And if that negligible amount "leeched" from your vehicle, so small that you'd never notice, meant that the Super Market didn't have the expense of paying for power, could mean you as the consumer may pay less for your groceries.
you always have to pay for it man, one way or another.
We should make a new rule: all slashdot users have to give me $0.10. It's a negligible amount to be "leeched" from your pockets, so small that you'd never notice. This way I get free groceries. Now if we all did this for each other, all slashdot users would get free groceries. Bonus!
Can't believe the arguments against this today, shows a total lack of understanding in regards to physics.
For the record, I am a physicist, and there is much that I don't understand. I think I've got my head around this one though.
Of course there is no free energy here. In other words the store is leeching a small amount of petrol energy from all the cars and trucks that drive over it, a little bit at a time. Due to efficiency losses this is a net loss for everyone. Gee, thanks.
regardless of what your vaporware results may say (you've released results before even writing/running the model! ha! there's scientific objectivity for you), there is a serious flaw in your thesis which renders the rest of the argument irrelevant:
increased efficiency demands increased complexity
it demands nothing of the sort. if anything streamlining "demands" exactly the opposite, and less waste is a directly & tangible payback.
(actually it "demands" nothing, you just anthropomorphized it)
if you want a law you can trust, take a lesson from thermodynamics: the only thing that is 100% efficient is efficiency.
In no way do you have merit to dictate those terms. If you don't like it, then don't attend or try to convince them to change those terms. Either way, "Adults" should understand this is a contract, and you have very little negotiating power.
that is completely and utterly ridiculous.
hell, if you can't even find the brass to stand up to a moronic IT policy...
you might as well go out and get a tshirt that says "rape is easier if you shut up and let it happen."
That came off as more of a personal attack than I meant it to be. Probably because some aspects of your chosen profession really piss me off.
You sound like a descent guy, my intention was to encourage you to realize that you are playing the role of the glazier in the broken window fallacy, and the rest of us suffer for it.
Please consider for a moment the economic reasons that the world's economy is completely ruined right now, and millions of people have quite literally lost their job, homes, and self respect.
It is quite simply because of the rampant overinflation of valueless speculation. You take an item with no intrinsic value other than that someone is willing to pay something for it, hike up the price, onsell, rinse & repeat. If you don't actually produce anything tangible, or provide a service to someone who does make something real which makes their process more efficient, then you are simply a leech on society and the economy. All you end up contributing is creating inflation for zero gain - the broken window fallacy. When the masses notice the leeches making some cash they naturally rush to join in on the action. Eventually the leeches outweigh the producers and the system becomes unstable and eventually it collapses with a big "pop", taking down both leeches and honest producers alike.
There is a spectrum, at one end is people working for the solution, at the other end people contributing to the world's problems. In the middle there is a median line at 50%. Where would you like to be on that? Where do you think you are on that?
There's really no reason to carry the laptop around with you all day. You'd be better off to cut the cord and carry around a good pen and a notebook. (no, PDAs as just as bad)
It's extraordinarily liberating after you get over the initial shock, not to mention better for you social life. *Especially* if you're the go-to techie type.
For myself I prefer the scientific method, where if a thing or technique has never proved itself to exist, then it does not. Not seen == not believed. Therefore I don't believe an erased and zero'd hard drive can be recovered.
I think you misapply the method. It states that you can only disprove a theory, not prove one. The universe of possibilities are open until you disprove them.
Or as the common scientific (and perhaps religious?) adage goes: "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Do a websearch for Carl Sagan's bologna detection kit and perhaps spend some quality time in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
The other side to that is it may not be such a bad thing that their frankenseed lays blanks. If it turns out to be dangerous (kills bugs AND babies) then there is less chance for it to spin wildly out of control and irrevertibly taint the natural breed stock. The fact that this lines up with their evil plans for world domination are probably just coincidental though.
