Compacts aren't equivalent to Regulars for many customers such as myself. The color quality and feel/mood of the light is totally different. Until the manufactures solve this I'll light my rooms with old CRT monitors. Furthermore, they are no better environmentally, they simple trade the energy use issue for heavy metal disposal problems - don't break one around your kids!
If we want to solve the _real_ issue - excessive energy use by lighting - the government should try turning off some excess lights! For example street light that are left on all night would be a good start and help balance the local budgets. The local governments should change zoning rules to not allow excessive exterior lighting left on all the time to save energy (and give us back our night sky at the same time).
Contact your nearest law school's intellectual property student group and legal aid group. See if you can get some law students working under the school to help you out...
Why do we keep letting people call it "intellectual property"!? It just furthers faulty metaphors. People used to think of property as something physical. Property could be stolen from you and then you no longer have it...it's tangible. Ideas and other things of the mind protected by copyright and patents are different then real or personal property -- things protected are (1) intangible and (2) manifestations of human creativity. You still have your idea even if I take them for myself - note I said 'take' not 'steal' - you still have it -- that is not true for your cup or your piece of land. You have absolute right over property but the constitution only give you limited rights for limited times over "property". If continue calling these intangible things intellectual "property" then they become an extension of property. What is the benefit one gives society by extending monopoly powers we grant landowners or cupholders? That makes intellectual "property" different from the tangible property. If we stop calling it "property" and maybe call it "IRR - idea royality rights' or 'IP - intellectual pwnage' instead then we can stop comparing apples to "thoughts about apples" and come up with a financial reward system that works by putting incentives in the places where society needs them -- Mozart and Beethoven didn't need strong international harmonized "IP" law to write their great works...why do we?
Having worked for various companies (where the CIO reports to COO, CFO, CEO, and where the CIO was the owner) I feel that the CIO should never report to anyone lower then the CEO. As a case study of what not to do: in one company the CIO could not get the necessary support that was needed to run the IT department because he reported to the CFO.
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Compacts aren't equivalent to Regulars for many customers such as myself. The color quality and feel/mood of the light is totally different. Until the manufactures solve this I'll light my rooms with old CRT monitors. Furthermore, they are no better environmentally, they simple trade the energy use issue for heavy metal disposal problems - don't break one around your kids!
If we want to solve the _real_ issue - excessive energy use by lighting - the government should try turning off some excess lights! For example street light that are left on all night would be a good start and help balance the local budgets. The local governments should change zoning rules to not allow excessive exterior lighting left on all the time to save energy (and give us back our night sky at the same time).
Contact your nearest law school's intellectual property student group and legal aid group. See if you can get some law students working under the school to help you out...
Why do we keep letting people call it "intellectual property"!? It just furthers faulty metaphors. People used to think of property as something physical. Property could be stolen from you and then you no longer have it...it's tangible. Ideas and other things of the mind protected by copyright and patents are different then real or personal property -- things protected are (1) intangible and (2) manifestations of human creativity. You still have your idea even if I take them for myself - note I said 'take' not 'steal' - you still have it -- that is not true for your cup or your piece of land. You have absolute right over property but the constitution only give you limited rights for limited times over "property". If continue calling these intangible things intellectual "property" then they become an extension of property. What is the benefit one gives society by extending monopoly powers we grant landowners or cupholders? That makes intellectual "property" different from the tangible property. If we stop calling it "property" and maybe call it "IRR - idea royality rights' or 'IP - intellectual pwnage' instead then we can stop comparing apples to "thoughts about apples" and come up with a financial reward system that works by putting incentives in the places where society needs them -- Mozart and Beethoven didn't need strong international harmonized "IP" law to write their great works...why do we?
Slashdot readers are smart people. I would recommend people interesting in this topic read:
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws
(Studies in Law and Economics (Chicago, Ill.).)
by John R., Jr. Lott.
After reading the book and his background I feel he did a fair study.
Having worked for various companies (where the CIO reports to COO, CFO, CEO, and where the CIO was the owner) I feel that the CIO should never report to anyone lower then the CEO. As a case study of what not to do: in one company the CIO could not get the necessary support that was needed to run the IT department because he reported to the CFO.