Both are copyright infringement and the same level of concern both ethically and legally. It isn't like there are some people who represent the Navy and some who don't, they all represent the Navy and are just of various ranks. Anything being displayed publicly is being okayed by the highest ranking person who ever steps in eye or earshot and in all cases it is the Navy and not the individual committing copyright infringement.
When they contribute serious resources to the Samba and Wine projects in a sincere effort to create truely seemless interoperability, port visual studio and other MS development tools, and then use those capabilities to make the open and closed.net implementations and have true feature parity I'll take notice. Oh and get rid of their anti-competitive attempts to own the browser. Nobody should own the browser, period.
It's possible but the Navy does this all kinds of things. They buy a handful of licenses that are absolutely not concurrent then roll it out in a desktop image to the thousands of machines. The Navy is big on copyright infringement. It isn't just software either, you'll find bootleg movies/music content being played to large groups in barracks all over the place.
No, even if so the Navy is responsible for making sure they comply with the terms they agreed to not the vendor. The vendor might well require the use of something like a license manager to ensure the same and provide incentive not to pirate the software but it is piracy to violate the terms whether there are technical restrictions or not.
It doesn't matter if they were used or not. It is copying that is restricted by copyright law and requires a violation not use, you can use copyrighted material however you like copyright grants no control over that to the software producer. They could have burned 40 copies of the disk and stuck them on a shelf gathering dust and still be guilty of 39 copyright violations (you get one backup under fair use provisions, you lose it in practice under the DMCA if they've used copy protection on it thought).
"The Navy denied that a procurement official "acknowledged that additional licenses were necessary for it to distribute BS Contact Geo to its users." The government admitted that it had purchased 38 licenses, but "denies that the software licenses were 'limited,' as alleged by Plaintiff.""
This is a list of terrible things with a few positive points slipped in. Bringing back any variation of the TPP terms would be terrible and the "reform" they have in mind for "immigration" wouldn't be reform at all, it would be further deepening the problem. Reform would be eliminating the h1b program and offshoring not expanding it.
"Nope a country with 4 times the population will always be a larger market unless they are dirt poor. And countries stay dirt poor only so long."
This is no more true of countries than people. People who are dirt poor don't stay dirt poor because they are incompetent, they stay dirt poor because they lack the resources to get ahead. Those who have the resources use those resources to bribe/strong arm everyone into giving them so much advantage over those with few that the uphill battle to get resources is nearly impossible to climb. Some trickle will manage it but the vast vast majority of those who try will fail and have lost most of the little they had to begin with ending up even more dirt poor.
Having 4 times the population meant China had a large labor pool. They could have exploited that legitimately to produce goods domestically but they had no industry, no technology, no modern designs/blue prints, no expertise, no infrastructure and were half way across the world making transport of goods expensive. So the Chinese cheated, they massively undervalued their currency relative to countries that had all these things to make it so tempting we built the industry and just enough infrastructure for them, we gave them our expertise, they stole our designs/blue prints, they used everything we gave them especially the wealth they were siphoning to build domestic versions of everything we were foolish enough to teach them about and manufacture there, they've used our wealth to build an infrastructure. Now Trump is probably too late, China could have been 4x as many of us but malnourished, with rickets, and slingshots while were healthy, strong, and armed with assault rifles. Now they have AK-47's vs our pretty and polished M16's, it is debatable how much better our weapons even really are and there are 4x as many of them.
We are being just as stupid with regard to India as well. They are sending more or less untrained and uneducated workers with "degrees" to us, while "devaluing" in the form of domestic inflation/ridiculously favorable investments only open to people from India. Even if those workers stay their money still goes back to and stays in India building that country up. Eventually we will have funded yet another country with a massive population we can't compete with. We need to let go of this backwards thinking that we somehow win because "American corporations" are winning... the corporations gaining the benefits may have started here but they aren't American anymore, they are global and when the US has given away all it's wealth to China and India it will no longer be a useful market and they'll just close their offices here. The wealthy top.1% who own them will move along with them leaving the US behind.
