does this somehow surprise you? Most nobel prizes and major work is done while people are still writing their thesis(or shortly thereafter). Just looked to the 19th century, lots of work was done at very young ages.
now, with sepcial relativity, they are called the lorentz transforms because it had been found out long before 1905 that a different invariance is required for Maxwell's equations. Also, it was long known for Maxwell's equations that they predicted some universal speed for the propogations of waves. Because it didn't not obey gallilean(sp?) invariance is probably what led to Lorentz's (and I think Poincare's) work. Its been a long time since I've read this stuff.
While I still think Einstein is one of the greatest physicists ever, his aura is falsely inflated with these stories of his working in a dark corner without interaction from the outside world. He was very well read and well educated and did his greatest work while having frequent contact wtih the great mathematicians and physicists of his time.
I agree, but I consider jobs the ultimate sale's man. nothing more. Gates is one of the great business men of our time.
Jobs can say all he wants about shelving products because he didn't like them, but that gets done at every company. Its neither new nor unique in any way. Windows shelves stuff all the time, just unlike mac, they feel the need to do everything publicly so everyone can make fun of them for failing at it. This is why Gates isn't the ultimate business man. He hasn't realized people will now not wait for the greatest thing from Microsoft because in the end, it doesn't matter in daily use of the computer.
Now why is Jobs the ultimate sales man? because he brings out a product like the iPhone which is far inferior many products out there and offers nothing new beyond a touch screen, and can make it sound like having a phone that also acts as an MP3 players nad can connect to the internet is the newest and greatest innovation ever. He is so good at it, I get to hear mac fans talk about the amazingly new features these are compared to everything and how great apple is. BTW, I just got a piss old version cell phone(it came for free if I was willing to subscribe for 1 month to some extra services that cost 10 bucks a month) that does every thing an iPhone does except the touch screen. Its an incredible skill when you can bring out nothing new and make it sound like greatest thing since sliced bread. I respect it just as much as the business prowess to steamroll hardware companies many times your own size to become the center of a universe.
I agree you should be allowed, but the big difference is that taxi drivers have quite a few more restrictions put on them in most areas, especially by the person leasing the car to him/her. further, most cab drivers aren't independent, but rather employees of a company that owns the cars.
either way, the contracts states its valid for the cab driver to do what he is doing. the question is does your contract with blizzard, et. all state the same? keep in mind I'm a big fan of things like this. didn't think much of them in school, but now I have no time so I wouldn't mind paying to get to play areas of a game I don't have the time to get to myself(I could never find 3 or 4 hours to do a dungeon or quest with a group, which you have to do if you work your way through most mmorpg's now)
what is this principle of copyright DRM violates? the ability for me to gain inspiration from that work? There isn't a single DRM system in the world that does that. I can listen to a person's work all I want and get all my inspiration(or watch, or read, or whatever method you take in that information).
So where is society harmed by DRM? No content just dissapears, even with the most restrictive DRM systems in place. There will always be people who keep copies of that content in some form. So as long as DRM doesn't become bullet proof, your argument against DRM is farsighted at best.
Now take your world, the individual artist has a work and distributes it and it gets on the torrents and goes flying around. How do you propose he enforces it? I'm looking for a step by step, reasonable method that keeps in mind that the next generation of bit torrent services will be double blind. At best, you would be guilty of tresspassing to find out if they even have a copy of your music(no DRM) , much less if it was an illegal copy. So I'm not sure where you would get the basis in the law to have protection. the next step, of course, if we overcome this hurdle, would be to sue. But what are the damages? At best, we have now shown this one person has a single improper copy of my work(I'll do first person, easier to write).
So what damages do you assume are reasonable for this? Even if damages are awarded to the amount of 10k dollars, which is an incredible amount for a single act of copyright infringement, that still doesn't cover the legal costs involved(along with the initial information gathering). Now this information has given you net debt as a single artist trying to enforce copyright.
So then what? naturally the next step would be to collude with other artists. If you can amass enough artists, one single case can prove thousands of acts of infringement, each liable for the same amount. Now, as few people have the money to pay this, you will bankrupt them. Of course, this is the system we had during Napster. At this point, the artists, out of a need to protect copyright in an economically feasible way, have recreated the RIAA which is of course, another economic inefficiency only required because copyright is not enforcable on a person by person level.
