Ok, lets say they have hard science training. How can you have a 'hard' science when its based on humans emotional state? Beyond psychology that is. Unless someones developed psychohistory without the rest of us knowing about it? I'd push that investment banking isn't a science, its a ideology, or at best a study of mobs. Yes they work with big numbers, yes they use complex formulas, but at the root of all those numbers are humans with all their fears and desires. You can't give that a proper numerical value so you can't truly predict what will happen. It's all guessing, its all intuition, human skills that are far from becoming a 'hard science'.
If our system of government was taken over by scientists and engineers I doubt they would bail out the banks. This is where I'll assume, but I'd guess that people trained in real sciences would have created a logical commerce system and it wouldn't have been made to fail like it has. Our current system of money creation isn't sustainable and I'm not talking about the new idiotic carbon bs green tree huger movement. People have to fail and lose in our current system, otherwise the rest of us can't pay the interest on our loans. It sucks. Give me technocracy over democracy any day.
Some of us own lots of games and feel that using an emulator to play them where we want to is a perfectly moral thing to do, whether or not "Fair Use" laws agree.
Just read his wikipedia entry which of course has to be taken with a grain of salt... but still sounds like he choose a bad time to leave his company rather than meet IBM representatives.
"Gary left licensing negotiations to Dorothy, as he usually did, while he and colleague Tom Rolander used Gary's private airplane to deliver software to manufacturer Bill Godbout"
Gates could be blamed for what happened later but considering he's the reason Kildall got the shot to talk to IBM that'd be unfair to him.
"IBM approached Digital Research in 1980, at Bill Gates' suggestion, to license a forthcoming version of CP/M called CP/M-86 for the IBM PC."
Doesn't sound like you can have sour grapes when someone hands you a deal and you fubar it. Not saying that Gates didn't destroy a thousand n one companies but this wasn't one of them.
I guess the reason why I don't see an issue with that is, what do you honestly expect? Pretty much any large organization has a public relations department whose job it is to put the best light on any event. The main tool used in that sort of job is 'bending' the truth and if needed just straight up lying. Now it would be nice if we could all live in harmony but this isn't a Utopia so I accept that any government is going to lie to its people at some point. Whether for good or ill it must do so to function in the real world.
As for Kal's personal support of the Obama... it goes without saying that your PR guy should be a fan/loyal to you.
Just curious, but you have a particular reason why Kal Penn shouldn't be a Public Liaison? I have no particular feelings on his appointment but the idea of an actor as the public face for the current administration is logical to me and not horrifying at all. After all we've been lied to for years by amateur liars called lawyers, at least Obama got a professional to do it. Gives me hope they might actually use knowledgeable professionals for other departments. Like oohhh.... I dunno scientists and engineers who happen to also be highly creative and express it by writing science fiction?
Umm maybe because the scientists and engineers come from several different branches of knowledge and are trained in a measurable science that human emotion has no part in? An "investment banker" isn't a man of science he's closer to a shaman or priest who gives a guess with numbers thrown in and is reliant on humans not to get too scared or fearless otherwise it becomes useless gibberish.
True. But the original person who removed the DRM is currently breaking laws to do so. Most of us believe that action should be legal and protected under fair use. This is a separate issue from whether or not the information itself should be free, even if that ideal loses out to the patent/copyright trolls this particular action should still be legal.
Problem with that is... I don't trust the humans running the system to use it for that singular purpose. If such a system were impossible to corrupt then it's be great, but at this point in time and any I can reasonably foresee for humanity it would be abused without pause.
I strongly believe in a small government, things like fire/police/military should be within their control. As should something like this, things that can't be trusted to a for-profit entity are controlled by the government. The maintenance can be outsourced to a non-profit corp but the control remains with government.
Hey how about just keeping the records the same, but the patient has the right to black out bits like the NSA and other government agencies do on sensitive documents? The patients authorized Doctors have privileged status and get a fully unedited version but the insurance companies and anyone else just get a binder full of blacked out documents if the client so chooses. Couple that with laws that say an insurer can't reject patients based on medical history and they should be safe. They might have to pay the highest premium they can legally charge but they can't be rejected.
I've *always* hated the need for drafts. Sure if your doing a several hundred page paper having multiple drafts will most likely be common. But what about those people who write their 50 page argument on why chocolate is better than vanilla in one shot a few hours before its due in class? It's original work, it is 100% authentic... but it has no draft because the person wrote it in one shot, even typos were fixed on the fly because word processors are nifty like that. So now this person has to fabricate a draft or else receive diminished credit or possibly even no credit?
