He is brilliant. He actually thought for himself and saw that what he was a part of was wrong and unconstitutional. Most people dont learn critical thought anymore. People that think for themselves are dangerous in organizations where thinking in the box is prized.
Look at it from a different perspective. Google gave up a project that was little value to them. It did prove and get many people, myself included, to use RSS. Do I like Feedly as much as Reader? No. Do I use it just as much as Reader? Yup. Destroying Reader suddenly created demand in a market that practically didn't exist the day before. Startups always worry about what will happen when one of the big boys decide to play in their yard. Well here is a case where one decided to go do something else and let everyone else get a chance to play.
Shutting down Reader was a gain for a Google, a gain for alternate RSS developers and a gain for users.
"Imagine if the engineers that built our transportation systems, buildings, and other structures that we rely on, cheated through school and on the engineering licensing exams? Imagine if our doctors cheated their way through school? Cheating may be the easy way out of a test or class, but it is very detrimental to the cheater in the long run, even if the cheater never gets caught. And, in some extreme cases, cheaters may cost other people money, or even lives."
Look part of the problem is that all of those people cheated at some time. I've cheated and I would say most of the people I know have cheated. The thing is I haven't cheated in every class or even in more than a few classes. I'm a senior majoring in economics at a fairly top placed university so I've been going through the system for a while. The thing everyone realizes is that there is no way to cheat through every class, or even a reason to cheat through every class. You can be a great chem student and still want to get an easy A by cheating in a Am Hist class. I know more than a few people (non-majors) that cheated through an intro econ class but are good students in their fields. Is it fair to me as someone that likes econ to have cheaters in intro econ classes, probably not. Is it fair for english majors to have to take an econ class with someone who naturally excels at economics, probably not. They cheat and get an A and go on to write poems and think about butterflies or whatever english majors do, and I work hard and get an A and go on to fun things like GDP and inflation. We all win. I understand cheating in GE courses, cheating in upper div coursework is weird to me considering you should enjoy what you are studying and should really have to cheat.
If my doctor cheated and didnt actually write that paper in 8th grade on Burma I'm not going to try and take away his medical license. And if that structural engineer wrote on his hand that monetary policy = federal reserve fiscal policy = congress, I'm pretty sure I'll still drive across her bridge.
I dont think the drink robot would. Not because of a programming failure but a licensing agreement between McDonalds and Coke not to tamper with approved drink formulas. I hear the drink filler roboit has some kind of cousin parking robot out in New Jerey.
Actually after I wrote my post I began to wonder how they deal with things like extra or light ice. Perhaps I'll ask next time I'm there.
McDonalds worker: Sorry that your cup is only full of ice. The OS on our drink filling robot froze up.
Fry making robots? I've haven't seen those but at my closest McDonalds they have an automated drink filling machine for the drive-thru. Its connected to the order system so when someone orders a #4 with a coke a cup is automatically droped out, filled with ice and soda and is ready for serving to a customer.
I always wondered if there were other automated things at McDonalds and now I know.
FTA: "In the course of a contract dispute, the city of Hoboken had police escort the Robotic employees from the premises just a few days before the contract between both parties was set to expire. What the city didn't understand or perhaps concern itself with, is that they sent the company packing with its manuals and the intellectual property rights to the software that made the giant robotic parking structure work"
The city should have jut not let additional cars be parked and had the structure emptied. Instead they decided to strike first in the dispute and have the Robotic employees removed. That's the city's fault not the fault of the company. I'm the sole IT guy for a small company and if the fired me they would be screwed. Yeah they have all the code for all the programs I've written and all the relevant support information but it would take any replacement a while to figure out what was going on. Not to mention all the logins and passwords that are all only in my head. Should I be responsible if something happened to their systems after they fired me but before they got a replacement? The city thought it was being smart in throwing them out but in the end the company got the last laugh.
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He is brilliant. He actually thought for himself and saw that what he was a part of was wrong and unconstitutional. Most people dont learn critical thought anymore. People that think for themselves are dangerous in organizations where thinking in the box is prized.
