I've used iTunes to burn my entire cd collection which roughly cost around $50k. So, while I occassionally get called a "thief", I am actually now a "copyright violator" since I gave away/sold/threw away said CDs. One of these days I will purchase music from ITMS, but for now I would rather by unhindered (or malware free) CDs and subsequently burn them. Ballmer was just posturing, and we know that both Windows and OS X will become more DRM "friendly" in the future. The sad part is that I will simply not purchase such products.
This comment could apply to many pedogical methods. School systems could rely upon drills, not really accomplishing any higher level learning, thereby trying to prove that their system works through targeted assessment. It is absolutely correct that computers for computer's sake is really a disservice to both education and computers. But, as a developer of educational materials, not software, I believe that educational technology is on the verge of actually taking off in a useful way. The problem is not the software, but the methods surrounding the software or print products. Many things are highly educational but understanding how to use these tools is key. This is exactly where the web becomes useful to teachers.
When I was a kid, SRA had these boxes of materials, which I happened to like, not for determining whether my assessment level was too high or too low, but to get immediate feedback. I didn't want to do one; I wanted to do four. But class bored me out of my mind. Kids like potentially rewarding feedback, and punish severely negative feedback. Ask a parent!
DAmn right there are other reasons! FIrst, as a person who is in the top percentage of music buyers, I am now buying less music. Digital palyers allow for easier access to the 40 continuous days of music that I legally own. Digging through a couple of thousand CDs can be time consuming, and there is an emotional aspect to purchasing more. With these applications, this is gone. It is now simply the music.
Secondly, thye economy isn't that great at home. So there is competition for "entertainment" dollars, and I'm sorry to say RIAA that wine and cooking have won your dollars! I'm not into gaming so entertainment is simply that. But, with more ways to spend these dollars, it's not shocking that they are losing sales.
You're not far from the truth in that with the music indudtries habits, they might just try to sue Sony and Mocrosoft for "stealing" their market.
Imagine when people who pay for both DSL and cable television are confronted with the possibility of purchasing shows ala carte. $40 dollars for cable? or 20 programs/movies delivered as desired for $2 each.
There's another shake up coming to compete with the cable shakedown. There is also the option of new distribution channels and new forms of entertainment...
You had a fantastic little platform in the Newton. The profile of the educational version was perfect. If you would simply provide such a platform again, at a reasonable price, and provide development tools such as HyperCard, you wouldn't need the hundred dollar laptop effort. YOu could create your own!
Making it easier for us to contact your company with such proposals would be nice also.
I'm sure that Apple would love nothing more than to have Windows, OS X, and Linux running side by side on their hardware. I'd be willing to bet that just like Virtual PC is sold, Apple will bundle Windows with the machines and their OS. Pre-loaded and ready to roll... Supporting Yellow Dog would be nice too.
As an early user of the Newton, I had it all also! It was nirvana! except for the lack of adoption, and a lack of applications. An 8 meg card provided additional memory. Some of the coolest people in CS were using them also. We looked fondly upon each others conniseurship of shiny computer products. But, people just don't want to play those geeky games. They want music. They want a phone that doesn't crash, and when it does, they want to call a telco.
It's not that it will never happen, it's that it's a difficult problem. How do we access vast amounts of information through a separated interface. One we touch, one we talk to, or listen to. When the iPod is as poweful as a powerbook or four, it will happen.
As somebody who does not own a television, perhaps I have a different perspective. If I bought a television, got a PVR, and bought cable, I'd be spending $50-100 a month for what? I welcome the option to buy the Simsons and a couple of other show, and avoid he rest. I would also like to be able to download movies.
MAybe this is indicative of a shift in spending on media. Paying for targeted content is always more valuable than paying for "broadcast."
I really disagree. Graphics aren't everything, and in the scheme of things really aren't anything. There have been, and will continue to be plenty of games where the concept is everything. Arguably, the biggest money making games are not graphics intensive--Sim(anything), crossword puzzles, sodoku, Texas Holdum'...
I would actually argue that being a main stream game developer is the kiss of death. Mobile games are the new plastic.
Unfortunately, yes! And, employees of said company are threatened by you in ways hard to imagine. I have recently ditched a small business to simply find myself. I am a designer also, rather than a programer, though I'm sure your mileage will not vary much!