Now, this is where I would see us going/coming back to. Even under your system, we are back to the same point we began. There isn't any DRM (which we effectively don't have right now given the ease of acquiring safe illegal copies) and we are back with a cooperative trying to sue the pants off of everyone because it is now profitable.
Of course, we wouldn't have DRM. But then, we'd have everything else with all the inefficiencies the current system embodies. The best would be the ability to write into a file the initial rights you are selling with the music and those rights could be exercised to any limit while not letting you go any further. If that means an artist sells you the right you only listen to his work on 3 devices total, then you should simply adjust where you value that work(compared to an unencumbered system). Then of course, you can sell a tiered product that fits everyone's needs.
Now, I'm wondering again, as I did in the beginning, how DRM harms society. What would society gain with the removal of DRM as it stands today and in the next generation? Its not the inspiration these works are supposed to provide to encourage further development of the arts.
of course you can. Every apple supporter will want you to believe that all it requires is for you to burn the music to Cd, then re rip it onto your hard drive, remember which of thsoe tracks with the same name is the un DRM'ed one, find the file, import with a program that can sync with your player, and finally, if you aren't sick and damn tired of this, get to listen to it on a non-apple product.
I don't know where people get the idea that this is a straight forward, quick little exercise when it actually takes real time and effort to do. and of course, it takes lots of blank cd's(or a cd-rw). this is especially bad for my old laptop which didn't have one back in 2001/2002 when this was all starting. Now, its just a waste of time that I don't have since I'm at work for 60 or 70 hours a week. Free time is now a real commodity and I like spending it doing things other than burning and re-ripping music I already bought. Its much easier for me to just torrent in what I want.
producing is very expensive. its actually the only expensive thing in the line of making art. everything else has base costs that are basically minimal housing and food for the artist. that is the base cost. but the studios for recording and advertising for up and coming artists is very expensive. it generally takes agents working very hard to get small venues to accept a new artist to build the reputation in a variety of locations. Those high quality recordings that are used on cd aren't cheap to make.
Go try renting a studio to record a cd. for anything with quality, it costs major money to do. And this doesn't involve getting hte best producers to cut your music for a fee(also expensive).
the 15 yo is only good at competing because all these other costs are being paid for by the studios. he may be better at the last mile, but he doesn't have to foot the bill for the first 500 miles so its not that hard.
Now, you said publishing, not producing, but these come as a package in the record studios. There are few artists and split this up and fewer with any recognition for their work(generally, small private studios to the producing and the artist tries to spread the work). two of my friends do this but only to limited success as of yet. Its a difficult life trying to work a full time job and then travel around a large area to build a fan base. And worse, it pays absolutely nothing for quite a while because few venues will pay you until you prove you can draw a crowd.
And the only problem is those revenues from publishing fund the rest of it. don't believe it? where else does the money come from? artists garner most of the profits on touring so the production and publishing have to be paid for elsewhere.
So who has been successful at going inde? I hear people bring up the Bare Naked Ladies and the NYtimes(earlier story) talked about Avril Lavigne but so far, all the examples I've ever heard all got their start in the national spotlight in the major studios.
Now, I don't like the fact that so much power is situated in a small group, but I have a theory as to why that is so. I think the mass consolidation in the radio market killed one of the best advertising systems in the world. Worse yet, the end to good college radio(remember, they used to actually go out and find new bands in the underground scene) has made it even harder to build a young base. But I don't doubt the studios work for their money. And the RIAA and MPAA represent the producers who also happen to be the publishers.
never said alcohol content is very important, just that the most common beers in the US are far stronger than the common beers in England. My cousins from England tell me Hobgoblin(which I like) is not popular in England so its not a good example. I just finished a budweiser(well, 1 week ago back in the states) that was at 9.7% ABV (beer-wine I think they call it....).
but, everyone keeps saying american beer is weak when it stands up as average or stronger than most beer in the world. the only place that is noticably stronger in my experience has been Germany.
anyways, there is a reason most US beer is all the same strength and few beers are much stronger. many states make it illegal to sell beer beyond a certain ABV. Lots of states set that at 5% so most American beers that are nationally distributed usually push up against that number. Local breweries have much stronger and varied beers. My favorite brewery is the Cottonwood brewery in NC. Amazing beer of all types.
huh, didn't know you needed a lisence to write a player for an MP3. Why are so many free programs available then? Honestly question. I was under the assumption anyone can write a program to play the format. All I'm saying is that between the two options, MP3's probably made better business sense because most files being distributed were in that format(on the Napster and Napster like networks).
