As a developer of high frequency trading systems I call BS on this big time.
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I agree. So let's drop income taxes to a flat 15% indexed to the capital gains tax rate. And that 15% would be a flat tax on gross income with no little extras like fica, etc.. thrown in. *everyone* pays $ 0.15 for every dollar of income they receive. Simple.
I look at it this way, his parents *did* work hard and earn their wealth, their house, etc. They should have the right to do with it as they see fit. The same goes for a company. The potential for their son to do well with the house or the business, just as there is potential for the son to fritter it all away on hookers and blow.
But it comes down to the right of the parents to dispose of their property in the way they see fit, and the right of the son to receive that property should the parents give it to him. It's also his right as a human being to fail or succeed on his own merits with the resources he inherits.
People has lost sight of the power of generational thinking when it comes to estate and wealth planning. The decisions I make now effect me immediately, my children shortly and my eventual grand-children in the long term.
Not necessarily. If the ruling that MP3's are, legally, the same as a material object, then the RIAA can argue that putting an mp3 up on bit torrent for X-thousand people to download is the equivalent of manufacturing X-thousand counterfeit copies and distributing them.
That's actually what you're doing, but currently the legal status of MP3's vis a vis material objects is up in the air.
I'm not sure I want this ruling to go in ReDigi's favor. At least not yet.
Ahh.. someone has seen the man behind the curtain. It's amazing how many ways your technological priesthood can make it's displeasure known to the gods of the spreadsheets in the corner offices.
Install software at new site.
Test software at new site. Set up new database with live replication from old database Switch on new servers and point to new database TEST Flip VIP on front end to point to new servers Turn off old servers
There.. fixed it for you. ZERO downtime. This stuff is trivial now.
Here's an thought. What happens to that data? It gets searched, sifted, analyzed and tagged for further possible action. There is precedent for a seizure of one company's assets spawning additional criminal charges against that company's customers and associates. This thing could get very interesting in a New York Minute.
MPAA rules about keeping film assets off the internet
Can you elaborate a bit on this? I've been in and around the animation industry since the mid 80's and this is the first I've heard of any MPAA regulations regarding this are of the production pipeline. Got any other info you can point me to?
This is a different, and more generalized, version of the renderfarms-for-rent that were available in any area where there was a strong animation industry. Some of us were even experimenting with internet delivery of job info, though initial loading of images and models required shipping a hard drive or three.
SGI had something called (iirc) Drums or something like that back in 90s to attempt this very thing. A bit a head of the market, but still a neat project.
The major problem with building your own renderfarm is keeping the thing busy enough with paying projects to justify the capital outlay plus the salaries of competent people to run and maintain it. With EC2 and other such services, the ability to go to an as-needed model for HPC is awesome. Yeah, it's expensive, but if you're not charging your clients more for insane deadlines, you're not doing it right.;)
The concept of theft requires that you deprive someone of a limited resource. In what way is someone downloading from a third party a copy of a dvd that they already have the legal right to use depriving the makers of that game of anything?
His actions cost the game company nothing, they lost nothing, nor incurred any additional costs (such as replacing a physical item, or using their bandwidth for the download). Instead, they gained a continuation of the relationship that began with the original purchase of the game.
If there are so few devices within the set affected by this license, then why would anyone bother writing bootloader viruses for them? You can't have it both ways. There is either a market large enough for the virus writers to bother with, which means there is also a market large enough for this license restriction to be a problem; or there isn't a market large enough for either the virus makers or the users to care. If the latter, then why bother locking it down? If the former, which is the case here, the move is blatantly anti-competitive.
Off to see how much money Microsoft has been donating to the politicians in charge of the oversight committees in the FTC.:)
The licensing agreement itself *is* the proof, right there in black and white. A company has three choices here:
1) Ship their ARM products locked to Windows and be allowed to put the pretty, shiny windows logo on their box and WHQL logo on the system., tell other OS's to take a hike 2) Ship their ARM products without the magical logo on the box, but include windows anyway. Not sure what the legal ramifications are to this, but I'm sure there are some serious financial incentives they'll miss out. 3) Create a forked product line. One would be MagicTablet5000-W with the windows lock-down in place and the MagicTable5000-F (for freedom!) without it. Support problems and brand dilution come to mind for that product.
