You know, I think you're right - when the government didn't have any employee right or employee protection laws in place, the employee did take advantage of the employees.
That time is over.
Since the government has stepped forward and started protecting employees, union are no longer necessary. In fact, the laws that protect the employee and the union have swung the pendulum the other way, so that unions are the root of many of the problems we have today (especially as far as global competition go)
Actually, that's oppression of the minority. The great thing about North America is that you too have the opportunity to go about making yourself rich. The tools are out there. Penalizing someone for making something of themselves is incredibly un-American.
Also - inflation is inflation is inflation - the reason we have billionaires now instead of millionaires is that the value of the dollar is down. The gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider, but a lot of that is due to compounding inflation. If you rolled back everything to 1974 dollars and did a comparison, you'd see less of a difference than you think.
But then what happens to innovation? We can regulate things like building construction because we've been doing it for thousands of years, and we're not talking about a great deal of innovation from one building to the next. We're to the point that to really make something new for creation of a building you need very specialized training.
And, if a building falls over, you probably kill someone.
On the other hand, software creation is getting simpler, not harder. You can pickup enough information from the web and set about mucking around. There is no cost to the software (except your time) and it can be refined again and again without serious consequence.
Software creation is really built on the kids who mess around with their home pcs until they gain a relative level of competence. Forcing some kind of membership requirements would absolutely destroy that line of creation, and of talent.
This ruling not only means that the CIRA can't get user information from the ISPs, but that file swapping in Canada does not even infringe on copyright - it's completely legal.
If you're Canadian, that means a big weight off your shoulders, for now.
Actually, in a ruling today, looks like Canadians can upload and download music legally.
If you read the article, there is a quote from the Justice stating that he sees no difference between placing files in a shared folder and placing a photocopier in the middle of a Library (for the possibilties of making copies of copyrighted materials)
They are designing a product that functions in such a way that competitors can not service them.
So they are locking out competitors in the service arena. How is that not abusing their positions (as they are using their commanding position as a manufacturer to force service buisness)?
I'm wondering, what privacy are you speaking about? Why do you have an expectation of privacy in a cybercafe? You are on someone else's property, using someone else's machines and someone else's badwidth. Into a public network.
So, basically, what privacy that was existent no longer is?
I don't mean to be antagonistic, and it seems you care very strongly about this matter, so please don't take it that way. I just want to look at this logically.
The second argument won't work. In the patent, TiVo specifically mentions digital satellite (i.e. DSS).
I'm not sure the first would either. I mean, sure, it's obvious now, and the idea is something people pined for during the analog age, but the patent is about the particular method TiVo uses - which the have to prove EchoStar is using.
Being a Canadian and a having experience with the Federal voting system, it doesn't offer a bad user experience either. You file with Elections Canada when you submit your tax return, and when election time comes around you get your lovely elector card.
On election day you're in and out in 10 minutes, with one neat x, and merrily on your way!
Oh, my mistake then. Although what about catagorizing it on a scale? That way you could actually associate numbers to it, and numbers you can stick into equations.
This is simply uninformed dribble, and pure speculation, since I don't really know.
In regression analysis we sometimes need to modify the form of non-numeric variables, for example sex, or marital status, to allow their effects to be included in the regression model. This can be done through the creation of dummy variables whose role it is to identify each level of the original variables separately.
So you could include human factors, but I didn't RTFA, so I can't really relate it to this situation.
You know, you're probably more right here than I am. That drivers license thing, I mean.
I was going to respond with a right-on, as cash was the only was to buy and sell but not the only way to do a transaction, just a transaction with the majors. Bartering was and is still a valid transaction method in places, even today (I'll trade you my O/S business for a portion of your network management business, for instance), although most bartering can be converted to dollars.
Given all of biblical history, why would anyone with decent critical thinking skills believe that God would suddenly, at the end of history, change his (unchangeable) personality and try to trick people into accepting the mark?
I don't really think that it's "tricking" that bothers most of these individuals, but that eventually, if implanted tags were to become popular, that it would eventually become the only method of buying and selling. The bible does mention that the mark of the beast would be necessary to buy or sell.
Not that I believe that an RFID tag is any more the MOTB than cold hard cash, but there's no way in hell that I'd get one of those things implanted into me. Imagine the drive-by funds transfers after a 0-day exploit!
When I tried online dating I never felt like I knew anything about the girl until I met her
I think this has to do with the depth of communication you receive depending on your medium. email/IM/writing(what?) has the lowest depth of communication - you only get the words, not necessarily context, emotion, etc. Up the scale a little you could see a phone conversation, where you get tone and words. The deepest form would have to be face to face, as you get words, tone and body language.
For me, personally, face to face is the most rewarding. There have been too many misunderstandings in the past and hurt feelings over a piece of mail that said one thing and meant another.
