Patent fees. Getting a patent is not a free service, in fact its quite expensive. Its gotten to the point that an individual can't even begin to patent anything unless he is wealthy or has a large corporate backer. Without spending much on research the USPTO become quite profitable for the government.
Very nice moderators. You don't like my outlook so you moderate me as flaimbait. Lord I have mod points all the time and never ever do negative moderation based on personal opinion. What is up with you people.
There is a difference between people (of any color) and animals. That difference is sapience. That alone makes it alright to risk any number of animals to save the life of one human. Its the same reason that animal based medical research is ok.
Now don't get me wrong, if animals arn't need they shouldn't be used. Its not ok to substitute an animal for a machine just becuase its cheaper. In this instance there isn't an as effective alternative to the rats. In this case not only is it fine to use the rats we have a moral requirement to do so.
No matter how you want to cut it non-sentient species just don't rate as highly as sentient species.
Its about time this happened. A very small minority of players where using bots and various other means to snap up housing before regular players could get to it. They would then sell these houses on ebay. Its gotten to the point that there is no way for a non-bot using player to compete with these 'brokers' . For the last several months at least the only way to get a house was to buy it from these jerks. Needless to say I do not have a house
Let me start out be saying that I take no position on any of the recent conflicts america has been involved in, so don't take this post as support of our current iraqi campain.
We humans tend to be a blood thirsty species (in general). Those nations that are weak in implements of war tend to be destroyed over the long term. Hell, even those who are strong in war tend to be destroyed but it generally takes a bit longer. My point is that as much as the more 'liberal' minded people hate it war is a required part of any nations existance (at least if it wants to remain a nation). So I stick defense spending on an as high or higher level the medical/scientific/etc research. I do this becuase all of that research and technology wont mean a thing if were not around to make use of it.
Fortran was updated in 99
Ada95 was updated in 95
Cobol in 89 (thats getting a bit old)
Most of the commercial and non-commercial environments are still in active development. It may still be hard to find people but its not because the languages are stagnant.
So you prefer to negotiate your contract yourself ? You prefer to work with no leverage at all ? With no lawyer backing,...
Who ever said anything about not getting a lawyer to look at your contract? Thats just good common sense. Its costs a little money but its well worth the cost.
I suggest you give a union at least a look at your contract (here they'll do it for free, and they will help you get the job anyway if the contract turns out to have illegal clauses or something like that).
I would much rather just have a lawyer look at it. Unions may have an ulterior motive, they aren't your agent like a lawyer would be.
Otherwise, remember way david vs goliath made it into the bible, david won, which basically means that it was a _big_ exception to the rule, and I think we all agree that in contract "negotiations" (sign this or you stay unemployed) you're david.
If you don't like the contract modify it and resubmit or reject it. In the end you have control over where you will work.
The US gave back a lot of rights and not to just its citizens. Need you familiarize yourself with the rules under King George?
A government must take away certain rights so that there may be order in thier nation. Many, many governments take away all your rights, a few take away less. The US goverment is slowing migrating from the take away less to the take away all. I am not trying to start a political commentary here. I am just saying that citizens of a country must give up a few things that our ancestors may have considered rights to be part of a civil society. For example, I am sure that my ancient anglo-saxon ancestors felt it was thier personal right to extract vengence if someone murdered thier family member. I may even have that feeling today, but I have given up any rights to that type of vengence to be a citizen of the US. A government must take away rights to make a civil society. In governments case its the balance of what you take away and what you grant that is the key to success.
Boeing airplanes aren't designed by small groups. In fact the adjective I would use is collossal.
I don't really have any access to boings design process. I would think that a small number of people come up with the basic design. Then a collassal number of people work on figuring out the details, designing individual parts etc.
I may be wrong here, I don't work at boeing and I don't have access to any of thier internal processes, but this is how I have seen every other major project done.
And SPEEA.
You keep saying this. However, you havn't provided any information to show that SPEEA isn't just another union. In fact, in looking at thier website a few other pieces of information I can't really see anything that makes SPEEA different. Care to elaborate?
You don't see because you don't look.
I do look. I may, however, be biased against unions in general.
You have a certain willful ignorance, which is fine, to each their own after all. While some unions might, and in fact do work like that, many don't. Not all unions see their role as enforcing a Harrison Bergeron-esque egalitarian society on everyone.
I am not ignorant, willful or otherwise. I am quite familiar with unions in general and have some personal experience with a couple of unions. My whole premise here is that I am not willing to give up my personal freedom for collective bargaining power. I woudnt be getting an equitable return on my investment so to speak.
