Saturday, July 21, 2012

There is no copy or everyone is copying

Just Before Apple Mac started to take more and more market shares, an old news about how Bill Gates copied Steve Jobs' original ideas of making the graphical user interface based operating systems were heating up. A lot of people, especially the apple fans truly believed that Mr Jobs is the true idea man in the world, and most importantly, they believed that the all time richest man in the world is a big copy cat. Really!? one thing to say about this case is that those kids should really become more mature and learn that they really should talk about something that they didn't really see or it's just totally gossip. Bill Gates isn't really a copy cat no matter what he did before. He has been the real technology leader for so long that he can predict what the technology world will evolve to. Or more precisely, he's mind drives the tech world. There are some facts that can better explain. Tablets idea has existed for long before iPad even started being shaped in the uterus. The idea may not belong to Mr Gates but he has been the most important player because without Microsoft's tabletnpc specification, there would not be any oem tablet existing. Software capability has driven the hardware industry, and software is driven by consumer needs. The second example, around late 2010, an Tv interview was hosted and both Mr Gates and Mr Jobs were the main guests. Bill Gates was asked for the future technology preview. Mr Gates talked about Internet edition. He thinks where you learnt from web should be high lighted,Just like a degree. He believes that no matter how you came about your knowledge, you should get credit for it. Whether it’s an MIT degree or if you got everything you know from lectures on the web, there needs to be a way to highlight. He said “Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world." Look at what those tech companies are doing now, for example Apple ITunesU. It is only 2012, which is 2 years from that interview. Can you say that Steve was copying Bill? There isn't really such a thing called copy. Copying means that one takes the other's work and make it his/her own. Did Mr.Gates take Mr Jobs work and make it his own? In fact, if you read Paul Allen's Idea Man , you would know that Microsoft found the GUI OS company earlier than Apple and windows OS was just the result of fair market competitation. If we call that a copy, then everyone is copying; Hyundai is copying Lexus to make their Equus. No that's not copying. It's just inspired by.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Who we really are?

Have you ever thought about who we really are and why we even exist on this "planet"? Why do I quote "planet", read on. If you ever played an online game, you may also know what an online game consists of. If you dont know yet, let me tell ya. An online game basically consists of a lot of computers as servers, the Internet, and a software (the game) sitting on the servers. Without any of these three, there is never online games. Ever heard about RPG? It stands for Role Playing Games, in which you control a role. That role could possibly be a person as well; you most likely control him/her to do something you would image doing yourself such as buying clothes, attacking others, hungting and so on. However, do those roles have brains? In other words, do they think? If I already got you guys thinking, you are a questioner. We should never stop asking questions, but we shouldn't ever take an answer that is unclear to us. Those roles in the games, to us, may not be able to think by themselves, but you can never say they do not have the ability to think just because we created them, or we are controlling them. They may have their own world, and in there, they have the ability to think. Whatever the command you are sending them via a mouse click or a key tab, they may think that the command comes out of their own mind. They have no clue that someone else in a different dimension is controlling them. I know, it is not science. In fact, there is no science ever existed in our world. Don't get me wrong. I absolutely admit that many scientists have put so much contribution in the human society, and they are the greatest. Plus the stuff that they call science has provided a lot of advantages to us and without that science, we could never been who we are now. Just because those science, i started thinking about other stuff that science can never explain, e.g. The black hole. If thinking from the perspective of any educated party, anything should be explained and anything should have a logical pattern built in there waiting for human beings to find out. If it is the case, why would we bring religion to the world to explain things that science can not explain. Back to the topic about the RPG online game. Has anyone ever experienced logging into a wrong server with your role? If you haven't, I can tell you that it is very likely to happen. Have you ever experienced déjà vu? Think about the similarity between the two two questions I just asked you. Maybe what you are thinking is just a command and the socalled science is just part of a software program or algorithm. And the "planet"....