Don't underestimate Marketing. It does no good to be the very best if no one knows it. Build the best mousetrap the world has ever seen, leave it in your basement without telling anyone, and nothing happens. Agreed that this has (perhaps) nothing to do with measures of utility, but it has a lot to do with measures of the value of Apple as a company. This is really good news for Apple.
Well it would make sense to report national (Domestic) and international (Global - Domestic) separately, since undiversifiable (market) risk (sum of all uncertainty factors) is fairly constant that way. No worries about weighting market differences for value.
When you calculate delta position / delta time, you get the average velocity during that time interval. So it is a rate of change. However, it would be more meaningful to show the rates of change for each year, too. Agreed that google's IPO has almost assuredly spiked its rate in a more short term interval. Still, this is interesting.
Yeah but its a pain doing the reach-around and blindly searching for the USB on most of the computers at my school. At least the ZipDisk is on the front. CD-RWs? Must be nice! Some teachers actually require homework to be submitted on 3.5" floppies.
Haven't used OS X for more than about 8 hours. It was tragic. Met a girl to do our WWW Programming homework where she worked, which only had Macs available. Nothing was intuitive. Couldn't open an HTML file in a text editor (it told me politely that that didn't make sense.) Wouldn't let me rename it filename.txt, because it said the extensions were used to ID what programs to use to open said document. It felt as though someone had determined what I should want to do, and how, and any deviation from that was blocked. I prefer systems that don't get in my way so effectively.
Weren't Vietnam and Korea wars against the "Godless Communists"? If you consider that for many westerners (North Americans...OK, US citizens) their true religion is Capitalism, then those wars *are* religious wars. That great unseen power which controls everything (you know, the market (Adam Smith's Invisible Hand...with a third we'd have a trinity)) had to smite a system which denied its power.
I'd hate to put all my eggs in one legal-fiction, er, uh, basket. What happens if the rest of the world doesn't go along with our legal-fiction? Do we invade and force them to write laws to recognize intellectual property? There is something to be said for actually providing a good or service in return for compensation, rather than relying on the King's Knights ride in and destroy destroy competitors. Used to be only guild members could use a screw. You'd be busted up for repairing your own furniture, and so non-guild members had to tie things off with twine or pay *serious* money to a guild member.
Actually I have the right to do anything not proscribed by the intent and letter of Federal, State, County, and City laws and ordinances. I don't need an amendment to "grant" me a right. The rights so granted are *not* exclusive, and in fact an argument to having a Bill of Rights was that people might try to say that only those rights enumerated where rights. So I have the right to do what I want with that CD *except* for where the law has expressly limited my rights for the purpose of creating a legal fiction (psuedo-property) in order to advance the arts and sciences for the public good. It isn't a "right to profit", but rather limited profit for a limited time, to increase the amount of material that is created and passed into the public domain for the public good.
Seems like for "noncommercial, home use" could include your neighbor's, and his neighbor's, and his neighbor's neighbor's "noncommercial, home use". So at that point, if it would have been legal for fred to make a copy, can't frank let fred make a copy of his copy?
What about people who take parts of CDs (say a song) from many CDs and compile their own themed list? Wouldn't they own the copyright on that arrangement? It is surely legal. But could they then say to their neighbor, "Hey, doing an 8 hour roadtrip? Take along my Staying Awake and Driving Driving Driving cassette tape." I think that is legal too. Can the person who borrows the tape make a backup? Now that is, I think, where the line gets crossed, perhaps. If it were for the purpose of a backup, maybe. But to keep the backup and use it after returning the original?
Not a bad trade. Consider this: there is now a broadcast flag. But you have explict fairuse rights to bypass the any DRM for legitimate uses, such as time or media shifting the content, or pulling sections out for your kid's end of class, High School multimedia presentation. Big gain for us where it matters, especially if you can go to Radioshack and buy a cheap box that lets you bypass for legit purposes. It is the best of both worlds.
The only hard data I've seen analyzed suggested that the difference was smaller than the noise in the signal, yet fell on the side of suggesting that piracy increased CD sales. So there is no "loss", merely a big lie to force makers of equipment to pay a "tax".
You seem to imply that making money at concerts isn't making money since it only supports the artists and the production of music, and not the production of CDs. Yet it is in large part the distribution system that is so in need of redesign as to implode. Consider: movies have to pay actors, so actor compensation comes out of movie sales. Therefor, shifting artist compensation to touring (which is also promotional) is shifting a production cost.
