If you read the OP, 'The average warehouse worker at Walmart makes just under $40,000 annually, while at Amazon would take home about $24,300 a year," CNN reported in 2013.' So how can you include Walmart in your statement? Think about that: the AVERAGE warehouse worker at Walmart made 40k in 2013, 5 years ago! That's almost $20 an hour and pretty good money for people driving forklifts and pushing skid jacks.
I love the way the streaming companies are getting into the business of creating content. Sure, some of it, okay a lot of it, sucks. But a lot of it is quite good. Another classic Sci-Fi novel I've been waiting to see made and maybe it will soon is Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama. Guess who has the rights and has been trying to get it made for 20 years... Morgan Freeman. I never thought of him as a Sci-Fi kind of guy but, yeah.
I don't know if it's true or not but I heard a story that the only time Harry Houdini couldn't pick a lock to escape from a jail cell was when the deputy didn't actually lock the lock. That story inspired me a long time ago to hang yellow sticky notes on my monitor with what appear to be passwords written on them. Everything from "secret123" to "p455w0rd". I crack me up.
That you made this political is not surprising in the least. After all, it was clearly a political statement.
But this political statement was made by some no-name at a dictionary web site, someone who has even less authoritas to spew their political opinion than the typical musical star or television actor.
You made a very good point, using only evidence in the article to highlight the hypocrisy in the visa system. Obviously we don't need to import job seekers who cannot have qualifications beyond what every American computer science graduate has.
For positions which are not entry-level, one way that companies are getting their cheap H1B labor is by exaggerating the 'particular hard-to-find skill set', creating a combination that no one in the industry would actually have. But miraculously, the "consulting" company finds just such applicant overseas.
You don't have to go to other countries to check these results. I have gotten the most confusing emoticons while texting with my girlfriend and when I have asked her what they mean it turns out they aren't even the same as what she is seeing. I'll ask 'what is this one with the frowny face winking at me and tears flying out to the sides?' and she'll say 'what?! That isn't what it looks like.' Being an Android guy dating an iPhone girl is downright confusing.
This sounds like Stephen King's novel, The Running Man. The movie diverged a bit but was similar. Citizens help the authorities catch someone on the run.
I have to agree. I don't think it's a bad thing though. It's a creative solution to their recruiting doldrums. It stimulates the reward neurons in a candidates brain.
I don't see anything in that clause that contradicts what I said. The progress of science obviously is not relevant to a fantasy fiction novel which I used as an example so it only falls under promotion of "useful arts". Writing fiction, singing, playing an instrument, or acting are promoted by copyright. Non-fiction such as a scientific article published in a journal would however fall under promoting the progress of science. But I really can't see that you made a point at all. It seems like you merely provided documentation that affirms my understanding of the purpose of copyright law, yet for some reason you wrote the affirmation in an argumentative manner as if you were refuting me. Please explain.
Xbox has been a an Ex-box for me for a long time. The way Microsoft nickel and dimes you for everything on that platform really turned me off to it. I like Steam and PC Gaming.
There was a movie released 40 years ago called Star Wars which is still pulling in decent profits today. There are many other examples of movies and books that can continue to accrue value with longer protection such as Bladerunner, The Hobbit, Beatles and Rolling Stones albums from the 60's.
Copyright is fundamentally different from patent law in that it is not there to encourage innovation but to allow the creator to profit from his or her own work. I can see the sense in allowing a copyright to endure at least until the death of the creator. But I can also see the sense in allowing it past the death of the creator. Imagine if your mother wrote a fantasy novel that was wildly popular but died in a car crash while on the book signing tour. Shouldn't her estate reap the value of her work?
However, 70 years past the death of the creator seems quite excessive. I think a 20 year moratorium on copyright makes sense upon transfer of the copyright whether that transfer is to heirs due to the death of the creator or outright sale to a copyright holding corporation.
The first thing I tried to find on Ballmer's usafacts.org was numbers on the H-1B visa program. Couldn't find a damn thing. I know the government tracks those numbers and I've seen some of them in news articles, so why aren't they within usafacts dataset?
