don't insult the intelligence of the rest of us by making it seem that regular Joe Schmoes can do a fucking thing to change shit right now, because that's pretty obviously untrue.
But... but... Joe the Plumber made an impact. Right? See, all you have to do is get hand-picked to be a puppet of a corporate media machine.
It's not an original proposal, and a poorly thought out one at that. Let's say you've started your own company. You're barely breaking even, and not taking any income from it at all. Yet, under your proposed rule, a government accountant will evaluate the "market value" of your company and suddenly you're on the hook for a hefty sum to the government. Most likely you'll have to sell a large share of your business to vulture capital at cut-throat rates to find the cash. Or, perhaps following the state-run capitalism model of the East, you'll give up much of your hard-built company to the government. Way to stick it to the small guys! It's much easier to tax the effective income (including that from loans).
Tweets are an abomination. You still have to describe what you've done properly, otherwise the reported result is of no value. There are journals that were created specifically to report negative results. Irreproducible results, on the other hand, are not a scientific matter.
What happened to Netflix? I think they must've hired some ex-blockbuster employees to take the company toward a "new direction". It was a great service - simple, useful, pleasant. Then they started dumbing things down, screwed up the streaming movie selection interface (all I see now are stupidly large icons of the movies that I've mostly seen, without a good way of finding anything I want to watch; I am sure this works for a 4yr old who likes to watch the same cartoons over and over again, but common... give me a @#$# choice!), took out friends options, then started fumbling with the price (although I could've handled that choice) and now they're just going to voluntarily pull the company apart, depriving customers of a comprehensive service. Time to look for alternatives (suggestions?). Sad. There was no reason to shoot yourself in the foot Neflix, really.
Wow, that's really slow! 9 minutes is barely beating Ford Focus. For comparison, Mini Cooper S does it in 8:52. I thought electric cars can be just as fast. What gives?
Nicely laid out! I think that strikingly gloomy "lifetime earnings" calculations, such as the one you've laid out, largely account for the lack of Americans in science. For a college kid in US, there's little in terms of social appreciation or cultural draw that would compensate for the poor pay, long hours and highly uncertain prospects of a scientific career. For people who decide to pursue this track, however, US still provides most opportunities. But once the level of investment in science rises in China, India or Brazil, I am afraid US science will enter a tight downward spiral - the talented foreign workforce will disappear quite rapidly, and no talented US students will step up to fill those empty labs.
Now if only the online video providers could fix a problem where they try to show you the same ad dozens of times in a row, it may actually become bearable.
You fail to understand the point - it's not about some nebulous "greater good" - it's about protecting that very freedom of speech, for the vast majority of the population. The fact that my own attempts or attempts of any like-minded group of people to speak out through media channels are doomed to failure due to incredibly high costs is in fact trampling my rights. The price is certainly set by wealthy organizations (and in some cases individuals), and you can call it the market or whatever, but the end result is the same - the wealthy parties can speak out, and others effectively cannot (preaching on the street corner doesn't count).
And the point gp made is that the wealth distribution in this country is such that even 90% of the folks in this country "pool" all the resources you can, the top 10% of the population will still be able to pool a lot more.
Thanks for the info.. I was looking if anyone was working on turbine-hybrid vehicles, and somehow this Jaguar work was under the radar. Looks great! They must be using some high-volume capacitors to get that kind of acceleration discharge. I wish GM was trying to do something like that, but nowadays it's guys like Tata who have more foresight.
Large plant genomes tend to be polyploid (>2 copies of chromosomes) and full of repetitive elements. In other words, the overall complexity is similar to other plants, even though the total size is much larger.
Ultimately, copying someone else's IP, to which you have no rights, means someone didn't get paid. Period. And if you copied it, you have assigned some value to it. Period. At best, it means you've inflicted direct financial harm by devaluing of the product in question.
I am sitting on a chair and doing nothing... just now someone didn't get paid. Clearly this kind of inactivity should be illegal, as it devalues whatever I am supposed to buy.
Agreed. For instance, I've been trying to figure out how to add a simple "search" entry into resolv.conf in Fedora.. it keeps overwriting it on boot no matter what level scripts I modify (e.g. going up to DHCP config, etc.) - because some genius came up with a new admin tool and thought that something as basic as resolv.conf doesn't need to be followed.
