1/10th of the world population, but close to 100% of the market segment that can use one of these things.
Let's not get crazy and think that rice farmers in Thailand, or goat herders in Afghanistan will be buying these things. The major market is always going to be only the upper middle classes of the US and Western Europe.
An Audi A8 is comparable not BMW 7 not a 5 series. And without knowing too much about the Tesla, from the looks of it it fits somewhere between the BMW 3 and 5 Series, which makes it an expensive replacement. Having said that you do pay for exclusivity and if I had the cash I definitely buy one, simply because BMWs, Mercedes and Audi are a dime a dozen where I live.
- there are going to be cameras everywhere.
So let us adjust.
By buying lots more storage for tons of video that never gets watched?
Seriously, who has time to watch all this stuff? Doesn't matter how much of it you have, it's value is still (mostly) zero.
You're looking at it from the point of view of a dabbler; a hobbyist..
You mean like Woz/Jobs/Gates/Allen/Page/Brin/Zuckerberg et al and now Acton and Koum?
Our industry is built by dabblers and hobbyists, they shape our world. "Professional Developers" are merely wait staff in the grand scheme of things.
Fuck this, I've had enough. It's clear the Slashdot has suffered massive and irreparable damage. Can someone give a list of similar sites, I'm ready to walk.
I'm interested in this as a garage project, but after quickly browsing the website I couldn't one one single picture of the car that wasn't a crappo CAD drawing. I know you guys hate MBAs and Microsoft and shit, but FFS at least those guys know that couple of pictures goes a long way when you're trying to sell stuff.
Here in Australia, we have regulations (socialism!) that require anyone registering a.com.au domain to have some connection to the name in their registered business eg if I want to register bike.com.au, my business needs to have demonstrable connection to the bike business somehow. Sure some trash slips through the cracks, but on the whole works well to keep.com.au domains relatively reliable.
Not sure why more registrars don't enforce similar requirements.
90% of my online accounts are fake, even this one. I create new accounts with new names to preserve my privacy, I have multiple hotmail, gmail and Facebook accounts specifically for this purpose. Sure the NSA types might see through this, but the average marketing agency won't. In real life, you can separate your worlds. My wife's circle of friends know me, but they don't know my friends, same goes for work 'mates', extended family etc. I have the power to keep things separate. It seems this choice is being slowly removed in online life as every web service demands you use your real name. Who wants to live in a world where everyone knows everything? We need a right to anonymity online.
No it wouldn't. We have compulsory voting here in Australia. We get the same voting patterns as other non-compulsory democracy. Basic stats shows you only need a couple of thousand people to figure out the opinions of millions, so if you had half as many voters or twice as much, the result would end up pretty much the same.
But who reads it all?
Sure you can data mine a certain extent, or if you have an existing target you can gather more juice, but really, I can't see how that much data could be effectively processed for your average citizen be concerned? The signal to noise must be immense and even if I threaten to Murder The President of the United States of America right now, will it actually make a difference to anyone anywhere?
This seems to be the most overlooked fact. Windows took over a large chuck of the server market because us small-medium business admins don't care for hardcore CLI and didn't like dealing with Novell. We are stretched for skills, and are jack or all trades, master of none types who don't have the time to dedicate to learning CLI or clunky poorly designed GUIs. We need to be able to browse around our options and figure stuff our on the fly, and a GUI style, file, edit view menu is best for this. It is the similar reason why VMware rules the Virtualisation space. Regular non-supernerd Admins are able to browse around and figure most shit out without expert knowledge. The GUI rules in our world, so those with the best GUI invariably end up winning.
I wish people would stop repeating this myth (if you were being ironic then sorry I missed it).
Your list deliberately misses out a few major releases, which if included would show no pattern at all. Every now and again MS ships a half decent product. But like Google, most of their stuff is crap.
Yet, most people in this world would happily choose to live in NYC on $34k than where-ever they are on whatever they are. Perhaps you really are wealthy after all, you just don't realise/appreciate it?
Maybe I need to wait a while. My kids keep saying "life's not fair", I respond, you're right, you live in a nice house with a pool, live by the beach, eat what you like, get quality education, while most children on this planet live in a cardboard box and struggle to eat 3 meals a day. You better hope life doesn't get fair otherwise you're going to lose a lot of good stuff.
They still don't get it though. I even took them on a family holiday to Myanmar, walked the streets in the mud to give them first hand experience at how the average 3rd world person lives and they just got bored and wanted to go home. Might have to try again in a few more years when they're a bit older.
Why is the limit imposed only at the country level? Why not state, or county or city? What about suburb or street?
I would've thought that thinking global makes a lot more sense in this day and age. Especially since those Indians and Chinese are the ones who will be primarily responsible for preventing you from ever reaching the 1%.
Shazam does this to a certain extent. I can use Shazam in s busy store with lots of background noise, or in my car driving on the freeway with a lot of engine and road noise and it still easily picks up and recognises a song through the noise. If a home brew phone app can do that, It's not beyond the realms of imagination that the clever people can build something similar with a lot more smarts.
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1/10th of the world population, but close to 100% of the market segment that can use one of these things. Let's not get crazy and think that rice farmers in Thailand, or goat herders in Afghanistan will be buying these things. The major market is always going to be only the upper middle classes of the US and Western Europe.
