I remember reading that book a long time ago and keep thinking about how a lot of his predictions are now coming true. Hate him or love him but the guy sure had business insight.
I think Facebook is starting to become the de facto "people management" platform for individuals. If you like RSS it's basically turned into RSS for human beings, corporations, music artists, blogs, and so on. I think there is an incredible amount of data they have there on those groups and potentially stand to make a killing if they try to marry that with ad revenue. It beat Google for the most visited site last year somehow so it seems to be one of the stickier websites around that aren't related to search or email.
The longer I'm alive the less this makes sense to me. With all the publicity around players selling their awards (Ohio State Buckeyes) and agents getting involved with players in college (Reggie Bush) for day-to-day money think the goals of the athletes in college basketball and football are at odds with the rest of the campus.
So why don't we stop pretending that the athletes in those sports are there to get a degree in liberal arts or engineering? They should start a secondary pre-professional league where these kids can go test the waters, get good training, and provide higher-quality sports entertainment. They could be traded and not get busted for trying to make subsistence money. If they find out it's not for them then they can always choose to go back and enter college if it's right for them.
I was thinking about possible solutions to this like if you receive a cluster of messages temporally or geospatially then you can further investigate it. But text messages are so cheap that a bunch of people could coordinate a prank on 911 easily.
After reading the article I think that this will probably be a good thing in the long run and that allowing texts (tweets?) to 911 is a valuable public service and they're going to have to make it work out somehow.
Speaking of redirects how about websites waiting to load content on Doubleclick analytics? Not only do the ads you're serving not load up but I tend to give up on visiting the page altogether. Everybody loses.
>I personally make around $35k as a young single person with no debt, and feel rich, fwiw. I can't even spend it all--- after $1k/month on rent for a nice apt near the beach, and another $1k on food/car/entertainment, my expenses are pretty much covered.
My math must be off because $1,000 for rent plus $1,000 with other expenses is at least $48,000 per year in expenses not including taxes. Unless you had money saved up before you started making $35,000 to make up the difference.
Perhaps he is also in the right place at the right time. We've seen technologies happen well ahead of their time (Apple Netwon, Divx rentals) that conceptually were good but just didn't have the cheap tech to make it affordable. Or people just didn't understand it but we wouldn't think twice about it now.
Don't get me wrong I think Steve is probably a really strong leader based on what I've read. I wonder if he could have revolutionized any other consumer tech based on his willingness to not worry about quarterly earnings and to be blunt and honest with people about his vision.
Mr. Obama’s proposal would further dismantle what remains of the human spaceflight initiative started by the Bush administration in 2004. Last year, $3.5 billion in spending was cut from President George W. Bush’s NASA budget projection for 2011 through 2013, money that would have been used to develop the lander that was to return astronauts to the moon by 2020.
The proposed budget increase would also be much less than the $3-billion-a-year increase that a blue-ribbon committee appointed by the Obama administration said was needed for NASA to successfully pursue a human spaceflight program beyond low-Earth orbit.
Doesn't sound like Bush II was quite so friendly to the space program, eh?
I honestly think that it's worth a shot to try and take the space program to the free market. It doesn't always work out but I feel it has the best shot of reducing costs and potentially accelerating space development by transferring it from a government monopoly to competitive entities.
This makes me iSad because I already pay about $60/mo. for FiOS internet. $29.99 is a great deal but that's just too much money on top of what I'm paying. And what's up with the 250 MB for $15? Who would really use that? The average user would probably use that up in two days.
To be fair, Apple probably made the decision to get the base product in the hands of customers. You can choose to buy it or not. Nobody is putting a gun up to your head or anything.
I have a Palm Pre and it seems like it gets additional useful features every few months that go by. I'm OK with that. I liked the base functionality enough where I was willing to sacrifice having a video player and an app store right now.
Iterative releases aren't always bad. I'm okay with delayed inclusion of features as long as the overall package makes my life better.
I agree. I've been reading more about the Ovi service provided by Nokia and I'm liking it more and more. It looks to have a lot of the stuff I use my laptop for anyway but from a dashboard view. If they can put this in a cheap netbook so that I don't have to buy one of their phones on another service that would be even better.
I've read a little bit about this and I have a theory that (similar to cats) dogs act in a why that could be perceived as caring or love for their owner but are really trying to give the impression to their owner that they are only doing that because whenever they cuddle up to their owner or roll over to be petted that it somehow increases the chances that there will be food in the bowl in the morning and evening.
I am not having the same problems as a lot of people are I guess but one thing I do like about Slashdot is that the moderation system is the cat's meow. I have to filter through so many inane comments (even with thumbs-up and thumbs-down) over there. I came back to Slashdot after using Digg for a while. The main problem I have with Digg is the mob mentality. It seems here that even a minority voice can get heard.
I don't necessarily think that the mainstream likes junk (or low quality games). The Wii brought in a lot of people new to gaming and the fact that they are using motion controls is a good enough experience for them.
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I remember reading that book a long time ago and keep thinking about how a lot of his predictions are now coming true. Hate him or love him but the guy sure had business insight.
Great idea. I've been looking for something to do with my eMac for a while now. Does anybody have any novel uses for theirs?
Everything was hyped up to be the next killer app. Console game systems. Programs that ran on Windows boxes. Sigh.