Identify, as in the dog gave me a strange look today, so I want to make sure noone has swapped it for an evil twin while I was out at work? Get real - the only time you'd need these services is if you lose the dog.
And how come the company is not being named here? The customers should know how helpful they really are in cases like this!
I am still waiting for a tablet with a real stylus support on which I could take notes, doodle, markup, etc. Unless all you do is consume information, this is absolutely essential. All the upcoming tables just strive to be iPad copies. Jobs declared stylus to be a fail and everyone just takes that for the absolute truth. Doesn't anyone has the balls to innovate any more? MS, who makes excellent OneNote, has already shown that it can't lead and nixed Courier. IBM doesn't make consumer shit anymore, HP is too busy giving millions to asshat executives, and Google already has a million other projects to work on.
There's nothing honest about this. The quoted narrative is internal to the company - they'll never go on record saying that they've 'borrowed' from their competitors. The software industry is a world of ideas - taking ideas from others and using 'business acumen' to leave the original inventors in the dust is as dishonest as it gets. This is why software companies are forced to spend enormous amounts of money on patents and litigation. And at that point the winners are determined by the quality/price of the lawyers and not by the value of the created software.
They're solving a brain-computer interface problem that was solved 10 years ago, and that was made irrelevant several years ago when cheap neural interfaces started hitting the commercial commodity market.
solved problem, neural interfaces in the commodity market - sounds like you're living a hundred years ahead of us:) But seriously - I haven't been following the field - can you provide some references for the current advances?
Unfortunately the impact can be quite profound. Labs typically have a number of funding sources, but the restriction imposed on using federal money for stem cell research meant that people that wanted to work on that had to build a second, separate lab to do it in. In a way that matched only by religious orthodoxies, that meant buying copies of the all same equipment (some of which run close to a million bucks) with the private money and keeping them in a separate location just to satisfy legal requirements.
I don't think anyone envisions that the ultimate applications will require this kind of creepy on-demand harvesting. The rational is that once the factors involved in establishment and maintenance of the embryonic stem cells are understood at a sufficient level, the therapies will be based on cells derived from culture or from patient's own somatic cells. But, as you point out, the fight is over ability to obtain these unique cells for research purposes.
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don't insult the intelligence of the rest of us by making it seem that regular Joe Schmoes can do a fucking thing to change shit right now, because that's pretty obviously untrue.
But ... but ... Joe the Plumber made an impact. Right? See, all you have to do is get hand-picked to be a puppet of a corporate media machine.
It's not an original proposal, and a poorly thought out one at that.
Let's say you've started your own company. You're barely breaking even, and not taking any income from it at all. Yet, under your proposed rule, a government accountant will evaluate the "market value" of your company and suddenly you're on the hook for a hefty sum to the government. Most likely you'll have to sell a large share of your business to vulture capital at cut-throat rates to find the cash. Or, perhaps following the state-run capitalism model of the East, you'll give up much of your hard-built company to the government. Way to stick it to the small guys!
It's much easier to tax the effective income (including that from loans).
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Wish I had mod points :)
Tweets are an abomination. You still have to describe what you've done properly, otherwise the reported result is of no value.
There are journals that were created specifically to report negative results. Irreproducible results, on the other hand, are not a scientific matter.
actually, MIT forgoes tuition for students who can't afford it.
What happened to Netflix? I think they must've hired some ex-blockbuster employees to take the company toward a "new direction". ... give me a @#$# choice!), took out friends options, then started fumbling with the price (although I could've handled that choice) and now they're just going to voluntarily pull the company apart, depriving customers of a comprehensive service. Time to look for alternatives (suggestions?). Sad. There was no reason to shoot yourself in the foot Neflix, really.
It was a great service - simple, useful, pleasant. Then they started dumbing things down, screwed up the streaming movie selection interface (all I see now are stupidly large icons of the movies that I've mostly seen, without a good way of finding anything I want to watch; I am sure this works for a 4yr old who likes to watch the same cartoons over and over again, but common
Wow, that's really slow! 9 minutes is barely beating Ford Focus. For comparison, Mini Cooper S does it in 8:52. I thought electric cars can be just as fast. What gives?
Am I the only one who thought this was an odd comparison?
Nicely laid out! I think that strikingly gloomy "lifetime earnings" calculations, such as the one you've laid out, largely account for the lack of Americans in science. For a college kid in US, there's little in terms of social appreciation or cultural draw that would compensate for the poor pay, long hours and highly uncertain prospects of a scientific career.
