It would be better. It works for copyright because there is no process to go through.
The patent system is broken because it is becoming like copyright, in the sense the no physical object or specific implementation is needed, but there is still an expensive process to get a patent. If it were simple as saying, hey everyone can use this but if you do and make it public all improvements have to be made public as well, that would be great. But there is no way to enforce that. The only thing to do is hope the patent office honors prior art.
But others are right. We do need foundations that are dedicated to paying for patents that are then openly licensing. Of course the foundation would then need armies of lawyers to defend the patents.
The real fix is severely limit the things that can be patented.
These people control Sunglass hut. They not are able to integrate the glasses into current and future products, they are able to provide a retail channel to market and promote them. They are able to provide incentives to specifically push the products to customers. This solves a problem with the original Android phone, in which end users had no way of interacting with the physical phone. Most who bought it did so soly on the Google name.
Of course, at $1750, which is basically what they device with frames costs, it is going to be a hard sell. Persols of Maui Jim will run $300. Integrate the Google Glasses, and you end with $2000.
This has little to do with manufacturing cell phones. There are only three companies making money on cell phones, Apple, Samsung, and MS through royalty payments by most Android Manufacturers.
It is more a matter of what is legal. User can't really be allowed to change how cell phones work at this level. Such things can cause interference.
What Ubuntu can do, and what Google was supposed to do, is provide a way for users to modify and update their open source phones independent of their carrier. This should not be something that is prohibited, and where Google lost in their open source push. Apple bypassed the carriers by working with a desperate ATT and then using power built up over time to push the way into other more reluctant carriers.
This should be what Ubuntu should do. Find a desperate carrier. Sell quality phones. You are right that the fanatics will cause problems. But the others will do worse.
Someone who started work in 1985 at age 30 would be able to retire now. They would have to wait for social security and medicare, but retirement would be not only possible, but encouraged as the US tries to reduce the overcapacity built up during that time, overcapacity generated by the lack of the highest administration to understand effectiveness that would be generated by the maturing technology of the time.
Computers had been in use for over 30 years at that time by the US governement. By the 80's computers were in wide use for many purposes. I would suggest that many records are in computers, but one issue we have seen is that the government has not be able to get the computers to work together.
MS, Google, Yahoo, all free service, I don't think there is an expectation for privacy. I have seen no situations where our information is protected from employees. In the past few years they have apparently set up more guidelines, but I wonder anyone actually get fired for browsing the occasional email.
What is clear is there no legal recourse. You can't stop paying because you do not pay. I think suing over such a thing would be hard as showing damages would be hard.
I guess this shows the need for a paid encrypted account.
Startups tend to employee young or inexperienced people. They also tend to not use cash for employees. They focus on the lottery aspect of the startup, that you might get huge sums of money later on. It is a sophisticated model. For someone just out of college, how has fewer expenses than a mid career person, it can make sense. One might gain experience, and one might make money. I would say research the type of stock options, the risks, and assume you will never get them. Be aware of the significant tax liabilities. I have seen people wiped out because they owned stock that then became worthless due to tax liabilities and leveraging.
Organizing mostly happens to older employees who looking to negotiate with the employer for safer or better compensated or more protected situations. Tech work is not in general dangerous. It is generally better paid than other jobs at the same skill level. Outsourcing is already widespread so that boat has left the dock.
Because kids, and pretty much everyone else, prefer a free beer. Open source beer is cool to talk about, but it requires a certain amount of sophistication.
Sparkfun had no idea about the trademark, and doesn't mind changing the color, but they say restrictions like these are a flaw in the trademark system.
I wonder what kind of electronics person does not know fluke and the trademark, at least anyone who has a passing relationship to the business.
This is where trademark laws works, and the way it is supposed to work. Fluke has spent 50 years developing good tools for people who need of want good tools. Some upstart like Sparkfun decides to superficially mimic this work, and then claims 'we did not know'.
Here is the thing with small business. You are allowed and encouraged to take risks, you are allowed to try to work under the radar, but sometimes you make a mistake and you have to pay. There are rules, and if you are going to play the game, it is important to know the rules. They can be complex, even arbitrary, which is why kids do not do the real work.
wearables are potentially very nice. Samsung has one, and when one talks android, one is still talking Samsung. Apple may or may not have one, but it won't be Android, obviously. So we are talking HTC and Motorola, neither or which are profitable. HTC marketshare is falling, and Lenova has not made mobile devices.
Flash is dead and Apple killed it. Sure, Google promised it to save it with android, but they could not. Flash is a resource hit and if Apple was not going to learn how to make it work, who else has the money?
