Also to add on the ISP, Bell(Canada) is now obligated to offer "Naked DSL" so you can switch to Telus, Look and others with 30 day notice. This means you can get Internet with out telephone service from anywhere.
Keep in mind telephone wires are usualy regulated by special laws that will allow you to sign up with alternate providers. Many of the ISP's you see also offer attractive rates for VOIP and other services, and are not as candid about their traffic policies. Google it.
Do people actually think that it is because of programs like GooleEarth that allows governament agencies to spy?
I could just picture dubbya sitting at the edge of his chair on release day saying, "now I can finally see what my house looks like from the sky!!!"
Like gimme a break. I bet all this FUD is just a bee put in someones bonnet with a whole bunch of dollar bills to keep it there. Remember that joe smith is already sold on Google but M$ controls those with money, that is why they are bitching and whining.
If I had a say I would only digitize at a per author/publisher basis and show them the sales and intrest that can be generated using this technique and then charge the suckers a premium when they come crawling back. As well I would fill it up with independants and show how usefull these publishers really are, hell maybe publishers are scared that google could supplant their positions by more effective distribution and publishing and have fear it will put them out of a job.
I think that even if Sergey and Lary have nothing else under their hat, they still have a couple of years of cash and street credit to screw with.
They were a little too specific I think, look at this.
system for selecting a displayable icon to indicate the mood or emotion of the user
For this patent to work can they prove this was actually *your* mood/emotion? If so and the mood you conveyed != actual mood then would it be a part of the patent? Or consider this SMS "are you:'( ?" If that was not my emotion then is it ok?
By patenting a description of the senders emotions and actually centering out that only the senders emotions/moods will be described using this method then there are quite a few "work arounds". Come up with CingIcons which display moods opposing the ones you are discribing and have fun. Or dont describe your emotions but describe how the person you are talking to would feel in this situation.
In short this is just plain stupid. For a company this large to try something this pathetic their R&D must be at real low. I think they are forgetting the most complex device of them all....
Alexander Ryazanov, a York University student, has been charged with criminal negligence causing death
University student? WTF? This is just sick there is no way someone can pursue a "higher" education on one hand and blame a video game for car racing on the other.
If these adults even think of passing the buck I say throw the book at them. They are educated and posess mild inteligence, they definately knew the diffrence.
But of course so far the only ones tying the game to the event are the media and they would never put words into someones mouth...
Maybe have the logic onboard for the biometrics, powered by the port and have X reads per scan(requires the users finger to be in constant contact for large files) this would ensure the user definately knew what happened to the data/disc/key;)
As a policy using the onboard UC you could deny access to any data on request or completely terminate the circuts(james bond stuff) or even just shutdown the interface.
No Software, enhanced accountability, USB comptibility.
As a company I think it would be no less then a wise investment to have a manufacturer make up a whack of keys that are write once - read once. The data can be verrfied (read) once within the same time frame as the write via onboard logic. After the next read logic kills the memory to garbage and start again.
As well you could hardwire each employees biometric sig/reader into each key and have a couple boxes made up that only they can use. Let them use them as needed and let them know that each one is pooched once coppied or opened. Have a read/write lock to prevent a mis-hap. Mass produced each may cost as much as $40 each for "small" quantities but as a VP would you rather your employees that have to transport data use this or something else?
A service pack is basically a rollup of all the patches released. So a computer that has updated using windows update will have the exact same patches installed as one with SP3.
With bluetooth you could even make the process disributed between many phones, once one gets the right block it lets evreyone else in on the find and narrows it down!
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Wait a second. IASWCC(I Am Someone Who Can Cook) Did anyone notice that this monitors the temperature of the *pan* and not the food?
Will you have to have diffrent recipe cards for each weight and temperature of the food being prepared (frozen, room temp, etc)?
The pan may be at the correct temperature but that is kinda useless as most cookware conducts heat so well that it is effectively the same temperature as the element anyway, so is this basicaly saying you still have to be there to cook the meal it will just double check your elements setting or translate it for you (i.e. knob on stove is 1-9/10 == 100-400F or something like that). Sounds kind of redundant especially if you are cooking thick pieces of meat where the outside temp is way diffrent then the internal temp.
