Thank you for posting this.
You saved me the effort of saying it.
Threatening to cancel a slow-perfoming show
is a great way to generate new publicity.
The only better way is a lawsuit.
A good studio would cancel the show at the height
of its success, with no warning, and leave it in
the public's mind that way.
Any woman attracted by displays of conspicuous consumption is, ipso facto, not someone worth attracting.
:-) And yet... success and wealth are top of most women's criteria for men, whether they believe it themselves or not.
It is difficult to imagine things working any other way.
Women want men who can be good fathers and this means - most of all - good providers.
Than this light-emitting cloak.
Just glue banknotes to your jacket.
Actually, as an example of conspicuous consumption
expensive toys like this are fairly good
at attracting women.
Is that what is happening to digital music
will have a great impact on our lives.
Napster started a revolution.
Bertelsmann bought Napster either to shut it down
or to try to profit from its reputation.
Either way, they were 6 months too late.
But their move was very important.
Old media trying to keep control...
Expect some bloodshed in violent revolutions.
More interestingly: how will music adapt to use the Net?
Simple file sharing/piracy is not viable.
Someone has to create the content people want.
People will pay for choice and quality.
My guess? Look at the porn industry.
See how they have adapted to using the Net.
There are differences...
but we have seen an entirely digital industry spring up in about 5 years.
It may take that long for a digital music industry to emerge.
It is not about intelligence. There is no designer.
Only the success of replicators.
We Humans consistently underestimate
the impact of thousands of small but
meaningful changes.
Our own intelligence is not that complex.
Unless you want to understand each piece in detail.
Like the circuit, the 'Why' is almost impossible to answer. A non-question, in many ways.
But the 'How' is simple, almost too simple to believe.
Imagine this evolutionary process...
all around us, all the time, in every species
and in every living thing
since the dawn of life 3.5bn years ago.
The key is turning technology into products.
A product is kept alive by its users.
How much effort did JBoss invest before getting here?
It takes time and money to create a product.
And often, luck.
But when it works, branding turns it from technology into a box.
And people will buy boxes. They love boxes.
See my Nikes!
JBoss is a great example. Kudos, kudos!
Re:Two finger^h^h^h^h^h^h eye typists...
on
Type With Your Eyes
·
· Score: 0
The universe of humans is strictly limited
by the capabilities of the machinery we have evolved
to deal with it.
Turing's Theory may apply to the computers of the human brain
but all the evidence points the other way...
we solve the specific problems we are adapted for very well
and the rest of the universe remains a mystery.
To put it another way: the human body and mind is not infinitely flexible.
It is adapted for certain specific tasks. Hands are tools. Eyes observe.
I'm not an idiot for pointing this out.
Using your eyes to manipulate anything
be it letters or carrots
has got to be the silliest thing a person ever tried
along with trying to fly by flapping one's arms really hard.
Manipulation = hands. Ten fairly independent digits...
Adapted and selected for pointing, pushing, probing.
Nah... instead let's use our eyes.
Adaped and selected for video capture.
What's next? Reading with Braille for the masses?
I think even my two feet would type faster than my eyes.
This is just Technology For The Sake Of It.
The Underpants Gnomes of IT.
Step 1: make useless invention.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: profit!!!
Trying something new for a niche platform
makes sense when looking at the market.
AOL does not need browser wars...
but it needs to regain control of its user base.
If AOL is smart it will test the waters
before jumping in.
Consider Gecko on Mac to be a prototype for
a new AOL version for Windows.
Yesterday we saw that SSL has largely been a sham.
Security seems to be the blind leading the blind.
Putting security into the hands of geeks and machines
is like being a passenger in a car driven by a learner who has passed the written exam.
Security is about people.
Humans excell at cracking systems to get at the rewards.
Humans invent tools to crack systems.
We can strengthen our locks.
But we cannot remove ourselves from the chain.
Ites thinks: the 100% digital world is totally insecure.
We should eliminate crimes we cannot enforce
and accept the total loss of personal privacy.
Welcome to the Global Village, humans!
Indeed, my PC is too slow today.
Please, more speed!
It just takes too long to filter
the 300 virus emails I get each day.
But I digress... marketing demands a catchy name...
Red Hammer?
Humans see by guessing and reverse engineering
messy swathes of light into solid objects with
meaning.
Elegance, and built-in models, not raw power, are the keys.
Future digital displays will simulate reality,
in real time. They will, like the human eye,
turn everything outside the center of the visual
field into disconnected mush.
Hold your hand just out of the center
of vision and try to count the fingers...
(Take this as a troll if you wish), (but)
Ironic when Slashdot accepts advertising from
Microsoft, no?
Yes, Slashdot wants me to try.NET.
Ites says: no thanks.
Curious... this non-story
on
Gone Fission
·
· Score: 2, Funny
$25,000 of business is "explosive"?
No photos? One weak story copied by
several weak editors
Ites says: for the full scoop, please
interview the worms and find out how
they feel about being imported in unclean
boxes, chopped into little pieces, and
used as fishbait.
Not to mention the insulting name.
"If you can't sell it, give it away."
One of the few rationalisations that makes sense for Open Source.
Ites says: welcome choice and competition.
Aim not at Microsoft but at the users. Fast, cheap, robust, portable. This should be the goal of all software developers.
Lastly, patience. Good things come slowly.
Teenagers, practising their skills,
consider their 'work' worthy of
historical note. Arrogance? Youth?
Ites says: easy to make drawings in
the sand. Ideas are cheap. Finish
the job and you will deserve to be
remembered.
