What an absurd comment. Invention per se is a perfrectly legitimate activity; there are many research companies who contribute greatly to the greater good by doing research and then filing patents with the long term goal of being purchased for their results. Half of bioteh R&D is accomplished using this model. Universities surely have no particular interest in engaging in manufacture, but often have their patent portfolios add significantly to the funds they have available.
If you void patents on the grounds that the patent holder had no intention to manufacture you wipe out all protection for the small independent inventor. It's a ridiculous idea.
Do we need an ethical framework to direct companies to make such algorithms open source?
Since a corporation's primary charter is to make money for it's owners, revealing information like this could be considered unethical under current norms. This is why we have the concepts of patents and other IP. A patent is a contract betwwen the government and the patent holder in which the patent holder is granted a limited term monopoly on an invention in exchange for publishing the details of the implementation of the invention. The strength of the patent system determines how willing the corporation will be to publish the details of their invention.
The main alternative to patents is trade secrets where (like in the case of the Coca-Cola formula) the corporation decides that that it is not in it's best interest to publish it's invention.
This is the framework we have now. An ethical framework that would result in a company publishing all of it's inventions without any compensation would be a very different society and much more collective than what we have now. Whether such a thing would work is not well supported by history.
Not easy - you have the resolution/compression the show was recorded in, and then the rez/comp the show was broadcast in. The first is nearly impossible to find out, and for the second you might find out res pretty easy, but comp or bandwidth or bit rate may well be a secret for competitve reasons. Satellite tends to have the worst compression, while cable is decent, and OTA might be the best.
Windows users: 95% Users who don't set VCR clock: 99% Users who don't use firewall: 50% Users w/o antivirus: 50% User w/o antispyware: 60% HDTV owners w/o HDTV programmning: 50% Voters who voted for GWB: 55%
Heck, I still haven't gone and gotten a nice DVD player (still using s-video)
You really must be cheap and lazy. I though just about all DVD players supported component output. That would make a big difference in your picture quality.
I for one will continue to wait, patiently, until such a time where I can buy a HDTV set with built-in digital cable and ATSC tuners without the requirment of having a cable company box attached to my tv as well, and pay extra for HDTV content.
Odd, I wonder what I have in my living room then? ATSC built in, yup. Extra fee for HDTV content? Nope. QAM tuner built in - yup. No cable box - yup.
So the question is why is this a problem? The United States armed forces had damned well better be prepared for military actions in cyberspace, IT IS THEIR JOB. Anything less is gross negligance and dereliction of duty.
Now you may or may not like the policies of the US government, but that has nothing to do with the military - the military's job is to carry out those policies.
And as far as the US's legal obligations, well what does the Constitution say about that? Well, the military has a few limits - it can't board soldiers in your house without compensation, it can't use soldiers for law enforcement in the US. But in terms of carrying out warefare, the legal limitations are that it has to follow the orders of the President, who is ultimately accountable for it's actions. And the President is bound by a few restrictions in his role. For example only Congress can declare war, Congress can impeach, etc.
And WHAT THE HELL does this have to do with the root zone file maintainer? Bupkis, that's what.
Since so many have blamed television for the decline of language, corruption of values and family I think television isn't even in the ballpark.
Positive impact on society doesn't come from entertainment. It comes from reducing pain and suffering. I offer two candidates for your consideration:
DA Henderson: Epidemiologist who led the W.H.O. program to succesfully eradicate the scourge of smallpox from humanity.
Normon Borlaug: Inventor of high yield dwarf wheat and father of the green revolution. He personally led the effort which made India and Pakistan agriculturally self-sufficient.
Both of these inventors can be regarded as billionaires - not in dollars, but in lives saved. How can something as banal as a television compare?
Given the power supply problems a refrigerator could actually be related.
Unfortunately the articles don't list the contents of the bundles so we can't discuss this point. However I remember gas staion operators getting fined in the gas shortages of the 70's for bundling gas cans with gas purchases, so the criterea might be a bit tighter than just related.
My post here is to the objection I think the article states Ajax problems too harshly.
Perhaps, but I think the problem set the author chose to examine is not where the deep and most fundamental problems with Ajax lie.
The basic issue is simple - HTTP isn't a client - server protocol. There are several technologies that try to get around this issue, Java Applets, Flash Remoting and now Ajax. They all have their own set of issues, but the place that the break is in the design decision to try to turn an HTML browser into a rich client. It is always a matter of trying to bolt the fuselage of a 747 onto a balsa glider, it just won't fly and you will always be frustrated by this fact.
would you be here today if European hadn't RE-(you have it)-discovered America?
That is silly. Any event in history, if changed, could have effected my state of existance or non-existance, or my location if I were to come into existance. Even the legendary south asian butterfly.
It's not always about WHO discovered something, but sometimes also about WHO brought back the discovery to other future scientists.
