Some of the best advice on this was "Value = Risk Reduction". The closer to a marketable product you are, the more valuable your idea is. If you've done the basic research, prototypes, product design, market research, basic manufacturing and liability research, you have a very valuable piece of property to sell for a nice bit of coin. If all you have is "I had this cool idea while I was smokin' a bowl", then all you can maybe expect is a cup of coffee while telling the story. Like others have said, patent it if there is great value in the product, or publish it if there isn't. Remember though: the value of a product isn't what you paid for it (effort), it's what others will pay for it.
That's part of the trap. It's like testing to see if you're a witch. Tie you up and drop you in the river, if you float you're a witch! She's just trying to start up a witch hunt, but unfortunately this crowd is a little smarter than the Inquisitor.
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Already there, it's called "History". If you watch the 80 min video, you'll see them demo it as a slider on a timeline. Cool, yes?
Just to let you know, I recently became aware of Silex, a competitor to Adobe's Flash creation suite. It appears to have recently gone from commercial license to Open Source. I'm not a Flash developer, no have no idea how good it is. Anyone?
Talk to ANYBODY that is serious about business (like Larry Ellison) and they'll tell you that in cut throat business, there are no gentlemen. The only agreements are written on paper, and signed off by lawyers in the blood of babies. And even those are subject to change if they think the fight is worthwhile monetarily. Big money normally = little ethics.
Yeah, I first thought that, too. But even if there was some stupid, unspoken reason why it couldn't be used, some sticks, tape, and string would have done the same thing. I'm not holding out for too much f*cking intelligence or cleverness from this season. The premier may be the only episode I bother to watch.
How about when Google Wave is embedded in the phones? A phone is a computer with a radio modem (wifi, bluetooth are different freqs and signal formats) that sends and receives data (audio, video, sms, mms, gps, etc...) A nice ARM processor and GNU radio module should let you get "online" with anyone. The only thing really slowing down phone development is the mindset that "a phone is a PHONE", and major manufacturer/carriers not allowing certain functions to be installed "for business reasons". A nice mesh phone with Google Wave and an open OS embedded in it would be super sweet.
My phone service is like that already! I'm in the middle of Missouri, and for my wife's plan, mine, and our kids, I'm paying almost $180 USD a month. The phones only work intermittently because of the terrain, and to make a call at my home I have to go outside because the signal is so weak. The POTS system is leftovers from the 70's and so full of static after a rainstorm that you can barely hear a voice call, and you can give up any dreams of a net connection. For the internet, we had to go to Wildblue satellite. They rock! I get jabbed for it, but I'm getting jabbed for everything anyways and at least they give me something in return!
If I could buy only 1 phone at a time for ~ $200 USD, with no carrier fee over $20/month, I'd be all over it.
The system was originally good (at least it was better than what was around before). But, as with everything else, once people realize that there is power in the position, people that want power will go after it. Power is like chinese food, you can fill up on it, but in an hour you're hungry for more. So they start corrupting the system to become more powerful, less responsible. Anyone that's been to a high school sporting event knows that a referee that's biased for one team over another can make all the difference between losing the game badly, and managing to sneak a win against a much better team. Same with law.
There really shouldn't be any reason for a judge to vacate a jury's decision, if the lawyers did their job during the jury selection phase. If they picked idiots to judge the case, they deserve to lose, and the judge shouldn't be allowed to throw the case to them at the last second.
Exactly. The purpose of any lock is to provide a speed bump. Hopefully a big enough bump that you'll decide the effort isn't worth the payoff. This asshat increased the payoff 1000 fold in notoriety, and social recognition.
Oh, GOD, do we even need to start making a list of programs with crappy, non-standard UIs? I can think of GIMP, Blender, most jukebox progs, etc... just off the top of my head. There have been some serious genius coders contribute to OSS, but it doesn't really take a genius to apply standard methodologies to building the UI. Something kind of like the Apple User Interface design guidelines would stop a lot of this bullshit from happening in the first place.
"Thankyou, sUp3rK0d3r. We really appreciate your contribution to the distro. You did follow the Linux UI Standards 3.2 didn't you? No? I'm sorry, we really can't have our distro looking like a kindergarten project. All the apps have to give a unified "user experience". Maybe you could change the UI in time for our next release in 6 months. Goodbye. *whisper* loser */whisper*"
The arguments from the Blender and GIMP devs about their UIs just come across as unwarranted arrogance. One of the best "remakes" of GIMP is GIMPshop, where it was re-skinned to be very "Photoshop compatible". Maybe someone could do something like that for Blender. They may be masters of code-fu, but their UI (and PR) skills suck. Badly.
Sorry, just got a nit to pick. 1 Kilowatt = 1000 watts. Most PC power supply manufacturers consider a 1000 watt supply to be "high power", and charge like it. Where the hell did you get a 360 kilowatt supply? Did you have the power company drop you a 3-phase transformer at your house? Does Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant give you a price break?!?
