So do I. This is pretty awesome. I have a real question for anyone out there who 'knows' about these things. What would I have to learn to be able to design one of these? What kind of education? What kind of technology?
The continuous progress of research towards increasing human lifespan is of questionable benefit and certainly not grounded in models found in nature.
Death is as important to the survival of the human race -- and, for that matter, for the survival of life on this planet. With further and further research being done to combat the natural decay and death that accompanies human life, we run the risk of selfishly hogging the planet's resources, when it would be beneficial to the species to cede it to a next generation.
It is natural for individuals to wish to live longer lives, but it is unnatural -- and in my opinion counterproductive -- for an individual to wish all individuals live longer lives, or for a species to attempt to increase the lifespan of its members instead of concentrating on procreation, allowing nature to run its course.
I am all for technology that helps in decreasing the pain and suffering associated with death, but continuously monitoring the human body to find conditions that are mostly natural, and that are mostly lifestyle-based, and attempt to fix them with a view to adding a few years of life put a brake on human evolution and show little regard for following nature's model in such things.
Hindi is far from being the only language spoken in India. In fact, knowing Hindi probably won't help if you decided to move to or have work done in India; good English certainly will.
For your information, more people speak Bengali (189 million) than Hindi (182 million). Other Indian languages are also spoken by a huge number of people: Telugu (66 million), Tamil (62 million), Gujarati (44 million), Kannada (32 million). There are 15 Indian languages in the 50 most widely spoken languages in the world.
How about this: make software an investment, like office furniture or heavy machinery.
Offer users a way to get a (depreciated) refund on their license if they decide to stop using the software. By doing this, you are artificially creating a second-hand market where users can sell their licenses.
Make it *really* easy for users to cash in their used licenses after they are done with the software. So they can actually count the license that they purchase as an 'asset'.
If they loan out their software to someone else, they're basically giving away an asset. Because if the person who pirates the software decides to cash in on the refund, the person who is sharing the license is throwing away his own asset.
It's just that people who buy software nowadays don't see it as an asset, like they would a washing machine -- they see it as paying the guy who delivers it, and paying the guy who services it.
This is probably the intelligent way to do it.
Banning or blocking something publicly has the counterproductive side-effect of actually drawing attention to what is being banned.
My first reaction when I read about the Mohammed cartoons was to try to Google them to find out just what it was in them that caused all the offense. It is hardly a good idea to draw so much of attention to something that the advocates of a ban want to suppress.
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So do I. This is pretty awesome. I have a real question for anyone out there who 'knows' about these things. What would I have to learn to be able to design one of these? What kind of education? What kind of technology?
The continuous progress of research towards increasing human lifespan is of questionable benefit and certainly not grounded in models found in nature.
Death is as important to the survival of the human race -- and, for that matter, for the survival of life on this planet. With further and further research being done to combat the natural decay and death that accompanies human life, we run the risk of selfishly hogging the planet's resources, when it would be beneficial to the species to cede it to a next generation.
It is natural for individuals to wish to live longer lives, but it is unnatural -- and in my opinion counterproductive -- for an individual to wish all individuals live longer lives, or for a species to attempt to increase the lifespan of its members instead of concentrating on procreation, allowing nature to run its course.
I am all for technology that helps in decreasing the pain and suffering associated with death, but continuously monitoring the human body to find conditions that are mostly natural, and that are mostly lifestyle-based, and attempt to fix them with a view to adding a few years of life put a brake on human evolution and show little regard for following nature's model in such things.
Hindi is far from being the only language spoken in India. In fact, knowing Hindi probably won't help if you decided to move to or have work done in India; good English certainly will.
For your information, more people speak Bengali (189 million) than Hindi (182 million). Other Indian languages are also spoken by a huge number of people: Telugu (66 million), Tamil (62 million), Gujarati (44 million), Kannada (32 million). There are 15 Indian languages in the 50 most widely spoken languages in the world.
How about this: make software an investment, like office furniture or heavy machinery. Offer users a way to get a (depreciated) refund on their license if they decide to stop using the software. By doing this, you are artificially creating a second-hand market where users can sell their licenses. Make it *really* easy for users to cash in their used licenses after they are done with the software. So they can actually count the license that they purchase as an 'asset'. If they loan out their software to someone else, they're basically giving away an asset. Because if the person who pirates the software decides to cash in on the refund, the person who is sharing the license is throwing away his own asset. It's just that people who buy software nowadays don't see it as an asset, like they would a washing machine -- they see it as paying the guy who delivers it, and paying the guy who services it.
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This is probably the intelligent way to do it. Banning or blocking something publicly has the counterproductive side-effect of actually drawing attention to what is being banned. My first reaction when I read about the Mohammed cartoons was to try to Google them to find out just what it was in them that caused all the offense. It is hardly a good idea to draw so much of attention to something that the advocates of a ban want to suppress.
Uncanny -- that looks exactly like the Slashdot 'funny' icon.