What is the role of a firm in the rights holding business? It is to extract as much profit from those rights as possible, not to prevent sharing per se. Note that currently this means prohibiting trading/sharing, but it might not always. What if a scheme came about where ISPs would pay a "tax" to rights holders in exchange for free sharing of ISP users (which of course would be passed on to ISP users as a bill item)?? In this scheme rights holders may end up making much more money...but would still be illegal. Rights holders could end up back lobbying for this to be repealled as their shareholders abondon ship....
This won't derail linux, there is enough momentum and good code out there already, and plenty of big players who have bought in and are investing.
If someone is stuck on using Windows, so be it. If they think the bugs, security issues etc are trumped by "sticking with brand X", then stay with brand X.
If you lie about what you are describing, we can still use trust-relationship and google-like revance stuff to find what we want to find.
If we can use statistical methods to infer the truthfulness of semantic data, then by definition it is useless as you are saying all the important data lies in the text and the semantic markup can inherently be verified using that test.
As an analogy, I may wear a name tag claiming my height. You are telling me you can use your ruler to verify the veracity of this data. Then what is the point of the name tag? Just use your ruler. The name tag at that point is worthless.
And who's to say that the Semantic Web metadata will not be populated with statistical text analysis and hyper-text analysis?
Statistical methods excel at query relevance, not ontological interpretation. If the latter were the case, Google would be auto-constructing DMOZ instead of seeding page rank with it.
Unless you think META strings like "pussy sex sex hentai bukkakae virgin tight" are useful, you are wrong and have been wrong for at least eight years. Of course if people could be trusted to reliably define their own content that would be great, but they can't, and this is already well known and established, which is why no relelvance engine weights META tag data in any significant way.
As has been stated many times, content producers will spoof semantic data just like they used to with the META tag...which is why no one uses the META tag anymore. Relevance algorithms take into account link analysis and statistical text analysis to provide a much more truthful representation of what data is there. Sorry Tim.
Move women from noninteractive soaps into self-modifying storylines like this and you can put a fork in most tv viewing by 2010.
To really accelrate this, The Sims should allow people to enter virtual reality show contests, take Survivor and the Apprentice out with the same shot that kills Days of Our Lives.
With winter coming and the price of oil approaching $50, you can now safely turn off your heater and just point the vent of your 6Ghz P4 into the middle of the room...or maybe run a venting system off of it connected to the heat ducts in your house...
It didn't come up for the simple fact that it's a non-issue. The surplus was a paper surplus that assumed the stock market boom caused by the dot com gold rush would continue forever.
This is correct.
The current deficit projections are a paper deficit that assumes the stangant economy from just after the dot com crash will continue on forever.
That is incorrect by definition - the "economy will grow out the debt" argument only holds if you have enough time for the growth to generate new wealth. The baby boomers start to retire in 2008, time's up. The growth argument is no longer considered rational by the General Accounting Office or or US Federal Reserve by the way.
The government can increase spending while having real revenues drop.
How you may ask? The govt prints its own currency. That is the difference between you, a corporation, a bank, and the govt.
The govt can print a treasury note and sell it to the Chinese govt in exchange for future payment. When the Chinese govt redeems this note, the US govt may create an account out of nothing and sign it over to the Chinese. This is as a result of a 1982 law. They do not need real money to redeem the note, they may create it at will.
Please do some cursory research into how your govt creates money before posting.
Our first goal is to complete the International Space Station by 2010
another quote:
To meet this goal, we will return the Space Shuttle to flight as soon as possible
This doesn't tell me anything is changing in the next decade. ISS will take until 2015. 2010 is a pipe dream. Add another five years of maintainence. The shuttle replacements have apparently been right around the corner for a decade or more. I will believe it when I see Congress pass funding for a specific design.
Until then you have a govt knee deep in a foreign quagmire it cannot fund.
the government is based on the idea of spending money it doesnt have.
Thats right - to buy the complacency of the citizenry. That means more tax cuts (a form of spending) so people can buy more plasma TVs and SUVs. Not to send people to Mars.
