I think most geniuses would perform better in a world where they had to fear from offending their bosses--and, indeed, spent less of their time covering basic necessities.
The problem with the world is that the genius is usually the salaried employee/wage-slave, and the boss is the guy/gal who could brown-nose the most.
I have never worked for someone smarter than me, until I started working for myself.
Basically, they need to run fiber to every home. Which they aren't going to do.
Why not? Oh yeah, monopolies... forgot. Isn't "progress" wonderful? You get to bill the consumer more for a whole new technology and yet fail to provide it. And you won't even get sued for it. HDTV - TV for the Highly Dense consumer.
I usually interrupt the telemarketer and ask his or her name and the company they represent. Then I tell them to place me on their "do not call" list. Usually this works. A few times I have been called back by the same company days later. Again I immediately interrupt the telemarketer, ask their name, and ask to speak to their supervisor. Once the supervisor comes on, I inform him or her that I am currently recording this call, and that on day X at time Y I was called by employee "Z", asked to be placed on the "Do not call list". However I am being called again. I tell the supervisor to please ensure that I do not receive any more calls from their company. Usually does the trick.
And THEN you just figure out how to fit more blocks of chips together... quad cores, 8x cores, 16 x cores... various of multi-cored chips linked together on a motherboard, etc.
what the hell does any of that have to do with the Mars Rover program?
Absolutely nothing at all. Except the fact that killing "terrorists" (the definition of which is "anyone US soldiers shoot at") is far far more important to the government than exploring the planets.
But sure, you want to stay in your pre-ordained topical rut, then pray for mod points and mod me offtopic. As if I care.
The idea of "leasing" applications as a service and having people process that data via the network has to be the WORST IDEA EVER. While it may be fine for grandma who can't afford the $300 office suite to write the odd letter to her kids, or whose kids can't be bothered to show her some of the free alternatives - no one who manages data in a serious manner (ie corporations) are EVER going to "outsource" their software.
Why should I trust "Google" or whoever, when I have a hard time trusting most of my employees with sensitive information? It's not just the PATRIOT act, it's all the bullshit "Terms of Service" that are always in favor of the "service provider", leaving NO ONE accountable for any data corruption or even worse public leak (intentional or otherwise) of data. Not to mention all the possible exploits/means of acquiring said data when it's on its way back and forth from the "service provider". No thanks. My trade secrets, patents, corporate strategies, acquisition plans and accounting are going to stay right where they should be: 1) Compartmentalized and 2) Behind several locked doors, cameras and guys with guns. If the FBI wants it, well they can convince a judge to sign a warrant and come and get it, and not go the "telco" route where "we will cooperate with the authorities in the name of terrorism BUT WE BROKE THE LAW please please please grant us retroactive immunity now".
"No one is any hungrier because we went to the moon, no one is any colder and certainly no one is any dumber. Why go to Mars? 'Cause it's next. 'Cause we came out of the cave and we looked over the hill and we saw fire. And we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the West and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on a timeline of exploration and this is what's next."
No, sadly what's next is mummy government smothering its children in a perpetual embrace, unless of course mummy wants you to die in a foreign land to make sure the people over there get a share of the "love" too. Don't look at the sky, don't think, don't leave your house unless you are authorized and make sure you do your bit to max out your credit cards because mummy actually owns a lot of stock in those companies that sell you plasma tv's (or get you killed so they can steal other people's resources).
I used to love computers, I've had one since the 70's. There was so much we could do. Just think of all that number crunching power in your own home! But now they are (almost) a tool to control people. Government databases, data mining, eavesdropping on VOIP/internet packets and coming soon with the complete assistance of Microsoft (hey SOMEONE found a way to get the gov't off their backs with the antitrust cases - we'll "co-operate"), Uncle Sam will know what you're doing, when you do it. I am sure of it. After all if the fbi can eavesdrop through a cell phone that is SWITCHED OFF imagine what they could do with your webcam/microphone - with the operating system's "help".
Which is why I wear my tinfoil hat. And run linux more and more every day.
Well SOMEONE has to pay for Iraq. "Mission Accomplished" yet? 5 years and counting..., hey but the record to beat is 100 years, right? I seem to remember the English getting their ass handed to them, too.
