...because I organized a trip of about 30 people from my company to see the digital-projection version, and it ended up being the NON-digital-projection version!
Perhaps we can't get away from this "playing God" business, but did it occur to anyone that fixing "nature's mistakes" before nature takes its pre-genetic-understanding course, might result in a degraded human genome? 200 years from now when we've figured out how to cure most common genetic diseases with gene therapy, will it also be very common for babies to be born needing this very same therapy in order to survive?
When Jobs helped shape the design of the original Macintosh 128K way back in 1983, he wanted an all-in-one fanless design that would be as easy to use as a kitchen appliance. No user-serviceable parts. What we have now in the latest iMac is the same idea (OK, two user-serviceable parts- memory and airport, yay). and a fan. but Jobs has been shooting for this idea for a long time... They've even used the same Torx screws all these years to help prevent user tampering!!
go to Google, type in "site:yourdomain.com xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx" where the x's are the credit card number of a known customer. If you get hits, your security is less than ideal.
Unfortunately, website security is not as simple as locking a door... but keeping your customer data out of the webserver's document root would be a good start.
The term "globalization" is an attractor for...
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...everyone's fears about the future, among other things.
I don't believe that it will "make everyone homogeneous." The next town over from me is already so different, I doubt that cultural ideals will magically homogenize worldwide.
I don't believe that it will "make the rich profit off the poor," any more than it already happens. Foreign investment in a local economy always helps it, even if the investors profit more proportionally. Hello, capitalism...
But essentially, what I DO believe is that political, social, religious, and intellectual ideologies and institutions that have depended for so long on the restricted flow of information and/or goods, will not survive whatever "globalization" is. And that that transition will be painful, and will result in the short term with much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and planes flying into buildings until people get used to the idea and stop fearing the future.
1) The Incredible Machine
2) Railroad Tycoon (the latest one)
3) Sim-anything
4) Snood
5) RTS games (I would argue that the strategic thought exercise outweighs the cartoon violence)
6) Sid Meier games in general (Alpha Centauri is pretty good, try having them win through cooperation and trade instead of warfare... I think it's important to have games with warfare as an option but that also show the down-side to it, and SMAC does a good job of this... This is the only way kids will learn to NOT choose to fight)
7) Any MMORPG
Lots of games have things "disappearing" in an abstract manner, and that is often interpreted as "killing" it, so good luck finding games that have nothing to do with that theme =)
Aside from the obvious lawbreaking (which does not account for all of its success), Microsoft was more or less playing by the rules of American capitalism... make as much money as possible. The problem is not necessarily Microsoft... it is outdated antitrust law. This case SHOULD get appealed to the Supreme Court, since its outcome will affect the growth of large companies for decades to come.
There are many advantages that a large company has over a smaller one, and simply not enough economic countermeasures to keep things in balance (i.e. "best for the consumer"). For example, if at a given point in time, Company A controls 45% of a market and Company B 55%, B actually has a much higher long-term advantage than the 10% difference would suggest (due to the phenomena of "network effect," "economy of scale," and "barriers to entry") than A. What we need are economic provisions that counteract these excellent long-term advantages in order to:
a) make the playing field more level by drastically reducing the great advantages that a large-marketshared company enjoys
b) lower barriers to entry as much as possible
c) make it difficult to monopolize a business
d) force the players in that business (as a result of more equalized marketshare) to establish mutually-beneficial standards
Determining this legislation would require
1) a quantitative way to measure a company's inherent size advantage over its competitors
2) a way to determine the percentage of "direct competitorship" of one company vs. another (i.e. Coke and Pepsi are 100% direct competitors, but a third non-cola soft drink wouldn't be 100%)
3) the determination of an appropriate financial burden to counteract each unit of the advantage.
I got a bulging disc (L5S1, the lowest one) when I tried to do reverse crunches at the gym after apparent years of poor lower back posture (as my physical therapist explained it). Four things helped over the past few months:
1) Sitting up properly. The proper way is to jut your stomach and the base of your butt out in opposite directions, then back off a bit. This will put your hip bone more in line with your spine.
2) Months of physical therapy which included two things in particular that helped- yogic press-ups and bridges. In a press-up, get on the floor like you are about to do a push-up; but keep your hips on the floor while pushing up fully with your arms until you feel something. It may help to exhale when you're at the top. In a bridge, you get in the classic sit-up position on the floor, feet close together, but instead of sitting up, you push your hips to the sky. Line up your thighs with your back (in mid-air) and then stretch one leg out... if this is working, your hip on that side will droop which means you have some lower-back weakness. Do each side, then lower, repeat about 10 times. You want to get it so that your hips stay rock-solid when you lift a leg.
3) Walking, light exercise (elliptical etc.), and when I was able to take it, ultimate frisbee =) I am no fan of sports but Ultimate is pretty fun and a hell of a workout, as well as a nice way to meet people.
4) A new Aeron office chair for myself =) Kickass investment.
...would cause the end of it to fly off into space with the remaining tether if a terrorist explosion separated the tether at some point. I don't think it would crash into the earh à la Red Mars...
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...because I organized a trip of about 30 people from my company to see the digital-projection version, and it ended up being the NON-digital-projection version!