But since all accounts were set up via the same 'stem' account Google can easily determine they were all set up with the same BS in mind and shut them all down at once without worrying about if they are legit. And once the first couple thousand emails were sent a flag would go up for sure and all of the invited accounts would have a very low celing before shutting down as well.
Hell knowing Google they probably have a reverse spam filter which looks at all emails going out as well as in and close your accounts after x spams at y% certanty.
I do have to give it to Dell but just an above average consumer level 5K personal rig(that paid $500 for 5 years top warrenty) in the first month my video and burner died, I had someone clean and polite at my house the next morning!
Then a year later I misplaced my restore CD (SP1 XP) and the next morning I have a *full* replacement of all the applications and drivers originally shipped in the box(all updated!)
From my point of view you can keep parts around in case or go with a company that will do that for you.
Look at da Vinci. He was a brilliant man to be sure. But if he were alive today, he'd never have been able to master so many fields
I would have to argue that and point out you are showing effect of being blindly lead.
The state of genius is one of understanding. Do you think Aristotle given a keyboard and google could not figure out how to submit a query?
Making such a blanket statement is intresting as it is a far lean towards technology or in a sence isolating (reserving?) the field to someone or something that has yet to be shows the genius of humans in general. We pick qualities which we feel would be a "key" to ourselves and look for that trait in others.
Maybe here more than most, people would be looking for a person who can create or understand the average humans needs and wants from technology. The mass would be able to apply this and a software revolution would incur. Possibly programming language would be taught side-by-side english in schools.
Does this person exist? Maybe. Will we as a race recodnize this person? Maybe.
The most exciting thing is some one like Einstein was needed by evreybody as he seemed to let evreybody answer those important questions. Even though there may not be a direct understanding of the equations, like a house of cards peoples guards droped to him.
I personally feel there will be facing a problem as with our education system and us as a race gaining intelligence as a whole. So far we mark ourselves on a strict bell curve. We believe that there is only a finite number of those who are intelligent and that number is very small. As we progress minds that may have been destined to daydreaming and manual labour will be allowed to develop and many more methods and ways of thinking will emerge. These again will be seen as the "lesser intelligent".
Actually I think this raises a good topic. The internet has spawned so much information it has gotten much harder to follow, this has resulted in companies taking advantage of this and comming up with generalized figures.
How many times has someone forgot to do something because they 'never got your email', how many companies have said we have lost/gained $X because of the unwashed masses? Or even the first completely legit online petition, digitally signed by (hundreds) of millions?
It always goes both ways they may threaten the public at first scare the rest but based on those threats and fears rests the credibility of the method. Enivatably the corporations are carving the only tool with the strength to kill themselves as when people like us, EFF and others try to fight they will lobby and bias more laws and regulations to keep us in check. What they will have is a chip that may/will have legal precident in many of our courts of law. What happens when people out burst about a company not completing a task as promised? Will the courts order that all companies must have this to ensure no Enrons happen in the future? And when people sign on-line petitions and they can no longer get laughed at how powerful will the people become?
The only reason I could see this as a GoodThing(TM) is for keyloggers. As a bank I wouldn't care if your computer ran or not because that's completely on your side of the fence. To give a warm and fuzzy feeling to you more than anyone that your not being jacked for the data your entering to what ever PC your using at the time.
That brings to my mind additional questions, would I want to pay additional money evrey time I use the banks services? By paying this will it insure as in insurance that if I do get snooped that I will be fully covered for any damages that may occur if they were wrong or missed a baddy or two? And how high would they cover? These are banks we are talking about here they will NOT spend money that does not make them money, period.
This would bring attention to the people who are using friends, family's or public computers for these transactions, it would probably wake them up. What I think would really work is a sandbox using encryption based on a one time password sent to your cell phone. It would be a website password, not unheard of but much more streamlined then scanning an entire computer for bad apples.
I would think it would work like so...
