Teacher's salaries (cost to county, not takehome) run $30-60K per year day. That means a single teacher's salary for could provide (45000/200) 225 nice tablets, or with class sizes of 20ish, roughly 11 classrooms full. Make this "educational model" reasonably rugged, with an average service life of 3 years, and we've got 33 classrooms full of rugged tablets for the price of one teacher.
Let's not even start to get into what it costs to build and operate a single classroom...
The girlfriend wasn't accused of any crime, but they needed her fingerprint to access the data? That seems different from booking fingerprints.
Note: many professional licenses require fingerprints on file (Florida Real Estate agents, for one - and that covers about 15% of the population here at last census), will the police need a court order to release the fingerprints on file or can they just access them at will in the course of fishing expeditions?
Do you have Netflix? Or other access to the film 1971? The FBI under Hoover was just looking out for America, Hoover's America, decent people had nothing to worry about.
If all the hotel wanted was a snapshot, they would have asked the desk clerk to use her cellphone to take it.
Promotional photographs are highly influential and arguably worth far more than 10,000 euros to "get it right" or at least as good as possible. If the photo positively influences even 0.5% more of its viewers to stay with Sofitel instead of the competition, there's a high positive payback for the chain. This involves many factors that are difficult to pick up without being a professional practicing in the field, which is why the big firms go ahead and pay the professionals with a proven track record of "getting it right" instead of buying a good camera themselves and letting 10 of their hack amateur photographers who do other things with most of their time "give it a shot" and use the best one out of that pile.
For every highly paid professional photographer who has "lived the life" and managed to build up a reputation for not wasting their client's time producing top rate images, there are probably a thousand who are technically just as good, but haven't invested as much of their life into building the reputation and career. The chain is (not yet) paying for that reputation which was built at a cost of years of professional development.
In the future, maybe they'll just put a sign in the lobby encouraging their customers to #sofitel when they tweet their images and pay a bunch of Mechanical Turks to sort out the good ones. This time they appear to have gone the old school route and then turned around and breached contract on their artist. I'm inclined to side with the artist on this one.
It is a contract, and I'm sure one way of interpreting it is that he is owed $2M for their over-use of his image.
German courts are usually pretty level headed about awards, I'm sure they'll acknowledge his math and award something much more reasonable. If e4200 paid for his time and a 3 year internal use license, you might compute something like e2200 was for his time, e2000 for the 3 year internal license - a license in perpetuity for internal and external use might be reasonably assumed to be worth 10x the 3 year internal license fee, award e20,000 plus legal expenses.
As others have said, most of the ersatz IP in the work is Sofitel's to begin with. This may just be a clever publicity stunt for the photographer.
I think V8 made some measurable gains (turning a giant steaming pile into a slightly smaller, slightly cooler steaming pile...)
Too bad "we can't be trusted" to develop plugins like the NaCl project anymore. Quick search looks like pNaCl is trying to address that... but I smell Javascript again...
And this is what I mean by "screwing up the fusion of major nerves". Lower spinal damage _in the same body_ refused leaves people with years of therapy to regain basic function - whole body swap, if the brain isn't simply overwhelmed and gives up, I would suspect it to take over a decade to regain basic control - and what do we do for digestive function in the meantime?
They are going to screw so much up in the spinal cord (and vagus nerve) fusions that we won't be answering the more subtle questions of whether or not the donor body "redefines" the brain's personality.
Simple body transformations (breast implants?) already transform personality and sense of self... of course a whole different body would have a bigger effect.
you don't run national campaigns without support from somewhere.
Bernie Sanders and Trump both show this to be false, and for nearly the same reason.
I think there should be better ways to finance national politics (contribution limits, transparency, etc.), but am lacking in any real power to influence the system to adopt better ways.
I have a solution, it is simple and easy to regulate.
Unlimited Campaign contributions with the following rules: 1) Individuals may only donate to campaigns they can vote on; individuals cannot donate to anyone they can't actually vote for. 2) PACs cannot donate to individual campaigns 3) PACs must list all donations in a publicly available format. 4) PACs cannot mention candidates (either pro/con) by name or use their likeness in any campaign, they must be ISSUES oriented. 5) PACs may publicly endorse candidates, but cannot campaign for them, candidates may refer to those endorsements in their campaigns.
These changes would remove a huge amount of problems with SuperPACs that have dominated both political parties. The biggest problem is that most people don't feel like their voice matters, and is being drowned out by special interests. Both D and R parties have this problem, and often the special interest groups want things that are at odds with the average voter.
