The big difference between Jeff Bridges in Tron 2.0 and Fred Astair/John Wayne is that Jeff Bridges is STILL ALIVE. It won't be sick, because they aren't using a person's name and works in a way that that person had never intended after they can no longer contest it or profit off of it. It will only be sick and wrong if they use it without his permission.
It must be this one, because somewhere nearby Mick Jagger is singing "Get Off My Cloud":
London EC2, London postal district covering the area of central London around Bishopsgate, Moorgate, and Liverpool Street
I've had YUM arbitrarily uninstall 600+ packages during an update on an RHEL 5.3. I don't mean to snub your anecdotal evidence with my similar anecdotal evidence, but I've seen SuSE to be at least as reliable as RedHat, and both more reliable than Windows.
Novell really needs to ramp up their marketing, a la the Goldfish/David Bowie "Change" commercial. SuSE is a solid product with a much more mature configuration interface than RedHat, at much lower support contract fees. It is used in quite a few large organizations which I am not at liberty to discuss (non-disclosure agreements and what-not.) They are in the best position for Active Directory/Linux integration products, and would do very well to very broadly advertise their companies new direction.
I have used SuSE for years, it did indeed take a hit in usability when Novell bought it. It has since been developed and become a very stable and refined platform.
Novell is one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel. The OSS community, as much as they dislike Novell's interactions with Microsoft, would see less development with it's break up and the distribution of its parts.
Internet based trade barriers are everywhere, what immediately also comes to mind is the US block on gambling websites.
The problem here is that it won't be easy to fight this one when we're not smelling like a rose, either.
I bet your ZX-10 also comes with a killswitch, right? I'd also be willing to bet that whoever taught you to ride a motorbike taught you what it was for, as well?
On a side note, Moto Guzzi found that I had purchased had unintended accelertation issues back in '03. The trottle return spring wasn't strong enough, or had a tendancy to break or something. I was active on a forum for the bikes, Moto Guzzi sent out a letter about the problem before anyone mentioned it in a forum.
There are indeed responsible manufacturers out there. Strangely enough its the ones who are small enough to know that losing $1 billion in sales and lawsuits will more than bankrupt the company.
Tired of Bad/Expensive/Slow all rolled into one? Perhaps it's time to get all these Nerds and Geeks on/. and start a software firm that writes a vertical software package soley for the Health Care industry. We could make something that scales from a two server (modified desktops) solution up to a 50 server solution, so that the hospitals and the doctors offices could all afford it. This wouldn't be that hard to do. We just need to focus on a simple pricepoint: under $44k/physician, that's what they're paying for early adopters. It would be much better to do this under $25k/physician so that we can accomodate for budget creep. It needs to be IN USE by the end of 2011? Lets set a goal to have our SCRUMs completed by November on the prototype, and find some early adopters willing to get a bargain rate in exchange for helping with our maketing message. We'll need some venture capital, but that shouldn't be too hard to get with the obvious government mandate which makes our business model viable.
See how easy it is to make this a positive message instead? It's clear that there are plenty of IT managers that are used to bloat that don't think it can be done. I say I could write a php/mysql (or postgresql) app that could work in conjuction with netbooks to make this practical. I'm doubting there's actually much of a market for it, every hospital and doctors office I've seen in the last 4 years (quite a lot, don't ask) has had PC's or laptops for every physician.
I sooooo misread this.
On topic, tech patents need to last as long as it takes to recoup the cost of invention plus some profit. In IT it could be argued that many of those inventions costs are recouped within 18 months. In the cell phone industry? Phones are obsolete within 1 year for all intents and purposes.
shortly to dictate Intel manfucaturing numbers because it effects "the environment".
