To that end, what do you think a Lady Gaga CD will go for in (roughly) 2070, do you think? More importantly, how widely do you think her songs would be played by then? Would anyone still alive then even know or care who she was? That my friend is the big metric of success or failure concerning creative works.
You're assuming that a CD will go for anything in 2070. Current trends seem to suggest that the future price of music is 0$.
The PPC version is hidden away with one of the openoffice "Projects" -- click on the projects tab, and then you're on your own, but eventually you get to an ftp site. I've found it to be very stable in light use (I mostly use the Linux version).
can you be more specific than "and then you're on your own?" I can't find it.
Are you kidding? All the action is on the internet now, and activity there will certainly have an effect on the perception of a brand. The desktop-market, particularly for Operating Systems and Office products is increasingly becoming commoditised, product-quality is pretty much under control (and many of the failures can be blamed on 3rd party drivers and hardware-issues), and Microsoft needs to pursue new growth avenues. Ignoring the internet is pretty much the worst advice to give to a software-company that wants to rule the world.
When you dig deep down into Astrology, beyond the silly tabloid stuff, I find there's a lot of perplexing accuracy there. Too much, in my opinion, to be a complete coincidence. Two things that I found very useful: reading Astrology for lovers (apart from the stupid title, it's very much in depth), and having my ascendant and "houses" analysed by a professional.
As much as I agree with the fact that current copyright-laws are too restrictive and ridiculously long, the fact is that we do not live forever and achieve immortality through our children. If I create a copyright, I sure as hell want my children to at least be able to profit from it, even if I suffer an untimely death.
One thing I believe about the law is that is should follow nature, and it is natural to extend copyright beyond a lifetime (though not necessarily longer than a few generations (ca. 30 years)).
I didn't say there was anything special related to Apple's hardware, apart from on the outside. But by restricting themselves to a certain number of hardware-profile, they pretty much guarantee that stuff will work out of the box. As the example in the parent-post illustrated, for Ubuntu it's pretty much dependant on luck and similar for Windows, which depends on drivers.
See for Windows, the reason why it is so compatible is because of market-power--manufacturers have to comply because they are in the game. And it's also generally perceived as an asshole company, as well as being fraught with security-issues. For Apple to be in the same boat, it would have to become a monopolist, force manufacturers to write compatible drivers. It would have to become an asshole and open themselves up to vulnerabilities. Why would you want them to do that?
No, Apple does not necessarily sell superior hardware. But it does sell a superior symbiosis of hardware-software, just like, ironically, the closed XBox-platform software-hardware symbiosis is superior to that of a PC, and maybe a Mac.
I think you're already providing a counter-argument in your post. The reason why OSX works so well and people love it, is because it's so very compatible with the hardware it runs under. In contrast to that are Windows and Linux, which seem to be designed for everything, yet also imperfectly, either opening themselves up to security-issues or simply not doing the job they could.
This symbiosis is Apple's core-advantage. Now why would they let that go?
There's one big unscientific aspect about that poll, at least when I tried to vote on it. You can only see the results if you voted. So how many people do you think just clicked any option to see the results?
A couple of people, including me, mentioned it in the comments and Engadget should've changed it right away. Just another reason to question blogs as an authentic media source.
I've not read the article, because I thought it might be to frustrating to read about something I can't have. But here's my opinion on the logic of patents.
Innovation is an expensive process. If one company were to try an incorporate all the most innovative features into let's say a phone, it would be hella unaffordable as well. Case in point: the iPhone, though they certainly skimmed on features as well to save costs.
Patents mean that companies can recuperate costs of development, and they also lose their validity after a number of years. As this happens, economies of scale kick in and eventually these innovative features become affordable and can be integrated into e.g. a phone in 2035. Naturally someone will respond that by that time, the feature will be useless, but maybe it won't, I don't know. I see a technology like the pinch in the iPhone, as something that may always be useful on a tiny screen (assuming we won't have phones implanted into our skulls, or similar).
Anyway, this is just an opinion. I'm not arguing that all patents are right, but I do believe that there is some sense to having a patenting-system.
Very well written, indeed!
