Couldn't it be that there is something fundamentally wrong with laws that are unenforcable and contrary to the norms of human psychology? The nature of intellectual property has changed on a massive scale. This means the laws have to change, not us.
Bottom line here is that RNA as the mechanism of abiogenesis is just as corrupt as the Miller-Urey experiment that is touted so highly in introductory bio textbooks.
Look, you're not fooling anyone. There have always been, and there will always be people like you, who attempt to obfuscate their motives by stealing some jargon.
There are problems with with the theories of evolutionary biochemistry. There will always be problems with the theories of evolutionary biochemisty. But you know what? That's science. Nothing has ever been presented by the 'divine biochemistry' camp that has ever been as scientifically fruitful. What has been done, as has been done for generations, is the abuse of scientific incompleteness for theological bantering. Take your silly notions of "conspiring athiests" somewhere else.
IP law is supposed to promote innovation, but it has quite the opposite effect. We have really annhiliated the original 14 years was.
Why not just pick a different value for each medium. Books get 30 years. Drugs get 5 years. Videogames get 7 years... etc.
You have to know math thoroughly to appreciate it.
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What bothers me about books at this level is that they tend to give an impression of being something more than an extremely superficial (albiet fundamental) approach to the material.
You really have to know math thoroughly to appreciate it. All this rhetoric about mathematical beauty refers to something quite alien from ordinary human experience. Typically, math nonfiction just gives people terms to throw around that they don't really understand. (like Godel incompleteness)
If you just want to "get a feel" for advanced mathematical concepts, don't bother. It's a waste of time. On the other hand if you're fairly young and interested in math, it's a fine book to... um... "inspire" you I guess.
1) Assume that the labor market is perfectly competitive. 2) Assume that competitive markets will eliminate wage disparities between equally qualified men and women.
What justification is there for assumptions 1 & 2?
It is rather appalling the way you're approaching economic principles as if they're Kantian analytics.
The liberal argument is that there are wage disparities between populations of men and populations of women who do the same work. Hence, it rests on the point that the hiring populations of men and women will increase profitability at the same rate. From the perspective of an employer, that means 'identical goods.' So with respect to the labor market, it is the liberal who's arguing for perfect competition. (A perfectly competitive labor market would be socialist.)
An capitalist market recognizes differences in labor performance and dispenses capital incentives correspondingly. There is no way that a liberated (consumer) economy of scale would maintain a market where women could have %70 the wages of men with equivalent marginal revenue between genders.
If you think the internet is a piss poor medium for education, you lack imagination.
We're taking about very different levels of edcuation. I've been to a few of the sites you're talking about, and while informative on a superficial level, I would hardly characterize it as professional literature. If I want substantive academic literature/journal articles its hard to find. I'm better off in a library. I suppose I could always pirate Matlab or download some poorly translated Nietzshe though.
You're implying that I could "educate" myself by reading things off of encyclopedic sites. Well, I disagree. I opened up a Western Civilization textbook last week (for the hell of it), and the internet just doesn't comapare.
All of this may change with things like MIT OCW, but as it stands now the internet is a piss poor medium for education. When I was 12 years old, I used the internet for email, porn, videogames, and conceptually copying reports for school. I suspect I would have been an mp3 fiend if they'd been around.
Sometimes it bothers me the way people talk about the internet. It takes just as much intelligence and discipline to learn from the internet as it does to learn from books and teachers. It's nice that they're giving these people internet access, but I'm under no illusion that this will help children develop in any significant way.
Anyone notice a messy convergence in the functionality of all these devices?
Nintendo has been pretty consistent about generating a portable device with one clear and strong purpose, and at that it has been extremely successful.
Alot of these products I see coming out try to do lots of things--in a mediocre way. Without a clearly defined market, these are pretty much "cool gadgets" for people with loose cash. I don't see people using one handheld device to do 20 different things.
Are these companies experimentally sticking things together in combinations just to see if they'll sell? What I would rather see is companies spending more on generating killer apps with strong and focused purposes. (comme the Blackberry)
When people buy cars with DVD players, they're don't hop in to them when they want to watch movies. And it's great that my Palm can play mp3s, but I'll stick to my 20gig iPod.
The pyschologies of men and women are different, and its not just because of cultural pressure.
That's all feminsm should be about: letting women do what they want.