I'm waiting with baited breath. Mr. AC do you know nothing about business, politics, organizations or societies? Ideas guide work, rarely do the people who come up with the ideas, or even the ones that push them get work done. Even more rare is when they do the work themselves. The only idea-men in our economy that actually know how to get work done and come up with the work that needs to be done are the entrepreneurs. The financial incentives (did I forget to mention economics) mentioned in TFA provide more than enough for the market to take care of this. In fact, what we have here is an opportunity for private companies to make a product that does what needs to be done, reliably. Is it not the capitolism espousing party that is typically against Obama's policies that encourages market competition? No small family physician will be able to afford quality one off software, but they'll be able to afford a really well developed commercial solution that's made to address this need. All I want to know is which software firms are out there working to fill this niche and profit?
STFU unless you have some insight to add to the topic.
Umm, the patent is for screen rotation, you know how the screen on iPhones rotates as you turn the phone to be wide instead of narrow, as you view it? The only evidence I can think of for prior art here is on non-touch screen Desktop monitors, but I haven't been following the phone industry that well. It wasn't obvious because before the iPhone, most phones that I had seen had much smaller screens, and the touchscreen was stylus driven.
[disclaimer]
I am no Apple fanboi, the last Apple product I actually used for more than 10 minutes was an Apple IIe.
Veracode offers the service of finding security flaws in your source. By definition organizations and developers that submit their source to them are going to have more secure software (according to Veracode) when it's released, after it's been certified.
All this shows is that there are developers using a company that specializes in finding security bugs to . . . find security bugs. It's just like using any other debugging tool, you rarely get a clean compile with no bugs on the first try.
If you'd RTFA (I know This Is Slashdot) you'd have read that:
Until 2002, the cards were thrown out after a short storage period. But starting that year, the state health department began storing blood spots indefinitely, for “research into causes of selected diseases.”
The disconcerting part that you mention is last years news. They are now destroying the blood spots. Nowhere in the article, and I scoured it, does it say that all the samples were entered into a database. It does, however, say that the samples are being destroyed:
While the agency is destroying more than 5 million baby blood spots collected before the new legislation took effect, she says, officials are not asking outside researchers — including those at the Armed Forces lab — to return the samples they were given. But they must destroy them when they are done with them.
Alright, I guess now is the time to get my DNA sequenced and buy the copyright from the sequencer, next I'll register it as a trademark, and file for a US patent. My only worry is that the USPO will site my mom and dad as prior art. I'll be alright in any event, once it's digitized as then it will be protected by the DMCA!
Bottom line, it can be proved that children, like cats (and Terry Pratchett elves) are cute and cudly but actually quite vile, evil little creatures.
And don't you suggest my kids are sociopaths because of video games, neither of them is even 5 yet. They haven't even learned about video games yet, but they are just starting to learn empathy. In fact anyone who looks at their kids with any kind of honest appraisal should tell you that they actually have to be conditioned NOT to be sociopathic.
In light of this article I contest my modding as Troll. It only makes sense to question how likely anything scientific comes from the state, and make light of the fact that opinions have also come from the state that had a right wing/religious bias.
The problem is when the legistlature of the state has recently released an opinion that completely goes against commonly accepted scientific principle, it is reasonable to question the likelihood of anything scientific coming from the state.
Some less common search terms which make me not use Bing:
Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Linux, SuSE, RedHat, Debian, Solaris, AIX, BIND, DHCPD, LikeWise, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Python, Perl, bash, posix, Integrated Development Environmnet, C programming, and anything else that Microsoft makes a (competing) product for.
I trust Microsoft's search engine to only to return results that are relevant to their products. I trust Google's product to find the right answers, regardless of whether or not they make a competing (and often free to use) product.
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The big difference between Jeff Bridges in Tron 2.0 and Fred Astair/John Wayne is that Jeff Bridges is STILL ALIVE. It won't be sick, because they aren't using a person's name and works in a way that that person had never intended after they can no longer contest it or profit off of it. It will only be sick and wrong if they use it without his permission.
