A lot of people did have a problem with this apparently, because Islam is more praised and protected by the US gov't now than ever.
I am not familiar with the congressional hearing you're referring to. Were they discussing stripping rights from Muslims living in the US, including US citizens, and imprisoning or deporting them summarily? Because that's what it sounds like you're saying.
I'll just say that there is a metric ton of difference between rounding up citizens and lawful residents based on their religion, and simply barring entry of foreign nationals from another country. Former is a flagrant violation of constitutional and human rights, while the latter is simply called controlling your borders -- something every sovereign nation in history has done and is self-evidently entitled to.
Now please raise the defense budget 12% per year, so that we may relocate naval bases to higher ground and do more maintenance on equipment damaged by severe weather.
The audiophiles will jump all over this though. Sure your current ISP will barely stream 1080p and service often degrades into SD, but now there's a badge on your Netflix screen that says 4k, so it must be superior quality!
This nonsense of $20,000+ weddings is just ridiculous - especailly since that's a down payent on a house or knocking off a bit off your student loan or just save it for a rainy day.
Power of advertising. Same people who successfully convinced a whole nation that Valentine's day is when you're supposed to buy overpriced chocolate and greeting cards. And that any romantic occasion must be accompanied by giving of diamond ("Diamonds are Forever!").
At the point where someone actually proves such a device can exist (and doesn't violate the second law of thermodynamics blah blah blah) then the genie is effectively out of the bottle. At that point, a whole slew of smart people (who are slightly embarrassed that they always thought this was impossible) will figure out a whole bunch of other ways to do the same thing and not violate the patent. Many of them will just say "fuck it" and violate the patent, and wait for the courts to act. China will almost certainly nationalize it (independent of where it was invented) and put it online to power the country. Hell, a few Western countries might do the same thing. The reward is much too great to bother with such trivial details as intellectual property laws.
Excellent points. I have thought about the same issue myself.
My conclusion is that you should not patent if it's possible to build a good demo device with your own resources (max out your credit cards, 2nd mortgage on the house, borrow from family etc). Show your working demo unit to Paul Allen or some other billionaire, let his own people test it, and go into a partnership. Keep everything a trade secret, and sell electricity (not the device). You will become the biggest power company in the world.
But if it costs too much to build a convincing demo, and the patent office rejects your ideas as being impossible, you'd have a real chicken-and-egg problem. You might end up being a bankrupt old man in an asylum somewhere =O
I think a lot of what is going on is that healthcare workers in rich western countries have very little actual experience with an 80% fatal infectious disease.
The one in Texas is a registered nurse, and you do not get to be a registered nurse unless you fully comprehend the Germ Theory of Disease.
And unless that nurse has an IQ of 80 and been living under a rock for the past month, she would've been aware of what Ebola is and how easily it can kill you if you get it.
There isn't anything special about Ebola containment that one needs vast amount of experience to master. Any competent healthcare professional would've learned it long ago. It's just a matter of being scared enough to do it religiously.
I am not an Obama basher. I think other men in his position would've done the same thing given the information he's been told by CDC and the other experts around him.
However it should be clear by now that that information is not entirely accurate and that Ebola is a greater danger than he's been let on. As president of the United States he needs to do his damn job now and stop incoming flights from Ebola-stricken countries.
get rid of it. That's what I'd do. America was doing fine before these douchebag agencies were ever dreamed up.
*cue scumbag Democrat/Republican politician shouting "National security! We need them to protect our freedoms!"
Bullshit, America was far safer and freer without NSA CIA and the rest of the military-industrial-congress complex.
*cue coolaid-drinking sheeple parroting, "Times have changed and the world is a more dangerous place. Gov't needs more power to protect us!"
Yeah the world is more dangerous now because you douchebags made it more dangerous. Meddling in the affairs of Middle East and other places all over the world, playing God, creating enemies where there were none.
Note the level of hatred for America that existed in the Middle East prior to the creation of Israel (by US/UK). That would be zero.
and transparent GIFs. The day I found out you can use a 1x1 transparent GIF to fill any space by using "width=xx, height=yy" in the tag, was the greatest day of my life.
I seem to recall a prize started by a internet billionaire to rival Nobel, and he was giving out like $3 million per prize instead of Nobel's $1 million. Can't remember the name though...
systemd is the wave of the future. Or at least something similar to systemd that they'll probably hate just as much.
I haven't seen this much hate since OOP started getting popular and old school devs were dragged into it kicking and screaming. But guess what, OOP was the wave of the future.
Slashdot Mirror
Suspend spider silk from a satellite.
Employ an army of spiders to ferry micro-cargo from earth to space.
I haven't looked into it in detail, but Firefox still feels less bloated than Chrome. I'm using 31.1.1 ESR.
Javascript rendering seems faster on Firefox than Chrome also.
And NOBODY seemed to have a problem with this!!!
A lot of people did have a problem with this apparently, because Islam is more praised and protected by the US gov't now than ever.
I am not familiar with the congressional hearing you're referring to. Were they discussing stripping rights from Muslims living in the US, including US citizens, and imprisoning or deporting them summarily? Because that's what it sounds like you're saying.
I'll just say that there is a metric ton of difference between rounding up citizens and lawful residents based on their religion, and simply barring entry of foreign nationals from another country. Former is a flagrant violation of constitutional and human rights, while the latter is simply called controlling your borders -- something every sovereign nation in history has done and is self-evidently entitled to.
