15 seems to be standard these days -- that's what I've been getting lately. My guess is that people haven't considered it worth moderating long discussions with fewer points.
While I have mixed feelings about the publishing of exploits, this line hits the nail on the head:
In its ruling, the court said: "Damage to NXP is not the result of the publication of the article but of the production and sale of a chip that appears to have shortcomings."
This is an important lesson to companies like Diebold.
There's a difference between writing multiple drafts, and posting multiple drafts on his website. Joyce, to the best of my knowledge, did not change the text between published editions. But then, his purpose was very different. (Although I do sometimes see some resemblance between Ulysses and certain Byzantine foreign policy positions...)
Personally, I think Obama ought to embrace it -- "This Iraq policy page is a work in progress: as facts on the ground change, so too should the opinions and plans of those who would manage it." Monitoring the situation, thinking about it, and making changes accordingly is a strength.
I've never forgotten my laptop, but I have frequently forgotten my laptop power supply. The laptop itself is heavy enough that I notice if it's not in my messenger bag, but if I'm in a hurry and did work at home the night before, I frequently don't notice that the power brick is still on my coffee table.
Water is probably even more valuable, but the problem there is also that while it is precious in general, it is not especially expensive. Being able to produce large quantities of potable water cheaply would make a company far wealthier than producing gasoline, but with so many schemes and such large expense and investment necessary to start production, it's like the old New England joke: I don't think you can get there from here.
The problem is that the nation is suffering from a form of menu paralysis: there are thousands of promising methods, but none of them will really work without a lot of investment. So we sit and dither over whether to get the veal marsala or chicken cacciatore, afraid of either picking a loser or passing up something we'd like better, and meanwhile we're just filling up on bread (OK, I think I took that analogy a little too far). Basically, since there's no clear winner and instead there are a lot of promising potentials, we don't really wind up picking anything. Eventually the funding will dry up and whatever's left will be chosen, whether because it had particularly tenacious investors, had particularly intelligent managers who managed to keep it profitable long enough, or simply got lucky. And then we'll pretend that's what we would have picked all along, and the history books will make it look like "the market worked!"
Assuming for the moment that their claims are legit (TFA doesn't give us anywhere near enough information to evaluate them) it seems to me that the US is the wrong market for this. If I were in their shoes, I'd deploy this in China: the country's still very agricultural (that fertilizer might be worth a lot more there) but growing rapidly (i.e. they're looking for new sources of fuel, not just for cars but for power plants), there is a strong political will to invest in infrastructure, and they like to boast about any engineering feat. Prove it there, work out the kinks for large-scale production and refinement, then bring it west. That's what I'd do.
I was there in 1999, and they were getting ready to move to a new campus in the next few years. The one I was at was next to a little park with an old burial mound, and near the Makino train stop.
Eh, you'd stick out and be awkward anyway -- I sure was, even at 5 foot 10. Go have okonomiyaki and go to the fire festival and go get a cheap kimono or three at the temple flea markets! And when you come back, let me know what the new campus is like.
Don't just learn the language, study abroad -- I took Japanese and spent a term at Kansai Gaidai. The experiences of a) being put into an entirely new environment and b) being forced to set aside engineering for a term, were both invaluable. It was a tremendous aid as well in terms of getting into grad school.
Yeah, but Google is the one company that doesn't have much excuse to do things the "standard" way. A company like that scrutinizes everything that's logged, because even something that only writes a couple bytes for every user generates gigabytes of data every year. If they log IP addresses, it's because they want to log IP addresses, not because they didn't bother to change a default config.
Eh, this is common, and not necessarily indicative of a lie. I've written a lot of C code in my time, but for the last four months my job has had me writing only Java -- if someone were to sit me down to do a practical C test, I'd probably do pretty poorly after being out of it (and thinking in OO mode) for so long. If you're getting people just out of their Masters, you're getting people who had to stop what they were doing and write a Master's thesis, which seems to me like a similar obstacle to proper thinking.
It's useful to know in case someone thinks it's a good idea to tag pacemakers with RFID tags, or thinks it's a bright idea to build an active reader powerful enough to trigger every tag in a hallway, but you're right: this is being blown way out of proportion.
Bringing this into the physical world, this decision seems to imply that there is less artistry in a lifelike sculpture than one that is warped or otherwise stylized. In that light, the question seems to be whether craftsmanship (the ability and effort to create a lifelike replica) and artistry (less well defined but protected by copyright) are equivalent. Failure of craftsmanship has traditionally been passed off as artistry, but I don't think I've ever seen people punished for displaying a level of craftsmanship such that they can no longer do that.
That doesn't really apply here. It's really hard to tell what's good quality and what isn't if you're only within a few years of taking the family footage. All it takes is the death of a family member to make you wish you'd kept every scrap of video of your kid interacting with them.
The original poster will want to edit it down eventually, sure, but for the moment those edits should be along the lines of getting rid of dead air, finding the right encoding quality, getting rid of repetitive stuff in favor of a good sample (Two minutes of the kid putting a square block into a round hole is amusing. Thirty, not so much) and LABELING.
I also oppose drilling for our own oil resources. Why the hell should we? Let's use up the oil resources of the people who hate us while it's still relatively cheap, then tap our own resources at $300 a barrel and make them come crawling.
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They're not shooting themselves in the foot if this avoids lawsuits. It'd take an awful lot of ad views to make up for the costs of litigation.
15 seems to be standard these days -- that's what I've been getting lately. My guess is that people haven't considered it worth moderating long discussions with fewer points.
While I have mixed feelings about the publishing of exploits, this line hits the nail on the head:
This is an important lesson to companies like Diebold.
