Given that you equate "motivation" with greed and the crap peddled on the late-night infomercials with "inventions" and "progress", further discussion is likely to be a waste of time.
Now, ignoramus, let me explain one thing, since you're obviously amazingly ignorant of the extent of infomercials: the footwear that doubles as a mop is obviously something that falls into your category of useless crap.
But have you seen the rotary power saw with two blades, one rotating in each direction, that is infinitely safer for firefighters to use on a crashed car because it doesn't emit sparks?
It also has to do with some motivation other than "less beatings" when you come up with something novel.
Look at the successes of a company like Stuller (jewelry business). Their operation is based around the premise that any employee who comes up with a way of saving the company money directly gets half of what the company saves for the first year. With that policy, they've become the single biggest wholesale supplier of findings and mountings, and one of the biggest for stones and finished jewelry. They were founded in 1970; 40 years to be the best in an industry from the founding date, largely because the concept that you, and only you, can be rewarded for your ideas is really novel the the last couple centuries.
If I have no motivation to come up with an idea, I'm not going to, plain and simple. That's a simple fact, and is a significant portion of the reason people think about how to make their lives easier, then sell their goods via infomercial rather than keep it to themselves. The total elimination of patents would bring the economy to a standstill- just the same as the current nonsense is slowing down progress.
Without patents, we wouldn't have a large portion of the innovation of today; with the current patent system gone amok, we won't have the innovation of tomorrow. Too many rights given to inventors (i.e. 100 year copyright terms) is bad; too few rights (you can't profit from your ideas because someone will just take it immediately) is just as bad.
Good thing corporations don't have any people like him doing research, programming, architectural design, or anything else creative within the company. It's just done by ghosts.
Do you have a link for that? I'd like to know, since I've never heard of requiring the purchase of the modem by any cable company, or any last mile owning DSL provider.
He says it's a Verizon supplied router. He's likely not sure who actually owns it. Just because you pay $125 for an "installation fee" doesn't mean you own the "router" (actually a modem/router combo unit).
I would be very suspicious that you're not correct, at least if you're dealing with cable. I own a modem on my cable line, yet Comcast updates the modem with firmware (via a push) periodically. I have no control over that.
Not if the router is leased rather than owned. Since that's the way most internet companies work, I'm going to bet it's leased, and there's a clause in the contract that lets them access it for security purposes.
No, they entered a router which they lease to him with the intention of making their network more secure. You don't get the right to update your firmware just using your own modem on a cable network, so this is likely covered by the contract.
I teach math at a decent university, and I could teach a semester's worth of material in one class using PowerPoint. Nobody would learn anything, of course. But speaking as a math teacher, it's really easy to go far too fast using things like PowerPoint.
Then make your slide so it has each element of that equation you're teaching as a separate element to be introduced into the slide, instead of popping the whole equation at once, so you have to focus on each element. This isn't a matter of powerpoint being the problem, it's a matter of your usage being a problem. You go too fast; powerpoint isn't timed to go faster than you can speak. Click slower.
So, the Model T cannot be inherently worse than the Honda Civic?
I call bullshit. When technology is isolated from the user, it is not equal. You can do anything that has been said here (isolate each element of an equation for ease of explanation, slow down the lecture) with a properly designed powerpoint, while not limiting yourself to the speed of writing.
It is inherently better. If you're spending half the lecture writing something on the board that could very well be flashed up there in an instant using PowerPoint or similar, you're wasting the students time.
Buying stock and holding it for legitimately long periods of time isn't a problem, which is what Wall Street was designed for. The problem is the high frequency nonsense.
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The other half of "Streisand Effect" is attracting much more attention than would have otherwise been received.
BTW, that saw isn't just sold on infomercials. I know firefighters, and they have it on some of the trucks.
Given that you equate "motivation" with greed and the crap peddled on the late-night infomercials with "inventions" and "progress", further discussion is likely to be a waste of time.
Now, ignoramus, let me explain one thing, since you're obviously amazingly ignorant of the extent of infomercials: the footwear that doubles as a mop is obviously something that falls into your category of useless crap.
