Success is contributing to the world. Making money is what _should_ happen if you contribute, but anybody who believes you get paid commisserate to your level of contribution to society is as blind to reality as those who claim communism could work. Neither system is perfect, and judging people's achievements by their success in cashing in is a piss poor way to judge people.
It ain't a 'just world', friend. Some people make the mad dough for nothing, others never get paid until its too late (see Vincent van Gogh).
We use Netsaint, and its great. Lots of other people use it too. Nobody made any money on apache, and yet, its the dominant web server! So is apache unsuccessful? Or can we all agree that creating something which is used by many people inidicates a success (ie, a functional, useful innovation.) Whether or not you make money on it is at the discretion of the author of the work... and nothing pisses creators off more than folks evaluating the weight of their contribution by the coin they were able to amass off of it.
Another example might be Jay Leno. He gives all the money he makes from the Tonight Show to charity. So the Tonight Show never made him money. Is he a failure? A sucker? Or just smart enough to know that contributing is more important than amassing wealth once you're living at a means you're content with?
Okay, I'm sure some poster will happily link to prior art, but that keyboard is fucking cool.
Automagically adjusting itself depending on the ambient light... fibre optic light strips... the Christians are going to have a whole other sexuality to denounce this year, cause between the aluminum casing, the 1440x990 screen, this just might be the year where people are finally caught literally humping their powerbooks. Look at those pics, I know I would!
The great thing about emusic is alot of the artists are second tier - they tend to have cool musicians who arn't all about making it rich and are more about making interesting music.
Plus, its a treasuretrove of jazz rereleases, and they have a good selection of off the beaten path underground hiphop.
Of course, theres alot of shit, but hey, I'm getting on the order of 10 to 15 CDs I like per month for 9.99.. how can you beat that!
Selling anything copyable is just like throwing shit at a wall... make sure you have enough shit, and at least _some_ of it will stick.
Fortunately for software vendors, people will actually duplicate and throw your shit for you, saving you from having to bear the total cost of discovering what shit will stick to what wall.. its kind of like repaying said shit-producing company for not installing a piracy-detection-chip directly in your forehead.
To me, that will always be the glorious and perfect balance between charging for something that can be copied and not living in a Big Brothered police state where even your calculator has DRM.
So to Apple, I say, hats off and good luck with your shit!
Whats the matter.. have trouble forming your own opinions when somebody else shares theirs? Excuse me while I laugh. I think you're simply upset that a guy who may not share your opinions gets the audience of so many people.
Why don't you save your breath for major news moguls that get the audience RMS has, times a million, to furthur their own poli/econ beliefs?
I think when a 10 ten list of physics needs to provide suspense to somebody, they've clearly already got all the suspense they need. I mean, whats more suspenseful than not knowing and wondering what lies outside one's front door?
Because an artist can pass their wealth on to their family and friends, it is not in the public's interest to allow artists to profit ad infititum. It creates laziness that shows up in both the art (see formulaic boy/girl bans) and in the business (major labels failure to address the demands of their online customers). Sure, its obvious why Eisner goes for it; you can't stop the system of business, even if its individual parts may recognize their actions as crappy. Or may not. People will hopefully wakeup and stop this, "go for self" thing. Its retarded. Share the pie, don't dive into it and ruin it for the rest.
The pauses wern't inexplicable.. every pause was his mind repeating in soothing tones, "I look like a goof. But the its worth the pay check. I look like a goof. Buts its worth.. "
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I dont know what artists you know, but coding a rudimentary delivery mechanism for a trans and protocol out of water drops doesn't sound very 'arty'. Just nerdy, but in a good way. Lots of interesting discoveries happen when people are just noodling around.
Somebody above pointed out that this is the branch of science known as 'fluidics', and the equipment he used he may have gotten from any number of companies that produce fluidics instruments.
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I'm not sure I'd like to be the first hacker in a media frenzy.
I'd choose a longer trial so by the time I got it, it wasnt a circus.
Despite a joystick being repeatedly proven to offer better control to the driver, we still drive cars with steering wheels. Why? Because thats what humans are used to.
Books are indeed subject to the physical and mechanical contraints on their manufacture. But now people are used to books. They like books. They know how they work. They seem familliar.
Thus, any limitations of the physical manifestation of a 'book' are superceded by the familliarity people have with them. Put simply, adoption of technology often heavily depends on how small a learning curve there is to become familiar with said new technology. Its in the ebook industry's interest to get people using ebooks (using a computer similar to a regular book), and then improving on the design over time rather rather than simply trying to develop a technology who places its chances on success soley on progressive engineering rather than familiarity of interface/design.
