We are talking about a free instant messaging system here. Brokerage house employees probably constitute.00001% of the total IM market. I don't see anyone rushing out to help them.
Now proprietary, commerical IM developers....they will be the ones to capitalize on this, if any.
I was quite surprised when I came across the shareware offerings that are appearing on OS X. Ambrosia Software released what I have to say is the first innovative game I've seen in a long time. Uplink by Ambrosia Software-- a Gibsonish hacking simulator, in the sense that Elite and Frontier are economic simulators.
The first time I ran against an International Banking system, I actually started sweating as I watched the traceback get closer (so quickly) to my home system............ this will appeal to your inner hacker, perhaps as a guilty pleasure.
Most engrossing game experience since Half-Life. And at least six other games floating around the mac shareware sites of equal quality. Blows the hell out of anything commericial AND the noble offerings of Linux developers.
Yes. Everyone is exactly the same. There is no such thing as schizophrenia....just lazy homeless who don't like to work. Same goes for the poor...they just need to work harder, and they can all be millionaires too.
You summed up the actual problem, despite your easy dismissal of it. ADD brains need a higher level of stimulation to function normally. Pleasurable activities release tons of neurotransmitters into the blood, which leads to Pavolian focus on the activities that cause said reaction. Check out some hard-evidence EGK machines to see what I'm talking about.p>
I see, however, that your mind is quite closed on the topic. For what it's worth, everyone that I've come across with opinions like yours have an issue with psychiatry/pharmacology as it is practiced in society, and expand that dislike to cover the patients, too. So your reaction is understandable, if simply wrong.
Believe it or not, People Are Different. If people can have physically divergent features, who is to say that minds cannot be equally varied?
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A Theory of Origin....Hunters & Gatherers
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I have seen many academics and scientists ponder the roots and causes of ADD. One theory I saw in an earlier post referred to mate selection. I came across a much more thorough hypothesis from another source (the name of which is.....forgotten;).
ADD as it is known should be considered a personality trait -- still a mutation from the norm, but not a 'disease' in the medical sense. It was theorized that ADD stems from the hunter/gatherer dicotomy. A tribe of hunters would need to perceive their environment very differently than a tribe of gatherers (and later, harvesters) would. Hunters, like all predators, need to think and act in bursts of intensity in periods of intense stimuli; whereas farmers need to have an excellent sense of time, attention to detail despite repetition, and other such traits.
It's a pity I cannot recall the source. If nothing else, this gives us ADD'ers out there something to smirk smugly about (for once). "I'm a hunter, you are all tedious berry gatherers. Why do you not acknowledge my badass neurology?"
Very much on topic. A similar point was made between Martha Stewart and Microsoft. Who is more important to The Economy, a caterer or a software monopoly? Who gets to ride roughshod over our laws, and who gets to be the target of a witch hunt?
Like Bill Gates didn't commit purjury during his depositions or anything. Yes, Martha Stewart is definately the only person who has lied to the Government. I'm relieved that once she is behind bars, we can all go back to investing again....whew. Almost choked on my sarcasm that time.
That's an even better title than "open source movement." Shared software movement sounds very positive, very....well, cooperative, and is a little more meaningful to the ears of the non-technical. Perhaps it should go into use more often.
It's called balance -- he's the only person on Slashdot who managed to buy one of the damn things. Might as well listen -- it's the equivalent of actually reading the article.....
This is a tactic from any business that has to comply with requests for information: Administrative Fees. Let's say you have a blog with medium recognition. You get a request for someone's response to an opinion you published. Since the request is being done by your web design staff (i.e. yourself), who have terribly important duties to attend to, a modest "administrative fee" would probably be legal in a situation like this. $10-$20 dollars for time and effort seems right.
Trolls would be discouraged, more information would flow, and your pocket just might get fatter (or at least deflate slower) in the process.
Then just limiting this to my informal personal survey of New York City, I still say much, much higher. Large corporate parks with "art" departments probably skew the statistics in the direction you mention. But they are not very interested in hiring design professionals in those sorts of environments -- more like design monkeys. This, too, is just from what I have witnessed. Make of it what you will.
IF its only 6 weeks, this can be sustained. When it grows to 6 months, to a year plus, that is NOT sustainable. You break down. You wear out.
Why in the name of Sanity do supposedly smart individuals allow themselves to be treated this way? If you figure what your salary is reduced to after a year (and I hope you were exaggerating....) of 12/7 (or 12/6, or yes, 12/5) you may have well just dropped out of high school for what you are earning.
