Just what I was thinking. I like most of Whedon's projects, but the guy sure knows how to whine.
Well, yeah. He's a writer. If you see a writer who doesn't whine a lot, it just means that they're not whining in public. The only thing they're better at than explicitly whining is taking their frustrations out on their characters.
Here's the thing - Apple and the content cartels have always been natural enemies. It's astonishing to me that the cartels have taken this long to figure it out, Apple's known it from the beginning.
The big media companies do not create anything. In one of their business practices, they do enable the creation of content by providing the up-front capital. But because of their lock on distribution, they can extract completely unreasonable terms from anybody who wants to get paid for producing that content. With the way that the business is structured, there's only one game in town - it just has many faces. It's highway robbery in the classic sense - they control a critical piece of the road from creation to the consumer and get to take away as much as they can carry.
That is, there was only one game in town. Now comes the Internet - you don't need a network of affiliates all over the country, you don't need to buy into a basic cable distribution package, you don't need to grovel at whatever deals the incompetent cartel executives tell you are in your best interests and ultimately you don't have to just swallow it when they tell you to dumb it down and add more tits and action. If you can get it created, the Internet will take care of the distribution for what is essentially free (at least, if you can figure out a way to make money, it'll be a tiny fraction of what people will pay).
The content cartels' days are numbered, and they're going to blame everybody they can for the extinction of their business model when it's really just the march of technology that has finally obsoleted their highway robbery.
We're not there yet but Apple, and anybody else who can figure out how to cut the cartels out of the decision making process while still allowing content creators to make money, is going to put these dinosaurs in the ground. And not a minute too soon.
Because in this case, the commonly used software is doing something that developers have been told time and time again should not be done and will not be portable over even minor updates.
You missed a BIG console pro: they are engineered to go discreetly in the home theater's a/v stack and and their games are designed to be played with wireless controllers from 20 feet away.
Yes, you can do all that stuff on PCs with a bit of work but not in a nice, inexpensive all-in-one package. And even then, you're stuck dealing with Windows (which is the big PC CON you missed).
Who cares? That's not a reasonable metric and in fact isn't the way the law works.
When two parties in different jurisdictions transact, the transaction takes place in both jurisdictions. Why do you think it only takes place in one? This isn't a matter of opinion or interpretation, it's a matter of fact.
Completely shooting from the hip (hey, it's Slashdot), I'd venture a guess that in making failure estimates, engineers have to assume close-to-worst case scenarios. The less we know about an environment (or, the more random it is), the more likely that a worst case scenario will be very different from the actual conditions encountered.
So if some critical assumptions that cascade through longevity calculations turn out to be better than assumed, it makes sense that we'd see dramatically longer actual lifetimes in areas where we know less.
How can the Universe suddenly change like that? Change requires time.
No... this change requires time before it, not after it. It's a phase transition.
What was time like before the (4-space) big bang?
That said, this is probably a junk paper, but what you identify isn't a problem.
From prior discussions on/. I believe that's the case, but I think that registration can happen after the violation. A court will just tell the plaintiff to go register and come back and file again.
Unfortunately, what should really be mandatory in all schools are the concepts of opportunity cost and return on investment. If you can get a better return on your money than a loan costs - the stock market tends to average around 10% per year over time and a decently privately owned business should give you between 10 and 20% ROI - you should take the loan and use the cash to make more money.
Understanding that key point is the difference between the rich and the poor.
By focusing solely on GSM, they're locking themselves out of most of the US cell phone market - over 120 million customers.
That's a bit silly. While 120 M may be using CDMA right now, I doubt most of them care whether they use CDMA or GSM.
In fact, the overwhelming majority probably don't care which provider they use beyond the specific deal they get and whether their phone works where they need it to - cell service is seen as largely a commodity and where it isn't a commodity, it should be. Given a good enough reason, most will happily change providers and not look back - and Apple believes that the iPhone is good enough reason.
What concerns me more is that the US are only talking about manned mars missions because of what china are doing. [...]
That's no way to make real progress.
I don't know... it seems that progress has always been about beating the other monkeys to the next banana, the next mate, the next safe shelter.
Then, you rest until the other monkeys start to catch up, and it's on again. That's the way the Red Queen races work, and they've been driving us for at least the better part of a billion years.
All types are 12 years old at some point. VCs experience selection pressures that weed out all but the most parasitic and useless examples of humanity.
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And that's a good thing.
Obviously, you've mastered The Rhythm of the Code.
