Clean Energy, China-Style: Sex, Cash and Stolen Technology
http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/09/23/clean-energy-china-style-sex-cash-and-stolen-technology/
The article is just a little to the left of the topic, but does show how we spend the money on R&D and others reverse engineer it / steal it / acquire the knowledge in many other ways. Can we count on our 'partners' to share with us as we share with them? I am skeptical...
Right on! In my world I need to provide solid workable solutions for my clients as inexpensively as possible. That's what makes me and anyone else in this business valuable. This whole MS / Novell deal is an imperfect step in the right direction.
The original "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" (Voltaire) makes a lot more sense than your own self serving tag.
The other viewpoint is just SO wrong, and I am SO right.
By my random reading of various posts throughout this thread (and very many other threads) it seems that this "they're SO wrong" is always a prevailent situation. I don't use the word 'always' lightly. How is it that so many of us have seemingly never learned to consider the other viewpoint, to walk a mile in the others shoes?
I read very many "educators are a bunch of bullies", which is such an obviously broad an unfair generalization as to be ridiculous in my opinion. To those writers, I say that you discredit yourself when you attempt to discredit others in that broad and unfair way. Certainly there are people who abuse their power in all walks of life, always will be, and as many pointed out, perhaps this is a good lesson for the kid. But I doubt it; I think it teaches the kid that abusing your authority is acceptable, and that the real lesson will be overlooked, as it was throughout this topic and most of its threads. That lesson may be that respect is rewarded with respect, and disrespect in turn gets you the same.
Not many people wrote anything like "in the absence of real and sustained parental guidance school districts are forced to attempt to act as surrogate parents, which, without any true authority, dooms the school district to fail. The result is disrespect between the institution and the student." Game Over. Seeing some of this kind of discourse would have made me think that those writing had considered another point of view.
This lack of true discourse, this grouping of the 'other' side (republicans / democrats, big business / environmentalists, bike riders / auto drivers, teachers / students) absolutely prevents us from moving forward.
Clarification for the stupid, please...
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Web 2.0 Goes To Work
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"...analyst predictions that Web 2.0 has begun meeting up with enterprise software"
So has Web 2.0 begun meeting up or are analysts just predicting it has begun meeting up?
And what kind of technology writer uses phrases like "meeting up" instead of something like:
"matrix frictionless markets"
"mesh granular solutions"
"transform interactive models"
If DARPA (since they're a DEFENSE agency) would shoot 2 or 3 of the contributors to rootkit.com's website, the rest of us geeks might be able to focus on providing solutions to business problems.
Oh, wait......that'd be so freaking boring......nevermind
Global warming is real; read the papers, dig a little. So are there millions who are dying from hunger.
Nuclear power is an reasonable option only in the face of the overwhelming evidence of global warming and the unknown consequences of it. We still can't decide what to do with the waste in this country, except to dump it on Yucca Mountain.
Nuclear isn't a great solution; it's only because our politicians are not statesmen, that our leaders will not be brave and bold and do what obviously needs to be done, that nuclear energy has once again become an option.
"This isn't science, it's fear mongering based on the personal moral agenda of those who view humans as a sinful stain on God's pure earth---and the irony is, these people don't even believe in God. Welcome your new puritanical atheist overlords."
Wow - its amazing how you've been able to so correctly group 'us' all together. Undoubedtly via a highly scientific method that clearly relieves the process of any fear mongering whatsoever.
Its nearly unanimous amoung this community that MS OS's (whatever flavor) are by far inferior to Unix (whatever flavor) and that not a one will apparently consider that there is any validity to the story or statistics.
Now I am not saying that I agree with the article, but I will say that our community is severely biased. To believe that there is not a shred of truth to the article is absurd.
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Clean Energy, China-Style: Sex, Cash and Stolen Technology http://www.forbes.com/sites/williampentland/2011/09/23/clean-energy-china-style-sex-cash-and-stolen-technology/ The article is just a little to the left of the topic, but does show how we spend the money on R&D and others reverse engineer it / steal it / acquire the knowledge in many other ways. Can we count on our 'partners' to share with us as we share with them? I am skeptical...
Right on! In my world I need to provide solid workable solutions for my clients as inexpensively as possible. That's what makes me and anyone else in this business valuable. This whole MS / Novell deal is an imperfect step in the right direction.
The original "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" (Voltaire) makes a lot more sense than your own self serving tag.
Good post! I wrote something similar w. regards to respect. It has the subject "You be Palestine, I'll be Israel". It is all about mutual respect.
The other viewpoint is just SO wrong, and I am SO right.
By my random reading of various posts throughout this thread (and very many other threads) it seems that this "they're SO wrong" is always a prevailent situation. I don't use the word 'always' lightly. How is it that so many of us have seemingly never learned to consider the other viewpoint, to walk a mile in the others shoes?
I read very many "educators are a bunch of bullies", which is such an obviously broad an unfair generalization as to be ridiculous in my opinion. To those writers, I say that you discredit yourself when you attempt to discredit others in that broad and unfair way. Certainly there are people who abuse their power in all walks of life, always will be, and as many pointed out, perhaps this is a good lesson for the kid. But I doubt it; I think it teaches the kid that abusing your authority is acceptable, and that the real lesson will be overlooked, as it was throughout this topic and most of its threads. That lesson may be that respect is rewarded with respect, and disrespect in turn gets you the same.
Not many people wrote anything like "in the absence of real and sustained parental guidance school districts are forced to attempt to act as surrogate parents, which, without any true authority, dooms the school district to fail. The result is disrespect between the institution and the student." Game Over. Seeing some of this kind of discourse would have made me think that those writing had considered another point of view.
This lack of true discourse, this grouping of the 'other' side (republicans / democrats, big business / environmentalists, bike riders / auto drivers, teachers / students) absolutely prevents us from moving forward.
"...analyst predictions that Web 2.0 has begun meeting up with enterprise software" So has Web 2.0 begun meeting up or are analysts just predicting it has begun meeting up? And what kind of technology writer uses phrases like "meeting up" instead of something like: "matrix frictionless markets" "mesh granular solutions" "transform interactive models"
If DARPA (since they're a DEFENSE agency) would shoot 2 or 3 of the contributors to rootkit.com's website, the rest of us geeks might be able to focus on providing solutions to business problems. Oh, wait... ...that'd be so freaking boring... ...nevermind
Global warming is real; read the papers, dig a little. So are there millions who are dying from hunger. Nuclear power is an reasonable option only in the face of the overwhelming evidence of global warming and the unknown consequences of it. We still can't decide what to do with the waste in this country, except to dump it on Yucca Mountain. Nuclear isn't a great solution; it's only because our politicians are not statesmen, that our leaders will not be brave and bold and do what obviously needs to be done, that nuclear energy has once again become an option.
I heard that the programmers aren't modifying / rewriting the existing code, rather, they're just working on SP1. See, no scramble!
"This isn't science, it's fear mongering based on the personal moral agenda of those who view humans as a sinful stain on God's pure earth---and the irony is, these people don't even believe in God. Welcome your new puritanical atheist overlords." Wow - its amazing how you've been able to so correctly group 'us' all together. Undoubedtly via a highly scientific method that clearly relieves the process of any fear mongering whatsoever.
LOL - good one
Here's what I find most interesting...
Its nearly unanimous amoung this community that MS OS's (whatever flavor) are by far inferior to Unix (whatever flavor) and that not a one will apparently consider that there is any validity to the story or statistics.
Now I am not saying that I agree with the article, but I will say that our community is severely biased. To believe that there is not a shred of truth to the article is absurd.
Ha! I love this guy!