An Audi A8 is comparable not BMW 7 not a 5 series. And without knowing too much about the Tesla, from the looks of it it fits somewhere between the BMW 3 and 5 Series, which makes it an expensive replacement. Having said that you do pay for exclusivity and if I had the cash I definitely buy one, simply because BMWs, Mercedes and Audi are a dime a dozen where I live.
- there are going to be cameras everywhere. So let us adjust.
By buying lots more storage for tons of video that never gets watched? Seriously, who has time to watch all this stuff? Doesn't matter how much of it you have, it's value is still (mostly) zero.
And you don't already have a GoPro?
You're looking at it from the point of view of a dabbler; a hobbyist. .
You mean like Woz/Jobs/Gates/Allen/Page/Brin/Zuckerberg et al and now Acton and Koum? Our industry is built by dabblers and hobbyists, they shape our world. "Professional Developers" are merely wait staff in the grand scheme of things.
Fuck this, I've had enough. It's clear the Slashdot has suffered massive and irreparable damage. Can someone give a list of similar sites, I'm ready to walk.
PS. Fuck the Beta!
I'm interested in this as a garage project, but after quickly browsing the website I couldn't one one single picture of the car that wasn't a crappo CAD drawing. I know you guys hate MBAs and Microsoft and shit, but FFS at least those guys know that couple of pictures goes a long way when you're trying to sell stuff.
Here in Australia, we have regulations (socialism!) that require anyone registering a .com.au domain to have some connection to the name in their registered business eg if I want to register bike.com.au, my business needs to have demonstrable connection to the bike business somehow. Sure some trash slips through the cracks, but on the whole works well to keep .com.au domains relatively reliable.
Not sure why more registrars don't enforce similar requirements.
I'm fine with that, I have enough money/credit for my lifetime, I'm just wondering if our children will have the same luxury?
The summary says a white guy with an Amish style beard, but the first image on the link just has a dorky unshaven stubble nerd.
90% of my online accounts are fake, even this one. I create new accounts with new names to preserve my privacy, I have multiple hotmail, gmail and Facebook accounts specifically for this purpose. Sure the NSA types might see through this, but the average marketing agency won't. In real life, you can separate your worlds. My wife's circle of friends know me, but they don't know my friends, same goes for work 'mates', extended family etc. I have the power to keep things separate. It seems this choice is being slowly removed in online life as every web service demands you use your real name. Who wants to live in a world where everyone knows everything? We need a right to anonymity online.
No it wouldn't. We have compulsory voting here in Australia. We get the same voting patterns as other non-compulsory democracy. Basic stats shows you only need a couple of thousand people to figure out the opinions of millions, so if you had half as many voters or twice as much, the result would end up pretty much the same.
But who reads it all? Sure you can data mine a certain extent, or if you have an existing target you can gather more juice, but really, I can't see how that much data could be effectively processed for your average citizen be concerned? The signal to noise must be immense and even if I threaten to Murder The President of the United States of America right now, will it actually make a difference to anyone anywhere?
I wonder how this same situation would've panned out in a Linux dominated universe?
This seems to be the most overlooked fact. Windows took over a large chuck of the server market because us small-medium business admins don't care for hardcore CLI and didn't like dealing with Novell. We are stretched for skills, and are jack or all trades, master of none types who don't have the time to dedicate to learning CLI or clunky poorly designed GUIs. We need to be able to browse around our options and figure stuff our on the fly, and a GUI style, file, edit view menu is best for this. It is the similar reason why VMware rules the Virtualisation space. Regular non-supernerd Admins are able to browse around and figure most shit out without expert knowledge. The GUI rules in our world, so those with the best GUI invariably end up winning.
I wish people would stop repeating this myth (if you were being ironic then sorry I missed it). Your list deliberately misses out a few major releases, which if included would show no pattern at all. Every now and again MS ships a half decent product. But like Google, most of their stuff is crap.
Because this project had no Engineers on it. If only they had John J. Internet Forum Guy on the team, they would never had encountered these issues...
Yet, most people in this world would happily choose to live in NYC on $34k than where-ever they are on whatever they are. Perhaps you really are wealthy after all, you just don't realise/appreciate it?
They still don't get it though. I even took them on a family holiday to Myanmar, walked the streets in the mud to give them first hand experience at how the average 3rd world person lives and they just got bored and wanted to go home. Might have to try again in a few more years when they're a bit older.
Except that surviving on $2 a day isn't evil, it's normal.
Why is the limit imposed only at the country level? Why not state, or county or city? What about suburb or street? I would've thought that thinking global makes a lot more sense in this day and age. Especially since those Indians and Chinese are the ones who will be primarily responsible for preventing you from ever reaching the 1%.
As mentioned Business ain't tiddlywinks. And he's now saving lives, what are you doing?
Well played.
Shazam does this to a certain extent. I can use Shazam in s busy store with lots of background noise, or in my car driving on the freeway with a lot of engine and road noise and it still easily picks up and recognises a song through the noise. If a home brew phone app can do that, It's not beyond the realms of imagination that the clever people can build something similar with a lot more smarts.