Are you curious? Do you wonder what it is like? Microsoft 'source code' is oh sooooo satisfying. Find out what all the talk is about. You can be discrete or go all out, it is up to you. The best part is, no one has to know, it can be your little secret.
Why don't you download the library of congress catalog and other public registries. It would be cool to say "I downloaded the library of congress 1000 times in blah blah minutes."
The parent should be able to cue up 3 movies when the babysitter comes over, the kids which watch them back to back, the parent will call at 9:00 when the last movie ends to make sure the kids go to bed. The DRM is a problem for this scenario. The babysitter, age 13, doesn't have a credit card, and can't download the movies, which would cost uprwards of $20. People collect DVDs for a reason, so they can have them when they need them and they always work. DRM will invite chaos as the squirrely kids run amok, trashing the house because they didn't have the new Disney shite. When the baby sitter finally gets the kids to bed at 9:45, he/she will be in tears, never to return to this house, thus cutting off the parents from being able to escape for a few hours, THUS ENDING LIFE AS WE KNOW IT. My god. Have you no pity! Save the poor parents from their children, say no to DRM!
Disney is going the wrong way with their product, it isn't about DRM, it is about convenience and DRM isn't convenient. I am all for evil plans, but this doesn't make sense. All of the crappy 'pre'-itunes people failed to understand the business of online music, its about convenience and not perpetually having to buy things over. It simply isn't worth the hassle to buy something, just to have it self destruct. Can you imagine the pissed of calls they will get when the first people try to use this crap! "My movie won't work." "Where did it go." "I already bought it once, why should I buy it again?" Etc.Etc.
As a culture, I don't see how they can put out a good product with such an evil team, Disney/M$! I already know a lot of parents who specifically 'do not' buy Disney products because the consider the company to be a cultural black hole that is only attuned to zombifying children with their soul sucking powers. They also dumped the fresh and interesting Pixar in favor of jaded and stilted M$. If you were a parent, would you rather take your kids to Schrek or the Disney Atlantis flick...not much of a choice there. Schrek wins! Disney has a brand and image problem as a provider of crapulent product. People want to be entertained, not stupified. The evil conjoining of Disney and M$, that kind of evil can only lead to one thing...the end of convenience for all Americans, or perhaps the beginning of the end for these dinasaurs. I say kill them off so the monkeys can rule the world.
To abuse an analogy, aren't you talking about the difference between a BMW and a pickup truck. The BMW will go really fast but is not practical for certain situations. Wheras a pickup truck will not attract chicks.
They will generate vast amounts of data on mostly innocent people. That data will then get mixed into a machine and stored and pulled up only after a disaster so these people can get locked up. We need more REAL people to look at data and check on things, not just computers. If we had had a decent spy or two on the ground in Iraq we might have known there were no WMD. For all the $billions we spent on intelligence equipment it is amazing how little we knew about Sept. 11 and Iraq.
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Your analysis fails on one point. I agree with the Netscape bit about the code being crap. But innovation is only one part of the picture. The example I give is the paperclip. There has been an immense amount of innovation in paperclipping technology, but the lowly paperclip remains the standard. Why you ask? Because it is extremely simple, easy to use and the user is not confounded with endless options which he does not want or need. The fact that it leaves a dimple in the paper is a triviality that borders on the irrelevant. Its cost is near nothing. What does this have to do with Google? Google is very much like a paperclip, it is used to hold the pages of the Internet together in simple and efficient ways that are basically free to anyone.
On the site design side: Microsoft wants to sell a big fancy 'innovation' that will tie the user to their other products in order to maintain the M$ monopoly. I doubt users will want this, if the Google model holds true they will want simplicity and ease of use.
On the technology side: My last Google search took.16 seconds. Innovation on top of that is very difficult. Unless M$ offers completely new ways of searching and screening the web, they will never have a meaningful performance edge.
On the business side: I don't understand what M$ is offering that we don't already have in Google, and that Google will not do better. Google is a 3rd generation search engine that has risen to the top of a ruthlessly competitive business. It has effectively anhililated its competitors, and unless M$ acts soon, it will consolidate its position in a rapidly maturing industry.
