Their solar panels (Siemens SR-100s) generate 10W/square foot. That's just not very much, considering a notebook processor needs ~10W, a HD 5-10, and a screen 30-40W.
It also means they need ~20 square feet of sun-space for a 200W server (40 if they want to store enough solar energy to run overnight)
Your hidden assumption is that this invention would be such a breakthrough that no one else could possibly duplicate it.
The hidden assumption is that he had a clever (non obvious) idea, or invested the years of work it takes to develop, produce, and validate a treatment. Once that treatment has been validated (eg FDA approved) anyone can skip the expensive development and validation steps, if the product is not protected. There is a lot of failure along the road to a successful drug-it's not like software development where you can always make something work (not necessarily perfect, but work). In drug development, sometimes you test it in cells and it looks great; test it in mice and it looks great; test it in dogs and it looks great; test it in people and it gives them a rash. Bang! Ten years, $50,000,000 into the trashcan.
This is why he says IP benefits one at the expense of many.
IP, in some industries is a way of encouraging people to do the mostly unproductive work that leads to progress. Not many companies, or even governments, resarch foundations, etc, are willing to throw that kind of money at projects that may hit 1-in-100, if that one doesn't stand to make a 100-fold profit.
There are places where IP makes less sense. There are great arguments for free software-the utility and profit in software is what you do with it. (what good is a database without data?) But in other industries (like pharm) the end product is the valuable part. Even the pharmaceutical business does a lot of "free" work-nothing gets to market without a pile of support, published in peer-reviewed journals, and all available to anyone for use in their own work.
A newsgroup posting, a few glances... Then, in the wake of 7/23 slashdot article: 100,000 hits, orders, television coverage. It makes me wonder whether slashdot is becoming an "authoritative source" to less-net-savvy media, which makes me wonder whether the ethics of story posting should change.
We all know that we have to double check whatever we see here, but would Jane Pauley?
Volume of 1kg H2 is about 12 liters at atmospheric pressure. Volume o 1kg gasoline is a little more than a liter. To get the H2 down to 1 liter, you need 12 atmospheres or about 160 psi.
A typical gas tank is 16 gallons~40 liters. This could be a spherical tank ~8 1/4" across, with a potential explosive force of 18 tons. To hold that in, you'd need tank walls 0.016" good solid steel. Of course, it would be unethical to use anything less than 0.16", and you may want to go a full 1/4 just for safety sake. The tank would add a good 1600 pounds.
The other thing our illustrious misogynist forgets is that the HGP is not the exclusive property of the US. HGP, being federally funded research, must be made publicly available, and that includes everyone on the planet. (other planets, too, as long as they have a box at MBE...) Celera would have to be insane to limit their profits to US organizations.
Once again, I'm left wondering whether katz isn't just sitting back, reading offended posts from 500+ people who didn't realize he's just trolling. Time to turn on the katz filter.
Lampreys have a very simple system for keeping themselves vertical in the water, consisting of of a pair of sensors, a pair of neurons and a pair of muscles. In the beast, you can stimulate one of the sensors and activate the muscle on the other side. The lamprey uses the differential signal between sensors on left&right side to control activation of the muscles on the left & right side. Mussa-Ivaldi's group have plucked out the spinal cord, replaced the biological sensors with photodiodes and the biological muscles with motors, so this is a physical demonstration of totally normal neural control.
Why didn't they call the cops and haul us off to jail, search our desks for signs of violent nature and generally pull an all-out witch-hunt? Because the administration knew how to dole out punishment appropriate to the infraction.
Because when we were in school, it would never have crossed their minds that you might be holding three guns and a half dozen pipe bombs. That unfortunate door is now open, and it leaves school administrators in the deeply bad position of choosing between an immediate over-reaction and explaining to Tom Brokaw why they didn't "see the signs earlier".
I suppose I do sound like I'm advocating a police state, which is not my intent. Calling out the goon squad is overkill, and probably only defensible in Utah. (hence the question of constitutionality of his charges, which apparently have yet even to be filed)
Are you implying that we should let kids break the rules we're supposed to be teaching them just because there's something worse they could be doing?
Surely that's part of the larger problem...that kids lose sight of/fail to develop a connection between their own actions and the consequences of those actions. Calling the cops in seems a bit extreme, but remember: it's just the first part of the legal process. When it gets to the judge and it turns out child x wrote "all the teachers are drunks", there will be very different consequences than if he wrote "I have photographic proof of tzanger diddling his daughter".
