If the open source project is very successful, then all the main developers are insured jobs for life in the companies that use their projects. Otoh, a developer on a proprietary project sees their experience lose considerable value when the open source project kicks their ass or their project is shipped over seas. I'd say that is one big big difference.
Nobody gets a master's in math in the U.S. So PhD programs are usually 5 years.
The best math schools all basically assume the kid has either had 1 year of graduate course work as an undergrad, or else has gone to a very good school. So they often graduate people in 4 years. But most math grad schools expect students begin work on the thesis in the 3rd year and write in the 5th. A few "bad" grad schools like Perdue expect significant teaching from students, yielding 7 years.
I can imagine many good reasons why he'd be taking a PDEs course in his 3rd year, but if he isn't meeting with an advisor, then he has fallen behind.
A sane legal system would say : Taxis, busses, limos, etc. all have specific legal definitions and specific laws minimizing public risk from their operation, but anyone who doesn't fit the taxi, bus, etc. models doesn't need to follow those laws. A new service like Pickup Pal means the taxi drivers & consumer groups must lobby for appropriate regulation.
I suspect the problem here is that Pickup Pal fit almost exactly the taxi company model while they were charging 7%.
Your comment is extremely confusion because you don't state the central fact : Pickup Pal charges the driver 7% of the rider's fare. Yes, obviously any company that handled money for the driver and takes a commission is operating very much like a taxi service. duh!
A free service that doesn't aid bargaining nor take commission is merely arranging carpools because their actions simply don't enter the commercial sphere where such laws operate. I'm unsure about some free service that offered tools for bargaining, made money off advertisements, etc.
In any case, a taxi needs some rigorous legal definition depending both upon receiving compensation and providing enough rides per day. A driver should need a taxi license if they give too many rides, no matter if the online service is commercial or not.
Amen! We've his army of small liberal arts collages that baby their students without contributing anything towards scientific or technological advancement. Otoh, the big universities are turning out people who've survived experiences much closer to real life.
Easy tricks for cheap & effective education : (1) Move to some state whose universities are free, like Georgia. (2) Send your kids to Canada or Europe for their education. (3) Don't let your kids major in liberal arts or beer, i.e. management.
There is a difference between professions and unionized work : Professional organizations attract people to the profession, but set performance bars that limit the number of employable people, thus establishing baseline salaries through scarcity. Unions attempt to monopolize labor pools that require some minimal skill set. So professional organizations manipulate management intelligently, while unions fight management over scraps.
IT professional organizations are potentially quite helpful because they raise the quality of home grown IT, create f.u.d. about outsourcing, etc. Now professional organizations are most successful in "highly regulated" fields like law, medicine, accounting, etc. By comparison, engineering has focused more on recruitment & quality control, but failed to establish the high baseline salaries of actuaries, doctors, etc. Well, truth be told lawyers are not paid very well either. But I still suspect that IT will eventually settle on baseline salaries well below those of engineering, more like low paid lawyers.
In the past, dishonest restaurant owners kept two sets of books. Do you imagine police often found that second set? Nope. Isn't today's software component more easily detectable?
Most countries regulate sales. Walmarts & Borders drive out traditional stores if you don't. Even those Turkish shops are costing traditional business considerably.
I'm not sure why they are raiding trade shows, but maybe the cops are just enforcing the laws U.S. companies bought? If that is the case, great!
What are you smoking? Pharmaceutical companies never spend money on basic research, period. They spend money on marketing and occasionally FDA approval.
Moreover, large companies are inherently risk averse because management is inherently risk averse (btw, stock holders are strongly pro-risk, but bond holders are risk averse too). So big companies compete for market capture, not market creation. In consequence, pharmaceutical companies are more interested in capturing existing profitable markets than building new ones. So you see them develop marginally improved replacements for drugs whose patents are expiring.
Is the gaming industry ruled by a handful of monopolies like the music industry? maybe. Are gaming companies more connected with their consumer? maybe. Is game industry news more likely to slam miss-behavior. I think so.
So we could see some gaming companies begin abandoning the ESA if they employ the same tactics.
No, a 14 year old competes at a much higher level. Puberty devastates gymnastics ability.
An age limit triples the length of a gymnastics career : one may still compete for years in pre-pubescent national competitions; but then if good enough, continue to post-pubecent international competitions.
