No, my point wasn't that copyrights play a dominant role in those jobs, but that their jobs are based on things that *could* be copyrighted or patented as intellectual property. The way the patent office runs these days somebody could probably get a patent on "A system where patients fill out insurance information before seeing a doctor to ensure proper coverage" and then tell everyone they had better pay up considering the amount of cost savings they get from ensuring coverage before the appt.
Same goes for investment strategies or any of these other non-tangible goods. This is the problem with non-tangible goods and IP, with tangible goods IP isn't relevant because the actual product is the basis for income, not ideas about the product.
Am I the only one who thinks this is Microsoft's attempt (pretty good one I think) at having an offering that appeases the tech crowd so we don't rattle our cages and scare the normals when all the non-home-made PC's start coming out with windows 8 locked down by the UEFI (If I'm remembering the right term for the new boot method).
If that is the case, seems like the right response. If all the hp/dell/lenovo/acer/what have you cannot have their OS's replaced, many more will be home building who wouldn't have otherwise, and this option gives a non-locked down windows for our dual boot so we're not all using *nix only as MS fears.
Go ahead and tell yourself we won't always have open systems, but if you really think that there aren't plenty of people out there like you and I who are also working at hardware companies and assuring their management there is a sustainable market segment of people who want computers they can open up and fiddle with (which there absolutely is) then you're seriously missing the mark on how many tech folk there are (real tech folk, not the ones who think they're techies because they memorized an apple products spec sheet).
No, it just means that lots of people will be scrubbing toilets instead of doing well-paid manual labor, while a minority of people will be reaping the benefits of enormous production increases through automation (the owners and managers of the companies whose production is automated).
This isn't the wrong approach nor should it be stopped, it's just going to cause a lot of problems but the correct answer isn't as many would say "de-evolve back to manual labor", if we can automate processes to increase production we should. Unfortunately it will cause problems that I don't think anyone knows how to or can fix. Just a bad situation.
Then what is? We have rapidly moved to an economy largely driven by what we can think up in this country. It may not always be IP in the full sense, but the majority of the countries income anymore is not driven by tangible work so much as work that plausibly could be patented (considering the how vague a thing can be to get patented): Investment strategies, Financial instruments (I'm looking at you credit default swaps), Engineering services (think designs for drilling rigs, bridges, et al), Organizational and business management services (Shell companies full of managers where all the peons are in India, Argentina, Russia, what have you), Education (piss poor as it is, universities have a great deal of income in our country), Healthcare (you might think this is tangible, but the minority of the income here is the actual doctor working on/with a patient, most of it is insurance strategies/marketing/management, and organic chemists formulas)
Actually, by and large components like the ones you're referring to when built for military purposes are designed in fractions of components so no one team designing a part can know the whole, and fabricated in the same way. They may know how to fabricate a bunch of disparate parts, but each one would be totally useless on its own to the point they would need our blueprints to even know what to do with them.
Think of it like trying to figure out how to make a program work when all you have is half a partial class and a for loop that iterates B[] and calls A(), when you have none of the source or build components that would ever tell you where the rest of the code is. Sure a bunch of super computer scientists may be able to come up with something, but in the case of the military components, they would then successfully have figured out how to fabricate 1 of the 30k chips in one of our military devices. Then they have to move on to the next one. Good luck to them.
Whoa now, I wouldn't say I'm "top tier" but I've been dreaming in code since I was 19 (when doing actual brain work in the office, not just mindless CRUD). I'm pretty sure most all developers have this same experience, you don't have to be particularly good, you just have to be applying yourself strenuously at work. I think people underestimate the effort and exhaustion that our work can cause just because we're sitting at a desk all day. We may get home after work physically full of energy, but when you can hardly get out any words that aren't grunts because your mind is jello from the day, it's not a lot better than someone getting off of work on a road crew all day.
But that's completely beside the point, I'm pretty sure every developer occasionally expends that much mental energy into some piece of code and it leaves an imprint that waits for them to close their eyes at night.
