I think most people have an area within which they know more and have some strong aesthetic choices, but it's difficult or impossible to be that picky in almost every area. As I work with software, I'm picky about that. However, I can't, e.g. really tell the difference between a $15 wine and a $30 wine ($Australian, I'm not sure what the equivalent amounts would be in the US market.) The larger companies tend to cater for the mass market, not the fussy types... which can be annoying if those compromises rub you up the wrong way (try feeding a wine buff a glass of the most popular $8/bottle wine, for example). Still, you can't argue with success -- but popularity rarely means quality, unless we define quality as 'near enough is good enough'.
All Microsoft have to do is pre-announce features that won't be in their products until v3, well before the release of v1 (videGo Corporation & Pen Windows), and that's enough to kill off the competition. Microsoft's success has become a self-fulfilling prophect for most of the market these days...
Yeah, and the next version of Java (1.5) has been code-named Tiger for a while now... I'm sure Apple could buy the name 'iBrowse' pretty cheaply by their standards, even if that were 10 times Stefan's yearly profit.
It's amazing how irrelevant your comment was to my comment... was there even any point in posting it?
My reading of your comment was a perfectly reasonable one, given that you didn't indicate that you were considering his attitude to piracy. Also, you looked at an incomplete softography, which *says* that it is incomplete, and assert that as history, when the real facts are easy enough to work out with a few minutes research. Just as much point to me posting my comment as there was to yours -- I'm stating an opinion and asserting my view of the facts, same as you. If you don't like that... too bad.
He's recently been doing PocketPC games, and before that was doing console games for Nuon (aka Project X). A couple of niche platforms, admittedly, but that listing must have been incomplete. I think that piracy during the C64 and Amiga days was pretty high as well. How big were most of those games? 1 disk, 2 disks? Easy enough to copy in minutes and swap in the schoolyard, or download from a BBS. I'm old enough to remember the demo scene, and its growth out of the pirate scene, on the C64...
The basics of pirating these days surely aren't all that different from what they were like then, only the proportions have changed.
Distributed DDOS on an organization's servers IS NOT TERRORISM already (unless explicitly accompanied by physical violence or threats of physical violence).
Shouldn't terrorism imply political ends as well? Mafia standover men aren't 'terrorists', for all that they use terror as an extortion tactic.
There are all kinds of people (a.k.a. "kooks") who are now trying to tell you that Aspartame is bad for you. Funny how they came to that opinion just as NutraSweet's patent on Aspartame ran out, so anybody can produce a generic form of it cheaply.
I've been hearing that "Aspartame causes cancer in rats" for at least 15 years or so. Of course I have no opinion either way on the truth of that statement, but the people who say these sorts of things have been pretty consistent with their message for at least that length of time.
That's interesting... the place I was working for at the time paid for a couple of calls to Microsoft's tech support for Word for Windows 2.0, and I think it was A$90 a time (or maybe for the two, it's been a while).
Blair however seems to see his mission to kiss the arse of Corporate Britain and fuck the workers because if they disagree they're probably don't understand what he's saying.
At least Bush *is* one of the corporate masters his administration is serving. What's Blair's excuse for actually believing the tripe he talks?
The whole point of civil disobedience is to outrage society (and spur them to action) by the injustice of the punishment. The idea that it's just some sort of "majority rules" determinant of acceptable behaviour is ludicrous.
Yeah, that double-negative really enforces the whole 'down-home' nature of this hoary truth...
To the poster I originally replied to: Expecting other people to do things for you 'just because' is foolish. Help them and they'll help you. Indeed, help other people with no expectation of reward -- it's the way to good karma, and if you start doing things for people you'll find that they might start doing things for you. If people take advantage of that and don't reciprocate, though, don't bother helping them again -- you've offered them an opportunity and they've abused it. Their loss, not yours.
Brian Harradine doesn't need technical education, he needs social education. He doesn't believe that people should be allowed to think for themselves, he'd rather make their moral choices for them.
Glaser used to work for MS, before he left to form "Progressive Networks" (it's on p2). I thought it interesting that either his politics changed, or he needed to not alienate investors, thus the change of name to "Real Networks".
Of course, he must have burnt a few bridges during the anti-trust trial... but these people are businessmen, if there's money to be made by kissing and making up then they'll do it (vide McNealy and Ballmer).
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I think most people have an area within which they know more and have some strong aesthetic choices, but it's difficult or impossible to be that picky in almost every area. As I work with software, I'm picky about that. However, I can't, e.g. really tell the difference between a $15 wine and a $30 wine ($Australian, I'm not sure what the equivalent amounts would be in the US market.) The larger companies tend to cater for the mass market, not the fussy types... which can be annoying if those compromises rub you up the wrong way (try feeding a wine buff a glass of the most popular $8/bottle wine, for example). Still, you can't argue with success -- but popularity rarely means quality, unless we define quality as 'near enough is good enough'.
All Microsoft have to do is pre-announce features that won't be in their products until v3, well before the release of v1 (vide Go Corporation & Pen Windows), and that's enough to kill off the competition. Microsoft's success has become a self-fulfilling prophect for most of the market these days...
