Why then can't anyone connect to my port 80, and why can't I connect to port 25 of anyone other than my ISP's mail server?
Net non-neutrality means Google would be able connect at one speed and Uncle Harry at a different speed or not at all. Basically Net Neutral means no discrimination on level of service based on originating IP or destination IP.
Further, good school systems can make up for bad or indifferent parenting even if they technically aren't parental surrogates.
Parents are the voters that elect the public officials who run the schools. It is not just involvement in the day to day life of the student that is important. It is the WHOLE PROCESS.
Marie Curie Agnes Pockels Hypatia of Alexandria Emmy Noether Margaret Mead Barbara McClintock Gerty Cori Rita Levi-Montalcini Sophie Germain Mary Leakey
If they were going to pick a model they should have gone with Cindy Crawford. Better looking plus won a scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern. Paris is not in her league at all.
There is nothing wrong with the secondary educational system that parental involvement and a sound family environment doesn't fix. Public schools as currently constituted cannot function as parental surrogates. If parents can't take on the role the schools will fail.
"I have yet to find a single Tolkien fan who said he did an excellent job at capturing Tolkien's over all vision."
I'm a LONGTIME Tolkein fan - to the point where I ordered the First Edition out of England when I read WH Auden's original review in the NY Times some 50+ years ago. And later the 2nd edition of the Hobbit. These copies are still in my personal library.
I don't have any problem with the material that was left out. The pieces that were omitted were not central to the books. And I feel that the appearence of the movie was absolutely first rate, following Tolkein's own illustrations very well. Kudos there.
I also think the casting was excellent. I don't see how it could have been done any better.
BUT I think that the screenplay (curse you Fran, Phillppa) was mediocre at best. Some of the characters, most notably Aragon, Faramir and Denethor had serious breaks with the novel. Some of the dialog was horribly redone. The final scene with Gandalf and Saruman, and the Mouth of Sauron were deservedly cut from the theatrical release because they were a terrible botch. The addition of the elves to Helm's deep was just stupid. And the bit about Merry and Pippen trying to convince the simpering Ents to fight was revolting. And Gimli as comic relief? Horrid.
Other characters that did not stray from the novel much were fine.
So would I call it overall excellent? No, more like a B+ - An A for the visuals, casting and actors, A- for the score (a little overbearing at times) and a C for the screenplay.
The thought of having another director do the Hobbit and the Silmarillon doesn't bother me much. I like to see somebody else, especially if they are going to do it right so we don't have to put up with Fran Walsh again.
We just can't admit to ourselves that we do a very bad job of educating our workforce. Other countries are way ahead of us in terms of turning out skilled workers who excel in science, engineering and the computer field.
I think that is utter bullcrap. The US does a fine job of educating its population if you judge the end result in terms of productivity (output per hour). Few countries are comparable at all.
If the US is short of workers who are skilled in some small set of technical fields like computer science, it is because the incentives for US citizens to enter the field are just not there. The crash in CS majors following the dot bomb implosion is well documented. No talented students want to major in a field where there is no opportunity, or highly uncertain opportunity when there are far better choices. That is not about the education system failing, it is about people making rational choices.
Bringing in a buttload of H1-B or whatever isn't going to help - all that does is hide the problem on a temporary basis. India is starting to have its own internal shortages; and I imagine the same will soon be true for China - as their economy expands the need for educated people in this field will grow.
Ultimately the only way you fill a need like this is make it worthwhile for people to put the time in to learn the subject matter. It is all about market forces. Sure, it might mean businesses will have to pay a bit more, but they are paying the true cost, not some distorted low price depressed through market distortions.
Oh, and if it results in businesses having to rethink their development processes, invest a bit of capital into IT effeciency, etc. well that is what capitalism is all about.
Actually, I believe the stockmarket usually rewards a company for initiating layoffs, at least temporarily.
The stock market is not stupid. If the layoffs are because management is being stupid and the company is getting beat in the market they will pummel the stock. If the layoffs are due o say a general recession and a drop in demand throughout the economy then it is a move that makes sense.
Look at Intel this year. THey went through a round of layoffs, and their stock got a nice haircut.
'I've heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular. I hate peanut butter. We all should.'
