But should research so fundamental to life, such as the ribosome structure, be locked up for commercial gainâ"like Dynamite? Should a private institution, such as Yale, have the only say over how ribosomes may be developed into new biomedical technologies?
No, research should never be locked up. The patent system should evolve to the point where laymen with appropriate field knowledge and the right tools can copy ANY patented technique.
Yes, Yale absolutely has a right to decide what they do with their patent. If they sit on it, that's fine. There are other methods of doing what they learned to do. If the license it, that's fine too. Giving businesses the ability to benefit from their basic research is a good thing.
If Yale accumulates a big enough patent portfolio and tampers with the free market, they should be subject to government investigations and penalties. But in the case of Yale... they'll license to patent to bring in money to fund more fundamental research to future Yale scientists can advance the state of the art even further.
If the author really wants to attack stupid biological patents, he should investigate (correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the biggest offender is) Monsanto.
Lots of good Sci-Fi is available as downloadable audiobooks from the public domain site Librivox.org. I know Jules Verne is on there. I recall Ayn Rand's Anthem being fairly short (3-4 hours), good quality, and thought providing.
I want to 'friend' journalists I like and trust on facebook and then see their stories
Facebook is prone to as much advertiser and "Quiz/Game/Application" noise as traditional newspapers. Twitter has a big advantage as long as they maintain the 155 character limit. Those 155 characters are enough for a Headline and a Tinyurl Link. That's your pathway for news.
What I don't understand, while we are on the subject, is "Copy/Paste" journalism. For fucks sake... CNN copies the same spelling and grammar mistakes made by AP/Reuters. Can't they at least get a $10/hr copy editor to screen what they publish? That being said... there is NO VALUE in copying an article and pasting it in your blog. Eventually readers will figure out that you are not a SOURCE of information and they will move elsewhere. The national news sites (CNN, NBC, ABC, Faux News) already provide aggregated world news. Therefore, don't attempt to deliver regurgitated/aggregated news at a local level, unless that news somehow affects the local community.
At least not if the folks serving ads are worth their salt.
(emphasis mine)
Ahh... the false conditional assumption. If he got the job, he must be qualified for it. If people are buying Toyota Camry's they must be the best car on the road. If the store raises their prices, they must also be selling stuff that's better quality.
Don't be tricked assuming things are true just because some other logical condition has been met!
I told Hulu that I'm a 20-something guy. You'd think they'd realize I'm not worried about my "inadequate lashes" or wrinkles..
You didn't mention that you where a member of slashdot did you???
If he did, they'd stream him Mountain Dew and Cheetos adverts.
Suddenly targeted ads don't seem so bad. And if I could get rid of the car commercials except the one time every 5 years that I'm shopping for a car that would be good.
And no matter how many Budweiser and Coors Light commercials I see... I'm not buying their beer. They need to make it taste less like water.
Also, sites that auto-load video w/ audio (whether it's an ad or not) should be banned from the internet. ESPN does this... I'm *very* close to finding a new site for getting sports news.
The comparisons I made to IBM... you should know that they BUY competitors to ensure that competition doesn't put a wrench in their software licensing business (which is top-notch). They run a really good racket at IBM. And their software is arguably worth the tens-of-thousands per year that they charge for it.
Some software is "licensed" in a manner where the licensee needs to pay an annual fee to continue using it. Flex LM facilitates this sort of scheme which let's company's like IBM "rent" business software just like Xerox used to rent (not sell) their copy machines for business use decades ago (during the days where printing technology was incredibly expensive).
This "incredibly expensive" paradigm is a case for "software licenses". IBM isn't going to sell 10,000 new copies of ClearCase per year, but they still need to accumulate the $100 million dollars that it costs to develop that software. So, they charge their users about $10,000 per seat to make each year. The alternative is charging $25,000 per sale to make up for the 2-3 year gaps when people "skip versions" to save money. The end effect is nobody has a reason to severely lag behind several versions if they don't want to (ignoring cost of upgrading and re-training users and pretending people upgrade only when IBM offers new features which benefit them).
