If a company in deep trouble wants to be able to hire an executive who might be able to turn it around, a Gold Parachute is generally a required part of the offered compensation. Because the odds are he'll fail, and there's a good chance he'll be blamed for not doing the impossible, it could be the last job at that level including normal salary and benefits he'll ever have.
More like the space above the whole planet, for American entities. Per an international treaty, every spacefaring nation has a body to regulate the actions of what they put in orbit. It's the FCC here as an artifact of history because communications satellites so dominated the early ones, and probably still do overall. Also makes one less entity to apply to for communications since they regulate the radio communications any satellite has to use.
No, citation is definitely needed, it's the conservatives who (mostly) approve of the people being well armed, while gun control has now become the absolute dogma of the Democratic party at the national level.
You wont be able to convince people that going this far left turns you into nazi's.. because the left has been telling everyone that the nazi's were right wing for over 60 years now.
Longer, FDR compared Calvin Coolidge to a Fascist, and exactly 80 years ago Thomas Dewey (!) was compared to Hilter in the presidential election where he was trying to defeat Truman, and infamously did in those newspapers that went to press too early in the morning.
You would think by now people would have woken up to this blatant lie, but it's probably more powerful than ever.
By treaty, the governments of the world agreed to some regulation on putting up satellites (see the Kessler syndrome if you're enough of an idiot to believe this isn't required, including leaving open the option to travel to Mars for the next few generations), and because communications ones were the predominate type then (and probably still now), it falls to the US FCC for US entities. If SpaceX wasn't a US company, it would be the government entity designated for it. See also the US company that got a FCC denial, then slipped their launch past Indian regulators and got ISRO to launch their too tiny payloads.
What next, someone censoring which books get publshed?
That's the sort of thing Citizens United was all about. In that case, a movie was suppressed, and Obama's Deputy Solicitor General argued that it extended to books under McCain-Feingold, the 2002 "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act" where politicians agreed no one should be able to say nasty things about them.
The scary thing: this blatant Federal suppression, "Congress shall make no law", of core political speech was blocked by only 5 Supreme Court justices, our right to gather together to influence the political process hangs by a thread.
And in the new on-line public square, it's rapidly disappearing. Cue the "It's not censorship when private companies do it!" lolbertarians or those posing as them.
Guess they shouldn't have sent Linus to reeducation camp and imposed one of the worst CoCs known to man, err, xir, hired a non-technical HR type to advise on how to enforce it, including setting up a new Committee of Public Linux Safety. Remove what kept the kernel sane, and who knows how it might eventually get twisted. Meanwhile, I'm moving to OpenBSD (which in all fairness I started because of systemd).
[...] iCloud has been a poor competitor to services provided by Google and some smaller companies such as Dropbox, but that only means Apple can increase revenue from it exponentially if it bothered to compete more aggressively....
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The challenge, Bershidsky writes, "is to grow the services offering fast enough to make up for potential iPhone revenue losses....
All this assumes a level of competence in software and systems, starting from the very top, that Apple has seldom been able to achieve, and is finding it very difficult to do now. You can't wave a magic wand and axiomatically create services people will use, let along pay money for, see Google+ for one of the starkest examples, and that's from a company with a core competency in software and systems.
If you aren't able to or can't justify learning how to maintain a system from the command line, it might be your least worst choice. I'm switching to OpenBSD myself, which requires that, can't tell you without doing some research if it has video editing software ported to it.
I tend to prefer GDP by PPP, but that doesn't change things much.
Still, how "developing" can you be if you're running and building multiple fab lines, at least some of them fairly close to state of the art? This Wikipedia list is of limited utility because evidently a lot isn't known about many plants, but note that India has exactly 1, run by the government's Indian Space Research Organisation (which is more than a little competent at their official purpose, even evading the Mars curse), and it's doing an 180 nm process on 200 mm wafers. Although Russia is about as bad, but I think that's more a command economy transitioning to a mafia economy thing.
I only skimmed the list after sorting by location, but I think it supports my case.
You make some very good points, but I'll reply that it's not a binary thing... and ask you, what nations are developed by your criteria? Poland, maybe?
Not even Switzerland satisfies the first criteria; all told, your point is pointless in the context of the discussion.
Are US or the PRC still developing nations? Are we unreasonable to expect developed nation behavior from a country that by nearly all measures is developed?
Patents are indeed designed to provide strong enforcableblity advantages over trade secrets, plus advance the state of the art by publicly revealing your secret sauce. Worked wonders in Silicon Valley, e.g. company A would develop invention X, company B would realized X could be vastly improved with invention Y, they'd cross license and both and their customers would benefit.
But that'st not to say that trade secrets can't be enforced.
