Carter did not start a war. He did authorize a rescue attempt that went bad when some equipment got fouled by sand, and a couple of helcopters crashed into each other in the darkness. The military has since developed technologies to deal with the those issues.
And it cold be just as correctly (that is, not correctly at all) argued that the US started "the war" by backing the Shah and overthrowing Mosaddeq. _
War on terror is a metaphor The war on Iraq is a mess
Costs suck, but the price you pay for electricity is not just the cost of generation. Distribution costs, meter service costgs, taxes, etc., all get passed down to you the consumer.
In addition to taxes and fixed fees, the energy charge I'm paying is $0.08275 per kWh (slightly less in winter months for what you use over 400kWh in that month). So $0.10 per kWh cost of generation would not double my bill.
Also, most rates (most rates are commercial or industrial) include seasonal rate changes and some form of time-of-day charges and/or peak demand charges. Per kWh energy generation costs are not reflected in those charges, and, in fact, solar power is well suited to reducing some of the costs that those charges are designed to cover.
Investment banking is where the money is. However, I'm willing to bet that most people on slashdot would consider $115,000 a year, if not rich, then at least a lot more than they're making. And I know doctors that make less than 2/3s of that (though, admittedly, the founding partner of that practice makes a lot more, when he's not losing money to lawsuits about medical emergencies during births or being ripped off by insurance companies that refuse to pay the full amount of fees) On the other hand, my boss, (we're consulting engieers) makes a lot more than that, and he's hardly worth what a good doctor is.
There is a commonly stated belief that without the patent system there would not be an incentive to invest in new ideas and novel improvements.
In reality, the incentive to innovate would is still there with or without a patent system. Howver, without the protection of patents, there would be little incentive to make your inventions public, so there would be a lot more trade secrets. Avoiding trade secrets, where, often, the inventions die with their inventors and are lost to society, is the main benefit of the patent system.
Who modded this AC insightful? Baby Boomers (of which I am one, and about which you know nothing) are not a homogenous group to be lumped together in your stereotypingm and have not claimed to created or invented everything, at least not any more than any other cohort has.
"Haven't the computer industry experts figured out realistic cost estimating yet? Other industries have!!"
If an company has been manufacturing pretty much the same thing for years in a mature industry, maybe they've figured out realistic cost estimating. However, I work in the construction industry, and I can guarantee you that they haven't figured out realistic cost estimating yet.
I've had problems with MS Word documents as small as several pages. Word has known bugs in the outline and numbering, and a silent limit in number of styles for that. (I wonder if 2007 fizes that?) When you copy and paste, you are often unwittlingly creating a new outline or list that has the exact same style, but is stored in a different anonymous style setting. When you open up the dialog for lists and outlines, it will only show you 8, you may have 100's in your document without knowing it. If you exceed the limit, your document gets very flaky. Word 2003? gives a workaround of sorts,when you paste there is a little dropdown list that pops up allowing to save in the destination or source format. Using the destination format seems to cut down on the style duplication.
Another oddity I've had with MS Word, is embedding and then deleting images has left me with a huge document, as if the images were still there, but inaccessible. I'm talking about several megabyte files of a dozen pages long that had only a couple of 100k pictures embedded after playing with the images to delete the bad ones and place few better ones in a good location and arraqngement.
OK, thanks, I never understood what the heck "mail merge" was supposed to mean, probably because that name is obtuse. Now I know why I've never needed to use it. And I know why I'll probably never use it in the future: I absolutely hate form letters.
Back to TFA, I've never used MS Word 2007, but in my experience Both MS Word and OOo Writer are stupid, MS Word because it is buggy and hard to use, and OOo Writer because it emulates Word. My least favorite bug is how when you select to the end of a paragraph, it also selects and invisible little thing containing all the style info for the paragraph, so if you select-end and delete, paste, or type over, you lose the numbering, font, or whatever.
Wordperfect has been the best wordprocessor I've used (at least from 5.1 thru 8, I've used 11 and 12 a little, but they're not quite as good) If you're really doing page layout, and not just typing, Kword is pretty good - for a word processor.