As an inventor, I can get a max of 20 years out of a patent, and it costs me close to 40K to do that. Copyright is currently set at your lifetime plus 70 years, for free. Why should an artists work be valued so much higher than an inventors? Let's not forget that as a scientist, I can't get any form of protection for my work - raw science is neither patentable nor copywriteable.
they are treated in three different ways because they are three different things.
as a scientist you have neither invented nor created any work, therefore you are due nothing. you have merely elucidated nature's glory to the rest of us for the first time. the best you can hope for is to have a unit of measure named after you or maybe become famous enough to be invited to enjoy dinner with the King of Sweden one day.
inventions enter the public domain faster as it has been recognized that they benefit society in a disproportionate manner. is an invention a creative work? sure. is a creative work a mechanical device? depends on how you wield it, but generally no. even if it describes how to build one.
there is some justification for the lifetime+x years on copyright. e.g. if an unethical firm wants to make a film out of your book they can't just hire a hitman and then claim Public Domain, even if they get caught.
to some extent you are right, the copyright lag is way too long and should be brought back in line.
These languages are radically different from anything you've experienced before. Learning how to think differently about problems will make you a much better programmer,
This advice is so good that it wins a cookie, and is applicable to all areas of life.
Give the children technology that they, and their teachers don't understand and the laptops will end up gathering dust.
have you spent much time with kids? They are scary smart at figuring stuff out from scratch. Give them a boring homework assignment in OpenOffice and by the end of the week they'll be some of the few people on Earth who know how to use GIMP really well.
perhaps it's some ancient forbidden love dance gone horribly wrong; such chain "action" is seen in the "living fossil" horseshoe crabs. (which are also arthropods, rare surviving relative of the trilobite, and almost as old as the little guys in TFA)
which window manager?
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Bonus points if you can identify the UNIX window manager running from the screenshot window decorations. KDE? Solaris?
10^14th bonus points if you are the FOSS coder who wrote the window decoration theme which is now used to control the planet's most powerful instrument of destruction.
Correct. Fred Brooks's The Mythical Man-Month WRT second-system effect. Thanks. Mongoose Disciple gets today's gold star.
I didn't make this very clear in the GP post, by second version I had meant the "rewrite" version.
disclosure: I had read Joel on Software's article on this some time ago as well, so that's not entirely incorrect either, but I did mean the Mythical Man-Month.
better to spend your time reading the classic piece about why software projects fail and why "version 2" is the most dangerous. a central point of that is "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater", ie it is a fallacy to believe that your 2nd version will be less buggy than the first. it will probably be just as buggy, only less well tested. I hope a learned CS major can provide the link, as I'm drawing a blank on the author.
A justice system that ignores basic inalienable rights by definition has no authority in that regard. Sadly we've allowed those in higher positions of power to abuse our liberties with little to no resistance.
New Zealand has no constitution. The "Bill of Rights" is an act of parliament and "amended" when the ruling party finds it to be convenient. We only have some vague sense of British common law to protect us. On the other hand, in practice it is a much more progressive country than the USA, it simply lacks any sort of safety net or institutional inertia.
... that podcast was from May 28th by the way, since then the opposition party (National) has dropped their objections (as stated in the podcast) and now support the oral testimony part of the bill. Another scary thing right at the end of the podcast is that the government Minister being interviewed does a nasty dance around the question of retroactively applying double jeopardy to cases settled before this law will be passed (and with support of all major parties, it will be).
Oh, and our DMCA++ and domestic spying bills/treaties are coming along just fine as well. The ruling left in this country has moved so far to the right that the populace is supporting the right wing party to get it back to the left (yeah, that'll work). It's nuts.
Currently the NZ parliament is pushing though a law that not only takes away the right of the accused to face their accuser (think traumatized rape victims having their grant jury testimony video taped then replayed at the main trial; honourable perhaps, but with that an evil accuser with a vendetta only has to get their story straight once)... the bill also removes protection from double jeopardy! (in extreme[ly embarrassing lost] cases only of course)
And the few marginalized Green Party MPs are the only ones who consider either of these things to be at all problematic!