But have you seen the rotary power saw with two blades, one rotating in each direction, that is infinitely safer for firefighters to use on a crashed car because it doesn't emit sparks?
That thing is on infomercials.
It also has to do with some motivation other than "less beatings" when you come up with something novel.
Look at the successes of a company like Stuller (jewelry business). Their operation is based around the premise that any employee who comes up with a way of saving the company money directly gets half of what the company saves for the first year. With that policy, they've become the single biggest wholesale supplier of findings and mountings, and one of the biggest for stones and finished jewelry. They were founded in 1970; 40 years to be the best in an industry from the founding date, largely because the concept that you, and only you, can be rewarded for your ideas is really novel the the last couple centuries.
If I have no motivation to come up with an idea, I'm not going to, plain and simple. That's a simple fact, and is a significant portion of the reason people think about how to make their lives easier, then sell their goods via infomercial rather than keep it to themselves. The total elimination of patents would bring the economy to a standstill- just the same as the current nonsense is slowing down progress.
Without patents, we wouldn't have a large portion of the innovation of today; with the current patent system gone amok, we won't have the innovation of tomorrow. Too many rights given to inventors (i.e. 100 year copyright terms) is bad; too few rights (you can't profit from your ideas because someone will just take it immediately) is just as bad.
Good thing corporations don't have any people like him doing research, programming, architectural design, or anything else creative within the company. It's just done by ghosts.
No, you don't. It's part of the rules.
If by "just compensation", you mean a small fraction of real market value, then yes, they have to provide just "compensation".
Do you have a link for that? I'd like to know, since I've never heard of requiring the purchase of the modem by any cable company, or any last mile owning DSL provider.
That doesn't mean you can update the firmware without the cable company saying so. I don't think you do DOCSIS pushes yourself.
He says it's a Verizon supplied router. He's likely not sure who actually owns it. Just because you pay $125 for an "installation fee" doesn't mean you own the "router" (actually a modem/router combo unit).
I know someone with one of the Verizon Actiontec units. They're a router/modem hybrid, not just a router.
It's not his bloody property. Verizon leases the router to him; he does not own it.
I would be very suspicious that you're not correct, at least if you're dealing with cable. I own a modem on my cable line, yet Comcast updates the modem with firmware (via a push) periodically. I have no control over that.
Not if the router is leased rather than owned. Since that's the way most internet companies work, I'm going to bet it's leased, and there's a clause in the contract that lets them access it for security purposes.
Apparently, Verizon isn't trying to access routers that aren't their own property. Shocker.
No, they entered a router which they lease to him with the intention of making their network more secure. You don't get the right to update your firmware just using your own modem on a cable network, so this is likely covered by the contract.
I teach math at a decent university, and I could teach a semester's worth of material in one class using PowerPoint. Nobody would learn anything, of course. But speaking as a math teacher, it's really easy to go far too fast using things like PowerPoint.
Then make your slide so it has each element of that equation you're teaching as a separate element to be introduced into the slide, instead of popping the whole equation at once, so you have to focus on each element. This isn't a matter of powerpoint being the problem, it's a matter of your usage being a problem. You go too fast; powerpoint isn't timed to go faster than you can speak. Click slower.
So, the Model T cannot be inherently worse than the Honda Civic?
I call bullshit. When technology is isolated from the user, it is not equal. You can do anything that has been said here (isolate each element of an equation for ease of explanation, slow down the lecture) with a properly designed powerpoint, while not limiting yourself to the speed of writing.
Middlesex County College NJ, and Devry NJ, just to name two I know.
It is inherently better. If you're spending half the lecture writing something on the board that could very well be flashed up there in an instant using PowerPoint or similar, you're wasting the students time.
....are you saying they have advanced goost tape technology?!?
What dumbasses at the FBI and in the financial industry:
"The list of target organizations will not include any financial, government, educational, or health care organizations;"
Buying stock and holding it for legitimately long periods of time isn't a problem, which is what Wall Street was designed for. The problem is the high frequency nonsense.
Six figures on Wall Street, with NYC prices, is five figures elsewhere. The total cost of living in the area is astronomical.