5x more people doesn't magically make for any sort of wealth. It means you have a massive labor pool. In order to get people to use that labor pool you need to keep it cheap. Undervaluing your currency means you can cheat and make it cheaper than it really is, growing internally while remaining dirt cheap on the global market. Without that cheat, your labor along with all hassles of dealing with your poor infrastructure, poorly regulated quality standards, and the massive costs and delays of transporting goods produced by that cheap labor start being much more expensive and aren't such a great incentive for other nations to give you their wealth. So they cheated, they cheated hard, they are still cheating but now the cheat isn't needed nearly so much because they've already siphoned trillions and trillions of dollars worth of wealth from our economy and used it improve infrastructure, steamline shipping, improve quality standards, steal billions upon billions of dollars worth of technology from people who took the bait and produced goods there, etc.
20 years ago we could have strong armed the Chinese into playing fair and offset any advantage they had on labor because we were the only sizable market. This would have kept more manufacturing local and we'd have a much stronger economy today. The size of the market is NOT defined by how many people you have, it is defined by how much those people collectively have to spend on goods and services. Where would you rather a niche must have product that only you make, a market of 100 people with $20 to spare, or a market of 5 people with a billion dollars to spare.
Which is just fine. That is a 5 well paid job gain, everyone else in the world who wants those iphones will have to buy them from us which will reduce our trade deficit.
"the tesla reseller tried to sell it off as an AUTOmatic brake system. obviously it isn't."
Tesla sells the system as an autopilot system and like an autopilot system it requires a pilot/driver to be able to apply the brake or take control in a pinch. Should it have stopped? Probably. There have been accidents due to autopilot errors in planes as well and as bugs and defects are found they are corrected so those things can't happen again and the autopilot, unlike human drivers, gets better and better across all the vehicles. If the same thing happened on any other vehicle because it was a trade in and they didn't bleed the brakes properly when bringing it up to snuff, the dealer would be liable for any damages but there wouldn't even be local news coverage.
Tesla autopilot and later autonomous vehicles crashing is no more interesting than any other crash, stop sensationalizing it and reporting it. If they have the same or lower crash rates than human drivers that is a miracle, if they are the same there is literally nothing to see here, if they have more that is expected given it is brand new technology. But as these problems creep up and are fixed the software is just going to get better and better and inevitably end up dramatically safer than human drivers... at least it will if overly dramatic reporting doesn't whip up an irrational negative sentiment toward the technology before it ever has a chance.
"most importantly, Dungeons and Dragons' mechanics lent themselves to computer applications, and it had a direct impact on hugely successful electronic games like World of Warcraft"
That might be the most popular thing in the past few years but these games definitely lack the imaginative qualities being praised, they just borrow mechanics to create hallow shells that are themed interactive TV. The old tabletop dungeons and dragons games were not a hack and slash run through of canned content with miniatures, they were imaginative journey's authored by the DM and players in collaborative fashion.
Of course, eventually the DM gets writers block and nobody else steps up and the game falls apart. Hack and slash adventures/box modules were the less interesting cruft DM's tossed out for filler between good ideas. Games like World of Warcraft are nothing but the lowest of D&D content, pure hack and slash with no real imaginative content from players and the editions of the table top after WoTC took over were pretty much the same where min/maxing made sense because combat success was overplayed.
What makes US talent in demand? The largest market is in the US and India/China has poor infrastructure for delivering services to the US. Another huge factor is experience. I've worked with a lot of H1B workers over the years as companies pretend there is a shortage here and bring them in, then dump qualified US workers when they are up to speed. That is how it has to be done. Most of the talent coming from India is not educated and trained in the same manner and they aren't immersed in technology their entire lives in the way US workers are.
It is like taking high school graduates right out of school and putting them into the jobs and the success rates are comparable. Some of those H1B visa workers work out, learn on the job, and stay here and once they finish that term and go permanent they command salaries that are just as high as US workers. The downside of course is that an indian accent is still tough for most US workers to parse on the phone and there seem to be some challenges I've observed but can't explain with reading comprehension. For instance, we have a script that runs some tests and if it has already been run it indicates that prevalidation failed but with a reason of "This script has already been run, and does not need to be run again."
