Isnt it distressing that there are only two women on this list? And that the highest ranked of the two isnt a developer/researcher but a corporate exec through and through?
Im not saying that they should be artificially promotoed in order to give fair treatment, but it seems that we are sort of only using half the resources availble to us, and that the female perspective could radically change(improve?) technical innovation if it were taken advantage of.
I know that industries like finance get a bad rap frequently for being centered around a "boys club" mentality. But I bet a survey of finance's top fifty would do better then 4% women.
Actually Merril Lynch is the 17th largest holder of Sun stock, holding about 14million shares. This compares to the 40 thousand shares of MSFT that Merril holds.
Somehow I dont think this analyst is working in cahoots with the traders.
I have a feeling that the software used to keep the music "secure" might include some sort of encryption/drm for which there is no linux software available.
I have always found it interesting how Hagel is very much respecte and Marx is often thrown out as a nut job by the mainstream.
Its always seemed to me the if you discount Marx's solution/prediction from his work, then he as a very excellent historian and proved a great framework for analyzing history and society.
Its just sad that a few indescretions in his later years and one political manifesto (which really had little to do ultimatly with his work) tarnishes his name so much.
If you think about it, his economic class truggle meshes quite logically with Hegel, and coincide to a great extent with history. Even his analysis of capitalism is accurate, barring the conclusion that it would self implode in the near future. He was really writing and the begining of the technologically epoch, yet believed he was writing in the middle of the industrial epoch. He also did not anticipate just how much the upper class would be willing to grant to the middle class (and allow its growth simultaneously), thus rendering his predictions regarding natural revolutions by the lower class irrelevant, or at least very premature.
So much to talk about on this one, so many great ideas. Of course whenever you say that, everyone that lacks any sort of background in history calls you a communist.
I used to just preempt them and tell them I was a Marxist Republican, but as Bush has essentially destroyed any appeal that the Republican party had by enfusing religion and absurdity, im now relegated to being a commie pig.
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Actually that alternative authored by the EFF (and other similair alternatives) was what I was alluding to. This is why I find the proposing of any alternatives as abhorent, as they all invision a system which incorporates control beyond the standard legal protections.
No, no alternatives should be proposed beyond a playingfield that does not restrict technology on the basis of it's potential misuse. That is the system. Let individuals be held accountable for what they do with the technology. If the law proves to be unenforcable, then clearly the law is standing against the natural current of history.
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My suggestion is that whatever protection is devised should be specific to human behavior and not attempt to restrict technology or the flow of information based on the mere potential for misuse.
Realisticly, this would destroy the current business models surrounding mass produced music and video because short of some orwelian surveilance system there is no way to effectively police human behavior.
So yeah, they deserve protection, however they do not deserve protection to degree that sacrifices anyone else's rights. In the end if technology and inate human behavior deny musicians and artists a living, then they should take it as a clue that their product has no real market value beyond it's inherent artistic merit and that merit is equivalent to money. Art for arts sake, to hell with the rest.
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Why should anything be put in its place? Contriving answers to such problems never works anyway, take a look at the history of communism for proof.
Just kill the status-quo, and let the market determine the solution.
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"Personally, I'd like to hear more specifics about alternative systems"
I think any notion of a successfull alternative system co-existing with an RIAA that remains dominant in the industry is absurd.
Step 1: Burn down the music industry as it stands today.
Step 2: Let a profitable system for digital distribution emerge from the unregulated ashes. Assuming one can.
Of course maybe music wont be profitable (except for live performances) ever again.
wow, art for the sake of art. What a depressing future..
You guys are misinterpreting this. The RIAA was in fact authorized to represent Usher, and when confronted with a file that they mistook for being a work of Usher's they pursued civil action. So while they were wrong in that there was no violation of the Usher's copyrights, they still werent committing perjury because they never claimed to represent the Professor who created the work in question.
For perjury they would have needed to claim that they were representing the professor.
Simply being mistaken as to the composition of and authorship of the work in question didnt suddenly transform the RIAA's filing into stating that they were representing someone other then Usher.
Doesnt the EU have copyright law/treaties that would override German law? I dont know what those laws are, but I am pretty sure that German law will soon be largely irrelevant once the EU starts implimenting its own copyright/IP laws.
I mean if the GPL is legit in France (knowing the french it has to be) and Italy, and the rest of the EU, then wouldnt the whole EU have to find some way to ensure consistancy?
Hmmm..... Thats a really great idea. Should work too (ignore those jealous PC users who tell you its technically infeasable).
