And who gets to supply the software to run that totally AI controlled vehicle?
It's not AI, really. Just route-following and peer-to-peer negotiation for collision avoidance. Navigating in the air is a far easier task than navigating on the road.
Anyhow, the software would be supplied by at least three vendors for any one vehicle; the separate implementations would vote on every control decision. It would be highly unlikely for the same failure mode to affect code written by separate developers.
i think we'll find that the argument will show that the school owns that copyright, just as a company you work for owns the copyright to any code you produce for them (and in some situations, code you produce for yourself).
If you're going to argue that the school is an employer, brace yourself for the litigation over child labor and minimum wage violations.
Well, they're right about the copyright issue. It's not the school's prerogative to copy their papers and submit them to turnitin.com, any more than the kids would be entitled to copy other people's work.
Step One: write an app for the Mac. Step Two: get your UI reviewed by Apple's user interface evangelist, John Geleynse. Step Three: make all the changes recommended by Apple. Step Four: write a windows app that comes as close as you can get to your Mac version.
Or, you can do what the people who wrote Visio or that guy who ripped off Delicious Library did, and just laboriously copy an existing app knowing that you'll never make it quite the same on Windows.
I would have to surmise that whatever thrust he gets against the wide end will be offset against the force not only on the narrow end, but also against the oblique walls of the chamber!
we technically could have had flying cars already. You know what the problem is? the general public couldn't be trusted not to crash the things left and right. In no time there would be more flying lawsuits than cars.
This is true, but the solution is rapidly approaching, now that we have GPS and automated flight controls. When we have air cars that are fully capable of taking off, navigating and landing unattended (that is, an aircraft that a child or a drunk could safely use), then we'll see them move from being Moller's fantasies to products you can buy.
Back in the 60's and 70s, before we all got computers in our homes, it was quite common to hear bureaucrats proclaiming "computers never make mistakes!"
More like,Lockyer is grandstanding because he knows that this suit is going to fail on jurisdictional grounds as soon as it gets before a judge. The upshot is he's wasting both tax money and shareholder's money.
You heard right. When you take a Mac out of the box, you just plug it in, turn it on, give it a username and password for it to create the administrator account, and then you can either fill out the registration info or hit command-Q and start using it.
Dell is a tad slippery about their pricing.They sell the very same product at different rates based on how you navigate the maze of their web site. They're almost like an airline in that respect.
Libertarianism is unworkable and deeply flawed. It, like Communism, relies on something that does not exist: the perfect human being.
Nope, and nope.
Libertarianism is the political position of advocating liberty. Our position is that Liberty requires no justification, rather it is limitations on our liberty that must be justified. Liberty works very well indeed, as the history of western civilization demonstrates. There's a reason why we live better in the USA than people did in the Soviet Union, or in the typical middle-east dictatorship.
We also hold that because human beings are imperfect, we really can't trust anyone to tell us what to do.
The interesting question is, will anyone care enough about this to stop doing business with HP?
Probably not, but there certainly are consequences, not the least of which are civil liabilities and the likely dismissal of the perp from HP's board at the next shareholder meeting, if she doesn't have the decency to quit before then. This fracas is going to cost her millions that she would have made if she'd kept her nose clean.
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And who gets to supply the software to run that totally AI controlled vehicle?
It's not AI, really. Just route-following and peer-to-peer negotiation for collision avoidance. Navigating in the air is a far easier task than navigating on the road.
Anyhow, the software would be supplied by at least three vendors for any one vehicle; the separate implementations would vote on every control decision. It would be highly unlikely for the same failure mode to affect code written by separate developers.
-jcr
i think we'll find that the argument will show that the school owns that copyright, just as a company you work for owns the copyright to any code you produce for them (and in some situations, code you produce for yourself).
If you're going to argue that the school is an employer, brace yourself for the litigation over child labor and minimum wage violations.
-jcr
Well, they're right about the copyright issue. It's not the school's prerogative to copy their papers and submit them to turnitin.com, any more than the kids would be entitled to copy other people's work.
-jcr
Cheer up, dude. You can probably find a loaded Mac IIci on E Bay for a hundred bucks!
-jcr
I think he's replying to badasscat, not you.
Oops, my bad. Looked like a reply to me, because the other guy was below my threshold.