Yet somehow the US can afford to keep 1% of its adult population (over 2M people) in jail - not counting the court costs and processing costs. The actual number of VIOLENT criminals is far less, but hey, don't copy that floppy.
I mean, they make up so much other nonsense and claim it as hard fact, so why not this as well?
To me Easter represents the day that the Flying Spaghetti Monster lost a meatball to the Giant Chocolate Rabbit. But fortunately he has plenty more. Oh, and yes I had pasta today to commemorate this fact. RAmen.
Entertainment always does well in a recession/depression. Perhaps a little historical revision is due. People stop putting gas in their cars, stop paying their mortgages/rents/credit cards, stop buying clothes, but yet they still manage to find a few dollars for "escapism". It used to be Hollywood films - the box offices did quite well in the "Great Depression", but now I think you could add computer games to that category.
And yes, I'm a day trader, I follow the news, I know about the 25 basis point cut and JP Morgan buying Bear Sterns for 1/10th of what it's worth, and the 20 B "guarantee" by the fed , etc. The economy is in the shitter, and I keep making money every day. Mostly shorting stock, but sometimes I buy at the bottom too.
I sure wish I had had some TTWO before EA threatened a takeover though. $7 a share is very nice indeed. Oh well. I'll keep making my money 5 cents at a time.
The logical place to collect DNA is during the metabolic screening ALL children undergo near birth (at least in developed nations), looking for diseases such as PKU, hypothyroidism, and around 16 other metabolic conditions. If you've got the blood already, it's just a case of adding a step in the process. Then you would get everyone, and wouldn't be singling people out using COMPLETELY unscientific "profiling" techniques.
Hey I used to be a real brat - even stabbed another 6 year old in the knee with a pen because he was bugging me too much. I remember punching someone out at 7 for trying to bully me. He lost a tooth, if I recall. I can still see him crying on the floor of the gym, blood all over his mouth. That felt good. Boy did I get into trouble. But he left me alone. I rarely did my homework, as a teenager I often cut classes. I started smoking at 14. I used marijuana at that age too. Wow, quite the little "criminal" I was shaping up to be. Did I mention I started raiding my dad's liquor cabinet at age 9, and his porn collection at age 11?
Funnily enough, now at 40 years old I have no criminal record, my biggest "crime" has been the odd speeding ticket, and as a successful doctor I actually save a few lives and make my corner of the world (hopefully) a better place. I wonder how the shrinks would explain THAT one. Oh - perhaps it's because psychology is not "scientific" at all? "It sounds good" does not make a theory true. Oh yeah wait I must be the "false positive" right? Exactly how many false positives are we going to get? And why should people pay for this?
I'm sure that will sit well with the mothers, especially taking into account that the risk of spontaneous abortion during ANY amniocentesis is just over 1%. Let's kill 1 in 100 babies just to get our database, yeah, great idea.
Do I get to decide how much you can charge for your labor?
Yes actually, you do. I charge $150 US per consult. If you don't like it, find a cheaper doctor.
Don't buy it if you don't like the price.
Exactly. I don't like the price. But I will download it for free. Because that's what I think it's worth. I promise not to jump the fence at the concert. If I don't like the band that much or I think the tickets are too pricey I might just listen to it from the parking lot though.
But you have ZERO RIGHT to tell the owners of the copyright how much to charge
Please make up your mind. The market decides the price, when there's something approaching a free market. You don't want to pay my bill then find a cheaper doctor, like I said. How come you get that right, but OH MY GOD suddenly when it's MUSIC everything is different!!!!!!111!!
The music industry is a racketeering outfit, complete with price fixing, extortion, and exploitation of the artists. Before they could make the system work because they "owned" the distribution chain. The artist had no choice if they wanted a shot at the mass market. That has now changed. So IN SOME COUNTRIES (and I'm glad I don't live in the US) the racketeers have managed to beg/bribe politicians to turn a breach of the CIVIL code into a CRIMINAL OFFENSE, complete with jail time and huge fines, etc. Now, because the internet is a GLOBAL phenomenon, they are using their influence to try and get laws changed ALL OVER THE WORLD. To protect their racket. Imagine how profitable it must be - that's coming right out of your pocket and mine. All the Ferrari's, the cocaine, the call girls. Oh and the shitty music too, the band gets a (small) cut.