I personally agree with your sentiment, that withholding possible treatment from the dying because "it's not tested" isn't valid. I mean, yes, they could die. Oh, wait...
Your statement about "rights" pricked a sore spot with me, though... "Rights" are entitlements secured by popular consensus, or force. You think that what's "right" or "acceptable" for an individual defines right and acceptable behaviour for a government? Nice idea,but an individual is supposedly held responsible for their individual actions, but as the "individual" becomes a larger and larger group, the responsibility per person becomes less and less, and the willingness to use force accumulates. Thus, a government, any large ruling body, accumulates power, and "rights", and becomes more prone to violence.
That is kind of simplified... There are more factors involved: is the transmitter omni-directional? the receiver? Or is the cellphone loaded with REAL next-gen gear and have a micro-phased array antenna to steer the beam at the closest tower? Has the phone evolved to a function instead of a device? Does it have a OCR scanner looking through the CCD camera? Is it capable of being a computer with the camera acting as an optical mouse (no external box involved)? Does it have night vision? Biometrics? Accelerometers? It already has mp3, GPS, phone, video, data storage, audio recording, games, internet connectivity, timer alarms, what else can you think of to incorporate into it?
If it looks and acts like a certified calculator, the testers won't know. All you would have to do is replace the circuit board in the case, and vuala! Stealth computer!
I know, I know, "All you would have to do...." It's a lot easier said than done, but still not THAT hard to do. And if engineering students are involved, it's liable to happen.:)
Interesting anecdote: When I was in the service (Army Infantry), some of the older sargents got to talking about unusual ammunition that they'd used/tested/heard about. Depleted Uranium came up, because it was before the first Desert Storm and no one had used it before. The other one still hasn't been used that I know of. It was a hollow plastic nose & metal cup round filled with liquid teflon.
The story went that during Viet Nam, a sniper was sent to wound some particular General, not kill him. He wasn't the greatest strategist, so we knew how to handle him, and didn't want him dead, but for some upcoming engagement we wanted him on the sidelines, so he was marked for a wounding and not a dirt-nap. They sent the sniper out with these new liquid teflon rounds to try. Mistake. When the round hit the General in the shoulder, the liquid came out in strings and tore his whole arm and shoulder off, inducing massive shock and bleeding him out in seconds.
Probably BS, but makes for an interestingly morbid story.
True. This method isn't fool-proof. No method is. All it will do is act like a door lock - help honest people stay honest, and act as a speed bump for the dishonest people.
I'm sure the military won't use outside servers for top secret stuff (too paranoid, thank god), but Josephine Yutz, who got appointed for the great work she did during Rep. Bullwinkles campaign, just might. We've seen a lot of dumb shites do stuff like that in the past when they should have known better.
And "Cloud Computing", (god, I hate buzzwords) is okay for short-term projects that aren't critical, but all it would take is a couple of DDOS attacks on an external (commercial) server, or even just a service outage, and you've shut out governmental entities from their computing resources. The feds would have no warning, counter-measures(?), or backups. They would be totally useless. *I know, I know*
It's hard to lobby congress with our $$$ when they've taken it all. The power the corporate lobbyists wield isn't that they have some money, it's that they have control over a LOT of money, more than 99.99999% of all individuals will ever have. The sad thing, is that if individuals form a coop to fight the lobbyists, we can only do it with more lobbyists. It's like fighting lawyers with lawyers. Only the lawyers win.
The basic architecture of BeOS/Haiku and Linux are aimed at different objectives, Linux is a fine server for a multitude of purposes, and Haiku is great for a single-user desktop system. Look out! Car analogy coming! It's the difference between a tractor trailer rig and a Ferrari. You can drive around town in the rig, but the sports car is ever so much more fun!
WHOOSH! Tongue in cheek comment, there. Mostly. Uhmmm, I didn't say it had to be Linux, did I? It could be Linux, BeOS, ReactOS, Menuet, a Hackintosh LiveCD, or ANYTHING that looks even kinda cool. This idea depends more on the UI, some easy VB-style tools, and an appeal to the natural counter-cultural tendencies of kids, than it does on any FOSS idealism.
And did you check to see if your tuner card was compatible with Ubuntu, first? It would've saved you some time. I've used Linux a couple of years now, and I still run into probs. My last upgrade I wrestled with video drivers for 3 weeks to get my NVidia card to work right again. I've never said "It's the year of the Linux Desktop!". That would be stupid. Linux is fine for me, not necessarily for you.
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They just needed a sample/example so the students can learn to spot sociopaths in the wild (wouldn't want them to terminate a real human by accident).