Basically, I don't think M$ is the competitor they think they are when it comes to search engines.
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People seem to forget how Google became popular in the first place. It came out of nowhere to beat the likes of Altavista, Yahoo, and even Microsoft's built in search.
Google has a very good interface. That is what makes it good at first, but on top of that is a search engine that is first rate. I used to have Yahoo, etc. back before Google as my home page, and have to sit and wait 2 minutes while it loaded every time I turned on my browser, it sucked. Now I load in.16 seconds. You can't put a price on that kind of convenience. Google has had such impressive performance that I don't even think about the search engines I used to use.
These same people who are talking up Microsoft search capabilities which do not exist yet are the same people who are talking up their music trading potential which doesn't exist yet. They assume the dominance on the desktop immediately translates into complete dominance. Frankly, I don't see what they bring to the search engine market that gives them a huge advantage. M$ thought that they could own the game market with the XBox, and M$ has lost $billions on that and has yet to gain a dominant position after 2 years. I think Microsoft will fail or have a mediocre market share with this too. Microsoft's culture is all about monopoly, and they build their products to be both incompatible and difficult for outside companies to use in addition to having a technology base that is full of holes. In a world of choice, convenience and speed, Microsoft loses, especially when the competition doesn't crash (like Netscape did). They can't simply cut out Google through bundling the way they did Netscape unless M$ makes their search page the only home page option. It is never a good idea to underestimate M$ though, any company with no scruples, $40 billion in cash and a lust for power is a force to be reckoned with.
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I wonder if Microsoft is going to buy 10,000 Linux servers in order to compete?
I don't think they could run an effective search engine on Windows technology, thats for sure. Also, if I am not mistaken, Google has patented many of the search techniques they have developed, which will make life very difficult for M$ to develop similar search technology. Microsoft can't do it all and they shouldn't try, they already have one monopoly, they don't need two.
How bout you hack them, drop a trojan in the spam machine with a credit card keystroke program sending data back to one of their secret sleaze servers, thus framing them with a trojanized trojan and they will get tracked down and the FBI will shut down their operation, confiscate their computers and get them started on a much needed Federal prison vacation. But that would be illegal...oops, MY BAD! Better not do that!
SCOTT@OPTINBIG.COM, Send him something if you want to end up in spam hell! DO NOT SEND HIM MAIL. He will reply over and over and over and over and over and over.
To most Americans perception is reality, if you 'look' crazy, you must be crazy. RMS comes off a bit kooky, you have to admit. And some Linux people, usually the warez crowd, think all software should always be free. So they dressed up like bankers to be treated seriously. How you look affects how other people treat you.
How do you know it wasn't an Asian, Mexican Or a Irish gang? Gang does not always mean 'black' gang. This is just another example of stereotypes gone awry. Let me set you straight.
We all know that the Crips and Blood use Macs because it has more style, they might have Windows in a crack house, but otherwise all Macs. If you were a crip would you rather have I-tunes/I-pod hipness or some other lesser brand of style.
Skinheads are all PCs because it is tough to do Aryan nation stuff in Linux.
Asian gangs are probably a mix of PC and Linux, depending if they are pr0n/prostitution kings or contract killers.
Cubans and Columbians use cordless phones and cell phones (no computers because the whole cigar, Ferrari and beach house thing, could you imagine the glare of trying to type while sitting next to a swimming pool in the hot Florida sun).
I think the Italian gangs have outsourced all of their crime to India.
The Russians probably use BSD/Linux, as they have the most sophisticated computer crime operations.
I am sure Biker gangs use Windows because it works better with their meth lab decor.