You're absolutely right, there is a gap there. Maybe what we need is legislation that forces disclosure of where the address came from and who the sender really is. This could all be faked, of course, but at least it would give you a route to check.
Very true, and those were dark times for the Christian church.
However, just as the western world owes the basis of their renaissance to the Islamic world, the Islamic world owes the basis of their great mathematical advances to the Greeks of the 3rd century (Diophantus' Arithmatica) and Indian work of the 6th and 7th Centuries (there was quite a bit of foundational work on quadratics done in India at that time. You can look up Aryabhatta and Brahmagupta if you'd like)
Everyone deserves their due, and all the great mathematicians and philosophers of the past have helped us get where we are today.
I think it's a bit more than that. Companies want someone they can point the finger at in an emergency and say FIX IT!!!!!!!! It's also a liablility thing. That's why most companies need an outside consultant to say exactly what their IT people have been saying before they'll go ahead with it.
The SOP is usually to get the vendor in asap to help when a system goes down. Since no vendor, hence no one to point the finger at. For a C-level exec, that's a Bad Thing(tm).
I think it's also that most large companies already have a relationship with Sun that gives them a warm and fuzzy when they buy from Sun. That really applies to the other big vendors as well, I suppose.
What this boils down to is that a lot of big companies have a NO FREEWARE!!!!! edict that comes down from above.
Ummmm... not really. When you entrust your cash to the bank, they become responsible for it. If it gets stolen from them, they take the hit. In Canada, I know it's up to $60k that's protected,
Also, PIN fraud is on the rise - and damn quickly. Banks lose millions of dollars a year to it.
You're entitled to your opinions, and if you don't want to use this sort of thing, let your bank know about it.
Well, you're not forced to use the IRIS scan. That's only if you want to use an ABM.
And I'm not sure I can agree that if you don't wear a seatbelt, it's only your life you are endangering. If you don't wear a seatbelt you are a danger to everyone in the car you are in, since in an accident you can bounce around hard enough to kill someone.
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You know, I think you're right - when the government didn't have any employee right or employee protection laws in place, the employee did take advantage of the employees.
That time is over.
Since the government has stepped forward and started protecting employees, union are no longer necessary. In fact, the laws that protect the employee and the union have swung the pendulum the other way, so that unions are the root of many of the problems we have today (especially as far as global competition go)
My $.02
-s
Actually, that's oppression of the minority. The great thing about North America is that you too have the opportunity to go about making yourself rich. The tools are out there. Penalizing someone for making something of themselves is incredibly un-American.
Also - inflation is inflation is inflation - the reason we have billionaires now instead of millionaires is that the value of the dollar is down. The gap between the rich and the poor is getting wider, but a lot of that is due to compounding inflation. If you rolled back everything to 1974 dollars and did a comparison, you'd see less of a difference than you think.
My $.02
-s
But then what happens to innovation? We can regulate things like building construction because we've been doing it for thousands of years, and we're not talking about a great deal of innovation from one building to the next. We're to the point that to really make something new for creation of a building you need very specialized training.
And, if a building falls over, you probably kill someone.
On the other hand, software creation is getting simpler, not harder. You can pickup enough information from the web and set about mucking around. There is no cost to the software (except your time) and it can be refined again and again without serious consequence.
Software creation is really built on the kids who mess around with their home pcs until they gain a relative level of competence. Forcing some kind of membership requirements would absolutely destroy that line of creation, and of talent.
my $.02
-s
Well, not upload, per se, but place in a shared folder, yes. Anything covered under the personal copying exemption.
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This ruling not only means that the CIRA can't get user information from the ISPs, but that file swapping in Canada does not even infringe on copyright - it's completely legal.
If you're Canadian, that means a big weight off your shoulders, for now.
Actually, in a ruling today, looks like Canadians can upload and download music legally.
If you read the article, there is a quote from the Justice stating that he sees no difference between placing files in a shared folder and placing a photocopier in the middle of a Library (for the possibilties of making copies of copyrighted materials)
s
Um, re-read that sentence...
They are designing a product that functions in such a way that competitors can not service them.
So they are locking out competitors in the service arena. How is that not abusing their positions (as they are using their commanding position as a manufacturer to force service buisness)?
-s
I'm wondering, what privacy are you speaking about? Why do you have an expectation of privacy in a cybercafe? You are on someone else's property, using someone else's machines and someone else's badwidth. Into a public network.
So, basically, what privacy that was existent no longer is?
I don't mean to be antagonistic, and it seems you care very strongly about this matter, so please don't take it that way. I just want to look at this logically.
-s
The second argument won't work. In the patent, TiVo specifically mentions digital satellite (i.e. DSS).
I'm not sure the first would either. I mean, sure, it's obvious now, and the idea is something people pined for during the analog age, but the patent is about the particular method TiVo uses - which the have to prove EchoStar is using.
Cheers
-s
Being a Canadian and a having experience with the Federal voting system, it doesn't offer a bad user experience either. You file with Elections Canada when you submit your tax return, and when election time comes around you get your lovely elector card.