No, welcome to the internet. The market determines the price, and the price is my 1 minute to download the song. If certain bands (like Radiohead, who made more money launching their own album on the net than they ever would have normally) give me the option to donate, I will if I think it's worth it. Or I'll go to a concert.
I have EVERY right to tell people how much to charge. So do you. You just think it's the other way around.
if you are unauthorized to redistribute content, and you are doing it, what you are doing is Piracy.
No, piracy also involves a certain degree of wooden legs and parrots and hoisting "Jolly Roger"'s and broadsides and cutlasses, etc.
How come if you come to my house and I put on a CD you're allowed to hear the music, but GOD FORBID you hear the music by any other means including internet radio which now has to pay god knows how many million dollars for "rights".
The RIAA is about GREED pure and simple. Please provide verifiable documents that prove that ONE SINGLE ARTIST has seen ONE PENNY from the RIAA, who apparently fight in their name. In fact many musical groups ENDORSE "piracy", even in their song lyrics (example Molotov:Yofo; Radiohead, etc), because they are fed up of being ripped off by studios.
Please stop bleating like a sheep and start using your brain. The "cost" of distributing "n" copies of music is now almost ZERO. Why do you insist people still have to pay $15-$20 for a "CD" or $.99 for a "song"? Middlemen add nothing to economies. They are parasites pure and simple.
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Wasn't DirectX meant to be a generic middleman to allow developers to abstract away from the specific implementations?
What part of EXTINGUISH don't you understand? This is Microsoft standard procedure. You will ALL be assimilated.
This is great news for the 14 people who actually own Vista.
I think most geniuses would perform better in a world where they had to fear from offending their bosses--and, indeed, spent less of their time covering basic necessities.
The problem with the world is that the genius is usually the salaried employee/wage-slave, and the boss is the guy/gal who could brown-nose the most.
I have never worked for someone smarter than me, until I started working for myself.
and like most large companies the law is what they say it is unless and until ordered otherwise by a court.
And then they can just ignore the multi-billion dollar fines, a la "Microsoft"...
Basically, they need to run fiber to every home. Which they aren't going to do.
Why not? Oh yeah, monopolies... forgot. Isn't "progress" wonderful? You get to bill the consumer more for a whole new technology and yet fail to provide it. And you won't even get sued for it. HDTV - TV for the Highly Dense consumer.
Because they hire almost anybody and minimum wage is better than NO wage.
Their turnover on employees is pretty damned high though. I don't know many "career telemarketers".
I usually interrupt the telemarketer and ask his or her name and the company they represent. Then I tell them to place me on their "do not call" list. Usually this works. A few times I have been called back by the same company days later. Again I immediately interrupt the telemarketer, ask their name, and ask to speak to their supervisor. Once the supervisor comes on, I inform him or her that I am currently recording this call, and that on day X at time Y I was called by employee "Z", asked to be placed on the "Do not call list". However I am being called again. I tell the supervisor to please ensure that I do not receive any more calls from their company. Usually does the trick.
And THEN you just figure out how to fit more blocks of chips together... quad cores, 8x cores, 16 x cores... various of multi-cored chips linked together on a motherboard, etc.
what the hell does any of that have to do with the Mars Rover program?
Absolutely nothing at all. Except the fact that killing "terrorists" (the definition of which is "anyone US soldiers shoot at") is far far more important to the government than exploring the planets.
But sure, you want to stay in your pre-ordained topical rut, then pray for mod points and mod me offtopic. As if I care.
Does this mean we'll be getting our porn even faster?
The idea of "leasing" applications as a service and having people process that data via the network has to be the WORST IDEA EVER. While it may be fine for grandma who can't afford the $300 office suite to write the odd letter to her kids, or whose kids can't be bothered to show her some of the free alternatives - no one who manages data in a serious manner (ie corporations) are EVER going to "outsource" their software.
