In a similar situation a friend of mine sent his "CFO", a very persistant slightly weird looking math professor, who happened not to believe in shoes.... He went to the company very politely presenting his set of invoices, and various "excuses" sent out in form of emails, and requesting to see his "equivalent" (their CFO), he spent two days comming at soon as they openned the office and leaving when they closed....
They could have called the cops, and threatened too, he explained that they could, his lawyer was waiting in front of the relevant police station just in case... They could refuse to let him see their CFO, he didn't mind the lobby was warm and they had a coffee machine, and he brought newspapers and food. They could throw him out, he had friends at various newspapers.
So he saw the CFO, who tried to explain that there was some reasons not to pay, so he called the office on his mobile phone putting it on speaker... And for everything the CFO said the company had three people calling at once, on all numbers they had of anybody, and norbert made if very clear that he would not leave without closing all the loops and the cash...
Epilog, the company finally nervous accountant sent a payment order to their bank, and a copy to the company (on the insistance of norbert) the company sent a copy to the clients bank and to their bank to make sure that there was no error... So they ended up being paid twice....
The client to "save face" and stop thinking about sent an "avoir" wich means the the company should provide an equivalent discount on future work...
Of course they never planned to bid on any new projects with this client....
It all depends on what you want to "conserve", if you wanted a conservative small minded military run conformist hell East Germany was "perfect" and not that different from for instance Franco's Spain...
What is absolutely bewildering for me is that anybody would paint him or herself as a "conservative" (unless you follow Mark Reynold's take on "conservative" being politically ecologist who want to "conserve" Earth in an usable state....)
The only thing one can say on "the good old times" is that they universally sucked, sometimes they "sucked somewhat less than the current state" (let's say Nazi Germany vs Weimar Republic, or (debatable) Current Iran vs Shah's Iran, but life for most people in the 20's in Germany was ghastly and if you where not rich during the Shah's time life was pretty bad too.. And in the US, you can choose any decade since the independence and find good reason not to go back there unless you get to be "the king"...
Most probably all the F500 managers will make sure that the screening process does not screen them out, so it will probably only detect people who are either in such a sorry state that they where in no shape to get the credential necessary to get the job, or people who are just marginally weird but who would actually do a good job, and maybe even help to alleviate somewhat the uselessness of the psychopaths who adorn our industries...
The main issue being that all people have a certain level of available time and energy, and if you allocate it to progressing in your chosen profession you can either: a) be a good guy and try to provide more value to your clients/colleagues/society/etc... by innovating, good management, etc... or b) be a psychopath and try to finesse the office politics to get up the corporate ladder.
Obviously the most efficient way to progress toward success and power is option "b", and the people who are the most liable to execute this correctly are the ones who are not hindered by pesky issues like, empathy, morals, common decency nor slowed down by intellectual curiosity or creative insights...
A large part of the issue BTW with coffee is the risk of IP claims that would create monopolies on traditional "origins".
For example I very much like the Caranavi Coffé of Bolivia, but it would probably be trivial to get a trademark in Europe for it without any connection to the region in Bolivia. And then sooner or latter "profit"... Now traditional "regions of origin" provide some protection for this, but it's difficult for emerging countries to handle this right. Looking up "basmati trademark" and analysing the dispute around this between India and Pakistan is a good way to understand the nightmare this can generate....
First a Tablet can be a "computer" but for most people it is a conduit to consuming stuff, preferably after having checked out their brain to the hat rack....
Now when a Tablet is used as an "adjunct" computer, it does make sense to have an open source OS running on it. But the error in the pengPod strategy is that having the cheapest tablet possible actually is a guaranty of disappointment, I own a similarly priced 7ins Arnova tablet, it is "perfect" to look at a video on a long flight or train commute, it is acceptable as an ebook, and it gives a great testing platform for our games (as if it works on this, it'll work on about anything....) I'm a "happy consumer" and double so because it was really cheap.... But if I ever buy a table to actually get some work done (for which I would need Linux) I would want at least something like a Samsung Galaxy Note 10 or an Archos x10 or an Asus Transformers (all three provide some efficient mode of data ENTRY, so they expect you to do more than cklikety clak more sugar for the brain please....)
