Except money is currency and a movie is a product. Yes, they're both fungible, but one is consumed, the other is exchanged for goods and services. So, no, they're not equal.
Frankly I wouldn't mess with sending something that could get the Secret Service involved to an organization that's known for using law enforcement for it's own ends. Especially for a form of "protest" that the RIAA won't understand and won't bother them a bit. The only people who are benefiting from this are the post office.
I think I sat in this same session. Except it was about 6 or 8 years ago and the topic was Symbian, not Android.
It started with great talk about the number of phones out there running the OS and the great features of the OS and everyone was excited.
Then the last half hour was talking about how you couldn't depend on any phone having any particular features, couldn't expect buttons to be in the same place (or to exist), how many different versions of the OS were out there, that you have to test on every single phone model, etc, etc, etc. When it was over all the developers shuffled out of the room shaking their heads. (With the exception of the few who stayed behind to try to hit on the woman giving the presentation.)
When I mentioned it to a senior at PopCap he said (roughly) "Yeah. The only reason we've developed mobile versions of Bejeweled is because the carriers paid us to."
I'm glad those lessons have been well learned. Shame they were only learned by Apple.
Exactly. This adds nothing to VRML (Or any of the other dozen 3D web technologies that went under this same headline in years past.)
Okay, that's not entirely true. Over the past it has the following advantages:
- It's buit into the browser, so no plugins.
- Computers are much faster so performance should be better.
- Bandwidth is higher so files transfer faster.
But none of the gets to the heart of the problem with 3D: - 3D artists are much more expensive than a production artist running Photoshop and creating attractive 3D content takes much longer than a flat image. This makes the content much more expensive to produce.
- The quality is not there. If you want to show off the highest quality vision of your product you want Photoshoped images. 3D just doesn't have it. Even with high resolution 3D scanners and hours of cleanup by a train artist it will still look sub-par compared to properly prepped 2D images.
- There are very few 3D interface designers worth a damn. And they're all working much higher paid jobs making games. That leaves people who sort of saw a scene in Jonny Mnemonic on late-night TV years ago when they were a little drunk, and thought it would be neat to make an interface like that. This turns away customers. And even if they did hire one of those great designers away from the games industry, 3D is still a horrible interface for a 2D spreadsheet, which is what most web sites are.
- Phones.
With the exception of the last, these problems will always exist, and always doom the 3D web.
The single case I've seen for 3D web in 20+ years of doing 3D are online 3D libraries like Thingiverse where, in this case, you can preview an STL before downloading.
Disclosure: I have worked with web and 3D since 1996 and have been directly involved with a number of doomed 3D web projects in that time. They were all essentially identical with the exception of the name of the 3D plugin/file format.
Nibble magazine (an Apple magazine from 1980-1992) had a coding contest every month. The rules: Maximum 2 lines of Apple BASIC. IT was probably my favorite part of the magazine. There were some amazing submissions.
Why would they need to keep a straight face? They can afford better lawyers than anyone they're likely to sue or be sued by. The kind of business Zynga is involved in has nothing to do with ethics or image. If it was they'd have been out of business long ago.
Agreed. Kickstarter is already too permissive with its projects. I have seen projects that were physically impossible, or that 10 seconds consultation with an engineer would have reduced the instigator to tears.
Now Kickstarter has made the problem slightly worse by requiring a "donation" to the project before you can post a public concern or complaint to the project's boards, but c'mon--a place where anyone can ask for money without oversight? If I want that I'll check my spam folder.
Nope, don't have to back them up with paper originals any more. A lot of things don't have paper originals. The Macbook I'm typing this on? Apple store emailed me the receipt. The Adobe software I'm running on it? Same. My phone and monthly phone service? Ditto. Yet these are all allowable business expenses. No paper needed. If the IRS needs a hard copy that's what a printer is for. They'll take it. I know.
(or will be when they get back into the heavy lifting business.)
Get a press pass to a NASA launch. You're close enough that the temperature in the room almost immediately goes up by 20 degrees. Fortunately you're in a reinforced bunker.
Yes, it needs more press, but not for that reason.
The word "hacker" is already synonymous with "Skeevy computer criminal" in the mind of the general public â" despite the fact that's not what the hacker community means to those who actually make up the hacker community.
Call criminals who use computers criminals. Don't call them hackers. It makes hackers look bad.
For a lot of jobs, this is all the consideration it's worth. Call centers, clerks at most chain stores, someone moving pieces of paper around an office, you just need a literate piece of meat in a chair. You don't need an outside the box thinker or a cunning strategist, or even anyone with training in any special field. You need a warm body who can follow a flow chart and count. A game can figure that out better and faster than a human being.
