well, apparantly it even shows that 2.17% of the world population makes less than $0. Tell it a negative number and you get have a negative income of -$1000 and it says you are in the top 52.82%...
Think they have just collected some numbers and generated a scale without regard to how the world really looks.
What they should have done is collect one data-point per 10M people and then generated a scale on that, then they would have bit more exact 'real-world' wealth-calculator
- Patents are valid for 3 years or until they have made a profit of more than 3 times the research-cost. - After 3 years it's the patent-holders responsebility to prove that they have not made more profit than 3 times the investment-cost. - At the patent-application they need to specify the research-cost, and if they are caught specifying higher numbers they would have to fine the specified amount. - If someone claims prior-art of a patent to the patent-office it's up to the patent-holder to prove that they where first. Not the other way around as it sounds to be today.
This way we would offer the 'best' of 2 worlds. Patents for simple ideas expire quite fast but the more costly can be in effect for quite some time, and maybe even longer than they are today.
I think a variation of this idea would give the companies the incentive to continue developing new things while still keeping the most rediciolus patents out of the patent-system, or atleast flush them out as fast as possible.
Well, i said i picked the numbers completley out of the blue. But to say that you dont care about costs for maintaining 100 extra machines is not true. More machines = more manpower to maintain them, more machines = more power to run them, more machines = more cooling etc. So it's not only the license-costs. And about not looking at the costs just because you have a large system, that's not true. Even if you made $30M a month you would still care about loosing that extra $500K for maintaining the systems.
The example you picked here is quite bad, since with a single system and one person company it's always easier to run the OS you are familiar with. But if we are talking the amount of money, even if he dont care about it, it would probably have been cheaper to run with linux if he had experience and knowledge to develop the application on those systems.
To make my 'short' story even shorter. The more systems you have the more the cost, does not matter what OS you are running.
There are ALOT of people outside USA that will not agree to those terms.
Just because 300M people live in the states that are forced to comply with these stupid software-patents dont make us here in europe or the rest of the world do the same.
I would suspect that if the kernel would become more and more stripped because of these patents there would either be a fork of the kernel, or the kernel would be even more modularized so stuff that infringes on those stupid patents can be removed for the 'american' version.
Patents should be for complete innovations, not for a generic idea that makes up a minimal part of the complete system, Software-patents are just plain stupid, and if they should be applied it should only be for advanced algorithms for speech-recognition or image-recognition and similar. And they should then need to specify that complete algo in the patent-application.
If you have lots of *nix-systems and inhouse *nix knowledge, yes linux is cheaper If you have lots of MS-systems and inhouse MS-knowledge, yes then a MS setup is probably cheaper.
But ofcourse you always have to look at the specific implementation. A short example (The numbers are just an example, they might be reversed in another situation) - 1 Linux system manages 100 hits per second. - 1 MS-systems manages 50 hits per second. You need to provide a complete system that manages 10000 hits per second, then you'll need 100 linux systems or 200 windows systems. While the MS systems might be faster to implement and easier to maintain you still have to compare what the cost is for keeping those extra 50 systems. (Power/cooling/space in the serverroom/costs for that extra hardware/etc)
So i would say to this, it all depends on what you want to run and how big the setup is.
Follow this checklist and you can make your own determination. 1. Number of systems needed to serve the 'application' (ie cost of the hardware) 2. Licence-cost for the systems. (remember that you have to count all extra software that you need to buy) 3. Cost of sysadmins needed to serve these systems. 4. Implementation/Migration-cost. 5. Location-costs of the systems (server-room space/cooling/powerusage/service-agreements for the systems etc)
Well, how did the officer know that he was not suffering from any medical condition that caused him to behave like that? Shure that lots of people use that as an excuse, but how can they be 100% shure?? But anyways, ONE tazing might have been autorized if he became violent or made any threats. Everything after that is just excessive force! And in this instance he just went limb, so wheres the threat in that?
Correct way here should have been. - Get the cuffs on him, if restisting violently zap him once and retry. - Ask the person to walk out, if resisting try lifting him up and stand him on his feet, if resisting carry him out.