Goto web site and click on "View account" or something like that
You enter your cell phone number or an alias you have set up with them
Bank responds with a one time code to a personal device which is reasonably secure (wireless hand set)
You enter the code into the app and use only the app for interacting with your account
The bank is sent a checksum of the app on each transaction to insure integrity
If Symantec is going to use the same method and be sure there will be no infection then using that application to interract would be just as good, no? I may be the only one but I would not want to be waiting at a computer while it goes through the possible millions of files just to do a transfer or check my balance. In that case I would just want the bank to send me a SMS with my balance or a cheezy wap interface to transfer between 2 accounts.
I guess you can't blame Mr. Norton for trying but I don't think its gonna fly with banks. It does bring about a new method of accesssing the data that should be looked at. Possibly if it works well enough we could use this method for sending other types of confidential data or stuff you just don't want anyone else to see.
The newest song comes out and is 'tested' by the public listeners if they like it word gets around and people buy it for x amount of $. Now the people who just listen to it because evreyone else does come in and buy it because its cheaper. This will continue only capped by market saturation.
This will continue in a logrithmic fashon but would be intresting to see if the saturation of the market will influence each bands future and how. I would think that if any particular musician or group of has complete market saturation (every one that can have a copy does) then you have an entire planet comfortable with you. This means anything you want to sell is now that much more likely to be bought. This would concievably introduce a massive amount of influence on a great amount of people.
What they are offering is with the Google Ad you can click an icon that will connect you using VOIP to a call center for that company. They do not call you so there is no reason for the do not call bill. Also you are not calling from a telephone so *gasp* they cannot sick telemarketers on you.
So as a wrap-up you can view the text ad, click to goto the site and if your intrest is still high you can call them from any computer without a quarter.
Wow sounds like a privacy issue to me Captian Spalding.
What MS is doing is sealing their coffin. For so many years they have used FUD to blur the lines between them and their competitors now they are actually providing a metric their OS can be compared upon. Now the starter edition can be blown away with a distro that allows "Unlimited Resolution". Or builtin CD-Player.
The it is not the features any longer, one software can say in the same lingo as MS's marketing dept we will give you the (equivalent of) starer edition + home ed. for 1/2 the price. The person buying it will look at it like 2 DVD players they can buy $100 SONY but they WANT the $500 SONY. Now with MS marketing showing us in black and white (and warm earth tones of course) just let them convince the customer what the customer needs and then steal them before they buy.
Just remember one thing as you listen to this guy. In 35years hes going to be retired we are the ones passing laws and contesting them. If any generation is more pasionate to this cause it is this one. And these are the same people who will be behind the wheel when it happens.
I think he's just going through a bitter mid life crisis.
I beleive this is turning a new era or a changing of the guards. We are now dealing with politics and mind sets of share holders, owners P's and VP's of people that when they started this technology thing really had no idea what it was about, they put it in a box and people bought it so thats how it went. Only now they realize how much a part of society it is going to be and now we see patent rushes and dirty practices in the hopes they can stay alive long enough to say they figured it out.
I personally don't think its going to work that way. There is such a gap in education, mind set, outlook and talent between the kids comming out of college right now to the CEO's of today that they just can't work. These companies to take these new avenues would have to loose money and market share which would kill the stock value of their company which would make it extemely timid to make the changes necessary and fail a couple of times.
If you look at it like this, in the early 80's most people 50%+ only knew of computers by minimal association such as movies and some exposure in the work place. 10%- actually knew how to use one competently. 5%- knew the internals in terms of programming and advanced knowledge. This is the era that the CEO's and VP's of today came into the picture. Most of them fall in to the 50% category maybe now have be come more enthuisast and started to play on GUI's of the 90's but still are nowhere near 5 and 10% of their class in the 80's.
Now you have the kids who were born in the 80's now completing college / university where all of them have at least 10x as much experience as the 50%ers in the 80's, most if not all have used a computer before in one respect or another and are adequately aware to run various apps and produce something from their experience, know what to do if it 'crashes' etc etc. Lastly the people of today who know and are comfortable editing internal settings, scripting and even developing are creeping into the caliber who also runs major departments. Do you know many VP's who can code? If so would you expect that trend in many of today's companies?
