Dude was driving with a revoked license. He needs to go to jail since obviously just taking his license away doesn't seem to be all that effective in curbing his poor judgement.
Instead of trying to "cheap out"? The proof's in the pudding. Nobody was licensing it, never mind just Curtiss. Nobody thought they could afford to and build a plane for a profit. You know how we know that? Because nobody built any planes!
"That's what patents are for, i.e. to help foster the spread and use of new technologies via the profit motive."
Yes and the Wrights were being so *fair* with their patent licensing prices that the government had to step on them because a war had broken out and nobody had built any worthwhile number of planes in a DECADE. That's a really interesting perspective of the definition of "foster and spread". In practice it looked a lot more like "lock out and monopolize".
She's from Victoria, BC. It was almost 90F in Victoria over the weekend. Which is apparently about what it is in Miami right now. It's not all a frozen wasteland up here ya know.
Ah yes, why try for better when we already have good enough?
"Trying to profit from their invention"
If by profit you mean "monopolize" then yes, they were trying to "profit". Do you honestly think if their licensing fees on their patent were anything close to reasonable that the state of general aviation at the opening of WWI would have been so bad the government had to step in and say "Hey Wrights! FUCK OFF with your bullshit, we need planes and we need them yesterday! We're having to buy planes from the French, for Christ's sake!"
You seem to forget your history. Look at airplanes. The Wrights had patents and then this happened:
"In 1906 the Wrights received a patent for their method of flight control which they fiercely defended for years afterward, suing foreign and domestic aviators and companies, especially another U.S. aviation pioneer, Glenn Curtiss, in an attempt to collect licensing fees. Their legal threats suppressed development of the U.S. aviation industry for several years"
Things got so bad, the US Government had to step in and basically forced them and the Curtiss company to license patents in a patent pool arrangement since by 1917 almost no new planes were being built anywhere in the US and they were desperately needed for the war effort.
Just think where General Aviation would be today if the Wrights hasn't used their patent as a bat to keep everyone else out of the industry for a decade and a half.
One thing I do know was/is a problem with monitors and eyestrain has to do with fluorescent lighting in the room. We can't see it with the naked eye, but the fluorescents are also flickering at 60hz and I've had it happen in the past that if the CRTs I was using were out of sync, (running at 75hz or similar) after a while I'd get weird eye strain from something we can't consciously perceive but our eyes still try to correct for. I usually solved the problem by either setting the CRT sync rate as high as it would go or syncing it to 60hz, or preferably getting rid of the fluorescent lighting completely in my workspace when possible. Maybe a similar effect is at work here?
Even the mainstream news cycle picked up the "Can you believe this shit" tone that was going around during and after E3. Many, many people have now firmly dismissed the Xbox One (or Xbone) as a choice based on that, and they're not going to be hearing that the restrictions have vanished because this correction isn't going to get nearly the traction the original story (and associated outrage) did. When you have active duty personnel penning columns in newspapers saying that Microsoft's basically decided to shit on all active servicemembers with the call-home and in-country requirement, a little retraction buried on page 29 isn't going to make it into many peoples' minds.
" I can't imagine how they come back with a less resilient architecture and suddenly be view favorably..."
I can $ee how they might $way potential cu$tomer$ away from v$phere. vSphere is very pricy and a hard sell. With ESXi, they get you with the "first one's free" mentality, but the jump from free ESXi to paying for ESX for small installations is VERY steep. Red Hat could compete by having a better pricing model. Whether they will or not is another question.
"but being first has advantages"
A guy I used to work with always said in the end all pioneers ended up with were arrows in their backs, while the settlers moved in on their unmarked graves. That's usually true. VMWare has already put their foot wrong several times with their base, the most recent time springs to mind when they tried changing the licensing price by tying it to blocks of RAM instead of physical machines and their entire user base almost revolted. They'd better be careful as competitors start to match their feature set more.
