I love how people keep referring to such fundamental database requirements as subqueries and stored procedures as "features". MySQL is basically analogous to a word processor program that hasn't yet implemented punctuation or capitalization "features".
It is for the public benefit. It just takes a longer view of things.
Using the word "corruption" is this context is particularly silly, considering the kinds of nepotism and old-boys-club pandering that goes on every day for no public benefit (and even for public harm).
Oops, wrong irrelevant fringe party. Anyhoo, I was basically saying that the people who decide what direction pure science takes should be, well, scientists. You're saying that the people who decide that should be industry executives. (i.e. you should only be given a public research grant if it directly applies to a project condoned by a corporation).
Applied research is "research with a specific application in mind" (what you're talking about). "Pure" or "basic" research is "research for the purpose of filling holes in human knowledge". Many people feel that the latter is worthwhile, and often eventually fuels the former (even in unexpected ways).
Or, do you just have a specific vendetta against particle accelerators?
So, basically, you're saying science should be kept within the confines of the imaginations of industry executives, where only the ideas that the executive thinks will make a buck should be pursued.
Ideas like this are the main reason the vast majority of people thing Libertarianism is a joke. There are a lot of places where the free market just doesn't work all that well.
Your ability to view the situation reasonably is blocked by your pathological greed. Yes, I'm aware that the links generate some sales. Does that alone make them acceptable? Is profitablity the only yardstick against which our actions should be measured?
The world is being polluted on a grand scale by advertisers, because each individually has the shortsightedness you just demonstrated. You should consider whether your actions are appropriate for society, regardless of the legality/profitability of said actions.
And arguing that I'm somehow "opting in" by reading Slashdot at lower than +3 is just ridiculous. The only real explanation for the situaion is that you're greedy, and you place your own profit above others' convenience/annoyance. You don't care about how others view the situation as long as you get your 15% every now and then. The real tragedy is that you achieve your ends by violating the implicit trust that forms the foundation of our open society.
You're a spammer, and you're polluting Slashdot. I shouldn't have to do extra scrolling to get past your unsolicited advertising.
And can the bullshit about its being "informative". Everyone knows that Amazon.com sells books, and if I were seriously interested in buying this one, I'd check the price myself.
Find a respectable, non-destructive way to make money.
now they'll drop the prices of CDs to what tapes are now.
Not likely. More likely, they'll start these out at $23 or so, then make sure that you have to have them to use all the hip new equipment. The stupid will flock in droves, as usual.
Nice explanation of why this won't work very well. Along the same lines, though, I wonder if it would be possible to "train" some equipment to the user's HRTF? e.g. you'd stick some earbuds with microphones on them deep in your ear, sit in the sweet spot, and play the training sounds (pink noise and what-not). The system could then pick up the sounds (with the user's native HRTF already applied), and come up with a better approximation tailored to that user.
Please. The "we trust the consumer" drivel is pure marketing hype, so that they won't look foolish when this gets hacked in one day. If they could find a way that couldn't be hacked, they'd do it in a heartbeat.
If they really trusted the consumer, they wouldn't go through the huge effort and expense to produce this DRM in the first place.
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I love how people keep referring to such fundamental database requirements as subqueries and stored procedures as "features". MySQL is basically analogous to a word processor program that hasn't yet implemented punctuation or capitalization "features".
Using the word "corruption" is this context is particularly silly, considering the kinds of nepotism and old-boys-club pandering that goes on every day for no public benefit (and even for public harm).
Applied research is "research with a specific application in mind" (what you're talking about). "Pure" or "basic" research is "research for the purpose of filling holes in human knowledge". Many people feel that the latter is worthwhile, and often eventually fuels the former (even in unexpected ways).
Or, do you just have a specific vendetta against particle accelerators?
Ideas like this are the main reason the vast majority of people thing Libertarianism is a joke. There are a lot of places where the free market just doesn't work all that well.
Are you saying that using a toothpick or eating a burger is stupid?
Another reason why it's vastly inappropriate to place our voting systems in the hands of industry.
The label on my fire extinguisher says "Aim at the base of flames".
That's phase 3. We're currently in phase 2.
The world is being polluted on a grand scale by advertisers, because each individually has the shortsightedness you just demonstrated. You should consider whether your actions are appropriate for society, regardless of the legality/profitability of said actions.
And arguing that I'm somehow "opting in" by reading Slashdot at lower than +3 is just ridiculous. The only real explanation for the situaion is that you're greedy, and you place your own profit above others' convenience/annoyance. You don't care about how others view the situation as long as you get your 15% every now and then. The real tragedy is that you achieve your ends by violating the implicit trust that forms the foundation of our open society.
And can the bullshit about its being "informative". Everyone knows that Amazon.com sells books, and if I were seriously interested in buying this one, I'd check the price myself.
Find a respectable, non-destructive way to make money.
Not likely. More likely, they'll start these out at $23 or so, then make sure that you have to have them to use all the hip new equipment. The stupid will flock in droves, as usual.
Nice explanation of why this won't work very well. Along the same lines, though, I wonder if it would be possible to "train" some equipment to the user's HRTF? e.g. you'd stick some earbuds with microphones on them deep in your ear, sit in the sweet spot, and play the training sounds (pink noise and what-not). The system could then pick up the sounds (with the user's native HRTF already applied), and come up with a better approximation tailored to that user.
The only one that really matters.
Understatement . . . how about "criminal neglect"?
A), but surrounded by various B).
If they really trusted the consumer, they wouldn't go through the huge effort and expense to produce this DRM in the first place.
drive revenue away?
Dad bagged a deaf babe.
Egg a facade; deface!
Deb acceded a bad deed.
At least the Red Cross is successful with their mission . . . I can't say the same about a LOT of private companies whose managers get paid much more.
The only reason you're even aware of how much the Red Cross management makes is because Bill O'Reilly needed to boost his ratings.
Maybe so, but that doesn't change the fact that prison time is often far from justified. People shouldn't have to do time for being stupid.
Nope. Not anymore. Not for people like me, that will never, ever buy a single Belkin product as a direct result of this. Ever.
Sure they did . . . they were just all for the same "company".
I heard Diebold already has a patent on that.
Um, yeah, that's called "the law of diminishing returns", and has been around way longer than some Amdahl hack.
You forgot the key assumption of capitalism (the one that makes it not work all that well in the real world): perfect information.