I think if they were to redesign their site, according to a simple law of organization I choose to call "Common sense", they would probably start gaining a profit quicker.
They can't do that. If their site was better organized, they might have more sales. And if they have more sales, they'll lose more money!
Microsoft is entirely correct to say the GLP is viral because all derived works...
No. Read that part there. "...all derived works..." It's a bad analogy, because a viral infection is unintentional. Making a derived work is a very deliberate act.
It's more akin to an inoculation where you affect an entire system purposefully. People don't say, "oh no, I'm infected with the polio vaccine; now I can't get polio. Help, I'm being repressed." They took the vaccine because they intended to effect themselves in that way.
I saw a segment on this on some news show -- it slips my mind what it was. Anyway, watching the guy demonstrate the technology, I have to say, it looked pretty uncomfortable. He moved his hand in ways that would surely cause carpal tunnel after prolonged use. It looked like he was bending his wrist to a degree that I don't think would be necessary while using a joystick.
Also, when it comes to using a joystick, people can readjust their hands on the controller if they become uncomfortable. As far as I know, you'd always have to move your hand in the same way to get this technology to work.
The last 50 years of public- and private-sector collaboration has demonstrated that when intellectual property rights are protected, innovators are rewarded for their efforts.
Let's not how IP rights also help the heirs of long dead creators and artists! (*ahem*) Think of all those people that might have had to get jobs if their parents hadn't done something creative...
Twins are not clones. They're not always even identical.
Twins are the result of either: a) Two eggs were released this month, and both of them are now impregnated, or b) (more rare), one egg is impregnated and then splits, resulting in identical twins. HOWEVER: From the moment they split, twins develop differently, live differently.
And (b) is fundamentally different from a clone how exactly? Oh, I forgot, the donor's soul is cut in half and the clone gets half grafted into it. Whereas with identical twins, God has enough time to order out for a new one and have it wired down to the womb.
I support a ban on cloning for now, until the majority of the US matures enough to handle the technology they're getting themselves into.
If we did that for every tech, we'd still be living in the Stone Age.
Think we abused Napster?
No, I think the record companies abused the public with their price-fixing. Using Napster was just the public's way of saying, "fuck you too."
Just wait until the KKK can begin brewing their own perfect children.
Ok, so would these be KKK scientists doing the cloning, or would KKK couples have to pay some dough for the procedure? I'm betting most of them are too poor and too stupid for this to be much of a problem for quite awhile...
Listen to yourself. That's exactly why people are afraid of corporations performing genetic testing -- they think that people will end up being labeled as useless refuse, as human trash.
Surely people at the very least have a right to know when their employers are doing these kinds of things.
Greater complexity than Hello World? That's nothing! How about concatentation the strings "Hello" and " World!" together and THEN outputting it to the screen! Man, oh man. Still need to do the regression testing, though.
What about these ads I see for NBCi's new thingamajigger where you can click on any word (on a web page or not) and you'll be instantly taken to more info?
Why not just force everyone to use NBCi? That would be so much easier than policing everyone's website.
Someone can feel free to clue me in if there really was anything interesting on that site. Three pictures of some weirdo with a dog biscuit in his mouth are about enough for me. Someone might walk by and get the wrong idea...
2) Ethical. What will we, as a race, do with artifical humans? Slave labor? Spare organs? Don't think it can't happen; it's a human conceit that to create a thing is to control a thing.
The post you're replying to...it's trying to point out exactly why this isn't a problem. Slave labor...yeah ok... how does that follow? Because we can do an artificial insemination where the the DNA is (mostly) identical to someone else's? Why does it follow from that that someone would say, "hey, this person isn't really a full-fledged person"? Do we say that about any "test tube babies"? No. And, gee...the DNA was always coming from someone before anyway, it's just that now it's coming from one person instead of two. Whoopty-do. Clearly that means that nobody will think they're actually full-fledged humans with real identities and they'll sell them to make soylent green.
