I would imagine that if you're already a My Yahoo! user, features like this would be awesome. Imagine a Yahoo mail notifier, Yahoo stock ticket, etc... There's a ton Yahoo could do with a Firefox plugin.
Humans are usually about 9 months old before they celebrate their 0th birthday, and we measure how old we are based on the number of birthdays we've had. Same thing here.
If this is true, you should put something on your site suggesting that people switch to FireFox. You have a huge opportunity here, why not use it for purposes of good?
By saying American businesses shouldn't work with Indians, you're effectively saying that they should be kept poor. Maybe you see other ways to help them develop, but I doubt any are as good as free trade.
Some individuals will suffer, yes but MORE won't (firing one American can enable a business to hire 5 Indians for example). Also, suffering is relative. Which would suck more? To be unemployed in America or India. I'd choose America. Of course, that's not the real situation. It's probably more like: which is worse, to have to work at WalMart for minimum wage in America, or to have to work in a trash dump making as much money as you can dig up?
I'm not suggesting we make everyone in the US unemployed. That would most definitely not be good for the world. I'm suggesting that America losing 100,000 software engineering jobs, and Indians creating 1,000,000 can be good. It's a net of 900,000 people with new jobs.
Of course, it's not as simple as this. For free trade to work, it has to really be free. That means those million employed Indians have to be free to buy rice from Americans. If the Indian government is doing something to stop that, then that's the root of the problem, not outsourcing.
I agree with you on the environment and worker protection issues too. Any American business should have to ensure that all of its workers (both local and outsourced) are treated with American standards. The US should also lobby other Governments of the world to meet high standards for the environment and human rights. Again, this is a different problem then outsourcing, and blocking outsourcing doesn't solve the problem.
There are other problems with outsourcing. Let's say a company makes toasters, and the end up outsourcing all of the development of the toaster to India and just skim all of the profits for themselves. In a free market, how long will it be before some company in India decides that they don't need the American company and starts making their own line of toasters? Not long I'm sure. So yes, outsourcing can be suicide for a business. Outsourcing with uneven regulation can be bad for a whole nation. But if that's the case, fix the regulations.
So, what you're saying is that we should stop outsourcing to save a few Americans their nice jobs and keep Indians poor? That's just cold.
On the whole, the world is better off without borders and barriers to trade. Opening up trade is the best way to improve the world wide standard of living.
This is exactly why Condorcet stinks. It allows for logical contradictions in preferencing, plus it's more complicated. Imagine what the ballot would have looked like in last years CA gubernatorial race with over 100 candidates!
I think that CALEA is a bad idea, and will only make the situation worse. For one, it will create a market for strong encrypted phone calls that will be unbreakable by Law Enforcement. It will also stifle innovation by making it harder for developers of new technology to test and deploy their system.
If CALEA must go into effect, it should only apply to commercial providers of VoIP services that allow users to connect to any PSTN. So as to minimize the impact on innovation, it should only apply to large networks that can easily afford the overhead. I believe the VoIP provider should have at least one million paying customers before CALEA should apply. Furthermore, the cost should not be passed on to the consumer. After all, they didn't do anything wrong. If CALEA is used to catch a criminal, and that person is found guilty, then they should pay.
I think to really get a Go program to work well it will really just have to play and lose a lot of games.
Somehow I don't think losing a lot is how you get a program to get better. There has to actually be some algorithms for learning and generalizing for it to improve with play. Of course, the learning code is A LOT harder to design and implement than the playing and losing code.
If they do decide to tax open source software, they should also tax other free services like religious institutions and non-profit organizations. Of course they would never do that, for all these years they've been giving special tax breaks to orgs like that. Actually, now that I think about it, maybe there should be special tax incentives to developing Free software.
"It's worth noting that Torvalds' employer, Transmeta, has licensed x86-64 so he is likely to have access to Hammer hardware." This sounds really interesting. Any ideas what it means?