Some of the best advice on this was "Value = Risk Reduction". The closer to a marketable product you are, the more valuable your idea is. If you've done the basic research, prototypes, product design, market research, basic manufacturing and liability research, you have a very valuable piece of property to sell for a nice bit of coin. If all you have is "I had this cool idea while I was smokin' a bowl", then all you can maybe expect is a cup of coffee while telling the story. Like others have said, patent it if there is great value in the product, or publish it if there isn't. Remember though: the value of a product isn't what you paid for it (effort), it's what others will pay for it.
That's part of the trap. It's like testing to see if you're a witch. Tie you up and drop you in the river, if you float you're a witch! She's just trying to start up a witch hunt, but unfortunately this crowd is a little smarter than the Inquisitor.
Already there, it's called "History". If you watch the 80 min video, you'll see them demo it as a slider on a timeline. Cool, yes?
Just to let you know, I recently became aware of Silex, a competitor to Adobe's Flash creation suite. It appears to have recently gone from commercial license to Open Source. I'm not a Flash developer, no have no idea how good it is. Anyone?
Talk to ANYBODY that is serious about business (like Larry Ellison) and they'll tell you that in cut throat business, there are no gentlemen. The only agreements are written on paper, and signed off by lawyers in the blood of babies. And even those are subject to change if they think the fight is worthwhile monetarily. Big money normally = little ethics.
Yeah, I first thought that, too. But even if there was some stupid, unspoken reason why it couldn't be used, some sticks, tape, and string would have done the same thing. I'm not holding out for too much f*cking intelligence or cleverness from this season. The premier may be the only episode I bother to watch.
Anyone have ideas on how to use Google Wave as the next P2P technology? The irony, oh, the irony. So delicious....
How about when Google Wave is embedded in the phones? A phone is a computer with a radio modem (wifi, bluetooth are different freqs and signal formats) that sends and receives data (audio, video, sms, mms, gps, etc...) A nice ARM processor and GNU radio module should let you get "online" with anyone. The only thing really slowing down phone development is the mindset that "a phone is a PHONE", and major manufacturer/carriers not allowing certain functions to be installed "for business reasons". A nice mesh phone with Google Wave and an open OS embedded in it would be super sweet.
It's right before "nooner": sex engaged in during one's lunch break. :)
My phone service is like that already! I'm in the middle of Missouri, and for my wife's plan, mine, and our kids, I'm paying almost $180 USD a month. The phones only work intermittently because of the terrain, and to make a call at my home I have to go outside because the signal is so weak. The POTS system is leftovers from the 70's and so full of static after a rainstorm that you can barely hear a voice call, and you can give up any dreams of a net connection. For the internet, we had to go to Wildblue satellite. They rock! I get jabbed for it, but I'm getting jabbed for everything anyways and at least they give me something in return!
If I could buy only 1 phone at a time for ~ $200 USD, with no carrier fee over $20/month, I'd be all over it.
The system was originally good (at least it was better than what was around before). But, as with everything else, once people realize that there is power in the position, people that want power will go after it. Power is like chinese food, you can fill up on it, but in an hour you're hungry for more. So they start corrupting the system to become more powerful, less responsible. Anyone that's been to a high school sporting event knows that a referee that's biased for one team over another can make all the difference between losing the game badly, and managing to sneak a win against a much better team. Same with law.
There really shouldn't be any reason for a judge to vacate a jury's decision, if the lawyers did their job during the jury selection phase. If they picked idiots to judge the case, they deserve to lose, and the judge shouldn't be allowed to throw the case to them at the last second.
Exactly. The purpose of any lock is to provide a speed bump. Hopefully a big enough bump that you'll decide the effort isn't worth the payoff. This asshat increased the payoff 1000 fold in notoriety, and social recognition.
Oh, GOD, do we even need to start making a list of programs with crappy, non-standard UIs? I can think of GIMP, Blender, most jukebox progs, etc... just off the top of my head. There have been some serious genius coders contribute to OSS, but it doesn't really take a genius to apply standard methodologies to building the UI. Something kind of like the Apple User Interface design guidelines would stop a lot of this bullshit from happening in the first place.
"Thankyou, sUp3rK0d3r. We really appreciate your contribution to the distro. You did follow the Linux UI Standards 3.2 didn't you? No? I'm sorry, we really can't have our distro looking like a kindergarten project. All the apps have to give a unified "user experience". Maybe you could change the UI in time for our next release in 6 months. Goodbye. *whisper* loser */whisper*"
The arguments from the Blender and GIMP devs about their UIs just come across as unwarranted arrogance. One of the best "remakes" of GIMP is GIMPshop, where it was re-skinned to be very "Photoshop compatible". Maybe someone could do something like that for Blender. They may be masters of code-fu, but their UI (and PR) skills suck. Badly.
"It makes IE less secure"! How could you tell?
