This is a vote for freedom. Freedom of the organizations that INVEST in the infrastructure to be the ones who get to decide how that infrastructure is used. Freedom for you to set the rules for the use of the thing which you built with your money and sweat.
What about MY freedom to use what I paid for? Ohh right, I get screwed because I'm an individual rather than a cooperation.
BTW, those networks you mentioned... built with our tax money, run on government mandated rights of way, and locked down by government granted monopolies.
Because, something like the GPL confers an obligation that your code be under the same license, that you will tell people it is using code under that license, and that you will make the code (and changes made by you) available for a 'reasonable' amount to cover shipping and media (for example).
For something that is supposedly Free, that's a pretty big set of restrictions / Obligations.
Wouldn't playing a good old fashioned game of Chess do the same thing? Why blame it on the electronic stuff when there are plenty of non-electronic things that can engage the mind.
They found a bad apple. So that makes our sample size is n=1 so far. Can anybody cite evidence of additional issues, or is this being hyped up like the iPhone 4 antenna story?
Well, they found at least 3 independent problems on a single sample. Since each of these problems is possible separate from each other, the fact that all 3 show on a single item could indicate that the rate each problem is fairly high in general. There are other possibilities besides high problem rates, but it does raise the chances that this isn't just a single isolated incident.
Politicians need money to win the next election. Corporations have the money to give. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the connection and obvious solution to the problem, remove the need for money.
1) Pass a constitutional amendment that states that money does not equal speech. 2) Give all the candidates equal and free access to the public airwaves. If the cable, satellite and TV companies don't like it revoke their license. Someone else will gladly take it over. 3) Let the US Government printing office provide print materials for mailing their fliers, signs,... 4) Post office provides free, or paid by the treasury (new election tax) services. 5) Forbid any candidate to spend a cent on their election.
FINI.
Swift Boaters and the like then show up to do all the dirty work that the candidate can't do themselves any more. There are plenty of huge and powerful interest groups not directly connected to the politicians willing to speak for them.
It's simple: If the government is paying for the lines, they should be open to anyone who can present a valid business plan to use them. Chances of this being true approach zero.
It costs money to maintain the lines and other infrastructure on an ongoing basis. Someone has to pay for that, it can either come from more taxes, or usage fees. Saying that you should be able to use something for free just because it was built with public money is naive.
Why would you not have your cellular phone with you? Most phones can be charged via USB, how often in your life are you at a location with a computer(to check said email), but not within reach of a usb port?
Because I forgot it on the nightstand, or on my desk. I frequently work from home so I don't have it on my person at all times. When I leave for a meeting or to grab lunch I sometimes forget to put it in my pocket.
Would be nice to have the option to enable/disable the feature..
It has been an option for as long as I can remember. It used to be one of the first things I turned off after a new install, right after I turned on the display of File Extensions.
"If used widely a universal flu vaccine could prevent pandemics, such as the swine flu outbreaks of recent years, and end the need for a seasonal flu jab."
I didn't read the journal article, but it sounds as though somebody's advocating distributing this vaccine every year during flu season (prophylactically).
If a vaccine is successful, shouldn't we hold on to it and only distribute it during potential emergencies such as the emergence of H1N1? I would think the last thing we should be doing is breeding super vaccine-resistant flu viruses by over-medicating. It seems like whenever a new treatment is discovered, we deploy it immediately. Suppose if we deployed this new flu vaccine, in the best case scenario, we could save a hundred thousand lives per year, every year, for a decade or two, (and there's probably a lot of profit to be made in the process). But if we distribute the vaccine sparingly, perhaps it would remain effective for longer, and we could save tens of millions of lives when the next pandemic hits. It's an interesting mathematical dilemma, but I've never seen anybody bring this up. What is the best solution? (I've had this question for a while. It seems like a great question for the slashdot crowd.)