If you want to have a similar pool of US workers, encourage high school to have advanced placement curriculum and take students on apprenticeships right out of high school.
And I'm sure people being beaten and murdered by the corrupt agents of government in China are wishing for human/civil rights rather than stability. I know quite a few of us here in the United States would certainly prefer a weaker and less effective government in exchange for a return to individual freedom and rights.
The individual is the largest majority in any society, anything that benefits individuals is in the interest of 100% of the members of society every time. Unfortunately, when it comes time to protect any particular individual and his rights everyone tends to see him as alone and forgets their turn to be alone will come.
Maybe but a straight line isn't all that complicated. What makes no sense at all is the Chinese robot is writing Police in English at all, maybe as an alternate since it is an airport robot there are no chinese characters visible.
I have to ask because I can't help but notice http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0922/c90000-9118480.html the lettering for Police is crooked and askew and also English.
There you go, problem solved, no draconian government regulation and fines required.
As for the low income housing thing, this is already covered. If you make a dollar on low income benefits they take a dollar worth of benefits away so when they discover the income they will take the benefits away. The system is set up to prevent you from being able to make any substantial amount of money before it gets associated with you.
When I was 17 my mother went on SS disability, there was a single month check paid for me as well because I was a minor but by the time the check was cut I was an adult so the check was sent to me rather than her. It was a measly $600. When I was 33 they caught the error and came looking for it. Probably someone came up with a new system for catching errors and ran against old data. You never know when the scheme which slips through the cracks today will be retroactively audited and caught tomorrow.
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Both are copyright infringement and the same level of concern both ethically and legally. It isn't like there are some people who represent the Navy and some who don't, they all represent the Navy and are just of various ranks. Anything being displayed publicly is being okayed by the highest ranking person who ever steps in eye or earshot and in all cases it is the Navy and not the individual committing copyright infringement.
When they contribute serious resources to the Samba and Wine projects in a sincere effort to create truely seemless interoperability, port visual studio and other MS development tools, and then use those capabilities to make the open and closed .net implementations and have true feature parity I'll take notice. Oh and get rid of their anti-competitive attempts to own the browser. Nobody should own the browser, period.
Technically, as it's the Navy, they would be Marines which for some reason people forget are actually part of the Navy and not a separate branch.
It's possible but the Navy does this all kinds of things. They buy a handful of licenses that are absolutely not concurrent then roll it out in a desktop image to the thousands of machines. The Navy is big on copyright infringement. It isn't just software either, you'll find bootleg movies/music content being played to large groups in barracks all over the place.
There is nothing honest about the MPAA/RIAA/BSA, their actions are closer in spirit to piracy than copyright infringement.
No, even if so the Navy is responsible for making sure they comply with the terms they agreed to not the vendor. The vendor might well require the use of something like a license manager to ensure the same and provide incentive not to pirate the software but it is piracy to violate the terms whether there are technical restrictions or not.
It doesn't matter if they were used or not. It is copying that is restricted by copyright law and requires a violation not use, you can use copyrighted material however you like copyright grants no control over that to the software producer. They could have burned 40 copies of the disk and stuck them on a shelf gathering dust and still be guilty of 39 copyright violations (you get one backup under fair use provisions, you lose it in practice under the DMCA if they've used copy protection on it thought).
"The Navy denied that a procurement official "acknowledged that additional licenses were necessary for it to distribute BS Contact Geo to its users." The government admitted that it had purchased 38 licenses, but "denies that the software licenses were 'limited,' as alleged by Plaintiff.""
Then why did they buy more than one?
Really, no thanks. May you all fall into the sea along with all your research.
This is a list of terrible things with a few positive points slipped in. Bringing back any variation of the TPP terms would be terrible and the "reform" they have in mind for "immigration" wouldn't be reform at all, it would be further deepening the problem. Reform would be eliminating the h1b program and offshoring not expanding it.
"Nope a country with 4 times the population will always be a larger market unless they are dirt poor. And countries stay dirt poor only so long."
.1% who own them will move along with them leaving the US behind.