Why do you think segways get made so much fun of? Why do you think they called it the 'horseless carrige'? New technology needs to harken to the technology its meant to replace or it simply doesn't often succeed.
Give the guy a chance! Maybe hes Christian and only sees the stuff he doesnt like or cant have: intoxication and copulation. Though your point still stands as being correct.
If you have to travel all the way out to the desert for stoned orgies, you're not making the right kind of friends in your own home town.
You don't have to travel out into the desert for the things Burned Man is _accused_ of being, as pretty much all first-hand Burning Man accounts have pointed out.
There's an important distinction here. This dual LCD puppy (its very cool, maybe somebody else has made one before) is the closest thing, interface wise, to an electronic book as I've seen.
The joke is that the 'compose ringtone' feature on my phone is DISABLED by the phone company. You know, so I'll have to 'buy' the ability to play the tune on my casio - er, my phone.
I'm all for not allowing folks to sell copies, but you sure as hell should be able to make them for yourself. It burns me that my provider (Telus) or phone maker (Sony/Ericsson) removed the 'compose' feature (its right there in the manual), so I'll never buy a stupid ring tone in my life.
I _can_ play Star Wars well enough to do it myself on a silly little beeping thing, thanks. Now the whole John Williams orchestra thing.. sure, I'll pay to hear that. I dont know what the parent poster was on, but trying to ban people from writing their own? Fuck that! Whats next, I gotta check with the labels before I play my piano?
Unless they had to manually engage the starter clutch like he did every time.;)
Actually, does anyone know how that works. When he took it to MTU, how did they setup an automated testing system? Do they have a kind of 'meta' sequencer that would be inappropriate to use on the actual jetpack?
I'm just a coder, so sometimes I wanna know how the fuck people go round and play with huge turbines. Thats just cool.
The first ones usually tank. Than somebody finds the magic pill, and voila.
The.bomb years had a ton of people trying to sell shit that will become common place in the future. They were just too early.. technology and markets both have to hit puberty before people stop snickering.
Christ, I can't believe how many people sound like they switched their 1998 office chair for a 2002 rocking chair... there are huge differences between today and 1998.
Read the article and you'll note there is a sale in there. Hard to tank when your clients actually have the money to pay up these days (or youre not being paid in stock.).. and the news is especially interesting given how tentative companies are to spend on this sort of thing today. Must have been a dam convincing test flight.
Well, we could put 5000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea, but PanIP or Acadia probably owns the patent on cloning laywers so it'd be tough to win a conclusive victory that way.
Esentially, if you knew about it in 91, you can't wait till now to go after royalties.
This might be one of those Vapor-Laws that money speaks louder than, however.
Everybody read those links, because these submarine patents are bullshit and the more noise the public makes about them, the less likely Acadia, Pan IP, and every other non-innovative lawyer on the planet are to think they can get aware with this bullshit.
Google ranks pages by how many times they are linked to.
Thats great when you're looking up community-approved 'homepages'.. pages lots of people are likely to link to in order to indicate some sort of 'authority' on a given subject.
But what if you're looking for some obscure page that is more 'on topic' for a given search term than another page which happens to feature all the words of your search and is linked to a million and one times? Google isn't your search engine of choise then.
Other search engines, by using other algorithms, can be vastly more useful than google depending on the nature of the treasure of your hunt.
The do a sthick like this in "Rozencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead", a fantastic movie with Gary Oldman based on the Top Stoppard favorite.
One of them keeps discovering advanced concepts of physics (the movie is set in the time of Hamlet) playing with potted plants and bowling balls and feathers, but is never able to fully expand on them as he is repeatedly distracted by plot advancement.
Its pretty funny, and this kinda reminded me of that.
The Univerisy of Waterloo also had a bomb ass scavenger hunt every year, until some guy died trying to climb the exhaust pipe of the uni's envrionmental control building. (Anyone remember the Onion article, "Thre stupid kids spoil toy for everyone else"?)
So the University banned Scavenger Hunts.
Now we have Havenger Scunts (take that, laywers!), and every year has a new theme. The year I remember best was the 70s blaxpliotation theme. My shirt "Funky Scunt, 99'" gets a lot of double-takes if you read it quickly.
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> Most people consider money a part of success.
... and nothing pisses creators off more than folks evaluating the weight of their contribution by the coin they were able to amass off of it.
Speak for yourself.