It's more likely that you'll have your dedicated systems (TV, DVD player, receiver, game machine, etc...) and they'll all be able to talk to each other over wireless and/or over your home "power grid". Replace all those light switches with touch-pad interfaces to your computer, and you'll be able to not only turn on and off the lights in the room, but also turn on the radio/mp3s, or send an IM to your kid's bedrooms. Not exactly what I'd call convergence, more of extreme interopbility.
Ok, I'll give you that Xenocide wasn't really up to par, but I like Children almost as much as Ender's Game. Peter is one of my favorite characters, and we at least get to see a version of him here.
Just finished it last weekend. I think this is the first book in the Ender word that would make a good movie. I liked it a lot more than Ender's Shadow. The trouble with these Shadow books is that we have some idea of what's going to happen because we've already read the history. Card still managed to surprise me in this one. It's a fun read, and I'd recommend it to anyone (as long as they've read Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow first.:)
How I did it was to find a company I liked, with a product that I was interested in. I then made myself well known on the mailing list (no, not with spam, but by actually helping.:) When this co. announced a job opening, I let them know that I was interested, but that I'd have to telecommute, and the hired me anyway. I think the key is that you have an interest in their company, and the product that they offer, and in the future of that product. You may not get full time work that way, but if you can get a few job, you'll do just fine.
This article is a very nice description about what seti@home does, but the question is: Does it even have a chance of working? The assumption is that ETI would use radio because the laws of physics prohibit anything faster, but if that's true, why would they even bother? Most likely they would be too far away to really talk with wouldn't they?
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What about Piezo Electric Crystals powered? Not earth shattering, but if they figured out a way to convert the energy caused by the flexing of the scooter into useable energy, that might fit very well. Your battery starts to get low... just jump up and down a bit.
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Sounds like it has a lot of moving parts, and therefore it would take a lot of power to run it. I don't think Kamen would want to push something that could harm the environment just as much as cars would he?
The other big probolem I see whith all of these personal transportation type devices is that they don't seem to have any trunk space, or space for passengers - 2 things that you must have in a transport device.
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I would imagine that if you're already a My Yahoo! user, features like this would be awesome. Imagine a Yahoo mail notifier, Yahoo stock ticket, etc... There's a ton Yahoo could do with a Firefox plugin.
Anyone know if it will be compatible with GPL 3?
Humans are usually about 9 months old before they celebrate their 0th birthday, and we measure how old we are based on the number of birthdays we've had. Same thing here.
If this is true, you should put something on your site suggesting that people switch to FireFox. You have a huge opportunity here, why not use it for purposes of good?
I think it's the kind of wireless mic that has a wire running down to a transmitter. Ha!
By saying American businesses shouldn't work with Indians, you're effectively saying that they should be kept poor. Maybe you see other ways to help them develop, but I doubt any are as good as free trade.
Some individuals will suffer, yes but MORE won't (firing one American can enable a business to hire 5 Indians for example). Also, suffering is relative. Which would suck more? To be unemployed in America or India. I'd choose America. Of course, that's not the real situation. It's probably more like: which is worse, to have to work at WalMart for minimum wage in America, or to have to work in a trash dump making as much money as you can dig up?
I'm not suggesting we make everyone in the US unemployed. That would most definitely not be good for the world. I'm suggesting that America losing 100,000 software engineering jobs, and Indians creating 1,000,000 can be good. It's a net of 900,000 people with new jobs.
Of course, it's not as simple as this. For free trade to work, it has to really be free. That means those million employed Indians have to be free to buy rice from Americans. If the Indian government is doing something to stop that, then that's the root of the problem, not outsourcing.
I agree with you on the environment and worker protection issues too. Any American business should have to ensure that all of its workers (both local and outsourced) are treated with American standards. The US should also lobby other Governments of the world to meet high standards for the environment and human rights. Again, this is a different problem then outsourcing, and blocking outsourcing doesn't solve the problem.
There are other problems with outsourcing. Let's say a company makes toasters, and the end up outsourcing all of the development of the toaster to India and just skim all of the profits for themselves. In a free market, how long will it be before some company in India decides that they don't need the American company and starts making their own line of toasters? Not long I'm sure. So yes, outsourcing can be suicide for a business. Outsourcing with uneven regulation can be bad for a whole nation. But if that's the case, fix the regulations.
