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A) Price comes first, not cost. In the real world clearing prices are justified based on how much the buyer is finally willing to pay for something, not how much it cost the seller to make it. If no one wants to buy a photograph for 6000$, then the market does not exist at that price. If the seller believes his cost is greater than the price quoted by his buyer, he should move to another more profitable business venture.

B) that said, digital technology has reduced the cost of entry and the cost of repeat production greatly, had ansel adams to take that very shot, the "replacement cost" of that photograph would have been much much higher. The cost of continuing to take photographs is also fairly minimal compared to earlier. The buyers price flexibility has not changed while your ability to produce at a lower cost has improved considerably.

C) You cannot equate yourself with a restaurant or a secretary or a writer in these companies, they unlike you are paid to continue working on a daily basis, whereas you're expecting to be paid for work that is already done. once. When you order your lunch today it costs the chef x $, order the same lunch tomorrow costs him another x $. But regardless of how many prints someone buys of your work, the cost to you does not increase. In other words, the legitimate product is not "one print", it is the whole set of prints that you expect it to sell over its lifetime. If you can guarantee that a print is exclusive, then you can legitimately expect the kind of amount conventional economic calculation leads you to value your photograph at ( im not talking about 6612$, thats insane )

D) The true comparison is to that of a restaurant that comes up for one day, makes an innovate dish, and then exits the business the next day and expects to be paid whenever someone else makes the dish elsewhere. No one does this because you can not run a profitable venture or even make up your costs based on this mindset - based on one sessions sales. And draconian IP laws aside, the only way to make a profit in that venture is to stay in business and keep at producing that dish over and over again, and more over, innovating with new standout dishes. And as a photographer you should learn to treat yourself, like the restaurant above, as a service industry, not just a product industry.
The machinery needed to produce a ballpoint pen costs the best part of $10m. A ballpoint pen costs 20 cents.

Cameras are expensive. Photographs are almost worthless. Supply utterly outstrips demand, especially for shots like landscapes that have great appeal for amateur photographers but little commercial utility.

Ten years ago, you could name every paparazzo working in London. They were a small circle of time-served photogs who knew everyone, and whom everyone knew. There was an infrastructure of couriers and darkrooms to get images from film to press in time. They spent years cultivating relationships with celebrities, doormen and nightclub owners. Today, there are countless PJ students and teenagers hurtling around Soho on scooters. With a cheap DSLR and a smartphone, an image can be on the front page of dailymail.com in 20 minutes.

The new breed see their work as a more exciting alternative to working weekends in a shop. Most of them are happy to get a quarter of what images used to sell for. They shoot using the modern equivalent of "f/8 and be there" and need practically no technical skill. Rather than cultivating relationships and building sources, many of them rely on Twitter. Unlike the previous generation, many of them are happy to tip each other off and share information. It's now scarcely possible to make a proper living and most of the old-timers are shooting commercial work or weddings.
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Why not? Are UK residents more deserving of a job than Chinese?
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The very existence of an intellectual property market is absurd. In my opinion, the scenarios in which person should expect to make a profit doing something creative are:

A. The person is hired to create something.

B. The person creates something that's not easy to copy.

If you were hired to design a set for a play, you would get paid for your work. If you created a physical three-dimensional sculpture, someone else could try to imitate it, but the imitation wouldn't be a perfect copy. That means your original sculpture would still have value and could be sold. On the other hand, if you, on your own time, created something that cost nothing to copy, such as--oh, I don't know--a picture of a sunset, you should not expect to profit from selling it. It wouldn't matter how much time/effort/money/energy you put into creating it.

So, what's going on with SOPA then? The government realized that they don't have the resources to police the Internet for copyright violations. Of course they don't. It's impossible. So now they're attempting to foist that impossible responsibility on website owners. I have no idea how the bill is worded, but I can't imagine a scenario where the wording could be "fixed" while keeping the intention. The intention is broken. Copyright law is broken.