An open flash clone might be ok because it does not matter that it will not run on the devices most of the world are going to be using in the near future. These app can be legacy, like the stuff that requires IE.
But it is just like Java which has fallen 25%. People will figure out how to make HTML5 work, and work better, so they can access as many customers as possible.
It is like smoking. Sure it causes increased hospital bills, but think of how much the US saves on social security payments from those who willingly give up their life to an early death.
of course alcohol is a bit more complex. It often takes the life of those that the US has invested in, in terms of schooling, medical payments, etc, but has not received any return in the investment. As in this case, the US has probably invested the quarter million to raise the kid, then he was killed after he paid what, only a few years in taxes? Wasteful
Some firms pay for life insurance as part of the executive package. Therefore this may be a way to increase the total compensation in a way acceptable to the board. Also such expenses are also tax deductible to the firm.
Depending on this executive compensation, this level of life insurance may not be excessive. Larry Ellison is pay about $100 million, so this is only twice compensation. Life insurance is often available to a few times of income, so twice is not excessive.
One modern capitalist innovation is this type of tax. Before, families could build up property with no penalty. One could sit on a property and do nothing with it. With taxes, if one did were not utilizing the property, there was incentive to sell it to someone who could exploit it.
You see this problem in developing countries where there is much less productivity than in developed country. Some thinks this is good. That advancements are bad.
I was listening to a converstaion between aTeach for America and a student teacher at the store the other day. They were talking about how hard it was to teach. One complained that a student walked in when she was student teaching and yelled 'Party!'. This seemed to really make the student teacher think twice about teaching.
Seriously, if you are going to be a teacher you need to know these are kids. The don't have a lot of impulse control. That is one of the things you are supposed to be teaching. You need to be at school everyday, if possible. The kids need to set consistent boundaries that only you, not a sub, can set.
So here is the problem. Good experienced teachers are being replaced with teachers who are just going to put in their two years and then get free graduate school. These 'teachers' have no incentive to build the trade craft of teaching, to learn how to manage themselves so they can model proper behavior to students. Watching a first year teacher, no matter how good they are, is like watching a train wreck. Watching a teacher who has been at it for 20 or 30 years is usually a thing of beauty. Not to the student who tends to prefer inexperienced teacher who cannot encourage them to do anything meaningful, but to someone who knows what is going on, it is. And realize that many of the people teaching the people like TFA have only a few years experience in the classroom
Which is what I was thinking. I must be old if the memes have changed that much. In any case transformers are weapons, not tool of productivity. What I want is a job where I go for 10 minutes a day, push some buttons, and get pain enough for an apartment, a car, and a robot. At this point I would be happy just to have enough expendable income for a rommba and a robomow.
Whistleblowers are not heroes or villains, They are meddlesome do gooders who are willing to destroy society and the status quo just to make a name for themselves. Sometimes, as with Snowden, they reveal practices that many would consider at least unethical and force change. They are seldom thanked for their contribution. What is always the case is that the people who have to change because of the revelations are annoyed. Changing means they lose money, power, or both.
Every part on that plane has a serial number that is registered. At some point, a repair will have to be made, the serial number will be logged, or someone will notice that the number has been filed off, and the plane will be identified.
One thing with old books is their value is small. Apple wants to sell everything for $10. I can go to a used books store and buy an old book for a couple dollars. I can go to Amazon and but out of copyright books for a couple dollars. I can go to Amazon and buy new books for a few dollars. Even at Amazon, though, many older books are more expensive that what one can find elsewhere.
The difference between books and songs is that iTunes provided a new way to monetize old music. Sell single tracks to those who won't but the used music at the resale shop. It is simple, fast, and converting a track to digital is not hugely expensive.
Here is another difference. Music no longer has DRM. I have many tracks for itunes because it was always possible to remove the DRM. I have few books from iBooks because the only place I can read them is on an Apple device. Amazon at least has the advantage of having readers on many devices.
So, one buys an older book on iBooks, one pays more, one can only read it on limited devices, and publishers have to pay huge fees to Apple.
The real insanity of this project is a simple number. 1-2" rainfall a year. Even with 20-30" of rainfall, these crops still requires quite a bit of water. Water that comes, probably, from the same river that irrigates most of the desert west. Farming in the desert. It is special kind of crazy. And I bet each of those houses each has a lawn.
Or they are willing to let customers go. If you only use it for free two day shipping, then maybe $99 is too much. Then you stop using the service. And Amazon profits go up.
Here is why i originally bought Amazon Prime: because it was taking a week to get an order. Not because shipping took a week, but because packing often took a few days. Prime forces Amazon to prioritize my orders. That means costs beyond what they would be paying if they could ship 5-8 days. I can imagine these costs to be increasing over time, not paying the shipper mind you, but paying enough staff to pack so that my order leaves the warehouse in time for the shipper to get it to me in two days. All for $100.
