It has everything to do with copyright law. It's what the company is using in order to claim that they have a right to keep information from the court.
No, even if they would show the code, it wouldn't become magically free software or public domain. What they claim here is that they want to keep a trade secret.
Actually, these big awards are not that important, especially in medical sciences. In fact, one might even say that hey are counter productive:
All scholarship is, to some extent, built on prior work — but this is especially true in scientific research. Consider James P. Allison, the winner of this year’s Lasker-DeBakey prize in clinical medical research. His work helped clarify one way cancer cells hide from the immune system.
[...]
Dr. Allison’s work is surely impressive. But [...]it relied on work conducted by 7,000 scientists at 5,700 institutions over a hundred-year period. Yet only he was recognized.
and
The prize industry contributes to a deeper problem in scientific research: We throw resources at a privileged few who have already achieved enormous fame.
Instead
[...] we could break up big prizes and give out many smaller awards. This may be more effective in supporting science [...]
Don't pretend they can just show up and ask questions.
Obviously not, but firstly, Assange was in the UK since August 2010 when the case was already open, and he only entered the Ecuadorian embassy in June 2012. That makes nearly two years to question him in London without the complications to ask Ecuador for permission, and then they had three years to ask Ecuador for permission and only did so this year in June when the time for three of the allegations started to run out.
Swedish prosecutors have interviewed 44 suspects in the UK since 2010, while for five years declining Julian Assange’s offer to be interviewed at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London.
Meanwhile the UK already spent ~12M pound to make sure he doesn't leave the embassy. If these rape allegations where the only reason for this theatre then the British police would have told the Swedish prosecutor that they will make sure Assange stays put for two or three month in the Embassy to give them the opportunity to interview him, and then they would have stopped this wast of public money.
Last time i checked a country has the right to protect its youth from drugs...
If protect its youth from drugs translates to prohibit these drugs for everybody then there is something wrong, especially when considering that a legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco are way more damaging than Canabis.
Care and concern for Ukraine is waning in the West
TBH I think it never existed. That is the problem with the Russian conspiracy theories (ie, that the US hired a sniper to start the whole thing, etc): the US doesn't care enough about Ukraine to hire a sniper.
Ukraine was specifically mentioned in Brzezinski, Zbigniew. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives. Basic Books. 1997:
Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasion chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. Russia without Ukraine can still strive for imperial status, but it would then become a predominantly Asian imperial state, more likely to be drawn into debilitating conflicts with aroused Central Asians, who would then be resentful of the loss of their recent independence and would be supported by their fellow Islamic states to the South.
Ukraine - inherited ~2500 nukes from the fall apart of USSR.
You might add that they never actually had command control over these nukes, i.e. at the time when they gave them up, they were just nuclear waste to Ukraine. And they were destroyed.
Treaty was violated in 2014 by russian invasion, [...]
Which invasion? If Russia were indeed to invade the Ukraine then it would take them probably no more than three days to finish the operation.
Ukraine is now being partitioned and the treaty patrons USA, UK, France, China do nothing.
will be the first to board the next launch vehicle to the ISS after all these failures.
It's not like any of them are proving themselves particularly reliable. And it's not like any of these failures would have been survivable for the crew.
Actually, the situation is not as dire. The Progess launch failure was a result of combining the new Soyus 2-1A design with the supply ship, and
The main reason for using templates should be to eliminate copy-and-paste coding, not to improve performance.
This depends on the task. Ever heard of expression templates or partial template specification?
Specifically, the latter is used in many std::copy implementations to do a fast memcopy when the data can be identified as POD or scalar that doesn't require the execution of a copy constructor.
Fascism [...] mandates worker syndicates to offset the power of industrialists and other "owners" of production.
If this is so, then why
on May 2nd, 1933, the day after Labor day, Nazi groups occupied union halls and labor leaders were arrested. Trade Unions were outlawed by Adolf Hitler, while collective bargaining and the right to strike was abolished (further reading).
