Do a reverse opportunity cost (I'm not referring to that awful teen show to the dismay of some).
Picture yourself in the higher paying job (the.NET one).
Then think to yourself how much would you be willing to pay to have each of the advantages of the other job.
eg. If job B requires you to commute for 2 hrs a day, how much would you be willing to pay to have that be 1 hr instead? If job A is monotonous, how much would you be willing to pay for a job that challenges and inspires you on a regular basis?
Why pay for something when you can wait for others to pay for it first then get it for free?
eg. say 100,000 pay a dollar each for a new steven king novel to be made. instead of being one of those 100,000, i could just wait it out until it's release, then jack a copy off someone who did pay.
What I think will happen instead is that we'll just have to reduce the cost to produce a movie, tv or album.
People are quite willing to pay pennies for a song rather than go through the inconvenience of searching for a bootleg copy. The success of iTunes shows that.
The problem is that you can't make a profit off of 25 cents a song unless you sell it to an incredibly large number of people. Songs costs too much to produce.
What'll happen is that the various industries will look to a lower cost model. We're already seeing evidense of this on TV in reality shows. Honestly, how much does it cost to produce an episode of American Idol? And with digital media making it cheaper and cheaper to record high quality media, the "low cost" model will inevitably become the first choice model. Permalink
Integrate IE with the windows explorer properly already. As in: allow me the ability to open a bunch of windows within explorer... and have other pages within a site appear as "subfolders" (like the "history")... also the ability to save them as "mapped" favourites...
In other words: make the web one massive "hard drive" for me.
I think what he's saying is that good sci fi isn't about formulaic writing. You can't write a good sci fi book twice. Fantasy, on the other hand, can be written over and over again, eddinglessly.
Star Trek, in every incarnation, never went anywhere. Even Voyageur, a ship in perpetual linear motion, seemed to encounter the same obstacles and came up with the same solutions every episode.
Great sci fi is "battlestar galactica", where characters have motives which evolve with each episode. Great sci fi is Lost as the mystery is revealed bit by bit. It progresses. Trek... stagnated. Exploration and discovery should be as much an inward mission as a galactical one.
Having played Ultima Online, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot and now World of Warcraft, it is my opinion that there's a tremendous amount of innovation in MMORPGs.
Yes, they're all based on the tried and true fantasy RPG theme. But once you start looking at how they've gotten these worlds to come to life, its amazing how much advancement in gameplay has been forwarded.
I think we're gonna see an increase in product placements...
Grissom'll be analysing forensic evidense when suddenly he'll look at the camera and say "i love bugs, but that doesn't mean i like getting bitten by them. get raid!".
by this theory, since viruses are a product of reverse engineering themselves, it'll make security tighter as well...
so, in effect, the last reverse engineerer will be winning the reverse engineering war... an endless battle of one-upmanship until it all ends in a cosmic apocalypse...
If IP is not property, then howcome I have to pay to read the darn essay?
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_ id =582602
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Her solution? Rather than keep up what she sees as an exhausting charade, people who dislike what they do should, as she puts it, discreetly disengage. If done correctly -- and her book gives a few tips, such as looking busy by always carrying a stack of files -- few co-workers will notice, and those who do will be too worried about rocking the boat to complain. Given the difficulty of firing employees, she says, frustrated superiors are more likely to move such subversive workers up than out. ...pffft! "carrying a stack of files"? they're even slacking at slacking! for looking busy, nothing beats typing furiously in front of a computer. hence: slashdot.
You're sony and you have the facilities to make a bunch of consoles, but the market is getting saturated with your product and the next generation is several years away, so what do you do?
You try to squeeze in every possible extra customer onto your platform by offerring more features as incentinves.
Adding a DVD burner + TiVo and pricing your PS2 at $1000 was just the wrong way to go about it...
Now a PS2 with virtual sex toy attachments would be another matter...
