and more important do you want to upload files to a service that charge users for access. and what would youtube be without the worlds funniest home videos. And this is what those services thrive on they connect someone willing to publish but without a name with someone willing to consume.
With a big potion of the content comming from the userbase and the low entry to market for competing services, it's hard capitalise on your userbase without destroying your userbase. if you push to hard they will scatter out on the many different ways they can do most of what you offer on the web.
Pay works when the media hype have already told people they want something, it's harder when the product is unknown stuble upon stuff like what youtube really is all about.
IVe heard users scram bloody murder when they replaced wordperfect with word 2003, im not totally sure this means that MS office 2003 is the inferior product to a more then 10year old version of a competing prodict though it might be the case. Most of the migrations ive heard off from office2003 to office2007 seams to provoke the same kind of reactions.
In some organizations(most offices) it quickly become commonplace to write all emails in word and powerpoint and then send it as an attached file instead of actually write emails as soon as the bandwidth would allow it, to this day that is still happening.
I believe the web would have become one big powerpoint presentation and i a hermit somewhere in the Norwegian mountains in that reality
but is those really in the cloud computing business.
To me they seam a lot more like traditional mainframe/relocation companies i just dont see any cloud in singning a big deal with amazon stating what your entiled to and under what terms as anything different then what you did 20 years ago when different companes rulled the scene, and what exactly is the difference between what google offers and what compuserve AOL and the rest offered those 20 years ago when the internet went mainstram, your still signing in to a service and accepting the terms they offer.
The thing about is that the cloud is simply a big pile of smoke filled with otherwise completely normal businesses providing services that have existed since the dawn of computing.
If you define cloud as parallel computing themn the cloud is also old news. Everyone does that today.
Cats are soft and useless creatues no if you want to get rid of the rats call the PETA and tell them your running a rehabilitation home for freshly freed mink those are vicius and evil creature thats going to rid you of the rats within the week.
The corporate world wont go anywhere near apple products and this is wry the mac dont count.
Right bellow all of this lies the reborn mainframe and while the cloud dont seam to replace consumer PC's there might be corporations flirting with the idea that they dont really need those big complex PC creating trouble.
When not even office is usable when the network goes down(the practical reality for most fortune 1000 companies) the benefit of the PC to the corporate word is gone
The thing about the macs is that MS can count on apple to screw up or at least manage to piss off the corporate world to the extend that they wont touch the macs.
With linux on the other hand were now seing companies like dell HP Novell and IBM starting to endorse linux in some areas and those companies have street cred in the uptown suburban areas where corporate ececutive types hang out this is wry MS at every instant have gone after linux much more aggresively then mac.
MS is the king of the gaming PC thats noone will take away from them but what about the internet browser? or the corporate desktop client in a world where everything shuts down when the network connection dies? What happens when the intranet replaces microsoft word templates as the tool of choice for every business process?
When it was just IBM novel and a few mid range server operators ms did not care today it's desktop hardware companies experimenting with linux on the desktop, along with an general tendency to move the critical app back onto the mainframes thats stating to apear. MS might be forced out of their current position, and into one wheir they have to fight for even a 33% market share.
Since there isn't a cloud it's all nonsense, there's a good old fashioned mainframe operator and a customer using the system the law and contracting models for those was laid down in the 70ies and just because the 3270 have given way to the AJAX enabled browser and everyone is talking community we don't have a different situation.
Stop treating the cloud as if it was something unknown and start realising how much it's just the successor to the mainframe and thing stats making sense.
Yes but in practice you will end up with a crappy expensive deal with the horrors of IBM burocracy where your forever doomed to run poorly configured software that might have been modern 4 years ago.
The problem is that it's danm hard to make those deals on the national scale without getting into comittee hell and end up with something thats too much based on hot air and too litle on real products.
You're once again faced with the dilemma of profitiblity virtual worlds in the sense of eve online UO WoW and similar have their loyal userbase willing to pay but the content needs to be developed at huge costs before your service gets there, and you cant run for long without adding more content.
Every other web 2.0 service face the same dilemma, either you cut your prize almost below operating cost or you spend spend spend on content. both ways makes it look a lot less like the get rich now scheme the VC investors and me-too entrepreneurs were looking for
Because most of the early typing contest were won by people writing on qwerty and that the avrenge speed of user on qwerty keyboard is faster the lets say dvorak whem mesuared against real life people with existing skills. Actually wery few tests not performad by Dvorak hiself show the Qwerty keyboard as slower then any other design with the posible exeption of engelbrechts 5 key one.