Consensus democracy is the application of consensus decision-making to the process of legislation in a democracy. It is characterized by a decision-making structure which involves and takes into account as broad a range of opinions as possible, as opposed to systems where minority opinions can potentially be ignored by vote-winning majorities.
If I were to lend 10.000 euros to someone, I'd have a better chance of having that loan paid in full from a German citizen living and working in Germany than from a Greek citizen living and working in Greece. That does not mean that I would not lend to Greece, but it means that I would take a higher interest rate to compensate for the risk.
Which, on the other hand, means, that it should be possible that this risk of Greece not paying back should also be realized. However, Greece was "bailed-out" which means the investors were bailed out instead of sucking it up that they did an insecure investment. In 2010 about 100% of the investors in Greece debt were private investors (Deutsche Bank for instance), now it is the tax payer who will lose if Greece declares bankruptcy.
It is not a diabolic German plan to put Greece down. It's just economics.
Actually, there is a plan to put the current Greek government down, because if they somehow succeed to get Greece back on track than this is a signal for Spain, Portugal, and maybe even more countries in the Eurozone that a different politic is possible than is not based on the austerity dictated by Germany.
Incidentally, there are general elections in Spain in November, and yesterdays communal elections showed that the anti-austerity movement goes strong. If they could point to Greece as an example of how to do it differently, then it's bye-bye for the currently ruling party.
The idea of this type of trade agreement is to introduce rules that big business wants, but are currently difficult to push through in your country. If the trade agreement is ratified, the government will then say "We need to set these rules, because they are part of the trade agreement", and you are fucked. In other words, TPP will be used to diminish your rights. You might want to continue reading here.
[...] Basically he had visited a bunch of World Vision type projects where they would fly in and dig a water bore and setup a community pump. He said everyone would celebrate and think they were doing a wonderful thing, but in a year or two they would go back to the village and find the pump broken. When they inquired as to why nobody had bothered to fix it, each person would say it wasn't their responsibility, or blame someone else for breaking it.
I'd rather say that the project was not well planned, because they didn't make sure to make someone responsible for the pump, e.g. the village council. It may also show that the pump may have been a nice addition, but not considered a necessity by the villagers. I'm quite certain that if the object in question would not have been a pump, but a bridge on the only road to the village, they would have gotten their act together and would have fixed it.
I could have sworn that the collapse and utter disaster of communist countries proved this. [...]
Whoever came up with the idea that these countries were communist, doesn't know the first thing about communism:
"Communism (from Latin communis – common, universal) is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and characterized by the absence of social classes, money, and the state, [...]".
For starters, all those "communist " countries used money and were states.
If you have no reason to learn things then get a good job and work hard, you're not going to. People are lazy as hell. If everyone's even and shares everything, nobody tries and your country sucks.
Where I come from people generally enjoy learning things and like to do some fulfilling work. People are generally lazy when it comes to doing things tht they don't like to do. For these jobs, "that need to be done" on the other hand a five hour week (pdf) should be enough.
... There is no time savings from a computation unique to a Xeon chip, that cannot be replicated by a supercomputer cluster with software higher precision emulation. Its just more work and higher energy consumption costs.
What if your girlfriend made a 3D printed dildo replica of your penis, and every time she used it, she would say "no one loses anything if I just make a copy".
Sounds like a good plan for a long distance relationship.
So up to know the EU has NOT been keeping track of who arrives and leaves???
Apparently yes, in December, when I went to India when exiting the EU in Madrid they just looked at the passport, compared the face that the boarding pass is valid, without any further check (e.g putting the document on some kind of reader).
Crossing an international customs border is not a private affair
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My cold fusion work only when I run the experiment in my shed with no one watch too ...
Obviously, it's quantum physics, by monitoring the experiment you change the outcome ;)
It has everything to do with copyright law. It's what the company is using in order to claim that they have a right to keep information from the court.
No, even if they would show the code, it wouldn't become magically free software or public domain. What they claim here is that they want to keep a trade secret.
