Generally things go faster as they get smaller. At the nano-level, I suspect that the the difference between "solid state" and "mechanical" blurs a bit.
As for the speed thing, different storage types have different merits. A great deal of information is accessed rarely. Look at the newspaper. Today's edition will be read by several hundred thousand people...the service delivering this page needs to be fast.
The archives of yesterday's news has a different dynamic. The June 7th, 1981 sports section might be accessed once or twice per year. The indexing device for the archived paper still needs to be fast...the data itself needs to be on a slower, reliable media.
The true art in computer design isn't just having the fastest components, but having the components matched to their tasks.
It seems to me that there needs to be a few events that involve physical people meeting other physical people. Having just another a cyber event de-emphasizes any human aspect of the net.
I still see patriotism as a positive value. The patriot is someone who will act to preserve the community, the patriot is willing to go to the wall for ideas higher than themselves...but as the definition gets skewed by short sighted politicians, it turns from true patriotism to nationalism...it turns from a virtue to a disease.
True patriotism involves a balance. The true patriot not only loves one's country, but wants to do what is right for it. For example, there were true patriots in the Iraq army who chose to lay down their weapons because they felt it was better for their country to end the war quickly, just as there were true Iraqi patriots who fought to the bitter end.
The current administrations tact of twisting the word patriotism to justify any end will turn a virtue into a vice.
This is the essence of the Greek Tragedy. The tragic flaw is a virtue that, when taken to the nth degree, leads to the downfall of the tragic hero.
The funny thing is that conservatives understand this principle when applied to charity. They understand that excessive charity of the government leads to a welfare state. It is odd that they do not know that the same rule applies to their own virtues.
The Name CCCC is just a ruse to throw people off on the real organization behind the meeting. Notice the 4 letters...Yep, this is a front for KAOS. It is held in Germany at the bequest of KAOS mastermind Conrad Siegfried.
and we all know, the only way to counter KAOS is through CONTROL. It is time to reactive Agent 86 and 99.
This should only be said under the cone of silence, but I think Agent 13 will be happy to end his stint as a Saddam double.
Patriotism is an act that people take in loyalty to their government. For example, joining the National Guard is a patriotic act. Dictionary.com gives the definition for patriotism as:
Love of and devotion to one's country.
Patriotism is an attitude of the individual to the country. Patriotism does not come from the government to the people.
The fact that some many things are coming out of the current administration with the label "patriot" is extremely disconcerting. The consistent redefinition of terms is the hallmark of dictatorship.
Regardless of the merits of the act, the fact that it is mislabeled is cause for concern.
The same is true with the mislabeling of 9/11 as "Patriot Day". The day had nothing to do with American patriotism. The people who died in the terrorist bombing were not acting patriotically. They were being acted on.
Just looking at the definition...the closest thing we have to patriotism on 9/11 is that the fanatics who took over the airplanes held the belief that they were killing Americans for their country and for Islam. Ignoring our own feelings and looking at the words we see that the terrorists killing Americans is closer to the true definition of the word "patriot" than the non action of the victims.
Misusing terms is always a grave cause for concern.
I am not dissing true patriotism. We owe our freedom to people who took the patriotic step to defend freedom. In fact, I would say the misusing of the term is an affront to the true patriot. It dillutes the sacrafices made by American patriots.
Thanks to Seth Godin, spammers had a year or two where they could claim legitimacy by including an unsubscribe button at the end of the message (the popup that you put on the unsubscribe page often pays for the spam.)
Now that people know the unsubscribe button is a ruse, it no longer buys legitimacy. Making a big national unsubscribe service that is trusted will give the email marketers another year or two of legitimacy.
The funny thing. Spammers themselves tend to hate spam. I should say, they hate the spam sent by competing spam shops. The competing spam dilutes the audience. They especially hate new spam shops. As a result, most would agree to proposals that reduce the over amount of spam...so long as they don't lose their share of the market.
I wouldn't be surprised to see existing spam shops try and form mechanisms that reduced spam, and closed the market to new comers. It would buy legitimacy and preserve their share of the market at a reduced cost.
Of course, the emarketers are in a tight situation...they know the other people in the group are emarketers looking for any advantage and that they cannot be trusted.
It actually shows that web sites need to be aware of the way search engines work, and to block pages that they don't want the engines to crawl. It is always best to include a robots.txt with:
As I understand, zoning laws pretty much concern the amount of traffic you have through the house, and any impact you are making on the characteristics of the area.
