It's not unresonable. If you do a large modification to anything, say replace the engine in your new car, then you are asking for trouble if you want warantee service.
Trouble shooting is hard. There are often layers of breaks that hide other breaks and bugs. Suppose HP fixes the stickey keys, but find that something else keyboard releated is still broken. Did HP cause that problem? Could the customer sue for damages if HP didn't fix it?
Yes, you should be able to do whatever you want with your products. This does not mean you can force other people or corporations to accept and embrace your changes.
Really, the same holds tree for movies in general. Thanks to the creation of the blockbuster movie in 70's, quieter moves that have something to say about the human condition have a hard time finding a large audience.
Not just Star Wars, but Jaws, but Towering Inferno, Posidon and others taught the movie industry that if you want to pack the house, you had to give them a great show. George Lucas didn't kill the more philosophical science fiction. The box office killed the philosophical movie. Science fiction was just collateral damage.
Apple's business practices make it difficult for a large corporation to widely adopt Apple computers. Notice how, to get maximum hype, Apple reveales nothing about their future plans. Then one magic day every few months Steve Jobs get's up on the podium and says "The new giga-flux apple server is now being manufactured and will be available in two months!" Crowd goes ga-ga. The computer, while great, has relativly limited configuration options. Because it has to work.
Large corporations need to plan out their PC purchases over time spans measured in years. What kind of commputers will Apple sell next year? Ask Steve, but he isn't talking. What if I need configuration option X and Apple doesn't support it? Well then, you are SOL.
"The canonical forms of string theory include three mathematical assumptions--Lorentz invariance, analyticity and unitarity. Our test sets bounds on these assumptions." --Benjamin Grinstein
Don't quantum mechanics and GRT also include the above? Meaning if the experements don't confirm the above then more than just string theory is in trouble.
Of course analyticity probably has some very subtle meaning in string theory. Any one here in the know?
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It sounds like your friend instictivly followed "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" a methodoligy that not only applies to software, but every damn thing goal you have.
In one sentence "Seven Habits" is-- know what's important, know what's not, only work on the important. That's a big over simplification that doesn't do justice to the book.
I recommend that every developer read "Seven Habits." Developers aren't the only people in the world who have to manage long and complicated projects. You'd do yourself good to learn how the rest of the world copes.
> 1. Don't try to sell a futuristic product that doesn't quite work yet; instead, talk about it while selling as existing product that can compete in the current market
What google product is futuristic and doesn't quiet work yet? Every google product works, right here, right now. Even if they are in beta, the Google product works.
> 2. Don't attempt to fire conceptual ideas at an imagined market; instead, craft finished products that solve real problems and can support a sustainable market
Providing free content and selling ads is not a conceptual market. The TV industry has been doing this for years. Providing quality search is not a conceptual market. Search sites have always been among the most popular wet sites in the internet. The market was well known. How to capitalize the market, that was the hard part.
> 3. Ship a functional product and then constantly refine it; Real world use and years of ongoing refinement create enormous value for a product.
Doesn't this describe Google Search? Gmail? AdSense?
When an IBM designer was asked why IBM laptops were always boxes with sharp corners, he answered that curves waste space. Small, light, space effecient designs always end up being boxes.
1. The Zune is a tool, it's the person sharing the song that actually breaks the CC license. You may be able to go after MSFT for contributing to the Zune owner's breach, but you can't ignore the Zune owner. And I'm willing to bet that MSFT has deeper pockets than you, or the Zune owner.
2. Damages (punative/trebel) are based on some multiple of the actual damages. When you give away a song for free, what are the actual damages?
MSFT says it's a release candidate, because they will support it in production. If a MSFT beta toasts your box, then you are SOL. But, if an MSFT RC toasts your box, their customer support can get involved.
and you need to repeatedly sample an article in order to determine it's average and standard deviation-- slowly converging on the truth.
Maybe wikipedia should include that information in addtion to the the "This article is contested" warning.
Frankly, wikipedia has a lot of information that you just can't get anwhere else and I will always treasure it for that. But trusting wikipedia for current information-- or opinion, is very dangerous.
Re:Oh, for crying out loud...
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I agree. So much. I make ad's. Real print ad's in newspapers and magazines. I need the colors to look right. I need to know how much I have to brighten an ad that appears in newsprint vs glossy. I need to send my work to printers, other artists and other ad designers who all have a wide range of equipment.
GIMP is good for making web images. But it does not address the mechanics of making real world images.
