I reckoned it ain't the best description of the Pyramid Scheme but I do hope that you would gain an understanding of the difference between how Bitcoin works and that of the Pyramid Scheme
I believe that, if the "human gene" occurs naturally, that is, already existed before being discovered, they should not be patentable --- something akin to "prior art"
But on the other hand, if the "human gene" is has a new sequence, result of some artificial manipulation in some lab, and has special characteristics, then I think it would be unfair to prohibit those who have invested their time and effort in creating something that has never existed before in patenting the new genetic sequence(s)
teams are much better at solving problems than individuals
Please correct me if I'm wrong...
Based on my experience of past few decades (from the 1970's) in the tech field, the conclusion that I get is the reverse
Teams are much better of IDENTIFYING problems
On the other hands, people are much better at solving problems when they are in the "individual mode", than when they are part of a "committee", aka "teams"
As I said, I may be wrong, and if I do, please correct me
... exotic minerals like the far more reactive form of phosphorus, an iron-nickel-phosphorus mineral schreibersite
Disclaimer: I ain't a space scientist, I'm just a geek
What I want to know is this --- How come those exotic minerals exist in space rocks but not on planet Earth ?
Where those space rocks came from ? Weren't they were formed from the same batch of space dusts that gelled up the Solar System ??
Or could it possibly be that those space rocks were from an ancient planet (or star) that had exploded?
If the space rocks that contained all the exotic minerals came from an ancient planet, wouldn't that mean that it is very likely that the planet, which was itself rich with all those exotic minerals, had lifeforms of its own ??
It's one of the biggest, scariest graveyards for Internet entrepreneurs: Small, local business
Not true
Internet graveyard is littered with businesses that does *NOT* make any sense
Most people have a misconception of how to do business online --- they often thought that Internet is a world of its own, that it has rules so special that online business must act differently than their brick-and-mortar counterparts
I'm talking from my own experience --- I had been in the Silicon Valley since the late 1970's and I had involved myself with several very very successful startups
Although my portfolio did include several failed projects, the majority of the projects that I involved with were successful --- simply because of common sense ---
Any business, no matter if they are online or in the brick and mortar form, must have at least one product that others need
And if the demand is great enough, others will actually PAY YOU to get that product --- and that's where you get your profit
No matter if it's google or youtube or facebook or foursquare or groupon --- as an investor (and an entrepreneur) you need to look at the project as a customer... and ask yourself "Is there anything that I desperately need from them?"
If the answer is "Yes", I will pour my money in
If the answer is negative, or maybe, or not sure, or whatever, I won't waste my time with it no more
I can use my time better by looking around for other startup ideas --- and there _are_ a lot to choose from
Win 8 a contributing factor, not the main culprit
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We used to replace our desktop PC once every 5 years or so, and our laptop once every 3 years or so, on average
What I get from my friends (and the companies they work for) is that nowadays, companies are keeping their office desktop PC for a longer period --- many Pentium 4 machines running Win XP are still being used --- mainly because of budget constraint and that they are not that satisfied with the latest offerings from M$
I can't say that Win 8 is the main culprit of people not upgrading their machine, but it *IS* a contributing factor
On another comment that I've posted on another Slashdot thread I already told you guys that my company is not purchasing any laptop for our sales force this year --- while in the past we bought, on average, 1,500 to 2,500 laptops every year --- and the reason for my company's not buying this year is because we couldn't find any laptop vendor supplying 3rd generation i7 powered laptop that runs Windows 7
We decide that it will be best none of our system run Windows 8
Only the laptops of my company run Windows --- our office computers are all running Linux --- and the reason the laptops that we purchase for our sales force run Windows is because of the software they use
Some of your argument is interesting, but the idea that something's value is equal to the effort that it takes to obtain/create the thing is certainly not the case. There are lots of things that are very difficult to create and/or duplicate that have no value. If I have my computer hash random strings until I get a hash that includes my name in it, even though it might take 10 hours to do (and would take another 10 hours to duplicate), it doesn't make that random string valuable.
Take two watches
One Rolex - The other Timex
Which one is more difficult (take more time) to create ?
Why that Rolex watch has more "value" than that Timex watch ?
That being said, your argument could still (sort of) work like this: there SHOULD be a cap on the value of a bitcoin.... the $ cost in computing power to mine a new coin.
