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It's not bad, but it's not some amazing leap forward. Unless I'm afraid of Google controlling the world's data, I'm not sure why I'd go to Bing. Even then, talk about out of the frying pan...
Can you explain what you mean? My first reaction to your post was to mock it as making no sense, then I decided that maybe I'm just missing something. Please clarify what you mean by "money can be sued" and by the idea that money can be "deprived of its liberty"?
If this wasn't intended as a joke, it's one of the strangest posts I've seen in a while.
It was in 1989 that I had my first account, at OCF.berkeley.edu... I posted something to comp.sys.amiga trying to get consensus as to whether or not it was a good idea to spend $300 on a 20 MB external HD for my A500. Those were the days. I didn't realize 20 years had passed.
A friend of mine had a great idea which turned into a great product (that you probably have several copies of, even if you don't know it) that turned into a successful company. Knowing his own limitations--he's a tech guy, not a business person--he effectively hired someone to take over the reigns. CEO, COO, CFO and all, so they could eventually go public.
He stayed on as the president and CTO, and in the process of turning into a public-ready company, he effectively signed over everything. Once, over beers, he was talking about how he already knew the next few ideas he wanted to explore, but he couldn't talk about them or write them down because all of that would be discoverable, that they would legally be company property.
I would say that was sad, but just a few months ago, I looked him up, and he had sold his interest in the company for over $20 million dollars less than 10 years after founding it. Not even including the salary I'm sure he maintained during his tenure, that's not a bad amount to force you to limit your output of ideas for a decade.
Don't know if he's gone on to the other ideas. I'm sure some of them have already been done in the intervening time, but it looks like he basically spends his time with a technology think-tank. Not a bad gig if you can get it.
With the removal of DRM, there's no issue of monopoly whatsoever. 70% of the market is not 100% of the market; a clever player who can work a deal could get in and take over a big chunk of that.
The only issue before was the fact that anything you bought on the ITMS would only work on the iPod. While that sort of software-hardware vendor lock-in still does not constitute a monopoly--there are other stores that work with other devices--the removal of DRM means that you can buy from ITMS and play your files on anything. You might just have to take an extra step of importing your music into a different piece of software.
If anyone were to take that to court and claim that this requirement constituted a monopoly, the judge would try to say, between fits of laughter, "Buy your music from a different store and use that store's music management software. Now GTF out of my courtroom!"
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Before Zork, there was Adventure, a port of a mainframe-based game that I knew as EEB, which I enjoyed playing on the terminal of one John Holdren, Obama's science advisor, when my family would visit his place when I was a small child. It allowed only two-word inputs, and inspired many, many games, including the Zork series referenced by others.
Shortly after moving to my new home town, I found myself looking for a friend's house and getting hopelessly lost, going through one intersection three times from different angles before realizing that it was the same intersection. The line, "You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike", from that game came to mind.
I don't know if it was first. Didn't the rock band Journey have a game first that was totally moronic?
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MULE was certainly super-cool, but I'm not sure that it changed the industry. I guess I could stretch to say that all resource-management games, like Warcraft, etc., inherit something from that game, but I'm not sure that it's true.
From that set of games, I'm surprised you left out Arcon. It also didn't change the industry as it didn't spawn its own genre, but man, it was cool. Like chess, but you've gotta battle it out for every space? How cool is that?!
I wish I had mod points because this is a smart response. I hate it when people use the word "monopoly" as a synonym for "I don't like them." If there's a real reason not to like Apple--even a bad one, like, "I always prefer the underdog," is better than none--then use it. Don't just call it a monopoly.
In some cases, an acronym is not an acronym. SAP is the company name. What does it stand for? Maybe something, but "SAP" is how people refer to the company that's called "SAP".
And in some cases, the acronym is totally unique and is accepted terminology. Think "AM", "PM", "AD", "BC". "ERP" isn't quite that ubiquitous, but it is enough so that a quick Google search--the modern equivalent of a dictionary search--would tell you exactly what you need to know. Even if they did spell it out (Enterprise Resource Planning), it might not mean anything useful to people who don't deal with that sort of software anyway, so they may as well look it up.
There's a lot of braking in those on-street races. I wonder if they're putting in technologies from hybrids like regenerative braking, possibly some sort of system to capture some of the energy lost on tight turns, etc... and recharging the battery for fewer stops.
If an electric wins the Le Mans, or even has a pretty good showing, the whole industry will start to re-gear overnight. When Joe Six-Pack says, "Gas-only sucks! I want the kind of hybrid technology that'll make me feel like a winner!!", it'll represent a sea change.