Sanders has plenty of support, he started from the position of Senator and has solicited and received tremendous support from small donors. He's in a great spot, but he didn't get there without achieving successively higher levels of visibility through financial support. One major flaw in Sanders as a candidate is his age, and arguably, you could never reach his level of political visibility on popular support alone until you are quite old.
Trump inherited his money, I'd rather not be ruled by people who live in that tiny sliver of our shared reality.
You outline a nice plan, but by the time you get to point 5, I think it's becoming clear that there are a large number of issues built up over the last century which are not simple to address, and I suspect any actual plan adopted by a majority of the legislature would be up to point 50 (and thus incomprehensible to mere mortals, unenforcable by practical means, and likely more abused than the present system) before it reached a majority approval.
Scientific journals developed as ivory towers of knowledge. In the beginning, the fees they charged were somewhat justified by costs of publication and distribution, but even then it was mostly about the editorial work and peer review. If an article made it into a prestigious journal, it was assumed to have a high chance of being valid and of some importance.
As costs of publication and distribution dropped to zero, the journals maintained their paywalls as some kind of "exclusive club" status - all their readers (who mattered to them) had access through institutional subscriptions, the subscription fees propped up the journals' (probably bloated) offices, staff, travel habits, etc. After all, there's still the editorial process to maintain, peer review to orchestrate, etc.
It took hundreds of years for the journals to get to where they were in the late 1900s, it's not surprising that it is taking a few decades for them to come around to deal with the implications of instant free information sharing. It's just ironic that they were founded on principles of "free" exchange of information, but when the costs of exchanging information fell away it exposed how much tax they were placing on this exchange.
Jeez, that's assuming a much higher level of cognitive functioning that a significant portion (like >10%) of the population operates at on a daily basis.
How often do people use the automated password reset services? Now, assume you're running a secure drive on your home system, if there's nothing of particular value or interest inside - maybe that's an easy password to forget. Even more so: if you're actively concerned about hiding something and you change your password every week "for extra security" - then suffer the emotional trauma of being arrested and dragged to court, that's enough to rattle lots of people into forgetfulness.
Me, personally, I recently changed jobs - set the old system aside for 6 months, when I went back to it I tried every password I could think of on it and nothing worked. Luckily, it was Slackware based - so working around it and resetting the password was about a 10 minute exercise on Google - same goes for CentOS, forgot one of those not too long ago too.
I wouldn't call it a red herring when the current state of the consumer market for digital headphones sucks, reviews of digital headphones generally don't expose these quality problems, and the situation is not likely to get better when digital headphones become the only option.
Personally, I'd rather not have to put in audiophile levels of money and time to enjoy the same audio quality I used to get from my $25 turntable and $70 amplifier 30 years ago.
You play Vinyl on a PC with a megapixel optical scanner reading the grooves. If nobody has done this yet, they should, I'm sure there's a market (all 3000 lunatics world-wide who have the desire and money to pay $10,000 for a "touch free" turntable), and with a skylake chip you can process the image information fast enough to get a 96KHz sample rate (1000 linear pixels, devote 10 pixels to each sample, ~100 samples per image, would need to process 960 frames per second (B/W), 8 threads, 120 frames per second per core (frames could be cut down to ~1000x100 pixels arranged along the groove)... the processor is easily there, but the semi-custom industrial camera component won't come cheap.
Are you arguing for the headphone making side of industry, or the headphone content supplying side of industry? Very different players, neither of which have the same wants and desires as consumers, though I'd say the headphone makers are a little better aligned with consumers than the content studios and player makers.
Scale can't possibly offset the costs in the headphones, digital to analog conversion and amplification, while getting cheaper, are simply absent in analog headphones. Digitally connected headphones will ALWAYS be more expensive and complicated than analog connected headphones of the same quality.
If you only have one set of headphones in a given system, then you _might_ argue that costs are just being shuffled around, but what's really happening here is moving cost and complexity to the headphone (usually more disposable) side of the system.
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Sometimes days seem like years...
Teacher's salaries (cost to county, not takehome) run $30-60K per year day. That means a single teacher's salary for could provide (45000/200) 225 nice tablets, or with class sizes of 20ish, roughly 11 classrooms full. Make this "educational model" reasonably rugged, with an average service life of 3 years, and we've got 33 classrooms full of rugged tablets for the price of one teacher.
