They have the SMALLEST work week of all European countries (probably also in the world), 34H work week. They have the most generous free time. And paid! They're one of the richest countries in the world (per citizen).
Why should they not want to pay for their purchased goods, music, films, food and software? That's what happens when you SHARE the wealth!
What most people consider "hard math", is the math you get in engineering etc. But what most people don't really give a second thought, is that we ALL use some kind of simple AND quite advanced math in real life, everyday situations too.
Some artists use highly advanced math to create the most amazing artwork, without even knowing or suspecting it's math. And we all visualize mathematics differently. Sure, book-math as we know it, is the sure way to explain things mathematically, you know - numbers and formula, but what about the guy that visualize solutions to complex formulas and problems in fields and mountains? That's just ONE example on how some genius uses math, but not as WE know it, still math though!
A world renown cook, that wins prize after prize - has INCREDIBLE skills in math, maybe not on paper, but I'm pretty sure he/she would be an award winning scientist in chemistry, cooking IS chemistry.
We need to look at math the natural way. Everything is math, and math is everything.
I know what you're saying, but this isn't a pure trademark, it's a sentence including a name.
Xbox ONE Not Xbox
Eg. Nintendo Fan Club It's very difficult for Nintendo to sue them for the name, or take over the domain in such a case. It's not illegal to be a fan of a brand, nor is it illegal to start a sub-branch company (3rd party if you like) based on a brand. Well, it might be in the USA, but not here.
If he gambled on the next name of the Xbox, what's wrong with that? MS chose that name. What are the odds? I'd go with the 720, but for some reason they went with Xbox One. He might as well have planned to call the site Xbox one - for your ONE stop information - everything about the Xbox etc. What do we know? I don't think you can just point at some poor schmuck who just happened to have the same name 2 years before they even came up with it, and sue him, the world doesn't work that way, and thankfully so.
If this is the case, he deserves all he can beat out of MS.
I for one, wouldn't have guessed it'd be Xbox One, especially not 2 years ago. I Microsoft really wants this name, it's not difficult for them to pony up the dough. Even at 1.000.000$, for MS this would have been a good deal. Going the lawsuit way for someone as powerful as MS, is stupid, they're most likely just going to have haters against them etc.
On the other hand, I don't side with Cybersquatters or people who just purchase 10000 random domain names just because they want to prey on any-company-dot-com, but business is business, if you don't make it your own - it'll be someone else. That's the hard facts of life.
*one of our commenters above, mentions the transition period (immerman), I believe he's spot-on with that comment.
There WILL be a transition period where there will be near world-uproar and revolt amongst people because of the unfair balance of money and power. It's the same scenario that happens in a kindergarten. Why would the well off kids give up their toys to the begging, screaming fleabag of an uncared for kid who don't really see the fairness in this? Because if he doesn't, violence will occur at some point, and the rich kid will have to realize he needs to share his toys in order to have a good balanced life with everyone around him. Who wants to party alone anyway?
Open Source is a great example of this. Lawyers fighting like mad for the companies to own and patent code, and Open Source people fighting equally hard to keep source code open and free to everyone. Now we see that Open Source is slowly becoming the acceptable way to spread code and ideas, and the only thing that will bring home the bacon, is actual work done on request, by companies or individuals...and all coders will get their fair share by doing individual requests, perhaps installing and maintaining some companys hardware & software, this happens more and more today.
Same thing with goods and services, entertainment and so forth. It'll be a heck of a ride though, and if you want to avoid being poor in the transition period, you'd better stay on top of your game, whatever that is to you.
<quote><p>And how will we get money to pay for this entertainment? The only people earning money for supplying the essentials will be the owners of the robots, and their entertainment needs will be no greater than they are now. Why should they care about the rest of us?</p></quote>
Like we have always done it, you'll be working with something, and so will I - we will exchange our services either in the form of money or services. The work we do then, will be different from what we do now. I may get you entertained with my fancy 3D animations for your video games, and you may be my personal fitness-coach, a robot just won't be the same thing even do we probably will have something much more advanced than todays Wii-Fit.
