Not at all. A free market in organs is only a bad idea insofar as (a) people would be stupid enough to sell bits of themselves they might later regret not having (like a kidney) and (b) to prevent them knocking off Grandpa. The fact that you can, in fact, buy and sell most of your (or someone elses) organs on the black market indicates there is a need that is not being met.
Bribes are a different issue. Bribes go against the principles of capitalism, in that they circumvent supply and demand. If you bribe a salesman to give you an artificially low price, you damage the company you are buying from and hence the economy as a whole. Once bribery becomes rampant, noraml economic activities come to a halt (see Zimbabwe, for example).
If you're correct, your freedom of the press is in a pretty sorry state. A couple of years ago, Rover (a now not-sadly missed car company) launched an ultra low-cost model over here (UK). For reasons best known to themselves (well, because it was rubbish), they refused to provide any review models to motor journalists. Top Gear (a motoring program) took umbrage at this and went to a dealer and did a hidden camera test drive, slagging it off non-stop. I doubt Rover even bothered sending them a letter.
A trademark gives you the right to promote a product or service under a particular name. Since this group aren't selling cars with a Ford badge on them, they have much to worry about. Sadly, they'll have to knock it on the head anyway, as a car-owners club can't afford the luxury of proving it in court.
Yep. The personal media player market has the most to gain from the move to SSD - broken units are what made things like the Cowon X5 uncommercial. There's a reason it's suddenly become very hard to find a 40GB+ music player that doesn't suck ass. These units are what is driving the SSD market at the moment - once capacities of 64-128GB become affordable they will then start to take off in laptops, and finally on desktops.
Actually, you're quite right. Quite a few girls and a lot of guys snuff themselves out every year getting up to this sort of thing. It's only the ones that are interesting - due to the protagonist being a minister or politician - that attract public notice. So this doesn't really meet Darwin's notability criteria.
This stuff does exist in the UK already. A lot of clubs in Edinburgh scan stuff on the way in and the information is shared amongst participating venues - so if you get booted from one you'll be red-carded from the rest.
I do agree with you that that would be useful. But the great thing about ACID is that it has a cool name and it is pretty damned easy to understand if a browser passes or not. End users don't really care about IE's broken box model, or whatever, but you can make them care about a snappy test. Some of 'em, anyway.
The simplest way of improving hospital hygiene is to wash things. In particular, hands. Every time you walk into a hospital you should wash your hands before you go up to reception. Was your hands after touching a door. Wash your hands before entering a ward. Wash your hands before interacting with a patient. Wash your hands after interacting with a patient. Enforce these rules for staff and visitors.
This is really simple stuff, it would have a massive effect on infection rates, but nobody will do it because hospital staff are too lazy to do it, and they won't enforce it on visitors either.
And probably you've never heard of SAP or Navision either. Though it doesn't have CS appeal, this stuff is the reason computers are used in business. Sage (the company) is (or possibly was) the only company not to crash out of the FTSE 100 after the dot com collapse. And if you work in any kind of finance or ccounts related job in the UK, you are guaranteed to know Sage, and there's a better than 50% chance you run it.
That said, I think they should be left alone regarding the name. One is unlikely to accidentally purchase several hundred pounds worth of accounting software when you actually meant to download a free mathematical application. Or vice versa. Hence, the trademarks shouldn't be infringed. That said, no doubt it will take many lawyers and many $$ to establish it.
I have a lot of sympathy for your position - I see no need to delete anything as long as it is verifiable. That said, it is important (to me at least) to delete stuff that is patent nonsense. It's interesting to me right now as I have just listed my first article for deletion, on a topic who's subject is non-existant, apart from a couple of unsupported websites. But the war against fan-cruft is, to me, ridiculous.
No kidding. I once posted a product review on my website, a fairly new gizmo at the time, then wandered off to make a coffee. When I came back, I mused, hmm, has anyone else posted a review yet? I searched for gizmo and I was on the front page after no more than 20 minutes. Impressive.
Yes, but making warehouses more efficient will encourage companies to outsource their logistics operations to outfits with this kind of capability. Economies of scale will then make it possible to fill your order from stock more often. As for delivery, that too is fast improving with the sheer weight of online ordering these days.