"You sign then NDA and go. If the product sucks then you get someone who didn't sign the NDA to write an article explaining that you're not going to be publishing anything because the product sucked . . "
You left out the part where you get sued for disclosing that the product sucked to the someone who didn't sign the non-disclosure agreement and is going to write an article for you.
1. Our physical reality can be described mathematically.
2. As part of physical reality our brains are essentially isomorphic to some complex mathematical system.
3. Computers are sufficient to represent any other mathematical system."
1. Certainly physical reality can be described mathematically, but is it unkown whether physical reality can be _adequately_ described mathematically in order to recreate the processes of the human brain. 2. It is not reasonable to assume that all the processes of the brain are isomorphic to some complex mathematical system, at least not to one we have already figured out. It is also jumping to conclusions to say that understanding the physical reality of our brains will explain the mind and its' intelligence. 3. Whether computers are sufficient to represent any other mathematical system may hinge on the halting problem and the inability to formally define the mathematical system completely and self-consistently.
In other words, it's a hard problem, not yet well-defined, let alone solved.
Can't the government claim thaqt research done with taxpayer money is a work for hire, and claim the copyright on it. The governement could give the reasearch a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to publish the work and extend that license to any peer-reviewed journal that warrants it. But the taxpayer could still be able to get access to the work through government libraries.
Back in the days of Bell Labs, Ma Bell was not part of a free market, but was a government sanctioned natural monopoly. The reason that their successors (Lucent, or whatever the rebranded spin-offs are called now) don't do the great research anymore is that they are now part of the capitalist market and beholden to the sacred cow of shareholder profits; they no longer have money to spend on improving science and society, but must spend it all on things that will improve next quarter's bottom line.
I don't believe that either of those are about the project montery contract. (please correct me if I'm wrong) Well, it probably doesn't matter, anyway, since SCOX may soon be bamkrupt, and in bankrupcy, SCOX will probably be quickly forced to settle.
"hey only need a jury to decide if there is a dispute about the "facts" or if Novell were asking for punative damages" Almost, They could insist on a jury if it were a matter of law, like punitive damages, but it is only matter of equity, that is, make me whole by payin what you owe. Novell dropped the punitive damages so they could avoid a jury. There still is a matter of fact in dispute, that is, how much of the Sun and MS licenses were SysV, for which SCOX must remit to Novell in full in return for a 5% fee, and how much were for other things, for which SCOX should not owe anything to Novell.
I personally know someone who beat a polygraph test, lying and not getting caught. And the one time I took one, it was inconclusive on some of the things I was telling the truth about, and it didn't take into account some things that I had forgotten, but remembered after the test. Granted, there can be a difference in skill using one, but that's just more evidence that they are not black and white as most poeple seem to think.
"Now if SCO doesn't own the UNIX copyrights, then how can they sue IBM?"
Actually they can, and might, still sue IBM over breach of contract. They have waffled back and forth in the IBM case over whether they were suing about copyright or contract issues. Lately they've been saying that the IBM suit is about contracts. Unfortunately most of the breach of contract they're alleging have to do with copyrights and trade secrets, which will be much harder to sue over if Novell owns the copyrights.
Don't be suprised if they ask for a delay in the IBM case while they appeal the Novell case.
"derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means . . . " The way I read that, it's protectable as a trade secret, because they can make more money selling the thing if they keep the crappy code a secret - if it gets leaked, they could lose a lot of sales if anyone cares about quality.
When you said "social welfare" I didn't take that as a euphemism for state handouts, but I took it as plain English meaning well-being of the community.
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Carter did not start a war. He did authorize a rescue attempt that went bad when some equipment got fouled by sand, and a couple of helcopters crashed into each other in the darkness. The military has since developed technologies to deal with the those issues.
And it cold be just as correctly (that is, not correctly at all) argued that the US started "the war" by backing the Shah and overthrowing Mosaddeq.
_
War on terror is a metaphor
The war on Iraq is a mess
Costs suck, but the price you pay for electricity is not just the cost of generation. Distribution costs, meter service costgs, taxes, etc., all get passed down to you the consumer.