I don't know. AAC wasn't the dominant format when people were first making business decisions. MP3's are the dominant one and are open, so why burn money supporting something when a free alternative exists? not so with fairplay. fair play support is the only way to compete head to head with the ipod.
I just find it funny that no one just comes out and says, "Hey, MS did this to the OS market for years slowly locking people in and expanding its boundaries while giving the majority of people exactly what they wanted. Why not let someone else eat from that pie?"
Of course, in the end, the argument hsould be the same peopled leveled against MS office. It's the biggest so it has to play fair with everyone else and give them a shot at competing against the music store or the music player independently. This would mean requiring apple to make the iTunes program compatible with other players, fairplay lisencable, and the iPod to play other stores' music(if Apple can obtain lisences). Its what people screamed ragged about against MS and what they have had to comply with. If Microsoft could, they would try to make windows not work wtih Itunes which would crush the iPod(no program to itneract with it on the dominant OS) and this would let them move in strong on the music market without a major competitor.
actually, I'm only really surprised these comments are being made on slashdot, where I've read more than a few very energetic discussions about which is better for the software environment, GPL or BSD based licenses(or those in between). That some random reporter is too damn foolish to realize the difference isn't surprising at all.
try an example, not just broad BS. I went to a public school in a poor area and I had a great education. America still sends loads of people to colleges across the nation(which are generally considered the best in the world). Colleges that were once basic to get into 30 and 40 years ago have people saying they couldn't get into their alma matter due to the intense levels of competition that now exist.
wait, you probably never looked at the data from colleges to see if the BS you've been fed is true. For a very short while, people changed the methodology to teaching math. It was attempt at teaching math intuition over brute memorization. It seems a lot closer to the style I experienced in college but it does skip the basics hoping strong intuition will make up for it later. it can unfortunately leave those behind that don't get the intuition, but I know really bright mathematicians that came up under the system.
I replied to this in another post. it measures 2x4 before it gets smoothed. that has nothing to do with units and it would be even harder to make the appropriate measurements if we did stuff in metric(where 5x10 would become 3.75x8.75(or equally bad, except for the fact you need an extra decimal and measuring to that accuracy with most common measuring tools isn't possible)
by that, I mean most centimeter marked instruments go to 1/10 of a centimeter, not 1/20.
start here. now note 2 points: most british beer is around 4-4.2% by volume.
2) american beer is not quoted by volume, but rather, by weight. so when we say a 4% beer(a common amount for most beers) it is actually 4.8% as the Brits go, which classifies it as extra special bitter(stronger than almost anything people drink in England).
Germany is different. It generally sits with 5-7%(by weight, so up to twice the strength of british beer) and those boys can drink. But the Brits aren't any better at it than Americans, they just use weaker stuff. Google it.
BTW, Budweiser is 5%, which is one of the most popular beers in my area. Compare this to Britain, where beers over 4.2% make up less than 3% of sales.
you know that when they give sizes of would there are talking about before smoothing by sanding, right? so the parent would still be correct. (I actually had an issue with this in martial arts, where I was told buy 1 inch thick pine for breaking (which is, of course,.75 inches thick when bought) and took out a ruler and found a board that was literally 1 inch thick. It got a good laugh when I brought it in (the guys at home depo explained to me why the 1 inch marked pine wasn't actually 1 inch thick). I think a 2x4 shoudl actually be 1.75 x 3.75 because they are supposed to take 1/8 an inch off of each each face.
unfortunately for him, there was a lawsuit about this on Forrest Gump. JUdge ruled the accounting was perfectly legal, as specified in the contract. so Jackson is basically trying to steam role the studio in giving him far more than he deserves contractually.
don't jump the gun. he may not be entitled to anything more than what he got (look up what happened to the guy to wrote the story for Forest Gump).