Vaccines are only effective BEFORE someone is infected, and even then they need time to work. By the time it's a wide spread emergency or pandemic it's too late to immunize.
To scientists, these terms are not mutually exclusive.
Why just to scientists? I don't think they are mutually exclusive to anyone...
Take the phrase, "This mixture is more Salt than Sugar". The phrase "More X than" Y doesn't imply mutual exclusion at all. In fact, it seems to imply that both parts are true in varying amounts.
* Quad Core PowerVR SGX543MP4+ GPU from Imagination Technologies. (They make the PoverVR 530 featured in Motorola Droids, PowerVR 535 in iPhone & iPad, and PowerVR 540 featured in Galaxy S devices, and playbook)
Utilities and telco's are required to string power and telephone lines to rural homes. It's still super expensive though. They diffray that cost through 'rural surchages' to other users, but they still take a loss. AFAIK none of the States in the US require telco's provide broadband acces to the home.
And there lies the problem. They SHOULD be required to provide it. They took public money and / or make use of public rights of way. Not to mention to government granted monopoly right to be the sole provider of service for an area.... Like it or not, broadband internet service is starting to become a requirement for effectively taking part in our society...
If I'm running a mid size company and I hire an ad agency that gets paid for referrals (and it's a fly by night LLC), I'm really venerable now. I guess the anti-spam crowd will tell me not to hire a fly-by-night, but don't most successful businesses start that way? And how am I suppose to know?
Yes, that's the point. How about only hiring ad agencies with honest and well known reputations reputations, and doing a little research before you hire them.
What does having a bank account have to do with taxes? Taxes are supposed to be about the money you earn, not the money you have. Funny how this is turning out.
Did you earn a large amount of money that you don't want to pay taxes on? Hide that income in a Swiss account. US banks report that information to the IRS, Swiss banks do not. This allows you to hide income from the IRS and not pay taxes on it.
Isn't this the way selling your games on Steam works too? You set the price, but have no control over when Steam places items on sale or what they actually charge.
spot on - if you let the company put a pc into your home, its almost always their pc and not, technically, yours. if they lease you a dsl line, that 'own' that link and all that goes over it.
lots of implications of allowing work-bought devices into your home and onto your network.
This story is about the opposite. Using employee purchased equipment to be used for work.
it has mountains and valleys that dwarf anything here on earth, however it doesnt have huge oceans covering huge depths, or huge mountain ranges that go half a continent, like here. its appalling that you talk about mountains and valleys yet forget huge oceans that have 11,000 m as their deepest point in a hole that covers almost half of the planet on one side, not to mention others in other oceans. its not just a mountain, it is a huge inward landscape on all sides of the planet, and outer protrusion on other. take oceans off of the earth in your mind's eye, then rethink.
The height of Olympus Mons I have is height above Datum. Mars has deep basins that go far below datum also.
From Wikipedia:
"Since Mars has no oceans and hence no 'sea level', it is convenient to define an arbitrary zero-elevation level or "datum" for mapping the surface. The datum for Mars is defined in terms of the height at which the air has a particular pressure at about the freezing point of water: a pressure of 610.5 Pa (6.105 mbar), approximately 0.6% of Earth's, at a temperature of 273.16 K. This pressure and temperature correspond to the triple point of water. Conditions on Mars are so different from those on Earth that Martian altitude readings should not be directly compared to Earthly ones for purposes of finding life, potential colony sites, etc.."
The difference between Mars' highest and lowest points is nearly 31 km (from the top of Olympus Mons at an altitude of 26 km to the bottom of the Hellas impact basin at an altitude of 4 km below the datum). In comparison, the difference between Earth's highest and lowest points (Mount Everest and the Mariana Trench) is only 19.7 km. Combined with the planets' different radii, this means Mars is nearly three times "rougher" than Earth.
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This is a vote for freedom. Freedom of the organizations that INVEST in the infrastructure to be the ones who get to decide how that infrastructure is used. Freedom for you to set the rules for the use of the thing which you built with your money and sweat.