The developers also made a mistake in not realzing where their paychecks come from-- selling finished games.
If someone is paying you to write software then "Earning out paychecks" or "keeping on budget" must be a critical feature. We may like to think otherwise, but companies don't pay you because they love you. They pay you because you earn more money for them then you cost. If it was the other way around, your paycheck would bounce and/or layoffs would ensue.
On my web site, a brochure-ware site for a store that I own, Win 98 users are still around-- about 2% of the web traffic. Win95 is about 0.1% of the traffic.
Here is the scary part-- for the unwashed masses that look at my site, linux only counts as 0.5% of the traffic. At least FireFox is 4% and growing.
Will the crappy optics in cell phone cameras actually be able to do anything with an 8MP picture?
Sure, you can zoom in more on an 8MP picture. However, when your lens is always out in the open, covered with finger prints, dust, grease, scratched and soo tiny, that extra resolution will just capture noise.
This is not a troll.
For most businesses out there there is only one standard... IE. I hate to say that, but it's true. I run a small business with a website. It's not a technical business, just a boring store like you may see in any mall. Are customers are ordinary middle class people.
Our website got 729 hits last week. 684 from IE (only 659 from IE6!) 22 from Fire Fox. 17 from Safari. 2 each from Opera & Netscape. One each from Konqueror & Mozilla.
So, if it looks good in IE and is passible in Firefox and Safari then we're done. I know that 99% of my customers can see what they need and we really can't afford the extra budget to satisfy the remaining 1%.
W3C Complaint? I can't afford to care.
While the constant MS bashing was interesting, I think it worked against Sun, and not for it. It sent the message "Buy Sun if you hate Microsoft." Like it or not, hating MSFT isn't a great way to run a billion dollar business.
Do I get more rich and more happy just because I hate MSFT? No. I get more rich and more happy by making better choices that ingore (or include) MSFT as warrented.
Red Hat gets this. McNealy should have sent the message "Buy Sun to solve problems X and Y and Z. That will put more money in your pocket and make you happier." Unless the Schwartz gets this, Sun will continue it's relative decline.
I have a public blog that I've been keeping since 2000. I don't hype it or advertise it. I do post to it regularly. It's full of good memories. Sometimes it's usefull for answering questions like "What hotel did I stay at when I was on vacation last year?"
After six years, it has a lot of content. Content that I don't want to go away just because I die and fail to sign onto my account. I plan on including the account name and password in my will, so that my decendants can maintain the account.
It makes me smile to think that people may be able to google my life's blog after I die. I'm sure that 90% of those people will roll their eyes and think "Ughh. Not another stale blog." But still...
One Time Pads may be the most secure form of encryption, but they are *not* the most secure way to protect your secrets.
Time and time again, security breaks down because of the way people treat their keys, not because the encryption algorithm is week.
With a one time pad, you need to keep a copy of the pad with everyone who wants access to the data. Compare that to Public Key Crypto where you can keep your private key in one secure spot and distribute your public key widely.
Or how about session keys (Diffie Hellman for example)... single use keys that only you and your partner have access to. How good is that! And you don't need to transfer and secure your OTP to use them!
Yes, web gurus and geeks can lead by example, but all that means is that FireFox is for geeks and web gurus. It will not bring FireFox to the rest of us.
When you run an add it sends two messages. It tells those not in the know that FireFox exists. It also says "FireFox has such a broad appeal that we are willing to spend thousands of dollars to get the word out." That is an important message needed to grow the FireFox market.
I wonder if this is like native asians and the letters 'r' and 'l'-- if you don't learn the difference when you are young then your brain will have problems thinking that way.
If so, it would mean that it's not the language that causes you to think differently, but a seperate skill that you also use to speak the language. In this case of the Tarahumara speakers, it's distinquishing green and blue. They never needed to do so, so now they have problems when tested for it.
The difference is that the reporters are adding value-- collecting the facts, writing a story.
IANAL, but Google's use of other stories is in a bit of grey area. On one hand using copyright materials for new and comment is fair use. However there are limits. http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/definiti.sht ml says the courts will consider "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole" when determining what is fair use. And well, it's hard to argue that google passes that test.
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It's not unresonable. If you do a large modification to anything, say replace the engine in your new car, then you are asking for trouble if you want warantee service.
Trouble shooting is hard. There are often layers of breaks that hide other breaks and bugs. Suppose HP fixes the stickey keys, but find that something else keyboard releated is still broken. Did HP cause that problem? Could the customer sue for damages if HP didn't fix it?