Can't they use the FBI Carnivore system/hire a hacker to track these people? Why do they need cameras? I don't mind the cameras and all that crap. It is the stupid way they went about this that bothers me. They aren't going to catch a thug if he knows where the camera is. He isn't going to commit a crime if he knows he is being watched, he is going to do it where he knows people aren't watching. This didn't have to be so heavy handed. And if there was a problem, they could just get a surveilance warrant and secretly hacked these computers and watch them from the inside. Why not hack into the web cams and microphone on the computers and watch the people through them, they wouldn't even know! They could have individually worked with cafe owners instead of using a blanket law. That would be the smart way to go about this instead of making the Cafe owners life miserable and destroying community good will.
Isn't this article just a nice way of saying that those in "Eastern" cultures can't think for themselves?
No, I think what they are saying is that Eastern styles are more family and clan based and more hierarchical, where orders are given from the top and executed exactly as ordered down the chain of command, where the chain is made of strong relationships and loyalty. You ever wonder why the Japanese are able to make such great cars. It is because of their adherence to quality standards, that are rigorously applied 'as intended' by the management. They meet manufacturing goals 'as intended' by the management. The flip side of adhering to rigid standards is that it is hard to be cool or fashionable, whereas the Italians are great at doing that (Ferrari, Lambourgini, Ducati etc.). But I think everyone knows that the trains don't run on time in Italy, wheras they always run on time in Japan. This isn't a statement about intelligence, it is a statement about how a culture works and cultural advantages and disadvantages based on how they think.
Has Europe moved into another ideological sphere that separates them from the rest of the world, and if so what is it?
That is why they call them 'other cultures'. This can be seen internationally as well as within regions of the USA. You need to read the article.
Some people assume that because the USA was populated by a global community that those cultural identities have been ported directly to the USA. In my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. Being an American has a distinct cultural flavor that exists despite ethnic or racial characteristics.
When Europeans talk about 'the ugly American', they are talking about the complete inability of some Americans to understand that there are REAL differences in our values and cultures and the blunt indeifference some Americans dislplay as a result of that insensitivity and indifferent ignorance.
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Who will they sue? Who can they sue?
Are you curious? Do you wonder what it is like? Microsoft 'source code' is oh sooooo satisfying. Find out what all the talk is about. You can be discrete or go all out, it is up to you. The best part is, no one has to know, it can be your little secret.
At least it isn't a trade secret anymore.
I wonder though...did M$ steal IP from other people? Now is the chance to see.
Why don't you download the library of congress catalog and other public registries. It would be cool to say "I downloaded the library of congress 1000 times in blah blah minutes."
The parent should be able to cue up 3 movies when the babysitter comes over, the kids which watch them back to back, the parent will call at 9:00 when the last movie ends to make sure the kids go to bed. The DRM is a problem for this scenario. The babysitter, age 13, doesn't have a credit card, and can't download the movies, which would cost uprwards of $20. People collect DVDs for a reason, so they can have them when they need them and they always work. DRM will invite chaos as the squirrely kids run amok, trashing the house because they didn't have the new Disney shite. When the baby sitter finally gets the kids to bed at 9:45, he/she will be in tears, never to return to this house, thus cutting off the parents from being able to escape for a few hours, THUS ENDING LIFE AS WE KNOW IT. My god. Have you no pity! Save the poor parents from their children, say no to DRM!
Disney is going the wrong way with their product, it isn't about DRM, it is about convenience and DRM isn't convenient. I am all for evil plans, but this doesn't make sense. All of the crappy 'pre'-itunes people failed to understand the business of online music, its about convenience and not perpetually having to buy things over. It simply isn't worth the hassle to buy something, just to have it self destruct. Can you imagine the pissed of calls they will get when the first people try to use this crap! "My movie won't work." "Where did it go." "I already bought it once, why should I buy it again?" Etc.Etc.
As a culture, I don't see how they can put out a good product with such an evil team, Disney/M$! I already know a lot of parents who specifically 'do not' buy Disney products because the consider the company to be a cultural black hole that is only attuned to zombifying children with their soul sucking powers. They also dumped the fresh and interesting Pixar in favor of jaded and stilted M$. If you were a parent, would you rather take your kids to Schrek or the Disney Atlantis flick...not much of a choice there. Schrek wins! Disney has a brand and image problem as a provider of crapulent product. People want to be entertained, not stupified. The evil conjoining of Disney and M$, that kind of evil can only lead to one thing...the end of convenience for all Americans, or perhaps the beginning of the end for these dinasaurs. I say kill them off so the monkeys can rule the world.
