But do you think the relatively higher profile, higher reputation (and therefore accountability) of many google employees might leave less room for poor ethics?
many corporations and goverments claim little accountability for errors and usually just let a few peons take the fall, whereas a high profile ethically questionable action (throwing a chair across an office) has huge negative ramifications.
It's happened before, but google often diffuses their own power. The company is made up of *very* smart people, rather than governments which are made up of ignorant drones working under a few leaders to make up an overly incompetent power beast.
Google staffer's often have a high profile, and one that is built upon their intellect. Its not a reputation many of them would like to give up to make a few extra bucks.
I may be wrong, but I doubt the individuals in this company would allow google to excessively gain or abuse power.
It never requires corrupt people, but the very essense of power is a corrupting influence. This would happen even in a big organisation comprised of mahatma's
Do no evil is all good and well, but lets just wait for the subpoenas (or what if the googlebot uncovers data in its searches or databases or e-mails that fits a definition of "suspicious activity"? is inaction an option for google in this instance?
Now we need a software that generates musical creations at random and kills off the musical "children" that don't succeed according to the rules of the program.
I've always wanted a search feature in my "Stumble to" account
stumble! has a decent enough database of me, matched up to a decent enough database of other users so that websites I visit through it are entirely relevant to me, however they are also *limited* to the select group of current interests, not really allowing for any drastic changes of interests, and indeed funnelling you only into areas that are already relevant to you.
Google may be able to address this using this system (or alternatively it may further limit peoples ability to see other peoples ideas by accident)
Not sure how it is elsehwere, but in Qld Australia, new laws will have you fined $50 if you leave your car unlocked.
as my friend said "why don't the police just open any unlocked doors and take $50 worth of your belongings" - that should teach us "criminals" to lock our car doors
B&W no doubt fuelled a lot of the interest in gesture control. Infact I use mouse gestures in absolutely everything I do on my PC (with firefox handling internal mouse gestures and other software handling OS navigation with gestures) 200% efficiency
So first they managed to replace the reusable, largely unscratchable 3 1/2 inch floppies.... then they figured out how to make them into (profitable) landfill. Just make them writable once and then we have an industry of consumption... isn't read once the next logical step?
(I should have worded it into one of those ??? profit jokes... damn)
As a musician, let me just say this once, and say it LOUD AND CLEAR:
If piracy runs rampant, or if DRM becomes so oppressive that people no longer buy music, lets sit back and just see if the music stops. WE WILL STILL MAKE MUSIC.
The whole "free ride" of RI excess has dried up and they're desparately trying to clutch on to the past fluke of being able to make money off other peoples work
The internet has created two possible paths:
1. Initial complete freedom with a reaction of oppression by the greedy few who fail to understand how things work in an environment of infinite duplicatability.
or
2. Death to greedy middlemen who's 'services' are no longer needed by a community of open, international citizens.
We are now on the dawn of being able to liberate ourselves from needing their 'music studios', their 'big budget film technology' their 'gasoline' their 'phone networks' etc etc all for a very modest investment. Now that they *know* this, power brokers are now struggling to grasp on to the cat's tail before it fully gets out of the bag.
Already the internet has been restricted and is traceable... already VOIP is being 'managed' and restricted and tracked... fuckit.. why do we even NEED voip? its just audio converted to data, passed over a bunch of computers networked together?? no more apathy!
Sure, they'll change the type of cables that systems use so they can sell you more shit, just the way they removed the "line in" plugs from most stereo's in the 90's
What I think is hilarious is the fact that by seeding "poisoned" trackers they're essentially saying it is legal to have.torrent files on your server which reference names of copyright material (eg pirate bay)
I mean a "poisoned" torrent file of "lost ep.126" and a legit file are identical in that neither contain any copyright material and infact to prove any illegal activity within a tracker one must actually break the law and download the movie.
Assuming this isn't enough, seeders should start every torrent with a short section of footage which is copyright to someone *other* than MPAA, so that in order for the MPAA to prove any illegal activity, they must themselves engage in illegal activity and be subject to the same laws.
Well even here in "fairly regional" Australia we have kids who are setting up huge range VPN's so you can essentially access free wifi (free as in beer *and* speech) from anywhere in the area if you are keen enough and have a big enough antenna.
I think people need to start setting up the infrastructure to access wifi independently (and without restrictions) of these "nanny" companies. We're all getting too lazy and suckling too much off these companies teets...
Ok.. I'm sure I'm going to get flamed for this, but I too am a young ad exec (among other things) and I realise that we really are just a bunch of annoying nigel no friends who relentlessly pester people for an invite to their party while offering no *real content* .