Yes, you should be able to do whatever you want with your products. This does not mean you can force other people or corporations to accept and embrace your changes.
Really, the same holds tree for movies in general. Thanks to the creation of the blockbuster movie in 70's, quieter moves that have something to say about the human condition have a hard time finding a large audience.
Not just Star Wars, but Jaws, but Towering Inferno, Posidon and others taught the movie industry that if you want to pack the house, you had to give them a great show. George Lucas didn't kill the more philosophical science fiction. The box office killed the philosophical movie. Science fiction was just collateral damage.
Apple's business practices make it difficult for a large corporation to widely adopt Apple computers. Notice how, to get maximum hype, Apple reveales nothing about their future plans. Then one magic day every few months Steve Jobs get's up on the podium and says "The new giga-flux apple server is now being manufactured and will be available in two months!" Crowd goes ga-ga. The computer, while great, has relativly limited configuration options. Because it has to work.
Large corporations need to plan out their PC purchases over time spans measured in years. What kind of commputers will Apple sell next year? Ask Steve, but he isn't talking. What if I need configuration option X and Apple doesn't support it? Well then, you are SOL.
"The canonical forms of string theory include three mathematical assumptions--Lorentz invariance, analyticity and unitarity. Our test sets bounds on these assumptions." --Benjamin Grinstein
Don't quantum mechanics and GRT also include the above? Meaning if the experements don't confirm the above then more than just string theory is in trouble.
Of course analyticity probably has some very subtle meaning in string theory. Any one here in the know?
It sounds like your friend instictivly followed "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" a methodoligy that not only applies to software, but every damn thing goal you have.
In one sentence "Seven Habits" is-- know what's important, know what's not, only work on the important. That's a big over simplification that doesn't do justice to the book.
I recommend that every developer read "Seven Habits." Developers aren't the only people in the world who have to manage long and complicated projects. You'd do yourself good to learn how the rest of the world copes.
> 1. Don't try to sell a futuristic product that doesn't quite work yet; instead, talk about it while selling as existing product that can compete in the current market
What google product is futuristic and doesn't quiet work yet? Every google product works, right here, right now. Even if they are in beta, the Google product works.
> 2. Don't attempt to fire conceptual ideas at an imagined market; instead, craft finished products that solve real problems and can support a sustainable market
Providing free content and selling ads is not a conceptual market. The TV industry has been doing this for years. Providing quality search is not a conceptual market. Search sites have always been among the most popular wet sites in the internet. The market was well known. How to capitalize the market, that was the hard part.
> 3. Ship a functional product and then constantly refine it; Real world use and years of ongoing refinement create enormous value for a product.
Doesn't this describe Google Search? Gmail? AdSense?
I was referring to computers. Show me a sphere shaped computer, and I'll show you a smaller, lighter computer that fits in a box.
So True.
When an IBM designer was asked why IBM laptops were always boxes with sharp corners, he answered that curves waste space. Small, light, space effecient designs always end up being boxes.
Why on earth are they calling these microtransactions? At $.40 to $2.50 a pop these transactions are no more micro than buying a pop or chocolate bar.
1. The Zune is a tool, it's the person sharing the song that actually breaks the CC license. You may be able to go after MSFT for contributing to the Zune owner's breach, but you can't ignore the Zune owner. And I'm willing to bet that MSFT has deeper pockets than you, or the Zune owner.
2. Damages (punative/trebel) are based on some multiple of the actual damages. When you give away a song for free, what are the actual damages?
Sigh.
MSFT says it's a release candidate, because they will support it in production. If a MSFT beta toasts your box, then you are SOL. But, if an MSFT RC toasts your box, their customer support can get involved.
and you need to repeatedly sample an article in order to determine it's average and standard deviation-- slowly converging on the truth.
Maybe wikipedia should include that information in addtion to the the "This article is contested" warning.
Frankly, wikipedia has a lot of information that you just can't get anwhere else and I will always treasure it for that. But trusting wikipedia for current information-- or opinion, is very dangerous.
I agree. So much. I make ad's. Real print ad's in newspapers and magazines. I need the colors to look right. I need to know how much I have to brighten an ad that appears in newsprint vs glossy. I need to send my work to printers, other artists and other ad designers who all have a wide range of equipment.
GIMP is good for making web images. But it does not address the mechanics of making real world images.