You're not giving up your rights. You're delegating your authority. Which comes with certain additional responsabilities. It's a convienence sure, but now you've got to follow up on it, make sure that you're delegating it to the right people, and they've got the right information to do the right thing.
Once you have delegated your athority to the union what ability do you have to change things. You have but 1 vote in the union, thats not enough to change things. It may be that you can campaign against a particular action the union takes, but whats the real change of victory? You may even be able to be elected to the governing body of the union, but you are still bound by how the union members vote.
If in your search for ever less resonsability you just decide to rubber stamp everything the union does, regardless whether it's right or wrong, YOU have CHOSEN tyranny. How can you blame the tyrant?!
You chose it when you delegated your authority to a third party.
Smart people form unions like SPEEA, which is probably a little too weak. Dumb people form strong unions and then turn them over to the mob.
Once again, I don't have any experience with SPEEA so I really can't comment.
So you go to your boss and ask for a raise because you're good at your job. He says 'no'.
What is he sacks you for _asking_ for a raise? Have you got the money to sue your employer? How about the guy in the cubicle next to you gets a raise, yet he's no better than you and does no more work than you. You ask for a raise and get turned down.
Sounds like a good time to start looking for something else.
The boss decides to cut your annual holiday entitlement to 10 days to boost productivity.
You should have made sure your contract covered the number of holidays that you could take.
Tough. AT least in a union there'd have been someone there to fight for you.
Maybe, thats by no means a given. If we are talking about far fetched senarios here lets talk about unions stealing pensions or skimming wages or taking dues and providing nothing in return. My father tried to leave the union about a decade ago and the other employees threatened violence. They slit all his tires, keyed his car, etc just to prove that he couldn't leave. He ended up getting the harrasment to stop by catching one of his coworkers screwing with his car and beating the sh** out of them. Of course, these are all far fetched senarios and by no means indicative of the average union.
I am not saying unions are all bad. I am saying that the premise a union is built on is bad. I, personally, am not willing to give up the freedom to dictate the terms of my employment to any third party. This is especially true of a third party that is seniority based and generally caters to the lowest common denominator.
Its also true there governments don't have to take away the rights of its citizens. Its true that a large commitee could come up with usefull product. I have never seen either of these two things happen and I don't think I will ever see a union like you describe.
Unions are all about collective bargaining power. You give up your individual rights to bargain so that you can get more power as part of a group. Unfortunatly that means that everyone in the group has exactly the same stake and importance of you, even if they have an IQ of 55 and couldn't create a program to print "Hello World" if thier life depended on it. Its just the nature of unions. Saying they could be different is like saying that a whale could sprout wings and take to the sky (interesting site, yes. likely to happen, no).
Collective bargaining power is nice,yes. However, I am not willing to give up my freedom to get it.
Yup, we would also be limited to the lowest common denominator rules.
My father is in a union and has been for the better part of 30 years. He is very good at what he does and many times his supervisors have recomended him for raises based on merit. However, the union always comes back and says 'If we give him a raise we will have to give joe blow on 2nd shift a raise and he sucks'. In a union everything works based off the lowest common denominator, wages, contract negotiations, everything. There is also the problem that generally everything is geared towards seniority not skill. I would much prefer to work in an environment where my skills are rewarded not how long I have managed to stick it out at a company.
Also I don't want anyone but me negotiating my contract. I am the only one that has my best interests at heart.
This robot is also about a foot tall. If we scale the robot up it would be something like 84 meters per minute. Of course, thats assuming scaling works and it can be scaled. Also I havn't taken into account any other factors. Someone who actually knows about bio(robo?)mechanics may actually want to chime in here.
If I mis-qouted I did it unintentionally. This is how I have always heard it, I also checked a few respectable sites to make sure. sorry for any mis-information.
"When they came for the communists, I was silent, because I was not a communist; When they came for the socialists, I was silent, because I was not a socialist; When they came for the trade unionists, I did not protest, because I was not a trade unionist; When they came for the Jews, I did not protest, because I was not a Jew; When they came for me, there was no one left to protest on my behalf."
Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)
In reference to the Nazi governments
policy towards 'dissidents'
Here is a link to the original Cinderella story along with a link to the collected works. He is right they do cut off parts of thier foot and the bird peck out thier eyes. I had no idea the original was this bloody. Just goes to show you how mores change.
I tend to agree with you, but the slashdot story still pulled a single sentance out of context and made it out to be more then it is. I realize this generates interest, but its still unethical (in my book).
I personally hate it when this is done to a Linux advocate, its only fair that I feel the same way when its done to one of Linux's enemies.
