AOL never really had an application platform. Merely a content platform.
I contend that its much easier to switch from one content platform to the other (eg: from AOL or compuserver to WWW) than to switch from on application platform to the other (eg: windows to MacOS)
... when they say all this nuke stuff are just for electricity ?
"Sure, we get nukes from North Korea, but come on, they are so bad they are only good for generating electricity, just like the Americans do with the Soviet nukes!"
Because some people think its fun. And that they can learn things from it. Some people think learning is fun.
In the past, I've used an old 386 laptop to run my own bootloader that would go in protected mode... that was 10 years ago though, and I didnt have a job or a family...
Now I would rather do something else, but it still fun for some people...
Unfortunately, somewhere between now and when I was a kid...people stopped buying good home audio systems. I don't quite know what or what happened.
Maybe they didnt enjoy it.
Why do you think people enjoy music and songs ? Most likely, not because its reproduced faithfully, or because they care about the nuances.
Almost nobody cares about the nuances, they like beats and bass or dancy tunes, gansta lyrics or love stories, stuff that is accessible and they can relate to.
Sure, some people care about that little uptick from the violin on the 3rd measure of the 6th symphony of whoever that you can only hear with an hi-fi system in a quiet room. But most people just listen to music to either give them some energy for their workout, have fun at parties or concert, or drone the sounds of their miserable commutes, dreary jog run or boring life.
Same reasons people eat fast food instead of fine cuisine I guess.
I think he meant you pay taxes once you get a job... But obviously if you are defaulting on a student loan, you are probably not paying much taxes either...
Okay, I read Beowulf, translated, and frankly I dont know what the story is about. And frankly I only did it because I'm a geek...
This is for high school students, and I would think Beowulf would be the best way to scare everybody away. Its way too hard... unless we are talking about the movie script...
For a college level class, sure, but high school ? A mention about it sure (to show that fantasy is not a recent genra) but a mandatory read, no thank you.
I'm curious though, do you feel like you learned anything ? Or was it just fun and interesting and made it a welcome break compared to the rest of your high school experience ?
I mostly read scifi and/or fantasy because I find it entertaining and interesting, not really to learn the political, sociological or philosophical lessons that might result...
I enjoyed King and Stephenson as much as Bradury or Vonnegut...
Thats totally non true. The main function of iTunes is to organize your music and buy music/videos from the store.
They have plenty of competitors both in terms of the hardware and music store.
Yet they take express measure to make sure that hardware competitors cannot access their music store in a easy way.
If iTunes somehow prevented you from using your third party music player at all
They purposedly disabled a feature of the palm pre that enable the palm pre to work with the dominant music store. You dont need to prevent then to work "at all" to be abusing your position. Disabling a feature is probably enough to qualify.
Providing, for zero cost, to anybody in the world, software designed to manage the music on music players manufactured by Apple that also has significant additional functionality that does not require you to purchase their hardware is NOT anticompetitive.
You realize that the main reason they provide the iTunes Software for zero cost, is that they intend to make money on the music you buy from the store ? And you do realize that there are no easy way to transfer music or videos from iTunes to any other devices than an Apple one ?
Well, you could argue that Apple is using its monopoly on the music store side (iTunes) to push its hardware (ipods and iphone). ( Not that I believe you will be succesful in arguing this position, but I think that would be the premise here)
Zune software wont sync your ipod, but Apple does not even try to make their iPod works with it, and Microsoft did not do anything to prohibit apple from doing so, whereas Palm really tried to make it work, and Apply really did something to prohibit it. So your comparison is moot.
There is a big difference i think between: 1- NOT implementing something to make it work 2- implementing something to make it NOT work
Erm, that's subjective, it depends on your intuition. I picked up using Windows far quicker and easier than other OSs, it instantly made a lot more sense to me (the more minimal interfaces of 95/98/2000/2003, not so much vista/7 which I find moves the rug beneith your feet too much). I find OSX the least intuitive of GUIs I've used (excluding some of the lesser known Unix/X interfaces).
Well, your methodology to test your intuition is probably flawed. I dont think its possible to conclusively test what your intuition would be on one given person.
Because, as soon as you start using a computer, you stop "intuiting" and start learning. And when you switch to another OS, you cant "intuit" right away, first you need to "unlearn" which is painful.
If you first started on MacOS, then switched to windows, and found windows more intuitive, then your result is valid, otherwise your result is tainted and you cant say for sure if the fact that you found MacOS less intuitive is because its inherently less intuitive or because you were partly conditioned by using windows.
For my own case, I would say there is nothing intuitive about any of them... you have to learn for all of them. Some might be easier to learn for an individual for some reasons that are specific to the individual or specific to the OS.
Car analogy: all car makers seem to have different layout of their reverse gear in stick shifts. We can't rip out all stick shifts, we cannot standardize, because people who've always driven a particular will lament for weeks when something changed. So we have a status quo for decades which nobody quite wants to change.
