There has been some news here in the Netherlands about it and no it can't see whether you are under the influence or have used it in the last 24 hours or even days before depending on the drug. Most drug effect wear off after sleep and this machine won't know the difference. In the Netherlands this is such a big problem that drug prevention units like Trimbos are advising against its use as it will create more problems than solve. But maybe it works better in countries that prosecute users anyway.
Don't listen to any of these armchair socialists. In the real world when someone wants to buy your company you sell. For any amount I might add. Reading your post I guess you are under 30. Sell, sell, sell. Or you will regret it later. You have to look at it this way: your first company is just to proof that you can build a company and sell it. It's like a good grade on your business building CV. Forget about the money. The money is nothing. I hope the big company puts some shares in the deal, or at least options. Shares are good at the moment in this market.
The best thing about selling now is that you get an excellent CV. The next time you want to start a company with your track record you can go to any venture capital firm and get enough funding to start a real company with offices, employees etc. Then you sell your second company for the big bucks.
After the big bucks you start your third company. This is the company that you keep as it is a combination of a great business idea and work that you really like.
So your first company you sell. I am currently doing my third company which you can see here: http://usa.tiouw.com/
I have programmed an in shop bar code scanner meant to display the price information to customers in the store to say "Hello Joost" for one particular of the shelve product. For those in the Netherlands it was at XL Paris a shop with a lot of perfumes and stuff. I never ever heard about it from any manager, but have shown a number of friends and my girl friend the "Hello Joost". As far as I know they still use the same bar code scanners, but I am not sure whether my code is still in.
Actually there is a super secret version the Bible. But you only get to see it when you make it to the Cardinal level or higher (i.e. the Pope). Its the same structure. Scientology has many public pamphlets to describe their cult. The same with Christians. Its all marketing.
I think the case with books is the strongest case for IP because its not obvious how a writer would make money without protection. Nevertheless I think that even in case of books there should be no IP. And I am a writer with two books published in the Netherlands and one in the US (http://usa.tiouw.com/content/index.php?/archives/19-You-Unlimited,-mind-reading-the-masses-with-NLP.html)
First of all most writers hardly get published anyway. Second of all they wont make much money on the books sold themselves. So you need an alternative business plan to make money on books. So without IP Protection you still would have many books published and only a few of them would be copied without paying the author. So the difference for most authors would be very limited. It's only a very small group of writers that would get hurt. But that hurt is also limited, because...... without IP protection, a new book would be more like a trade secret. Take for instance Harry Potter latest adventure. It would be launched in secret, the public would buy it en masse. Other publisher rush to copy it and distribute it, but the advantage of being the first to rush it and sell it would still make more than enough money for any individual.
So the whole idea that artists need IP protection is nonsense. IP protection is just another form of monopoly that big companies love to have. Removing IP from the world would only change a little bit. Every art form would find a new and better way of existing.
So to sum up IP protection in case of books:
1) Nobody wants to publish your work anyway
2) If you get one publisher to publish it, it still means to no one else wants your book to copy even if they could do it for free.
3) If you are a succesful author there is enough money to be made by being first on the market anyway. Sure it is less than under a monopoly, but it is more than enough.
Conclusion: get rid of IP as fast as possible.
Not to spoil your party, but the robot is for people with disabilities who drive their car but have a hard time getting out alone. Like when you need to pump your own gas.
Actually in Chess you only offer a draw under the following conditions:
1) You know it will be a draw anyway unles you opponent blunders
2) You are ahead in the game either in material or in quality
Offering draws when you are losing or behind is considered rude and an insult.
I have actually built an online casino for a third party in Monaco and they aked us to rig the slotmachines so they would pay out more than their natural randomness would do, because they want their clients/addicts to have as much fun as possible for as long as possible before they run out of money. We even had a button that they could press in the management pages that would trigger a Jackpot within 50 games or so to keep the customer happy. When someone was gambling they would monitor how much money he had lost and if it became too much, they would grant him the jackpot so he could play a few more hours before that money was gone too. Of course the software was coded never to pay out more than a fixed percentage but the percentages were all in the 95-98% range.
My company has send out free reports about How to Learn to Control your Emotiones with NLP and How to Understand your Personality with the Enneagram. These reports are around 1-2MB and we send them as PDF attachment to thousands of people many who use a hotmail account. There are problems with Hotmail, sure, but not because of dropped attachments. It never happens. Check it for yourself at http://usa.tiouw.com/ParticulierRapporten.php
I got two HTC models and both suck. Especially at battery life. They do get better with each version, but they are a long way from being handy. Also Internet connectivity is really bad.
