I still haven't been convinced that videophone technology fills any fundamental role for the masses. I
don't often need to see (to some limited degree of resolution) how someone looks most of the time,
I have to agree with this. It's hard to imagine video adding much to ordinary conversation and easy to imagine it detracting. The best application for videoconferencing seems to be to provide visual aids to a discussion-eg graphs & pictures. I don't often need to plot anything when I'm talking to my folks, but it'd be nice with the broker. If it were more ubiquitous and higher quality, it might even save on business flights. (Still want direct human interaction for some things, but if many details could be dealt with by video, it'd save a lot of $1200 overnight trips)
If that is only 1% of the CPUs, then there must be 99 billion embedded CPUs.
I have one PC, one TV,CD,Stereo,VCR,answering machine, microwave, clock radio, wristwatch, thermostat, modem, and at least 10 embedded systems in my car. I'm told that only 1 in 4
households (in the US, anyway) has a PC, so
even in the US residential market, that's 1 PC and 80 embedded systems.
Now and again I
wish to look up item of scientific interest--some formula in physics-and _every time_ I've
turned to the Internet for research purposes, I would have been better served if I'd driven to
the nearest library
Perhaps you should have tried the electronic HCP. Or one of the full text journals at Ideal, Highwire, or CUP. Darned expensive for the individual, but if you're coming from a subscribing university's subnet, faster, more convenient and cheaper than making a copy in the library.
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In the early days, someone tested all the human cells that people were growing in culture and
found *all* the cells came from the same person
Definitely not true. Some cell types in some individuals have the useful property of being immortal (ie, they can divide more-or-less without limit). One of the first immortal cell lines was discovered much as you describe, but the cells are limited to a particular phenotype (eg, skin cells). You can tell the difference between, say, skin cells and liver cells in cultre easily so contamination across phenotypes is identifiable.
Of course, a lot of biotech is done in such immortal (or artificially immortalized) cell lines because it's a heck of a lot easier. It's the first step before moving up to more expensive non-immortal primary cultures, which is the step before moving to more expensive animal studies (sometimes, those even go from inbred, genetically homogeneous strains to outbred, less homogeneous strains). The general idea, of course, being to get your process going in the most homogeneous system before slowly unleashing genetic inhomogeneity.
Well see thats the thing there -- You have to consider ALL the energy use to make the facility --
thats all the electricity to refine the aluminum in it, the electricity used in the miners hats[...]
Well see that's the thing: the cost of all that electricity must be included in the products. Otherwise, the aluminium, uranium, concrete etc companies would go out of business. Imagine selling something for less than it costs to make. Who would do that?
The only way you might come up with a plant costing more energy than it produces is if you include the "energy" all its workers use while constructing, maintaining and monitoring the plant. Humans are very inefficient, but they can acquire energy from much less rarified substances than any standard power plant.
Unless there would be some special aspect that would allow people with this type of gene to have
a higher survival rate to their childbearing years
This gene might even be negatively selective. Having a bunch of old, non-reproducing people around taking food away from those who are reproducing diminishes the chances of survival.
If you're using a mouse in a dangerous enough situation that you'd need it to be designed this
stupi... err, durably, wouldn't you also need a similarly designed computer, protected
Well, yeah. One imagines a system like these. Designed to be firehosed. Or hit by a forklift. Not exactly office equipment.
Most importantly, though all the data upon which papers by Celera depend is to be made available. No researcher, no group has ever been required to make data available that they claim to have but have not analyzed or presented formally. God knows, I have a stock of raw data I haven't gotten around to yet. Please don't tell me you want that deposited in GenBank.
And researchers mostly cooperate. Strange as it may seem to this forum, patents actually facilitate that.
Academic researchers are required to publish and get grants to keep their jobs. Publication makes whatever work they're doing know to people doing similar work. Patents allow them to publish their work without fear of some big company reading the article and throwing 100 flunkies at the project to go the last yard to a product.
