I found a list of songs priced (presumably for the buyer in USA) at $0.99 each
When an Aussie went to buy some from within AU, prices jumped to $1.69 ea.
Calculus taught me that lots of DeltaPennies add up to BigBigs, eg, for Apple, and I don't think it's fair to pay more outside USA than within, even for low- priced items, such as songs.
As soon as a terrorist group (or even some group wanting to only "fiddle" with the controls) finds it or learns how to hack into it's controller's seat, it's value sinks or clears to Zero.
Why this need - on small, not-so-smart minds for ONE of anything? Yes, you've gotta have a "whole" city's paying-power to make such systems affordable is one possible defense. But why not a more hierarchical arrangement, with fail-over backup capabilities to handle other sectors' work, if that sector gets hacked or knocked out?...a bit like the Internet.
When did Micrsoft begin to specify - as a System Requirement for its software - the rotational speed of one's hard drive(s), ie, as it does - quite explicitly - here:
We could just have "go out & be counted" days, ie, to see how many people we are on Earth.
Of, for public opinion surveys (& citizen initated referenda), to vote, say, In Favor, you'd go out to have the top of your head photographed, in a Hi-Res satellite image.:-)
These mechanisms have -none- of the security issues of eVoting systems I've read about (except the PhotoShop issues, I guess).
And they'd be pretty hard to dispute, by dictators, if their elections were held by such means.
Shall we call this: [Non-E-]Crowd-Voting?:-)
Oh, we'd have to be careful - eg, when publishing & implmenting "photo / voting-times" - for survey or election districts cut by time-zone boundaries.;-)
I'm sure that anyone who happened to see the F/A-18 come down & crash in Florida won't be impressed to see a Shuttle (apparently) flying low, as if to do the same...
(Fortunately, most won't have seen the F/A-18 fly-in & crash...)
Spend your VC funding wisely... more modest office rentals (Remember: MySQL AB's founder let 70% of his staff - in a subsequent company - work at home, meaning the Co. didn't have to rent as much space. See his practical exceptions to that rule - intended to keep single staff from burning out at home - eg, in his eCorner talk), modest vehicle for yourself (Eg, instead of buying a flash EV, just convert your own car to 100% electric; & install only Tier 1 (slow) charge points at home & work, for it), modest travel costs (Do you really need Business Class? Network on-line or at conferences.), etc.
Actually, you should already have worked out your (expected) revenue plans.
Finally, OSS can be released concurrently with a proprietary release (same or similar software, under a -different- license).
Some include some "secret sauce" functions -only- in the proprietary version, while reducing testing costs (on the rest of the software) - with community feedback on the OSS release.
Carefully written license conditions will preclude use of OSS version by those in your (intended) target market.
Not necessarily mentioning its existence couldn't hurt.
I'd like participants to have some means of recording their own talks, meetings, etc. - ideally by recording from a radio signal, received by a small receiver, connected to a Zoom H1 MP3 recorder.
Until the "ideal" comes into existence, I'd like to "wear my H1 out- side on my jacket/shirt pocket" so I'd -advising- others that I'm re- cording our conversations, meeting, conference talk, etc. -and- so I don't record the noise of the H1 brushing against inside poc- ket-fabric, from the inside.
(I'm also interested in changing laws to allow anyone to record their own phone calls, so that repetitive, abusive calls can be documented by evidence-quality recordings; older people can stay longer in their own homes, if they can record such calls, as well unexpected visits from would be contractors, et al., who use "surprise" to sell more, sometimes fraudulent and/or low-quality repair / refurbishments or other services - again, so that someone [almost] cheated by such visitors or callers.)
I think, if one is interested in what they are writing about, they'll strive to express themselves in ways that are more in-tune with "correct" grammar, spelling, etc.
One way suggested for getting kids into writing more -regularly- is to get them to focus on the sky - each day - with an eye to notibing subtle differences. Of course, perception changes as much as some skies, so each day's observations & feelings about them can lead to a very different word stream from each child.
The article reminds me of an Asimov story: "The Fun They Had"...in which a "homework machine" did pretty much as the article suggests its current counterpart might do someday.
Of course Asimov's machine failed, in his story... & needed repair, so that the student would get full marks for good work... so can the new system fail & misjudge a modern student's performance.
When it does, it will surely become another reason to support home-schooling.:-)
So, now that if could be worth almost $120K to be arrested for recording police in action, I wouldn't be surprised if the next big craze (or How to Make Money scheme) will be to look for & start recording any police action (from the common ticketing of a motorist to questioning witnesses or suspects near the scene of an incident, etc.)