As a result the new generation is going to eclipse the existing where they will not be able to compete. Existing companies have left so little room that those who will take part will be willing to eat bread and jam to survive and to keep costs down. I think it will be like a DDOS type of occurance where local software shops will come about in evrey town. They will administer local servers for gaming, fix your BSOD and probably suggest things like linux or come up with their own distros.
Not many will actually produce full out software that evreyone will want but in an area of about 1000 people as an example good money can be made for 5 or so for maintence, upgrades and troubleshooting at a reasonable rate.
I think it will be a big change in the industry and as always the ideas of today will become the objectives of tomorrow.
The only problem with this is that no one is trusted enough to declare the diffrence between good and bad. And once the diffrence is made what do we do? If you are found infringing what happens? Who has the final word?
Aww common you know this will just be another bone to throw a lawyer. Once that happens you won't be able to afford your justice. If anything the Internet is here for one thing only, to force us to pull our heads out of our asses and make decisions for ourselves. There is no way of policing it in the way evreyone will benifit from it.
So sure we can set up a system to procecute infringers but rules are based on perception.
If I buy a product you say is great and I seem to think other wise would I be infringing to write about it? Should you be allowed to make claims unattested? Maybe if you removed all advertising / marketing lingo, pictures etc and made no claims what so ever and relied principally on these comments would it be better?
So while I do see your point you do have to consider there are people who will bad mouth and those who will praise and those who will just shut up and take it, regardless of your rules, hopes and dreams. The goal should be how do we satisfy all of them and still function as a society.
Sorry to be so abrupt and I do appreciate your intent and sincerity, I would like to raise one point if I may.
It is your responsibility to come up with the ideas of the company. This includes projects and direction of the company. Engineers are those who make even the most abstract request a reality with little oversight.
I have the utmost faith that with clarity and leadership even college graduates can be instructed to make excellent software. Puting the blame on hired minds of that degree is much more of a crutch then a problem, using Microsoft as an example of an empire the largest the world has known was based on a leader and barely a competent programmer.
I believe you are much better off then you believe and will have great success in all your projects.
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Also to add on the ISP, Bell(Canada) is now obligated to offer "Naked DSL" so you can switch to Telus, Look and others with 30 day notice. This means you can get Internet with out telephone service from anywhere.
Keep in mind telephone wires are usualy regulated by special laws that will allow you to sign up with alternate providers. Many of the ISP's you see also offer attractive rates for VOIP and other services, and are not as candid about their traffic policies. Google it.
That was the funniest thing I've seen all day.
Do people actually think that it is because of programs like GooleEarth that allows governament agencies to spy?
I could just picture dubbya sitting at the edge of his chair on release day saying, "now I can finally see what my house looks like from the sky!!!"
Like gimme a break. I bet all this FUD is just a bee put in someones bonnet with a whole bunch of dollar bills to keep it there. Remember that joe smith is already sold on Google but M$ controls those with money, that is why they are bitching and whining.
If I had a say I would only digitize at a per author/publisher basis and show them the sales and intrest that can be generated using this technique and then charge the suckers a premium when they come crawling back. As well I would fill it up with independants and show how usefull these publishers really are, hell maybe publishers are scared that google could supplant their positions by more effective distribution and publishing and have fear it will put them out of a job.
I think that even if Sergey and Lary have nothing else under their hat, they still have a couple of years of cash and street credit to screw with.
I agree that Gates has given more then his share to charities.
But if a man takes all of a towns meat and bread, is he really a superhero if he gives away free bread?
They were a little too specific I think, look at this.
:'( ?" If that was not my emotion then is it ok?
....
system for selecting a displayable icon to indicate the mood or emotion of the user
For this patent to work can they prove this was actually *your* mood/emotion? If so and the mood you conveyed != actual mood then would it be a part of the patent? Or consider this SMS "are you
By patenting a description of the senders emotions and actually centering out that only the senders emotions/moods will be described using this method then there are quite a few "work arounds". Come up with CingIcons which display moods opposing the ones you are discribing and have fun. Or dont describe your emotions but describe how the person you are talking to would feel in this situation.