The recent crop of stories mostly take the form of fantasy (elves and wizards), alternate history (what if the Black Death had been deadlier?) and space operas about interstellar civilizations in the year 12,000 (which typically gloss over how those civilizations evolved from ours). Only a small cadre of technoprophets is attempting to extrapolate current trends and imagine what our world might look like in the next few decades. "We're staring into a fogbank," Stross says, "and we literally do not know where we're going, only that we're going there very fast."
having read a few modern sci-fi authors, i'm not sure i agree with the above statement...? having read gibson, stephonson, and others of the "cyberpunk" genre... and having read sawyer, kim stanley robinson, etc... i can't help but wonder if the author of the article even reads sci-fi novels.
tons of good near-future writers out there that base their stories in worlds with a strong understanding of modern science...
...by Lewis Caroll convinced me long ago that kids who could read 100 years ago were of greater literary ability than kids today. I'm an accomplish 32 year old fantasy reader, and the darn book is difficult even for me to get through!
So, looking at the Lord of The Rings trilogy, I can sorta see the validity of criticizing it a children's book.
Of course, yesteryear's children's books are easily great classics among the present days much more easily digested fare.
Our cultures are so intertwined that Canada's practically an American state.
We watch the same tv and movies, read the same book and magazines, and, judging by the several Canadian responses to this topic, browse the same sites as well...
It looked like a crappy 20th century machine gun. What was a thing like that doing on the Oberon?
Do you really think a planet could be terraformed in 2029???
The planet had to be Earth waaaaay into the future. Like maybe 4029 or later. The gun had to be an antique.
That explains the horses, too.
And Thade had to have found a way to get back in time to start an ape revolution.
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Do a reverse opportunity cost (I'm not referring to that awful teen show to the dismay of some).
.NET one).
Picture yourself in the higher paying job (the
Then think to yourself how much would you be willing to pay to have each of the advantages of the other job.
eg. If job B requires you to commute for 2 hrs a day, how much would you be willing to pay to have that be 1 hr instead? If job A is monotonous, how much would you be willing to pay for a job that challenges and inspires you on a regular basis?
REALLY really interesting idea.
Unfortunately, it won't happen.
Why pay for something when you can wait for others to pay for it first then get it for free?
eg. say 100,000 pay a dollar each for a new steven king novel to be made. instead of being one of those 100,000, i could just wait it out until it's release, then jack a copy off someone who did pay.
What I think will happen instead is that we'll just have to reduce the cost to produce a movie, tv or album.
People are quite willing to pay pennies for a song rather than go through the inconvenience of searching for a bootleg copy. The success of iTunes shows that.
The problem is that you can't make a profit off of 25 cents a song unless you sell it to an incredibly large number of people. Songs costs too much to produce.
What'll happen is that the various industries will look to a lower cost model. We're already seeing evidense of this on TV in reality shows. Honestly, how much does it cost to produce an episode of American Idol? And with digital media making it cheaper and cheaper to record high quality media, the "low cost" model will inevitably become the first choice model.
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Integrate IE with the windows explorer properly already. As in: allow me the ability to open a bunch of windows within explorer... and have other pages within a site appear as "subfolders" (like the "history")... also the ability to save them as "mapped" favourites...
In other words: make the web one massive "hard drive" for me.
I think what he's saying is that good sci fi isn't about formulaic writing. You can't write a good sci fi book twice. Fantasy, on the other hand, can be written over and over again, eddinglessly.
Star Trek, in every incarnation, never went anywhere. Even Voyageur, a ship in perpetual linear motion, seemed to encounter the same obstacles and came up with the same solutions every episode.
Great sci fi is "battlestar galactica", where characters have motives which evolve with each episode. Great sci fi is Lost as the mystery is revealed bit by bit. It progresses. Trek... stagnated. Exploration and discovery should be as much an inward mission as a galactical one.
RIP Trek. Long live Sci-Fi.
Having played Ultima Online, Asheron's Call, Dark Age of Camelot and now World of Warcraft, it is my opinion that there's a tremendous amount of innovation in MMORPGs.
Yes, they're all based on the tried and true fantasy RPG theme. But once you start looking at how they've gotten these worlds to come to life, its amazing how much advancement in gameplay has been forwarded.
These games are here to stay, folks.