Tazing should not be used as a motivator! And tazing a person in cuffs is just plain torture.
And then combine it with the http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/ 22/2028258 to convert heat into electricity and we got a infinite powersupply.. Just 'tune' it to absorb the freq-range where the most energy is. Btw, how much energy do we get from the sun per squrare meter (not just counting visible light)?
So if a company spends $1 Billion developing a one-click-to-buy should that be granted a patent too? Oh, my error, already been done:o
(maybe not a billion, but they are probably claming a loss of $1B due to any breach:)
Well, if i want i can replay it in my head? Does that violate our agreement?
If it's a resturant then you buy an amount of food, ie all the food you can eat at the same time... If you want, but not recommended, is to puke it up and reuse it, but will probably not taste as good :
I cant understand why this is always compared to "stealing" or other types things that do have a cost for the reseller. A better thing here is then to compare this to making the same dish at home, ie making a copy...
If i want to make a copy a CD or crack some hardware that i have paid for why should i not?? It does not cost the manufacurer anything but gives me either more security with using dvd-backup disks instead of the original or give me some new functionality i want with the hardware. Shure, it should not be permittet to first copy CD's and then sell the copies, but that's a totally different story than making PRIVATE copies or a making a mix-cd for a close friend.
*Ignore spelling errors. To tired to correct them*
So, should we allow the police to zap suspects when they dont know or refuse to answer their questions? How do you know that this person was really able to stand up that short time after the tazing? How did the officers know that the person was able to stand up?
Tazing? Once maybe, IF the suspect is refusing to cooperate, and beeing violent, BEFORE beeing put in handcuffs. After getting cuffed the officers should simply have carried him out, or if the 3 officers where unable to carry the person out of the building then call for backup.
Correct way do do it: - Ask the person to leave - If person does not leave - arrest for tresspassing. Use force if he's restisting to get cuffed. - If the person is violent after getting cuffed then simply strap his feet together too and carry him out.
Only time a person should need to use a tazer or gun is to stop a person from injuring someone else, not as an threat to get someone to do what they want.
BTW, is passive resistance really unlawful after beeing arrested??
Well, after getting stunned do you really think you got good control of your legs? If they wanted they could have just carried him out of the building without having to zap him even once, but what's the fun in that.
So when we have destroyed ourselves with a big nuclear war the only thing that will survive are the cockroaches and mice..... hmm, just wonder what the next intelligent race will evolve from.
Well, if i find a movie good i buy it, if it's not good and i dont buy it.
What they need to realize that there are lots of people that dont want to go to the theater or buy the DVD, and wait for the possibility to go and rent the movie for 24 hours is a big hassle since they usually have quite a limited number of movies. Also downloading a movie can be quite a bit of a hassle since new movies might take a while before they are available in good quality and old movies can be almost impossible to find.
What i would love to see is some company that realizes this and makes a service that would provide a solution for this. For me that service would be something like this. - ALL movies/series ever made should be available. - Movies are streamed while watching, if on a slow connection just have it download it to a local HD before you can watch it.
A good price for this service would be something like 50Euro since that's about the amount of money i'm willing to spend per month on movies. And they could even have a DVD burner in their box so if you liked a movie you could make your own DVD for that movie for say 2Eur.
But... this is the movie industry we are talking about you can just forget my post since they would never even consider a userfriendly business.
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A girlfriend? :D
well, apparantly it even shows that 2.17% of the world population makes less than $0.
Tell it a negative number and you get have a negative income of -$1000 and it says you are in the top 52.82%...
Think they have just collected some numbers and generated a scale without regard to how the world really looks.
What they should have done is collect one data-point per 10M people and then generated a scale on that, then they would have bit more exact 'real-world' wealth-calculator
I volunteer for the beer-filtering duty! :*]
Well, change the patent-rules a little bit then.
- Patents are valid for 3 years or until they have made a profit of more than 3 times the research-cost.
- After 3 years it's the patent-holders responsebility to prove that they have not made more profit than 3 times the investment-cost.
