You have to have SOME manner by which you charge customers differing rates based on their 'need' and their 'ability to pay'. The greater their need, and the greater their ability to pay the more you can charge.
Linux distros are cheap because there are loads of alternatives (lowering 'need' for your one) and the users are mainly cheapskates;-)
Solaris on a low-end system indicates a low need, and/or low ability to pay so a lower licence is charged so that you 'at least make something out of them'.
The higher end systems indicate a greater need, greater ability to pay, and so these people should be milked dry!
Seriously - if they could charge by market value they would! Banks do.
Agree. This would take some pretty sophisticated management from all players - and probably force the minnows to spend a lot of time just bending over - but if it could be made to work would have great benefits.
It won't happen if these companies behave too traditionally - but it might if they think outside the normal parameters for a bit. A commonly funded core - surrounded by each company individually producing 'their own bits'.
To be sure, I don't want computers flagging people to be arrested.
I do. If some dick attacks me on Saturday night and is clocked by a security camera, then he's spotted in the Mall the next day I want the police to know about it.
On the other hand - when the UK becomes a complete police state (in about 6 months at the current rate) I DON'T want to have to cover my face going into a 'subversive' bookshop for fear of being arrested and questioned about my support for 'the way of Tony'.
Ah dillemmas - where would we in the rich west be without them.
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The big deal here is that they are putting restrictions on devices which have legitimate usage.
My car does 140mph, legally I can only do half that. No legislator would consider requiring all cars to be blocked from these speeds unless the road told the engine manager that this was a race track.
This is the same thing. I like knowing I can copy CDs - its nice. Most of the time I'm just copying my own stuff, work, photos, etc... all of which would become a pain in the ass with this type of blocking technology.
No, perhaps not. but it might give you a better insight to the type of traffic you need to alleviate - if its only on a saturday the problem may not be the roads, but the siting of an individual building - move it adn you solve the problem more cheaply. Sheer number of roads cannot allow 200,000 people to cross a bridge in 1.5 hours.
Much cheaper and more effective to relocate the venue.
If its busy all the time, then build an alternative route and you'll reduce traffic. I think this COULD be useful if done well.
One of the objectives of the original Sim City was to prove that a town / city COULD exist without a road network if enough rail links were available. They claimed it did, but I recall even on old Sim City on an Atari ST it never panned out that way.
As to farms, if you establish low value commercial land ion large tracts with minimal road links you'll get farms. But they tend not to happen near the city because the land is too valuable. One of the things that makes sim city different, and fun, is the lack of immediacy. Things you did 20 minutes ago will be starting to pay off now, things you do now may never pay off - and you wont know for 20 minutes. brilliant.
Totally different from the 'I cut off you M***** F***ING FEET' style gameplay.
Traffic is always my bug-bear. If you create a large city at the side of a river, build one bridge, and place the cities only stadium alone on the other side of the bridge you get a busy bridge - but you don't get terminal gridlock when a game is played causing riots and a total drop in your ratings as mayor. You should.
Perhaps 'nightmode' hints at a move from focusing on macro-time to micro-time. Its Saturday at 3pm, the big game is about to start, but everyone is stuck on the bridge! People are SWIMMING to see the game! Its 20 below out there! Mayor DeFacto must DIE!!!!
this is fair enough if you have the guts for it. The problem is - by the time you take into account all the costs involved in running your new company you'll realise you can't really afford to have good customer service, provide secure ongoing employment in the lean times, and that finding good management caliber people willing to work for a sensible sum is impossible.
Entrepreneurship is about more than just 'starting a company'. Its about having a vision, and having the skills to implement it. Oh. And the vision has to be good - most aren't.
We need a poll!
Would you consider going self employed?
No, Never Yes, if I had 3 years living expenses in my personal account, and 2 years funding for the business Yes, if I had 1 and 1 Yes, but not right now Yes, now Already did No, but Id work for that cowboy guy
The finest titles I saw on business cards in the past couple of years:
Chief Entrepreneur Code Jockey (this guy was a grade-A twat) Architect (he just dropped the 'software' from it, coole enough guy, but so far up his own arse he could fart dandruff off his shoulder) The Man (this guy was boss of a smaller software start up. Didn't want to be MD, Boss, whatever - so 'the man' - again, cool enough but beleived the hype)
But yep - couldn't agree more - sensible titles all round please - why not just all be called 'coder'?
but somehow I expect populisation of this kind of technology to involve me being sent an awful lot of photos of shoes, skirts, and tops along with the single phrase "what do you think" or "does my bum look big in this".
Not quite as cool, but a much bigger service to mankind saving us from shopping trips with 'the lass' every weekend.