If I order a $20 widget a week, that is around $2 per package shipping, around $1000 revenue, and probably zero profit. Yes, amazon is shaking in it's boots because people who only use shipping are going to cancel.
OTOH, if I didn't have amazon prime I would be more likely to shop elsewhere.
Android right now has up to 80% of the world marketshare. MS has 5%. The number of phones MS sells is insignificant. They could afford to give them away for free if they wanted to build marketshare. It probably costs more to manage the Licensing program that the program collects in fees. At this point, the fees is purely a philosophical endeavor for MS. Cutting them to build market share makes sense, but it probably is not going to encourage others to start making MS phones. Nothing they have done in the past has worked.
In any case, remember that Samsung, which is what most people buy when they buy an android phone, pays MS $10-20 per phone. This is clearly where MS future lies, collecting patent fees. The only reason that it needs to have a phone is so it is not labeled as patent troll.
As had been said, and many people have agreed, coal prices would go up. If the plan were phased in over time, say a 10% reduction per year for 10 years to bring us down to below 50%, then 10 more years to phase out the production completely, there would be many other technologies that would become cost effective. Increase costs would promote conservation, which is really the solution to many of our limited resource problems. Engineering is great at figuring out how to do more with less. Just look at food production during the mid twentieth century.
This would also solve the employment issue. As we saw during the decline of manufacturing during the late twentieth century, the problem is not just what to do with current employees. The problem is that young adults expect to have the kind of jobs at the kind of pay their parents have. So if a kid was raised to believe they are going to make cars, and they go to school assuming all they need to do is assembly work, and the school assumes that is all the kid needs to know, then those jobs are not available, there is a problem. I have met teachers from coal mining towns, and they say it is hard to get some students to even graduate, as when the student is 18 they have a well paying job in the mines. It will take time to get over that sort of mindset.
Unfortunately, Samsung left itself open to such thing by settling with MS for 10-15 a headset. It chose not to do the same with Apple. Samsung lost in a court of law, so it no longer has the leverage that it might not have broken the law. Sucks for Samsung. Should have fought against MS instead of caving in. Remember that every android phone makes MS rich.
I have an mobile access point that I have used in the car. It costs more than $15 a month. For example Virgin has instituted data limits and is about $20 a month. $100 for six months is a good deal, especially for the crowd who thinks their SUV is their living room and the plan lets them stream netflix.
In any case, this is hardly the first plan for a car. Mercedes has already expanded mbrace to include internet. It is $500 a year, but that includes lots of extras. Still very much more expensive, but it is much more integrated for the current model year.
Right now it seems that the plane might have been flown off course and the transponder was shut down. The thing about the black box is that apparently is hard if not impossible to shut down.
Anything that transmits can be disabled. There is reason to believe that such a device would have done any good in this case, This is just another effort by some corporation to try to sell a movie plot security measure. Like arming pilots when locking the cockpit door would do or naked scanners instead of trained surveillance. The plane will be found, if it was a crash the bodies will be recovered, and the cost will be lower than the 3 billion needed to equip the next 15 years of commercial aircraft.
Such a device might be good, but we can't assume some conspiracy of evil greedy airlines. There may be good reasons, such as the fact it doesn't really work as well as the PR suggests.
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The patent system is broken because it is becoming like copyright, in the sense the no physical object or specific implementation is needed, but there is still an expensive process to get a patent. If it were simple as saying, hey everyone can use this but if you do and make it public all improvements have to be made public as well, that would be great. But there is no way to enforce that. The only thing to do is hope the patent office honors prior art.
But others are right. We do need foundations that are dedicated to paying for patents that are then openly licensing. Of course the foundation would then need armies of lawyers to defend the patents.
The real fix is severely limit the things that can be patented.
Of course, at $1750, which is basically what they device with frames costs, it is going to be a hard sell. Persols of Maui Jim will run $300. Integrate the Google Glasses, and you end with $2000.
It is more a matter of what is legal. User can't really be allowed to change how cell phones work at this level. Such things can cause interference.
What Ubuntu can do, and what Google was supposed to do, is provide a way for users to modify and update their open source phones independent of their carrier. This should not be something that is prohibited, and where Google lost in their open source push. Apple bypassed the carriers by working with a desperate ATT and then using power built up over time to push the way into other more reluctant carriers.
This should be what Ubuntu should do. Find a desperate carrier. Sell quality phones. You are right that the fanatics will cause problems. But the others will do worse.
