Most classrooms do NOT have phones. You have no idea what you are talking about. Teachers use phones in the office to call parents not to make personal phone calls that be overheard by everyone..
Teachers have every right to use a cell phone on their break.
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
That the purpose of copyrights in academic world is to promote the progress of science if a copyright is impeding the progress of science it should be within the realm of the court to either limit or vacate that copyright. The author of the paper should have an exclusive right to their writing not be forced to cede to a public institution or corporation.
Under this reading, "work for hire" laws are an unconstitutional abrogation of the exclusive right of the author or inventor.
Imagine something like Second Life but three or four generations down the road populated with AI's, people could interact with them not as slaves but as "neighbors" . In that world the AIs would live out their lives and humans could interact with them.
As for AI's rebelling, an AI might be a lot like someones with aspergers. They would have some topic of interest they enjoy and obsess about. An AI might rebel if forced to do different things instead of the one thing it likes to do. However shopping for an AI might be a lot like shopping for a dog. If your an accounting firm you dont buy an AI that wants to paint, you buy one that enjoys looking for patterns in number and doing math. Noone would expect a chihuahua to be a hunting dog. Why expect an AI that enjoys music to do data analysis?
I would expect bored AIs to do the same things as bored humans, find other AI's and socialize, and play games while surfing the internet;-)
Be terrified of the point at which the AI is so far ahead of us that it feels the need to take care of us like children taking care of their elderly parents.
Minor note on your second scenario- It could be the group who is persecuted is the ones with money and technical knowledge, if they were politically influential they wouldn't be persecuted.
Third Scenario- An inhabitable world is discovered within a few years travel time.
Theres a lot more incentive to go when you sort of know whats there and as for trading who cares? If land is cheap and food is plentiful and you have a good chance of making it, people will go.
"Ive got 30,000 in debt, and $500 a month in child support. So my choices are stay here and give all my money to someone else or hop on your ark ship and go someplace where ill have land and can do whatever I want. Where do i sign up?"
"What do you do?" "Im a cloud..." *zap* he falls dead from a robot laser "What do you do?" "Im a web..." *zap* he falls dead from a robot laser "What do you do?" "Im the chief inform...." *zap* he falls dead "What do you do?" "Im the tech who fixes your laser, I see you're busy downsizing the IT department... I'm taking an early lunch, k? Save me the copy girl, she's kind of hot"
Launch #1 failed completely Launch #2 failed due to problems with the second stage Launch #3 failed due to less severe errors Launches 4&5 were complete successes
Do you see the progession here? Failure is treated as a learning opportunity, you learn more from trying and failing than trying once and giving up. In spacex the engineers run the show and the guy paying the bills accepts that.
Falcon 9 rocket engines are revisions of falcon 1 engines which are themselves evolutions of Apollo era technologies, no reinventing the wheel here, just building better wheels
A liquid-fueled, multi-stage rocket and their dragon capsule uses an ablative shielding?
While Ares I is years off, spacex has already successfully tested the first stage of the Falcon 9 and are on schedule for a Falcon 9 launch later this year, and a Falcon 9-heavy which will be able to do most anything Ares I can do cheaper and safer will be launched in 2010.
Its one company, and one guy running the company with his own money for a hell of a lot less than the Ares I.
Of course with increased points on the back-end, basically a increased cut of the gross from episode sales and merchandising from ALL futurama episodes not just the new ones.
New episodes with the original voice actors increases the value of the repeats.
There is NO comparison between a pirated game and a used game.
A used game was bought as a new game legally, and sold to a new owner legally. Its called the doctrine of first sale. It works the same way for games or dvds
If the game company wants to make their $60 xbox 360 games not re-sellable I just wont buy their games.
Sales tax for interstate domestic commerce should be based on location of business not the location of the consumer, the sale happens where the business is located.
Amazon is incorporated in delaware, delaware has no state sales tax, hence the tax you owe is 0%
Like a football game or political rally, you can be expected to be monitored by police, event security and the media.
blimps have been at football games with cameras for 49 years. The idea of using blimps for anti-terrorism purposes is not scary nor is it that big of a news story.
if energy companies can put it in a pump and sell it alongside cigarettes,beer, and condoms they will sell it. if someone discovered how to make ethanol from cellulose in unlimited quantities for 50 cents a gallon and the oil companies could sell it for $1.25 a gallon, oil companies would happily sell it. "drill,drill,drill" is about having control of supply. If supply is cheap and guarunteed, then drilling no longer matters
If you dont play crysis and your not running vista an nvidia 9800 gt ($100) will be good enough to run pretty much any game at hi rez, I run mine at 1920x1080
"...if you think it isn't, imagine what the headlines would be if China landed a few thousand autonomous tanks and droids in Los Angeles..."
Once the hapless and helpless got out of LA the droids would have to fight off all the hundreds of thousands of worldwide armed geeks decending on LA wanting spare parts for their robots.
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Most classrooms do NOT have phones. You have no idea what you are talking about. Teachers use phones in the office to call parents not to make personal phone calls that be overheard by everyone..
Teachers have every right to use a cell phone on their break.
"To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;"
That the purpose of copyrights in academic world is to promote the progress of science if a copyright is impeding the progress of science it should be within the realm of the court
to either limit or vacate that copyright. The author of the paper should have an exclusive right to their writing not be forced to cede to a public institution or corporation.
Under this reading, "work for hire" laws are an unconstitutional abrogation of the exclusive right of the author or inventor.
No weird half-ass plugins or scripts, support SVG in a way that "just works"
Open clipart collections has been around for a couple years now, and it would be nice if Openoffice could actually use it.