If Bitcoin is a commodity, and behaves like a commodity, then, the value of Bitcoin can go way up, or crash - just like any other commodity
There should be no "cap" nor "floor" on the price of any said commodity - as the marketplace being the final decider
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Last year (2012) my company purchased over 2,000 laptops for our sales force
Every year my company purchases about 1,500 to 2,500 laptops
This year my company decides to NOT purchase any laptop, simply because the laptop companies (Acer, Asus, Lenovo, HP, Dell( insist on putting Win 8 in laptops with i7 CPU
Due to the software that our sales force uses we need to run Windows on the laptop - but when we were looking for i7 powered laptops with Win 7, all the laptop manufacturers told us that they have to put Win 8 on their products because Microsoft says so
So, we decided to not purchase any laptop this year
I know, 2,000 laptop is not much, in the whole scheme of things, but I also know that my company is *NOT* the only company which decides against buying computers with Win 8 inside
One cause for the lack of demand of electrical engineers is that the hardware design and manufacturing is located to cheaper countries
What I see here, is that the quality of engineers coming out of college or universities is declining at an alarming rate
Both of you are right, partially.
The main cause of rising unemployment among the hardware designers (electrical engineers) is that there are _less_ need for new devices
Compared to the decades pasts (1990's, 2000's) the 2010 decade we see less hardware development
From circuits to chips to system/devices, there seems to be a decline in new product designs - even in Asia.
I've been in many Asian countries, from Japan to Taiwan to Korea to Singapore to India to China, the pace of new hardware development have slowed to a crawl
The notion that Android being a "trojan" is in itself a very very sick joke
That this insanely inane thing be turned into an official complaint submitted to the European Commission (EC), and that EC actually accepted this utterly ridiculous complaint is so mind-boggling that I can't help but to wonder the true usefulness of the European Commission in the first place
What is the use of an "European Commission" if anybody (with deep pocket) can submit any kind of complaint - even the frivolous ones - and the EC has to waste time and effort and money to decide on the complaints ???
CEOs have a lot of experience at driving companies in the ground and asking for bailouts.
And unfortunately innovative bail-out strategies are more important skill for US business than running a company that actually invents cool stuff.
The detroit automaker bailouts proved that. Rather than let them fail so the dozen small US automakers with near-production-ready electric cars and motorcycles could compete (and buy the factories and hire the talent they need in the big-3-bankruptcy sales), the government keeps bailing out the "too-big-to-fail" automakers who proved they can't invent a decent car if their very existance depends on it.
Good thing (for them) that it doesn't. Bailouts are a far easier way to get big bonuses than doing actual good work.
Actually, the interesting thing is that if the Government hadn't bailed out the Detroit auto makers, Ford would be the only one left intact. They didn't take a bailout and were able to ride out to the storm. GM and Chrysler would have had to go through the Bankruptcy process.
What you have failed to point out is that the lesser known and much smaller vehicle manufacturers in the US which could have benefited from the demise of Chrysler and GM are again, left out in the cold because the biggies are getting all the attention from the government
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At places where iron rusts (oxidizes) you will find the so-called "iron loving" bacteria
But be careful, some of them can cause Tetanus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus
Dear Sir,
I humbly invite you to study the definition of the Pyramid Scheme in Wikipedia, @ the following link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme
I reckoned it ain't the best description of the Pyramid Scheme but I do hope that you would gain an understanding of the difference between how Bitcoin works and that of the Pyramid Scheme
Thank you !
The Foundation is optimistic about the Welsh factory and said there will be 'more Made in the U.K. Pis in the world than their Made in China cousins.'
Is there any difference between the ones made in UK and the ones made in China?
I believe that, if the "human gene" occurs naturally, that is, already existed before being discovered, they should not be patentable --- something akin to "prior art"
But on the other hand, if the "human gene" is has a new sequence, result of some artificial manipulation in some lab, and has special characteristics, then I think it would be unfair to prohibit those who have invested their time and effort in creating something that has never existed before in patenting the new genetic sequence(s)
teams are much better at solving problems than individuals
Please correct me if I'm wrong ...
Based on my experience of past few decades (from the 1970's) in the tech field, the conclusion that I get is the reverse
Teams are much better of IDENTIFYING problems
On the other hands, people are much better at solving problems when they are in the "individual mode", than when they are part of a "committee", aka "teams"
As I said, I may be wrong, and if I do, please correct me
Thank you !
