Except 1) the JSF is a piece of crap that underperforms relative to the older F-22 (yes, this is a specific example). 2) If the US renegs on its debts, you'll have bigger problems that what you're saying. It'd be the US vs the rest of the world, and I'm sure the US isn't going to win that one.
Even if GK or Stalin were clinically immortal, they wouldn't have been invincible. In other words, when you are immortal, there is probably less incentive for you to piss off the populace enough that they'd mobilize to kill you. That and how has death prevented new malevolent dictators from arising?
Furthermore, the only thing we'd need to do to make sure rich people don't sit on their wealth is to simply institute a progressive tax system that takes a percentage of your wealth (not income) every year. (this is effectively what inflation does, except it's a flat rate and disproportionally affects the poor)
No, it is that good people rarely rise to the top. That's because good people aren't willing to lie (as much), and the public don't like to hear truths.
I think one thing people like you never get is that all this research is in how to reverse aging, NOT simply keeping you alive with a progressively older physical body. When that happens, you live at the physical age of whatever your choosing (most likely 25 or so) for the foreseeable future. Which means unless you've amassed enough wealth, you still need to keep working. However, you're just as capable as when you were 25 years after you were born, if not more (due to accumulated knowledge/experience).
While the major providers can't talk about it, not all gov't requests get served. The point is that yes, there is always that possibility that your account gets handed a request, but at least with Google services, you won't get picked up in random dragnet-style surveillance. That's difficult to claim for all the other major providers, and is precisely what Eric Schmidt is claiming.
The whole point for many people in getting the Surface Pro is its Wacom digitizer, which is where the majority of its additional cost is coming from. To compare that to the LG is just completely missing the point -- it's basically saying that capacitive pens are just as good as Wacom tech.
I don't know about the validity of your argument of spending search/ad revenue on other areas. I don't see any reason why MS Office shouldn't pay for IE. Just like I don't see why hotels can't offer me free bag service when I stay at the same hotel (since, you know, my hotel charges pay for the people that handle my bags, and I don't pay for the free bag services directly).
There's a difference between selling below market rate and selling at a loss. And that difference stems from the fact that NASA never purchased their gas at market rate to begin with. Put it another way, if selling below market rate means playing favorites, then who exactly are the favorites on Black Friday? And who exactly is losing money?
You do know that Google owns Titan Aerospace...right? And you do also know that Google has an experimental program do deliver goods via drones, yes? I'm sure you can connect the dots between aerospace ventures and having airfields.
Does "Inbox" read "Gmail" to you? Last time I checked, there's no law saying no company shall make two programs that serve similar purposes in different ways.
All of your examples (i.e. privacy) only indicate "police state" to me; I don't see the "socialism" part. Or did you mean to add "adding the highway system, launching GPS, getting humans to the moon, and inventing the internet that you're posting your replies on" part as well?
Major breakthrough? I don't think you have to even go there. Given our current rate of progress in biotech/genetics research (not even counting the acceleration that happens as time goes on), we can probably get significant life extensions for healthy people already in their 40s and 50s. Heck, given that they're getting life extensions, I won't be surprised if by the time their life extensions are "up" that they would have even more.
I'm sorry, but you could act a little more creative. If you have the technology to live forever, why can't you, or someone else still alive, find some way to restore your cognitive and bodily abilities to that of its prime?
Yeah, and the NDK also has a target called "x86", and the OS can tell what platform it's running on. How do you think NDK apps are presently being distributed on the Play store? Not sure what your point is.
You can just install it yourself (it's not a secret you can install Linux on chromebooks). It's not like chrome os can't run Linux. If the average user can't figure this out, they probably shouldn't be using Linux in the first place. They should stick to something easier like, well, chrome os.
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Oops, bad choice of words. I meant the normalized remaining fraction of the life of the patent. If straight line is used, after 3 years of an 18 year patent, you would have: final damages = damages * (18-3)/18. Then the point is to replace straight line with double depreciation.
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One way to avoid the patent cliff (and perhaps foster innovation) is to use double declining balance deprecation in accounting. As in, if a patent-holding company sues another company for patent infringement, then the final damages will be reduced by the fraction of the residual value. So patent-holding companies will be compelled to innovate, since at some point less than lifetime of the patent, another company may decide to violate it anyway since it's economic to do so.
Of course, I have no idea how this would apply to embargos.
If you believe this, then you're falling for the exact same two-faced argument the cable providers said to the FCC back during the first net neutrality debate. I.e. they told the FCC net neutrality will absolutely DESTROY infrastructure investment, and did an about-face and told Wall Street that it wouldn't put a dent in investment.
"Fool me once...shame on...shame on you. Fool me, can't get fooled again!"
Your argument may have merit in rural areas (quite frankly, I don't know). But in the two biggest metropolitan areas in California, I haven't seen more than one service provider for cable, and one service provider for DSL. When I called the company that didn't offer service, they specifically said "that's [X Company]'s area, so by agreement we can't serve there." What competition are you talking about?
Usually the "seat moisteners and business preventers" are the last to go. They are that because they have some ability to not get fired. The ones who tried to change the company for the better tend to be outcasts, and are usually the first ones to go.
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Except 1) the JSF is a piece of crap that underperforms relative to the older F-22 (yes, this is a specific example). 2) If the US renegs on its debts, you'll have bigger problems that what you're saying. It'd be the US vs the rest of the world, and I'm sure the US isn't going to win that one.
