And I think it's way too early to say that anything has been proven. I haven't even seen one yet, they don't go on sale outside the US until Friday. We're still deep in the first round of hype, I'm reserving judgement until the end of the year on whether the iPad is a good idea. I expect my verdict will be something like "a good idea for X and maybe Y".
That burns because you elected a liberal who is behaving like a Nazi. We elected the Conservatives (plus their little helpers) so we expect them to behave like Nazis and so aren't as shocked and upset by it.
I think it means "a lot of people bought it", but that's because they had to. I bought Win7 to replace the crappy Vista that came with my new laptop, not because I thought it was super awexome. Just less awful.
If Ballmer considers all of his workers as 'innovators' and has "thousands of man hours of innovation" at his disposal then surely there must be some new word to apply to the real innovators.
So only furriners can be terrorists? That doesn't make sense. What about an American citizen that joins an Al-Qaeda group and blows something up in the US? Are they not a terrorist while the Sudanese guy next to them is?
The USAF's issue has nothing to do with the firmware update - its to do with the fact that the new PS3's do not support the Other OS feature at all, and the older PS3's that do support it (before the firmware update) are becoming hard to get hold of.
It is a firmware issue, because, as you just said, second-hand PS3's will likely have the new firmware.
According to Larry Wall, Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen:
1. Laziness - The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris.
2. Impatience - The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris.
3. Hubris - Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and impatience.
There are other sources of combustibles, and other sources of energy besides combustion. Would civilization really fail if we stopped using oil? Nah, we'd just start having to pay more for the alternatives,
No, we'd buy cheap imports from the countries that were still using oil (i.e. China), much cheaper oil now that our countries have stopped using it, and or economies would suffer even more. And cheaper oil means lower profits means lower safety standards.
Maybe 8 take every reasonably safety precaution, but 4 of them cut corners and 1 of them has a huge accident. That 1 needs to be held responsible, even if it means bankrupting or severely hampering profits for that 1 company. After all, if you bail out that 1 company, why would the other 3 cutting corners start doing things right?
(going off-topic, but the bank industry had the problem that there were no "other 8" doing things right, just the 4 companies who all cut corners and all had huge accidents)
That's one of the dangers of socialised risk, but the other danger is that they all cut the corners (because otherwise they would be undercut and squeezed out of the market) and just take the chance of going bust. The only answer in either case, whether you socialise the risk or not, is robust regulation and inspection. And we know how keen industry lobbyists are on that.
No, a better analogy is that his sewer pipe fails and covers the entire neighborhood with shit...and because cleaning that up would bankrupt him, everyone affected is told to pitch in and give him money for cleaning up his own mess. Screw that.
That analogy fails because his shit pipe is not serving a purpose for the rest of the neighbourhood. Oil drilling is keeping our civilization going - whether you think that's a good thing is another debate, but there are circumstances when society has to take the risks for the critical processes that it depends on. I'm all for reducing our dependence on oil and I'm all in favour of wind farms and tidal generation and orbital solar panels beaming power down by laser and nuclear power plants and thermal funnels and all that, but we are where we are right now and what means we need oil, and to a certain extent we must accept the risks that go with it.
My surname ends in 's' and I've always been taught to put 's after it just like everyone else's. It's what we say, so why not write it that way? In traditional usage, the only cases where you drop the s but keep the ' are ancient names such as Moses and Mars. I just checked Wikipedia, and apparently The Economist says to keep the s, the Chicago MOS says you can drop the s but recommends keeping it. So maybe I'll let him off this one - but not the "then", yuck!
And Jamie - learn to write. The possessive form of "Jobs" is "Jobs's", and the comparative conjunction is spelt "than", not "then". I haven't read enough of your article to pick out any more errors, since it's evidently not worth my time to read it if it isn't worth your time to write it correctly.
Er, that's the whole point of this article - people don't just want whizz-bang graphics and huge, lush environments. They say they do, then they don't play the games when they get it. Playability and fun are more important.
Atomicity is a whole different level of fun as well. I was lucky, at the boundary I was dealing with inherently atomic operations (well, so-long as I have my alignment correct, (not guaranteed by new)), but if you're not... it's yet more architecture-specific code.
That's also the main complication that I raise when the conversation comes around to personality uploading - the brain is a clockless system with no concept of atomicity at all. How do you take a "snapshot" of that?
