...so that RealPlayer can install itself on the LCD display in a prominent manner, pop up annoying ads every minute, reset itself to the most annoying set of options after you restart the iPod, play poor quality audio and, most of all, make itself completely unremovable from the iPod once installed?
And while we're at it, can we give an iPod a wireless interface and GPS so that it can report to RealNetworks exactly where you've been going and what you've been doing while you've been carrying the thing around.
I wonder how strong the ammonia is. There are plenty of good cheeses that have a hint of ammonia and many people enjoy the ammonia flavor of skate and shark meat.
Produce a product that anyone else can copy and you'll soon go bankrupt. That's capitalism. What you describe is a system of government backed monopoly.
very few plumbers have to deal with users who consistently download BonziBuddy, blindly click on suspicious email attachments and use their cd trays as cupholders
The arrogance of IT people astounds me. As if life is a piece of cake for the plumber trying to extricate the shit blocked by the mass of condoms and tampons that his latest customer shoved down their 80 year old toilet followed by some Drano-related product that clearly says on the label "Do Not Use On Indoor Plumbing" in bright read letters and is currently dissolving the very structure of the plumbing itself. But somehow IT people think they are special and that their problems are much worse than everyone else.
What's logically invalid? There have been many claims that the death of Apple is imminent without the death of Apple happening. This has now happened enough times for me to see the causal link between "Apple failing" and "someone announcing that Apple is about to fail" as being very tenuous at best. So when a new such announcement is made I see this as (1) not being evidence for the demise of Apple and (2) evidence for the lack of trustworthiness of the author. So it is quite rational for someone to dismiss such claims even without examining them. What's "logically invalid" about that? It's just a simple application of Bayes' theorem.
...unstable that you don't want to boot into it, or you can't sleep from it, then it might be useful to have this stuff in the BIOS. I recommend getting a decent OS installed.
If a pharmaceutical company discovers that an obscure old-fashioned herbal remedy actually works 10 times better than a synthetic compound they've just found they'll keep quiet about the herbal remedy. You'd think that with a discovery like that they'd make a pill from the herbal rememdy. But the moment they do it they'll be copied by generic manufacturers (as it can't be patented) so it has next to no value. It's only worth many companies marketing a drug if it has a long enough patent life.
But of course if a drug company spends 7 years developing a drug and starts trying to recoup some of that cost over the next few years everyone will forget the R&D and point out how the drug costs nothing to make and so the company is ripping everyone off. When I worked at a pharmaceutical company there were cases when it took so long to develop a drug that it wasn't worth bringing it to market because the patent would almost have expired by time it was ready for release. (The patent needs to be filed right at the beginning of the testing process.)
If you're going to use fancy terms like 'imprimatur' you should spell them correctly. It's straight from Latin so doesn't have the 'francisized' ending.
Well in a sense the real people to blame are the people who called intellectual property 'intellectual property'. It's a stupid name. Property is a mechanism for dealing with scarce resources by allocating them to a person called the 'owner' who then has the exclusive right to use them. IP is quite different as there is no scarcity. I guess the inventors of the concept tried to emulate the physical property situation by causing an artificial scarcity but it still seems different enough to me to warrant a different name. The moment someone called it 'property' the use of the word 'stealing' is inevitable.
Yikes! Is there a shortage of matter in the universe that using 1.8 tons of it is a burden? The sooner we can make pure energy computing evices the better. Or is there a shortage of that too?
I just read an article that says that ethical corporations do better in the long run
Maybe true. But someone should ask whether the CEOs of ethical corporations are better off in the long run. I see unethical CEOs jumping from one company to another paying themselves wonderfully and yet always leaving behind a sinking ship. These people manage to live the most expensive lifestyles and seem able to get away with anything. As long as CEOs can do this, unethical companies will continue to exist regardless of whether they are successful.
Well yeah! They might not know any of that but still know how to pull a trigger and know that liberals are trying to remove their right to shoot wherever they want.
Some people don't know what a box is. Some people don't understand what a cross is. Some people don't understand that the cross needs to go in the box. Some people don't realise that you need to put one cross in one box. Some people don't understand that the box they need to put the cross in comes next to the name of the candidate that they are choosing. And some people come from Florida.
All this fussing over miniscule differences in quality is plain stupid. I'm yet to hear a stereo system that could make me think that the performers were actually in the room with me - or even come close (at least for reproductions of acoustic material - electronically generated sounds can of course be reproduced convincingly). This is like arguing over which of two different lumps of shit is actually the better gourmet meal.
What I do is write comments on slashdot that look plausible but are actually completely false. I like to use pseudo-science and obscure jargon to back up my arguments and convince the unsuspecting spectator. Sometimes I just make unverifiable claims with an air of authority and that's enough to convince people to give me karma.
No, seriously. Consider the book Ulverton. It's a story about a village that spans centuries in a series of 12 chapters, each set in a different time, each connected to the others through various common elements, with each chapter having a different principal character who is the narrator. Ulverton was written in 1992 and is excellent if you can get hold of it.
