I'm confused....
From your account, Franklin sold stock in his library, and Carnegie donated money for the ones he built.
Oversimplifications aside, which is the visionary and which the profiteer?
I don't think we're the core audience for this product (or the article). The major sites I search for info all live on a toolbar - and a folder of shortcuts on a jump drive takes care of portability.
For Joe User, this isn't as easy, since it isn't always intuitive. I think education on how to work with existing tools would be at least as useful as trotting out another portal and calling it the newest version of sliced bread.
I think gmail's interface is interesting and useful (i.e., the "conversation" concept), but don't forget that Google is first and foremost an advertising company. Every e-mail you look at has context ads along with it. So when I get an e-mail from my buddy Enzo I get a column of car ads....
Don't lose sight of the fact that "Do no evil" depends on your definition of "evil."
I have to agree with the second point - that it is much harder, if not impossible, for one person to have the impact across many different fields. The body of knowledge that is out there today versus Einstein's day makes it virtually impossible for one person to keep track of it all. Witness the internet information explosion, which allows us all access to so much information that activity can grind to a halt. Or, as Ratbert puts it, "how did people look busy before computers?"
What about Brown's claim?
"What I had at the time I was fired and sued was an idea," Brown says in an interview. "It was not along the line of their business or the work I did for the company. This suit was solely an attempt by their legal department to... seize something to which they were not entitled,"
If the company is trying to make money off an employee's idea that is not related to their current business, but instead a perceived opportunity they're taking advantage of..... that would qualify this as a bad ruling
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I'm confused ....
From your account, Franklin sold stock in his library, and Carnegie donated money for the ones he built.
Oversimplifications aside, which is the visionary and which the profiteer?
I don't think we're the core audience for this product (or the article). The major sites I search for info all live on a toolbar - and a folder of shortcuts on a jump drive takes care of portability. For Joe User, this isn't as easy, since it isn't always intuitive. I think education on how to work with existing tools would be at least as useful as trotting out another portal and calling it the newest version of sliced bread.
I think gmail's interface is interesting and useful (i.e., the "conversation" concept), but don't forget that Google is first and foremost an advertising company. Every e-mail you look at has context ads along with it. So when I get an e-mail from my buddy Enzo I get a column of car ads ....
Don't lose sight of the fact that "Do no evil" depends on your definition of "evil."
I have to agree with the second point - that it is much harder, if not impossible, for one person to have the impact across many different fields. The body of knowledge that is out there today versus Einstein's day makes it virtually impossible for one person to keep track of it all. Witness the internet information explosion, which allows us all access to so much information that activity can grind to a halt. Or, as Ratbert puts it, "how did people look busy before computers?"
What about Brown's claim? "What I had at the time I was fired and sued was an idea," Brown says in an interview. "It was not along the line of their business or the work I did for the company. This suit was solely an attempt by their legal department to ... seize something to which they were not entitled,"
If the company is trying to make money off an employee's idea that is not related to their current business, but instead a perceived opportunity they're taking advantage of ..... that would qualify this as a bad ruling