Sorry for the confusion. It's a non-profit that has some for-profit divisions...
A few articles from a quick Google search that refer to it as a non-profit:
Naturally, Prometheus Labs sees this whole story differently, arguing that the Mayo Clinic will profit from treating patients with knowledge patented by them.
Um, I'm pretty sure that, as a 501(c)3 - Charitable Organization, Mayo Clinic can't profit from anything. Just a nit.
Yeah, it'll suck for a while. But just wait for the right highly-influential congressman or supreme court justice to be caught meeting his mistress on one of these cameras, and for that video to be leaked to the internet, and we'll probably start seeing them ruled unconstitutional rather quickly. I have a feeling some of the movers and shakers in the US have a lot more to fear from those cameras than most of us commoners.
I think it was the second episode. Chairface got as far as "CHA" (with rousing cheers from his henchmen in true cheerleader style: "Gimme a C!!") before The Tick's sidekick, Arthur, disabled the device by (iirc) unscrewing the flashlight that powered the laser (new batteries even!). In the rest of the episodes of the season, whenever the moon was visible, you could clearly see "CHA" written on it. In the second season, The Tick was set to the moon to fix it by setting explosives to fill in the craters that formed the letters. He got the "C" cleaned up pretty easily before the world devourer, Galactus -- er, I mean, Omnipotus, shows up and causes trouble. The Tick eventually convinces Omnipotus to leave, but allows the cosmic giant to take a bite out of the moon to tide him over until he can find another planet to eat. Thus, for the rest of season 2 (and sadly, the series), the moon can be seen in the background with the letters "HA" and a big bite out of its side.
Or perhaps a well-known CEO of a wildly successful company keeping his shareholders in the dark about the truth of his personal health? Yes, as with any commonly available technology, the possibility for abuse is staggering.
America's indigenous art forms have always had to go overseas in order to survive. Why do you think all the jazz musicians in the 40's and 50's had to move to Paris, or why Hendrix and The Ramones had to go to England to break out. Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon were practically destitute until the Rolling Stones took them on a European tour and exposed their music widely (to American audiences).
It's like that guy that buys a house near an airport and then complains the planes are loud.
I see it as more like the guy that buys a house near an airport, then insulates his house against the noise, then finds the airport's lawyers at his front door demanding that he remove the noise insulation and listen to airplanes whether he wants to or not, due to the "privilege" of living so close to the airport.
One of the most useful things Eclipse has is code references -- highlight a variable (or method name, or class name, etc), right-click and "Show References" lists all the places in your project/workspace (however you have it configured) where that specific thing is referenced. It's not just text search either -- it pays attention to context like (in Java) scope, method overloading, etc, so you don't get false positives. Doing that on a public method when you're trying to decide whether to change its signature or create a delegate method (for example) is very handy. I've also used it to check and see if an odd-looking method is actually be called from anywhere. Just wondering if emacs/vim does that? Just curious -- not trying to perpetuate the flame war or anything.
What's really strange is that a lot of Eclipse developers I've talked to don't even know about that feature.
Oh, and I wanted to respond to the comment about "at 10m lines, it's not a question of good editors but of good architectures..." That's totally true, but for some of us, we don't have the luxury of coming into a project when it's first being built, and so we have to just deal with the architecture that's there. It sucks but it's life. So for some cases, an IDE that can handle extremely large and poorly organized files is a necessity.
Killing tens of thousands of innocents is an attempt at genocide -- murder amplified. Killing tens of thousands of enemy combatants is war. Neither is exactly humanity at its best. But I think there's a difference between targeting an innocent (murder), and targeting an enemy combatant (not murder, but still killing). The end result of a human life being lost is the same. The difference is in the motive. Murder is personal, war usually isn't (between individual soldiers at least -- the leaders that declare the war, that might be a different story). Neither should be glorified, but I do think there is a difference.
And I know it's not always clear who is an enemy and who is an innocent, but how you determine that (and I suppose, how hard you try to be certain), does have some moral implications. Also, there are certainly unjust wars, but I'd put the blame for those on the leaders, not on the soldiers.
Haven't read all the responses, so this might be redundant, but I'm guessing the general populace will continue to let it happen as long as they are more or less comfortable and constantly entertained.