This is no more true of countries than people. People who are dirt poor don't stay dirt poor because they are incompetent, they stay dirt poor because they lack the resources to get ahead. Those who have the resources use those resources to bribe/strong arm everyone into giving them so much advantage over those with few that the uphill battle to get resources is nearly impossible to climb. Some trickle will manage it but the vast vast majority of those who try will fail and have lost most of the little they had to begin with ending up even more dirt poor.
Having 4 times the population meant China had a large labor pool. They could have exploited that legitimately to produce goods domestically but they had no industry, no technology, no modern designs/blue prints, no expertise, no infrastructure and were half way across the world making transport of goods expensive. So the Chinese cheated, they massively undervalued their currency relative to countries that had all these things to make it so tempting we built the industry and just enough infrastructure for them, we gave them our expertise, they stole our designs/blue prints, they used everything we gave them especially the wealth they were siphoning to build domestic versions of everything we were foolish enough to teach them about and manufacture there, they've used our wealth to build an infrastructure. Now Trump is probably too late, China could have been 4x as many of us but malnourished, with rickets, and slingshots while were healthy, strong, and armed with assault rifles. Now they have AK-47's vs our pretty and polished M16's, it is debatable how much better our weapons even really are and there are 4x as many of them.
We are being just as stupid with regard to India as well. They are sending more or less untrained and uneducated workers with "degrees" to us, while "devaluing" in the form of domestic inflation/ridiculously favorable investments only open to people from India. Even if those workers stay their money still goes back to and stays in India building that country up. Eventually we will have funded yet another country with a massive population we can't compete with. We need to let go of this backwards thinking that we somehow win because "American corporations" are winning... the corporations gaining the benefits may have started here but they aren't American anymore, they are global and when the US has given away all it's wealth to China and India it will no longer be a useful market and they'll just close their offices here. The wealthy top
5x more people doesn't magically make for any sort of wealth. It means you have a massive labor pool. In order to get people to use that labor pool you need to keep it cheap. Undervaluing your currency means you can cheat and make it cheaper than it really is, growing internally while remaining dirt cheap on the global market. Without that cheat, your labor along with all hassles of dealing with your poor infrastructure, poorly regulated quality standards, and the massive costs and delays of transporting goods produced by that cheap labor start being much more expensive and aren't such a great incentive for other nations to give you their wealth. So they cheated, they cheated hard, they are still cheating but now the cheat isn't needed nearly so much because they've already siphoned trillions and trillions of dollars worth of wealth from our economy and used it improve infrastructure, steamline shipping, improve quality standards, steal billions upon billions of dollars worth of technology from people who took the bait and produced goods there, etc.
20 years ago we could have strong armed the Chinese into playing fair and offset any advantage they had on labor because we were the only sizable market. This would have kept more manufacturing local and we'd have a much stronger economy today. The size of the market is NOT defined by how many people you have, it is defined by how much those people collectively have to spend on goods and services. Where would you rather a niche must have product that only you make, a market of 100 people with $20 to spare, or a market of 5 people with a billion dollars to spare.
Which is just fine. That is a 5 well paid job gain, everyone else in the world who wants those iphones will have to buy them from us which will reduce our trade deficit.
Sadly, we made them that way in no small part because of the issue with their currency Trump is making. He is just decades too late.
"the tesla reseller tried to sell it off as an AUTOmatic brake system. obviously it isn't."
Tesla sells the system as an autopilot system and like an autopilot system it requires a pilot/driver to be able to apply the brake or take control in a pinch. Should it have stopped? Probably. There have been accidents due to autopilot errors in planes as well and as bugs and defects are found they are corrected so those things can't happen again and the autopilot, unlike human drivers, gets better and better across all the vehicles. If the same thing happened on any other vehicle because it was a trade in and they didn't bleed the brakes properly when bringing it up to snuff, the dealer would be liable for any damages but there wouldn't even be local news coverage.