Well, cars also have different lights controls, wiper controls, radio controls, gas trap side, instrument cluster layouts, etc... Yet I dont think that most people think of those features, or the position of the rear gear, as critical when purchasing a car.
So, bad car analogy. (even though the rest of your comment makes sense)
As long as the pedals and the steering wheels are in the same position everything else pretty much goes, everybody can still use the car.
the forcing of people to purchase certain bundles by financial incentive (such as being cheaper for internet + cable than naked internet - aka comcast again).
Does Bundling has anything to do with net neutrality ?
The playkey, unlike the title folder, can't be copied
Says who ?
This does not seem any different from any current system. Its all about protecting the content key in some way. Thats always where it fails at some point.
Actually, you could write in the license a definition for Derivative Work.
As the copyright holder of a program, you are the one who decide how it can be used when you license it. And when you are going to sue somebody over a GPL violation, you are going to have to explain why you think the other guys app is a derivative work, so you better make up your mind.
For example, Linus made up his mind that binary modules were not a violation so he is not going to sue you for it. But some other kernel copyright holder might think that it is, so they might sue you.
I mean, I would call this a stunt if the DJ did indeed acknowledge it, and said that he has no condition.
But as of now, this article is just another opinion from a journalist that the the condition is BS, and might indeed have been used as a way to promote an album.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong to promote an album based on what one believes. If the DJ really believes that he is electro-sensitive, then it makes perfect sense for him to promote an album called "electro-sensitive" by talking about his "disease" (even if everybody knows that the disease is only in his head).
What's more scary is not that its used as a PR tool, but the fact that the media was so gullible to just pass it along....
This just seem like a misunderstanding, what they really need is to talk it over a beer. President Obama is already busy with its own beers tomorrow, so we need to find another host... any volunteer ?
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Men seem to be more willing to work silly hours for pizza than women.
I really think it would be the other way around:
Men would be more willing to work silly hours for women than pizza...
AOL never really had an application platform. Merely a content platform.
I contend that its much easier to switch from one content platform to the other (eg: from AOL or compuserver to WWW) than to switch from on application platform to the other (eg: windows to MacOS)
We've got to fail before we can learn the lessons.
So far there are not enough projects in the clouds to fail and learn from.
So yes a lot of people is going in the cloud and they will see whats there... Many will fail, the one that dont maybe awesomely rewarded (or not)
Nobody forced anybody to buy anything.... Unless you claim Steve Jobs has psychic powers that forced you to buy iPhones....
I'm actually amazed that you could shoot a bullet at a drive, and the drive would not shatter in 100 pieces...
... when they say all this nuke stuff are just for electricity ?
"Sure, we get nukes from North Korea, but come on, they are so bad they are only good for generating electricity, just like the Americans do with the Soviet nukes!"
I only agree 70%.
Because some people think its fun.
And that they can learn things from it.
Some people think learning is fun.
In the past, I've used an old 386 laptop to run my own bootloader that would go in protected mode... that was 10 years ago though, and I didnt have a job or a family...
Now I would rather do something else, but it still fun for some people...
Unfortunately, somewhere between now and when I was a kid...people stopped buying good home audio systems. I don't quite know what or what happened.
Maybe they didnt enjoy it.
Why do you think people enjoy music and songs ? Most likely, not because its reproduced faithfully, or because they care about the nuances.
Almost nobody cares about the nuances, they like beats and bass or dancy tunes, gansta lyrics or love stories, stuff that is accessible and they can relate to.
Sure, some people care about that little uptick from the violin on the 3rd measure of the 6th symphony of whoever that you can only hear with an hi-fi system in a quiet room. But most people just listen to music to either give them some energy for their workout, have fun at parties or concert, or drone the sounds of their miserable commutes, dreary jog run or boring life.
Same reasons people eat fast food instead of fine cuisine I guess.
I think he meant you pay taxes once you get a job... But obviously if you are defaulting on a student loan, you are probably not paying much taxes either...
So what are you waiting for to blow the whistle ?
There should be plenty of journalists, or congressmen wanting to investigate this.
Have them read Beowulf.
In the Old English version of course!
Okay, I read Beowulf, translated, and frankly I dont know what the story is about. And frankly I only did it because I'm a geek...
This is for high school students, and I would think Beowulf would be the best way to scare everybody away. Its way too hard... unless we are talking about the movie script...
For a college level class, sure, but high school ? A mention about it sure (to show that fantasy is not a recent genra) but a mandatory read, no thank you.
I'm curious though, do you feel like you learned anything ? Or was it just fun and interesting and made it a welcome break compared to the rest of your high school experience ?
I mostly read scifi and/or fantasy because I find it entertaining and interesting, not really to learn the political, sociological or philosophical lessons that might result...
I enjoyed King and Stephenson as much as Bradury or Vonnegut...
iTunes is there to manage the iPod and iPhone.
Thats totally non true. The main function of iTunes is to organize your music and buy music/videos from the store.
They have plenty of competitors both in terms of the hardware and music store.
Yet they take express measure to make sure that hardware competitors cannot access their music store in a easy way.