The reason that the pay is higher is both taxes and the non-work factor. You spend a lot of time finding work, simply in phone calls and undecided solicitors. Businesses are not fond of paying people upwards of fity an hour, and those reps take a percentage. They try to get you in there for the most maximized of tasks. I've found that the best short term employers are actually those large businesses you might be currently employed by.
If you are at the very least frightened of business, because that's what you will be, do not do this. If you seek flexibility, it is an option. You might want to read the recent Outside magazine, and the founder of Patagonia's new book on business. It is insightful to those of us who seek to be successful outside of the constraints of a "position."
I have stated several times that I buy CDs, burn them and ditch the shell. I get called a thief, yet I am not a thief. Simply a copyright abuser. And, this is why. How can I buy music from services who may not exist in a couple of years?
Copyright also gives me the right to copy something at a lower resolution as a copy--fair use--regardless of what happens to the original. Dear RIAA, go f yourself.
You are absolutely correct. But, he is talking about most people, whose needs are pretty minimal. Right now, I can do simple photo taking, manipulation, and forwarding on my high-end mobile device. I can read various Office documents. Why can't I create these documents efficiently? Yes, power is one such requirement, but the need by others for bizarrely "pretty" documents, which have absolutely no purpose. We all love PowerPoint, no?
The perfect device would be something like the Psion Revo or Nokia Communicator, with the ability to share processor resources. Plug it into the dock, and I have more capabilities. Importantly, these capabilities cannot be eliminated without the dock, simply reduced in power.
I believe that something like emacs holds the key. Graphically it is a low footprint, conceptually it is very powerful. The abiltity to use such a system, combined with remote connections, could drastically change the computing landscape. If I were Google, I wouldn't worry about Microsoft, I'd worry about SBC. Perhaps they recognize that the network holds the true power of computing in the future, as evident by recent moves. Mobile devices replcing computers will be a viable option in the not too distant future.
If economics is the science of what is financialy possible/probable, then actions should reasonble follow. As you point out, the costs are supposed to make this feasable. Then why hasn't it happened? Grinding up large patches of land to extract oil isn't popular. This is strip mining at its very worst. Grind the earth down and boil the oil out, then refine it several times.
If there is so much oil about to come online, why isn't the oil industry building new refineries? While I certainly know nothing about the oil industry's geological understanding, one would think that new refineries would be economically beneficial if more refinement is necessary. Unless it isn't.
I love the concept! I don't have to go find what I want, or mail order it... But frankly, I still buy my CDs burn them into iTunes uncompressed, and trade or ditch the CDs. Yes, I'm the labels nightmare in a sense, but I don't steal songs, and I don't trade. Friends generally get the spent carcass.
I look forward to the day when I can buy say a higher quality AAC file and I have the right to move it about as I please. Until then, I'm a copyright criminal! Though, I am also in the top several percent of music purchasers, so why feel bad.
Many of the people who came to America were not religious conservatives, but religious liberals. The quakers, for example, were prosecuted for their views on organized religion. See this link for example. Your comments are exactly what the religious right would have us believe, that religion should be the core of our government, when in fact it was founded by people who got the harsh edge of that stick. The basis of our government is freedom of religion, not freedom to choose a state religion.
I stay out of peoples bedrooms and churchs, for the very reason that I don't want others in mine!
All they have to do is place a coffee machine next to it, hell make that free too, put "em outside of Satrbucks, and imagine the crowd gathered around an access point in an airport! This is about the most effective use of advertising dollars that I could ever imagine...
It would make you very rich. Nobody thinking about crap like that! No sir!
Like most of life, building networks of trust takes time. Aren't issues like this really part of the problem? Charging for bandwidth... My server has something like 100gig of transfer, and unless I get Slashdotted several times a month is this really a problem? And, if I do, why aren't I getting some ads in place to pay for it?
The idea that people must die off before perspectives change must be true! No, I'm giong to point to the/. discussion... which is of course based upon the DF post. (Because people shouldn't be allowed to endlessly discuss biased opinions without evidence.)
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I've used iTunes to burn my entire cd collection which roughly cost around $50k. So, while I occassionally get called a "thief", I am actually now a "copyright violator" since I gave away/sold/threw away said CDs. One of these days I will purchase music from ITMS, but for now I would rather by unhindered (or malware free) CDs and subsequently burn them. Ballmer was just posturing, and we know that both Windows and OS X will become more DRM "friendly" in the future. The sad part is that I will simply not purchase such products.
