You can be damn sure that if I saw someone posting part or all of my thesis and claiming it as theirs, I'd care. I'd care all over the place and make sure they were punished for it - fail the class (or kicked out of the program) they turned it in for, banned from the journal they submitted it to, whatever. Plagiarism is considered a cardinal sin in the worlds of academia and research.
No, I don't care if someone makes a copy of my thesis on the library xerox to take home and read. But there are instances where copyright is a good thing.
AND, when you add a new account to ING, they not only require you to send them an actual check, but after that you can't transfer any money out of ING to that account for five days. So even if someone got fake checks drawn up in your name with their account #, there's a decent chance you'll see it on your account before they get to withdraw anything.
I like ING. For the security, and for having 2-3 times the interest rate as other savings accounts. Woo!
Yeah, the amount of email sent probably increased by quite a bit too - but, like email, how much is spam?
By spam, I mean those pages set up just to catch Google searches, that have nothing to do with your search but just happen to have your exact search terms in their URL, for example.
In your vision, what happens to all the people who currently work the "crappy jobs"? Sure, plenty of them are smart enough to go to college and do something more abstract, and just choose not to or didn't have the opportunity. But some people simply aren't capable of the level of reasoning and self-directed learning that it takes to even eke through college, and do best when learning and doing very concrete things. If we don't need any more manual labor, what jobs will these people do?
Dude, I was in college in Boston when Flagpole Sitta was big, and you couldn't escape it. Especially if you turned on MTV. I think you can safely say these guys are a national-level one-hit-wonder, not just random nobodies.
Eh, I think it will hit a few people hard. But (unless Mac marketshare magically soars to 30%+ or something) by the time it manages to propagate very far, Apple will have had plenty of time to release a patch. I mean, I only know of a couple other people I email with Macs. Assuming I even used Mail.app (I use webmail, so it would be hard for the virus to send itself through me), that means that if I got the virus from one of them, I would probably only infect one or two more people - not like the dozens at a time that a Windows virus is sent to. Until/unless Macs become *way* more popular, any virus will move so slowly that it will be caught before it manages to infect the majority of Macs.
Though, yes, it will suck for those of us who are hit early.
I'm sure Gutenberg and Ford both felt the same way.
Damn kids, cruisin' the strip in their fancy aquamarine '57 Chevys, I bet they've never designed an internal combustion engine from scratch in their life! I bet they couldn't maximize the efficiency of an assembly line if their life depended on it!
If you triple-click on the left rabbit hole, a paper clip comes up and asks, "It looks like you want to watch an idiotic Flash commercial. Would you like me to help you with that?"
I don't think there's anything wrong with it - but I do think that MS was being condescending about it. I don't think it's something that's worthy of condescension. I'm glad Nintendo doesn't specialize in the same-old-same-old, otherwise I'd have no interest in consoles at all!
And to be more specific: Microsoft feels that they're a niche in the console market, even though there are millions of them playing on PCs. Which is true, right now. Nintendo's hoping to change that, obviously - but I get the feeling MS doesn't see it as worth their time.
At what point did he say ANYTHING about lower cost? He says some should be.99, and some should be higher. He never says a word about lowering anything.
He is also arguing that the Itunes music store is not pulling in as much money as it could if it let some prices rise and others fall to the market optimizing point.
I don't see a word in the article about letting any prices fall. All I see is:
"Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more.
That's about what I heard, too. He's saying "Good for you, Nintendo, you go cater to all those Yahoo! Games players who won't touch our FPSs anyhow, and let us big boys handle the real gamers."
How did this get modded insightful? I don't see a single original thought in the whole thing, let alone an insight. Oh, that's right, if you regurgitate anti-US pap you get an automatic up-mod... (I'm not even saying I disagree with everything said - but come on people, it's been done. Ad nauseum. And it's not even really relevant to this particular article - if I had mod points I'd be modding it "Offtopic".)
don't need to know the differences between file sizes. People shouldn't be sending large documents through email anyway.
I know others have called you on this, but here's an example: Let's say Suzy Smith has two files she wants to send to her coworker down the hall. One is a ten-page text-only document, and the other is a high-resolution jpeg that looks 5"x7" when she views it in her viewer of choice (not realizing it's very zoomed out). Which is bigger in terms of file size? But which LOOKS bigger to her? She probably thinks it'd be easier to send the high-res photo than the seemingly-huge text file. If she doesn't need to know the differences between file sizes, how else is she to judge?
Or maybe they're like me - I do not put games on my computer. I waste enough time on the web as it is - if I allowed games on my computer I would NEVER get ANY work done. Games are for consoles...
No kidding. My freshman year of high school, my brother, sister and I pooled our money together for a SNES - $120, came with Super Mario World AND Mario All-Stars. (This was 1993, it'd been out for a while.) We were proud to have saved up for that.
And I still have the same system in my living room. I'm finally planning on getting a GameCube now that it's in the right range (well, I want a GBA adaptor to go with it, so that ups the price). I'll want a Revolution as soon as it comes out, but I know it's going to have to go through at least one reduction before I can justify spending the money. There are just so many better things I can do with $200+.
Uh, last I checked, Apple wasn't registered as a 501c non-profit. He pays most of the 99c right back to the record companies - he could only lower the price a few cents before Apple was taking a direct loss on every song (even without figuring in development costs, etc). Unless, of course, the record companies agreed to reduce the price they charge Apple.
