You are assuming that he wants to maximize his personal return. The amount of money is so huge usually they don't worry about maximizing their returns. They usually start thinking about leaving a lasting legacy so they cash out to fund a charity or political organization. Everyone has exactly 24 hours a day. He might decide to spend more time on a cause that is dear to his heart than managing a tough highly competitive business that keeps everyone on their toes.
There was this engineer who was in charge of the production studio that did the live broadcast of the presidential debate between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. I wonder if this stadium maintenance engineer is that guy's son or something...
USPTO changed the patent definitions. It is not first to invent that covers patentability. It is first to file. So even if the milkman has invented it first, it is not enough, the first to file will get the patent. If the milkman can demonstrate he had been using it before the patent was filed, he can't be sued for patent violation. But all others folks who can not prove they had been using it earlier, are out of luck.
Well, that is my understanding of the patent law. Hope it is wrong.
This is very much true for many Indian languages. Some languages accept English words transliterated into an Indic script (some variant of Devanagari). But some languages have this "purist" mentality and insist on translating them into their own languages. There is a common joke that one purist of Hindi language translated the word "signal" as, "the machine that makes the vehicle that runs on rails go or stop by showing green or red light". Similarly I have seen in Tamil language the word "bus" translated as "large self propelled vehicle". Now what is going to be the "USB" port? Technology is creating terms and usages at a furious pace that many languages can not keep up with. So at times it makes sense to keep these terms in English.
Anyway, Jared Diamond says in his latest book, in the next 100 years, of the 6000 languages extant today, 5000 will be dead or moribund. So it might not even be worth all that effort to translate it to New Guinean Highland pidgin.
English is borrowing words and phrases from other languages left right and center. So here is the deal, if there is no short German word for "Cancel", let German accept Cancel as a German word and update its equivalent of OED. English belongs to the old Germanic languages family. Many German words are accepted as English words from the KG level. Look up the origin of KG.
I wish at least the programmers and coders will be less parochial and be more catholic and be open to words/ideas/concepts "not invented here".
I am no fan of S&P rating agency and what they did was horrendous. There was clear conflict of interest in rating a bond/secutiry/instrument and getting paid by the sellers of the very same instruments. But on the other hand the people who were "duped" by the practice are not tiny small investors, without the means to do independent verification or the means to do due diligence on the rating agencies. Heck, the very same big banks that claim to be "duped" by the inflated ratings given by S&P actively participated in the very same rating rigging scheme. They know very well every body is doing it. These banks that bought the bonds were also repacking the very same bonds and putting them back on the market, and they paid the very same rating agency the very same "commissions" to get them inflated too.
Look, at the height of madness, these derivatives which no one could possibly understand, derivatives so complex even God Almighty could not understand were given the same rating as US Treasury bonds or just a microscopically lower ratings. If these banks really believed the ratings by S&P they would have bought them at the same yields as US Treasury bonds, (or microscopically higher yeilds). But these derivatives were yielding a full percent, and then they were shooting up.
Why? These bastards knew, no matter, what lipstick S&P and Moody's slap on these beasts they are pigs. If small investors were taken in, that lone retiree conserving his/her nest egg, despairing at the ridiculously low interest rates they were getting, buying one lone bond for 12000$ and losing it all, they have my full sympathies, and wish they would be able to take on these bastards and send them to jai.
But, the buyers were the big guys. Why are they buying bonds, whose rating was paid for by the sellers?. Why can't they come up with a plan to pay for the ratings themselves? The bankers could have decided the buyers of bonds would chip in a few dollars and create an agency that will never be paid by the sellers of bonds and would be totally funded y the buyers of the bonds. They still have not done it.
What is playing out in the courts is something like a lovers spat or falling out between the thieves.
I was wondering how the $party [See below to get the value of $party] is able to defy the public opinion and try to impose its autocratic will on the population, despite electoral defeats. Looks like the bubbles they are living in is strengthened by the electricity!
if ( $myparty == "republican") then
$party="democratic"
else
$party="republican"
endif
Ye with such lack of imagination! I bet detectors that will detect and alert hovering RPVs outside windows of higher floors of buildings, homes, hotels, etc will debut in the next CES show and will sell like mad.
For the patent trolls, this posting serves as prior art.
Virginia led the confederacy and the secession. CSA's army was called "The Army of the Northern Virginia" for that reason. They will not stand by and have a federal President usurping the authority to kill its citizens without due process. No sir. The Constitution of the United States reserves all the residual rights, not specifically enumerated in the constitution to the states. Thus only the Governor of Virginia can kill its citizens without due process.