Slashdot Mirror
Opportunistic, using one's daughter.
Aimster was a scavenger concept.
Chewing some meat off dead Napster.
Dead bones bleaching in the sun...
Thank you for posting this.
You saved me the effort of saying it.
Threatening to cancel a slow-perfoming show
is a great way to generate new publicity.
The only better way is a lawsuit.
A good studio would cancel the show at the height
of its success, with no warning, and leave it in
the public's mind that way.
It is difficult to imagine things working any other way.
Women want men who can be good fathers and this means - most of all - good providers.
Than this light-emitting cloak.
Just glue banknotes to your jacket.
Actually, as an example of conspicuous consumption
expensive toys like this are fairly good
at attracting women.
Actually, if one person can power a single 133mhz 486,
Then a Beowulf cluster of the things might actually be useful.
Is that what is happening to digital music
will have a great impact on our lives.
Napster started a revolution.
Bertelsmann bought Napster either to shut it down
or to try to profit from its reputation.
Either way, they were 6 months too late.
But their move was very important.
Old media trying to keep control...
Expect some bloodshed in violent revolutions.
More interestingly: how will music adapt to use the Net?
Simple file sharing/piracy is not viable.
Someone has to create the content people want.
People will pay for choice and quality.
My guess? Look at the porn industry.
See how they have adapted to using the Net.
There are differences...
but we have seen an entirely digital industry spring up in about 5 years.
It may take that long for a digital music industry to emerge.
It is not about intelligence. There is no designer.
Only the success of replicators.
We Humans consistently underestimate
the impact of thousands of small but
meaningful changes.
Our own intelligence is not that complex. Unless you want to understand each piece in detail.
Like the circuit, the 'Why' is almost impossible to answer. A non-question, in many ways.
But the 'How' is simple, almost too simple to believe.
Imagine this evolutionary process...
all around us, all the time, in every species
and in every living thing
since the dawn of life 3.5bn years ago.
The key is turning technology into products.
A product is kept alive by its users.
How much effort did JBoss invest before getting here?
It takes time and money to create a product.
And often, luck.
But when it works, branding turns it from technology into a box.
And people will buy boxes. They love boxes.
See my Nikes!
JBoss is a great example. Kudos, kudos!
The universe of humans is strictly limited
by the capabilities of the machinery we have evolved
to deal with it.
Turing's Theory may apply to the computers of the human brain
but all the evidence points the other way...
we solve the specific problems we are adapted for very well
and the rest of the universe remains a mystery.
To put it another way: the human body and mind is not infinitely flexible.
It is adapted for certain specific tasks. Hands are tools. Eyes observe.
I'm not an idiot for pointing this out.
Using your eyes to manipulate anything
be it letters or carrots
has got to be the silliest thing a person ever tried
along with trying to fly by flapping one's arms really hard.
Manipulation = hands. Ten fairly independent digits...
Adapted and selected for pointing, pushing, probing.
Nah... instead let's use our eyes.
Adaped and selected for video capture.
What's next? Reading with Braille for the masses?
I think even my two feet would type faster than my eyes.
This is just Technology For The Sake Of It.
The Underpants Gnomes of IT.
Step 1: make useless invention.
Step 2: ???
Step 3: profit!!!
Trying something new for a niche platform
makes sense when looking at the market.
AOL does not need browser wars...
but it needs to regain control of its user base.
If AOL is smart it will test the waters
before jumping in.
Consider Gecko on Mac to be a prototype for
a new AOL version for Windows.
Yesterday we saw that SSL has largely been a sham.
Security seems to be the blind leading the blind.
Putting security into the hands of geeks and machines
is like being a passenger in a car driven by a learner who has passed the written exam.
Security is about people.
Humans excell at cracking systems to get at the rewards.
Humans invent tools to crack systems.
We can strengthen our locks.
But we cannot remove ourselves from the chain.
Ites thinks: the 100% digital world is totally insecure.
We should eliminate crimes we cannot enforce
and accept the total loss of personal privacy.
Welcome to the Global Village, humans!
Indeed, my PC is too slow today.
Please, more speed!
It just takes too long to filter
the 300 virus emails I get each day.
But I digress... marketing demands a catchy name...
Red Hammer?
Humans see by guessing and reverse engineering
messy swathes of light into solid objects with meaning.
Elegance, and built-in models, not raw power, are the keys.
Future digital displays will simulate reality,
in real time. They will, like the human eye,
turn everything outside the center of the visual
field into disconnected mush.
Hold your hand just out of the center
of vision and try to count the fingers...
(Take this as a troll if you wish), (but) .NET.
Ironic when Slashdot accepts advertising from
Microsoft, no?
Yes, Slashdot wants me to try
Ites says: no thanks.
$25,000 of business is "explosive"?
No photos? One weak story copied by
several weak editors
Ites says: for the full scoop, please
interview the worms and find out how
they feel about being imported in unclean
boxes, chopped into little pieces, and
used as fishbait.
Not to mention the insulting name.
"If you can't sell it, give it away."
One of the few rationalisations that makes sense for Open Source.
Ites says: welcome choice and competition.
Aim not at Microsoft but at the users. Fast, cheap, robust, portable. This should be the goal of all software developers.
Lastly, patience. Good things come slowly.
Teenagers, practising their skills, consider their 'work' worthy of historical note. Arrogance? Youth? Ites says: easy to make drawings in the sand. Ideas are cheap. Finish the job and you will deserve to be remembered.