Copyright should be non-exclusive. Anyone should be allowed to copy anything for free.
This would be not only a wonderful toy, but a really fantastic tool. Of course I'm not trying to influence you in the slightest way... :)
With the _shipped_ python. But you can install a python on osx they work with?
It's a bit unfashionable to point this out, but... the current govt has been around for a year and a half. The previous govt had thirteen years to do something about it.
It's interesting that the UC administrators think that the "paying for" is the part that needs to be addressed, not the base cost to begin with.
I wonder why he doesn't add the cost of his car, in which he traveled to and from location, and the cost of building the road, and his home, and his entire life up to this point, and what it cost humanity to invent photography in the first place.

I get his point, of course, and (kind of) agree with him, but his argument is weak.
Having flattr accept partial payments on items?
Are you suggesting every Joe off the street can now write a groundbreaking paper that advances our understanding of string theory? Of course not.

Yeah, what a laugh. Can you imagine if Albert the Patent Clerk started writing science papers?
Not panning this, but isn't this Mythical Man-Month's observation? That the communication overhead increase in adding team members grows -exponentially- quadratically with the number of developers?

(This does match my experience. 40+ teams simply accomplishing less and less than a very small, co-located or constantly in contact team).
This is exactly what The Mythical Man Month laid out 35 years ago. I doubt anything will come along that could ever really compensate for the network effect of large teams; nothing new under the sun...
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Another contributing factor for the efficiency of smaller teams is that effective role assignment is much easier with small teams than large teams, unless the project is naturally highly modular.
Yes, that's me. It took me three tries in as many years to make the switch. So don't give up.

It wasn't the various alternate modes that enticed me so much as a more consistent buffer model for file-find, greps, and compiles. And I'm very happy not to have that constant "am I in insert or command mode?" problem. The control keys are now second nature.

Try, try again!
Good point on the relative friction and availability of libraries. With C++ you rarely have a common platform. The STL, with Boost to extend it, is one; but it stays pretty basic. Qt is another. Glib, with Glibmm/Gtkmm &co is a third one, but the core implementation is C and Vala because that makes the platform accessible to a lot more languages. libxml2, cited in the original post, reimplements a lot of basic data structures, because it intends to be portable to C code which doesn't have a common platform. Other languages have CPAN, Hackage, PyPI, RubyGems, Maven, npm, and their libraries reuse and rely on each other a lot more freely.
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The reason that Maths A-Level is used is that it measures abstract thinking ability which becomes important for more advanced CS.

What my university (Bristol) did is that the introductory units had two variants - one which assumed programming experience and one which assumed none, that way students could self-select based upon experience which is probably a better solution.

Most degrees actually have a period where they're bringing everyone up to the same level (be it Physics, Psychology or Economics) because there's a lot of variation in school level teaching and that's always going to be there unless the government starts micromanaging every school lesson.
There's a lot of comments here saying what a great pivot that was. I wouldn't hold my breath on that one until there is more market traction.

It's a very crowded space Grove are entering. Most non tech-savvy small businesses I know use Skype by default. I run a technology business and we use it as well. And the standard fallback is just plain old email. This sounds like a hard place to make money to me. However, I wish them luck.
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1. I worked for a few years in the remedial math centre for mature students in my university, and one of my best friends did his doctorate in teaching mature students mathematics. Based on my experience, had I taken your attitude then I would have just not shown up for work.

2. I disagree that it doesn't benefit the stronger students. It was awfully hard for me to learn to teach mathematics, because I had never really had to learn it in a step by step way myself. However, when I did learn to teach an area, my understanding was orders of magnitude higher because I had the understanding of somebody gifted in the area but the method and the attention to detail of somebody who has learned it the hard way. If you mix classes with high and low skilled students, you just have to make sure you rely on the high skilled students as a teaching resource.
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All this sort of intellectual property market does is move the decision to "hire" someone, that is to use their work in exchange for money, to after the work has been executed rather than before.

The person has produced the work and they offer the opportunity to enter into an agreement for payment after the fact.

You say you're fine with entering into an agreement before the work is produced, but you don't believe it should be possible to enter into such an agreement after the fact. This doesn't seem very consistent to me.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I wrote that post (and not very well, I might add!).

For what it's worth I think the title here would be a little better with a question mark at the end, as it is more about "why can't we" than "how to" but still, I appreciate the post here :)
Each sleep cycle takes 90-110 minutes. Each cycle has 5 steps.
So each step takes about 20 minutes. But if your cycle takes 90 minutes your first step will take about 18 minutes. So if you wake up after 20 minutes you will be in the first 2 minutes of the next step. And that's a bad moment to wake up.