They make me send them multiple faxes and wait two weeks when I forgot my domain password, but some guy says he's from MS and that's good enough for them?
In addition, Microsoft has extended the MS-SQL language to use its own proprietary extensions. Microsoft has taken the attitude with Access SQL that they take on everything else - they program what they want and the standards be damned.
Not to defend the practice, but it was my understanding that this was pretty common. Don't Oracle and Sybase extend SQL as well?
This is definitely the first thing to do (read all that paperwork you signed when you were employed.) You may have already signed over the rights to anything you develop during the duration of your employment.
I've just encountered a similar problem recently. I'm a part of a small group of people who are about to start a software project, and one fellow who wants to be involved may have such problems -- he's a contractor for the federal gov't. From what I understand, he can't do other paid work, and if he invents anything it belongs to his company. But...this is just a little non-commercial hobby-type coding. He's been talking to his boss about it, but things are still a bit uncertain.
Does the U.S. government need historical war game software? Bureaucrats are still trying to decide...
The point that some of y'all are missing here is that if someone misspells a song name or artist, how are other people going to find it through napster? Any systematic method (as some here have mentioned, index files, etc) would be just as easy to filter by as the name, and wouldn't be used anywhere nearly as widely used as Napster itself.
Verisign is a private commercial company. As such, it can be regarded as more accountable than ICANN, because it has to answer to its shareholders and its consumers, which is a lot more than can be said for ICANN.
Uhm...except of course that it's shareholders only care if they're making money or not. And their consumers can't say, "ok, you guys aren't very good....give control over the.com registry to someone else."
As far as I'm concerned, this is a bad thing. There was the story a few months back about Network Solutions not releasing expired domain names. And, personally, I had to do some work with N.S./Verisign recently to make some changes to an account and quite frankly, their customer service rather sucked. It took several weeks to get all the changes made.
I agree: if you kill someone in cold-blood, who cares if you did it because of his race, or because you wanted to steal his shoes?
However, the fact that a location has a lot of crimes that are attributable to intolerance does say something about the community. Mind you, I've never been to Texas and don't know what Austin is like, but if there are more hate crimes there than other similarly sized cities, than either people there are more likely to see something as a hate crime, or people there are more intolerant...
My understanding is like Brento's -- the numbers X/Y mean you can see at X feet as someone with "normal" vision can see at Y feet. So, of course, 20/0 would mean you can see something at 20 feet away with the same accuracy that someone with normal vision would if they stuck it to their eyeball.
But the "scientific" creationists will still contend that it's still the theory of evolution...
Some folks probably will still try to use that as some sort of argument. Funny that they never make that point about the theory of universal gravitation.
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But I think you need to look closer at the definition of communism. Or, at least, how it is practiced in the real world
And I think you need to look less at how it's been practised in the Soviet Union and China and more at the definition of the word. AFAIK, the point of communism was about communal sharing -- from each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Ideologically, I don't see that it's inextricably linked with the idea of authoritarian control.
However, seeing as we've been through a few decades of cold war, the term and ideology of Communism have been demonized. Though some still consider it a dirty word, I think it's better to talk about socialism.
Even if the Soviet Union isn't still around, socialism is alive and well around the world. Here in the States we have social security and a graduated income tax. You don't have to call these communist if you don't want to, but I believe they were originally part of the communist party platform.
Now...as for open source...can money be made off of it? Yes. Does that make it more capitalistic than socialistic? No. I'm guessing that if Torvalds is doing alright financially today, it's probably more because he's semi-famous and not because of all his Linux royalties... Open Source is sharing something people would often be forced to pay for. Isn't that communal? Isn't that the point of communism?
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I'm getting it from playing too much Game Boy Advance. And I'm going blind from squinting at the dim screen to boot!
I think if they were to redesign their site, according to a simple law of organization I choose to call "Common sense", they would probably start gaining a profit quicker.
They can't do that. If their site was better organized, they might have more sales. And if they have more sales, they'll lose more money!
