So take the pharma example, I would think that's even more straightforward. The company owns the idea (this of course could vary by contract with the employer/funder), and the company doesn't have to release the findings at all. Or, for goodwill, they might do so after a certain period of time.
But where did this idea come from that the inventor has exclusive right to "benefit completely from its investment and effort"? I'm comparing this to deregulation. Regulation fixes prices at artifically high levels, increases cost of business (compliance), and more.
Let's compare to patents: - fixes prices (corp partnerships and duopolies collude) - increases costs of doing business (legal, licensing) - Plus, it allows monopolies to form
I don't see any positives. But I'm not a reserach scientist Why do researchers publish their findings? Is it to: a. Help mankind b. Fame/prestige c. Make money (by selling their ideas)
You can do A and B without patents. You can only do C if you sell under NDA before publishing your findings, but you would in fact make less money because a company will pay less if a stipulation of the purchase is that the idea is still published, thus opening the company up for competition.
I guess the compromise here is for those scientists who wish to make money off of their ideas to sell under NDA, but bargain for their own sort of patent arrangement. This takes the control away from the government and corporations and gives it to the citizens, right? How can anyone (on slashdot anyway) not like that?
Comments please--this is not my area of expertise.
Now if there is one thing bad about Firefox with Adblock, it's that I don't know when I am supposed to hate the current website for their shady business practices.:D
Yeah, but those numbers include that 25% who shouldn't vote.:)
Since we effectively only have two candidates, there will be plenty who aren't voting with their brains (or heart where applicable). You can't abstract a figure for them from the actual votes.
not. Well of course its more complicated than that. Nothing is an absolute. Terms such as capitalism, socialism, mercantilism are absolutes.
Why would we come out and admit we want socialism? I agree 25% of the population (and closer to 45% of politicians) want that, but nowhere near 100% do. 25% want the mercantilism a sibling poster referred to, 25% want "freedom from government" (libertarianism) and the other 25% shouldn't be allowed to vote.
The thing that i hate is that the two-party system we are sort of stuck with creates this gravitational pull of the politicians to either be republican or democrat. Doesn't leave much room for what I personally consider to be more worthwhile world views. The result of this polarization is more visible today than any other time in my memory of politics (which doesn't go that far back unfortunately, didn't really care about it till '90 or so).
So what I see (somebody correct me if I'm wrong) is that the wingbats are leading the parties because the moderates are not en vogue right now. That of course alienates the moderates, makes them think the ruling class are extremists all. One house having a majority means there is not as much pull back to the middle as there should be for this "real world".
I'm proud of America, the land of the free and home of the brave and whatnot, but damn its frustrating sometimes.
Norton still rules. But not NIS or the "home" version of NAV. You have to run SAVce (Symantec Antivirus Corporte Edition) to get the good ole "just protect the system from virii and nothing else" effect that most of us are after.
I wish they would sell this separately. Hell, it would make a great freeware companion to their other offerings.
I actually agree with almost everything you said except for the state of our economy; the economy isn't poor by any stretch of the imagination. Home purchases and lots of other statistical goodness are at record levels, or leves not seen in 20 years. I found the Bureau of Labor Statistics to be fairly useful (http://www.bls.gov/ and a Google will find lots of other stuff. Consumer confidence is up, unemployeement is down, interest rates seem to have hit a plateau.
Oh one more thing: the Oil companies don't want to be known as oil companies anymore. They aren't just oil, they are _energy_. When oil runs out or is replaced by whatever else, these energy companies will still have a major piece. Interesting note, it took me several minutes to find the word "petroleum" on BP's website. They used to be known as British Petroleum but you never see that spelled out anymore.
I'd suggest two things: Take a basic microeconomics class, and watch the documentary, "The Corporation".
I would like to take this opportunity to repeat this suggestion to EVERYBODY. There are some awfully stupid decisions being discussed and made in our world right now that would be lessened if everyone knew a bit more about what the hell they are talking about.
realized that I really didn't need to input things into a PDA right that second, and that in exchange of the syncing ease of an iPod, I could just wait to type in my little notes once I got home or the office.
That's funny you said that. I am the exact opposite. If I have an idea or set an annpointment or need to write down someone's phone number, I gotta take the info down right away. Otherwise it is just GONE. This is why I carry my PDA everywhere.
a new recording company that signs artists primarily for digital distribution and broadcast. As I think tangible media are important, this company would license the pressing and distribution rights for the cds, or allow the artist the retain the tangible rights
Ok, I'm not disagreeing with anything you said here. The point I want to make is that what happens when(/if) in the future that physical recordable media were to go away? Just hypothethically here. In that world, how would an artist have any means to control how their own product is used and distributed if not for some kind of DRM scheme? I'm not expousing one, I can't stand the thought of DRM like most here. I'm just saying that if I create something, *I* and *I* alone get to decide what to do with it. Of course, that can include signing away all of my rights. But if there is no longer physically distributable media for an artist to sell on the side at shows (the assumption here is that there is a superior replacmenet) and everything is digital only, what do you do for those who don't like giving out free beer?