This is so utterly bankrupt. HE IS THE MANAGEMENT, HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STRATEGY. Laying off 15-20% and not going after the problem - bad strategy, incompetance at the top. This sort of turmoil will only cause the talented people in Yahoo to bail out and find more rewarding opportunities.
The stock market is going to pummel Yahoo. It is one thing to drive costs down through keeping the number of employees down, it is another thing altogether to show signs that senior management has no fucking idea about what they are doing.
The existing formats degrade gracefully. And if you buy the lesser resolution and then upgrade your hardware? You get the lesser resolution. You have to rebuy and redownload everything. I do not see ANY benefit to this. Just buy the freaking disk for crying out loud.
Boy, there is a HUGE jump from the current online gambling broohaha to the idea that Antigua would be able to abrogate it's IP treaty. The UN hasn't even ruled on the current state of affairs, and then of course there is no guaranty that the WTO would cotton up to the idea of letting Antigua break it's IP treaty in retaliation.
It's a premise that is beyond any sort of reasonable extrapolation.
And then even should this come to pass, who cares? It would only affect the residents of Antigua - you wouldn't be able to legally import anything into the US that violates US copyright laws.
Even most HDTVs won't benefit from the information stored in a 15GB movie. How many people actually have sound systems that support 5.1, let alone 7.1?
That is ludicrous. Most DVD's are now coming out in dual layer 8 GB format to get the best bit rates possible out of the format for the simple reason it looks better. And the DD 5.1 sound tracks are a small percentage of the total data size.
And in any case I have an excellent 5.1 sound system to go along with my HDTV - if you try to offer some cut down sound track along with a iPod video resolution of the movie there is NO FRIGGIN' WAY I would buy into it - it's a serious downgrade of what I have today, and that just is not acceptable.
I do have serious doubts about BluRay and HD-DVD - format wars very often result in both formats disappearing. But 3 GB movies with 2.0 sound? NO!
I would suggest going light on books that focus on the tech du jour, APIs that are under rapid development etc. and invest in stuff that has lasting value.
Core Java: no K&R: yes
C#: No EJB: No XML: No
Applied Cryptography: yes Introduction to Algorithms: yes
Python Cookbook: No Perl Cookbook: No
Of course if you are working in a particular area, then it migh be worthwhile to pick up something - used books from Amazon Marketplace or Safari are good for this sort of thing.
If you want to get a feel for a book you can always hed over to the Barnes and Noble and do some browsing.
While there isn't a statuatory time limit, if you sit on an invention and somebody else starts using the technology there is a good chance you will lose the right to patent.
Anti-trust laws arise in great part from the need to control monopolies that would not exist if it were not for other government fiats granting monopolies, such as IP laws. If you propose the Libertarian stance that anti-trust laws are not reasonable, then the laws that foster the creation of these monopolies must go too.
You cannot write agaisnt anti-trust laws and be consistent without embracing the whole package.
Without these laws Microsoft as currently constituted would cease to exist. Problem solved.
Innovation would be releasing it when it is discovered.
You do realize that patent law contains a provision that requires that the patent be applied for in a timely fashion after invention? If somebody were to actually hold back an invention like you describe, they would lose the patent rights for the time that it was held back from the market, or simply lose the rights altogether by not filing the patent in a reasonable period of time. And of course if the patent issues but isn't brought to market the technology is still freely published for study by all and sundry. Without patents there would be no publication; the technology would just remain a secret.
No, patent law contains constraints that make your scenario very dubious.
Then there is the issue of the competitive market - the simple fact is that in the vast majority of cases any technology is under severe pressure from alternatives. The invention that sweeps the field and remains at the top of the heap for the life of the patent is very rare. In reality a patent, once issued, becomes a road map for the development of competing products. Any company that does not keep developing the field in which they issue their patent will lose that market in a few years. The average lifetime of commercial product in most industries is 5-7 years. In some areas it is longer because the effort to develop a competitor is restrained in one way or another (the FDA approval process is an example of this). If somebody comes out with a great widget, they will no doubt be under competitive pressure in 2-3 years, and will need a widget pro to keep their position. What the patent grants is a period of time where their competitors can't come out with knock-offs; rather the competitor has to develop a new technological approach.