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You can be damn sure that if I saw someone posting part or all of my thesis and claiming it as theirs, I'd care. I'd care all over the place and make sure they were punished for it - fail the class (or kicked out of the program) they turned it in for, banned from the journal they submitted it to, whatever. Plagiarism is considered a cardinal sin in the worlds of academia and research.
No, I don't care if someone makes a copy of my thesis on the library xerox to take home and read. But there are instances where copyright is a good thing.
AND, when you add a new account to ING, they not only require you to send them an actual check, but after that you can't transfer any money out of ING to that account for five days. So even if someone got fake checks drawn up in your name with their account #, there's a decent chance you'll see it on your account before they get to withdraw anything. I like ING. For the security, and for having 2-3 times the interest rate as other savings accounts. Woo!
Ah, but you forgot to figure in the crossover - how many of those 1.6 million sites are for poker players with erectile dysfunction?
By spam, I mean those pages set up just to catch Google searches, that have nothing to do with your search but just happen to have your exact search terms in their URL, for example.
How is that at all relevant? It still means they aren't 100% focused on Windows. All it shows is that they never have been.
Must... not... make... joke...
In your vision, what happens to all the people who currently work the "crappy jobs"? Sure, plenty of them are smart enough to go to college and do something more abstract, and just choose not to or didn't have the opportunity. But some people simply aren't capable of the level of reasoning and self-directed learning that it takes to even eke through college, and do best when learning and doing very concrete things. If we don't need any more manual labor, what jobs will these people do?
Dude, I was in college in Boston when Flagpole Sitta was big, and you couldn't escape it. Especially if you turned on MTV. I think you can safely say these guys are a national-level one-hit-wonder, not just random nobodies.
Eh, I think it will hit a few people hard. But (unless Mac marketshare magically soars to 30%+ or something) by the time it manages to propagate very far, Apple will have had plenty of time to release a patch. I mean, I only know of a couple other people I email with Macs. Assuming I even used Mail.app (I use webmail, so it would be hard for the virus to send itself through me), that means that if I got the virus from one of them, I would probably only infect one or two more people - not like the dozens at a time that a Windows virus is sent to. Until/unless Macs become *way* more popular, any virus will move so slowly that it will be caught before it manages to infect the majority of Macs.
Though, yes, it will suck for those of us who are hit early.
So Nintendo is actually going to offer to sell them something that some of them might be able to afford? Truly Revolutionary.
Damn kids, cruisin' the strip in their fancy aquamarine '57 Chevys, I bet they've never designed an internal combustion engine from scratch in their life! I bet they couldn't maximize the efficiency of an assembly line if their life depended on it!
If you triple-click on the left rabbit hole, a paper clip comes up and asks, "It looks like you want to watch an idiotic Flash commercial. Would you like me to help you with that?"
I don't think there's anything wrong with it - but I do think that MS was being condescending about it. I don't think it's something that's worthy of condescension. I'm glad Nintendo doesn't specialize in the same-old-same-old, otherwise I'd have no interest in consoles at all!
And to be more specific: Microsoft feels that they're a niche in the console market, even though there are millions of them playing on PCs. Which is true, right now. Nintendo's hoping to change that, obviously - but I get the feeling MS doesn't see it as worth their time.
At what point did he say ANYTHING about lower cost? He says some should be .99, and some should be higher. He never says a word about lowering anything.
I don't see a word in the article about letting any prices fall. All I see is:
"Some songs should be $0.99 and some songs should be more.
I'm saying that I think Microsoft sees it as a niche, and "hardcore" gamers as the mainstream.
That's about what I heard, too. He's saying "Good for you, Nintendo, you go cater to all those Yahoo! Games players who won't touch our FPSs anyhow, and let us big boys handle the real gamers."
How did this get modded insightful? I don't see a single original thought in the whole thing, let alone an insight. Oh, that's right, if you regurgitate anti-US pap you get an automatic up-mod... (I'm not even saying I disagree with everything said - but come on people, it's been done. Ad nauseum. And it's not even really relevant to this particular article - if I had mod points I'd be modding it "Offtopic".)
I know others have called you on this, but here's an example: Let's say Suzy Smith has two files she wants to send to her coworker down the hall. One is a ten-page text-only document, and the other is a high-resolution jpeg that looks 5"x7" when she views it in her viewer of choice (not realizing it's very zoomed out). Which is bigger in terms of file size? But which LOOKS bigger to her? She probably thinks it'd be easier to send the high-res photo than the seemingly-huge text file. If she doesn't need to know the differences between file sizes, how else is she to judge?
Or maybe they're like me - I do not put games on my computer. I waste enough time on the web as it is - if I allowed games on my computer I would NEVER get ANY work done. Games are for consoles...
Well, until it becomes a collector's item.
And I still have the same system in my living room. I'm finally planning on getting a GameCube now that it's in the right range (well, I want a GBA adaptor to go with it, so that ups the price). I'll want a Revolution as soon as it comes out, but I know it's going to have to go through at least one reduction before I can justify spending the money. There are just so many better things I can do with $200+.
You lived on my hall, didn't you?
Uh, last I checked, Apple wasn't registered as a 501c non-profit. He pays most of the 99c right back to the record companies - he could only lower the price a few cents before Apple was taking a direct loss on every song (even without figuring in development costs, etc). Unless, of course, the record companies agreed to reduce the price they charge Apple.