I can assure you there have never been a greater need for entertainment than there is today, I work in entertainment and make a better and better living of it every year, why? That's how I know. Simple statistics. Such as I see it, the need for entertainment will EXPLODE beyond our wildest dreams.
Interestingly enough (and a bit of a coincidence), I also work with robotics. And I can pretty much promise you, robots will need programming and creativity, that could be your job (work with me here, I don't know you...I'm just making an example to answer your questions).
He is right when it comes to actual physical hard labor.
He is wrong when it comes to us being out of work, the biggest (and hardest challenge of all times) will be in entertainment. The lazier we become, the more entertainment we need, online series, drawings, animations, films, stories, interactive experiences etc. will be the biggest thing on earth.
We will NEVER be out of work. We'll just work DIFFERENTLY than what we do now.
And go out, live your lives, be critical, but don't exaggerate your paranoia, date, kiss and make love. Don't even worry, no one have the capacity to store everything, not even Google.
Not many years ago in Denmark, they had that issue as well.
Even with the banks you had to use IE(some version), otherwise you just couldn't pay your bills. I'd say they did us a favor, because it taught a lot of people to get "off the system" instead of being dependent on it.
The narrower your choice as a citizen becomes, the more need for freedom you'll have (Geez, I might want to hold back on the booze, starting to sound like Yoda here)...;)
I'm a 3D modeller and work with this for a living, and the thing is...if you buy a printer today, you can get it almost for free, but as you know, there really are no such thing as a free lunch, the only reason you get the printer thrown at you - is because the manufacturer wants you to buy printer cartridges that cost up to 4 times the price of the printer, and you'll run out of them fast because todays cartridges are chipped and holds a VERY small amount of ink.
There will be no difference in the 3D printer industry either. ABS rolls of plastic are sold at ridiculous prices, they are in fact more expensive than cables with copper-core wire inside of them, why? Because you NEED those to make your 3D printer...print. Without it, your printer will just sit there on its desk, just like your already emptied printer does.
It's also true that these setups are FAR too complex for the average Joe, but 3D wasn't meant for the average Joe - YET. First we need the enthusiast to get it going, to build a horde of competent 3D creators and users, magically...this will create many thousand jobs, but the price of the "Cartridges/ink/ABS-plast" is still the issue we've had for ages. Plastic cable doesn't cost DIDDLY to produce, but greed is universal.
You need to sign up and register if you actually want to use it.
Which technically will hold you liable for anything you search for, smart - and yet useless. Services doesn't work, constantly fails, down for maintenance etc...
...you may want to stop by Ground Kontrol ( http://groundkontrol.com/ ) in Portland, it's very old-school and totally awesome. I visited there all the way from Scandinavia, and I have to say, I've never seen a more enthusiastic old-school arcade crowd somewhere since the 80s, and that place was like the 80s all over again. Tons of pinball machines, go nuts!:)
Because the vast amount of information they get about us, is so overwhelming that they don't have the power to sift out actual useful information.
Let's say for arguments sake, Google knows everything about you, it knows where you like to surf, it knows what you like to eat, read, watch...even what underwear you wear.
But this isn't public information. It may get...once hacked, but still - all of this information must be categorized, analyzed, sorted in order to be at all useful. So many cookies, so many websites, so many systems - it may sound easy, but it's far more difficult to make sense out of than you MAY want to think. Sure - if an employee of a certain company that shall remain nameless here, has it in for you - it's very easy to get dirty information on you, that's not the problem - the problem is in how you USE that information, not an easy thing to do without involving yourself in pretty hefty lawbreaking criminal activity.
I may know SHITLOADS of information about most of my neighbors, but alas...I can't really do anything about it, yes, I may eyeball my suspicious neighbor once in a while, freaking him out into the clueless oblivion in the land of paranoia...but that's all I can do, and not even that is legal. I am not allowed to browse information about him that can compromise his human rights, the same goes for our beloved military, yes they do it...the gov. do it, even the police do it - but very little come out of it, except they've got "their eyes on you".
And thus come my conclusion, want to know a little dirty secret?
I bet you do - and the neighbor is just as dirty as you. We can't arrest the entire population.