Not your job of course. You were hand picked from the billions of people on earth to be the one special person who does your job and are irreplaceable.
It's still equivalent to saying that if I make a PDF with Adobe Acrobat that I can only distribute it through Adobe's services. Or that I write a Word DOC that can only be hosted on a Microsoft service.
Proprietary formats already have deeply annoying lock-in, this is taking it one step too far.
I thought about this when I first read the Target story, and it's pretty simple. You make what's there easier and/or better than generic Amazon.
Here's what I'd try:
I'd put wifi throughout the store. One connection point for each department. The first page you would see when connection would be a pleasant (made for mobile devices) storefront for the department you're in. It would have random in-store coupons and offers that you could only get by connecting to that hotspot. It would have a search tool that would let you find exactly where on the shelf your item is. It would link to accessories or alternate versions available in its own online store. It would let you buy things online if they were out of stock. (Again, from the store's online storefront.)
And it would also let you connect to the rest of the internet so you can Amazon it if you want. But if you had all that why would you?
I keep thinking this situation is exactly the same as the HDTV transition. It's inevitable, so the government just gives a deadline, hands out some coupons for free upgrades to your old technology, and then on Jan 1 2018 we're all on autodrive. If 100% of the cars on the road are robodrive, it takes a lot of the complexities out of it.
Except that will never happen. The important difference is that automakers don't want autodrive cars. It would mean dramatically fewer cars sold because individuals wouldn't own cars anymore. It's stupid to pay tens of thousands of dollars for something that sits idle 90% of the time. But cars that can drive themselves never need to be idle, they can constantly be picking people up and dropping them off. They can be busy 90% of the time. Which means that there only needs to be 10% cars in the world.
Ford and GM are going to lobby like hell against it.
Cities are going to be mixed on it. Parking is a huge source of revenue for some towns, but conputer driven cars can fit a lot more cars in the same space and move them more efficiently, so building new, wider roads and more overpasses, etc, can be postponed for a long time. And they could dump that beleaguered metro transit system.
Well, yeah. Of course, we all "just want the words we search"
But this isn't 1996, the web has trillions of pages of content. If you search for The Police do you want the local constable or the band of the same name? What about Anthrax? Do you want the band or the infectious disease? If you want the disease, do you want a Wikipedia-level reference, or the CDC, or do you want to know about recent news involving it? Or do you want to know conspiracy theories, or how to weaponize it?
Oh, and how would you like them sorted?
Exactly. A modern search engine has to do a lot of tap dancing behind the scenes to give you just "the words I type and nothing else". Greping the entire internet is pointless.
The Fire is a fine piece of hardware, especially at this price point. The problem is that Amazon is selling it as a Kindle.
Kindles are expensive ways to read books sold to people who have enough disposable income to buy a single-purpose device.
The Fire is a tablet for cheapskates who aren't willing to spend the money to buy an iPad.
These are, of course, two dramatically different markets and if a Kindle owner buys a Fire they're going to be incredibly disappointed. Amazon's problem is that's who they're marketing the Fire to. If they made it a separate product line and market it to those who can't afford an iPad but want to play Angry Birds, they would have dramatically better customer satisfaction.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what the parent was talking about. "Screen" isn't an output device on tablets, it's an IO device.
The devices with the best touch screen behavior have a fair amount of hardware support to work smoothly and reliably across the complete surface. Massaging the noisy crap that comes off these sensors into information as reliable as an optical mouse's movement is a significant accomplishment.
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If people REALLY wanted a Hypercard-like program, there were alternatives.
Yup. It was called HTML.
Around 1995 there was a university teaching some kind of "The future of publishing" class. It was mostly just Hypercard. Some FTP, Gopher, etc. About 3 weeks in the prof came in said "To hell with Hypercard, we're learning HTML." even though the prof was learning right along with the students.
Within a year all of those students had been scouted by internet startups.
I bet all my private information that Facebook won't be around in 20 years. And 2 years is enough time to cause a ridiculous amount of damage when you have a billion users.
Your circular discs of media are offline backups. As soon as you think of them like that a multitude of other options opens up to you, many of them mentioned here.
Doing this will also make it easier to add more modern (non-physical) media to your collection since it is all managed in one place.
I don't bother to back up. That's what the spindle of disks in the closet it for.
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Except money is currency and a movie is a product. Yes, they're both fungible, but one is consumed, the other is exchanged for goods and services. So, no, they're not equal.