Why not just use netflix?
To abuse an analogy, aren't you talking about the difference between a BMW and a pickup truck. The BMW will go really fast but is not practical for certain situations. Wheras a pickup truck will not attract chicks.
I don't know why, but just saying the words 'assembly language', sends a chill down my spine. I guess I am too weak minded to learn it.
They will generate vast amounts of data on mostly innocent people. That data will then get mixed into a machine and stored and pulled up only after a disaster so these people can get locked up. We need more REAL people to look at data and check on things, not just computers. If we had had a decent spy or two on the ground in Iraq we might have known there were no WMD. For all the $billions we spent on intelligence equipment it is amazing how little we knew about Sept. 11 and Iraq.
Your analysis fails on one point. I agree with the Netscape bit about the code being crap. But innovation is only one part of the picture. The example I give is the paperclip. There has been an immense amount of innovation in paperclipping technology, but the lowly paperclip remains the standard. Why you ask? Because it is extremely simple, easy to use and the user is not confounded with endless options which he does not want or need. The fact that it leaves a dimple in the paper is a triviality that borders on the irrelevant. Its cost is near nothing. What does this have to do with Google? Google is very much like a paperclip, it is used to hold the pages of the Internet together in simple and efficient ways that are basically free to anyone.
.16 seconds. Innovation on top of that is very difficult. Unless M$ offers completely new ways of searching and screening the web, they will never have a meaningful performance edge.
On the site design side: Microsoft wants to sell a big fancy 'innovation' that will tie the user to their other products in order to maintain the M$ monopoly. I doubt users will want this, if the Google model holds true they will want simplicity and ease of use.
On the technology side: My last Google search took
On the business side: I don't understand what M$ is offering that we don't already have in Google, and that Google will not do better. Google is a 3rd generation search engine that has risen to the top of a ruthlessly competitive business. It has effectively anhililated its competitors, and unless M$ acts soon, it will consolidate its position in a rapidly maturing industry.
Basically, I don't think M$ is the competitor they think they are when it comes to search engines.
People seem to forget how Google became popular in the first place. It came out of nowhere to beat the likes of Altavista, Yahoo, and even Microsoft's built in search.
.16 seconds. You can't put a price on that kind of convenience. Google has had such impressive performance that I don't even think about the search engines I used to use.
Google has a very good interface. That is what makes it good at first, but on top of that is a search engine that is first rate. I used to have Yahoo, etc. back before Google as my home page, and have to sit and wait 2 minutes while it loaded every time I turned on my browser, it sucked. Now I load in
These same people who are talking up Microsoft search capabilities which do not exist yet are the same people who are talking up their music trading potential which doesn't exist yet. They assume the dominance on the desktop immediately translates into complete dominance. Frankly, I don't see what they bring to the search engine market that gives them a huge advantage. M$ thought that they could own the game market with the XBox, and M$ has lost $billions on that and has yet to gain a dominant position after 2 years. I think Microsoft will fail or have a mediocre market share with this too. Microsoft's culture is all about monopoly, and they build their products to be both incompatible and difficult for outside companies to use in addition to having a technology base that is full of holes. In a world of choice, convenience and speed, Microsoft loses, especially when the competition doesn't crash (like Netscape did). They can't simply cut out Google through bundling the way they did Netscape unless M$ makes their search page the only home page option. It is never a good idea to underestimate M$ though, any company with no scruples, $40 billion in cash and a lust for power is a force to be reckoned with.
I wonder if Microsoft is going to buy 10,000 Linux servers in order to compete?
I don't think they could run an effective search engine on Windows technology, thats for sure. Also, if I am not mistaken, Google has patented many of the search techniques they have developed, which will make life very difficult for M$ to develop similar search technology. Microsoft can't do it all and they shouldn't try, they already have one monopoly, they don't need two.