However, I would be concerned about Apple's legal department, as such an amazing prospect of running two 32bit operating systems on one 64bit cpu simultaneously is clearly destined to be the focal point of Steve's 04 Keynote.
Mac users, sweet, cuddly, but not to bright. They remind me of Golden Retrievers.
barring that anti silcon valley sentiment, I have to agree with you (the rest of california, well fuck'em).
Seriously, new england should succeed. They can keep New Jersey, long island and upstate new york.
Garbage and (fundamental intolerant (yes its irony but its right)) christians need not apply.
A lot of activists and such have been pushing mass transit in the states for years. The reason it hasnt caught on is one very simple fact.
People like their cars. People dont like other people, and cars offer sanctuary from the fould world that surrounds us. Mass transit doesnt succeed because of deep seated social problems, and more city planining wont fix that.
So who cares? It matters little to me how fast something is in a synthetic benchmark if there is no correlation to real world applications, and I am sure Nvidia isnt doing this in games cause who would buy a card that didnt properly render most scenes.
I dunno, but synthetic benchmarks seem a bit irrelevant as does what Nvidia does in them. Show me how many FPS it gets in Q3A, that I care about.
While California certainly experiences some pain in its healthcare/education/welfare budgets due to immigration, all sorts of economic data almost conlusively demonstrates that immigration (at all ends of the economic spectrum) is a real boon for the economy. Cutting illegal immigration would be a bad idea economicly. What would be a good economic idea and a bad ethical one would be to simply deny illegal immigrants all government services.
On a sidenote, a very small almost statisticly insignificant portion of the illegal immigrant population actually recieves welfare or healthcare as they aare terrified of discovery. The real solution probably lies in the federal government. As the national economy is benefiting from illegal immigration, the regional economies that need to bear the immediate costs should not have to be solely responsible. The feds should definatly compensate.
Of course with our current administrations purely negligent/chronism approach to politics I would hardly expect that Texas/New Mexico/California would recieve such help. Or that NYC would recieve help for terrorism costs linked to Gulf II.
Hillary Clinton is a Senator. There is a giant difference between NYC Federal politics, state politics and city politics.
Federal politics, you are right. State politics, lord knows. There is so much collusion going on in the NY State politics no one can really figure it out. Its pretty clear that the leaders of the state senate and the state assemble (who are from opposite parties) have been colluding for the past tweenty to pretty much ensure a balance of power that does not envolve and simply gurantees the encumbant survival.
As for NYC politics, which this article is about, well the city council is a few sickles shy of the Soviet Politburo in terms of their political alignment. Something about the burrough system there seems to skew borough politics horribly to the left while letting mayoral politics sway either way.
The NYC Council is one of the most liberal government bodies in the United States. They are in many ways socialist in their perspective. Not that I consider Open Source to be socialist (how can it be when its a total evolution from both socialist and capitalist market ideals) but such political leanings on their part could definatly favor Open Source if the issues were made clear to them.
This is the same council that put into place rent control and rent stabilization. That combined with the NY State government put together the post expensive and comprehensive (to an absurdity in some cases) government funded health plans in the country.
If they understood the implications for education, government and Microsoft, there is no doubt in my mind that they could go so far as to Mandate the use of opensource in several places. Because in addition to being really really socialist, and very much into a peculiar form of class warfare, the NYC Council just loves to DICTATE the minutia of policy.
One more example of the absurd extremes they have been known to go to. For a while they had litterally composed guidelines/lesson plans for public school teachers that detailed almost to the last minute of every class what should be taught.
Overbearing and socialist. What a strange bedfellow for OSS.
I remember reading about a proposal to send power to the earth this way. By having a massive solar cell array in space transmitting microwaves to a giant receiver on earth, you could gather lots of energy.
Yeah, the "Proposal" was called Sim City 3000 as I recall. I also recall the "proposal" included random attacks by godzilla.
Hmmm.... No. The fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals is that conservatives seek to defend the status quo, and revert to political legacies while liberals seek to contrive a political evolution. This at least is the classical definition of Conservatives and Liberals respectively.
Your summation of the two positions could however be argued as applicable to Republicans and Democrats (Although I personally would disagree).
Now as a response that defends the tax cut, you really are ilinformed.
You see the tax cut isnt actually going to put money into the hands of anyone but the top one half percent. Fine, you might argue that they deserve it, but as Krugman pointed out in a recent op-ed, the big problem with the cuts is whats gonna happen to the states.
