... if a university does own the rights to your work, they could very simply disallow your contributions to be released under a given license (BSD in this case)....
If the student re-develop the game from scratch for commercial sale, can copyright be circumvented?
No wonder the successful Web pioneers drop out of school! <g>
... I rarely can write down a woman's name as the inventor on the patent application form.... ... it's the quantity that sucks. I have a booklet "Female inventors exist"....
I've re-read your message 5 times before I've understood you. Thanks for highlighting your experiences.
Will we have you around more often? It will greatly help us understand the mysterious law, and correct our perceptions of lawyers <g>.
People who benefit from the system (white men, which make up the majority demographic here on slashdot) don't want to admit that it's this system that gets them ahead in life, not their abilities, talents, or contributions.
Taking your argument and applying it to my work experience, I'd came up with the following scenario:
If you're a new employee, for example, several factors determine how well you're accepted by your co-workers and bosses:
familiarity with your race, in general
comfort level with your race, in general
the way you talk, personally
the way you think, personally
And in a way, that determines your acceptance level in a company.
It will be up to you to change yourself, so that you are more well-accepted by the people in the company. If you succeed in making people like and respect you, then your powerful positive factors will easily override the skin-color factor, demoting it to the background.
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Taking this example to my country:
Here in Singapore, the Chinese are the majority, and the Malays and Indians the minority. The LOCAL minority races are easily accepted among the Chinese due to their willingness to change their behavior. Kudos especially to the Malays for adopting a friendly attitude at all times.
The FOREIGN workers, however, are not so easily accepted among the local community (mostly Chinese), due to subtle differences in:
the way they think
our familiarity with their races and culture
I admit we Singaporeans have not done enough to understand other cultures, but I also believe foreigners (and minority races) have a duty to make themselves more acceptable to us (i.e. make us feel more comfortable having them around). If only foreign Indians would stop using their very-odorous hair cream, for example, we would have a much better impression of them.
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Just to make you feel better, perhaps you can take a look at African Americans. Look at all the great Afro-Americans alive today, in various fields. Suddenly, the white men's achievements in IT doesn't seem that significant.
You don't suppose demographics has anything to do with it?
Also, women contribute a lot to society too (all sorts of operations jobs, raising families, inventingusefulstuff, etc.), just that we men don't always give women the recognition they deserve.
If this makes you feel any better: I believe men are the ones who dream up of destructive tactics like patent trolling, buy-and-kill, sue-until-bankrupt, and so forth.
(Oh no, now I'm going to be modded down as flamebait too.)
Another bullet point is that TFA states that "The firm has said that at least eight of these can be linked up to get a proper 100 kilowatt beam" but how exactly would that be done?
I guess the designers have this as an eventual goal.
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... if a university does own the rights to your work, they could very simply disallow your contributions to be released under a given license (BSD in this case). ...
If the student re-develop the game from scratch for commercial sale, can copyright be circumvented?
No wonder the successful Web pioneers drop out of school! <g>
... I rarely can write down a woman's name as the inventor on the patent application form. ... ...
... it's the quantity that sucks. I have a booklet "Female inventors exist".
I've re-read your message 5 times before I've understood you. Thanks for highlighting your experiences.
Will we have you around more often? It will greatly help us understand the mysterious law, and correct our perceptions of lawyers <g>.
how about dropping the ac - dc - ac - dc to one AC - DC part?
The Offline UPS has a possibility of not kicking in soon enough.
If your data centre guarantees four nines uptime to clients...
Thanks for pointing that out.
For a while I thought Freakonomics is part of TFA, and that you've caught me for not reading TFA...
(Opps! I've just admitted it!)
Darn, now I'd have to think of other ways, when I'm stuck in the toilet, out of toilet paper!
Obligatory FoxTrot reference (something about swatting someone with a "Rolled up Internet").
There goes my karma... and the schools will start agreeing with Steve Ballmer too.
who you know matters more than what you know.
I know Bill Gates and he knows me too!
(Through six degrees of separation.)
People who benefit from the system (white men, which make up the majority demographic here on slashdot) don't want to admit that it's this system that gets them ahead in life, not their abilities, talents, or contributions.
Taking your argument and applying it to my work experience, I'd came up with the following scenario:
If you're a new employee, for example, several factors determine how well you're accepted by your co-workers and bosses:
And in a way, that determines your acceptance level in a company.
It will be up to you to change yourself, so that you are more well-accepted by the people in the company. If you succeed in making people like and respect you, then your powerful positive factors will easily override the skin-color factor, demoting it to the background.
------------
Taking this example to my country:
Here in Singapore, the Chinese are the majority, and the Malays and Indians the minority. The LOCAL minority races are easily accepted among the Chinese due to their willingness to change their behavior. Kudos especially to the Malays for adopting a friendly attitude at all times.
The FOREIGN workers, however, are not so easily accepted among the local community (mostly Chinese), due to subtle differences in:
I admit we Singaporeans have not done enough to understand other cultures, but I also believe foreigners (and minority races) have a duty to make themselves more acceptable to us (i.e. make us feel more comfortable having them around). If only foreign Indians would stop using their very-odorous hair cream, for example, we would have a much better impression of them.
------------
Just to make you feel better, perhaps you can take a look at African Americans. Look at all the great Afro-Americans alive today, in various fields. Suddenly, the white men's achievements in IT doesn't seem that significant.
You don't suppose demographics has anything to do with it?
Also, women contribute a lot to society too (all sorts of operations jobs, raising families, inventing useful stuff, etc.), just that we men don't always give women the recognition they deserve.
If this makes you feel any better: I believe men are the ones who dream up of destructive tactics like patent trolling, buy-and-kill, sue-until-bankrupt, and so forth.
(Oh no, now I'm going to be modded down as flamebait too.)
Give yourself the name "William" (popularly known as "Bill").
Another bullet point is that TFA states that "The firm has said that at least eight of these can be linked up to get a proper 100 kilowatt beam" but how exactly would that be done?
I guess the designers have this as an eventual goal.