If you have talent, multi talnet and can play many roles, the it sucks because people will not offer you other work. (can you do it? will the audience believe? etc.?)
If your a one trick pony, then you can bemoan the matter all you want, but you should count your blessings and keep on doing the same roll.
Artists, like illustrators also get type cast and do directors and other creative types..
Geeks tend to cast themselves into a corner. If they know VB, or Dbase, or COBOL, or Java or PERL or PHP, they tend to try to do every job in that lang. The best thing usually is to pick the right tool for the job, but not everyone is talented enough to know that, then to know all the tools and then to pick the right one and still get the job done on time and on budget!
And I have heard of someone buying some Military themed book on Amazon for an Uncle and then every time they log in, trying tos sell them books about war, which they had no interest in..
This doesn't really seem about free speech. Truth is the perfect defense against Libel.
What it is at issure, perhaps, the possible future threat of some BAD Laws with very low standards. The legal equal of a "speed trap" in some backwoods town that only "out of staters" get caught in...
There is no reason subscription based downloading can't happen. Ads can be "inserted" into various cohorts among the subscribers.
TV ads cost $5 to $19 per 1000 people (typically). For a $12 CPM (cost per thousand), call that.012 cents per Ad shown (per vieweer). If there are 25 ads per 1 hour show, that's 30 CENTS, 50 Ads per show that's 60 Cents.
22 shows per session x 25 to 50 ads per show = a revenue requirement of $6.6 to $13.2 dollars.
They can charge that directly. Say $25 for a package of 3-5 shows. OR then can find the same older advertisers, who would be willing to pay say $25 to $40 CPM to reach a more targetted segment of the audience, they could run (e.g., insert) less ads, charge more and make about the same. Well you get the idea.
There are lots of things these days that operate at or involve nano-meter technology, but what specifically about this produce uses Nanotech?
For me, Nanotech is enginering with Atoms; purposely building tiny machine on the Nanometer scale that do things like filter specific atoms to produce "pure" materials, act as a computer or build a rocket engine in a vat of liquid.
Any idea about how Fast the refresh is? I know older LCD monitors didnt' display moving images well. Is this one say good for power point but say not good for Doom or TV or a DVD?
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Sounds like they will have a good SPACE product BUT their Sound BITE doesn't' hold water..
The Ferrari vs. Honda is true in terms of reliability and the cost is clearly cheaper. But why?
1 Is mass manufactured. 1 Is basically Custom Made
Also to consider is the PERFORMANCE Envelope.
Forgetting the "rice bucket" mods that can be made (and would certainly LOWER reliability), one of these cars as very average handling, acceleration, braking, etc. The other has nearly race car performance levels.
It's the extra performance that costs reliability.
Race cars, real race cars, need their engines rebuilt after EVERY race. Compare that to a street Ferrari and the performance is great. I'm sure the average Ferrari owner NEVER needs a new engine or has to have his or hers rebuilt after every FEW hours of operations.
So yes, Honda cheaper and doesn't break but NO doesn't have the same performance and compared to a race car the Ferrari is also very reliable.
It depends on EU law, and I assume based on Civil Law (e.g., Roman), not Common Law (e.g., Norman, (as in the England, US)).
So yeah this sounds werid and hopefully they will appeal (and win) but every country has different laws. In Gemary I think you can't sell Door to Door (good-bye Avon), and in the US you can't show a women's breast(s) but men's are ok!!
Not only is there common sense here, but also common law and lots of case law about writing, writing for hire, etc.
You do it about your company, on company time and on company equipment it's the companies IP unless you have a specific agreement otherwise.
The only murky area seems to be if you did it at home, on your time, without compensation, but it's including directly as part of some offical web site; then it just looks like you were doing your office work at home.
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Neither actually:)
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I've written about this idea. I think the price shoudl be $25 and it should attach to a TV set not have it's own screen.. but it's a great idea.
Basically my theory is that people can afford to spend two to three weeks of salary on a PC but not more than that.
There are places in the world where people make 3-5 dollars a day, call that $25 a week; that puts them in the range of this new product.
With 5+ Billion people in the world, the question is how many will ever have a PC? I've often said only 20% but a $100 or $25 PC should put that in the range of 40 to 50%
And free air, even the dirty air in our big cities takes probably 500 Billion if not more a year away from the Bottled Air business; there is one.. its just not large.
That they dont' tell you also, is that data used to be part of my Sprint Plan. Someone they removed it and now want to charge for data; I used 14.4 on Amtrack with my laptop to sync email in 2000; now they have fast speed and they want much more $$$.
Any serious business user is going to buy a business grade service. Meaning they are using it to make $$$ or the inverse, without it they loss sales, jobs, etc. Everything one else doesn't have a real need and yes, they are NOT going to pay huge sums for it.
This is all a PLOY. For a PC that doesn't trust its user(s)...
Their PC App/OS profit days are gone (ok, fadding fast, can you say Linux desktop, Mac Mini, etc.)
They want to make money via DRM and they know the most secure route to the home will get Hollywoods attention.