"Some 17,000 attendees of the protest voted for the nation they believed is most in need of greater Internet freedom, and China came in second, with 4,100 votes. Myanmar, under the militaristic regime of the Junta party, was believed by 4,500 participants to present its citizens with the greatest threat to freedom of press on the Internet. The remaining nations, in descending order of votes received, were Belarus, Iran, Tunisia, Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, North Korea, Syria, and Uzbekistan. "
In a related story representatives from China, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela have petitioned the ITU and the UN to force the US to give up control of the internet root domain servers. The EU has for some unknown reason sided with these oppressive governments.
Nice try, but I'm not going to let you weasel out here. You have taken the mantle of Libertarianism in defense of Microsoft when in fact Microsoft itself is based on government interference of personal property rights. You do not have a defensible position.
My thoughts exactly. My first real job came with the title "Research Engineer", and I was responsible for operation of a 24x7x365 semiworks of which one of the products was 14,000 lbs of liquid chlorine per day. We had stuff like 4165 V 6 phase double wye power in the facility, and one of the waste products was hydrogen gas. You had better be pretty damn careful in that sort of place.
Nowadays I have a much less stressful job as a systems engineer in the software industry - but when I think about my job title I feel that the best job title for me would be just "Engineer". That's what I do - design and build stuff that works. It really doesn't matter what the technical discipline is - math is still math, physics is physics, etc.
They certainly can retract the rights, if Novell is in violation of the GPL.
Well, I think you are mincing words. The rights exist under the license which can't be retracted. If Novell is violating the license those rights are just not there. It's not a matter of retracting anything.
Slashdot Mirror
Do we have net-neutrality now?
Yes, informally.
Why then can't anyone connect to my port 80, and why can't I connect to port 25 of anyone other than my ISP's mail server?
Net non-neutrality means Google would be able connect at one speed and Uncle Harry at a different speed or not at all. Basically Net Neutral means no discrimination on level of service based on originating IP or destination IP.
1. OK
2. Some services require a certain bandwidth to work at all. VOIP is the most common example. If BT is on the same link VOIP has to get priority.
Further, good school systems can make up for bad or indifferent parenting even if they technically aren't parental surrogates.
Parents are the voters that elect the public officials who run the schools. It is not just involvement in the day to day life of the student that is important. It is the WHOLE PROCESS.
Of that list only Marie Curie really rates.
My List:
Marie Curie
Agnes Pockels
Hypatia of Alexandria
Emmy Noether
Margaret Mead
Barbara McClintock
Gerty Cori
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Sophie Germain
Mary Leakey
If they were going to pick a model they should have gone with Cindy Crawford. Better looking plus won a scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern. Paris is not in her league at all.
Mars Anti Satellite Command (MASC) reports another successful test of the new anti-satellite interceptor.
Mod parent up.
There is nothing wrong with the secondary educational system that parental involvement and a sound family environment doesn't fix. Public schools as currently constituted cannot function as parental surrogates. If parents can't take on the role the schools will fail.
"I have yet to find a single Tolkien fan who said he did an excellent job at capturing Tolkien's over all vision."
I'm a LONGTIME Tolkein fan - to the point where I ordered the First Edition out of England when I read WH Auden's original review in the NY Times some 50+ years ago. And later the 2nd edition of the Hobbit. These copies are still in my personal library.
I don't have any problem with the material that was left out. The pieces that were omitted were not central to the books. And I feel that the appearence of the movie was absolutely first rate, following Tolkein's own illustrations very well. Kudos there.
I also think the casting was excellent. I don't see how it could have been done any better.
BUT I think that the screenplay (curse you Fran, Phillppa) was mediocre at best. Some of the characters, most notably Aragon, Faramir and Denethor had serious breaks with the novel. Some of the dialog was horribly redone. The final scene with Gandalf and Saruman, and the Mouth of Sauron were deservedly cut from the theatrical release because they were a terrible botch. The addition of the elves to Helm's deep was just stupid. And the bit about Merry and Pippen trying to convince the simpering Ents to fight was revolting. And Gimli as comic relief? Horrid.
Other characters that did not stray from the novel much were fine.