There is, simply, no valid technological reason for this requirement for ARM and not for x86. And as far as I can determine, there isn't anything like this kind of lockdown on any Android licenses. The Telcos are forcing manufacturers to lock the hardware in the phone markets but that's a different issue entirely.
And if you look at the entire picture, you'll see that the areas where there is the least parity are those with the highest level of Governmental interference. The areas where the highest innovation, best products, and most wealth creation are those with little to no Govt interference.
With that kind of criteria,the room in my house with my firewall, nas, media server and telecom equipment is a data center. It's just over 500sq feet and I haven't had more that 8 hours of power or network outage in all of 2011.
It's also my photo studio, but the criteria doesn't say you can't do more than just computing in the room.:)
There is no technological barrier to remote health care. There is a regulatory and legislative barrier; at least in the US. Look at the massive rules regarding patient privacy (including things like where computers are oriented in the *home* of a doctor doing remote assist) in the HIIPA bills. I routinely talk to my doctors via e-mail and my records are only on paper when they're writing notes in my folder. Everything's electronic and exchanged that way.
SIRI, Google Voice, Dragon Natural Speaking (I know of at least two NYT Best selling SciFi authors who use is extensively).
Again, the tech is there. Look at the vast number of people using MMOs for gaming and socialization. There's no valid reason to force a fully 3D interface onto things that are, in essence, purely text information.
Nanotech. Technologically valid, regulatory (EPA, etc..) nightmare. Give it 10 more years.
Behavior tracking and assist based on your normal usage. Again, possible, but not yet implemented. Don't know why but it's not something I'm too terribly interested in.
From the look of the two monitors on the 'example' page, it looks like they're showing 27 or 30 inch monitors. If that's true, then the comparison of the 'low end' Radeon 3450 at a max of 1920x1200 to a 3470 or higher with a max resolution of 2560x1600 (the native resolution of a 30 inch monitor) will look something close to the example photos.
Not labeling the examples with the types of cards used, resolutions, sizes, etc is close to unconscionable for a business computer comparison / assist site.
The funny thing is that even if that's true, then the lowest end baseline integrated intel graphics chip would match the high end in display resolution, and therefore, sharpness on any monitor Dell sells.
Comparisons like this are meaningless. You're whole country is the size and population of some of America's large sized cities. Wiring up a country of 10million people, with significant help from your govt (ie.. at tax payer expense) is trivial. Doing the same thing on continent wide with a population 30 times that is a problem of a completely different scale. The problems do not scale linearly either.
If you're going to compare Sweden to something, compare it to what Google is doing in the midwest US. Then you'll be comparing similar things.
Raise them with a good solid grounding in as many religions and philosophical beliefs as you can get your hands on. Lessons in comparative religions, history of cultures, the history of trade and communications technologies, and any other things you can think of to:
1) teach them a broader view of history and religious thought. 2) teach them to understand other modes of religious thought and belief. 3) teach them how to think about religion instead of what to think about it. 4) teach them critical thinking, research techniques, small group dynamics, psychology of ritual, etc
In short, teach them how to study, how to research, and how to think. They'll find their own religious path easily enough then.
The amount of the early termination fees is greater than the retail price of the phone minus the OTC fee you paid when you got the phone in almost every contract available in the US.
Buying from ebay/craigslist is not the answer either.
Most of the manufacturers, Apple excluded of course, offer unlocked retail versions of their handsets through retailers such as Newegg. You can also, in some cases, buy direct from the manufacturer.
"Everyone commits crimes on a regular basis. It's just that most of them are so trivial that there is no reason to enforce the law, even when in princible there could be a jail term of many years."
Unless there is something else you're doing that someone doesn't like that they can't actually bring charges for. Case in point, Assange. Can't bust him for Wikileaks so they dig up some trivial thing from years ago and throw you in the lockup.
When lawyers and cops are involved, NOTHING is trivial.
You have a lot of Geek friends, but how many of them are Nielson families? Unless you're counted in the ratings surveys, what you watch or don't watch is irrelevant.
Find a way to get onto the ratings surveys and suddenly you count for a million or so geeks in our demographic brackets.
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As a developer of high frequency trading systems I call BS on this big time.
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I agree. So let's drop income taxes to a flat 15% indexed to the capital gains tax rate. And that 15% would be a flat tax on gross income with no little extras like fica, etc.. thrown in. *everyone* pays $ 0.15 for every dollar of income they receive. Simple.