I'd like to see a class action lawsuit addressing the Windows 10 keylogger. After seeing that article I went in on my system to make sure it was not enabled and found that it was. Yet I know for a fact that I declined every option during the windows 10 install that offered to gather information on the pretense of making my experience better. I read each one very carefully and surprised myself by turning all of it off. So how did a privacy option get flipped so that Microsoft was keylogging me? I'd like to see about 10 million users sue them for that very legit complaint.
I completely agree on changing to UTC everywhere. When I need to run to a store or the bank or post office I often need to jump on Google to see what hours they are open anyway. What difference would it make if it says a business is open 08:00-17:00 or if that shop set its hours to be 12:30-20:30 because of its longitude? None, really. You would just get used to hours of business in your area being close to these other two numbers instead of 8 am to 5 pm. No big deal. What other effects would there be? Well some people would celebrate New Year's when the sun was high in the sky while others celebrated at night. Again, no big deal.
Noon has several different definitions. A modern definition is 12:00 on the clock during daytime. Which is funny because noon comes from Old English meaning the ninth hour and used to be closer to our mid-afternoon. Another definition of noon is when the sun is highest in the sky, that is, when the sun crosses the local meridian. This one makes the most sense to me intuitively because it can be guesstimated by a person in the wilderness without the aid of watch or compass. Another definition is mid-day which is different depending on the date and your latitude. If the sun rose at your location today at 06:00 and set at 20:00 then mid-day would be 13:00.
Also consider that in our increasingly automated and electronic world it would be a trivial thing for clocks with GPS or at least communication with cell phone towers to display either UTC or, at the user's option, the delta from local sunrise. So a business could set its hours as 02:00-10:00 Delta time. And we could all set our alarm clocks by Delta time as well, so that our body clocks only have to adjust 30-60 seconds a day each day all year round, which is exactly what our forebears did over many million years of evolution. Don't fight Mother Nature! Do things her way and be happier.
I love the fact that robots can deliver groceries and cook my food but there is one additional task they could offload from me. You see, I have a toothache and it hurts to chew my food. If the robots could chew my food for me and just regurgitate it into my mouth without me having to get out of my recliner then I'd be all set. Well, except for emptying my catheter and colostomy bag and changing the batteries in the remote every few months.
Some pieces of software are just the recipients of more cosmic rays than others. For example, Windows 3.1 used to attract ultra high energy cosmic rays from as far away as Mars and for a time was making astronomers lives difficult due to the showers of particles released when many of those rays would strike molecules in the atmosphere instead of the Microsoft copyrighted code they were aiming for. Other software that attracts higher than normal numbers of cosmic rays are the Therac-25 and Diebold voting machines.
From the statement that 'four of Iceland's largest volcanoes are showing signs of impending eruption' it sounds like that is unusual. I wondered if there were other signs of tectonic activity so I went to the USGS site at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear... and downloaded some data. It would only let me download 20,000 events to a CSV so I took all data since 1/1/98 of 6.5+ on the Richter scale. Once that is thrown into a pivot table and a regression analysis done, it shows a very clear time linear regression of increasing moderate-intensity earthquake activity over the last 20 years.
If this apparent trend is not a statistical fluke then let us hope it is due to some natural process and not a particle collider produced microscopic black hole oscillating back and forth through the earth's core exponentially accreting mass like this guy claims http://www.science20.com/big_s... since we don't actually know if Hawking Radiation is real and if it is how quickly it would make a black hole evaporate.
Yes, if this idea were implemented, it would just make it even more economical to cut tech jobs in the first world countries and send that work to the third world where both labor and now licenses for software tools would be much cheaper.
I don't believe Manning qualifies as a whistle blower. (S)he just exposed a boatload of confidential documents with no clear purpose behind the action.
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If you read the OP, 'The average warehouse worker at Walmart makes just under $40,000 annually, while at Amazon would take home about $24,300 a year," CNN reported in 2013.' So how can you include Walmart in your statement? Think about that: the AVERAGE warehouse worker at Walmart made 40k in 2013, 5 years ago! That's almost $20 an hour and pretty good money for people driving forklifts and pushing skid jacks.