...Michael J Fox back in the Future with BTTF-4 , Every diehard fan wanted it, me too in the last 5 years after the third movie. Now he's an old man, heavily into political satire and parkinsons.
My point is, as much as I'd LOVE to see another Star-Wars with the original cast, I can't imagine Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill as they were back in the days in a new Star-Wars movie. The biggest problems with returning actors and sequels is usually the actors own ego, they always want to appear 10-20 years younger than they really are, and it always flops big-time, the only one believing that this actually works out...is themselves in their dreams.
Now...the BIGGEST hope, if you REALLY want the original cast in ANY movie, will be 3D models and animation, we've got the gear, we've got the motion capture stuff needed, now all we need - is the biggest badass renderfarm in history...and it just might work.
It's been colder and colder here in the South of Scandinavia, same thing with Europe afaik. I've been hearing this global warming up to my ears since I was a kid (and thats a LOOOOONG time ago), and it's not warmer, but a WHOLE lot colder. Here where I live, the neighbors tell me about fantastic summers for years, and that the last 3-4 years ICE-WINTERS has just been a freak occurrence, I'm not so sure anymore. Starting to regret buying a house over here...it's insanely cold each year.
Same thing for my boss...I insist that he uses long advanced passwords, but he's old and hates complex things in life, likes to play music and sing...and yet he runs a 6 digit company, the worst part is that he uses his silly easy passwords on hundreds of sites.
Slashdot Mirror
And yet we haven't seen a single 7700x4300 sample anywhere on the net ....yet...
Not to my knowledge. Most of those reviewers on the net, links to flickr images with a max res of 3000x etc....
Filthy rich in fact.
They have the SMALLEST work week of all European countries (probably also in the world), 34H work week.
They have the most generous free time. And paid!
They're one of the richest countries in the world (per citizen).
Why should they not want to pay for their purchased goods, music, films, food and software? That's what happens when you SHARE the wealth!
Everyone uses math in one way or another.
What most people consider "hard math", is the math you get in engineering etc. But what most people don't really give a second thought, is that we ALL use some kind of simple AND quite advanced math in real life, everyday situations too.
Some artists use highly advanced math to create the most amazing artwork, without even knowing or suspecting it's math. And we all visualize mathematics differently. Sure, book-math as we know it, is the sure way to explain things mathematically, you know - numbers and formula, but what about the guy that visualize solutions to complex formulas and problems in fields and mountains? That's just ONE example on how some genius uses math, but not as WE know it, still math though!
A world renown cook, that wins prize after prize - has INCREDIBLE skills in math, maybe not on paper, but I'm pretty sure he/she would be an award winning scientist in chemistry, cooking IS chemistry.
We need to look at math the natural way. Everything is math, and math is everything.
I know what you're saying, but this isn't a pure trademark, it's a sentence including a name.
Xbox ONE
Not Xbox
Eg. Nintendo Fan Club
It's very difficult for Nintendo to sue them for the name, or take over the domain in such a case.
It's not illegal to be a fan of a brand, nor is it illegal to start a sub-branch company (3rd party if you like) based on a brand.
Well, it might be in the USA, but not here.
If he gambled on the next name of the Xbox, what's wrong with that? MS chose that name. What are the odds? I'd go with the 720, but for some reason they went with Xbox One. He might as well have planned to call the site Xbox one - for your ONE stop information - everything about the Xbox etc. What do we know? I don't think you can just point at some poor schmuck who just happened to have the same name 2 years before they even came up with it, and sue him, the world doesn't work that way, and thankfully so.
If this is the case, he deserves all he can beat out of MS.
C'mon guys, this guy just won the lottery.
I for one, wouldn't have guessed it'd be Xbox One, especially not 2 years ago. I Microsoft really wants this name, it's not difficult for them to pony up the dough. Even at 1.000.000$, for MS this would have been a good deal. Going the lawsuit way for someone as powerful as MS, is stupid, they're most likely just going to have haters against them etc.
On the other hand, I don't side with Cybersquatters or people who just purchase 10000 random domain names just because they want to prey on any-company-dot-com, but business is business, if you don't make it your own - it'll be someone else. That's the hard facts of life.