Tesla autopilot and later autonomous vehicles crashing is no more interesting than any other crash, stop sensationalizing it and reporting it. If they have the same or lower crash rates than human drivers that is a miracle, if they are the same there is literally nothing to see here, if they have more that is expected given it is brand new technology. But as these problems creep up and are fixed the software is just going to get better and better and inevitably end up dramatically safer than human drivers... at least it will if overly dramatic reporting doesn't whip up an irrational negative sentiment toward the technology before it ever has a chance.
You don't see a news story every time a Mazda is crashed during a test drive. Stop giving clicks to this drivel.
"That's why you graduated to AD&D"
Yes, yes I did but you are dating me here. In later editions they merged the two and dropped AD&D.
"most importantly, Dungeons and Dragons' mechanics lent themselves to computer applications, and it had a direct impact on hugely successful electronic games like World of Warcraft"
That might be the most popular thing in the past few years but these games definitely lack the imaginative qualities being praised, they just borrow mechanics to create hallow shells that are themed interactive TV. The old tabletop dungeons and dragons games were not a hack and slash run through of canned content with miniatures, they were imaginative journey's authored by the DM and players in collaborative fashion.
Of course, eventually the DM gets writers block and nobody else steps up and the game falls apart. Hack and slash adventures/box modules were the less interesting cruft DM's tossed out for filler between good ideas. Games like World of Warcraft are nothing but the lowest of D&D content, pure hack and slash with no real imaginative content from players and the editions of the table top after WoTC took over were pretty much the same where min/maxing made sense because combat success was overplayed.
Black people get sunburn too. Not as easily and it isn't as visible when it happens but it happens.
What makes US talent in demand? The largest market is in the US and India/China has poor infrastructure for delivering services to the US. Another huge factor is experience. I've worked with a lot of H1B workers over the years as companies pretend there is a shortage here and bring them in, then dump qualified US workers when they are up to speed. That is how it has to be done. Most of the talent coming from India is not educated and trained in the same manner and they aren't immersed in technology their entire lives in the way US workers are.
It is like taking high school graduates right out of school and putting them into the jobs and the success rates are comparable. Some of those H1B visa workers work out, learn on the job, and stay here and once they finish that term and go permanent they command salaries that are just as high as US workers. The downside of course is that an indian accent is still tough for most US workers to parse on the phone and there seem to be some challenges I've observed but can't explain with reading comprehension. For instance, we have a script that runs some tests and if it has already been run it indicates that prevalidation failed but with a reason of "This script has already been run, and does not need to be run again."
If you want to have a similar pool of US workers, encourage high school to have advanced placement curriculum and take students on apprenticeships right out of high school.
And I'm sure people being beaten and murdered by the corrupt agents of government in China are wishing for human/civil rights rather than stability. I know quite a few of us here in the United States would certainly prefer a weaker and less effective government in exchange for a return to individual freedom and rights.
The individual is the largest majority in any society, anything that benefits individuals is in the interest of 100% of the members of society every time. Unfortunately, when it comes time to protect any particular individual and his rights everyone tends to see him as alone and forgets their turn to be alone will come.
Maybe but a straight line isn't all that complicated. What makes no sense at all is the Chinese robot is writing Police in English at all, maybe as an alternate since it is an airport robot there are no chinese characters visible.
"There is nothing wrong with China's human rights/civil rights record and to bring it up is just western propaganda."
I can only assume you are joking? The US certainly has a problem but China doesn't even recognize human/civil rights as existing.
I have to ask because I can't help but notice http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/0922/c90000-9118480.html the lettering for Police is crooked and askew and also English.
There you go, problem solved, no draconian government regulation and fines required.
As for the low income housing thing, this is already covered. If you make a dollar on low income benefits they take a dollar worth of benefits away so when they discover the income they will take the benefits away. The system is set up to prevent you from being able to make any substantial amount of money before it gets associated with you.
When I was 17 my mother went on SS disability, there was a single month check paid for me as well because I was a minor but by the time the check was cut I was an adult so the check was sent to me rather than her. It was a measly $600. When I was 33 they caught the error and came looking for it. Probably someone came up with a new system for catching errors and ran against old data. You never know when the scheme which slips through the cracks today will be retroactively audited and caught tomorrow.