I'll call his bluff to save your poor marketing guy a trip to the hospital.
Thing is, they DIDN'T syncronise the linguistic paradigms.
AOL Linguistic Paradigm: "O rly? So teh mArket sux? wHo boUght Who agin?"
TimeWarner Linguistic Paradigm: "At the time it seemed like the fresh emergence of new ideas would rejuvenate the company. However, that was a mistake. News at 11. Back to you at the desk, sir."
By assuming the worst you go wrong when your imagination fails you. It's WORSE than the "worst", because apparently they can break the law for fun and profit.
I have a solid enough rep here. Yea, I'm a bit chattery, but under 25 troll posts vs some 500 ModUp ones.
This another facet of the news corps moaning that their journalist can't smash out 5 paragraphs of filler from their files anymore.
The reason why is Nouns.
(Grandpa Simpson) Wwweeey Back in MAAH day when you ran up against some Whippersnapper with a goshdurned fanangled new thingimajig, boy he sure was smart. (/Grandpa Simpson)
But Search+NewbieAnswer will answer the first round of almost anything - say, the difference between Ruby the web platform vs. Ruby the ZBS science fiction radio drama, neither of which is a precious stone.
So now Corps have to pay for real work, and we attempt to rid the world of Eternal September.
Better check with Dan Quayle to see if he has the rights to Potatoe.
Meanwhile, I feel like there's a Judo move being set up here.
For a little bit of early pain, we're establishing the groundwork for copyright enforcement.
Maybe not this administration, but eventually someone with a populist streak *with nothing to lose* - say a President in his last year in office, could then do a tombstone piledriver on Hollywood Accounting using the fiscal reform laws.
I'm thinking that Mr. Scientist just has to add some Performance Coating and get BOTH a patent AND a copyright on his ideas. "Ooh, it's a CD with Extended Data features! In a story about a scientist who seeks to get past the limits of silicon on a computer chip, he desperately tries higher grade lithography, before changing paradigms, and turning to the new photo-sensitive materials in that other slashdot post 2 stories away on the front page."
Get a drama class to film things, write up a script and novel version, get a soundtrack, post it as a webisode and a Community-TV special, and Voila, Copyright lock.
I have chosen the "avoid them all" method as well, but I like your theme. Not counting stray hacks, the control provided by your own webpage feels like a tie-breaker vs. trolls.
The exact tableau of services will morph, to be sure, but the theme of Net Sharing is here to stay. Youtube is not really a revenue generator - it's a pre-emptive purchase "so no one else has it".
What we are seeing is that an Industry Leader is proving tricky to unseat. There are say five big players per category, and then an ecosphere of niche adjuncts.
We know of for example: "HomeBase Sites" : MySpace, FaceBook, (choice of 2); MicroBlogging: Twitter, (your choice of 2) Messengers: AIM, Yahoo, MSN,(your choice of 2) PG Video: YouTube, Google Video, (your choice of 2)
I think it's less about direct revenue sometimes than maintaining visibility footholds.
People under 50, making more than $20,000 a year, with low-moderate minimum computer experience, *are* "society at large".
They're getting into social media. Haltingly, tentatively, but surely.
This is not "Revenge of the Nerds" between the Nerds & Betas anymore.
No citation today, because I agree it's a non-random usergroup, but the outliers are now under 50%, I am confident. It will be even more pronounced in the next five years.
MisInfo is a really slippery game though, because if you yourself posted fake info everywhere, then some spammer making up fake info hides in *your* misinfo.
At this moment sure, the quality may be a little shaky, but then someone will come out with the "Second Edition" or such. Conceptually, the bookstore will then display random things, but be able to wheel out a copy of Edward Gibbon's '...Roman Empire' say in half an hour over lunch.
Slashdot Mirror
You're not creative enough, my friend.
You are assuming hanging in Cyberworlds "trashes your FirstLife" because *currently* it requires staying moderately still staring at a computer.
Watch what happens when you can visit SecondLife hands-free with monitor glasses while stuck in a meatspace queue waiting for something.
"Without enhancements" that's less than 5 years away. (But without-enhancements means a TRULY atrocious interface.)
I'll call his bluff to save your poor marketing guy a trip to the hospital.
Thing is, they DIDN'T syncronise the linguistic paradigms.
AOL Linguistic Paradigm:
"O rly? So teh mArket sux? wHo boUght Who agin?"
TimeWarner Linguistic Paradigm:
"At the time it seemed like the fresh emergence of new ideas would rejuvenate the company. However, that was a mistake. News at 11. Back to you at the desk, sir."
That explains Vista --> 7.
