You have an important point, but maybe this can be tackled with staged gains. The whole Windows Lock is a multiplex thing.
In a thread about thin clients, then give everyone Linux deskops and use a remote terminal login to ThatWindowsApp.
To grow a base of support for any activity, there needs to be a pyramid effect. Right now Linux is stuck in the corner of "way out there". If 60% of business users would actually use the alternatives to Office, so that the only remaining sticking point is TWA, then the perception mood begins to shift. That's how we did it with browsers, to make IE have to prove itself against the quad of Firefox-Safari-Chrome-Opera.
The only issue with it is that pinyin is ambiguous (homonyms are numerous) and that the language itself is simple enough to cause confusion. It's entirely free of conjugation, and the grammar is much more open.
Oh. So that spam really wasn't for Antique Volkswagen Victorian Garters?
In my opinion Johnny Mnemonic and Matrix stuck two very powerful tentpoles into the idea of cyberspace, but Matrix 1 was ahead of them by a decade, so those examples weren't around to study from. In fact, we barely had any SF to study from. I think we have a Sense of Wonder discussion going on here. Track the year carefully.
1981 was pretty blah for home PC's. 1982 saw Tron in Summer and a Commodore 64 for Christmas. That's a combo that wouldn't be topped for easily 5 years. Maybe not even until Windows 95 announced MS-Borg.
Put a little edgily, I predict we only have about 3 years of computer consolidation left before we hit a big chasm of "what now". (Call it Android 4.1 ish, iPhone 6, Son of Java after Oracle loses part of its lawsuit, Windows 8, Mac OS11, Ubuntu LTS after they fix Unity, etc, your choice of 5 more.)
Then we will get seriously "technologically bored" and see a small but durable spike in cabin-fever type mood and eternal-september stuff. It might be a little dystopian after we lose some of the copyright & neutrality battles.
What about variations on that theme we're all hearing about the Premium Internet - can they hook that stuff up to nice new IP6 addresses, with not a titty to be found, leaving the "ghetto" kids in IP4?
My guess is that it only makes sense for batches that have failed Quality Control. No one ever has a legal problem with back ordering and supply shortages. Then per comments elsewhere, if someone overclocks and wins, great, it just becomes an urban anecdote to be shared around pizza.
But to purposely wreck a QC-certified higher grade item purely for marketing positioning is a much uglier math problem.
I'm pretty sure Overclocking voids the warranty, so if someone manages to make it work, yay for him, but officially disabling the core if it came from a suspect batch is how to avoid company-destroying lawsuits.
I'm quietly working on that too. Right now Spam is a "push" mechanism, of something with negative value. I am working on Converter concepts to suddenly turn spam into something with POSITIVE value.
I have that setup already. Problem is they do automated attacks against domains, so eventually they crack through to your real email. Once they score a hit they sell the live address to other people for their lists. The best you can do is keep it at a dull roar.
Actually that's getting worse with the peaking of Facebook. "Oh my gawd you don't have cute cuddly pics of your baby daughter on there? What's WRONG with you?"
Yes, I meant "unreported Barter" is against the US tax code. Broadly speaking, the US code runs on the starter principle "report any revenue of any kind anywhere". As for precisely where, I'm expecting some major tax code changes will float through within the next couple of years because President Obama has been involved with that area recently, but it usually takes another year for Gov action to show up on actual forms. Roughly, for "scam-barter" attempts like thousands of dollars of swap it shows up in one of the "other income / non-cash transaction" rules on the various forms like schedules C for small biz, D for stocks, and E for Rental.
Let's just suppose that if someone finds a stunning new business model that gloriously gamelocks sharing itself, the world will rejoice.
You and AC have remarked upon one clue: there is in fact a large yet limited amount of people-time available. If, while you were not playing the game, it went somewhere else and did something, you wouldn't miss it.
Remarking on all the game closures lately, games don't get turbo-shared if they aren't popular for that point in time. Just thinking...
From Wiki... "In 1989 (seven years after the first film), Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), an innovative software engineer and the CEO of ENCOM International, tells his seven-year-old son Sam (Owen Best) about a new "digital frontier" he has created called The Grid..."
Oh... you mean that's not the Flynn effect you mean.
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You have an important point, but maybe this can be tackled with staged gains. The whole Windows Lock is a multiplex thing.
In a thread about thin clients, then give everyone Linux deskops and use a remote terminal login to ThatWindowsApp.
To grow a base of support for any activity, there needs to be a pyramid effect. Right now Linux is stuck in the corner of "way out there". If 60% of business users would actually use the alternatives to Office, so that the only remaining sticking point is TWA, then the perception mood begins to shift. That's how we did it with browsers, to make IE have to prove itself against the quad of Firefox-Safari-Chrome-Opera.