The myth ithat the keys were araged to just slow speed is not actually the full truth. the real point of qwerty is to avoid that syncronisation of keys and roller should macth in a way so that letters placed next to eachother got entered after another(a problem that apeared with the abcd keyboard). and since back then the order on the roler decided the keyboard layout qwerty was what came out. qwerty did go down well because the qwerty machines did in fact allow faster typing then most it's contemporary competitors.
Err, right. No scarcity. So where do I pick up that Aston Martin that's scarce only by virtue of our monetary system?
Down at your local bank you just write up the expected resale value of your house, and give that in return for a Aston Martin paid in freshly printed money.
But you better wait a few years until theyve forgotten how the 2008 crash happened to do it.
That one axtually originates at Microsoft where they put a similar easter EGG in to demonstrate exactly what you could do with the inbuild scripting engine. It's not actually an easter egg since it not really hidden in the exe file but is just a entry in a conf file refering to a defined function as the onces the smart users are suposed to write themselves.
This is the funny part they did not debunk anything, CCP dont state that any of the chatlogs provided in the letter is actually a forgery, the final verdict contradicts the first statements made by the IA department, and stil theres not so much as a peep from CCP regarding the charges of soft collusion. And all in all CCP claims that while everything mentioned in the letter happened the reasoning behinds was legit and just misinterprented.
And that was the way too with the t20 incident where a Dev was confirmed to manipulate the database, back then CCP at first tried to call the messenger a disgruntled lier, and made moves to sugest they might sue him. Later when then had to admit something was actually wrong, they still denied that any information was shared between that dev and the players he flew with and cheated on behaf of, and it did not take more then a few weaks before a forum post mentioning the incident would trigger the forum moderators into action deleting and locking treads.
This time we have on the Actual eve-online forums a member of the alliances acused of cheating admitting/bragging about having unofficial channels of comunications into the GM/dev team running eve, and thats also more or less ignored by CCP, who pretends that all that actually happened was that a GM responed corectly to a bug report.
It's werry easy the do a charecter assasination of the goonswarm alliance, since they really does seams a bit off key to most, being 100% dedicated to using large numbers for their advantage and in genral talks a lot of smack(quite similar to BoB in many ways).
EvE as a game have another issue the servers are relly close to crashing under the current load and losts of decisive battles is decided by the completly bugged game mechanics, in one instance 250 players vs around 1000 turned into a turkey shot where BoB and friends had all 250 playes on grid most of the time where goonswarm and friends whit around 1000 trying to enter the areane never had more then 200 in the areana at once.
EvE's famous single server is really only peseudo single whith only a few sub systems shared between all 30000+ online players on any given sunday afternoon, actually only pars of the marked and the chat/charenter info system are shared, the rest divided into different nodes, where a node really dont perform well when more then 200-300 are in sight of eachother, even with numbers as low as 100 trouble stats manifesting themself and numbers in the scale of 2-500+ are quite common when Goonswarm and bob clashes head on. 1300 is just imposible but unfortunately nesserery when that large groups fights eachother. eve is wery much about outnumbering your opoenent and it's not just Goonswarm, bob rutinely engage with more then twice the numbers then their oponents.
A lot of player however arent really involved here not all stations can be controlled by Playes, not even in the so called free areanas of 0.0 and varius degrees of NPC enforcements against violent acts are in place, ie in some places PvP have to be more or less consensual, for the players staying aways from the whole alliance(megaclan)warfare it's less of a issue, and eve is visually and UI wise a great game the marked acts like a real market and theres are exiting fights to be had on the smaller side of things.
And there is one really simple reliable way to prevent any middle man from copying the disc's, encryption.
You will have to have some insider give you an unencryptet copy, witch make piracy a bit harder.
Is Google the only company with an strong R&D department, with an revenue of silly 3.2billion is google really an match for MS when it comes down to being able to hire smart people?
And MS does have an Reseach department and they does hire smart people.
And remember google was founded by a couple of people just leaving University, beating just about anybody already out there whithin months, so no it's not that simple.
Most of google's latest ventures have been about buying up technology, and data material, something anyone with an big wallet could duplicate. And google competition have meney to spend.
It is illegal at least in civilised parts of the world, Here in denmark does MS actually admit that they cant use those ads in local marketing because of legal issues, and we are not the onlu european country with those kind og law's.
Yes an no mandrake is an magical root, withch has been asociated with lovemaking and seduction. Mandrake is also an semidemon made out of root used by 16-17cetury french women to seduce men.