The Latins lost WW-1 and WW0 to the Huns and the Vandals, yet that didn't stop Latin from being the pre-eminent scientific language until the 1800s.
Now please raise the defense budget 12% per year, so that we may relocate naval bases to higher ground and do more maintenance on equipment damaged by severe weather.
Signed,
Colonel Trout
The audiophiles will jump all over this though. Sure your current ISP will barely stream 1080p and service often degrades into SD, but now there's a badge on your Netflix screen that says 4k, so it must be superior quality!
This nonsense of $20,000+ weddings is just ridiculous - especailly since that's a down payent on a house or knocking off a bit off your student loan or just save it for a rainy day.
Power of advertising. Same people who successfully convinced a whole nation that Valentine's day is when you're supposed to buy overpriced chocolate and greeting cards. And that any romantic occasion must be accompanied by giving of diamond ("Diamonds are Forever!").
At the point where someone actually proves such a device can exist (and doesn't violate the second law of thermodynamics blah blah blah) then the genie is effectively out of the bottle. At that point, a whole slew of smart people (who are slightly embarrassed that they always thought this was impossible) will figure out a whole bunch of other ways to do the same thing and not violate the patent. Many of them will just say "fuck it" and violate the patent, and wait for the courts to act. China will almost certainly nationalize it (independent of where it was invented) and put it online to power the country. Hell, a few Western countries might do the same thing. The reward is much too great to bother with such trivial details as intellectual property laws.
Excellent points. I have thought about the same issue myself.
My conclusion is that you should not patent if it's possible to build a good demo device with your own resources (max out your credit cards, 2nd mortgage on the house, borrow from family etc). Show your working demo unit to Paul Allen or some other billionaire, let his own people test it, and go into a partnership. Keep everything a trade secret, and sell electricity (not the device). You will become the biggest power company in the world.
But if it costs too much to build a convincing demo, and the patent office rejects your ideas as being impossible, you'd have a real chicken-and-egg problem. You might end up being a bankrupt old man in an asylum somewhere =O
Not a prius, a Tesla. Prius runs on gasoline.
But yeah that's a good idea, bolt it to a Tesla Model S and drive it 3000 miles. If Rossi did that then I'd believe him.
I think a lot of what is going on is that healthcare workers in rich western countries have very little actual experience with an 80% fatal infectious disease.
The one in Texas is a registered nurse, and you do not get to be a registered nurse unless you fully comprehend the Germ Theory of Disease.
And unless that nurse has an IQ of 80 and been living under a rock for the past month, she would've been aware of what Ebola is and how easily it can kill you if you get it.
There isn't anything special about Ebola containment that one needs vast amount of experience to master. Any competent healthcare professional would've learned it long ago. It's just a matter of being scared enough to do it religiously.
I am not an Obama basher. I think other men in his position would've done the same thing given the information he's been told by CDC and the other experts around him.
However it should be clear by now that that information is not entirely accurate and that Ebola is a greater danger than he's been let on. As president of the United States he needs to do his damn job now and stop incoming flights from Ebola-stricken countries.
get rid of it. That's what I'd do. America was doing fine before these douchebag agencies were ever dreamed up.
*cue scumbag Democrat/Republican politician shouting "National security! We need them to protect our freedoms!"
Bullshit, America was far safer and freer without NSA CIA and the rest of the military-industrial-congress complex.
*cue coolaid-drinking sheeple parroting, "Times have changed and the world is a more dangerous place. Gov't needs more power to protect us!"
Yeah the world is more dangerous now because you douchebags made it more dangerous. Meddling in the affairs of Middle East and other places all over the world, playing God, creating enemies where there were none.
Note the level of hatred for America that existed in the Middle East prior to the creation of Israel (by US/UK). That would be zero.
why would Kmart even have your social security number?
I suspect this will be quietly dropped in the near future when they see their supply of young recruits dwindle to nothing.
with new maths
No, we would have just kept using tables and tags
and transparent GIFs. The day I found out you can use a 1x1 transparent GIF to fill any space by using "width=xx, height=yy" in the tag, was the greatest day of my life.
Also for UK readers: TFA is talking about meeethane gas.
You didn't say how old your students are.
First line of the summary says "I'm a computer science professor"
His students are 18-23.
quad core. Is it better than the PS/4 CPU?
I seem to recall a prize started by a internet billionaire to rival Nobel, and he was giving out like $3 million per prize instead of Nobel's $1 million. Can't remember the name though...
at that time, Indonesia was connected to Malaysia/Singapore and thus the Asian continent. Map
Not sure what this proves, but is interesting...
systemd is the wave of the future. Or at least something similar to systemd that they'll probably hate just as much.
I haven't seen this much hate since OOP started getting popular and old school devs were dragged into it kicking and screaming. But guess what, OOP was the wave of the future.
Let go the hate and embrace.
Well, I said "most and bestest". You seem to be focusing only on the latter and ignoring the former.
Is there anyone on earth who believes France has more tech jobs available than US?
when you're already in the best place for tech jobs, you're gonna have less incentive to move.
Like it or not U.S. has the most and bestest tech companies. France, not so much.
2034.
shortage of engineers, glut of researchers.