True, they have 'part 1' of that process down, but it is questionable if China will be able to make the transition from 'fast growing with essentially slave labor' to 'stable well rounded economy'. We managed to transition because of labor unions and public outrage... but we also have a system of elections (so public outrage can effect who gets elected) and, while there were abuses, we have pretty strict rules about retaliation against dissidents.
China, on the other hand, has no elections (the vast majority of the wealth generated so far is in the hands of party officials and their family) and the country has a history of brutally cracking down on dissident voices.
So in the US we had a good incremental mechanism for transitioning. In China it would require the dismantling of their government, probably via violent revolution, which has a way of undoing economic gains.
Meh, having read threads where people have done that, I can see why someone would prefer to go through the official route and engage the hosting company first. I have seen polite requests quickly get painted as 'extortion!' and then the hosting company not wanting to get involved in what they now consider a pre-existing conflict. Bringing in the entity who's legal responsibility it is to arbitrate such things often saves a LOT of drama.
Ahm.. that is what you are supposed to do. Contact the hosting company with the takedown and then they handle it as per the terms of their customer agreement. It is not his fault that various hosting companies take heavy handed approaches to such notices.
No, fair game is if he marks it as creative commons or public domain. He retained copyright. Just because isn't making money off of it doesn't mean other people have permission to use it for their own profit.
One can rail against the RIAA/MPAA and still feel for this photographer. He did not threaten to sue, he did not start a court case to uncover her IP address, he did not try to extort a multi-thousand dollar settlement out of her to avoid a court case that could bankrupt her, he did not bribe political figures to pass scary new laws giving him government like power to shut her down. He filed a takedown notice asking her not to use his copyrighted work.
One can both respect copyright while still deploring powerful groups that abuse those same rules to crush people who can't defend themselves.
It was his image, and his time to waste if he cared what was done with it. Other people spent their time taking his work and using it for their profit....
I think the author has the wrong end of the stick here. We have not abandoned strong AI and the turing test to focus on more specialized systems.. we are focusing on more speciazlied systems because we have figured out that this is a really damn hard problem, and the optimistic hopes that it would be solved quickly have given way to attacking it one step at a time. Researchers are still very interested in the long term goal, but those in the field who are "best-suited to building a machine capable of acting like a human" know at this point that such a system is not going to emerge fully formed out of some god's head.... it is going to take decades of hard work solving less sexy component problems first. Gotta learn to crawl before you can walk, and the mid 20th century hope that we would go strait to super human marathon runners is long dead.. and good riddance.
Thing is, as a "game" minecraft does suck, as does The Sims. Both have had game-like elements tacked on to them but at their core they are not really games.
Keep in mind, saying something isn't a 'game' doesn't mean it is not fun or is a bad project, it simply states that a particular label doesn't apply well to it. Will Wright did a good job of describing the category of 'toys' or simulations rather then 'games'... all go under the umbrella of 'fun' and can be awesome, but what they mechanically are is a bit different.
*nods* that is actually my though here. RP5 has always had logic blocks that condense large redstone devices into single block, but I feel that including a full virtual machine to control in-game devices goes a bit far. Granted, like any mod, I can just not use it of course ^_^ though sometimes I worry that RP is slowly eating other mods. It is often coupled with things like BuildCraft or IndustrialCraft because of its useful logic components, but she seems to be trying to replace the functionality in those with her own duplicate solutions.
Though I wonder how much of the motivation for the VM was to make frames practicle. She has voiced displeasure for BuildCraft and Railcraft's way of having complex 'magic' blocks, but duplicating that functionliaty with frames requires a lot more logic then is often practicle.... so the VM fills that gap by adding its own magic back in.
Depending on how you classify your income, esp if you do it through a corporation (shell or otherwise), you can count that income as made elsewhere, or at minimal count the income you made locally as 'not counting' (i.e. take a loss equal to your income here and write it as a gain in Cayman islands). If you have the resources to set up these things you can avoid the vast majority of US taxes.
If I recall correctly, tech companies, including Microsoft, DID lobby for patent reform. Unfortunately the reforms they asked for were only given to the banking industry.
Sadly there is a bit of game theory here.. every company wants everyone else to play nice and back down, but will get the best return if they don't, so you end up with these arms races since no one wants to 'loose'.
I am guessing you have never worked in R&D. It is not quite as extreme as Hatta indicates, but a great deal of the heavy lifting in drug research is indeed done by government funded entities, with the liability and market centric tasks done by the drug companies.
Generally people don't go into research because of a 'profit motive'. Research jobs do not pay all that well, esp the ones on the 'heavy lifting' side of thing, so they tend to be staffed by people who are motived through doing good research and building reputation.
Not sure what a video about some jerk has to do with anything.
Keep in mind that Universities, one of the biggest centers of innovation (often government funded), tend to have massive patent portfolios. They license them out to companies and that in turn funds more fundamental research. So if we killed the system completely we would also have to restructure how basic research is done... which would probably be a good, thing.. just pointing out that corporations are not the only ones utilizing this system.