Its an common word that has been asosiated with black magic log before "mandrake the magician", who actually are named after the plant.
it cost you $100.000 even if you win to declare prior art.
trivial patent's are an dangerous ting for small player's.
you migt be on the right side of the law but only the big player's can afford the law.
The munich linux project derseves a lot more discusion than it's getting.
The funny thing about the solution is that the key components isn't the thing's the linux advocate society is promoting.
It's not OpenOffice. Neither OpenOffice or StarOffice is going to be deployed in Munich!.
It isn't php/mysql powered webaplications running inside mozilla neither
They developed an grouware plugin(SKYRiX Groupware Server) for korganizer and fitted Kword to their need's
And then they stripped KDE for unesesery features so that the clerk's would gain maximum eficeincy and waste as little time as posible.
That's just plain german perfectionism don't take the solution that get's the job done take the solution that makes the job done right.
Of caouse there is politics in not going for the cheap mediocore american solution but chosing the tailor made german solution.
I remenber an lecture where one of the devlopers was talking about making an entire opensource Groupware suite could't that be opengroupware.org.
Bottled water is often just tap water from somewhere else.
Serius there are places where some of the more expensive bottled water is tap water but it doens't slov down the sales of bottled water there.
Al-Jazeera started is life as an BBC subdivision most of the reporters was hired back then.
The are financed by the emir of Qatar the arabic coutry where US/UK command-center is located.
Al-Jazeera aren't the arab propaganda agency people like to think they are.
Another wery important aspect of online comunicatuion is that people's arguments aren't limited by what they know, but by what they can access by googling or looking trough dictionaries. We are a lot smarter with an encyklopedia at our fingertips then whitout.
There are other advantages by using that strange hybrid between conversation and mail. Speed is not constant on IRC conversations can proceed really slow whitout being odd.
Well it's a big produktion and it's not unlikely that thay accually are working on it on more than one location and have copy's distributed to a couple of executives or external consulent's a big movie prduktion is not somthing you do in the secrecy of the studio.
Now we have pehaps 10 systems online with the data on it 5 of theese systems belongs to smallers companies. and these copies are most likely to be i dvd quality and not master.
Well now its not that unlikely that someone acctually stole the file.
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and more important do you want to upload files to a service that charge users for access. and what would youtube be without the worlds funniest home videos. And this is what those services thrive on they connect someone willing to publish but without a name with someone willing to consume.
With a big potion of the content comming from the userbase and the low entry to market for competing services, it's hard capitalise on your userbase without destroying your userbase. if you push to hard they will scatter out on the many different ways they can do most of what you offer on the web.
Pay works when the media hype have already told people they want something, it's harder when the product is unknown stuble upon stuff like what youtube really is all about.
IVe heard users scram bloody murder when they replaced wordperfect with word 2003, im not totally sure this means that MS office 2003 is the inferior product to a more then 10year old version of a competing prodict though it might be the case. Most of the migrations ive heard off from office2003 to office2007 seams to provoke the same kind of reactions.
In some organizations(most offices) it quickly become commonplace to write all emails in word and powerpoint and then send it as an attached file instead of actually write emails as soon as the bandwidth would allow it, to this day that is still happening.
I believe the web would have become one big powerpoint presentation and i a hermit somewhere in the Norwegian mountains in that reality
but is those really in the cloud computing business.
To me they seam a lot more like traditional mainframe/relocation companies i just dont see any cloud in singning a big deal with amazon stating what your entiled to and under what terms as anything different then what you did 20 years ago when different companes rulled the scene, and what exactly is the difference between what google offers and what compuserve AOL and the rest offered those 20 years ago when the internet went mainstram, your still signing in to a service and accepting the terms they offer.
The thing about is that the cloud is simply a big pile of smoke filled with otherwise completely normal businesses providing services that have existed since the dawn of computing.
If you define cloud as parallel computing themn the cloud is also old news. Everyone does that today.
Cats are soft and useless creatues no if you want to get rid of the rats call the PETA and tell them your running a rehabilitation home for freshly freed mink those are vicius and evil creature thats going to rid you of the rats within the week.
The corporate world wont go anywhere near apple products and this is wry the mac dont count.
Right bellow all of this lies the reborn mainframe and while the cloud dont seam to replace consumer PC's there might be corporations flirting with the idea that they dont really need those big complex PC creating trouble.
When not even office is usable when the network goes down(the practical reality for most fortune 1000 companies) the benefit of the PC to the corporate word is gone
The thing about the macs is that MS can count on apple to screw up or at least manage to piss off the corporate world to the extend that they wont touch the macs.