Sure, if stealing company C were to broadcast to the wide world the secrets, they've lost their status as such, but why would they do that, instead of gaining advantage by keeping them secret inside the company? The theft of them is of course actionable, Micron has been suing these companies and I think individuals, and now the DoJ has decided the case has merit and is serious enough for them to step in.
Which will make things very sticky for UMC and any of the relevant employees in Taiwan, since they have the rule of law there, unlike the PRC. We can also enforce all sorts of penalties starting from the exit from the border of the PRC, and go further if the PRC thumbs their nose at us if the chips produced using these trade secrets are only used for the internal market.
Ultimately we really should revoke both the PRC's membership in the WTO and their Most Favored Nation Status, if they're not willing to play by the rules established for those, especially now that they're not really a developing nation. The American hating whataboutists should consider that acceptable behavior changes as you make such a transition.
So it's OK if only "a fraction of 1%" of the FOSS community to date has been unjustly purged? You don't think the high profile cases are already having a chilling effect, especially now that no less than Linus is one of them? That the odds are currently pretty low, as long as you're willing to be a slave to the Social Terrorists' constantly changing party line, is going to encourage people to take the risk?
Samuel Adams' best quote doesn't quite map to this situation, but it's got enough points in common to be worth repeating, the spirit of it certainly applies:
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.
That you can blithely ignore the undeniable fact that many have been purged by insisting "the majority" haven't yet suffered that fate, while insisting the ones who have deserved it, just shows who's side you're on. That majority keeps their heads down and plays NPC when it comes to politics, hoping the crocodile eats someone else first, which is no way to live.
We'll see, as the Social Justice terrorists tighten their grip on much if not most of FOSS, what exactly will happen, how many people will continue to contribute, or avoid it all together. Plus how we'll divide into two tribes, the slaves like you, and the free men like myself, and which produces software worth using.
I'm already on record on the net under my True Name for egregious thought crimes, heck, starting in the 1980s, but the blue hairs are powerless to to do anything more than ban me from their platforms, unless they shift to real violence, which would be a mistake in the very Red State area I live in.
For the working programmer, it's becoming ever more dangerous to work on FOSS on the side, you never know when you might trigger a blue hair who will whip up a Social Terrorist mob that will cost you your job and your career as it currently exists (not that it's going to last much past age 35 or so, unless you, oh, develop a major reputation with FOSS, which other's can see vs. whatever proprietary or in-house software not really relevant to the rest of the world that most of us end up working on).
I'm retired and anti-fragile, so I can more safely play the game, but even them, I'm building a new persona on the Internet to decrease the danger to the projects I will be contributing to. Which are radically changing right now, with Linux falling in every way possible, systemd and Linus' surrender book ending that, userland and kernel, and now IBM buying Red Hat. OpenBSD is turning out to be delightful to someone who cut his teeth on V6-7 and BSD 2.x.
But if you're currently in the job market? Not only would you have to maintain perfect OPSEC, you won't be able to build your reputation and enhance your career prospects if you hide your True Name. The risk/reward balance is decidedly turning negative, and this is going to have implications for FOSS as more and more innocents get wacked and more and more normal programmers realize that the rules of the game have changed.
Do you believe the company who essentially invented wireless technology
Except Qualcomm was hardly the only company "inventing wireless technology". Their biggest claim to fame is reducing code-division multiple access (CDMA) to practice, but there are many other ways to split up spectrum. E.g. GSM started out with time-division multiple access (TDMA), a frequently slot is divided into time slots, each user gets one.
An AC here covered it pretty well, but to directly address your analogy, the butcher and restaurant charge fees because they add value to what the previous entity in the chain sold to them. The restaurant is not selling me a whole cow, or a raw steak.
So in this instance, Intel pays Qualcomm for their special intellectual property sauce, but adds a whole lot of value by making a physical chip with firmware etc. Apple adds a whole lot of value by taking that chip, adding more chips, widgets, a body, more firmware and software, etc. and turns them into a complete, ready for the consumer phone.
Hard to say which of these companies is more evil at this point.
Heh, although I'd put both at a lower tier of evil than a lot of the tech Left.
However, from what I've read elsewhere, this boils down to Apple claiming patent exhaustion. That is, when Intel makes chips based on Qualcomm's patents (and they did reduce a lot of the concepts to working technology), and pays them for that privilege, Qualcomm can't then try to extract further payments downstream. It's akin to the first sale doctrine with copyrights.
It's a very new meme, like only a couple of weeks or so old, that's driving the US Left crazy, see e.g. Know Your Meme on a graphical version of it that also explains the greater context. In short, way too many Leftists are acting like NPCs with a very limited script, a very limited set of responses to whatever rhetorical or dialectical challenges they get from the Right.
It is a little fun to imagine people sending you off on a quest to "Collect 5 codes of conduct" or what have you.
Heh. But that sounds like a job for Gamergators, for while the concept is amusing, such a game would be no fun at all to play. Unless of course that's the start of a greater quest, track down the authors or Inquisitors in their lairs etc. ^_^.
