The correct place is to battle it out in scientific journals. Corporations should not be doing this, but legion are the talking heads and book promoters tearing down things from GM food to Olestra to any number of other things with little or no science backing them.
I support patents on drugs to help bring new ones into existence -- the US invents half of what's invented each year (and further implying the rest of the world, whatever it is doing, shoudld be more like the US. Why? To save lives.)
But I do not support using legal trickery and rent-seeking to make it difficult to obtain legitimately expired patent generic drugs.
It is extremely commercial nowadays, but keeping out pros was always an idiotic farce. It harkened back to the days of pros vs. athlettes who had patrons, the latter being amateurs.
Over the last century, many nations became the patron, including communist ones that, idiotically, legally had no pros at all. Yet their job was to develop and make the motherland look good on the international stage.
If they could do well, they got rewarded in a perverse aping of capitalism -- they got upgraded apartments and things for their family. Judges likewise had similar additional pressure to slant things -- pressures well above the West, because lack of freedom disallowed all alternatives.
So I'm fine with pros being allowed -- in many countries except the West, they've been there all along, and the anti-pro rule got started as a snooty wishback to days of kings and lords being patrons, with modern governments taking over that snooty role, touting it as a virue to their populace, as opposed to those crass pros doing it for money.
Reminds me of sites using Disqus for comments, with its fraudulent "Disqus is taking longer than usual. Reload?", a ridiculous asininity that might as well be automatically displayed.
I'd rather see it used for this than watering yet another person's house who wants to live in the desert.
Most water is farming and industry anyway -- limit discs in California are asinine when home use is only 11% while most of it is used watering a desert so we in the north can have winter vegetables (oh, thank you, Californians).
"for example, a range (rather than a single numerical value) makes it difficult to determine trends"
Well, a sudden, obvious surge in requests could alert terrorist planners somebody was on to them. That's probably behind both the large ranges and six month delays.
So your attitude towards other people is contingent on your taxes to pay for their problems, a system you forced on them withot choice?
"Here's medical care which we force on you. Oh, by the way, I hate you because you are a fat fuck using it."
So you what? Think their use of it authorizes micromanagement of their lives? Fuck you. You can't give people something unasked then lord over them on it.
In other words, if video is changing the game of bandwidth needs, let the subscriber costs reflect it. We already have bandwidth and monthly data caps built in. Let the packages and prices change that way.
It should not be hidden in a scurrilous way with companies deliberately lying, saying they're clobbering Netflix speeds to help pay for expansion when the real business model, discussed in back rooms WITHOUT any paper notes beiing taken, is "turn on a permanent spigot to Netflix and YouTube money for all eternity via extortion".
I still say providers should be forced to tell the whole truth in blinking lights on the first page of their contracts: WARNING! You know your monthly fee to Netflix? We are demanding a cut of it from them or else we will wreck your service using them, regardless of your data and bandwidth agreement with us. You know YouTube? Same deal. Sign below to be a customer of us.
All these cities and counyries that have government-sponsored delivery rely on the throbbing dynamism of capitalism to keep generating faster and faster Interney.
Once that dries up, it turns into a festival of businessmen whining for more money, rather than innovate lest they be left behind.
As with medicine, any government can hand it out for free...once someone else invents it.
Did you know Wal Mart sells a cheap blood glucose meter that's only $10 per 50 test strips? Meanwhile oher companies produce stupid, far more expensive and unnecessary ones designed to suck the tit of medicaid -- whining for more government money rather than innovate, evolving in that direction instead, where whining to officials supercedes innovation and competition.
Government is voracious. If a budget is balanced, elected officials quickly unbalance it to buy more votes. The "local maximum" in the political landscape is to run a permanent deficit because you gain more votes that way than with a balanced budget.
It takes an unexpected windfall like the Internet boom to briefly balance the budget. But have no fear! Congress quickly rises to the occasion!
I assume the sensitive accelerometer analyzer can tell the difference between subtle movements while talking (hey, you could probably read body like mouth reading! Haha nobody can patent that now!) and jerking off.
Do even engineers understand the math of the debt system? As with cars, nobody wants to pay $2000 for the premium nav radio, but they will happily pay an additional $34/month.
So prices at college increase double digits a year for two decades now because hey it's just another $30 a month for next year's tuition increase. Sinecure (non-teaching-related) positions proliferate until there are more than teaching positions, literally, it's up to 53% at many universities.
Loaners don't care because they know the government will cover it if it goes bad.
Politicians love it because more degrees for voters.
Jedediah Leland: *hic* It's Friday quittin' time *hic* and I'm drunk *hic*. The only bore hole that deep I know *hic* is the mouth of a [insert political party you hate here].
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The Trojan horse aspect is the social engineering bit, where you install something thinking it is ok when it is not.
So he does have a point after all -- that's what this is.
I have actual beta feedback and don't want to be bothered mailing it when email is a pain in the ass.
When replying, you do not auto-fill the subject line with Re: or anything, forcing you to type something.
This is irritating enough already in the old system with a new reply (as opposed to a reply to some other post.)
Now I have to add a subject when replying to someone else's post, too?
Also, I can't see +mods on my own list of posts anymore. This also is irritating. Also I don't know what's wrong with round-cornered rectangles.
The correct place is to battle it out in scientific journals. Corporations should not be doing this, but legion are the talking heads and book promoters tearing down things from GM food to Olestra to any number of other things with little or no science backing them.
I support patents on drugs to help bring new ones into existence -- the US invents half of what's invented each year (and further implying the rest of the world, whatever it is doing, shoudld be more like the US. Why? To save lives.)
But I do not support using legal trickery and rent-seeking to make it difficult to obtain legitimately expired patent generic drugs.
