I couldn't agree more, conflict won't ever end but killing can. The scourge of the earth is people who murder those who disagree with them. When the muderous tyrants of the world can be defeated and all people can be given the choice of democracy, war will end.
Fine, but if you had used a dissenting voice like this in Iraq, you and your family members would be dead, killed by the Saddams secret police. You get to chose which side you are on, freedom or tyranny, the people of Baghdad had no choice. Which side are you on?
Why do you need a Google toolbar for IE when it already has a search function built-in. I'll answer that; The search participants slowly abandoned it and MS let it languish. Google started saw an opportunity to capitalize on this weakness and is now eating their lunch with the Google search bar. MSN has belatedly innovated a copy of the Google bar, too late.
Japan and Europe have very high fuel taxes. This was originally a social engineering effort to drive conservation of scarce resources. As a result, public transportation flourishes. Petrol itself is cheaper than water in Japan, Europe and the US, the US just chooses to tax it far less, resulting in SUVs, empty pickup trucks and empty trains. Want sensible energy use in the US? Vote for higher fuel taxes.
Maybe it would have been popular with the tech people if it had been more convergent rather than a narrow proprietary gadget. There were millions of laptops out there and millions of cell phones. Nobody could make them work together except perhaps some tech heads who happened to notice they both had IR ports. Why is that? Why do we have another technolgy taking off that doesn't work with other stuff?
Let India and China have the drudge jobs. Their problem is they do not have an ingrained culture of pioneering and innovation. The world eats up the incredible things that we create, then we move on and create some more. What society would you rather live in, the one that does the creating or the one that does the drudge?
What about The Ambushers, a 1967 Dean Martin Matt Helm movie. Jose Ortega, Big O arch-enemy, had robot assisted workers moving barrels around the XXXX brewery.
Japan and Europe tax energy heavily. That is why their societies already have efficiency; smaller cars, more public transport and the like. It is not unamerican to push efficiency this way, it is however unincumbent.
Why only music and software?
Why is it that folks are only clamoring for free music and software, unfettered by copy protection? Why is it that all other goods or services folks reasonably expect to pay and accept restrictions on what they can do with it.
Are music and software somehow more noble that other goods and services? I don't think so. The only reason I can come up with is because it is incredibly easy to copy music and software. Folks are only whinging about copy protection because it makes it less easy. That's it.
If Sony can come up with a reasonable price, nobody will think twice about the copy protection. The Apple $1/song (with DRM that few seem to mind) won't last long.
We innovate things, they copy and mass produce them. You can't teach innovation in school. You can, however, create an environment where innovation is revered and rewarded, values you don't normally associate with authoritarian communism. Innovation doesn't show up in test scores. I would say let them have the scores.
Junk bonds are an innovative way to raise money, profit in exchange for risk. Bad movies? 50% of all movies are below average. One persons bad movie is anothers classic.
What about the growth of the programing trade in India? Hasn't this been raising their standard of living? The Indian government is and should be interested in training and enabling programmers so they can take advantage of this national resource, trading this resource for better living conditions for their people. Should the Indian government promote giving away this resource as in FOSS? Free as in some other sucker pays.
PCs took over from mainframes because it was and still is next to impossible to get stodgy IS departments to do anything useful. Say you had an idea to make a special report or chart that illustrated something exactly, showed some unusual marketing info or reveled a optimized technical solution, you would just get a blank stare from the mainframe IS guy who would say; "it can't be done, you don't want it anyways, besides I'm swamped, take a number". The PC allowed legions of people to say "screw it, I can do it myself" rather than trudge along limited to what they said could be done. On top of that, IS folks didn't (and still don't) know what most companies they work for actually do. Someone clever who knew both how to use a PC and also what what was needed for their business could hit pay dirt. Mainframes/centralized computing systems are fine as long as you want to keep doing the same thing over and over. The PC allowed folks to use computing power to do different/innovative/unusual stuff that has transformed business.
Recall, however, that every browser did a good job of displaying poorly written HTML. If they hadn't, and only displayed if HTML was flawless, they would have faced a far greater backlash. I would guess less than 1% were truly faithful to any particular doctype back in the early days, perhaps 10% now.
Pointless, no. It's all about the price point. Apple iPod picked $1 a song (about the same as CD price per song) a price that is only sustained by their brand coolness. People are eating up their DRM in spite of the high price. With some competition, the price comes down, nobody will even think about DRM a $5 a month. Get over DRM.
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If everyone just agreed, we wouldn't need lawyers, or politicians.
Most other countries have very high fuel taxes. This is social engineering designed to favor conservation. That is what drives public transportation.