It must be this one, because somewhere nearby Mick Jagger is singing "Get Off My Cloud":
London EC2, London postal district covering the area of central London around Bishopsgate, Moorgate, and Liverpool Street
It must be this one, because somewhere nearby Mick Jagger is singing "Get Off My Cloud":
London EC2, London postal district covering the area of central London around Bishopsgate, Moorgate, and Liverpool Street
I've had YUM arbitrarily uninstall 600+ packages during an update on an RHEL 5.3. I don't mean to snub your anecdotal evidence with my similar anecdotal evidence, but I've seen SuSE to be at least as reliable as RedHat, and both more reliable than Windows.
Novell really needs to ramp up their marketing, a la the Goldfish/David Bowie "Change" commercial. SuSE is a solid product with a much more mature configuration interface than RedHat, at much lower support contract fees. It is used in quite a few large organizations which I am not at liberty to discuss (non-disclosure agreements and what-not.) They are in the best position for Active Directory/Linux integration products, and would do very well to very broadly advertise their companies new direction.
I have used SuSE for years, it did indeed take a hit in usability when Novell bought it. It has since been developed and become a very stable and refined platform.
Novell is one of the top contributors to the Linux kernel. The OSS community, as much as they dislike Novell's interactions with Microsoft, would see less development with it's break up and the distribution of its parts.
Internet based trade barriers are everywhere, what immediately also comes to mind is the US block on gambling websites.
The problem here is that it won't be easy to fight this one when we're not smelling like a rose, either.
Fixed that for me.
Internet based trade barriers are everywhere, what immediately also comes to mind are the US block on gambling websites.
The problem here is that it won't be easy to figth this one when we're not smelling like a rose, either.
Ford made the safest vehicles in the world in the 70s.
I bet your ZX-10 also comes with a killswitch, right? I'd also be willing to bet that whoever taught you to ride a motorbike taught you what it was for, as well?
On a side note, Moto Guzzi found that I had purchased had unintended accelertation issues back in '03. The trottle return spring wasn't strong enough, or had a tendancy to break or something. I was active on a forum for the bikes, Moto Guzzi sent out a letter about the problem before anyone mentioned it in a forum.
There are indeed responsible manufacturers out there. Strangely enough its the ones who are small enough to know that losing $1 billion in sales and lawsuits will more than bankrupt the company.
Tired of Bad/Expensive/Slow all rolled into one? Perhaps it's time to get all these Nerds and Geeks on /. and start a software firm that writes a vertical software package soley for the Health Care industry. We could make something that scales from a two server (modified desktops) solution up to a 50 server solution, so that the hospitals and the doctors offices could all afford it. This wouldn't be that hard to do. We just need to focus on a simple pricepoint: under $44k/physician, that's what they're paying for early adopters. It would be much better to do this under $25k/physician so that we can accomodate for budget creep. It needs to be IN USE by the end of 2011? Lets set a goal to have our SCRUMs completed by November on the prototype, and find some early adopters willing to get a bargain rate in exchange for helping with our maketing message. We'll need some venture capital, but that shouldn't be too hard to get with the obvious government mandate which makes our business model viable.
See how easy it is to make this a positive message instead? It's clear that there are plenty of IT managers that are used to bloat that don't think it can be done. I say I could write a php/mysql (or postgresql) app that could work in conjuction with netbooks to make this practical. I'm doubting there's actually much of a market for it, every hospital and doctors office I've seen in the last 4 years (quite a lot, don't ask) has had PC's or laptops for every physician.
I sooooo misread this. On topic, tech patents need to last as long as it takes to recoup the cost of invention plus some profit. In IT it could be argued that many of those inventions costs are recouped within 18 months. In the cell phone industry? Phones are obsolete within 1 year for all intents and purposes.
Mod parent down: Flamebait/Overrated/Troll
shortly to dictate Intel manfucaturing numbers because it effects "the environment".