Imagine something like Second Life but three or four generations down the road populated with AI's, people could interact with them not as slaves but as "neighbors" . In that world the AIs
would live out their lives and humans could interact with them.
As for AI's rebelling, an AI might be a lot like someones with aspergers. They would have some topic of interest they enjoy and obsess about. An AI might rebel if forced to do different things instead of
the one thing it likes to do. However shopping for an AI might be a lot like shopping for a dog. If your an accounting firm you dont buy an AI that wants to paint, you buy one that enjoys looking for patterns
in number and doing math. Noone would expect a chihuahua to be a hunting dog. Why expect an AI that enjoys music to do data analysis?
I would expect bored AIs to do the same things as bored humans, find other AI's and socialize, and play games while surfing the internet ;-)
"Hi there welcome to mcdonalds may I take your order? Oh wow! Here are your fries sir....yessss! and your....hot....apple....pie.....ohhhhhhh " ;-)
Be terrified of the point at which the AI is so far ahead of us that it feels the need to take care of us like children taking care of their elderly parents.
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What was the rest of the comment about?
Minor note on your second scenario- It could be the group who is persecuted is the ones with money and technical knowledge, if they were politically influential they wouldn't be persecuted.
Third Scenario- An inhabitable world is discovered within a few years travel time.
Theres a lot more incentive to go when you sort of know whats there and as for trading who cares? If land is cheap and food is plentiful and you have a good chance of making it, people will go.
"Ive got 30,000 in debt, and $500 a month in child support. So my choices are stay here and give all my money to someone else or hop on your ark ship and go someplace where ill have land and can do whatever I want.
Where do i sign up?"
The humans were lined up
"What do you do?"
"Im a cloud..." *zap* he falls dead from a robot laser
"What do you do?"
"Im a web..." *zap* he falls dead from a robot laser
"What do you do?"
"Im the chief inform...." *zap* he falls dead
"What do you do?"
"Im the tech who fixes your laser, I see you're busy downsizing the IT department... I'm taking an early lunch, k? Save me the copy girl, she's kind of hot"
Launch #1 failed completely
Launch #2 failed due to problems with the second stage
Launch #3 failed due to less severe errors
Launches 4&5 were complete successes
Do you see the progession here? Failure is treated as a learning opportunity, you learn more from trying and failing than trying once and giving up. In spacex the engineers run the show and the guy paying the bills accepts that.
Falcon 9 rocket engines are revisions of falcon 1 engines which are themselves evolutions of Apollo era technologies, no reinventing the wheel here, just building better wheels
A liquid-fueled, multi-stage rocket and their dragon capsule uses an ablative shielding?
While Ares I is years off, spacex has already successfully tested the first stage of the Falcon 9 and are on schedule for a Falcon 9 launch later this year,
and a Falcon 9-heavy which will be able to do most anything Ares I can do cheaper and safer will be launched in 2010.
Its one company, and one guy running the company with his own money for a hell of a lot less than the Ares I.
http://www.spacex.com/falcon9_heavy.php
Unlike NASA they learn from their mistakes, and dont put politics before safety and reliability.
Also because its liquid fueled you can shut off the damn rocket at T-0:00
Yes they have already launched Falcon 1 rockets and used those rockets as the basis for updating the designs
of Falcon 9 and Falcon 9-heavy
Of course with increased points on the back-end, basically a increased cut of the gross from episode sales and merchandising from ALL futurama episodes not just the new ones.
New episodes with the original voice actors increases the value of the repeats.
There is NO comparison between a pirated game and a used game.
A used game was bought as a new game legally, and sold to a new owner legally. Its called the doctrine of first sale. It works the same way for games or dvds
If the game company wants to make their $60 xbox 360 games not re-sellable I just wont buy their games.
Even under the pre-1976 copyright rules , the lotr books would still have been under copyright for another 1-2 years.
However, learning from the mistakes of failed projects can actually increase your value, especially if the employer wants you to speak up.
Sales tax for interstate domestic commerce should be based on location of business not the location of the consumer, the sale happens where the business is located.
Amazon is incorporated in delaware, delaware has no state sales tax, hence the tax you owe is 0%
Lord of the rings in the original farsi! Can someone tape it for me?
We use cars now...because some guy decided at some point to hook up an engine to a belt to turn a wheel to make a cart go without horses.
At some point science has take the crap or get off the pot, stop endlessly theorising about doing and just try and do it.
Like a football game or political rally, you can be expected to be monitored by police, event security and the media.
blimps have been at football games with cameras for 49 years. The idea of using blimps for anti-terrorism purposes is not scary nor is it that big of a news story.
Our best hope is that they come to our world for trade and tourism and other miscellaneous perversions.
Were capitalists we know how to deal with traders and tourists and pervs.
"What happens on earth...stays on earth".
if energy companies can put it in a pump and sell it alongside cigarettes,beer, and condoms they will sell it. if someone discovered how to make ethanol from cellulose in unlimited quantities for 50 cents a gallon and the oil companies could sell it for $1.25 a gallon, oil companies would happily sell it. "drill,drill,drill" is about having control of supply. If supply is cheap and guarunteed, then drilling no longer matters
both nvidia and ati have 3d drivers for linux
If you dont play crysis and your not running vista an nvidia 9800 gt ($100) will be good enough to run pretty much any game at hi rez, I run mine at 1920x1080
If you send it to them you will get your rebate
If china could do it.
"...if you think it isn't, imagine what the headlines would be if China landed a few thousand autonomous tanks and droids in Los Angeles..."
Once the hapless and helpless got out of LA the droids would have to fight off all the hundreds of thousands of worldwide armed geeks decending on LA wanting spare parts for their robots.