By "Eclipse" you mean the IDE and not the movie, right :-)
I think Facebook is starting to become the de facto "people management" platform for individuals. If you like RSS it's basically turned into RSS for human beings, corporations, music artists, blogs, and so on. I think there is an incredible amount of data they have there on those groups and potentially stand to make a killing if they try to marry that with ad revenue. It beat Google for the most visited site last year somehow so it seems to be one of the stickier websites around that aren't related to search or email.
The longer I'm alive the less this makes sense to me. With all the publicity around players selling their awards (Ohio State Buckeyes) and agents getting involved with players in college (Reggie Bush) for day-to-day money think the goals of the athletes in college basketball and football are at odds with the rest of the campus.
So why don't we stop pretending that the athletes in those sports are there to get a degree in liberal arts or engineering? They should start a secondary pre-professional league where these kids can go test the waters, get good training, and provide higher-quality sports entertainment. They could be traded and not get busted for trying to make subsistence money. If they find out it's not for them then they can always choose to go back and enter college if it's right for them.
I was thinking about possible solutions to this like if you receive a cluster of messages temporally or geospatially then you can further investigate it. But text messages are so cheap that a bunch of people could coordinate a prank on 911 easily. After reading the article I think that this will probably be a good thing in the long run and that allowing texts (tweets?) to 911 is a valuable public service and they're going to have to make it work out somehow.
Speaking of redirects how about websites waiting to load content on Doubleclick analytics? Not only do the ads you're serving not load up but I tend to give up on visiting the page altogether. Everybody loses.
>I personally make around $35k as a young single person with no debt, and feel rich, fwiw. I can't even spend it all--- after $1k/month on rent for a nice apt near the beach, and another $1k on food/car/entertainment, my expenses are pretty much covered.
My math must be off because $1,000 for rent plus $1,000 with other expenses is at least $48,000 per year in expenses not including taxes. Unless you had money saved up before you started making $35,000 to make up the difference.
Georgia peaches in two different locations on Earth? Did they go quantum on us?
hover browsers I was promised?
Perhaps he is also in the right place at the right time. We've seen technologies happen well ahead of their time (Apple Netwon, Divx rentals) that conceptually were good but just didn't have the cheap tech to make it affordable. Or people just didn't understand it but we wouldn't think twice about it now.
Don't get me wrong I think Steve is probably a really strong leader based on what I've read. I wonder if he could have revolutionized any other consumer tech based on his willingness to not worry about quarterly earnings and to be blunt and honest with people about his vision.
Especially interesting at a Baptist university. I'm pretty ignorant as is but I never would have pegged WFU to do something this cool.
Oh yeah: ACC! ACC! ACC!
Mr. Obama’s proposal would further dismantle what remains of the human spaceflight initiative started by the Bush administration in 2004. Last year, $3.5 billion in spending was cut from President George W. Bush’s NASA budget projection for 2011 through 2013, money that would have been used to develop the lander that was to return astronauts to the moon by 2020.
The proposed budget increase would also be much less than the $3-billion-a-year increase that a blue-ribbon committee appointed by the Obama administration said was needed for NASA to successfully pursue a human spaceflight program beyond low-Earth orbit.
Doesn't sound like Bush II was quite so friendly to the space program, eh?
I honestly think that it's worth a shot to try and take the space program to the free market. It doesn't always work out but I feel it has the best shot of reducing costs and potentially accelerating space development by transferring it from a government monopoly to competitive entities.
This is interesting. I know this is probably way out of my scope but it's fascinating when you realize you're seeing someone's "program."
This makes me iSad because I already pay about $60/mo. for FiOS internet. $29.99 is a great deal but that's just too much money on top of what I'm paying. And what's up with the 250 MB for $15? Who would really use that? The average user would probably use that up in two days.
To be fair, Apple probably made the decision to get the base product in the hands of customers. You can choose to buy it or not. Nobody is putting a gun up to your head or anything. I have a Palm Pre and it seems like it gets additional useful features every few months that go by. I'm OK with that. I liked the base functionality enough where I was willing to sacrifice having a video player and an app store right now. Iterative releases aren't always bad. I'm okay with delayed inclusion of features as long as the overall package makes my life better.
I agree. I've been reading more about the Ovi service provided by Nokia and I'm liking it more and more. It looks to have a lot of the stuff I use my laptop for anyway but from a dashboard view. If they can put this in a cheap netbook so that I don't have to buy one of their phones on another service that would be even better.
Yes, lest we get Quantum Flux Poisoning!
I resemble that remark!
This is really interesting. I never thought about the fact that in the US we tend to borrow from Italian rather than French.
I've read a little bit about this and I have a theory that (similar to cats) dogs act in a why that could be perceived as caring or love for their owner but are really trying to give the impression to their owner that they are only doing that because whenever they cuddle up to their owner or roll over to be petted that it somehow increases the chances that there will be food in the bowl in the morning and evening.
This post was epic.
I am not having the same problems as a lot of people are I guess but one thing I do like about Slashdot is that the moderation system is the cat's meow. I have to filter through so many inane comments (even with thumbs-up and thumbs-down) over there. I came back to Slashdot after using Digg for a while. The main problem I have with Digg is the mob mentality. It seems here that even a minority voice can get heard.
I don't necessarily think that the mainstream likes junk (or low quality games). The Wii brought in a lot of people new to gaming and the fact that they are using motion controls is a good enough experience for them.