Every online system like Mechanical Turk where users compensate one another for various tasks has the interesting property that almost all suppliers of labour undervalue their efforts compared to the open market. In other words, to get ten thousand people off the street to draw you a left facing sheep you'd have to pay them more than $0.02 each.
I agree. The people who say this sort of thing are the people that were predicting we would run out of oil by 2020, etc,etc. Sure bandwidth is going to become more expensive at the backbone level over the next few years, but that will simply mean better returns for those who invest in it, and the problem will self correct. Economics interprets rising prices as damage and routes around it.
They aren't they only ones. If you are serious about attracting great talent to your organisations, you have to be creative about where you look for it. Look at Google's recruitment campaigns, for example.
If it were me, I would issue the copyright owners a tool to generate a signature and get them to upload that. As for uploaders, they already convert the video clip anyway, so checking a few random frames against a bloom filter or something shouln't be too onerous.
One of the first things a competent virus does nowadays is to sweep the host it has just infected for other malware and to remove any that is hostile to the authors aims. As usual, the bad guys are ahead of you;) I have read anecdotal stories of people doing this back in the days when virii were novelties rather than dangers.
However, at the end of the day a counter-worm would still be a worm and, and running unauthorised software on someone else's box is still unethical, never mind illegal, no matter what it actually does. There are plenty virii that do absolutely nothing except propagate.
In English, 'to be' is the conflation of several related Anglo-Saxon words. In various regions of English, you will hear 'to be' conjugated regularly using only one of the various forms (I be/you be/he be or I is/you is/he is, etc).
The pronunciation of Worcester as Wooster is English, and goes back to before the Great Vowel Shift. Quite a lot of English towns mong together 'ces', though where the 'r' went to is anyone's guess.
They decided at one point CowboyNeal wasn't funny, and removed it. The uproar that resulted was approximately equivalent to two SCOs and four DMCAs, with a side dish of Trusted Computing. It was returned.
The reason is that hard drive audio players are a dead duck. The manufacturers hate them because of the low margins and high failure rates; the only exception is Apple because they are the *only* player to have a brand premium - and in the UK at least, the latest iPods are slap bang in the 'quite reasonable' price range (£150-160 for the 80GB Classic). If you actually take a look around, the only players in this space are currently Creative, Microsoft, and Apple. Creative are just filling a segment, MS are just trying to mess around with Apple, and no-one is seriously trying to compete in this area - even Apple look like giving up on this arena, as the Classic has got crappy Cirrus chips for the sound and it sounds horrible (if they hadn't screwed this up, I would own one) - time smearing, awful EQ, massive noise floor, etc. - there's no serious effort being made to push high-capacity players
Manufacturers like Cowon, Archos, etc, have split their efforts into portable movie players with very large capacities and towards flash players. It's a sensible business move, as flash prices dropping as fast as they are will mean they will get away with increasing margins on their players as they push up into the 32-64GB range. And on the movie player front, the competition is about screen quality and battery life, not sound quality or capacity.
So to answer your question, the reason they aren't doing it is there is no long term money in this approach, as even Apple have realised. Don't be surprised if in 18 months there is no hard drive iPod as we know it today.
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Bribes are a different issue. Bribes go against the principles of capitalism, in that they circumvent supply and demand. If you bribe a salesman to give you an artificially low price, you damage the company you are buying from and hence the economy as a whole. Once bribery becomes rampant, noraml economic activities come to a halt (see Zimbabwe, for example).
You fail to mention that illegal immigrants killed Diana, presumably while stealing our jobs and living off benefits.
A trademark gives you the right to promote a product or service under a particular name. Since this group aren't selling cars with a Ford badge on them, they have much to worry about. Sadly, they'll have to knock it on the head anyway, as a car-owners club can't afford the luxury of proving it in court.
Yep. The personal media player market has the most to gain from the move to SSD - broken units are what made things like the Cowon X5 uncommercial. There's a reason it's suddenly become very hard to find a 40GB+ music player that doesn't suck ass. These units are what is driving the SSD market at the moment - once capacities of 64-128GB become affordable they will then start to take off in laptops, and finally on desktops.
Actually, you're quite right. Quite a few girls and a lot of guys snuff themselves out every year getting up to this sort of thing. It's only the ones that are interesting - due to the protagonist being a minister or politician - that attract public notice. So this doesn't really meet Darwin's notability criteria.