Why should this be on the insurance company. The intent of the law is the artifact is culturally important and belongs to "all", so why should its recovery only be subsidized by a small portion of the "all" (i.e. the customers of that particular insurance company)? The only thing this article has taught me to do is if I dig and find remains on my property, fill them back in and forget it ever happened. I don't have 5K lying around for this shit.
You're repeating incorrect facts on this story. If you read the actual story, the SJ airport (where he's been operating out of for more than 10 years) has a curfew on "weight classes" for planes, not stopping flights completely. And Ellison's plane can be operated in two different weight configurations, one of which is allowed after the curfew, which is the configuration he's used, backed up by his crews' logs, to land at SJ. The airport on the other hand has tried to use the argument that if the plane CAN be configured that way, it must be doing it. The judge in the case agreed with Ellison's logs and told the airport to pound sand:
Doing something you're legally allowed to do and then having some pencildick try to fine you for it anyway is not the definition of being an awful person. Ellison's done many questionable things, let's not muddy the waters by spouting misinfomation.
And as a side observation, if you buy a property next to an airport and expect quiet, you're gonna have a bad time. So don't bitch when you hear planes at night at an airport you live next to.
I did mention capacity planning. I think 1-5% of xbox live users is a stunningly low estimate to be honest. During peak hours it's probably more like a minimum of 15%. So that's still almost another $200 of back end infrastructure per console. And during AAA release weeks I would certainly anticipate a surge in load. Look at the twin clusterfucks of the Diablo III and Simcity launches. Nothing like paying top dollar for a game you can't use for 2-3 weeks because of "server" problems, especially a single-player game. And how will all this be managed? Will it be dedicated resources for particular titles that get shut down after a couple of years like we've seen with other Xbox Live titles? In 2017 will single-player NHL 2014 even work? We would of course presume Microsoft's not that stupid, but we've been wrong many times before.
They're only 1/6 the price of Glass at current and undetectable at a glance. What's your plan for stopping these? A sign on the door?
"justify everybody recording everybody else whenever they want just because its legal"
Again, exactly the same thing can be said about the cameras in your shop, the ATM camera that also overlooks the street, the cameras you have under your awning pointing at the sidewalk, cameras in the condo lobby, the underground parking lot, the restaurant you ate at last night, the cameras on light poles, the cameras in cop cars, dash cams, etc.
If you don't want to be videoed, I suggest never leaving the house. At least Glass gives the common courtesy of being clearly visible as opposed to all the concealed cameras we're exposed to daily.
"everybody recording everybody else whenever they want just because its legal"
And this is the other interesting part of the whole debate. Seeing as battery life and storage space are still concerns, Glass won't be recording 99% of the time. And frankly, *you're not that interesting, so why the fuck would I spend precious resources to record your boring ass?* The camera's there in case something interesting happens.
Get over it. If you're out in public you have no privacy. Any time you go to the store you're captured in dozens of camera views even before you make it into the parking lot.
"But there is no defense against people walking into your store,"
When I walk into your store, you're already videotaping ME, why should you have a problem if I level the playing field?
It's the difference between a surveillance society (which we already have) and a sousveillance society. Already we can be held to account by those running the cameras, but those in power are desperately trying to make sure we can't hold them accountable by the same means: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kern-beating-fbi-20130515,0,760051,full.story
I think if you're out in public, it's fair game. If you don't want guests coming into your residence or a private function wearing it, tell them to take it off. It's like shoes.
It still smells like bullshit. They're going to provision $1000+ worth of hardware for every console? Yeah, yeah, load based demand over a pool, but still... Plus they're somehow going to deliver all of that capability over a DSL or cable connection? When developers and hardware makers are bitching and whining that the local bus inside the PC/console is "only" 2GB/s I find it difficult to believe that a trickle of 5-10Mbps of additional data to the system is going to help do anything very well.