Commercial researchers (eg drug companies) are required to demonstrate safety and efficacy to the FDA before selling a medical product. Other researchers won't buy their research products unless those products have been proven effective and accurate. Either of these tests require publication in believable, peer-reviewed journals that insist on releasing methodology so that other people can reproduce the experiments.
The business of science comes down to a choice between trade secrets, which prevent anyone outside the company from knowing anything about a process, and patents, which allow everyone to know what's going on and build upon that progress. Either method is aimed at protecting the investment _someone_ has made: one is cooperative, one is not.
And having Linux in cash registers benefits Linux because...?
Because someone installs them. Someone maintains them. Many of the store drones get a little more comfortable with Linux (or at least hear the word), and if they go to buy a computer of their own, they know there are alternatives to Windoze.
This is a big gain relative to the 85% of the population who figure microsoft is to computers what the local electric company is to electricity: the only game in town.
...is mostly with museums, averaging 20-30 total staff and 5 computers. This was completely adequate for their needs. Painter needs email?
I imagine this situation to be pretty typical for NPOs:most of them are small enough that 15-let alone 50 networked computers would be a complete waste.
One fewer box sitting around the house. One fewer plug to find an outlet for. Three fewer cables to worry about. It's the same reason the average user prefers an internal modem. Now, offer them an ADSL/cable modem on PCI, with built on firewall so that all they have to do is flip on the CPU...
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Whenever states and counties have tried to make it required for citizens to confirm that they are
who they claim to be, the ACLU jumps in and says that it's harassment and a violation of our
voting rights
The ACLU must not get down to Georgia often...I had to testify that I was legally entitled to vote and show ID. No ID, no problem: you can swear to your ID.
Do I need to worry about somebody filing a FOI reqest for library records and finding that I
only ever borrow Harry Potter books?
No. As the article pointed out, library records are individual. The information the judge released was ONLY what pages were accessed when. NOT who accessed what. More equivalent to asking the librarian "How many times was Harry Potter checked out last year?" or even "Is Harry Potter checked out right now?"
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I'm so glad we have copyright, you don't want communist-lackeys like Leonardo creating
things, or Mozart, or Bach, we need the truly great products of a copyright and profit driven art,
would we have what we have today if it wasn't for copyright? Britney Spears, Christine
Aguillera, Boyzone, 5ive?
What high-art copyright provides.../SARCASM>
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Others have pointed out the patronage issue.
It's also worth pointing out that, in 1560, if you wanted to hear a Mozart symphony, you pretty much had to go see Mozart. You couldn't just dub a tape and not pay Mozart for the privilage. Very few people, given the choice of buying a thing and getting exactly the same thing for free will spend the money to support its production.
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So no, the advertising would be ENTIRELY wasted on me since as I said, I have never even
been there and I've lived here 4 years so probably aren't about to start going there.
Depends on the scale. Advertising targeted to your dialup's region will be a hell of a lot more relevant than advertising targeting Mongolia, Kazakstan or Hong Kong.
IANAL. And I have not read the UCITA proposal nor any actaully enacted state law. As I read the comment by _anomaly_, the UCITA proposal aims to prevent disruption of the copyright management info. So, it would be fine to write software to play, for example, a CSS encoded movie, but not ok to write software to remove the CSS encoding.
of course, we'll all have to wait until J. Random Judge sets a precedent.
Two major provisions in the WIPO treaties require contracting parties to
provide legal remedies against circumventing technological protection
measures and tampering with copyright management information.
Yes, so it's illegal to circumvent copy protection. What does this have to do with reverse engineering?
Corporations are a separate entity. Corporations are responsible to pay taxes just like each
individual stock owner.
Corporations are a business construct to collect the business owners. If the construct makes income, the gov't should get a cut. The question is: do you take that cut from the construct or the individual owners. If you believe in progressive taxes, then the individual owner with six kids and a part time job as a dishwasher probably needs to keep more of that income than the DINK couple of physicians. Taxing the corporation effectively taxes both owners equally. Taxing the options/gains let you take into account individual circumstances.