Perhaps we can't get away from this "playing God" business, but did it occur to anyone that fixing "nature's mistakes" before nature takes its pre-genetic-understanding course, might result in a degraded human genome? 200 years from now when we've figured out how to cure most common genetic diseases with gene therapy, will it also be very common for babies to be born needing this very same therapy in order to survive?
It's likely Carbonized, so it will run great on both. The beta of this game was quickly demoed at the last Macworld Expo in January...
When Jobs helped shape the design of the original Macintosh 128K way back in 1983, he wanted an all-in-one fanless design that would be as easy to use as a kitchen appliance. No user-serviceable parts. What we have now in the latest iMac is the same idea (OK, two user-serviceable parts- memory and airport, yay). and a fan. but Jobs has been shooting for this idea for a long time... They've even used the same Torx screws all these years to help prevent user tampering!!
go to Google, type in "site:yourdomain.com xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx" where the x's are the credit card number of a known customer. If you get hits, your security is less than ideal.
Unfortunately, website security is not as simple as locking a door... but keeping your customer data out of the webserver's document root would be a good start.
...everyone's fears about the future, among other things.
I don't believe that it will "make everyone homogeneous." The next town over from me is already so different, I doubt that cultural ideals will magically homogenize worldwide.
I don't believe that it will "make the rich profit off the poor," any more than it already happens. Foreign investment in a local economy always helps it, even if the investors profit more proportionally. Hello, capitalism...
But essentially, what I DO believe is that political, social, religious, and intellectual ideologies and institutions that have depended for so long on the restricted flow of information and/or goods, will not survive whatever "globalization" is. And that that transition will be painful, and will result in the short term with much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and planes flying into buildings until people get used to the idea and stop fearing the future.
1) The Incredible Machine
2) Railroad Tycoon (the latest one)
3) Sim-anything
4) Snood
5) RTS games (I would argue that the strategic thought exercise outweighs the cartoon violence)
6) Sid Meier games in general (Alpha Centauri is pretty good, try having them win through cooperation and trade instead of warfare... I think it's important to have games with warfare as an option but that also show the down-side to it, and SMAC does a good job of this... This is the only way kids will learn to NOT choose to fight)
7) Any MMORPG
Lots of games have things "disappearing" in an abstract manner, and that is often interpreted as "killing" it, so good luck finding games that have nothing to do with that theme =)
Aside from the obvious lawbreaking (which does not account for all of its success), Microsoft was more or less playing by the rules of American capitalism... make as much money as possible. The problem is not necessarily Microsoft... it is outdated antitrust law. This case SHOULD get appealed to the Supreme Court, since its outcome will affect the growth of large companies for decades to come.
There are many advantages that a large company has over a smaller one, and simply not enough economic countermeasures to keep things in balance (i.e. "best for the consumer"). For example, if at a given point in time, Company A controls 45% of a market and Company B 55%, B actually has a much higher long-term advantage than the 10% difference would suggest (due to the phenomena of "network effect," "economy of scale," and "barriers to entry") than A. What we need are economic provisions that counteract these excellent long-term advantages in order to:
a) make the playing field more level by drastically reducing the great advantages that a large-marketshared company enjoys
b) lower barriers to entry as much as possible
c) make it difficult to monopolize a business
d) force the players in that business (as a result of more equalized marketshare) to establish mutually-beneficial standards
Determining this legislation would require
1) a quantitative way to measure a company's inherent size advantage over its competitors
2) a way to determine the percentage of "direct competitorship" of one company vs. another (i.e. Coke and Pepsi are 100% direct competitors, but a third non-cola soft drink wouldn't be 100%)
3) the determination of an appropriate financial burden to counteract each unit of the advantage.
This would not be considered a penalty.
Any thoughts?
Orthopedist info
I got a bulging disc (L5S1, the lowest one) when I tried to do reverse crunches at the gym after apparent years of poor lower back posture (as my physical therapist explained it). Four things helped over the past few months:
1) Sitting up properly. The proper way is to jut your stomach and the base of your butt out in opposite directions, then back off a bit. This will put your hip bone more in line with your spine.
2) Months of physical therapy which included two things in particular that helped- yogic press-ups and bridges. In a press-up, get on the floor like you are about to do a push-up; but keep your hips on the floor while pushing up fully with your arms until you feel something. It may help to exhale when you're at the top. In a bridge, you get in the classic sit-up position on the floor, feet close together, but instead of sitting up, you push your hips to the sky. Line up your thighs with your back (in mid-air) and then stretch one leg out... if this is working, your hip on that side will droop which means you have some lower-back weakness. Do each side, then lower, repeat about 10 times. You want to get it so that your hips stay rock-solid when you lift a leg.
3) Walking, light exercise (elliptical etc.), and when I was able to take it, ultimate frisbee =) I am no fan of sports but Ultimate is pretty fun and a hell of a workout, as well as a nice way to meet people.
4) A new Aeron office chair for myself =) Kickass investment.
...would cause the end of it to fly off into space with the remaining tether if a terrorist explosion separated the tether at some point. I don't think it would crash into the earh à la Red Mars...
NewtonQuake
Quake on the Newton MessagePad. It's been out for quite awhile. =)
Poor Newton. A great platform, coining the term PDA, killed by bad P.R. and too large a form factor...