Sorry, just got a nit to pick. 1 Kilowatt = 1000 watts. Most PC power supply manufacturers consider a 1000 watt supply to be "high power", and charge like it. Where the hell did you get a 360 kilowatt supply? Did you have the power company drop you a 3-phase transformer at your house? Does Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant give you a price break?!?
I personally agree with your sentiment, that withholding possible treatment from the dying because "it's not tested" isn't valid. I mean, yes, they could die. Oh, wait...
Your statement about "rights" pricked a sore spot with me, though...
"Rights" are entitlements secured by popular consensus, or force. You think that what's "right" or "acceptable" for an individual defines right and acceptable behaviour for a government? Nice idea,but an individual is supposedly held responsible for their individual actions, but as the "individual" becomes a larger and larger group, the responsibility per person becomes less and less, and the willingness to use force accumulates. Thus, a government, any large ruling body, accumulates power, and "rights", and becomes more prone to violence.
That is kind of simplified... There are more factors involved: is the transmitter omni-directional? the receiver? Or is the cellphone loaded with REAL next-gen gear and have a micro-phased array antenna to steer the beam at the closest tower? Has the phone evolved to a function instead of a device? Does it have a OCR scanner looking through the CCD camera? Is it capable of being a computer with the camera acting as an optical mouse (no external box involved)? Does it have night vision? Biometrics? Accelerometers? It already has mp3, GPS, phone, video, data storage, audio recording, games, internet connectivity, timer alarms, what else can you think of to incorporate into it?
If it looks and acts like a certified calculator, the testers won't know. All you would have to do is replace the circuit board in the case, and vuala! Stealth computer!
I know, I know, "All you would have to do ...." It's a lot easier said than done, but still not THAT hard to do. And if engineering students are involved, it's liable to happen. :)
Interesting anecdote: When I was in the service (Army Infantry), some of the older sargents got to talking about unusual ammunition that they'd used/tested/heard about. Depleted Uranium came up, because it was before the first Desert Storm and no one had used it before. The other one still hasn't been used that I know of. It was a hollow plastic nose & metal cup round filled with liquid teflon.
The story went that during Viet Nam, a sniper was sent to wound some particular General, not kill him. He wasn't the greatest strategist, so we knew how to handle him, and didn't want him dead, but for some upcoming engagement we wanted him on the sidelines, so he was marked for a wounding and not a dirt-nap. They sent the sniper out with these new liquid teflon rounds to try. Mistake. When the round hit the General in the shoulder, the liquid came out in strings and tore his whole arm and shoulder off, inducing massive shock and bleeding him out in seconds.
Probably BS, but makes for an interestingly morbid story.
True. This method isn't fool-proof. No method is. All it will do is act like a door lock - help honest people stay honest, and act as a speed bump for the dishonest people.
I'm sure the military won't use outside servers for top secret stuff (too paranoid, thank god), but Josephine Yutz, who got appointed for the great work she did during Rep. Bullwinkles campaign, just might. We've seen a lot of dumb shites do stuff like that in the past when they should have known better.
And "Cloud Computing", (god, I hate buzzwords) is okay for short-term projects that aren't critical, but all it would take is a couple of DDOS attacks on an external (commercial) server, or even just a service outage, and you've shut out governmental entities from their computing resources. The feds would have no warning, counter-measures(?), or backups. They would be totally useless. *I know, I know*
It's hard to lobby congress with our $$$ when they've taken it all. The power the corporate lobbyists wield isn't that they have some money, it's that they have control over a LOT of money, more than 99.99999% of all individuals will ever have. The sad thing, is that if individuals form a coop to fight the lobbyists, we can only do it with more lobbyists. It's like fighting lawyers with lawyers. Only the lawyers win.
The basic architecture of BeOS/Haiku and Linux are aimed at different objectives, Linux is a fine server for a multitude of purposes, and Haiku is great for a single-user desktop system. Look out! Car analogy coming! It's the difference between a tractor trailer rig and a Ferrari. You can drive around town in the rig, but the sports car is ever so much more fun!
WHOOSH! Tongue in cheek comment, there. Mostly. Uhmmm, I didn't say it had to be Linux, did I? It could be Linux, BeOS, ReactOS, Menuet, a Hackintosh LiveCD, or ANYTHING that looks even kinda cool. This idea depends more on the UI, some easy VB-style tools, and an appeal to the natural counter-cultural tendencies of kids, than it does on any FOSS idealism.
And did you check to see if your tuner card was compatible with Ubuntu, first? It would've saved you some time. I've used Linux a couple of years now, and I still run into probs. My last upgrade I wrestled with video drivers for 3 weeks to get my NVidia card to work right again. I've never said "It's the year of the Linux Desktop!". That would be stupid. Linux is fine for me, not necessarily for you.