There's not any social benenfit in trying to artificially generate gender equity where pychological economies of scale will result in huge gender disparities. As long as there aren't restrictive sociocultural barriers preventing women from doing what they want, there nothing wrong with have gender disparities.
This doesn't mean girls aren't smart, but rather that they think computer science is for dorks. lol.
Epidemic viral agents/bacteria aren't going to come from some exotic place since they have to be tailor made for our immune system.
Our immune system has been evolving for hundreds of millions years, and it will attack everything that doesn't have the right 'password'. The only way pathogens can get those 'passwords' is just through enormous amounts of random mutation.
The rather prosiac solution is to stop using antibiotics irresponsibly because that just allows the stronger strains to proliferate.
Of course this is all noble, well-intentioned and all that good stuff in principle...
But
This changes subtly capitalistic influences to a subtly politicized ones.
I don't care how accomplished these prominent scientists on the editorial boards are, they're not gods, and they'll have their own subconcious axes to grind. In journals like Science and Nature, at least the capitalistic incentive is dry and impersonal, unlike the motivation to maintain dogma.
I'm not so sure the monetary incentive is worse than the political one which would emerge here.
This needs to be done in conjunction with a robust support system (that corporations would pay for). The software can be free, but for businesses to adopt this kind of thing, there will need people who provide the operational support and integration sevices which can not be effecively done without money.
The prime candidate for this job is IBM.
Once people use this at work, they'll use it at home.
...is that labeling something science fiction doesn't entitle it to a different standard of greatness than any other form of creatvity.
Science fiction is a humanistic imprisonment of the fantasy genre created so that people have their fantasy with underpinnings in empirical science. This can be done fantastically so that it might as well be pure fantasy; it can be done with sense of vision like Jules Verne (or Da Vinci.) IMHO, it is best done when it reaches for the profound effects that science and technology can have on culture and civilization.
Science has given mankind many ideas to explore creatively and new colors to paint his pictures with, but ultimately it is man who created science and man who draws upon that science for art. Science fiction must still be about what man feels, what he thinks, what he experiences... what it means to be human. The best science fiction, like all fiction, is rooted within the mythology, psychology, and religion which lie buried within our minds.
ASUS "Heart of Technology" FLASH DEMO COMPETITION
The goal is to create a cool Flash Demo highlighting ASUS component products and "jazz up" company image. The demo is to be use on ASUS company website. The theme of the demo will be "ASUS, at the heart of your technology."
My God... Asus has a seriously dorky marketing department.
It bugs me when these physicists get all postmodern about their work and call it art.
What they do is organize phenomenalogical data into commessurable patterns. They then mess around with seemingly conflicting patterns in weird combinations to see if they can get 'fundamental' patterns. They do this over and over again. She probably means that advancing physics requires a willingness to break the rules, think differently, color outside the lines... etc. The the degree to which physics posesses that quality pales in comparison to the classical definition of art
I suppose the process of physics does require creativity, but physics is an overwhelmingly destructive context for ideas.
It finally happened. The word stealing has lost all meaning. Stealing used to mean physical theft, as in you stole my calculator.
You stole my book. You stole my videogame. You stole my song. You stole my TV show. You stole my internet site.
You stole my cable. You stole my bandwidth.
Stealing = made me mad
Wow. It's amazing how Microsoft continues to make all these discoveries in GUI enhancement. I thought all a GUI was supposed to do was make it easier for me to run applications.
Well get a decent pair of headphones like the Sony V700s and you should be fine on any 15inch because your face is typically much closer to the display. There are other issues with LCD displays if you're really that hardcore.
do laptop's always seem to be "on the brink" of desktop performance? Do sites just repeat this news item everytime a more powerful laptops come out? The Geforce2go was a major step; this is a normal business cycle advance. The performance of laptops is never anywhere near the performance level of a similarly priced desktop, and that has been static for 15 years, yet over and over again we get reports about how laptops are becoming more and more like desktops... please.
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Couldn't it be that there is something fundamentally wrong with laws that are unenforcable and contrary to the norms of human psychology? The nature of intellectual property has changed on a massive scale. This means the laws have to change, not us.
Because even though I read the title right, my brain decided that it should really be "Getting Head Inside Einsteins
At first I thought you'd misinterpreted "getting inside Einstein's head."