Success is contributing to the world. Making money is what _should_ happen if you contribute, but anybody who believes you get paid commisserate to your level of contribution to society is as blind to reality as those who claim communism could work. Neither system is perfect, and judging people's achievements by their success in cashing in is a piss poor way to judge people.
It ain't a 'just world', friend. Some people make the mad dough for nothing, others never get paid until its too late (see Vincent van Gogh).
We use Netsaint, and its great. Lots of other people use it too. Nobody made any money on apache, and yet, its the dominant web server! So is apache unsuccessful? Or can we all agree that creating something which is used by many people inidicates a success (ie, a functional, useful innovation.) Whether or not you make money on it is at the discretion of the author of the work
Another example might be Jay Leno. He gives all the money he makes from the Tonight Show to charity. So the Tonight Show never made him money. Is he a failure? A sucker? Or just smart enough to know that contributing is more important than amassing wealth once you're living at a means you're content with?
Okay, I'm sure some poster will happily link to prior art, but that keyboard is fucking cool.
... fibre optic light strips ... the Christians are going to have a whole other sexuality to denounce this year, cause between the aluminum casing, the 1440x990 screen, this just might be the year where people are finally caught literally humping their powerbooks. Look at those pics, I know I would!
Automagically adjusting itself depending on the ambient light
The great thing about emusic is alot of the artists are second tier - they tend to have cool musicians who arn't all about making it rich and are more about making interesting music.
.. how can you beat that!
Plus, its a treasuretrove of jazz rereleases, and they have a good selection of off the beaten path underground hiphop.
Of course, theres alot of shit, but hey, I'm getting on the order of 10 to 15 CDs I like per month for 9.99
Selling anything copyable is just like throwing shit at a wall ... make sure you have enough shit, and at least _some_ of it will stick.
.. its kind of like repaying said shit-producing company for not installing a piracy-detection-chip directly in your forehead.
Fortunately for software vendors, people will actually duplicate and throw your shit for you, saving you from having to bear the total cost of discovering what shit will stick to what wall
To me, that will always be the glorious and perfect balance between charging for something that can be copied and not living in a Big Brothered police state where even your calculator has DRM.
So to Apple, I say, hats off and good luck with your shit!
So that you can form your own?
.. have trouble forming your own opinions when somebody else shares theirs? Excuse me while I laugh. I think you're simply upset that a guy who may not share your opinions gets the audience of so many people.
Whats the matter
Why don't you save your breath for major news moguls that get the audience RMS has, times a million, to furthur their own poli/econ beliefs?
I think when a 10 ten list of physics needs to provide suspense to somebody, they've clearly already got all the suspense they need. I mean, whats more suspenseful than not knowing and wondering what lies outside one's front door?
Ba-dum-ching!
Because an artist can pass their wealth on to their family and friends, it is not in the public's interest to allow artists to profit ad infititum. It creates laziness that shows up in both the art (see formulaic boy/girl bans) and in the business (major labels failure to address the demands of their online customers). Sure, its obvious why Eisner goes for it; you can't stop the system of business, even if its individual parts may recognize their actions as crappy. Or may not. People will hopefully wakeup and stop this, "go for self" thing. Its retarded. Share the pie, don't dive into it and ruin it for the rest.
The pauses wern't inexplicable .. every pause was his mind repeating in soothing tones, "I look like a goof. But the its worth the pay check. I look like a goof. Buts its worth .. "
I dont know what artists you know, but coding a rudimentary delivery mechanism for a trans and protocol out of water drops doesn't sound very 'arty'. Just nerdy, but in a good way. Lots of interesting discoveries happen when people are just noodling around.
Somebody above pointed out that this is the branch of science known as 'fluidics', and the equipment he used he may have gotten from any number of companies that produce fluidics instruments.
I'm not sure I'd like to be the first hacker in a media frenzy.
I'd choose a longer trial so by the time I got it, it wasnt a circus.
Despite a joystick being repeatedly proven to offer better control to the driver, we still drive cars with steering wheels. Why? Because thats what humans are used to.
Books are indeed subject to the physical and mechanical contraints on their manufacture. But now people are used to books. They like books. They know how they work. They seem familliar.
Thus, any limitations of the physical manifestation of a 'book' are superceded by the familliarity people have with them. Put simply, adoption of technology often heavily depends on how small a learning curve there is to become familiar with said new technology. Its in the ebook industry's interest to get people using ebooks (using a computer similar to a regular book), and then improving on the design over time rather rather than simply trying to develop a technology who places its chances on success soley on progressive engineering rather than familiarity of interface/design.
