Which is akin to a someone throwing brick through a plate glass window, then blaming the shop owners for just having a big plate glass window where anyone could throw a brick at it.
Amateur astronomers are out watching the sky for the rumored light from a star that had gone supernova thousands of years before. The supernova was predicted by astronomers as early as the middle ages. It was supposedly going to be very bright. Well, the sun rises early...or at least some brightly shining object. But one of the people corrects the questioner, stating that it is the hour of the moon's rising and it must be reflecting the light from the new star. Someone suggests that it seemed to be getting rather warm.
Short of it is, this exploding star's light was several times more intense than even our Sun. In the short term it created massive weather effects -- tornados, typhoons, etc. But the air temperature in the first day of its arrival soared to over 200 degrees F - the oceans began to boil, it was unbearable to be outside. The people who survived until the first night -- when the air temperature dropped to somewhere over 130 F -- began pondering what life forms would carry on after this, because it wouldn't be humans.
There was a similar something in the news last year -- light from an ancient supernova finally reaching Earth and it made me think of this story then too. Not sure what happened to that one.
There must be a term for that. Like "He had a poetry moment" or something. Ascribing insight where the author had none. I love your analogy and, like many a great author, it could have been assumed to be my superior subconscious willing those precise words into existence, but the reality is I just like Frosted Flakes a lot.
Intelligent Design fits well between all the other failed theories: Earth-centric universe; immovable stars; bleeding patients; Froot Loops over Frosted Flakes....all famous in their time, all horribly misguided. In 2000 years, people will look back at our history, now ancient to them, and be amused just like we are.
Okay, so maybe the Silmarillion wasn't the first book to be published but it's the first in historical significance to the world of Middle-Earth. And if you didn't get the reference of my link text, we don't need your kind here.
Watchmen was interesting in its time and was likely the harbinger of bringing reality to comic book characters. But by the time the movie was released, most mainstream heroes, at least in the Marvel universe, had been given flaws and deeper personalities. The art direction in the Watchmen was cool but I think what made the book interesting in the 80s doesn't hold up in modern times. Still a good movie for me though.
I'm sort of torn between thinking DriedClexler's first post was sarcasm and Shagg's post was the result of sudden Whoosh, or DriedClexler only just found the Internet.
I assumed it wasn't about protecting yourself but the ability to pay someone to do it and get paid by them if they don't. Paying someone to be responsible for you, with the expectation of getting reimbursed and then some if they don't. Liability.
We spend our off hours (seconds) making clean phrases from dirty ones on the off chance we're confronted with the Pope or asked to do a Monty Python skit:
That's bullshit! = That's nonsense. That's total fucking bullshit! = That's utter nonsense. "Fuck off!" = You do not want to go there. "This completely fucking sucks." = Well, this is disappointing. "Shut the fuck up!" = Do be quiet. "Shit!" = Hmm. "You're fucking kidding me, right?" = I don't believe it. "Fuck yeah!" = Quite.
Teacher: "We'll be using History of the Modern World, Third Edition. You can verify this by viewing page 212. If it states that Eurasia has always been at war with Oceania, then you have the Third Edition. Anything else is wrong and you should click "Update E-Book" at your earliest convenience."
I actually thought this review as well-balanced. Things he liked, things he got bored of quickly, complaints about the environment, easy battles, etc. Along with things he enjoyed. I'm not sure what to expect from a review if it isn't the above.
Someone mentioned that one of the original ideas behind the patent was not to "protect the little guy" but to allow trade secrets to be revealed without potential loss to the company who has them. Similar concept, of course, just on a grander scale. Trade secrets could stifle innovation -- at least if the idea is out there, people can license it and invent off of it.
I mean, look at the formula for Coca Cola. How many great new inventions could have been created had the details of that syrupy goodness been unleashed (sorry..licensed) upon the world?
What they [socialists] really want is power over other people.
Actually, what they want is what pretty much everyone wants: stability. Peace of mind. Not worrying that someone with a wallet 10 times larger than their brain and one twentieth the size of their ego is going to crash the system, screwing everyone but himself over.