All scholarship is, to some extent, built on prior work — but this is especially true in scientific research. Consider James P. Allison, the winner of this year’s Lasker-DeBakey prize in clinical medical research. His work helped clarify one way cancer cells hide from the immune system. [...] Dr. Allison’s work is surely impressive. But [...]it relied on work conducted by 7,000 scientists at 5,700 institutions over a hundred-year period. Yet only he was recognized.
and
The prize industry contributes to a deeper problem in scientific research: We throw resources at a privileged few who have already achieved enormous fame.
Instead
[...] we could break up big prizes and give out many smaller awards. This may be more effective in supporting science [...]
No "Superman" is just average, the real hero is "Bicycle Repair Man".
Don't pretend they can just show up and ask questions.
Obviously not, but firstly, Assange was in the UK since August 2010 when the case was already open, and he only entered the Ecuadorian embassy in June 2012. That makes nearly two years to question him in London without the complications to ask Ecuador for permission, and then they had three years to ask Ecuador for permission and only did so this year in June when the time for three of the allegations started to run out.
Swedish prosecutors have interviewed 44 suspects in the UK since 2010, while for five years declining Julian Assange’s offer to be interviewed at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London.
Meanwhile the UK already spent ~12M pound to make sure he doesn't leave the embassy. If these rape allegations where the only reason for this theatre then the British police would have told the Swedish prosecutor that they will make sure Assange stays put for two or three month in the Embassy to give them the opportunity to interview him, and then they would have stopped this wast of public money.
Last time i checked a country has the right to protect its youth from drugs...
If protect its youth from drugs translates to prohibit these drugs for everybody then there is something wrong, especially when considering that a legal drugs like alcohol and tobacco are way more damaging than Canabis.
Well the EU would be obligated to move into the Ukrainian conflict to protect it's citizens,
On what basis is the EU obliged to do this?
What is already happening is that Russia is strengthening its ties with the other BRICS countries, and the big loser is the EU.
Care and concern for Ukraine is waning in the West
TBH I think it never existed. That is the problem with the Russian conspiracy theories (ie, that the US hired a sniper to start the whole thing, etc): the US doesn't care enough about Ukraine to hire a sniper.
Ukraine was specifically mentioned in Brzezinski, Zbigniew. The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives. Basic Books. 1997:
Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasion chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. Russia without Ukraine can still strive for imperial status, but it would then become a predominantly Asian imperial state, more likely to be drawn into debilitating conflicts with aroused Central Asians, who would then be resentful of the loss of their recent independence and would be supported by their fellow Islamic states to the South.
And just how much the USA actually cared about who is in power in the Ukraine we know from the phone call (commented transcript) between Victora Nuland and Geoffrey R. Pyatt .
Ukraine - inherited ~2500 nukes from the fall apart of USSR.
You might add that they never actually had command control over these nukes, i.e. at the time when they gave them up, they were just nuclear waste to Ukraine. And they were destroyed.
Treaty was violated in 2014 by russian invasion, [...]
Which invasion? If Russia were indeed to invade the Ukraine then it would take them probably no more than three days to finish the operation.
Ukraine is now being partitioned and the treaty patrons USA, UK, France, China do nothing.
Oh, the USA has done quite something, as we learnt from a leaked phone call.
will be the first to board the next launch vehicle to the ISS after all these failures.
It's not like any of them are proving themselves particularly reliable. And it's not like any of these failures would have been survivable for the crew.
Actually, the situation is not as dire. The Progess launch failure was a result of combining the new Soyus 2-1A design with the supply ship, and
Officials were considering launching space station crews on the Soyuz-2.1a version once its performance was demonstrated on Progress missions.
Today's mission used the older Soyus-U design, and I would guess that the next crew going up would also use this older launcher.
The main reason for using templates should be to eliminate copy-and-paste coding, not to improve performance.
This depends on the task. Ever heard of expression templates or partial template specification ? Specifically, the latter is used in many std::copy implementations to do a fast memcopy when the data can be identified as POD or scalar that doesn't require the execution of a copy constructor.
Do the readers only pay for each page when they look long enough at it to be able to actually read it?
Fascism [...] mandates worker syndicates to offset the power of industrialists and other "owners" of production.