Personally, I'm always insulted when people offer me employment. How dare they think that my work is so trite as to be bought and sold!
Microsoft is entirely correct to say the GLP is viral because all derived works...
No. Read that part there. "...all derived works..." It's a bad analogy, because a viral infection is unintentional. Making a derived work is a very deliberate act.
It's more akin to an inoculation where you affect an entire system purposefully. People don't say, "oh no, I'm infected with the polio vaccine; now I can't get polio. Help, I'm being repressed." They took the vaccine because they intended to effect themselves in that way.
I saw a segment on this on some news show -- it slips my mind what it was. Anyway, watching the guy demonstrate the technology, I have to say, it looked pretty uncomfortable. He moved his hand in ways that would surely cause carpal tunnel after prolonged use. It looked like he was bending his wrist to a degree that I don't think would be necessary while using a joystick.
Also, when it comes to using a joystick, people can readjust their hands on the controller if they become uncomfortable. As far as I know, you'd always have to move your hand in the same way to get this technology to work.
The last 50 years of public- and private-sector collaboration has demonstrated that when intellectual property rights are protected, innovators are rewarded for their efforts.
Let's not how IP rights also help the heirs of long dead creators and artists! (*ahem*) Think of all those people that might have had to get jobs if their parents hadn't done something creative...
Twins are not clones. They're not always even identical.
Twins are the result of either: a) Two eggs were released this month, and both of them are now impregnated, or b) (more rare), one egg is impregnated and then splits, resulting in identical twins. HOWEVER: From the moment they split, twins develop differently, live differently.
And (b) is fundamentally different from a clone how exactly? Oh, I forgot, the donor's soul is cut in half and the clone gets half grafted into it. Whereas with identical twins, God has enough time to order out for a new one and have it wired down to the womb.
I support a ban on cloning for now, until the majority of the US matures enough to handle the technology they're getting themselves into.
If we did that for every tech, we'd still be living in the Stone Age.
Think we abused Napster?
No, I think the record companies abused the public with their price-fixing. Using Napster was just the public's way of saying, "fuck you too."
Just wait until the KKK can begin brewing their own perfect children.
Ok, so would these be KKK scientists doing the cloning, or would KKK couples have to pay some dough for the procedure? I'm betting most of them are too poor and too stupid for this to be much of a problem for quite awhile...
But if I hire a junk employee...
Listen to yourself. That's exactly why people are afraid of corporations performing genetic testing -- they think that people will end up being labeled as useless refuse, as human trash.
Surely people at the very least have a right to know when their employers are doing these kinds of things.
we should go back to the USSR and show those guys what we're made of
Oh man, we're too late for this one -- the USSR doesn't exist. I guess we'll just have to declare war on China twice, instead, huh?
Greater complexity than Hello World? That's nothing! How about concatentation the strings "Hello" and " World!" together and THEN outputting it to the screen! Man, oh man. Still need to do the regression testing, though.
What about these ads I see for NBCi's new thingamajigger where you can click on any word (on a web page or not) and you'll be instantly taken to more info?
Why not just force everyone to use NBCi? That would be so much easier than policing everyone's website.
Someone can feel free to clue me in if there really was anything interesting on that site. Three pictures of some weirdo with a dog biscuit in his mouth are about enough for me. Someone might walk by and get the wrong idea...
I use a G3 at work, and mine sucks too.
2) Ethical. What will we, as a race, do with artifical humans? Slave labor? Spare organs? Don't think it can't happen; it's a human conceit that to create a thing is to control a thing.
The post you're replying to...it's trying to point out exactly why this isn't a problem. Slave labor...yeah ok... how does that follow? Because we can do an artificial insemination where the the DNA is (mostly) identical to someone else's? Why does it follow from that that someone would say, "hey, this person isn't really a full-fledged person"? Do we say that about any "test tube babies"? No. And, gee...the DNA was always coming from someone before anyway, it's just that now it's coming from one person instead of two. Whoopty-do. Clearly that means that nobody will think they're actually full-fledged humans with real identities and they'll sell them to make soylent green.