If iTunes somehow prevented you from using your third party music player at all
They purposedly disabled a feature of the palm pre that enable the palm pre to work with the dominant music store. You dont need to prevent then to work "at all" to be abusing your position. Disabling a feature is probably enough to qualify.
Providing, for zero cost, to anybody in the world, software designed to manage the music on music players manufactured by Apple that also has significant additional functionality that does not require you to purchase their hardware is NOT anticompetitive.
You realize that the main reason they provide the iTunes Software for zero cost, is that they intend to make money on the music you buy from the store ?
And you do realize that there are no easy way to transfer music or videos from iTunes to any other devices than an Apple one ?
Well, you could argue that Apple is using its monopoly on the music store side (iTunes) to push its hardware (ipods and iphone). ( Not that I believe you will be succesful in arguing this position, but I think that would be the premise here)
Zune software wont sync your ipod, but Apple does not even try to make their iPod works with it, and Microsoft did not do anything to prohibit apple from doing so, whereas Palm really tried to make it work, and Apply really did something to prohibit it. So your comparison is moot.
There is a big difference i think between:
1- NOT implementing something to make it work
2- implementing something to make it NOT work
"Windows has not intuitiveness"
Erm, that's subjective, it depends on your intuition. I picked up using Windows far quicker and easier than other OSs, it instantly made a lot more sense to me (the more minimal interfaces of 95/98/2000/2003, not so much vista/7 which I find moves the rug beneith your feet too much). I find OSX the least intuitive of GUIs I've used (excluding some of the lesser known Unix/X interfaces).
Well, your methodology to test your intuition is probably flawed. I dont think its possible to conclusively test what your intuition would be on one given person.
Because, as soon as you start using a computer, you stop "intuiting" and start learning. And when you switch to another OS, you cant "intuit" right away, first you need to "unlearn" which is painful.
If you first started on MacOS, then switched to windows, and found windows more intuitive, then your result is valid, otherwise your result is tainted and you cant say for sure if the fact that you found MacOS less intuitive is because its inherently less intuitive or because you were partly conditioned by using windows.
For my own case, I would say there is nothing intuitive about any of them... you have to learn for all of them. Some might be easier to learn for an individual for some reasons that are specific to the individual or specific to the OS.
Car analogy: all car makers seem to have different layout of their reverse gear in stick shifts. We can't rip out all stick shifts, we cannot standardize, because people who've always driven a particular will lament for weeks when something changed. So we have a status quo for decades which nobody quite wants to change.
Well, cars also have different lights controls, wiper controls, radio controls, gas trap side, instrument cluster layouts, etc... Yet I dont think that most people think of those features, or the position of the rear gear, as critical when purchasing a car.
So, bad car analogy. (even though the rest of your comment makes sense)
As long as the pedals and the steering wheels are in the same position everything else pretty much goes, everybody can still use the car.
If it really think like a human, the main feature will be to automatically upload videos of people having sex in elevators on the web.
the forcing of people to purchase certain bundles by financial incentive (such as being cheaper for internet + cable than naked internet - aka comcast again).
Does Bundling has anything to do with net neutrality ?
No.
The script and the voice for the long version sounds like an infomercial for the latest "get rich quick" or "how to beat the system" scams..
"It's time for the secret to be told" .... yuk.... makes me want to puke.
The only thing missing is the fine print that you usually see on those infomercial, eg: "Individual results may vary, result shown are not typical"
Without this kind of disclaimer, this is borderline false advertising "This is as easy as clicking a mouse!" (yeah, right...)
Quoting the Article:
The playkey, unlike the title folder, can't be copied
Says who ?
This does not seem any different from any current system. Its all about protecting the content key in some way. Thats always where it fails at some point.
The last 3 guys I interviewed were recently laid off (the economy is bad did you hear?) and would have gladly taken a 10% pay cut ....
Actually, you could write in the license a definition for Derivative Work.
As the copyright holder of a program, you are the one who decide how it can be used when you license it.
And when you are going to sue somebody over a GPL violation, you are going to have to explain why you think the other guys app is a derivative work, so you better make up your mind.
For example, Linus made up his mind that binary modules were not a violation so he is not going to sue you for it. But some other kernel copyright holder might think that it is, so they might sue you.
I mean, I would call this a stunt if the DJ did indeed acknowledge it, and said that he has no condition.
But as of now, this article is just another opinion from a journalist that the the condition is BS, and might indeed have been used as a way to promote an album.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong to promote an album based on what one believes. If the DJ really believes that he is electro-sensitive, then it makes perfect sense for him to promote an album called "electro-sensitive" by talking about his "disease" (even if everybody knows that the disease is only in his head).
What's more scary is not that its used as a PR tool, but the fact that the media was so gullible to just pass it along....
This just seem like a misunderstanding, what they really need is to talk it over a beer. President Obama is already busy with its own beers tomorrow, so we need to find another host ... any volunteer ?
Theo ? ...
RMS ?
Eric Raymond ?