What about MY freedom to use what I paid for? Ohh right, I get screwed because I'm an individual rather than a cooperation.
BTW, those networks you mentioned... built with our tax money, run on government mandated rights of way, and locked down by government granted monopolies.
For something that is supposedly Free, that's a pretty big set of restrictions / Obligations.
Wouldn't playing a good old fashioned game of Chess do the same thing? Why blame it on the electronic stuff when there are plenty of non-electronic things that can engage the mind.
The seeds of yet another encroachment on human rights by the UK
Kids are not adults.
It's a good thing they are called "Human Rights", not "Adult Rights" then, isn't it?
They found a bad apple. So that makes our sample size is n=1 so far. Can anybody cite evidence of additional issues, or is this being hyped up like the iPhone 4 antenna story?
Well, they found at least 3 independent problems on a single sample. Since each of these problems is possible separate from each other, the fact that all 3 show on a single item could indicate that the rate each problem is fairly high in general. There are other possibilities besides high problem rates, but it does raise the chances that this isn't just a single isolated incident.
Politicians need money to win the next election. Corporations have the money to give. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to see the connection and obvious solution to the problem, remove the need for money.
1) Pass a constitutional amendment that states that money does not equal speech.
2) Give all the candidates equal and free access to the public airwaves. If the cable, satellite and TV companies don't like it revoke their license. Someone else will gladly take it over.
3) Let the US Government printing office provide print materials for mailing their fliers, signs,...
4) Post office provides free, or paid by the treasury (new election tax) services.
5) Forbid any candidate to spend a cent on their election.
FINI.
Swift Boaters and the like then show up to do all the dirty work that the candidate can't do themselves any more. There are plenty of huge and powerful interest groups not directly connected to the politicians willing to speak for them.
It's simple: If the government is paying for the lines, they should be open to anyone who can present a valid business plan to use them. Chances of this being true approach zero.
It costs money to maintain the lines and other infrastructure on an ongoing basis. Someone has to pay for that, it can either come from more taxes, or usage fees. Saying that you should be able to use something for free just because it was built with public money is naive.
That's like complaining that you have to pay money to buy a car, and also pay for the gas to put in it. You are paying for 2 different things.
Why would you not have your cellular phone with you?
Most phones can be charged via USB, how often in your life are you at a location with a computer(to check said email), but not within reach of a usb port?
Because I forgot it on the nightstand, or on my desk. I frequently work from home so I don't have it on my person at all times. When I leave for a meeting or to grab lunch I sometimes forget to put it in my pocket.
They haven't so far. Probably because it's rather difficult to run a train into a skyscraper.
It is, however, fairly easy to run a train in to another train, with dramatic results. It doesn't even require special tools like explosives
Would be nice to have the option to enable/disable the feature..
It has been an option for as long as I can remember. It used to be one of the first things I turned off after a new install, right after I turned on the display of File Extensions.
"If used widely a universal flu vaccine could prevent pandemics, such as the swine flu outbreaks of recent years, and end the need for a seasonal flu jab."
I didn't read the journal article, but it sounds as though somebody's advocating distributing this vaccine every year during flu season (prophylactically).
If a vaccine is successful, shouldn't we hold on to it and only distribute it during potential emergencies such as the emergence of H1N1? I would think the last thing we should be doing is breeding super vaccine-resistant flu viruses by over-medicating. It seems like whenever a new treatment is discovered, we deploy it immediately. Suppose if we deployed this new flu vaccine, in the best case scenario, we could save a hundred thousand lives per year, every year, for a decade or two, (and there's probably a lot of profit to be made in the process). But if we distribute the vaccine sparingly, perhaps it would remain effective for longer, and we could save tens of millions of lives when the next pandemic hits.
It's an interesting mathematical dilemma, but I've never seen anybody bring this up. What is the best solution?