It's perhaps like a lottery... some officers will be either unaware of the final outcome of the Glik story or perhaps simply lose their cool in the heat of the moment.
1. See & Record some police-in-action sequence 2. Be arrested for it
: (be lucky enough to have an outcome like Glik's) 3. Profit!
Rather than TAXING the good guys (who preclude the need for trips to a Bricks & Morter shop), governments should -really- be REWARDING their carbon-saving efforts... at least where the products are shipped electronically, as downloads are.
Triple Bottom Line accounting is LONG overdue, and it's crazy to support Bricks & Morter business that are -less- efficient in terms of their -customers'- carbon footprint, ie, when shopping for & buying products.
On the other hand, I'd be -happy- to endorse such a tax, but ONLY after we're all driving 100% Electric Vehicles (EVs), which so significantly reduce our carbon footprints, that shopping trips would be easier on the environment.
Keep a finger on the pulse of "eyelet transplantation" (ie, from a healthy donor, into a Type 1 Diabetes sufferer) and the techniques that follow on its heals. (A while ago, ET required suppressing the person's immune system, but - after all these years of research - there must be some improved treatments; we no longer follow the trail.)
I've seen that talk, and - from the Fora web site:
"Summary [of talk]
Robert Whiting has written a number of books on Japan, including You Gotta Have Wa, The Meaning of Ichiro and Tokyo Underworld, which is being developed as a series for HBO. In this lecture, Whiting addresses the intractable role of yakuza in virtually all areas of modern day society in Japan. He discusses the sequel to Tokyo Underworld that he is writing, shares insights into the genesis of the HBO project and talks about the recent National Geographic documentary Crime Lords of Tokyo, in which he appeared."
"Robert Whiting
Robert Whiting is an author and journalist who has written several successful books on contemporary Japanese culture - which include topics such as baseball and American gangsters operating in Japan. He was born in New Jersey, grew up in California and graduated from Sophia University in Tokyo. He has lived in Japan for a total of more than three decades since he first arrived there in the early 1960s. He currently divides his time between homes in Tokyo and California."
PS Fora.tv is a subscription site (US$ 50.00 / year opens some content (including this talk); the rest is Pay to View)
Early adoption also has its advantages to create precedents & change Law.
PS In Australia, the chutpah of early Citizens Band radio hobbyists to refuse to pay license fees won them fee-free class licensing.
By contrast, Aussie Radio Hams continue to cringe under their government's need to tax those who earned their hobby radio license through study of radio theory & mastering practical skills that enable them to provide emergency communications during disasters.
Aussie Ham Radio operators pay well over $50 per year (compared to cost-free licensing enjoyed by U.S. Hams, who won their freedom (as in beer) in the Courts, arguing Constitutional Rights of Free Speech would be unduly put upon, were there any periodic license fees to pay (recall poll taxes that precluded poor mnority members from voting).
For all the license fees paid by Auusie Hams, their radio privileges remain well below those enjoyed by their fee-free American couterparts:
1. In Australia, it is still unlawful for Radio Hams to connect their radios to their landline telephone services, while American Hams can freely create such "phone patches" - even automated ones, that enable them to make emergency & other non-commercial phone calls, eg, when outside cellphone coverage areas.
2. US Hams may transmit using 1,000 watts of transmitter power, while even AU's highest Ham license class limits holders to 20% of that amount of transmitter power.
In 2012, following New Zealand's lead to enable their Radio Hams to be better heard, ie, by permitting them to use higher power...
Australia's government permitted its so-called Advanced Class Hams to only "APPLY" to use the Americans' long-used higher power..
over an 18 month "TRIAL" period...
but required payment of another fee... to make application.
Some consider the recent (Labor government) response to the national peak body for Ham Radio an insulting money grab.
There may be different laws/policies that apply when employed vs contracting.
Suppose you could write an agreement for a nearly identical arrangement, where you'd do what you do now, as a sub-contractor. Include (or paste-in) all the bits of your contract (that are NOT inconsistent with) you doing your off-time projects, while keeping the IP rights to it.
Add all the bits that define an agreement of Contractor & Consultant, rather than employee. (Get a lawyer to draw it up, if the company won't. Maybe there are standard forms for this? IANAL, myself.)
Of course, it takes 2 to Tango... so, this leaves your employer in the role of "Deal Breaker" ie, if they want to risk losing your services, if you don't get what you want.
Now, in fairness, it might be said that you're "only" able to get as least some of these great product/project ideas -because- you're working in the context you call "workplace"... and your employer could then be said to be contribu- ting to -even- your after-hours projects.
If they don't want to give you 100% ownership of your work, maybe offer up to 49%, so you both recognise their contribution, but -retain- controlling interest in your creations, which they did -not- pay for.
Alternatively, let them pay you for any work they want to own 100%, or sign -only- agreements that let you do what you wish with -your- AH creations, but they get it "free" (as part of your normal earnings).
There are lots of solutions, but - if you can't -both- sign up to one of them that you can live with - quit.
Maybe form or join a group of similarly aggrieved creative techies & offer the benefit of your talents as a consulting company, and write your -own- agreements.
Don't just sit there & feel you're being forced-into something that adverse- ly affects your total lifetime earnings.
When -next- you're asked to sign a contract with untenable IP terms, like the one you've referred to here, just cross out the offending line(s), & hand it back, signed.
IF they fail to check the line(s) on IP, it's not really important to them... so, no issue arises.
IF they call you on it, simply point out that you've made that change, so you may find that you have -no- IP case to answer...:-)
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So, Smits creates habitat for orangutans, mostly by restoring diverse flora in formerly dismal/barren parts of Bornio.
They've noted significant changes to local (micro-)climate, ie, over their new plantations & living spaces, for both people & oran's.
Brief reports of the changes are to be heard in Smits' excellent TED talk on his purpose & means to restore habitat to these sensitive animals:
+ http://www.ted.com/talks/willie_smits_restores_a_rainforest.html
There may be some more details on the hows & outcomes, eg, in resources to be found here:
+ http://blog.ted.com/2009/03/03/learn_more_abou/
(For a few blog articles, search TED.com for "orangutans")
I found a list of songs priced (presumably for the buyer in USA) at $0.99 each
When an Aussie went to buy some from within AU, prices jumped to $1.69 ea.
Calculus taught me that lots of DeltaPennies add up to BigBigs, eg, for Apple,
and I don't think it's fair to pay more outside USA than within, even for low-
priced items, such as songs.
As soon as a terrorist group (or even some group wanting to only "fiddle" with the controls) finds it or learns how to hack into it's controller's seat, it's value sinks or clears to Zero.
Why this need - on small, not-so-smart minds for ONE of anything? Yes, you've gotta have a "whole" city's paying-power to make such systems affordable is one possible defense. But why not a more hierarchical arrangement, with fail-over backup capabilities to handle other sectors' work, if that sector gets hacked or knocked out? ...a bit like the Internet.
When did Micrsoft begin to specify - as a System Requirement for its software - the rotational speed of one's hard drive(s), ie, as it does - quite explicitly - here:
+ http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/visual-basic-express/system-requirements
?
If it's spinning a bit more slowly, the user waits a bit longer... Right?
We could just have "go out & be counted" days, ie, to see how many people we are on Earth.
Of, for public opinion surveys (& citizen initated referenda), to vote, say, In Favor, you'd go out to have the top of your head photographed, in a Hi-Res satellite image. :-)
These mechanisms have -none- of the security issues of eVoting systems I've read about (except the PhotoShop issues, I guess).
And they'd be pretty hard to dispute, by dictators, if their elections were held by such means.
Shall we call this: [Non-E-]Crowd-Voting? :-)
Oh, we'd have to be careful - eg, when publishing & implmenting "photo / voting-times" - for survey or election districts cut by time-zone boundaries. ;-)
Once again, it's -not- so big a deal that the Gov't requires rego of such clinics...
But wait until Patients demand it, & see how fast it happens... :-)
No patients, no $$$.
Sounds like history... the history of the Hub in LAN technology.
Maybe it's time to move to a Switch, that can keep multiple core-pairs communicating simultaneously.
I'm sure that anyone who happened to see the F/A-18 come down & crash in Florida
won't be impressed to see a Shuttle (apparently) flying low, as if to do the same...
(Fortunately, most won't have seen the F/A-18 fly-in & crash...)
Spend your VC funding wisely... more modest office rentals (Remember: MySQL AB's founder let 70% of his staff - in a subsequent company - work at home, meaning the Co. didn't have to rent as much space. See his practical exceptions to that rule - intended to keep single staff from burning out at home - eg, in his eCorner talk), modest vehicle for yourself (Eg, instead of buying a flash EV, just convert your own car to 100% electric; & install only Tier 1 (slow) charge points at home & work, for it), modest travel costs (Do you really need Business Class? Network on-line or at conferences.), etc.
Actually, you should already have worked out your (expected) revenue plans.
Finally, OSS can be released concurrently with a proprietary release (same or similar software, under a -different- license).
Some include some "secret sauce" functions -only- in the proprietary version, while reducing testing costs (on the rest of the software) - with community feedback on the OSS release.
Carefully written license conditions will preclude use of OSS version by those in your (intended) target market.
Not necessarily mentioning its existence couldn't hurt.
I'll let the author speak for herself.
(I haven't read her book, as yet):
+ http://www.ted.com/speakers/sherry_turkle.html
(Her talk is under 19 min's in length.)
I'd like participants to have some means of recording their own talks,
meetings, etc. - ideally by recording from a radio signal, received by
a small receiver, connected to a Zoom H1 MP3 recorder.
Until the "ideal" comes into existence, I'd like to "wear my H1 out-
side on my jacket/shirt pocket" so I'd -advising- others that I'm re-
cording our conversations, meeting, conference talk, etc. -and-
so I don't record the noise of the H1 brushing against inside poc-
ket-fabric, from the inside.
(I'm also interested in changing laws to allow anyone to record
their own phone calls, so that repetitive, abusive calls can be
documented by evidence-quality recordings; older people can
stay longer in their own homes, if they can record such calls,
as well unexpected visits from would be contractors, et al.,
who use "surprise" to sell more, sometimes fraudulent and/or
low-quality repair / refurbishments or other services - again,
so that someone [almost] cheated by such visitors or callers.)
'meant 1000, NOT 1999
They just may the $19.95 chips, purchased in OEM quantities (eg, 100 or 1999) ;-)
I think, if one is interested in what they are writing about, they'll strive to express themselves in ways that are more in-tune with "correct" grammar, spelling, etc.
One way suggested for getting kids into writing more -regularly- is to get them to focus on the sky - each day - with an eye to notibing subtle differences. Of course, perception changes as much as some skies, so each day's observations & feelings about them can lead to a very different word stream from each child.
The article reminds me of an Asimov story: "The Fun They Had" ...in which a "homework machine" did pretty much as the article suggests its current counterpart might do someday.
Of course Asimov's machine failed, in his story... & needed repair, so that the student would get full marks for good work... so can the new system fail & misjudge a modern student's performance.
When it does, it will surely become another reason to support home-schooling. :-)
So, now that if could be worth almost $120K to be arrested for recording police in action, I wouldn't be surprised if the next big craze (or How to Make Money scheme) will be to look for & start recording any police action (from the common ticketing of a motorist to questioning witnesses or suspects near the scene of an incident, etc.)
It's perhaps like a lottery... some officers will be either unaware of the final outcome of the Glik story or perhaps simply lose their cool in the heat of the moment.
1. See & Record some police-in-action sequence
2. Be arrested for it
: (be lucky enough to have an outcome like Glik's)
3. Profit!
Frankly, I'd prefer to see some issue-specific "Green" party get in: Eg, the Subj ones.
There are, after all, some more critical (eg, to life on Earth) issues to be solved here.
Where is the evidence for your claims?
Rather than TAXING the good guys (who preclude the need for trips to a Bricks & Morter shop), governments should -really- be REWARDING their carbon-saving efforts... at least where the products are shipped electronically, as downloads are.
Triple Bottom Line accounting is LONG overdue, and it's crazy to support Bricks & Morter business that are -less- efficient in terms of their -customers'- carbon footprint, ie, when shopping for & buying products.
On the other hand, I'd be -happy- to endorse such a tax, but ONLY after we're all driving 100% Electric Vehicles (EVs), which so significantly reduce our carbon footprints, that shopping trips would be easier on the environment.
FYI:
+ http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/pancreaticislet/
Not problem-free, but some successor or spin-off might be, someday, if not now.
Keep a finger on the pulse of "eyelet transplantation" (ie, from a healthy donor, into a Type 1 Diabetes sufferer) and the techniques that follow on its heals. (A while ago, ET required suppressing the person's immune system, but - after all these years of research - there must be some improved treatments; we no longer follow the trail.)
You can't -lobby- a country's ENTIRE population...
Let's get Citizen Initiated Referenda all over the World! :-)
(...at least in places where there's a good, effective Bill of Rights
to protect against far Right racism being written into Law.)
I've seen that talk, and - from the Fora web site:
"Summary [of talk]
Robert Whiting has written a number of books on Japan, including You Gotta Have Wa, The Meaning of Ichiro and Tokyo Underworld, which is being developed as a series for HBO. In this lecture, Whiting addresses the intractable role of yakuza in virtually all areas of modern day society in Japan. He discusses the sequel to Tokyo Underworld that he is writing, shares insights into the genesis of the HBO project and talks about the recent National Geographic documentary Crime Lords of Tokyo, in which he appeared."
"Robert Whiting
Robert Whiting is an author and journalist who has written several successful books on contemporary Japanese culture - which include topics such as baseball and American gangsters operating in Japan. He was born in New Jersey, grew up in California and graduated from Sophia University in Tokyo. He has lived in Japan for a total of more than three decades since he first arrived there in the early 1960s. He currently divides his time between homes in Tokyo and California."
PS Fora.tv is a subscription site (US$ 50.00 / year opens some content (including this talk); the rest is Pay to View)
Might comes from patient's wealth.
Early adoption also has its advantages to create precedents & change Law.
PS In Australia, the chutpah of early Citizens Band radio hobbyists to refuse to pay license fees won them fee-free class licensing.
By contrast, Aussie Radio Hams continue to cringe under their government's need to tax those who earned their hobby radio license through study of radio theory & mastering practical skills that enable them to provide emergency communications during disasters.
Aussie Ham Radio operators pay well over $50 per year (compared to cost-free licensing enjoyed by U.S. Hams, who won their freedom (as in beer) in the Courts, arguing Constitutional Rights of Free Speech would be unduly put upon, were there any periodic license fees to pay (recall poll taxes that precluded poor mnority members from voting).
For all the license fees paid by Auusie Hams, their radio privileges remain well below those enjoyed by their fee-free American couterparts:
1. In Australia, it is still unlawful for Radio Hams to connect their radios to their landline telephone services, while American Hams can freely create such "phone patches" - even automated ones, that enable them to make emergency & other non-commercial phone calls, eg, when outside cellphone coverage areas.
2. US Hams may transmit using 1,000 watts of transmitter power, while even AU's highest Ham license class limits holders to 20% of that amount of transmitter power.
In 2012, following New Zealand's lead to enable their Radio Hams to be better heard, ie, by permitting them to use higher power...
Australia's government permitted its so-called Advanced Class Hams to only "APPLY" to use the Americans' long-used higher power..
over an 18 month "TRIAL" period...
but required payment of another fee... to make application.
Some consider the recent (Labor government) response to the national peak body for Ham Radio an insulting money grab.
There may be different laws/policies that apply when employed vs contracting.
Suppose you could write an agreement for a nearly identical arrangement,
where you'd do what you do now, as a sub-contractor. Include (or paste-in)
all the bits of your contract (that are NOT inconsistent with) you doing your
off-time projects, while keeping the IP rights to it.
Add all the bits that define an agreement of Contractor & Consultant, rather
than employee. (Get a lawyer to draw it up, if the company won't. Maybe
there are standard forms for this? IANAL, myself.)
Of course, it takes 2 to Tango... so, this leaves your employer in the role of
"Deal Breaker" ie, if they want to risk losing your services, if you don't get
what you want.
Now, in fairness, it might be said that you're "only" able to get as least some
of these great product/project ideas -because- you're working in the context
you call "workplace"... and your employer could then be said to be contribu-
ting to -even- your after-hours projects.
If they don't want to give you 100% ownership of your work, maybe offer
up to 49%, so you both recognise their contribution, but -retain- controlling
interest in your creations, which they did -not- pay for.
Alternatively, let them pay you for any work they want to own 100%, or sign
-only- agreements that let you do what you wish with -your- AH creations,
but they get it "free" (as part of your normal earnings).
There are lots of solutions, but - if you can't -both- sign up to one of them
that you can live with - quit.
Maybe form or join a group of similarly aggrieved creative techies & offer
the benefit of your talents as a consulting company, and write your -own-
agreements.
Don't just sit there & feel you're being forced-into something that adverse-
ly affects your total lifetime earnings.
When -next- you're asked to sign a contract with untenable IP terms, like the
one you've referred to here, just cross out the offending line(s), & hand it
back, signed.
IF they fail to check the line(s) on IP, it's not really important to them... so,
no issue arises.
IF they call you on it, simply point out that you've made that change, so :-)
you may find that you have -no- IP case to answer...
I seem to recall similar work, that suggested a light electricity flow could help math students' learning.
Now, spatial memory...
Is the two related?