I couldn't agree more, conflict won't ever end but killing can. The scourge of the earth is people who murder those who disagree with them. When the muderous tyrants of the world can be defeated and all people can be given the choice of democracy, war will end.
Fine, but if you had used a dissenting voice like this in Iraq, you and your family members would be dead, killed by the Saddams secret police. You get to chose which side you are on, freedom or tyranny, the people of Baghdad had no choice. Which side are you on?
Why do you need a Google toolbar for IE when it already has a search function built-in. I'll answer that; The search participants slowly abandoned it and MS let it languish. Google started saw an opportunity to capitalize on this weakness and is now eating their lunch with the Google search bar. MSN has belatedly innovated a copy of the Google bar, too late.
Japan and Europe have very high fuel taxes. This was originally a social engineering effort to drive conservation of scarce resources. As a result, public transportation flourishes. Petrol itself is cheaper than water in Japan, Europe and the US, the US just chooses to tax it far less, resulting in SUVs, empty pickup trucks and empty trains. Want sensible energy use in the US? Vote for higher fuel taxes.
Maybe it would have been popular with the tech people if it had been more convergent rather than a narrow proprietary gadget. There were millions of laptops out there and millions of cell phones. Nobody could make them work together except perhaps some tech heads who happened to notice they both had IR ports. Why is that? Why do we have another technolgy taking off that doesn't work with other stuff?
Let India and China have the drudge jobs. Their problem is they do not have an ingrained culture of pioneering and innovation. The world eats up the incredible things that we create, then we move on and create some more. What society would you rather live in, the one that does the creating or the one that does the drudge?
Maybe she's leaving because her work had to many incomplete.
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What about The Ambushers, a 1967 Dean Martin Matt Helm movie. Jose Ortega, Big O arch-enemy, had robot assisted workers moving barrels around the XXXX brewery.
Japan and Europe tax energy heavily. That is why their societies already have efficiency; smaller cars, more public transport and the like. It is not unamerican to push efficiency this way, it is however unincumbent.
Are music and software somehow more noble that other goods and services? I don't think so. The only reason I can come up with is because it is incredibly easy to copy music and software. Folks are only whinging about copy protection because it makes it less easy. That's it.
If Sony can come up with a reasonable price, nobody will think twice about the copy protection. The Apple $1/song (with DRM that few seem to mind) won't last long.
We innovate things, they copy and mass produce them. You can't teach innovation in school. You can, however, create an environment where innovation is revered and rewarded, values you don't normally associate with authoritarian communism. Innovation doesn't show up in test scores. I would say let them have the scores.
Junk bonds are an innovative way to raise money, profit in exchange for risk. Bad movies? 50% of all movies are below average. One persons bad movie is anothers classic.
What about the growth of the programing trade in India? Hasn't this been raising their standard of living? The Indian government is and should be interested in training and enabling programmers so they can take advantage of this national resource, trading this resource for better living conditions for their people. Should the Indian government promote giving away this resource as in FOSS?
Free as in some other sucker pays.
PCs took over from mainframes because it was and still is next to impossible to get stodgy IS departments to do anything useful. Say you had an idea to make a special report or chart that illustrated something exactly, showed some unusual marketing info or reveled a optimized technical solution, you would just get a blank stare from the mainframe IS guy who would say; "it can't be done, you don't want it anyways, besides I'm swamped, take a number". The PC allowed legions of people to say "screw it, I can do it myself" rather than trudge along limited to what they said could be done. On top of that, IS folks didn't (and still don't) know what most companies they work for actually do. Someone clever who knew both how to use a PC and also what what was needed for their business could hit pay dirt. Mainframes/centralized computing systems are fine as long as you want to keep doing the same thing over and over. The PC allowed folks to use computing power to do different/innovative/unusual stuff that has transformed business.
This would have been a great idea about 4 years ago, now it is a too late idea.
Recall, however, that every browser did a good job of displaying poorly written HTML. If they hadn't, and only displayed if HTML was flawless, they would have faced a far greater backlash. I would guess less than 1% were truly faithful to any particular doctype back in the early days, perhaps 10% now.
free as in somebody else pays
Just add some random variability can increase the replication efficiency.....
Saddam murdered all his opponents, everyone else was terrorized into 'voting' for him. I wouldn't call that democracy.
Pointless, no. It's all about the price point. Apple iPod picked $1 a song (about the same as CD price per song) a price that is only sustained by their brand coolness. People are eating up their DRM in spite of the high price. With some competition, the price comes down, nobody will even think about DRM a $5 a month. Get over DRM.
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