Capitalists seem deathly afraid of being taken advantage of through social programs designed to better people less financially fortunate. Socialists are tired of being screwed by capitalist greed.
I don't think capitalism nor its benefits should go away, but eventually people will realize there's only one sandbox to play in and it's better all around if people learn respect of others.
The phrase, "Nice guys finish last" comes to mind. If you're ambitious to the point you're stepping on other people to get ahead, you'll finish first.
Look at the U.S. It's a combination of capitalism and communism. Our government collects portions of our income and disperses it into public projects: infrastructure, aid, health care...even the occasional direct payment which, as far as I can tell, is a completely political piece of nonsense used to pander to the masses. It works fairly well, but it should apply a little more taxation on the truly rich. Not giving money to the poor directly, but not forcing the poor to pay the rich person's prices.
The government in the U.S. would do well by subsidizing more things: farming is well subsidized; education needs a whole hell of a lot more money; alternative fuel research and implementation would help drive down gas prices as well as provide more economic means of transportation. I don't want to take your iPhone, nor do I want straight-up handouts. But why not tweak the market a bit more to bring down internet prices, deploy a better network infrastructure, etc.
Office users aren't looking for the absolute greatest performance
1) They're looking for a machine that boots quickly. An SSD will help there but may be too little bang for the buck...just avoid 5400 RPM drives.
2) They want to open every application at once and leave them on for days without paging warnings. 3GB in a 32 bit system. But really, get a 64 bit system if all your apps support it. If you're going Core i processors, get 6 GB of memory to optimize the three channel memory. You'll pay an extra $100...maybe...and your people will be happy for the 4 years of a good onsite warranty.
3) But people here are mostly correct: gathering benchmarks between vendors on mid-range machines is probably going to spend more money than the extra memory per machine will. What will save you the most money is the quality of the support -- do you want to waste hours on the phone with Sony? Do you want Gold Support from Dell where you're on the phone for a few minutes and THEY fix the computer the next day? Perhaps you want to take Dell's Service exam and get certified on their models so all you have to do is order the parts. Depends on how many people on your staff can replace the parts -- might be better to pay for the onsite service so you can be busy doing other things. Dell isn't the only one who offers good support of course, it's just who I'm most familiar with.
As long as there is money to be made, there will be attempts to change the rules to make money more easily.
But I have a question: If you remove patents from software, that leaves you with what sort of licensing options? If I can find your source code, can I just rebrand your application and sell it like open source software? Can you apply a license like BSD, Apache, etc to it to prevent me, legally, from doing that even though your software idea isn't patented?
I think patents, as you said, were to defend the solo inventor from losing his invention once he approached a company to market and produce it. As my first sentence stated, people will change the rules to make money. If you shake hands as part of your 50/50 deal, the company will tell you it wasn't in writing. If you signed a contract, their lawyers will find a loophole. If you don't sign a contract, and you shared your idea with them, it's almost a guarantee it will show up on the shelves anyway and it's you against the lawyers again.
Capitalism definitely has its positives, but it definitely favors the greedy and manipulative over the people with more pure intentions. "My new genetic model will allow us to grow crops in the desert! We can feed the world!" "If we can get our hands on this genetic model, we can get the African warlords to pay us to not grow crops in the desert!"
I'm definitely supportive of the communal system we have in terms of certain taxes (public schools, public roads, postal service, etc etc), but a little more of that wealth could probably be put into a few more social programs instead of a few people's pockets.
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Which is akin to a someone throwing brick through a plate glass window, then blaming the shop owners for just having a big plate glass window where anyone could throw a brick at it.
Apparently no one at Microsoft watches Sesame Street.
Can't remember the author, but it goes like this:
Amateur astronomers are out watching the sky for the rumored light from a star that had gone supernova thousands of years before. The supernova was predicted by astronomers as early as the middle ages. It was supposedly going to be very bright. Well, the sun rises early...or at least some brightly shining object. But one of the people corrects the questioner, stating that it is the hour of the moon's rising and it must be reflecting the light from the new star. Someone suggests that it seemed to be getting rather warm.