But the point is... demanding annual payment for a software product does have tangible benefits for the seller and the sellee.
Autodesk is actually in a similar ballpark, because their software is supposed to be a big cost of doing business for engineers and architects. But as long as there was no license management software in place (to disable use of the software on a specific date), it's silly to claim that Autodesk had given the guy a license.
I've run into problems searching for error messages generated from Open Source software, too. I think the problem is that there is little motivation to post the "solution" on a thousand sites where the issue is discussed once you stumble upon the page where the correct set of steps is listed. Another problem is that web advertising trolls harvest "discussion forums" to get content for their own pages, so if their "harvest" comes from an unresolved forum, the issue is needlessly propagated elsewhere.
In general, I'd agree with you. Good documentation is a Godsend. However, there are way too many configuration options out there to make producing a (concise) document that explains everything in a complete way.
Browser Options (privacy options and the stuff under the tools menu)
Current Page Options (address, print, view, back, reload)
Navigation Options (bookmarks, history, new tabs, new windows)
Plug-in Options (Flash Block, search bar, weather updates, et cetera)
I'd be skeptical about "changing" what's available because I've currently got it customized in a way that works well for me, but saying that they shouldn't work on it because different contexts don't apply on the internet is a bad because of how configurable a web browser is.
Synergy. Also, Dell wants the customers who gave Perot $2.8 billion in 2008 to give it to Dell instead. Acquisitions are a good way of getting new customers.
The words "malvertise", "malvertisement", "malvertising", and similar variants are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
No. I looked it up just cause your post hadn't been modded Funny yet. But I did find that "MalwareBytes" is a registered trademark of the MalwareBytes Corp. of Bensenville, Illinois 60106.
A: In my view, itâ(TM)s bad, because it means that the Board of Directors not only has complete control, but the Board is also self-perpetuating (i.e., the directors elect their own successors). Moreover, there are no term limits on how long a Board member can serve. In this kind of organization, the Board is not answerable to the participants, and the participants have no say or control at all over how the organization is managed or evolves.
The author of the article points out that Microsoft has created a self-controlling organization without industry partners and given it complete control of itself. The implication is that CodePlex will fail because participants will be backed into a corner if they want to do anything that the Board of Directors opposes. It seems like the term "Microsoft Open Source" is still an oxymoron.
If Lulu.com were able to strike a deal with Google to be the service provider for this, they would have. Lulu.com is EXPENSIVE for creating books. It's not clear what Google is planning on charging, but buying through Lulu.com costs a minimum of about $5 and that's without making a profit. If Google and the ODB are truly only scamming $2 off the top of sales then a comparable price compared to Lulu.com would be $7. I'd expect the price point for a Google/ODB copy to be closer to $4-5 to ensure nobody can come in and compete with them. And while I could be wrong, I'd expect Google/ODB to charge fair prices for all equivalent reproductions with no books costing some ridiculous amount "just because".
I'd also like to point out, Google/ODB books will be pure utility based on the picture in TFA. It seems like cover design has been thrown out the window and the paper they use is probably going to be as cheap as possible. This will lead to books that people would rather dispose (or donate) after they are done. So, it looks like you won't be building a library of Google printed books.
'The Mediterranean is 0.7 percent of the world's seas. If in this tiny portion there are more than 30 (toxic waste) shipwrecks, imagine what there could be elsewhere,'
well, it sounds as if they re already using RIAA math.
Sounds like he's trying to suggest there are 42,857 toxic shipwrecks spread throughout the rest of the world. And the Mediterranean ONLY has 30. Comparatively, what's the big deal?
The Complete Bullshit News Aggregation page, despite obvious flaws in it's name and rainbow design has implemented a remarkably innovative news reader design. If they could figure out some way to let me personalize the reader to filter only the types of stories that I care about (like how newspapers have a Sports section, an Arts and Entertainment section, a Business section, and then a whole bunch of other sections I throw away because I don't care about them) then something like this could catch on.