Frankly I wouldn't mess with sending something that could get the Secret Service involved to an organization that's known for using law enforcement for it's own ends. Especially for a form of "protest" that the RIAA won't understand and won't bother them a bit. The only people who are benefiting from this are the post office.
Does it make you a better friend?
I think I sat in this same session. Except it was about 6 or 8 years ago and the topic was Symbian, not Android.
It started with great talk about the number of phones out there running the OS and the great features of the OS and everyone was excited.
Then the last half hour was talking about how you couldn't depend on any phone having any particular features, couldn't expect buttons to be in the same place (or to exist), how many different versions of the OS were out there, that you have to test on every single phone model, etc, etc, etc. When it was over all the developers shuffled out of the room shaking their heads. (With the exception of the few who stayed behind to try to hit on the woman giving the presentation.)
When I mentioned it to a senior at PopCap he said (roughly) "Yeah. The only reason we've developed mobile versions of Bejeweled is because the carriers paid us to."
I'm glad those lessons have been well learned. Shame they were only learned by Apple.
Besides, have you looked at the stock prices lately? If there was any snarky logic to it you should be writing Apple as A$$le.
Exactly. This adds nothing to VRML (Or any of the other dozen 3D web technologies that went under this same headline in years past.)
Okay, that's not entirely true. Over the past it has the following advantages:
- It's buit into the browser, so no plugins.
- Computers are much faster so performance should be better.
- Bandwidth is higher so files transfer faster.
But none of the gets to the heart of the problem with 3D:
- 3D artists are much more expensive than a production artist running Photoshop and creating attractive 3D content takes much longer than a flat image. This makes the content much more expensive to produce.
- The quality is not there. If you want to show off the highest quality vision of your product you want Photoshoped images. 3D just doesn't have it. Even with high resolution 3D scanners and hours of cleanup by a train artist it will still look sub-par compared to properly prepped 2D images.
- There are very few 3D interface designers worth a damn. And they're all working much higher paid jobs making games. That leaves people who sort of saw a scene in Jonny Mnemonic on late-night TV years ago when they were a little drunk, and thought it would be neat to make an interface like that. This turns away customers. And even if they did hire one of those great designers away from the games industry, 3D is still a horrible interface for a 2D spreadsheet, which is what most web sites are.
- Phones.
With the exception of the last, these problems will always exist, and always doom the 3D web.
The single case I've seen for 3D web in 20+ years of doing 3D are online 3D libraries like Thingiverse where, in this case, you can preview an STL before downloading.
Disclosure: I have worked with web and 3D since 1996 and have been directly involved with a number of doomed 3D web projects in that time. They were all essentially identical with the exception of the name of the 3D plugin/file format.
Nibble magazine (an Apple magazine from 1980-1992) had a coding contest every month. The rules: Maximum 2 lines of Apple BASIC. IT was probably my favorite part of the magazine. There were some amazing submissions.
Why would they need to keep a straight face? They can afford better lawyers than anyone they're likely to sue or be sued by. The kind of business Zynga is involved in has nothing to do with ethics or image. If it was they'd have been out of business long ago.
Agreed. Kickstarter is already too permissive with its projects. I have seen projects that were physically impossible, or that 10 seconds consultation with an engineer would have reduced the instigator to tears.
Now Kickstarter has made the problem slightly worse by requiring a "donation" to the project before you can post a public concern or complaint to the project's boards, but c'mon--a place where anyone can ask for money without oversight? If I want that I'll check my spam folder.
Nope, don't have to back them up with paper originals any more. A lot of things don't have paper originals. The Macbook I'm typing this on? Apple store emailed me the receipt. The Adobe software I'm running on it? Same. My phone and monthly phone service? Ditto. Yet these are all allowable business expenses. No paper needed. If the IRS needs a hard copy that's what a printer is for. They'll take it. I know.
(or will be when they get back into the heavy lifting business.)
Get a press pass to a NASA launch. You're close enough that the temperature in the room almost immediately goes up by 20 degrees. Fortunately you're in a reinforced bunker.
And by that I mean tons of people, all who think they're smarter than all the others seeing who can piss the furthest up a rope.
Yes, it needs more press, but not for that reason.
The word "hacker" is already synonymous with "Skeevy computer criminal" in the mind of the general public â" despite the fact that's not what the hacker community means to those who actually make up the hacker community.
Call criminals who use computers criminals. Don't call them hackers. It makes hackers look bad.
For a lot of jobs, this is all the consideration it's worth. Call centers, clerks at most chain stores, someone moving pieces of paper around an office, you just need a literate piece of meat in a chair. You don't need an outside the box thinker or a cunning strategist, or even anyone with training in any special field. You need a warm body who can follow a flow chart and count. A game can figure that out better and faster than a human being.