From TFA:
Disclaimer: I ain't a space scientist, I'm just a geek
What I want to know is this --- How come those exotic minerals exist in space rocks but not on planet Earth ?
Where those space rocks came from ? Weren't they were formed from the same batch of space dusts that gelled up the Solar System ??
Or could it possibly be that those space rocks were from an ancient planet (or star) that had exploded?
If the space rocks that contained all the exotic minerals came from an ancient planet, wouldn't that mean that it is very likely that the planet, which was itself rich with all those exotic minerals, had lifeforms of its own ??
FYI:
The opensource video editing program also has its own kickstart page
You may want to visit it @ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/421164014/openshot-video-editor-for-windows-mac-and-linux/
You Sir, will not be able to do what you do (online or not) if not for the hard work and risk taking of the so-called "capitalist bastards"
Where do you think the bread that you ate this morning came from ?
From the capitalist bastards who own the bakeries, which baked the bread
Who do you think produce the wheat flour that the bakers used to make the bread ?
From the capitalist bastards who own the flour mills, which grind up the wheat grains into flour
Who do you think produce the wheat in the first place ?
From the capitalist bastards, the farmers, who took great risk to plant the wheat last fall and later harvest them to feed your kind, the freeloaders
It's one of the biggest, scariest graveyards for Internet entrepreneurs: Small, local business
Not true
Internet graveyard is littered with businesses that does *NOT* make any sense
Most people have a misconception of how to do business online --- they often thought that Internet is a world of its own, that it has rules so special that online business must act differently than their brick-and-mortar counterparts
I'm talking from my own experience --- I had been in the Silicon Valley since the late 1970's and I had involved myself with several very very successful startups
Although my portfolio did include several failed projects, the majority of the projects that I involved with were successful --- simply because of common sense ---
Any business, no matter if they are online or in the brick and mortar form, must have at least one product that others need
And if the demand is great enough, others will actually PAY YOU to get that product --- and that's where you get your profit
No matter if it's google or youtube or facebook or foursquare or groupon --- as an investor (and an entrepreneur) you need to look at the project as a customer ... and ask yourself "Is there anything that I desperately need from them?"
If the answer is "Yes", I will pour my money in
If the answer is negative, or maybe, or not sure, or whatever, I won't waste my time with it no more
I can use my time better by looking around for other startup ideas --- and there _are_ a lot to choose from
We used to replace our desktop PC once every 5 years or so, and our laptop once every 3 years or so, on average
What I get from my friends (and the companies they work for) is that nowadays, companies are keeping their office desktop PC for a longer period --- many Pentium 4 machines running Win XP are still being used --- mainly because of budget constraint and that they are not that satisfied with the latest offerings from M$
I can't say that Win 8 is the main culprit of people not upgrading their machine, but it *IS* a contributing factor
On another comment that I've posted on another Slashdot thread I already told you guys that my company is not purchasing any laptop for our sales force this year --- while in the past we bought, on average, 1,500 to 2,500 laptops every year --- and the reason for my company's not buying this year is because we couldn't find any laptop vendor supplying 3rd generation i7 powered laptop that runs Windows 7
We decide that it will be best none of our system run Windows 8
Only the laptops of my company run Windows --- our office computers are all running Linux --- and the reason the laptops that we purchase for our sales force run Windows is because of the software they use
Or else we would standardize everything in Linux
To many, coders are programmers
They aren't
Programmers program - from the inception phase all the way to the completion
Coders, on the other hand, only code, as instructed
That 10X management agency can't even differentiate the two
Are you saying that snowflakes have Intelligent Design?
If the snowflakes are "intelligently designed" they may look like flying saucers
Wow !
The 3D structures of the snowflakes are fractals !!
Hopefully someone can come up with a fractal software that can let users experimenting with various 3D snowflake shapes
And with the availability of 3D printing, who knows what kind of new art forms this will bring forth ??
Instead of a comet hitting planet Earth and wipe out all lifeforms, a more probable scenario is ...