Many, if not most state governments are having some very serious budget problems. Their natural response is to cut programs, which in turn pulls spending out of the economy and hurts commercial jobs. Lets call this bad impact A. A further problem is that the budget problems are so bad that the programs being cut arent things like welfare (which was quite effectively reformed and slimmed in the 90s) but are rather things like EDUCATION and Childrens healthcare.
lets take NY as an example. As a result of budget deficets, Education is slated to be cut by about 2 Billion dollars (health care will be cut even more). This isnt gonna hit the economy slowly (like the tax cut) but right NOW.
If G.W. really wanted to put money into the economy and create jobs TODAY he would bail the states out for this years budget. The money would hit the economy immediatly, and jobs actually would be created. Instead he is rolling out tax cuts over 10 years, thats a really smart recover plan isnt?
I used to be a Republican. I like small government, self reliance and the promotion of individual liberty. Unfortunatly I realized sometime ago that the Republican party has been hijacked by a bunch FUNDAMENTAL RELIGOUS OLIGARCHS that are intent on (A) destroying individual liberty (B) enriching a select few at the expense of the majority by legally skewing the system to favor those who currently hold power (C) Entrenching the Christian right into government (D) Blindly cutting doleing out political/tax favors to his friends (also known as 'Chronism').
Thats why Im a libertarian now, and why I might unfortunatly have to vote Democrat next election. Because the damage being done by bush to this country might be irrepairable, and the Democrats will never be evective to actually achieve their misguided ends (witness the Clinton's health care plan).
Frankly, Bill Clinton was the best republican this country has had in a long time, and I would welcome his philandering ways if it would turn back the Christian Fundamentals in this country.
Your absolutely right. Spirited Away was truly phenominal. After seeing the film in a purely sober state, I still walked out of the theatre feeling as though I had just visited another world. It was genuinely suprising and often terrifying. It was a fairy tale, but one that should never be shown to children.
I saw it in times square, and after seeing something that was so spiritually fullfilling, I almost felt sick when I emerged to the street. Dont get me wrong, I love living in NYC but the experience of Spirited Away is so diametricly opposed to modern urban living; lets just say the contrast of the two experiences leads to a lot of questions.
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Isnt it distressing that there are only two women on this list? And that the highest ranked of the two isnt a developer/researcher but a corporate exec through and through?
Im not saying that they should be artificially promotoed in order to give fair treatment, but it seems that we are sort of only using half the resources availble to us, and that the female perspective could radically change(improve?) technical innovation if it were taken advantage of.
I know that industries like finance get a bad rap frequently for being centered around a "boys club" mentality. But I bet a survey of finance's top fifty would do better then 4% women.
Actually Merril Lynch is the 17th largest holder of Sun stock, holding about 14million shares. This compares to the 40 thousand shares of MSFT that Merril holds.
Somehow I dont think this analyst is working in cahoots with the traders.
I have a feeling that the software used to keep the music "secure" might include some sort of encryption/drm for which there is no linux software available.
just a thought.
I have always found it interesting how Hagel is very much respecte and Marx is often thrown out as a nut job by the mainstream.
Its always seemed to me the if you discount Marx's solution/prediction from his work, then he as a very excellent historian and proved a great framework for analyzing history and society.
Its just sad that a few indescretions in his later years and one political manifesto (which really had little to do ultimatly with his work) tarnishes his name so much.
If you think about it, his economic class truggle meshes quite logically with Hegel, and coincide to a great extent with history. Even his analysis of capitalism is accurate, barring the conclusion that it would self implode in the near future. He was really writing and the begining of the technologically epoch, yet believed he was writing in the middle of the industrial epoch. He also did not anticipate just how much the upper class would be willing to grant to the middle class (and allow its growth simultaneously), thus rendering his predictions regarding natural revolutions by the lower class irrelevant, or at least very premature.
So much to talk about on this one, so many great ideas. Of course whenever you say that, everyone that lacks any sort of background in history calls you a communist.
I used to just preempt them and tell them I was a Marxist Republican, but as Bush has essentially destroyed any appeal that the Republican party had by enfusing religion and absurdity, im now relegated to being a commie pig.
werd.
Actually that alternative authored by the EFF (and other similair alternatives) was what I was alluding to.
This is why I find the proposing of any alternatives as abhorent, as they all invision a system which incorporates control beyond the standard legal protections.
No, no alternatives should be proposed beyond a playingfield that does not restrict technology on the basis of it's potential misuse. That is the system. Let individuals be held accountable for what they do with the technology. If the law proves to be unenforcable, then clearly the law is standing against the natural current of history.
oops. meant to write " NOT equivalent to money.