Hell, this is how I read CNN.com everyday. I go straight for the Sports and Business news and the scan the headlines in the other sections looking for articles that don't look like complete bullshit. For real world news the internet is already a waste and I listen to NPR. For the tech news that I'm interested in... well... you can already tell I read Slashdot since I'm posting here.
So yeah... Complete Bullshit would be a great platform if they renamed it, let you personalized the panel colors, and then let you pick keywords for news stories that are related to things you want to read about, but not discuss.
Thirded. I got my Mini 9 running Ubuntu as a deal for about $200 about 10 months ago and it's served me quite well. It's a shame they're only offering 10 and 12 inch models these days. The only complaint that I've had is certain programs (including OS configuration menus) use more screen height real-estate than is available and so it's impossible to click an "Ok" button positioned at the bottom of the screen. Though... this has never happened for anything important so I remain satisfied with the product line.
Based on cursory review, the main feature they seem to "upgrade" from the 9" to the 10" is the hard-drive space. For me, the 4GB solid state disc is an advantage over the 160 GB spinning disc because it's less likely to get corrupted by a drop. Then again, most spinning discs have failsafe mechanisms these days so maybe my concerns are overly cautious.
everyone can work for multiple people and let multiple people work for him
Somebody has to bare responsibility to getting new business though, and the loose system you describe wouldn't seem to be conducive to that for one very core reason... given freedom of choice workers would chase "sexy" projects but the economy is driven mostly by projects that aren't nearly as attractive.
However, you might want to check out Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom where an economy like you suggest is described. The additional thing that makes it work is a merit based rating system that makes it easy for the worker bees to identify the best bosses. It's a free download on his craphound.com site if you desire to take a peak.
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But should research so fundamental to life, such as the ribosome structure, be locked up for commercial gainâ"like Dynamite? Should a private institution, such as Yale, have the only say over how ribosomes may be developed into new biomedical technologies?
No, research should never be locked up. The patent system should evolve to the point where laymen with appropriate field knowledge and the right tools can copy ANY patented technique.
Yes, Yale absolutely has a right to decide what they do with their patent. If they sit on it, that's fine. There are other methods of doing what they learned to do. If the license it, that's fine too. Giving businesses the ability to benefit from their basic research is a good thing.
If Yale accumulates a big enough patent portfolio and tampers with the free market, they should be subject to government investigations and penalties. But in the case of Yale... they'll license to patent to bring in money to fund more fundamental research to future Yale scientists can advance the state of the art even further.
If the author really wants to attack stupid biological patents, he should investigate (correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the biggest offender is) Monsanto.
Lots of good Sci-Fi is available as downloadable audiobooks from the public domain site Librivox.org. I know Jules Verne is on there. I recall Ayn Rand's Anthem being fairly short (3-4 hours), good quality, and thought providing.
I want to 'friend' journalists I like and trust on facebook and then see their stories
Facebook is prone to as much advertiser and "Quiz/Game/Application" noise as traditional newspapers. Twitter has a big advantage as long as they maintain the 155 character limit. Those 155 characters are enough for a Headline and a Tinyurl Link. That's your pathway for news.
Check out a "Green" blog related to local news that targets Morris County, NJ. There are a handful of real, opinionated, intelligent articles that are balanced by these simple Twitter feeds that bring you to other relevant information.
What I don't understand, while we are on the subject, is "Copy/Paste" journalism. For fucks sake... CNN copies the same spelling and grammar mistakes made by AP/Reuters. Can't they at least get a $10/hr copy editor to screen what they publish? That being said... there is NO VALUE in copying an article and pasting it in your blog. Eventually readers will figure out that you are not a SOURCE of information and they will move elsewhere. The national news sites (CNN, NBC, ABC, Faux News) already provide aggregated world news. Therefore, don't attempt to deliver regurgitated/aggregated news at a local level, unless that news somehow affects the local community.
At least not if the folks serving ads are worth their salt.