Why should I trust "Google" or whoever, when I have a hard time trusting most of my employees with sensitive information? It's not just the PATRIOT act, it's all the bullshit "Terms of Service" that are always in favor of the "service provider", leaving NO ONE accountable for any data corruption or even worse public leak (intentional or otherwise) of data. Not to mention all the possible exploits/means of acquiring said data when it's on its way back and forth from the "service provider". No thanks. My trade secrets, patents, corporate strategies, acquisition plans and accounting are going to stay right where they should be: 1) Compartmentalized and 2) Behind several locked doors, cameras and guys with guns. If the FBI wants it, well they can convince a judge to sign a warrant and come and get it, and not go the "telco" route where "we will cooperate with the authorities in the name of terrorism BUT WE BROKE THE LAW please please please grant us retroactive immunity now".
No, sadly what's next is mummy government smothering its children in a perpetual embrace, unless of course mummy wants you to die in a foreign land to make sure the people over there get a share of the "love" too. Don't look at the sky, don't think, don't leave your house unless you are authorized and make sure you do your bit to max out your credit cards because mummy actually owns a lot of stock in those companies that sell you plasma tv's (or get you killed so they can steal other people's resources).
I used to love computers, I've had one since the 70's. There was so much we could do. Just think of all that number crunching power in your own home! But now they are (almost) a tool to control people. Government databases, data mining, eavesdropping on VOIP/internet packets and coming soon with the complete assistance of Microsoft (hey SOMEONE found a way to get the gov't off their backs with the antitrust cases - we'll "co-operate"), Uncle Sam will know what you're doing, when you do it. I am sure of it. After all if the fbi can eavesdrop through a cell phone that is SWITCHED OFF imagine what they could do with your webcam/microphone - with the operating system's "help".
Which is why I wear my tinfoil hat. And run linux more and more every day.
Well SOMEONE has to pay for Iraq. "Mission Accomplished" yet? 5 years and counting..., hey but the record to beat is 100 years, right? I seem to remember the English getting their ass handed to them, too.
Yet somehow the US can afford to keep 1% of its adult population (over 2M people) in jail - not counting the court costs and processing costs. The actual number of VIOLENT criminals is far less, but hey, don't copy that floppy.
Funny, for me Beer = Pretty Girl = embarrassment = sleeping alone = hangover.
Actually "P" comes from ethanol's ability to inhibit ADH.
Sorry, just a biologist's perspective.
I mean, they make up so much other nonsense and claim it as hard fact, so why not this as well?
To me Easter represents the day that the Flying Spaghetti Monster lost a meatball to the Giant Chocolate Rabbit. But fortunately he has plenty more. Oh, and yes I had pasta today to commemorate this fact. RAmen.
If you want someone that looks after the public, call in the government bureaucrats.
Perhaps in your ideal world. As far as I know, bureaucrats only look after themselves too, and fuck "the people".
Entertainment always does well in a recession/depression. Perhaps a little historical revision is due. People stop putting gas in their cars, stop paying their mortgages/rents/credit cards, stop buying clothes, but yet they still manage to find a few dollars for "escapism". It used to be Hollywood films - the box offices did quite well in the "Great Depression", but now I think you could add computer games to that category.
And yes, I'm a day trader, I follow the news, I know about the 25 basis point cut and JP Morgan buying Bear Sterns for 1/10th of what it's worth, and the 20 B "guarantee" by the fed , etc. The economy is in the shitter, and I keep making money every day. Mostly shorting stock, but sometimes I buy at the bottom too.
I sure wish I had had some TTWO before EA threatened a takeover though. $7 a share is very nice indeed. Oh well. I'll keep making my money 5 cents at a time.
The logical place to collect DNA is during the metabolic screening ALL children undergo near birth (at least in developed nations), looking for diseases such as PKU, hypothyroidism, and around 16 other metabolic conditions. If you've got the blood already, it's just a case of adding a step in the process. Then you would get everyone, and wouldn't be singling people out using COMPLETELY unscientific "profiling" techniques.