You would think that guy deserved loads as the film made tons of money. he got nothing because the accounting said the movie actually made no profit. judge said the studio was right. Jackson might very well lose and New Line might be pissed that they are being dragged through the mud on this in the public eye.
I know gmail works great. so does every other email account. the problem are legal requirements. most businesses are required to keep logs of every mail received or sent by its employees for business purposes for a certain period of time.
for legal purposes, most lawyers would crap their pants if you told them gmail was now a business account. but, your second reason is just one more why the iPhone isn't ready to compete against the blackberry in RIM's favored space.
show me a single stock analyst that downgraded Intel back in 2000 before it said due to minor problems, revenue from europe wouldn't reach record levels again. Then show me a single analyst that revised their outlook according (minimal long term effect and short term minor impact). Then after the stock drops over 35%, why weren't they upgrading it based on fundamental valuation? Analysts merely tell you where momentum is.
Two of my good friends are apple fiends (their dad worked for the company back when it was first getting started until ~92) and they said its not the greatest thing ever. The one feature they liked was the interface. And those two are my first source for reviews of anything apple.
And I understand that, its the one new feature this phone offers to the market. I think its really cool but I'll look into it in a couple years, when its priced appropriately for what it can do. I'd pay 250 for the interface. 50 bucks for the phone. I'll sign a one year contract to get an MP3 player.
you can drive your people to constantly work and turn out perfection and hten get a far inferior product.
I know that I don't respond well to some ass telling me how to get to a goal. I work a lot more efficiently when I get two things : end result required, rough time table.
Its why I love my job. I get called over, described an end result, and asked to make it work. Its a lot more fun to put my own personality into what I'm creating. In the end, my work still goes in drafts and I'm always open to suggestions as I go(features , etc) but its the environment that means the most.
but now you've made a blanket statement htat tobacco and arms are bad. one can argue that if a tobacco company lies about the health effects of its product, it falls into the "bad" category. but now what? most countries require warning labels. is that enough?
and I'm not sure which arms companies you're talking about. I don't see anything wrong investing in Lockhead Martin, Boeing, or others that contract for the federal government.
Its great to use charged words, but the statement they made still applies. Frankly, your moral compass isn't the same as theirs. they may fall in line with Jeffery Sachs and support clothing companies that operate in Bangladesh, even though the employees have to generally walk 1 or 2 hours to just get to work. But lots of people call that slave labor. Its hard to say Sachs is some tool for corporations as he has spent a majority of his career pioneering development economics. so who's right? is it alright to invest in those clothing companies? not completely straight forward.
everything is out of date in the Japan market so don't give jobs credit for users being idiots to what easily exists. 18 months ago I was doing everything this phone does in India for crying out loud.
Give credit where its due, its a pretty interface. end innovation. I've heard chatter that people are wowed by the fact it automatically corrects typos and offers you the ability to accept it. Great, but old. I had better technology on a prepaid vodaphone(worst service in Japan, btw) out here almost 3 years ago. It actually guessed the word I was writing and offered a list on the bottom half of the screen to the top words I've ever written starting with those letters. That was bottom of the bargain bin back then. top tier was letting people watch TV on their phone(live streams). I would say the only thing this adds is syncing to iTunes and limited video playback, though less limited than others.
comparing this phone to a real smart phone does a disservice to real smart phones. that seems to be the heart of the complaints.
IF this was MS, the obvious response would be : Translation-- Our software is so poor we actually envision mass distributed software that can bring down our OS adn therefore, we are forbidding anything from ever getting on our system without our express, written, and paid for approval....
of course, this couldn't be what jobs is talking about.....
wouldn't touch lots of people on black berry's because: 1) you need push email based on the internal servers running at the business (not yahoo for every business I've ever seen) 2) need a fast network to browse the net most business's are interested in
fails on both points right now. probably will continue failing on the first point for a long time to come.
you should have read the article(well, at least in greater detail). One of the first points was that they would like to except now everyone will scream anti-trust against them. They aren't in any way able to enforce that(or, I bet, even openly put any kind of pressure on a computer company to do it). MS used to try to control the end user experience. They weren't looked on too favorably for that.