I know this is slashdot, but you really need to read the article before you post. The above comment was taken very much out of context. Don't get me wrong this guy is no friend of Linux or Open Source but he is not the contrarian idiot this slashdot posting makes him out to be. So just take a second and read it before you post.
That makes some sense. Token Ring is a much better system then ethernet. The initial outlay is much much more, but if a school already has made that outlay I can definatly see the admins sticking to token ring. Its really too bad that ethernet won out, I guess the cheapest solution that works always wins.
Thats easy. Morally little Johnny's parents are responsable for little Johnny. Of course, in the modern us where they parents are unwilling to take responsability for thier children they will probably sue the city.
Well, if you are going to use that example then today we have things going faster then the speed of light. Of course, the thing thats going faster then the speed of light is light itself, but hey its still going faster too. Of course light doesnt have mass, but still.
Also if nothing goes faster then light how do you explain quantum entanglement, instant communication between two enagled pairs of atoms.
I am not sure that we can *ever* go faster then light, but if we don't try we will never know now will we. The fact that clark has the vision and strength of character to talk about this is awesome.
Oh lord not this again. Yes, we must not do anything that may be a target for terrorists. Dont drive your car because there might be a car bomb. Dont fly becuase the plane might be hijacked. Tell you what, why dont you hide under your bed while the rest of us continue on with life and the building of civilization.
This cold dead universe assumes that there will be no intelligent intervention. I am not talking about a mythical 'god' at all but more about advanced civilizations. Even humans will be a few tens of billions of years old by this time. Perhaps we or some other race decide a cold dead universe isn't a very happy place and initiate a universal reboot. Or they could be just redecorating;)
All of this, of course, assumes that we are still around (very doubtfull) and that there are alians in the universe (unproven).
I am one of the core group creating this and we agree.
We are going to try to supply multiple backends, one or more of which will compile to native code. We already have suggestions in place to target C-- and GCC as backends.
I am one of the people deeply involved in this project and so far there are two people directly involved with the design. There is a third handling administration and a few others working on documention. The community comments and provides suggestions. Thats hardly a big commitee.
On top of this the project is progressing rapidly. It may not ever take off, but it has been fun doing it and thats worth while to me.
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Patent fees. Getting a patent is not a free service, in fact its quite expensive. Its gotten to the point that an individual can't even begin to patent anything unless he is wealthy or has a large corporate backer. Without spending much on research the USPTO become quite profitable for the government.
Very nice moderators. You don't like my outlook so you moderate me as flaimbait. Lord I have mod points all the time and never ever do negative moderation based on personal opinion. What is up with you people.
There is a difference between people (of any color) and animals. That difference is sapience. That alone makes it alright to risk any number of animals to save the life of one human. Its the same reason that animal based medical research is ok.
Now don't get me wrong, if animals arn't need they shouldn't be used. Its not ok to substitute an animal for a machine just becuase its cheaper. In this instance there isn't an as effective alternative to the rats. In this case not only is it fine to use the rats we have a moral requirement to do so.
No matter how you want to cut it non-sentient species just don't rate as highly as sentient species.
Its about time this happened. A very small minority of players where using bots and various other means to snap up housing before regular players could get to it. They would then sell these houses on ebay. Its gotten to the point that there is no way for a non-bot using player to compete with these 'brokers' . For the last several months at least the only way to get a house was to buy it from these jerks. Needless to say I do not have a house
Let me start out be saying that I take no position on any of the recent conflicts america has been involved in, so don't take this post as support of our current iraqi campain.
We humans tend to be a blood thirsty species (in general). Those nations that are weak in implements of war tend to be destroyed over the long term. Hell, even those who are strong in war tend to be destroyed but it generally takes a bit longer. My point is that as much as the more 'liberal' minded people hate it war is a required part of any nations existance (at least if it wants to remain a nation). So I stick defense spending on an as high or higher level the medical/scientific/etc research. I do this becuase all of that research and technology wont mean a thing if were not around to make use of it.
Don't know much about these languages do we?
Fortran was updated in 99
Ada95 was updated in 95
Cobol in 89 (thats getting a bit old)
Most of the commercial and non-commercial environments are still in active development. It may still be hard to find people but its not because the languages are stagnant.
So you prefer to negotiate your contract yourself ? You prefer to work with no leverage at all ? With no lawyer backing,
Who ever said anything about not getting a lawyer to look at your contract? Thats just good common sense. Its costs a little money but its well worth the cost.
I suggest you give a union at least a look at your contract (here they'll do it for free, and they will help you get the job anyway if the contract turns out to have illegal clauses or something like that).