In addition to taxes and fixed fees, the energy charge I'm paying is $0.08275 per kWh (slightly less in winter months for what you use over 400kWh in that month). So $0.10 per kWh cost of generation would not double my bill.
Also, most rates (most rates are commercial or industrial) include seasonal rate changes and some form of time-of-day charges and/or peak demand charges. Per kWh energy generation costs are not reflected in those charges, and, in fact, solar power is well suited to reducing some of the costs that those charges are designed to cover.
As others have pointed out
Read the license
It states that the license does not imply a model release.
Investment banking is where the money is.
However, I'm willing to bet that most people on slashdot would consider $115,000 a year, if not rich, then at least a lot more than they're making. And I know doctors that make less than 2/3s of that (though, admittedly, the founding partner of that practice makes a lot more, when he's not losing money to lawsuits about medical emergencies during births or being ripped off by insurance companies that refuse to pay the full amount of fees)
On the other hand, my boss, (we're consulting engieers) makes a lot more than that, and he's hardly worth what a good doctor is.
"In both systems, prior art is more or less anything that is one year older than your patent filing date.
First to file vs first to invent only affects who would get an *otherwise valid* patent."
It is that one year window that bothers people about the first to file system.
There is a commonly stated belief that without the patent system there would not be an incentive to invest in new ideas and novel improvements.
In reality, the incentive to innovate would is still there with or without a patent system. Howver, without the protection of patents, there would be little incentive to make your inventions public, so there would be a lot more trade secrets. Avoiding trade secrets, where, often, the inventions die with their inventors and are lost to society, is the main benefit of the patent system.
"There is no "The People" "
Tell that to the Constitution
Who modded this AC insightful?
Baby Boomers (of which I am one, and about which you know nothing) are not a homogenous group to be lumped together in your stereotypingm and have not claimed to created or invented everything, at least not any more than any other cohort has.
Baby Boomers are often defined as those born from 1946 thru 1964,
which roughly correlates to an increase in the number of births that occurred after the end of World War II
http://geography.about.com/od/populationgeography/a/babyboom_2.htm/
"Haven't the computer industry experts figured out realistic cost estimating yet? Other industries have!!"
If an company has been manufacturing pretty much the same thing for years in a mature industry, maybe they've figured out realistic cost estimating.
However, I work in the construction industry, and I can guarantee you that they haven't figured out realistic cost estimating yet.
Fuck AutoCAD Buy IntelliCAD
.dwg file specifications: http://opendesign.com/
AutoCAD compatible software consortium: http://www.intellicad.org/
AutoCAD compatible CAD for MS Windows and Linux: http://www.bricsys.com/download/downloadForm.jsp?product=BCAD
I've had problems with MS Word documents as small as several pages.
Word has known bugs in the outline and numbering, and a silent limit in number of styles for that. (I wonder if 2007 fizes that?)
When you copy and paste, you are often unwittlingly creating a new outline or list that has the exact same style, but is stored in a different anonymous style setting.
When you open up the dialog for lists and outlines, it will only show you 8, you may have 100's in your document without knowing it.
If you exceed the limit, your document gets very flaky.
Word 2003? gives a workaround of sorts,when you paste there is a little dropdown list that pops up allowing to save in the destination or source format. Using the destination format seems to cut down on the style duplication.
Another oddity I've had with MS Word, is embedding and then deleting images has left me with a huge document, as if the images were still there, but inaccessible. I'm talking about several megabyte files of a dozen pages long that had only a couple of 100k pictures embedded after playing with the images to delete the bad ones and place few better ones in a good location and arraqngement.
OK, thanks, I never understood what the heck "mail merge" was supposed to mean, probably because that name is obtuse.
Now I know why I've never needed to use it.
And I know why I'll probably never use it in the future: I absolutely hate form letters.
Back to TFA,
I've never used MS Word 2007, but in my experience Both MS Word and OOo Writer are stupid, MS Word because it is buggy and hard to use, and OOo Writer because it emulates Word. My least favorite bug is how when you select to the end of a paragraph, it also selects and invisible little thing containing all the style info for the paragraph, so if you select-end and delete, paste, or type over, you lose the numbering, font, or whatever.