I'm waiting with baited breath. Mr. AC do you know nothing about business, politics, organizations or societies? Ideas guide work, rarely do the people who come up with the ideas, or even the ones that push them get work done. Even more rare is when they do the work themselves. The only idea-men in our economy that actually know how to get work done and come up with the work that needs to be done are the entrepreneurs. The financial incentives (did I forget to mention economics) mentioned in TFA provide more than enough for the market to take care of this. In fact, what we have here is an opportunity for private companies to make a product that does what needs to be done, reliably. Is it not the capitolism espousing party that is typically against Obama's policies that encourages market competition? No small family physician will be able to afford quality one off software, but they'll be able to afford a really well developed commercial solution that's made to address this need. All I want to know is which software firms are out there working to fill this niche and profit?
STFU unless you have some insight to add to the topic.
Umm, the patent is for screen rotation, you know how the screen on iPhones rotates as you turn the phone to be wide instead of narrow, as you view it? The only evidence I can think of for prior art here is on non-touch screen Desktop monitors, but I haven't been following the phone industry that well. It wasn't obvious because before the iPhone, most phones that I had seen had much smaller screens, and the touchscreen was stylus driven.
[disclaimer] I am no Apple fanboi, the last Apple product I actually used for more than 10 minutes was an Apple IIe.
Veracode offers the service of finding security flaws in your source. By definition organizations and developers that submit their source to them are going to have more secure software (according to Veracode) when it's released, after it's been certified.
All this shows is that there are developers using a company that specializes in finding security bugs to . . . find security bugs. It's just like using any other debugging tool, you rarely get a clean compile with no bugs on the first try.
Now only if the rest of The West would follow suit.
Until 2002, the cards were thrown out after a short storage period. But starting that year, the state health department began storing blood spots indefinitely, for “research into causes of selected diseases.”
The disconcerting part that you mention is last years news. They are now destroying the blood spots. Nowhere in the article, and I scoured it, does it say that all the samples were entered into a database. It does, however, say that the samples are being destroyed:
While the agency is destroying more than 5 million baby blood spots collected before the new legislation took effect, she says, officials are not asking outside researchers — including those at the Armed Forces lab — to return the samples they were given. But they must destroy them when they are done with them.
Alright, I guess now is the time to get my DNA sequenced and buy the copyright from the sequencer, next I'll register it as a trademark, and file for a US patent. My only worry is that the USPO will site my mom and dad as prior art. I'll be alright in any event, once it's digitized as then it will be protected by the DMCA!
Actually, here's a very well respected source reporting on how sociopathic, narcissistic behaviour is present in children, regardless of video games A more serious explanation about the teen brain was on NPR this morning.
Bottom line, it can be proved that children, like cats (and Terry Pratchett elves) are cute and cudly but actually quite vile, evil little creatures.
And don't you suggest my kids are sociopaths because of video games, neither of them is even 5 yet. They haven't even learned about video games yet, but they are just starting to learn empathy. In fact anyone who looks at their kids with any kind of honest appraisal should tell you that they actually have to be conditioned NOT to be sociopathic.
In light of this article I contest my modding as Troll. It only makes sense to question how likely anything scientific comes from the state, and make light of the fact that opinions have also come from the state that had a right wing/religious bias.
The problem is when the legistlature of the state has recently released an opinion that completely goes against commonly accepted scientific principle, it is reasonable to question the likelihood of anything scientific coming from the state.
Do they also believe it lived alongside man?
You know, there's an xkcd comic for this.
Some less common search terms which make me not use Bing:
Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, Linux, SuSE, RedHat, Debian, Solaris, AIX, BIND, DHCPD, LikeWise, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Ruby, Python, Perl, bash, posix, Integrated Development Environmnet, C programming, and anything else that Microsoft makes a (competing) product for.
I trust Microsoft's search engine to only to return results that are relevant to their products. I trust Google's product to find the right answers, regardless of whether or not they make a competing (and often free to use) product.
I'm sure no one else sees irony here.
This is why 401K contributions are declining and insurance premiums are rising . . .
fixed that for me.