Now thieves can argue that they were just trying to steal a pizza if they get caught...
I think we're gonna see an increase in product placements...
Grissom'll be analysing forensic evidense when suddenly he'll look at the camera and say "i love bugs, but that doesn't mean i like getting bitten by them. get raid!".
Now if only they would outsource IT jobs to Bali, I'd be jumping on a plane...
Its the prosecuter's job to outline exactly how much evidense is required in order to convict, isn't it? Besides... CSI rarely goes to court...
by this theory, since viruses are a product of reverse engineering themselves, it'll make security tighter as well...
so, in effect, the last reverse engineerer will be winning the reverse engineering war... an endless battle of one-upmanship until it all ends in a cosmic apocalypse...
Spielberg's movie having ten times the budget for special effects, making Hines movie look like a made-for-TV special = Hines pwn3d!
Okay, maybe not. But it'll make an interesting contrast...
They're basically saying: become a premium customer or else you'll be vulnerable to our security holes.
What's to stop MS from covertly leaking their vulnerabilities leaving the rest of us wide open?
If IP is not property, then howcome I have to pay to read the darn essay?
_ id =582602
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract
Her solution? Rather than keep up what she sees as an exhausting charade, people who dislike what they do should, as she puts it, discreetly disengage. If done correctly -- and her book gives a few tips, such as looking busy by always carrying a stack of files -- few co-workers will notice, and those who do will be too worried about rocking the boat to complain. Given the difficulty of firing employees, she says, frustrated superiors are more likely to move such subversive workers up than out.
...pffft! "carrying a stack of files"? they're even slacking at slacking! for looking busy, nothing beats typing furiously in front of a computer. hence: slashdot.
You're sony and you have the facilities to make a bunch of consoles, but the market is getting saturated with your product and the next generation is several years away, so what do you do?
You try to squeeze in every possible extra customer onto your platform by offerring more features as incentinves.
Adding a DVD burner + TiVo and pricing your PS2 at $1000 was just the wrong way to go about it...
Now a PS2 with virtual sex toy attachments would be another matter...
having read a few modern sci-fi authors, i'm not sure i agree with the above statement...? having read gibson, stephonson, and others of the "cyberpunk" genre... and having read sawyer, kim stanley robinson, etc... i can't help but wonder if the author of the article even reads sci-fi novels.
tons of good near-future writers out there that base their stories in worlds with a strong understanding of modern science...
Kirk witnessing Enterprise crew after timetravel: "Wow, Spock, your mom's a MILF!"
...by Lewis Caroll convinced me long ago that kids who could read 100 years ago were of greater literary ability than kids today. I'm an accomplish 32 year old fantasy reader, and the darn book is difficult even for me to get through!
So, looking at the Lord of The Rings trilogy, I can sorta see the validity of criticizing it a children's book.
Of course, yesteryear's children's books are easily great classics among the present days much more easily digested fare.
MS Linux bundled with a compatible MS Office makes more sense...
Anybody remember that Sliders episode (Eggheads) where Quinn ended up in a world where intellectualism is the main sport?
I think it articulates the argument perfectly: a sport is a sport when enough people agree that its a sport.
A sport is an olympic sport if the IOC agrees that its a sport.
The definitions are always arbitrary.
Our cultures are so intertwined that Canada's practically an American state.
We watch the same tv and movies, read the same book and magazines, and, judging by the several Canadian responses to this topic, browse the same sites as well...
They're not so xenophobic about foreign products as you seem to imply. They're just really picky about quality.
Hence: BMW, Mercedes, Prada, Gucci, Channel, Louis Vuitton, etc. do really well there. (ok, maybe its more about status than quality, but still)
Sorry, but the Ford that keeps stalling or needs upteen recalls just doesn't cut it...
It looked like a crappy 20th century machine gun. What was a thing like that doing on the Oberon? Do you really think a planet could be terraformed in 2029??? The planet had to be Earth waaaaay into the future. Like maybe 4029 or later. The gun had to be an antique. That explains the horses, too. And Thade had to have found a way to get back in time to start an ape revolution.