Not only that but Walmart increased its minimum starting wage and gave $1000 bonuses to employees just this January. Walmart also does not have a parasitic relationship to the U.S. Postal Service.
I love the way the streaming companies are getting into the business of creating content. Sure, some of it, okay a lot of it, sucks. But a lot of it is quite good. Another classic Sci-Fi novel I've been waiting to see made and maybe it will soon is Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama. Guess who has the rights and has been trying to get it made for 20 years... Morgan Freeman. I never thought of him as a Sci-Fi kind of guy but, yeah.
You are arguing something that is completely irrelevant. It says right in the first sentence of the article that it will be a series not a movie.
I think that was ISIS.
I don't know if it's true or not but I heard a story that the only time Harry Houdini couldn't pick a lock to escape from a jail cell was when the deputy didn't actually lock the lock. That story inspired me a long time ago to hang yellow sticky notes on my monitor with what appear to be passwords written on them. Everything from "secret123" to "p455w0rd". I crack me up.
That you made this political is not surprising in the least. After all, it was clearly a political statement.
But this political statement was made by some no-name at a dictionary web site, someone who has even less authoritas to spew their political opinion than the typical musical star or television actor.
You made a very good point, using only evidence in the article to highlight the hypocrisy in the visa system. Obviously we don't need to import job seekers who cannot have qualifications beyond what every American computer science graduate has.
For positions which are not entry-level, one way that companies are getting their cheap H1B labor is by exaggerating the 'particular hard-to-find skill set', creating a combination that no one in the industry would actually have. But miraculously, the "consulting" company finds just such applicant overseas.
You don't have to go to other countries to check these results. I have gotten the most confusing emoticons while texting with my girlfriend and when I have asked her what they mean it turns out they aren't even the same as what she is seeing. I'll ask 'what is this one with the frowny face winking at me and tears flying out to the sides?' and she'll say 'what?! That isn't what it looks like.' Being an Android guy dating an iPhone girl is downright confusing.
This sounds like Stephen King's novel, The Running Man. The movie diverged a bit but was similar. Citizens help the authorities catch someone on the run.
I have to agree. I don't think it's a bad thing though. It's a creative solution to their recruiting doldrums. It stimulates the reward neurons in a candidates brain.
Someday terrorists will upload a zero day worm that spreads from car to car turning our quiet city streets into Death Race 2000. (David Carradine RIP)
I don't see anything in that clause that contradicts what I said. The progress of science obviously is not relevant to a fantasy fiction novel which I used as an example so it only falls under promotion of "useful arts". Writing fiction, singing, playing an instrument, or acting are promoted by copyright. Non-fiction such as a scientific article published in a journal would however fall under promoting the progress of science. But I really can't see that you made a point at all. It seems like you merely provided documentation that affirms my understanding of the purpose of copyright law, yet for some reason you wrote the affirmation in an argumentative manner as if you were refuting me. Please explain.
Xbox has been a an Ex-box for me for a long time. The way Microsoft nickel and dimes you for everything on that platform really turned me off to it. I like Steam and PC Gaming.
I've been proudly using Bing every since Google trampled on Free Speech and fired James Damore.
There was a movie released 40 years ago called Star Wars which is still pulling in decent profits today. There are many other examples of movies and books that can continue to accrue value with longer protection such as Bladerunner, The Hobbit, Beatles and Rolling Stones albums from the 60's.
Copyright is fundamentally different from patent law in that it is not there to encourage innovation but to allow the creator to profit from his or her own work. I can see the sense in allowing a copyright to endure at least until the death of the creator. But I can also see the sense in allowing it past the death of the creator. Imagine if your mother wrote a fantasy novel that was wildly popular but died in a car crash while on the book signing tour. Shouldn't her estate reap the value of her work?
However, 70 years past the death of the creator seems quite excessive. I think a 20 year moratorium on copyright makes sense upon transfer of the copyright whether that transfer is to heirs due to the death of the creator or outright sale to a copyright holding corporation.