My suggestion is that whatever protection is devised should be specific to human behavior and not attempt to restrict technology or the flow of information based on the mere potential for misuse.
Realisticly, this would destroy the current business models surrounding mass produced music and video because short of some orwelian surveilance system there is no way to effectively police human behavior.
So yeah, they deserve protection, however they do not deserve protection to degree that sacrifices anyone else's rights. In the end if technology and inate human behavior deny musicians and artists a living, then they should take it as a clue that their product has no real market value beyond it's inherent artistic merit and that merit is equivalent to money. Art for arts sake, to hell with the rest.
Why should anything be put in its place? Contriving answers to such problems never works anyway, take a look at the history of communism for proof.
Just kill the status-quo, and let the market determine the solution.
"Personally, I'd like to hear more specifics about alternative systems"
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I think any notion of a successfull alternative system co-existing with an RIAA that remains dominant in the industry is absurd.
Step 1: Burn down the music industry as it stands today.
Step 2: Let a profitable system for digital distribution emerge from the unregulated ashes. Assuming one can.
Of course maybe music wont be profitable (except for live performances) ever again.
wow, art for the sake of art. What a depressing future.
You guys are misinterpreting this. The RIAA was in fact authorized to represent Usher, and when confronted with a file that they mistook for being a work of Usher's they pursued civil action. So while they were wrong in that there was no violation of the Usher's copyrights, they still werent committing perjury because they never claimed to represent the Professor who created the work in question.
For perjury they would have needed to claim that they were representing the professor.
Simply being mistaken as to the composition of and authorship of the work in question didnt suddenly transform the RIAA's filing into stating that they were representing someone other then Usher.
Doesnt the EU have copyright law/treaties that would override German law? I dont know what those laws are, but I am pretty sure that German law will soon be largely irrelevant once the EU starts implimenting its own copyright/IP laws.
I mean if the GPL is legit in France (knowing the french it has to be) and Italy, and the rest of the EU, then wouldnt the whole EU have to find some way to ensure consistancy?
Hmmm..... Thats a really great idea. Should work too (ignore those jealous PC users who tell you its technically infeasable).
However, I would be concerned about Apple's legal department, as such an amazing prospect of running two 32bit operating systems on one 64bit cpu simultaneously is clearly destined to be the focal point of Steve's 04 Keynote.
Mac users, sweet, cuddly, but not to bright. They remind me of Golden Retrievers.
barring that anti silcon valley sentiment, I have to agree with you (the rest of california, well fuck'em).
Seriously, new england should succeed. They can keep New Jersey, long island and upstate new york.
Garbage and (fundamental intolerant (yes its irony but its right)) christians need not apply.
A lot of activists and such have been pushing mass transit in the states for years. The reason it hasnt caught on is one very simple fact.
People like their cars. People dont like other people, and cars offer sanctuary from the fould world that surrounds us. Mass transit doesnt succeed because of deep seated social problems, and more city planining wont fix that.
yeah if they did this to the game then I would care. but apparently they only did it for synthetic benchmarks, so who cares?
Hmmm, an anonymous troll. Nice.
So who cares? It matters little to me how fast something is in a synthetic benchmark if there is no correlation to real world applications, and I am sure Nvidia isnt doing this in games cause who would buy a card that didnt properly render most scenes.
I dunno, but synthetic benchmarks seem a bit irrelevant as does what Nvidia does in them. Show me how many FPS it gets in Q3A, that I care about.
While California certainly experiences some pain in its healthcare/education/welfare budgets due to immigration, all sorts of economic data almost conlusively demonstrates that immigration (at all ends of the economic spectrum) is a real boon for the economy.
Cutting illegal immigration would be a bad idea economicly. What would be a good economic idea and a bad ethical one would be to simply deny illegal immigrants all government services.
On a sidenote, a very small almost statisticly insignificant portion of the illegal immigrant population actually recieves welfare or healthcare as they aare terrified of discovery.
The real solution probably lies in the federal government. As the national economy is benefiting from illegal immigration, the regional economies that need to bear the immediate costs should not have to be solely responsible. The feds should definatly compensate.
Of course with our current administrations purely negligent/chronism approach to politics I would hardly expect that Texas/New Mexico/California would recieve such help. Or that NYC would recieve help for terrorism costs linked to Gulf II.
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Wow, thank you for once again demonstrating that I am a statistical anomaly.
1520Sat, 2.2gpa freshmen year.
Kinda makes you wish they would have a psychological competency section for the exam huh?
Hillary Clinton is a Senator. There is a giant difference between NYC Federal politics, state politics and city politics.
