The house owner said that she didn't think anyone would want to buy the rock and wanted it to stay in New Zealand / Auckland anyway.
I don't think she knows how much she could get for it.
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I'm all for letting people believe that IT doesn't matter for the next couple of years...
let all the systems crash and burn...
it'll mean treble money for the IT folks when they realise their mistake!
Have either of you or anyone else actually put together a history of gaming for the last 25 years?
One of the first computer games I ever played I wrote from a magazine - it was written in Basic on a Sorceror PC, in around 1980. There were no graphics of course.
Are there any good books on the history of gaming?
I'll always remember the cold winter night (in 1994?) that I went round to a friend's house and was introduced to the PlayStation. 6 hours later at 4am I went home amazed.
I could not believe that graphics could be so good. Graphics that worked for-you.
I hope they put the playstation in a Museum one day and discuss life before PS and how mechanical it was.
I'd love to know how Sony manage their RnD and QA departments so well.
(I never did actually BUY one though! I'm not into games generally.)
Remember that Thunderbird is still pre 1.0 release which means that you should be prepared for "features" (bugs). I switched my own laptop from XP-Outlook to Thunderbird 0.5 a few weeks ago, and I am delighted with the huge gain in performance, the improved virus protection, spam filtering as well as the fact that the new platform is Open-source.
However, when I did the import from Outlook, it mangled some of the email address and attachments, so I keep Outlook for backup purposes, so I can check old emails. I would not switch back, but just keep a record of all the files you use. Of course, we are all careful and audit-trail all of our work, aren't we!
To sum up: great product and project, but handle the delivery with care.
Mr Novice OFool, You are right, and maybe not so much a fool as you like to make out. The story is a complete fake. Possibly written by someone who WANTS Google to IPO so is trying to coax the company into doing so.
A Google IPO would make more money for the army of service professions like bankers, lawyers and journalists; professions which some ungenerous persons might call leeches.
The argument for an IPO is independent of disclosure.
You would IPO if you had a plan to build a large project but could not finance that through your own efforts (assets or banks). The cost of the IPO, apart from the transaction costs are the loss of control of the company to finance houses, which in the case of an innovator like Google, could in fact kill the company - you can call it throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Assuming a proportion of 10,000 corpulant assholes and 990,000 workers in the industry, is this structure a justification for bankrupting the industry?
Other industries are run by corpulant assholes, not just the music industry.
A much better option would be to set a short limit on the copyright of music (how about up to 5 years after release), after which any music by anyone could be copied and redistributed.
A little maths is required here to point out the meanness of the offer!
If we assume that the true interest rate of money is around 5 per cent, then assuming a fixed cost of 10 dollars of maintenance for maintaining a single domain, so the cost does not go up: Year 1 - 10.00 dollars Year 2 = 9.50 dollars Year 3 = 9.01 dollars etc... Year 100 = 0.05 dollars By the time we get to year 100 the net present value for year 100 is close to zero.
The NPV for the maintenance of the service is about 10 x 20 = 200 dollars.
The NPV for the maintenance of the service for the next 100 years is I would imagine somewhere between 190 and 200 dollars.
The NPV for all the registration years beyond year 100 is small indeed. I don't understand why the offer wasn't just "for ever" rather than for 100 years.
In other words, the cost of supporting a service for the next 100 years is almost the same as the cost of supporting a service for ever. So why not just sell the unlimited option?
I find this reminiscent of the activities of McCarthy in the post WW2 period.
The McCarthy investigation and activities were very successful in trying to root out left-wing people from jobs, on the basis that they were a threat to National Security. The world and its people were very weak after the second world war, so all sorts of nutty ideas could get talked about. As the USSR and the USA were involved in a turf war, it was alleged that anyone who supported the US communist party, was in fact undermining the security of the USA. I suppose the modern day equivalent would be any American who supported a pro-Iranian or Pro-Beijing party today, being accused of threatening US security.
Some particularly famous examples were show trials involving Hollywood stars.
Anyway, the whole investigation went on quite successfully until one day the "McCarthy-ites" decided to accuse the US armed forces of containing subversive activities. This was one step too far, and the investigations were halted, and became discredited in the eyes of many.
Now I don't who is moderating, but what exactly is baiting about the PARENT - why is it "Flamebait"?
I thought it is probably quite accurate, after all since we know MS has a track record for underming the market, and the nerds have a track record for pointing this out.
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The house owner said that she didn't think anyone would want to buy the rock and wanted it to stay in New Zealand / Auckland anyway. I don't think she knows how much she could get for it.
I'm all for letting people believe that IT doesn't matter for the next couple of years... let all the systems crash and burn ...
it'll mean treble money for the IT folks when they realise their mistake!
Amazing encyclopedic knowledge from both of you!
Have either of you or anyone else actually put together a history of gaming for the last 25 years?
One of the first computer games I ever played I wrote from a magazine - it was written in Basic on a Sorceror PC, in around 1980. There were no graphics of course.