Actually what I think was stunningly telling was what his lawyer said about it the day it broke. His lawyer only said that you couldn't tell on the video what the people were doing. He didn't say it wasn't Ford in the video. That to me pretty much says Ford told him that the video is legit and he's trying to spin it for the inevitable reveal as Ford was not actually smoking crack/goofing around pretending/smoking *tobacco* or some similar bs. Much like other famous people photoed/videoed taking a bong hit and claiming it's not MJ in the bong.
"while they cannot have a free for CC use they can offer a rebate to cash customers"
I assume you mean a fee, not a free. In any case, that violates the terms and conditions that the merchant agrees to with their CC processor and they can face sanctions, higher fees or even just be dropped by the processor altogether if caught giving cash rebates. Some of the smaller merchants do it anyway and rely on the goodwill of their clientèle not to rat them out. Then some sanctimonious prick who objects to a.04c difference paying by CC on a pack of gum comes along and pitches a fit to the processor and ruins it for everyone. And this is why we can't have nice things.
" If I can give him $100 and take $1 back vs giving him $100 and $0 back I know which I will select."
Then don't be surprised that the next time you go to the store you're paying $102 for the same amount of goods.... Merchants are there to make money, not run a charity. If the credit card fees and service fees gouge their margin, they'll get it back by passing it all along to us.
Actually ALL of those card benefits you receive come straight out of the merchant's pocket. Airmiles, purchase points and cash back are all being extracted from the merchants in addition to the CC fees which can be as high as 5% or more. There's a reason businesses prefer cash and why Interac is so popular in Canada with merchants as their fees are considerably lower.
Don't forget Mobilicity. Between them and Wind, they're scaring the shit out of the Rogers/Telus/Bell triopoly. I've been with Fido for ages because I used to have the old pre-Rogers acquisition City Fido grandfathered in on my account. When I went to renew in December they finally had something better for less money. I'm paying $60 a month now and have basically unlimited Canada-wide use of my phone, except for data, which is a 2 GB cap. I can literally walk from one end of the country to the other, talking 24/7 as I go and it costs me just that one flat rate. No roaming, no long distance charges. Something like that from one of the Big Boys was unthinkable 2 years ago, but when they're competing with metro-area plans from Wind and Mobilicity that are all you can eat for $25, they gotta do something.
You might want to point out to us where you saw "for non-commercial use" because I don't see that anywhere. I was always under the impression ESXi was a crippled first-ones-free method of getting companies to use VMWare and then upsell them when they realize there isn't central management, live motion, or support for more than 32GB of RAM/VM
60 hours a week is NOT a "comfortable gig" unless you're fresh out of uni with no appreciable outside life. I did that for almost 10 years and looking back on it can't believe I did it as long as I did. There are plenty of tech companies around that "get it" and don't squeeze every last waking minute out of their people. One thing I definitely noticed was that the longer you make people work, the less work/hour they did since they were planning to be there for 12 hours a day anyway. Or if they were being pushed hard during those 12 hours, toward the end of the week they started to make costly mistakes that took hours to find and correct. In both cases the company was making minimal gains at large personal cost to the employees.
All of these violations make the assumption that the drone/RC craft was actually under remote control at the time. In the last couple of months I've purchased one of the cheapo AR Drone quadcopters and in the course of enjoying it have been doing a lot of looking at other peoples' adventures and mods with both the AR Drone and other quad/hex/octocopters. I've seen no shortage of videos where someone's sent an AR Drone up to the limit of its normal radio range and the drone loses connection to the controller then wanders off with the prevailing wind pushing it, still at 100+ meters altitude until it runs out of juice. In a couple of cases those drones ended up miles away from their launch point and took days to find. The AR drones can record video locally onto a USB stick so there's no need for them to transmit back to record video. And I've also seen other copter drones that have internal GPS and fly a preset course, also eliminating the need for remote control.
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Dude was driving with a revoked license. He needs to go to jail since obviously just taking his license away doesn't seem to be all that effective in curbing his poor judgement.
The driver fleeing the scene is a pretty clear indication of whose fault the driver presumed the accident to be. Hint: not the cyclist's.