The idea that we are all supposed to work within "the system" to get as much as we can is ridiculous. If we were playing Monopoly or Risk that would be a sensible approach, but life is not a game.
I dunno. It sounds as if you are saying that it is ridiculous to be an overacheiver. Instead of thinking of life as "a game", I prefer to think of it as THE game. I am competing against some, and cooperatively with others, fairly and within the rules of the system, to acheive the outcome that I desire. You can refuse to play the game and be an underacheiver, or you could move to a state where the rules are different and more to your liking (socialist vs capitalist in your example).
makes the whole Distribution based system the rest of FOSS uses go to pot
I say they should do what works. Automatic updates work. Should they slow down the cycle or introduce new communication, including time bulit-in for extension developers, yes. But to make the advancement of your software dependent on 50 different distributions is silly.
Some people just want to run a version that comes with the distro without constant worrying and compatibility issues
Well "some users" will run Windows 95, too. That's not the best argument...
focused too much on runing (sic) their own tight ship and not enough about letting their users do the same.
Well they should concentrate on running their own tight ship! Nobody else is going to do it for them. The users who do not like this can disable updates.
Build an Ionic Flow ring in a straight line going up the mountain range from ground level, pointing towards the west. Each of the gigantic rings strips electrons from the wind that pass through the ring, storing it in an internal capacitor (the power generation is caused by wind passing over the coils around the ring.
So what we do is buy a ton of these Professional Series Ionic Breeze Quadra Silent Air Purifiers, now with OzoneGuard! You get a 50% discount for buying two, I wonder what the discount would be on 1000? I have no idea how many it would take to build this ring you are talking about, but its certainly something to think about.
Don't forget, with each purchase, you get a free Ionic Breeze® Air Freshener 2.0!
I understand what you are saying, but I disagree on all levels. I look at it from a consumer's point of view in saying that MY price will go up if THEIR price goes up. Plus the concept is just ridiculous. Why should the government enforce a subsidization of a private enterprise? Why not cut the BS and just increase your taxes so that the government can issue an MP3 player to every citizen? Same thing, really!
You may not use it, and I most certainly don't want it where it doesn't belong (like an advertisement in the middle of an article). However there are plenty of cool timewasters around. I'm glad to have something of a single portal for all of it.
To address the temp and swap file issues, you can use tools to wipe them on a regular basis. This website has a lot of useful information about that.
Also you might want to try TrueCrypt. You could use that to encrypt your entire temp drive. I am not sure, but I don't believe it will let you encrypt the swap file itself.
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So take the pharma example, I would think that's even more straightforward. The company owns the idea (this of course could vary by contract with the employer/funder), and the company doesn't have to release the findings at all. Or, for goodwill, they might do so after a certain period of time.
But where did this idea come from that the inventor has exclusive right to "benefit completely from its investment and effort"? I'm comparing this to deregulation. Regulation fixes prices at artifically high levels, increases cost of business (compliance), and more.
Let's compare to patents:
- fixes prices (corp partnerships and duopolies collude)
- increases costs of doing business (legal, licensing)
- Plus, it allows monopolies to form
I don't see any positives. But I'm not a reserach scientist Why do researchers publish their findings? Is it to:
a. Help mankind
b. Fame/prestige
c. Make money (by selling their ideas)
You can do A and B without patents. You can only do C if you sell under NDA before publishing your findings, but you would in fact make less money because a company will pay less if a stipulation of the purchase is that the idea is still published, thus opening the company up for competition.
I guess the compromise here is for those scientists who wish to make money off of their ideas to sell under NDA, but bargain for their own sort of patent arrangement. This takes the control away from the government and corporations and gives it to the citizens, right? How can anyone (on slashdot anyway) not like that?
Comments please--this is not my area of expertise.
Now if there is one thing bad about Firefox with Adblock, it's that I don't know when I am supposed to hate the current website for their shady business practices. :D
Wow that thing is filthy when seen in macro mode. I think you need to dust your Treo, man.
Yeah, but those numbers include that 25% who shouldn't vote. :)
Since we effectively only have two candidates, there will be plenty who aren't voting with their brains (or heart where applicable). You can't abstract a figure for them from the actual votes.
not. Well of course its more complicated than that. Nothing is an absolute. Terms such as capitalism, socialism, mercantilism are absolutes.
Why would we come out and admit we want socialism? I agree 25% of the population (and closer to 45% of politicians) want that, but nowhere near 100% do. 25% want the mercantilism a sibling poster referred to, 25% want "freedom from government" (libertarianism) and the other 25% shouldn't be allowed to vote.