This is directly out of this morning's newspaper, almost given as an afterthought.
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you always have to pay for it man, one way or another.
We should make a new rule: all slashdot users have to give me $0.10. It's a negligible amount to be "leeched" from your pockets, so small that you'd never notice. This way I get free groceries. Now if we all did this for each other, all slashdot users would get free groceries. Bonus!
For the record, I am a physicist, and there is much that I don't understand. I think I've got my head around this one though.
rationalized leeching is still leeching. Perhaps you own a hybrid with regenerative brakes?
Of course there is no free energy here. In other words the store is leeching a small amount of petrol energy from all the cars and trucks that drive over it, a little bit at a time. Due to efficiency losses this is a net loss for everyone. Gee, thanks.
dude, you've got a jet engine? excellent!
regardless of what your vaporware results may say (you've released results before even writing/running the model! ha! there's scientific objectivity for you), there is a serious flaw in your thesis which renders the rest of the argument irrelevant:
it demands nothing of the sort. if anything streamlining "demands" exactly the opposite, and less waste is a directly & tangible payback.
(actually it "demands" nothing, you just anthropomorphized it)
if you want a law you can trust, take a lesson from thermodynamics: the only thing that is 100% efficient is efficiency.
that is completely and utterly ridiculous.
hell, if you can't even find the brass to stand up to a moronic IT policy ...
you might as well go out and get a tshirt that says "rape is easier if you shut up and let it happen."
That came off as more of a personal attack than I meant it to be. Probably because some aspects of your chosen profession really piss me off.
You sound like a descent guy, my intention was to encourage you to realize that you are playing the role of the glazier in the broken window fallacy, and the rest of us suffer for it.
regards,
Please consider for a moment the economic reasons that the world's economy is completely ruined right now, and millions of people have quite literally lost their job, homes, and self respect.
It is quite simply because of the rampant overinflation of valueless speculation. You take an item with no intrinsic value other than that someone is willing to pay something for it, hike up the price, onsell, rinse & repeat. If you don't actually produce anything tangible, or provide a service to someone who does make something real which makes their process more efficient, then you are simply a leech on society and the economy. All you end up contributing is creating inflation for zero gain - the broken window fallacy. When the masses notice the leeches making some cash they naturally rush to join in on the action. Eventually the leeches outweigh the producers and the system becomes unstable and eventually it collapses with a big "pop", taking down both leeches and honest producers alike.
There is a spectrum, at one end is people working for the solution, at the other end people contributing to the world's problems. In the middle there is a median line at 50%. Where would you like to be on that? Where do you think you are on that?
There's really no reason to carry the laptop around with you all day. You'd be better off to cut the cord and carry around a good pen and a notebook. (no, PDAs as just as bad)
It's extraordinarily liberating after you get over the initial shock, not to mention better for you social life. *Especially* if you're the go-to techie type.
I think you misapply the method. It states that you can only disprove a theory, not prove one. The universe of possibilities are open until you disprove them.
Or as the common scientific (and perhaps religious?) adage goes: "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." Do a websearch for Carl Sagan's bologna detection kit and perhaps spend some quality time in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance
The other side to that is it may not be such a bad thing that their frankenseed lays blanks. If it turns out to be dangerous (kills bugs AND babies) then there is less chance for it to spin wildly out of control and irrevertibly taint the natural breed stock.