Kids learn from the reactions their actions receive. By continually relaxing the threshold at which we begin to enforce the rules, we don't make happy children, we make irresponsible children.
On their highly specialized code it'll probably do ok, but on other calculations I'd be surprised if it got 10% of that speed
Do you not get it? This object only does one thing, can only do one thing, and is unable to do anything else. "Other calculations" are not possible because the algorithms are coded in silicone.
The _whole_ program is more than just the code you write. Technically, it includes the code of every library you link. They simply want to make sure you don't go around passing out the source of those libraries which you didn't write.
Nevertheless, the technology which makes this possible (electrophoresis) was conceived, deployed, and commercialized by Applied Biosystems and Leroy Hood
The standard reference for electrophoresis is a Laemmli paper from 1970. Of course, that was for proteins (predated the PCR techniques used in DNA sequencing). In 1977, Sanger et al extended electrophoretic techniques to DNA sequencing. Hood's been around since the beginning, but he's not generally recognized as the father of electrophoresis, no matter what the company pamphlet says.
confused by this whole controversy? Posts to slashdot are about as public as you can get-much better than telling the local news anchor, or taking out an add in the local news paper. As long as attribution is made, it's definitely fair use to quote public statements in a different forum. It's one of the foundations of discussion: how many of the offended/. readers use a.sig that quotes Heinlein, Twain, or any of those other bastions of literature?
slashdot may feel like an exclusive little country club for geeks, but it is a press conference.
I'm still amazed how many users I see double-click on _everything_ regardless of what they really want to do. I wonder how many people executed ILOVEYOU.TXT.vbs when they meant to select&delete.
instead of 50 cents per dozen song CD, 50 cents a song or more
This is a difficult number for me to believe. I can buy a song for $1 over the 'net, and I can not believe that half of that goes to the artist. Especially not when all those IPO buyers start wanting to see their company turn a profit.
Anyone have hard numbers on artists percentage from emusic &c?
Why? Because unlike napster, ftp & http have legitimate uses. I can't get a kernel update over napster; I can't use it to buy a shirt from the Gap. I can only use it to transfer music which (in general) I did not make.
I fail to see how Metallica attempting to enforce their copyright and license is a threat to the "barrier free internet". People who create content should and do have a wide range of licensing options-sometimes pay-per-view makes the most sense, sometimes pay once, and sometimes never pay. The bands that are upset by napster &c have chosen to release their products under a pay license. That is a legitimate decision.
If we harp on M. for trying to enforce their license, we are also obligated to harp on people trying to enforce the GPL.
Or vice-versa: if we insist on recognition of the GPL, we should insist on recognition of pay-to-listen licenses as well
And this thread is absolutely swamped with useless, moronic, offensive posts, drowning out all useful discussion, and wasting everybody's bandwidth.
unfortunately it seems to be failing gradually as the moderators "vote" and destroy the trolling posters
Of course, this implies that their speech is not actually free. Moderated speech is restricted speech. In the freenet paradigm it would be as easy (perhaps easier) for a government with a few (hundred) thousand computers to moderate any inflamatory documents out of existence.
In many ways, I imagine a moderated freenet would have even less freedom than the current 'net. Now, at least in many places, one can serve just about anything. Under a moderated system, the "majority" could quickly dispense of any unpleasant content.
That part claims to draw 2x6 amps of 12vdc. Your basic 200W power supply offers 7 amps of 12 volt to run your HD, CD, it's own fan &c. I'm guessing you need at least 400 W ps to get the 12 amps of peltier + 1 A HD + 0.6 A CD + 0.5 A misc. Those start around $150.
Don't buy the hype. You don't need a $370 system to cool your $175 processor.
I have to agree. Technically, the content of U classes is already available in textbook form. Paper page, web page: what's the difference?. We all know what video looks like through a crowded ISP and 56k modem.
Tough to imagine interactive online courses. Simultaneous questions from 100, 1000, 10,000 students!
We recognize a GED as somehow different from a high school diploma. It's appropriate to recognize correspondace college-whether that correspondance is paper or electronic--as different, too.
As a side note: what paranoid fantasy prompts the statement Universities will lose control of knowle4dge, as they should ? What knowledge do they control: calculus? thermodynamics? Kant?
Farmers & ranchers have been 'engineering' their products for centuries: breeding the best of the herd; cross breeding for desirable qualities; even growing the fruiting part of one plant on the root stock of another.