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Naturally, Prometheus Labs sees this whole story differently, arguing that the Mayo Clinic will profit from treating patients with knowledge patented by them.
Um, I'm pretty sure that, as a 501(c)3 - Charitable Organization, Mayo Clinic can't profit from anything. Just a nit.
All I see now is: bond... stock... low-yield bank deposit.
Now all we need to do is find a way to create some domes up there.
Could probably just outsource that work to the Martians. I heard they work for Reece's Pieces.
Yeah, it'll suck for a while. But just wait for the right highly-influential congressman or supreme court justice to be caught meeting his mistress on one of these cameras, and for that video to be leaked to the internet, and we'll probably start seeing them ruled unconstitutional rather quickly. I have a feeling some of the movers and shakers in the US have a lot more to fear from those cameras than most of us commoners.
I think it was the second episode. Chairface got as far as "CHA" (with rousing cheers from his henchmen in true cheerleader style: "Gimme a C!!") before The Tick's sidekick, Arthur, disabled the device by (iirc) unscrewing the flashlight that powered the laser (new batteries even!). In the rest of the episodes of the season, whenever the moon was visible, you could clearly see "CHA" written on it. In the second season, The Tick was set to the moon to fix it by setting explosives to fill in the craters that formed the letters. He got the "C" cleaned up pretty easily before the world devourer, Galactus -- er, I mean, Omnipotus, shows up and causes trouble. The Tick eventually convinces Omnipotus to leave, but allows the cosmic giant to take a bite out of the moon to tide him over until he can find another planet to eat. Thus, for the rest of season 2 (and sadly, the series), the moon can be seen in the background with the letters "HA" and a big bite out of its side.
Star go boom! Big word scary! Chemicals are mean! Vroom vroom car!
Yes? Yes? Go on.
Or perhaps a well-known CEO of a wildly successful company keeping his shareholders in the dark about the truth of his personal health? Yes, as with any commonly available technology, the possibility for abuse is staggering.
At least you'd have both hands free for once.
America's indigenous art forms have always had to go overseas in order to survive. Why do you think all the jazz musicians in the 40's and 50's had to move to Paris, or why Hendrix and The Ramones had to go to England to break out. Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon were practically destitute until the Rolling Stones took them on a European tour and exposed their music widely (to American audiences).
You forgot Jerry Lewis, too.
Please try the buffet, yadda yadda yadda...
Yeah but all 3 times were just to play Pong.
On the bright side, if there's ever a flood you can use the thing for a serf board.
It's like that guy that buys a house near an airport and then complains the planes are loud.
I see it as more like the guy that buys a house near an airport, then insulates his house against the noise, then finds the airport's lawyers at his front door demanding that he remove the noise insulation and listen to airplanes whether he wants to or not, due to the "privilege" of living so close to the airport.
What's really strange is that a lot of Eclipse developers I've talked to don't even know about that feature.
Oh, and I wanted to respond to the comment about "at 10m lines, it's not a question of good editors but of good architectures..." That's totally true, but for some of us, we don't have the luxury of coming into a project when it's first being built, and so we have to just deal with the architecture that's there. It sucks but it's life. So for some cases, an IDE that can handle extremely large and poorly organized files is a necessity.
Its chief weapon is surprise. Surprise and fear. Fear and surprise are two weapons. Fear and surprise and ruthless efficiency...
"If there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe in anything you say."
I thought that only applets were restricted to the sandbox, but Java apps can access anything. Not true?
It was just an easter egg somebody left in the code. Some reference to "Death Blossom".
In Soviet Russia, robots deploy you!
And I know it's not always clear who is an enemy and who is an innocent, but how you determine that (and I suppose, how hard you try to be certain), does have some moral implications. Also, there are certainly unjust wars, but I'd put the blame for those on the leaders, not on the soldiers.
They're called "Wiisidies."
A VAT by any other name...
To the Pudding VATs!
(Sealab 2021, iirc. Karma earned is karma burned.)
Ah yes. Walls -- the internet of the ancient world.
Haven't read all the responses, so this might be redundant, but I'm guessing the general populace will continue to let it happen as long as they are more or less comfortable and constantly entertained.