When it comes to science, there is no need to license a discovery to make it available to all. Simply publish and don't attempt to patent it. Scientific knowledge is public once published.
So basically this is the same reason why developers made programs for Macintosh that weren't available on Windows. Because Mac was always a simpler market to address because of the fewer hardware versions and system versions that the programs had to run on. Thus vastly more software titles were available for Macintosh than for Windows.
Except for the fact that it's utter bullshit. The reason they're supporting iOS is that there are so many iPads, and relatively fewer Android tablets. They'll support Android apps when they reach a market threshold. Difficulty has nothing to do with it.
That's OK They've decided it's not worth they money to get my attention and my money. As they sow, so shall they shall reap.
"Luckily the Massachusetts Supreme Court tossed out the warrant after EFF got involved, but who knows what would have happened had we not been there."
My irony meter is pegged.
Now the EFF is using the same logic that the government is using. If we hadn't been watching out for your interests, who knows what bad things might have happened.
No, I think you had it right the first time. You're trying to manipulate the ignorant, so saying "hydrogen is two times more than the oxygen" is better than adding "in water" because you want to keep the fuckers in the dark as to what you're talking about.
So, arguably, the Wizard's First Rule is "People are stupid", though the rest of it makes clear that what Zedd actually meant is "People are credulous".
Yes, they're also stupid, which is why you have to use small words.
Yes, but that has practically nothing very little to do with the NSA. The people they are trying to catch with their ridiculous dragnets number in the thousands at most, and maybe a couple hundred are in prisons. It's mostly about poverty, harsh sentences for crimes NOT involving a computer, and too many fucking guns and drug laws that provide fodder for the human tragedy of he prison industry.
Did you have something intelligent to add to the conversation? If you did, you forgot to include it in your comment.
In my case, I was assuming that my audience was intelligent enough to pick up my inference. Clearly such assumptions aren't justified on Slashdot, as you illustrated.
So let me spell it out for you: I think Huawei is investing in Africa because they see it as a place where they can sell equipment and make a profit. There's no need to look for ulterior motives behind everything they do just because they're Chinese.
I guess if it comes for free, that's one thing, but how much money do you think China wants to invest exfiltrating data from Africa as opposed to their first-world competitors?
What's perceived as "talent" is a high level of skill. I simply don't believe in extreme differences in native ability between one normal person and another. Aside from physical defects, and impairments, every person starts life with very nearly the same brain. Differences in what we can do well develop over time by the accumulation of skills. The geniuses out there didn't get so good at what they do by being dealt a royal flush. They got there by being interested in certain kinds of activity and pursuing them relentlessly. Through constant repetition, the brain structures modify themselves to do the same tasks more and more efficiently and with less and less effort. The colleague who can instantly visualize and explicate a whole new infrastructure can do so because he has spent a lot of time studying infrastructures. The one who can design a new, elegant UI can do so because he has studied and designed a lot of UIs.
Wayne Gretzky became a great hockey player because he was fascinated with the game from an early age and spent many thousands of hours watching it and playing it and thinking about it when he wasn't not on the ice. Great programmers are like that, but with more code and less skates.
No, there are several competing taxi services and any company that wants to start a taxi company can start a service. I don't know about SF in particular but in some cities there are many independent operators as well. What they all have in common is that they work within the existing regulations according to a common set of rules. Those rules were put in place to make the competition fair and to protect customers.
Now these new companies are coming in and saying essentially, "The rules don't apply to us because we're special.," or, "Fuck the rules." The government is saying otherwise. There's a process for changing laws if people think they are outdated.
You bought the phone on certain assumptions of power. OK, that's fine. Would a difference of at most 10.8% difference in the benchmark results have changed your choice? Or would you still have bought the Galaxy S4 for its features? Do your applications run acceptably fast? Has the slow speed made you wish you had bought a different phone?
This is not at all the same thing that Hyundai did. They actually lied about their test results from standard tests and were caught when the EPA did the same test and got much lower numbers. If you run the benchmarks on your phone, you will apparently get the same numbers as Samsung published, even if nothing else on your phone is allowed to run that fast.