Advertising is dead once people can set in place an easy, mobile accessible 'stumbleto' style rating system where the advice delivery channels change from being 10 (paid) to being the same number as the number of consumers (billions)
You can then try and figure out a way to make paying 10 million people to recommend "coke" economically viable.
success or failure for mass marketted stuff often comes down to its "hypability".
give it a name that evokes mental links with other hyped up buzz words and you can sell it more readily...
googles pods blogs.. they're all nice rounded names and they all allude to some culture/club (not culture club) that people feel they might want to be a part of.
ipods are the pogo sticks or yoyo's of today... (hell.. probably for the very kids who grew up with them only to buy an ipod at age 30)
We might as well just get used to all the baby talk (sure beats EEE.822b's or VNCs or whatever other names techies like to give really innovative technologies IMHO)
the cost of lost data due to scratched discs far outweights any "prohibitive manufacture expense"
not to mention speeding up the "where did I put the case for this" and open close case productivity bottlenecks... (this would add up to days over a year or $billions if they studied the worlds "case handling")
Businesses often have a "long term sales strategy". Denying features in order to map out and increase the life span of their products saleability. (in order to milk consumers for as long as possible)
If people understood they needed to contribute in order to recieve the best software, rather than a profit driven industry, the quality of open source would surpass even the best of commercial software.
The winner should be whichever one abandons these naked shiny discs in silly cumbersome cases and replaces them with 3.5" floppy disc style cases to protect them from being destroyed within *a day* of having them left lying around or in ones bag or at the mercy of whatever ink is used to print on them.
Will we see this? or is a CD's redundancy a 'feature'?
"HD-DVD will only allow playback of full 1080 resolution video signals through HDMI connectors, leaving consumers with older HDTVs (pre-HDMI) out of luck."
We're not farm animals. You can't milk us with your "HD" (LD) standardised formats any more. Hell my monitor would play any video up to 1920 x 1440 and look glorious and it's only a cheap monitor (far cheaper than any "HD TV" capable of playing what computer monitors were displaying 10 years ago.)
Whatever format and whatever resolution a producer wants to release their film at, I know I can play without any trouble, *unless* they lock the format down into some "standard" (in which case I have to go to the hassle of decrypting and re-encoding... it's such a nuisance)
Give it to me as straight data on a HD-DVD or BluRay, or via the net. If you can't handle that then don't produce movies (or music). It won't stop movies or music being made, I'll guarantee you that.
The corporations have no influence in the standards or distrubution sector any more. The only remaining power they have is that of advertising budget, and the infinite gullability of the masses.
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But do you think the relatively higher profile, higher reputation (and therefore accountability) of many google employees might leave less room for poor ethics?
many corporations and goverments claim little accountability for errors and usually just let a few peons take the fall, whereas a high profile ethically questionable action (throwing a chair across an office) has huge negative ramifications.
It's happened before, but google often diffuses their own power.
The company is made up of *very* smart people, rather than governments which are made up of ignorant drones working under a few leaders to make up an overly incompetent power beast.
Google staffer's often have a high profile, and one that is built upon their intellect. Its not a reputation many of them would like to give up to make a few extra bucks.
I may be wrong, but I doubt the individuals in this company would allow google to excessively gain or abuse power.
Power corrupts...
It never requires corrupt people, but the very essense of power is a corrupting influence. This would happen even in a big organisation comprised of mahatma's
Do no evil is all good and well, but lets just wait for the subpoenas (or what if the googlebot uncovers data in its searches or databases or e-mails that fits a definition of "suspicious activity"? is inaction an option for google in this instance?
Now we need a software that generates musical creations at random and kills off the musical "children" that don't succeed according to the rules of the program.
Quantum theory is a theory to be discarded when someone observes us and collapses our state into one which disallows quantum theory.
I've always wanted a search feature in my "Stumble to" account
stumble! has a decent enough database of me, matched up to a decent enough database of other users so that websites I visit through it are entirely relevant to me, however they are also *limited* to the select group of current interests, not really allowing for any drastic changes of interests, and indeed funnelling you only into areas that are already relevant to you.
Google may be able to address this using this system (or alternatively it may further limit peoples ability to see other peoples ideas by accident)
Not sure how it is elsehwere, but in Qld Australia, new laws will have you fined $50 if you leave your car unlocked.
as my friend said "why don't the police just open any unlocked doors and take $50 worth of your belongings" - that should teach us "criminals" to lock our car doors
B&W no doubt fuelled a lot of the interest in gesture control. Infact I use mouse gestures in absolutely everything I do on my PC (with firefox handling internal mouse gestures and other software handling OS navigation with gestures) 200% efficiency
Hopefully MS can rid my computer of any that nasty questionable software, backup DVD or CD data or anything the FBI doesn't approve of.
So first they managed to replace the reusable, largely unscratchable 3 1/2 inch floppies.... then they figured out how to make them into (profitable) landfill. Just make them writable once and then we have an industry of consumption... isn't read once the next logical step?
(I should have worded it into one of those ??? profit jokes... damn)
As a musician, let me just say this once, and say it LOUD AND CLEAR:
If piracy runs rampant, or if DRM becomes so oppressive that people no longer buy music, lets sit back and just see if the music stops. WE WILL STILL MAKE MUSIC.