Yeah, and the next version of Java (1.5) has been code-named Tiger for a while now... I'm sure Apple could buy the name 'iBrowse' pretty cheaply by their standards, even if that were 10 times Stefan's yearly profit.
BTW what happened to the other people around OAK project?, did sun killed all of them and throwed them into a ditch?
Well, some people wouldn't have been upset if that had happened to Patrick Naughton. Hopefully he's still behind bars.
It's amazing how irrelevant your comment was to my comment... was there even any point in posting it?
My reading of your comment was a perfectly reasonable one, given that you didn't indicate that you were considering his attitude to piracy. Also, you looked at an incomplete softography, which *says* that it is incomplete, and assert that as history, when the real facts are easy enough to work out with a few minutes research. Just as much point to me posting my comment as there was to yours -- I'm stating an opinion and asserting my view of the facts, same as you. If you don't like that... too bad.
He's recently been doing PocketPC games, and before that was doing console games for Nuon (aka Project X). A couple of niche platforms, admittedly, but that listing must have been incomplete. I think that piracy during the C64 and Amiga days was pretty high as well. How big were most of those games? 1 disk, 2 disks? Easy enough to copy in minutes and swap in the schoolyard, or download from a BBS. I'm old enough to remember the demo scene, and its growth out of the pirate scene, on the C64...
The basics of pirating these days surely aren't all that different from what they were like then, only the proportions have changed.
If the summary is any indication, the guy is pretty behind the times when it comes to video games. Or at least developing them.
What, you mean he doesn't have the resources of a major Hollywood studio? Some of us prefer our games made the old-fashioned way.
Distributed DDOS on an organization's servers IS NOT TERRORISM already (unless explicitly accompanied by physical violence or threats of physical violence).
Shouldn't terrorism imply political ends as well? Mafia standover men aren't 'terrorists', for all that they use terror as an extortion tactic.
There are all kinds of people (a.k.a. "kooks") who are now trying to tell you that Aspartame is bad for you. Funny how they came to that opinion just as NutraSweet's patent on Aspartame ran out, so anybody can produce a generic form of it cheaply.
I've been hearing that "Aspartame causes cancer in rats" for at least 15 years or so. Of course I have no opinion either way on the truth of that statement, but the people who say these sorts of things have been pretty consistent with their message for at least that length of time.
You mean....being an asshole doesn't help convert MS users?
I don't know... seems to work for Ballmer with the "developers -- developers -- developers"...
4. Microsoft puts out crappy products at first and then listens to customers to improve them.
This is known on the customer's side as "never buy a Microsoft product until at least v3." Well, known by those who have already been burned, anyway.
That's interesting... the place I was working for at the time paid for a couple of calls to Microsoft's tech support for Word for Windows 2.0, and I think it was A$90 a time (or maybe for the two, it's been a while).
Blair however seems to see his mission to kiss the arse of Corporate Britain and fuck the workers because if they disagree they're probably don't understand what he's saying.
At least Bush *is* one of the corporate masters his administration is serving. What's Blair's excuse for actually believing the tripe he talks?
Maybe you're not old enough to remember what happened in Germany in the early 1940's
The mid-1930s, actually. By the early 1940s they were "spreading the love" around most of Western Europe.
Oh, don't worry, they'll catch Osama when they need to (e.g. if the Shrub is going into late October 15 points behind).
The whole point of civil disobedience is to outrage society (and spur them to action) by the injustice of the punishment. The idea that it's just some sort of "majority rules" determinant of acceptable behaviour is ludicrous.
Who are you, and how have you been listening in on our plot meetings for the film?
-- Yours, Paramount etc.
Yeah, that double-negative really enforces the whole 'down-home' nature of this hoary truth...
To the poster I originally replied to: Expecting other people to do things for you 'just because' is foolish. Help them and they'll help you. Indeed, help other people with no expectation of reward -- it's the way to good karma, and if you start doing things for people you'll find that they might start doing things for you. If people take advantage of that and don't reciprocate, though, don't bother helping them again -- you've offered them an opportunity and they've abused it. Their loss, not yours.
TANSTAAFL.
"Why do you always answer a question with another question?"
Very Zen, or possibly Rabbinical, that Einstein chap.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. --Albert Einstein
Why?
Woo-hoo! AmigaE! :)
Loved it back in the day...
They hold back the Amiga, cripple its hardware, and limit the options of its software.
They sound like a suitable successor to Commodore (well, the management side, anyway).
Brian Harradine doesn't need technical education, he needs social education. He doesn't believe that people should be allowed to think for themselves, he'd rather make their moral choices for them.
Glaser used to work for MS, before he left to form "Progressive Networks" (it's on p2). I thought it interesting that either his politics changed, or he needed to not alienate investors, thus the change of name to "Real Networks".
Of course, he must have burnt a few bridges during the anti-trust trial... but these people are businessmen, if there's money to be made by kissing and making up then they'll do it (vide McNealy and Ballmer).