Federal politics, you are right. State politics, lord knows. There is so much collusion going on in the NY State politics no one can really figure it out. Its pretty clear that the leaders of the state senate and the state assemble (who are from opposite parties) have been colluding for the past tweenty to pretty much ensure a balance of power that does not envolve and simply gurantees the encumbant survival.
As for NYC politics, which this article is about, well the city council is a few sickles shy of the Soviet Politburo in terms of their political alignment. Something about the burrough system there seems to skew borough politics horribly to the left while letting mayoral politics sway either way.
The NYC Council is one of the most liberal government bodies in the United States. They are in many ways socialist in their perspective. Not that I consider Open Source to be socialist (how can it be when its a total evolution from both socialist and capitalist market ideals) but such political leanings on their part could definatly favor Open Source if the issues were made clear to them.
This is the same council that put into place rent control and rent stabilization. That combined with the NY State government put together the post expensive and comprehensive (to an absurdity in some cases) government funded health plans in the country.
If they understood the implications for education, government and Microsoft, there is no doubt in my mind that they could go so far as to Mandate the use of opensource in several places. Because in addition to being really really socialist, and very much into a peculiar form of class warfare, the NYC Council just loves to DICTATE the minutia of policy.
One more example of the absurd extremes they have been known to go to. For a while they had litterally composed guidelines/lesson plans for public school teachers that detailed almost to the last minute of every class what should be taught.
Overbearing and socialist. What a strange bedfellow for OSS.
I remember reading about a proposal to send power to the earth this way. By having a massive solar cell array in space transmitting microwaves to a giant receiver on earth, you could gather lots of energy.
Yeah, the "Proposal" was called Sim City 3000 as I recall. I also recall the "proposal" included random attacks by godzilla.
Hmmm.... No. The fundamental difference between conservatives and liberals is that conservatives seek to defend the status quo, and revert to political legacies while liberals seek to contrive a political evolution. This at least is the classical definition of Conservatives and Liberals respectively.
Your summation of the two positions could however be argued as applicable to Republicans and Democrats (Although I personally would disagree).
Now as a response that defends the tax cut, you really are ilinformed.
You see the tax cut isnt actually going to put money into the hands of anyone but the top one half percent. Fine, you might argue that they deserve it, but as Krugman pointed out in a recent op-ed, the big problem with the cuts is whats gonna happen to the states.
Many, if not most state governments are having some very serious budget problems. Their natural response is to cut programs, which in turn pulls spending out of the economy and hurts commercial jobs. Lets call this bad impact A. A further problem is that the budget problems are so bad that the programs being cut arent things like welfare (which was quite effectively reformed and slimmed in the 90s) but are rather things like EDUCATION and Childrens healthcare.
lets take NY as an example. As a result of budget deficets, Education is slated to be cut by about 2 Billion dollars (health care will be cut even more). This isnt gonna hit the economy slowly (like the tax cut) but right NOW.
If G.W. really wanted to put money into the economy and create jobs TODAY he would bail the states out for this years budget. The money would hit the economy immediatly, and jobs actually would be created. Instead he is rolling out tax cuts over 10 years, thats a really smart recover plan isnt?
I used to be a Republican. I like small government, self reliance and the promotion of individual liberty. Unfortunatly I realized sometime ago that the Republican party has been hijacked by a bunch FUNDAMENTAL RELIGOUS OLIGARCHS that are intent on (A) destroying individual liberty (B) enriching a select few at the expense of the majority by legally skewing the system to favor those who currently hold power (C) Entrenching the Christian right into government (D) Blindly cutting doleing out political/tax favors to his friends (also known as 'Chronism').
Thats why Im a libertarian now, and why I might unfortunatly have to vote Democrat next election. Because the damage being done by bush to this country might be irrepairable, and the Democrats will never be evective to actually achieve their misguided ends (witness the Clinton's health care plan).
Frankly, Bill Clinton was the best republican this country has had in a long time, and I would welcome his philandering ways if it would turn back the Christian Fundamentals in this country.
But I think that there is a clear need for at the very least a computer worker contractors union.
Your absolutely right. Spirited Away was truly phenominal. After seeing the film in a purely sober state, I still walked out of the theatre feeling as though I had just visited another world. It was genuinely suprising and often terrifying. It was a fairy tale, but one that should never be shown to children.
I saw it in times square, and after seeing something that was so spiritually fullfilling, I almost felt sick when I emerged to the street. Dont get me wrong, I love living in NYC but the experience of Spirited Away is so diametricly opposed to modern urban living; lets just say the contrast of the two experiences leads to a lot of questions.