For the prequels there was absolutely no one, not one single person that could or would say no to Lucas. I myself believe that with minor changes all of the prequel movies could have been great instead of jus merely ok.
This of course is ironic because what the prequels really need is some serious "special edition" treatment but Lucas is only willing to special editionize the original trilogy (again because one could tell him no).
Whenever I hear about "basic income" sort of plans, I really wonder how many people will be able to live the quiet small happy life that money would be intended to afford or how many would scream at the world because it's "not enough".
While I agree that the S is a great looking sedan, I've seen both Model S and a Gallardo and there is no possible way to confuse them for each other.
To add to that, when you take into account the sound, the Gallardo is thunderous and the Model S is super quiet. Oppositely impressive feats by both cars.
Oh, ok. So they're suing for a network topology that can be created by using wireless routers.
NETWORK TOPOLOGIES SHOULD NOT BE FUCKING PATENTABLE!!!!
I mean what the hell. Are you telling me that the companies that set up these networks are not allowed to have their networks structured this way because this fucking companyÂhas a paper that says that they can't??!!!
TR Labs isn't going around helping companies configure and set up these networks for a fee as a service. They're suing people who just happen to come up with (on their own, hello trivially common methods!!) something that matches their sketch on their patent application.
TR Labs and everyone who works there is evil. They deserve nothing but contempt and scorn. This is a scam, what they are doing should be a crime. Its not currently a crime but I think it should be.
By definition any topology that can be executed with the Cisco hardware must be a topology that the hardware has been designed to handle.
Shit, whats next suing users of a programming language for making a program that violates a patent?
Oh, wait. And THAT is why software patents are absolute fucking bullshit. Code is speech, and code is copyrightable. This idea that programs and algorithms are patentable is an abomination.
No, that sounds to me like TR Labs knows they could sue Cisco, they're just deciding not to. So from there TR Labs is extrapolating that because they're not going to sue Cisco, Cisco has no right to defend their customers.
Of course Cisco doesn't want to, and shouldn't, accept all liability for their customers, that's just legally really dangerous. But this wrangling by TR Labs is just being done to make sure Cisco is unable to find any way to help their customers.
Suing businesses that just use equipment is horribly wrong and TR Labs knows it. Anyone involved in or running TR Labs is IMHO evil with hearts as black as coal.
At least small businesses being abused by assholes like TR Labs are starting to go to their state legislatures to get this kind of shit stopped by force of law. I would not protest at all states passing laws saying that all executives at any companies that try to pull shit like this should go directly to jail.
As metadata goes, your fingerprint being on your smartphone is pretty useless. Your phone is already covered with your fingerprints, the device is just using a scanner now to read it and decide to unlock. If the NSA is monitoring the communications from your phone and they know who you are (from your communications), your fingerprint is just a useless tidbit of information.
But for security purposes using it to unlock your phone or identify you to the device as the current user is pretty sweet.
Why are the outliers and very unlikely events that will happen because of self driving cars continued to be the excuse that prevents us from implementing them and saving the thousands of lives lost due to human error and incompetence on the highways every year?
But there is a wonderfully effective way to use computers in education. You look at student's marks. You then look at the pattern of the marks as the student's pass through various teachers.
What?!!! That would allow you to actually truly measure teacher performance and effectiveness. It would make bad teachers absolutely impossible to miss.
No, but to the point of the GP. Elementary school teachers should be experts in the subjects they teach at the grade level they teach. They don't need a math PhD to teach 3rd grade math.
Also, when he was studying for his final, I explained a concept that was key to the course to him and he finally got what the concept was about and how to use it and visualize it. The teacher had never discussed it in that manner and had basically just dropped it on the kids to figure out themselves. I was kicking myself for not discussing it in detail earlier, but I had assumed that the teacher would present the concept in a logical, clear and concise manner. I was wrong.
The way capitalism works is demand first, then supply shows up. It can't even be done the other way around.
In fact this large demand is going to be what eventually causes prices for batteries to go down, because, like I said before, many companies are going to get into this business...
