No kidding man. IIRC Wrigley has also received a patent for using chewing gum as a drug delivery system for Viagra which is a perfect example of how ridiculous our patent office has gotten. Is there anyone reading this who would like to have a patent in their name just to list on their resume but thought you didn't have any clever enough ideas? Well your prayers have been answered. The Rad shall provide. Just patent sprinkling Viagra on cupcakes as a drug delivery system. Filed too late? Another slashdotter beat you to it? Never fear, I've got a million of them:
Patent sprinkling Viagra on Sugar Cookies as a drug delivery system.
Patent sprinkling Viagra on Gummi Bears as a drug delivery system.
Patent sprinkling Viagra on Frosted Flakes as a drug delivery system.
Patent sprinkling Viagra on chewing tobacco as a drug delivery system.
Patent sprinkling Viagra on Juji Fruit as a drug delivery system.
Patent sprinkling cyanide over crack as a patent examiner culling system.
If you try all these and they are already taken just send me a message and I will be happy to give you more patentable ideas from my very innovative imagination.
Not only that but there could be a web based system to look up that (or any other) number later to verify the integrity of the permanent polling record. Then anyone who wanted to could tabulate the votes, and every voter could verify that their vote has not been stolen.
Then we can correlate density of churches with efficacy of drugs and surgery? If this were true then it would be possible to scientifically study the effect. You should do the research. I guarantee that if you prove a link your name will go down in history.
Depleted uranium is probably just as toxic as lead. But we have seen that even someone who chewed on too many paint chips as a kid can grow up to be president.
I heartily agree with you. Grove is saying what I have been thinking and saying for some time now. Corporations will go for the short term profits and fuck themselves in the long haul. They will do it for the same reasons that politicians do it. The CEO's know they won't be around when the bill collector can no longer be put off, so they will fuck the company they run for their own personal benefit; Make short term profits higher and get huge multi million dollar bonuses. Make short term profits higher and get an offer from a larger and more prestigious company. And just like politicians and the nations deficit, it will be someone else who has to do the painful things: raise taxes and cut entitlements and maybe face a recall for doing it. As Grove says, the U.S. government should not ignore this problem. It is the only entity which can put a stop to it because corporate America does not have the long term vision or the willpower.
Grove pointed to steel and microelectronics as historical precedents but there are others: textiles, televisions, and cars to name a few. Our leaders need to examine what we did before when we lost and try something different this time. The article also said, 'He [Grove] said he had detected no recognition of the problem from any of the presidential candidates.' There is one candidate who has recognized the problem. He brought it up at the democratic debate a few weeks ago. Dennis Kuncinich is the only candidate I have seen who doesn't just say what the latest polls seem to suggest. Check out his
10 key issues. Also note that he specifically offers a plan for the
steel problem that Grove talked about. Want to know how he feels about any other issue? Look to the right column. It is all spelled out in black and white. I know we will end up with another Washington insider in the White House next term but the man we need there is the one who already understands the problems the industry leaders like Andy Grove are seeing and has already formulated a course of action.
...a call screener which would let me route calls I know to be telemarketers into a pre-recorded message where I would talk nonstop for about 10 minutes attempting to sell them some product or service of my own.
When the
MAXIM
flys in about another decade, it will be able to resolve images (in Xray) up to
a million times better
than anything now available. It will allow imaging of blackholes, that is actual visualization of the Shwarzchild radius as well as observing other stars as well as we can our own sun today. To do this the telescopes must be in orbit since the high frequency radiation scatters too easily in the atmosphere. Even at the infrared wavelengths that the Keck used, adaptive optics were needed to make their observations from the ground.
I would like to see an array of cheap telescopes stationed at the LaGrangian points to do interferometry at any wavelength. Gravity wave detection could also be included in the mix. There would be no need for elaborate vibration damping and not being limited to the simple L shape that current ground based gravity detectors use, we would be able to triangulate gravity wave disturbances in 3 dimensions!