Lets be fair and imagine a world where movie stars had to tour the country putting on plays to earn the majority of their bucks, promoting the upcoming movie out of the money made on tour. Yeah, right.
I can assure you that my grandparents that grew up without healthcare ended up far healthier than my grandparents with it.
This seems contradicted by longevity studies that trace the increased longevity directly to increases advances in healthcare.
With our increasing infant mortality here in the USA, it raises the question of exactly what you mean by "that grew up". But that doesn't take into account cardiac care. Unless you mean that, in the end, your grandparents without healthcare who died at 68 where healthier the last couple years (before heart failure), than those who lived to 80 (and died of cancer).
It is to the USofA that rich, seriously ill people are flown to, yes. It is Mexico and Canada that middleclass Americans drive to, because they can't afford their own country's healthcare.
But the Beatles "Apple" and the Jobs "Apple" had an agreement that let the latter reuse the name of the former as long as the latter never got into the music game. There was smoke from iTunes because of that...but it never seemed to ignite.
Agreed that consistency can be a very, very good thing. As long as it is also easy to modify the behavior so that you *can* get the behavior you want. This might be a non-issue on Macs. It is one of the things I love about Linux compared to MS Windows.
I hope mapping "Page End" to "Scroll to Page End" can be turned off...Not sure how modifiable all these responses are on a Mac, but that is one that sounds like it would irritate me. It would be nice to have as an option, like Page End does what it says, but Ctrl Page End does the funky scrolling. But I think over 98% of the time I'd want Page End to Page End.
I can see how it might be faster, but the disconnect is psychologically unsettling. When I have multiple windows open, and move away from the windows to a close button, there is tension until the right one goes away. I don't need GUI generated tension, thank you very much.
"Having the menu bar at the top of the screen is just so much cleaner"
Thats an option in Gnome, which I'll toggle to show Mac friends, but I'd never leave it to work with. Seems like controls should be near what it is they are controlling rather than way way away. Locality of Reference, maybe?
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"just rate of popularity growth"
Don't underestimate Marketing. It does no good to be the very best if no one knows it. Build the best mousetrap the world has ever seen, leave it in your basement without telling anyone, and nothing happens. Agreed that this has (perhaps) nothing to do with measures of utility, but it has a lot to do with measures of the value of Apple as a company. This is really good news for Apple.
Well it would make sense to report national (Domestic) and international (Global - Domestic) separately, since undiversifiable (market) risk (sum of all uncertainty factors) is fairly constant that way. No worries about weighting market differences for value.
When you calculate delta position / delta time, you get the average velocity during that time interval. So it is a rate of change. However, it would be more meaningful to show the rates of change for each year, too. Agreed that google's IPO has almost assuredly spiked its rate in a more short term interval. Still, this is interesting.
Yeah but its a pain doing the reach-around and blindly searching for the USB on most of the computers at my school. At least the ZipDisk is on the front. CD-RWs? Must be nice! Some teachers actually require homework to be submitted on 3.5" floppies.
Haven't used OS X for more than about 8 hours. It was tragic. Met a girl to do our WWW Programming homework where she worked, which only had Macs available. Nothing was intuitive. Couldn't open an HTML file in a text editor (it told me politely that that didn't make sense.) Wouldn't let me rename it filename.txt, because it said the extensions were used to ID what programs to use to open said document. It felt as though someone had determined what I should want to do, and how, and any deviation from that was blocked. I prefer systems that don't get in my way so effectively.
Weren't Vietnam and Korea wars against the "Godless Communists"? If you consider that for many westerners (North Americans...OK, US citizens) their true religion is Capitalism, then those wars *are* religious wars. That great unseen power which controls everything (you know, the market (Adam Smith's Invisible Hand...with a third we'd have a trinity)) had to smite a system which denied its power.
I'd hate to put all my eggs in one legal-fiction, er, uh, basket. What happens if the rest of the world doesn't go along with our legal-fiction? Do we invade and force them to write laws to recognize intellectual property? There is something to be said for actually providing a good or service in return for compensation, rather than relying on the King's Knights ride in and destroy destroy competitors. Used to be only guild members could use a screw. You'd be busted up for repairing your own furniture, and so non-guild members had to tie things off with twine or pay *serious* money to a guild member.