(I've had this question for a while. It seems like a great question for the slashdot crowd.)
Vaccines are only effective BEFORE someone is infected, and even then they need time to work. By the time it's a wide spread emergency or pandemic it's too late to immunize.
Is it really a "nanny state" kind of action if it is giving power and control to the parents?
more theory than fact
To scientists, these terms are not mutually exclusive.
Why just to scientists? I don't think they are mutually exclusive to anyone...
Take the phrase, "This mixture is more Salt than Sugar".
The phrase "More X than" Y doesn't imply mutual exclusion at all. In fact, it seems to imply that both parts are true in varying amounts.
* Quad Core A9 CPU
* Quad Core PowerVR SGX543MP4+ GPU from Imagination Technologies. (They make the PoverVR 530 featured in Motorola Droids, PowerVR 535 in iPhone & iPad, and PowerVR 540 featured in Galaxy S devices, and playbook)
* 5" Multi touch OLED display with 960 x 544 res.
* Rear multi touch pad
* Front and rear cameras
* Three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer, three-axis electronic compass
* GPS
* Dual Analogue sticks
* Bluetooth, 3G and wifi connectivity
Battery Life: 4.8 minutes.
How does this system inform you that there is a deer on the road behind all that fog?
Simple, all the deer with be RFID chipped from birth.
Utilities and telco's are required to string power and telephone lines to rural homes. It's still super expensive though. They diffray that cost through 'rural surchages' to other users, but they still take a loss. AFAIK none of the States in the US require telco's provide broadband acces to the home.
And there lies the problem. They SHOULD be required to provide it. They took public money and / or make use of public rights of way. Not to mention to government granted monopoly right to be the sole provider of service for an area.... Like it or not, broadband internet service is starting to become a requirement for effectively taking part in our society...
Ideally speaking, if you prevent heat loss
Isn't that a little like how all the high school physics problems start off with "Ignoring friction..."?
It's fine and dandy on paper, but in practice you have to deal with it.
The first movie is awesome, and the second movie is awesome, but the third? Fix it.
Other than the 20 minute long dance video, the 2nd one was "Acceptable"
If I'm running a mid size company and I hire an ad agency that gets paid for referrals (and it's a fly by night LLC), I'm really venerable now. I guess the anti-spam crowd will tell me not to hire a fly-by-night, but don't most successful businesses start that way? And how am I suppose to know?
Yes, that's the point. How about only hiring ad agencies with honest and well known reputations reputations, and doing a little research before you hire them.
What does having a bank account have to do with taxes? Taxes are supposed to be about the money you earn, not the money you have. Funny how this is turning out.
Did you earn a large amount of money that you don't want to pay taxes on? Hide that income in a Swiss account. US banks report that information to the IRS, Swiss banks do not. This allows you to hide income from the IRS and not pay taxes on it.
Isn't this the way selling your games on Steam works too?
You set the price, but have no control over when Steam places items on sale or what they actually charge.
spot on - if you let the company put a pc into your home, its almost always their pc and not, technically, yours. if they lease you a dsl line, that 'own' that link and all that goes over it.
lots of implications of allowing work-bought devices into your home and onto your network.
This story is about the opposite. Using employee purchased equipment to be used for work.
Only if the editors think that knowledge is significant. Plenty of stuff gets deleted because someone decides that it isn't important enough.
flat.
it has mountains and valleys that dwarf anything here on earth, however it doesnt have huge oceans covering huge depths, or huge mountain ranges that go half a continent, like here. its appalling that you talk about mountains and valleys yet forget huge oceans that have 11,000 m as their deepest point in a hole that covers almost half of the planet on one side, not to mention others in other oceans. its not just a mountain, it is a huge inward landscape on all sides of the planet, and outer protrusion on other. take oceans off of the earth in your mind's eye, then rethink.
The height of Olympus Mons I have is height above Datum. Mars has deep basins that go far below datum also.
From Wikipedia: