That is the critical piece. Things have improved somewhat with the internet, but though things like SoundExchange the major industrial players still have a stranglehold on the distribution of content, so your choices are generally sign a contract with an existing publisher or try to become a mini-publisher yourself.. which will mean you do not have access to most distribution channels.
That is one of the hot questions in neurology, and one that is far form settled. We still do not have a good idea of how the details vary from person to person... so while perhaps not a 'surprise', it is far from a given.
Generally they include both 'we can change anything at any time' and 'you are not allowed to sue, instead you must use binding arbitration with a service we choose and pay' clauses.
While the US has a 'sue happy' reputation, the reality is that suing companies is very hard and unlikely to succeed. Much of the 'reputation' is being spread by groups that want 'reform' so they can make it even harder.
One of the problems in this case is carriers have quasi-government powers (they used to have additional responsibilities and regulation too, but those have mostly vanished), so often they can do things to you that normally you would think only the state can do, and just like sueing the state it is rare for you to be able to do anything because the laws have been written in such a way that says you can't.
A better comparison would be 'someone was caught selling drugs, so drug selling is DOOOMED!'.
Meatspace black markets do not shut down because someone got caught, I do not see why electronic ones would either unless it was something really crippling.
Every time there is a change, every time there is something new, every time there is a shift, the publishers find a way to twist the numbers so artists get an even smaller cut of the profits.
I think that is part of the point, what you describe is a completely different culture and set of priorities. While the core desire to impress their peers is similar, the outlet it takes and how it circles back around to the profession is completely different. In that earlier culture you tried to impress your peers through knowledge and competence in your field of study.. with brogrammers you impress your peers through other avenues pulled from a non-technical culture.
Exponential growth does not actually fix that problem, in fact it tends to make the concentration of capital even worse, it just gives the illusion of doing otherwise. Exponential growth is a psychological requirement to meet the needs of a small percentage of the population.
You can model steady state economies, but economic theory tends to be driven more by what will get you laid at a party then actual economics.
*nods* yeah, the assumption at exponential growth is mandatory really seems to have gotten embedded in the economist culture, even though the models really do not support it. Exponential growth is only necessary if, well, you want exponential growth. The arguments in its favor tend to be rather cyclical and reduce to 'people will always want more, and the social circles we are part of depend on the idea that anything other then bigger numbers is personal failure'.
I do not think it means what she thinks it means.
Her argument seems to come down to people will use all the energy they can and thus renewable will never work by simple virtue of other methods existing.
Was it EA that had their forum and DRM systems linked in such a way that getting banned could also lock you out of content you had purchased, or was that another company? I vaguely recall it being a thing a while back.
Perhaps they need more variants? Something more tailored to the mobile space? I have no idea if the author is a 'market of one', but I guess I could see some niche that is being poorly filled right now.
I doubt they would even need new legislation. They will just argue that all the nodes are participating in sharing copyrighted works and will sue random people they manage to identify. They do not even need a good case since defending yourself is generally cost prohibitive anyway.
This whole idea is a non-solution.... it is kinda like those guides for 'why you do not have to actually pay taxes' or 'you are not technically a citizen of the US and thus the law does not apply'... even if mathmatically the logic might make sense, once it hits actual courtrooms it falls apart.
*nod* Adobe could probably really capitalize on this if they went back to their old versions and produced a 'PS-Lite' that kept only a subset of the most popular features.
Those are really examples of artificial obsolesces though. They are real and thus represent legitimate reasons to keep up to date, but they do not actually represent improvements that benefit the user. So it is not a case of 'what can the new stuff do that the old could not' and more 'new stuff is only compatible with other new stuff, so since other people are buying it I will have to'.
Depends on how many hats any given person at a particular company has to have. Some companies have dedicated UI designers, some companies fold that task into the more general developer role.
Well, looking at the earlier Korean war (with lower population densities) we get 178,698 dead on 'our' side, 367,283-750,282 dead on 'their' side, and 2.5 million civilians killed or wounded. Hard to say how many we would loose today, but hundreds of thousands of good people dieing is not really an underestimate.
Which is a good thing. Risks like that make great TV but the reality of them is pretty horrible. Risking a restart of the Korean war? NK would have to pose a very immediate and credible threat to do such a thing.
It isnt in the playbook of any administration. NK is a nuclear nation, you don't back them into a corner just to show your public how strong you are since, unlike the places we have attacked, they can actually hurt us.
Thing is, if they were actually going to attack the US, using an ICBM isn't the best method anyway. They could just put a nuke on a fishing trawler and wander into any number of coastal ports.
Neither side wants a war there, NK has a pretty good memory of how the civil war went.. so NK, SK, China, Japan, US... all are quite aware that actual hostilities would be a bad idea. Symbolic gestures on the other hand have value... not on the international scale, but on the local one.
The military in NK is very powerful.. while people like to talk about the place like it is a simple dictatorship, the political reality is the Leader needs the backing of the generals, otherwise his power-base dissolves. One way to do that is build up the internal public image of military streght and show that he is willing to snub the world in favor of the generals. In essence, it is the Leader demonstrating his allegiance to his military and reasserting their primacy within the country.
I think right now we are at a similar point to when GUIs first came out and people were sufficiently enthusiastic about the 'way forward' that they applied them regardless of if they really did make sense. Even today the CLI is an important tool in computing for certain types of tasks, and I can remember in the 80s and 90s people trying to shoehorn GUIs for those tasks and, outside some very impressive slideshows, failing to produce something that actually met the needs of users.
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That is the critical piece. Things have improved somewhat with the internet, but though things like SoundExchange the major industrial players still have a stranglehold on the distribution of content, so your choices are generally sign a contract with an existing publisher or try to become a mini-publisher yourself.. which will mean you do not have access to most distribution channels.