Yes, but in this case Presber and Eckert did FAR more to bring their design to the attention of others than did Turing. Turing AFAIK never built a stored program computer, while Presber and Eckert built ENIAC which is the progenetor to all commercial computer development. What you attribute to Turing is most widely known as the von Neumann architecture. Likewise my comments about the algorismus. Al-Kwarizmi made his contributions by exercise of translation, not mathematical insight. That is mostly an accident of being located on a trade route. Others translating his works to Latin and Spanish made equal contributions. al-Kwarizmi is overrated; his contribution was directly handed to him by Hindi travellers.
I wasn't trying to make an history lesson.
Oh come on now. You were absolutely trying to give examples as to why history is important in this example. You fudged it up quite badly with very inaccurate examples. You should be doubly embarressed because of the prevailing view in Europe that Americans are uneducated, particulary in the field of world history. In reality what is taught in Europe as 'history' tends to be extremely euro-centric and chauvanistic, as were your examples, and in fact your argument in the first place.
The contribution made by arabs to mathematics was mostly in translation of works on Indian astronomers to Arabic. Credit is clearly given to the Indians in the preface to the Latin translation of the Algorismus.
Hinc incipit algorismus. Haec algorismus ars praesens dicitur in qua talibus indorum fruimur bis quinque figuris
0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1,
The stored program architecture computer was designed and written about by John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert in December 1943 in the US at the University of Pennsylvania 3 years before Turing published his design. While working at the Princeton NJ Institute for Advanced Studies von Neumann also published the stored program architecture designs prior to Turing.
And the Americas were discovered by Asians crossing the Bering land bridge 10,000 years before any European visited the Western Hemisphere.
ITU administration, no. But certainly local telephony administrative officials.
There is already a history of corruption in the international leased line business where local officials control allocation of international telephone lines. Moving the internet to this sort of international control definitely opens up the Pandora's box.
What are the chances that Condoleezza Rice actually has any clue what the "authoritative root zone file" is?
Pretty high. Dr. Rice is a very bright person with a background as provost at Stanford. It wouldn't take long for her to understand the concept if indeed just the name 'authoritative root zone file' didn't imply enough.
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What an absurd comment. Invention per se is a perfrectly legitimate activity; there are many research companies who contribute greatly to the greater good by doing research and then filing patents with the long term goal of being purchased for their results. Half of bioteh R&D is accomplished using this model. Universities surely have no particular interest in engaging in manufacture, but often have their patent portfolios add significantly to the funds they have available.
If you void patents on the grounds that the patent holder had no intention to manufacture you wipe out all protection for the small independent inventor. It's a ridiculous idea.
In the '70s when my wife sent regular mail to Chile it would arrive with the envelope flap taped shut. LOL. At least now it isn't so obvious.
MS XML Format: .... /binary?
Do we need an ethical framework to direct companies to make such algorithms open source?
Since a corporation's primary charter is to make money for it's owners, revealing information like this could be considered unethical under current norms. This is why we have the concepts of patents and other IP. A patent is a contract betwwen the government and the patent holder in which the patent holder is granted a limited term monopoly on an invention in exchange for publishing the details of the implementation of the invention. The strength of the patent system determines how willing the corporation will be to publish the details of their invention.
The main alternative to patents is trade secrets where (like in the case of the Coca-Cola formula) the corporation decides that that it is not in it's best interest to publish it's invention.
This is the framework we have now. An ethical framework that would result in a company publishing all of it's inventions without any compensation would be a very different society and much more collective than what we have now. Whether such a thing would work is not well supported by history.
Not a big deal.
http://www.archive.org/web/petabox.php
Not easy - you have the resolution/compression the show was recorded in, and then the rez/comp the show was broadcast in. The first is nearly impossible to find out, and for the second you might find out res pretty easy, but comp or bandwidth or bit rate may well be a secret for competitve reasons. Satellite tends to have the worst compression, while cable is decent, and OTA might be the best.
So we have the following statistics:
Windows users: 95%
Users who don't set VCR clock: 99%
Users who don't use firewall: 50%
Users w/o antivirus: 50%
User w/o antispyware: 60%
HDTV owners w/o HDTV programmning: 50%
Voters who voted for GWB: 55%
Boy, I am losing all hope for this country.
Heck, I still haven't gone and gotten a nice DVD player (still using s-video)
You really must be cheap and lazy. I though just about all DVD players supported component output. That would make a big difference in your picture quality.
I for one will continue to wait, patiently, until such a time where I can buy a HDTV set with built-in digital cable and ATSC tuners without the requirment of having a cable company box attached to my tv as well, and pay extra for HDTV content.
Odd, I wonder what I have in my living room then? ATSC built in, yup. Extra fee for HDTV content? Nope. QAM tuner built in - yup. No cable box - yup.
These have been available for over a year now.
So the question is why is this a problem? The United States armed forces had damned well better be prepared for military actions in cyberspace, IT IS THEIR JOB. Anything less is gross negligance and dereliction of duty.
Now you may or may not like the policies of the US government, but that has nothing to do with the military - the military's job is to carry out those policies.
And as far as the US's legal obligations, well what does the Constitution say about that? Well, the military has a few limits - it can't board soldiers in your house without compensation, it can't use soldiers for law enforcement in the US. But in terms of carrying out warefare, the legal limitations are that it has to follow the orders of the President, who is ultimately accountable for it's actions. And the President is bound by a few restrictions in his role. For example only Congress can declare war, Congress can impeach, etc.