A unknown / undiscovered chunk of meteor hit Earth and explode
The explosion was huge and everyone thought that it was a nuclear strike
And, before we know, everyone and anyone with any nuclear capability will send their bombs flying, everywhere
Tried and failed to read the full article in the Science magazine, it's a paywall, unfortunately
Most of the system that came with third generation core chip from Intel are no longer Win 7 compatible
In our company we have tried to re-format a machine that was preinstalled with Win 8, then re-install Win 7 on it
No go --- it just won't start
Some of your argument is interesting, but the idea that something's value is equal to the effort that it takes to obtain/create the thing is certainly not the case. There are lots of things that are very difficult to create and/or duplicate that have no value. If I have my computer hash random strings until I get a hash that includes my name in it, even though it might take 10 hours to do (and would take another 10 hours to duplicate), it doesn't make that random string valuable.
Take two watches
One Rolex - The other Timex
Which one is more difficult (take more time) to create ?
Why that Rolex watch has more "value" than that Timex watch ?
That being said, your argument could still (sort of) work like this: there SHOULD be a cap on the value of a bitcoin.... the $ cost in computing power to mine a new coin.
If Bitcoin is a commodity, and behaves like a commodity, then, the value of Bitcoin can go way up, or crash - just like any other commodity
There should be no "cap" nor "floor" on the price of any said commodity - as the marketplace being the final decider
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Last year (2012) my company purchased over 2,000 laptops for our sales force
Every year my company purchases about 1,500 to 2,500 laptops
This year my company decides to NOT purchase any laptop, simply because the laptop companies (Acer, Asus, Lenovo, HP, Dell( insist on putting Win 8 in laptops with i7 CPU
Due to the software that our sales force uses we need to run Windows on the laptop - but when we were looking for i7 powered laptops with Win 7, all the laptop manufacturers told us that they have to put Win 8 on their products because Microsoft says so
So, we decided to not purchase any laptop this year
I know, 2,000 laptop is not much, in the whole scheme of things, but I also know that my company is *NOT* the only company which decides against buying computers with Win 8 inside
One cause for the lack of demand of electrical engineers is that the hardware design and manufacturing is located to cheaper countries
What I see here, is that the quality of engineers coming out of college or universities is declining at an alarming rate
Both of you are right, partially.
The main cause of rising unemployment among the hardware designers (electrical engineers) is that there are _less_ need for new devices
Compared to the decades pasts (1990's, 2000's) the 2010 decade we see less hardware development
From circuits to chips to system/devices, there seems to be a decline in new product designs - even in Asia.
I've been in many Asian countries, from Japan to Taiwan to Korea to Singapore to India to China, the pace of new hardware development have slowed to a crawl
The notion that Android being a "trojan" is in itself a very very sick joke
That this insanely inane thing be turned into an official complaint submitted to the European Commission (EC), and that EC actually accepted this utterly ridiculous complaint is so mind-boggling that I can't help but to wonder the true usefulness of the European Commission in the first place
What is the use of an "European Commission" if anybody (with deep pocket) can submit any kind of complaint - even the frivolous ones - and the EC has to waste time and effort and money to decide on the complaints ???
Many chips that we are using today are fabricated with circuit lines that are really really tiny, to the point of nano-meter wide
For example, the latest Intel's microchip, the Ivy Bridge (and soon the Haswell) have circuit-sizes as small as 22nm
Can the PARC's laser printer churn out chips with similar nano-meter size circuits?
... all speech that are not sanctioned by the liberals
No, they do not believe in the true concept of FREE speech - their only aim is to force everyone in using political correct speeches
The Coyote finally won
Yeah, that too, is possible !
CEOs have a lot of experience at driving companies in the ground and asking for bailouts.
And unfortunately innovative bail-out strategies are more important skill for US business than running a company that actually invents cool stuff.
The detroit automaker bailouts proved that. Rather than let them fail so the dozen small US automakers with near-production-ready electric cars and motorcycles could compete (and buy the factories and hire the talent they need in the big-3-bankruptcy sales), the government keeps bailing out the "too-big-to-fail" automakers who proved they can't invent a decent car if their very existance depends on it.
Good thing (for them) that it doesn't. Bailouts are a far easier way to get big bonuses than doing actual good work.
Actually, the interesting thing is that if the Government hadn't bailed out the Detroit auto makers, Ford would be the only one left intact. They didn't take a bailout and were able to ride out to the storm. GM and Chrysler would have had to go through the Bankruptcy process.
What you have failed to point out is that the lesser known and much smaller vehicle manufacturers in the US which could have benefited from the demise of Chrysler and GM are again, left out in the cold because the biggies are getting all the attention from the government