With linux on the other hand were now seing companies like dell HP Novell and IBM starting to endorse linux in some areas and those companies have street cred in the uptown suburban areas where corporate ececutive types hang out this is wry MS at every instant have gone after linux much more aggresively then mac.
MS is the king of the gaming PC thats noone will take away from them but what about the internet browser? or the corporate desktop client in a world where everything shuts down when the network connection dies? What happens when the intranet replaces microsoft word templates as the tool of choice for every business process?
When it was just IBM novel and a few mid range server operators ms did not care today it's desktop hardware companies experimenting with linux on the desktop, along with an general tendency to move the critical app back onto the mainframes thats stating to apear. MS might be forced out of their current position, and into one wheir they have to fight for even a 33% market share.
Since there isn't a cloud it's all nonsense, there's a good old fashioned mainframe operator and a customer using the system the law and contracting models for those was laid down in the 70ies and just because the 3270 have given way to the AJAX enabled browser and everyone is talking community we don't have a different situation.
Stop treating the cloud as if it was something unknown and start realising how much it's just the successor to the mainframe and thing stats making sense.
Yes but in practice you will end up with a crappy expensive deal with the horrors of IBM burocracy where your forever doomed to run poorly configured software that might have been modern 4 years ago.
The problem is that it's danm hard to make those deals on the national scale without getting into comittee hell and end up with something thats too much based on hot air and too litle on real products.
You're once again faced with the dilemma of profitiblity virtual worlds in the sense of eve online UO WoW and similar have their loyal userbase willing to pay but the content needs to be developed at huge costs before your service gets there, and you cant run for long without adding more content.
Every other web 2.0 service face the same dilemma, either you cut your prize almost below operating cost or you spend spend spend on content. both ways makes it look a lot less like the get rich now scheme the VC investors and me-too entrepreneurs were looking for
The enviromental impact of printing paper have a lot more to do with dumping bleach in rivers and burning a lot of oil then actually clearing forrest.
Because most of the early typing contest were won by people writing on qwerty and that the avrenge speed of user on qwerty keyboard is faster the lets say dvorak whem mesuared against real life people with existing skills. Actually wery few tests not performad by Dvorak hiself show the Qwerty keyboard as slower then any other design with the posible exeption of engelbrechts 5 key one.
The myth ithat the keys were araged to just slow speed is not actually the full truth. the real point of qwerty is to avoid that syncronisation of keys and roller should macth in a way so that letters placed next to eachother got entered after another(a problem that apeared with the abcd keyboard). and since back then the order on the roler decided the keyboard layout qwerty was what came out. qwerty did go down well because the qwerty machines did in fact allow faster typing then most it's contemporary competitors.
Err, right. No scarcity. So where do I pick up that Aston Martin that's scarce only by virtue of our monetary system?
Down at your local bank you just write up the expected resale value of your house, and give that in return for a Aston Martin paid in freshly printed money.
But you better wait a few years until theyve forgotten how the 2008 crash happened to do it.
That one axtually originates at Microsoft where they put a similar easter EGG in to demonstrate exactly what you could do with the inbuild scripting engine. It's not actually an easter egg since it not really hidden in the exe file but is just a entry in a conf file refering to a defined function as the onces the smart users are suposed to write themselves.
This is the funny part they did not debunk anything, CCP dont state that any of the chatlogs provided in the letter is actually a forgery, the final verdict contradicts the first statements made by the IA department, and stil theres not so much as a peep from CCP regarding the charges of soft collusion.
And all in all CCP claims that while everything mentioned in the letter happened the reasoning behinds was legit and just misinterprented.
And that was the way too with the t20 incident where a Dev was confirmed to manipulate the database, back then CCP at first tried to call the messenger a disgruntled lier, and made moves to sugest they might sue him. Later when then had to admit something was actually wrong, they still denied that any information was shared between that dev and the players he flew with and cheated on behaf of, and it did not take more then a few weaks before a forum post mentioning the incident would trigger the forum moderators into action deleting and locking treads.
This time we have on the Actual eve-online forums a member of the alliances acused of cheating admitting/bragging about having unofficial channels of comunications into the GM/dev team running eve, and thats also more or less ignored by CCP, who pretends that all that actually happened was that a GM responed corectly to a bug report.
It's werry easy the do a charecter assasination of the goonswarm alliance, since they really does seams a bit off key to most, being 100% dedicated to using large numbers for their advantage and in genral talks a lot of smack(quite similar to BoB in many ways).