Instead of trying to "cheap out"? The proof's in the pudding. Nobody was licensing it, never mind just Curtiss. Nobody thought they could afford to and build a plane for a profit. You know how we know that? Because nobody built any planes!
"That's what patents are for, i.e. to help foster the spread and use of new technologies via the profit motive."
Yes and the Wrights were being so *fair* with their patent licensing prices that the government had to step on them because a war had broken out and nobody had built any worthwhile number of planes in a DECADE. That's a really interesting perspective of the definition of "foster and spread". In practice it looked a lot more like "lock out and monopolize".
What do you think "almost" means? 32C is 89.6F.
She's from Victoria, BC. It was almost 90F in Victoria over the weekend. Which is apparently about what it is in Miami right now. It's not all a frozen wasteland up here ya know.
"Because that's already pretty damned good."
Ah yes, why try for better when we already have good enough?
"Trying to profit from their invention"
If by profit you mean "monopolize" then yes, they were trying to "profit". Do you honestly think if their licensing fees on their patent were anything close to reasonable that the state of general aviation at the opening of WWI would have been so bad the government had to step in and say "Hey Wrights! FUCK OFF with your bullshit, we need planes and we need them yesterday! We're having to buy planes from the French, for Christ's sake!"
You seem to forget your history. Look at airplanes. The Wrights had patents and then this happened:
"In 1906 the Wrights received a patent for their method of flight control which they fiercely defended for years afterward, suing foreign and domestic aviators and companies, especially another U.S. aviation pioneer, Glenn Curtiss, in an attempt to collect licensing fees. Their legal threats suppressed development of the U.S. aviation industry for several years"
Things got so bad, the US Government had to step in and basically forced them and the Curtiss company to license patents in a patent pool arrangement since by 1917 almost no new planes were being built anywhere in the US and they were desperately needed for the war effort.
Just think where General Aviation would be today if the Wrights hasn't used their patent as a bat to keep everyone else out of the industry for a decade and a half.
One thing I do know was/is a problem with monitors and eyestrain has to do with fluorescent lighting in the room. We can't see it with the naked eye, but the fluorescents are also flickering at 60hz and I've had it happen in the past that if the CRTs I was using were out of sync, (running at 75hz or similar) after a while I'd get weird eye strain from something we can't consciously perceive but our eyes still try to correct for. I usually solved the problem by either setting the CRT sync rate as high as it would go or syncing it to 60hz, or preferably getting rid of the fluorescent lighting completely in my workspace when possible. Maybe a similar effect is at work here?
Even the mainstream news cycle picked up the "Can you believe this shit" tone that was going around during and after E3. Many, many people have now firmly dismissed the Xbox One (or Xbone) as a choice based on that, and they're not going to be hearing that the restrictions have vanished because this correction isn't going to get nearly the traction the original story (and associated outrage) did. When you have active duty personnel penning columns in newspapers saying that Microsoft's basically decided to shit on all active servicemembers with the call-home and in-country requirement, a little retraction buried on page 29 isn't going to make it into many peoples' minds.
" I can't imagine how they come back with a less resilient architecture and suddenly be view favorably..."
I can $ee how they might $way potential cu$tomer$ away from v$phere. vSphere is very pricy and a hard sell. With ESXi, they get you with the "first one's free" mentality, but the jump from free ESXi to paying for ESX for small installations is VERY steep. Red Hat could compete by having a better pricing model. Whether they will or not is another question.
"but being first has advantages"
A guy I used to work with always said in the end all pioneers ended up with were arrows in their backs, while the settlers moved in on their unmarked graves. That's usually true. VMWare has already put their foot wrong several times with their base, the most recent time springs to mind when they tried changing the licensing price by tying it to blocks of RAM instead of physical machines and their entire user base almost revolted. They'd better be careful as competitors start to match their feature set more.