Didn't feel what way? Didn't feel that there was a monopoly, or didn't feel that they should step in and apply remedies? I know the EU did think there was an abusive monopoly, not sure about the DOJ. In any case a monopoly isnt illegal, an abusive monopoly is.
Market share does not make a monopoly. As long as there are viable choices, there is no monopoly. Once iPhone becomes the only practical choice due to homogeneous lock-in, then the DOJ or EU can step in and apply remedies.
They can say that you are deliberately breaking the rule that says anyone providing communications services must monitor and log the usage of that service.
There must be some redress that the labels can take against an ISP that is ignoring the rules. Now you can say "they aren't ignoring the rules", but the only person that can decide whether they are flouting the law or not is a judge.
Before the DEA, firms were required to issue a court order to the ISP - a timeconsuming and potentially expensive process if done in bulk - in order to collect enough information to contact the individuals themselves. With the DEA in place, they can simply require the ISP to do their donkey work.
Require how? There must be some recourse that the copyright holder can take against an ISP that is failing to respond to complaints. Eventually such a recourse could end up in front of a judge, and that's when AAISP might find themselves in hot water.
Piracy is still an option that people have in their minds, though, there may be people who are waiting to see how the protection works out. If a trend is established that from now on, with this new type of DRM, it takes several weeks to crack most new games, then some of the people who up until now have been routinely pirating games within a few days might switch over to buying them, especially if the publishers can learn from this and push it up to months instead of weeks. Just trying to see this from the publisher's POV.
Putting my optimist hat back on, maybe if the publishers do create foolproof DRM, and their sales figures do not change much, they will realise that they are wasting their time and get rid of it!
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And I think it's way too early to say that anything has been proven. I haven't even seen one yet, they don't go on sale outside the US until Friday. We're still deep in the first round of hype, I'm reserving judgement until the end of the year on whether the iPad is a good idea. I expect my verdict will be something like "a good idea for X and maybe Y".
That burns because you elected a liberal who is behaving like a Nazi. We elected the Conservatives (plus their little helpers) so we expect them to behave like Nazis and so aren't as shocked and upset by it.
I think it means "a lot of people bought it", but that's because they had to. I bought Win7 to replace the crappy Vista that came with my new laptop, not because I thought it was super awexome. Just less awful.
I think that's a typo.
If Ballmer considers all of his workers as 'innovators' and has "thousands of man hours of innovation" at his disposal then surely there must be some new word to apply to the real innovators.
Steve Jobs has gone for "magic".
So only furriners can be terrorists? That doesn't make sense. What about an American citizen that joins an Al-Qaeda group and blows something up in the US? Are they not a terrorist while the Sudanese guy next to them is?
The USAF's issue has nothing to do with the firmware update - its to do with the fact that the new PS3's do not support the Other OS feature at all, and the older PS3's that do support it (before the firmware update) are becoming hard to get hold of.
It is a firmware issue, because, as you just said, second-hand PS3's will likely have the new firmware.
According to Larry Wall, Randal L. Schwartz and Tom Christiansen:
1. Laziness - The quality that makes you go to great effort to reduce overall energy expenditure. It makes you write labor-saving programs that other people will find useful, and document what you wrote so you don't have to answer so many questions about it. Hence, the first great virtue of a programmer. Also hence, this book. See also impatience and hubris.
2. Impatience - The anger you feel when the computer is being lazy. This makes you write programs that don't just react to your needs, but actually anticipate them. Or at least pretend to. Hence, the second great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and hubris.
3. Hubris - Excessive pride, the sort of thing Zeus zaps you for. Also the quality that makes you write (and maintain) programs that other people won't want to say bad things about. Hence, the third great virtue of a programmer. See also laziness and impatience.
There are other sources of combustibles, and other sources of energy besides combustion. Would civilization really fail if we stopped using oil? Nah, we'd just start having to pay more for the alternatives,
No, we'd buy cheap imports from the countries that were still using oil (i.e. China), much cheaper oil now that our countries have stopped using it, and or economies would suffer even more. And cheaper oil means lower profits means lower safety standards.
Maybe 8 take every reasonably safety precaution, but 4 of them cut corners and 1 of them has a huge accident. That 1 needs to be held responsible, even if it means bankrupting or severely hampering profits for that 1 company. After all, if you bail out that 1 company, why would the other 3 cutting corners start doing things right?
