretty.
nice pun! i've been taking yoga for about six months and taichichuan for a couple of years. i wouldn't say that it drastically improves your life, especially for somebody as caffeinated as myself, though it does really improve a small portion of the day. as an employer, i would say that anything which helps to improve the health and general motivation of your peeps is a good thing. it's about quality of life. i was describing yoga to o woman yesterday as your own internal chiropractor. just laying on the floor now readjusts my back. oooh, the popping sound! it is also much better than weight lifting for developing strength and toning muscles in my experience. just like running, the rush when i do a simple stretch is great, and being able to excercise in a hotel room is pretty damn helpful. also, a bunch of very fit females hanging around is never to be discouraged!
linux as a system, would simply replace that code which is offending. they are suing ibm over misplaced unix intellectual property, which they may or may not own. they have not presented a cease and desist to the linux community, nor could they without describing explicitly what is offending. "...but are they worth risking Linux to vagaries of the increasingly irrational legal system?" they've been told in germany to put up, or shut up... which did they do? vigilance is rational; paranoid is not. as the villan in the bruce lee movies says after sticking a couple knives in his opponents, "you must stay relaxed!"
i have watched kids (highschool) play games on phones during football games. i doubt that mobile gaming is making much money for anybody at the moment, but the market will emerge. hell, i downloaded asteroids and such, and was entertained for hours (pc not phone, but the phone would be better). certainly much cheaper than the buckets of quarters the game removed from my pocket as a youth!
"Well, I can tell you what doesn't workâ"and that is to have a whole bunch of people who are deep in their own technical domain but have no interest in engaging with the others. Then you end up with this "siloing" effect, but itâ(TM)s the joins between different disciplines where all the difficult stuff happens."
very simply, take your pile of cash, organize some osf foundation seminars on user interfac design, both experimental, and practical, and educate those closest to the technology. bottom up! not, top down. for everything that parc produced, much of it was never accepted or produced. open source needs a more interdisciplinary approach to interface design. somebody commented on a thread in the osx discussion, that apple has been great about incorporating open source technology with great user interface thinking (ymmv). they asked, why gnome or others could not do that. this is the reason why.
as a designer, i find your analysis on target. nobody wants to pay for thinking about the problem, it's requirements (both client and user), and the path to a finished solution (planning the process). ideo is fortunate enough to be able to dictate to a point, but smaller offices have to sell every line item. additionally, too many designers think of themselves as artists as opposed to engineers, something more than a few historic figures have thought of themselves as. engineers have to consider the entire picture. creativity is part of the process, not the whole process. That said, many managers and customers have no clue about what is an effective design or design process. when i hear somebody bitching about "design," i attribute about 50% too cluueless designers, and 50% to clueless customers and end users.
osx is absolutely blinded by nextstep, which is why it is successful. rapid application development tools, bsd underpinnings, windowing system, quartz... as they say, next engineered a takeover of apple. but, what they have is fanatical leadership with a vision of what the product should be. any company producing a product successfully is similar. not simply forward vision, but "brand" vision. what should using your product be like?
look at emacs. you may not like the vision, or find it productive, but those who do use it are fanatical. perhaps apple has the correct point at which to add the value... the user interface. additionally, the developer tools are getting very good. i think symbian is becoming equivalent in a product sense. good, open tools. a nice user interface. useful applications, and usability...
wait a minute. start game over. the computer... damn it! beat me already!
oqo now has to compete against the tablet pc. pda's are becomoing more powerful. cell phones are becoming pda's. this is not a market i would want to compete in, but is facinating none the less.
btw, how does a computer the size of a large book compete with something like a tablet which can fit in your pocket? poor comparison!
...buying tens of thousands of dollars in new software! i buy computers to match the software i use. designing an a windows machine is not fun. color control, type control, established standards... ymmv!
macs have always been highly priced, but i have found that the value is pretty good. we replace our machines every other year or so, but i have an osx (the first one) server from 1999. new scci and hard drives, off it goes. but on a hundred or two thousand per year, per station, i'm not complaining about a grand or two!
as i was driving home listening to wnur (northwestern university radio), the student dj refused to play a request, mr. bungle, because it was warner brothers. your customer is getting pissed! but alas, you deserve it!