Why should this be on the insurance company. The intent of the law is the artifact is culturally important and belongs to "all", so why should its recovery only be subsidized by a small portion of the "all" (i.e. the customers of that particular insurance company)? The only thing this article has taught me to do is if I dig and find remains on my property, fill them back in and forget it ever happened. I don't have 5K lying around for this shit.
You're repeating incorrect facts on this story. If you read the actual story, the SJ airport (where he's been operating out of for more than 10 years) has a curfew on "weight classes" for planes, not stopping flights completely. And Ellison's plane can be operated in two different weight configurations, one of which is allowed after the curfew, which is the configuration he's used, backed up by his crews' logs, to land at SJ. The airport on the other hand has tried to use the argument that if the plane CAN be configured that way, it must be doing it. The judge in the case agreed with Ellison's logs and told the airport to pound sand:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Judge-clears-Ellison-for-landing-at-night-2909426.php
Doing something you're legally allowed to do and then having some pencildick try to fine you for it anyway is not the definition of being an awful person. Ellison's done many questionable things, let's not muddy the waters by spouting misinfomation.
And as a side observation, if you buy a property next to an airport and expect quiet, you're gonna have a bad time. So don't bitch when you hear planes at night at an airport you live next to.
I did mention capacity planning. I think 1-5% of xbox live users is a stunningly low estimate to be honest. During peak hours it's probably more like a minimum of 15%. So that's still almost another $200 of back end infrastructure per console. And during AAA release weeks I would certainly anticipate a surge in load. Look at the twin clusterfucks of the Diablo III and Simcity launches. Nothing like paying top dollar for a game you can't use for 2-3 weeks because of "server" problems, especially a single-player game. And how will all this be managed? Will it be dedicated resources for particular titles that get shut down after a couple of years like we've seen with other Xbox Live titles? In 2017 will single-player NHL 2014 even work? We would of course presume Microsoft's not that stupid, but we've been wrong many times before.
What's stopping someone who wants to "case" the place from wearing these:
http://www.brickhousesecurity.com/product/stylish+glasses+hidden+camera.do?sortby=bestSellers&from=fn
They're only 1/6 the price of Glass at current and undetectable at a glance. What's your plan for stopping these? A sign on the door?
"justify everybody recording everybody else whenever they want just because its legal"
Again, exactly the same thing can be said about the cameras in your shop, the ATM camera that also overlooks the street, the cameras you have under your awning pointing at the sidewalk, cameras in the condo lobby, the underground parking lot, the restaurant you ate at last night, the cameras on light poles, the cameras in cop cars, dash cams, etc.
If you don't want to be videoed, I suggest never leaving the house. At least Glass gives the common courtesy of being clearly visible as opposed to all the concealed cameras we're exposed to daily.
"everybody recording everybody else whenever they want just because its legal"
And this is the other interesting part of the whole debate. Seeing as battery life and storage space are still concerns, Glass won't be recording 99% of the time. And frankly, *you're not that interesting, so why the fuck would I spend precious resources to record your boring ass?* The camera's there in case something interesting happens.
Get over it. If you're out in public you have no privacy. Any time you go to the store you're captured in dozens of camera views even before you make it into the parking lot.
"But there is no defense against people walking into your store,"
When I walk into your store, you're already videotaping ME, why should you have a problem if I level the playing field?
It's the difference between a surveillance society (which we already have) and a sousveillance society. Already we can be held to account by those running the cameras, but those in power are desperately trying to make sure we can't hold them accountable by the same means:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-kern-beating-fbi-20130515,0,760051,full.story
I think if you're out in public, it's fair game. If you don't want guests coming into your residence or a private function wearing it, tell them to take it off. It's like shoes.
It still smells like bullshit. They're going to provision $1000+ worth of hardware for every console? Yeah, yeah, load based demand over a pool, but still... Plus they're somehow going to deliver all of that capability over a DSL or cable connection? When developers and hardware makers are bitching and whining that the local bus inside the PC/console is "only" 2GB/s I find it difficult to believe that a trickle of 5-10Mbps of additional data to the system is going to help do anything very well.