Another communist post. The article says they earn $2-$4 per day that means $730-$1460 per year. With the average Chinese salary being between $300 (rural) - $700 (city), I say it's a pretty decent job which you can see by the clothes they wear on the pictures. Sure it is toxic but so are many of China's jobs. As were ours 100 years ago.
Its not completely bad but no way as good as Wii Sports if you are like me, old and with a girlfriend who actually likes to play tennis on the Wii. Much better is http://www.smaakelite.nl/content/index.php?/archiv es/9-Gottlieb-Pinball-Classics-Wii.htmlGottlieb Classic Pinball (review in Dutch) for the Wii. Well if you enjoyed Pinball Fantasies at the Amiga or Atari. My girlfriend likes to play pinball too. Any game that I can enjoy with her is a great game.
http://www.tracewatch.com/ for a free analytic program that actually really helps. I have tried most of the above for my site http://usa.tiouw.com/ and none came even close. Analysis is useless if you cant trace exactly how a user is going through your site. It might mean more work for you, but the pay-off is there. I know for sure that your clients will love you for it and that it will mean more business.
I am using http://dllock.com/ for selling MP3's online. They are working on a gateway to Paypal. (currently using IPN2 to cover for that time).
I checked out many different solutions, but Download Lock is the only one that really works on my rather complicated servers. And it is pretty robust without bugs so far.
I ran AWstats some time but too many security issues. Now I am using Tracewatch at http://www.tiouw.com/. Free, open source and great. See http://www.tracewatch.com/
Nice features are that you are able to follow individual visitors through your sites, find most common paths etc.
Several pre-release copies of the new book by renowned writer Damn Brown are already uploaded to several hidden peer to peer networks. The publisher together with the RIAA (here's another film in the making) is actively suppressing distribution and persecuting anyone touching the Damn file.
Hence we can only provide you with a synopsis. I hope you understand.
From: http://www.hypnocrisis.com/index.php?/archives/17- Damn-Browns-The-HIV-code..html
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There has been some news here in the Netherlands about it and no it can't see whether you are under the influence or have used it in the last 24 hours or even days before depending on the drug. Most drug effect wear off after sleep and this machine won't know the difference. In the Netherlands this is such a big problem that drug prevention units like Trimbos are advising against its use as it will create more problems than solve. But maybe it works better in countries that prosecute users anyway.
Compare this book with the work of Umberto Eco, post-modernist literature? You got to be kidding, right?
Don't listen to any of these armchair socialists. In the real world when someone wants to buy your company you sell. For any amount I might add. Reading your post I guess you are under 30. Sell, sell, sell. Or you will regret it later. You have to look at it this way: your first company is just to proof that you can build a company and sell it. It's like a good grade on your business building CV. Forget about the money. The money is nothing. I hope the big company puts some shares in the deal, or at least options. Shares are good at the moment in this market. The best thing about selling now is that you get an excellent CV. The next time you want to start a company with your track record you can go to any venture capital firm and get enough funding to start a real company with offices, employees etc. Then you sell your second company for the big bucks. After the big bucks you start your third company. This is the company that you keep as it is a combination of a great business idea and work that you really like. So your first company you sell. I am currently doing my third company which you can see here: http://usa.tiouw.com/
I have programmed an in shop bar code scanner meant to display the price information to customers in the store to say "Hello Joost" for one particular of the shelve product. For those in the Netherlands it was at XL Paris a shop with a lot of perfumes and stuff. I never ever heard about it from any manager, but have shown a number of friends and my girl friend the "Hello Joost". As far as I know they still use the same bar code scanners, but I am not sure whether my code is still in.
Actually there is a super secret version the Bible. But you only get to see it when you make it to the Cardinal level or higher (i.e. the Pope). Its the same structure. Scientology has many public pamphlets to describe their cult. The same with Christians. Its all marketing.
You can twist words as long as you want but there is no Artificial Intelligence. At best you have an intelligent calculator.
seriously!
I think the case with books is the strongest case for IP because its not obvious how a writer would make money without protection. Nevertheless I think that even in case of books there should be no IP. And I am a writer with two books published in the Netherlands and one in the US (http://usa.tiouw.com/content/index.php?/archives/19-You-Unlimited,-mind-reading-the-masses-with-NLP.html) First of all most writers hardly get published anyway. Second of all they wont make much money on the books sold themselves. So you need an alternative business plan to make money on books. So without IP Protection you still would have many books published and only a few of them would be copied without paying the author. So the difference for most authors would be very limited. It's only a very small group of writers that would get hurt. But that hurt is also limited, because ... ... without IP protection, a new book would be more like a trade secret. Take for instance Harry Potter latest adventure. It would be launched in secret, the public would buy it en masse. Other publisher rush to copy it and distribute it, but the advantage of being the first to rush it and sell it would still make more than enough money for any individual.
