This follows the simple principal that if you or I drive 100 miles-per-hour on the highway, we get a ticket, but if EVERYONE drives 100 miles-per-hour, they change the speed limit.
Everyone isn't going to do this. No way. I totally agree with his analysis of the problem, but unless some critical mass of lawbreakers were to be reached (chances being somewhere between fat and slim) you'd get the same result as you would if you were driving down the interstate in a pack of cars all going 100 mph: one guy would get nailed by the highway patrol and the rest would be ignored. The guy who pulled you over wouldn't care about the ones who got away... he got YOU, the rest are "job security". But don't I WISH this would work!
I have one of these. According to my friend who knows a lot more about this shit than I do (note: that is a point of pride for me) they are identical to the Tomy at about US$10 less.
"Engineering" requires measurability and repeatability, something that (as I understand it) Göedels implied can't be done. And in any case, if it IS possible it won't be a language-only based solution. I think. Probably.
If every slashdot reader were to write a simple letter to their senators & congressmen about fair use, there'd be no stopping us
I'll second that. It only takes a few minutes and the potential payoff is HUGE. Here is some good info on the protocols involved, and this will let you find out who to contact.
Here's a little dealership secret for you: technicians have an hourly wage. As many hours as they can book in a day, they get paid for, either warranty or customer pay work. The only reason they like warranty work better is because the repairs are always authorized, as opposed to wasting time waiting for the service advisor to get approval over the phone from a customer.
This may have been true at your BMW dealership. It's definitely NOT true everywhere. My parent's friend and neighbor owns an Olds/Cadillac dealership, and his service writers AND mechanics are paid commission as well as hourly rate. It sounds unethical to me too, but according to him, the advantage is the same as for any business paying employees commission vs. straight wages: they work a hell of a lot harder. He says (and I have absolutely no reason not be believe him) that he has several mechanics who make $50k-60k per year. (Actually, I never heard of a service writer who wasn't paid a commission.)
And there will also be a market for clothing interwoven with metallic thread.
And anytime I see something this obvious with "practically no references in the literature" it always makes the paranoid part of me wonder how much use the [name your own TLA gov org] is already making of it.
Amateur radio makes heavy use of volunteer coordination. Hams do a lot of "working without pay", and are good Americans.
Yup. Unfortunately most hams are older, and aren't really being replaced by a younger generation (which has substituted the computer for a radio.) And even if there was a new generations of hams, I'm afraid they wouldn't be blessed with the altruistic spirit that kept amateur radio going all these years.
I imagine there are more than a few companies right now who are greasing palms and smoking on the devil's johnson to make sure they get a piece of the billions of dollars worth of public airwaves which will be made available when the last ham signs off, and nobody else who gives a shit is left around.
I didn't mean "own" as in posess title to... I meant "own" in the same sense that they own the desktop. Dominate, steer, bully, etc. And my other point WAS that this will give them the opportunity to eventually respec and patent a replacement for TCP/IP.
This looks to me more like an end-run around the internet itself. It will essentially run in a tunnel through the existing infrastructure, but at some point in the future, there's no reason that they couldn't migrate on to something else, say a wireless network that had its own protocols, address scheme, etc. Bill Gates has been kicking himself in the ass for the last 10 years because he didn't discover the internet soon enough to dominate it, and he's got to be salivating at the idea of an essentially private user space that he controls lock stock and barrel. If he pursued this for all it was worth, he could do it with his other $39 billion... I wonder what kind of return on his investment he would eventually get?
I hate to stereotype, but at the risk of doing so, I'd wager that Mac users are more likely to listen to Celine Dion than otherwise.
I have to disagree. As a mac owner, my only characterizations of typical Mac owners would be that they are more likely to drive Volvos and more likely to think that their presidential candidate was robbed in the last election. (Neither of which apply to me, I have a Honda, invariably vote Republican or Libertarian)
Hmmm. Imagine that. A company that makes cleaning/germicidal products finds that a common workplace/home device is direly in need of disinfecting. I wonder if we'll be seeing Clorox Key-Wipes any time in the very very very near future?
I don't think it's going to be long before people/organizations actually start READING those agreements they sign, once word about this kind of stuff gets out (school board meetings, company newsletters, etc). THAT'S when the shit will hit the fan for MS.
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Actually, speed limits did change because everybody was driving faster.
Yep. And in Atlanta, a subset of everybody averages 85-90 MPH for several hours a day, and the speed limit remains 70. So I guess we agree.
This follows the simple principal that if you or I drive 100 miles-per-hour on the highway, we get a ticket, but if EVERYONE drives 100 miles-per-hour, they change the speed limit.
Everyone isn't going to do this. No way. I totally agree with his analysis of the problem, but unless some critical mass of lawbreakers were to be reached (chances being somewhere between fat and slim) you'd get the same result as you would if you were driving down the interstate in a pack of cars all going 100 mph: one guy would get nailed by the highway patrol and the rest would be ignored. The guy who pulled you over wouldn't care about the ones who got away... he got YOU, the rest are "job security".
But don't I WISH this would work!
