This all plays into the open source movement--why don't people try making money off WORKING, rather than ROYALTIES? It's completely FUCKED beyond imagination.
Because royalties are a form of passive income and a key to build wealth. It's the best keep secret of rich people including lawyers and politicians. They all invest in forms of passive income and have a vested interest in protect their way of life.
I agree. I found 3D underwhelming and I skip movies if they are not playing in plain ol' 2D screens.
I guess the extra $5 for 3D glasses and a headache are taking their toll at the box office.
There is a BBC documentary somewhere in youtube where a submarine nuclear reactor engineer said GE took their reactor design (30 to 50 MW), made it 10+ times bigger and named it the Mark 1.
Power plant reactors are so huge and contain so much fuel it is physically impossible to contain a meltdown with current technology. Engineers solved this by declaring that "meltdowns can't happen" and added safety systems that made building nuclear power plants way more expensive than initially thought. Guess what?... meltdowns still happened.
If a nuclear submarine reactor melts down, they can just replace the reactor and be on their way. Can't do the same with 3-mile island, Chernobyl and Fukushima.
After Fukushima, the only way I would ever support nuclear power is if they come up with a proven way to safely contain meltdowns. Smaller reactors at nuclear submarine scale might be one way.
This, every time I read a petition and people organizing against SOPA or whatever other law the *IAA comes up with I just face-palm and *cough* first amendment *cough*.
There is no need to organize against this law. The day it gets signed (if ever) it will get overturned on first amendment grounds.
Congress keeps trying to wipe their asses in the constitution and the courts will keep knocking them down.
I might be wrong but expecting infinite growth in stock prices doesn't sound sustainable. The biggest scam Wall Street has pulled is making investors focus on stock prices instead of dividends.
Focusing in dividends might be boring but they are a passive form of income, a good way to build wealth.
The issue with the way software patents are enforced currently is that, unlike a physical invention, you can't come up with a completely different approach to implement the idea and not violate it. In the physical domain, clean room reverse engineering is allowed, but software patents have been allowed to be so ambiguous your implementation is probably covered.
I think software patents could be fine as long as they are specific to a SINGLE IMPLEMENTATION of an algorithm or idea. If your patent was implemented in C++, then the same algorithm implemented in Perl or even COBOL SHOULD NOT BE COVERED.
Under this concept, the way to invalidate patent claims is to simply show in court a different implementation. This would take out the teeth out of patents, remove lawsuits based on vague claims that might or might not be covered while still "promoting the arts" since now you can both license your invention and allow others to improve on it.
My Hyundai Sonata Hybrid uses Lithium Polymer batteries that according to this article already implement this technology.
Lithium polymer technology uses a completely different approach. Rather than using a liquid electrolyte, which requires a robust metal casing, lithium polymer batteries use a polymer gel as the electrolyte
good idea but no XML please
Chilean Air Force and Navy make regular trips to supply their remote islands (Juan Fernandez, Easter Island). It is pretty normal to catch a ride in one of these planes or Navy transports if you know somebody. They had to fly there anyways so all these civilians tagged along.
He works for HP and got one when they put them on sale for $300 a few weeks ago. I played with it last week and kinda liked it.
It's a solid piece of hardware, slick UI and really fast.
No, it doesn't run android and doesn't have data plan but after playing with it I would definitely buy it for $99 if only to browse the internet when watching tv or in a hotel.
Too bad they are sold out already
CableCard devices requires your PC software to follow DRM restrictions (copy once, copy never). So far only Windows Media Server have them implemented, any other OS/software such as MythTv will only receive the cable channels marked "copy freely" from the CableCard device (no premium channels, PPV, etc)
You seem to think we have a rampant outbreak of police brutality. If that was the case, I would agree with you.
In any case if you feel like disobeying police commands, suit yourself. Just remember: they got guns.
You are absolutely right, I didn't phrase it correctly. I didn't mean police brutality is acceptable under any circumstance. What i find really odd is this idea that citizens somehow are allowed to complain and hit back at officers trying to arrest them. Then they whine police brutality when police have to use force to restrain them. The fact I got modded troll says a lot.
Officers gave that dude clear instructions on what to do so they could restrain him and take him to the judge. He decided not to obey and tried to get away instead... result: DEAD
They had judges in Nazi Germany?
Irrelevant, he wasn't in a state of mind to obey police however he was just fine a few minutes earlier while breaking into cars?
Remember to say hello to your bank teller.