Just to add to this, Schumpeter, the grandfather of innovation, distincts between innovation and invention as well. From the Capitalist Process (1939):
"The making of the invention and the carrying out of innovation are, economically and sociologically, two entirely different things. They may, and often have been, performed by the same person; but this is merely a chance coincidence which does not affect the validity of the distinction. Personal attitudes--primarily intellectual in the case of the inventor, primarily volitional in the case of the businessman who turns the invention into an innovation--and the methods by which the one and the other work, belong to different spheres".
In other words, the process of innovation is more the commercialisation of an invention, rather than the coming up with a scientific discovery.
I think it's interesting the way you see inventors as mostly inadequate for normal life. It makes them sound like artists, which in many ways they are.
This is officially a rat-hole, but you are aware that there is whole ecosystem based on prostitution and drugs, right? That means there are far more people involved, there's more crime, and the penalty is far higher. Wars have been started based on drugs, someone on drugs and on power can inflict a lot of damage, etc. etc. With prostitution, there is the risk of aids, there is a lot of dodgy people-trafficking involved, there are pimps, etc., etc. I really see essay-trafficking as a far smaller "crime" and also not even close to the virus-analogy my original respondent made.
I mean, yes, some can get hurt by losing a job to a cheater. But people get hurt losing jobs pretty much every day. It's called capitalism. You might as well ban beautiful girls and tall people, while you're at it. I maintain that proper HR-practices in firms and cheat-prevention mechanisms in schools are the best way to do this, instead of pushing these things to the rim. This, incidentally, applies to prostitution and drugs as well. By outlawing things, we encourage smarter criminals instead of solving the problem.
I'd love to hear statistics on that. There are two takes I can take on it. a. that the person cheating learned nothing and would not pass a job-interview (and if they did, what's the value of qualifications?) and b. that the person cheating did learn something, which I find more credible, and got the job based on their perceived qualifications by the interviewer (who should never base their choice on pieces of paper alone).
Furthermore, when I said "database of essays" I purposefully did not say "provider of writing the essays for you." It is a database, which people can submit essays to and other people can use them to learn from them. If they use them for cheating they are stupid as every major educational institution is aware of this site, it was one of the first, and can include them in their plagiarism-checks. In that sense it is a victimless crime, unlike essay-writing services, which you are right, can in some abstracted sense - far less than virus-distribution and thermo-nuclear war, I grant you - cause harm to companies with bad HR-practices and the people who don't get jobs there.
But thanks for your cynical reply.
It's ironic that the some of the Google-ads that I'm seeing below this story now are:
'Where to get academic papers' and 'How to write a better paper'
After a reload, I got an ad for online Casinos.
Personally, being a friend of someone who runs an online database of essays, I think there are three negatives to this. A. people have a choice and if they choose to cheat and risk penalties that should be their right. B. By moving such choices to the rim of existence, you also make it harder for teachers and such to check for plagiarism. And C. you run people out of business who are offering a fairly victimless "crime," at least compared to prostitution and drugs.
I'm not sure about the "deceptive" part, but http://www.stumbleupon.com/ just did the exact same thing to me, causing me to send invites to 100s of people. And of course, I feel stupid now, though I can't say that Stumbler's intent was 100% clear--by which I mean, a warning spelled out in big bold red letters warning me that each of these people would be sent a mail. I'm sure it says it somewhere in the fine print, but is that really enough?
...is that birds are on a constant exercise-regiment while the trend with humans is that they become more and more sedentary, behind their PCs, xboxes, or otherwise. I'm just saying this because some "productivity-gurus" may draw the conclusion that we should follow birds' examples. If we ditched our cars and started running everywhere, on the other hand... zzz
there's some softwares that allow you to set a window on-top at all times. For OSX, windowshade does the job (at a price). For windows, there's probably more choice.
So what are the consequences for the environment here? I realise that it's not nice to have billions of batteries lying around, but do these mini-furnaces cause any other kind of pollution? I did not find anything about this in the 'challenges ahead' section, nor do I know much about gas (no pun intended) to be honest.
Can you give a link proving that a vegan diet will kill you? Just out of curiosity, but that's the 1st I hear of it. Soya is a great meat-substitue, it holds all the amino-acids the body needs. Plenty of vegetable hold the calcium that's usually derived from milk. So I don't really see what the problem is with going vegan? Or was that just your opinion?
"one of them showed FF's tabs, which amazes me because that is one of the easiest ways to get somebody to switch from IE."
It won't be when IE7 comes out.