The first thing I tried to find on Ballmer's usafacts.org was numbers on the H-1B visa program. Couldn't find a damn thing. I know the government tracks those numbers and I've seen some of them in news articles, so why aren't they within usafacts dataset?
He a make'a tha server notta boot!
I'd like to see a class action lawsuit addressing the Windows 10 keylogger. After seeing that article I went in on my system to make sure it was not enabled and found that it was. Yet I know for a fact that I declined every option during the windows 10 install that offered to gather information on the pretense of making my experience better. I read each one very carefully and surprised myself by turning all of it off. So how did a privacy option get flipped so that Microsoft was keylogging me? I'd like to see about 10 million users sue them for that very legit complaint.
And unlike the career politicians he's actually followed through on his promises so far. Failure to repeal Obamacare is not a lie. He made the effort.
I completely agree on changing to UTC everywhere. When I need to run to a store or the bank or post office I often need to jump on Google to see what hours they are open anyway. What difference would it make if it says a business is open 08:00-17:00 or if that shop set its hours to be 12:30-20:30 because of its longitude? None, really. You would just get used to hours of business in your area being close to these other two numbers instead of 8 am to 5 pm. No big deal. What other effects would there be? Well some people would celebrate New Year's when the sun was high in the sky while others celebrated at night. Again, no big deal.
Noon has several different definitions. A modern definition is 12:00 on the clock during daytime. Which is funny because noon comes from Old English meaning the ninth hour and used to be closer to our mid-afternoon. Another definition of noon is when the sun is highest in the sky, that is, when the sun crosses the local meridian. This one makes the most sense to me intuitively because it can be guesstimated by a person in the wilderness without the aid of watch or compass. Another definition is mid-day which is different depending on the date and your latitude. If the sun rose at your location today at 06:00 and set at 20:00 then mid-day would be 13:00.
Also consider that in our increasingly automated and electronic world it would be a trivial thing for clocks with GPS or at least communication with cell phone towers to display either UTC or, at the user's option, the delta from local sunrise. So a business could set its hours as 02:00-10:00 Delta time. And we could all set our alarm clocks by Delta time as well, so that our body clocks only have to adjust 30-60 seconds a day each day all year round, which is exactly what our forebears did over many million years of evolution. Don't fight Mother Nature! Do things her way and be happier.
I love the fact that robots can deliver groceries and cook my food but there is one additional task they could offload from me. You see, I have a toothache and it hurts to chew my food. If the robots could chew my food for me and just regurgitate it into my mouth without me having to get out of my recliner then I'd be all set. Well, except for emptying my catheter and colostomy bag and changing the batteries in the remote every few months.
Some pieces of software are just the recipients of more cosmic rays than others. For example, Windows 3.1 used to attract ultra high energy cosmic rays from as far away as Mars and for a time was making astronomers lives difficult due to the showers of particles released when many of those rays would strike molecules in the atmosphere instead of the Microsoft copyrighted code they were aiming for. Other software that attracts higher than normal numbers of cosmic rays are the Therac-25 and Diebold voting machines.
From the statement that 'four of Iceland's largest volcanoes are showing signs of impending eruption' it sounds like that is unusual. I wondered if there were other signs of tectonic activity so I went to the USGS site at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/ear... and downloaded some data. It would only let me download 20,000 events to a CSV so I took all data since 1/1/98 of 6.5+ on the Richter scale. Once that is thrown into a pivot table and a regression analysis done, it shows a very clear time linear regression of increasing moderate-intensity earthquake activity over the last 20 years. If this apparent trend is not a statistical fluke then let us hope it is due to some natural process and not a particle collider produced microscopic black hole oscillating back and forth through the earth's core exponentially accreting mass like this guy claims http://www.science20.com/big_s... since we don't actually know if Hawking Radiation is real and if it is how quickly it would make a black hole evaporate.
Yes, if this idea were implemented, it would just make it even more economical to cut tech jobs in the first world countries and send that work to the third world where both labor and now licenses for software tools would be much cheaper.
I don't believe Manning qualifies as a whistle blower. (S)he just exposed a boatload of confidential documents with no clear purpose behind the action.