The real danger in this is that companies are designing plants that are only able to reproduce a limited number of times. After that you have to buy new seeds, thus insuring continuing profits for the companies that own the rights to them. As they breed they could lock other farmers into the cycle.
Holy Shit! They finally figured out how to create living things? I thought they were just splicing things together at random to see what happens and going to third world countries and taking samples of what the native peoples spent thousands of years cultivating.
In that case, by all means they should be able to patent their work.
2. The USA (and elsewhere) will become a corporate-financed police state.
Corporations with more rights than people.
Police able to search and detain citizens at will without cause or oversite. (Current law, Japanese American Internment)
Intelligence agencies that sponsor the overthrow of nations that attempt to control their own natural resources. (Chile, Iran, Nicaragua, Cuba(failed) etc...)
A government that ignores international law and refuses to sign treaties on global warming and chemical weapons.
Citizens that don't agree to fight for corporate interests are jailed and if people protest they are shot. (Vietnam)
A government that sponsors dictators and helps sponsor them by promoting the sale of illegal drugs to its own citizens. (Contra Cia Cocain connection, Cambodia, Afghanistan)
How critical is the code? If it must work 24/7 then you are going to need more people than if it can stay down for a little when it breaks.
How F___ed are they if you leave? Since your the only person that has contact with the code you are a single point of failure. (hit by a bus, decide to persue you dream of becoming a Tuvan throat singer, etc.) The significance of the code is a major factor in how much you should invest in having a group of people who can maintain it.
I can just imagine the people at MIT 50 years into the invention of the book: Let's throw all our preconceptions out the window. Why does the writing have to be readable? How about a book made of water? This left to right restriction is a complete waste of time, text should be able to go any which way. Think about how much more information we provide if we get rid of spaces! This sounds like the typical mental masturbation fostered in galapagos-esque academic institutions. Usability is about creating simple rules that work and then sticking to them. Forcing every user to start from scratch may be interesting in the same way that the cultural revolution was of interest to Mao, but it has no place in real world computing.
Any business is a fool to turn away even one percent of their customers right away at the door. Five percent can be the difference between success and bankruptcy. Also, if 1 out of 20 visitors has a negative experience from my business right from the start, that can quickly give me a very negative reputation. This kind of lazy thinking is a big reason as to why online businesses have such a bad reputation. Putting a "Non Windows Users Not Welcome" on your door is simply bad business.
Since when are we at war? Just because CNN puts up pretty graphics and repeats it over and over like a mantra and politicians throw the word around like it has no meaning doesn't make it so. We are at war when congress declares war and here's a newsflash: They ain't gonna do it cause that would mean sticking their necks out and naming countries like Afghanistan. God knows they don't want to do that. All this is hype in order to justify treating the constitution like a doormat. Soon the war on terrorism will get thrown into the category with our other great concept "wars": drugs and poverty. Good company.
If you really want to fight terrorism, go after the group that trained these people. Somehow I don't see us declaring war on ourselves. Strange how all the major American conflicts of the last 30 years or so have been fueled by the CIA: Iran, Iraq, Nicaraqua, Panama, Afghanistan. When are we going to wake up and realize they are a bunch of MAJOR FUCKUPS?
Back in 1996 I was trying to include some Word generated files inside an access database of about 8000 records. The instructions waxed poetically about the power of office and how you could embed one type of object inside another application using OLE. So, I created an OLE Object field for the database and inserted the word documents into the database field. After 10 records the database of 600k had grown to 11MB. Not really interested in having a database of 8 gigabytes on a harddrive of 500MB, I gave up on the idea. Years later I wanted to see if the product had been fixed in the 97 version. Nope. Same effect.
Now sure I wasn't that savy about Microsoft Voodoo, but hey, I was just following the manual. These days I'm very happy sticking to PostgreSQL, thank you.
Damn, that's some wierd ass shit. I would have though it was some kind of transposition to the Grob that Basman had come up with to fuck with people's heads, until he threw in some side variations of the Roy Lopez and Slav. Wasn't the Slav his big surprise at the Spasky rematch in Yugoslavia?
I can just see him sitting in some dirty hotel in Wien working on this opening for years. What a nut.
I sure can't think of anyone besides Fischer, especially with the kind of psycho play he's been describing. Fischer has been advocating alternate forms of play like shuffle chess so this would seem right up his alley.
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The real danger in this is that companies are designing plants that are only able to reproduce a limited number of times. After that you have to buy new seeds, thus insuring continuing profits for the companies that own the rights to them. As they breed they could lock other farmers into the cycle.
Holy Shit! They finally figured out how to create living things? I thought they were just splicing things together at random to see what happens and going to third world countries and taking samples of what the native peoples spent thousands of years cultivating.
In that case, by all means they should be able to patent their work.
Check out the Design Science License. I've been using it on my sheet music site for almost a year now.
They just want it in a secure format
The concept of a "secure" file format is a fallacy.
Oops! Too late.
Aren't sysadmins the only "END USER" that matters when it comes to running web servers?
I can just imagine the people at MIT 50 years into the invention of the book: Let's throw all our preconceptions out the window. Why does the writing have to be readable? How about a book made of water? This left to right restriction is a complete waste of time, text should be able to go any which way. Think about how much more information we provide if we get rid of spaces! This sounds like the typical mental masturbation fostered in galapagos-esque academic institutions. Usability is about creating simple rules that work and then sticking to them. Forcing every user to start from scratch may be interesting in the same way that the cultural revolution was of interest to Mao, but it has no place in real world computing.
Any business is a fool to turn away even one percent of their customers right away at the door. Five percent can be the difference between success and bankruptcy. Also, if 1 out of 20 visitors has a negative experience from my business right from the start, that can quickly give me a very negative reputation. This kind of lazy thinking is a big reason as to why online businesses have such a bad reputation. Putting a "Non Windows Users Not Welcome" on your door is simply bad business.
Since when are we at war? Just because CNN puts up pretty graphics and repeats it over and over like a mantra and politicians throw the word around like it has no meaning doesn't make it so. We are at war when congress declares war and here's a newsflash: They ain't gonna do it cause that would mean sticking their necks out and naming countries like Afghanistan. God knows they don't want to do that. All this is hype in order to justify treating the constitution like a doormat. Soon the war on terrorism will get thrown into the category with our other great concept "wars": drugs and poverty. Good company.
If you really want to fight terrorism, go after the group that trained these people. Somehow I don't see us declaring war on ourselves. Strange how all the major American conflicts of the last 30 years or so have been fueled by the CIA: Iran, Iraq, Nicaraqua, Panama, Afghanistan. When are we going to wake up and realize they are a bunch of MAJOR FUCKUPS?
Back in 1996 I was trying to include some Word generated files inside an access database of about 8000 records. The instructions waxed poetically about the power of office and how you could embed one type of object inside another application using OLE. So, I created an OLE Object field for the database and inserted the word documents into the database field. After 10 records the database of 600k had grown to 11MB. Not really interested in having a database of 8 gigabytes on a harddrive of 500MB, I gave up on the idea. Years later I wanted to see if the product had been fixed in the 97 version. Nope. Same effect.
Now sure I wasn't that savy about Microsoft Voodoo, but hey, I was just following the manual. These days I'm very happy sticking to PostgreSQL, thank you.
I can just see him sitting in some dirty hotel in Wien working on this opening for years. What a nut.
I sure can't think of anyone besides Fischer, especially with the kind of psycho play he's been describing. Fischer has been advocating alternate forms of play like shuffle chess so this would seem right up his alley.