Not only every breakthrough that could be made has already been made, it gets worse for the liberal arts. All the Great American Novels that could be written has already been written. Same with great poems, great opera, great screen plays and great musicals. Nothing more to invent. That is all folks. The last guy to leave please turn off the switch.
I used to use a FORTRAN77 IDE in PC-XT back in 1983. It had an integrated editor, compiler, step through debugger. It supported all the ASCII escape character codes to move the cursor on the screen of a EGA display (640 x 480). I wrote a cross-word puzzle grid generator in fortran using it. Move the cursor, click to toggle squares to black/white, with automatic symmetry squares kept in synch. Some minor snow flake simulation, and a Laplace equation solver using finite differences, and a 2D contour plot program. Pretty nice and powerful, for something that runs on a PC-XT.
This is the country that sings "Land of the free and home of the brave". Talk about second amendment and the right/duty of the citizens to guard against tyranny. Then we go to our airports to be gate raped by TSA agents. The lunacy of the procedure is beyond comprehension. There was a picture of a returning war veteran removing his belt and boots to place on the conveyor belt, while a friendly smiling helpful TSA agent was holding his service rifle for him. The stupidity of the situation seemed to escaped both of them.
See here: Apple: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=AAPL+Profile
Microsoft: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=MSFT+Profile
Some small company with just 600 m market cap: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=RMBS+Profile
In each company you get to see the pay of top five people. Some big company exec top five compensation could be larger than the
market cap of some small and tiny companies. Actually it could even exceed the GDP of small countries! But all the remaining executive compensation are confidential. There would be more "insiders" who are barred from trading on inside info. All their trades on that company stock must be disclosed. In that process the stock option compensation and stock compensation will become public. But not their base pay, bonus, non-stock compensation, reimbursement to country club memberships, usage of corporate jets, usage of corporate get-aways, use ski resort lodges etc etc.
Again, for each company, no matter how big or how small, the top five executive compensation is public. All the remaining compensation are confidential.
Because corporations are people and all people are equal. It's just that some people (corporations) are more equal than other people (actual human beings).
Exactly. Corporations are people. People have first amendment right to free speech. Spending money is speech. So they have the right to spend unlimited amount of money in elections and campaigns. That is what SCOTUS ruled in the People's United decision.
But the employess are also people. They also have the first amendment right to free speech. But speaking about their salary is prohibited by their employment contract. So they can not speak under their free speech rights.
Humans are not the only one with trichromatic vision. In fact many of the primates do. So the theory that color vision evolved to tell blood flow and to pick emotional cues has it backwards. They had color vision already, they might have deployed it to detect emotional cues and that might have led to social groups where intent of other members could be predicted. This could have been the difference that led to the branching off of a set of social/gregarious primates (Chimps, Bonobos and Hominids) from the rest of the apes and primates.
Primates started specializing in a fruitarian diet some 10 or 20 million years ago. They had traded the sense of smell to stereoscopic vision earlier to become arboreal (to live in the tree branches and leap from one branch to another). So they developed the vision abilities further to tell a ripe fruit from raw one and to tell edible fresh shoots from mature leaves, that led to color vision. Another side effect of this shift is the lost the ability
to synthesize vitamin C. All mammals could, but among the fruitarian primates, the loss is not debilitating because fruits were rich in vitamin C. Color vision and lack of vitamin C synthesis are the hallmarks of the primate line that became social and gregarious.
[It goes without saying, they did not do by deliberate thinking and planning.]
This is what Brain said when it secured the funding, "ya know what Pinky? My project go funding finally! It is trivial, less than a buck a neuron. But, still, it is something. Ya know what we gonna do?"
Pinky went, "er... I dunno... what? world dumb..i..ca..tion?"
Brain went, "World Dominiation you idiot!. World Domination!!"
Most of these CFD problems are time marching problems, governed by hyperbolic differential equations. Basically the state of fluid at some point X, at time t, is influenced only by the state of the fluid prior to that time. So when they are marching from t to t+delta(t), only the solution at the previous time step matters. Even in space, only a small region at T-Delta(t) affects any give point at T. Such problems are inherently parallel in data dependency. Such problems lend themselves for parallelism. This is not to minimize what they have achieved. If it was that easy, they would have done it long time ago. Physics governed by elliptical (and to some extent parabolic) equations are not that lucky.
For years we have been fed the myth of limited government, a notion that the Government is the biggest threat to our liberty. The shills were blatant, they openly longed for the government small enough to be drowned in a bathtub. But the moment the government becomes weaker than a strong person, he will promptly drown the government. Don't forget, companies are people my friend. At that point the greatest threat to our liberty would be those ungovernable companies. They are too big to jail. They can do anything they want and you can't do anything about it.