The thing that i hate is that the two-party system we are sort of stuck with creates this gravitational pull of the politicians to either be republican or democrat. Doesn't leave much room for what I personally consider to be more worthwhile world views. The result of this polarization is more visible today than any other time in my memory of politics (which doesn't go that far back unfortunately, didn't really care about it till '90 or so).
So what I see (somebody correct me if I'm wrong) is that the wingbats are leading the parties because the moderates are not en vogue right now. That of course alienates the moderates, makes them think the ruling class are extremists all. One house having a majority means there is not as much pull back to the middle as there should be for this "real world".
I'm proud of America, the land of the free and home of the brave and whatnot, but damn its frustrating sometimes.
I register my domains with the name "Host Master", and the email is a unique alias I use only for that so I can filter stuff.
:)
I do occasionally get snail mail addressed to Mr Host Master.
Norton still rules. But not NIS or the "home" version of NAV. You have to run SAVce (Symantec Antivirus Corporte Edition) to get the good ole "just protect the system from virii and nothing else" effect that most of us are after.
I wish they would sell this separately. Hell, it would make a great freeware companion to their other offerings.
+1 And it also works *great* on a small screen PDA or phone. They automatically serve a lighter weight html/css/jscript for those devices.
I actually agree with almost everything you said except for the state of our economy; the economy isn't poor by any stretch of the imagination. Home purchases and lots of other statistical goodness are at record levels, or leves not seen in 20 years. I found the Bureau of Labor Statistics to be fairly useful (http://www.bls.gov/ and a Google will find lots of other stuff. Consumer confidence is up, unemployeement is down, interest rates seem to have hit a plateau.
Oh one more thing: the Oil companies don't want to be known as oil companies anymore. They aren't just oil, they are _energy_. When oil runs out or is replaced by whatever else, these energy companies will still have a major piece. Interesting note, it took me several minutes to find the word "petroleum" on BP's website. They used to be known as British Petroleum but you never see that spelled out anymore.
That's funny you said that. I am the exact opposite. If I have an idea or set an annpointment or need to write down someone's phone number, I gotta take the info down right away. Otherwise it is just GONE. This is why I carry my PDA everywhere.
I'm not a big fan of GAIM (nor GTK in general), so I would modify the parent's position to just this:
"For a corporate solution, Jabber makes a lot of sense."
My response to the taxes point would be to help lobby for the Fairtax. Fairtax would cause small biz ownership to soar (among other benefits).
Ok, I'm not disagreeing with anything you said here. The point I want to make is that what happens when(/if) in the future that physical recordable media were to go away? Just hypothethically here. In that world, how would an artist have any means to control how their own product is used and distributed if not for some kind of DRM scheme? I'm not expousing one, I can't stand the thought of DRM like most here. I'm just saying that if I create something, *I* and *I* alone get to decide what to do with it. Of course, that can include signing away all of my rights. But if there is no longer physically distributable media for an artist to sell on the side at shows (the assumption here is that there is a superior replacmenet) and everything is digital only, what do you do for those who don't like giving out free beer?
Wish I could give you a +6.
Add to that off-topic political trolling.
I say they should do what works. Automatic updates work. Should they slow down the cycle or introduce new communication, including time bulit-in for extension developers, yes. But to make the advancement of your software dependent on 50 different distributions is silly.
Well "some users" will run Windows 95, too. That's not the best argument...
Well they should concentrate on running their own tight ship! Nobody else is going to do it for them. The users who do not like this can disable updates.
My suggestion is to buy a used Palm M105 for under $20 on ebay.
Not sure if the search link will work. Just be sure to search for items EXCLUDING the word "faceplate".
the next new sensational pop band is called "Britney Nude Celeb Lesbian Sex.mp3.avi.mpg"
So what we do is buy a ton of these Professional Series Ionic Breeze Quadra Silent Air Purifiers, now with OzoneGuard! You get a 50% discount for buying two, I wonder what the discount would be on 1000? I have no idea how many it would take to build this ring you are talking about, but its certainly something to think about.
Don't forget, with each purchase, you get a free Ionic Breeze® Air Freshener 2.0!
I understand what you are saying, but I disagree on all levels. I look at it from a consumer's point of view in saying that MY price will go up if THEIR price goes up. Plus the concept is just ridiculous. Why should the government enforce a subsidization of a private enterprise? Why not cut the BS and just increase your taxes so that the government can issue an MP3 player to every citizen? Same thing, really!
You may not use it, and I most certainly don't want it where it doesn't belong (like an advertisement in the middle of an article). However there are plenty of cool timewasters around. I'm glad to have something of a single portal for all of it.
Now we can stop talking about it!
To address the temp and swap file issues, you can use tools to wipe them on a regular basis. This website has a lot of useful information about that.
Also you might want to try TrueCrypt. You could use that to encrypt your entire temp drive. I am not sure, but I don't believe it will let you encrypt the swap file itself.