I have one of these. According to my friend who knows a lot more about this shit than I do (note: that is a point of pride for me) they are identical to the Tomy at about US$10 less.
Atomic
The controller/charger is kinda cheesy but since it probably won't work but a few days anyway I doubt if it matters.
CRM?
EVIL stuff.
WHO THE HELL TYPES IN ALL CAPS??
Er, I mean who the hell types in all caps?
Translation:
Thank you Mr. Roboto
I think a closer translation is "I am very very gay and I have succesfully ruined what used to be a pretty good rock band".
Can you point me toward a source for those antennas? (Antenni? doh)
Just think about all the DRM they can pack into that baby!
Its called engineering.
"Engineering" requires measurability and repeatability, something that (as I understand it) Göedels implied can't be done. And in any case, if it IS possible it won't be a language-only based solution. I think. Probably.
If every slashdot reader were to write a simple letter to their senators & congressmen about fair use, there'd be no stopping us
I'll second that. It only takes a few minutes and the potential payoff is HUGE. Here is some good info on the protocols involved, and this will let you find out who to contact.
Here's a little dealership secret for you: technicians have an hourly wage. As many hours as they can book in a day, they get paid for, either warranty or customer pay work. The only reason they like warranty work better is because the repairs are always authorized, as opposed to wasting time waiting for the service advisor to get approval over the phone from a customer.
This may have been true at your BMW dealership. It's definitely NOT true everywhere. My parent's friend and neighbor owns an Olds/Cadillac dealership, and his service writers AND mechanics are paid commission as well as hourly rate. It sounds unethical to me too, but according to him, the advantage is the same as for any business paying employees commission vs. straight wages: they work a hell of a lot harder. He says (and I have absolutely no reason not be believe him) that he has several mechanics who make $50k-60k per year. (Actually, I never heard of a service writer who wasn't paid a commission.)
You will see spam advertising "thruskirts.com".
And there will also be a market for clothing interwoven with metallic thread.
And anytime I see something this obvious with "practically no references in the literature" it always makes the paranoid part of me wonder how much use the [name your own TLA gov org] is already making of it.
Amateur radio makes heavy use of volunteer coordination. Hams do a lot of "working without pay", and are good Americans.
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Yup. Unfortunately most hams are older, and aren't really being replaced by a younger generation (which has substituted the computer for a radio.) And even if there was a new generations of hams, I'm afraid they wouldn't be blessed with the altruistic spirit that kept amateur radio going all these years.
I imagine there are more than a few companies right now who are greasing palms and smoking on the devil's johnson to make sure they get a piece of the billions of dollars worth of public airwaves which will be made available when the last ham signs off, and nobody else who gives a shit is left around.
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Or maybe they're frantically emailing out their resumes before the T1 dies.
Just be careful... don't confuse "heat" with "temperature".
A 'fridge, especially a small one, may not be able to move enough BTU's to keep a motherboard cool.
As we used to say in rokit sientist skool "volt's jolt, mil's kill".
Semisid is more expensive than condoms.
And it tastes like fucking soap.
I didn't mean "own" as in posess title to... I meant "own" in the same sense that they own the desktop. Dominate, steer, bully, etc. And my other point WAS that this will give them the opportunity to eventually respec and patent a replacement for TCP/IP.
This looks to me more like an end-run around the internet itself. It will essentially run in a tunnel through the existing infrastructure, but at some point in the future, there's no reason that they couldn't migrate on to something else, say a wireless network that had its own protocols, address scheme, etc. Bill Gates has been kicking himself in the ass for the last 10 years because he didn't discover the internet soon enough to dominate it, and he's got to be salivating at the idea of an essentially private user space that he controls lock stock and barrel. If he pursued this for all it was worth, he could do it with his other $39 billion... I wonder what kind of return on his investment he would eventually get?
I didn't see an interview.
Yeah, put 100 creative minds together and let them work out solutions to a problem. Out of 100, you'd have:
3 working toward a solution
12 working toward a solution to a completely unrelated problem
4 pissed off that Americans don't share their Eurocentric point of view
9 having goat sex
12 calling each other nazis
and the rest just lurking.
I hate to stereotype, but at the risk of doing so, I'd wager that Mac users are more likely to listen to Celine Dion than otherwise.
I have to disagree. As a mac owner, my only characterizations of typical Mac owners would be that they are more likely to drive Volvos and more likely to think that their presidential candidate was robbed in the last election. (Neither of which apply to me, I have a Honda, invariably vote Republican or Libertarian)
The study, funded by The Clorox Co.
Hmmm. Imagine that. A company that makes cleaning/germicidal products finds that a common workplace/home device is direly in need of disinfecting. I wonder if we'll be seeing Clorox Key-Wipes any time in the very very very near future?
Isn't that pretty much what AOL does now? Wouldn't be that much of a trick to do it with the Google API either, probably.
I don't think it's going to be long before people/organizations actually start READING those agreements they sign, once word about this kind of stuff gets out (school board meetings, company newsletters, etc). THAT'S when the shit will hit the fan for MS.