You might want to RTFA. The examples listed aren't pitching ideas for new products or businesses (at least, none of the ones I saw did, including the examples).
Rather, they were for things like 'fund me so build an orphanage in Guatemala' and 'help me recreate
ah, but there is an entrepenuerial (sp?) section. they will disregard the non-business stuff. i would go so far as to suggest the good-for-society ideas are planted to make the site look innocuous.
the The Perfect Sessions is alot of fun; you can get 20 something episodes for $35 (used). that's great fun at $3/hour, which in most cases is cheaper than the movies.
the season has a overall theme, but not all episodes progress the storyline -- some are just w, well, OT. i liked this series far better than any of the 20 other anime movies i've ever seen
i'm not going to disagree with Mr. Ellison, because personally I'd like to see how Microsoft reacts to competition -- hopefully by making better products, though likely it'll be lawsuits, speeches and talk of growth in other areas.
remember that Larry Ellison has always made these kind of claims -- but I've yet to see Database-based filesystems or Sun's "dumb-terminal-esque" network computers take off in the mainstream. though supposedly Microsoft is working on the former.
"kids -- 30 seconds of joy, 30 years of suffering" -- this kid wrote a few pages worth of code years ago when he was 16. And since then his life has been spent enduring lawsuits by huge industry firms from another country. but that won't keep me from trying to create beauty with code.
finally, a brain prosthesis. i know so many that this could help. starting with the person who took their time to scroll all the way down and read this post.
I completely disagree. While I don't necessarily support broadband restrictions, this could have interesting consequences. The most innovative solutions start happening when resources are limited.
How will the smart kids get around this? Perhaps finding students with no computer and negotiating to let them hook up some kind of wireless solution so they can use their bandwidth as well.
Perhaps the kids will figure out how to make it look like they're really other users in order to get their bandwidth. Ethically perhaps not great, but when the going gets tough...
As for downloading files, perhaps this will bring out more of a community spirit -- users should pool their resources. Instead of 50 students downloading a game, 5 will download it and share it via CDRs.
I have no doubt that the enterprising students will either find ways around (or at least optimal solutions to) the caps.
Ah, it's a new cycle. Suddenly there's a fresh new thing, blogs (which i never got anyways... how is posting stuff to a website different than what we were doing before blogs were big? but that's its own post). blogs are hip and cool and edgy, because people talk about anything and everything, from the mundane to the extraordinary. from work to movies to politics to sex.
there are no boundaries, etc etc. some of these bloggers start to get extremely popular -- popular enough for big companies to notice. an untapped market! there are tens of thousands of blogs and millions of regular readers. the 10 most popular blogs get more traffic than some daily newspapers. the people who write these things are influential, because the readers can identify with them and their daily struggle/musings/etc.
so now the marketers recruit the bloggers and pay them to endorse their product. it seems great at first -- we can have edgy *and* corporate messages. but then someone goes too far. they talk politics or say something in very poor taste and the company's lawyers get worried that they will be identified as promoting this kind of thought/talk/ideology. not good for the company's image, which said company spends $10s of millions promoting each year.
the company implements one tiny rule. and then another slip-up, and another rule, etc etc.
now instead of a "stream of consciousness public journal" you have what amounts to be a person being paid by a company to endorse their product and not talk about "bad things" and it ceases to become what made it so popular in the first place and blogs join other less-exciting media channels like radio, tv, and the pre-previews at the movies.
therein lies the problem. pretty much all our problems could be solved if a majority of ppl _______ (weren't careless/used _____ software/didn't click on emails titled "I Love You"/etc.). but that's the problem.
getting a majority of anyone to do anything is a major accomplishment in and of itself. wishful thinking.
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whenever i play CS i get more depressed (i suck)
indeed, and then everyone who wants the new "complete" boxed set in 2 years has to shell out another $80 or whatever it'll cost
QWERTY is here to stay. we'll switch to DVORAK when the USA switches to metric (i.e. never!)
well, now i know where to look for all my smurf hentai
surprised?
you know the thing works if large corporations and/or governments try to stop you. ask dvd jon, phil zimmerman, justin frankel, ...
note: these books are all several years old; nothing new here
This is probably Microsoft's last chance to turn the tide and take mindset and market share from FOSS.
please. they have $30 billion in cash. i think they'll be able to buy some other chances.
Rather, they were for things like 'fund me so build an orphanage in Guatemala' and 'help me recreate
ah, but there is an entrepenuerial (sp?) section. they will disregard the non-business stuff. i would go so far as to suggest the good-for-society ideas are planted to make the site look innocuous.
the season has a overall theme, but not all episodes progress the storyline -- some are just w, well, OT. i liked this series far better than any of the 20 other anime movies i've ever seen
remember that Larry Ellison has always made these kind of claims -- but I've yet to see Database-based filesystems or Sun's "dumb-terminal-esque" network computers take off in the mainstream. though supposedly Microsoft is working on the former.
"kids -- 30 seconds of joy, 30 years of suffering" -- this kid wrote a few pages worth of code years ago when he was 16. And since then his life has been spent enduring lawsuits by huge industry firms from another country. but that won't keep me from trying to create beauty with code.
i'll get stoned and write up some satirical news articles. WARNING: marijuana may be required to appreciate my artistic vision
it's sexy
i knew it! it's people! it's people!
finally, a brain prosthesis. i know so many that this could help. starting with the person who took their time to scroll all the way down and read this post.
All those gym rats were wasting their time!
How will the smart kids get around this? Perhaps finding students with no computer and negotiating to let them hook up some kind of wireless solution so they can use their bandwidth as well.
Perhaps the kids will figure out how to make it look like they're really other users in order to get their bandwidth. Ethically perhaps not great, but when the going gets tough...
As for downloading files, perhaps this will bring out more of a community spirit -- users should pool their resources. Instead of 50 students downloading a game, 5 will download it and share it via CDRs.
I have no doubt that the enterprising students will either find ways around (or at least optimal solutions to) the caps.
longest. review. ever.
i don't own a penguin, how should i know?
business and honesty don't mix
there are no boundaries, etc etc. some of these bloggers start to get extremely popular -- popular enough for big companies to notice. an untapped market! there are tens of thousands of blogs and millions of regular readers. the 10 most popular blogs get more traffic than some daily newspapers. the people who write these things are influential, because the readers can identify with them and their daily struggle/musings/etc.
so now the marketers recruit the bloggers and pay them to endorse their product. it seems great at first -- we can have edgy *and* corporate messages. but then someone goes too far. they talk politics or say something in very poor taste and the company's lawyers get worried that they will be identified as promoting this kind of thought/talk/ideology. not good for the company's image, which said company spends $10s of millions promoting each year.
the company implements one tiny rule. and then another slip-up, and another rule, etc etc.
now instead of a "stream of consciousness public journal" you have what amounts to be a person being paid by a company to endorse their product and not talk about "bad things" and it ceases to become what made it so popular in the first place and blogs join other less-exciting media channels like radio, tv, and the pre-previews at the movies.
i was about to say "about time the scientists figured *that* out" :P
therein lies the problem. pretty much all our problems could be solved if a majority of ppl _______ (weren't careless/used _____ software/didn't click on emails titled "I Love You"/etc.). but that's the problem.
getting a majority of anyone to do anything is a major accomplishment in and of itself. wishful thinking.
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