The developers also made a mistake in not realzing where their paychecks come from-- selling finished games.
If someone is paying you to write software then "Earning out paychecks" or "keeping on budget" must be a critical feature. We may like to think otherwise, but companies don't pay you because they love you. They pay you because you earn more money for them then you cost. If it was the other way around, your paycheck would bounce and/or layoffs would ensue.
On my web site, a brochure-ware site for a store that I own, Win 98 users are still around-- about 2% of the web traffic. Win95 is about 0.1% of the traffic.
Here is the scary part-- for the unwashed masses that look at my site, linux only counts as 0.5% of the traffic. At least FireFox is 4% and growing.
Will the crappy optics in cell phone cameras actually be able to do anything with an 8MP picture?
Sure, you can zoom in more on an 8MP picture. However, when your lens is always out in the open, covered with finger prints, dust, grease, scratched and soo tiny, that extra resolution will just capture noise.
This is not a troll. For most businesses out there there is only one standard... IE. I hate to say that, but it's true. I run a small business with a website. It's not a technical business, just a boring store like you may see in any mall. Are customers are ordinary middle class people. Our website got 729 hits last week. 684 from IE (only 659 from IE6!) 22 from Fire Fox. 17 from Safari. 2 each from Opera & Netscape. One each from Konqueror & Mozilla. So, if it looks good in IE and is passible in Firefox and Safari then we're done. I know that 99% of my customers can see what they need and we really can't afford the extra budget to satisfy the remaining 1%. W3C Complaint? I can't afford to care.
While the constant MS bashing was interesting, I think it worked against Sun, and not for it. It sent the message "Buy Sun if you hate Microsoft." Like it or not, hating MSFT isn't a great way to run a billion dollar business.
Do I get more rich and more happy just because I hate MSFT? No. I get more rich and more happy by making better choices that ingore (or include) MSFT as warrented.
Red Hat gets this. McNealy should have sent the message "Buy Sun to solve problems X and Y and Z. That will put more money in your pocket and make you happier." Unless the Schwartz gets this, Sun will continue it's relative decline.
I have a public blog that I've been keeping since 2000. I don't hype it or advertise it. I do post to it regularly. It's full of good memories. Sometimes it's usefull for answering questions like "What hotel did I stay at when I was on vacation last year?"
After six years, it has a lot of content. Content that I don't want to go away just because I die and fail to sign onto my account. I plan on including the account name and password in my will, so that my decendants can maintain the account.
It makes me smile to think that people may be able to google my life's blog after I die. I'm sure that 90% of those people will roll their eyes and think "Ughh. Not another stale blog." But still...
One Time Pads may be the most secure form of encryption, but they are *not* the most secure way to protect your secrets.
Time and time again, security breaks down because of the way people treat their keys, not because the encryption algorithm is week.
With a one time pad, you need to keep a copy of the pad with everyone who wants access to the data. Compare that to Public Key Crypto where you can keep your private key in one secure spot and distribute your public key widely.
Or how about session keys (Diffie Hellman for example)... single use keys that only you and your partner have access to. How good is that! And you don't need to transfer and secure your OTP to use them!
Advertising works. It works very well.
Yes, web gurus and geeks can lead by example, but all that means is that FireFox is for geeks and web gurus. It will not bring FireFox to the rest of us.
When you run an add it sends two messages. It tells those not in the know that FireFox exists. It also says "FireFox has such a broad appeal that we are willing to spend thousands of dollars to get the word out." That is an important message needed to grow the FireFox market.
I wonder if this is like native asians and the letters 'r' and 'l'-- if you don't learn the difference when you are young then your brain will have problems thinking that way.
If so, it would mean that it's not the language that causes you to think differently, but a seperate skill that you also use to speak the language. In this case of the Tarahumara speakers, it's distinquishing green and blue. They never needed to do so, so now they have problems when tested for it.
The difference is that the reporters are adding value-- collecting the facts, writing a story.
t ml says the courts will consider "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole" when determining what is fair use. And well, it's hard to argue that google passes that test.
IANAL, but Google's use of other stories is in a bit of grey area. On one hand using copyright materials for new and comment is fair use. However there are limits. http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/definiti.sh
Slate had a half decent article on energy drinks.
http://www.slate.com/id/2126591/
The writers favorite was Rockstar-- provides energy, doesn't taste that bad, no vitamin or caffeine headache.
Do any of the big U.S. ISP's support IPV6? I'd say no... a quick search through Comcast returned no hits.