Free markets moderated by Democracy. B 4th July 1776. D Oct 2008. RIP.
The quality and reliability specs for FAA far exceeds space craft specs. For FAA passenger safety is the highest factor. For space craft weight is the highest factor. Spacecraft necessarily trade off safety for weight. At least NASA does not have as much cost constraints as private spacecraft consortia. So it would spend what it takes to get high safety at low weight. It would not go about jury-rigging automobile batteries, which themselves were jury-rigged laptop batteries into space craft. To me it looks like a blatant publicity ploy by the SapceX consortium.
ah, the assumption that every one must do one thing or every one must do the other thing!
Everyone does not have to use Open Source software with fanatical following. Depending on the circumstances each user would/should do whatever is best for them. But even for people who never use Open Source, it would serve as an insurance policy against their own vendors locking them in too tightly or jacking up the prices too much. Having a viable competitor is the best way to keep the prices down. So even if you use only commercial software, throwing a few cents towards Open Source projects is actually a good idea.
I won't fault individual users. But big corporations that spend so much of money on procuring commercial software, they can allocate a small percentage or a fraction of a percentage to support Open Source competitor to their vendors. Just to keep them in check. And hobbyists, anyone who knows enough to jump through the hoops to get Win 3.1 binaries to work through emulators in Android platform, could at least look at an Open Source alternative.
For the folks who have always believed in Trilateral Commission, who had seen UN insignia wearing officers in Oklahoma city bombing scene and among the wreckage inspectors of WTC, who had seen Chinese character instructions at the back of highway signs, the government + UN conspiracy to subdue the local population after disarming them, especially for the people who believed in black helicopters, Christmas came a little late. Enjoy the gifts folks.
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You are assuming that he wants to maximize his personal return. The amount of money is so huge usually they don't worry about maximizing their returns. They usually start thinking about leaving a lasting legacy so they cash out to fund a charity or political organization. Everyone has exactly 24 hours a day. He might decide to spend more time on a cause that is dear to his heart than managing a tough highly competitive business that keeps everyone on their toes.
There was this engineer who was in charge of the production studio that did the live broadcast of the presidential debate between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. I wonder if this stadium maintenance engineer is that guy's son or something...
Well, that is my understanding of the patent law. Hope it is wrong.
Anyway, Jared Diamond says in his latest book, in the next 100 years, of the 6000 languages extant today, 5000 will be dead or moribund. So it might not even be worth all that effort to translate it to New Guinean Highland pidgin.
Well, at least that bubble is not saying, "Sorry the translation service is not available right now. Please log in later and check."
I wish at least the programmers and coders will be less parochial and be more catholic and be open to words/ideas/concepts "not invented here".
Look, at the height of madness, these derivatives which no one could possibly understand, derivatives so complex even God Almighty could not understand were given the same rating as US Treasury bonds or just a microscopically lower ratings. If these banks really believed the ratings by S&P they would have bought them at the same yields as US Treasury bonds, (or microscopically higher yeilds). But these derivatives were yielding a full percent, and then they were shooting up.
Why? These bastards knew, no matter, what lipstick S&P and Moody's slap on these beasts they are pigs. If small investors were taken in, that lone retiree conserving his/her nest egg, despairing at the ridiculously low interest rates they were getting, buying one lone bond for 12000$ and losing it all, they have my full sympathies, and wish they would be able to take on these bastards and send them to jai.
But, the buyers were the big guys. Why are they buying bonds, whose rating was paid for by the sellers?. Why can't they come up with a plan to pay for the ratings themselves? The bankers could have decided the buyers of bonds would chip in a few dollars and create an agency that will never be paid by the sellers of bonds and would be totally funded y the buyers of the bonds. They still have not done it.
What is playing out in the courts is something like a lovers spat or falling out between the thieves.
if ( $myparty == "republican") then
$party="democratic"
else
$party="republican"
endif
For the patent trolls, this posting serves as prior art.
Virginia led the confederacy and the secession. CSA's army was called "The Army of the Northern Virginia" for that reason. They will not stand by and have a federal President usurping the authority to kill its citizens without due process. No sir. The Constitution of the United States reserves all the residual rights, not specifically enumerated in the constitution to the states. Thus only the Governor of Virginia can kill its citizens without due process.
After some years, another great CEO tossed a couple of billion dollars (and a chair?) and said, "here, don't get yourself a real operating system".
Not only every breakthrough that could be made has already been made, it gets worse for the liberal arts. All the Great American Novels that could be written has already been written. Same with great poems, great opera, great screen plays and great musicals. Nothing more to invent. That is all folks. The last guy to leave please turn off the switch.