Even if GK or Stalin were clinically immortal, they wouldn't have been invincible. In other words, when you are immortal, there is probably less incentive for you to piss off the populace enough that they'd mobilize to kill you. That and how has death prevented new malevolent dictators from arising?
Furthermore, the only thing we'd need to do to make sure rich people don't sit on their wealth is to simply institute a progressive tax system that takes a percentage of your wealth (not income) every year. (this is effectively what inflation does, except it's a flat rate and disproportionally affects the poor)
No, it is that good people rarely rise to the top. That's because good people aren't willing to lie (as much), and the public don't like to hear truths.
I think one thing people like you never get is that all this research is in how to reverse aging, NOT simply keeping you alive with a progressively older physical body. When that happens, you live at the physical age of whatever your choosing (most likely 25 or so) for the foreseeable future. Which means unless you've amassed enough wealth, you still need to keep working. However, you're just as capable as when you were 25 years after you were born, if not more (due to accumulated knowledge/experience).
While the major providers can't talk about it, not all gov't requests get served. The point is that yes, there is always that possibility that your account gets handed a request, but at least with Google services, you won't get picked up in random dragnet-style surveillance. That's difficult to claim for all the other major providers, and is precisely what Eric Schmidt is claiming.
The whole point for many people in getting the Surface Pro is its Wacom digitizer, which is where the majority of its additional cost is coming from. To compare that to the LG is just completely missing the point -- it's basically saying that capacitive pens are just as good as Wacom tech.
I don't know about the validity of your argument of spending search/ad revenue on other areas. I don't see any reason why MS Office shouldn't pay for IE. Just like I don't see why hotels can't offer me free bag service when I stay at the same hotel (since, you know, my hotel charges pay for the people that handle my bags, and I don't pay for the free bag services directly).
There's a difference between selling below market rate and selling at a loss. And that difference stems from the fact that NASA never purchased their gas at market rate to begin with. Put it another way, if selling below market rate means playing favorites, then who exactly are the favorites on Black Friday? And who exactly is losing money?
You do know that Google owns Titan Aerospace...right? And you do also know that Google has an experimental program do deliver goods via drones, yes? I'm sure you can connect the dots between aerospace ventures and having airfields.
Does "Inbox" read "Gmail" to you? Last time I checked, there's no law saying no company shall make two programs that serve similar purposes in different ways.
Do you have an INVITE? Did you even RTFS? This looks pretty opt-in to me.
And what're they supposed to do? Set it to not improve by default? How does that even make sense? How is anyone going to discover new features?
All of your examples (i.e. privacy) only indicate "police state" to me; I don't see the "socialism" part. Or did you mean to add "adding the highway system, launching GPS, getting humans to the moon, and inventing the internet that you're posting your replies on" part as well?
So you can use your SD Card w/ EXT2/3/4 on CrOS again, I'm guessing? Like, some other use?
Google Maps also has offline maps....
Major breakthrough? I don't think you have to even go there. Given our current rate of progress in biotech/genetics research (not even counting the acceleration that happens as time goes on), we can probably get significant life extensions for healthy people already in their 40s and 50s. Heck, given that they're getting life extensions, I won't be surprised if by the time their life extensions are "up" that they would have even more.
I'm sorry, but you could act a little more creative. If you have the technology to live forever, why can't you, or someone else still alive, find some way to restore your cognitive and bodily abilities to that of its prime?
Yeah, and the NDK also has a target called "x86", and the OS can tell what platform it's running on. How do you think NDK apps are presently being distributed on the Play store? Not sure what your point is.
You can just install it yourself (it's not a secret you can install Linux on chromebooks). It's not like chrome os can't run Linux. If the average user can't figure this out, they probably shouldn't be using Linux in the first place. They should stick to something easier like, well, chrome os.
Oops, bad choice of words. I meant the normalized remaining fraction of the life of the patent. If straight line is used, after 3 years of an 18 year patent, you would have: final damages = damages * (18-3)/18. Then the point is to replace straight line with double depreciation.
One way to avoid the patent cliff (and perhaps foster innovation) is to use double declining balance deprecation in accounting. As in, if a patent-holding company sues another company for patent infringement, then the final damages will be reduced by the fraction of the residual value. So patent-holding companies will be compelled to innovate, since at some point less than lifetime of the patent, another company may decide to violate it anyway since it's economic to do so.
Of course, I have no idea how this would apply to embargos.
1) It's not Google's job to fix said issues, nor are they going to get into/win that mess. 2) What's your better alternative? Don't fund it?
If you believe this, then you're falling for the exact same two-faced argument the cable providers said to the FCC back during the first net neutrality debate. I.e. they told the FCC net neutrality will absolutely DESTROY infrastructure investment, and did an about-face and told Wall Street that it wouldn't put a dent in investment.
"Fool me once...shame on...shame on you. Fool me, can't get fooled again!"
Your argument may have merit in rural areas (quite frankly, I don't know). But in the two biggest metropolitan areas in California, I haven't seen more than one service provider for cable, and one service provider for DSL. When I called the company that didn't offer service, they specifically said "that's [X Company]'s area, so by agreement we can't serve there." What competition are you talking about?
Usually the "seat moisteners and business preventers" are the last to go. They are that because they have some ability to not get fired. The ones who tried to change the company for the better tend to be outcasts, and are usually the first ones to go.