This stuff does exist in the UK already. A lot of clubs in Edinburgh scan stuff on the way in and the information is shared amongst participating venues - so if you get booted from one you'll be red-carded from the rest.
I do agree with you that that would be useful. But the great thing about ACID is that it has a cool name and it is pretty damned easy to understand if a browser passes or not. End users don't really care about IE's broken box model, or whatever, but you can make them care about a snappy test. Some of 'em, anyway.
This is really simple stuff, it would have a massive effect on infection rates, but nobody will do it because hospital staff are too lazy to do it, and they won't enforce it on visitors either.
You have some excellent points, but please, "enrichen" is just not a word. Thanks.
If it's the most cost effective route, then in what way is it sub-optimal?
That said, I think they should be left alone regarding the name. One is unlikely to accidentally purchase several hundred pounds worth of accounting software when you actually meant to download a free mathematical application. Or vice versa. Hence, the trademarks shouldn't be infringed. That said, no doubt it will take many lawyers and many $$ to establish it.
I have a lot of sympathy for your position - I see no need to delete anything as long as it is verifiable. That said, it is important (to me at least) to delete stuff that is patent nonsense. It's interesting to me right now as I have just listed my first article for deletion, on a topic who's subject is non-existant, apart from a couple of unsupported websites. But the war against fan-cruft is, to me, ridiculous.
No kidding. I once posted a product review on my website, a fairly new gizmo at the time, then wandered off to make a coffee. When I came back, I mused, hmm, has anyone else posted a review yet? I searched for gizmo and I was on the front page after no more than 20 minutes. Impressive.
If you think that was bad, have a look at this... The amusement starts round about comment #38, two years in...
Yes, but making warehouses more efficient will encourage companies to outsource their logistics operations to outfits with this kind of capability. Economies of scale will then make it possible to fill your order from stock more often. As for delivery, that too is fast improving with the sheer weight of online ordering these days.
Every online system like Mechanical Turk where users compensate one another for various tasks has the interesting property that almost all suppliers of labour undervalue their efforts compared to the open market. In other words, to get ten thousand people off the street to draw you a left facing sheep you'd have to pay them more than $0.02 each.
When you say you refuse to allow advertising masquerading as articles, I believe that's your intention, but really - what else is this?
I agree. The people who say this sort of thing are the people that were predicting we would run out of oil by 2020, etc,etc. Sure bandwidth is going to become more expensive at the backbone level over the next few years, but that will simply mean better returns for those who invest in it, and the problem will self correct. Economics interprets rising prices as damage and routes around it.
They aren't they only ones. If you are serious about attracting great talent to your organisations, you have to be creative about where you look for it. Look at Google's recruitment campaigns, for example.
If it were me, I would issue the copyright owners a tool to generate a signature and get them to upload that. As for uploaders, they already convert the video clip anyway, so checking a few random frames against a bloom filter or something shouln't be too onerous.
However, at the end of the day a counter-worm would still be a worm and, and running unauthorised software on someone else's box is still unethical, never mind illegal, no matter what it actually does. There are plenty virii that do absolutely nothing except propagate.
In English, 'to be' is the conflation of several related Anglo-Saxon words. In various regions of English, you will hear 'to be' conjugated regularly using only one of the various forms (I be/you be/he be or I is/you is/he is, etc).
The pronunciation of Worcester as Wooster is English, and goes back to before the Great Vowel Shift. Quite a lot of English towns mong together 'ces', though where the 'r' went to is anyone's guess.
They decided at one point CowboyNeal wasn't funny, and removed it. The uproar that resulted was approximately equivalent to two SCOs and four DMCAs, with a side dish of Trusted Computing. It was returned.
Manufacturers like Cowon, Archos, etc, have split their efforts into portable movie players with very large capacities and towards flash players. It's a sensible business move, as flash prices dropping as fast as they are will mean they will get away with increasing margins on their players as they push up into the 32-64GB range. And on the movie player front, the competition is about screen quality and battery life, not sound quality or capacity.
So to answer your question, the reason they aren't doing it is there is no long term money in this approach, as even Apple have realised. Don't be surprised if in 18 months there is no hard drive iPod as we know it today.