How bout you hack them, drop a trojan in the spam machine with a credit card keystroke program sending data back to one of their secret sleaze servers, thus framing them with a trojanized trojan and they will get tracked down and the FBI will shut down their operation, confiscate their computers and get them started on a much needed Federal prison vacation. But that would be illegal...oops, MY BAD! Better not do that!
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SCOTT@OPTINBIG.COM, Send him something if you want to end up in spam hell! DO NOT SEND HIM MAIL. He will reply over and over and over and over and over and over.
They could all turn on us. It just isn't convenient right now, but they could do it.
To most Americans perception is reality, if you 'look' crazy, you must be crazy. RMS comes off a bit kooky, you have to admit. And some Linux people, usually the warez crowd, think all software should always be free. So they dressed up like bankers to be treated seriously. How you look affects how other people treat you.
Yah, but his soul belongs to the devil.
How do you know it wasn't an Asian, Mexican Or a Irish gang? Gang does not always mean 'black' gang. This is just another example of stereotypes gone awry. Let me set you straight.
We all know that the Crips and Blood use Macs because it has more style, they might have Windows in a crack house, but otherwise all Macs. If you were a crip would you rather have I-tunes/I-pod hipness or some other lesser brand of style.
Skinheads are all PCs because it is tough to do Aryan nation stuff in Linux.
Asian gangs are probably a mix of PC and Linux, depending if they are pr0n/prostitution kings or contract killers.
Cubans and Columbians use cordless phones and cell phones (no computers because the whole cigar, Ferrari and beach house thing, could you imagine the glare of trying to type while sitting next to a swimming pool in the hot Florida sun).
I think the Italian gangs have outsourced all of their crime to India.
The Russians probably use BSD/Linux, as they have the most sophisticated computer crime operations.
I am sure Biker gangs use Windows because it works better with their meth lab decor.
Can't they use the FBI Carnivore system/hire a hacker to track these people? Why do they need cameras? I don't mind the cameras and all that crap. It is the stupid way they went about this that bothers me. They aren't going to catch a thug if he knows where the camera is. He isn't going to commit a crime if he knows he is being watched, he is going to do it where he knows people aren't watching. This didn't have to be so heavy handed. And if there was a problem, they could just get a surveilance warrant and secretly hacked these computers and watch them from the inside. Why not hack into the web cams and microphone on the computers and watch the people through them, they wouldn't even know! They could have individually worked with cafe owners instead of using a blanket law. That would be the smart way to go about this instead of making the Cafe owners life miserable and destroying community good will.
My Commodore 64 is way more secure than your Mac.
Isn't this article just a nice way of saying that those in "Eastern" cultures can't think for themselves?
No, I think what they are saying is that Eastern styles are more family and clan based and more hierarchical, where orders are given from the top and executed exactly as ordered down the chain of command, where the chain is made of strong relationships and loyalty. You ever wonder why the Japanese are able to make such great cars. It is because of their adherence to quality standards, that are rigorously applied 'as intended' by the management. They meet manufacturing goals 'as intended' by the management. The flip side of adhering to rigid standards is that it is hard to be cool or fashionable, whereas the Italians are great at doing that (Ferrari, Lambourgini, Ducati etc.). But I think everyone knows that the trains don't run on time in Italy, wheras they always run on time in Japan. This isn't a statement about intelligence, it is a statement about how a culture works and cultural advantages and disadvantages based on how they think.
Has Europe moved into another ideological sphere that separates them from the rest of the world, and if so what is it?
That is why they call them 'other cultures'. This can be seen internationally as well as within regions of the USA. You need to read the article.
Some people assume that because the USA was populated by a global community that those cultural identities have been ported directly to the USA. In my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. Being an American has a distinct cultural flavor that exists despite ethnic or racial characteristics.
When Europeans talk about 'the ugly American', they are talking about the complete inability of some Americans to understand that there are REAL differences in our values and cultures and the blunt indeifference some Americans dislplay as a result of that insensitivity and indifferent ignorance.