At least we'll have more than a TXT MSG to respond to - WHT CLR SKRT WT MY BLK SPRKLY TP TNT? PNK / BLK ?
Ed: Fuck! Readership is down, we're becoming irrelevent!!!
Guru: Write another list of top SciFi - wind em up and watch em go!
Ed: But thats so old hat!
Guru: NOT if we have a seemingly scientific rating system!
Ed: I think I've just come!
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There are a couple of clearcut cases.
1: Someone who takes photos which are 'pretty good' as a hobby. You make them freely available to stop Getty being the only source for 'pretty good' photography.
2: Someone who has made their money from a piece of work and wants to set it free before they die to stop their kids squabbling about how to milk it dry to pay for crack.
3: Hippies. We still exist! We don't ALL pray to the almighty dollar. Give it away, give it away, give it away now!
but other than that, no, no one in their right mind would give something away that had an earning potential if they needed the money - so I don't think this will be used too much by 'kids in the garage' or whatever. They'll just post it on whichever napster variant is in vogue right now to get 'discovered' in the hope they'll meet and shag Britney or whoever is in young chaps dreams right now.
NOOOO - the whole WORLD is a much better, and more fun, bet!
Relocation sounds sucky, especially if you have a lot of baggage - kids, wife, girlfriend, big teevee. But it's actually more likely to be a positive experience the FURTHER you travel. Just picture yourself on the porch in your slippers when your 80 telling the grandkids "When I was 30 I spent a year in Mumbai leading the development of some cutting edge prOn distribution software - you should have seen the chickens out there! tasty tasty!"
This is about LIFE, not WORK. Work to Live, not the other way round. If you REALLY HAVE TO HAVE a copy of the LOTR DVDs get a job flipping burgers. If you REALLY WANT SOME FUN IN LIFE relocate to any old place and drink it in!
Don't assume Africa is full of people unable to help themselves given the opportunity. What is missing in many regions is education, and information. The New Scientist has some interesting material in the last 4 issues concerning these matters - with innovative use of basic technologies such as Radio / street plays / print conveying information that can be used locally to improve quality of life greatly.
You don't need a cure to fight AIDS in most regions - you need education. FOr the past 20 years the majority of the developing world has been unaware that AIDS is sexually transmitted. Make this known, and you reduce infection rates. Simple. The questions changes from how do we cure AIDS, to how to we communicate the FACTS about AIDS.
Those are questions currently being dealt with by charity health workers - I reckon a random selection of guys in the pub could come up with better ideas (at least, NEW ideas which would be worth testing).
Does ANYONE on here set up Hotmail accounts using genuine information? I thought ALL Hotmail accounts, apart maybe from those set up by grannies, were using fake details.
How hard is it to find a zip code!
Would you ever knowingly provide Bill with your details?
Its clearly a cheap logo, but the idea I assume is to relate the work the company does to an environmental advantage.
The pick axe is a symbol of work, and a basic tool, every one needs one! It also has commie undertones which is good in these dull times.
The dolphin being a bit of a symbol of the environmental movement and also considered to be an intelligent creature - so this is showing us green AND intelligent credentials!
its all been drawn by a 2 year old using the gimp though, so it loses all cred. Had it been designed by anyone who has seen a GOOD logo in the past 20 years it could have been okay!
I remember the NeoGeo being up against the Sega MegaDrive (Genesis) in the old playground 'my console could have your console' battles. The Nintendo was for poofs and kids, the MegaDrive was mainstream, and the techie boys loved the NeoGeo to pieces.
Only the PCEngine was worth more street cred - but that was because you could actually get games for it! The NeoGeo games available in the UK went for at least £100, sometimes £250.
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You have to have SOME manner by which you charge customers differing rates based on their 'need' and their 'ability to pay'. The greater their need, and the greater their ability to pay the more you can charge.
;-)
Linux distros are cheap because there are loads of alternatives (lowering 'need' for your one) and the users are mainly cheapskates
Solaris on a low-end system indicates a low need, and/or low ability to pay so a lower licence is charged so that you 'at least make something out of them'.
The higher end systems indicate a greater need, greater ability to pay, and so these people should be milked dry!
Seriously - if they could charge by market value they would! Banks do.
Agree. This would take some pretty sophisticated management from all players - and probably force the minnows to spend a lot of time just bending over - but if it could be made to work would have great benefits.
It won't happen if these companies behave too traditionally - but it might if they think outside the normal parameters for a bit. A commonly funded core - surrounded by each company individually producing 'their own bits'.
Nah - not going to happen!