In short this is just plain stupid. For a company this large to try something this pathetic their R&D must be at real low. I think they are forgetting the most complex device of them all
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Alexander Ryazanov, a York University student, has been charged with criminal negligence causing death
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University student? WTF? This is just sick there is no way someone can pursue a "higher" education on one hand and blame a video game for car racing on the other.
If these adults even think of passing the buck I say throw the book at them. They are educated and posess mild inteligence, they definately knew the diffrence.
But of course so far the only ones tying the game to the event are the media and they would never put words into someones mouth
Maybe have the logic onboard for the biometrics, powered by the port and have X reads per scan(requires the users finger to be in constant contact for large files) this would ensure the user definately knew what happened to the data/disc/key ;)
As a policy using the onboard UC you could deny access to any data on request or completely terminate the circuts(james bond stuff) or even just shutdown the interface.
No Software, enhanced accountability, USB comptibility.
As a company I think it would be no less then a wise investment to have a manufacturer make up a whack of keys that are write once - read once. The data can be verrfied (read) once within the same time frame as the write via onboard logic. After the next read logic kills the memory to garbage and start again.
As well you could hardwire each employees biometric sig/reader into each key and have a couple boxes made up that only they can use. Let them use them as needed and let them know that each one is pooched once coppied or opened. Have a read/write lock to prevent a mis-hap. Mass produced each may cost as much as $40 each for "small" quantities but as a VP would you rather your employees that have to transport data use this or something else?
Umm how is security effected?
A service pack is basically a rollup of all the patches released. So a computer that has updated using windows update will have the exact same patches installed as one with SP3.
So it affect convience not security.
Hey get this,
With bluetooth you could even make the process disributed between many phones, once one gets the right block it lets evreyone else in on the find and narrows it down!
Wait a second. IASWCC(I Am Someone Who Can Cook) Did anyone notice that this monitors the temperature of the *pan* and not the food?
Will you have to have diffrent recipe cards for each weight and temperature of the food being prepared (frozen, room temp, etc)?
The pan may be at the correct temperature but that is kinda useless as most cookware conducts heat so well that it is effectively the same temperature as the element anyway, so is this basicaly saying you still have to be there to cook the meal it will just double check your elements setting or translate it for you (i.e. knob on stove is 1-9/10 == 100-400F or something like that). Sounds kind of redundant especially if you are cooking thick pieces of meat where the outside temp is way diffrent then the internal temp.
So in short your KD is still gonna burn.
But since all accounts were set up via the same 'stem' account Google can easily determine they were all set up with the same BS in mind and shut them all down at once without worrying about if they are legit. And once the first couple thousand emails were sent a flag would go up for sure and all of the invited accounts would have a very low celing before shutting down as well.
Hell knowing Google they probably have a reverse spam filter which looks at all emails going out as well as in and close your accounts after x spams at y% certanty.
I do have to give it to Dell but just an above average consumer level 5K personal rig(that paid $500 for 5 years top warrenty) in the first month my video and burner died, I had someone clean and polite at my house the next morning!
Then a year later I misplaced my restore CD (SP1 XP) and the next morning I have a *full* replacement of all the applications and drivers originally shipped in the box(all updated!)
From my point of view you can keep parts around in case or go with a company that will do that for you.
The viruses caused major traffic bottlenecks throughout the world, which cost tens of billions of dollars
Follow the money.
Look at da Vinci. He was a brilliant man to be sure. But if he were alive today, he'd never have been able to master so many fields
I would have to argue that and point out you are showing effect of being blindly lead.
The state of genius is one of understanding. Do you think Aristotle given a keyboard and google could not figure out how to submit a query?
Making such a blanket statement is intresting as it is a far lean towards technology or in a sence isolating (reserving?) the field to someone or something that has yet to be shows the genius of humans in general. We pick qualities which we feel would be a "key" to ourselves and look for that trait in others.
Maybe here more than most, people would be looking for a person who can create or understand the average humans needs and wants from technology. The mass would be able to apply this and a software revolution would incur. Possibly programming language would be taught side-by-side english in schools.
Does this person exist? Maybe. Will we as a race recodnize this person? Maybe.
The most exciting thing is some one like Einstein was needed by evreybody as he seemed to let evreybody answer those important questions. Even though there may not be a direct understanding of the equations, like a house of cards peoples guards droped to him.