So would I call it overall excellent? No, more like a B+ - An A for the visuals, casting and actors, A- for the score (a little overbearing at times) and a C for the screenplay.
The thought of having another director do the Hobbit and the Silmarillon doesn't bother me much. I like to see somebody else, especially if they are going to do it right so we don't have to put up with Fran Walsh again.
LOL. More like $500.
We just can't admit to ourselves that we do a very bad job of educating our workforce. Other countries are way ahead of us in terms of turning out skilled workers who excel in science, engineering and the computer field.
I think that is utter bullcrap. The US does a fine job of educating its population if you judge the end result in terms of productivity (output per hour). Few countries are comparable at all.
If the US is short of workers who are skilled in some small set of technical fields like computer science, it is because the incentives for US citizens to enter the field are just not there. The crash in CS majors following the dot bomb implosion is well documented. No talented students want to major in a field where there is no opportunity, or highly uncertain opportunity when there are far better choices. That is not about the education system failing, it is about people making rational choices.
Bringing in a buttload of H1-B or whatever isn't going to help - all that does is hide the problem on a temporary basis. India is starting to have its own internal shortages; and I imagine the same will soon be true for China - as their economy expands the need for educated people in this field will grow.
Ultimately the only way you fill a need like this is make it worthwhile for people to put the time in to learn the subject matter. It is all about market forces. Sure, it might mean businesses will have to pay a bit more, but they are paying the true cost, not some distorted low price depressed through market distortions.
Oh, and if it results in businesses having to rethink their development processes, invest a bit of capital into IT effeciency, etc. well that is what capitalism is all about.
Actually, I believe the stockmarket usually rewards a company for initiating layoffs, at least temporarily.
n tel_went-wrong_with_layoffs/
The stock market is not stupid. If the layoffs are because management is being stupid and the company is getting beat in the market they will pummel the stock. If the layoffs are due o say a general recession and a drop in demand throughout the economy then it is a move that makes sense.
Look at Intel this year. THey went through a round of layoffs, and their stock got a nice haircut.
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/09/07/enderle_where_i
'I've heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular. I hate peanut butter. We all should.'
This is so utterly bankrupt. HE IS THE MANAGEMENT, HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE STRATEGY. Laying off 15-20% and not going after the problem - bad strategy, incompetance at the top. This sort of turmoil will only cause the talented people in Yahoo to bail out and find more rewarding opportunities.
The stock market is going to pummel Yahoo. It is one thing to drive costs down through keeping the number of employees down, it is another thing altogether to show signs that senior management has no fucking idea about what they are doing.
Huh? Throughput on any full duplex switch is simply N*port bandwidth. For a 1 GB switch you would need 1000 ports to get 1 TB/sec.
Suggest is the word. I think the author was smokin' the wacky tabaccy when he came up with this one.
The existing formats degrade gracefully. And if you buy the lesser resolution and then upgrade your hardware? You get the lesser resolution. You have to rebuy and redownload everything. I do not see ANY benefit to this. Just buy the freaking disk for crying out loud.
Boy, there is a HUGE jump from the current online gambling broohaha to the idea that Antigua would be able to abrogate it's IP treaty. The UN hasn't even ruled on the current state of affairs, and then of course there is no guaranty that the WTO would cotton up to the idea of letting Antigua break it's IP treaty in retaliation.
It's a premise that is beyond any sort of reasonable extrapolation.
And then even should this come to pass, who cares? It would only affect the residents of Antigua - you wouldn't be able to legally import anything into the US that violates US copyright laws.
The whole article is ludicrous.
Even most HDTVs won't benefit from the information stored in a 15GB movie. How many people actually have sound systems that support 5.1, let alone 7.1?
That is ludicrous. Most DVD's are now coming out in dual layer 8 GB format to get the best bit rates possible out of the format for the simple reason it looks better. And the DD 5.1 sound tracks are a small percentage of the total data size.
And in any case I have an excellent 5.1 sound system to go along with my HDTV - if you try to offer some cut down sound track along with a iPod video resolution of the movie there is NO FRIGGIN' WAY I would buy into it - it's a serious downgrade of what I have today, and that just is not acceptable.
I do have serious doubts about BluRay and HD-DVD - format wars very often result in both formats disappearing. But 3 GB movies with 2.0 sound? NO!