So the whole idea that artists need IP protection is nonsense. IP protection is just another form of monopoly that big companies love to have. Removing IP from the world would only change a little bit. Every art form would find a new and better way of existing.
So to sum up IP protection in case of books:
1) Nobody wants to publish your work anyway
2) If you get one publisher to publish it, it still means to no one else wants your book to copy even if they could do it for free.
3) If you are a succesful author there is enough money to be made by being first on the market anyway. Sure it is less than under a monopoly, but it is more than enough.
Conclusion: get rid of IP as fast as possible.
Not to spoil your party, but the robot is for people with disabilities who drive their car but have a hard time getting out alone. Like when you need to pump your own gas.
Actually in Chess you only offer a draw under the following conditions: 1) You know it will be a draw anyway unles you opponent blunders 2) You are ahead in the game either in material or in quality Offering draws when you are losing or behind is considered rude and an insult.
No one is going to sue MS over GPL3, but GPL3 is a great defence for anyone being sued by MS over IP in Linux.
I have actually built an online casino for a third party in Monaco and they aked us to rig the slotmachines so they would pay out more than their natural randomness would do, because they want their clients/addicts to have as much fun as possible for as long as possible before they run out of money. We even had a button that they could press in the management pages that would trigger a Jackpot within 50 games or so to keep the customer happy. When someone was gambling they would monitor how much money he had lost and if it became too much, they would grant him the jackpot so he could play a few more hours before that money was gone too. Of course the software was coded never to pay out more than a fixed percentage but the percentages were all in the 95-98% range.
My company has send out free reports about How to Learn to Control your Emotiones with NLP and How to Understand your Personality with the Enneagram. These reports are around 1-2MB and we send them as PDF attachment to thousands of people many who use a hotmail account. There are problems with Hotmail, sure, but not because of dropped attachments. It never happens. Check it for yourself at http://usa.tiouw.com/ParticulierRapporten.php
I got two HTC models and both suck. Especially at battery life. They do get better with each version, but they are a long way from being handy. Also Internet connectivity is really bad.
Another communist post. The article says they earn $2-$4 per day that means $730-$1460 per year. With the average Chinese salary being between $300 (rural) - $700 (city), I say it's a pretty decent job which you can see by the clothes they wear on the pictures. Sure it is toxic but so are many of China's jobs. As were ours 100 years ago.
Its not completely bad but no way as good as Wii Sports if you are like me, old and with a girlfriend who actually likes to play tennis on the Wii. Much better is http://www.smaakelite.nl/content/index.php?/archiv es/9-Gottlieb-Pinball-Classics-Wii.htmlGottlieb Classic Pinball (review in Dutch) for the Wii. Well if you enjoyed Pinball Fantasies at the Amiga or Atari. My girlfriend likes to play pinball too. Any game that I can enjoy with her is a great game.
YES YES YES Lets start a grassrootgroup to get Master of Magic II
Yeah, thats me. I am so proud of that picture!
Unfortunately I wrote the explanation why in Dutch, see: http://tiouw.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/3 06-Slechte-Goede-Voornemens.html
Otherwise I would know a great strategy too: selling fire insurances to make sure your store doesnt burn down tonite.
http://www.tracewatch.com/ for a free analytic program that actually really helps. I have tried most of the above for my site http://usa.tiouw.com/ and none came even close. Analysis is useless if you cant trace exactly how a user is going through your site. It might mean more work for you, but the pay-off is there. I know for sure that your clients will love you for it and that it will mean more business.
I am using http://dllock.com/ for selling MP3's online. They are working on a gateway to Paypal. (currently using IPN2 to cover for that time). I checked out many different solutions, but Download Lock is the only one that really works on my rather complicated servers. And it is pretty robust without bugs so far.
I ran AWstats some time but too many security issues. Now I am using Tracewatch at http://www.tiouw.com/. Free, open source and great. See http://www.tracewatch.com/ Nice features are that you are able to follow individual visitors through your sites, find most common paths etc.
Given a lot of time, how do fish start to crawl out of the water just because they catch insects this way?
Several pre-release copies of the new book by renowned writer Damn Brown are already uploaded to several hidden peer to peer networks. The publisher together with the RIAA (here's another film in the making) is actively suppressing distribution and persecuting anyone touching the Damn file. Hence we can only provide you with a synopsis. I hope you understand. From: http://www.hypnocrisis.com/index.php?/archives/17- Damn-Browns-The-HIV-code..html