What's the music implications?
What's the software implications?
What's the movie implications?
What's the art implications?
We keep treating each of these copyright areas like it's its own little playground, and the Big Effect results are going to clash hard soon.
What nasty action = rightclick?
Theramins suk.
Make this a finger gesture interface. Your wrist is resting, and your fingers can do stuff fairly repeatable.
(Reboot from BSOD = That Gesture.)
Mod Up!
Make it a hybrid interface.
Big touchpad where the mouse is now, plus the ability to recognize gestures above it.
Monitors are for looking at.
+1 Phone Call From Three-Star?
I'm thinkin' you're thinkin' this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A45jv8uhZwo
See Geocities.
Sorry.
By assuming the worst you go wrong when your imagination fails you. It's WORSE than the "worst", because apparently they can break the law for fun and profit.
+1 Douglas Adams!
"Infinite Improbability Drive"
I have a solid enough rep here. Yea, I'm a bit chattery, but under 25 troll posts vs some 500 ModUp ones.
This another facet of the news corps moaning that their journalist can't smash out 5 paragraphs of filler from their files anymore.
The reason why is Nouns.
(Grandpa Simpson) Wwweeey Back in MAAH day when you ran up against some Whippersnapper with a goshdurned fanangled new thingimajig, boy he sure was smart. (/Grandpa Simpson)
But Search+NewbieAnswer will answer the first round of almost anything - say, the difference between Ruby the web platform vs. Ruby the ZBS science fiction radio drama, neither of which is a precious stone.
So now Corps have to pay for real work, and we attempt to rid the world of Eternal September.
Same as AC below, but with Link Goodness.
CDO
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation
If you're drunk that comment reads really funny.
Better check with Dan Quayle to see if he has the rights to Potatoe.
Meanwhile, I feel like there's a Judo move being set up here.
For a little bit of early pain, we're establishing the groundwork for copyright enforcement.
Maybe not this administration, but eventually someone with a populist streak *with nothing to lose* - say a President in his last year in office, could then do a tombstone piledriver on Hollywood Accounting using the fiscal reform laws.
I'm thinking that Mr. Scientist just has to add some Performance Coating and get BOTH a patent AND a copyright on his ideas. "Ooh, it's a CD with Extended Data features! In a story about a scientist who seeks to get past the limits of silicon on a computer chip, he desperately tries higher grade lithography, before changing paradigms, and turning to the new photo-sensitive materials in that other slashdot post 2 stories away on the front page."
Get a drama class to film things, write up a script and novel version, get a soundtrack, post it as a webisode and a Community-TV special, and Voila, Copyright lock.
Great post sir.
I have chosen the "avoid them all" method as well, but I like your theme. Not counting stray hacks, the control provided by your own webpage feels like a tie-breaker vs. trolls.
The exact tableau of services will morph, to be sure, but the theme of Net Sharing is here to stay. Youtube is not really a revenue generator - it's a pre-emptive purchase "so no one else has it".
What we are seeing is that an Industry Leader is proving tricky to unseat. There are say five big players per category, and then an ecosphere of niche adjuncts.
We know of for example:
"HomeBase Sites" : MySpace, FaceBook, (choice of 2);
MicroBlogging: Twitter, (your choice of 2)
Messengers: AIM, Yahoo, MSN,(your choice of 2)
PG Video: YouTube, Google Video, (your choice of 2)
I think it's less about direct revenue sometimes than maintaining visibility footholds.
People under 50, making more than $20,000 a year, with low-moderate minimum computer experience, *are* "society at large".
They're getting into social media. Haltingly, tentatively, but surely.
This is not "Revenge of the Nerds" between the Nerds & Betas anymore.
No citation today, because I agree it's a non-random usergroup, but the outliers are now under 50%, I am confident. It will be even more pronounced in the next five years.
MisInfo is a really slippery game though, because if you yourself posted fake info everywhere, then some spammer making up fake info hides in *your* misinfo.
Early Adopter discussion point.
At this moment sure, the quality may be a little shaky, but then someone will come out with the "Second Edition" or such. Conceptually, the bookstore will then display random things, but be able to wheel out a copy of Edward Gibbon's '...Roman Empire' say in half an hour over lunch.
"A problem worthy of attack proves its worth by hitting back".
(From a little block puzzle created/inspired by Piet Hein)
Nothing whatever to do with TPB.
Telegrammed? Wrote a letter? Send me to the first circle of hell where people who Invoked the Past mistimed the year.
-1 1840 called. They want their faith in due process back. Please send by horse courier.
"Captain, I canna hold the DiRubidium together any longer..."