*one of our commenters above, mentions the transition period (immerman), I believe he's spot-on with that comment.
There WILL be a transition period where there will be near world-uproar and revolt amongst people because of the unfair balance of money and power. It's the same scenario that happens in a kindergarten. Why would the well off kids give up their toys to the begging, screaming fleabag of an uncared for kid who don't really see the fairness in this? Because if he doesn't, violence will occur at some point, and the rich kid will have to realize he needs to share his toys in order to have a good balanced life with everyone around him. Who wants to party alone anyway?
Open Source is a great example of this. Lawyers fighting like mad for the companies to own and patent code, and Open Source people fighting equally hard to keep source code open and free to everyone. Now we see that Open Source is slowly becoming the acceptable way to spread code and ideas, and the only thing that will bring home the bacon, is actual work done on request, by companies or individuals...and all coders will get their fair share by doing individual requests, perhaps installing and maintaining some companys hardware & software, this happens more and more today.
Same thing with goods and services, entertainment and so forth. It'll be a heck of a ride though, and if you want to avoid being poor in the transition period, you'd better stay on top of your game, whatever that is to you.
<quote><p>And how will we get money to pay for this entertainment? The only people earning money for supplying the essentials will be the owners of the robots, and their entertainment needs will be no greater than they are now. Why should they care about the rest of us?</p></quote>
Like we have always done it, you'll be working with something, and so will I - we will exchange our services either in the form of money or services. The work we do then, will be different from what we do now. I may get you entertained with my fancy 3D animations for your video games, and you may be my personal fitness-coach, a robot just won't be the same thing even do we probably will have something much more advanced than todays Wii-Fit.
I can assure you there have never been a greater need for entertainment than there is today, I work in entertainment and make a better and better living of it every year, why? That's how I know. Simple statistics. Such as I see it, the need for entertainment will EXPLODE beyond our wildest dreams.
Interestingly enough (and a bit of a coincidence), I also work with robotics. And I can pretty much promise you, robots will need programming and creativity, that could be your job (work with me here, I don't know you...I'm just making an example to answer your questions).
He is right when it comes to actual physical hard labor.
He is wrong when it comes to us being out of work, the biggest (and hardest challenge of all times) will be in entertainment. The lazier we become, the more entertainment we need, online series, drawings, animations, films, stories, interactive experiences etc. will be the biggest thing on earth.
We will NEVER be out of work. We'll just work DIFFERENTLY than what we do now.
...on Slashdot then?
Someone mod this guy up!
And go out, live your lives, be critical, but don't exaggerate your paranoia, date, kiss and make love. Don't even worry, no one have the capacity to store everything, not even Google.
Not many years ago in Denmark, they had that issue as well.
Even with the banks you had to use IE(some version), otherwise you just couldn't pay your bills.
I'd say they did us a favor, because it taught a lot of people to get "off the system" instead of being dependent on it.
The narrower your choice as a citizen becomes, the more need for freedom you'll have (Geez, I might want to hold back on the booze, starting to sound like Yoda here)...;)
Yeah, say that to a huge beefy ex. marine that just loves his Google Glasses, and then we'll talk.
...oh wait...
The cost of materials are WAY too expensive.
I'm a 3D modeller and work with this for a living, and the thing is...if you buy a printer today, you can get it almost for free, but as you know, there really are no such thing as a free lunch, the only reason you get the printer thrown at you - is because the manufacturer wants you to buy printer cartridges that cost up to 4 times the price of the printer, and you'll run out of them fast because todays cartridges are chipped and holds a VERY small amount of ink.
There will be no difference in the 3D printer industry either. ABS rolls of plastic are sold at ridiculous prices, they are in fact more expensive than cables with copper-core wire inside of them, why? Because you NEED those to make your 3D printer...print. Without it, your printer will just sit there on its desk, just like your already emptied printer does.
It's also true that these setups are FAR too complex for the average Joe, but 3D wasn't meant for the average Joe - YET. First we need the enthusiast to get it going, to build a horde of competent 3D creators and users, magically...this will create many thousand jobs, but the price of the "Cartridges/ink/ABS-plast" is still the issue we've had for ages. Plastic cable doesn't cost DIDDLY to produce, but greed is universal.
