And if people knew this they'd be sure to hire fire companies with non-compete agreements. A fight breaking out at a fire is just going to lead to further property loss.
Thomas Jefferson "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
On second thought, the people don't really need to all know this - their insurance companies would charge them too high a rate if the hired a bad fire protection company - the pricing mechanism can handle this problem just fine through insurance.
Pure capitalism results in consolidation into monopolies
No, corporatism does. No company can exist at corporate scales without government support. This is why JD Rockefeller bribed Congress c. 1870 to allow permanent corporations (which were previously forbidden in the US). That lead to the explosion of large companies and monopoly conditions in the late 1890's. Then, like the lapdogs they're intended to be, the government 'broke up' Standard Oil to the letter of JD Rockefeller's plan, which increased his profits.
On the other hand, some kind of free market libertarian fantasy should not come at the expense of public safety either.
The public safety issue was solved at 10:03AM 2001/09/11 over a field in Shanksville PA by average Americans intuitively understanding the security equation. It was then solved again the next year with hardened cockpit doors.
Only private risks currently exist, and their cost is smaller than the cost of the security theatre.
In a system where safety rating is part of the commercial offering, you'll end up with cheap, dangerous, low margin airlines because (and it's a shame it has to be said so often) enlightened self interest is a myth.
Right, because nobody buys safe cars because they're safe.
Does anybody know if such cross-licensing agreements survive a bankruptcy and a patent portfolio sale? (I suspect not, since they're contracts with a bankrupt corp.)
Interesting question. Consider this strategy:
1) sue littlefish 2) establish cross-licensing deal with littlefish, for megabucks 3) sell patent and deal to shell company 4) run shell company into ground, have shell company owing parent company $$$ 5) in bankruptcy court sell patent right to troll 6) get $$$ from patent right back to parent company as creditor 7) don't care if troll goes after littlefish and profit twice from one patent
I guess what this means is that in a cross-licensing deal you better have a clause that your 'partner' won't transfer the rights to anybody else for the duration of the patent , at least without an indemnification.
They may teach it, but the church as an institution sure doesn't practice it very well, or they wouldn't move around accused priests, fight tooth-and-nail for their priests to not be subjected to criminal court proceedings, etc.
âoeI like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.â -Mohandas Gandhi
but ditching the language because of the language seems to be placing too much blame on the.NET stack
I suspect it's more about the talent than the technology. C# and.NET are fine for corporate drone work (I say that lovingly, you guys get to go home at 5) but it's not likely to attract the kind of creative outside-the-box talent that it seems to take to innovate on the Internet.
I don't completely disagree, but a higher reliance on property taxes would certainly not be helping the situation now. In case you haven't noticed, in most parts of California property values have taken a big dump the last couple of years. There would be a massive hole in the budget no matter what is getting taxed at this point.
Property tax rates reset to reflect property values. NH relies mostly on property taxes (no income or sales tax) and is among the most financially healthy states.
If a bunch of government elites got together to crush my business and get behind a theory that conveniently gives bureaucrats massive amounts of power, I would chip in.0001% of my profits to an alternative point of view.
See, if you're acting transparently in your own self-interest, you're evil. If you lie to people, scare them, offer to save them, and profit handsomely on the side, you're going to get a Nobel Peace Prize.
That said, it sounds like this guy wasn't being transparent. Too bad, that kills trust.
they are presenting an option for business customers ( where angry birds would not be installed )
If they were clever they'd build in a 'personal sandbox' where the user could swap between corporate and personal personalities on the device. The corporate VPN would be safe from Angry Birds, and the users would clamor to get them.
Use the @gmail account for the personal side, the @corp.com account on the business side. Really, IT doesn't hate users, they just have a mandate to protect the business, and the technology is usually lacking to allow both camps to be happy.
By all means, eliminate patents. But to have government intervention with no feedback control mechanism, that's just asking for... well, look at the patent system today.
I expected Benford's law to be mentioned in the summary. If not there, one of the *first* comments.