I used to use a FORTRAN77 IDE in PC-XT back in 1983. It had an integrated editor, compiler, step through debugger. It supported all the ASCII escape character codes to move the cursor on the screen of a EGA display (640 x 480). I wrote a cross-word puzzle grid generator in fortran using it. Move the cursor, click to toggle squares to black/white, with automatic symmetry squares kept in synch. Some minor snow flake simulation, and a Laplace equation solver using finite differences, and a 2D contour plot program. Pretty nice and powerful, for something that runs on a PC-XT.
This is the country that sings "Land of the free and home of the brave". Talk about second amendment and the right/duty of the citizens to guard against tyranny. Then we go to our airports to be gate raped by TSA agents. The lunacy of the procedure is beyond comprehension. There was a picture of a returning war veteran removing his belt and boots to place on the conveyor belt, while a friendly smiling helpful TSA agent was holding his service rifle for him. The stupidity of the situation seemed to escaped both of them.
Again, for each company, no matter how big or how small, the top five executive compensation is public. All the remaining compensation are confidential.
Because corporations are people and all people are equal. It's just that some people (corporations) are more equal than other people (actual human beings).
Exactly. Corporations are people. People have first amendment right to free speech. Spending money is speech. So they have the right to spend unlimited amount of money in elections and campaigns. That is what SCOTUS ruled in the People's United decision.
But the employess are also people. They also have the first amendment right to free speech. But speaking about their salary is prohibited by their employment contract. So they can not speak under their free speech rights.
Welcome to the Union of Soviet States of America.
Only the top five highest paid executives have their pay disclosed to SEC. All the rest are confidential.
Primates started specializing in a fruitarian diet some 10 or 20 million years ago. They had traded the sense of smell to stereoscopic vision earlier to become arboreal (to live in the tree branches and leap from one branch to another). So they developed the vision abilities further to tell a ripe fruit from raw one and to tell edible fresh shoots from mature leaves, that led to color vision. Another side effect of this shift is the lost the ability to synthesize vitamin C. All mammals could, but among the fruitarian primates, the loss is not debilitating because fruits were rich in vitamin C. Color vision and lack of vitamin C synthesis are the hallmarks of the primate line that became social and gregarious.
[It goes without saying, they did not do by deliberate thinking and planning.]
But... but... corporations are people my friend. So are you extending it to "corporations are generally good" too?
Pinky went, "er... I dunno... what? world dumb..i..ca..tion?"
Brain went, "World Dominiation you idiot!. World Domination!!"
Most of these CFD problems are time marching problems, governed by hyperbolic differential equations. Basically the state of fluid at some point X, at time t, is influenced only by the state of the fluid prior to that time. So when they are marching from t to t+delta(t), only the solution at the previous time step matters. Even in space, only a small region at T-Delta(t) affects any give point at T. Such problems are inherently parallel in data dependency. Such problems lend themselves for parallelism. This is not to minimize what they have achieved. If it was that easy, they would have done it long time ago. Physics governed by elliptical (and to some extent parabolic) equations are not that lucky.
Free markets moderated by Democracy. B 4th July 1776. D Oct 2008. RIP.
The quality and reliability specs for FAA far exceeds space craft specs. For FAA passenger safety is the highest factor. For space craft weight is the highest factor. Spacecraft necessarily trade off safety for weight. At least NASA does not have as much cost constraints as private spacecraft consortia. So it would spend what it takes to get high safety at low weight. It would not go about jury-rigging automobile batteries, which themselves were jury-rigged laptop batteries into space craft. To me it looks like a blatant publicity ploy by the SapceX consortium.
Everyone does not have to use Open Source software with fanatical following. Depending on the circumstances each user would/should do whatever is best for them. But even for people who never use Open Source, it would serve as an insurance policy against their own vendors locking them in too tightly or jacking up the prices too much. Having a viable competitor is the best way to keep the prices down. So even if you use only commercial software, throwing a few cents towards Open Source projects is actually a good idea.
I won't fault individual users. But big corporations that spend so much of money on procuring commercial software, they can allocate a small percentage or a fraction of a percentage to support Open Source competitor to their vendors. Just to keep them in check. And hobbyists, anyone who knows enough to jump through the hoops to get Win 3.1 binaries to work through emulators in Android platform, could at least look at an Open Source alternative.
For the folks who have always believed in Trilateral Commission, who had seen UN insignia wearing officers in Oklahoma city bombing scene and among the wreckage inspectors of WTC, who had seen Chinese character instructions at the back of highway signs, the government + UN conspiracy to subdue the local population after disarming them, especially for the people who believed in black helicopters, Christmas came a little late. Enjoy the gifts folks.