Genetic technology is limited to moving genes (at best) from one species to another, so modern 'genetically engineering' of foods is really just a fast, accurate method of selective breeding.
Electroporation (the process of introducing foreign stuff to cells in an electric field) has been around for years. They've just done it using a microelectrode (also been around for years), and gotten a good publicist.
There are cases where it'd be useful to be able to pick a single/few cells in a petri dish to transform, while leaving the neighbors undisturbed. But it's hardly communication.
will tend to shorten the "average" work week. I wonder whether someone working 20 hour weeks for 2 companies is counted as working 40, or 2x20. There are lots of students out there working 20, 10, even 5 hour weeks.
Remember the old Clemmens line: Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
CP's key point seems to be: nothing you record will be what I hear. The problem is: what you hear is not "what is there", either. Vibrations travel differently through the twisted passage of your ear, some get picked up by your skull (once they've been filtered by your skin), and all of this in a slightly different way than in my ear and skull. Human "SNR" is very definitely not unboundedly large.
In the big west, i wouldn't count on even AOL to have local access numbers. Some isps (eg Earthlink) offer pretty reasonable 800 (toll free) dialup numbers. May be cheaper than long distance, esp from hotels. Certainly more convenitent than looking up a new access number every time you connect.
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It also means they need ~20 square feet of sun-space for a 200W server (40 if they want to store enough solar energy to run overnight)
The hidden assumption is that he had a clever (non obvious) idea, or invested the years of work it takes to develop, produce, and validate a treatment. Once that treatment has been validated (eg FDA approved) anyone can skip the expensive development and validation steps, if the product is not protected. There is a lot of failure along the road to a successful drug-it's not like software development where you can always make something work (not necessarily perfect, but work). In drug development, sometimes you test it in cells and it looks great; test it in mice and it looks great; test it in dogs and it looks great; test it in people and it gives them a rash. Bang! Ten years, $50,000,000 into the trashcan.
This is why he says IP benefits one at the expense of many.
IP, in some industries is a way of encouraging people to do the mostly unproductive work that leads to progress. Not many companies, or even governments, resarch foundations, etc, are willing to throw that kind of money at projects that may hit 1-in-100, if that one doesn't stand to make a 100-fold profit.
There are places where IP makes less sense. There are great arguments for free software-the utility and profit in software is what you do with it. (what good is a database without data?) But in other industries (like pharm) the end product is the valuable part. Even the pharmaceutical business does a lot of "free" work-nothing gets to market without a pile of support, published in peer-reviewed journals, and all available to anyone for use in their own work.
A newsgroup posting, a few glances... Then, in the wake of 7/23 slashdot article: 100,000 hits, orders, television coverage. It makes me wonder whether slashdot is becoming an "authoritative source" to less-net-savvy media, which makes me wonder whether the ethics of story posting should change.
We all know that we have to double check whatever we see here, but would Jane Pauley?
A typical gas tank is 16 gallons~40 liters. This could be a spherical tank ~8 1/4" across, with a potential explosive force of 18 tons. To hold that in, you'd need tank walls 0.016" good solid steel. Of course, it would be unethical to use anything less than 0.16", and you may want to go a full 1/4 just for safety sake. The tank would add a good 1600 pounds.
Once again, I'm left wondering whether katz isn't just sitting back, reading offended posts from 500+ people who didn't realize he's just trolling. Time to turn on the katz filter.
Lampreys have a very simple system for keeping themselves vertical in the water, consisting of of a pair of sensors, a pair of neurons and a pair of muscles. In the beast, you can stimulate one of the sensors and activate the muscle on the other side. The lamprey uses the differential signal between sensors on left&right side to control activation of the muscles on the left & right side. Mussa-Ivaldi's group have plucked out the spinal cord, replaced the biological sensors with photodiodes and the biological muscles with motors, so this is a physical demonstration of totally normal neural control.
Because when we were in school, it would never have crossed their minds that you might be holding three guns and a half dozen pipe bombs. That unfortunate door is now open, and it leaves school administrators in the deeply bad position of choosing between an immediate over-reaction and explaining to Tom Brokaw why they didn't "see the signs earlier".