I'm not saying what Samsung did was right. I'm just saying you're exaggerating the significance.
It's not MY system. It's the standard definition. And yes, it's true that WAY more than half of Americans don't belong to any particular race. We are not reproductively isolated.
The mylar bags commonly used for protecting electronics have a thin layer of metal between the layers and do make reasonably good electromagnetic shields at RF.
So I should just accept that Pharoah and Caesars really were gods and a mountain really got up and moved on Muhammed's command? That St. George literally was a god and the Morrigan really turned from a fish into a woman to marry the Dagda? Heracles dad was a bull/Zeus? Then I'm going to make damn sure I go down fighting because otherwise the battle maidens might not be coming to carry me off to Valhalla to drink with the All-Father.
It wouldn't hold up if I was on the jury unless the patient were not effectively under duress at the time they signed any paperwork and all of the charges were explicitly authorized in advance. No patient's initials by each charge == no evidence that the patient agreed to your rates. The jury I'm on will be setting the rates at something like the average amount *paid* by insurance, and if the hospital won't disclose that to the court, it's all free.
Would you see it that way if you took your car to the shop for a brake job and they did the work and then told you it cost $9000? Are you willing to pay $1,000,000 per year for tuition at a private college, that they only tell you about after your first term? Because some students, you know, are on scholarship or otherwise don't pay.
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When it comes to science, there is no need to license a discovery to make it available to all. Simply publish and don't attempt to patent it. Scientific knowledge is public once published.
So basically this is the same reason why developers made programs for Macintosh that weren't available on Windows. Because Mac was always a simpler market to address because of the fewer hardware versions and system versions that the programs had to run on. Thus vastly more software titles were available for Macintosh than for Windows.
Except for the fact that it's utter bullshit. The reason they're supporting iOS is that there are so many iPads, and relatively fewer Android tablets. They'll support Android apps when they reach a market threshold. Difficulty has nothing to do with it.
That's OK They've decided it's not worth they money to get my attention and my money. As they sow, so shall they shall reap.
So we'd have a right to computer-controlled guns? Sounds awesome.
My irony meter is pegged. Now the EFF is using the same logic that the government is using. If we hadn't been watching out for your interests, who knows what bad things might have happened.
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That depends on whether you're counting or weighing.
No, I think you had it right the first time. You're trying to manipulate the ignorant, so saying "hydrogen is two times more than the oxygen" is better than adding "in water" because you want to keep the fuckers in the dark as to what you're talking about.
So, arguably, the Wizard's First Rule is "People are stupid", though the rest of it makes clear that what Zedd actually meant is "People are credulous".
Yes, they're also stupid, which is why you have to use small words.
Yes, but that has practically nothing very little to do with the NSA. The people they are trying to catch with their ridiculous dragnets number in the thousands at most, and maybe a couple hundred are in prisons. It's mostly about poverty, harsh sentences for crimes NOT involving a computer, and too many fucking guns and drug laws that provide fodder for the human tragedy of he prison industry.
Did you have something intelligent to add to the conversation? If you did, you forgot to include it in your comment.
In my case, I was assuming that my audience was intelligent enough to pick up my inference. Clearly such assumptions aren't justified on Slashdot, as you illustrated.
So let me spell it out for you: I think Huawei is investing in Africa because they see it as a place where they can sell equipment and make a profit. There's no need to look for ulterior motives behind everything they do just because they're Chinese.
I guess if it comes for free, that's one thing, but how much money do you think China wants to invest exfiltrating data from Africa as opposed to their first-world competitors?
How is it better than a Kinect and open-source software you can download for free?
Does the hospital fail to collect 90% of its bills?
If the percentage is any less than that, then on that justification it's grossly overcharging.
If the percentage truly is that high, then obviously you'd be a chump to pay anything at all, since clearly you're not actually expected to.