The only issue with it is that pinyin is ambiguous (homonyms are numerous) and that the language itself is simple enough to cause confusion. It's entirely free of conjugation, and the grammar is much more open.
Oh. So that spam really wasn't for Antique Volkswagen Victorian Garters?
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On this one you can't even attribute to stupidity what might actually be malice.
LolCats can has pray in yur congregation?
Bad Typo, I meant Tron 1 was ahead by decade.
In my opinion Johnny Mnemonic and Matrix stuck two very powerful tentpoles into the idea of cyberspace, but Matrix 1 was ahead of them by a decade, so those examples weren't around to study from. In fact, we barely had any SF to study from. I think we have a Sense of Wonder discussion going on here. Track the year carefully.
1981 was pretty blah for home PC's.
1982 saw Tron in Summer and a Commodore 64 for Christmas. That's a combo that wouldn't be topped for easily 5 years. Maybe not even until Windows 95 announced MS-Borg.
Put a little edgily, I predict we only have about 3 years of computer consolidation left before we hit a big chasm of "what now". (Call it Android 4.1 ish, iPhone 6, Son of Java after Oracle loses part of its lawsuit, Windows 8, Mac OS11, Ubuntu LTS after they fix Unity, etc, your choice of 5 more.)
Then we will get seriously "technologically bored" and see a small but durable spike in cabin-fever type mood and eternal-september stuff. It might be a little dystopian after we lose some of the copyright & neutrality battles.
So what's *after* that to really excite us?
IPv6 of course.
The issue will be new sites needing IP addresses will be IPv6 only.
"Not an issue, it's a feature!"
What about variations on that theme we're all hearing about the Premium Internet - can they hook that stuff up to nice new IP6 addresses, with not a titty to be found, leaving the "ghetto" kids in IP4?
My guess is that it only makes sense for batches that have failed Quality Control. No one ever has a legal problem with back ordering and supply shortages. Then per comments elsewhere, if someone overclocks and wins, great, it just becomes an urban anecdote to be shared around pizza.
But to purposely wreck a QC-certified higher grade item purely for marketing positioning is a much uglier math problem.
I'm pretty sure Overclocking voids the warranty, so if someone manages to make it work, yay for him, but officially disabling the core if it came from a suspect batch is how to avoid company-destroying lawsuits.
I'm quietly working on that too.
Right now Spam is a "push" mechanism, of something with negative value.
I am working on Converter concepts to suddenly turn spam into something with POSITIVE value.
I have that setup already. Problem is they do automated attacks against domains, so eventually they crack through to your real email. Once they score a hit they sell the live address to other people for their lists. The best you can do is keep it at a dull roar.
Why not?
Why not use the same tricks as the RIAA to sue the originator of the emails as "does 1-1000".
What, shooting the messenger? Of course this was always the case. But the NSA wasn't saying.
+1 Julian Assange!
Actually that's getting worse with the peaking of Facebook. "Oh my gawd you don't have cute cuddly pics of your baby daughter on there? What's WRONG with you?"
I think I'll die now.
Fortunately for you, there is also a Gift clause that lets you escape happily as an untracked AC for small amounts like that.
Yes, I meant "unreported Barter" is against the US tax code. Broadly speaking, the US code runs on the starter principle "report any revenue of any kind anywhere". As for precisely where, I'm expecting some major tax code changes will float through within the next couple of years because President Obama has been involved with that area recently, but it usually takes another year for Gov action to show up on actual forms. Roughly, for "scam-barter" attempts like thousands of dollars of swap it shows up in one of the "other income / non-cash transaction" rules on the various forms like schedules C for small biz, D for stocks, and E for Rental.
Let's just suppose that if someone finds a stunning new business model that gloriously gamelocks sharing itself, the world will rejoice.
You and AC have remarked upon one clue: there is in fact a large yet limited amount of people-time available. If, while you were not playing the game, it went somewhere else and did something, you wouldn't miss it.
Remarking on all the game closures lately, games don't get turbo-shared if they aren't popular for that point in time. Just thinking...
Dewey was fired.
Apple and MS Win and Google Loses!
"Of course they are. But they have exemptions".
Laws are fun that way.
It's the Teal Deer problem.
(Humor)
"You have so many words in your post. It's too hard to read.
Here is a nice informative graphic to look at."
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y268/torihouji/tldr.jpg
(/Humor)
Isn't the most famous joke here not to read the articles?
From Wiki...
"In 1989 (seven years after the first film), Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), an innovative software engineer and the CEO of ENCOM International, tells his seven-year-old son Sam (Owen Best) about a new "digital frontier" he has created called The Grid..."
Oh ... you mean that's not the Flynn effect you mean.