Bottom line here is that RNA as the mechanism of abiogenesis is just as corrupt as the Miller-Urey experiment that is touted so highly in introductory bio textbooks.
Look, you're not fooling anyone. There have always been, and there will always be people like you, who attempt to obfuscate their motives by stealing some jargon.
There are problems with with the theories of evolutionary biochemistry. There will always be problems with the theories of evolutionary biochemisty. But you know what? That's science. Nothing has ever been presented by the 'divine biochemistry' camp that has ever been as scientifically fruitful. What has been done, as has been done for generations, is the abuse of scientific incompleteness for theological bantering. Take your silly notions of "conspiring athiests" somewhere else.
IP law is supposed to promote innovation, but it has quite the opposite effect. We have really annhiliated the original 14 years was.
Why not just pick a different value for each medium. Books get 30 years. Drugs get 5 years. Videogames get 7 years... etc.
What bothers me about books at this level is that they tend to give an impression of being something more than an extremely superficial (albiet fundamental) approach to the material.
You really have to know math thoroughly to appreciate it. All this rhetoric about mathematical beauty refers to something quite alien from ordinary human experience. Typically, math nonfiction just gives people terms to throw around that they don't really understand. (like Godel incompleteness)
If you just want to "get a feel" for advanced mathematical concepts, don't bother. It's a waste of time. On the other hand if you're fairly young and interested in math, it's a fine book to... um... "inspire" you I guess.
1) Assume that the labor market is perfectly competitive.
2) Assume that competitive markets will eliminate wage disparities between equally qualified men and women.
What justification is there for assumptions 1 & 2?
It is rather appalling the way you're approaching economic principles as if they're Kantian analytics.
The liberal argument is that there are wage disparities between populations of men and populations of women who do the same work. Hence, it rests on the point that the hiring populations of men and women will increase profitability at the same rate. From the perspective of an employer, that means 'identical goods.' So with respect to the labor market, it is the liberal who's arguing for perfect competition. (A perfectly competitive labor market would be socialist.)
An capitalist market recognizes differences in labor performance and dispenses capital incentives correspondingly. There is no way that a liberated (consumer) economy of scale would maintain a market where women could have %70 the wages of men with equivalent marginal revenue between genders.
If you think the internet is a piss poor medium for education, you lack imagination. We're taking about very different levels of edcuation. I've been to a few of the sites you're talking about, and while informative on a superficial level, I would hardly characterize it as professional literature. If I want substantive academic literature/journal articles its hard to find. I'm better off in a library. I suppose I could always pirate Matlab or download some poorly translated Nietzshe though.
You're implying that I could "educate" myself by reading things off of encyclopedic sites. Well, I disagree. I opened up a Western Civilization textbook last week (for the hell of it), and the internet just doesn't comapare.
All of this may change with things like MIT OCW, but as it stands now the internet is a piss poor medium for education. When I was 12 years old, I used the internet for email, porn, videogames, and conceptually copying reports for school. I suspect I would have been an mp3 fiend if they'd been around.
Sometimes it bothers me the way people talk about the internet. It takes just as much intelligence and discipline to learn from the internet as it does to learn from books and teachers. It's nice that they're giving these people internet access, but I'm under no illusion that this will help children develop in any significant way.
Train your left hand for next year.
Anyone notice a messy convergence in the functionality of all these devices?
Nintendo has been pretty consistent about generating a portable device with one clear and strong purpose, and at that it has been extremely successful.
Alot of these products I see coming out try to do lots of things--in a mediocre way. Without a clearly defined market, these are pretty much "cool gadgets" for people with loose cash. I don't see people using one handheld device to do 20 different things.
Are these companies experimentally sticking things together in combinations just to see if they'll sell? What I would rather see is companies spending more on generating killer apps with strong and focused purposes. (comme the Blackberry)
When people buy cars with DVD players, they're don't hop in to them when they want to watch movies. And it's great that my Palm can play mp3s, but I'll stick to my 20gig iPod.
The pyschologies of men and women are different, and its not just because of cultural pressure.
That's all feminsm should be about: letting women do what they want.
There's not any social benenfit in trying to artificially generate gender equity where pychological economies of scale will result in huge gender disparities. As long as there aren't restrictive sociocultural barriers preventing women from doing what they want, there nothing wrong with have gender disparities.