There's one three hours before yours. I guess each Slashdot story also needs somebody browsing at +5 and then complaining that there are no good comments.
I installed diaspora the other day, I hadn't realised that the alpha was out. It still needs a lot of work but I think its promising.
Just curious - what type of system did you install it on? I tried on Fedora 14 back around February and it was hairy enough to make a seasoned admin give up half-way through.
Patent licensing deals should be a matter of public record. Do whatever the hell you want with your trade secrets, but if you're using a government instrument (patents) then We the People, the owners of the government, need to see how you're using them, so we can understand if adjustments need to be made.
Why would it work more poorly for time than for distance or anything else?
Because with base 10 you'd be up to your ears in fractions all day (thirds of an hour, quarter hours, etc.). In base-12 fractions aren't required for everyday use.
A day is (12^3 * 5^2 * 2) seconds long. You can describe earth's 4-year orbital cycle with respect to its rotation with only one constant:
(12^4 * 5^2 * 243.5) seconds
and that will be accurate within the leap-second variation being discussed here.
I will disagree that 12 is a reasonable number though. Sixteen I can see, but twelve does not evenly halve out to a round number.
12 does evenly halve-out, but 16 does not evenly third-out. 16 is great for computers, because it's a power of two. In everyday human usage, taking thirds is very common and not well-supported by base-10 or base-16.
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And if people knew this they'd be sure to hire fire companies with non-compete agreements. A fight breaking out at a fire is just going to lead to further property loss.
Thomas Jefferson "Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
On second thought, the people don't really need to all know this - their insurance companies would charge them too high a rate if the hired a bad fire protection company - the pricing mechanism can handle this problem just fine through insurance.
Pure capitalism results in consolidation into monopolies
No, corporatism does. No company can exist at corporate scales without government support. This is why JD Rockefeller bribed Congress c. 1870 to allow permanent corporations (which were previously forbidden in the US). That lead to the explosion of large companies and monopoly conditions in the late 1890's. Then, like the lapdogs they're intended to be, the government 'broke up' Standard Oil to the letter of JD Rockefeller's plan, which increased his profits.
Corporatism = state controlled capitalism = bad.
On the other hand, some kind of free market libertarian fantasy should not come at the expense of public safety either.
The public safety issue was solved at 10:03AM 2001/09/11 over a field in Shanksville PA by average Americans intuitively understanding the security equation. It was then solved again the next year with hardened cockpit doors.
Only private risks currently exist, and their cost is smaller than the cost of the security theatre.
In a system where safety rating is part of the commercial offering, you'll end up with cheap, dangerous, low margin airlines because (and it's a shame it has to be said so often) enlightened self interest is a myth.
Right, because nobody buys safe cars because they're safe.
Does anybody know if such cross-licensing agreements survive a bankruptcy and a patent portfolio sale? (I suspect not, since they're contracts with a bankrupt corp.)
Interesting question. Consider this strategy:
1) sue littlefish
2) establish cross-licensing deal with littlefish, for megabucks
3) sell patent and deal to shell company
4) run shell company into ground, have shell company owing parent company $$$
5) in bankruptcy court sell patent right to troll
6) get $$$ from patent right back to parent company as creditor
7) don't care if troll goes after littlefish and profit twice from one patent
I guess what this means is that in a cross-licensing deal you better have a clause that your 'partner' won't transfer the rights to anybody else for the duration of the patent , at least without an indemnification.
QA has the unfortunate status of "Cost Center".
Don't work for a crappy company.
They may teach it, but the church as an institution sure doesn't practice it very well, or they wouldn't move around accused priests, fight tooth-and-nail for their priests to not be subjected to criminal court proceedings, etc.
âoeI like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.â -Mohandas Gandhi
What kind of engine would you expect it to have that runs on gasoline, but isn't internal combustion?
I can haz fuel cell yet?
It's my mail, hands off.
Agreed. At least we know only we've had access to our e-mails until a jackbooted thug beats our encryption keys out of us.
We do have a wide range of verbs, you know. You don't have to use "gotten".