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does this somehow surprise you? Most nobel prizes and major work is done while people are still writing their thesis(or shortly thereafter). Just looked to the 19th century, lots of work was done at very young ages.
now, with sepcial relativity, they are called the lorentz transforms because it had been found out long before 1905 that a different invariance is required for Maxwell's equations. Also, it was long known for Maxwell's equations that they predicted some universal speed for the propogations of waves. Because it didn't not obey gallilean(sp?) invariance is probably what led to Lorentz's (and I think Poincare's) work. Its been a long time since I've read this stuff.
While I still think Einstein is one of the greatest physicists ever, his aura is falsely inflated with these stories of his working in a dark corner without interaction from the outside world. He was very well read and well educated and did his greatest work while having frequent contact wtih the great mathematicians and physicists of his time.
I agree, but I consider jobs the ultimate sale's man. nothing more. Gates is one of the great business men of our time.
Jobs can say all he wants about shelving products because he didn't like them, but that gets done at every company. Its neither new nor unique in any way. Windows shelves stuff all the time, just unlike mac, they feel the need to do everything publicly so everyone can make fun of them for failing at it. This is why Gates isn't the ultimate business man. He hasn't realized people will now not wait for the greatest thing from Microsoft because in the end, it doesn't matter in daily use of the computer.
Now why is Jobs the ultimate sales man? because he brings out a product like the iPhone which is far inferior many products out there and offers nothing new beyond a touch screen, and can make it sound like having a phone that also acts as an MP3 players nad can connect to the internet is the newest and greatest innovation ever. He is so good at it, I get to hear mac fans talk about the amazingly new features these are compared to everything and how great apple is. BTW, I just got a piss old version cell phone(it came for free if I was willing to subscribe for 1 month to some extra services that cost 10 bucks a month) that does every thing an iPhone does except the touch screen. Its an incredible skill when you can bring out nothing new and make it sound like greatest thing since sliced bread. I respect it just as much as the business prowess to steamroll hardware companies many times your own size to become the center of a universe.
I agree you should be allowed, but the big difference is that taxi drivers have quite a few more restrictions put on them in most areas, especially by the person leasing the car to him/her. further, most cab drivers aren't independent, but rather employees of a company that owns the cars.
either way, the contracts states its valid for the cab driver to do what he is doing. the question is does your contract with blizzard, et. all state the same? keep in mind I'm a big fan of things like this. didn't think much of them in school, but now I have no time so I wouldn't mind paying to get to play areas of a game I don't have the time to get to myself(I could never find 3 or 4 hours to do a dungeon or quest with a group, which you have to do if you work your way through most mmorpg's now)
what is this principle of copyright DRM violates? the ability for me to gain inspiration from that work? There isn't a single DRM system in the world that does that. I can listen to a person's work all I want and get all my inspiration(or watch, or read, or whatever method you take in that information).
So where is society harmed by DRM? No content just dissapears, even with the most restrictive DRM systems in place. There will always be people who keep copies of that content in some form. So as long as DRM doesn't become bullet proof, your argument against DRM is farsighted at best.
Now take your world, the individual artist has a work and distributes it and it gets on the torrents and goes flying around. How do you propose he enforces it? I'm looking for a step by step, reasonable method that keeps in mind that the next generation of bit torrent services will be double blind. At best, you would be guilty of tresspassing to find out if they even have a copy of your music(no DRM) , much less if it was an illegal copy. So I'm not sure where you would get the basis in the law to have protection. the next step, of course, if we overcome this hurdle, would be to sue. But what are the damages? At best, we have now shown this one person has a single improper copy of my work(I'll do first person, easier to write).
So what damages do you assume are reasonable for this? Even if damages are awarded to the amount of 10k dollars, which is an incredible amount for a single act of copyright infringement, that still doesn't cover the legal costs involved(along with the initial information gathering). Now this information has given you net debt as a single artist trying to enforce copyright.
So then what? naturally the next step would be to collude with other artists. If you can amass enough artists, one single case can prove thousands of acts of infringement, each liable for the same amount. Now, as few people have the money to pay this, you will bankrupt them. Of course, this is the system we had during Napster. At this point, the artists, out of a need to protect copyright in an economically feasible way, have recreated the RIAA which is of course, another economic inefficiency only required because copyright is not enforcable on a person by person level.
