a block of amber so your descendants can marvel at how primitive our coding was.
Nah, you don't need amber to do that. One day the future civilizations will find all the E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial cartridges for the Atari buried in the Arizona desert. And then rapidly bury them again.
This has the nice bonus that usually no-one cares about information that's boring, so as time goes on the good stuff lingers
Popular != good.
More importantly, what we find interesting today, might be totally worthless to people in the future, while stuff we consider useless and boring could be immensely valuable. That's the big problem with backups - you never really know today what you might want tomorrow. In many ways, the reverse is true - what is not backed up will gain value because of its rarity. Imagine how much you could make if you found a lost Shakespeare sonnet today - discarded by Shakespeare because he thought it was utter crap.
No. Email spam was unleashed upon the world by Hormel as a marketing strategy. People just weren't thinking about spam anymore - this has gotten the brand name firmly back in the public's mind. It also has huge kitsch appeal now. Especially as kids grow up who only know of email spam, not SPAM the spiced ham. They'll see SPAM at the supermarket - and say "Look! It's spam that's not spam. OMG! Physical spam! LOLzors, I must buy this to replenish energy lost by playing with my Wii!"
We salute you, Hormel marketing, our spam overlords.
I can partially help you. I'll run over your notebook with my Ferrari, on the way to my office, some time in 2007. And I'll take that pesky soul off your hands free of charge. Deal?
Well first of all, corporations are only accountable to their shareholders, not to anyone else.
Huh? Aren't they also accountable to the laws of the land and the government? And their customers, and the general public to a lesser extent?
The environment, ethics, and other very important things cannot be assigned a monetary value, and thus can not be properly accounted for in any economic system.
Economic systems only exist with social and cultural systems, so therefore, are subservient to social and cultural whims/needs/standards.
Linux was released under the GPL. therefore, the GPL is it the very heart of Linux. If it wasn't in the spirit, why release Linux under the GPL instead of a different license?
That spirit is to modify the OS and send that code to the community for review and reuse.
That's something you're reading into it. You don't think users should have their own freedom to modify the OS for themselves? That's counter to the spirit of freedom, if you are forced to release changes for a version that you don't distribute. Surely a person's freedom to run and modify their software is more important than the community's right to updates?
It just seems to defeat the open source nature of Linux when you branch in a private way that avoids community code review and source code sharing.
If it's against the spirit, then why was private code-branching specifically allowed by the GPL? Isn't freedom to run your code as you see fit a big part of freedom?
The focus on the phone during the keynote also took away from the Apple TV announcement, put iPod sales at risk, gave competitors a head start, and (perhaps worst of all) ruined the company's talks with Cisco over the iPhone name.
He went on to say that the iPhone keynote would also cause "Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky, rivers and seas boiling, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together and mass hysteria."
"Some" is different from "many." I acknowledge that there may be some backward businesses that do not sell internationally. But how common is it really? I can't see it being the "many" in the GP post, given the hundreds of vendors I have used, and the far less than 1% who wouldn't deal with me internationally.
Huh? That doesn't make sense. Don't you get the payment before you send the item? And I'd like to see any evidence for this. It sounds like it is just based on prejudice. In any case, not a smart business decision.
eBay? I'm talking about real merchants, not suckers on eBay. And I buy internationally all the time - from literally hundreds of different businesses. It's very rare to come across a company that is willing to give up international sales (unless they direct you to an international distributor.)
What do you mean "I don't think so." i think I would know what I've been able to ship internationally. It is a fact that I have almost never come across companies that wouldn't ship internationally. you cannot dispute that.
On top of that, there are sites that limits the buying process to US billing addresses, so, no international credit card support. There are a lot of stuff that should be done in that particular case
Well, I've never come across one of those. It's difficult to believe they are in the majority, seeing how much stuff from different markets and vendors I've bought internationally.
For big companies there is not problem. For small companies or individuals
I mostly deal with small companies and individuals, and they are all fine with international shipping. In fact, that's mostly how they make their money - by being in a niche market with a global presence. I doubt they'd be profitable without international customers.
What about importance in a large, rapidly growing market?
What about it? If you can't be a profitable company without resorting to unethical activities, you shouldn't be in business. I suppose Google should get into selling drugs to schoolchildren, because if they don't, their competitors will.