- At the patent-application they need to specify the research-cost, and if they are caught specifying higher numbers they would have to fine the specified amount.
- If someone claims prior-art of a patent to the patent-office it's up to the patent-holder to prove that they where first. Not the other way around as it sounds to be today.
This way we would offer the 'best' of 2 worlds. Patents for simple ideas expire quite fast but the more costly can be in effect for quite some time, and maybe even longer than they are today.
I think a variation of this idea would give the companies the incentive to continue developing new things while still keeping the most rediciolus patents out of the patent-system, or atleast flush them out as fast as possible.
Well, i said i picked the numbers completley out of the blue. But to say that you dont care about costs for maintaining 100 extra machines is not true. More machines = more manpower to maintain them, more machines = more power to run them, more machines = more cooling etc. So it's not only the license-costs.
And about not looking at the costs just because you have a large system, that's not true. Even if you made $30M a month you would still care about loosing that extra $500K for maintaining the systems.
The example you picked here is quite bad, since with a single system and one person company it's always easier to run the OS you are familiar with. But if we are talking the amount of money, even if he dont care about it, it would probably have been cheaper to run with linux if he had experience and knowledge to develop the application on those systems.
To make my 'short' story even shorter. The more systems you have the more the cost, does not matter what OS you are running.
There are ALOT of people outside USA that will not agree to those terms.
Just because 300M people live in the states that are forced to comply with these stupid software-patents dont make us here in europe or the rest of the world do the same.
I would suspect that if the kernel would become more and more stripped because of these patents there would either be a fork of the kernel, or the kernel would be even more modularized so stuff that infringes on those stupid patents can be removed for the 'american' version.
Patents should be for complete innovations, not for a generic idea that makes up a minimal part of the complete system, Software-patents are just plain stupid, and if they should be applied it should only be for advanced algorithms for speech-recognition or image-recognition and similar. And they should then need to specify that complete algo in the patent-application.
Ehmmm... You do know that blood carries the HIV virus right?? Do dont need to f**k to catch it...
;>
Not shure if you where sarcastic, but lets hope so.. Aleast for your sake...
To make a long story short.
:)
If you have lots of *nix-systems and inhouse *nix knowledge, yes linux is cheaper
If you have lots of MS-systems and inhouse MS-knowledge, yes then a MS setup is probably cheaper.
But ofcourse you always have to look at the specific implementation.
A short example (The numbers are just an example, they might be reversed in another situation)
- 1 Linux system manages 100 hits per second.
- 1 MS-systems manages 50 hits per second.
You need to provide a complete system that manages 10000 hits per second, then you'll need 100 linux systems or 200 windows systems.
While the MS systems might be faster to implement and easier to maintain you still have to compare what the cost is for keeping those extra 50 systems. (Power/cooling/space in the serverroom/costs for that extra hardware/etc)
So i would say to this, it all depends on what you want to run and how big the setup is.
Follow this checklist and you can make your own determination.
1. Number of systems needed to serve the 'application' (ie cost of the hardware)
2. Licence-cost for the systems. (remember that you have to count all extra software that you need to buy)
3. Cost of sysadmins needed to serve these systems.
4. Implementation/Migration-cost.
5. Location-costs of the systems (server-room space/cooling/powerusage/service-agreements for the systems etc)
Let the flamewars begin
Well, how did the officer know that he was not suffering from any medical condition that caused him to behave like that? Shure that lots of people use that as an excuse, but how can they be 100% shure?? But anyways, ONE tazing might have been autorized if he became violent or made any threats. Everything after that is just excessive force! And in this instance he just went limb, so wheres the threat in that?
Correct way here should have been.
- Get the cuffs on him, if restisting violently zap him once and retry.
- Ask the person to walk out, if resisting try lifting him up and stand him on his feet, if resisting carry him out.
Tazing should not be used as a motivator! And tazing a person in cuffs is just plain torture.
Yea, they kept the backups on the opposite side of the complex. =)
and.....
:)
1. Start talking really loud.
2. Stop taking showers.
3. Fart atleast once every 10 minutes.
Good thing here is if you are located very close to your manager
Something crawled out of the fridge and eat it!