So all this noise about writting better code, and more security is so they can say in a year or two, well, we spent 1 billion staff hours and millions code lines and the only way to make PCs safe and prevent virual attacks is to make these hardware/software PCs that only trust Hollywood, and the US Dept. of Homeland Security... blah, blah.
Is there any catagory where MS has become the major player and killed off most of the competition?
I can only think of one, that is word processing and maybe spreadsheets. There are very few choices, so they haven't brought the price down, and then through very careful bundling, you more or less have to buy the ENTIRE Office suite.
The price of Word and Excel (e.g., the total price for both as stand alones) certainly isn't 60% cheaper in real dollars since I could buy Wordstar or WordPerfect; not that I've checked the prices recently..
SO I get it, the system isn't altering the sound from the ideal input; some color photocopy systems come out to "Red"; i'm guessing the audio version of that is too much bass or too little bass, but in some very specific freq.
It's about Risk. Google doesn't use COTS but you can bet they use lots of COTS bits from RAM to HDs, but when they really need the advantage of custom, they manage the risk and hire really good people like Rob Pike (just to mention 1 of many!).
The powerful idea here is that works of creatively in a Net-centric world tend to be derivative. E.g, complications + some new original contributions, which could range from new prose to editorial comments or just some indexing scheme. As we can see in the music industry, the idea of creating new works from whole cloth is largely dead. We need something like thimble space to handle the IP ownership, control, credit or just know who to give reputation points to.
I remember hearing Ted Nelson talk at the same conf. I was; people asking questions; he gave good responses. Plus he tossed the barb, "I've been thinking about this for 20 years, of course I have the answer to that..."
When Autodesk was funding, I thought it would happen with folk like Mark Miller doing data structures...
Anyway, the powerful idea is is in how do track, monetize and create derivative works of text. Should work for music too..
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Probably mostly Windows itself but that's where it needs the most help.
I assume Adobe has a 64 bit vers. of Photoshop; not sure if they will port it.
FYI, the inverse is true for geeks -- see below.
If you have talent, multi talnet and can play many roles, the it sucks because people will not offer you other work. (can you do it? will the audience believe? etc.?)
If your a one trick pony, then you can bemoan the matter all you want, but you should count your blessings and keep on doing the same roll.
Artists, like illustrators also get type cast and do directors and other creative types..
Geeks tend to cast themselves into a corner. If they know VB, or Dbase, or COBOL, or Java or PERL or PHP, they tend to try to do every job in that lang. The best thing usually is to pick the right tool for the job, but not everyone is talented enough to know that, then to know all the tools and then to pick the right one and still get the job done on time and on budget!
I thought the BetaMax ruling hinged on uses that are purly legal, and not on issues related to lousy coping.
And I have heard of someone buying some Military themed book on Amazon for an Uncle and then every time they log in, trying tos sell them books about war, which they had no interest in..
This doesn't really seem about free speech. Truth is the perfect defense against Libel.
What it is at issure, perhaps, the possible future threat of some BAD Laws with very low standards. The legal equal of a "speed trap" in some backwoods town that only "out of staters" get caught in...
There is no reason subscription based downloading can't happen. Ads can be "inserted" into various cohorts among the subscribers.
.012 cents per Ad shown (per vieweer). If there are 25 ads per 1 hour show, that's 30 CENTS, 50 Ads per show that's 60 Cents.
TV ads cost $5 to $19 per 1000 people (typically). For a $12 CPM (cost per thousand), call that
22 shows per session x 25 to 50 ads per show = a revenue requirement of $6.6 to $13.2 dollars.
They can charge that directly. Say $25 for a package of 3-5 shows. OR then can find the same older advertisers, who would be willing to pay say $25 to $40 CPM to reach a more targetted segment of the audience, they could run (e.g., insert) less ads, charge more and make about the same. Well you get the idea.
Many have explaination about how they do things from Indian Yogis, to Doctors. (Homopath...).
Many of those explainations sound reasonable, even likely or plausible.
But that doens't make them true!
i've been a huge fan of BoingBoing since the late 80's and of John since he was an edtior at Wired and gave me my first break writing a cover story...
Anyway, I wish them best of luck!
There are lots of things these days that operate at or involve nano-meter technology, but what specifically about this produce uses Nanotech?
For me, Nanotech is enginering with Atoms; purposely building tiny machine on the Nanometer scale that do things like filter specific atoms to produce "pure" materials, act as a computer or build a rocket engine in a vat of liquid.
yes too much time travel... everything else can be fun (and interesting if done well)...
they should spend more time fighting evil viruses and other alien BIO and less time with "grand fights for the future of mankind..."
Any idea about how Fast the refresh is? I know older LCD monitors didnt' display moving images well. Is this one say good for power point but say not good for Doom or TV or a DVD?
Sounds like they will have a good SPACE product BUT their Sound BITE doesn't' hold water..
The Ferrari vs. Honda is true in terms of reliability and the cost is clearly cheaper. But why?