I personally feel there will be facing a problem as with our education system and us as a race gaining intelligence as a whole. So far we mark ourselves on a strict bell curve. We believe that there is only a finite number of those who are intelligent and that number is very small. As we progress minds that may have been destined to daydreaming and manual labour will be allowed to develop and many more methods and ways of thinking will emerge. These again will be seen as the "lesser intelligent".
Lather Rince Repeat
For quick info on how Einstein fulfilled the publics needs
Actually I think this raises a good topic. The internet has spawned so much information it has gotten much harder to follow, this has resulted in companies taking advantage of this and comming up with generalized figures.
How many times has someone forgot to do something because they 'never got your email', how many companies have said we have lost/gained $X because of the unwashed masses? Or even the first completely legit online petition, digitally signed by (hundreds) of millions?
It always goes both ways they may threaten the public at first scare the rest but based on those threats and fears rests the credibility of the method. Enivatably the corporations are carving the only tool with the strength to kill themselves as when people like us, EFF and others try to fight they will lobby and bias more laws and regulations to keep us in check. What they will have is a chip that may/will have legal precident in many of our courts of law. What happens when people out burst about a company not completing a task as promised? Will the courts order that all companies must have this to ensure no Enrons happen in the future? And when people sign on-line petitions and they can no longer get laughed at how powerful will the people become?
That brings to my mind additional questions, would I want to pay additional money evrey time I use the banks services? By paying this will it insure as in insurance that if I do get snooped that I will be fully covered for any damages that may occur if they were wrong or missed a baddy or two? And how high would they cover? These are banks we are talking about here they will NOT spend money that does not make them money, period.
This would bring attention to the people who are using friends, family's or public computers for these transactions, it would probably wake them up. What I think would really work is a sandbox using encryption based on a one time password sent to your cell phone. It would be a website password, not unheard of but much more streamlined then scanning an entire computer for bad apples.
I would think it would work like so...
If Symantec is going to use the same method and be sure there will be no infection then using that application to interract would be just as good, no? I may be the only one but I would not want to be waiting at a computer while it goes through the possible millions of files just to do a transfer or check my balance. In that case I would just want the bank to send me a SMS with my balance or a cheezy wap interface to transfer between 2 accounts.
I guess you can't blame Mr. Norton for trying but I don't think its gonna fly with banks. It does bring about a new method of accesssing the data that should be looked at. Possibly if it works well enough we could use this method for sending other types of confidential data or stuff you just don't want anyone else to see.
I think we are getting close to something here.
The newest song comes out and is 'tested' by the public listeners if they like it word gets around and people buy it for x amount of $. Now the people who just listen to it because evreyone else does come in and buy it because its cheaper. This will continue only capped by market saturation.
This will continue in a logrithmic fashon but would be intresting to see if the saturation of the market will influence each bands future and how. I would think that if any particular musician or group of has complete market saturation (every one that can have a copy does) then you have an entire planet comfortable with you. This means anything you want to sell is now that much more likely to be bought. This would concievably introduce a massive amount of influence on a great amount of people.
Lets look at this a little closer.
What they are offering is with the Google Ad you can click an icon that will connect you using VOIP to a call center for that company. They do not call you so there is no reason for the do not call bill. Also you are not calling from a telephone so *gasp* they cannot sick telemarketers on you.
So as a wrap-up you can view the text ad, click to goto the site and if your intrest is still high you can call them from any computer without a quarter.
Wow sounds like a privacy issue to me Captian Spalding.
would become
This levels the playing field cause it is the diffrence between the two that is the method for recovery, once you nail that your home free.
What MS is doing is sealing their coffin. For so many years they have used FUD to blur the lines between them and their competitors now they are actually providing a metric their OS can be compared upon. Now the starter edition can be blown away with a distro that allows "Unlimited Resolution". Or builtin CD-Player.
The it is not the features any longer, one software can say in the same lingo as MS's marketing dept we will give you the (equivalent of) starer edition + home ed. for 1/2 the price. The person buying it will look at it like 2 DVD players they can buy $100 SONY but they WANT the $500 SONY. Now with MS marketing showing us in black and white (and warm earth tones of course) just let them convince the customer what the customer needs and then steal them before they buy.
