If generic proxies are considered illegal, what's the next step? Outlawing Tor? Clearly shows that there is no middle ground between free speech and full censorship on the net: if you wan't to effectively censor a content, you have to become an authoritarian power yourself.
If I understood the article correctly, he wasn't talking about NDAs signed by an employee. He works as a freelancer, and some companies demand an NDA even before discussing the job, fearing that he would copy their top secret business plan. Signing an NDA as part of the contract is okay, and he even admits that at the end. What he doesn't do is sign a legally binding paper without any information.
These are mostly meaningless numbers. Between the two things having an impact on intelligence, genes and environment, the difference between genes is well-known, but the difference between environments can't really be quantified. Most of these studies concentrate on people of similar backgrounds, all from the same area/country, all of the middle class etc. With the environmental differences kept small, their effects disappear, and only the effects of genetic traits emerge.
According to some researchers, that essentially proves that intelligence relies on the action of a multitude of genes after all
What it proves is that IQ is not affected by one gene. It could be that intelligence is unaffected by genes, but is a result of training. Also, IQ is a bad measurement of intelligence.
Because every time we have agreed on a middle ground, the entertainment industry came tired of the status quo and pushed further. The radicalisation of one side then led to the radicalisation of the other. When even ISPs are in danger of becoming liable, the complete abolishment of copyrights dogma of the pirate parties doesn't seem so crazy after all. The biggest obstacle of negotiation is that it's not an argument, but a propaganda/lobby battle for the politicians and the silent majority. Like it or not, neither side has the authority to negotiate.
Price discrimination is a method used when the majority of the costs is constant in quantity sold. The biggest cost of a book is writing it, which is independent from the number of books sold. As printing books is cheap, the publisher will want to sell books to as many people as it can. The tool to do this is price discrimination, in which way they can maximize their profits, by making everyone pay according what are they willing to pay for a product. An example are hardware products that are cheap to manufacture but hard to design. They cost a lot when they are new, and much less a few years later, discriminating between buyers in time. Price discrimination alone is not an evil thing, some would even say that it's a leftist approach to capitalism, making the rich pay more so that the poor can get the stuff cheaper. Also, it works similarly to "pay what you want" systems like the Humble Bundles. In positive cases price discrimination systems reward higher-paying customers in some way. For example, first class passengers get better seats and treatment. But there are also negative cases when businesses punish lower-paying customers, like Intel did downclocking their processors so they could sell them cheaper.
In this case, however, they were trying to charge different for the same product, differentiating based on location. The honest way to do it would be to publish multiple editions, printed in books of diffferent quality and lifetime, thus making it a classical price differentiation by rewarding higher paying costumers with a better product.
Just because he chose to donate more than half of the profits doesn't mean it wasn't profit. Also, whether he pulls out the money as salary or profit is a theoretical question for tax optimisers, the amount remains the same.
Look on the bright side, with the number of bleeding heart immoral liberals the waste won't really stop until they find a cure. So if this really is a cure, that could be the end of it.
I had a P990, so maybe expectations were lower at the time of P800. I didn't say that it wasn't advanced for its time, I said it was unpolished. Like, for example, some functions were only available when you opened the keyboard, others only when you closed it, even though it only overlapped about 1/10 of the screen. JME was slow, and there were almost no native apps because Ericsson decided to make their own version of Symbian incompatible with the original one. Handwriting was also an example of a clever technology that almost worked, but the touchscreens of that time simply weren't accurate enough for that. On top of that, it didn't follow any standards, had its own charger, memory card etc. It was good hardware made slow, laggish and uncostumisable and counterintuitive by crappy design.
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The main strength of this language seems to be easy paralellisation, which can lead to higher speeds for certain algorithms.
Because the former are standards and the latter are not.
You would think so, but even if your enemy dies, their IP will remain to haunt you for centuries.
If generic proxies are considered illegal, what's the next step? Outlawing Tor? Clearly shows that there is no middle ground between free speech and full censorship on the net: if you wan't to effectively censor a content, you have to become an authoritarian power yourself.
There were social networks before facebook, it was just better implemented.
