True - and with regular paper costing only $0.01/page, the existing solution comes pretty close to free. Even adding the $0.05/page of ink, it's tough to see why a company/university would make the investment in this sort of paper. Assuming it's costs $1.00/pg, you would need this to last at least 16 iterations, on average, to make it worth your investment.
That's right. It's quite simple. The government is developing a vast-worldwide conspiracy (chips, infrastructure, adminstrators) to track the movements of inconsequential people like yourself.
Or, the far more complicated reason, that they are looking for a low-cost way to limit counterfeiting.
His defense boils down to: "I met the guy at Brainstorm, I think his name's Xiao." And he said it's okay.
Gosh, I would have thought a head of a major corporation could put together a decent argument. I'm usually one to say it's just business, but not when it comes to suppressing free speech. Dupont or Starbucks gets a pass, but unfortunately for Google, I don't think they do.
This crime is easily thwarted by black listing the log-in from every country except for the United States (or home country). The user can white list the countries they want to log in from. These crimes are only likely to be more frequent as spy-ware keyloggers, and other methods, generally spread the availability of logins around the world. The black list would probably affect fewer than 1% of customers, and customers that are traveling would always have access to the phone system. Cell phone providers already do this with SIMM cards.
It is an interesting point you raise, but I don't think you can back it up with evidence. Currently the majority of research is done by the government, major hospitals, and major pharmaceutical firms. The funding for these organizations comes from taxpayers, taxpayers/patients/investors, and investors, respectively. Could you name an organization that is doing cancer research, which is funded (largely or even slightly) by a polluter?
The benefit is less easily measured than the loss of jobs. Think about it this way. Previously it took $10 to build a software widget. Now it takes $5 to build a software widget. That other $5 is available for investment in any number of other enterprises. Given that the United States (debatable for how long) is the best place for each investment dollar, another enterprise will be funded in the United States. That means another company, such as Google, or Salesforce.com, or many non-IT related copanies, will be funded and provide American jobs. While it appears that one IT job is lost to India, many other jobs are created by a more efficient allocation of resources. Think about it as improving the divsion of labor to the nth degree.
Declaring a dividend and a share buyback is in no way related to a dis-accumulation of personal wealth. In fact, given Bill Gates' large ownership in the company, this will actually be an accumulation of cash wealth and dis-accumulation of "paper" or share wealth. This rewards all shareholders including shareholder #1.
This is wrong. There is something even more valuable than music and movies that is exchanged digitally every day, and that is money. If there were no way to protect it, then the banking system would have crumbled already. There are obvious differences between copyrighted material and money, but for practical purposes, they are both just bits of data exchanged between machines. If protection can be done for money, then it will be done for all other valuable data. Copyright protection will happen within 5 years. Current content which has been produced on CD's will be grandfathered into piracy, but new content will not.
The real problem with BitTorrent is that your IP address is floating in the wind. All the RIAA has to do is leave a torrent open, and they can snag all of the IP addresses of everyone sharing and d/l the songs. It really is less difficult for them to cull IP's with BT, then it was with Kazaa.
And I was just going to invade and take over the United States using the Galileo system. Looks like I'll have to use something else. North Star, perhaps, we're not jamming that are we?
Interesting point, it directly ties into this news piece from the NYT.
I do think it idealist. There are plenty of cases in which we are fully aware of the suffering and starvation of a people, but little is done to react to it.
This sounds remarkably like the process that Apple went through. Apple liscensed their OS to compete better with WinTel. After reducing their prices slightly but not really adding innovation, Apple bought the competition. I can't really comment on whether Apple is better off today, or what impact this will have on Palm.
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True - and with regular paper costing only $0.01/page, the existing solution comes pretty close to free. Even adding the $0.05/page of ink, it's tough to see why a company/university would make the investment in this sort of paper. Assuming it's costs $1.00/pg, you would need this to last at least 16 iterations, on average, to make it worth your investment.
You're an idiot.
That's right. It's quite simple. The government is developing a vast-worldwide conspiracy (chips, infrastructure, adminstrators) to track the movements of inconsequential people like yourself.
Or, the far more complicated reason, that they are looking for a low-cost way to limit counterfeiting.
Let's hear it for Occam!
