Eating is one thing, but sleeping and staying away from the boss are not only not important job functions, they're not things you should be doing at work. If you have a boss that you need to hide from, then I garuantee that you won't have one of these cubicles. If you have a job that has you pulling all-nighters, then I don't care how nice your hammock is, your job should give you a bed to sleep on, not a cubicle. Do you really want to sleep surrounded by your work?
People at work should stick to working, and leave the games and naps at home.
Since coding keeps the means of production in the hand of the worker (heehee), and doesn't need to be done in physical proximity to the client (as this company, for one, demonstrates), the talent market for coders should expand to include the entire world, wherever the coders are. When that happens, companies in the US will have to compete for talented coders in Siberia and elsewhere the same way they do here, by offering competetive salaries. The only reason this company can get away with paying Russian wages is that they don't have adequate American competition yet.
The only thing is that as soon as the ISP notices which megacorp you've reported (which they probably will when they check the contact address associated with the IP address), they'll either automatically ignore your tip or call up their contact at the corporation immediately and clear it up. I doubt that this tactic would cause any appreciable difficulty for the targeted corporation.
"I am so fed up with being force-fed Micro$oft's garbage! It's a good thing I've already started organizing my friends into an anti-M$ lobbying group. Hey, maybe I can recruit that guy with the gun and the long microphone that's been hanging around outside my window."
I doubt that you can base a claim of prior art on knowledge that once existed, but no longer does. Usually, prior art means that knowledge of the process you're trying to patent is already floating around. In this case, since there's no one alive who knows what the original process was, and there's no existing documentation that describes it precisely and usefully, the knowledge has ceased to float around. The inventors deserve the patent for [re]developing a process that would otherwise remain unavailable and unknown to the world.
The digital form doesn't just add benefits in layout, font, or presentation. It allows the content to be published over the internet, and therefore available to people all over the world, as long as they have internet access. Not every city has a public library, and not every public library has the book that you want in a language that you understand.
This company is providing the service of making this novel available to you for about one read, no matter where you are, at a nearly negligible cost. I can definitely see this service being useful to some people, especially travelers, so it's definitely worthy of a trial run in the court of capitalism.
Over and over, Kodak's team tested the installation process on Windows XP. They say it took nine mouse clicks--through a series of Windows instructions and folders--to get Kodak's software installed as the default after a camera was plugged in.
What prevents Kodak from writing a script that automates this nine-click process, so that the users only have to click once or twice to set the Kodak software as the default, if they so desire?
And get this: Evolution had left five logic cells unconnected to the rest of the circuit, in a position where they should not have been able to influence its workings. Yet if Thompson disconnected them, the circuit failed. Evidently the chip had evolved a way to use the electromagnetic properties of a signal in a nearby cell. But the fact is that Thompson doesn't know how it works.
Apparently, these chips are free to evolve novel solutions using factors outside of the pure logic that they're running; there are actually not-yet-understood physical effects that are available for them to draw on in building their techniques. What scares me about this is that if these physical effects aren't quite understood, then they can be suceptible to changes in environmental conditions (most obviously, EM fields) in unexpected ways. So, even if this circuit works beautifully in the lab in which it was evolved, the strage effects that it depends on may be fatally disrupted in some other location.
Well, since we're dealing with apes here, and their favorite activity is to pick nits:
The third quantity in your sequence should be 3^2, in order to be consistent with both the original and the rest of your sequence.
Thhhhbpppt.
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Dude, if the Government showed up with an array of awesome firepower, that alone would make it worth it for present people to attend the party.
I knew those UMass undergrads were industrious, but are we sure that only one would be enough for the Mars-heating mission?
Hear, hear!
Eating is one thing, but sleeping and staying away from the boss are not only not important job functions, they're not things you should be doing at work. If you have a boss that you need to hide from, then I garuantee that you won't have one of these cubicles. If you have a job that has you pulling all-nighters, then I don't care how nice your hammock is, your job should give you a bed to sleep on, not a cubicle. Do you really want to sleep surrounded by your work?
People at work should stick to working, and leave the games and naps at home.
Since coding keeps the means of production in the hand of the worker (heehee), and doesn't need to be done in physical proximity to the client (as this company, for one, demonstrates), the talent market for coders should expand to include the entire world, wherever the coders are. When that happens, companies in the US will have to compete for talented coders in Siberia and elsewhere the same way they do here, by offering competetive salaries. The only reason this company can get away with paying Russian wages is that they don't have adequate American competition yet.
This looks like a cool idea.
The only thing is that as soon as the ISP notices which megacorp you've reported (which they probably will when they check the contact address associated with the IP address), they'll either automatically ignore your tip or call up their contact at the corporation immediately and clear it up. I doubt that this tactic would cause any appreciable difficulty for the targeted corporation.
A month-old letter from the now deceased:
"I am so fed up with being force-fed Micro$oft's garbage! It's a good thing I've already started organizing my friends into an anti-M$ lobbying group. Hey, maybe I can recruit that guy with the gun and the long microphone that's been hanging around outside my window."
I doubt that you can base a claim of prior art on knowledge that once existed, but no longer does. Usually, prior art means that knowledge of the process you're trying to patent is already floating around. In this case, since there's no one alive who knows what the original process was, and there's no existing documentation that describes it precisely and usefully, the knowledge has ceased to float around. The inventors deserve the patent for [re]developing a process that would otherwise remain unavailable and unknown to the world.
Anyone who recovers what Nixon erased from the tape will be sued by his estate under the DMCA for circumventing his encryption scheme. Sorry.
The digital form doesn't just add benefits in layout, font, or presentation. It allows the content to be published over the internet, and therefore available to people all over the world, as long as they have internet access. Not every city has a public library, and not every public library has the book that you want in a language that you understand.
This company is providing the service of making this novel available to you for about one read, no matter where you are, at a nearly negligible cost. I can definitely see this service being useful to some people, especially travelers, so it's definitely worthy of a trial run in the court of capitalism.
What prevents Kodak from writing a script that automates this nine-click process, so that the users only have to click once or twice to set the Kodak software as the default, if they so desire?
Do any other already-known particles get that close to c without being at c?
One of the spotlights on MIT's homepage linked to this News Office piece. In addition, a "Lucky" button, a la Google was added next to the "Go" button for the search box. It linked to a close reading of the B.S. song of that name.
2001-05-26 23:47:37 these noncapitalized letters included to beat lameness filter
Well, since we're dealing with apes here, and their favorite activity is to pick nits: The third quantity in your sequence should be 3^2, in order to be consistent with both the original and the rest of your sequence. Thhhhbpppt.
The NERDS Scrapheap Challenge team have a list of "Ten reasons why being on 'Junkyard Wars' is better than being on 'Survivor'" on their website.