How many employees will you have and how many clients will be coming through the house. If the answer is "not many" then there is probably not a zoning issue.
The main thing you will want to is to make sure you have a corner of your house (den, etc..) dedicated to the business and nothing but the business, so that you can get the home office deduction on your taxes.
Of course, for once, we'll see the Slashdot Effect put to good use.:-)
Judging from the volume of mail received from these clowns...they probably have bandwidth availability that would make Google Jealous. The slashdot effect wouldn't even be a blip.
I did not elaborate on the relationships between supply, demand, and cost because this information is readily available for anyone who would take the time to look it up.
Let's see. In a free market, when supply exceeds demand...prices drop. The price drop either reduces supply or increase demand. Often a little bit of both. In either case you end up with a different price level.
In the music industry, the CDs available on the market stripped demand. But prices did not drop.
That fact that prices are not fluctuating the way prices fluctuate in the free market tells us that that we are not looking at a free market. There are anti market forces at work in the music industry.
Guess what? we pull back the curtain and see the price of CDs are not controlled by the free market but by extremely rich and powerful cartels.
Economic texts talk about cartels, monopolies, socialistic republics, dictators and other failed economic systems.
What happens: These oppressive regimes usually get out whack, spin out of control and impovrishing every one.
Looking at economic history, we see that when the economy is controlled by monopolies and cartels, there generally is a great deal of poverty and misery.
In such systems, the over all GDP of the society stagnates while the gap between rich and poor widens....Gosh...that describes the music industry.
Looking at the history of cartels: we see that, as the cartel matures and the pricing structure gets out of whack with production and distribution costs, black markets form to get around the cartel.
The music pirates fall right in line with history. The pirates are the natural result of the cartel. They show that the industry is out of line with the economy at large. There are no black marketeers in a truly open and free market.
I called your little snippet arrogant because what you said was so far out of whack with economics theory and history as to be laughable. The fact that the industry is not behaving like a free market shows that unnatural forces are at work...a cartel and that actual prices are artificial. That is all supply and demand curves tell us.
In a free market, when production and distribution costs fall, companies will increase production increasing supply. In this saturated market, companies will try to under cut their competition by decreasing prices, and you end up with new price levels.
Price and demand curves do not say that a dollar CD is untenable. All we know is that prices so out of line with the economy that a burgeoning black market has formed. The size and scope of the market seems to indicate that prices are perhaps ten to twenty times higher than they would be in a free market.
The public has a right to complain when a powerful cartel enacts anti competitive policies that create falses economy that artificially enriches one group of people. Especially when that group is demanding special treatment from the government.
The result of the present chaos is entirely the result of anti market activities of the music industry. They had been using anti market tactics to maintain artificial prices, and and now bear the burden of their actions. End of story.
If one doesn't agree with their business practices, then they shouldn't buy their products
Which is exactly what people are doing and should continue to do. This is why so many people have turned away from the music industry to the black market.
and nobody has any right to force ethical values on someone else.
People have every right to debate laws that are being enacted by governments. That is the basis of a free open society.
No one knows what the price of a CD should be because the price has been artificial for too long. All we know is that yet another chapter of history shows that cartels are bad for the economy. The collapse of the music industry should simply be labeled example 129,873 in the bad effects of cartels. We shouldn't be trying to save the cartel with legislation.
Won't work... sorry. An explanation why would require a detailed explanation on the relationships and interplay between supply, demand, manufacturing costs (including wages), and retail price.
You are correct in saying that, if the price of CDs were left up to the free market, they wouldn't cost exactly a dollar. Prices fluctuate in the market.
However, your arrogant little implication that the free market can't work because you have some some hidden knowledge of price demand curves is plane idiocacy.
The cartels within the music industry have created a pricing structure for their product which is why out of alignment with the economy. The end result is that a large underground economy formed to subvert the pricing system of the cartel.
That is how societies work. When a cartel forms and subverts the natural pricing structure of the economy...the society forms an underground economy that subverts the pricing strategy of the cartels.
Central planning has never worked. It never will. Even when the leaders of the cartel draw price demand curves on a black board and can recite Marx's Das Capital backwards.
The world has a long history of arrogant snits saying that the freedom is untenable...Countless jerks like you have demanded cartels, monopolies, oppression of people even genocide based on chalkboard calculations and dialectical rubbish...Time and time again, their calculation have proven to do nothing except cause misery.