If I understood the article correctly, he wasn't talking about NDAs signed by an employee. He works as a freelancer, and some companies demand an NDA even before discussing the job, fearing that he would copy their top secret business plan. Signing an NDA as part of the contract is okay, and he even admits that at the end. What he doesn't do is sign a legally binding paper without any information.
These are mostly meaningless numbers. Between the two things having an impact on intelligence, genes and environment, the difference between genes is well-known, but the difference between environments can't really be quantified. Most of these studies concentrate on people of similar backgrounds, all from the same area/country, all of the middle class etc. With the environmental differences kept small, their effects disappear, and only the effects of genetic traits emerge.
It already exists and called learning.
According to some researchers, that essentially proves that intelligence relies on the action of a multitude of genes after all
What it proves is that IQ is not affected by one gene. It could be that intelligence is unaffected by genes, but is a result of training. Also, IQ is a bad measurement of intelligence.
Because every time we have agreed on a middle ground, the entertainment industry came tired of the status quo and pushed further. The radicalisation of one side then led to the radicalisation of the other. When even ISPs are in danger of becoming liable, the complete abolishment of copyrights dogma of the pirate parties doesn't seem so crazy after all.
The biggest obstacle of negotiation is that it's not an argument, but a propaganda/lobby battle for the politicians and the silent majority. Like it or not, neither side has the authority to negotiate.
The job of the legal system is not to solve riddles or problems of society, but to enforce the laws.
It's not the model of a generic programmable CPU but of a purposebuilt circuit. He just used assembly logic during the planning.
Interesting, but these circuits also need a resistor, and they are just AND and OR gates, so not a complete logic.
Which seems to be the basis of the complaint, that different status allows for lower prices thus being unfair competition.
You also need a transistor for a logical circuit, and that's much harder.
If you use this mechanical CPU to implement a clock, then how do you implement the clock of the CPU?
Price discrimination is a method used when the majority of the costs is constant in quantity sold. The biggest cost of a book is writing it, which is independent from the number of books sold. As printing books is cheap, the publisher will want to sell books to as many people as it can. The tool to do this is price discrimination, in which way they can maximize their profits, by making everyone pay according what are they willing to pay for a product. An example are hardware products that are cheap to manufacture but hard to design. They cost a lot when they are new, and much less a few years later, discriminating between buyers in time. Price discrimination alone is not an evil thing, some would even say that it's a leftist approach to capitalism, making the rich pay more so that the poor can get the stuff cheaper. Also, it works similarly to "pay what you want" systems like the Humble Bundles. In positive cases price discrimination systems reward higher-paying customers in some way. For example, first class passengers get better seats and treatment. But there are also negative cases when businesses punish lower-paying customers, like Intel did downclocking their processors so they could sell them cheaper.
In this case, however, they were trying to charge different for the same product, differentiating based on location. The honest way to do it would be to publish multiple editions, printed in books of diffferent quality and lifetime, thus making it a classical price differentiation by rewarding higher paying costumers with a better product.
Just because he chose to donate more than half of the profits doesn't mean it wasn't profit. Also, whether he pulls out the money as salary or profit is a theoretical question for tax optimisers, the amount remains the same.
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You are confusing democracy with plutocracy. A common mistake nowadays...
Sure, you can do runtime code modification in Lisp, but this approach won't work with C++ or Java.
Privacy and freedom are two different things.
Look on the bright side, with the number of bleeding heart immoral liberals the waste won't really stop until they find a cure. So if this really is a cure, that could be the end of it.
Actually, the Africans are responsible for AIDS because they ate HIV-infected monkeys until the virus has mutated to be able to infect humans.
I had a P990, so maybe expectations were lower at the time of P800. I didn't say that it wasn't advanced for its time, I said it was unpolished. Like, for example, some functions were only available when you opened the keyboard, others only when you closed it, even though it only overlapped about 1/10 of the screen. JME was slow, and there were almost no native apps because Ericsson decided to make their own version of Symbian incompatible with the original one. Handwriting was also an example of a clever technology that almost worked, but the touchscreens of that time simply weren't accurate enough for that. On top of that, it didn't follow any standards, had its own charger, memory card etc. It was good hardware made slow, laggish and uncostumisable and counterintuitive by crappy design.