For people who decide to pursue this track, however, US still provides most opportunities. But once the level of investment in science rises in China, India or Brazil, I am afraid US science will enter a tight downward spiral - the talented foreign workforce will disappear quite rapidly, and no talented US students will step up to fill those empty labs.
What? They must be counting all the minutes you're NOT using your phone as them NOT dropping your call.
no shit .. it's closer to 60% for me. Goddamn awful! Thank you Apple for giving these guys a leg to stand on.
Now if only the online video providers could fix a problem where they try to show you the same ad dozens of times in a row, it may actually become bearable.
You fail to understand the point - it's not about some nebulous "greater good" - it's about protecting that very freedom of speech, for the vast majority of the population. The fact that my own attempts or attempts of any like-minded group of people to speak out through media channels are doomed to failure due to incredibly high costs is in fact trampling my rights. The price is certainly set by wealthy organizations (and in some cases individuals), and you can call it the market or whatever, but the end result is the same - the wealthy parties can speak out, and others effectively cannot (preaching on the street corner doesn't count).
And the point gp made is that the wealth distribution in this country is such that even 90% of the folks in this country "pool" all the resources you can, the top 10% of the population will still be able to pool a lot more.
Thanks for the info .. I was looking if anyone was working on turbine-hybrid vehicles, and somehow this Jaguar work was under the radar. Looks great! They must be using some high-volume capacitors to get that kind of acceleration discharge. I wish GM was trying to do something like that, but nowadays it's guys like Tata who have more foresight.
Large plant genomes tend to be polyploid (>2 copies of chromosomes) and full of repetitive elements. In other words, the overall complexity is similar to other plants, even though the total size is much larger.
I am sitting on a chair and doing nothing ... just now someone didn't get paid. Clearly this kind of inactivity should be illegal, as it devalues whatever I am supposed to buy.
Agreed. For instance, I've been trying to figure out how to add a simple "search" entry into resolv.conf in Fedora .. it keeps overwriting it on boot no matter what level scripts I modify (e.g. going up to DHCP config, etc.) - because some genius came up with a new admin tool and thought that something as basic as resolv.conf doesn't need to be followed.
Identify, as in the dog gave me a strange look today, so I want to make sure noone has swapped it for an evil twin while I was out at work? Get real - the only time you'd need these services is if you lose the dog.
And how come the company is not being named here? The customers should know how helpful they really are in cases like this!
I am still waiting for a tablet with a real stylus support on which I could take notes, doodle, markup, etc. Unless all you do is consume information, this is absolutely essential. All the upcoming tables just strive to be iPad copies. Jobs declared stylus to be a fail and everyone just takes that for the absolute truth. Doesn't anyone has the balls to innovate any more? MS, who makes excellent OneNote, has already shown that it can't lead and nixed Courier. IBM doesn't make consumer shit anymore, HP is too busy giving millions to asshat executives, and Google already has a million other projects to work on.
There's nothing honest about this. The quoted narrative is internal to the company - they'll never go on record saying that they've 'borrowed' from their competitors. The software industry is a world of ideas - taking ideas from others and using 'business acumen' to leave the original inventors in the dust is as dishonest as it gets. This is why software companies are forced to spend enormous amounts of money on patents and litigation. And at that point the winners are determined by the quality/price of the lawyers and not by the value of the created software.
solved problem, neural interfaces in the commodity market - sounds like you're living a hundred years ahead of us :) But seriously - I haven't been following the field - can you provide some references for the current advances?
Unfortunately the impact can be quite profound. Labs typically have a number of funding sources, but the restriction imposed on using federal money for stem cell research meant that people that wanted to work on that had to build a second, separate lab to do it in. In a way that matched only by religious orthodoxies, that meant buying copies of the all same equipment (some of which run close to a million bucks) with the private money and keeping them in a separate location just to satisfy legal requirements.
I don't think anyone envisions that the ultimate applications will require this kind of creepy on-demand harvesting. The rational is that once the factors involved in establishment and maintenance of the embryonic stem cells are understood at a sufficient level, the therapies will be based on cells derived from culture or from patient's own somatic cells. But, as you point out, the fight is over ability to obtain these unique cells for research purposes.