The whole "free ride" of RI excess has dried up and they're desparately trying to clutch on to the past fluke of being able to make money off other peoples work
The internet has created two possible paths:
1. Initial complete freedom with a reaction of oppression by the greedy few who fail to understand how things work in an environment of infinite duplicatability.
or
2. Death to greedy middlemen who's 'services' are no longer needed by a community of open, international citizens.
We are now on the dawn of being able to liberate ourselves from needing their 'music studios', their 'big budget film technology' their 'gasoline' their 'phone networks' etc etc all for a very modest investment. Now that they *know* this, power brokers are now struggling to grasp on to the cat's tail before it fully gets out of the bag.
Already the internet has been restricted and is traceable... already VOIP is being 'managed' and restricted and tracked... fuckit.. why do we even NEED voip? its just audio converted to data, passed over a bunch of computers networked together?? no more apathy!
Sure, they'll change the type of cables that systems use so they can sell you more shit, just the way they removed the "line in" plugs from most stereo's in the 90's
What I think is hilarious is the fact that by seeding "poisoned" trackers they're essentially saying it is legal to have .torrent files on your server which reference names of copyright material (eg pirate bay)
I mean a "poisoned" torrent file of "lost ep.126" and a legit file are identical in that neither contain any copyright material and infact to prove any illegal activity within a tracker one must actually break the law and download the movie.
Assuming this isn't enough, seeders should start every torrent with a short section of footage which is copyright to someone *other* than MPAA, so that in order for the MPAA to prove any illegal activity, they must themselves engage in illegal activity and be subject to the same laws.
"I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV
will be fought with sticks and stones..." - Einstein
Well even here in "fairly regional" Australia we have kids who are setting up huge range VPN's so you can essentially access free wifi (free as in beer *and* speech) from anywhere in the area if you are keen enough and have a big enough antenna.
I think people need to start setting up the infrastructure to access wifi independently (and without restrictions) of these "nanny" companies. We're all getting too lazy and suckling too much off these companies teets...
Ok.. I'm sure I'm going to get flamed for this, but I too am a young ad exec (among other things) and I realise that we really are just a bunch of annoying nigel no friends who relentlessly pester people for an invite to their party while offering no *real content* .
Advertising is dead once people can set in place an easy, mobile accessible 'stumbleto' style rating system where the advice delivery channels change from being 10 (paid) to being the same number as the number of consumers (billions)
You can then try and figure out a way to make paying 10 million people to recommend "coke" economically viable.
success or failure for mass marketted stuff often comes down to its "hypability".
give it a name that evokes mental links with other hyped up buzz words and you can sell it more readily...
googles pods blogs.. they're all nice rounded names and they all allude to some culture/club (not culture club) that people feel they might want to be a part of.
ipods are the pogo sticks or yoyo's of today... (hell.. probably for the very kids who grew up with them only to buy an ipod at age 30)
We might as well just get used to all the baby talk (sure beats EEE.822b's or VNCs or whatever other names techies like to give really innovative technologies IMHO)
the cost of lost data due to scratched discs far outweights any "prohibitive manufacture expense"
not to mention speeding up the "where did I put the case for this" and open close case productivity bottlenecks... (this would add up to days over a year or $billions if they studied the worlds "case handling")
whats worse is pushing them deeper underground. They don't *stop* them communicating, they just make is harder for us to hear them.
Unfortunately not.
Businesses often have a "long term sales strategy". Denying features in order to map out and increase the life span of their products saleability. (in order to milk consumers for as long as possible)
If people understood they needed to contribute in order to recieve the best software, rather than a profit driven industry, the quality of open source would surpass even the best of commercial software.
The winner should be whichever one abandons these naked shiny discs in silly cumbersome cases and replaces them with 3.5" floppy disc style cases to protect them from being destroyed within *a day* of having them left lying around or in ones bag or at the mercy of whatever ink is used to print on them.
Will we see this? or is a CD's redundancy a 'feature'?
"HD-DVD will only allow playback of full 1080 resolution video signals through HDMI connectors, leaving consumers with older HDTVs (pre-HDMI) out of luck."
We're not farm animals. You can't milk us with your "HD" (LD) standardised formats any more.
Hell my monitor would play any video up to 1920 x 1440 and look glorious and it's only a cheap monitor (far cheaper than any "HD TV" capable of playing what computer monitors were displaying 10 years ago.)
Whatever format and whatever resolution a producer wants to release their film at, I know I can play without any trouble, *unless* they lock the format down into some "standard" (in which case I have to go to the hassle of decrypting and re-encoding... it's such a nuisance)
Give it to me as straight data on a HD-DVD or BluRay, or via the net. If you can't handle that then don't produce movies (or music). It won't stop movies or music being made, I'll guarantee you that.
The corporations have no influence in the standards or distrubution sector any more. The only remaining power they have is that of advertising budget, and the infinite gullability of the masses.
Open.
"Traditional RTS" - Just words.
Molyneux is not the kind of genius to get wrapped up in conceptualisations. Hes a free thinker
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