I would much rather just have a lawyer look at it. Unions may have an ulterior motive, they aren't your agent like a lawyer would be.
Otherwise, remember way david vs goliath made it into the bible, david won, which basically means that it was a _big_ exception to the rule, and I think we all agree that in contract "negotiations" (sign this or you stay unemployed) you're david.
If you don't like the contract modify it and resubmit or reject it. In the end you have control over where you will work.
The US gave back a lot of rights and not to just its citizens. Need you familiarize yourself with the rules under King George?
A government must take away certain rights so that there may be order in thier nation. Many, many governments take away all your rights, a few take away less. The US goverment is slowing migrating from the take away less to the take away all. I am not trying to start a political commentary here. I am just saying that citizens of a country must give up a few things that our ancestors may have considered rights to be part of a civil society. For example, I am sure that my ancient anglo-saxon ancestors felt it was thier personal right to extract vengence if someone murdered thier family member. I may even have that feeling today, but I have given up any rights to that type of vengence to be a citizen of the US. A government must take away rights to make a civil society. In governments case its the balance of what you take away and what you grant that is the key to success.
Boeing airplanes aren't designed by small groups. In fact the adjective I would use is collossal.
I don't really have any access to boings design process. I would think that a small number of people come up with the basic design. Then a collassal number of people work on figuring out the details, designing individual parts etc.
I may be wrong here, I don't work at boeing and I don't have access to any of thier internal processes, but this is how I have seen every other major project done.
And SPEEA.
You keep saying this. However, you havn't provided any information to show that SPEEA isn't just another union. In fact, in looking at thier website a few other pieces of information I can't really see anything that makes SPEEA different. Care to elaborate?
You don't see because you don't look.
I do look. I may, however, be biased against unions in general.
You have a certain willful ignorance, which is fine, to each their own after all. While some unions might, and in fact do work like that, many don't. Not all unions see their role as enforcing a Harrison Bergeron-esque egalitarian society on everyone.
I am not ignorant, willful or otherwise. I am quite familiar with unions in general and have some personal experience with a couple of unions. My whole premise here is that I am not willing to give up my personal freedom for collective bargaining power. I woudnt be getting an equitable return on my investment so to speak.
You're not giving up your rights. You're delegating your authority. Which comes with certain additional responsabilities. It's a convienence sure, but now you've got to follow up on it, make sure that you're delegating it to the right people, and they've got the right information to do the right thing.
Once you have delegated your athority to the union what ability do you have to change things. You have but 1 vote in the union, thats not enough to change things. It may be that you can campaign against a particular action the union takes, but whats the real change of victory? You may even be able to be elected to the governing body of the union, but you are still bound by how the union members vote.
If in your search for ever less resonsability you just decide to rubber stamp everything the union does, regardless whether it's right or wrong, YOU have CHOSEN tyranny. How can you blame the tyrant?!
You chose it when you delegated your authority to a third party.
Smart people form unions like SPEEA, which is probably a little too weak. Dumb people form strong unions and then turn them over to the mob.
Once again, I don't have any experience with SPEEA so I really can't comment.
So you go to your boss and ask for a raise because you're good at your job. He says 'no'.
What is he sacks you for _asking_ for a raise? Have you got the money to sue your employer?
How about the guy in the cubicle next to you gets a raise, yet he's no better than you and does no more work than you. You ask for a raise and get turned down.
Sounds like a good time to start looking for something else.
The boss decides to cut your annual holiday entitlement to 10 days to boost productivity.
You should have made sure your contract covered the number of holidays that you could take.
Tough. AT least in a union there'd have been someone there to fight for you.
Maybe, thats by no means a given. If we are talking about far fetched senarios here lets talk about unions stealing pensions or skimming wages or taking dues and providing nothing in return. My father tried to leave the union about a decade ago and the other employees threatened violence. They slit all his tires, keyed his car, etc just to prove that he couldn't leave. He ended up getting the harrasment to stop by catching one of his coworkers screwing with his car and beating the sh** out of them. Of course, these are all far fetched senarios and by no means indicative of the average union.
I am not saying unions are all bad. I am saying that the premise a union is built on is bad. I, personally, am not willing to give up the freedom to dictate the terms of my employment to any third party. This is especially true of a third party that is seniority based and generally caters to the lowest common denominator.
Its also true there governments don't have to take away the rights of its citizens. Its true that a large commitee could come up with usefull product. I have never seen either of these two things happen and I don't think I will ever see a union like you describe.
