The whole premise of this book should not be surprising at all. Human beings evolved under conditions where they needed to make snap judgments and make them quickly. Those that guessed wrong were weeded from the gene pool as a large predator made lunch of them. The ability to quickly analyze a situation and make a judgement within a few seconds was certainly selected for as we evolved.
Does anyone find the utility of a PDA somewhat limited? I mean the form factor is somewhat limited and what do you actually use it for >? Contacts? Schedule? I have owned 5 PDAs and I simply find them too muc work to effectively use.
In the Star Trek Universe, when you get promoted to Admiral, you command a chair back on earth. So no ship to wreck. That's a good way to get her out of the Captain's chair - "Congratulation Captain Janeway, you have been promoted to Admiral in charge of all ball bearings for Star Fleet." I believe that Kirk was promoted to supply in the first Star Trek movie
Sorry but the "Ice Age is coming" climatologists were distinctly a minority in the 70s even at the peak of their popularity in popular culture. Scientist change their minds because that's the way science works. You get new information and experiments and you attempt to understand it in the framework of current theories. If the current theories don't explain the new data, you develop new ones. This is opposed to religion which claims to have the one truth, even if it doesn't fit the experimental data.
He's worked at MS for 8 years. I can assure that $700,000 isn't a lot of money for someone with that track record at MS. Besides he sold his next start-up to giftcertificates.com for much more than that....It's all in perspectative. For you $700,000 is a lot of money. For him it's not.
"I have no problem with people using common words as their trademark names, as long as the trademarks are only defended within that industry."
Except that is the EXACT opposite of a trademark. Generic terms are ones that cannot be trademarked. The simple fact is that MS's trademark for Windows was denied three times before they managed to appeal it. Windows should have never been a trademark. No one really care about you legal opnion, clearly you have zero understanding of trademark law.
The dongle would be taxed using sales tax as it is a material object. So the full price would be taxed by the relevant jurisdiction's sales tax. That's not an easy way out at all. It is certain to create a tax problem.
The barrier to entry is the GFS (Google File System) and the platform. Google essential built the world's largest computer. That sort of knowledge (how to scale 100,000 machines) is hard. The problem set is quite hard. Google has it's eye on more than search, that's for certain. The barrier to entry for anyone is actually quite huge.
Compare the governments in the Middle East around 1500 to what is in the Middle East today. Why they are EXACTLY the same! Corrupt kings running countries like their personal fiefdoms.
Corporations have never been particularly moral social strucutures. Since they largely exist to de-couple personal responsibility and liabilty. The primary purpose of a corporation is to protect the shareholders and the people running from mistakes, errors in judgement and grevious wrong doing. The idea of secularism has bankrupted the moral component of corporations is silly. Corporations have always existed to protect people from taking responsibility for unethical decisons. I suggest you read the history of the East India Company for a really good example of this.
Doing it on the client side, ties your history to that specific machine. Doing it on a server means it's accessible by you anywhere. That's the real feature.
"The claim that the extra energy is coming 'from permanent magnets' is risible. It's like claiming to extract energy from the gravitational field of the earth."
The Bronte Sisters (Charlotte & Emily & Anne) - They developed an active role playing system with character generation, a rudimentary success/failure system with dice and a story master. Of course no one else on the planet played their game so they didn't invent it in the way Gary did.
Clearly the idea that a OS that is usability is easier to attack seems intuitively right. However like many inuitive ideas like this it's wrong. The current MacOS is much much more usable (as defined by Jakob Nielson) than either Linux or the current Windows XP. However it is considerably more secure than either product. It all comes down to proper design in a network setting. The Mac OS was designed as a secure network OS first and then layered with Apple's top notch GUI. This shows the base idea (systems with high usability have poor security) to be false. The problem is that Windows NT, 2000 and XP were not originally designed as networked OSes. SO applications are often granted root priviledges (and need them to run) while applications that run on a properly design OS, can run in user space.
Actually if you read the article you will see they are only changing the name outside the US. In the US they are continuing to fight to invalidate the Windows trademark. "U.S. District Judge John Coughenour ruled in February in Seattle that a jury in the trial could determine whether the word Windows qualified for trademark protection in 1985, when Microsoft introduced its operating system. "
Microsoft will lose that case at trial. In fact they appealed that ruling arguing the thinking of current consumers should be considered. From a legal perspectative that's a difficult row to hoe as a trademark achieves it's uniqueness through use in commerce and by BEING unique. From 1983-1985 Windows was hardly the most well known Windows system. In fact there were two others more popular.
Those areas also probably don't have a local CompUSA. They tend to be rural and not close any of the CompUSAs. For example there are NO Compusas in Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota in the entire state. Many states only have 1 or two.
The public has in the past shown an aversion to these sorts of machines. Complex vending machines look intimidating, usually are hard to use and the consumer if often afraid of "accidently" buying something or "breaking" the machine.
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Fortune Cookies. He's talking about fortune cookies. Fortune cookies are largely a Western invention. He's just confused.
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The whole premise of this book should not be surprising at all. Human beings evolved under conditions where they needed to make snap judgments and make them quickly. Those that guessed wrong were weeded from the gene pool as a large predator made lunch of them. The ability to quickly analyze a situation and make a judgement within a few seconds was certainly selected for as we evolved.
