If someone pays you to make something, it's theirs. If you do it on your own it's yours. If you develop a tool to make the thing you were hired to make, the tool belongs to the workman...especially if it saves the contracting party money. Otherwise, on a time and materials contract you have no incentive to be creative.
Sometimes I am in bed and think about work, sometimes I'm at work and think about bed. To whom does the outcome of my creativity belong?
If I drive to work and have a brilliant idea, it's mine. If I get the same idea while walking between buildings, it's the company's. If I get the idea on my paid lunch break, it's theirs. If I try out something I thought up at home using company tools, it's theirs. If I steal the tools and try it in my garage, it's mine.
...everyone forgets that once upon a time they thought you could use nukes like really really REALLY big dynamite, they even looked at making canals by using shaped nuke charges.
I never found the "man in the moon" a very convincing picture. Maybe with a few nukes...
... With the US saving so many premature and all of them counting when they die from being so premature it lowers the US numbers.
Infant mortality in the US is double that in Europe. And, no - that's not because in Europe they "don't count non-citizens". It's because in the US infant mortality is regulated by the invisible hand of the free market.
2) To many foreigner who were born in poorer countries.
No, too many citizens who were born in poorer neighborhoods and don't have health care.
SIDS risk for whites is half that of blacks.
Is it still a win in your books when the cities shorten the yellow to generate more tickets?
.....
If cameras were not allowed to trigger until the crossing lane's lights were GREEN, and there were statutory yellow durations and statutory all-ways-red durations, it would eliminate all this yellow shortening nonsense, and maybe the cameras would catch the scoff-laws they were intended to catch.
And that's how they work in other countries. There is a minimum for yellow, and it depends on the speed limit of the road.
If there were laws that introduced your suggestions and made cities also liable for accidents at intersections where the yellow phase is too short, then traffic cameras would make intersections safer.
No. Hamas' rockets are basically pipes filled with fuel. Technology-wise a 1944 German V2 is further advanced. And a IBM that reaches near-space, with multiple warheads + decoys is a totally different thing altogether.
The working class! Look at them: dumb Poles and drunk Irish. And they are having lots of babies. If they reproduce like that... What we need is some sort of eugenics for the working classes. Oh, and the Negros.. Hope they never allow mixed marriage.
Oh well, we got the robber barons back. It was about time for the rest to reappear.
(Best response too all this crap: Stephen Jay Gould "The Mismeasure of Man")
Leaving aside the influence environment has on the IQ, you would also have to assume that the IQ score is an accurate measure of desirable human traits.
Since we are about 400 years past the point where one single individual could hold all the knowledge of his/her time, social and cooperative traits in problem solving will become more desirable. I'm not even talking about emotional intelligence or creativity, but the I.Q. provides a very incomplete assessment of traits we might desire as a species.
A sort of internet for slow things. - Which is not as useless as it sounds. If power and water meters could communicate and relay usage information towards the nearest node it wouldn't really matter whether that information gets there in 2 minutes or two hours. Same for appliances sending out error or service codes.
I guess one could transmit the data over satellite link and assemble the copy somewhere else. Once confirmation comes back that the copy worked flawlessly the scanning laser automatically incinerates the original.
I am not too sure why would need a Cloud version of OpenOffice. A Cloud MS office makes sense as a subscription service you can pay a smaller amount per month/year or whatever vs paying a lot for the full version. OpenOffice is free. You are more or less going to be better off with a local version.
Yes, but Google Docs seems to be popular.
A free, host yourself, or put wherever version of that with collaboration tools built in sounds quite attractive. Even more so, if you think of "hosting" it locally on site and having dumb office computers connect to it.
Now, if I could only come up with a catchy name for a computer that acts as a local office cloud. "Basement cloud"? "Office in the closet"? - The computer I have in mind would sit there waiting for requests, not connected to a workspace but instead serving...
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double public key is hard to man in the middle when you exchange public keys in meatspace
Whoever uses the term meatspace should be slapped with a pound of raw bacon.
Also, there should be a xkcd about it.
And after 4.5 billion years, we still don't have intelligent life.
Moding your post insightful would be quite a paradox then.
It makes more sense to post about something major like this than whether Linus Torvalds likes GNOME or KDE.
eh, yes. But it's always News to learn what words Linus Torvalds uses to describe the project he doesn't like.
If someone pays you to make something, it's theirs. If you do it on your own it's yours. If you develop a tool to make the thing you were hired to make, the tool belongs to the workman...especially if it saves the contracting party money. Otherwise, on a time and materials contract you have no incentive to be creative.
Sometimes I am in bed and think about work, sometimes I'm at work and think about bed. To whom does the outcome of my creativity belong?