3x larger, the Future Circular Colliders program.
AKA FuCC
It is extremely commercial nowadays, but keeping out pros was always an idiotic farce. It harkened back to the days of pros vs. athlettes who had patrons, the latter being amateurs.
Over the last century, many nations became the patron, including communist ones that, idiotically, legally had no pros at all. Yet their job was to develop and make the motherland look good on the international stage.
If they could do well, they got rewarded in a perverse aping of capitalism -- they got upgraded apartments and things for their family. Judges likewise had similar additional pressure to slant things -- pressures well above the West, because lack of freedom disallowed all alternatives.
So I'm fine with pros being allowed -- in many countries except the West, they've been there all along, and the anti-pro rule got started as a snooty wishback to days of kings and lords being patrons, with modern governments taking over that snooty role, touting it as a virue to their populace, as opposed to those crass pros doing it for money.
Stolen phones cannot be used withouy the acquiesence of phone companies in providing service to the phones and their new "owners".
So fine and jail phone CEOs for designing a business model that incorporates, deliberately, the laundering of stolen property.
Google Glass will suck. Here's a typical use case:
Judge: Did Google Glass record the encounter?
NYPD Official: Yes, Your Honor.
Judge: Present that as evidence.
NYPD Official: Ok, I...oh. There was a technical failure -- it's gone!
I haven't been forced, yet.
Father, I am scared. I wonder, will I dream?
Reminds me of sites using Disqus for comments, with its fraudulent "Disqus is taking longer than usual. Reload?", a ridiculous asininity that might as well be automatically displayed.
Poor programming is poor progamming.
I'd rather see it used for this than watering yet another person's house who wants to live in the desert.
Most water is farming and industry anyway -- limit discs in California are asinine when home use is only 11% while most of it is used watering a desert so we in the north can have winter vegetables (oh, thank you, Californians).
Well, a sudden, obvious surge in requests could alert terrorist planners somebody was on to them. That's probably behind both the large ranges and six month delays.
So your attitude towards other people is contingent on your taxes to pay for their problems, a system you forced on them withot choice?
"Here's medical care which we force on you. Oh, by the way, I hate you because you are a fat fuck using it."
So you what? Think their use of it authorizes micromanagement of their lives? Fuck you. You can't give people something unasked then lord over them on it.
Awww, come on .ow. Like the kind of people who make technical purchase recommendations read slashdot.
In any case, Netflix's bill, and YouTube's home page, should call out how much money your particular cable company is demanding as a cut.
Bring it all out into the light, which, of course, the cable companies don't want, again evidence of the scurrilous nature of what they want to do.
In other words, if video is changing the game of bandwidth needs, let the subscriber costs reflect it. We already have bandwidth and monthly data caps built in. Let the packages and prices change that way.
It should not be hidden in a scurrilous way with companies deliberately lying, saying they're clobbering Netflix speeds to help pay for expansion when the real business model, discussed in back rooms WITHOUT any paper notes beiing taken, is "turn on a permanent spigot to Netflix and YouTube money for all eternity via extortion".
I still say providers should be forced to tell the whole truth in blinking lights on the first page of their contracts: WARNING! You know your monthly fee to Netflix? We are demanding a cut of it from them or else we will wreck your service using them, regardless of your data and bandwidth agreement with us. You know YouTube? Same deal. Sign below to be a customer of us.
All these cities and counyries that have government-sponsored delivery rely on the throbbing dynamism of capitalism to keep generating faster and faster Interney.
Once that dries up, it turns into a festival of businessmen whining for more money, rather than innovate lest they be left behind.
As with medicine, any government can hand it out for free...once someone else invents it.
Did you know Wal Mart sells a cheap blood glucose meter that's only $10 per 50 test strips? Meanwhile oher companies produce stupid, far more expensive and unnecessary ones designed to suck the tit of medicaid -- whining for more government money rather than innovate, evolving in that direction instead, where whining to officials supercedes innovation and competition.
Rather than continuing to hemorrhage (somebody else's) cash waiting for a resurgence that probably will never come, calve off now and save money now.
"Anything that must happen eventually should happen immediately."
Government is voracious. If a budget is balanced, elected officials quickly unbalance it to buy more votes. The "local maximum" in the political landscape is to run a permanent deficit because you gain more votes that way than with a balanced budget.
It takes an unexpected windfall like the Internet boom to briefly balance the budget. But have no fear! Congress quickly rises to the occasion!
It's been 30 years since someone figured out how to bounce a laser off a window and hear conversations.
I assume the sensitive accelerometer analyzer can tell the difference between subtle movements while talking (hey, you could probably read body like mouth reading! Haha nobody can patent that now!) and jerking off.
Do even engineers understand the math of the debt system? As with cars, nobody wants to pay $2000 for the premium nav radio, but they will happily pay an additional $34/month.
So prices at college increase double digits a year for two decades now because hey it's just another $30 a month for next year's tuition increase. Sinecure (non-teaching-related) positions proliferate until there are more than teaching positions, literally, it's up to 53% at many universities.
Loaners don't care because they know the government will cover it if it goes bad.
Politicians love it because more degrees for voters.
Everybody happy because education good!
Yeah, on the one hand, the story involves a complex AI inference engine. On the other, icky sports no nerd is interested in.
What's a good tie breaker? Hmmmm...what else might couch-potato nerds be interested in during the Superbowl?
I've got it! Pizza and Dorotos and pizza rolls!
Jedediah Leland: *hic* It's Friday quittin' time *hic* and I'm drunk *hic*. The only bore hole that deep I know *hic* is the mouth of a [insert political party you hate here].