The US has involved itself in a huge pork project (ISS) that will syphon off most of the money for space in the near future. Talk of Mars is just that, talk. The US is floating a $7 trillion dollar real debt, huge deficits, and (according to the Fed study) a social security future deficit of $50 TRILLION. If you think the govt is going to fund a Mars program or any other new manned program you are deluded.
ActiveX part deux, but this time it works. If Google was to push a site linked to XUL apps in a gecko-based browser, they could start owning the desktop outright.
The key is tying the apps to the browser. If its just yet-another gecko browser, this will have limited impact.
Come on, people have been hawking "scalable enterprise empowerment" or "veritcally integrated open groupware" or "user-centric frameworks for collaboration" for a decade.
The bottom line is that this job pays poorly and hence attracts poor candidates in many job markets. But to pay nurses more you have to take it out of hospital exec pay or doctor pay. Probably won't happen. But you may see a JetBlue vs. United situation take hold - a hospital that charges lower rates for basic care but won't accept high doctor pay or unions of any kind. Doctors, like airline pilots, believe they are above wage concessions...almost as if they are entitled to wealth. This will change. The healthcare company execs will simply outsource to foreign doctors the same way tech has been outsourced.
Not true, just setting a value on good shifts
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The nursing profession already is low paying and has been for a while. Lots of the workers are from overseas. Its unlikely wages will drop in this field because they have already been gutted.
This just lets the poor lady who works nights get a little more compensation relative to her peers...why not?
As for you being a "person"...well, don't get too involved in being very sick in the US, you will find out quickly it is a business, and yes they basically will let you die in favor of a better funded or insured patient. If you have HMO, they must clear every procedure. This means your treatment is waiting on a claims agent who dropped out of high school in Alabama. Don't think people haven't died while waiting on treatment clearance.
Why shouldn't nurses who work crappy shifts make relatively more money? Current seniority typically determines who gets good and bad shifts, but why should you have to wait twenty years to get Christmas off?
Note that a system already exists like this - nurses and other 24/7/365 workers already trade shifts in a barter system. My father was a firefighter and my mother a nurse - they routinely assigned values to the days they were trading with someone. Christmas day was not traded for a single shift, I can assure you.
It would be good to see the motivations for Epiphany (GNOME integration) and Galeon (simplicity...?) rolled back into Firefox. I am somewhat dubious as to a fractured market of dozens of gecko browsers. OR at the very least I would like to see the alternatives support the Firefox plugin architecture.
perl or python as javascript replacements would be cool (although they would likely not take off)
Other than that I really can't complain - the extension mechanism lets developers scrathc their itches quickly without derailing or sidetracking the main browser effort...the collection of extensions is already incredible.
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What is the role of a firm in the rights holding business? It is to extract as much profit from those rights as possible, not to prevent sharing per se. Note that currently this means prohibiting trading/sharing, but it might not always. What if a scheme came about where ISPs would pay a "tax" to rights holders in exchange for free sharing of ISP users (which of course would be passed on to ISP users as a bill item)?? In this scheme rights holders may end up making much more money...but would still be illegal. Rights holders could end up back lobbying for this to be repealled as their shareholders abondon ship....
If someone is stuck on using Windows, so be it. If they think the bugs, security issues etc are trumped by "sticking with brand X", then stay with brand X.
If we can use statistical methods to infer the truthfulness of semantic data, then by definition it is useless as you are saying all the important data lies in the text and the semantic markup can inherently be verified using that test.
As an analogy, I may wear a name tag claiming my height. You are telling me you can use your ruler to verify the veracity of this data. Then what is the point of the name tag? Just use your ruler. The name tag at that point is worthless.
Statistical methods excel at query relevance, not ontological interpretation. If the latter were the case, Google would be auto-constructing DMOZ instead of seeding page rank with it.
Unless you think META strings like "pussy sex sex hentai bukkakae virgin tight" are useful, you are wrong and have been wrong for at least eight years. Of course if people could be trusted to reliably define their own content that would be great, but they can't, and this is already well known and established, which is why no relelvance engine weights META tag data in any significant way.
Change is not always good. Too bad. go live in a cave instead of asking the rest of us to.
Thats why the President tavels in a Cadillac tank and never gets out of it unless it is at a highly controlled semi-public event.