Sad for the artists anyway!
This comment could apply to many pedogical methods. School systems could rely upon drills, not really accomplishing any higher level learning, thereby trying to prove that their system works through targeted assessment. It is absolutely correct that computers for computer's sake is really a disservice to both education and computers. But, as a developer of educational materials, not software, I believe that educational technology is on the verge of actually taking off in a useful way. The problem is not the software, but the methods surrounding the software or print products. Many things are highly educational but understanding how to use these tools is key. This is exactly where the web becomes useful to teachers.
When I was a kid, SRA had these boxes of materials, which I happened to like, not for determining whether my assessment level was too high or too low, but to get immediate feedback. I didn't want to do one; I wanted to do four. But class bored me out of my mind. Kids like potentially rewarding feedback, and punish severely negative feedback. Ask a parent!
DAmn right there are other reasons! FIrst, as a person who is in the top percentage of music buyers, I am now buying less music. Digital palyers allow for easier access to the 40 continuous days of music that I legally own. Digging through a couple of thousand CDs can be time consuming, and there is an emotional aspect to purchasing more. With these applications, this is gone. It is now simply the music.
Secondly, thye economy isn't that great at home. So there is competition for "entertainment" dollars, and I'm sorry to say RIAA that wine and cooking have won your dollars! I'm not into gaming so entertainment is simply that. But, with more ways to spend these dollars, it's not shocking that they are losing sales.
You're not far from the truth in that with the music indudtries habits, they might just try to sue Sony and Mocrosoft for "stealing" their market.
Imagine when people who pay for both DSL and cable television are confronted with the possibility of purchasing shows ala carte. $40 dollars for cable? or 20 programs/movies delivered as desired for $2 each.
There's another shake up coming to compete with the cable shakedown. There is also the option of new distribution channels and new forms of entertainment...
You installed a rootkit on a customer who bought Neil F'ing Diamond! Get a grip on your demographics! WTF!
Yes, I know that ND has sold lots-o-albums...
You had a fantastic little platform in the Newton. The profile of the educational version was perfect. If you would simply provide such a platform again, at a reasonable price, and provide development tools such as HyperCard, you wouldn't need the hundred dollar laptop effort. YOu could create your own!
Making it easier for us to contact your company with such proposals would be nice also.
I'm sure that Apple would love nothing more than to have Windows, OS X, and Linux running side by side on their hardware. I'd be willing to bet that just like Virtual PC is sold, Apple will bundle Windows with the machines and their OS. Pre-loaded and ready to roll... Supporting Yellow Dog would be nice too.
The first taste is free.
As an early user of the Newton, I had it all also! It was nirvana! except for the lack of adoption, and a lack of applications. An 8 meg card provided additional memory. Some of the coolest people in CS were using them also. We looked fondly upon each others conniseurship of shiny computer products. But, people just don't want to play those geeky games. They want music. They want a phone that doesn't crash, and when it does, they want to call a telco.
It's not that it will never happen, it's that it's a difficult problem. How do we access vast amounts of information through a separated interface. One we touch, one we talk to, or listen to. When the iPod is as poweful as a powerbook or four, it will happen.
As somebody who does not own a television, perhaps I have a different perspective. If I bought a television, got a PVR, and bought cable, I'd be spending $50-100 a month for what? I welcome the option to buy the Simsons and a couple of other show, and avoid he rest. I would also like to be able to download movies.
MAybe this is indicative of a shift in spending on media. Paying for targeted content is always more valuable than paying for "broadcast."
I really disagree. Graphics aren't everything, and in the scheme of things really aren't anything. There have been, and will continue to be plenty of games where the concept is everything. Arguably, the biggest money making games are not graphics intensive--Sim(anything), crossword puzzles, sodoku, Texas Holdum'...
I would actually argue that being a main stream game developer is the kiss of death. Mobile games are the new plastic.
It comes in a much smaller cup and doesn't warm the atmosphere nearly as much. Espresso the energy saving choice!
Unfortunately, yes! And, employees of said company are threatened by you in ways hard to imagine. I have recently ditched a small business to simply find myself. I am a designer also, rather than a programer, though I'm sure your mileage will not vary much!
The reason that the pay is higher is both taxes and the non-work factor. You spend a lot of time finding work, simply in phone calls and undecided solicitors. Businesses are not fond of paying people upwards of fity an hour, and those reps take a percentage. They try to get you in there for the most maximized of tasks. I've found that the best short term employers are actually those large businesses you might be currently employed by.