Sounds like an interesting read...Since I am morally opposed to paying book publishers...I was wondering if anyone knew where I could download a PDF copy of the book?
The saturated market is also a good point. Prices drop after saturating the market. So we aren't even just looking at technical issues.
I think the computer industry should demand special treatment from the courts...computers used to sell for well over $2000 a piece. Now now can pick up better computers for $500.
Somebody is STEALING $1500 for each computer purchase!!!!!!
Even worse, computer programmers used to be able to pick up contracts for $100+ an hour. Now it is tough to get a $40 job doing the same work. That is $60 an hour that SOMEONE IS STEALING!!!!!!! They are stealing it, I tell you.
Not to mention the thieves who stole all of the profits out of the buggy whip industry. It is theivery I tell you, out right theivery!
Pointing at people and calling them all theives because prices fluctuate in a free market is kind of cathartic. Where can I get an application for the RIAA? I am pretty good at this name calling.
==========
BTW What's this noise about antiquities? Try pumping an antiquity in your Surburban and see where it gets you.
I am not sure. I played a mpeg last week that I downloaded from KaZaA. The file had some really kewl content beginning with:
"Jim, your mission is..."
It had some junk about some museum in a place like Baghdad. It had something about saving humanity...it showed me dossiers of international incriminals and other kewl stuff...like it was going to be a really fun spy movie.
Then suddenly, my entire laptop fizzled on me. It was really freaky, the MPEG had all of these instructions on how to save the antiquities of the world.
But, it sounded impossible to me, so I didn't do anything.
One would almost think market economies would tend to lower the price of items as distribution costs fall. Last time I looked, the cost of CDs were rising. (That was a while ago...because I never even bother looking at CDs any more.)
The pirating is just a side show. The real problem is that distribution and production costs have fallen through the floor and the industry has not responded to the market dynamics. Instead they cling to copyright laws and monopolistic tactics to maintain artificially inflated costs of their goods.
If you really asked the musicians...most would love the idea of a dollar CD. A dime a song.
The CRIA's complaint is that someone is robbing the plunder house.
BTW What's this noise about antiquities? Try pumping an antiquity in your Surburban and see where it gets you.
I am actually confused by the article. An "ID card" pretty much just carries data...not a full programming environment. Sounds more like business name branding.
The important part of an id card is the interface and how you access and change the information. Such an interface is first and foremost a hardware interface. Trying to say that the card belongs to computer language x doesn't make any sense.
As for functionality, would you as a business really want to record important information on a card that is easily lost, physically compromisable, and carried by a person? What businesses want is simply a verifiable id for customers. The simpler the id the better.
What's all this noise about antiquities? Try pumping an antiquity in your Surburban and see where it gets you.
Instead, they'll use business intelligence and performance management tools to make real-time shifts in strategy to respond to changes in the marketplace.
I nominate this as the stupidest sentence in this buzz word extravaganza. For any thing to be truly real time, it has to be programmed into the machine...at which point it is no longer strategy. The strategy occurs in the process of designing the program.
Strategy itself with always be a discrete deliberate act.
The Data Warehouse industry is full of this type of garbage. The people selling the data warehouse software promise real time analysis of end user activity...but the data warehouse product they sell depend on a nightly downloads...real time analysis is impossible.
The big problem in business intelligence is that buzz word sprouting bozos like this writer play their guru games, get in power and destroy companies.
BTW What's this noise about antiquities? Try pumping an antiquity in your Surburban and see where it gets you.
I could have said it makes me sick to the stomach to watch as corporations drive their honest ethical work force under the heel, while finding ways to promote those who find convenient ways around ethical dilemmas. It wouldn't have fit the topic. I just hoped others would point out the duplicity of the statement.
I think that too many define the ideal corporate man as a person with a malleable code of ethics. That is they have the appearance of ethics, while bending with the political climate.
Hiring hackers is scary to these people...because they operate primarily on the level of appearance. Hiring convicted felons breaks the appearance.
Unfortunately far too many people just put up the appearance of ethics, but crumble when they face any real ethical dilemma. Even worse, the wafflers start admiring the people who are the most Machiavellian, while despising the people who are authentic in their actions.
Things are worse because the academic communities tend to praise the people (like Neitschze [sp]), and they tend to call honest people peasants.
Back to the thread. Some people will avoid hiring convicts...not for fear of the person, but because their ethics is just a thin veil waiting to give out on the first real choice that comes along.
