The clever thing the USA Regime has done is to fool it's own citizens into thinking thats its not authoritarian like other evil authoritarians. You see, they have worked that letting you say anything you like doesn't really hurt them, in fact, it keeps you thinking that everything is cool, so you you dont RISE UP.
I've had this argument with my wife:
"You are in denial"
"No I'm not"
You are in an authoritarian country that is managing a 250,000,000 person Truman show. Let the record show, I for one have been wondering about this weather.
This is a nobody will ever need more than 640kb arguement. Technology now vs. technology in a few years, or a classic case of the innovator's dilemna.
The innovative product tends to be less attractive. It's the scalability of the technology that is important. The net will scale to make moving GBs easier and cheaper than using the USPS. It just hasn't yet.
At the University of Virginia, they are designing the classrooms so that the professor can control whether or not the network is accessible. This is currently done with an ethernet network and a big push button in the front of the room.
The nice elaboration is to put network access on a timer. The network simply drops when class begins, and comes up when class should be over (although professors tend to run a few minutes over). In can be overridden with the toggle.
Early on, students would trick the system by flipping the switch when the professor was not looking. So the school added a green light in the back of the room, which indicated whether the net was up.
Now the green light shines when classing is over, and the light flicking off calls the class to attention.
Net access can be a valuable tool, or a distraction. The right solution should give the professor flexiblity to design how it is used in class.
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The issue here is that there is a big difference between how "we" think "we" respond to marketers and how we actually repsond.
Marketers are actually quite sophisticated in measuring how users move up the chain from:
view --> click --> browse --> purchase
It is relatively straighforward to price each of those stages. When "we" think "we" never click on the cute monkeys, the truth is "we" do. And we click on enough monkeys.
With all of the monkey clicking going on, I imagine soon Orbitz will be wondering where the copy of Hamlet came from....
One question that should be near and dear to slashdot hearts is whether there is a quality difference between consumer and business computer lines. For example, Dell offers two laptop lines: business Lattitudes and consumer Inspirons, where a similar set of specs can differ roughly $600 in price.
I previously worked at a big consulting company where the help desk kept a stack of Lattitudes ready to swap out.
The point is not to bash Dell, but to ask, has anyone actaully seen the benefits of buying the more expensive business machines? How about on the desktop?
When I want to buy something, I use either Google, or a product-specific price-search engine (like PriceWatch). Amazon counts as my LAST choice for finding something (actually not quite true... If I need to use Google to find a product for sale, I often check Amazon first, just to get things like UPC or ISBN numbers to narrow my search).
This should be called the fundamental (slashdot) attribution error. Assuming that we are representative of the market.
Reminds me of a VC I know. They were sitting in a conference room back in 1998 hearing a pitch from an online bill presentment company. The partner's first objection was that obviously everyone already had online banking and bill payment. To prove it, he asked everyone in the room if they had online banking. Everyone did.
Out in the real-world, > 2% of people had online banking.
One thing no one has addressed is how easy Lindows is to connect to commerical internet services. In particular, Verizon DSL and AOL require clients to connect. Does anyone have any experience running Lindows or other Linuxes with the big consumer services?
A consumer windows replacement needs to be able to support consumer internet services.
The real point here is that the only thing of value in EQ is time. The penalty for dying? time. Need to improve? time. Travel? Time.
By changing the money/time equation, these macros take the challenge out of the game.
They also shift the balance away from people who have no life.
Telemarketing is one of the strongest reasons to keep a land-line. Imagine if you were getting those calls direct to your pocket, whereever you are.
Soon the land line will be for spammers, just like the separate public email address.
The related question is whether this armor will be usable on helicopters. This sort of protection would have prevented many of the blackhawk down problems.
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I've had this argument with my wife:
"You are in denial"
"No I'm not"
You are in an authoritarian country that is managing a 250,000,000 person Truman show. Let the record show, I for one have been wondering about this weather.
I watched the flight video and I couldn't help thinking that they need to hook up with Segway to iron out all of the stability and usability problems.
The innovative product tends to be less attractive. It's the scalability of the technology that is important. The net will scale to make moving GBs easier and cheaper than using the USPS. It just hasn't yet.
It turns out we don't want to get called, but we still buy.
We hate TV ads, and think we go to the bathroom, but ads still affect our behavior, enough that Regis can be paid $20MM a year.
And most of us are posting using MS software. Admit it.
It's all about what we say and what we actually do.
For more details, consider Fact Checking a Polemicist which reviews many of the factual lapses in the movie.
The nice elaboration is to put network access on a timer. The network simply drops when class begins, and comes up when class should be over (although professors tend to run a few minutes over). In can be overridden with the toggle.
Early on, students would trick the system by flipping the switch when the professor was not looking. So the school added a green light in the back of the room, which indicated whether the net was up.
Now the green light shines when classing is over, and the light flicking off calls the class to attention.
Net access can be a valuable tool, or a distraction. The right solution should give the professor flexiblity to design how it is used in class.
The issue here is that there is a big difference between how "we" think "we" respond to marketers and how we actually repsond.
Marketers are actually quite sophisticated in measuring how users move up the chain from:
view --> click --> browse --> purchase
It is relatively straighforward to price each of those stages. When "we" think "we" never click on the cute monkeys, the truth is "we" do. And we click on enough monkeys.
With all of the monkey clicking going on, I imagine soon Orbitz will be wondering where the copy of Hamlet came from....
I previously worked at a big consulting company where the help desk kept a stack of Lattitudes ready to swap out.
The point is not to bash Dell, but to ask, has anyone actaully seen the benefits of buying the more expensive business machines? How about on the desktop?
Otherwise it's painful.
When I want to buy something, I use either Google, or a product-specific price-search engine (like PriceWatch). Amazon counts as my LAST choice for finding something (actually not quite true... If I need to use Google to find a product for sale, I often check Amazon first, just to get things like UPC or ISBN numbers to narrow my search).
This should be called the fundamental (slashdot) attribution error. Assuming that we are representative of the market.
Reminds me of a VC I know. They were sitting in a conference room back in 1998 hearing a pitch from an online bill presentment company. The partner's first objection was that obviously everyone already had online banking and bill payment. To prove it, he asked everyone in the room if they had online banking. Everyone did.
Out in the real-world, > 2% of people had online banking.
A consumer windows replacement needs to be able to support consumer internet services.
The real point here is that the only thing of value in EQ is time. The penalty for dying? time. Need to improve? time. Travel? Time. By changing the money/time equation, these macros take the challenge out of the game. They also shift the balance away from people who have no life.
Does anyone remember quadraphonic sound? The 8-track? Show me that we have made a big leap up this mountain of diminishing marginal returns.
Telemarketing is one of the strongest reasons to keep a land-line. Imagine if you were getting those calls direct to your pocket, whereever you are. Soon the land line will be for spammers, just like the separate public email address.
Which is why it is so surprising that the playstation 2 has a cooling fan. Ok for games, lousy for DVDs.
The related question is whether this armor will be usable on helicopters. This sort of protection would have prevented many of the blackhawk down problems.