Try IKEA - get a trestle desk! Fully adjustable, cheap as chips (mine cost about 180 pounds with a sweet glass top) and they're environmentally sound!
It doesnt say 'computer desk' on it - but why should it?
Go for a wooden top and get out your jigsaw and you can create your own ergonomic curves to nestle under if you like.
Personally - I like to see my feet while I type!
To be sure, I don't want computers flagging people to be arrested.
I do. If some dick attacks me on Saturday night and is clocked by a security camera, then he's spotted in the Mall the next day I want the police to know about it.
On the other hand - when the UK becomes a complete police state (in about 6 months at the current rate) I DON'T want to have to cover my face going into a 'subversive' bookshop for fear of being arrested and questioned about my support for 'the way of Tony'.
Ah dillemmas - where would we in the rich west be without them.
Face Recognition or Feed People
Daddy or Chips
Daddy or Chips
Daddy or Chips
Chips!
I am enjoying this site more now I know its hosted in the Netherlands. Thish ish good yesh!
The various references to this show got me to thinking about games of old. And do you know what I want?
I want those old table video games in every pub in the world! Think of the joy of whipping you drinking mates at Mario Kart!
The sheer naked pleasure of 4 player bomberman while pished without the fear of getting guinness into your own carpet!
BINGO!
The big deal here is that they are putting restrictions on devices which have legitimate usage.
My car does 140mph, legally I can only do half that. No legislator would consider requiring all cars to be blocked from these speeds unless the road told the engine manager that this was a race track.
This is the same thing. I like knowing I can copy CDs - its nice. Most of the time I'm just copying my own stuff, work, photos, etc... all of which would become a pain in the ass with this type of blocking technology.
The most fascinating part is that all of these new technologies seem like they'll be available in the not too distant future
They always do!
They never ARE!
No, perhaps not. but it might give you a better insight to the type of traffic you need to alleviate - if its only on a saturday the problem may not be the roads, but the siting of an individual building - move it adn you solve the problem more cheaply. Sheer number of roads cannot allow 200,000 people to cross a bridge in 1.5 hours.
Much cheaper and more effective to relocate the venue.
If its busy all the time, then build an alternative route and you'll reduce traffic. I think this COULD be useful if done well.
One of the objectives of the original Sim City was to prove that a town / city COULD exist without a road network if enough rail links were available.
They claimed it did, but I recall even on old Sim City on an Atari ST it never panned out that way.
As to farms, if you establish low value commercial land ion large tracts with minimal road links you'll get farms. But they tend not to happen near the city because the land is too valuable. One of the things that makes sim city different, and fun, is the lack of immediacy. Things you did 20 minutes ago will be starting to pay off now, things you do now may never pay off - and you wont know for 20 minutes. brilliant.
Totally different from the 'I cut off you M***** F***ING FEET' style gameplay.
Traffic is always my bug-bear. If you create a large city at the side of a river, build one bridge, and place the cities only stadium alone on the other side of the bridge you get a busy bridge - but you don't get terminal gridlock when a game is played causing riots and a total drop in your ratings as mayor. You should.
Perhaps 'nightmode' hints at a move from focusing on macro-time to micro-time. Its Saturday at 3pm, the big game is about to start, but everyone is stuck on the bridge! People are SWIMMING to see the game! Its 20 below out there! Mayor DeFacto must DIE!!!!
this is fair enough if you have the guts for it. The problem is - by the time you take into account all the costs involved in running your new company you'll realise you can't really afford to have good customer service, provide secure ongoing employment in the lean times, and that finding good management caliber people willing to work for a sensible sum is impossible.
Entrepreneurship is about more than just 'starting a company'. Its about having a vision, and having the skills to implement it. Oh. And the vision has to be good - most aren't.
We need a poll!
Would you consider going self employed?
No, Never
Yes, if I had 3 years living expenses in my personal account, and 2 years funding for the business
Yes, if I had 1 and 1
Yes, but not right now
Yes, now
Already did
No, but Id work for that cowboy guy
The finest titles I saw on business cards in the past couple of years:
Chief Entrepreneur
Code Jockey (this guy was a grade-A twat)
Architect (he just dropped the 'software' from it, coole enough guy, but so far up his own arse he could fart dandruff off his shoulder)
The Man (this guy was boss of a smaller software start up. Didn't want to be MD, Boss, whatever - so 'the man' - again, cool enough but beleived the hype)
But yep - couldn't agree more - sensible titles all round please - why not just all be called 'coder'?
the English spelling is most certainly 'come', I assure you.
you yanks!
and while I'm at it, its ARSE, not ASS. ARSE!