Let's not even start to get into what it costs to build and operate a single classroom...
Well, if tech is going to fund education, why not oil, finance, agriculture, and every other successful industry in the country?
The girlfriend wasn't accused of any crime, but they needed her fingerprint to access the data? That seems different from booking fingerprints.
Note: many professional licenses require fingerprints on file (Florida Real Estate agents, for one - and that covers about 15% of the population here at last census), will the police need a court order to release the fingerprints on file or can they just access them at will in the course of fishing expeditions?
Do you have Netflix? Or other access to the film 1971? The FBI under Hoover was just looking out for America, Hoover's America, decent people had nothing to worry about.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell No!
Don't stop him, he's on a roll...
If all the hotel wanted was a snapshot, they would have asked the desk clerk to use her cellphone to take it.
Promotional photographs are highly influential and arguably worth far more than 10,000 euros to "get it right" or at least as good as possible. If the photo positively influences even 0.5% more of its viewers to stay with Sofitel instead of the competition, there's a high positive payback for the chain. This involves many factors that are difficult to pick up without being a professional practicing in the field, which is why the big firms go ahead and pay the professionals with a proven track record of "getting it right" instead of buying a good camera themselves and letting 10 of their hack amateur photographers who do other things with most of their time "give it a shot" and use the best one out of that pile.
For every highly paid professional photographer who has "lived the life" and managed to build up a reputation for not wasting their client's time producing top rate images, there are probably a thousand who are technically just as good, but haven't invested as much of their life into building the reputation and career. The chain is (not yet) paying for that reputation which was built at a cost of years of professional development.
In the future, maybe they'll just put a sign in the lobby encouraging their customers to #sofitel when they tweet their images and pay a bunch of Mechanical Turks to sort out the good ones. This time they appear to have gone the old school route and then turned around and breached contract on their artist. I'm inclined to side with the artist on this one.
As I pointed out elsewhere, this isn't a US court - it lives somewhere closer to reality than that.
It is a contract, and I'm sure one way of interpreting it is that he is owed $2M for their over-use of his image.
German courts are usually pretty level headed about awards, I'm sure they'll acknowledge his math and award something much more reasonable. If e4200 paid for his time and a 3 year internal use license, you might compute something like e2200 was for his time, e2000 for the 3 year internal license - a license in perpetuity for internal and external use might be reasonably assumed to be worth 10x the 3 year internal license fee, award e20,000 plus legal expenses.
As others have said, most of the ersatz IP in the work is Sofitel's to begin with. This may just be a clever publicity stunt for the photographer.
Lots of really old technologies haven't been rolled out as ubiquitous standards yet.
Skylake is down to 10W... that's the direction I'd develop. Atom sucked, no loss there.
In that area, whatever works for the involved parties is good enough for them.
Not sure I'd trade my current status with him, though.
I think V8 made some measurable gains (turning a giant steaming pile into a slightly smaller, slightly cooler steaming pile...)
Too bad "we can't be trusted" to develop plugins like the NaCl project anymore. Quick search looks like pNaCl is trying to address that... but I smell Javascript again...
And this is what I mean by "screwing up the fusion of major nerves". Lower spinal damage _in the same body_ refused leaves people with years of therapy to regain basic function - whole body swap, if the brain isn't simply overwhelmed and gives up, I would suspect it to take over a decade to regain basic control - and what do we do for digestive function in the meantime?
There are different definitions of success - impregnation can be done with no penis at all, so that one data point doesn't really prove much.
They are going to screw so much up in the spinal cord (and vagus nerve) fusions that we won't be answering the more subtle questions of whether or not the donor body "redefines" the brain's personality.
Simple body transformations (breast implants?) already transform personality and sense of self... of course a whole different body would have a bigger effect.
you don't run national campaigns without support from somewhere.
Bernie Sanders and Trump both show this to be false, and for nearly the same reason.
I think there should be better ways to finance national politics (contribution limits, transparency, etc.), but am lacking in any real power to influence the system to adopt better ways.
I have a solution, it is simple and easy to regulate.
Unlimited Campaign contributions with the following rules: 1) Individuals may only donate to campaigns they can vote on; individuals cannot donate to anyone they can't actually vote for. 2) PACs cannot donate to individual campaigns 3) PACs must list all donations in a publicly available format. 4) PACs cannot mention candidates (either pro/con) by name or use their likeness in any campaign, they must be ISSUES oriented. 5) PACs may publicly endorse candidates, but cannot campaign for them, candidates may refer to those endorsements in their campaigns.