As has been stated many times, content producers will spoof semantic data just like they used to with the META tag...which is why no one uses the META tag anymore. Relevance algorithms take into account link analysis and statistical text analysis to provide a much more truthful representation of what data is there. Sorry Tim.
To really accelrate this, The Sims should allow people to enter virtual reality show contests, take Survivor and the Apprentice out with the same shot that kills Days of Our Lives.
With winter coming and the price of oil approaching $50, you can now safely turn off your heater and just point the vent of your 6Ghz P4 into the middle of the room...or maybe run a venting system off of it connected to the heat ducts in your house...
This is correct.
The current deficit projections are a paper deficit that assumes the stangant economy from just after the dot com crash will continue on forever.
That is incorrect by definition - the "economy will grow out the debt" argument only holds if you have enough time for the growth to generate new wealth. The baby boomers start to retire in 2008, time's up. The growth argument is no longer considered rational by the General Accounting Office or or US Federal Reserve by the way.
The government can increase spending while having real revenues drop.
How you may ask? The govt prints its own currency. That is the difference between you, a corporation, a bank, and the govt.
The govt can print a treasury note and sell it to the Chinese govt in exchange for future payment. When the Chinese govt redeems this note, the US govt may create an account out of nothing and sign it over to the Chinese. This is as a result of a 1982 law. They do not need real money to redeem the note, they may create it at will.
Please do some cursory research into how your govt creates money before posting.
Our first goal is to complete the International Space Station by 2010
another quote:
To meet this goal, we will return the Space Shuttle to flight as soon as possible
This doesn't tell me anything is changing in the next decade. ISS will take until 2015. 2010 is a pipe dream. Add another five years of maintainence. The shuttle replacements have apparently been right around the corner for a decade or more. I will believe it when I see Congress pass funding for a specific design.
Until then you have a govt knee deep in a foreign quagmire it cannot fund.
Where is there a plan to abandon ISS?
Thats right - to buy the complacency of the citizenry. That means more tax cuts (a form of spending) so people can buy more plasma TVs and SUVs. Not to send people to Mars.
The US has involved itself in a huge pork project (ISS) that will syphon off most of the money for space in the near future. Talk of Mars is just that, talk. The US is floating a $7 trillion dollar real debt, huge deficits, and (according to the Fed study) a social security future deficit of $50 TRILLION. If you think the govt is going to fund a Mars program or any other new manned program you are deluded.
They are a blip in this market. They aren't even competing with Rio let alone Apple.
The key is tying the apps to the browser. If its just yet-another gecko browser, this will have limited impact.
Come on, people have been hawking "scalable enterprise empowerment" or "veritcally integrated open groupware" or "user-centric frameworks for collaboration" for a decade.
In 25 years Hollywood will have composite heros and babes that will never age or get paid.
The bottom line is that this job pays poorly and hence attracts poor candidates in many job markets. But to pay nurses more you have to take it out of hospital exec pay or doctor pay. Probably won't happen. But you may see a JetBlue vs. United situation take hold - a hospital that charges lower rates for basic care but won't accept high doctor pay or unions of any kind. Doctors, like airline pilots, believe they are above wage concessions...almost as if they are entitled to wealth. This will change. The healthcare company execs will simply outsource to foreign doctors the same way tech has been outsourced.
This just lets the poor lady who works nights get a little more compensation relative to her peers...why not?
As for you being a "person"...well, don't get too involved in being very sick in the US, you will find out quickly it is a business, and yes they basically will let you die in favor of a better funded or insured patient. If you have HMO, they must clear every procedure. This means your treatment is waiting on a claims agent who dropped out of high school in Alabama. Don't think people haven't died while waiting on treatment clearance.
The nursing field has travelling nurses and temps and part timers. In larger hospitals most of the nurses don't know each other.
Note that a system already exists like this - nurses and other 24/7/365 workers already trade shifts in a barter system. My father was a firefighter and my mother a nurse - they routinely assigned values to the days they were trading with someone. Christmas day was not traded for a single shift, I can assure you.
perl or python as javascript replacements would be cool (although they would likely not take off)
Other than that I really can't complain - the extension mechanism lets developers scrathc their itches quickly without derailing or sidetracking the main browser effort...the collection of extensions is already incredible.