As people already noticed, you have to play a little bit with the timing.
Nice idea! You could hook it up to a mini projector or something that projects your face/an image of your choice onto the wall?

You could go one step further with that and project a "growl" style wall notification system. When I'm in the kitchen I often miss people trying to get into contact with me via IM or whatever, it would be great to see notifications on a surface or something to say "X has just messaged you!" or whatever
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Mythical Man Month[1]

Peopleware[2]

Very highly recommend you read both. The MMM is amazing because it's held true for over 35 years now.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects...)
I think Google would be quite happy if you also used them to get to things that you already know how to locate in another manner. It might be easier for you too. For example, I find even myself searching for partial urls on Google rather than type them in full on my phone.

It's one more opportunity to gather info and display targetted ads after all.
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Nice that I'm not the only one :)

My preferences are now search engines and graph theory. For the latter one you can even get a bad paid job (pockettaxi.de) but where you can hack on nice algorithms!

Here are some nonefree and free graph theorie books:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/510758/can-you-suggest-a-...
I had the fortune of spending a year studying in another country. I study aerospace engineering, and so there's a lot of teamwork. Last year (in Canada) we worked on a project with 20+ undergrads. We had 3 hours of meetings a week, made up of presentations, discussion etc. This year (in the UK) I'm working in a team of four people. I've achieved significantly more this year than I did last year.

Perhaps the biggest reason is that when you have a team of four, every hour you spend meeting involves approximately 15 minutes talking about the problems you're having, and discussing the solutions to your problems. In the team of 20, I'd go to a meeting, spend three hours there and 2 of them would be taken up by a particular aspect of the project. I wasn't working on it, and how they implemented that problem had absolutely no bearing on my work.

Meetings, or at least irrelevant unproductive meetings, are a huge time sink. At least half of the time spent in those meetings could have certainly been spent doing other, productive, tasks.
Did you really just discount the entire digital realm as worthless because of the inherent fungibility of bits? Thank God not everyone thinks like you, otherwise our technological progress would basically grind to a halt, as people would be back to trading 6 pigs for 10 loaves of bread.
Also, the larger the team, the bigger the incentive to be a free loader, because individual contributions become harder to assess.

Free loading includes plain slacking, doing things the fun way rather than the good-enough way, playing politics, keeping yourself busy with unnecessary management/coordination, etc.
What is the difference between this new feature and the site you've liked making a wall post? You still see it either way. I'm confused.
But he's not complaining, just reporting. If I'm fat, is it immoral for me to say that obesity is a problem?

Frankly, I find his position ridiculous. He's essentially saying journalists have to be these beacons of virtue above everyone else if they want to report on bad things that are happening.
This reminds me of...

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> Citizens used to be apathetic, will it be better/worse if they become confounded?

Politics always attempts to confound people who don't subscribe to rational argument; they might as well get confounded in the right direction. This is not WarGames, where "the only winning move is not to play". We lose nothing by trying, and we stand to gain a great deal.
Open source (decentralised Linux style) seems to have compensated for the network effect of large teams. Hence why Linux is 3.0 and HURD still hasn't shipped ;)

points at CatB http://catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/

I think part of the poor performance of large teams is because as soon as the business is big enough to have large teams, it's big enough that it starts having middle managers and PHBs. Large teams are only bad because of the conventional commercial software development practices (waterfall, anyone?)
So you want a world wiyh no more pro quality books, films, music or TV series?
I don't see why CS can't “take a problem and produce a suitable solution.” Understanding the essential underlying theory (complexity theory, etc.) is essential to solve these problems.

Furthermore, not all Computer Science degrees are purely theoretical course where all you do is esoteric logics and category theory. If anything, I think there's too little theory in the UK's CS courses these days.
As a point of view, fine.

As a qualification for reporting / thinking / writing on the issue -- no.

Moglen is saying that before Betabeat can report, they must agree with him. Which ignores the possibility, remote as it may be, that Eben Moglen could be wrong about something. And, the implications of the example he sets for others.