(emphasis mine)
Ahh... the false conditional assumption. If he got the job, he must be qualified for it. If people are buying Toyota Camry's they must be the best car on the road. If the store raises their prices, they must also be selling stuff that's better quality.
Don't be tricked assuming things are true just because some other logical condition has been met!
I told Hulu that I'm a 20-something guy. You'd think they'd realize I'm not worried about my "inadequate lashes" or wrinkles..
You didn't mention that you where a member of slashdot did you???
If he did, they'd stream him Mountain Dew and Cheetos adverts.
Suddenly targeted ads don't seem so bad. And if I could get rid of the car commercials except the one time every 5 years that I'm shopping for a car that would be good.
And no matter how many Budweiser and Coors Light commercials I see... I'm not buying their beer. They need to make it taste less like water.
Also, sites that auto-load video w/ audio (whether it's an ad or not) should be banned from the internet. ESPN does this... I'm *very* close to finding a new site for getting sports news.
The comparisons I made to IBM... you should know that they BUY competitors to ensure that competition doesn't put a wrench in their software licensing business (which is top-notch). They run a really good racket at IBM. And their software is arguably worth the tens-of-thousands per year that they charge for it.
Some software is "licensed" in a manner where the licensee needs to pay an annual fee to continue using it. Flex LM facilitates this sort of scheme which let's company's like IBM "rent" business software just like Xerox used to rent (not sell) their copy machines for business use decades ago (during the days where printing technology was incredibly expensive).
This "incredibly expensive" paradigm is a case for "software licenses". IBM isn't going to sell 10,000 new copies of ClearCase per year, but they still need to accumulate the $100 million dollars that it costs to develop that software. So, they charge their users about $10,000 per seat to make each year. The alternative is charging $25,000 per sale to make up for the 2-3 year gaps when people "skip versions" to save money. The end effect is nobody has a reason to severely lag behind several versions if they don't want to (ignoring cost of upgrading and re-training users and pretending people upgrade only when IBM offers new features which benefit them).
But the point is... demanding annual payment for a software product does have tangible benefits for the seller and the sellee.
Autodesk is actually in a similar ballpark, because their software is supposed to be a big cost of doing business for engineers and architects. But as long as there was no license management software in place (to disable use of the software on a specific date), it's silly to claim that Autodesk had given the guy a license.
Windows Button + L also locks your desktop on Windows (assuming you have a keyboard with the Windows button).
I've run into problems searching for error messages generated from Open Source software, too. I think the problem is that there is little motivation to post the "solution" on a thousand sites where the issue is discussed once you stumble upon the page where the correct set of steps is listed. Another problem is that web advertising trolls harvest "discussion forums" to get content for their own pages, so if their "harvest" comes from an unresolved forum, the issue is needlessly propagated elsewhere.
In general, I'd agree with you. Good documentation is a Godsend. However, there are way too many configuration options out there to make producing a (concise) document that explains everything in a complete way.
Who needs tiny bits of water when you can be playing blackjack with space hookers.
I disagree. Web browsers have numerous contexts.
I'd be skeptical about "changing" what's available because I've currently got it customized in a way that works well for me, but saying that they shouldn't work on it because different contexts don't apply on the internet is a bad because of how configurable a web browser is.
What are actual real products they offer?
Synergy. Also, Dell wants the customers who gave Perot $2.8 billion in 2008 to give it to Dell instead. Acquisitions are a good way of getting new customers.
Testing out your signature linking software...
Link to this article
That is all.
you know kids, it's up to you to watch your parents and report any suspicious or bad behavior.
doubleplusunfunny
The words "malvertise", "malvertisement", "malvertising", and similar variants are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
No. I looked it up just cause your post hadn't been modded Funny yet. But I did find that "MalwareBytes" is a registered trademark of the MalwareBytes Corp. of Bensenville, Illinois 60106.
But then somebody smart will hack the DHS website and replace it with this:
<center><h1><font color="#FF00FF">Everybody panic. OMG! Ponies!</font></h1></center>
From FTA:
Q: Is that good or bad?