Computers had been in use for over 30 years at that time by the US governement. By the 80's computers were in wide use for many purposes. I would suggest that many records are in computers, but one issue we have seen is that the government has not be able to get the computers to work together.
What is clear is there no legal recourse. You can't stop paying because you do not pay. I think suing over such a thing would be hard as showing damages would be hard.
I guess this shows the need for a paid encrypted account.
Startups tend to employee young or inexperienced people. They also tend to not use cash for employees. They focus on the lottery aspect of the startup, that you might get huge sums of money later on. It is a sophisticated model. For someone just out of college, how has fewer expenses than a mid career person, it can make sense. One might gain experience, and one might make money. I would say research the type of stock options, the risks, and assume you will never get them. Be aware of the significant tax liabilities. I have seen people wiped out because they owned stock that then became worthless due to tax liabilities and leveraging. Organizing mostly happens to older employees who looking to negotiate with the employer for safer or better compensated or more protected situations. Tech work is not in general dangerous. It is generally better paid than other jobs at the same skill level. Outsourcing is already widespread so that boat has left the dock.
Because kids, and pretty much everyone else, prefer a free beer. Open source beer is cool to talk about, but it requires a certain amount of sophistication.
I wonder what kind of electronics person does not know fluke and the trademark, at least anyone who has a passing relationship to the business.
This is where trademark laws works, and the way it is supposed to work. Fluke has spent 50 years developing good tools for people who need of want good tools. Some upstart like Sparkfun decides to superficially mimic this work, and then claims 'we did not know'.
Here is the thing with small business. You are allowed and encouraged to take risks, you are allowed to try to work under the radar, but sometimes you make a mistake and you have to pay. There are rules, and if you are going to play the game, it is important to know the rules. They can be complex, even arbitrary, which is why kids do not do the real work.
wearables are potentially very nice. Samsung has one, and when one talks android, one is still talking Samsung. Apple may or may not have one, but it won't be Android, obviously. So we are talking HTC and Motorola, neither or which are profitable. HTC marketshare is falling, and Lenova has not made mobile devices.
An open flash clone might be ok because it does not matter that it will not run on the devices most of the world are going to be using in the near future. These app can be legacy, like the stuff that requires IE. But it is just like Java which has fallen 25%. People will figure out how to make HTML5 work, and work better, so they can access as many customers as possible.
of course alcohol is a bit more complex. It often takes the life of those that the US has invested in, in terms of schooling, medical payments, etc, but has not received any return in the investment. As in this case, the US has probably invested the quarter million to raise the kid, then he was killed after he paid what, only a few years in taxes? Wasteful
Depending on this executive compensation, this level of life insurance may not be excessive. Larry Ellison is pay about $100 million, so this is only twice compensation. Life insurance is often available to a few times of income, so twice is not excessive.
One modern capitalist innovation is this type of tax. Before, families could build up property with no penalty. One could sit on a property and do nothing with it. With taxes, if one did were not utilizing the property, there was incentive to sell it to someone who could exploit it. You see this problem in developing countries where there is much less productivity than in developed country. Some thinks this is good. That advancements are bad.
I was listening to a converstaion between aTeach for America and a student teacher at the store the other day. They were talking about how hard it was to teach. One complained that a student walked in when she was student teaching and yelled 'Party!'. This seemed to really make the student teacher think twice about teaching. Seriously, if you are going to be a teacher you need to know these are kids. The don't have a lot of impulse control. That is one of the things you are supposed to be teaching. You need to be at school everyday, if possible. The kids need to set consistent boundaries that only you, not a sub, can set. So here is the problem. Good experienced teachers are being replaced with teachers who are just going to put in their two years and then get free graduate school. These 'teachers' have no incentive to build the trade craft of teaching, to learn how to manage themselves so they can model proper behavior to students. Watching a first year teacher, no matter how good they are, is like watching a train wreck. Watching a teacher who has been at it for 20 or 30 years is usually a thing of beauty. Not to the student who tends to prefer inexperienced teacher who cannot encourage them to do anything meaningful, but to someone who knows what is going on, it is. And realize that many of the people teaching the people like TFA have only a few years experience in the classroom
Which is what I was thinking. I must be old if the memes have changed that much. In any case transformers are weapons, not tool of productivity. What I want is a job where I go for 10 minutes a day, push some buttons, and get pain enough for an apartment, a car, and a robot. At this point I would be happy just to have enough expendable income for a rommba and a robomow.
Whistleblowers are not heroes or villains, They are meddlesome do gooders who are willing to destroy society and the status quo just to make a name for themselves. Sometimes, as with Snowden, they reveal practices that many would consider at least unethical and force change. They are seldom thanked for their contribution. What is always the case is that the people who have to change because of the revelations are annoyed. Changing means they lose money, power, or both.