That is one of the hot questions in neurology, and one that is far form settled. We still do not have a good idea of how the details vary from person to person... so while perhaps not a 'surprise', it is far from a given.
Generally they include both 'we can change anything at any time' and 'you are not allowed to sue, instead you must use binding arbitration with a service we choose and pay' clauses.
While the US has a 'sue happy' reputation, the reality is that suing companies is very hard and unlikely to succeed. Much of the 'reputation' is being spread by groups that want 'reform' so they can make it even harder.
One of the problems in this case is carriers have quasi-government powers (they used to have additional responsibilities and regulation too, but those have mostly vanished), so often they can do things to you that normally you would think only the state can do, and just like sueing the state it is rare for you to be able to do anything because the laws have been written in such a way that says you can't.
Going one step further, I am on their '$100/year' plan and have been really loving it ^_^
A better comparison would be 'someone was caught selling drugs, so drug selling is DOOOMED!'.
Meatspace black markets do not shut down because someone got caught, I do not see why electronic ones would either unless it was something really crippling.
Every time there is a change, every time there is something new, every time there is a shift, the publishers find a way to twist the numbers so artists get an even smaller cut of the profits.
Hrm, Japanese programmers?
I think that is part of the point, what you describe is a completely different culture and set of priorities. While the core desire to impress their peers is similar, the outlet it takes and how it circles back around to the profession is completely different. In that earlier culture you tried to impress your peers through knowledge and competence in your field of study.. with brogrammers you impress your peers through other avenues pulled from a non-technical culture.
As soon as we kill all the brogrammers, the meme will die the death it deserves.....
Exponential growth does not actually fix that problem, in fact it tends to make the concentration of capital even worse, it just gives the illusion of doing otherwise. Exponential growth is a psychological requirement to meet the needs of a small percentage of the population.
You can model steady state economies, but economic theory tends to be driven more by what will get you laid at a party then actual economics.
*nods* yeah, the assumption at exponential growth is mandatory really seems to have gotten embedded in the economist culture, even though the models really do not support it. Exponential growth is only necessary if, well, you want exponential growth. The arguments in its favor tend to be rather cyclical and reduce to 'people will always want more, and the social circles we are part of depend on the idea that anything other then bigger numbers is personal failure'.
I do not think it means what she thinks it means. Her argument seems to come down to people will use all the energy they can and thus renewable will never work by simple virtue of other methods existing.
Was it EA that had their forum and DRM systems linked in such a way that getting banned could also lock you out of content you had purchased, or was that another company? I vaguely recall it being a thing a while back.
The person is confusing personal preference for an interface (dislike) with the product actually being bad (sucks).
Perhaps they need more variants? Something more tailored to the mobile space? I have no idea if the author is a 'market of one', but I guess I could see some niche that is being poorly filled right now.
I doubt they would even need new legislation. They will just argue that all the nodes are participating in sharing copyrighted works and will sue random people they manage to identify. They do not even need a good case since defending yourself is generally cost prohibitive anyway.
This whole idea is a non-solution.... it is kinda like those guides for 'why you do not have to actually pay taxes' or 'you are not technically a citizen of the US and thus the law does not apply'... even if mathmatically the logic might make sense, once it hits actual courtrooms it falls apart.
*nod* Adobe could probably really capitalize on this if they went back to their old versions and produced a 'PS-Lite' that kept only a subset of the most popular features.
Those are really examples of artificial obsolesces though. They are real and thus represent legitimate reasons to keep up to date, but they do not actually represent improvements that benefit the user. So it is not a case of 'what can the new stuff do that the old could not' and more 'new stuff is only compatible with other new stuff, so since other people are buying it I will have to'.
Depends on how many hats any given person at a particular company has to have. Some companies have dedicated UI designers, some companies fold that task into the more general developer role.
Well, looking at the earlier Korean war (with lower population densities) we get 178,698 dead on 'our' side, 367,283-750,282 dead on 'their' side, and 2.5 million civilians killed or wounded. Hard to say how many we would loose today, but hundreds of thousands of good people dieing is not really an underestimate.
Which is a good thing. Risks like that make great TV but the reality of them is pretty horrible. Risking a restart of the Korean war? NK would have to pose a very immediate and credible threat to do such a thing.
It isnt in the playbook of any administration. NK is a nuclear nation, you don't back them into a corner just to show your public how strong you are since, unlike the places we have attacked, they can actually hurt us.
Thing is, if they were actually going to attack the US, using an ICBM isn't the best method anyway. They could just put a nuke on a fishing trawler and wander into any number of coastal ports.
Neither side wants a war there, NK has a pretty good memory of how the civil war went.. so NK, SK, China, Japan, US... all are quite aware that actual hostilities would be a bad idea. Symbolic gestures on the other hand have value... not on the international scale, but on the local one.
The military in NK is very powerful.. while people like to talk about the place like it is a simple dictatorship, the political reality is the Leader needs the backing of the generals, otherwise his power-base dissolves. One way to do that is build up the internal public image of military streght and show that he is willing to snub the world in favor of the generals. In essence, it is the Leader demonstrating his allegiance to his military and reasserting their primacy within the country.
I think right now we are at a similar point to when GUIs first came out and people were sufficiently enthusiastic about the 'way forward' that they applied them regardless of if they really did make sense. Even today the CLI is an important tool in computing for certain types of tasks, and I can remember in the 80s and 90s people trying to shoehorn GUIs for those tasks and, outside some very impressive slideshows, failing to produce something that actually met the needs of users.
Figuring out when 'good enough' really is good enough is an important part of greatness.