I suppose I do sound like I'm advocating a police state, which is not my intent. Calling out the goon squad is overkill, and probably only defensible in Utah. (hence the question of constitutionality of his charges, which apparently have yet even to be filed)
Surely that's part of the larger problem...that kids lose sight of/fail to develop a connection between their own actions and the consequences of those actions. Calling the cops in seems a bit extreme, but remember: it's just the first part of the legal process. When it gets to the judge and it turns out child x wrote "all the teachers are drunks", there will be very different consequences than if he wrote "I have photographic proof of tzanger diddling his daughter".
Kids learn from the reactions their actions receive. By continually relaxing the threshold at which we begin to enforce the rules, we don't make happy children, we make irresponsible children.
Do you not get it? This object only does one thing, can only do one thing, and is unable to do anything else. "Other calculations" are not possible because the algorithms are coded in silicone.
The _whole_ program is more than just the code you write. Technically, it includes the code of every library you link. They simply want to make sure you don't go around passing out the source of those libraries which you didn't write.
The standard reference for electrophoresis is a Laemmli paper from 1970. Of course, that was for proteins (predated the PCR techniques used in DNA sequencing). In 1977, Sanger et al extended electrophoretic techniques to DNA sequencing. Hood's been around since the beginning, but he's not generally recognized as the father of electrophoresis, no matter what the company pamphlet says.
slashdot may feel like an exclusive little country club for geeks, but it is a press conference.
I'm still amazed how many users I see double-click on _everything_ regardless of what they really want to do. I wonder how many people executed ILOVEYOU.TXT.vbs when they meant to select&delete.
instead of 50 cents per dozen song CD, 50 cents a song or more
This is a difficult number for me to believe. I can buy a song for $1 over the 'net, and I can not believe that half of that goes to the artist. Especially not when all those IPO buyers start wanting to see their company turn a profit.
Anyone have hard numbers on artists percentage from emusic &c?
Why? Because unlike napster, ftp & http have legitimate uses. I can't get a kernel update over napster; I can't use it to buy a shirt from the Gap. I can only use it to transfer music which (in general) I did not make.
If we harp on M. for trying to enforce their license, we are also obligated to harp on people trying to enforce the GPL.
Or vice-versa: if we insist on recognition of the GPL, we should insist on recognition of pay-to-listen licenses as well
unfortunately it seems to be failing gradually as the moderators "vote" and destroy the trolling posters
Of course, this implies that their speech is not actually free. Moderated speech is restricted speech. In the freenet paradigm it would be as easy (perhaps easier) for a government with a few (hundred) thousand computers to moderate any inflamatory documents out of existence.
In many ways, I imagine a moderated freenet would have even less freedom than the current 'net. Now, at least in many places, one can serve just about anything. Under a moderated system, the "majority" could quickly dispense of any unpleasant content.
That part claims to draw 2x6 amps of 12vdc. Your basic 200W power supply offers 7 amps of 12 volt to run your HD, CD, it's own fan &c. I'm guessing you need at least 400 W ps to get the 12 amps of peltier + 1 A HD + 0.6 A CD + 0.5 A misc. Those start around $150.
Don't buy the hype. You don't need a $370 system to cool your $175 processor.
Tough to imagine interactive online courses. Simultaneous questions from 100, 1000, 10,000 students!
We recognize a GED as somehow different from a high school diploma. It's appropriate to recognize correspondace college-whether that correspondance is paper or electronic--as different, too.
As a side note: what paranoid fantasy prompts the statement Universities will lose control of knowle4dge, as they should ? What knowledge do they control: calculus? thermodynamics? Kant?
Genetic technology is limited to moving genes (at best) from one species to another, so modern 'genetically engineering' of foods is really just a fast, accurate method of selective breeding.
There are cases where it'd be useful to be able to pick a single/few cells in a petri dish to transform, while leaving the neighbors undisturbed. But it's hardly communication.
Remember the old Clemmens line: Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
CP's key point seems to be: nothing you record will be what I hear. The problem is: what you hear is not "what is there", either. Vibrations travel differently through the twisted passage of your ear, some get picked up by your skull (once they've been filtered by your skin), and all of this in a slightly different way than in my ear and skull. Human "SNR" is very definitely not unboundedly large.
In the big west, i wouldn't count on even AOL to have local access numbers. Some isps (eg Earthlink) offer pretty reasonable 800 (toll free) dialup numbers. May be cheaper than long distance, esp from hotels. Certainly more convenitent than looking up a new access number every time you connect.
His point (hopefully) must be: your 1024 15" monitor presents about 85ppi, while his 4" TV screen presents about 200.