-jcr
Sadly, this version of the notorious H.I.G. has been perverted to fit Mac OS X.
Let me guess: you're one of the resource-fork die-hards, right?
-jcr
Step One: write an app for the Mac.
Step Two: get your UI reviewed by Apple's user interface evangelist, John Geleynse.
Step Three: make all the changes recommended by Apple.
Step Four: write a windows app that comes as close as you can get to your Mac version.
Or, you can do what the people who wrote Visio or that guy who ripped off Delicious Library did, and just laboriously copy an existing app knowing that you'll never make it quite the same on Windows.
-jcr
Nonsense. Computers do make mistakes.
No shit, really?
I'm not sure where you get the idea that computers are flawless and work perfectly from.
Reading comprehension isn't your long suit is it, sparky? I'm not one of the 1970's bureaucrats who held this misapprehension.
-jcr
I would have to surmise that whatever thrust he gets against the wide end will be offset against the force not only on the narrow end, but also against the oblique walls of the chamber!
-jcr
we technically could have had flying cars already. You know what the problem is? the general public couldn't be trusted not to crash the things left and right. In no time there would be more flying lawsuits than cars.
This is true, but the solution is rapidly approaching, now that we have GPS and automated flight controls. When we have air cars that are fully capable of taking off, navigating and landing unattended (that is, an aircraft that a child or a drunk could safely use), then we'll see them move from being Moller's fantasies to products you can buy.
-jcr
It uses computers, so it must be better!
Back in the 60's and 70s, before we all got computers in our homes, it was quite common to hear bureaucrats proclaiming "computers never make mistakes!"
-jcr
It would seem from these figures, that Law students actually are more ethical than engineers.
;-)
Who did this study, again?
-jcr
What if our really cool leading edge companies required their best R&D people to teach one year or one class at their local highschool?
Like the NEA would allow that?
-jcr
California is now simply returning the favor.
More like,Lockyer is grandstanding because he knows that this suit is going to fail on jurisdictional grounds as soon as it gets before a judge. The upshot is he's wasting both tax money and shareholder's money.
-jcr
Your definition of 'liberty' does not include a starving man taking food from a billionaire.
I didn't define "liberty", I defined "libertarian". Nice try with the straw man there, though.
-jcr
Oh, you need a TV Tuner?
Why would you need a card slot for such a thing?
-jcr
You heard right. When you take a Mac out of the box, you just plug it in, turn it on, give it a username and password for it to create the administrator account, and then you can either fill out the registration info or hit command-Q and start using it.
-jcr
I think Apple should start selling ATX CPU/MB combos.
People with a fiduciary responsibility to thousands of shareholders have decided that expanding into the cheap shit market wouldn't be a good move.
Speaking as a shareholder, I'm rather glad that you're not in charge of Apple's product planning.
-jcr
Dell is a tad slippery about their pricing.They sell the very same product at different rates based on how you navigate the maze of their web site. They're almost like an airline in that respect.
-jcr
Is that revenue figure right?
-jcr
Another way to put it is that actors in the free market never choose to supply accurate information of their own accord.
Not so. A vendor with the superior product will of course prefer to let that be known.
-jcr
Libertarianism is unworkable and deeply flawed. It, like Communism, relies on something that does not exist: the perfect human being.
Nope, and nope.
Libertarianism is the political position of advocating liberty. Our position is that Liberty requires no justification, rather it is limitations on our liberty that must be justified. Liberty works very well indeed, as the history of western civilization demonstrates. There's a reason why we live better in the USA than people did in the Soviet Union, or in the typical middle-east dictatorship.
We also hold that because human beings are imperfect, we really can't trust anyone to tell us what to do.
-jcr
Deserve it or not, it was in her contract. It's not her fault that HP overestimated her when they recruited her.
-jcr
Sure, Carly got her golden parachute, but she wasn't a criminal.
-jcr
The interesting question is, will anyone care enough about this to stop doing business with HP?
Probably not, but there certainly are consequences, not the least of which are civil liabilities and the likely dismissal of the perp from HP's board at the next shareholder meeting, if she doesn't have the decency to quit before then. This fracas is going to cost her millions that she would have made if she'd kept her nose clean.
-jcr