Actually what I think was stunningly telling was what his lawyer said about it the day it broke. His lawyer only said that you couldn't tell on the video what the people were doing. He didn't say it wasn't Ford in the video. That to me pretty much says Ford told him that the video is legit and he's trying to spin it for the inevitable reveal as Ford was not actually smoking crack/goofing around pretending/smoking *tobacco* or some similar bs. Much like other famous people photoed/videoed taking a bong hit and claiming it's not MJ in the bong.
"while they cannot have a free for CC use they can offer a rebate to cash customers"
I assume you mean a fee, not a free. In any case, that violates the terms and conditions that the merchant agrees to with their CC processor and they can face sanctions, higher fees or even just be dropped by the processor altogether if caught giving cash rebates. Some of the smaller merchants do it anyway and rely on the goodwill of their clientèle not to rat them out. Then some sanctimonious prick who objects to a .04c difference paying by CC on a pack of gum comes along and pitches a fit to the processor and ruins it for everyone. And this is why we can't have nice things.
" If I can give him $100 and take $1 back vs giving him $100 and $0 back I know which I will select."
Then don't be surprised that the next time you go to the store you're paying $102 for the same amount of goods.... Merchants are there to make money, not run a charity. If the credit card fees and service fees gouge their margin, they'll get it back by passing it all along to us.
Actually ALL of those card benefits you receive come straight out of the merchant's pocket. Airmiles, purchase points and cash back are all being extracted from the merchants in addition to the CC fees which can be as high as 5% or more. There's a reason businesses prefer cash and why Interac is so popular in Canada with merchants as their fees are considerably lower.
Don't forget Mobilicity. Between them and Wind, they're scaring the shit out of the Rogers/Telus/Bell triopoly. I've been with Fido for ages because I used to have the old pre-Rogers acquisition City Fido grandfathered in on my account. When I went to renew in December they finally had something better for less money. I'm paying $60 a month now and have basically unlimited Canada-wide use of my phone, except for data, which is a 2 GB cap. I can literally walk from one end of the country to the other, talking 24/7 as I go and it costs me just that one flat rate. No roaming, no long distance charges. Something like that from one of the Big Boys was unthinkable 2 years ago, but when they're competing with metro-area plans from Wind and Mobilicity that are all you can eat for $25, they gotta do something.
Or you can bring your own to the party, like a shiny Nexus 4 that you bought for $300 straight up.
You might want to point out to us where you saw "for non-commercial use" because I don't see that anywhere. I was always under the impression ESXi was a crippled first-ones-free method of getting companies to use VMWare and then upsell them when they realize there isn't central management, live motion, or support for more than 32GB of RAM/VM
60 hours a week is NOT a "comfortable gig" unless you're fresh out of uni with no appreciable outside life. I did that for almost 10 years and looking back on it can't believe I did it as long as I did. There are plenty of tech companies around that "get it" and don't squeeze every last waking minute out of their people. One thing I definitely noticed was that the longer you make people work, the less work/hour they did since they were planning to be there for 12 hours a day anyway. Or if they were being pushed hard during those 12 hours, toward the end of the week they started to make costly mistakes that took hours to find and correct. In both cases the company was making minimal gains at large personal cost to the employees.
All of these violations make the assumption that the drone/RC craft was actually under remote control at the time. In the last couple of months I've purchased one of the cheapo AR Drone quadcopters and in the course of enjoying it have been doing a lot of looking at other peoples' adventures and mods with both the AR Drone and other quad/hex/octocopters. I've seen no shortage of videos where someone's sent an AR Drone up to the limit of its normal radio range and the drone loses connection to the controller then wanders off with the prevailing wind pushing it, still at 100+ meters altitude until it runs out of juice. In a couple of cases those drones ended up miles away from their launch point and took days to find. The AR drones can record video locally onto a USB stick so there's no need for them to transmit back to record video. And I've also seen other copter drones that have internal GPS and fly a preset course, also eliminating the need for remote control.