They'd still be able to wait to see what other pioneers do, and steal their business model.
I'm suggesting you don't have to have a commercial app ready, but you have to have a working model (if it's a physical device) or software that runs (if it's software) that the patent examiner can try out.
We're working on it. Unlike most other countries, we can't have elections whenever we damn well please. 16 more months or thereabouts, and I promise we'll have someone better. Not necessarily someone good, but someone better.
there are many, many chemical disasters that we should spend more effort on cleaning up rather than concentrating on this.
Reducing CFCs, having already largely been done, requires no further effort (and was easier than the cleanup of most of these other issues). Yes, it causes more coal to be burned, but in the long term when we switch to nuclear/solar/wind, that effect will be minimized. So this is an instance where we can do both.
All these are important issues, but only tangentially related to the question of whether Australians will get skin cancer from an hour spent outside.
Personally, I've heard for years about the dangers of ozone emissions from gasoline, etc. Maybe the ozone from those has finally made its way up to the upper atmosphere.
Except that's not the case in parliamentary systems like in Europe. What leads to two=party systems is winner-take-all elections. On the other hand, extremists have much more power in Europe, since they're more often organized groups with the power to force new elections. The radical right wing of the Republicans couldn't (1994-2006), by voting against a President-supported bill, force the resignation of the government the way radical governing coalition members can use no-confidence votes in Parliamentary systems.
The winner-takes-all congressional election system, and the committee system in Congress, ensures that voting for a third party will never be as effective as working within the locally-dominant party to bend it to your ends. The former also leads both parties into a race to the middle, which leaves no political space for a third party (this is just the Median Voter Theorem).
Bipartisan legislative rules, by which Congress is run, are largely deals between the two major parties at the expense of any potential third one. Even campaign finance reform's major effect is to make it harder to break out into the public consciousness, which redounds to the benefit of existing party organizations.
The two-party system is enshrined in no law, but the structure of the system makes it certain that we end up with that.
How fucking dare anyone out there make fun of the internet after all it has been through?
It's running out of bandwidth. Packets aren't guaranteed to be delivered. People are using it for fucking video and telephone.
Mr. Roberts turned out to be an engineer, and now he's selling flow routers. All you people care about is carving out bandwidth.
It's a series of tubes! What you don't realize is that the Internet is just being the Internet and all you do is write a bunch of crap about it.
The Internet hasn't updated its hardware in years. It prefixes everything with "www" because all you people care about is WINNING! WINNING! WINNING!
LEAVE IT ALONE! You are lucky it even loads you bastards! LEAVE THE INTERNET ALONE!
Please!
Len Bosack talked about adequacy and said if the Internet was adequate it would connect to underground cables that have nearly 100 times its capacity.
Speaking of adequacy, when is it adequate to publicly bash an international communications network who is going through a hard time?
Any way the spammers break this involves improved OCR. Said improved OCR will be available to Carnegie Mellon too, thus in any event the stuff will be translated faster (and if they restrict reCaptcha offerings to things their OCR has in fact choked on, it will retain its effectiveness even as OCR technology improves).
It really, genuinely is not that crucial to grasp the culturally embedded wordplay in a story written in an amazonian tribe of 20 people 300 years ago.
How do you know? That is to say, since we're not all farmers, and have some surplus to spend on things like anthropologists, why not grasp the stories of obscure cultures? Is that really any less worthwhile than finding good but obscure bands in your native language, becoming proficient at particular video games, or other cultural pursuits that don't put food on the table?
That is to say, "Is that information still valuable to us?" We don't know, and it'd suck to find out in 100 years that it did, if we let it die. (Also, if we let it die we may never know the answer, that being usually the case with opportunity cost)
Ahh, how to place a value on culture? That's what's always so tricky--having read poetry and prose in several languages, I place a high value on being able to read in the original, but that's not going to feed anyone. Having studied records and documents in several languages, I found that invaluable in writing papers--making a big push to translate everything recorded in a language would be very costly, however.
Most of the dying languages are primarily oral. But the study of history is full of questions of the form "How did the people who lived here at time X live?" which are unanswerable because that culture is extinct along with its language. The specter of that problem being writ at a scale magnitudes larger than it has been in the past is indeed troubling.
Your mileage may vary. Nevertheless, when confronted with irreversible changes, it's well to pause and ask the very question you asked.
Lots of information is recorded in the dying ones, much of which doesn't precisely translate to anything else. It's as if the world had upgraded to a new file system, leaving it unable to access a large chunk of its backups except through a few old computers, whose hardware was failing.
Your problems show the real problem with Linux. Random people on some forum somewhere were able to drive you away from the distro.
You have no way of knowing who those people were and how connected they were to the project, but they were the ones available for "support." With Windows, when you want to yell at someone 'cause things don't work, you can at least be assured of having there be some right people to yell at.
Businesses will not switch to any OS for which there doesn't exist a "fix it now" number, even if the alternatives need far less fixing. Your experience shows that there is no "fix it now" number for Ubuntu.
Because if you're healthy you can work more, which benefits whoever your work benefits. And if you're educated you can do more productive work, invent cool things, or at least not drop out and subsist on welfare.
After the resurrection, Jesus goes around gathering his old Apostles. Wary of fraud, Thomas demands a test to prove that he's the real Jesus. So they go out to the Sea of Galilee, and Jesus walks out...only to find that he's sunk up to his knees. The apostles begin to disperse. Jesus asks Simon what went wrong, and Simon replies, "Last time you tried it, you didn't have holes in your feet!"