I look at it this way, his parents *did* work hard and earn their wealth, their house, etc. They should have the right to do with it as they see fit. The same goes for a company. The potential for their son to do well with the house or the business, just as there is potential for the son to fritter it all away on hookers and blow.
But it comes down to the right of the parents to dispose of their property in the way they see fit, and the right of the son to receive that property should the parents give it to him. It's also his right as a human being to fail or succeed on his own merits with the resources he inherits.
People has lost sight of the power of generational thinking when it comes to estate and wealth planning. The decisions I make now effect me immediately, my children shortly and my eventual grand-children in the long term.
Not necessarily. If the ruling that MP3's are, legally, the same as a material object, then the RIAA can argue that putting an mp3 up on bit torrent for X-thousand people to download is the equivalent of manufacturing X-thousand counterfeit copies and distributing them.
That's actually what you're doing, but currently the legal status of MP3's vis a vis material objects is up in the air.
I'm not sure I want this ruling to go in ReDigi's favor. At least not yet.
Ahh.. someone has seen the man behind the curtain. It's amazing how many ways your technological priesthood can make it's displeasure known to the gods of the spreadsheets in the corner offices.
Install software at new site.
Test software at new site.
Set up new database with live replication from old database
Switch on new servers and point to new database
TEST
Flip VIP on front end to point to new servers
Turn off old servers
There.. fixed it for you. ZERO downtime. This stuff is trivial now.
I think the word you're looking for there is 'busker'. We're all becoming digital buskers with infinite street-corners on the digital highway.
Already done: http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/24/technology/3D_food_printer/index.htm
It's already on the market. Debeers makes millions a year selling them. They're called Wedding Rings.
Here's an thought. What happens to that data? It gets searched, sifted, analyzed and tagged for further possible action. There is precedent for a seizure of one company's assets spawning additional criminal charges against that company's customers and associates. This thing could get very interesting in a New York Minute.
MPAA rules about keeping film assets off the internet
Can you elaborate a bit on this? I've been in and around the animation industry since the mid 80's and this is the first I've heard of any MPAA regulations regarding this are of the production pipeline. Got any other info you can point me to?
Scott
(quote) (you may lose pixels when downloading the files) (/quote)
Um, what? Dropped data from transfers has been a solved problem since before the days of zmodem. What ISP are you using?
This is a different, and more generalized, version of the renderfarms-for-rent that were available in any area where there was a strong animation industry. Some of us were even experimenting with internet delivery of job info, though initial loading of images and models required shipping a hard drive or three.
SGI had something called (iirc) Drums or something like that back in 90s to attempt this very thing. A bit a head of the market, but still a neat project.
The major problem with building your own renderfarm is keeping the thing busy enough with paying projects to justify the capital outlay plus the salaries of competent people to run and maintain it. With EC2 and other such services, the ability to go to an as-needed model for HPC is awesome. Yeah, it's expensive, but if you're not charging your clients more for insane deadlines, you're not doing it right. ;)
Scott
The concept of theft requires that you deprive someone of a limited resource. In what way is someone downloading from a third party a copy of a dvd that they already have the legal right to use depriving the makers of that game of anything?
His actions cost the game company nothing, they lost nothing, nor incurred any additional costs (such as replacing a physical item, or using their bandwidth for the download). Instead, they gained a continuation of the relationship that began with the original purchase of the game.
If there are so few devices within the set affected by this license, then why would anyone bother writing bootloader viruses for them? You can't have it both ways. There is either a market large enough for the virus writers to bother with, which means there is also a market large enough for this license restriction to be a problem; or there isn't a market large enough for either the virus makers or the users to care. If the latter, then why bother locking it down? If the former, which is the case here, the move is blatantly anti-competitive.
Off to see how much money Microsoft has been donating to the politicians in charge of the oversight committees in the FTC. :)
Scott
The licensing agreement itself *is* the proof, right there in black and white. A company has three choices here:
1) Ship their ARM products locked to Windows and be allowed to put the pretty, shiny windows logo on their box and WHQL logo on the system., tell other OS's to take a hike
2) Ship their ARM products without the magical logo on the box, but include windows anyway. Not sure what the legal ramifications are to this, but I'm sure there are some serious financial incentives they'll miss out.