Unions are all about collective bargaining power. You give up your individual rights to bargain so that you can get more power as part of a group. Unfortunatly that means that everyone in the group has exactly the same stake and importance of you, even if they have an IQ of 55 and couldn't create a program to print "Hello World" if thier life depended on it. Its just the nature of unions. Saying they could be different is like saying that a whale could sprout wings and take to the sky (interesting site, yes. likely to happen, no).
Collective bargaining power is nice,yes. However, I am not willing to give up my freedom to get it.
Yup, we would also be limited to the lowest common denominator rules.
My father is in a union and has been for the better part of 30 years. He is very good at what he does and many times his supervisors have recomended him for raises based on merit. However, the union always comes back and says 'If we give him a raise we will have to give joe blow on 2nd shift a raise and he sucks'. In a union everything works based off the lowest common denominator, wages, contract negotiations, everything. There is also the problem that generally everything is geared towards seniority not skill. I would much prefer to work in an environment where my skills are rewarded not how long I have managed to stick it out at a company.
Also I don't want anyone but me negotiating my contract. I am the only one that has my best interests at heart.
This robot is also about a foot tall. If we scale the robot up it would be something like 84 meters per minute. Of course, thats assuming scaling works and it can be scaled. Also I havn't taken into account any other factors. Someone who actually knows about bio(robo?)mechanics may actually want to chime in here.
If I mis-qouted I did it unintentionally. This is how I have always heard it, I also checked a few respectable sites to make sure. sorry for any mis-information.
"When they came for the communists, I was silent, because I was not a communist;
When they came for the socialists, I was silent, because I was not a socialist;
When they came for the trade unionists, I did not protest, because I was not a trade unionist;
When they came for the Jews, I did not protest, because I was not a Jew;
When they came for me, there was no one left to protest on my behalf."
Martin Niemoeller (1892-1984)
In reference to the Nazi governments
policy towards 'dissidents'
Here is a link to the original Cinderella story along with a link to the collected works. He is right they do cut off parts of thier foot and the bird peck out thier eyes. I had no idea the original was this bloody. Just goes to show you how mores change.
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http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~wbarker/fairies/grimm/02
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~wbarker/fairies/grimm
I tend to agree with you, but the slashdot story still pulled a single sentance out of context and made it out to be more then it is. I realize this generates interest, but its still unethical (in my book).
I personally hate it when this is done to a Linux advocate, its only fair that I feel the same way when its done to one of Linux's enemies.
I know this is slashdot, but you really need to read the article before you post. The above comment was taken very much out of context. Don't get me wrong this guy is no friend of Linux or Open Source but he is not the contrarian idiot this slashdot posting makes him out to be. So just take a second and read it before you post.
That makes some sense. Token Ring is a much better system then ethernet. The initial outlay is much much more, but if a school already has made that outlay I can definatly see the admins sticking to token ring. Its really too bad that ethernet won out, I guess the cheapest solution that works always wins.
Thats easy. Morally little Johnny's parents are responsable for little Johnny. Of course, in the modern us where they parents are unwilling to take responsability for thier children they will probably sue the city.
Well, if you are going to use that example then today we have things going faster then the speed of light. Of course, the thing thats going faster then the speed of light is light itself, but hey its still going faster too. Of course light doesnt have mass, but still.
Also if nothing goes faster then light how do you explain quantum entanglement, instant communication between two enagled pairs of atoms.
I am not sure that we can *ever* go faster then light, but if we don't try we will never know now will we. The fact that clark has the vision and strength of character to talk about this is awesome.
Oh lord not this again. Yes, we must not do anything that may be a target for terrorists. Dont drive your car because there might be a car bomb. Dont fly becuase the plane might be hijacked. Tell you what, why dont you hide under your bed while the rest of us continue on with life and the building of civilization.
This cold dead universe assumes that there will be no intelligent intervention. I am not talking about a mythical 'god' at all but more about advanced civilizations. Even humans will be a few tens of billions of years old by this time. Perhaps we or some other race decide a cold dead universe isn't a very happy place and initiate a universal reboot. Or they could be just redecorating
All of this, of course, assumes that we are still around (very doubtfull) and that there are alians in the universe (unproven).
I am one of the core group creating this and we agree.
We are going to try to supply multiple backends, one or more of which will compile to native code. We already have suggestions in place to target C-- and GCC as backends.
I am one of the people deeply involved in this project and so far there are two people directly involved with the design. There is a third handling administration and a few others working on documention. The community comments and provides suggestions. Thats hardly a big commitee.
On top of this the project is progressing rapidly. It may not ever take off, but it has been fun doing it and thats worth while to me.
At market end today it was down by 24% or 2 dollars and some change. Thats a pretty big hit for them.