They wouldn't lose today's market share, but tomorrow's. There share will shrink if they don't develop new, especially foreign markets.
But markertshare is not important in itself. Profits are why a company exists, not marketshare. They can easily be profitable without going into China. Furthermore, Google claim their motive is also to "not be evil" - so profits are not the sole consideration.
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So, what's the downside, then?
Nah, you don't need amber to do that. One day the future civilizations will find all the E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial cartridges for the Atari buried in the Arizona desert. And then rapidly bury them again.
Popular != good.
More importantly, what we find interesting today, might be totally worthless to people in the future, while stuff we consider useless and boring could be immensely valuable. That's the big problem with backups - you never really know today what you might want tomorrow. In many ways, the reverse is true - what is not backed up will gain value because of its rarity. Imagine how much you could make if you found a lost Shakespeare sonnet today - discarded by Shakespeare because he thought it was utter crap.
Unfortunately, that text is the lyrics of Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes.
"Help! Some bastard locked me in a box and buried me alive! Air supply is limited!"
We salute you, Hormel marketing, our spam overlords.
I can partially help you. I'll run over your notebook with my Ferrari, on the way to my office, some time in 2007. And I'll take that pesky soul off your hands free of charge. Deal?
Huh? Aren't they also accountable to the laws of the land and the government? And their customers, and the general public to a lesser extent?
The environment, ethics, and other very important things cannot be assigned a monetary value, and thus can not be properly accounted for in any economic system.Economic systems only exist with social and cultural systems, so therefore, are subservient to social and cultural whims/needs/standards.
What's wrong with that? Shouldn't corporations be held to a standard of ethics?
Check out these Australian cigarette packets.
That's nothing. Check out these Australian cigarette packets.
That's something you're reading into it. You don't think users should have their own freedom to modify the OS for themselves? That's counter to the spirit of freedom, if you are forced to release changes for a version that you don't distribute. Surely a person's freedom to run and modify their software is more important than the community's right to updates?
So, Google's completely safe from harm then? This is the only example of 'security through obscurity' that would actually work.
I'm looking forward to buying one of these datacenters cheap on the used market, so I can run emacs with all the eye-candy switched on.
This is Windows, so the only quality setting available would be zero.
If it's against the spirit, then why was private code-branching specifically allowed by the GPL? Isn't freedom to run your code as you see fit a big part of freedom?
Ummm, Macworld is not run by Apple - it's run by Macworld, and I doubt they are going to change their name.
He went on to say that the iPhone keynote would also cause "Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky, rivers and seas boiling, human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together and mass hysteria."
"Some" is different from "many." I acknowledge that there may be some backward businesses that do not sell internationally. But how common is it really? I can't see it being the "many" in the GP post, given the hundreds of vendors I have used, and the far less than 1% who wouldn't deal with me internationally.
Huh? That doesn't make sense. Don't you get the payment before you send the item? And I'd like to see any evidence for this. It sounds like it is just based on prejudice. In any case, not a smart business decision.
eBay? I'm talking about real merchants, not suckers on eBay. And I buy internationally all the time - from literally hundreds of different businesses. It's very rare to come across a company that is willing to give up international sales (unless they direct you to an international distributor.)
What do you mean "I don't think so." i think I would know what I've been able to ship internationally. It is a fact that I have almost never come across companies that wouldn't ship internationally. you cannot dispute that.
On top of that, there are sites that limits the buying process to US billing addresses, so, no international credit card support. There are a lot of stuff that should be done in that particular caseWell, I've never come across one of those. It's difficult to believe they are in the majority, seeing how much stuff from different markets and vendors I've bought internationally.
I mostly deal with small companies and individuals, and they are all fine with international shipping. In fact, that's mostly how they make their money - by being in a niche market with a global presence. I doubt they'd be profitable without international customers.
What about it? If you can't be a profitable company without resorting to unethical activities, you shouldn't be in business. I suppose Google should get into selling drugs to schoolchildren, because if they don't, their competitors will.
They wouldn't lose today's market share, but tomorrow's. There share will shrink if they don't develop new, especially foreign markets.But markertshare is not important in itself. Profits are why a company exists, not marketshare. They can easily be profitable without going into China. Furthermore, Google claim their motive is also to "not be evil" - so profits are not the sole consideration.
A mashup is a music term, meaning a song made up from the parts of other songs.