Are you such a jackass in person? I can't imagine you have many friends is this is the timbre of your lunchroom conversations.
but ditching the language because of the language seems to be placing too much blame on the .NET stack
I suspect it's more about the talent than the technology. C# and .NET are fine for corporate drone work (I say that lovingly, you guys get to go home at 5) but it's not likely to attract the kind of creative outside-the-box talent that it seems to take to innovate on the Internet.
If iPhone were banned from import
they would still sell elsewhere Android would surge in the US.
Yes, good point - total aggregate demand for Samsung chips from the US market should stay fairly level.
They have developed a way to use inkjet technology to "print" a particular kind of solar cell that works.
TCTFY
I did some work for a company that was injketting solar cells in 2005, but with a different material.
I don't completely disagree, but a higher reliance on property taxes would certainly not be helping the situation now. In case you haven't noticed, in most parts of California property values have taken a big dump the last couple of years. There would be a massive hole in the budget no matter what is getting taxed at this point.
Property tax rates reset to reflect property values. NH relies mostly on property taxes (no income or sales tax) and is among the most financially healthy states.
What is theirs like? ;)
I imagine it looks like a bunch of guys sitting on a couch drinking beer, eating pizza, and playing X-Box.
If a bunch of government elites got together to crush my business and get behind a theory that conveniently gives bureaucrats massive amounts of power, I would chip in .0001% of my profits to an alternative point of view.
See, if you're acting transparently in your own self-interest, you're evil. If you lie to people, scare them, offer to save them, and profit handsomely on the side, you're going to get a Nobel Peace Prize.
That said, it sounds like this guy wasn't being transparent. Too bad, that kills trust.
they are presenting an option for business customers ( where angry birds would not be installed )
If they were clever they'd build in a 'personal sandbox' where the user could swap between corporate and personal personalities on the device. The corporate VPN would be safe from Angry Birds, and the users would clamor to get them.
Use the @gmail account for the personal side, the @corp.com account on the business side. Really, IT doesn't hate users, they just have a mandate to protect the business, and the technology is usually lacking to allow both camps to be happy.
By all means, eliminate patents. But to have government intervention with no feedback control mechanism, that's just asking for ... well, look at the patent system today.
Hint: most of the online world communicates through facebook.
Are you sure? My friends and I all communicate via a Bitnet we have set up on our PDP-11 emulators.
I expected Benford's law to be mentioned in the summary. If not there, one of the *first* comments.
There's one three hours before yours. I guess each Slashdot story also needs somebody browsing at +5 and then complaining that there are no good comments.
I installed diaspora the other day, I hadn't realised that the alpha was out. It still needs a lot of work but I think its promising.
Just curious - what type of system did you install it on? I tried on Fedora 14 back around February and it was hairy enough to make a seasoned admin give up half-way through.
Patent licensing deals should be a matter of public record. Do whatever the hell you want with your trade secrets, but if you're using a government instrument (patents) then We the People, the owners of the government, need to see how you're using them, so we can understand if adjustments need to be made.
The problem is that nobody uses thirds of an day/hour/minute.
There could be thousands of counter-examples to this, but just one for the sake of illustration:
I have a three-act show to put on in a 1-hour timeslot - how long should each act be?
Why would it work more poorly for time than for distance or anything else?
Because with base 10 you'd be up to your ears in fractions all day (thirds of an hour, quarter hours, etc.). In base-12 fractions aren't required for everyday use.
A day is (12^3 * 5^2 * 2) seconds long. You can describe earth's 4-year orbital cycle with respect to its rotation with only one constant:
(12^4 * 5^2 * 243.5) seconds
and that will be accurate within the leap-second variation being discussed here.
I will disagree that 12 is a reasonable number though. Sixteen I can see, but twelve does not evenly halve out to a round number.
12 does evenly halve-out, but 16 does not evenly third-out. 16 is great for computers, because it's a power of two. In everyday human usage, taking thirds is very common and not well-supported by base-10 or base-16.
What's a third of an hour?