So, what you're saying is that we should stop outsourcing to save a few Americans their nice jobs and keep Indians poor? That's just cold.
On the whole, the world is better off without borders and barriers to trade. Opening up trade is the best way to improve the world wide standard of living.
This is exactly why Condorcet stinks. It allows for logical contradictions in preferencing, plus it's more complicated. Imagine what the ballot would have looked like in last years CA gubernatorial race with over 100 candidates!
What's worse, disenfranchise a few people in a small state (for example Wyoming), or a huge number of people in a large state (California)?
Is the solution for break California up into 70 different states so that each baby-California will get as much regard from candidates as Wyoming gets?
Each person's vote should count just as much as the next person's. Anything beyond that isn't fare, and is going to disenfranchise voters.
I think that CALEA is a bad idea, and will only make the situation worse. For one, it will create a market for strong encrypted phone calls that will be unbreakable by Law Enforcement. It will also stifle innovation by making it harder for developers of new technology to test and deploy their system.
If CALEA must go into effect, it should only apply to commercial providers of VoIP services that allow users to connect to any PSTN. So as to minimize the impact on innovation, it should only apply to large networks that can easily afford the overhead. I believe the VoIP provider should have at least one million paying customers before CALEA should apply. Furthermore, the cost should not be passed on to the consumer. After all, they didn't do anything wrong. If CALEA is used to catch a criminal, and that person is found guilty, then they should pay.
I think to really get a Go program to work well it will really just have to play and lose a lot of games.
Somehow I don't think losing a lot is how you get a program to get better. There has to actually be some algorithms for learning and generalizing for it to improve with play. Of course, the learning code is A LOT harder to design and implement than the playing and losing code.
Don't then. Pay with PayPall instead.
You can pay with paypall, and not have to worry about the russians ever getting your credit card number. Any other questions?
If they do decide to tax open source software, they should also tax other free services like religious institutions and non-profit organizations. Of course they would never do that, for all these years they've been giving special tax breaks to orgs like that. Actually, now that I think about it, maybe there should be special tax incentives to developing Free software.
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"It's worth noting that Torvalds' employer, Transmeta, has licensed x86-64 so he is likely to have access to Hammer hardware." This sounds really interesting. Any ideas what it means?
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I know, I know... it only runs on 9 os's. You're probably using something else, right?
It's more likely that you'll have your dedicated systems (TV, DVD player, receiver, game machine, etc...) and they'll all be able to talk to each other over wireless and/or over your home "power grid". Replace all those light switches with touch-pad interfaces to your computer, and you'll be able to not only turn on and off the lights in the room, but also turn on the radio/mp3s, or send an IM to your kid's bedrooms. Not exactly what I'd call convergence, more of extreme interopbility.
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How I did it was to find a company I liked, with a product that I was interested in. I then made myself well known on the mailing list (no, not with spam, but by actually helping. :) When this co. announced a job opening, I let them know that I was interested, but that I'd have to telecommute, and the hired me anyway. I think the key is that you have an interest in their company, and the product that they offer, and in the future of that product. You may not get full time work that way, but if you can get a few job, you'll do just fine.
This article is a very nice description about what seti@home does, but the question is: Does it even have a chance of working? The assumption is that ETI would use radio because the laws of physics prohibit anything faster, but if that's true, why would they even bother? Most likely they would be too far away to really talk with wouldn't they?
What about Piezo Electric Crystals powered? Not earth shattering, but if they figured out a way to convert the energy caused by the flexing of the scooter into useable energy, that might fit very well. Your battery starts to get low... just jump up and down a bit.
Sounds like it has a lot of moving parts, and therefore it would take a lot of power to run it. I don't think Kamen would want to push something that could harm the environment just as much as cars would he?
The other big probolem I see whith all of these personal transportation type devices is that they don't seem to have any trunk space, or space for passengers - 2 things that you must have in a transport device.