These changes would remove a huge amount of problems with SuperPACs that have dominated both political parties. The biggest problem is that most people don't feel like their voice matters, and is being drowned out by special interests. Both D and R parties have this problem, and often the special interest groups want things that are at odds with the average voter.
Sanders has plenty of support, he started from the position of Senator and has solicited and received tremendous support from small donors. He's in a great spot, but he didn't get there without achieving successively higher levels of visibility through financial support. One major flaw in Sanders as a candidate is his age, and arguably, you could never reach his level of political visibility on popular support alone until you are quite old.
Trump inherited his money, I'd rather not be ruled by people who live in that tiny sliver of our shared reality.
You outline a nice plan, but by the time you get to point 5, I think it's becoming clear that there are a large number of issues built up over the last century which are not simple to address, and I suspect any actual plan adopted by a majority of the legislature would be up to point 50 (and thus incomprehensible to mere mortals, unenforcable by practical means, and likely more abused than the present system) before it reached a majority approval.
It's hard to separate greedy bastards from legitimate need for international travel, office space, editorial salaries, etc.
Scientific journals developed as ivory towers of knowledge. In the beginning, the fees they charged were somewhat justified by costs of publication and distribution, but even then it was mostly about the editorial work and peer review. If an article made it into a prestigious journal, it was assumed to have a high chance of being valid and of some importance.
As costs of publication and distribution dropped to zero, the journals maintained their paywalls as some kind of "exclusive club" status - all their readers (who mattered to them) had access through institutional subscriptions, the subscription fees propped up the journals' (probably bloated) offices, staff, travel habits, etc. After all, there's still the editorial process to maintain, peer review to orchestrate, etc.
It took hundreds of years for the journals to get to where they were in the late 1900s, it's not surprising that it is taking a few decades for them to come around to deal with the implications of instant free information sharing. It's just ironic that they were founded on principles of "free" exchange of information, but when the costs of exchanging information fell away it exposed how much tax they were placing on this exchange.
Sounds about right, I must have sunk three whole hours into SL before losing the will to live there.
Jeez, that's assuming a much higher level of cognitive functioning that a significant portion (like >10%) of the population operates at on a daily basis.
How often do people use the automated password reset services? Now, assume you're running a secure drive on your home system, if there's nothing of particular value or interest inside - maybe that's an easy password to forget. Even more so: if you're actively concerned about hiding something and you change your password every week "for extra security" - then suffer the emotional trauma of being arrested and dragged to court, that's enough to rattle lots of people into forgetfulness.
Me, personally, I recently changed jobs - set the old system aside for 6 months, when I went back to it I tried every password I could think of on it and nothing worked. Luckily, it was Slackware based - so working around it and resetting the password was about a 10 minute exercise on Google - same goes for CentOS, forgot one of those not too long ago too.
I wouldn't call it a red herring when the current state of the consumer market for digital headphones sucks, reviews of digital headphones generally don't expose these quality problems, and the situation is not likely to get better when digital headphones become the only option.
Personally, I'd rather not have to put in audiophile levels of money and time to enjoy the same audio quality I used to get from my $25 turntable and $70 amplifier 30 years ago.
You play Vinyl on a PC with a megapixel optical scanner reading the grooves. If nobody has done this yet, they should, I'm sure there's a market (all 3000 lunatics world-wide who have the desire and money to pay $10,000 for a "touch free" turntable), and with a skylake chip you can process the image information fast enough to get a 96KHz sample rate (1000 linear pixels, devote 10 pixels to each sample, ~100 samples per image, would need to process 960 frames per second (B/W), 8 threads, 120 frames per second per core (frames could be cut down to ~1000x100 pixels arranged along the groove)... the processor is easily there, but the semi-custom industrial camera component won't come cheap.
Are you arguing for the headphone making side of industry, or the headphone content supplying side of industry? Very different players, neither of which have the same wants and desires as consumers, though I'd say the headphone makers are a little better aligned with consumers than the content studios and player makers.
Scale can't possibly offset the costs in the headphones, digital to analog conversion and amplification, while getting cheaper, are simply absent in analog headphones. Digitally connected headphones will ALWAYS be more expensive and complicated than analog connected headphones of the same quality.
If you only have one set of headphones in a given system, then you _might_ argue that costs are just being shuffled around, but what's really happening here is moving cost and complexity to the headphone (usually more disposable) side of the system.