I for one as a honest person am tired of hearing about this frickin criminal! Yes! Criminal!
Sounds like this Mitnick guy is management material. Criminal action shows initiative. It shows that he will do what it takes to get ahead.
Most of our society looks at the criminal as a superior form of being not tied to the conventionalities of the honest man (ie peasant). But there is a big problem with that getting caught thing. If he was a criminal who hadn't been caught...well, there is there is no end to how far he could go in the American corporate structure.
Who knows, he could have been CEO? I suspect most CEOs have done far worse things than Kevin Mittnick on their back stabbing drives for power. Unfortunately, there is a gentleman's agreement on being caught, tried and covicted.
Hiring a felon might get people looking closer at what companies actually do, and how the insiders funnel off profits. It would be far too risky to hire the man.
Except there are also consumers who don't buy products because of the rebate. Of course, marketers never seem to tell companies about the customers they lose for all their gimmicking.
The primary goal of the marketer is to put cash in the pocket of the marketer.
All spammers are bad, but they gotta start with the worst in these cases.
Starting with the worst cases makes it easier to establish a strong precedent in spam cases. If they started with the naive flower shop that sent a mailing to a questionable mailing list...they would get sympathy from the jury for the defendent.
The same is true with getting 46,000 emails to support a particular case...since it shows massive disgust with spammers.
Every time I boot me up the Linux box and log me into Slashdot.org...I know I'll be whoopin' it up in the world's largest computer party...that just gets wilder and whackier by the minute.
Quality Control will be a nightmare...99.99% accuracy will result in 100 errors per million units produced. That is 100 errors straight off the production line.
Imagine what will be happening to the things as they age.
I guess there are two ways of designing a nanobot. You could design it to decay quickly. That means that we will have billions of the these tiny devices going through strange transformations in the decay process. You could design the nano machines to be durable...but things change with time. Nothing is perfectly stable. That means the tiny machines will end up in alls sorts of unpredictible configurations.
Even worse, it is impossible to predict how the nano machines created today will interact with those created tomorrow. When talking of billions of things, it is likely that many will end up in stable configurations where they are doing things we don't like.
Slashdot Mirror
Generally things go faster as they get smaller. At the nano-level, I suspect that the the difference between "solid state" and "mechanical" blurs a bit.
As for the speed thing, different storage types have different merits. A great deal of information is accessed rarely. Look at the newspaper. Today's edition will be read by several hundred thousand people...the service delivering this page needs to be fast.
The archives of yesterday's news has a different dynamic. The June 7th, 1981 sports section might be accessed once or twice per year. The indexing device for the archived paper still needs to be fast...the data itself needs to be on a slower, reliable media.
The true art in computer design isn't just having the fastest components, but having the components matched to their tasks.
It seems to me that there needs to be a few events that involve physical people meeting other physical people. Having just another a cyber event de-emphasizes any human aspect of the net.
I still see patriotism as a positive value. The patriot is someone who will act to preserve the community, the patriot is willing to go to the wall for ideas higher than themselves...but as the definition gets skewed by short sighted politicians, it turns from true patriotism to nationalism...it turns from a virtue to a disease.
True patriotism involves a balance. The true patriot not only loves one's country, but wants to do what is right for it. For example, there were true patriots in the Iraq army who chose to lay down their weapons because they felt it was better for their country to end the war quickly, just as there were true Iraqi patriots who fought to the bitter end.
The current administrations tact of twisting the word patriotism to justify any end will turn a virtue into a vice.
This is the essence of the Greek Tragedy. The tragic flaw is a virtue that, when taken to the nth degree, leads to the downfall of the tragic hero.
The funny thing is that conservatives understand this principle when applied to charity. They understand that excessive charity of the government leads to a welfare state. It is odd that they do not know that the same rule applies to their own virtues.
The Name CCCC is just a ruse to throw people off on the real organization behind the meeting. Notice the 4 letters...Yep, this is a front for KAOS. It is held in Germany at the bequest of KAOS mastermind Conrad Siegfried.
and we all know, the only way to counter KAOS is through CONTROL. It is time to reactive Agent 86 and 99.
This should only be said under the cone of silence, but I think Agent 13 will be happy to end his stint as a Saddam double.
Patriotism is an act that people take in loyalty to their government. For example, joining the National Guard is a patriotic act. Dictionary.com gives the definition for patriotism as:
Patriotism is an attitude of the individual to the country. Patriotism does not come from the government to the people.
