Often I find it's a difference in personality type. Using the Keirsey temperment sorter you see where people are separated by how they perceive the world. One aspect of personality is how you perceive the world to be, either in concrete or possible terms. Objectively the two are not entirely opposite, it's just in how the world is organized. One views their surroundings as possibilities, the other as actualities. The actual view is the same, but the actions and course determined is different.
ie. If you're calm and confident when everyone aroudn you is running around in a *BLIND* panic... it's just as likely you can see something they can't
That was just a spontaneous thought I decided to include. I'll admit it'd be ridiculous for them to use the room key as a backup for charging my credit card...
but this just came to me. what about using your room key in the restaurant or bar? they may want to verify you have a credit card, or even charge it right there.
Just a thought.
I've actually had to use MS support more than once or twice. As a consultant sometimes a customer problem requires a call to M$ and they can be extremely helpfull.
When I say sheer support power, I'm talking about men/women on the phone. With gobs of cash, Microsoft will always be able to keep hold times low, and at least have someone to give the hand holding that some users need....
I think it's hilarious how anti-M$ advocates are so venemous in even the tiniest comment...
I don't think they're the best, but I certainly don't beleive MS is the devil incarnate... sheesh.
also btw, I'd be interested in hearing about how Novell support fairs. I've never had to use Novell support so I don't know first hand.
Hotel cards aren't for your convenience, they are for the hotel's convenience. An easy way to create and distribute keys to rooms, keeping out only the most simple theives...
Easy to distribute master cards to maids, easy for them to tell how to bill you by just the card.
Think about it, if your computers went down, and all you had were your customers keycards... they want to be able to bill you no matter what.
They don't care about your security/safety, it's just the convenience for the hotels.
The problem is that for a company big enough to cost-justify licensing, they're also big enough to get a huge discount from Microsoft...
and who wouldn't want to use software supported by a multi-billion dollar company? There's a slim chance they'll be around for a while (sarcasm) unlike their inhouse tech that will support their custom Linux distro....
That's where Novell comes in I guess, but still Microsoft will always have a huge advantage, just in sheer support power.
General consensus seems to have been that movies are generally getting worse, and less ideas, thus remakes.
It'd be nice to see a parallel report on the music industry. In fact, I'd like to see some hard science on this too... (by which I mean published on Slashdot because I'm too lazy to actually look up hard science in "hard-science weekly", or wherever the hell it's put)
"Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!"...
"You only think I guessed wrong - that's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha-ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less famous is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when *death* is on the line!". Hahahahahah!" [Vizzini falls over dead]
Vizzini, Princess Bride
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Whoah! chill dude. I'm just saying that making a supposition based on something that doesn't exist doesn't help REAL software developers. Software developers have to work with the world as it exists. YES other business models exist, YES physical product can't (or just isn't) sold on the same terms as software. But that doesn't mean that it's wrong to use the current system of software revenue generation to feed my family...
If I create something unique, I don't want someone else to profit from it. That's the root of intellectual property, even if it is abused and used for other things. If you completely ignore that, and just suppose that it shouldn't exist, then you are creating a hypothetical, and that does me no good in the here and now.
BTW> don't get pissy.
Oh I get it I should evaluate
"whether a business model would suceed in the absense of 'intellectual property' laws".... so basically evaluate it under hypothetical circumstances.... so yes very good point. How insightful. My apologies for the error.
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Often I find it's a difference in personality type. Using the Keirsey temperment sorter you see where people are separated by how they perceive the world. One aspect of personality is how you perceive the world to be, either in concrete or possible terms. Objectively the two are not entirely opposite, it's just in how the world is organized. One views their surroundings as possibilities, the other as actualities. The actual view is the same, but the actions and course determined is different. ie. If you're calm and confident when everyone aroudn you is running around in a *BLIND* panic... it's just as likely you can see something they can't
Care to share a link or two?
RIAA's dream technology. Encrypted music that can be heard only once by the human ear, then after that you have to pay them.
That was just a spontaneous thought I decided to include. I'll admit it'd be ridiculous for them to use the room key as a backup for charging my credit card...
but this just came to me. what about using your room key in the restaurant or bar? they may want to verify you have a credit card, or even charge it right there.
Just a thought.
I've actually had to use MS support more than once or twice. As a consultant sometimes a customer problem requires a call to M$ and they can be extremely helpfull. When I say sheer support power, I'm talking about men/women on the phone. With gobs of cash, Microsoft will always be able to keep hold times low, and at least have someone to give the hand holding that some users need....
I think it's hilarious how anti-M$ advocates are so venemous in even the tiniest comment...
I don't think they're the best, but I certainly don't beleive MS is the devil incarnate... sheesh.
also btw, I'd be interested in hearing about how Novell support fairs. I've never had to use Novell support so I don't know first hand.
Hotel cards aren't for your convenience, they are for the hotel's convenience. An easy way to create and distribute keys to rooms, keeping out only the most simple theives...
Easy to distribute master cards to maids, easy for them to tell how to bill you by just the card.
Think about it, if your computers went down, and all you had were your customers keycards... they want to be able to bill you no matter what.
They don't care about your security/safety, it's just the convenience for the hotels.
The problem is that for a company big enough to cost-justify licensing, they're also big enough to get a huge discount from Microsoft...
and who wouldn't want to use software supported by a multi-billion dollar company? There's a slim chance they'll be around for a while (sarcasm) unlike their inhouse tech that will support their custom Linux distro....
That's where Novell comes in I guess, but still Microsoft will always have a huge advantage, just in sheer support power.
what we've all known for years...
General consensus seems to have been that movies are generally getting worse, and less ideas, thus remakes.
It'd be nice to see a parallel report on the music industry. In fact, I'd like to see some hard science on this too...
(by which I mean published on Slashdot because I'm too lazy to actually look up hard science in "hard-science weekly", or wherever the hell it's put)
Sounds like...
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"Now, a clever man would put the poison into his own goblet, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!"
"You only think I guessed wrong - that's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha-ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less famous is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when *death* is on the line!". Hahahahahah!"
[Vizzini falls over dead]
Vizzini, Princess Bride
But did you recover anything from the laptop?
Whoah! chill dude. I'm just saying that making a supposition based on something that doesn't exist doesn't help REAL software developers. Software developers have to work with the world as it exists. YES other business models exist, YES physical product can't (or just isn't) sold on the same terms as software. But that doesn't mean that it's wrong to use the current system of software revenue generation to feed my family... If I create something unique, I don't want someone else to profit from it. That's the root of intellectual property, even if it is abused and used for other things. If you completely ignore that, and just suppose that it shouldn't exist, then you are creating a hypothetical, and that does me no good in the here and now. BTW> don't get pissy.
Oh I get it I should evaluate "whether a business model would suceed in the absense of 'intellectual property' laws" .... so basically evaluate it under hypothetical circumstances.... so yes very good point. How insightful. My apologies for the error.
How is $30 billion/year profit a failed business model?
Software licensing is an excellent way to generate revenue...