(going off-topic, but the bank industry had the problem that there were no "other 8" doing things right, just the 4 companies who all cut corners and all had huge accidents)
That's one of the dangers of socialised risk, but the other danger is that they all cut the corners (because otherwise they would be undercut and squeezed out of the market) and just take the chance of going bust. The only answer in either case, whether you socialise the risk or not, is robust regulation and inspection. And we know how keen industry lobbyists are on that.
No, a better analogy is that his sewer pipe fails and covers the entire neighborhood with shit...and because cleaning that up would bankrupt him, everyone affected is told to pitch in and give him money for cleaning up his own mess. Screw that.
That analogy fails because his shit pipe is not serving a purpose for the rest of the neighbourhood. Oil drilling is keeping our civilization going - whether you think that's a good thing is another debate, but there are circumstances when society has to take the risks for the critical processes that it depends on. I'm all for reducing our dependence on oil and I'm all in favour of wind farms and tidal generation and orbital solar panels beaming power down by laser and nuclear power plants and thermal funnels and all that, but we are where we are right now and what means we need oil, and to a certain extent we must accept the risks that go with it.
My surname ends in 's' and I've always been taught to put 's after it just like everyone else's. It's what we say, so why not write it that way? In traditional usage, the only cases where you drop the s but keep the ' are ancient names such as Moses and Mars. I just checked Wikipedia, and apparently The Economist says to keep the s, the Chicago MOS says you can drop the s but recommends keeping it. So maybe I'll let him off this one - but not the "then", yuck!
And Jamie - learn to write. The possessive form of "Jobs" is "Jobs's", and the comparative conjunction is spelt "than", not "then". I haven't read enough of your article to pick out any more errors, since it's evidently not worth my time to read it if it isn't worth your time to write it correctly.
Ah, I see it, 60 users lost emails in December 2006.
Oh, I hadn't heard that Google had lost people's email. When was that?
Er, that's the whole point of this article - people don't just want whizz-bang graphics and huge, lush environments. They say they do, then they don't play the games when they get it. Playability and fun are more important.
Atomicity is a whole different level of fun as well. I was lucky, at the boundary I was dealing with inherently atomic operations (well, so-long as I have my alignment correct, (not guaranteed by new)), but if you're not... it's yet more architecture-specific code.
That's also the main complication that I raise when the conversation comes around to personality uploading - the brain is a clockless system with no concept of atomicity at all. How do you take a "snapshot" of that?
On the iPod they had no competition when selling content so they sold inferior content for higher prices then their competitors...
THAN!!!!!
That price might bring in less money if the additional sales don't make up for the lost revenue per copy. Why not $0.99? Why not $0.09?
There's nothing illegal about a monopoly. It's how you use or abuse that monopoly that determines whether you get a knock on the door.
Didn't feel what way? Didn't feel that there was a monopoly, or didn't feel that they should step in and apply remedies? I know the EU did think there was an abusive monopoly, not sure about the DOJ. In any case a monopoly isnt illegal, an abusive monopoly is.
Market share does not make a monopoly. As long as there are viable choices, there is no monopoly. Once iPhone becomes the only practical choice due to homogeneous lock-in, then the DOJ or EU can step in and apply remedies.
They can say that you are deliberately breaking the rule that says anyone providing communications services must monitor and log the usage of that service.
There must be some redress that the labels can take against an ISP that is ignoring the rules. Now you can say "they aren't ignoring the rules", but the only person that can decide whether they are flouting the law or not is a judge.
Before the DEA, firms were required to issue a court order to the ISP - a timeconsuming and potentially expensive process if done in bulk - in order to collect enough information to contact the individuals themselves. With the DEA in place, they can simply require the ISP to do their donkey work.
Require how? There must be some recourse that the copyright holder can take against an ISP that is failing to respond to complaints. Eventually such a recourse could end up in front of a judge, and that's when AAISP might find themselves in hot water.
Piracy is still an option that people have in their minds, though, there may be people who are waiting to see how the protection works out. If a trend is established that from now on, with this new type of DRM, it takes several weeks to crack most new games, then some of the people who up until now have been routinely pirating games within a few days might switch over to buying them, especially if the publishers can learn from this and push it up to months instead of weeks. Just trying to see this from the publisher's POV.
Putting my optimist hat back on, maybe if the publishers do create foolproof DRM, and their sales figures do not change much, they will realise that they are wasting their time and get rid of it!