Here's the thing - Apple and the content cartels have always been natural enemies. It's astonishing to me that the cartels have taken this long to figure it out, Apple's known it from the beginning.
The big media companies do not create anything. In one of their business practices, they do enable the creation of content by providing the up-front capital. But because of their lock on distribution, they can extract completely unreasonable terms from anybody who wants to get paid for producing that content. With the way that the business is structured, there's only one game in town - it just has many faces. It's highway robbery in the classic sense - they control a critical piece of the road from creation to the consumer and get to take away as much as they can carry.
That is, there was only one game in town. Now comes the Internet - you don't need a network of affiliates all over the country, you don't need to buy into a basic cable distribution package, you don't need to grovel at whatever deals the incompetent cartel executives tell you are in your best interests and ultimately you don't have to just swallow it when they tell you to dumb it down and add more tits and action. If you can get it created, the Internet will take care of the distribution for what is essentially free (at least, if you can figure out a way to make money, it'll be a tiny fraction of what people will pay).
The content cartels' days are numbered, and they're going to blame everybody they can for the extinction of their business model when it's really just the march of technology that has finally obsoleted their highway robbery.
We're not there yet but Apple, and anybody else who can figure out how to cut the cartels out of the decision making process while still allowing content creators to make money, is going to put these dinosaurs in the ground. And not a minute too soon.
I'd love to see you try this in a shall-issue state, monkey boy.
Because in this case, the commonly used software is doing something that developers have been told time and time again should not be done and will not be portable over even minor updates.
You missed a BIG console pro: they are engineered to go discreetly in the home theater's a/v stack and and their games are designed to be played with wireless controllers from 20 feet away.
Yes, you can do all that stuff on PCs with a bit of work but not in a nice, inexpensive all-in-one package. And even then, you're stuck dealing with Windows (which is the big PC CON you missed).
Yeah, NOW you're all "Oh, WHYYYYY?", but I hear that you euthanized your cube in record time.
Who cares? That's not a reasonable metric and in fact isn't the way the law works.
When two parties in different jurisdictions transact, the transaction takes place in both jurisdictions. Why do you think it only takes place in one? This isn't a matter of opinion or interpretation, it's a matter of fact.
Completely shooting from the hip (hey, it's Slashdot), I'd venture a guess that in making failure estimates, engineers have to assume close-to-worst case scenarios. The less we know about an environment (or, the more random it is), the more likely that a worst case scenario will be very different from the actual conditions encountered.
So if some critical assumptions that cascade through longevity calculations turn out to be better than assumed, it makes sense that we'd see dramatically longer actual lifetimes in areas where we know less.
Uh, no. You're subject to the laws of a state if you do business in it - it should take little thought to see why this is necessary.
The question isn't whether they're based in Massachusetts, it's whether they're doing business in Massachusetts. And they are.
Until about a month ago, they were hard to come by in Austin, TX.
The supply seems to have finally caught up now but I can easily see it lagging in other parts of the country.
How can the Universe suddenly change like that? Change requires time. No... this change requires time before it, not after it. It's a phase transition.
What was time like before the (4-space) big bang?
That said, this is probably a junk paper, but what you identify isn't a problem.
I hear he'll make Gollum shoot first.
It's completely legitimate to say, "we've talked about this here before and this was the upshot."
While you're spending so much time at law school, you might also want to investigate the concept of argumentum ad hominem.
From prior discussions on /. I believe that's the case, but I think that registration can happen after the violation. A court will just tell the plaintiff to go register and come back and file again.
Unfortunately, what should really be mandatory in all schools are the concepts of opportunity cost and return on investment. If you can get a better return on your money than a loan costs - the stock market tends to average around 10% per year over time and a decently privately owned business should give you between 10 and 20% ROI - you should take the loan and use the cash to make more money.
Understanding that key point is the difference between the rich and the poor.
In fact, the overwhelming majority probably don't care which provider they use beyond the specific deal they get and whether their phone works where they need it to - cell service is seen as largely a commodity and where it isn't a commodity, it should be. Given a good enough reason, most will happily change providers and not look back - and Apple believes that the iPhone is good enough reason.
Then, you rest until the other monkeys start to catch up, and it's on again. That's the way the Red Queen races work, and they've been driving us for at least the better part of a billion years.
My first reaction: What a pedantic bo... oh.
You've obviously never dealt with VCs.
All types are 12 years old at some point. VCs experience selection pressures that weed out all but the most parasitic and useless examples of humanity.