Which because of how they handled the IPO, they are not actually required to file an earnings report. They can keep all their information private yet still reap the 'public' offering.
*nods* it was a classic 'raise capital so we can invest it in other industries' move.... not unusual when senior executives feel that a company has crested. I am surprised at how many investors fell for it....
Thing is, in the Cayman islands you still pay taxes, just not income taxes. The people who use it as tax haven only exist there on paper so they avoid both the income taxes and the taxes involved with living there,.. though they also do not consume any resources there either.
So for people who actually live there the tax burden (and services) are pretty comparable to the US.... but all people outside the territory see is 'no income tax' and make all sorts of examples from there.
If someone is doing structural engineering they are already aware of how much precision they actually need, and probably are not going to be reusing some 'hobby' application to do those calculations... crow, they probably are not even going to use one of the common languages like C/C++ since floating point operations in them are already unpredictable past a certain point (the chips will do the work to great precision, but the language is sloppy)... if they REALLY need the precision they will probably use specialized libs or a more audit-able language like Ada or FORTRAN.
Sounds about right, which would probably be a good thing. Too many programmers are obsessed with getting the mathematically correct answer to a precision that can have no actual impact on whatever they are trying to accomplish (or even worse, is rendered 'wrong' anyway by FP limitations of the language or chip anyway).
I see the same behavior from Linux fanboys, Microsoft fanboys, dell, alienware, etc etc. That you single out ONLY the Apple ones to get pissy about that is saying something.
It is actually pretty easy to hit the cap if you use TV as background, or have multiple people in the house, or have someone who stays at home during the day.
It is the Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime users they are going after. The 'pirate' excuse gets trotted out a lot, but they loose a lot more money to people choosing to use other services then they do to the (decreasingly significant) bandwidth usage of bittorrent. That is what gets the net neutrality people (well, the level headed ones at least) fired up since it represents local ISP monopolies abusing their position to force customers over to their other (media) services and stifle competition... which this is a clear example of since they are only applying caps and tiered pricing to effect traffic from OTHER companies, but not ones they own or are partnered with.
People seem obsessed with the idea that all products within a market should meet THEIR needs, and get rather pissy when something is both popular and not geared towards them. If Apple meets ones needs, by Apple. If Android does a better job, buy Android, rinse lather repeat.
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True, they have 'part 1' of that process down, but it is questionable if China will be able to make the transition from 'fast growing with essentially slave labor' to 'stable well rounded economy'. We managed to transition because of labor unions and public outrage... but we also have a system of elections (so public outrage can effect who gets elected) and, while there were abuses, we have pretty strict rules about retaliation against dissidents.
China, on the other hand, has no elections (the vast majority of the wealth generated so far is in the hands of party officials and their family) and the country has a history of brutally cracking down on dissident voices.
So in the US we had a good incremental mechanism for transitioning. In China it would require the dismantling of their government, probably via violent revolution, which has a way of undoing economic gains.
Meh, having read threads where people have done that, I can see why someone would prefer to go through the official route and engage the hosting company first. I have seen polite requests quickly get painted as 'extortion!' and then the hosting company not wanting to get involved in what they now consider a pre-existing conflict. Bringing in the entity who's legal responsibility it is to arbitrate such things often saves a LOT of drama.
Actually, looking at her blog, she sounds pretty right wing. Complains about the liberal media and supports Newt.
Ahm.. that is what you are supposed to do. Contact the hosting company with the takedown and then they handle it as per the terms of their customer agreement. It is not his fault that various hosting companies take heavy handed approaches to such notices.
No, fair game is if he marks it as creative commons or public domain. He retained copyright. Just because isn't making money off of it doesn't mean other people have permission to use it for their own profit.
One can rail against the RIAA/MPAA and still feel for this photographer. He did not threaten to sue, he did not start a court case to uncover her IP address, he did not try to extort a multi-thousand dollar settlement out of her to avoid a court case that could bankrupt her, he did not bribe political figures to pass scary new laws giving him government like power to shut her down. He filed a takedown notice asking her not to use his copyrighted work.
One can both respect copyright while still deploring powerful groups that abuse those same rules to crush people who can't defend themselves.
It was his image, and his time to waste if he cared what was done with it. Other people spent their time taking his work and using it for their profit....
I think the author has the wrong end of the stick here. We have not abandoned strong AI and the turing test to focus on more specialized systems.. we are focusing on more speciazlied systems because we have figured out that this is a really damn hard problem, and the optimistic hopes that it would be solved quickly have given way to attacking it one step at a time. Researchers are still very interested in the long term goal, but those in the field who are "best-suited to building a machine capable of acting like a human" know at this point that such a system is not going to emerge fully formed out of some god's head.... it is going to take decades of hard work solving less sexy component problems first. Gotta learn to crawl before you can walk, and the mid 20th century hope that we would go strait to super human marathon runners is long dead.. and good riddance.