A: In my view, itâ(TM)s bad, because it means that the Board of Directors not only has complete control, but the Board is also self-perpetuating (i.e., the directors elect their own successors). Moreover, there are no term limits on how long a Board member can serve. In this kind of organization, the Board is not answerable to the participants, and the participants have no say or control at all over how the organization is managed or evolves.
The author of the article points out that Microsoft has created a self-controlling organization without industry partners and given it complete control of itself. The implication is that CodePlex will fail because participants will be backed into a corner if they want to do anything that the Board of Directors opposes. It seems like the term "Microsoft Open Source" is still an oxymoron.
If Lulu.com were able to strike a deal with Google to be the service provider for this, they would have. Lulu.com is EXPENSIVE for creating books. It's not clear what Google is planning on charging, but buying through Lulu.com costs a minimum of about $5 and that's without making a profit. If Google and the ODB are truly only scamming $2 off the top of sales then a comparable price compared to Lulu.com would be $7. I'd expect the price point for a Google/ODB copy to be closer to $4-5 to ensure nobody can come in and compete with them. And while I could be wrong, I'd expect Google/ODB to charge fair prices for all equivalent reproductions with no books costing some ridiculous amount "just because".
I'd also like to point out, Google/ODB books will be pure utility based on the picture in TFA. It seems like cover design has been thrown out the window and the paper they use is probably going to be as cheap as possible. This will lead to books that people would rather dispose (or donate) after they are done. So, it looks like you won't be building a library of Google printed books.
'The Mediterranean is 0.7 percent of the world's seas. If in this tiny portion there are more than 30 (toxic waste) shipwrecks, imagine what there could be elsewhere,'
well, it sounds as if they re already using RIAA math.
Sounds like he's trying to suggest there are 42,857 toxic shipwrecks spread throughout the rest of the world. And the Mediterranean ONLY has 30. Comparatively, what's the big deal?
The Complete Bullshit News Aggregation page, despite obvious flaws in it's name and rainbow design has implemented a remarkably innovative news reader design. If they could figure out some way to let me personalize the reader to filter only the types of stories that I care about (like how newspapers have a Sports section, an Arts and Entertainment section, a Business section, and then a whole bunch of other sections I throw away because I don't care about them) then something like this could catch on.
Hell, this is how I read CNN.com everyday. I go straight for the Sports and Business news and the scan the headlines in the other sections looking for articles that don't look like complete bullshit. For real world news the internet is already a waste and I listen to NPR. For the tech news that I'm interested in... well... you can already tell I read Slashdot since I'm posting here.
So yeah... Complete Bullshit would be a great platform if they renamed it, let you personalized the panel colors, and then let you pick keywords for news stories that are related to things you want to read about, but not discuss.
Thirded. I got my Mini 9 running Ubuntu as a deal for about $200 about 10 months ago and it's served me quite well. It's a shame they're only offering 10 and 12 inch models these days. The only complaint that I've had is certain programs (including OS configuration menus) use more screen height real-estate than is available and so it's impossible to click an "Ok" button positioned at the bottom of the screen. Though... this has never happened for anything important so I remain satisfied with the product line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Inspiron_Mini_Series
Based on cursory review, the main feature they seem to "upgrade" from the 9" to the 10" is the hard-drive space. For me, the 4GB solid state disc is an advantage over the 160 GB spinning disc because it's less likely to get corrupted by a drop. Then again, most spinning discs have failsafe mechanisms these days so maybe my concerns are overly cautious.
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/laptop-mini2?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
Mmmm... Dollar Menu Burger King Food Mass.
everyone can work for multiple people and let multiple people work for him
Somebody has to bare responsibility to getting new business though, and the loose system you describe wouldn't seem to be conducive to that for one very core reason... given freedom of choice workers would chase "sexy" projects but the economy is driven mostly by projects that aren't nearly as attractive.
However, you might want to check out Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom where an economy like you suggest is described. The additional thing that makes it work is a merit based rating system that makes it easy for the worker bees to identify the best bosses. It's a free download on his craphound.com site if you desire to take a peak.