I wonder if/when the new intel-macs will have dual-booting abilities and you are able to install Vista, or worse XP, on them, could this make the Apple-OS more vulnerable? I'm thinking rootkit-like virusses and assuming that Vista-security could be lacking.
First of all that list is way too short. If you want to credit people that have benefited the industry in 2005, AND include people from all related areas, it should be a top-100. Second, the most innovative game I played in 2005 was Fahrenheit, aka Indigo Prophecy, and David Cage should be on that list for making it. How many new games that were completely different from what came before did you see in 2005?
Hmm that's strange coward, I'm an 'I' as you call it and frequently think outside the box. I have learned to be extroverted in public through giving a ton of presentations at uni and whatnot. I hate fine-tuning, and leave that for those that enjoy it... accountant-types I call them. I know plenty of extroverted women in accountancy, incidentally, but I assume that some will be good at this fine-tuning as you call it.
As an introvert, I find it offensive to be put inside a box like the one you described. If you are the true "extrovert". which I doubt, you have just disproven your point that extroverts think outside the box as well.
I personally also prefer to look at people through their starsigns, if you know what I mean. There are four elements, water (e.g. pisces), fire (e.g. leo), earth (e.g. virgo), and air (e.g. gemini). I am fire, explaining my temper and drive, air people are chatty, water people are artistic, and earth people are down to earth. The latter I have experienced like the fine-tuning a lot more... however with ascendants coming into play it is not a clearcut science.
OK fair enough that you can't afford to do the recruiting cycle for a whole team, but I would go through the effort to hire someone you trust to find and manage the right team for you. Whether these are student "code-monkeys", international cheap-labour, or the IBM-team from hell, all that doesn't matter if you have someone that works close to you and knows how to find and utilise these resources to their fullest potential.
I have no desire to start a flaming war here, but the price of an xbox is sure to drop as soon as the 360 comes out, what in 2 weeks? That should bring it to about a fifth.
Does the mini come with a remote included then? Eh, don't think so. You need to pay for a keyboard and mouse seperately. For the xbox you can buy a DVD-pack, very cheaply now, which comes with an actual remote, or get it chipped at a similar price, or softmoded which is free if you know how to do it. In which case you can use the controller as a, yes tethered, remote.
I *am* a mac-user and lover, but there are little options as cheap as the xbox, if you want an allround multimedia-solution, excluding the screen of course.
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One step closer to holding that gun.
To that end, what do you think a Lady Gaga CD will go for in (roughly) 2070, do you think? More importantly, how widely do you think her songs would be played by then? Would anyone still alive then even know or care who she was? That my friend is the big metric of success or failure concerning creative works.
You're assuming that a CD will go for anything in 2070. Current trends seem to suggest that the future price of music is 0$.
The PPC version is hidden away with one of the openoffice "Projects" -- click on the projects tab, and then you're on your own, but eventually you get to an ftp site. I've found it to be very stable in light use (I mostly use the Linux version).
can you be more specific than "and then you're on your own?" I can't find it.
Are you kidding? All the action is on the internet now, and activity there will certainly have an effect on the perception of a brand. The desktop-market, particularly for Operating Systems and Office products is increasingly becoming commoditised, product-quality is pretty much under control (and many of the failures can be blamed on 3rd party drivers and hardware-issues), and Microsoft needs to pursue new growth avenues. Ignoring the internet is pretty much the worst advice to give to a software-company that wants to rule the world.
Any sources to your claims?
When you dig deep down into Astrology, beyond the silly tabloid stuff, I find there's a lot of perplexing accuracy there. Too much, in my opinion, to be a complete coincidence. Two things that I found very useful: reading Astrology for lovers (apart from the stupid title, it's very much in depth), and having my ascendant and "houses" analysed by a professional.
As much as I agree with the fact that current copyright-laws are too restrictive and ridiculously long, the fact is that we do not live forever and achieve immortality through our children. If I create a copyright, I sure as hell want my children to at least be able to profit from it, even if I suffer an untimely death.
One thing I believe about the law is that is should follow nature, and it is natural to extend copyright beyond a lifetime (though not necessarily longer than a few generations (ca. 30 years)).
I didn't say there was anything special related to Apple's hardware, apart from on the outside. But by restricting themselves to a certain number of hardware-profile, they pretty much guarantee that stuff will work out of the box. As the example in the parent-post illustrated, for Ubuntu it's pretty much dependant on luck and similar for Windows, which depends on drivers.