Wordperfect has been the best wordprocessor I've used (at least from 5.1 thru 8, I've used 11 and 12 a little, but they're not quite as good) If you're really doing page layout, and not just typing, Kword is pretty good - for a word processor.
"You sign then NDA and go. If the product sucks then you get someone who didn't sign the NDA to write an article explaining that you're not going to be publishing anything because the product sucked . . "
You left out the part where you get sued for disclosing that the product sucked to the someone who didn't sign the non-disclosure agreement and is going to write an article for you.
" . . . if we accept that:
1. Our physical reality can be described mathematically.
2. As part of physical reality our brains are essentially isomorphic to some complex mathematical system.
3. Computers are sufficient to represent any other mathematical system."
1. Certainly physical reality can be described mathematically, but is it unkown whether physical reality can be _adequately_ described mathematically in order to recreate the processes of the human brain.
2. It is not reasonable to assume that all the processes of the brain are isomorphic to some complex mathematical system, at least not to one we have already figured out. It is also jumping to conclusions to say that understanding the physical reality of our brains will explain the mind and its' intelligence.
3. Whether computers are sufficient to represent any other mathematical system may hinge on the halting problem and the inability to formally define the mathematical system completely and self-consistently.
In other words, it's a hard problem, not yet well-defined, let alone solved.
Can't the government claim thaqt research done with taxpayer money is a work for hire, and claim the copyright on it.
The governement could give the reasearch a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual license to publish the work and extend that license to any peer-reviewed journal that warrants it. But the taxpayer could still be able to get access to the work through government libraries.
Back in the days of Bell Labs, Ma Bell was not part of a free market, but was a government sanctioned natural monopoly.
The reason that their successors (Lucent, or whatever the rebranded spin-offs are called now) don't do the great research anymore is that they are now part of the capitalist market and beholden to the sacred cow of shareholder profits;
they no longer have money to spend on improving science and society, but must spend it all on things that will improve next quarter's bottom line.
I don't believe that either of those are about the project montery contract. (please correct me if I'm wrong)
Well, it probably doesn't matter, anyway, since SCOX may soon be bamkrupt, and in bankrupcy, SCOX will probably be quickly forced to settle.
That's a different contract.
"hey only need a jury to decide if there is a dispute about the "facts" or if Novell were asking for punative damages"
Almost,
They could insist on a jury if it were a matter of law, like punitive damages, but it is only matter of equity, that is, make me whole by payin what you owe. Novell dropped the punitive damages so they could avoid a jury. There still is a matter of fact in dispute, that is, how much of the Sun and MS licenses were SysV, for which SCOX must remit to Novell in full in return for a 5% fee, and how much were for other things, for which SCOX should not owe anything to Novell.
I personally know someone who beat a polygraph test, lying and not getting caught.
And the one time I took one, it was inconclusive on some of the things I was telling the truth about, and it didn't take into account some things that I had forgotten, but remembered after the test.
Granted, there can be a difference in skill using one, but that's just more evidence that they are not black and white as most poeple seem to think.
"Now if SCO doesn't own the UNIX copyrights, then how can they sue IBM?"
Actually they can, and might, still sue IBM over breach of contract. They have waffled back and forth in the IBM case over whether they were suing about copyright or contract issues. Lately they've been saying that the IBM suit is about contracts. Unfortunately most of the breach of contract they're alleging have to do with copyrights and trade secrets, which will be much harder to sue over if Novell owns the copyrights.
Don't be suprised if they ask for a delay in the IBM case while they appeal the Novell case.
"derives independent economic value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to, and not being readily ascertainable by proper means . . . "
The way I read that, it's protectable as a trade secret, because they can make more money selling the thing if they keep the crappy code a secret - if it gets leaked, they could lose a lot of sales if anyone cares about quality.
When you said "social welfare" I didn't take that as a euphemism for state handouts, but I took it as plain English meaning well-being of the community.
"Norway isn't the best country in the world to live in by any standards other than social welfare."
well, . . ok . . .