1 Is mass manufactured.
1 Is basically Custom Made
Also to consider is the PERFORMANCE Envelope.
Forgetting the "rice bucket" mods that can be made (and would certainly LOWER reliability), one of these cars as very average handling, acceleration, braking, etc. The other has nearly race car performance levels.
It's the extra performance that costs reliability.
Race cars, real race cars, need their engines rebuilt after EVERY race. Compare that to a street Ferrari and the performance is great. I'm sure the average Ferrari owner NEVER needs a new engine or has to have his or hers rebuilt after every FEW hours of operations.
So yes, Honda cheaper and doesn't break but NO doesn't have the same performance and compared to a race car the Ferrari is also very reliable.
It depends on EU law, and I assume based on Civil Law (e.g., Roman), not Common Law (e.g., Norman, (as in the England, US)).
So yeah this sounds werid and hopefully they will appeal (and win) but every country has different laws. In Gemary I think you can't sell Door to Door (good-bye Avon), and in the US you can't show a women's breast(s) but men's are ok!!
Not only is there common sense here, but also common law and lots of case law about writing, writing for hire, etc.
You do it about your company, on company time and on company equipment it's the companies IP unless you have a specific agreement otherwise.
The only murky area seems to be if you did it at home, on your time, without compensation, but it's including directly as part of some offical web site; then it just looks like you were doing your office work at home.
Neither actually :)
I've written about this idea. I think the price shoudl be $25 and it should attach to a TV set not have it's own screen.. but it's a great idea.
Basically my theory is that people can afford to spend two to three weeks of salary on a PC but not more than that.
There are places in the world where people make 3-5 dollars a day, call that $25 a week; that puts them in the range of this new product.
With 5+ Billion people in the world, the question is how many will ever have a PC? I've often said only 20% but a $100 or $25 PC should put that in the range of 40 to 50%
And free air, even the dirty air in our big cities takes probably 500 Billion if not more a year away from the Bottled Air business; there is one.. its just not large.
That they dont' tell you also, is that data used to be part of my Sprint Plan. Someone they removed it and now want to charge for data; I used 14.4 on Amtrack with my laptop to sync email in 2000; now they have fast speed and they want much more $$$.
Any serious business user is going to buy a business grade service. Meaning they are using it to make $$$ or the inverse, without it they loss sales, jobs, etc. Everything one else doesn't have a real need and yes, they are NOT going to pay huge sums for it.
This is all a PLOY. For a PC that doesn't trust its user(s)...
Their PC App/OS profit days are gone (ok, fadding fast, can you say Linux desktop, Mac Mini, etc.)
They want to make money via DRM and they know the most secure route to the home will get Hollywoods attention.
So all this noise about writting better code, and more security is so they can say in a year or two, well, we spent 1 billion staff hours and millions code lines and the only way to make PCs safe and prevent virual attacks is to make these hardware/software PCs that only trust Hollywood, and the US Dept. of Homeland Security... blah, blah.
Is there any catagory where MS has become the major player and killed off most of the competition?
I can only think of one, that is word processing and maybe spreadsheets. There are very few choices, so they haven't brought the price down, and then through very careful bundling, you more or less have to buy the ENTIRE Office suite.
The price of Word and Excel (e.g., the total price for both as stand alones) certainly isn't 60% cheaper in real dollars since I could buy Wordstar or WordPerfect; not that I've checked the prices recently..
SO I get it, the system isn't altering the sound from the ideal input; some color photocopy systems come out to "Red"; i'm guessing the audio version of that is too much bass or too little bass, but in some very specific freq.
At least they have to pay INCOME Tax on all those gifts!!
It's about Risk. Google doesn't use COTS but you can bet they use lots of COTS bits from RAM to HDs, but when they really need the advantage of custom, they manage the risk and hire really good people like Rob Pike (just to mention 1 of many!).
I give up, what is FLAT response? I'm guessing it's a good thing but it doesn't sound like it?
The powerful idea here is that works of creatively in a Net-centric world tend to be derivative. E.g, complications + some new original contributions, which could range from new prose to editorial comments or just some indexing scheme. As we can see in the music industry, the idea of creating new works from whole cloth is largely dead. We need something like thimble space to handle the IP ownership, control, credit or just know who to give reputation points to.
I remember hearing Ted Nelson talk at the same conf. I was; people asking questions; he gave good responses. Plus he tossed the barb, "I've been thinking about this for 20 years, of course I have the answer to that..."
When Autodesk was funding, I thought it would happen with folk like Mark Miller doing data structures...
Anyway, the powerful idea is is in how do track, monetize and create derivative works of text. Should work for music too..
These are high yield highly specialized technology; where is the FSF (free seed foundation?)
It's harder to tell who is more stupid; Monsanto for thinking they can get farmers to sign these contracts or the farmers who signed them.
That said, if they are sueing people who didn't sign, and who are victims of cross pollentation that must violate some law about bio tech?
Now if your neighbor buys the seeds and you buy/get the seeds from him and plant them; that is theft and receiving stolen goods.