Agreed. The Westboro people came to my hometown to protest an Iraq war funeral. There were only a handful of them...probably less than five...and we live within a hundred miles of the church.. I believe. There usually wind up being many more people wishing to counter-protest anyway. The parent needs to straighten his facts.
It is not so much Gore's views as it is Gore himself. I for one think the message is worth hearing, considering, and acting upon. However, it seems like Gore comes off as pretty pompous, overblown, and almost zealous with his anti-global warming stuff. What with the selling carbon credits like they were indulgences from the middle ages? How about just cutting some emissions and avoiding creating fake industries...I digress. Gore has a good message, he just says plenty of other (sub) messages that annoy the crap out of people.
Regardless, Gore provides a voice for a real concern that can possibly affect the lives of everybody on the planet, and that's good. I'll tolerate him if it means our planet will get saved in the process:-P
"That's right R2, gonna set a new course, we're going to Cloud City (ahhh) That's mighty good gin and tonic, why don't ya fix me up another? Thing's are bout to get ugly."
So the ultimate plan is to get students and academicians to make their search services for them. Once they're good enough for market, they can purchase the rights to said BOSS search services (or incomplete ones that look very promising...to part out and use in the code base). That's a good idea coming out of Yahoo! Finally some decent press for them.
this is not the proper channel for discussing energy policy.
The floor of the house and senate has been a much more effective locale for energy policy discussions. If he drums up support in the private sector through a well-placed PR campaign and builds up the funds to plunk down a ton of wind farms to power stuff, what's the big deal? Is he acting in his own best interests? OF COURSE. So what? There's money to be made in energy, be it green or otherwise. Through this means he can build up a better rapport with the public and drum up support from possible financial backers. If it gets us wind turbines, what's so bad about it?
OMG NOT $9/gallon!! If the gas prices double for the US, I don't think Europe will be sitting too pretty, either. Not like that will happen, anyway. Prices will recede before they get that high..market can't sustain the demand at such prices and you'll see oil taper off and level off somewhere in between...along with a stunted global economy..not just the United States. In the meantime, America and the rest of the world will come to terms with high prices and out of sheer media hysteria, it will come up with real solutions.
Simply stated, coursework in CS must become more writing intensive (if it currently is not..your mileage may vary at your institution). Students must be forced to explain their thinking, verbalize their understanding, and convey the concepts to the instructor and other students. The day when curricula asks students to 'do', 'mimic', or 'repeat' rather than to 'know' and 'understand' is the day curricula undermines itself. Unfortunately, this day has already come for many academic institutions around the United States.
Note: I'm not saying all academic institutions in the US (or anywhere else for that matter) are ruined or busted. There are stellar schools that are still keeping on keepin' on.
Viva scrutiny is hardly necessary (though it would be cool:-) ). Simply require a 3-5 page written report detailing every turned in homework assignment or project. Then on top of that randomly choose a set of students from the class and interview them about their work to ask why they did this, that, etc. with their code. Granted you could outsource your report writing, but I have a feeling that outsourced programmers may have a bit more trouble writing essays in the local tongue..making it easy to point out who is engaging in what.
I find it rather ridiculous that LimitNone actually believes that an Email client migration product is such an advanced piece of software that Google with its legions of developers and mounds of cash couldn't cook one up on its own. The article cites that LimitNone claims that the 'gMove' application was a trade secret..it wasn't even patented. This is another huge whiner case. This company has a product that has a snowball's chance in hell of competing with a 'free' Google product, yet they still expect that they are somehow entitled to money for it because Google went back on its word (not contractually..just its "word").
I was sitting in on a product development meeting a few months back and the discussion came up on how to be viable in today's market. One of the big questions in online application entrepeneuring is: How can we remain viable against companies like Google?.. Companies like Google that can cook up the same product with all the same features in a fraction of the time. It seems that if LimitNone had applied some common sense to its product lines, it wouldn't run into the problem of oh, say, Google extending the functionality of one of its already existing applications. Whoops.
Trade secrets? What trade secrets? Google can't write a migration suite for its own email service? Geeze.
This is ust another case of litigation over innovation. I mean, I'm no IP law expert or anything, but a client migration tool? This could have easily have been some kind of open source project..who would LimitNone have sued then?
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Agreed. The Westboro people came to my hometown to protest an Iraq war funeral. There were only a handful of them...probably less than five...and we live within a hundred miles of the church.. I believe. There usually wind up being many more people wishing to counter-protest anyway. The parent needs to straighten his facts.
No, vi.
Homie, I had a phalanx kill my battleship. It was probably my lowest point in my Civ 2 career ever.
Or tu quoque...I mean look at the house the guy lives in.....he's just setting himself up for that one.