Does anyone find the utility of a PDA somewhat limited? I mean the form factor is somewhat limited and what do you actually use it for >? Contacts? Schedule? I have owned 5 PDAs and I simply find them too muc work to effectively use.
In the Star Trek Universe, when you get promoted to Admiral, you command a chair back on earth. So no ship to wreck. That's a good way to get her out of the Captain's chair - "Congratulation Captain Janeway, you have been promoted to Admiral in charge of all ball bearings for Star Fleet." I believe that Kirk was promoted to supply in the first Star Trek movie
Sorry but the "Ice Age is coming" climatologists were distinctly a minority in the 70s even at the peak of their popularity in popular culture. Scientist change their minds because that's the way science works. You get new information and experiments and you attempt to understand it in the framework of current theories. If the current theories don't explain the new data, you develop new ones. This is opposed to religion which claims to have the one truth, even if it doesn't fit the experimental data.
He's worked at MS for 8 years. I can assure that $700,000 isn't a lot of money for someone with that track record at MS. Besides he sold his next start-up to giftcertificates.com for much more than that....It's all in perspectative. For you $700,000 is a lot of money. For him it's not.
"I have no problem with people using common words as their trademark names, as long as the trademarks are only defended within that industry."
Except that is the EXACT opposite of a trademark. Generic terms are ones that cannot be trademarked. The simple fact is that MS's trademark for Windows was denied three times before they managed to appeal it. Windows should have never been a trademark. No one really care about you legal opnion, clearly you have zero understanding of trademark law.
The dongle would be taxed using sales tax as it is a material object. So the full price would be taxed by the relevant jurisdiction's sales tax. That's not an easy way out at all. It is certain to create a tax problem.
If it was a 40 Ton mech I might consider bidding. As it is, it looks like a 300 lb walking sauna.
The barrier to entry is the GFS (Google File System) and the platform. Google essential built the world's largest computer. That sort of knowledge (how to scale 100,000 machines) is hard. The problem set is quite hard. Google has it's eye on more than search, that's for certain. The barrier to entry for anyone is actually quite huge.
Compare the governments in the Middle East around 1500 to what is in the Middle East today. Why they are EXACTLY the same! Corrupt kings running countries like their personal fiefdoms.
Corporations have never been particularly moral social strucutures. Since they largely exist to de-couple personal responsibility and liabilty. The primary purpose of a corporation is to protect the shareholders and the people running from mistakes, errors in judgement and grevious wrong doing. The idea of secularism has bankrupted the moral component of corporations is silly. Corporations have always existed to protect people from taking responsibility for unethical decisons. I suggest you read the history of the East India Company for a really good example of this.
Lycos search no longer runs it own crawler. Matt's talking about people with their own crawler and algo.
We use Gigablast as a back fill for one of our search engines. His stuff is very speedy and he's good guy to work with.
But Joe user can't.
Doing it on the client side, ties your history to that specific machine. Doing it on a server means it's accessible by you anywhere. That's the real feature.
The expert quoted in the article was a professor of marketing, hardly the go to guy as far as neuroscience is involved.
"The claim that the extra energy is coming 'from permanent magnets' is risible. It's like claiming to extract energy from the gravitational field of the earth."
You can it's call hydro-electric power.
The Bronte Sisters (Charlotte & Emily & Anne) - They developed an active role playing system with character generation, a rudimentary success/failure system with dice and a story master. Of course no one else on the planet played their game so they didn't invent it in the way Gary did.
Clearly the idea that a OS that is usability is easier to attack seems intuitively right. However like many inuitive ideas like this it's wrong. The current MacOS is much much more usable (as defined by Jakob Nielson) than either Linux or the current Windows XP. However it is considerably more secure than either product. It all comes down to proper design in a network setting. The Mac OS was designed as a secure network OS first and then layered with Apple's top notch GUI. This shows the base idea (systems with high usability have poor security) to be false. The problem is that Windows NT, 2000 and XP were not originally designed as networked OSes. SO applications are often granted root priviledges (and need them to run) while applications that run on a properly design OS, can run in user space.
Actually if you read the article you will see they are only changing the name outside the US. In the US they are continuing to fight to invalidate the Windows trademark. "U.S. District Judge John Coughenour ruled in February in Seattle that a jury in the trial could determine whether the word Windows qualified for trademark protection in 1985, when Microsoft introduced its operating system. "
Microsoft will lose that case at trial. In fact they appealed that ruling arguing the thinking of current consumers should be considered. From a legal perspectative that's a difficult row to hoe as a trademark achieves it's uniqueness through use in commerce and by BEING unique. From 1983-1985 Windows was hardly the most well known Windows system. In fact there were two others more popular.
Those areas also probably don't have a local CompUSA. They tend to be rural and not close any of the CompUSAs. For example there are NO Compusas in Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota in the entire state. Many states only have 1 or two.
The public has in the past shown an aversion to these sorts of machines. Complex vending machines look intimidating, usually are hard to use and the consumer if often afraid of "accidently" buying something or "breaking" the machine.
Fortune Cookies. He's talking about fortune cookies. Fortune cookies are largely a Western invention. He's just confused.
Right you are. The page I linked to also has the copyright as 1970. 1977 was a Ballantine reissue. My mistake.
Dude - Wrong book. That book was Integral Trees, not Ringworld. Both are good books though.