Not your job of course. You were hand picked from the billions of people on earth to be the one special person who does your job and are irreplaceable.
It's still equivalent to saying that if I make a PDF with Adobe Acrobat that I can only distribute it through Adobe's services. Or that I write a Word DOC that can only be hosted on a Microsoft service.
Proprietary formats already have deeply annoying lock-in, this is taking it one step too far.
I thought about this when I first read the Target story, and it's pretty simple. You make what's there easier and/or better than generic Amazon.
Here's what I'd try:
I'd put wifi throughout the store. One connection point for each department. The first page you would see when connection would be a pleasant (made for mobile devices) storefront for the department you're in. It would have random in-store coupons and offers that you could only get by connecting to that hotspot. It would have a search tool that would let you find exactly where on the shelf your item is. It would link to accessories or alternate versions available in its own online store. It would let you buy things online if they were out of stock. (Again, from the store's online storefront.)
And it would also let you connect to the rest of the internet so you can Amazon it if you want. But if you had all that why would you?
I keep thinking this situation is exactly the same as the HDTV transition. It's inevitable, so the government just gives a deadline, hands out some coupons for free upgrades to your old technology, and then on Jan 1 2018 we're all on autodrive. If 100% of the cars on the road are robodrive, it takes a lot of the complexities out of it.
Except that will never happen. The important difference is that automakers don't want autodrive cars. It would mean dramatically fewer cars sold because individuals wouldn't own cars anymore. It's stupid to pay tens of thousands of dollars for something that sits idle 90% of the time. But cars that can drive themselves never need to be idle, they can constantly be picking people up and dropping them off. They can be busy 90% of the time. Which means that there only needs to be 10% cars in the world.
Ford and GM are going to lobby like hell against it.
Cities are going to be mixed on it. Parking is a huge source of revenue for some towns, but conputer driven cars can fit a lot more cars in the same space and move them more efficiently, so building new, wider roads and more overpasses, etc, can be postponed for a long time. And they could dump that beleaguered metro transit system.
Well, yeah. Of course, we all "just want the words we search"
But this isn't 1996, the web has trillions of pages of content. If you search for The Police do you want the local constable or the band of the same name? What about Anthrax? Do you want the band or the infectious disease? If you want the disease, do you want a Wikipedia-level reference, or the CDC, or do you want to know about recent news involving it? Or do you want to know conspiracy theories, or how to weaponize it?
Oh, and how would you like them sorted?
Exactly. A modern search engine has to do a lot of tap dancing behind the scenes to give you just "the words I type and nothing else". Greping the entire internet is pointless.
He means "disirregardless".
Steel plates are great at preventing electrical shorts.
Obviously you don't understand Joe Jobs. There is no need to get anyones password to send emails that appear to come from someone else's address.
The Fire is a fine piece of hardware, especially at this price point. The problem is that Amazon is selling it as a Kindle.
Kindles are expensive ways to read books sold to people who have enough disposable income to buy a single-purpose device.
The Fire is a tablet for cheapskates who aren't willing to spend the money to buy an iPad.
These are, of course, two dramatically different markets and if a Kindle owner buys a Fire they're going to be incredibly disappointed. Amazon's problem is that's who they're marketing the Fire to. If they made it a separate product line and market it to those who can't afford an iPad but want to play Angry Birds, they would have dramatically better customer satisfaction.
I'm pretty sure that's exactly what the parent was talking about. "Screen" isn't an output device on tablets, it's an IO device.
The devices with the best touch screen behavior have a fair amount of hardware support to work smoothly and reliably across the complete surface. Massaging the noisy crap that comes off these sensors into information as reliable as an optical mouse's movement is a significant accomplishment.
Yup. It was called HTML.
Around 1995 there was a university teaching some kind of "The future of publishing" class. It was mostly just Hypercard. Some FTP, Gopher, etc. About 3 weeks in the prof came in said "To hell with Hypercard, we're learning HTML." even though the prof was learning right along with the students.
Within a year all of those students had been scouted by internet startups.
Every two years for two decades!?!?!??!
I bet all my private information that Facebook won't be around in 20 years. And 2 years is enough time to cause a ridiculous amount of damage when you have a billion users.
I bet they're quaking in their repentant boots.
Your circular discs of media are offline backups. As soon as you think of them like that a multitude of other options opens up to you, many of them mentioned here.
Doing this will also make it easier to add more modern (non-physical) media to your collection since it is all managed in one place.
I don't bother to back up. That's what the spindle of disks in the closet it for.