Why do the poor Japanese have to pay in American dollars?
They make me send them multiple faxes and wait two weeks when I forgot my domain password, but some guy says he's from MS and that's good enough for them?
You copied their license agreement to a different web page? What are you, nuts? Are you trying to get sued or something?
In addition, Microsoft has extended the MS-SQL language to use its own proprietary extensions. Microsoft has taken the attitude with Access SQL that they take on everything else - they program what they want and the standards be damned.
Not to defend the practice, but it was my understanding that this was pretty common. Don't Oracle and Sybase extend SQL as well?
This is definitely the first thing to do (read all that paperwork you signed when you were employed.) You may have already signed over the rights to anything you develop during the duration of your employment.
I've just encountered a similar problem recently. I'm a part of a small group of people who are about to start a software project, and one fellow who wants to be involved may have such problems -- he's a contractor for the federal gov't. From what I understand, he can't do other paid work, and if he invents anything it belongs to his company. But...this is just a little non-commercial hobby-type coding. He's been talking to his boss about it, but things are still a bit uncertain.
Does the U.S. government need historical war game software? Bureaucrats are still trying to decide...
The point that some of y'all are missing here is that if someone misspells a song name or artist, how are other people going to find it through napster? Any systematic method (as some here have mentioned, index files, etc) would be just as easy to filter by as the name, and wouldn't be used anywhere nearly as widely used as Napster itself.
Verisign is a private commercial company. As such, it can be regarded as more accountable than ICANN, because it has to answer to its shareholders and its consumers, which is a lot more than can be said for ICANN.
.com registry to someone else."
Uhm...except of course that it's shareholders only care if they're making money or not. And their consumers can't say, "ok, you guys aren't very good....give control over the
As far as I'm concerned, this is a bad thing. There was the story a few months back about Network Solutions not releasing expired domain names. And, personally, I had to do some work with N.S./Verisign recently to make some changes to an account and quite frankly, their customer service rather sucked. It took several weeks to get all the changes made.
I agree: if you kill someone in cold-blood, who cares if you did it because of his race, or because you wanted to steal his shoes?
However, the fact that a location has a lot of crimes that are attributable to intolerance does say something about the community. Mind you, I've never been to Texas and don't know what Austin is like, but if there are more hate crimes there than other similarly sized cities, than either people there are more likely to see something as a hate crime, or people there are more intolerant...
Is there a maximum (20/0)?
My understanding is like Brento's -- the numbers X/Y mean you can see at X feet as someone with "normal" vision can see at Y feet. So, of course, 20/0 would mean you can see something at 20 feet away with the same accuracy that someone with normal vision would if they stuck it to their eyeball.
But the "scientific" creationists will still contend that it's still the theory of evolution...
Some folks probably will still try to use that as some sort of argument. Funny that they never make that point about the theory of universal gravitation.
But I think you need to look closer at the definition of communism. Or, at least, how it is practiced in the real world
And I think you need to look less at how it's been practised in the Soviet Union and China and more at the definition of the word. AFAIK, the point of communism was about communal sharing -- from each according to his ability, to each according to his need. Ideologically, I don't see that it's inextricably linked with the idea of authoritarian control.
However, seeing as we've been through a few decades of cold war, the term and ideology of Communism have been demonized. Though some still consider it a dirty word, I think it's better to talk about socialism.
Even if the Soviet Union isn't still around, socialism is alive and well around the world. Here in the States we have social security and a graduated income tax. You don't have to call these communist if you don't want to, but I believe they were originally part of the communist party platform.
Now...as for open source...can money be made off of it? Yes. Does that make it more capitalistic than socialistic? No. I'm guessing that if Torvalds is doing alright financially today, it's probably more because he's semi-famous and not because of all his Linux royalties... Open Source is sharing something people would often be forced to pay for. Isn't that communal? Isn't that the point of communism?