I've been meaning to haskell one of those up to attempt an idempotent mesh data processing layer, AWS does sound like a lot of fun for play/learning, unfortunately so so does hulu and my kid so this has been on hold. Have you actually used any aws and found it to be easy/good for practicing scaling software?
To avoid the problem, the researchers encapsulated the sensors in red blood cells. The team next plan to inject the sensors into rats.
I don't get it, are the rats going to be somehow injected into humans so that they will glow when we're going to dye? Why don't they just inject it into humans, or a different creature smaller than a rat- those can't be comfortable to have in you.. maybe crickets?
540k people city *is* the boondocks. Sorry. If your city doesn't crack a million it's not even in the top 50 cities, that's 50 markets where carriers put up a tower and get signal to at least twice as many people as a tower in your town, the ROI on small towns for many things just doesn't pan out. Know that you chose to live in the middle of nowhere, so don't gripe when you don't have the services of people who've gone for the group discount model on services which afford them much more.
Moral of the story, if you ever get really and I mean *REALLY* thirsty, eat 2 teaspoons of salt and then go ahead and empty that water cooler jug. It'll freak out anybody near by, and you'll probably wet yourself before you're done.
Joking aside, the actual largest risk of drinking large amounts of water is the strain it puts on your heart, it increases your blood volume significantly so your heart has to work harder to pump the larger amount while also pumping against greater pressure due to the sheer volume. This is true even when you're not drinking it all at once, but if you just drink too much during each day.
I think it's obvious to say an accident between 2 flying cars would be much more dangerous than road cars, but does anybody think the introduction of the 3rd dimension might reduce accidents significantly by simply allowing cars to have more space? imagine a highway with 60 lanes, that's about how it would be except that the lanes would just be stacked. With proper road design (something that only exists on a HUD letting you know where you are in the "road") I would think the expansion of road space would significantly decrease the chances of 2 vehicles hitting eachother. That said, there would probably be a $#!+ton more parking accidents heh.
This obviously is a horrible idea, but I started thinking what could they do in a day instead that would actually be beneficial to an organization, and I came up with this:
Spend a day teaching CPU architecture, memory structure, and end with showing how to manually layout a formal data structure or 2 in memory (something simple like a binary search tree). All done in lecture format obviously to get through it all.
By the end of the day there would be tangible benefit in that: Some of the folks would be smart enough to come away from it with an actual increased understanding of how computers actually work and might recognize the strictness of logic and unambiguous instruction they need. But above all else, all of them would walk away with a heightened respect for developers and an understanding why when a developer says he thinks a timeline might slip, you probably can't change that fact just by ignoring the dev, because again, the computer is strict and logical and cares not for your timeline.
I agree that the "you don't need a degree" crowd doesn't understand often times the foundations or theory. However, the "you need a degree" crowd goes around saying things like:
University instruction is teaching how to be a good programmer
When many of us have met countless folks with CS degrees who are horrible programmers. And don't misconstrue what I'm saying here, the foundations and theory are extremely important, I am not speaking of them with any form of sarcasm. Those who do have great comprehension of theory are all the best developers I've known.
Make the taxes on investment income far more progressive than the normal tax code and suddenly it doesn't effect any of the average folks you're trying to protect. Oh but wait, this whole "increased taxes are bad for everyone" motif is just a ruse, so you were being hypothetical and not seeking an actual answer that would solve problems. Sorry, carry on.
Your sig just has me wondering terribly, you didn't return the value and I'm dying to know! Unless you meant to use the assignment operator in which case the statement alone would be self documenting.
My thoughts precisely. I can wish upon a star that I had that talent, but instead I'll just wish upon my biweekly paychecks that I can continue to outpace my peers and make my bills.
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No, my point wasn't that copyrights play a dominant role in those jobs, but that their jobs are based on things that *could* be copyrighted or patented as intellectual property. The way the patent office runs these days somebody could probably get a patent on "A system where patients fill out insurance information before seeing a doctor to ensure proper coverage" and then tell everyone they had better pay up considering the amount of cost savings they get from ensuring coverage before the appt.