If this is so, then why
on May 2nd, 1933, the day after Labor day, Nazi groups occupied union halls and labor leaders were arrested. Trade Unions were outlawed by Adolf Hitler, while collective bargaining and the right to strike was abolished (further reading).
[...]
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” —Ben Franklin
[...]
“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and ... breaks up the foundations of society.” —Thomas Jefferson
That's why you really want a consensus democracy:
If I were to lend 10.000 euros to someone, I'd have a better chance of having that loan paid in full from a German citizen living and working in Germany than from a Greek citizen living and working in Greece. That does not mean that I would not lend to Greece, but it means that I would take a higher interest rate to compensate for the risk.
Which, on the other hand, means, that it should be possible that this risk of Greece not paying back should also be realized. However, Greece was "bailed-out" which means the investors were bailed out instead of sucking it up that they did an insecure investment. In 2010 about 100% of the investors in Greece debt were private investors (Deutsche Bank for instance), now it is the tax payer who will lose if Greece declares bankruptcy.
It is not a diabolic German plan to put Greece down. It's just economics.
Actually, there is a plan to put the current Greek government down, because if they somehow succeed to get Greece back on track than this is a signal for Spain, Portugal, and maybe even more countries in the Eurozone that a different politic is possible than is not based on the austerity dictated by Germany.
Incidentally, there are general elections in Spain in November, and yesterdays communal elections showed that the anti-austerity movement goes strong. If they could point to Greece as an example of how to do it differently, then it's bye-bye for the currently ruling party.
The idea of this type of trade agreement is to introduce rules that big business wants, but are currently difficult to push through in your country. If the trade agreement is ratified, the government will then say "We need to set these rules, because they are part of the trade agreement", and you are fucked. In other words, TPP will be used to diminish your rights. You might want to continue reading here.
Can I have my Nobel Prize in economics now?
There is no Nobel price in economics
[...] Basically he had visited a bunch of World Vision type projects where they would fly in and dig a water bore and setup a community pump. He said everyone would celebrate and think they were doing a wonderful thing, but in a year or two they would go back to the village and find the pump broken. When they inquired as to why nobody had bothered to fix it, each person would say it wasn't their responsibility, or blame someone else for breaking it.
I'd rather say that the project was not well planned, because they didn't make sure to make someone responsible for the pump, e.g. the village council. It may also show that the pump may have been a nice addition, but not considered a necessity by the villagers. I'm quite certain that if the object in question would not have been a pump, but a bridge on the only road to the village, they would have gotten their act together and would have fixed it.
I could have sworn that the collapse and utter disaster of communist countries proved this. [...]
Whoever came up with the idea that these countries were communist, doesn't know the first thing about communism:
"Communism (from Latin communis – common, universal) is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and characterized by the absence of social classes, money, and the state, [...]".
For starters, all those "communist " countries used money and were states.
If you have no reason to learn things then get a good job and work hard, you're not going to. People are lazy as hell. If everyone's even and shares everything, nobody tries and your country sucks.
Where I come from people generally enjoy learning things and like to do some fulfilling work. People are generally lazy when it comes to doing things tht they don't like to do. For these jobs, "that need to be done" on the other hand a five hour week (pdf) should be enough.
... There is no time savings from a computation unique to a Xeon chip, that cannot be replicated by a supercomputer cluster with software higher precision emulation. Its just more work and higher energy consumption costs.
Actually, for performance-per-watt arm64 is the winner.
What if your girlfriend made a 3D printed dildo replica of your penis, and every time she used it, she would say "no one loses anything if I just make a copy".
Sounds like a good plan for a long distance relationship.
So up to know the EU has NOT been keeping track of who arrives and leaves???
Apparently yes, in December, when I went to India when exiting the EU in Madrid they just looked at the passport, compared the face that the boarding pass is valid, without any further check (e.g putting the document on some kind of reader).
Crossing an international customs border is not a private affair
But it should be.
Or get them some actual women, ...
The sad truth is that they actually have women ... enslaved.