Now, this is where I would see us going/coming back to. Even under your system, we are back to the same point we began. There isn't any DRM (which we effectively don't have right now given the ease of acquiring safe illegal copies) and we are back with a cooperative trying to sue the pants off of everyone because it is now profitable.
Of course, we wouldn't have DRM. But then, we'd have everything else with all the inefficiencies the current system embodies. The best would be the ability to write into a file the initial rights you are selling with the music and those rights could be exercised to any limit while not letting you go any further. If that means an artist sells you the right you only listen to his work on 3 devices total, then you should simply adjust where you value that work(compared to an unencumbered system). Then of course, you can sell a tiered product that fits everyone's needs.
Now, I'm wondering again, as I did in the beginning, how DRM harms society. What would society gain with the removal of DRM as it stands today and in the next generation? Its not the inspiration these works are supposed to provide to encourage further development of the arts.
of course you can. Every apple supporter will want you to believe that all it requires is for you to burn the music to Cd, then re rip it onto your hard drive, remember which of thsoe tracks with the same name is the un DRM'ed one, find the file, import with a program that can sync with your player, and finally, if you aren't sick and damn tired of this, get to listen to it on a non-apple product.
I don't know where people get the idea that this is a straight forward, quick little exercise when it actually takes real time and effort to do. and of course, it takes lots of blank cd's(or a cd-rw). this is especially bad for my old laptop which didn't have one back in 2001/2002 when this was all starting. Now, its just a waste of time that I don't have since I'm at work for 60 or 70 hours a week. Free time is now a real commodity and I like spending it doing things other than burning and re-ripping music I already bought. Its much easier for me to just torrent in what I want.
producing is very expensive. its actually the only expensive thing in the line of making art. everything else has base costs that are basically minimal housing and food for the artist. that is the base cost. but the studios for recording and advertising for up and coming artists is very expensive. it generally takes agents working very hard to get small venues to accept a new artist to build the reputation in a variety of locations. Those high quality recordings that are used on cd aren't cheap to make.
Go try renting a studio to record a cd. for anything with quality, it costs major money to do. And this doesn't involve getting hte best producers to cut your music for a fee(also expensive).
the 15 yo is only good at competing because all these other costs are being paid for by the studios. he may be better at the last mile, but he doesn't have to foot the bill for the first 500 miles so its not that hard.
Now, you said publishing, not producing, but these come as a package in the record studios. There are few artists and split this up and fewer with any recognition for their work(generally, small private studios to the producing and the artist tries to spread the work). two of my friends do this but only to limited success as of yet. Its a difficult life trying to work a full time job and then travel around a large area to build a fan base. And worse, it pays absolutely nothing for quite a while because few venues will pay you until you prove you can draw a crowd.
And the only problem is those revenues from publishing fund the rest of it. don't believe it? where else does the money come from? artists garner most of the profits on touring so the production and publishing have to be paid for elsewhere.
So who has been successful at going inde? I hear people bring up the Bare Naked Ladies and the NYtimes(earlier story) talked about Avril Lavigne but so far, all the examples I've ever heard all got their start in the national spotlight in the major studios.
Now, I don't like the fact that so much power is situated in a small group, but I have a theory as to why that is so. I think the mass consolidation in the radio market killed one of the best advertising systems in the world. Worse yet, the end to good college radio(remember, they used to actually go out and find new bands in the underground scene) has made it even harder to build a young base. But I don't doubt the studios work for their money. And the RIAA and MPAA represent the producers who also happen to be the publishers.
never said alcohol content is very important, just that the most common beers in the US are far stronger than the common beers in England. My cousins from England tell me Hobgoblin(which I like) is not popular in England so its not a good example. I just finished a budweiser(well, 1 week ago back in the states) that was at 9.7% ABV (beer-wine I think they call it....).
but, everyone keeps saying american beer is weak when it stands up as average or stronger than most beer in the world. the only place that is noticably stronger in my experience has been Germany.
anyways, there is a reason most US beer is all the same strength and few beers are much stronger. many states make it illegal to sell beer beyond a certain ABV. Lots of states set that at 5% so most American beers that are nationally distributed usually push up against that number. Local breweries have much stronger and varied beers. My favorite brewery is the Cottonwood brewery in NC. Amazing beer of all types.
huh, didn't know you needed a lisence to write a player for an MP3. Why are so many free programs available then? Honestly question. I was under the assumption anyone can write a program to play the format. All I'm saying is that between the two options, MP3's probably made better business sense because most files being distributed were in that format(on the Napster and Napster like networks).
