Always thought his posts were kinda made up rants, but at least this shows that he was not lying in his last posting about having left Belize.
Also: Is there some new Anti-McAfee gossip filter in place? There are news on the front page with 4 points in 33 minutes, and this one has 4 points in 12 minutes and is on position 76.
Not really sure in how far this is a new insight. Based on Drucker's old mantra Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation it is pretty obvious that in production based industries manufacturing and innovation are stronger related.
But it is great to see that influential business academics like him increasingly promote the fact that business success is not (only) about juggling numbers. Or to quote from my favorite paper by Christensen:
And all data are subjective. Each form of data is a higher-level abstraction from a much more complex reality
(2004 Carlile & Christensen - The Cycles of Theory Building in Management Research)
Depends very much on the market situation. Is there any possibility that your competitor can jump to a substitute product?
Unless you are the OPEC or under some obscure government protection law, classic monopoles are quite rare these days and with enough bad-will it should be possible to get them undermined by substitutes.
No. Its like having official rights to screen the football game. I signed a 5 year contract that had a right of first refusal so there isn't any thing to do with goodwill. And I have a fixed income contract that gets adjusted as per market interest rates/inflation every year. If the contracting entity cancels my contract, I get a payout of 5x[Yearly Income], so I am not sure they would do that.
(I'm honestly not sure if this question is that useful without knowing the case in question.)
If the fact that they now have a license devalues the value of the original contract you signed for (I am assuming) exclusive rights, then that is why you have the right of first refusal in your contract.
If it is a market in which it is necessary for you to accept some risk or cost as a "first-mover", then that is why you have that clause in your contract.
If the fact that they now have a license devalues the value of the original contract you signed for (I am assuming) exclusive rights, then that is why you have the right of first refusal in your contract.
Thanks for putting it that way, it makes more sense when I look at it from this perspective.
I published one of my thesis as a book. Always tried to get into writing a mainstream book, but working against a self set deadline with all the "other" distractions in life is tough.
What I can recommend you is taking a look at "Steve Manning How To Write A Book On Anything In 14 Days or less". Even so the title sounds very scammy and marketing'ish it provides really a solid advice for non-fiction books and gives a very structured approach. You can find of cause copies of it in various online "repositories".
Even if you host it yourself but at a regular hosting provider "they" might just confiscate your servers. Increasing email encryption usability might be the road out of this dilemma. Otherwise email encryption is going to stay within a very small circle of users.
When I said "Host your own" I meant on a physically secure box using full disk encryption.
But I do like the idea of encryption, GPG does this really well already but key distribution is still a problem.
Just an idea for a secure physical box:
Throw in a external "always on" GPS receiver on the box and have it physically destroy the hard drive if it is outside of a certain area or if it detects a certain amount of movement (think someone removing it from a rack without disabling the service first). If your server was moved/confiscated it would ensure some safety. Just a tinfoil thought.
When you say "physically destroy" do not use any form or anything that could be spun as a incinderary, explosive, or projectile device. The laws on those type of things will put you in prison for a long time.
You're much better off just using full-disk encryption; throwing away the key effectively destroys all the data. You do need to make sure you actually erase all traces of the key (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cold_boot_att...), but you need not worry about physically destroying the disks.
Does anybody know what kind of repository Cornell is there running? The paper seems a bit odd structured and I don't really see that as an open-access publication(lack of DOIs). Or is this just a working paper repository?
It's the arXiv, a fairly well-known open-access repository. It contains a mix of unpublished drafts / working papers, preprints of papers at various stages in the submission/review process, and manuscript versions of published journal articles.
This is not a "project". Rdio is one of the biggest music subscription services out there. They're similar to Spotify but they're web-based (no software), have a slightly smaller catalog, and have been in the US for longer. Up until recently you had to have a subscription to access it at all. Now they have this free version.
I love Tufte but most likely won't end up going through 179 pages just on how to present data the "right" way. He should develop some form of a Web curriculum or something more accessible for those only interested in the essentials. He did this already quite brilliantly with his Powerpoint essentials.
If you're involved with data and humans, I can think of few things more professional than spending the time to understand how they come together.
It's highly ironic that you're arguing for TL;DR and using the Powerpoint work as an example -- his argument was precisely that deeper thought and attention were warranted than was generally possible given the presentation formats commonly in use.
It is probably depending on what importance one attributes to the role of data and humans in this context. What I would be most interested in his how he understands objectivity or what he is going to present as his way of presenting data - especially because I am coming from this "all data is subjective" standpoint. But this is of cause just a personal standpoint.
I don't think that the length-is-quality argument should be here an issue - as he has demonstrated in the Powerpoint discussion that it is very well (within his philosophy) possible to make an argument within a 3X page booklet. Instead what I was asking for was a similar accessible or solution oriented approach as he did with the Powerpoint subject.
Always thought his posts were kinda made up rants, but at least this shows that he was not lying in his last posting about having left Belize.
Also: Is there some new Anti-McAfee gossip filter in place? There are news on the front page with 4 points in 33 minutes, and this one has 4 points in 12 minutes and is on position 76.