Are there any good books on the history of gaming?
You are quite right... I never played a Sega Saturn. What do you think is the best games console these days?
I'll always remember the cold winter night (in 1994?) that I went round to a friend's house and was introduced to the PlayStation. 6 hours later at 4am I went home amazed. I could not believe that graphics could be so good. Graphics that worked for-you. I hope they put the playstation in a Museum one day and discuss life before PS and how mechanical it was. I'd love to know how Sony manage their RnD and QA departments so well. (I never did actually BUY one though! I'm not into games generally.)
Is AOP (Aspect-Oriented Programming) simply evidence that OO (Object-Orientation) has some fundamental design problems?
Remember that Thunderbird is still pre 1.0 release which means that you should be prepared for "features" (bugs).
I switched my own laptop from XP-Outlook to Thunderbird 0.5 a few weeks ago, and I am delighted with the huge gain in performance, the improved virus protection, spam filtering as well as the fact that the new platform is Open-source.
However, when I did the import from Outlook, it mangled some of the email address and attachments, so I keep Outlook for backup purposes, so I can check old emails. I would not switch back, but just keep a record of all the files you use. Of course, we are all careful and audit-trail all of our work, aren't we!
To sum up: great product and project, but handle the delivery with care.
Mr Novice OFool,
You are right, and maybe not so much a fool as you like to make out. The story is a complete fake. Possibly written by someone who WANTS Google to IPO so is trying to coax the company into doing so.
A Google IPO would make more money for the army of service professions like bankers, lawyers and journalists; professions which some ungenerous persons might call leeches.
The argument for an IPO is independent of disclosure.
You would IPO if you had a plan to build a large project but could not finance that through your own efforts (assets or banks). The cost of the IPO, apart from the transaction costs are the loss of control of the company to finance houses, which in the case of an innovator like Google, could in fact kill the company - you can call it throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
Assuming a proportion of 10,000 corpulant assholes and 990,000 workers in the industry, is this structure a justification for bankrupting the industry?
Other industries are run by corpulant assholes, not just the music industry.
A much better option would be to set a short limit on the copyright of music (how about up to 5 years after release), after which any music by anyone could be copied and redistributed.
OK fair enough. So your saying that working selling music is not a real job?
Do you want to extrapolate that to selling anything at all?
OK but if the music industry is bankrupted, which I have no stake in btw, how many jobs are going to be lost in the USA? Worldwide?
1 million, 10 million? Will these people find other creative things to do (if selling music is creative)?
Look on the bright side.
Aren't you glad that you live in a country more sensibly run than the USA?
A little maths is required here to point out the meanness of the offer!
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If we assume that the true interest rate of money is around 5 per cent, then assuming a fixed cost of 10 dollars of maintenance for maintaining a single domain, so the cost does not go up:
Year 1 - 10.00 dollars
Year 2 = 9.50 dollars
Year 3 = 9.01 dollars etc
Year 100 = 0.05 dollars
By the time we get to year 100 the net present value for year 100 is close to zero.
The NPV for the maintenance of the service is about 10 x 20 = 200 dollars.
The NPV for the maintenance of the service for the next 100 years is I would imagine somewhere between 190 and 200 dollars.
The NPV for all the registration years beyond year 100 is small indeed. I don't understand why the offer wasn't just "for ever" rather than for 100 years.
In other words, the cost of supporting a service for the next 100 years is almost the same as the cost of supporting a service for ever. So why not just sell the unlimited option?
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So now SCO attacks the US government?
I find this reminiscent of the activities of McCarthy in the post WW2 period.
The McCarthy investigation and activities were very successful in trying to root out left-wing people from jobs, on the basis that they were a threat to National Security. The world and its people were very weak after the second world war, so all sorts of nutty ideas could get talked about. As the USSR and the USA were involved in a turf war, it was alleged that anyone who supported the US communist party, was in fact undermining the security of the USA. I suppose the modern day equivalent would be any American who supported a pro-Iranian or Pro-Beijing party today, being accused of threatening US security.
Some particularly famous examples were show trials involving Hollywood stars.
Anyway, the whole investigation went on quite successfully until one day the "McCarthy-ites" decided to accuse the US armed forces of containing subversive activities. This was one step too far, and the investigations were halted, and became discredited in the eyes of many.
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Yes, very witty PARENT ... however, it really goes to show how Open Source has really rocked the industry (especially Microsoft),
I think this will be the first of a whole series of changes, which should be good for everyone who doesn't depend of closed IP.
Now I don't who is moderating, but what exactly is baiting about the PARENT - why is it "Flamebait"?
I thought it is probably quite accurate, after all since we know MS has a track record for underming the market, and the nerds have a track record for pointing this out.
...pause... for 1000 nerds to think up devious MS policies :)
What if the automakers develop a set of integrated access codes that reveal the secret IP of the automakers, once known.
Then they can argue that giving the codes would give access to their car designs.
Then we can use SOAP transaction servers to query and fix the software in our cars.