Nothing quite like being ignored! I have to agree that they were lucky to have the opinion of somebody who actually has sold a few products. Woz was a great engineer, but selling is unfortunately the litmus test.
i do hate say that chicago is an hour and a half away, but i really wouldn't mind living in madison. it's a nice university town.
3 /1858203&mode=thread&tid=98) so, do not feel like you're alone in your feelings! though, "hate" is a bit much; people are pretty similar everywhere. enlightenment does not come cheap.
but, i think society at large is really in the same boat. pretty much nothing is happening since 911, it's bizarre. tv, big gulps, too much crap! it's getting old. look at the response that the review of "what should i do with my life" got here! (http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/0
i have recently read "siddhartha." quite affective. the meaning of life is not a new problem, but not searching for it is a tragedy.
correlate very well with juvenile delinquents.
which is why i'm an entrepreneur! having walked out in my youth on poor decision making, and subsequently losing said job, i learned young the idea of planning your departure. plan, work, plan, work, work, work...
get set up with a small efficient office space and the equipment you need (used office stuff of course). with say 6-12 people this may constitute a few hundred a month in contibutions. this weeds out the cheerleaders. working very long hours is rarely cheerful! comedians come in handy however!
look for clients... establish the work, and jump one at a time, when doing both jobs becomes intolerable. value the office manager position! have somebody selling continuously not letting this person actually work on the projects other than communicating their value and requirements. of course, if you are indepndently wealthy, ignore all of this.
drama can be fun, but not when money or death is on the line. quiete determination is where it's at. save your revenge for living well!
nice little monster... hey, you're not MY nice little monster! kill him!
bring on the silly villagers with torches. hey that's us!
the idea of the global village is very much about how information technology makes the concept of individuality obsolete. as people become more aware of those around them, in the sense that a small tribe is aware of the individual members of the tribe, our society is going to become much more aware of the citizens. good/bad? bad for individuality. but, this also implies something that bush et al are not likely to fathom. with citizenship comes reponsibility to each other. complex economies are not likely to function when our trust is breaking down in the government, corporations, and those around us. as china collapsed economically after the physical wall was built around it, we are likely to not function as well after the ethereal wall is built around us. or, a newly hyper aware citizenship may demand more than the government ever expected. the real problem is that few people are actually concerned about their rights, or about excercising their citizenship. just wait until the baby boomers want to retire!
there is an ocean of difference between an idea and an implementation of complex electronic or mechanical devices. all sorts of ideas are introduced, but actually getting people to invest in them, collaborate on them, and finally getting them out the door to a receptive audience is an effort just shy of miraculous. now add the requirement of utterly high standards. how many car companies pull this off?
i get about 2-2.5 hours with a cdma card modem and no adjustments. not too bad, but mo is always better.
i use the happy hacker with my fujitsu tablet. very nice. i hope they make a bluetooth version someday. all the wires hanging around the tablet are annoying as hell. the fujitsu tablet is certainly pricey, but a 60gig hard disk and 768 of ram make it very useful. who uses pda's?
a couple thousand cd's takes up a lot of space! and, there is always more to buy. i would much rather have constant availability of whatever i wanted to listen to than own it. same with movies. but quality is important, and i am not sure we are quite there yet. perhaps a higher bit rate acc--double 128... how does this change the economics though? do more subscribers at $120 translate into higher earnings than with cd sales?
As the child of a criminal, you get to see first hand the selfishness and excuses which drive these personalities. A friend's mother runs a prison system, and insists that there is really no cure for this--the sociopath. He will likely be on to the next nearly illegal exploit after spam is made completely illegal--if ever. at least he's not stealing from or killing people!
"cops" will now be in high definition. will they record the busts in surround sound too?
the gap can't patent the t-shirt!