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If a company in deep trouble wants to be able to hire an executive who might be able to turn it around, a Gold Parachute is generally a required part of the offered compensation. Because the odds are he'll fail, and there's a good chance he'll be blamed for not doing the impossible, it could be the last job at that level including normal salary and benefits he'll ever have.
More like the space above the whole planet, for American entities. Per an international treaty, every spacefaring nation has a body to regulate the actions of what they put in orbit. It's the FCC here as an artifact of history because communications satellites so dominated the early ones, and probably still do overall. Also makes one less entity to apply to for communications since they regulate the radio communications any satellite has to use.
The FCC is also the treaty designated US government regulatory body that makes sure the satellites won't cause other troubles. See for example this story of a company that didn't listen to the FCC's no and went to India. Last I checked, it wasn't going well for their future plans.
No, citation is definitely needed, it's the conservatives who (mostly) approve of the people being well armed, while gun control has now become the absolute dogma of the Democratic party at the national level.
Longer, FDR compared Calvin Coolidge to a Fascist, and exactly 80 years ago Thomas Dewey (!) was compared to Hilter in the presidential election where he was trying to defeat Truman, and infamously did in those newspapers that went to press too early in the morning.
You would think by now people would have woken up to this blatant lie, but it's probably more powerful than ever.
By treaty, the governments of the world agreed to some regulation on putting up satellites (see the Kessler syndrome if you're enough of an idiot to believe this isn't required, including leaving open the option to travel to Mars for the next few generations), and because communications ones were the predominate type then (and probably still now), it falls to the US FCC for US entities. If SpaceX wasn't a US company, it would be the government entity designated for it. See also the US company that got a FCC denial, then slipped their launch past Indian regulators and got ISRO to launch their too tiny payloads.
That's the sort of thing Citizens United was all about. In that case, a movie was suppressed, and Obama's Deputy Solicitor General argued that it extended to books under McCain-Feingold, the 2002 "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act" where politicians agreed no one should be able to say nasty things about them.
The scary thing: this blatant Federal suppression, "Congress shall make no law", of core political speech was blocked by only 5 Supreme Court justices, our right to gather together to influence the political process hangs by a thread.
And in the new on-line public square, it's rapidly disappearing. Cue the "It's not censorship when private companies do it!" lolbertarians or those posing as them.
Guess they shouldn't have sent Linus to reeducation camp and imposed one of the worst CoCs known to man, err, xir, hired a non-technical HR type to advise on how to enforce it, including setting up a new Committee of Public Linux Safety. Remove what kept the kernel sane, and who knows how it might eventually get twisted. Meanwhile, I'm moving to OpenBSD (which in all fairness I started because of systemd).
In their favor, it's MIT licensed. That's hard to abuse in a way negative for Linux except by using patents.
All this assumes a level of competence in software and systems, starting from the very top, that Apple has seldom been able to achieve, and is finding it very difficult to do now. You can't wave a magic wand and axiomatically create services people will use, let along pay money for, see Google+ for one of the starkest examples, and that's from a company with a core competency in software and systems.
If you aren't able to or can't justify learning how to maintain a system from the command line, it might be your least worst choice. I'm switching to OpenBSD myself, which requires that, can't tell you without doing some research if it has video editing software ported to it.
I tend to prefer GDP by PPP, but that doesn't change things much.
Still, how "developing" can you be if you're running and building multiple fab lines, at least some of them fairly close to state of the art? This Wikipedia list is of limited utility because evidently a lot isn't known about many plants, but note that India has exactly 1, run by the government's Indian Space Research Organisation (which is more than a little competent at their official purpose, even evading the Mars curse), and it's doing an 180 nm process on 200 mm wafers. Although Russia is about as bad, but I think that's more a command economy transitioning to a mafia economy thing.
I only skimmed the list after sorting by location, but I think it supports my case.
You make some very good points, but I'll reply that it's not a binary thing ... and ask you, what nations are developed by your criteria? Poland, maybe?
Not even Switzerland satisfies the first criteria; all told, your point is pointless in the context of the discussion.
Are US or the PRC still developing nations? Are we unreasonable to expect developed nation behavior from a country that by nearly all measures is developed?
Patents are indeed designed to provide strong enforcableblity advantages over trade secrets, plus advance the state of the art by publicly revealing your secret sauce. Worked wonders in Silicon Valley, e.g. company A would develop invention X, company B would realized X could be vastly improved with invention Y, they'd cross license and both and their customers would benefit.
But that'st not to say that trade secrets can't be enforced. Sure, if stealing company C were to broadcast to the wide world the secrets, they've lost their status as such, but why would they do that, instead of gaining advantage by keeping them secret inside the company? The theft of them is of course actionable, Micron has been suing these companies and I think individuals, and now the DoJ has decided the case has merit and is serious enough for them to step in.