Superstars used to just quit at puberty before, this annoyed fans.
I'm afraid the IOC doesn't need to make themselves look more scummy, everyone has known they are a bunch of criminals for decades. But such controversies are a good chance to show more people what the IOC is really like.
Well p2p isn't good for real time. But why must radio be real time?
Here is my proposal : A broadcaster has a music library where all tracks are given.torrent files, then only mixing instructions and.torrent files are broadcast. A listener has a huge cache for music torrents, say 10gig.
Such an approach has incredible bandwidth advantages, i.e. you only DL each song once. Indeed, multiple stations can share.torrent files. Plus listeners now posses all the songs they have heard; indeed they posses the original even if it was mixed when listening. Heck, your listening software could even intelligently time shift and mix stations, meaning stations need not broadcast 24/7 (vital if your a pirate).
But the price is that live content isn't possible. In particular, the DJ must use only software mixing tools that support the broadcasting protocol.
No. The fastest cars in the word are electrics, although gas cars are close. The cars with the best acceleration are electrics by a wide margine. Of course, gas will still out preform electrics in an endurance race for some time. But sports car buyers are looking for the "feel" which mostly corresponds to acceleration.
Oh, no, electrics have far less maintenance cost. Well, that's the most popular belief about why GM canceled theirs.
Batteries are the only real candidate for replacement issues. I imagine they last longer than laptop batteries, but you may still see significant performance degradation. Imagine you have a 60 mile commute and buy a Tesla whose range is 200 miles. If your office won't let you install a charger, then, after the batteries degrade to only 150 miles, you best be quite careful about speed & errands.
I'd say, give the technology two years if your commute is so long. But I can't forsee any downside if you want a nice sports car and live near work.
It is still both cheaper and more environmentally friendly to buy a use car with good millage.
EVs make the best sports cars, period. Nothing competes with electric for performance. We should have been making electric sports cars 15 years ago. But soon Tesla & co. will finally push the internal combustion engine out of the high performance market.
After EVs are dominating the sports car world they weill trickle down rapidly.
Why on earth is there a presidential veto in the US?
It was originally viewed as a check on the power of congress critters. Indeed the first few presidents only vetoed laws they felt were unconstitutional (although that meant much more then). But presidents eventually began using veto politically.
In fact, congress happily gave the president the "line item" veto several years ago, meaning he can edit out pieces of their laws. Congress happily gave the president this power because they must continually promise really stupid & evil things to their constituents.
A deliberative branch of government can help by producing a non-politicized filter for the bullshit that congress passes.
Do you really want to pick out 100 jurors from a group where more than half of them are that scientifically challenged and or plain ignorant of science?
Yes, absolutely. You are criticizing referendums where people learn nothing. A jury trial is different because voters learn during the trial by listening to the advocates. As I mentioned elsewhere, experiments with deliberative processes suggest a shift of 10-20% towards sanity, even on issues like abortion.
Advocates may obviously mislead the jurors with rhetoric, but It's a big big advantage if your side has sane rational arguments. Also it's very very easy to kill pork by merely pointing out that it's pork, which helps suck money out of the whole election process.
Not exactly, a lottery legislator may grant the winner real & corrupting power, and they select people who are not smart enough. A deliberative jury only asks a selected citizen to vote on various aspects of one bill with one stated purpose (and is likely anonymous). It also has pre-defined "sides" determined by elected officials. Each side's advocate explains their position.
If you really want to support the artist, buy the CD and then go see a concert.
Nah, I'll pirate the music, if I like it, then I'll see the concert both nights, or see it and buy the t-shirt.
What artists really need is an option for internet ad based revenue. So banner ad urls embedded in their mp3s. If you play the mp3 on your machine, then the player shows some rotating ads. You could turn the ads off if you wanted, but that would hurt the artist, so you wouldn't.
Now some evil people would replace the ad links with their own ad links. But the artist could protect against this by having their own banner ad server rotate through album art with links to their site. If you didn't se those, you'd know it was faked. If you saw & clicked, their site would check to see if you were seeing some other ads from them, and offer you an updated mp3 if not.
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If the open source project is very successful, then all the main developers are insured jobs for life in the companies that use their projects. Otoh, a developer on a proprietary project sees their experience lose considerable value when the open source project kicks their ass or their project is shipped over seas. I'd say that is one big big difference.