See for Windows, the reason why it is so compatible is because of market-power--manufacturers have to comply because they are in the game. And it's also generally perceived as an asshole company, as well as being fraught with security-issues. For Apple to be in the same boat, it would have to become a monopolist, force manufacturers to write compatible drivers. It would have to become an asshole and open themselves up to vulnerabilities. Why would you want them to do that?
No, Apple does not necessarily sell superior hardware. But it does sell a superior symbiosis of hardware-software, just like, ironically, the closed XBox-platform software-hardware symbiosis is superior to that of a PC, and maybe a Mac.
I think you're already providing a counter-argument in your post. The reason why OSX works so well and people love it, is because it's so very compatible with the hardware it runs under. In contrast to that are Windows and Linux, which seem to be designed for everything, yet also imperfectly, either opening themselves up to security-issues or simply not doing the job they could. This symbiosis is Apple's core-advantage. Now why would they let that go?
There's one big unscientific aspect about that poll, at least when I tried to vote on it. You can only see the results if you voted. So how many people do you think just clicked any option to see the results?
A couple of people, including me, mentioned it in the comments and Engadget should've changed it right away. Just another reason to question blogs as an authentic media source.
I've not read the article, because I thought it might be to frustrating to read about something I can't have. But here's my opinion on the logic of patents.
Innovation is an expensive process. If one company were to try an incorporate all the most innovative features into let's say a phone, it would be hella unaffordable as well. Case in point: the iPhone, though they certainly skimmed on features as well to save costs.
Patents mean that companies can recuperate costs of development, and they also lose their validity after a number of years. As this happens, economies of scale kick in and eventually these innovative features become affordable and can be integrated into e.g. a phone in 2035. Naturally someone will respond that by that time, the feature will be useless, but maybe it won't, I don't know. I see a technology like the pinch in the iPhone, as something that may always be useful on a tiny screen (assuming we won't have phones implanted into our skulls, or similar).
Anyway, this is just an opinion. I'm not arguing that all patents are right, but I do believe that there is some sense to having a patenting-system.
Just to add to this, Schumpeter, the grandfather of innovation, distincts between innovation and invention as well. From the Capitalist Process (1939):
In other words, the process of innovation is more the commercialisation of an invention, rather than the coming up with a scientific discovery.
I think it's interesting the way you see inventors as mostly inadequate for normal life. It makes them sound like artists, which in many ways they are.
This is officially a rat-hole, but you are aware that there is whole ecosystem based on prostitution and drugs, right? That means there are far more people involved, there's more crime, and the penalty is far higher. Wars have been started based on drugs, someone on drugs and on power can inflict a lot of damage, etc. etc. With prostitution, there is the risk of aids, there is a lot of dodgy people-trafficking involved, there are pimps, etc., etc. I really see essay-trafficking as a far smaller "crime" and also not even close to the virus-analogy my original respondent made. I mean, yes, some can get hurt by losing a job to a cheater. But people get hurt losing jobs pretty much every day. It's called capitalism. You might as well ban beautiful girls and tall people, while you're at it. I maintain that proper HR-practices in firms and cheat-prevention mechanisms in schools are the best way to do this, instead of pushing these things to the rim. This, incidentally, applies to prostitution and drugs as well. By outlawing things, we encourage smarter criminals instead of solving the problem.
I'd love to hear statistics on that. There are two takes I can take on it. a. that the person cheating learned nothing and would not pass a job-interview (and if they did, what's the value of qualifications?) and b. that the person cheating did learn something, which I find more credible, and got the job based on their perceived qualifications by the interviewer (who should never base their choice on pieces of paper alone). Furthermore, when I said "database of essays" I purposefully did not say "provider of writing the essays for you." It is a database, which people can submit essays to and other people can use them to learn from them. If they use them for cheating they are stupid as every major educational institution is aware of this site, it was one of the first, and can include them in their plagiarism-checks. In that sense it is a victimless crime, unlike essay-writing services, which you are right, can in some abstracted sense - far less than virus-distribution and thermo-nuclear war, I grant you - cause harm to companies with bad HR-practices and the people who don't get jobs there. But thanks for your cynical reply.