If I drive to work and have a brilliant idea, it's mine. If I get the same idea while walking between buildings, it's the company's. If I get the idea on my paid lunch break, it's theirs. If I try out something I thought up at home using company tools, it's theirs. If I steal the tools and try it in my garage, it's mine.
Playing with nieces and nephews can be a lot of fun, but there is no feeling comparable to the joy of raising your own child.
Unless you are Donald Duck and are raising your "nephews".
You wake up in a bathtub filled with ice, an ipad in your hand.
...everyone forgets that once upon a time they thought you could use nukes like really really REALLY big dynamite, they even looked at making canals by using shaped nuke charges.
I never found the "man in the moon" a very convincing picture. Maybe with a few nukes...
.. spit out my banana cream pie at my waitress.
At the cheesecake factory?
Definitely no colonies. I just checked the county's website: Mercury is poisonous for humans.
Except America actually spends more than Europeans on healthcare!
Read it and weep, fuckhead.
Yes, and on average Americans are also richer. On average they own more yachts. And on average they play more golf.
If you care about the majority of people, the total number spent on health care tells you as much as the total number spent on lawn care.
Infant mortality in the US is double that in Europe. And, no - that's not because in Europe they "don't count non-citizens". It's because in the US infant mortality is regulated by the invisible hand of the free market.
2) To many foreigner who were born in poorer countries.
No, too many citizens who were born in poorer neighborhoods and don't have health care. SIDS risk for whites is half that of blacks.
So what effect does a red-light camera have on people who aren't paying enough attention to see that there is a red-light there in the first place?
Instead of ticketing they could take them off the road for a while. So I can drive in safety while they sit at home texting or drinking.
Is it still a win in your books when the cities shorten the yellow to generate more tickets?
.....
If cameras were not allowed to trigger until the crossing lane's lights were GREEN, and there were statutory yellow durations and statutory all-ways-red durations, it would eliminate all this yellow shortening nonsense, and maybe the cameras would catch the scoff-laws they were intended to catch.
And that's how they work in other countries. There is a minimum for yellow, and it depends on the speed limit of the road.
If there were laws that introduced your suggestions and made cities also liable for accidents at intersections where the yellow phase is too short, then traffic cameras would make intersections safer.
It got me 3 times before I figured out what the hell was going on, and turned away. No damage, just a wee bit sore for a few hours.
I bet it gave you superpowers.
You mean that SDI might work after all?
No. Hamas' rockets are basically pipes filled with fuel. Technology-wise a 1944 German V2 is further advanced. And a IBM that reaches near-space, with multiple warheads + decoys is a totally different thing altogether.
And the ball is round
Exact same arguments were around 100 years ago.
The working class! Look at them: dumb Poles and drunk Irish. And they are having lots of babies. If they reproduce like that... What we need is some sort of eugenics for the working classes. Oh, and the Negros.. Hope they never allow mixed marriage.
Oh well, we got the robber barons back. It was about time for the rest to reappear.
(Best response too all this crap: Stephen Jay Gould "The Mismeasure of Man")
Zeno's Paradox is about 98% of what it takes to invent differential calculus. All that remained to be added was limits.
And epsilon. Oh no wait, the Greeks had epsilon.
Leaving aside the influence environment has on the IQ, you would also have to assume that the IQ score is an accurate measure of desirable human traits.
Since we are about 400 years past the point where one single individual could hold all the knowledge of his/her time, social and cooperative traits in problem solving will become more desirable. I'm not even talking about emotional intelligence or creativity, but the I.Q. provides a very incomplete assessment of traits we might desire as a species.
A sort of internet for slow things. - Which is not as useless as it sounds. If power and water meters could communicate and relay usage information towards the nearest node it wouldn't really matter whether that information gets there in 2 minutes or two hours. Same for appliances sending out error or service codes.
I guess one could transmit the data over satellite link and assemble the copy somewhere else.
Once confirmation comes back that the copy worked flawlessly the scanning laser automatically incinerates the original.
I am not too sure why would need a Cloud version of OpenOffice. A Cloud MS office makes sense as a subscription service you can pay a smaller amount per month/year or whatever vs paying a lot for the full version. OpenOffice is free. You are more or less going to be better off with a local version.
Yes, but Google Docs seems to be popular.
A free, host yourself, or put wherever version of that with collaboration tools built in sounds quite attractive. Even more so, if you think of "hosting" it locally on site and having dumb office computers connect to it.
Now, if I could only come up with a catchy name for a computer that acts as a local office cloud. "Basement cloud"? "Office in the closet"? - The computer I have in mind would sit there waiting for requests, not connected to a workspace but instead serving ...
At least he didn't claim Superman is from a dwarf planet.
NBC is behind this hurricane. A massive power outage on the East Coast is the only way their failing new show can survive the first season.
...but the Surface is so far down ...
No, by definition it isn't