3) Create a forked product line. One would be MagicTablet5000-W with the windows lock-down in place and the MagicTable5000-F (for freedom!) without it. Support problems and brand dilution come to mind for that product.
There is, simply, no valid technological reason for this requirement for ARM and not for x86. And as far as I can determine, there isn't anything like this kind of lockdown on any Android licenses. The Telcos are forcing manufacturers to lock the hardware in the phone markets but that's a different issue entirely.
Scott
And if you look at the entire picture, you'll see that the areas where there is the least parity are those with the highest level of Governmental interference. The areas where the highest innovation, best products, and most wealth creation are those with little to no Govt interference.
With that kind of criteria,the room in my house with my firewall, nas, media server and telecom equipment is a data center. It's just over 500sq feet and I haven't had more that 8 hours of power or network outage in all of 2011.
It's also my photo studio, but the criteria doesn't say you can't do more than just computing in the room. :)
There is no technological barrier to remote health care. There is a regulatory and legislative barrier; at least in the US. Look at the massive rules regarding patient privacy (including things like where computers are oriented in the *home* of a doctor doing remote assist) in the HIIPA bills. I routinely talk to my doctors via e-mail and my records are only on paper when they're writing notes in my folder. Everything's electronic and exchanged that way.
SIRI, Google Voice, Dragon Natural Speaking (I know of at least two NYT Best selling SciFi authors who use is extensively).
Again, the tech is there. Look at the vast number of people using MMOs for gaming and socialization. There's no valid reason to force a fully 3D interface onto things that are, in essence, purely text information.
Nanotech. Technologically valid, regulatory (EPA, etc..) nightmare. Give it 10 more years.
Behavior tracking and assist based on your normal usage. Again, possible, but not yet implemented. Don't know why but it's not something I'm too terribly interested in.
From the look of the two monitors on the 'example' page, it looks like they're showing 27 or 30 inch monitors. If that's true, then the comparison of the 'low end' Radeon 3450 at a max of 1920x1200 to a 3470 or higher with a max resolution of 2560x1600 (the native resolution of a 30 inch monitor) will look something close to the example photos.
Not labeling the examples with the types of cards used, resolutions, sizes, etc is close to unconscionable for a business computer comparison / assist site.
The funny thing is that even if that's true, then the lowest end baseline integrated intel graphics chip would match the high end in display resolution, and therefore, sharpness on any monitor Dell sells.
Comparisons like this are meaningless. You're whole country is the size and population of some of America's large sized cities. Wiring up a country of 10million people, with significant help from your govt (ie.. at tax payer expense) is trivial. Doing the same thing on continent wide with a population 30 times that is a problem of a completely different scale. The problems do not scale linearly either.
If you're going to compare Sweden to something, compare it to what Google is doing in the midwest US. Then you'll be comparing similar things.
Raise them with a good solid grounding in as many religions and philosophical beliefs as you can get your hands on. Lessons in comparative religions, history of cultures, the history of trade and communications technologies, and any other things you can think of to:
1) teach them a broader view of history and religious thought.
2) teach them to understand other modes of religious thought and belief.
3) teach them how to think about religion instead of what to think about it.
4) teach them critical thinking, research techniques, small group dynamics, psychology of ritual, etc
In short, teach them how to study, how to research, and how to think. They'll find their own religious path easily enough then.
Scott
The amount of the early termination fees is greater than the retail price of the phone minus the OTC fee you paid when you got the phone in almost every contract available in the US.
Buying from ebay/craigslist is not the answer either.
Most of the manufacturers, Apple excluded of course, offer unlocked retail versions of their handsets through retailers such as Newegg. You can also, in some cases, buy direct from the manufacturer.
Scott
"Everyone commits crimes on a regular basis. It's just that most of them are so trivial that there is no reason to enforce the law, even when in princible there could be a jail term of many years."
Unless there is something else you're doing that someone doesn't like that they can't actually bring charges for. Case in point, Assange. Can't bust him for Wikileaks so they dig up some trivial thing from years ago and throw you in the lockup.
When lawyers and cops are involved, NOTHING is trivial.
You have a lot of Geek friends, but how many of them are Nielson families? Unless you're counted in the ratings surveys, what you watch or don't watch is irrelevant.
Find a way to get onto the ratings surveys and suddenly you count for a million or so geeks in our demographic brackets.