And WHAT THE HELL does this have to do with the root zone file maintainer? Bupkis, that's what.
Easy, TV keeps people inside and pacified instead of outside lynching the foreigners. TV has done more to save lives than any other single invention.
Ah, you are apparently a wonderful example of the negative effects of TV in America.
The problem is that many applications don't properly implement undo. As a result you could end up saving over data that you really wanted to retain.
That would be the guy that invented telivision.
Since so many have blamed television for the decline of language, corruption of values and family I think television isn't even in the ballpark.
Positive impact on society doesn't come from entertainment. It comes from reducing pain and suffering. I offer two candidates for your consideration:
DA Henderson: Epidemiologist who led the W.H.O. program to succesfully eradicate the scourge of smallpox from humanity.
Normon Borlaug: Inventor of high yield dwarf wheat and father of the green revolution. He personally led the effort which made India and Pakistan agriculturally self-sufficient.
Both of these inventors can be regarded as billionaires - not in dollars, but in lives saved. How can something as banal as a television compare?
Given the power supply problems a refrigerator could actually be related.
Unfortunately the articles don't list the contents of the bundles so we can't discuss this point. However I remember gas staion operators getting fined in the gas shortages of the 70's for bundling gas cans with gas purchases, so the criterea might be a bit tighter than just related.
IANAL, but isn't this sort of bundling actually illegal? I.E. you must buy unrelated item A to get B?\\
My post here is to the objection I think the article states Ajax problems too harshly.
Perhaps, but I think the problem set the author chose to examine is not where the deep and most fundamental problems with Ajax lie.
The basic issue is simple - HTTP isn't a client - server protocol. There are several technologies that try to get around this issue, Java Applets, Flash Remoting and now Ajax. They all have their own set of issues, but the place that the break is in the design decision to try to turn an HTML browser into a rich client. It is always a matter of trying to bolt the fuselage of a 747 onto a balsa glider, it just won't fly and you will always be frustrated by this fact.
You would fail your own test
THIS is why you want the root zone file to stay where it is.
From what I've seen of her, I'd suspect that the only one of those items she actually believes in is the use of covert propaganda.
Yes, but what's the definition of artificial cheese food substitute?
at least 40% paradichlorobenzene, the remainder a mix of orthodichlorobenzene and fulminate of mercury.
There's also corruption in how internet lines are run.
Your examples don't rise to the level of the out-and-out open bribery in the ITU example.
would you be here today if European hadn't RE-(you have it)-discovered America?
That is silly. Any event in history, if changed, could have effected my state of existance or non-existance, or my location if I were to come into existance. Even the legendary south asian butterfly.
It's not always about WHO discovered something, but sometimes also about WHO brought back the discovery to other future scientists.
Yes, but in this case Presber and Eckert did FAR more to bring their design to the attention of others than did Turing. Turing AFAIK never built a stored program computer, while Presber and Eckert built ENIAC which is the progenetor to all commercial computer development. What you attribute to Turing is most widely known as the von Neumann architecture. Likewise my comments about the algorismus. Al-Kwarizmi made his contributions by exercise of translation, not mathematical insight. That is mostly an accident of being located on a trade route. Others translating his works to Latin and Spanish made equal contributions. al-Kwarizmi is overrated; his contribution was directly handed to him by Hindi travellers.
I wasn't trying to make an history lesson.
Oh come on now. You were absolutely trying to give examples as to why history is important in this example. You fudged it up quite badly with very inaccurate examples. You should be doubly embarressed because of the prevailing view in Europe that Americans are uneducated, particulary in the field of world history. In reality what is taught in Europe as 'history' tends to be extremely euro-centric and chauvanistic, as were your examples, and in fact your argument in the first place.
Your history is very bad..
The contribution made by arabs to mathematics was mostly in translation of works on Indian astronomers to Arabic. Credit is clearly given to the Indians in the preface to the Latin translation of the Algorismus.
Hinc incipit algorismus.
Haec algorismus ars praesens dicitur in qua
talibus indorum fruimur bis quinque figuris
0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1,
The stored program architecture computer was designed and written about by John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert in December 1943 in the US at the University of Pennsylvania 3 years before Turing published his design. While working at the Princeton NJ Institute for Advanced Studies von Neumann also published the stored program architecture designs prior to Turing.
And the Americas were discovered by Asians crossing the Bering land bridge 10,000 years before any European visited the Western Hemisphere.
ITU administration, no. But certainly local telephony administrative officials.
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There is already a history of corruption in the international leased line business where local officials control allocation of international telephone lines. Moving the internet to this sort of international control definitely opens up the Pandora's box.
http://www.intug.net/submissions/ITU-T-SG3_leased
What are the chances that Condoleezza Rice actually has any clue what the "authoritative root zone file" is?
Pretty high. Dr. Rice is a very bright person with a background as provost at Stanford. It wouldn't take long for her to understand the concept if indeed just the name 'authoritative root zone file' didn't imply enough.