Even the academic researchers are founded by big companies most of the time
In terms of corporate participation in academic research I believe you aren't even close. My understanding is that even with the massive shutdowns in federal research spending with the reworking of their model, by *far* the preponderence of academic research is still paid for by either the NSF or the NIH.
In general, anything you do at the university belongs to the university.
This came up at my university. I talked to my Physics Chairperson specificly about who would own my research, as I wanted to verify that I could GPL any software I wrote. It at least appears to not be a problem here. Professors, and even mere Graduate Assistants, own their research. Work I do for a class belongs to the professor of record for the class. Work I'm getting paid to perform as a Research Assistant belongs to who I am working for. My thesis I can try to patent if I wish.
Don't confuse Capitalism with corporations. Free market theory is based on ideals such as competition between producers, and a ballance of power between producers and consumers. Modern corporations have nothing to do with either. Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations concerned itself with city mercantilists. The idea that a single entity could both span and sell to many counties (let alone countries) is antithetical to a free market.
What about negligence? Legally negligence can be construed as "intent". There should be requirements that these companies make a good faith effort to verify on their own. It shouldn't require a dispute to trigger their responsibility.
I'm a graduate student right now. At the university I attend now I have NEVER recieved my loan clearance before the first day of school. One snafu or another. The last snafu was the Dept. of Education being unable to read the form as transmitted by my university. "But it can't be our fault because our system is computerized now." The sad thing was that until Housing stepped in and required a written statement from Financial Aid as to when they could expect payment, Financial Aid didn't even realize there was a problem with the Dept of Education.
It is impossible to actually recieve the dispersement until the Friday of the first week of classes. Forget buying books for the first week of classes.
In terms of what to do if the loan doesn't work out? "Enroll now, or you might not get into the classes you want. If the money doesn't show up you can always just drop out." I heard that from the Physics Dept. Chair, as well as Fin. Aid.
If the records were sealed then is it legal to be using the information? Is this like a trade secret? The informatin is hidden but once its out its out? Or is a court order more like a security clearance label? If its Top Secret, and one starts broadcasting the information, one gets stomped.
If I were the judge who sealed those records I'd want to know that some company was selling the information.
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If you want to get a philosophical point from the article it should be that middle are needed for artists to get paid.
I've never seen a formal proof that middle were necessary. If they add value, they aren't middlemen. Its when the historical reason for the value they add has changed and they add no value and they *still* get rich that we call them "middlemen".
As for the issue of ballot stuffing, I doubt that producer could increase his share of the pie any more than the amount that he was charged for by his ISP!
Huh? The model proposed wouldn't charge him for the ballot stuffing. Rather the model would spread the charge out, creating a funnel for money to flow back in to him.
Which is exactly the point. A free market? For copyrighted materials? Not in my lifetime...not in the USA, anyways.
Markets imply distribution control. Intellectual property has unique characteristics that defy physical property distribution requirements. Shouldn't we design for this? "Why steal if its free for me?"
The only thing is it would be so easy to get around...all I have to do is encrypt my files and no ISP will know *what* they are. Then I can send out 10 zillion copies "tax-free". Oh well.
There is no temperature in space Rather than there is no temperature in space I think you mean space has no temperature? The cosmic background radiation is that which a blackbody would radiate at 2.7 Kelvin. You meant minus 270 Celcius, I'm sure, but the tilde '~' is used as "similar" and I've also seen it used as "approximately". In terms of "no temperature" I'd suggest that if one were bathed in a background radiation hotter than ones own one would heat up (via radiant absorbtion, yes). At least at 2.7K you can be assured you will be radiating more heat away than you absorb from the backgroun. Now what would be interesting would be to tweak the solar wind into that...then you would have a "temperature"-like number...but it'd be a vector in that it would be direction specific.
Methinks the pricing is related to the fact that Motorola has problems producing chips. Warehouses are not full of G4 systems. Thats one of the main reasons for Apple's decision to drop multi-cpu systems. The number of boxes they can build is limited by the number of CPUs they can get. Face it, G4 is good technology. I bought athlon for floating point (looking at lots of numerical analysis) but dual G4s very was attractive, just not cost effective (yet).
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Agreed: an OS that lets an app crash it is a sorry OS.
studying the effect of weightlessness on hamster's mating habits, or the growth of a tomato plant. Really pathetic.
Thats not pathetic. Thats pragmatic. Welcome to the 21st Century. We will be in space this century. We will be building closed ecosystems.
The artists involved? Get a clue. The artists are just paid workers, like the people who sweep the halls. Its the people who control the distribution who control it all. And we don't want to see that control increased when it is already beyond decent levels.
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Then they should call it software engineering and not computer science. The model of software development followed commercially is not science.
Even the academic researchers are founded by big companies most of the time
In terms of corporate participation in academic research I believe you aren't even close. My understanding is that even with the massive shutdowns in federal research spending with the reworking of their model, by *far* the preponderence of academic research is still paid for by either the NSF or the NIH.
In general, anything you do at the university belongs to the university.
This came up at my university. I talked to my Physics Chairperson specificly about who would own my research, as I wanted to verify that I could GPL any software I wrote. It at least appears to not be a problem here. Professors, and even mere Graduate Assistants, own their research. Work I do for a class belongs to the professor of record for the class. Work I'm getting paid to perform as a Research Assistant belongs to who I am working for. My thesis I can try to patent if I wish.