If I'm not mistaken, the whole purpose of the student visa was give foreign students who
couldn't attend college in their home country a place to learn.
You are, indeed, mistaken. People who didn't have a chance to attend college in their home country
comprise a tiny minority of student visa holders
On the other hand, non-US students who choose to attend university in the US because they don't consider college in their home country adequate comprise a vast majority of student visa holders
I'm surprised though, that noone has pointed out that the NSF already funds space research. So does the NIH. So do a number of private foundations. They just all go through NASA because you can't pick up a space shuttle at CarMax
The best way to think about it is this, M&M's
logo is probly on 100,000,000 pieces of paper and seen by more people than any website short
of Yahoo and there logo design is still thier intellectual property..
That copyright is pretty specific, though. M&M's (C) (as opposed to tm) covers "M&M" in a particular face and layout, not the idea of two characters separated by an ampersand. "look and feel" is a dificult thing to quantify, and harder to (c) (witness Apple's failed suit against Windows). So unless the kid has copied 'articles' and images (can't tell myself, due to/. effect), then it's just an example of lame website design, not copyright infringement.
big drawbacks to
using nitrogen as a vehicle fuel source. First and foremost is that nitrogen is very heavy. Imagine the weight
of carrying a load of compressed liquid nitrogen, the necessary coolant to keep is liquid, the weight of the
container,
N2 is only 14 times as heavy as H2, and either is a pretty small fraction of its containment. eg: I have a tank of 50# CO2 (22 times heavier than H2); the empty tank is close to 150#, and that's
not even liquified.
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I have to agree with this. It's hard to imagine video adding much to ordinary conversation and easy to imagine it detracting. The best application for videoconferencing seems to be to provide visual aids to a discussion-eg graphs & pictures. I don't often need to plot anything when I'm talking to my folks, but it'd be nice with the broker. If it were more ubiquitous and higher quality, it might even save on business flights. (Still want direct human interaction for some things, but if many details could be dealt with by video, it'd save a lot of $1200 overnight trips)
I have one PC, one TV,CD,Stereo,VCR,answering machine, microwave, clock radio, wristwatch, thermostat, modem, and at least 10 embedded systems in my car. I'm told that only 1 in 4 households (in the US, anyway) has a PC, so even in the US residential market, that's 1 PC and 80 embedded systems.
Perhaps you should have tried the electronic HCP. Or one of the full text journals at Ideal, Highwire, or CUP. Darned expensive for the individual, but if you're coming from a subscribing university's subnet, faster, more convenient and cheaper than making a copy in the library.
Definitely not true. Some cell types in some individuals have the useful property of being immortal (ie, they can divide more-or-less without limit). One of the first immortal cell lines was discovered much as you describe, but the cells are limited to a particular phenotype (eg, skin cells). You can tell the difference between, say, skin cells and liver cells in cultre easily so contamination across phenotypes is identifiable.
Of course, a lot of biotech is done in such immortal (or artificially immortalized) cell lines because it's a heck of a lot easier. It's the first step before moving up to more expensive non-immortal primary cultures, which is the step before moving to more expensive animal studies (sometimes, those even go from inbred, genetically homogeneous strains to outbred, less homogeneous strains). The general idea, of course, being to get your process going in the most homogeneous system before slowly unleashing genetic inhomogeneity.
Well see that's the thing: the cost of all that electricity must be included in the products. Otherwise, the aluminium, uranium, concrete etc companies would go out of business. Imagine selling something for less than it costs to make. Who would do that?
The only way you might come up with a plant costing more energy than it produces is if you include the "energy" all its workers use while constructing, maintaining and monitoring the plant. Humans are very inefficient, but they can acquire energy from much less rarified substances than any standard power plant.
Creationism is the belief that some god made the world be like it is now
Evolutionism is the belief that changes in species are effected by 'good' genes being passed on more often than 'bad' genes.
The later can easily be considered the means by which the ends of the former are accomplished.