I don't know. AAC wasn't the dominant format when people were first making business decisions. MP3's are the dominant one and are open, so why burn money supporting something when a free alternative exists? not so with fairplay. fair play support is the only way to compete head to head with the ipod.
I just find it funny that no one just comes out and says, "Hey, MS did this to the OS market for years slowly locking people in and expanding its boundaries while giving the majority of people exactly what they wanted. Why not let someone else eat from that pie?"
Of course, in the end, the argument hsould be the same peopled leveled against MS office. It's the biggest so it has to play fair with everyone else and give them a shot at competing against the music store or the music player independently. This would mean requiring apple to make the iTunes program compatible with other players, fairplay lisencable, and the iPod to play other stores' music(if Apple can obtain lisences). Its what people screamed ragged about against MS and what they have had to comply with. If Microsoft could, they would try to make windows not work wtih Itunes which would crush the iPod(no program to itneract with it on the dominant OS) and this would let them move in strong on the music market without a major competitor.
actually, I'm only really surprised these comments are being made on slashdot, where I've read more than a few very energetic discussions about which is better for the software environment, GPL or BSD based licenses(or those in between). That some random reporter is too damn foolish to realize the difference isn't surprising at all.
try an example, not just broad BS. I went to a public school in a poor area and I had a great education. America still sends loads of people to colleges across the nation(which are generally considered the best in the world). Colleges that were once basic to get into 30 and 40 years ago have people saying they couldn't get into their alma matter due to the intense levels of competition that now exist.
wait, you probably never looked at the data from colleges to see if the BS you've been fed is true. For a very short while, people changed the methodology to teaching math. It was attempt at teaching math intuition over brute memorization. It seems a lot closer to the style I experienced in college but it does skip the basics hoping strong intuition will make up for it later. it can unfortunately leave those behind that don't get the intuition, but I know really bright mathematicians that came up under the system.
I replied to this in another post. it measures 2x4 before it gets smoothed. that has nothing to do with units and it would be even harder to make the appropriate measurements if we did stuff in metric(where 5x10 would become 3.75x8.75(or equally bad, except for the fact you need an extra decimal and measuring to that accuracy with most common measuring tools isn't possible)
by that, I mean most centimeter marked instruments go to 1/10 of a centimeter, not 1/20.
ok, this bs about weak american beer needs to get put to a stop at some point.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_(beer)
start here. now note 2 points:
most british beer is around 4-4.2% by volume.
2) american beer is not quoted by volume, but rather, by weight. so when we say a 4% beer(a common amount for most beers) it is actually 4.8% as the Brits go, which classifies it as extra special bitter(stronger than almost anything people drink in England).
Germany is different. It generally sits with 5-7%(by weight, so up to twice the strength of british beer) and those boys can drink. But the Brits aren't any better at it than Americans, they just use weaker stuff. Google it.
BTW, Budweiser is 5%, which is one of the most popular beers in my area. Compare this to Britain, where beers over 4.2% make up less than 3% of sales.
you know that when they give sizes of would there are talking about before smoothing by sanding, right? so the parent would still be correct. (I actually had an issue with this in martial arts, where I was told buy 1 inch thick pine for breaking (which is, of course, .75 inches thick when bought) and took out a ruler and found a board that was literally 1 inch thick. It got a good laugh when I brought it in (the guys at home depo explained to me why the 1 inch marked pine wasn't actually 1 inch thick). I think a 2x4 shoudl actually be 1.75 x 3.75 because they are supposed to take 1/8 an inch off of each each face.
unfortunately for him, there was a lawsuit about this on Forrest Gump. JUdge ruled the accounting was perfectly legal, as specified in the contract. so Jackson is basically trying to steam role the studio in giving him far more than he deserves contractually.
don't jump the gun. he may not be entitled to anything more than what he got (look up what happened to the guy to wrote the story for Forest Gump).
