On one level, there's no problem with companies
producing crippled hardware and people buying it
if they want.
There are other issues at stake, however. The
technologies for genuinely useful new storage
systems are obviously here. Yet why can't I
buy, for example, a plain filesystem version of
a DataPlay disks and readers ?
The basic problem is paying artists for there
work. One solution, which has the massive
advantage of maintaining the status quo of
large publishing interests, is to suppress all
threatening technology.
There are better solutions (systems where artists
get paid up front and their works are freely
distributable when complete) that are perfectly
compatible with large-storage writable memories
and high-bandwidth networks. I'm sure they
could be profitable for publishing companies
and artists. But that would mean changing a
highly profitable and powerful buisnesses.
I'm waiting for the irony of someone coming
up with just such a publishing system that treats
intellectual property sensisbly... and then
patenting the buisness model:-)
I saw this on the news last night. Cool technology for sure, but with a ghastly flesh-coloured plastic covering... ewww...
If it were me I think just about anything would look better than a flesh-coloured rubber washing up glove. Five more fashionable ideas off top of my head (and I'm pretty much a lost cause fasion-wise):
1) no covering - gears and wires and motors visible. Might have problem with grit.
2) clear plastic - appeals to the youngster that has the clear plastic gameboy.
3) stainless steel - for the Terminator look
4) black leather glove - just cool
5) flesh-coloured plastic but custom-painted to match rest of arm and other hand.
I noticed in the news story this little girl with one of the hands, grabbing on to her mother's finger. The girl was grinning with delight while her mother was going "oww! Let go now. oww! That actually hurts. oww! Let go !"
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Was 'Red' Hat an admission of their prospects of turning a profit in the first few years ?
I started reading "Hyperion" yesterday ...
noticed that name today ... small universe ...
There are other issues at stake, however. The technologies for genuinely useful new storage systems are obviously here. Yet why can't I buy, for example, a plain filesystem version of a DataPlay disks and readers ?
The basic problem is paying artists for there work. One solution, which has the massive advantage of maintaining the status quo of large publishing interests, is to suppress all threatening technology.
There are better solutions (systems where artists get paid up front and their works are freely distributable when complete) that are perfectly compatible with large-storage writable memories and high-bandwidth networks. I'm sure they could be profitable for publishing companies and artists. But that would mean changing a highly profitable and powerful buisnesses.
I'm waiting for the irony of someone coming up with just such a publishing system that treats intellectual property sensisbly ... and then
patenting the buisness model :-)
I saw this on the news last night. Cool technology for sure, but with a ghastly flesh-coloured plastic covering... ewww... If it were me I think just about anything would look better than a flesh-coloured rubber washing up glove. Five more fashionable ideas off top of my head (and I'm pretty much a lost cause fasion-wise): 1) no covering - gears and wires and motors visible. Might have problem with grit. 2) clear plastic - appeals to the youngster that has the clear plastic gameboy. 3) stainless steel - for the Terminator look 4) black leather glove - just cool 5) flesh-coloured plastic but custom-painted to match rest of arm and other hand. I noticed in the news story this little girl with one of the hands, grabbing on to her mother's finger. The girl was grinning with delight while her mother was going "oww! Let go now. oww! That actually hurts. oww! Let go !"