Walking is a very suspicious activity. The only people who walk are (1) criminals or (2) people who are too poor to buy a car and so are probably also criminal.
Of course the premise wasn't actually his. The original source, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, was much more fun because it does a better of job of blurring the distinctions between fiction and non-fiction and therefore sucks you in. Of course the authors present it as fact but that's just part of the fun.
I meant to add. Technical achievement awards come with a little handbook explaining exactly what you are allowed to call them. The Academy have control over this because Oscar and various oher terms are in fact trademarks.
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And while we're at it, can we give an iPod a wireless interface and GPS so that it can report to RealNetworks exactly where you've been going and what you've been doing while you've been carrying the thing around.
I wonder how strong the ammonia is. There are plenty of good cheeses that have a hint of ammonia and many people enjoy the ammonia flavor of skate and shark meat.
Produce a product that anyone else can copy and you'll soon go bankrupt. That's capitalism. What you describe is a system of government backed monopoly.
What's logically invalid? There have been many claims that the death of Apple is imminent without the death of Apple happening. This has now happened enough times for me to see the causal link between "Apple failing" and "someone announcing that Apple is about to fail" as being very tenuous at best. So when a new such announcement is made I see this as (1) not being evidence for the demise of Apple and (2) evidence for the lack of trustworthiness of the author. So it is quite rational for someone to dismiss such claims even without examining them. What's "logically invalid" about that? It's just a simple application of Bayes' theorem.
...unstable that you don't want to boot into it, or you can't sleep from it, then it might be useful to have this stuff in the BIOS. I recommend getting a decent OS installed.
If a pharmaceutical company discovers that an obscure old-fashioned herbal remedy actually works 10 times better than a synthetic compound they've just found they'll keep quiet about the herbal remedy. You'd think that with a discovery like that they'd make a pill from the herbal rememdy. But the moment they do it they'll be copied by generic manufacturers (as it can't be patented) so it has next to no value. It's only worth many companies marketing a drug if it has a long enough patent life.
But of course if a drug company spends 7 years developing a drug and starts trying to recoup some of that cost over the next few years everyone will forget the R&D and point out how the drug costs nothing to make and so the company is ripping everyone off. When I worked at a pharmaceutical company there were cases when it took so long to develop a drug that it wasn't worth bringing it to market because the patent would almost have expired by time it was ready for release. (The patent needs to be filed right at the beginning of the testing process.)
If you're going to use fancy terms like 'imprimatur' you should spell them correctly. It's straight from Latin so doesn't have the 'francisized' ending.
Well in a sense the real people to blame are the people who called intellectual property 'intellectual property'. It's a stupid name. Property is a mechanism for dealing with scarce resources by allocating them to a person called the 'owner' who then has the exclusive right to use them. IP is quite different as there is no scarcity. I guess the inventors of the concept tried to emulate the physical property situation by causing an artificial scarcity but it still seems different enough to me to warrant a different name. The moment someone called it 'property' the use of the word 'stealing' is inevitable.
Yikes! Is there a shortage of matter in the universe that using 1.8 tons of it is a burden? The sooner we can make pure energy computing evices the better. Or is there a shortage of that too?
...that you can design data structures that parallel the way in which you represent numbers? You mean like this?
Well yeah! They might not know any of that but still know how to pull a trigger and know that liberals are trying to remove their right to shoot wherever they want.
Sue me!
What? Looking like Tom Cruise in Minority Report wasn't reason enough?
Some people don't know what a box is. Some people don't understand what a cross is. Some people don't understand that the cross needs to go in the box. Some people don't realise that you need to put one cross in one box. Some people don't understand that the box they need to put the cross in comes next to the name of the candidate that they are choosing. And some people come from Florida.
All this fussing over miniscule differences in quality is plain stupid. I'm yet to hear a stereo system that could make me think that the performers were actually in the room with me - or even come close (at least for reproductions of acoustic material - electronically generated sounds can of course be reproduced convincingly). This is like arguing over which of two different lumps of shit is actually the better gourmet meal.
What I do is write comments on slashdot that look plausible but are actually completely false. I like to use pseudo-science and obscure jargon to back up my arguments and convince the unsuspecting spectator. Sometimes I just make unverifiable claims with an air of authority and that's enough to convince people to give me karma.
No, seriously. Consider the book Ulverton. It's a story about a village that spans centuries in a series of 12 chapters, each set in a different time, each connected to the others through various common elements, with each chapter having a different principal character who is the narrator. Ulverton was written in 1992 and is excellent if you can get hold of it.
A tad jealous are we? My ass is nice and comfy on an Aeron.
Walking is a very suspicious activity. The only people who walk are (1) criminals or (2) people who are too poor to buy a car and so are probably also criminal.
Of course the premise wasn't actually his. The original source, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, was much more fun because it does a better of job of blurring the distinctions between fiction and non-fiction and therefore sucks you in. Of course the authors present it as fact but that's just part of the fun.
I meant to add. Technical achievement awards come with a little handbook explaining exactly what you are allowed to call them. The Academy have control over this because Oscar and various oher terms are in fact trademarks.