It's ironic that the some of the Google-ads that I'm seeing below this story now are: 'Where to get academic papers' and 'How to write a better paper' After a reload, I got an ad for online Casinos. Personally, being a friend of someone who runs an online database of essays, I think there are three negatives to this. A. people have a choice and if they choose to cheat and risk penalties that should be their right. B. By moving such choices to the rim of existence, you also make it harder for teachers and such to check for plagiarism. And C. you run people out of business who are offering a fairly victimless "crime," at least compared to prostitution and drugs.
I'm not sure about the "deceptive" part, but http://www.stumbleupon.com/ just did the exact same thing to me, causing me to send invites to 100s of people. And of course, I feel stupid now, though I can't say that Stumbler's intent was 100% clear--by which I mean, a warning spelled out in big bold red letters warning me that each of these people would be sent a mail. I'm sure it says it somewhere in the fine print, but is that really enough?
...is that birds are on a constant exercise-regiment while the trend with humans is that they become more and more sedentary, behind their PCs, xboxes, or otherwise. I'm just saying this because some "productivity-gurus" may draw the conclusion that we should follow birds' examples. If we ditched our cars and started running everywhere, on the other hand... zzz
there's some softwares that allow you to set a window on-top at all times. For OSX, windowshade does the job (at a price). For windows, there's probably more choice.
So what are the consequences for the environment here? I realise that it's not nice to have billions of batteries lying around, but do these mini-furnaces cause any other kind of pollution? I did not find anything about this in the 'challenges ahead' section, nor do I know much about gas (no pun intended) to be honest.
Can you give a link proving that a vegan diet will kill you? Just out of curiosity, but that's the 1st I hear of it. Soya is a great meat-substitue, it holds all the amino-acids the body needs. Plenty of vegetable hold the calcium that's usually derived from milk. So I don't really see what the problem is with going vegan? Or was that just your opinion?
"one of them showed FF's tabs, which amazes me because that is one of the easiest ways to get somebody to switch from IE."
It won't be when IE7 comes out.
I wonder if/when the new intel-macs will have dual-booting abilities and you are able to install Vista, or worse XP, on them, could this make the Apple-OS more vulnerable? I'm thinking rootkit-like virusses and assuming that Vista-security could be lacking.
First of all that list is way too short. If you want to credit people that have benefited the industry in 2005, AND include people from all related areas, it should be a top-100. Second, the most innovative game I played in 2005 was Fahrenheit, aka Indigo Prophecy, and David Cage should be on that list for making it. How many new games that were completely different from what came before did you see in 2005?
Hmm that's strange coward, I'm an 'I' as you call it and frequently think outside the box. I have learned to be extroverted in public through giving a ton of presentations at uni and whatnot. I hate fine-tuning, and leave that for those that enjoy it... accountant-types I call them. I know plenty of extroverted women in accountancy, incidentally, but I assume that some will be good at this fine-tuning as you call it. As an introvert, I find it offensive to be put inside a box like the one you described. If you are the true "extrovert". which I doubt, you have just disproven your point that extroverts think outside the box as well. I personally also prefer to look at people through their starsigns, if you know what I mean. There are four elements, water (e.g. pisces), fire (e.g. leo), earth (e.g. virgo), and air (e.g. gemini). I am fire, explaining my temper and drive, air people are chatty, water people are artistic, and earth people are down to earth. The latter I have experienced like the fine-tuning a lot more... however with ascendants coming into play it is not a clearcut science.
OK fair enough that you can't afford to do the recruiting cycle for a whole team, but I would go through the effort to hire someone you trust to find and manage the right team for you. Whether these are student "code-monkeys", international cheap-labour, or the IBM-team from hell, all that doesn't matter if you have someone that works close to you and knows how to find and utilise these resources to their fullest potential.
I have no desire to start a flaming war here, but the price of an xbox is sure to drop as soon as the 360 comes out, what in 2 weeks? That should bring it to about a fifth.
Does the mini come with a remote included then? Eh, don't think so. You need to pay for a keyboard and mouse seperately. For the xbox you can buy a DVD-pack, very cheaply now, which comes with an actual remote, or get it chipped at a similar price, or softmoded which is free if you know how to do it. In which case you can use the controller as a, yes tethered, remote.
I *am* a mac-user and lover, but there are little options as cheap as the xbox, if you want an allround multimedia-solution, excluding the screen of course.