Every part on that plane has a serial number that is registered. At some point, a repair will have to be made, the serial number will be logged, or someone will notice that the number has been filed off, and the plane will be identified.
One thing with old books is their value is small. Apple wants to sell everything for $10. I can go to a used books store and buy an old book for a couple dollars. I can go to Amazon and but out of copyright books for a couple dollars. I can go to Amazon and buy new books for a few dollars. Even at Amazon, though, many older books are more expensive that what one can find elsewhere. The difference between books and songs is that iTunes provided a new way to monetize old music. Sell single tracks to those who won't but the used music at the resale shop. It is simple, fast, and converting a track to digital is not hugely expensive. Here is another difference. Music no longer has DRM. I have many tracks for itunes because it was always possible to remove the DRM. I have few books from iBooks because the only place I can read them is on an Apple device. Amazon at least has the advantage of having readers on many devices. So, one buys an older book on iBooks, one pays more, one can only read it on limited devices, and publishers have to pay huge fees to Apple.
The real insanity of this project is a simple number. 1-2" rainfall a year. Even with 20-30" of rainfall, these crops still requires quite a bit of water. Water that comes, probably, from the same river that irrigates most of the desert west. Farming in the desert. It is special kind of crazy. And I bet each of those houses each has a lawn.
Here is why i originally bought Amazon Prime: because it was taking a week to get an order. Not because shipping took a week, but because packing often took a few days. Prime forces Amazon to prioritize my orders. That means costs beyond what they would be paying if they could ship 5-8 days. I can imagine these costs to be increasing over time, not paying the shipper mind you, but paying enough staff to pack so that my order leaves the warehouse in time for the shipper to get it to me in two days. All for $100.
If I order a $20 widget a week, that is around $2 per package shipping, around $1000 revenue, and probably zero profit. Yes, amazon is shaking in it's boots because people who only use shipping are going to cancel.
OTOH, if I didn't have amazon prime I would be more likely to shop elsewhere.
In any case, remember that Samsung, which is what most people buy when they buy an android phone, pays MS $10-20 per phone. This is clearly where MS future lies, collecting patent fees. The only reason that it needs to have a phone is so it is not labeled as patent troll.
As had been said, and many people have agreed, coal prices would go up. If the plan were phased in over time, say a 10% reduction per year for 10 years to bring us down to below 50%, then 10 more years to phase out the production completely, there would be many other technologies that would become cost effective. Increase costs would promote conservation, which is really the solution to many of our limited resource problems. Engineering is great at figuring out how to do more with less. Just look at food production during the mid twentieth century. This would also solve the employment issue. As we saw during the decline of manufacturing during the late twentieth century, the problem is not just what to do with current employees. The problem is that young adults expect to have the kind of jobs at the kind of pay their parents have. So if a kid was raised to believe they are going to make cars, and they go to school assuming all they need to do is assembly work, and the school assumes that is all the kid needs to know, then those jobs are not available, there is a problem. I have met teachers from coal mining towns, and they say it is hard to get some students to even graduate, as when the student is 18 they have a well paying job in the mines. It will take time to get over that sort of mindset.
Unfortunately, Samsung left itself open to such thing by settling with MS for 10-15 a headset. It chose not to do the same with Apple. Samsung lost in a court of law, so it no longer has the leverage that it might not have broken the law. Sucks for Samsung. Should have fought against MS instead of caving in. Remember that every android phone makes MS rich.
I have an mobile access point that I have used in the car. It costs more than $15 a month. For example Virgin has instituted data limits and is about $20 a month. $100 for six months is a good deal, especially for the crowd who thinks their SUV is their living room and the plan lets them stream netflix. In any case, this is hardly the first plan for a car. Mercedes has already expanded mbrace to include internet. It is $500 a year, but that includes lots of extras. Still very much more expensive, but it is much more integrated for the current model year.
Right now it seems that the plane might have been flown off course and the transponder was shut down. The thing about the black box is that apparently is hard if not impossible to shut down. Anything that transmits can be disabled. There is reason to believe that such a device would have done any good in this case, This is just another effort by some corporation to try to sell a movie plot security measure. Like arming pilots when locking the cockpit door would do or naked scanners instead of trained surveillance. The plane will be found, if it was a crash the bodies will be recovered, and the cost will be lower than the 3 billion needed to equip the next 15 years of commercial aircraft. Such a device might be good, but we can't assume some conspiracy of evil greedy airlines. There may be good reasons, such as the fact it doesn't really work as well as the PR suggests.