On election day you're in and out in 10 minutes, with one neat x, and merrily on your way!
-s
Oh, my mistake then. Although what about catagorizing it on a scale? That way you could actually associate numbers to it, and numbers you can stick into equations.
This is simply uninformed dribble, and pure speculation, since I don't really know.
-s
I would disagree. Human factors are counted in equations when looking at many multiple linear regression situations using dummy variables.
From here
Dummy Variable (in regression)
In regression analysis we sometimes need to modify the form of non-numeric variables, for example sex, or marital status, to allow their effects to be included in the regression model. This can be done through the creation of dummy variables whose role it is to identify each level of the original variables separately.
So you could include human factors, but I didn't RTFA, so I can't really relate it to this situation.
-s
You know, you're probably more right here than I am. That drivers license thing, I mean.
I was going to respond with a right-on, as cash was the only was to buy and sell but not the only way to do a transaction, just a transaction with the majors. Bartering was and is still a valid transaction method in places, even today (I'll trade you my O/S business for a portion of your network management business, for instance), although most bartering can be converted to dollars.
More food for thought.
-s
Given all of biblical history, why would anyone with decent critical thinking skills believe that God would suddenly, at the end of history, change his (unchangeable) personality and try to trick people into accepting the mark?
I don't really think that it's "tricking" that bothers most of these individuals, but that eventually, if implanted tags were to become popular, that it would eventually become the only method of buying and selling. The bible does mention that the mark of the beast would be necessary to buy or sell.
Not that I believe that an RFID tag is any more the MOTB than cold hard cash, but there's no way in hell that I'd get one of those things implanted into me. Imagine the drive-by funds transfers after a 0-day exploit!
-s
Although I haven't had a chance to see it yet, I have seen a bit of praise
s
I think this has to do with the depth of communication you receive depending on your medium. email/IM/writing(what?) has the lowest depth of communication - you only get the words, not necessarily context, emotion, etc. Up the scale a little you could see a phone conversation, where you get tone and words. The deepest form would have to be face to face, as you get words, tone and body language.
For me, personally, face to face is the most rewarding. There have been too many misunderstandings in the past and hurt feelings over a piece of mail that said one thing and meant another.
Cheers,
s
You're absolutely right, there is a gap there. Maybe what we need is legislation that forces disclosure of where the address came from and who the sender really is. This could all be faked, of course, but at least it would give you a route to check.
i.e.:
Source: yahoo.com
But I don't use a yahoo anything
SPAM!!!!!!
$.02
Someone shoot me now.
Very true, and those were dark times for the Christian church.
However, just as the western world owes the basis of their renaissance to the Islamic world, the Islamic world owes the basis of their great mathematical advances to the Greeks of the 3rd century (Diophantus' Arithmatica) and Indian work of the 6th and 7th Centuries (there was quite a bit of foundational work on quadratics done in India at that time. You can look up Aryabhatta and Brahmagupta if you'd like)
Everyone deserves their due, and all the great mathematicians and philosophers of the past have helped us get where we are today.
Cheers
s
I think it's a bit more than that. Companies want someone they can point the finger at in an emergency and say FIX IT!!!!!!!! It's also a liablility thing. That's why most companies need an outside consultant to say exactly what their IT people have been saying before they'll go ahead with it.
The SOP is usually to get the vendor in asap to help when a system goes down. Since no vendor, hence no one to point the finger at. For a C-level exec, that's a Bad Thing(tm).
I think it's also that most large companies already have a relationship with Sun that gives them a warm and fuzzy when they buy from Sun. That really applies to the other big vendors as well, I suppose.
What this boils down to is that a lot of big companies have a NO FREEWARE!!!!! edict that comes down from above.
Cheers,
S
Sure, but OTEC is the first rev at this. Since there is a viable market for this sort of thing, that should drive innovation in this field.
I mean, the model T only went a couple of miles an hour, but your car can do over a hundred without a problem.
s
Ummmm... not really. When you entrust your cash to the bank, they become responsible for it. If it gets stolen from them, they take the hit. In Canada, I know it's up to $60k that's protected,
Also, PIN fraud is on the rise - and damn quickly. Banks lose millions of dollars a year to it.
You're entitled to your opinions, and if you don't want to use this sort of thing, let your bank know about it.
Well, you're not forced to use the IRIS scan. That's only if you want to use an ABM.
And I'm not sure I can agree that if you don't wear a seatbelt, it's only your life you are endangering. If you don't wear a seatbelt you are a danger to everyone in the car you are in, since in an accident you can bounce around hard enough to kill someone.
My $.02
-s
Now I can legitimately roll in my own filth!
:p
All the way down the mountain!
Yeah, about those TPS reports. Did you see the memo? If you could just do that from now on, that would be great.
And I'll make sure you get another copy of that memo. Okay?