Repeat after me - 'MY ARSE'
okay
come on
your not a chick are you!
not a 'proper' chick anyway!
but somehow I expect populisation of this kind of technology to involve me being sent an awful lot of photos of shoes, skirts, and tops along with the single phrase "what do you think" or "does my bum look big in this".
Not quite as cool, but a much bigger service to mankind saving us from shopping trips with 'the lass' every weekend.
At least we'll have more than a TXT MSG to respond to - WHT CLR SKRT WT MY BLK SPRKLY TP TNT? PNK / BLK ?
response WTFDIC
Ed: Fuck! Readership is down, we're becoming irrelevent!!!
Guru: Write another list of top SciFi - wind em up and watch em go!
Ed: But thats so old hat!
Guru: NOT if we have a seemingly scientific rating system!
Ed: I think I've just come!
There are a couple of clearcut cases.
1: Someone who takes photos which are 'pretty good' as a hobby. You make them freely available to stop Getty being the only source for 'pretty good' photography.
2: Someone who has made their money from a piece of work and wants to set it free before they die to stop their kids squabbling about how to milk it dry to pay for crack.
3: Hippies. We still exist! We don't ALL pray to the almighty dollar. Give it away, give it away, give it away now!
but other than that, no, no one in their right mind would give something away that had an earning potential if they needed the money - so I don't think this will be used too much by 'kids in the garage' or whatever. They'll just post it on whichever napster variant is in vogue right now to get 'discovered' in the hope they'll meet and shag Britney or whoever is in young chaps dreams right now.
Can you licence a riff?
they spend 4 years screwing around
What better advert for going to college is there?
If you cast your net wide - the whole US,
NOOOO - the whole WORLD is a much better, and more fun, bet!
Relocation sounds sucky, especially if you have a lot of baggage - kids, wife, girlfriend, big teevee. But it's actually more likely to be a positive experience the FURTHER you travel. Just picture yourself on the porch in your slippers when your 80 telling the grandkids "When I was 30 I spent a year in Mumbai leading the development of some cutting edge prOn distribution software - you should have seen the chickens out there! tasty tasty!"
This is about LIFE, not WORK. Work to Live, not the other way round. If you REALLY HAVE TO HAVE a copy of the LOTR DVDs get a job flipping burgers. If you REALLY WANT SOME FUN IN LIFE relocate to any old place and drink it in!
Germany is a HUGE laugh.
Don't underestimate people!
Don't assume Africa is full of people unable to help themselves given the opportunity. What is missing in many regions is education, and information. The New Scientist has some interesting material in the last 4 issues concerning these matters - with innovative use of basic technologies such as Radio / street plays / print conveying information that can be used locally to improve quality of life greatly.
You don't need a cure to fight AIDS in most regions - you need education. FOr the past 20 years the majority of the developing world has been unaware that AIDS is sexually transmitted. Make this known, and you reduce infection rates. Simple. The questions changes from how do we cure AIDS, to how to we communicate the FACTS about AIDS.
Those are questions currently being dealt with by charity health workers - I reckon a random selection of guys in the pub could come up with better ideas (at least, NEW ideas which would be worth testing).
This IS a great idea. I'd play!
Does ANYONE on here set up Hotmail accounts using genuine information? I thought ALL Hotmail accounts, apart maybe from those set up by grannies, were using fake details.
How hard is it to find a zip code!
Would you ever knowingly provide Bill with your details?
Its clearly a cheap logo, but the idea I assume is to relate the work the company does to an environmental advantage.
The pick axe is a symbol of work, and a basic tool, every one needs one! It also has commie undertones which is good in these dull times.
The dolphin being a bit of a symbol of the environmental movement and also considered to be an intelligent creature - so this is showing us green AND intelligent credentials!
its all been drawn by a 2 year old using the gimp though, so it loses all cred. Had it been designed by anyone who has seen a GOOD logo in the past 20 years it could have been okay!
I remember the NeoGeo being up against the Sega MegaDrive (Genesis) in the old playground 'my console could have your console' battles. The Nintendo was for poofs and kids, the MegaDrive was mainstream, and the techie boys loved the NeoGeo to pieces.
Only the PCEngine was worth more street cred - but that was because you could actually get games for it! The NeoGeo games available in the UK went for at least £100, sometimes £250.
Mmmmmmm.... Metal Sluuuuuug
With more detail!
And it was rejected - how so?
Every decent newspaper has this kind of 'twat columnist' who spouts shite to get the letters columns full every week.
Why slashdot has to have a'total twat column' is beyond me though - a plain vanilla 'twat column' would suffice!