The fact that some many things are coming out of the current administration with the label "patriot" is extremely disconcerting. The consistent redefinition of terms is the hallmark of dictatorship.
Regardless of the merits of the act, the fact that it is mislabeled is cause for concern.
The same is true with the mislabeling of 9/11 as "Patriot Day". The day had nothing to do with American patriotism. The people who died in the terrorist bombing were not acting patriotically. They were being acted on.
Just looking at the definition...the closest thing we have to patriotism on 9/11 is that the fanatics who took over the airplanes held the belief that they were killing Americans for their country and for Islam. Ignoring our own feelings and looking at the words we see that the terrorists killing Americans is closer to the true definition of the word "patriot" than the non action of the victims.
Misusing terms is always a grave cause for concern.
I am not dissing true patriotism. We owe our freedom to people who took the patriotic step to defend freedom. In fact, I would say the misusing of the term is an affront to the true patriot. It dillutes the sacrafices made by American patriots.
Thanks to Seth Godin, spammers had a year or two where they could claim legitimacy by including an unsubscribe button at the end of the message (the popup that you put on the unsubscribe page often pays for the spam.)
Now that people know the unsubscribe button is a ruse, it no longer buys legitimacy. Making a big national unsubscribe service that is trusted will give the email marketers another year or two of legitimacy.
The funny thing. Spammers themselves tend to hate spam. I should say, they hate the spam sent by competing spam shops. The competing spam dilutes the audience. They especially hate new spam shops. As a result, most would agree to proposals that reduce the over amount of spam...so long as they don't lose their share of the market.
I wouldn't be surprised to see existing spam shops try and form mechanisms that reduced spam, and closed the market to new comers. It would buy legitimacy and preserve their share of the market at a reduced cost.
Of course, the emarketers are in a tight situation...they know the other people in the group are emarketers looking for any advantage and that they cannot be trusted.
It actually shows that web sites need to be aware of the way search engines work, and to block pages that they don't want the engines to crawl. It is always best to include a robots.txt with:
/guestbook.html /log/
...and all other pages the site should avoid crawling. It is like any other security issue...any hole in a site will be exploited.
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow:
As I understand, zoning laws pretty much concern the amount of traffic you have through the house, and any impact you are making on the characteristics of the area.
How many employees will you have and how many clients will be coming through the house. If the answer is "not many" then there is probably not a zoning issue.
The main thing you will want to is to make sure you have a corner of your house (den, etc..) dedicated to the business and nothing but the business, so that you can get the home office deduction on your taxes.
Of course, for once, we'll see the Slashdot Effect put to good use. :-)
Judging from the volume of mail received from these clowns...they probably have bandwidth availability that would make Google Jealous. The slashdot effect wouldn't even be a blip.
It is a shame that, in all his inventing, Guttenburg didn't take time to invent the humble emoticon. :-(
Let's see. In a free market, when supply exceeds demand...prices drop. The price drop either reduces supply or increase demand. Often a little bit of both. In either case you end up with a different price level.
In the music industry, the CDs available on the market stripped demand. But prices did not drop.
That fact that prices are not fluctuating the way prices fluctuate in the free market tells us that that we are not looking at a free market. There are anti market forces at work in the music industry.
Guess what? we pull back the curtain and see the price of CDs are not controlled by the free market but by extremely rich and powerful cartels.
Economic texts talk about cartels, monopolies, socialistic republics, dictators and other failed economic systems.
What happens: These oppressive regimes usually get out whack, spin out of control and impovrishing every one.
Looking at economic history, we see that when the economy is controlled by monopolies and cartels, there generally is a great deal of poverty and misery.
In such systems, the over all GDP of the society stagnates while the gap between rich and poor widens....Gosh...that describes the music industry.
Looking at the history of cartels: we see that, as the cartel matures and the pricing structure gets out of whack with production and distribution costs, black markets form to get around the cartel.
The music pirates fall right in line with history. The pirates are the natural result of the cartel. They show that the industry is out of line with the economy at large. There are no black marketeers in a truly open and free market.
I called your little snippet arrogant because what you said was so far out of whack with economics theory and history as to be laughable. The fact that the industry is not behaving like a free market shows that unnatural forces are at work...a cartel and that actual prices are artificial. That is all supply and demand curves tell us.