This doesn't mean girls aren't smart, but rather that they think computer science is for dorks. lol.
Epidemic viral agents/bacteria aren't going to come from some exotic place since they have to be tailor made for our immune system.
Our immune system has been evolving for hundreds of millions years, and it will attack everything that doesn't have the right 'password'. The only way pathogens can get those 'passwords' is just through enormous amounts of random mutation.
The rather prosiac solution is to stop using antibiotics irresponsibly because that just allows the stronger strains to proliferate.
Of course this is all noble, well-intentioned and all that good stuff in principle...
But
This changes subtly capitalistic influences to a subtly politicized ones.
I don't care how accomplished these prominent scientists on the editorial boards are, they're not gods, and they'll have their own subconcious axes to grind. In journals like Science and Nature, at least the capitalistic incentive is dry and impersonal, unlike the motivation to maintain dogma.
I'm not so sure the monetary incentive is worse than the political one which would emerge here.
This needs to be done in conjunction with a robust support system (that corporations would pay for). The software can be free, but for businesses to adopt this kind of thing, there will need people who provide the operational support and integration sevices which can not be effecively done without money. The prime candidate for this job is IBM. Once people use this at work, they'll use it at home.
...is that labeling something science fiction doesn't entitle it to a different standard of greatness than any other form of creatvity.
Science fiction is a humanistic imprisonment of the fantasy genre created so that people have their fantasy with underpinnings in empirical science. This can be done fantastically so that it might as well be pure fantasy; it can be done with sense of vision like Jules Verne (or Da Vinci.) IMHO, it is best done when it reaches for the profound effects that science and technology can have on culture and civilization.
Science has given mankind many ideas to explore creatively and new colors to paint his pictures with, but ultimately it is man who created science and man who draws upon that science for art. Science fiction must still be about what man feels, what he thinks, what he experiences... what it means to be human. The best science fiction, like all fiction, is rooted within the mythology, psychology, and religion which lie buried within our minds.
My mother was born in 1947. The transistor was also invented in 1947, by Shockley. 55 years later, I got her a new computer for Christmas.
What will I see when I turn 55? I can't wait to find out.
Aw man, I'm gonna wind up with a Macintosh cluster when I'm 55.
I wonder if they might be overselling it?
Indeed.
Great Volleyball
This is a game repleto of intelligent booties, simply mortal estonteantes and cut attacks.
Uuuh right...
ASUS "Heart of Technology" FLASH DEMO COMPETITION The goal is to create a cool Flash Demo highlighting ASUS component products and "jazz up" company image. The demo is to be use on ASUS company website. The theme of the demo will be "ASUS, at the heart of your technology." My God... Asus has a seriously dorky marketing department.
Linux is now the choice OS of money laundering. Soon be in the hands of other thieves like the RIAA!
It bugs me when these physicists get all postmodern about their work and call it art. What they do is organize phenomenalogical data into commessurable patterns. They then mess around with seemingly conflicting patterns in weird combinations to see if they can get 'fundamental' patterns. They do this over and over again. She probably means that advancing physics requires a willingness to break the rules, think differently, color outside the lines... etc. The the degree to which physics posesses that quality pales in comparison to the classical definition of art I suppose the process of physics does require creativity, but physics is an overwhelmingly destructive context for ideas.
It finally happened. The word stealing has lost all meaning. Stealing used to mean physical theft, as in you stole my calculator. You stole my book. You stole my videogame. You stole my song. You stole my TV show. You stole my internet site. You stole my cable. You stole my bandwidth. Stealing = made me mad
Wow. It's amazing how Microsoft continues to make all these discoveries in GUI enhancement. I thought all a GUI was supposed to do was make it easier for me to run applications.
Well get a decent pair of headphones like the Sony V700s and you should be fine on any 15inch because your face is typically much closer to the display. There are other issues with LCD displays if you're really that hardcore.
do laptop's always seem to be "on the brink" of desktop performance? Do sites just repeat this news item everytime a more powerful laptops come out? The Geforce2go was a major step; this is a normal business cycle advance. The performance of laptops is never anywhere near the performance level of a similarly priced desktop, and that has been static for 15 years, yet over and over again we get reports about how laptops are becoming more and more like desktops... please.