I would suggest going light on books that focus on the tech du jour, APIs that are under rapid development etc. and invest in stuff that has lasting value.
Core Java: no
K&R: yes
C#: No
EJB: No
XML: No
Applied Cryptography: yes
Introduction to Algorithms: yes
Python Cookbook: No
Perl Cookbook: No
Of course if you are working in a particular area, then it migh be worthwhile to pick up something - used books from Amazon Marketplace or Safari are good for this sort of thing.
If you want to get a feel for a book you can always hed over to the Barnes and Noble and do some browsing.
Here is a discussion of the issue - see 'abandonment'.
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http://www.yale.edu/ocr/invent_guidelines/patent_
While there isn't a statuatory time limit, if you sit on an invention and somebody else starts using the technology there is a good chance you will lose the right to patent.
Anti-trust laws arise in great part from the need to control monopolies that would not exist if it were not for other government fiats granting monopolies, such as IP laws. If you propose the Libertarian stance that anti-trust laws are not reasonable, then the laws that foster the creation of these monopolies must go too.
You cannot write agaisnt anti-trust laws and be consistent without embracing the whole package.
Without these laws Microsoft as currently constituted would cease to exist. Problem solved.
Innovation would be releasing it when it is discovered.
You do realize that patent law contains a provision that requires that the patent be applied for in a timely fashion after invention? If somebody were to actually hold back an invention like you describe, they would lose the patent rights for the time that it was held back from the market, or simply lose the rights altogether by not filing the patent in a reasonable period of time. And of course if the patent issues but isn't brought to market the technology is still freely published for study by all and sundry. Without patents there would be no publication; the technology would just remain a secret.
No, patent law contains constraints that make your scenario very dubious.
Then there is the issue of the competitive market - the simple fact is that in the vast majority of cases any technology is under severe pressure from alternatives. The invention that sweeps the field and remains at the top of the heap for the life of the patent is very rare. In reality a patent, once issued, becomes a road map for the development of competing products. Any company that does not keep developing the field in which they issue their patent will lose that market in a few years. The average lifetime of commercial product in most industries is 5-7 years. In some areas it is longer because the effort to develop a competitor is restrained in one way or another (the FDA approval process is an example of this). If somebody comes out with a great widget, they will no doubt be under competitive pressure in 2-3 years, and will need a widget pro to keep their position. What the patent grants is a period of time where their competitors can't come out with knock-offs; rather the competitor has to develop a new technological approach.
"Some 17,000 attendees of the protest voted for the nation they believed is most in need of greater Internet freedom, and China came in second, with 4,100 votes. Myanmar, under the militaristic regime of the Junta party, was believed by 4,500 participants to present its citizens with the greatest threat to freedom of press on the Internet. The remaining nations, in descending order of votes received, were Belarus, Iran, Tunisia, Cuba, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, North Korea, Syria, and Uzbekistan. "
In a related story representatives from China, Iran, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela have petitioned the ITU and the UN to force the US to give up control of the internet root domain servers. The EU has for some unknown reason sided with these oppressive governments.
http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/11/soa/unin
http://bildt.blogspot.com/2005/10/european-union-
Nice try, but I'm not going to let you weasel out here. You have taken the mantle of Libertarianism in defense of Microsoft when in fact Microsoft itself is based on government interference of personal property rights. You do not have a defensible position.
My thoughts exactly. My first real job came with the title "Research Engineer", and I was responsible for operation of a 24x7x365 semiworks of which one of the products was 14,000 lbs of liquid chlorine per day. We had stuff like 4165 V 6 phase double wye power in the facility, and one of the waste products was hydrogen gas. You had better be pretty damn careful in that sort of place.
Nowadays I have a much less stressful job as a systems engineer in the software industry - but when I think about my job title I feel that the best job title for me would be just "Engineer". That's what I do - design and build stuff that works. It really doesn't matter what the technical discipline is - math is still math, physics is physics, etc.
That's what I want on my tombstone, too.
They certainly can retract the rights, if Novell is in violation of the GPL.
Well, I think you are mincing words. The rights exist under the license which can't be retracted. If Novell is violating the license those rights are just not there. It's not a matter of retracting anything.