Hey I used to be a real brat - even stabbed another 6 year old in the knee with a pen because he was bugging me too much. I remember punching someone out at 7 for trying to bully me. He lost a tooth, if I recall. I can still see him crying on the floor of the gym, blood all over his mouth. That felt good. Boy did I get into trouble. But he left me alone. I rarely did my homework, as a teenager I often cut classes. I started smoking at 14. I used marijuana at that age too. Wow, quite the little "criminal" I was shaping up to be. Did I mention I started raiding my dad's liquor cabinet at age 9, and his porn collection at age 11?
Funnily enough, now at 40 years old I have no criminal record, my biggest "crime" has been the odd speeding ticket, and as a successful doctor I actually save a few lives and make my corner of the world (hopefully) a better place. I wonder how the shrinks would explain THAT one. Oh - perhaps it's because psychology is not "scientific" at all? "It sounds good" does not make a theory true. Oh yeah wait I must be the "false positive" right? Exactly how many false positives are we going to get? And why should people pay for this?
do amniocentesis on pregnant mothers
I'm sure that will sit well with the mothers, especially taking into account that the risk of spontaneous abortion during ANY amniocentesis is just over 1%. Let's kill 1 in 100 babies just to get our database, yeah, great idea.
Do I get to decide how much you can charge for your labor?
Yes actually, you do. I charge $150 US per consult. If you don't like it, find a cheaper doctor.
Don't buy it if you don't like the price.
Exactly. I don't like the price. But I will download it for free. Because that's what I think it's worth. I promise not to jump the fence at the concert. If I don't like the band that much or I think the tickets are too pricey I might just listen to it from the parking lot though.
But you have ZERO RIGHT to tell the owners of the copyright how much to charge
Please make up your mind. The market decides the price, when there's something approaching a free market. You don't want to pay my bill then find a cheaper doctor, like I said. How come you get that right, but OH MY GOD suddenly when it's MUSIC everything is different!!!!!!111!!
The music industry is a racketeering outfit, complete with price fixing, extortion, and exploitation of the artists. Before they could make the system work because they "owned" the distribution chain. The artist had no choice if they wanted a shot at the mass market. That has now changed. So IN SOME COUNTRIES (and I'm glad I don't live in the US) the racketeers have managed to beg/bribe politicians to turn a breach of the CIVIL code into a CRIMINAL OFFENSE, complete with jail time and huge fines, etc. Now, because the internet is a GLOBAL phenomenon, they are using their influence to try and get laws changed ALL OVER THE WORLD. To protect their racket. Imagine how profitable it must be - that's coming right out of your pocket and mine. All the Ferrari's, the cocaine, the call girls. Oh and the shitty music too, the band gets a (small) cut.
No, welcome to the internet. The market determines the price, and the price is my 1 minute to download the song. If certain bands (like Radiohead, who made more money launching their own album on the net than they ever would have normally) give me the option to donate, I will if I think it's worth it. Or I'll go to a concert.
I have EVERY right to tell people how much to charge. So do you. You just think it's the other way around.
Why and how? Seven per post seems awfully inefficient.
Lol I've had that sig for a while now.
And it all depends on your point of view. Perhaps 7 per post is in fact very efficient.
I have not authorized you to read this copyrighted post.
Police, please arrest RedK (112790). Thank you.
if you are unauthorized to redistribute content, and you are doing it, what you are doing is Piracy.
No, piracy also involves a certain degree of wooden legs and parrots and hoisting "Jolly Roger"'s and broadsides and cutlasses, etc.
How come if you come to my house and I put on a CD you're allowed to hear the music, but GOD FORBID you hear the music by any other means including internet radio which now has to pay god knows how many million dollars for "rights".
The RIAA is about GREED pure and simple. Please provide verifiable documents that prove that ONE SINGLE ARTIST has seen ONE PENNY from the RIAA, who apparently fight in their name. In fact many musical groups ENDORSE "piracy", even in their song lyrics (example Molotov:Yofo; Radiohead, etc), because they are fed up of being ripped off by studios.
Please stop bleating like a sheep and start using your brain. The "cost" of distributing "n" copies of music is now almost ZERO. Why do you insist people still have to pay $15-$20 for a "CD" or $.99 for a "song"? Middlemen add nothing to economies. They are parasites pure and simple.