Well if printing from a non graphical terminal the resolution would be ... 25x80.
Don't forget there was not always a graphical shell.
Just remember one thing as you listen to this guy. In 35years hes going to be retired we are the ones passing laws and contesting them. If any generation is more pasionate to this cause it is this one. And these are the same people who will be behind the wheel when it happens.
I think he's just going through a bitter mid life crisis.
I agree
I beleive this is turning a new era or a changing of the guards. We are now dealing with politics and mind sets of share holders, owners P's and VP's of people that when they started this technology thing really had no idea what it was about, they put it in a box and people bought it so thats how it went. Only now they realize how much a part of society it is going to be and now we see patent rushes and dirty practices in the hopes they can stay alive long enough to say they figured it out.
I personally don't think its going to work that way. There is such a gap in education, mind set, outlook and talent between the kids comming out of college right now to the CEO's of today that they just can't work. These companies to take these new avenues would have to loose money and market share which would kill the stock value of their company which would make it extemely timid to make the changes necessary and fail a couple of times.
If you look at it like this, in the early 80's most people 50%+ only knew of computers by minimal association such as movies and some exposure in the work place. 10%- actually knew how to use one competently. 5%- knew the internals in terms of programming and advanced knowledge. This is the era that the CEO's and VP's of today came into the picture. Most of them fall in to the 50% category maybe now have be come more enthuisast and started to play on GUI's of the 90's but still are nowhere near 5 and 10% of their class in the 80's.
Now you have the kids who were born in the 80's now completing college / university where all of them have at least 10x as much experience as the 50%ers in the 80's, most if not all have used a computer before in one respect or another and are adequately aware to run various apps and produce something from their experience, know what to do if it 'crashes' etc etc. Lastly the people of today who know and are comfortable editing internal settings, scripting and even developing are creeping into the caliber who also runs major departments. Do you know many VP's who can code? If so would you expect that trend in many of today's companies?
As a result the new generation is going to eclipse the existing where they will not be able to compete. Existing companies have left so little room that those who will take part will be willing to eat bread and jam to survive and to keep costs down. I think it will be like a DDOS type of occurance where local software shops will come about in evrey town. They will administer local servers for gaming, fix your BSOD and probably suggest things like linux or come up with their own distros.
Not many will actually produce full out software that evreyone will want but in an area of about 1000 people as an example good money can be made for 5 or so for maintence, upgrades and troubleshooting at a reasonable rate.
I think it will be a big change in the industry and as always the ideas of today will become the objectives of tomorrow.
The only problem with this is that no one is trusted enough to declare the diffrence between good and bad. And once the diffrence is made what do we do? If you are found infringing what happens? Who has the final word?
Aww common you know this will just be another bone to throw a lawyer. Once that happens you won't be able to afford your justice. If anything the Internet is here for one thing only, to force us to pull our heads out of our asses and make decisions for ourselves. There is no way of policing it in the way evreyone will benifit from it.
So sure we can set up a system to procecute infringers but rules are based on perception.
If I buy a product you say is great and I seem to think other wise would I be infringing to write about it? Should you be allowed to make claims unattested? Maybe if you removed all advertising / marketing lingo, pictures etc and made no claims what so ever and relied principally on these comments would it be better?
So while I do see your point you do have to consider there are people who will bad mouth and those who will praise and those who will just shut up and take it, regardless of your rules, hopes and dreams. The goal should be how do we satisfy all of them and still function as a society.
Mr. Hoffman,
Sorry to be so abrupt and I do appreciate your intent and sincerity, I would like to raise one point if I may.
It is your responsibility to come up with the ideas of the company. This includes projects and direction of the company. Engineers are those who make even the most abstract request a reality with little oversight.
I have the utmost faith that with clarity and leadership even college graduates can be instructed to make excellent software. Puting the blame on hired minds of that degree is much more of a crutch then a problem, using Microsoft as an example of an empire the largest the world has known was based on a leader and barely a competent programmer.
I believe you are much better off then you believe and will have great success in all your projects.