You're seriously comparing George Soros with a member of the death-squad-wielding thug thief brigade of a kleptomaniac government? If you can't tell the difference between people who fight with money and propaganda, and those who fight with bullets and poison, you're no better than those you criticize.
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Aren't they nowadays being crushed by large companies with extensive sets of overbroad patents? I don't see how this would make things worse.
I'm suggesting you don't have to have a commercial app ready, but you have to have a working model (if it's a physical device) or software that runs (if it's software) that the patent examiner can try out.
No patents without implementation! That's one essential reform.
We're working on it. Unlike most other countries, we can't have elections whenever we damn well please. 16 more months or thereabouts, and I promise we'll have someone better. Not necessarily someone good, but someone better.
Reducing CFCs, having already largely been done, requires no further effort (and was easier than the cleanup of most of these other issues). Yes, it causes more coal to be burned, but in the long term when we switch to nuclear/solar/wind, that effect will be minimized. So this is an instance where we can do both.
Personally, I've heard for years about the dangers of ozone emissions from gasoline, etc. Maybe the ozone from those has finally made its way up to the upper atmosphere.
Except that's not the case in parliamentary systems like in Europe. What leads to two=party systems is winner-take-all elections. On the other hand, extremists have much more power in Europe, since they're more often organized groups with the power to force new elections. The radical right wing of the Republicans couldn't (1994-2006), by voting against a President-supported bill, force the resignation of the government the way radical governing coalition members can use no-confidence votes in Parliamentary systems.
Dude, Swedish has words with 3 ä in a row? That's awesome.
Exactly. Galileo, Kepler, and the like made incredible discoveries with telescopes of surpassing weakness--basically the naked eye. This was discussed on Slashdot not too long ago.
Bipartisan legislative rules, by which Congress is run, are largely deals between the two major parties at the expense of any potential third one. Even campaign finance reform's major effect is to make it harder to break out into the public consciousness, which redounds to the benefit of existing party organizations.
The two-party system is enshrined in no law, but the structure of the system makes it certain that we end up with that.
Don't be fooled-Obama's a great guy, but he's a Chicago machine politician. He's as much a part of the Establishment as anyone.
How fucking dare anyone out there make fun of the internet after all it has been through? It's running out of bandwidth. Packets aren't guaranteed to be delivered. People are using it for fucking video and telephone. Mr. Roberts turned out to be an engineer, and now he's selling flow routers. All you people care about is carving out bandwidth. It's a series of tubes! What you don't realize is that the Internet is just being the Internet and all you do is write a bunch of crap about it. The Internet hasn't updated its hardware in years. It prefixes everything with "www" because all you people care about is WINNING! WINNING! WINNING! LEAVE IT ALONE! You are lucky it even loads you bastards! LEAVE THE INTERNET ALONE! Please! Len Bosack talked about adequacy and said if the Internet was adequate it would connect to underground cables that have nearly 100 times its capacity. Speaking of adequacy, when is it adequate to publicly bash an international communications network who is going through a hard time?
Any way the spammers break this involves improved OCR. Said improved OCR will be available to Carnegie Mellon too, thus in any event the stuff will be translated faster (and if they restrict reCaptcha offerings to things their OCR has in fact choked on, it will retain its effectiveness even as OCR technology improves).
How do you know? That is to say, since we're not all farmers, and have some surplus to spend on things like anthropologists, why not grasp the stories of obscure cultures? Is that really any less worthwhile than finding good but obscure bands in your native language, becoming proficient at particular video games, or other cultural pursuits that don't put food on the table?
That is to say, "Is that information still valuable to us?" We don't know, and it'd suck to find out in 100 years that it did, if we let it die. (Also, if we let it die we may never know the answer, that being usually the case with opportunity cost)
Most of the dying languages are primarily oral. But the study of history is full of questions of the form "How did the people who lived here at time X live?" which are unanswerable because that culture is extinct along with its language. The specter of that problem being writ at a scale magnitudes larger than it has been in the past is indeed troubling.
Your mileage may vary. Nevertheless, when confronted with irreversible changes, it's well to pause and ask the very question you asked.
Lots of information is recorded in the dying ones, much of which doesn't precisely translate to anything else. It's as if the world had upgraded to a new file system, leaving it unable to access a large chunk of its backups except through a few old computers, whose hardware was failing.
Also, engineering is hard. Law is hard too, but less hard.
You have no way of knowing who those people were and how connected they were to the project, but they were the ones available for "support." With Windows, when you want to yell at someone 'cause things don't work, you can at least be assured of having there be some right people to yell at.
Businesses will not switch to any OS for which there doesn't exist a "fix it now" number, even if the alternatives need far less fixing. Your experience shows that there is no "fix it now" number for Ubuntu.
Because if you're healthy you can work more, which benefits whoever your work benefits. And if you're educated you can do more productive work, invent cool things, or at least not drop out and subsist on welfare.
After the resurrection, Jesus goes around gathering his old Apostles. Wary of fraud, Thomas demands a test to prove that he's the real Jesus. So they go out to the Sea of Galilee, and Jesus walks out...only to find that he's sunk up to his knees. The apostles begin to disperse. Jesus asks Simon what went wrong, and Simon replies, "Last time you tried it, you didn't have holes in your feet!"
Yes, but one and one and one is three.
You're seriously comparing George Soros with a member of the death-squad-wielding thug thief brigade of a kleptomaniac government? If you can't tell the difference between people who fight with money and propaganda, and those who fight with bullets and poison, you're no better than those you criticize.
The other 10% are people who bought new macs.
Furries are -in- the gene pool?