Nobody gets a master's in math in the U.S. So PhD programs are usually 5 years.
The best math schools all basically assume the kid has either had 1 year of graduate course work as an undergrad, or else has gone to a very good school. So they often graduate people in 4 years. But most math grad schools expect students begin work on the thesis in the 3rd year and write in the 5th. A few "bad" grad schools like Perdue expect significant teaching from students, yielding 7 years.
I can imagine many good reasons why he'd be taking a PDEs course in his 3rd year, but if he isn't meeting with an advisor, then he has fallen behind.
A sane legal system would say : Taxis, busses, limos, etc. all have specific legal definitions and specific laws minimizing public risk from their operation, but anyone who doesn't fit the taxi, bus, etc. models doesn't need to follow those laws. A new service like Pickup Pal means the taxi drivers & consumer groups must lobby for appropriate regulation.
I suspect the problem here is that Pickup Pal fit almost exactly the taxi company model while they were charging 7%.
Your comment is extremely confusion because you don't state the central fact : Pickup Pal charges the driver 7% of the rider's fare. Yes, obviously any company that handled money for the driver and takes a commission is operating very much like a taxi service. duh!
A free service that doesn't aid bargaining nor take commission is merely arranging carpools because their actions simply don't enter the commercial sphere where such laws operate. I'm unsure about some free service that offered tools for bargaining, made money off advertisements, etc.
In any case, a taxi needs some rigorous legal definition depending both upon receiving compensation and providing enough rides per day. A driver should need a taxi license if they give too many rides, no matter if the online service is commercial or not.
You know they'll also hire an engineering, physics, or math major who evidently knows how to program over your computer science major.
Amen! We've his army of small liberal arts collages that baby their students without contributing anything towards scientific or technological advancement. Otoh, the big universities are turning out people who've survived experiences much closer to real life.
Easy tricks for cheap & effective education :
(1) Move to some state whose universities are free, like Georgia.
(2) Send your kids to Canada or Europe for their education.
(3) Don't let your kids major in liberal arts or beer, i.e. management.
Spore is several disjoint games. Some are fun. Some are dull. As a whole Spore is quite over hyped.
Spend your money on some game that does one thing well. Just pirate Spore.
There is a difference between professions and unionized work : Professional organizations attract people to the profession, but set performance bars that limit the number of employable people, thus establishing baseline salaries through scarcity. Unions attempt to monopolize labor pools that require some minimal skill set. So professional organizations manipulate management intelligently, while unions fight management over scraps.
IT professional organizations are potentially quite helpful because they raise the quality of home grown IT, create f.u.d. about outsourcing, etc. Now professional organizations are most successful in "highly regulated" fields like law, medicine, accounting, etc. By comparison, engineering has focused more on recruitment & quality control, but failed to establish the high baseline salaries of actuaries, doctors, etc. Well, truth be told lawyers are not paid very well either. But I still suspect that IT will eventually settle on baseline salaries well below those of engineering, more like low paid lawyers.
It's not the business taxes that are stupid, it's the individual income taxes.
In the past, dishonest restaurant owners kept two sets of books. Do you imagine police often found that second set? Nope. Isn't today's software component more easily detectable?
Sisvel is a patent troll. Yes, they must have their own connections, but ironically they are using laws bought by American companies.
Most countries regulate sales. Walmarts & Borders drive out traditional stores if you don't. Even those Turkish shops are costing traditional business considerably.
I'm not sure why they are raiding trade shows, but maybe the cops are just enforcing the laws U.S. companies bought? If that is the case, great!
What are you smoking? Pharmaceutical companies never spend money on basic research, period. They spend money on marketing and occasionally FDA approval.
Moreover, large companies are inherently risk averse because management is inherently risk averse (btw, stock holders are strongly pro-risk, but bond holders are risk averse too). So big companies compete for market capture, not market creation. In consequence, pharmaceutical companies are more interested in capturing existing profitable markets than building new ones. So you see them develop marginally improved replacements for drugs whose patents are expiring.
Is the gaming industry ruled by a handful of monopolies like the music industry? maybe. Are gaming companies more connected with their consumer? maybe. Is game industry news more likely to slam miss-behavior. I think so.
So we could see some gaming companies begin abandoning the ESA if they employ the same tactics.