Short of it is, this exploding star's light was several times more intense than even our Sun. In the short term it created massive weather effects -- tornados, typhoons, etc. But the air temperature in the first day of its arrival soared to over 200 degrees F - the oceans began to boil, it was unbearable to be outside. The people who survived until the first night -- when the air temperature dropped to somewhere over 130 F -- began pondering what life forms would carry on after this, because it wouldn't be humans.
There was a similar something in the news last year -- light from an ancient supernova finally reaching Earth and it made me think of this story then too. Not sure what happened to that one.
I was thinking it was another rapid application deployment method.
There must be a term for that. Like "He had a poetry moment" or something. Ascribing insight where the author had none. I love your analogy and, like many a great author, it could have been assumed to be my superior subconscious willing those precise words into existence, but the reality is I just like Frosted Flakes a lot.
Explosions are scary.
I'm just happy my name isn't Sarah Connor.
Intelligent Design fits well between all the other failed theories: Earth-centric universe; immovable stars; bleeding patients; Froot Loops over Frosted Flakes....all famous in their time, all horribly misguided. In 2000 years, people will look back at our history, now ancient to them, and be amused just like we are.
Good memory, Joe. You're not so average after all!
The film, based on J.R.R. Tolkien's first book in the fantasy series
Not the first.
Okay, so maybe the Silmarillion wasn't the first book to be published but it's the first in historical significance to the world of Middle-Earth. And if you didn't get the reference of my link text, we don't need your kind here.
Well, if they don't have a strike command, they probably don't have the scab command, so your idea wouldn't work as is. HTML 6?
Ultra-safe, 32 MPG, $100,000 to build? I'm just guessing but I wouldn't be surprised if they were wholly unmarketable due to cost.
And of course, I didn't read the article.
Besides, self-regulating industries are prone to doing whatever the hell they want when they have financial interests at stake.
Just for clarification.
P.S. How do you do a strike on Slashdot? s,slash-s didn't work, neither did strike...
Heckuva job, Brownie?
Watchmen was interesting in its time and was likely the harbinger of bringing reality to comic book characters. But by the time the movie was released, most mainstream heroes, at least in the Marvel universe, had been given flaws and deeper personalities. The art direction in the Watchmen was cool but I think what made the book interesting in the 80s doesn't hold up in modern times. Still a good movie for me though.
I'm sort of torn between thinking DriedClexler's first post was sarcasm and Shagg's post was the result of sudden Whoosh, or DriedClexler only just found the Internet.
Tell me because I'm truly curious which.
I assumed it wasn't about protecting yourself but the ability to pay someone to do it and get paid by them if they don't. Paying someone to be responsible for you, with the expectation of getting reimbursed and then some if they don't. Liability.
We spend our off hours (seconds) making clean phrases from dirty ones on the off chance we're confronted with the Pope or asked to do a Monty Python skit:
That's bullshit! = That's nonsense.
That's total fucking bullshit! = That's utter nonsense.
"Fuck off!" = You do not want to go there.
"This completely fucking sucks." = Well, this is disappointing.
"Shut the fuck up!" = Do be quiet.
"Shit!" = Hmm.
"You're fucking kidding me, right?" = I don't believe it.
"Fuck yeah!" = Quite.
Teacher: "We'll be using History of the Modern World, Third Edition. You can verify this by viewing page 212. If it states that Eurasia has always been at war with Oceania, then you have the Third Edition. Anything else is wrong and you should click "Update E-Book" at your earliest convenience."
I actually thought this review as well-balanced. Things he liked, things he got bored of quickly, complaints about the environment, easy battles, etc. Along with things he enjoyed. I'm not sure what to expect from a review if it isn't the above.
Someone mentioned that one of the original ideas behind the patent was not to "protect the little guy" but to allow trade secrets to be revealed without potential loss to the company who has them. Similar concept, of course, just on a grander scale. Trade secrets could stifle innovation -- at least if the idea is out there, people can license it and invent off of it.