Same goes for investment strategies or any of these other non-tangible goods. This is the problem with non-tangible goods and IP, with tangible goods IP isn't relevant because the actual product is the basis for income, not ideas about the product.
Am I the only one who thinks this is Microsoft's attempt (pretty good one I think) at having an offering that appeases the tech crowd so we don't rattle our cages and scare the normals when all the non-home-made PC's start coming out with windows 8 locked down by the UEFI (If I'm remembering the right term for the new boot method).
If that is the case, seems like the right response. If all the hp/dell/lenovo/acer/what have you cannot have their OS's replaced, many more will be home building who wouldn't have otherwise, and this option gives a non-locked down windows for our dual boot so we're not all using *nix only as MS fears.
Go ahead and tell yourself we won't always have open systems, but if you really think that there aren't plenty of people out there like you and I who are also working at hardware companies and assuring their management there is a sustainable market segment of people who want computers they can open up and fiddle with (which there absolutely is) then you're seriously missing the mark on how many tech folk there are (real tech folk, not the ones who think they're techies because they memorized an apple products spec sheet).
No, it just means that lots of people will be scrubbing toilets instead of doing well-paid manual labor, while a minority of people will be reaping the benefits of enormous production increases through automation (the owners and managers of the companies whose production is automated).
This isn't the wrong approach nor should it be stopped, it's just going to cause a lot of problems but the correct answer isn't as many would say "de-evolve back to manual labor", if we can automate processes to increase production we should. Unfortunately it will cause problems that I don't think anyone knows how to or can fix. Just a bad situation.
IP is not our primary resource.
Then what is? We have rapidly moved to an economy largely driven by what we can think up in this country. It may not always be IP in the full sense, but the majority of the countries income anymore is not driven by tangible work so much as work that plausibly could be patented (considering the how vague a thing can be to get patented): Investment strategies, Financial instruments (I'm looking at you credit default swaps), Engineering services (think designs for drilling rigs, bridges, et al), Organizational and business management services (Shell companies full of managers where all the peons are in India, Argentina, Russia, what have you), Education (piss poor as it is, universities have a great deal of income in our country), Healthcare (you might think this is tangible, but the minority of the income here is the actual doctor working on/with a patient, most of it is insurance strategies/marketing/management, and organic chemists formulas)
Actually, by and large components like the ones you're referring to when built for military purposes are designed in fractions of components so no one team designing a part can know the whole, and fabricated in the same way. They may know how to fabricate a bunch of disparate parts, but each one would be totally useless on its own to the point they would need our blueprints to even know what to do with them.
Think of it like trying to figure out how to make a program work when all you have is half a partial class and a for loop that iterates B[] and calls A(), when you have none of the source or build components that would ever tell you where the rest of the code is. Sure a bunch of super computer scientists may be able to come up with something, but in the case of the military components, they would then successfully have figured out how to fabricate 1 of the 30k chips in one of our military devices. Then they have to move on to the next one. Good luck to them.
Whoa now, I wouldn't say I'm "top tier" but I've been dreaming in code since I was 19 (when doing actual brain work in the office, not just mindless CRUD). I'm pretty sure most all developers have this same experience, you don't have to be particularly good, you just have to be applying yourself strenuously at work. I think people underestimate the effort and exhaustion that our work can cause just because we're sitting at a desk all day. We may get home after work physically full of energy, but when you can hardly get out any words that aren't grunts because your mind is jello from the day, it's not a lot better than someone getting off of work on a road crew all day.
But that's completely beside the point, I'm pretty sure every developer occasionally expends that much mental energy into some piece of code and it leaves an imprint that waits for them to close their eyes at night.
I've been meaning to haskell one of those up to attempt an idempotent mesh data processing layer, AWS does sound like a lot of fun for play/learning, unfortunately so so does hulu and my kid so this has been on hold. Have you actually used any aws and found it to be easy/good for practicing scaling software?