...also "feature an always on", and they recommend that it's turned on so it can automatically update the system while turned "off".
I have however - paranoid as I am - blocked the camera on the console with black tape, there's hardly any games using that camera anyway.
... is that WE are the people. We make the laws, not them, alone.
I love to grow vegetables every summer here in my home.
It usually works like this:
1) Plant some seeds in fertile soil.
2) Water frequently.
3) Drink some beer.
4) Release some gas.
5) Watch the plants grow a little more.
6) Release some more gas...
7) watch the plants g.... oh well, you catch my win...drift, don't you? My plants sure do.
You need to sign up and register if you actually want to use it.
Which technically will hold you liable for anything you search for, smart - and yet useless.
Services doesn't work, constantly fails, down for maintenance etc...
shoddy'an...
...you may want to stop by Ground Kontrol ( http://groundkontrol.com/ ) in Portland, it's very old-school and totally awesome. I visited there all the way from Scandinavia, and I have to say, I've never seen a more enthusiastic old-school arcade crowd somewhere since the 80s, and that place was like the 80s all over again. Tons of pinball machines, go nuts! :)
Because the vast amount of information they get about us, is so overwhelming that they don't have the power to sift out actual useful information.
Let's say for arguments sake, Google knows everything about you, it knows where you like to surf, it knows what you like to eat, read, watch...even what underwear you wear.
But this isn't public information. It may get...once hacked, but still - all of this information must be categorized, analyzed, sorted in order to be at all useful. So many cookies, so many websites, so many systems - it may sound easy, but it's far more difficult to make sense out of than you MAY want to think. Sure - if an employee of a certain company that shall remain nameless here, has it in for you - it's very easy to get dirty information on you, that's not the problem - the problem is in how you USE that information, not an easy thing to do without involving yourself in pretty hefty lawbreaking criminal activity.
I may know SHITLOADS of information about most of my neighbors, but alas...I can't really do anything about it, yes, I may eyeball my suspicious neighbor once in a while, freaking him out into the clueless oblivion in the land of paranoia...but that's all I can do, and not even that is legal. I am not allowed to browse information about him that can compromise his human rights, the same goes for our beloved military, yes they do it...the gov. do it, even the police do it - but very little come out of it, except they've got "their eyes on you".
And thus come my conclusion, want to know a little dirty secret?
I bet you do - and the neighbor is just as dirty as you. We can't arrest the entire population.
I agree, he does, but he still struggles with Parkinsons even though he has gotten better.
:)
But yeah, I'd love another BTTF, they're truly legendary, and I must have seen them 100's of times by now
...Michael J Fox back in the Future with BTTF-4 , Every diehard fan wanted it, me too in the last 5 years after the third movie. Now he's an old man, heavily into political satire and parkinsons.
My point is, as much as I'd LOVE to see another Star-Wars with the original cast, I can't imagine Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill as they were back in the days in a new Star-Wars movie. The biggest problems with returning actors and sequels is usually the actors own ego, they always want to appear 10-20 years younger than they really are, and it always flops big-time, the only one believing that this actually works out...is themselves in their dreams.
Now...the BIGGEST hope, if you REALLY want the original cast in ANY movie, will be 3D models and animation, we've got the gear, we've got the motion capture stuff needed, now all we need - is the biggest badass renderfarm in history...and it just might work.
..here in Scandinavia.
It's been colder and colder here in the South of Scandinavia, same thing with Europe afaik.
I've been hearing this global warming up to my ears since I was a kid (and thats a LOOOOONG time ago), and it's not warmer, but a WHOLE lot colder.
Here where I live, the neighbors tell me about fantastic summers for years, and that the last 3-4 years ICE-WINTERS has just been a freak occurrence, I'm not so sure anymore. Starting to regret buying a house over here...it's insanely cold each year.
Same thing for my boss...I insist that he uses long advanced passwords, but he's old and hates complex things in life, likes to play music and sing...and yet he runs a 6 digit company, the worst part is that he uses his silly easy passwords on hundreds of sites.
Sorry officer, my samsung phone made me do it...