Anybody building a Linux terminal should either focus on "really cheap stuff to do some automatisation" (because we are a little to lazy to use systems that are "real close to the iron", and prefer an embedded linux to some single process pic environement). Or look at what Linux users actually buy!, it is not the "cheapest PC possible" but something that is rather powerful, except that we tend to keep them longer so sometimes they look crappy (like the toshiba netbook I'm using right not:-)), but in most cases we can free as in freedom, and not free as in crappy...
So I'll probably end up buying the first tablet that is able to convincingly run ubuntu (or another linux) and offer a decent keyboard, hopefully it'll have something like the "note" pen also, and it should not be too heavy....
But I will not try to use Linux on a machine that I know will be disapointing....
The GP thinks RMS is bad because he succeed in convincing people to licence good useful code using the GPL, and then GP's enterprise cannot use it, claim it as it's own, and try to lock down some of it's HW or SW without the risk of having somebody call them over GPL violation.
I guess our heart is supposed to bleed for him (or her)... The limitations of the GPL exist for a reason, without them it would be too easy to "embrace and extend" any open source solution and we would either be back to square one, or spend all our time trying to reinvent the wheel....
And any liberty can extent only as far as it does not overly reduce the liberty of somebody else (except in some cases the "liberty of being offended").
It is an european conspiracy they are trying to create bootleg nutella to undermine peanut butter!! Of course the British didn't participate, they would have stollen beer yeast to foister marmite upon you...
At least it is quite hard to mix it with other products without the customer becoming somewhat intrigued... BTW it is probably much less dangerous and more profitable to steal 300K of walnuts, than an equivalent quantity of more recreative agricultural products...
And the lawyer can easely plead insanity: He though he was a squirrell.... works better than "he though he was a junky"..
One issue would be : is your diploma valid without the "enhancement drugs you took" ? In some drivers licences there is a note: only valid if the driver is wearing his or her glasses.
If I needed an attention focusing drug to get my IT diploma, should I be forced to write this in my resume ? My prospective employer should be able to expect a level of performance somewhat defined by my diploma, especially if I'm a beginner.
And if the drug I'm using pans out to transform me in a raving maniac after 10 years of use, would an employer be justified in firing me because: - I hired you in an "enhanced state", and this will stop sometime close in the future, so you're not the "product as advertised anymore..."
I wish we'd admire students, but it's not supposed to be a sacrifice, it's supposed to be what you want to do!, not because you'll become a well paid sob, but because you think that what you're studying is actually interesting.
It should be, in practice it's becoming a place where smart private companies auction off magic pieces of paper called "diploma" that demonstrate your membership of some fancy/shmansy semi private club.
It's a cool club, and for a small 10% of your present, past and future income, YOU can join the actualized HEROES club at the armadillo level. The first step on many other cool levels with funky names, and ever growing source of feeling of superiority!!
The real issue is the "false bribe", let's say I'm supporting candidate A, and a "good law" is voted to stop robocall, It become quite easy to to huts B "a lot" but robocalling B. If you want only to punish the "caller" it does not work because it's trivial to setup a fake company in any lax place, and even if this company is ever punished it does not matter it just goes "bankrupt" and nobody cares. If you punish the "beneficiary part" then there is about no way you can make the difference between a robocaller paid by the "part" and one paid by a competitor out there to "get them"....
So robocalls like spam needs mostly customer education, and maybe a punishment for the end user... but that would be hard to implement =>> so you voted republican after a robocall dissing dems ? death penalty to you... hemmm , hard to get endorsement for that law...
Well the other site of the coin is that withouth news media the "news.google.com" propriety would not be worth much...
So somebody like bing (I shudder since I like microsoft even less than goold), or others could say: ok let's share the ad revenue, and people might move from google to their competition, at least for the news...
French people are only moderatly interested in foreign news media, so if news.google.com start to give only relevant information from Belgium, Switzerland and various african countries, it would actually be a great opportunity for a local news agregator....
So they are "NATURAL CONSEQUENCES" but not necessarely thouse you expect...
Not that I'm sure what the "right share" should really be, and of course the risk is that google pays the "tax" but favors the medias who pay the most google ads to drive trafic to them,... And billing is way more expensive than people think....
The most useful domain of Math is really statistics, if people would understand statistics it would really help them understand that most public policy is hogwash, OTH it would be bad for casinos, and we would need taxes to replace the revenues from the public lotteries...
People should learn about also learn about biology, so that they stop telling God about how he|it|she is supposed to handle it's world creation urge...
Chemistry, well I'm still missing one credit, but then it was an elective one, so I'm not really needing it, and if I would have really needed it I would probably have worked a little bit more on it..., so I understand the feeling, but then I really dislike the tendency of our modern world to make chemistry disapear because you know... it can go boom.... And mixed with Physics and some Biology it also helps to understand why we cannot for ever pee where we sleep and keep dry... (polute the only planet that is currently avaiable and not bother about the concequences...)
So a new commite of 10 would probably be good, but since it would probably mean that many "local communities" would think that it is "not right" and insist on teaching "inteligent design" and other hogwash (because you know the world is so complicated that it cannot exist without needing something even more complicated, that was probably created by something even more... a no we are only authorized one step..... darn...)
Intellectual Property issues plage the IT field in many different directions.... at the risk of going out of your comfort zone, how relevant do you think "our" issues are to other fields ? - pharma, health care - business - industry (particularly 3D printing driven next gen industries...)
Considering the number of weapons in the US, you do not need to bother, you can certainly buy about anything you might want on the white or grey market...
French people have about 2.5 less guns per capita compared with the US, they have comparable suicide rates (sometimes red wine is not enough), but only 10% ot the murder rate. In other words a gun in France is 4 time less liable to kill somebody than in the US....
Or put in another form, american culture and social makeup explains approx 30 000 dead people per year, the fact that it is gun related is not the main factor.
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In a similar situation a friend of mine sent his "CFO", a very persistant slightly weird looking math professor, who happened not to believe in shoes....
He went to the company very politely presenting his set of invoices, and various "excuses" sent out in form of emails, and requesting to see his "equivalent" (their CFO), he spent two days comming at soon as they openned the office and leaving when they closed....
They could have called the cops, and threatened too, he explained that they could, his lawyer was waiting in front of the relevant police station just in case...
They could refuse to let him see their CFO, he didn't mind the lobby was warm and they had a coffee machine, and he brought newspapers and food.
They could throw him out, he had friends at various newspapers.
So he saw the CFO, who tried to explain that there was some reasons not to pay, so he called the office on his mobile phone putting it on speaker...
And for everything the CFO said the company had three people calling at once, on all numbers they had of anybody, and norbert made if very clear that he would not leave without closing all the loops and the cash...
Epilog, the company finally nervous accountant sent a payment order to their bank, and a copy to the company (on the insistance of norbert) the company sent a copy to the clients bank and to their bank to make sure that there was no error...
So they ended up being paid twice....
The client to "save face" and stop thinking about sent an "avoir" wich means the the company should provide an equivalent discount on future work...
Of course they never planned to bid on any new projects with this client....
Norbert got a large box of havanas...
It all depends on what you want to "conserve", if you wanted a conservative small minded military run conformist hell East Germany was "perfect" and not that different from for instance Franco's Spain...
What is absolutely bewildering for me is that anybody would paint him or herself as a "conservative" (unless you follow Mark Reynold's take on "conservative" being politically ecologist who want to "conserve" Earth in an usable state....)
The only thing one can say on "the good old times" is that they universally sucked, sometimes they "sucked somewhat less than the current state" (let's say Nazi Germany vs Weimar Republic, or (debatable) Current Iran vs Shah's Iran, but life for most people in the 20's in Germany was ghastly and if you where not rich during the Shah's time life was pretty bad too..
And in the US, you can choose any decade since the independence and find good reason not to go back there unless you get to be "the king"...
Most probably all the F500 managers will make sure that the screening process does not screen them out, so it will probably only detect people who are either in such a sorry state that they where in no shape to get the credential necessary to get the job, or people who are just marginally weird but who would actually do a good job, and maybe even help to alleviate somewhat the uselessness of the psychopaths who adorn our industries...
The main issue being that all people have a certain level of available time and energy, and if you allocate it to progressing in your chosen profession you can either:
a) be a good guy and try to provide more value to your clients/colleagues/society/etc... by innovating, good management, etc...
or
b) be a psychopath and try to finesse the office politics to get up the corporate ladder.
Obviously the most efficient way to progress toward success and power is option "b", and the people who are the most liable to execute this correctly are the ones who are not hindered by pesky issues like, empathy, morals, common decency nor slowed down by intellectual curiosity or creative insights...
Not really, this one is on Apotheker (not that I have a great sympathy for Carly, but not everything is her fault...)
I prefer Jamaica Blue Mountain ....
A large part of the issue BTW with coffee is the risk of IP claims that would create monopolies on traditional "origins".
For example I very much like the Caranavi Coffé of Bolivia, but it would probably be trivial to get a trademark in Europe for it without any connection to the region in Bolivia.
And then sooner or latter "profit"...
Now traditional "regions of origin" provide some protection for this, but it's difficult for emerging countries to handle this right.
Looking up "basmati trademark" and analysing the dispute around this between India and Pakistan is a good way to understand the nightmare this can generate....
run linux in the browser ?
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Sincerely Emscripten is way cool...
First a Tablet can be a "computer" but for most people it is a conduit to consuming stuff, preferably after having checked out their brain to the hat rack....
Now when a Tablet is used as an "adjunct" computer, it does make sense to have an open source OS running on it.
But the error in the pengPod strategy is that having the cheapest tablet possible actually is a guaranty of disappointment, I own a similarly priced 7ins Arnova tablet, it is "perfect" to look at a video on a long flight or train commute, it is acceptable as an ebook, and it gives a great testing platform for our games (as if it works on this, it'll work on about anything....)
I'm a "happy consumer" and double so because it was really cheap....
But if I ever buy a table to actually get some work done (for which I would need Linux) I would want at least something like a Samsung Galaxy Note 10 or an Archos x10 or an Asus Transformers (all three provide some efficient mode of data ENTRY, so they expect you to do more than cklikety clak more sugar for the brain please....)
Anybody building a Linux terminal should either focus on "really cheap stuff to do some automatisation" (because we are a little to lazy to use systems that are "real close to the iron", and prefer an embedded linux to some single process pic environement). :-)), but in most cases we can free as in freedom, and not free as in crappy ...
Or look at what Linux users actually buy!, it is not the "cheapest PC possible" but something that is rather powerful, except that we tend to keep them longer so sometimes they look crappy (like the toshiba netbook I'm using right not
So I'll probably end up buying the first tablet that is able to convincingly run ubuntu (or another linux) and offer a decent keyboard, hopefully it'll have something like the "note" pen also, and it should not be too heavy....
But I will not try to use Linux on a machine that I know will be disapointing....
The GP thinks RMS is bad because he succeed in convincing people to licence good useful code using the GPL, and then GP's enterprise cannot use it, claim it as it's own, and try to lock down some of it's HW or SW without the risk of having somebody call them over GPL violation.
I guess our heart is supposed to bleed for him (or her)...
The limitations of the GPL exist for a reason, without them it would be too easy to "embrace and extend" any open source solution and we would either be back to square one, or spend all our time trying to reinvent the wheel....
And any liberty can extent only as far as it does not overly reduce the liberty of somebody else (except in some cases the "liberty of being offended").
It is an european conspiracy they are trying to create bootleg nutella to undermine peanut butter!!
Of course the British didn't participate, they would have stollen beer yeast to foister marmite upon you...
At least it is quite hard to mix it with other products without the customer becoming somewhat intrigued...
BTW it is probably much less dangerous and more profitable to steal 300K of walnuts, than an equivalent quantity of more recreative agricultural products...
And the lawyer can easely plead insanity: He though he was a squirrell.... works better than "he though he was a junky"..
you must be a member of the 50cents party, american branch...
One issue would be : is your diploma valid without the "enhancement drugs you took" ?
In some drivers licences there is a note: only valid if the driver is wearing his or her glasses.
If I needed an attention focusing drug to get my IT diploma, should I be forced to write this in my resume ?
My prospective employer should be able to expect a level of performance somewhat defined by my diploma, especially if I'm a beginner.
And if the drug I'm using pans out to transform me in a raving maniac after 10 years of use, would an employer be justified in firing me because:
- I hired you in an "enhanced state", and this will stop sometime close in the future, so you're not the "product as advertised anymore..."
I wish we'd admire students, but it's not supposed to be a sacrifice, it's supposed to be what you want to do!, not because you'll become a well paid sob, but because you think that what you're studying is actually interesting.
It should be, in practice it's becoming a place where smart private companies auction off magic pieces of paper called "diploma" that demonstrate your membership of some fancy/shmansy semi private club.
Fully actualized humans
Meaning what, exactly?
It's a cool club, and for a small 10% of your present, past and future income, YOU can join the actualized HEROES club at the armadillo level.
The first step on many other cool levels with funky names, and ever growing source of feeling of superiority!!
The real issue is the "false bribe", let's say I'm supporting candidate A, and a "good law" is voted to stop robocall, It become quite easy to to huts B "a lot" but robocalling B.
If you want only to punish the "caller" it does not work because it's trivial to setup a fake company in any lax place, and even if this company is ever punished it does not matter it just goes "bankrupt" and nobody cares.
If you punish the "beneficiary part" then there is about no way you can make the difference between a robocaller paid by the "part" and one paid by a competitor out there to "get them"....
So robocalls like spam needs mostly customer education, and maybe a punishment for the end user... ... hemmm , hard to get endorsement for that law...
but that would be hard to implement =>> so you voted republican after a robocall dissing dems ? death penalty to you
Well the other site of the coin is that withouth news media the "news.google.com" propriety would not be worth much...
So somebody like bing (I shudder since I like microsoft even less than goold), or others could say: ok let's share the ad revenue, and people might move from google to their competition, at least for the news...
French people are only moderatly interested in foreign news media, so if news.google.com start to give only relevant information from Belgium, Switzerland and various african countries, it would actually be a great opportunity for a local news agregator....
So they are "NATURAL CONSEQUENCES" but not necessarely thouse you expect...
Not that I'm sure what the "right share" should really be, and of course the risk is that google pays the "tax" but favors the medias who pay the most google ads to drive trafic to them, ...
And billing is way more expensive than people think....
I believe the man should encourage his son to take Mandarin so he will be able to communicate with his future boss.
I encourage my son to take a mandarine because it's full of vitamine C and taste good ...
The most useful domain of Math is really statistics, if people would understand statistics it would really help them understand that most public policy is hogwash,
OTH it would be bad for casinos, and we would need taxes to replace the revenues from the public lotteries...
People should learn about also learn about biology, so that they stop telling God about how he|it|she is supposed to handle it's world creation urge...
Chemistry, well I'm still missing one credit, but then it was an elective one, so I'm not really needing it, and if I would have really needed it I would probably have worked a little bit more on it..., so I understand the feeling, but then I really dislike the tendency of our modern world to make chemistry disapear because you know ... it can go boom....
And mixed with Physics and some Biology it also helps to understand why we cannot for ever pee where we sleep and keep dry...
(polute the only planet that is currently avaiable and not bother about the concequences...)
So a new commite of 10 would probably be good, but since it would probably mean that many "local communities" would think that it is "not right" and insist on teaching "inteligent design" and other hogwash (because you know the world is so complicated that it cannot exist without needing something even more complicated, that was probably created by something even more ... a no we are only authorized one step..... darn...)
So no fix today...
I'll let my buttler handle all that s**t
And I do not need a car, I walk to my office (with a stop at my café where a human is loaning me the newspaper and bring me some breakfast...
What question was not asked or not transmitted to you and you'd really wish it was so that you can answer it ?
Intellectual Property issues plage the IT field in many different directions.... ...)
at the risk of going out of your comfort zone, how relevant do you think "our" issues are to other fields ?
- pharma, health care
- business
- industry (particularly 3D printing driven next gen industries
What martial arts do you (and your wife) want your children to learn ?
Considering the number of weapons in the US, you do not need to bother, you can certainly buy about anything you might want on the white or grey market...
It is probably useless now to seriously try to reduce the numbers of gun in the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country
What you might want to do it to look at this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
And think about education and social contracts...
French people have about 2.5 less guns per capita compared with the US, they have comparable suicide rates (sometimes red wine is not enough), but only 10% ot the murder rate.
In other words a gun in France is 4 time less liable to kill somebody than in the US....
Or put in another form, american culture and social makeup explains approx 30 000 dead people per year, the fact that it is gun related is not the main factor.
At last Internet implement trickle down economy ! good idea :-)