Yes, Real Life often makes harsh demands in the modern workplace; families must eat, gas tanks filled, bills paid. But when all is said and done, I suspect the Geek is far more likely to be coerced in this fashion than other employees. Call it a holdover from the schoolyard. In my experience, the only other people who get worked (exploited?) that thoroughly are business-fodder. You know, what investment bankers are before they get the big accounts.....why are the Geeks right alongside them? I truly wonder.
Most corporations that have heavy graphic or web design utilize the Macintosh platform. The designers will not be putting out websites that they cannot test on their own machines -- trust me on that. I work with alot of them. These same people (and others like them elsewhere in the economy) are actually talented and important enough to have a say in what gets done.
So Microsoft's move is not really helpfull to Apple -- but it is also not the gambit you suspect it might be.
One of theories on this comes from Terrance McKenna who, while having colorful opinions, was an anthropologist by trade. He put together a rather interesting theory on the sudden "jump-start" of civilization: certain tribes in a few select regions started eating the mushrooms that grew in the vicinity of cattle. McKenna theorized that the psychedelic properties of the mushrooms acted as some sort of catalyst for higher levels of mental and social complexity. The supporting information can be found in the book An Archaic Revival -- needless to say, there is enough evidence to really make you think...
Profit generation has something to do with it. Not necessarily straight greed, mind you, but more like a general ignorance of that kind of public community effort. MUSHes, MUDs, and the like are all designed to give dedicated players a greater say in the administration and direction of the worlds they frequent. In those environments, everything (including arguements) are done out of love for the world. In Everquest and AO and the like, it's all about money.
Somehow, that simple fact alters things. They haven't quite figured out how to do it yet....
In the case of IBM,they were trying enough new things (I recall the Thinkpad being a real saviour for them) and trying them well that they were forgiven for earlier "crimes." In addition, IBM's more....aggressive business practices were reigned in by lawsuits, and judges.
The same will probably happen with Microsoft -- but not before there is a shift in corporate culture. The business decisions being made are less about constructing an excellent product and more about making money around (for lack of a better term) products.
But you see my point. The fact that the jouranlist and possibily editor ok'ed the jab at Microsoft is because they, like many other people who make/influence decisions, are tired of playing the monopolists game. And that will have a negative effect of some sort. So it may not be true doom for Microsoft that I speak of, but rather the mode that it operates in now.
That reads like one of the chiding statements that companies advertise in the back of writing magazines. You sure you don't do that for a living or something?
From the article: SCO also won a license from Microsoft, which agreed to pay SCO to ensure that it would not violate intellectual property rights when developing software that works with Unix. But Microsoft's move was widely seen as an attempt to lend weight to SCO's attack on Linux, which Microsoft views as a threat to its Windows franchise.
This rather strong anti-Microsoft comment is coming off Reuters. Not Slashdot. This tells me that, despite what the Windows apologists may say, the public view of Microsoft closely mirrors some of the more cynical posts here. Such widely-held disdain spells doom for a corporation. Cash reserves and ruthless schemes will only go so far against it....
Not that airplanes will have anything to do with the next attack -- but since they are actually securing cockpits now, why not go ahead and give the crew the ability/authority to depressurize the cabin without releasing the oxygen masks? It would be much more cost effective (if with a certain cold, Israeli touch) than futile searches, database systems, and the like. Casualties are to be expected, but (a) the plane will not fly into anything, and (b) the plane might land with survivors aboard.
Of course there are certain technicalities with this -- but then again, as I mentioned above (and, um, over), the point of the security we see isn't effective response so much as crowd control.
In the official continuation of the original miniseries (both on TV and in print), the funky red powder that makes the lizards pull their fake-skin off as they die is an imperfect solution.
Warm weather/humidity breaks the compound down, so humans are only safe from attacks if they stay in chilly climes. I don't remember many more of the details....I was a wee lad at the time. They may just change the official story for this "second generation," however.
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My bad. I'm not even a Mac user. I just bought the game on Mac because it was so damned fun....I claim user ignorance. ;)
Now proprietary, commerical IM developers....they will be the ones to capitalize on this, if any.
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And there you have it. Newspeak is here!
The first time I ran against an International Banking system, I actually started sweating as I watched the traceback get closer (so quickly) to my home system............ this will appeal to your inner hacker, perhaps as a guilty pleasure.
Most engrossing game experience since Half-Life. And at least six other games floating around the mac shareware sites of equal quality. Blows the hell out of anything commericial AND the noble offerings of Linux developers.