If your wiki idea is used then the teacher now has timestamps for when the student did their work and if it had to be done on a server controlled by the teacher they know they didn't get to work on it until the day before. Now their work is judged not on the content of what is written but that they didn't spend the two weeks putting it together they were supposed to. I dislike this system more than Turnitin by a degree I can't express.
I'm sorry, but it's better to walk around asking your coworkers about the paper or spending your own time searching through google? Its less efficient to compare the students work to an automated database and getting a result in a few minutes?
Personally I only see this as a trust issue if a teacher isn't upfront about using this type of system. If the teacher keeps it hidden thats a problem, but if they are forthright about it and even remind the class when an important paper is assigned... no trust issue that I can see then. My own teachers did this and if anything as a student who either didn't turn in work or turned in their own work I was grateful for such a system to catch those as lazy as I could be but not as honest.
If my understanding is correct, it still is a public trial. Get on a plane and fly out and you can sit in, if they have room for you. They just blocked the mp3 streams because current law doesn't really allow it. The judge made the point that the law should be reexamined in light of new technology, but until then it is what it is.
Ok, I'm actually a huge mafiaa hater but could you point to studies/stats showing normal every day citizens being thrown in jail for copyright/IP infringement? The guy who makes bootleg movies and sells them being thrown in jail I have nothing against, commercial exploitation of someone elses copyrights should be illegal. But the individual citizen freely trading without profit as a motive being chucked in jail is new for me. May have happened once or twice but every case I remember here on/. has been about people being sued for stupid levels of money, not becoming Bubba's new cellmate.
I have a feeling they meant the reasons Gitmo exists rather than the actual brick n mortar facility. The whole "your rights mean nothing we throw you in jail and forget about you" part probably being at the front and center. Whether its in continental USA or some back hole no ones ever heard of isn't really the point.
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Ok, lets say they have hard science training. How can you have a 'hard' science when its based on humans emotional state? Beyond psychology that is. Unless someones developed psychohistory without the rest of us knowing about it? I'd push that investment banking isn't a science, its a ideology, or at best a study of mobs. Yes they work with big numbers, yes they use complex formulas, but at the root of all those numbers are humans with all their fears and desires. You can't give that a proper numerical value so you can't truly predict what will happen. It's all guessing, its all intuition, human skills that are far from becoming a 'hard science'.
If our system of government was taken over by scientists and engineers I doubt they would bail out the banks. This is where I'll assume, but I'd guess that people trained in real sciences would have created a logical commerce system and it wouldn't have been made to fail like it has. Our current system of money creation isn't sustainable and I'm not talking about the new idiotic carbon bs green tree huger movement. People have to fail and lose in our current system, otherwise the rest of us can't pay the interest on our loans. It sucks. Give me technocracy over democracy any day.
Some of us own lots of games and feel that using an emulator to play them where we want to is a perfectly moral thing to do, whether or not "Fair Use" laws agree.
Just read his wikipedia entry which of course has to be taken with a grain of salt... but still sounds like he choose a bad time to leave his company rather than meet IBM representatives.
"Gary left licensing negotiations to Dorothy, as he usually did, while he and colleague Tom Rolander used Gary's private airplane to deliver software to manufacturer Bill Godbout"
Gates could be blamed for what happened later but considering he's the reason Kildall got the shot to talk to IBM that'd be unfair to him.
"IBM approached Digital Research in 1980, at Bill Gates' suggestion, to license a forthcoming version of CP/M called CP/M-86 for the IBM PC."
Doesn't sound like you can have sour grapes when someone hands you a deal and you fubar it. Not saying that Gates didn't destroy a thousand n one companies but this wasn't one of them.
Why would they want to destroy something they partially own?
I guess the reason why I don't see an issue with that is, what do you honestly expect? Pretty much any large organization has a public relations department whose job it is to put the best light on any event. The main tool used in that sort of job is 'bending' the truth and if needed just straight up lying. Now it would be nice if we could all live in harmony but this isn't a Utopia so I accept that any government is going to lie to its people at some point. Whether for good or ill it must do so to function in the real world.
... it goes without saying that your PR guy should be a fan/loyal to you.
As for Kal's personal support of the Obama
Just curious, but you have a particular reason why Kal Penn shouldn't be a Public Liaison? I have no particular feelings on his appointment but the idea of an actor as the public face for the current administration is logical to me and not horrifying at all. After all we've been lied to for years by amateur liars called lawyers, at least Obama got a professional to do it. Gives me hope they might actually use knowledgeable professionals for other departments. Like oohhh.... I dunno scientists and engineers who happen to also be highly creative and express it by writing science fiction?