You would think that guy deserved loads as the film made tons of money. he got nothing because the accounting said the movie actually made no profit. judge said the studio was right. Jackson might very well lose and New Line might be pissed that they are being dragged through the mud on this in the public eye.
I know gmail works great. so does every other email account. the problem are legal requirements. most businesses are required to keep logs of every mail received or sent by its employees for business purposes for a certain period of time.
for legal purposes, most lawyers would crap their pants if you told them gmail was now a business account. but, your second reason is just one more why the iPhone isn't ready to compete against the blackberry in RIM's favored space.
show me a single stock analyst that downgraded Intel back in 2000 before it said due to minor problems, revenue from europe wouldn't reach record levels again. Then show me a single analyst that revised their outlook according (minimal long term effect and short term minor impact). Then after the stock drops over 35%, why weren't they upgrading it based on fundamental valuation? Analysts merely tell you where momentum is.
Two of my good friends are apple fiends (their dad worked for the company back when it was first getting started until ~92) and they said its not the greatest thing ever. The one feature they liked was the interface. And those two are my first source for reviews of anything apple.
And I understand that, its the one new feature this phone offers to the market. I think its really cool but I'll look into it in a couple years, when its priced appropriately for what it can do. I'd pay 250 for the interface. 50 bucks for the phone. I'll sign a one year contract to get an MP3 player.
you can drive your people to constantly work and turn out perfection and hten get a far inferior product.
I know that I don't respond well to some ass telling me how to get to a goal. I work a lot more efficiently when I get two things : end result required, rough time table.
Its why I love my job. I get called over, described an end result, and asked to make it work. Its a lot more fun to put my own personality into what I'm creating. In the end, my work still goes in drafts and I'm always open to suggestions as I go(features , etc) but its the environment that means the most.
but now you've made a blanket statement htat tobacco and arms are bad. one can argue that if a tobacco company lies about the health effects of its product, it falls into the "bad" category. but now what? most countries require warning labels. is that enough?
and I'm not sure which arms companies you're talking about. I don't see anything wrong investing in Lockhead Martin, Boeing, or others that contract for the federal government.
Its great to use charged words, but the statement they made still applies. Frankly, your moral compass isn't the same as theirs. they may fall in line with Jeffery Sachs and support clothing companies that operate in Bangladesh, even though the employees have to generally walk 1 or 2 hours to just get to work. But lots of people call that slave labor. Its hard to say Sachs is some tool for corporations as he has spent a majority of his career pioneering development economics. so who's right? is it alright to invest in those clothing companies? not completely straight forward.
everything is out of date in the Japan market so don't give jobs credit for users being idiots to what easily exists. 18 months ago I was doing everything this phone does in India for crying out loud.
Give credit where its due, its a pretty interface. end innovation. I've heard chatter that people are wowed by the fact it automatically corrects typos and offers you the ability to accept it. Great, but old. I had better technology on a prepaid vodaphone(worst service in Japan, btw) out here almost 3 years ago. It actually guessed the word I was writing and offered a list on the bottom half of the screen to the top words I've ever written starting with those letters. That was bottom of the bargain bin back then. top tier was letting people watch TV on their phone(live streams). I would say the only thing this adds is syncing to iTunes and limited video playback, though less limited than others.
comparing this phone to a real smart phone does a disservice to real smart phones. that seems to be the heart of the complaints.
2 companies actually, apple and cingular obviously
IF this was MS, the obvious response would be :
Translation-- Our software is so poor we actually envision mass distributed software that can bring down our OS adn therefore, we are forbidding anything from ever getting on our system without our express, written, and paid for approval....
of course, this couldn't be what jobs is talking about.....
wouldn't touch lots of people on black berry's because:
1) you need push email based on the internal servers running at the business (not yahoo for every business I've ever seen)
2) need a fast network to browse the net most business's are interested in
fails on both points right now. probably will continue failing on the first point for a long time to come.
you should have read the article(well, at least in greater detail). One of the first points was that they would like to except now everyone will scream anti-trust against them. They aren't in any way able to enforce that(or, I bet, even openly put any kind of pressure on a computer company to do it). MS used to try to control the end user experience. They weren't looked on too favorably for that.