The fact that this lines up with their evil plans for world domination are probably just coincidental though.
they are treated in three different ways because they are three different things.
as a scientist you have neither invented nor created any work, therefore you are due nothing. you have merely elucidated nature's glory to the rest of us for the first time. the best you can hope for is to have a unit of measure named after you or maybe become famous enough to be invited to enjoy dinner with the King of Sweden one day.
inventions enter the public domain faster as it has been recognized that they benefit society in a disproportionate manner.
is an invention a creative work? sure. is a creative work a mechanical device? depends on how you wield it, but generally no. even if it describes how to build one.
there is some justification for the lifetime+x years on copyright. e.g. if an unethical firm wants to make a film out of your book they can't just hire a hitman and then claim Public Domain, even if they get caught.
to some extent you are right, the copyright lag is way too long and should be brought back in line.
This advice is so good that it wins a cookie, and is applicable to all areas of life.
have you spent much time with kids? They are scary smart at figuring stuff out from scratch. Give them a boring homework assignment in OpenOffice and by the end of the week they'll be some of the few people on Earth who know how to use GIMP really well.
and Endless September dawns upon another soul.
perhaps it's some ancient forbidden love dance gone horribly wrong; such chain "action" is seen in the "living fossil" horseshoe crabs. (which are also arthropods, rare surviving relative of the trilobite, and almost as old as the little guys in TFA)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blondeonblonde/462916466/in/set-72157594323781031/
Bonus points if you can identify the UNIX window manager running from the screenshot window decorations. KDE? Solaris?
10^14th bonus points if you are the FOSS coder who wrote the window decoration theme which is now used to control the planet's most powerful instrument of destruction.
Who modded up this fine example of anti-logic trolling as insightful? For shame.
Study, learn, & love Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit:
http://www.xenu.net/archive/baloney_detection.html
And get "How to lie with statistics" from your local library if you have not yet read it.
Folks, it's not the change in temperature which is extraordinary and unprecedented in the geological record, it's the rate-of-change.
Correct. Fred Brooks's The Mythical Man-Month WRT second-system effect. Thanks. Mongoose Disciple gets today's gold star.
I didn't make this very clear in the GP post, by second version I had meant the "rewrite" version.
disclosure: I had read Joel on Software's article on this some time ago as well, so that's not entirely incorrect either, but I did mean the Mythical Man-Month.
quasi-informed op-ed piece. don't bother.
better to spend your time reading the classic piece about why software projects fail and why "version 2" is the most dangerous. a central point of that is "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater", ie it is a fallacy to believe that your 2nd version will be less buggy than the first. it will probably be just as buggy, only less well tested.
I hope a learned CS major can provide the link, as I'm drawing a blank on the author.
New Zealand has no constitution. The "Bill of Rights" is an act of parliament and "amended" when the ruling party finds it to be convenient. We only have some vague sense of British common law to protect us. On the other hand, in practice it is a much more progressive country than the USA, it simply lacks any sort of safety net or institutional inertia.
... that podcast was from May 28th by the way, since then the opposition party (National) has dropped their objections (as stated in the podcast) and now support the oral testimony part of the bill. Another scary thing right at the end of the podcast is that the government Minister being interviewed does a nasty dance around the question of retroactively applying double jeopardy to cases settled before this law will be passed (and with support of all major parties, it will be).
Oh, and our DMCA++ and domestic spying bills/treaties are coming along just fine as well. The ruling left in this country has moved so far to the right that the populace is supporting the right wing party to get it back to the left (yeah, that'll work). It's nuts.
Forget contempt of court. That's nothing.
... the bill also removes protection from double jeopardy! (in extreme[ly embarrassing lost] cases only of course)
Currently the NZ parliament is pushing though a law that not only takes away the right of the accused to face their accuser (think traumatized rape victims having their grant jury testimony video taped then replayed at the main trial; honourable perhaps, but with that an evil accuser with a vendetta only has to get their story straight once)
And the few marginalized Green Party MPs are the only ones who consider either of these things to be at all problematic!
This is directly out of this morning's newspaper, almost given as an afterthought.
here's a link to a recent RadioNZ [think BBC/PBS] podcast:
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/ckpt/the_rule_against_double_jeopardy
has anyone noticed the connection between /. sigs and a likelihood of the poster to respond to trolls?
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