Umm maybe because the scientists and engineers come from several different branches of knowledge and are trained in a measurable science that human emotion has no part in? An "investment banker" isn't a man of science he's closer to a shaman or priest who gives a guess with numbers thrown in and is reliant on humans not to get too scared or fearless otherwise it becomes useless gibberish.
Yum, I haven't had Goulash in years, yummy stuff.
Damn I loved that game, soooo many spells. When I heard they canceled MOM2 I felt they killed one of my childhood dreams.
Perhaps, but it also sounds like goober which while not really an insult doesn't quite convey the imagery that The Governator does.
Wish I had mod points, you gave a logical explanation without any biting comments like some of the others here, good work.
True. But the original person who removed the DRM is currently breaking laws to do so. Most of us believe that action should be legal and protected under fair use. This is a separate issue from whether or not the information itself should be free, even if that ideal loses out to the patent/copyright trolls this particular action should still be legal.
How is that surprising? Your talking about folks who threaten Hell left and right if you don't agree with them. Heck torture is mild compared to that.
Problem with that is ... I don't trust the humans running the system to use it for that singular purpose. If such a system were impossible to corrupt then it's be great, but at this point in time and any I can reasonably foresee for humanity it would be abused without pause.
I strongly believe in a small government, things like fire/police/military should be within their control. As should something like this, things that can't be trusted to a for-profit entity are controlled by the government. The maintenance can be outsourced to a non-profit corp but the control remains with government.
Hey how about just keeping the records the same, but the patient has the right to black out bits like the NSA and other government agencies do on sensitive documents? The patients authorized Doctors have privileged status and get a fully unedited version but the insurance companies and anyone else just get a binder full of blacked out documents if the client so chooses. Couple that with laws that say an insurer can't reject patients based on medical history and they should be safe. They might have to pay the highest premium they can legally charge but they can't be rejected.
I've *always* hated the need for drafts. Sure if your doing a several hundred page paper having multiple drafts will most likely be common. But what about those people who write their 50 page argument on why chocolate is better than vanilla in one shot a few hours before its due in class? It's original work, it is 100% authentic ... but it has no draft because the person wrote it in one shot, even typos were fixed on the fly because word processors are nifty like that. So now this person has to fabricate a draft or else receive diminished credit or possibly even no credit?
If your wiki idea is used then the teacher now has timestamps for when the student did their work and if it had to be done on a server controlled by the teacher they know they didn't get to work on it until the day before. Now their work is judged not on the content of what is written but that they didn't spend the two weeks putting it together they were supposed to. I dislike this system more than Turnitin by a degree I can't express.
I'm sorry, but it's better to walk around asking your coworkers about the paper or spending your own time searching through google? Its less efficient to compare the students work to an automated database and getting a result in a few minutes?
Personally I only see this as a trust issue if a teacher isn't upfront about using this type of system. If the teacher keeps it hidden thats a problem, but if they are forthright about it and even remind the class when an important paper is assigned... no trust issue that I can see then. My own teachers did this and if anything as a student who either didn't turn in work or turned in their own work I was grateful for such a system to catch those as lazy as I could be but not as honest.
If my understanding is correct, it still is a public trial. Get on a plane and fly out and you can sit in, if they have room for you. They just blocked the mp3 streams because current law doesn't really allow it. The judge made the point that the law should be reexamined in light of new technology, but until then it is what it is.
Ok, I'm actually a huge mafiaa hater but could you point to studies/stats showing normal every day citizens being thrown in jail for copyright/IP infringement? The guy who makes bootleg movies and sells them being thrown in jail I have nothing against, commercial exploitation of someone elses copyrights should be illegal. But the individual citizen freely trading without profit as a motive being chucked in jail is new for me. May have happened once or twice but every case I remember here on /. has been about people being sued for stupid levels of money, not becoming Bubba's new cellmate.
I have a feeling they meant the reasons Gitmo exists rather than the actual brick n mortar facility. The whole "your rights mean nothing we throw you in jail and forget about you" part probably being at the front and center. Whether its in continental USA or some back hole no ones ever heard of isn't really the point.
Doubt he's a lawyer, I know I'm not. But I agree with him, step up or step out.
Don't apply logic to law, you'll only hurt yourself.
If servers become X% more efficient, why the simple solution is add X% more servers.
I'm sorry for being off topic but do you have any links for this? I'd love to read up on it more.