Of course, if it comes in dead last, that could be just as big a PR problem.
Hah. Last time I used LISP (well, really, Scheme, since it was at Berkeley), I was on dial-up!
I remember thinking that there might be something wrong with the dial-up connection the night before the first big project was due, so going into the lab at 2am. The dial-up was not the problem, as it turned out. It was the fact that I wasn't alone in waiting until the last minute to test my code. There were 500 students on that brand new DEC 5400, all writing recursive, interpreted code, and apparently doing so badly enough that such difficult tasks as accepting a username and password were beyond the abilities of the server.
What competitive free market? In my neighborhood, there are two options for consumer broadband, just like everyone's, across the nation. Those options increase if you're willing to pay $300.00 for a T1, but the cable/telco duopolies throughout the US prohibit a truly competitive environment.
After enough of these cycles, we have consumers who become so beaten down that they worry more about the welfare of the company than their own interests.
I'm not sure I understand this argument against the iPhone, as it's not specific to that product. If you get Sprint's "everything" plan, it's $99/mo, which is just shy of $1200/year or $2400 for two years. This is without taxes, and without the phone.
The cheapest plan I've seen with unlimited data is Boost's $50/mo plan, but I don't think you can get a smartphone through Boost, so you're using a less advanced phone with a smaller screen and a telephone keypad for browsing the web, sending emails &c. And that's still $600/year, or $1200/2 years plus taxes, plus phone.
Is there any smartphone/unlimited data phone/plan combination that's significantly less than the iPhone's plans? If the main difference is an extra couple of hundred dollars for the initial iPhone purchase, *that's* what you should be railing against, not the overall cost, which is really really similar between smartphone plans, IMLE.
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It worked for me after I quit my running browsers.
You're so right. Can't believe someone so insightful supports the "Fair Tax"...
I choose to hide Google's deeper options, but when you enable them, you get all sorts of stuff, including the following related sites:
digg
stumbleupon
4chan
xkcd
furl
cnn
slashdot
hulu
twitter
newsvine
fark
delicious
drudge
espn
huffington post
reddit nsfw
reddit rss
reddit jailbait
reddit logo
reddit vs digg
It's not bad, but it's not some amazing leap forward. Unless I'm afraid of Google controlling the world's data, I'm not sure why I'd go to Bing. Even then, talk about out of the frying pan...
"That." Isn't it obvious? His program had sex.
Oh, no, I guess not. That would have been, "did it", not "did all that". I guess I'm confused.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 filled with CD-ROMs.
Nor the latency. And in some tragic cases, the packet loss.
Can you explain what you mean? My first reaction to your post was to mock it as making no sense, then I decided that maybe I'm just missing something. Please clarify what you mean by "money can be sued" and by the idea that money can be "deprived of its liberty"?
If this wasn't intended as a joke, it's one of the strangest posts I've seen in a while.
It was in 1989 that I had my first account, at OCF.berkeley.edu... I posted something to comp.sys.amiga trying to get consensus as to whether or not it was a good idea to spend $300 on a 20 MB external HD for my A500. Those were the days. I didn't realize 20 years had passed.
sigh.
We have one extremely unlikely possibility, and one extremely likely possibility.
Says you, "Mike", if that is your real name...
A friend of mine had a great idea which turned into a great product (that you probably have several copies of, even if you don't know it) that turned into a successful company. Knowing his own limitations--he's a tech guy, not a business person--he effectively hired someone to take over the reigns. CEO, COO, CFO and all, so they could eventually go public.
He stayed on as the president and CTO, and in the process of turning into a public-ready company, he effectively signed over everything. Once, over beers, he was talking about how he already knew the next few ideas he wanted to explore, but he couldn't talk about them or write them down because all of that would be discoverable, that they would legally be company property.
I would say that was sad, but just a few months ago, I looked him up, and he had sold his interest in the company for over $20 million dollars less than 10 years after founding it. Not even including the salary I'm sure he maintained during his tenure, that's not a bad amount to force you to limit your output of ideas for a decade.
Don't know if he's gone on to the other ideas. I'm sure some of them have already been done in the intervening time, but it looks like he basically spends his time with a technology think-tank. Not a bad gig if you can get it.
With the removal of DRM, there's no issue of monopoly whatsoever. 70% of the market is not 100% of the market; a clever player who can work a deal could get in and take over a big chunk of that.
The only issue before was the fact that anything you bought on the ITMS would only work on the iPod. While that sort of software-hardware vendor lock-in still does not constitute a monopoly--there are other stores that work with other devices--the removal of DRM means that you can buy from ITMS and play your files on anything. You might just have to take an extra step of importing your music into a different piece of software.