His defense boils down to: "I met the guy at Brainstorm, I think his name's Xiao." And he said it's okay.
Gosh, I would have thought a head of a major corporation could put together a decent argument. I'm usually one to say it's just business, but not when it comes to suppressing free speech. Dupont or Starbucks gets a pass, but unfortunately for Google, I don't think they do.
Yes, there's actually a phrase for it.
The Google founders don't just have f*ck you money, they have f*ck everybody money.
it's the architecture of a bridge that's art. the engineering is science.
This crime is easily thwarted by black listing the log-in from every country except for the United States (or home country). The user can white list the countries they want to log in from. These crimes are only likely to be more frequent as spy-ware keyloggers, and other methods, generally spread the availability of logins around the world. The black list would probably affect fewer than 1% of customers, and customers that are traveling would always have access to the phone system. Cell phone providers already do this with SIMM cards.
That's incorrect. All options have a value. Here are some examples. You'll notice that some options have close to zero value.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=GOOG
It is an interesting point you raise, but I don't think you can back it up with evidence. Currently the majority of research is done by the government, major hospitals, and major pharmaceutical firms. The funding for these organizations comes from taxpayers, taxpayers/patients/investors, and investors, respectively. Could you name an organization that is doing cancer research, which is funded (largely or even slightly) by a polluter?
apple's $600 computer IS an iPod.
The benefit is less easily measured than the loss of jobs. Think about it this way. Previously it took $10 to build a software widget. Now it takes $5 to build a software widget. That other $5 is available for investment in any number of other enterprises. Given that the United States (debatable for how long) is the best place for each investment dollar, another enterprise will be funded in the United States. That means another company, such as Google, or Salesforce.com, or many non-IT related copanies, will be funded and provide American jobs. While it appears that one IT job is lost to India, many other jobs are created by a more efficient allocation of resources. Think about it as improving the divsion of labor to the nth degree.
Currently at work, we're working
nice, it all makes sense now
Declaring a dividend and a share buyback is in no way related to a dis-accumulation of personal wealth. In fact, given Bill Gates' large ownership in the company, this will actually be an accumulation of cash wealth and dis-accumulation of "paper" or share wealth. This rewards all shareholders including shareholder #1.
Demographics, not economics. Probably a PC user.
It's makes you wonder what "money" really is, when a software error can make it disappear.
Why would anyone expect a small town in Eastern Florida to be technologically advanced?
Here's the data:
Lexmark 12A1970 Costs $32.32 Yields 600 pages, or $0.19 pp
Lexmark 12A1975 Costs $38.00 Yields 1000 pages, or $.038 pp
Xerox 8R7881 Costs $41.00 Yields 1075 pages, or $.0381 pp
All information taken from CDW.
This is wrong. There is something even more valuable than music and movies that is exchanged digitally every day, and that is money. If there were no way to protect it, then the banking system would have crumbled already. There are obvious differences between copyrighted material and money, but for practical purposes, they are both just bits of data exchanged between machines. If protection can be done for money, then it will be done for all other valuable data. Copyright protection will happen within 5 years. Current content which has been produced on CD's will be grandfathered into piracy, but new content will not.
The real problem with BitTorrent is that your IP address is floating in the wind. All the RIAA has to do is leave a torrent open, and they can snag all of the IP addresses of everyone sharing and d/l the songs. It really is less difficult for them to cull IP's with BT, then it was with Kazaa.
And I was just going to invade and take over the United States using the Galileo system. Looks like I'll have to use something else. North Star, perhaps, we're not jamming that are we?
I believe that children are the future. Teach them well, and let them lead the way.
I agree with you that the story is ridiculous. Paraphrase: The benefits of an ergo keyboard are offset by the stress of learning how to use it. HAH!
Interesting point, it directly ties into this news piece from the NYT.
I do think it idealist. There are plenty of cases in which we are fully aware of the suffering and starvation of a people, but little is done to react to it.
When are people going to learn that you CANNOT generalize?
This is great. People cannot generalize except when you extrapolate your personal circumstance/anecdote to everyone else. Classic.
This sounds remarkably like the process that Apple went through. Apple liscensed their OS to compete better with WinTel. After reducing their prices slightly but not really adding innovation, Apple bought the competition. I can't really comment on whether Apple is better off today, or what impact this will have on Palm.