No, a 14 year old competes at a much higher level. Puberty devastates gymnastics ability.
An age limit triples the length of a gymnastics career : one may still compete for years in pre-pubescent national competitions; but then if good enough, continue to post-pubecent international competitions.
Superstars used to just quit at puberty before, this annoyed fans.
I'm afraid the IOC doesn't need to make themselves look more scummy, everyone has known they are a bunch of criminals for decades. But such controversies are a good chance to show more people what the IOC is really like.
Well p2p isn't good for real time. But why must radio be real time?
Here is my proposal : A broadcaster has a music library where all tracks are given .torrent files, then only mixing instructions and .torrent files are broadcast. A listener has a huge cache for music torrents, say 10gig.
Such an approach has incredible bandwidth advantages, i.e. you only DL each song once. Indeed, multiple stations can share .torrent files. Plus listeners now posses all the songs they have heard; indeed they posses the original even if it was mixed when listening. Heck, your listening software could even intelligently time shift and mix stations, meaning stations need not broadcast 24/7 (vital if your a pirate).
But the price is that live content isn't possible. In particular, the DJ must use only software mixing tools that support the broadcasting protocol.
We should start calling it Putin mail.
No. The fastest cars in the word are electrics, although gas cars are close. The cars with the best acceleration are electrics by a wide margine. Of course, gas will still out preform electrics in an endurance race for some time. But sports car buyers are looking for the "feel" which mostly corresponds to acceleration.
Oh, no, electrics have far less maintenance cost. Well, that's the most popular belief about why GM canceled theirs.
Batteries are the only real candidate for replacement issues. I imagine they last longer than laptop batteries, but you may still see significant performance degradation. Imagine you have a 60 mile commute and buy a Tesla whose range is 200 miles. If your office won't let you install a charger, then, after the batteries degrade to only 150 miles, you best be quite careful about speed & errands.
I'd say, give the technology two years if your commute is so long. But I can't forsee any downside if you want a nice sports car and live near work.
It is still both cheaper and more environmentally friendly to buy a use car with good millage.
EVs make the best sports cars, period. Nothing competes with electric for performance. We should have been making electric sports cars 15 years ago. But soon Tesla & co. will finally push the internal combustion engine out of the high performance market.
After EVs are dominating the sports car world they weill trickle down rapidly.
Why on earth is there a presidential veto in the US?
It was originally viewed as a check on the power of congress critters. Indeed the first few presidents only vetoed laws they felt were unconstitutional (although that meant much more then). But presidents eventually began using veto politically.
In fact, congress happily gave the president the "line item" veto several years ago, meaning he can edit out pieces of their laws. Congress happily gave the president this power because they must continually promise really stupid & evil things to their constituents.
A deliberative branch of government can help by producing a non-politicized filter for the bullshit that congress passes.
Do you really want to pick out 100 jurors from a group where more than half of them are that scientifically challenged and or plain ignorant of science?
Yes, absolutely. You are criticizing referendums where people learn nothing. A jury trial is different because voters learn during the trial by listening to the advocates. As I mentioned elsewhere, experiments with deliberative processes suggest a shift of 10-20% towards sanity, even on issues like abortion.
Advocates may obviously mislead the jurors with rhetoric, but It's a big big advantage if your side has sane rational arguments. Also it's very very easy to kill pork by merely pointing out that it's pork, which helps suck money out of the whole election process.
Not exactly, a lottery legislator may grant the winner real & corrupting power, and they select people who are not smart enough. A deliberative jury only asks a selected citizen to vote on various aspects of one bill with one stated purpose (and is likely anonymous). It also has pre-defined "sides" determined by elected officials. Each side's advocate explains their position.
If you really want to support the artist, buy the CD and then go see a concert.
Nah, I'll pirate the music, if I like it, then I'll see the concert both nights, or see it and buy the t-shirt.
What artists really need is an option for internet ad based revenue. So banner ad urls embedded in their mp3s. If you play the mp3 on your machine, then the player shows some rotating ads. You could turn the ads off if you wanted, but that would hurt the artist, so you wouldn't.
Now some evil people would replace the ad links with their own ad links. But the artist could protect against this by having their own banner ad server rotate through album art with links to their site. If you didn't se those, you'd know it was faked. If you saw & clicked, their site would check to see if you were seeing some other ads from them, and offer you an updated mp3 if not.