To avoid the problem, the researchers encapsulated the sensors in red blood cells. The team next plan to inject the sensors into rats.
I don't get it, are the rats going to be somehow injected into humans so that they will glow when we're going to dye? Why don't they just inject it into humans, or a different creature smaller than a rat- those can't be comfortable to have in you.. maybe crickets?
I always kind of liked a good game of doom with a beer on friday night..
540k people city *is* the boondocks. Sorry. If your city doesn't crack a million it's not even in the top 50 cities, that's 50 markets where carriers put up a tower and get signal to at least twice as many people as a tower in your town, the ROI on small towns for many things just doesn't pan out. Know that you chose to live in the middle of nowhere, so don't gripe when you don't have the services of people who've gone for the group discount model on services which afford them much more.
I suspect Dire Straits, to be sure this whole thing wreaks of them.
Moral of the story, if you ever get really and I mean *REALLY* thirsty, eat 2 teaspoons of salt and then go ahead and empty that water cooler jug. It'll freak out anybody near by, and you'll probably wet yourself before you're done.
Joking aside, the actual largest risk of drinking large amounts of water is the strain it puts on your heart, it increases your blood volume significantly so your heart has to work harder to pump the larger amount while also pumping against greater pressure due to the sheer volume. This is true even when you're not drinking it all at once, but if you just drink too much during each day.
I think it's obvious to say an accident between 2 flying cars would be much more dangerous than road cars, but does anybody think the introduction of the 3rd dimension might reduce accidents significantly by simply allowing cars to have more space? imagine a highway with 60 lanes, that's about how it would be except that the lanes would just be stacked. With proper road design (something that only exists on a HUD letting you know where you are in the "road") I would think the expansion of road space would significantly decrease the chances of 2 vehicles hitting eachother. That said, there would probably be a $#!+ton more parking accidents heh.
This obviously is a horrible idea, but I started thinking what could they do in a day instead that would actually be beneficial to an organization, and I came up with this:
Spend a day teaching CPU architecture, memory structure, and end with showing how to manually layout a formal data structure or 2 in memory (something simple like a binary search tree). All done in lecture format obviously to get through it all.
By the end of the day there would be tangible benefit in that: Some of the folks would be smart enough to come away from it with an actual increased understanding of how computers actually work and might recognize the strictness of logic and unambiguous instruction they need. But above all else, all of them would walk away with a heightened respect for developers and an understanding why when a developer says he thinks a timeline might slip, you probably can't change that fact just by ignoring the dev, because again, the computer is strict and logical and cares not for your timeline.
I never learned how to use mod points but +1 for jonathon coulton reference, so true.
What about his face?? Such a cliffhanger..
But does it have macros?
University instruction is teaching how to be a good programmer
When many of us have met countless folks with CS degrees who are horrible programmers. And don't misconstrue what I'm saying here, the foundations and theory are extremely important, I am not speaking of them with any form of sarcasm. Those who do have great comprehension of theory are all the best developers I've known.
On those merits he should have picked Natalie Portman, he might have actually won at that, I mean, who wouldn't vote that way?
6% of people don't think we landed on the moon.
until you reach the 6% threshold I think your conspiracy theory is a conspiracy theory.
So you're saying you don't think we landed on the moon?
Make the taxes on investment income far more progressive than the normal tax code and suddenly it doesn't effect any of the average folks you're trying to protect. Oh but wait, this whole "increased taxes are bad for everyone" motif is just a ruse, so you were being hypothetical and not seeking an actual answer that would solve problems. Sorry, carry on.
Your sig just has me wondering terribly, you didn't return the value and I'm dying to know! Unless you meant to use the assignment operator in which case the statement alone would be self documenting.
My thoughts precisely. I can wish upon a star that I had that talent, but instead I'll just wish upon my biweekly paychecks that I can continue to outpace my peers and make my bills.
The german language is your fault? Wow... just, wow.