I mean, look at the formula for Coca Cola. How many great new inventions could have been created had the details of that syrupy goodness been unleashed (sorry..licensed) upon the world?
What they [socialists] really want is power over other people.
Actually, what they want is what pretty much everyone wants: stability. Peace of mind. Not worrying that someone with a wallet 10 times larger than their brain and one twentieth the size of their ego is going to crash the system, screwing everyone but himself over.
Capitalists seem deathly afraid of being taken advantage of through social programs designed to better people less financially fortunate. Socialists are tired of being screwed by capitalist greed.
I don't think capitalism nor its benefits should go away, but eventually people will realize there's only one sandbox to play in and it's better all around if people learn respect of others.
The phrase, "Nice guys finish last" comes to mind. If you're ambitious to the point you're stepping on other people to get ahead, you'll finish first.
I've heard that but is that "more" per child or just more per country?
Look at the U.S. It's a combination of capitalism and communism. Our government collects portions of our income and disperses it into public projects: infrastructure, aid, health care...even the occasional direct payment which, as far as I can tell, is a completely political piece of nonsense used to pander to the masses. It works fairly well, but it should apply a little more taxation on the truly rich. Not giving money to the poor directly, but not forcing the poor to pay the rich person's prices.
The government in the U.S. would do well by subsidizing more things: farming is well subsidized; education needs a whole hell of a lot more money; alternative fuel research and implementation would help drive down gas prices as well as provide more economic means of transportation. I don't want to take your iPhone, nor do I want straight-up handouts. But why not tweak the market a bit more to bring down internet prices, deploy a better network infrastructure, etc.
Office users aren't looking for the absolute greatest performance
1) They're looking for a machine that boots quickly. An SSD will help there but may be too little bang for the buck...just avoid 5400 RPM drives.
2) They want to open every application at once and leave them on for days without paging warnings. 3GB in a 32 bit system. But really, get a 64 bit system if all your apps support it. If you're going Core i processors, get 6 GB of memory to optimize the three channel memory. You'll pay an extra $100...maybe...and your people will be happy for the 4 years of a good onsite warranty.
3) But people here are mostly correct: gathering benchmarks between vendors on mid-range machines is probably going to spend more money than the extra memory per machine will. What will save you the most money is the quality of the support -- do you want to waste hours on the phone with Sony? Do you want Gold Support from Dell where you're on the phone for a few minutes and THEY fix the computer the next day? Perhaps you want to take Dell's Service exam and get certified on their models so all you have to do is order the parts. Depends on how many people on your staff can replace the parts -- might be better to pay for the onsite service so you can be busy doing other things. Dell isn't the only one who offers good support of course, it's just who I'm most familiar with.
As long as there is money to be made, there will be attempts to change the rules to make money more easily.
But I have a question: If you remove patents from software, that leaves you with what sort of licensing options? If I can find your source code, can I just rebrand your application and sell it like open source software? Can you apply a license like BSD, Apache, etc to it to prevent me, legally, from doing that even though your software idea isn't patented?
I think patents, as you said, were to defend the solo inventor from losing his invention once he approached a company to market and produce it. As my first sentence stated, people will change the rules to make money. If you shake hands as part of your 50/50 deal, the company will tell you it wasn't in writing. If you signed a contract, their lawyers will find a loophole. If you don't sign a contract, and you shared your idea with them, it's almost a guarantee it will show up on the shelves anyway and it's you against the lawyers again.
Capitalism definitely has its positives, but it definitely favors the greedy and manipulative over the people with more pure intentions. "My new genetic model will allow us to grow crops in the desert! We can feed the world!" "If we can get our hands on this genetic model, we can get the African warlords to pay us to not grow crops in the desert!"
I'm definitely supportive of the communal system we have in terms of certain taxes (public schools, public roads, postal service, etc etc), but a little more of that wealth could probably be put into a few more social programs instead of a few people's pockets.