EvE as a game have another issue the servers are relly close to crashing under the current load and losts of decisive battles is decided by the completly bugged game mechanics, in one instance 250 players vs around 1000 turned into a turkey shot where BoB and friends had all 250 playes on grid most of the time where goonswarm and friends whit around 1000 trying to enter the areane never had more then 200 in the areana at once.
EvE's famous single server is really only peseudo single whith only a few sub systems shared between all 30000+ online players on any given sunday afternoon, actually only pars of the marked and the chat/charenter info system are shared, the rest divided into different nodes, where a node really dont perform well when more then 200-300 are in sight of eachother, even with numbers as low as 100 trouble stats manifesting themself and numbers in the scale of 2-500+ are quite common when Goonswarm and bob clashes head on. 1300 is just imposible but unfortunately nesserery when that large groups fights eachother. eve is wery much about outnumbering your opoenent and it's not just Goonswarm, bob rutinely engage with more then twice the numbers then their oponents.
A lot of player however arent really involved here not all stations can be controlled by Playes, not even in the so called free areanas of 0.0 and varius degrees of NPC enforcements against violent acts are in place, ie in some places PvP have to be more or less consensual, for the players staying aways from the whole alliance(megaclan)warfare it's less of a issue, and eve is visually and UI wise a great game the marked acts like a real market and theres are exiting fights to be had on the smaller side of things.
And there is one really simple reliable way to prevent any middle man from copying the disc's, encryption. You will have to have some insider give you an unencryptet copy, witch make piracy a bit harder.
Is Google the only company with an strong R&D department, with an revenue of silly 3.2billion is google really an match for MS when it comes down to being able to hire smart people? And MS does have an Reseach department and they does hire smart people. And remember google was founded by a couple of people just leaving University, beating just about anybody already out there whithin months, so no it's not that simple. Most of google's latest ventures have been about buying up technology, and data material, something anyone with an big wallet could duplicate. And google competition have meney to spend.
It is illegal at least in civilised parts of the world, Here in denmark does MS actually admit that they cant use those ads in local marketing because of legal issues, and we are not the onlu european country with those kind og law's.
Yes an no mandrake is an magical root, withch has been asociated with lovemaking and seduction.
Mandrake is also an semidemon made out of root used by 16-17cetury french women to seduce men.
Its an common word that has been asosiated with black magic log before "mandrake the magician", who actually are named after the plant.
it cost you $100.000 even if you win to declare prior art. trivial patent's are an dangerous ting for small player's. you migt be on the right side of the law but only the big player's can afford the law.
The munich linux project derseves a lot more discusion than it's getting. The funny thing about the solution is that the key components isn't the thing's the linux advocate society is promoting. It's not OpenOffice. Neither OpenOffice or StarOffice is going to be deployed in Munich!. It isn't php/mysql powered webaplications running inside mozilla neither They developed an grouware plugin(SKYRiX Groupware Server) for korganizer and fitted Kword to their need's And then they stripped KDE for unesesery features so that the clerk's would gain maximum eficeincy and waste as little time as posible. That's just plain german perfectionism don't take the solution that get's the job done take the solution that makes the job done right. Of caouse there is politics in not going for the cheap mediocore american solution but chosing the tailor made german solution. I remenber an lecture where one of the devlopers was talking about making an entire opensource Groupware suite could't that be opengroupware.org.
Bottled water is often just tap water from somewhere else. Serius there are places where some of the more expensive bottled water is tap water but it doens't slov down the sales of bottled water there.
Al-Jazeera started is life as an BBC subdivision most of the reporters was hired back then. The are financed by the emir of Qatar the arabic coutry where US/UK command-center is located. Al-Jazeera aren't the arab propaganda agency people like to think they are.
Another wery important aspect of online comunicatuion is that people's arguments aren't limited by what they know, but by what they can access by googling or looking trough dictionaries.
We are a lot smarter with an encyklopedia at our fingertips then whitout.
There are other advantages by using that strange hybrid between conversation and mail.
Speed is not constant on IRC conversations can proceed really slow whitout being odd.
Well it's a big produktion and it's not unlikely that thay accually are working on it on more than one location and have copy's distributed to a couple of executives or external consulent's a big movie prduktion is not somthing you do in the secrecy of the studio. Now we have pehaps 10 systems online with the data on it 5 of theese systems belongs to smallers companies. and these copies are most likely to be i dvd quality and not master. Well now its not that unlikely that someone acctually stole the file.