Look at it from a different perspective. Google gave up a project that was little value to them. It did prove and get many people, myself included, to use RSS. Do I like Feedly as much as Reader? No. Do I use it just as much as Reader? Yup. Destroying Reader suddenly created demand in a market that practically didn't exist the day before. Startups always worry about what will happen when one of the big boys decide to play in their yard. Well here is a case where one decided to go do something else and let everyone else get a chance to play. Shutting down Reader was a gain for a Google, a gain for alternate RSS developers and a gain for users.
"Imagine if the engineers that built our transportation systems, buildings, and other structures that we rely on, cheated through school and on the engineering licensing exams? Imagine if our doctors cheated their way through school? Cheating may be the easy way out of a test or class, but it is very detrimental to the cheater in the long run, even if the cheater never gets caught. And, in some extreme cases, cheaters may cost other people money, or even lives." Look part of the problem is that all of those people cheated at some time. I've cheated and I would say most of the people I know have cheated. The thing is I haven't cheated in every class or even in more than a few classes. I'm a senior majoring in economics at a fairly top placed university so I've been going through the system for a while. The thing everyone realizes is that there is no way to cheat through every class, or even a reason to cheat through every class. You can be a great chem student and still want to get an easy A by cheating in a Am Hist class. I know more than a few people (non-majors) that cheated through an intro econ class but are good students in their fields. Is it fair to me as someone that likes econ to have cheaters in intro econ classes, probably not. Is it fair for english majors to have to take an econ class with someone who naturally excels at economics, probably not. They cheat and get an A and go on to write poems and think about butterflies or whatever english majors do, and I work hard and get an A and go on to fun things like GDP and inflation. We all win. I understand cheating in GE courses, cheating in upper div coursework is weird to me considering you should enjoy what you are studying and should really have to cheat. If my doctor cheated and didnt actually write that paper in 8th grade on Burma I'm not going to try and take away his medical license. And if that structural engineer wrote on his hand that monetary policy = federal reserve fiscal policy = congress, I'm pretty sure I'll still drive across her bridge.
From Reuters "EchoStar says appeals court blocks TiVo injunction" as reported on gizmodo. Link h:ere http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.asp x?view=CN&storyID=2006-08-18T161047Z_01_WNAS5904_R TRIDST_0_TECH-ECHOSTAR-URGENT.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
Youtube already blew away the competition from Youtruck.com. Why would anyone think they can manage to attack a company with all the tubes!
I dont think the drink robot would. Not because of a programming failure but a licensing agreement between McDonalds and Coke not to tamper with approved drink formulas. I hear the drink filler roboit has some kind of cousin parking robot out in New Jerey. Actually after I wrote my post I began to wonder how they deal with things like extra or light ice. Perhaps I'll ask next time I'm there. McDonalds worker: Sorry that your cup is only full of ice. The OS on our drink filling robot froze up.
Fry making robots? I've haven't seen those but at my closest McDonalds they have an automated drink filling machine for the drive-thru. Its connected to the order system so when someone orders a #4 with a coke a cup is automatically droped out, filled with ice and soda and is ready for serving to a customer.
I always wondered if there were other automated things at McDonalds and now I know.
FTA: "In the course of a contract dispute, the city of Hoboken had police escort the Robotic employees from the premises just a few days before the contract between both parties was set to expire. What the city didn't understand or perhaps concern itself with, is that they sent the company packing with its manuals and the intellectual property rights to the software that made the giant robotic parking structure work" The city should have jut not let additional cars be parked and had the structure emptied. Instead they decided to strike first in the dispute and have the Robotic employees removed. That's the city's fault not the fault of the company. I'm the sole IT guy for a small company and if the fired me they would be screwed. Yeah they have all the code for all the programs I've written and all the relevant support information but it would take any replacement a while to figure out what was going on. Not to mention all the logins and passwords that are all only in my head. Should I be responsible if something happened to their systems after they fired me but before they got a replacement? The city thought it was being smart in throwing them out but in the end the company got the last laugh.