Why do you think segways get made so much fun of? Why do you think they called it the 'horseless carrige'? New technology needs to harken to the technology its meant to replace or it simply doesn't often succeed.
Give the guy a chance! Maybe hes Christian and only sees the stuff he doesnt like or cant have: intoxication and copulation. Though your point still stands as being correct.
If you have to travel all the way out to the desert for stoned orgies, you're not making the right kind of friends in your own home town.
You don't have to travel out into the desert for the things Burned Man is _accused_ of being, as pretty much all first-hand Burning Man accounts have pointed out.
Dude, putting that thing away is origami!
There's an important distinction here. This dual LCD puppy (its very cool, maybe somebody else has made one before) is the closest thing, interface wise, to an electronic book as I've seen.
The joke is that the 'compose ringtone' feature on my phone is DISABLED by the phone company. You know, so I'll have to 'buy' the ability to play the tune on my casio - er, my phone.
.. sure, I'll pay to hear that. I dont know what the parent poster was on, but trying to ban people from writing their own? Fuck that! Whats next, I gotta check with the labels before I play my piano?
I'm all for not allowing folks to sell copies, but you sure as hell should be able to make them for yourself. It burns me that my provider (Telus) or phone maker (Sony/Ericsson) removed the 'compose' feature (its right there in the manual), so I'll never buy a stupid ring tone in my life.
I _can_ play Star Wars well enough to do it myself on a silly little beeping thing, thanks. Now the whole John Williams orchestra thing
Unless they had to manually engage the starter clutch like he did every time. ;)
Actually, does anyone know how that works. When he took it to MTU, how did they setup an automated testing system? Do they have a kind of 'meta' sequencer that would be inappropriate to use on the actual jetpack?
I'm just a coder, so sometimes I wanna know how the fuck people go round and play with huge turbines. Thats just cool.
Who cares about the music _industry_, who's going to save music?
'Nuff said.
You thought right, but think wrong.
.bomb years had a ton of people trying to sell shit that will become common place in the future. They were just too early .. technology and markets both have to hit puberty before people stop snickering.
... there are huge differences between today and 1998.
.. and the news is especially interesting given how tentative companies are to spend on this sort of thing today. Must have been a dam convincing test flight.
The first ones usually tank. Than somebody finds the magic pill, and voila.
The
Christ, I can't believe how many people sound like they switched their 1998 office chair for a 2002 rocking chair
Read the article and you'll note there is a sale in there. Hard to tank when your clients actually have the money to pay up these days (or youre not being paid in stock.)
Well, we could put 5000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea, but PanIP or Acadia probably owns the patent on cloning laywers so it'd be tough to win a conclusive victory that way.
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http://www.zurichre-na.com/web/converium/conver
Esentially, if you knew about it in 91, you can't wait till now to go after royalties.
This might be one of those Vapor-Laws that money speaks louder than, however.
Everybody read those links, because these submarine patents are bullshit and the more noise the public makes about them, the less likely Acadia, Pan IP, and every other non-innovative lawyer on the planet are to think they can get aware with this bullshit.
Google ranks pages by how many times they are linked to.
.. pages lots of people are likely to link to in order to indicate some sort of 'authority' on a given subject.
Thats great when you're looking up community-approved 'homepages'
But what if you're looking for some obscure page that is more 'on topic' for a given search term than another page which happens to feature all the words of your search and is linked to a million and one times? Google isn't your search engine of choise then.
Other search engines, by using other algorithms, can be vastly more useful than google depending on the nature of the treasure of your hunt.
The do a sthick like this in "Rozencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead", a fantastic movie with Gary Oldman based on the Top Stoppard favorite.
One of them keeps discovering advanced concepts of physics (the movie is set in the time of Hamlet) playing with potted plants and bowling balls and feathers, but is never able to fully expand on them as he is repeatedly distracted by plot advancement.
Its pretty funny, and this kinda reminded me of that.
> what Archie and Betty and Veronica might have been up to?
.kids domain! ;)
A clandistine manage-a-trois our parents were thankfully unaware of? Bring on the
The Univerisy of Waterloo also had a bomb ass scavenger hunt every year, until some guy died trying to climb the exhaust pipe of the uni's envrionmental control building. (Anyone remember the Onion article, "Thre stupid kids spoil toy for everyone else"?)
So the University banned Scavenger Hunts.
Now we have Havenger Scunts (take that, laywers!), and every year has a new theme. The year I remember best was the 70s blaxpliotation theme. My shirt "Funky Scunt, 99'" gets a lot of double-takes if you read it quickly.