Apparently not:
HCA made $1.69 billion last quarter on $8.5 of business. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hca-reports-second-quarter-2013-121600685.html
And some of them always don't deal straight up:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/whistleblower-suit-hospitals-defrauded-medicaid-005148370.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CdtGPtRKlQAjIWTmYlQ
Or is there an original unscrambled source code retained somewhere?
What's perceived as "talent" is a high level of skill. I simply don't believe in extreme differences in native ability between one normal person and another. Aside from physical defects, and impairments, every person starts life with very nearly the same brain. Differences in what we can do well develop over time by the accumulation of skills. The geniuses out there didn't get so good at what they do by being dealt a royal flush. They got there by being interested in certain kinds of activity and pursuing them relentlessly. Through constant repetition, the brain structures modify themselves to do the same tasks more and more efficiently and with less and less effort. The colleague who can instantly visualize and explicate a whole new infrastructure can do so because he has spent a lot of time studying infrastructures. The one who can design a new, elegant UI can do so because he has studied and designed a lot of UIs.
Wayne Gretzky became a great hockey player because he was fascinated with the game from an early age and spent many thousands of hours watching it and playing it and thinking about it when he wasn't not on the ice. Great programmers are like that, but with more code and less skates.
A company, some of whose practices we don't like, has other practices and services many people do like.
No, there are several competing taxi services and any company that wants to start a taxi company can start a service. I don't know about SF in particular but in some cities there are many independent operators as well. What they all have in common is that they work within the existing regulations according to a common set of rules. Those rules were put in place to make the competition fair and to protect customers.
Now these new companies are coming in and saying essentially, "The rules don't apply to us because we're special.," or, "Fuck the rules." The government is saying otherwise. There's a process for changing laws if people think they are outdated.
You bought the phone on certain assumptions of power. OK, that's fine. Would a difference of at most 10.8% difference in the benchmark results have changed your choice? Or would you still have bought the Galaxy S4 for its features? Do your applications run acceptably fast? Has the slow speed made you wish you had bought a different phone?
This is not at all the same thing that Hyundai did. They actually lied about their test results from standard tests and were caught when the EPA did the same test and got much lower numbers. If you run the benchmarks on your phone, you will apparently get the same numbers as Samsung published, even if nothing else on your phone is allowed to run that fast.
I'm not saying what Samsung did was right. I'm just saying you're exaggerating the significance.
Yeah, but too many of today's programmers think they discovered America themselves.
It's not MY system. It's the standard definition. And yes, it's true that WAY more than half of Americans don't belong to any particular race. We are not reproductively isolated.
The mylar bags commonly used for protecting electronics have a thin layer of metal between the layers and do make reasonably good electromagnetic shields at RF.
Could be. I can see possibilities for extremely high frequency oscillators and mixers used in optical data transmission.
And what happens when an Aborigine has kids with a Laplander? What race is that person?
Mixed race offspring. Tell me you are smart enough to figure this out. The fact that some people are members of races does not mean everyone is.
So I should just accept that Pharoah and Caesars really were gods and a mountain really got up and moved on Muhammed's command? That St. George literally was a god and the Morrigan really turned from a fish into a woman to marry the Dagda? Heracles dad was a bull/Zeus? Then I'm going to make damn sure I go down fighting because otherwise the battle maidens might not be coming to carry me off to Valhalla to drink with the All-Father.
It wouldn't hold up if I was on the jury unless the patient were not effectively under duress at the time they signed any paperwork and all of the charges were explicitly authorized in advance. No patient's initials by each charge == no evidence that the patient agreed to your rates. The jury I'm on will be setting the rates at something like the average amount *paid* by insurance, and if the hospital won't disclose that to the court, it's all free.
Would you see it that way if you took your car to the shop for a brake job and they did the work and then told you it cost $9000? Are you willing to pay $1,000,000 per year for tuition at a private college, that they only tell you about after your first term? Because some students, you know, are on scholarship or otherwise don't pay.
How about $125 for a hamburger?