It is not so much Gore's views as it is Gore himself. I for one think the message is worth hearing, considering, and acting upon. However, it seems like Gore comes off as pretty pompous, overblown, and almost zealous with his anti-global warming stuff. What with the selling carbon credits like they were indulgences from the middle ages? How about just cutting some emissions and avoiding creating fake industries...I digress. Gore has a good message, he just says plenty of other (sub) messages that annoy the crap out of people.
:-P
Regardless, Gore provides a voice for a real concern that can possibly affect the lives of everybody on the planet, and that's good. I'll tolerate him if it means our planet will get saved in the process
Wasn't the Java situation more like embrace, extend, lawsuit, retreat?
"That's right R2, gonna set a new course, we're going to Cloud City (ahhh) That's mighty good gin and tonic, why don't ya fix me up another? Thing's are bout to get ugly."
Weird Al
...more free time to develop open source programs?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Addressed by the article....towards the bottom. Claims that the over all process is still carbon negative.
Pork anyone?
If Microsoft were to say that, I think they would be engaging in a fallacy of composition..not that most of us don't already.
Hah. I think attacking Open Source in this manner is akin to having a fist fight with a man made out of smoke.
So the ultimate plan is to get students and academicians to make their search services for them. Once they're good enough for market, they can purchase the rights to said BOSS search services (or incomplete ones that look very promising...to part out and use in the code base). That's a good idea coming out of Yahoo! Finally some decent press for them.
That's what it is! I couldn't resist.
Fusion power will be here at 2050...that's what happens in Sim City 2000, at least.
this is not the proper channel for discussing energy policy.
The floor of the house and senate has been a much more effective locale for energy policy discussions. If he drums up support in the private sector through a well-placed PR campaign and builds up the funds to plunk down a ton of wind farms to power stuff, what's the big deal? Is he acting in his own best interests? OF COURSE. So what? There's money to be made in energy, be it green or otherwise. Through this means he can build up a better rapport with the public and drum up support from possible financial backers. If it gets us wind turbines, what's so bad about it?
OMG NOT $9/gallon!! If the gas prices double for the US, I don't think Europe will be sitting too pretty, either. Not like that will happen, anyway. Prices will recede before they get that high..market can't sustain the demand at such prices and you'll see oil taper off and level off somewhere in between...along with a stunted global economy..not just the United States. In the meantime, America and the rest of the world will come to terms with high prices and out of sheer media hysteria, it will come up with real solutions.
Abyss...lol. Ok.
Girlfriends?! I'm buying plane tickets right now.
Simply stated, coursework in CS must become more writing intensive (if it currently is not..your mileage may vary at your institution). Students must be forced to explain their thinking, verbalize their understanding, and convey the concepts to the instructor and other students. The day when curricula asks students to 'do', 'mimic', or 'repeat' rather than to 'know' and 'understand' is the day curricula undermines itself. Unfortunately, this day has already come for many academic institutions around the United States.
Note: I'm not saying all academic institutions in the US (or anywhere else for that matter) are ruined or busted. There are stellar schools that are still keeping on keepin' on.
Viva scrutiny is hardly necessary (though it would be cool :-) ). Simply require a 3-5 page written report detailing every turned in homework assignment or project. Then on top of that randomly choose a set of students from the class and interview them about their work to ask why they did this, that, etc. with their code. Granted you could outsource your report writing, but I have a feeling that outsourced programmers may have a bit more trouble writing essays in the local tongue..making it easy to point out who is engaging in what.
I find it rather ridiculous that LimitNone actually believes that an Email client migration product is such an advanced piece of software that Google with its legions of developers and mounds of cash couldn't cook one up on its own. The article cites that LimitNone claims that the 'gMove' application was a trade secret..it wasn't even patented. This is another huge whiner case. This company has a product that has a snowball's chance in hell of competing with a 'free' Google product, yet they still expect that they are somehow entitled to money for it because Google went back on its word (not contractually..just its "word").
I was sitting in on a product development meeting a few months back and the discussion came up on how to be viable in today's market. One of the big questions in online application entrepeneuring is: How can we remain viable against companies like Google?.. Companies like Google that can cook up the same product with all the same features in a fraction of the time. It seems that if LimitNone had applied some common sense to its product lines, it wouldn't run into the problem of oh, say, Google extending the functionality of one of its already existing applications. Whoops.
Trade secrets? What trade secrets? Google can't write a migration suite for its own email service? Geeze.
This is ust another case of litigation over innovation. I mean, I'm no IP law expert or anything, but a client migration tool? This could have easily have been some kind of open source project..who would LimitNone have sued then?
There goes my rights to my collection of wire frame models of cages.
I thought that stuff was gonna be gold.
You beat me to the punch. ROAR.
I thought Al Gore invented the internet.
Lolz for cliches (without accent marks).
I think the bigger question for the film is:
"Why are FireFox users using Hotmail?"
I guess you could be a legacy user from way back when..buuuuuuuut...eventually you have to stop using Geocities.