Thing is, as a "game" minecraft does suck, as does The Sims. Both have had game-like elements tacked on to them but at their core they are not really games.
Keep in mind, saying something isn't a 'game' doesn't mean it is not fun or is a bad project, it simply states that a particular label doesn't apply well to it. Will Wright did a good job of describing the category of 'toys' or simulations rather then 'games'... all go under the umbrella of 'fun' and can be awesome, but what they mechanically are is a bit different.
*nods* that is actually my though here. RP5 has always had logic blocks that condense large redstone devices into single block, but I feel that including a full virtual machine to control in-game devices goes a bit far. Granted, like any mod, I can just not use it of course ^_^ though sometimes I worry that RP is slowly eating other mods. It is often coupled with things like BuildCraft or IndustrialCraft because of its useful logic components, but she seems to be trying to replace the functionality in those with her own duplicate solutions.
Though I wonder how much of the motivation for the VM was to make frames practicle. She has voiced displeasure for BuildCraft and Railcraft's way of having complex 'magic' blocks, but duplicating that functionliaty with frames requires a lot more logic then is often practicle.... so the VM fills that gap by adding its own magic back in.
Depending on how you classify your income, esp if you do it through a corporation (shell or otherwise), you can count that income as made elsewhere, or at minimal count the income you made locally as 'not counting' (i.e. take a loss equal to your income here and write it as a gain in Cayman islands). If you have the resources to set up these things you can avoid the vast majority of US taxes.
If I recall correctly, tech companies, including Microsoft, DID lobby for patent reform. Unfortunately the reforms they asked for were only given to the banking industry.
Sadly there is a bit of game theory here.. every company wants everyone else to play nice and back down, but will get the best return if they don't, so you end up with these arms races since no one wants to 'loose'.
I am guessing you have never worked in R&D. It is not quite as extreme as Hatta indicates, but a great deal of the heavy lifting in drug research is indeed done by government funded entities, with the liability and market centric tasks done by the drug companies.
Generally people don't go into research because of a 'profit motive'. Research jobs do not pay all that well, esp the ones on the 'heavy lifting' side of thing, so they tend to be staffed by people who are motived through doing good research and building reputation.
Not sure what a video about some jerk has to do with anything.
Keep in mind that Universities, one of the biggest centers of innovation (often government funded), tend to have massive patent portfolios. They license them out to companies and that in turn funds more fundamental research. So if we killed the system completely we would also have to restructure how basic research is done... which would probably be a good, thing.. just pointing out that corporations are not the only ones utilizing this system.
Which because of how they handled the IPO, they are not actually required to file an earnings report. They can keep all their information private yet still reap the 'public' offering.
*nods* it was a classic 'raise capital so we can invest it in other industries' move.... not unusual when senior executives feel that a company has crested. I am surprised at how many investors fell for it....
Thing is, in the Cayman islands you still pay taxes, just not income taxes. The people who use it as tax haven only exist there on paper so they avoid both the income taxes and the taxes involved with living there,.. though they also do not consume any resources there either.
So for people who actually live there the tax burden (and services) are pretty comparable to the US.... but all people outside the territory see is 'no income tax' and make all sorts of examples from there.
If someone is doing structural engineering they are already aware of how much precision they actually need, and probably are not going to be reusing some 'hobby' application to do those calculations... crow, they probably are not even going to use one of the common languages like C/C++ since floating point operations in them are already unpredictable past a certain point (the chips will do the work to great precision, but the language is sloppy)... if they REALLY need the precision they will probably use specialized libs or a more audit-able language like Ada or FORTRAN.
Sounds about right, which would probably be a good thing. Too many programmers are obsessed with getting the mathematically correct answer to a precision that can have no actual impact on whatever they are trying to accomplish (or even worse, is rendered 'wrong' anyway by FP limitations of the language or chip anyway).
Every company advertises like that. And yet you single out Apple.... have you seen Android commercials? Plenty of 'narcy' there.. or Micosoft ones?
I see the same behavior from Linux fanboys, Microsoft fanboys, dell, alienware, etc etc. That you single out ONLY the Apple ones to get pissy about that is saying something.
It is actually pretty easy to hit the cap if you use TV as background, or have multiple people in the house, or have someone who stays at home during the day.
Yep. Because apparently viable competition is communist, they changed the rules to get rid of it.....
It is the Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime users they are going after. The 'pirate' excuse gets trotted out a lot, but they loose a lot more money to people choosing to use other services then they do to the (decreasingly significant) bandwidth usage of bittorrent. That is what gets the net neutrality people (well, the level headed ones at least) fired up since it represents local ISP monopolies abusing their position to force customers over to their other (media) services and stifle competition... which this is a clear example of since they are only applying caps and tiered pricing to effect traffic from OTHER companies, but not ones they own or are partnered with.
Pity I am out of mod points.
People seem obsessed with the idea that all products within a market should meet THEIR needs, and get rather pissy when something is both popular and not geared towards them. If Apple meets ones needs, by Apple. If Android does a better job, buy Android, rinse lather repeat.