Actually I have the right to do anything not proscribed by the intent and letter of Federal, State, County, and City laws and ordinances. I don't need an amendment to "grant" me a right. The rights so granted are *not* exclusive, and in fact an argument to having a Bill of Rights was that people might try to say that only those rights enumerated where rights. So I have the right to do what I want with that CD *except* for where the law has expressly limited my rights for the purpose of creating a legal fiction (psuedo-property) in order to advance the arts and sciences for the public good. It isn't a "right to profit", but rather limited profit for a limited time, to increase the amount of material that is created and passed into the public domain for the public good.
Seems like for "noncommercial, home use" could include your neighbor's, and his neighbor's, and his neighbor's neighbor's "noncommercial, home use". So at that point, if it would have been legal for fred to make a copy, can't frank let fred make a copy of his copy?
What about people who take parts of CDs (say a song) from many CDs and compile their own themed list? Wouldn't they own the copyright on that arrangement? It is surely legal. But could they then say to their neighbor, "Hey, doing an 8 hour roadtrip? Take along my Staying Awake and Driving Driving Driving cassette tape." I think that is legal too. Can the person who borrows the tape make a backup? Now that is, I think, where the line gets crossed, perhaps. If it were for the purpose of a backup, maybe. But to keep the backup and use it after returning the original?
Not a bad trade. Consider this: there is now a broadcast flag. But you have explict fairuse rights to bypass the any DRM for legitimate uses, such as time or media shifting the content, or pulling sections out for your kid's end of class, High School multimedia presentation. Big gain for us where it matters, especially if you can go to Radioshack and buy a cheap box that lets you bypass for legit purposes. It is the best of both worlds.
The only hard data I've seen analyzed suggested that the difference was smaller than the noise in the signal, yet fell on the side of suggesting that piracy increased CD sales. So there is no "loss", merely a big lie to force makers of equipment to pay a "tax".
You seem to imply that making money at concerts isn't making money since it only supports the artists and the production of music, and not the production of CDs. Yet it is in large part the distribution system that is so in need of redesign as to implode. Consider: movies have to pay actors, so actor compensation comes out of movie sales. Therefor, shifting artist compensation to touring (which is also promotional) is shifting a production cost.
Lets be fair and imagine a world where movie stars had to tour the country putting on plays to earn the majority of their bucks, promoting the upcoming movie out of the money made on tour. Yeah, right.
I can assure you that my grandparents that grew up without healthcare ended up far healthier than my grandparents with it.
This seems contradicted by longevity studies that trace the increased longevity directly to increases advances in healthcare.
With our increasing infant mortality here in the USA, it raises the question of exactly what you mean by "that grew up". But that doesn't take into account cardiac care. Unless you mean that, in the end, your grandparents without healthcare who died at 68 where healthier the last couple years (before heart failure), than those who lived to 80 (and died of cancer).
Maybe because life is sacred?
It is to the USofA that rich, seriously ill people are flown to, yes. It is Mexico and Canada that middleclass Americans drive to, because they can't afford their own country's healthcare.
Methinks that $50k/yr is family income. Big difference between you living on 50k by yourself, and a family of 4 trying to live on 50k.
Depends on whether governments around the world decide to ditch closed formats or not. Here is hoping that closed MS formats die a horrible death!
Then you don't remember when Lindows had to change its name?
Gnumeric is a very nice Free spreadsheet. If abiword is available on the Mac, I'd think Gnumeric would be too...
But the Beatles "Apple" and the Jobs "Apple" had an agreement that let the latter reuse the name of the former as long as the latter never got into the music game. There was smoke from iTunes because of that...but it never seemed to ignite.
Agreed that consistency can be a very, very good thing. As long as it is also easy to modify the behavior so that you *can* get the behavior you want. This might be a non-issue on Macs. It is one of the things I love about Linux compared to MS Windows.
I hope mapping "Page End" to "Scroll to Page End" can be turned off...Not sure how modifiable all these responses are on a Mac, but that is one that sounds like it would irritate me. It would be nice to have as an option, like Page End does what it says, but Ctrl Page End does the funky scrolling. But I think over 98% of the time I'd want Page End to Page End.
I can see how it might be faster, but the disconnect is psychologically unsettling. When I have multiple windows open, and move away from the windows to a close button, there is tension until the right one goes away. I don't need GUI generated tension, thank you very much.
"Having the menu bar at the top of the screen is just so much cleaner"
Thats an option in Gnome, which I'll toggle to show Mac friends, but I'd never leave it to work with. Seems like controls should be near what it is they are controlling rather than way way away. Locality of Reference, maybe?