Respect for freedom of speech is more than insistence on a constitutional norm. It is an attitude of respect for the possibility that you might be wrong even in your strongest beliefs. Such respect is our surest protection against absolutism.

Moblen may think his intransigence adds urgency to his message, and it has gotten him a forum this time. But even so he's deteriorating the culture of free speech and thought, and free-riding on the maintenance of that culture by the maturity of others.
> If you have to scan random papers to find a solution to a problem you cannot name, I fear for your well-being :-)

The disadvantage to being a generalist is that I don't know the terminology of the field I need to research. Take the texsearch example above. Given a LaTeX string I want to find similar strings from a large corpus so I start by googling things like "code search" and "syntax tree search". After scanning a few dozen papers and following links I find that the magic search term is "approximate string matching" which nets me an overview paper. I scan through the links from that paper and dismiss most of the algorithms as unsuitable for my particular problem until I'm left with a few candidates for prototypes.

Back then I had access through my university. Today I wouldn't be able to read half of those papers. For recent math/CS papers I can usually find a preprint but anything else is a struggle.
"What you basically say is : "It is the way it is because that is how things are. period""

No, what I'm saying is "it's irrelevant how we got to where we are, but there just isn't enough demand to drive a change, and therefore I suspect things will remain the way they are for at least a while longer, until the boundary conditions change (more)."

My overall point vis-a-vis the article is that it's wrong in its premises and conclusions - it's not about it being hard, or about some sort of conspiracy where publishers are repressing us (although of course, publishers will try to stop any mass movement to go 'open access', but their power has limits, contrary to what the article seems to suggest); it's simply the market at work. Not enough people care enough about open access for it to happen.

I'm not telling anybody to shut up, just that if they want to change something, they should identify and remedy the correct causes of that something, rather than fighter windmills. Hollow rhetoric like "In effect, we have too much organizational scarring tissue in science. It could be that we need to reboot the system. As a starting point, we should collectively recognize the problem. Repeat after me: scholarship is not a publishing business" is just a misrepresentation of the situation.

Finally, I don't agree nor disagree with the complaint - I just don't care, much like most other researchers I know - and by extension, I suspect, most other researchers tout court. That's my whole point.
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I seem to remember reading somewhere that the "best" team size for maximizing productivity was three or four - enough so that you have some people to bounce ideas of off and have complementary approaches without introducing the communications overhead that you get with larger teams.

Can't remember where I read that - might have been the MMM.
> using a compiler that's going to do all sorts of modifications to what you've created at the machine code level

You do know that the compiler isn't allowed to change the behaviour of your code, right?

(If it did, it would be a bug in the compiler, and C compilers are pretty damn mature.)
It's like the guy who charged a thousand bucks to fix the machine by turning a screw; 1 buck for turning the screw, and 999 for knowing which screw to turn.
OK, so how did you do your research in the end? Do you think you missed much because of not being to access certain papers? I mean, it seems that you found a way to access at least that paper, or did you pay for a subscription to a certain journal?
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Thanks, I'll be using it for my banner ad for a video streaming service that I advertise an a torrent site abroad.
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"He still has the photo" is a nonsense argument -- he doesn't "still have the photo" from a licensing perspective in that he can no longer license exclusive or first usage rights (which also exist in regional and media contexts). The photograph has been irreparably damaged vis-a-vis its commercial value after unauthorised use/publication. That is something people seem to be unwilling to understand or consider for some strange reason -- the image file itself may still exist in a usable state, but its value is not in its bits, it's in its licensability. Unlicensed use demotes the picture's value to the level of royalty-free microstock in the eyes of potential buyers.
We don't commit new code to whiteboards. We commit it to VCS. You know, with such electronic thingies, called computers.
And when my interviewers wanted to collaborate they didn't find it too difficult with paper. Even sitting opposite of me (and that is why large tables in conferences are evil).
It was designed by autism researchers based at the Univ of Edinburgh so its pretty pedagogically sound.

Direct link is:
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Also, the app is done in Cocos2D, but we might rebuild it in Unity and release it onto android if there's a demand for it ...
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No. I did not. Just because something can't be bought or sold does not mean it lacks worth. Please explain why you think "technological progress would basically grind to a halt" in a world where people are allowed to collaborate freely.