In a free market, when production and distribution costs fall, companies will increase production increasing supply. In this saturated market, companies will try to under cut their competition by decreasing prices, and you end up with new price levels.
Price and demand curves do not say that a dollar CD is untenable. All we know is that prices so out of line with the economy that a burgeoning black market has formed. The size and scope of the market seems to indicate that prices are perhaps ten to twenty times higher than they would be in a free market.
The public has a right to complain when a powerful cartel enacts anti competitive policies that create falses economy that artificially enriches one group of people. Especially when that group is demanding special treatment from the government.
The result of the present chaos is entirely the result of anti market activities of the music industry. They had been using anti market tactics to maintain artificial prices, and and now bear the burden of their actions. End of story.
Which is exactly what people are doing and should continue to do. This is why so many people have turned away from the music industry to the black market.
People have every right to debate laws that are being enacted by governments. That is the basis of a free open society.
No one knows what the price of a CD should be because the price has been artificial for too long. All we know is that yet another chapter of history shows that cartels are bad for the economy. The collapse of the music industry should simply be labeled example 129,873 in the bad effects of cartels. We shouldn't be trying to save the cartel with legislation.
You are correct in saying that, if the price of CDs were left up to the free market, they wouldn't cost exactly a dollar. Prices fluctuate in the market.
However, your arrogant little implication that the free market can't work because you have some some hidden knowledge of price demand curves is plane idiocacy.
The cartels within the music industry have created a pricing structure for their product which is why out of alignment with the economy. The end result is that a large underground economy formed to subvert the pricing system of the cartel.
That is how societies work. When a cartel forms and subverts the natural pricing structure of the economy...the society forms an underground economy that subverts the pricing strategy of the cartels.
Central planning has never worked. It never will. Even when the leaders of the cartel draw price demand curves on a black board and can recite Marx's Das Capital backwards.
The world has a long history of arrogant snits saying that the freedom is untenable...Countless jerks like you have demanded cartels, monopolies, oppression of people even genocide based on chalkboard calculations and dialectical rubbish...Time and time again, their calculation have proven to do nothing except cause misery.
Sounds like an interesting read...Since I am morally opposed to paying book publishers...I was wondering if anyone knew where I could download a PDF copy of the book?
The saturated market is also a good point. Prices drop after saturating the market. So we aren't even just looking at technical issues.
I think the computer industry should demand special treatment from the courts...computers used to sell for well over $2000 a piece. Now now can pick up better computers for $500.
Somebody is STEALING $1500 for each computer purchase!!!!!!
Even worse, computer programmers used to be able to pick up contracts for $100+ an hour. Now it is tough to get a $40 job doing the same work. That is $60 an hour that SOMEONE IS STEALING!!!!!!! They are stealing it, I tell you.
Not to mention the thieves who stole all of the profits out of the buggy whip industry. It is theivery I tell you, out right theivery!
Pointing at people and calling them all theives because prices fluctuate in a free market is kind of cathartic. Where can I get an application for the RIAA? I am pretty good at this name calling.
==========
BTW What's this noise about antiquities? Try pumping an antiquity in your Surburban and see where it gets you.
Hard disks can't explode on contact...
..."
I am not sure. I played a mpeg last week that I downloaded from KaZaA. The file had some really kewl content beginning with:
"Jim, your mission is
It had some junk about some museum in a place like Baghdad. It had something about saving humanity...it showed me dossiers of international incriminals and other kewl stuff...like it was going to be a really fun spy movie.
Then suddenly, my entire laptop fizzled on me. It was really freaky, the MPEG had all of these instructions on how to save the antiquities of the world.
But, it sounded impossible to me, so I didn't do anything.
One would almost think market economies would tend to lower the price of items as distribution costs fall. Last time I looked, the cost of CDs were rising. (That was a while ago...because I never even bother looking at CDs any more.)
The pirating is just a side show. The real problem is that distribution and production costs have fallen through the floor and the industry has not responded to the market dynamics. Instead they cling to copyright laws and monopolistic tactics to maintain artificially inflated costs of their goods.
If you really asked the musicians...most would love the idea of a dollar CD. A dime a song.
The CRIA's complaint is that someone is robbing the plunder house.
BTW What's this noise about antiquities? Try pumping an antiquity in your Surburban and see where it gets you.
Of course, you don't need Java for this, but you need a smart card with a CPU inside
The functionality is still more important that the language. You pass a bunch of blips into the card and get a bunch of blips out.