(Capitalist) Corporate entities
Don't confuse Capitalism with corporations. Free market theory is based on ideals such as competition between producers, and a ballance of power between producers and consumers. Modern corporations have nothing to do with either. Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations concerned itself with city mercantilists. The idea that a single entity could both span and sell to many counties (let alone countries) is antithetical to a free market.
Ah... but who would bell the cat?
Bzzt! Thats psuedo-random, not random.
What about negligence? Legally negligence can be construed as "intent". There should be requirements that these companies make a good faith effort to verify on their own. It shouldn't require a dispute to trigger their responsibility.
I'm a graduate student right now. At the university I attend now I have NEVER recieved my loan clearance before the first day of school. One snafu or another. The last snafu was the Dept. of Education being unable to read the form as transmitted by my university. "But it can't be our fault because our system is computerized now." The sad thing was that until Housing stepped in and required a written statement from Financial Aid as to when they could expect payment, Financial Aid didn't even realize there was a problem with the Dept of Education.
It is impossible to actually recieve the dispersement until the Friday of the first week of classes. Forget buying books for the first week of classes.
In terms of what to do if the loan doesn't work out? "Enroll now, or you might not get into the classes you want. If the money doesn't show up you can always just drop out." I heard that from the Physics Dept. Chair, as well as Fin. Aid.
Wake up. Smell the coffee. No credit *is* bad credit.
If the records were sealed then is it legal to be using the information? Is this like a trade secret? The informatin is hidden but once its out its out? Or is a court order more like a security clearance label? If its Top Secret, and one starts broadcasting the information, one gets stomped.
If I were the judge who sealed those records I'd want to know that some company was selling the information.
Or its an electric broom.
If you want to get a philosophical point from the article it should be that middle are needed for artists to get paid.
I've never seen a formal proof that middle were necessary. If they add value, they aren't middlemen. Its when the historical reason for the value they add has changed and they add no value and they *still* get rich that we call them "middlemen".
As for the issue of ballot stuffing, I doubt that producer could increase his share of the pie any more than the amount that he was charged for by his ISP!
Huh? The model proposed wouldn't charge him for the ballot stuffing. Rather the model would spread the charge out, creating a funnel for money to flow back in to him.
Where's the free market then?
Which is exactly the point. A free market? For copyrighted materials? Not in my lifetime...not in the USA, anyways.
Markets imply distribution control. Intellectual property has unique characteristics that defy physical property distribution requirements. Shouldn't we design for this? "Why steal if its free for me?"
The only thing is it would be so easy to get around...all I have to do is encrypt my files and no ISP will know *what* they are. Then I can send out 10 zillion copies "tax-free". Oh well.
scrolling would be coupled of course, and you could actually scroll *sideways* through the pages
Excellent! Developers, please take note.
Recommends: give an overview with the link, please. Thanks.
The way I read his post was: now that it was for sale, MS would buy its delivery from justice.
Astute observations. I must admit I share your enthusiasm. I also must say, I'm glad its not my dime.
There is no temperature in space
Rather than there is no temperature in space I think you mean space has no temperature? The cosmic background radiation is that which a blackbody would radiate at 2.7 Kelvin. You meant minus 270 Celcius, I'm sure, but the tilde '~' is used as "similar" and I've also seen it used as "approximately". In terms of "no temperature" I'd suggest that if one were bathed in a background radiation hotter than ones own one would heat up (via radiant absorbtion, yes). At least at 2.7K you can be assured you will be radiating more heat away than you absorb from the backgroun. Now what would be interesting would be to tweak the solar wind into that...then you would have a "temperature"-like number...but it'd be a vector in that it would be direction specific.
Methinks the pricing is related to the fact that Motorola has problems producing chips. Warehouses are not full of G4 systems. Thats one of the main reasons for Apple's decision to drop multi-cpu systems. The number of boxes they can build is limited by the number of CPUs they can get. Face it, G4 is good technology. I bought athlon for floating point (looking at lots of numerical analysis) but dual G4s very was attractive, just not cost effective (yet).
Agreed: an OS that lets an app crash it is a sorry OS.
studying the effect of weightlessness on hamster's mating habits, or the growth of a tomato plant. Really pathetic.
Thats not pathetic. Thats pragmatic. Welcome to the 21st Century. We will be in space this century. We will be building closed ecosystems.
:-)
At last something besides the pro and anti-MS rants, which should all be "offtopic".
In terms of hardware: HP, SGI, Sun, IBM. They all have resources devoted to charity work, and are pushing linux on their platforms.
The artists involved? Get a clue. The artists are just paid workers, like the people who sweep the halls. Its the people who control the distribution who control it all. And we don't want to see that control increased when it is already beyond decent levels.
Thats "Canada or Australia", thank you.
I for one would love to hear from a Sony insider about how the company's culture is dealing with this particular schizophrenia...
Thanks: you made me smile, and I've not smiled at all otherwise in this whole thread.
It's quite a clever plan, once you get past the outrage of it.
We are living a science fiction storyline, once you get past the outrage. *wink*
Gotta laugh, then adapt & cope.