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Good job finding the reference. I posted the theory, but couldn't remember where it came from....
Bit of a small mind you have, eh?
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Quit slashing? You just described an ideal community for people with ADHD. Move over, mundane brain. ;)
Believe it or not, People Are Different. If people can have physically divergent features, who is to say that minds cannot be equally varied?
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ADD as it is known should be considered a personality trait -- still a mutation from the norm, but not a 'disease' in the medical sense. It was theorized that ADD stems from the hunter/gatherer dicotomy. A tribe of hunters would need to perceive their environment very differently than a tribe of gatherers (and later, harvesters) would. Hunters, like all predators, need to think and act in bursts of intensity in periods of intense stimuli; whereas farmers need to have an excellent sense of time, attention to detail despite repetition, and other such traits.
It's a pity I cannot recall the source. If nothing else, this gives us ADD'ers out there something to smirk smugly about (for once).
"I'm a hunter, you are all tedious berry gatherers. Why do you not acknowledge my badass neurology?"
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Like Bill Gates didn't commit purjury during his depositions or anything. Yes, Martha Stewart is definately the only person who has lied to the Government. I'm relieved that once she is behind bars, we can all go back to investing again....whew. Almost choked on my sarcasm that time.
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It's called balance -- he's the only person on Slashdot who managed to buy one of the damn things. Might as well listen -- it's the equivalent of actually reading the article.....
Let's say you have a blog with medium recognition. You get a request for someone's response to an opinion you published. Since the request is being done by your web design staff (i.e. yourself), who have terribly important duties to attend to, a modest "administrative fee" would probably be legal in a situation like this. $10-$20 dollars for time and effort seems right.
Trolls would be discouraged, more information would flow, and your pocket just might get fatter (or at least deflate slower) in the process.
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Then just limiting this to my informal personal survey of New York City, I still say much, much higher. Large corporate parks with "art" departments probably skew the statistics in the direction you mention. But they are not very interested in hiring design professionals in those sorts of environments -- more like design monkeys. This, too, is just from what I have witnessed. Make of it what you will.
Why in the name of Sanity do supposedly smart individuals allow themselves to be treated this way? If you figure what your salary is reduced to after a year (and I hope you were exaggerating....) of 12/7 (or 12/6, or yes, 12/5) you may have well just dropped out of high school for what you are earning.
Yes, Real Life often makes harsh demands in the modern workplace; families must eat, gas tanks filled, bills paid. But when all is said and done, I suspect the Geek is far more likely to be coerced in this fashion than other employees. Call it a holdover from the schoolyard. In my experience, the only other people who get worked (exploited?) that thoroughly are business-fodder. You know, what investment bankers are before they get the big accounts.....why are the Geeks right alongside them? I truly wonder.
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So Microsoft's move is not really helpfull to Apple -- but it is also not the gambit you suspect it might be.
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Eygpt's government is secular. As in, NOT ISLAMIC. They have been fighting terrorists themselves for -years-. Your generalizations shame you.
Somehow, that simple fact alters things. They haven't quite figured out how to do it yet....
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The same will probably happen with Microsoft -- but not before there is a shift in corporate culture. The business decisions being made are less about constructing an excellent product and more about making money around (for lack of a better term) products.
But you see my point. The fact that the jouranlist and possibily editor ok'ed the jab at Microsoft is because they, like many other people who make/influence decisions, are tired of playing the monopolists game. And that will have a negative effect of some sort. So it may not be true doom for Microsoft that I speak of, but rather the mode that it operates in now.
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SCO also won a license from Microsoft, which agreed to pay SCO to ensure that it would not violate intellectual property rights when developing software that works with Unix. But Microsoft's move was widely seen as an attempt to lend weight to SCO's attack on Linux, which Microsoft views as a threat to its Windows franchise.
This rather strong anti-Microsoft comment is coming off Reuters. Not Slashdot. This tells me that, despite what the Windows apologists may say, the public view of Microsoft closely mirrors some of the more cynical posts here. Such widely-held disdain spells doom for a corporation. Cash reserves and ruthless schemes will only go so far against it....
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How amusing. I am glad to see that New Jersey has so much in common with it's namesake! Makes a native proud of his grifting heritage.
Of course there are certain technicalities with this -- but then again, as I mentioned above (and, um, over), the point of the security we see isn't effective response so much as crowd control.
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Warm weather/humidity breaks the compound down, so humans are only safe from attacks if they stay in chilly climes. I don't remember many more of the details....I was a wee lad at the time. They may just change the official story for this "second generation," however.
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