If anyone were to take that to court and claim that this requirement constituted a monopoly, the judge would try to say, between fits of laughter, "Buy your music from a different store and use that store's music management software. Now GTF out of my courtroom!"
Before Zork, there was Adventure, a port of a mainframe-based game that I knew as EEB, which I enjoyed playing on the terminal of one John Holdren, Obama's science advisor, when my family would visit his place when I was a small child. It allowed only two-word inputs, and inspired many, many games, including the Zork series referenced by others.
Shortly after moving to my new home town, I found myself looking for a friend's house and getting hopelessly lost, going through one intersection three times from different angles before realizing that it was the same intersection. The line, "You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike", from that game came to mind.
I don't know if it was first. Didn't the rock band Journey have a game first that was totally moronic?
MULE was certainly super-cool, but I'm not sure that it changed the industry. I guess I could stretch to say that all resource-management games, like Warcraft, etc., inherit something from that game, but I'm not sure that it's true.
From that set of games, I'm surprised you left out Arcon. It also didn't change the industry as it didn't spawn its own genre, but man, it was cool. Like chess, but you've gotta battle it out for every space? How cool is that?!
Actually, it's, "Don't be evil." The difference is subtle but important. A lot of eggs get cracked in the production of that yummy omelette...
I wish I had mod points because this is a smart response. I hate it when people use the word "monopoly" as a synonym for "I don't like them." If there's a real reason not to like Apple--even a bad one, like, "I always prefer the underdog," is better than none--then use it. Don't just call it a monopoly.
Never is a strong word.
In some cases, an acronym is not an acronym. SAP is the company name. What does it stand for? Maybe something, but "SAP" is how people refer to the company that's called "SAP".
And in some cases, the acronym is totally unique and is accepted terminology. Think "AM", "PM", "AD", "BC". "ERP" isn't quite that ubiquitous, but it is enough so that a quick Google search--the modern equivalent of a dictionary search--would tell you exactly what you need to know. Even if they did spell it out (Enterprise Resource Planning), it might not mean anything useful to people who don't deal with that sort of software anyway, so they may as well look it up.
Well, SJ *was* adopted, you insensitive clod.
Correct. Charlie follows Bravo.
Totally agreed; I heart Notepad++.
There's a lot of braking in those on-street races. I wonder if they're putting in technologies from hybrids like regenerative braking, possibly some sort of system to capture some of the energy lost on tight turns, etc... and recharging the battery for fewer stops.
If an electric wins the Le Mans, or even has a pretty good showing, the whole industry will start to re-gear overnight. When Joe Six-Pack says, "Gas-only sucks! I want the kind of hybrid technology that'll make me feel like a winner!!", it'll represent a sea change.
Of course, if it comes in dead last, that could be just as big a PR problem.
Hah. Last time I used LISP (well, really, Scheme, since it was at Berkeley), I was on dial-up!
I remember thinking that there might be something wrong with the dial-up connection the night before the first big project was due, so going into the lab at 2am. The dial-up was not the problem, as it turned out. It was the fact that I wasn't alone in waiting until the last minute to test my code. There were 500 students on that brand new DEC 5400, all writing recursive, interpreted code, and apparently doing so badly enough that such difficult tasks as accepting a username and password were beyond the abilities of the server.
Assembly's for wimps! I commit my code one bit at a time!
What competitive free market? In my neighborhood, there are two options for consumer broadband, just like everyone's, across the nation. Those options increase if you're willing to pay $300.00 for a T1, but the cable/telco duopolies throughout the US prohibit a truly competitive environment.
After enough of these cycles, we have consumers who become so beaten down that they worry more about the welfare of the company than their own interests.
Sounds kind of like the Stockholm Syndrome, doesn't it?
I'm not sure I understand this argument against the iPhone, as it's not specific to that product. If you get Sprint's "everything" plan, it's $99/mo, which is just shy of $1200/year or $2400 for two years. This is without taxes, and without the phone.
The cheapest plan I've seen with unlimited data is Boost's $50/mo plan, but I don't think you can get a smartphone through Boost, so you're using a less advanced phone with a smaller screen and a telephone keypad for browsing the web, sending emails &c. And that's still $600/year, or $1200/2 years plus taxes, plus phone.
Is there any smartphone/unlimited data phone/plan combination that's significantly less than the iPhone's plans? If the main difference is an extra couple of hundred dollars for the initial iPhone purchase, *that's* what you should be railing against, not the overall cost, which is really really similar between smartphone plans, IMLE.