Always make shure the fridge is locked securly before going to sleep!
And then combine it with the http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/ 22/2028258 to convert heat into electricity and we got a infinite powersupply.. Just 'tune' it to absorb the freq-range where the most energy is. Btw, how much energy do we get from the sun per squrare meter (not just counting visible light)?
So if a company spends $1 Billion developing a one-click-to-buy should that be granted a patent too? Oh, my error, already been done :o
(maybe not a billion, but they are probably claming a loss of $1B due to any breach :)
Well, if i want i can replay it in my head? Does that violate our agreement?
If it's a resturant then you buy an amount of food, ie all the food you can eat at the same time... If you want, but not recommended, is to puke it up and reuse it, but will probably not taste as good :
I cant understand why this is always compared to "stealing" or other types things that do have a cost for the reseller. A better thing here is then to compare this to making the same dish at home, ie making a copy...
If i want to make a copy a CD or crack some hardware that i have paid for why should i not?? It does not cost the manufacurer anything but gives me either more security with using dvd-backup disks instead of the original or give me some new functionality i want with the hardware.
Shure, it should not be permittet to first copy CD's and then sell the copies, but that's a totally different story than making PRIVATE copies or a making a mix-cd for a close friend.
*Ignore spelling errors. To tired to correct them*
So, should we allow the police to zap suspects when they dont know or refuse to answer their questions? How do you know that this person was really able to stand up that short time after the tazing? How did the officers know that the person was able to stand up?
Tazing? Once maybe, IF the suspect is refusing to cooperate, and beeing violent, BEFORE beeing put in handcuffs. After getting cuffed the officers should simply have carried him out, or if the 3 officers where unable to carry the person out of the building then call for backup.
Correct way do do it:
- Ask the person to leave
- If person does not leave - arrest for tresspassing. Use force if he's restisting to get cuffed.
- If the person is violent after getting cuffed then simply strap his feet together too and carry him out.
Only time a person should need to use a tazer or gun is to stop a person from injuring someone else, not as an threat to get someone to do what they want.
BTW, is passive resistance really unlawful after beeing arrested??
Well, after getting stunned do you really think you got good control of your legs? If they wanted they could have just carried him out of the building without having to zap him even once, but what's the fun in that.
Well, imagine the business you could start... "Buy our oxygen-generator or die!" =)
With enough money - Prior-art does note matter.
Q: How many layers does it take to replace a lightbulb?
A: They never finish. They just keep thinking about how they can sue the lightbulb maker.
Ahh.. so that's why whe always have stupid politicians... They are to stupid to even do simple math :)
some free streeming of this..
a sp?cd_id=1828#mp3
http://www./ progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_CD.
have not verified that it's really this song, but that's Macromedias fault for not fixing that 64-bit flash-plugin..
Are not the mods funny, redundant as usual on first post
:)
Cant we mark their accounts redundant soon?
So when we have destroyed ourselves with a big nuclear war the only thing that will survive are the cockroaches and mice..... hmm, just wonder what the next intelligent race will evolve from.
*biological spellchecker not working today*
Well, if i find a movie good i buy it, if it's not good and i dont buy it.
What they need to realize that there are lots of people that dont want to go to the theater or buy the DVD, and wait for the possibility to go and rent the movie for 24 hours is a big hassle since they usually have quite a limited number of movies. Also downloading a movie can be quite a bit of a hassle since new movies might take a while before they are available in good quality and old movies can be almost impossible to find.
What i would love to see is some company that realizes this and makes a service that would provide a solution for this.
For me that service would be something like this.
- ALL movies/series ever made should be available.
- Movies are streamed while watching, if on a slow connection just have it download it to a local HD before you can watch it.
A good price for this service would be something like 50Euro since that's about the amount of money i'm willing to spend per month on movies. And they could even have a DVD burner in their box so if you liked a movie you could make your own DVD for that movie for say 2Eur.
But... this is the movie industry we are talking about you can just forget my post since they would never even consider a userfriendly business.