I admire you for doing that work. Teachers are undervalued in society.
Each of my children has had at least one fantastic teacher that has made a real difference in their lives. However each one has had at least one awful teacher that has had a negative impact.
Good teachers are worth their weight in gold. But we have to find a way to get the bad teachers out. My son's worst teacher should have been fired years ago. Alas, he's now taught so long that early retirement should be forced on him. But he persists in the system. If we had the power as parents or heck even as school boards to fire bad teachers, it would improve the public school system immensely overnight.
What? I am eagerly awaiting VirnetX's release of it fabulous point to point video communications software. I mean its sure to be released soon right, right?!
And then the government will announce that consumer spending is down X%, the economy will contract, all the mega-corporations will announce large layoffs....
Our entire economy is predicated on continuous growth (or at least the appearance of growth). Everyone cutting back on everything will require a real commitment to deflation.
That might even be the right thing to do, but economically it would be very painful and our government (the same one that wants climate change regulations) continually fights very hard against deflation, because in the debt situation we are in deflation is very bad for the government.
I love how everyone here is basically hammering on the point that non-profit companies should by default be required to file taxes, even though they never have to pay them.
I understand that tax policy requires forms. What I'm railing against is that theres always a form and the government keeps asking for more and more forms.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes. Yes. Yes. THIS.
For the prequels there was absolutely no one, not one single person that could or would say no to Lucas. I myself believe that with minor changes all of the prequel movies could have been great instead of jus merely ok.
This of course is ironic because what the prequels really need is some serious "special edition" treatment but Lucas is only willing to special editionize the original trilogy (again because one could tell him no).
Whenever I hear about "basic income" sort of plans, I really wonder how many people will be able to live the quiet small happy life that money would be intended to afford or how many would scream at the world because it's "not enough".
The "new" kindergarten.
Remember, kids, its good to share, unless we punish you for it.
Ah, but one law is just waaaay simpler than three.
It's just unfortunate that law is -- Kill humans.
As Obi-wan said both facts are true "from a certain point of view".....
WTF?
While I agree that the S is a great looking sedan, I've seen both Model S and a Gallardo and there is no possible way to confuse them for each other.
To add to that, when you take into account the sound, the Gallardo is thunderous and the Model S is super quiet. Oppositely impressive feats by both cars.
Oh, ok. So they're suing for a network topology that can be created by using wireless routers.
NETWORK TOPOLOGIES SHOULD NOT BE FUCKING PATENTABLE!!!!
I mean what the hell. Are you telling me that the companies that set up these networks are not allowed to have their networks structured this way because this fucking companyÂhas a paper that says that they can't??!!!
TR Labs isn't going around helping companies configure and set up these networks for a fee as a service. They're suing people who just happen to come up with (on their own, hello trivially common methods!!) something that matches their sketch on their patent application.
TR Labs and everyone who works there is evil. They deserve nothing but contempt and scorn. This is a scam, what they are doing should be a crime. Its not currently a crime but I think it should be.
They're not suing people for murder with Cisco devices, they suing them for using Cisco devices.
That is EXACTLY like suing people for using hammers to build things.
Bullshit.
By definition any topology that can be executed with the Cisco hardware must be a topology that the hardware has been designed to handle.
Shit, whats next suing users of a programming language for making a program that violates a patent?
Oh, wait. And THAT is why software patents are absolute fucking bullshit. Code is speech, and code is copyrightable. This idea that programs and algorithms are patentable is an abomination.
No, that sounds to me like TR Labs knows they could sue Cisco, they're just deciding not to. So from there TR Labs is extrapolating that because they're not going to sue Cisco, Cisco has no right to defend their customers.
Of course Cisco doesn't want to, and shouldn't, accept all liability for their customers, that's just legally really dangerous. But this wrangling by TR Labs is just being done to make sure Cisco is unable to find any way to help their customers.
Suing businesses that just use equipment is horribly wrong and TR Labs knows it. Anyone involved in or running TR Labs is IMHO evil with hearts as black as coal.
At least small businesses being abused by assholes like TR Labs are starting to go to their state legislatures to get this kind of shit stopped by force of law. I would not protest at all states passing laws saying that all executives at any companies that try to pull shit like this should go directly to jail.
As metadata goes, your fingerprint being on your smartphone is pretty useless. Your phone is already covered with your fingerprints, the device is just using a scanner now to read it and decide to unlock. If the NSA is monitoring the communications from your phone and they know who you are (from your communications), your fingerprint is just a useless tidbit of information.
But for security purposes using it to unlock your phone or identify you to the device as the current user is pretty sweet.
This is a good question.
The other question would be:
Why are the outliers and very unlikely events that will happen because of self driving cars continued to be the excuse that prevents us from implementing them and saving the thousands of lives lost due to human error and incompetence on the highways every year?
Um. I think what the NRA and the ACLU are saying here is that its the SAME.
But there is a wonderfully effective way to use computers in education. You look at student's marks. You then look at the pattern of the marks as the student's pass through various teachers.
What?!!! That would allow you to actually truly measure teacher performance and effectiveness. It would make bad teachers absolutely impossible to miss.
WE CAN'T HAVE THAT NOW CAN WE???
No, but to the point of the GP. Elementary school teachers should be experts in the subjects they teach at the grade level they teach. They don't need a math PhD to teach 3rd grade math.
My son's pre-calculus book was exactly like this.
Also, when he was studying for his final, I explained a concept that was key to the course to him and he finally got what the concept was about and how to use it and visualize it. The teacher had never discussed it in that manner and had basically just dropped it on the kids to figure out themselves. I was kicking myself for not discussing it in detail earlier, but I had assumed that the teacher would present the concept in a logical, clear and concise manner. I was wrong.
Yep. In fact probably many someones.
The way capitalism works is demand first, then supply shows up. It can't even be done the other way around.
In fact this large demand is going to be what eventually causes prices for batteries to go down, because, like I said before, many companies are going to get into this business...
I admire you for doing that work. Teachers are undervalued in society.
Each of my children has had at least one fantastic teacher that has made a real difference in their lives. However each one has had at least one awful teacher that has had a negative impact.
Good teachers are worth their weight in gold. But we have to find a way to get the bad teachers out. My son's worst teacher should have been fired years ago. Alas, he's now taught so long that early retirement should be forced on him. But he persists in the system. If we had the power as parents or heck even as school boards to fire bad teachers, it would improve the public school system immensely overnight.
Oh yeah, the left were just angels. Stalin and Mao were model leaders.
I now anxiously await your belabored response spouting that Stalin and Mao were really right wing.
What? I am eagerly awaiting VirnetX's release of it fabulous point to point video communications software. I mean its sure to be released soon right, right?!
Actually what always amazes me is that software projects are viewed as failures if they are over budget or completed late.
Funny, the construction industry, measured under the same standards, would have absolutely no successful projects either.
Far too many PHBs think that software development is really easy and don't get how clueless they are.
I don't have any problems with managers making a lot of money. I have problems with managers that are dumber than shit making a lot of money.
frequencies transparent to radio waves
What the heck??
And then the government will announce that consumer spending is down X%, the economy will contract, all the mega-corporations will announce large layoffs....
Our entire economy is predicated on continuous growth (or at least the appearance of growth). Everyone cutting back on everything will require a real commitment to deflation.
That might even be the right thing to do, but economically it would be very painful and our government (the same one that wants climate change regulations) continually fights very hard against deflation, because in the debt situation we are in deflation is very bad for the government.
"Trust us" isn't good enough.
Funny, the NSA seems to think it is...
I love how everyone here is basically hammering on the point that non-profit companies should by default be required to file taxes, even though they never have to pay them.
I understand that tax policy requires forms. What I'm railing against is that theres always a form and the government keeps asking for more and more forms.
Forms.... the lifeblood of bureaucracy.....