If you are at the very least frightened of business, because that's what you will be, do not do this. If you seek flexibility, it is an option. You might want to read the recent Outside magazine, and the founder of Patagonia's new book on business. It is insightful to those of us who seek to be successful outside of the constraints of a "position."
I have stated several times that I buy CDs, burn them and ditch the shell. I get called a thief, yet I am not a thief. Simply a copyright abuser. And, this is why. How can I buy music from services who may not exist in a couple of years?
Copyright also gives me the right to copy something at a lower resolution as a copy--fair use--regardless of what happens to the original. Dear RIAA, go f yourself.
A cell tower. Just like FEMA shoulda brought!
Ooops! It's not their job...
You are absolutely correct. But, he is talking about most people, whose needs are pretty minimal. Right now, I can do simple photo taking, manipulation, and forwarding on my high-end mobile device. I can read various Office documents. Why can't I create these documents efficiently? Yes, power is one such requirement, but the need by others for bizarrely "pretty" documents, which have absolutely no purpose. We all love PowerPoint, no?
The perfect device would be something like the Psion Revo or Nokia Communicator, with the ability to share processor resources. Plug it into the dock, and I have more capabilities. Importantly, these capabilities cannot be eliminated without the dock, simply reduced in power.
I believe that something like emacs holds the key. Graphically it is a low footprint, conceptually it is very powerful. The abiltity to use such a system, combined with remote connections, could drastically change the computing landscape. If I were Google, I wouldn't worry about Microsoft, I'd worry about SBC. Perhaps they recognize that the network holds the true power of computing in the future, as evident by recent moves. Mobile devices replcing computers will be a viable option in the not too distant future.
Gotta love it when a Republican denies the existence of evolution but wants to go for the space elevator!
And yes, I want Star Wars too!
If economics is the science of what is financialy possible/probable, then actions should reasonble follow. As you point out, the costs are supposed to make this feasable. Then why hasn't it happened? Grinding up large patches of land to extract oil isn't popular. This is strip mining at its very worst. Grind the earth down and boil the oil out, then refine it several times.
If there is so much oil about to come online, why isn't the oil industry building new refineries? While I certainly know nothing about the oil industry's geological understanding, one would think that new refineries would be economically beneficial if more refinement is necessary. Unless it isn't.
The stragglers in the hotels who couldn't get a flight? Or, the stragglers in the shacks who couldn't afford to leave?
I love the concept! I don't have to go find what I want, or mail order it... But frankly, I still buy my CDs burn them into iTunes uncompressed, and trade or ditch the CDs. Yes, I'm the labels nightmare in a sense, but I don't steal songs, and I don't trade. Friends generally get the spent carcass.
I look forward to the day when I can buy say a higher quality AAC file and I have the right to move it about as I please. Until then, I'm a copyright criminal! Though, I am also in the top several percent of music purchasers, so why feel bad.
Many of the people who came to America were not religious conservatives, but religious liberals. The quakers, for example, were prosecuted for their views on organized religion. See this link for example. Your comments are exactly what the religious right would have us believe, that religion should be the core of our government, when in fact it was founded by people who got the harsh edge of that stick. The basis of our government is freedom of religion, not freedom to choose a state religion.
I stay out of peoples bedrooms and churchs, for the very reason that I don't want others in mine!
One could say the same for Java. No?
All they have to do is place a coffee machine next to it, hell make that free too, put "em outside of Satrbucks, and imagine the crowd gathered around an access point in an airport! This is about the most effective use of advertising dollars that I could ever imagine...
It would make you very rich. Nobody thinking about crap like that! No sir!
Like most of life, building networks of trust takes time. Aren't issues like this really part of the problem? Charging for bandwidth... My server has something like 100gig of transfer, and unless I get Slashdotted several times a month is this really a problem? And, if I do, why aren't I getting some ads in place to pay for it?
I would love nothing more than if my Powerbook could have four times this much storage! The $400 would pay for itself in a couple of months...
The idea that people must die off before perspectives change must be true! No, I'm giong to point to the /. discussion... which is of course based upon the DF post. (Because people shouldn't be allowed to endlessly discuss biased opinions without evidence.)
/. post discusses the origins of Widgets. What is new is using JavaScript and network technologies.
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