There's a difference between writing multiple drafts, and posting multiple drafts on his website. Joyce, to the best of my knowledge, did not change the text between published editions. But then, his purpose was very different. (Although I do sometimes see some resemblance between Ulysses and certain Byzantine foreign policy positions...)
Personally, I think Obama ought to embrace it -- "This Iraq policy page is a work in progress: as facts on the ground change, so too should the opinions and plans of those who would manage it." Monitoring the situation, thinking about it, and making changes accordingly is a strength.
I've never forgotten my laptop, but I have frequently forgotten my laptop power supply. The laptop itself is heavy enough that I notice if it's not in my messenger bag, but if I'm in a hurry and did work at home the night before, I frequently don't notice that the power brick is still on my coffee table.
If we're already pretending to be in a free-market society, why shouldn't we just pretend we have all the energy we need?
The best thing government can do at this point is get out of the way.
No, it says that it burns without generating enough heat in a few minutes to noticeably warm an engine block.
However, do not let me stop you from setting yourself on fire. I look forward to seeing it on YouTube.
Water is probably even more valuable, but the problem there is also that while it is precious in general, it is not especially expensive. Being able to produce large quantities of potable water cheaply would make a company far wealthier than producing gasoline, but with so many schemes and such large expense and investment necessary to start production, it's like the old New England joke: I don't think you can get there from here.
The problem is that the nation is suffering from a form of menu paralysis: there are thousands of promising methods, but none of them will really work without a lot of investment. So we sit and dither over whether to get the veal marsala or chicken cacciatore, afraid of either picking a loser or passing up something we'd like better, and meanwhile we're just filling up on bread (OK, I think I took that analogy a little too far). Basically, since there's no clear winner and instead there are a lot of promising potentials, we don't really wind up picking anything. Eventually the funding will dry up and whatever's left will be chosen, whether because it had particularly tenacious investors, had particularly intelligent managers who managed to keep it profitable long enough, or simply got lucky. And then we'll pretend that's what we would have picked all along, and the history books will make it look like "the market worked!"
Assuming for the moment that their claims are legit (TFA doesn't give us anywhere near enough information to evaluate them) it seems to me that the US is the wrong market for this. If I were in their shoes, I'd deploy this in China: the country's still very agricultural (that fertilizer might be worth a lot more there) but growing rapidly (i.e. they're looking for new sources of fuel, not just for cars but for power plants), there is a strong political will to invest in infrastructure, and they like to boast about any engineering feat. Prove it there, work out the kinks for large-scale production and refinement, then bring it west. That's what I'd do.
I was there in 1999, and they were getting ready to move to a new campus in the next few years. The one I was at was next to a little park with an old burial mound, and near the Makino train stop.
Eh, you'd stick out and be awkward anyway -- I sure was, even at 5 foot 10. Go have okonomiyaki and go to the fire festival and go get a cheap kimono or three at the temple flea markets! And when you come back, let me know what the new campus is like.
Don't just learn the language, study abroad -- I took Japanese and spent a term at Kansai Gaidai. The experiences of a) being put into an entirely new environment and b) being forced to set aside engineering for a term, were both invaluable. It was a tremendous aid as well in terms of getting into grad school.
... could put "infringing" content over the top.
Yeah, but Google is the one company that doesn't have much excuse to do things the "standard" way. A company like that scrutinizes everything that's logged, because even something that only writes a couple bytes for every user generates gigabytes of data every year. If they log IP addresses, it's because they want to log IP addresses, not because they didn't bother to change a default config.
If it makes you feel any better, the inherent assumption is that the Republicans are too far gone to be worth trying to convince.
Great links, thanks.
(I mean, judging from Microsoft's product lines for the last twenty years, it's what he really wants...)
Eh, this is common, and not necessarily indicative of a lie. I've written a lot of C code in my time, but for the last four months my job has had me writing only Java -- if someone were to sit me down to do a practical C test, I'd probably do pretty poorly after being out of it (and thinking in OO mode) for so long. If you're getting people just out of their Masters, you're getting people who had to stop what they were doing and write a Master's thesis, which seems to me like a similar obstacle to proper thinking.
Prof. Hirose's robotics lab in Japan has some excellent snake robots as well. The swimming one is a must-see.
It's useful to know in case someone thinks it's a good idea to tag pacemakers with RFID tags, or thinks it's a bright idea to build an active reader powerful enough to trigger every tag in a hallway, but you're right: this is being blown way out of proportion.
Bringing this into the physical world, this decision seems to imply that there is less artistry in a lifelike sculpture than one that is warped or otherwise stylized. In that light, the question seems to be whether craftsmanship (the ability and effort to create a lifelike replica) and artistry (less well defined but protected by copyright) are equivalent. Failure of craftsmanship has traditionally been passed off as artistry, but I don't think I've ever seen people punished for displaying a level of craftsmanship such that they can no longer do that.
That doesn't really apply here. It's really hard to tell what's good quality and what isn't if you're only within a few years of taking the family footage. All it takes is the death of a family member to make you wish you'd kept every scrap of video of your kid interacting with them.
The original poster will want to edit it down eventually, sure, but for the moment those edits should be along the lines of getting rid of dead air, finding the right encoding quality, getting rid of repetitive stuff in favor of a good sample (Two minutes of the kid putting a square block into a round hole is amusing. Thirty, not so much) and LABELING.
Yeah, but we're not going to do much better than that.
To be fair, the sun (a large unlicensed fusion reactor) is the closest thing to perpetual motion/energy we're ever going to have.
I also oppose drilling for our own oil resources. Why the hell should we? Let's use up the oil resources of the people who hate us while it's still relatively cheap, then tap our own resources at $300 a barrel and make them come crawling.