Sounds like the big advantage of the technology is that the id the store gets isn't your actual private key...but a derivative produced from the key.
The cards can't actually prove identity of course. But it sounds like it would be a little bit more difficult to steal someone else's identity.
But I jump back to the point that the language itself is independent of the functionality. The Java Branding is just Java branding.
I am actually confused by the article. An "ID card" pretty much just carries data...not a full programming environment. Sounds more like business name branding.
The important part of an id card is the interface and how you access and change the information. Such an interface is first and foremost a hardware interface. Trying to say that the card belongs to computer language x doesn't make any sense.
As for functionality, would you as a business really want to record important information on a card that is easily lost, physically compromisable, and carried by a person? What businesses want is simply a verifiable id for customers. The simpler the id the better.
What's all this noise about antiquities? Try pumping an antiquity in your Surburban and see where it gets you.
Strategy itself with always be a discrete deliberate act.
The Data Warehouse industry is full of this type of garbage. The people selling the data warehouse software promise real time analysis of end user activity...but the data warehouse product they sell depend on a nightly downloads...real time analysis is impossible.
The big problem in business intelligence is that buzz word sprouting bozos like this writer play their guru games, get in power and destroy companies.
BTW What's this noise about antiquities? Try pumping an antiquity in your Surburban and see where it gets you.
I am glad you caught the cynicism.
I could have said it makes me sick to the stomach to watch as corporations drive their honest ethical work force under the heel, while finding ways to promote those who find convenient ways around ethical dilemmas. It wouldn't have fit the topic. I just hoped others would point out the duplicity of the statement.
I think that too many define the ideal corporate man as a person with a malleable code of ethics. That is they have the appearance of ethics, while bending with the political climate.
Hiring hackers is scary to these people...because they operate primarily on the level of appearance. Hiring convicted felons breaks the appearance.
Unfortunately far too many people just put up the appearance of ethics, but crumble when they face any real ethical dilemma. Even worse, the wafflers start admiring the people who are the most Machiavellian, while despising the people who are authentic in their actions.
Things are worse because the academic communities tend to praise the people (like Neitschze [sp]), and they tend to call honest people peasants.
Back to the thread. Some people will avoid hiring convicts...not for fear of the person, but because their ethics is just a thin veil waiting to give out on the first real choice that comes along.
I for one as a honest person am tired of hearing about this frickin criminal! Yes! Criminal!
Sounds like this Mitnick guy is management material. Criminal action shows initiative. It shows that he will do what it takes to get ahead.
Most of our society looks at the criminal as a superior form of being not tied to the conventionalities of the honest man (ie peasant). But there is a big problem with that getting caught thing. If he was a criminal who hadn't been caught...well, there is there is no end to how far he could go in the American corporate structure.
Who knows, he could have been CEO? I suspect most CEOs have done far worse things than Kevin Mittnick on their back stabbing drives for power. Unfortunately, there is a gentleman's agreement on being caught, tried and covicted.
Hiring a felon might get people looking closer at what companies actually do, and how the insiders funnel off profits. It would be far too risky to hire the man.
Except there are also consumers who don't buy products because of the rebate. Of course, marketers never seem to tell companies about the customers they lose for all their gimmicking.
The primary goal of the marketer is to put cash in the pocket of the marketer.
Starting with the worst cases makes it easier to establish a strong precedent in spam cases. If they started with the naive flower shop that sent a mailing to a questionable mailing list...they would get sympathy from the jury for the defendent.
The same is true with getting 46,000 emails to support a particular case...since it shows massive disgust with spammers.
Every time I boot me up the Linux box and log me into Slashdot.org...I know I'll be whoopin' it up in the world's largest computer party...that just gets wilder and whackier by the minute.
We don't need no stinking human contact.
Quality Control will be a nightmare...99.99% accuracy will result in 100 errors per million units produced. That is 100 errors straight off the production line.
Imagine what will be happening to the things as they age.
I guess there are two ways of designing a nanobot. You could design it to decay quickly. That means that we will have billions of the these tiny devices going through strange transformations in the decay process. You could design the nano machines to be durable...but things change with time. Nothing is perfectly stable. That means the tiny machines will end up in alls sorts of unpredictible configurations.
Even worse, it is impossible to predict how the nano machines created today will interact with those created tomorrow. When talking of billions of things, it is likely that many will end up in stable configurations where they are doing things we don't like.