This gene might even be negatively selective. Having a bunch of old, non-reproducing people around taking food away from those who are reproducing diminishes the chances of survival.
Well, yeah. One imagines a system like these. Designed to be firehosed. Or hit by a forklift. Not exactly office equipment.
Most importantly, though all the data upon which papers by Celera depend is to be made available. No researcher, no group has ever been required to make data available that they claim to have but have not analyzed or presented formally. God knows, I have a stock of raw data I haven't gotten around to yet. Please don't tell me you want that deposited in GenBank.
Academic researchers are required to publish and get grants to keep their jobs. Publication makes whatever work they're doing know to people doing similar work. Patents allow them to publish their work without fear of some big company reading the article and throwing 100 flunkies at the project to go the last yard to a product.
Commercial researchers (eg drug companies) are required to demonstrate safety and efficacy to the FDA before selling a medical product. Other researchers won't buy their research products unless those products have been proven effective and accurate. Either of these tests require publication in believable, peer-reviewed journals that insist on releasing methodology so that other people can reproduce the experiments.
The business of science comes down to a choice between trade secrets, which prevent anyone outside the company from knowing anything about a process, and patents, which allow everyone to know what's going on and build upon that progress. Either method is aimed at protecting the investment _someone_ has made: one is cooperative, one is not.
Because someone installs them. Someone maintains them. Many of the store drones get a little more comfortable with Linux (or at least hear the word), and if they go to buy a computer of their own, they know there are alternatives to Windoze.
This is a big gain relative to the 85% of the population who figure microsoft is to computers what the local electric company is to electricity: the only game in town.
I imagine this situation to be pretty typical for NPOs:most of them are small enough that 15-let alone 50 networked computers would be a complete waste.
One fewer box sitting around the house. One fewer plug to find an outlet for. Three fewer cables to worry about. It's the same reason the average user prefers an internal modem. Now, offer them an ADSL/cable modem on PCI, with built on firewall so that all they have to do is flip on the CPU...
The ACLU must not get down to Georgia often...I had to testify that I was legally entitled to vote and show ID. No ID, no problem: you can swear to your ID.
No. As the article pointed out, library records are individual. The information the judge released was ONLY what pages were accessed when. NOT who accessed what. More equivalent to asking the librarian "How many times was Harry Potter checked out last year?" or even "Is Harry Potter checked out right now?"
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Others have pointed out the patronage issue.
It's also worth pointing out that, in 1560, if you wanted to hear a Mozart symphony, you pretty much had to go see Mozart. You couldn't just dub a tape and not pay Mozart for the privilage. Very few people, given the choice of buying a thing and getting exactly the same thing for free will spend the money to support its production.
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Depends on the scale. Advertising targeted to your dialup's region will be a hell of a lot more relevant than advertising targeting Mongolia, Kazakstan or Hong Kong.
of course, we'll all have to wait until J. Random Judge sets a precedent.
Yes, so it's illegal to circumvent copy protection. What does this have to do with reverse engineering?
Corporations are a business construct to collect the business owners. If the construct makes income, the gov't should get a cut. The question is: do you take that cut from the construct or the individual owners. If you believe in progressive taxes, then the individual owner with six kids and a part time job as a dishwasher probably needs to keep more of that income than the DINK couple of physicians. Taxing the corporation effectively taxes both owners equally. Taxing the options/gains let you take into account individual circumstances.
On the other hand, non-US students who choose to attend university in the US because they don't consider college in their home country adequate comprise a vast majority of student visa holders
I'm surprised though, that noone has pointed out that the NSF already funds space research. So does the NIH. So do a number of private foundations. They just all go through NASA because you can't pick up a space shuttle at CarMax
Fross writes: 2.4 has big extra support for SMP, which is essential for their pre-emptive solution.
Anyone care to clarify?
N2 is only 14 times as heavy as H2, and either is a pretty small fraction of its containment. eg: I have a tank of 50# CO2 (22 times heavier than H2); the empty tank is close to 150#, and that's not even liquified.