Which will make things very sticky for UMC and any of the relevant employees in Taiwan, since they have the rule of law there, unlike the PRC. We can also enforce all sorts of penalties starting from the exit from the border of the PRC, and go further if the PRC thumbs their nose at us if the chips produced using these trade secrets are only used for the internal market.
Ultimately we really should revoke both the PRC's membership in the WTO and their Most Favored Nation Status, if they're not willing to play by the rules established for those, especially now that they're not really a developing nation. The American hating whataboutists should consider that acceptable behavior changes as you make such a transition.
They're strip mining the Ozarks for crystals, you know....
Or at least so I've heard, in at least a couple of locations, and confirmed one in Arkansas just now with a simple search.
So it's OK if only "a fraction of 1%" of the FOSS community to date has been unjustly purged? You don't think the high profile cases are already having a chilling effect, especially now that no less than Linus is one of them? That the odds are currently pretty low, as long as you're willing to be a slave to the Social Terrorists' constantly changing party line, is going to encourage people to take the risk?
Samuel Adams' best quote doesn't quite map to this situation, but it's got enough points in common to be worth repeating, the spirit of it certainly applies:
That you can blithely ignore the undeniable fact that many have been purged by insisting "the majority" haven't yet suffered that fate, while insisting the ones who have deserved it, just shows who's side you're on. That majority keeps their heads down and plays NPC when it comes to politics, hoping the crocodile eats someone else first, which is no way to live.
We'll see, as the Social Justice terrorists tighten their grip on much if not most of FOSS, what exactly will happen, how many people will continue to contribute, or avoid it all together. Plus how we'll divide into two tribes, the slaves like you, and the free men like myself, and which produces software worth using.
I'm already on record on the net under my True Name for egregious thought crimes, heck, starting in the 1980s, but the blue hairs are powerless to to do anything more than ban me from their platforms, unless they shift to real violence, which would be a mistake in the very Red State area I live in.
For the working programmer, it's becoming ever more dangerous to work on FOSS on the side, you never know when you might trigger a blue hair who will whip up a Social Terrorist mob that will cost you your job and your career as it currently exists (not that it's going to last much past age 35 or so, unless you, oh, develop a major reputation with FOSS, which other's can see vs. whatever proprietary or in-house software not really relevant to the rest of the world that most of us end up working on).
I'm retired and anti-fragile, so I can more safely play the game, but even them, I'm building a new persona on the Internet to decrease the danger to the projects I will be contributing to. Which are radically changing right now, with Linux falling in every way possible, systemd and Linus' surrender book ending that, userland and kernel, and now IBM buying Red Hat. OpenBSD is turning out to be delightful to someone who cut his teeth on V6-7 and BSD 2.x.
But if you're currently in the job market? Not only would you have to maintain perfect OPSEC, you won't be able to build your reputation and enhance your career prospects if you hide your True Name. The risk/reward balance is decidedly turning negative, and this is going to have implications for FOSS as more and more innocents get wacked and more and more normal programmers realize that the rules of the game have changed.
Except Qualcomm was hardly the only company "inventing wireless technology". Their biggest claim to fame is reducing code-division multiple access (CDMA) to practice, but there are many other ways to split up spectrum. E.g. GSM started out with time-division multiple access (TDMA), a frequently slot is divided into time slots, each user gets one.
An AC here covered it pretty well, but to directly address your analogy, the butcher and restaurant charge fees because they add value to what the previous entity in the chain sold to them. The restaurant is not selling me a whole cow, or a raw steak.
So in this instance, Intel pays Qualcomm for their special intellectual property sauce, but adds a whole lot of value by making a physical chip with firmware etc. Apple adds a whole lot of value by taking that chip, adding more chips, widgets, a body, more firmware and software, etc. and turns them into a complete, ready for the consumer phone.
Heh, although I'd put both at a lower tier of evil than a lot of the tech Left.
However, from what I've read elsewhere, this boils down to Apple claiming patent exhaustion. That is, when Intel makes chips based on Qualcomm's patents (and they did reduce a lot of the concepts to working technology), and pays them for that privilege, Qualcomm can't then try to extract further payments downstream. It's akin to the first sale doctrine with copyrights.
It's a very new meme, like only a couple of weeks or so old, that's driving the US Left crazy, see e.g. Know Your Meme on a graphical version of it that also explains the greater context. In short, way too many Leftists are acting like NPCs with a very limited script, a very limited set of responses to whatever rhetorical or dialectical challenges they get from the Right.
Heh. But that sounds like a job for Gamergators, for while the concept is amusing, such a game would be no fun at all to play. Unless of course that's the start of a greater quest, track down the authors or Inquisitors in their lairs etc. ^_^.
Copy of the medical examiner's report, or crawl under your rock.