Massachusetts is probably not taking this course of action over 'religious' issues. Massachusetts used to be a leader in high tech and software. But they were hit hard by a tech recession and hemorrhaged jobs and therefore tax revenue. Now if they have a $1B IT budget, do you think they would rather send that money out of state to Microsoft, Novell, Sun, Oracle and others, or would they rather spend it on local consultants and administrators, putting steam back into their own economy?
TCO is only part of what Mass. is concerned with but an important part. I have a problem with the CAGW statement, 'While the initial open source software may be "free," most studies conclude that acquisition costs represent only 5 to 10 percent of total cost of ownership.' 5-10% of TCO seems a bit ridiculous. If that were true then when I spend $3000 on a new laptop, OS, and office suite for each user then according to the CAGW the true cost per user would be as much as $60000. Support must be paid regardless. Training will only be higher if users were transitioned to totally new systems instead of making due with their current software packages for a few years. This policy will probably just have the effect of making IT managers spend wisely instead of just over-purchasing licenses for the latest and gayest.
Another trend this policy might slow is that (especially in government organizations) the managers spend every last cent of their budget whether they actually need to or not. This is so that their budget won't be reduced for the following year. Ditto for headcount. They would rather have lots of people being inefficient than a few efficient ones because it makes them look more powerful to have more reports. So they build themselves an empire at the expense of the organization as a whole. But now Massachusetts IT can use their acquisition savings to hire local people to customize Free software. If this works out well expect the whole nation to emulate it as a way to slow down the great tech job exodus to overseas.
Even if the savings aren't as great as we would hope right away, as more people switch to Open Source the savings will grow. CAGW would have us keep sucking on the closed source crack pipe instead of feeling a little short term withdrawal pain at the Open source methadone clinic. And what is with the reference to the Soviet Union? The closed source model has much more in common with the command driven economy of the Soviet union than the American free market style of Free Software.
While it could be that CAGW was influenced by certain donations, I don't think they are a front for Microsoft as some have suggested. I would bet that they are sincere but that some uninformed and short sighted person in their midst steered them wrong. I hope nobody writes them calling them fucktards or flaming them for their ignorance.
Lots of 'discoveries' should be read as 'confirmations'. You wouldn't want to build the foundation of science and technological progression on assumptions, would you?
Since it has already been reported that rainfall fluctuates with the day of week and that fluctuation was theorized to be due to pollutants from workday traffic, this discovery does seem to be mostly a confirmation. However, we wouldn't want to assume, would we? Therefore I propose that I be given a fat government grant to study whether humidity also varies based on weekday. And let me assure the Bush administration in advance that I would never make fanciful claims of anthropogenic origin without many years of further study to gather all the facts. hint hint.
Consider this offshoring trend from the perspective of the Japanese philosophy of Business as War. Should we as a nation allow our already tenuous technological advantage to be eroded further by sending the skills needed to create future IP outside our borders? The jobs we are losing are needed not only for tax revenue but also to give our people the experience they need to build today's foundation for tomorrow's economic future. With respect to the Business is War philosophy, Imagine what would happen if we staffed our army with foreigners. That very thing has happened before and the lesson was long remembered. Rome trained an army of foreign slaves to be its gladiators and was rewarded by a revolt led by Spartacus which very nearly caused the fall of the republic. Even though it is a different kind of conflict, our republic should listen to History and not make that same mistake.
Since so many CIO's believe they will be at a disadvantage if they don't offshore but their competition does, they will start making moves in that direction and, eventually, seeing everyone else doing the same take that as confirmation that they were right, fulfilling their own prophesy. The only way the trend could be stopped is if the government takes action to collect its lost income tax revenues by imposing some sort of fee on importing "intellectual property" just as they would when importing other raw materials. I don't think it would stop it completely nor do I think it should be stopped completely. But it might make CIO's resist the herding instinct just enough to figure out what the right balance is as well as covering some of the governments cost of unemployment, welfare, retraining programs for those whose jobs get taken by displaced knowledge workers who will end up settling for underemployment to make ends meet.
After 10 years without ever needing to apply the knowledge I forgot how.Would the magic sysrq key help? I bet it is a hardware problem though.
And what about logging power outages? That is easy to do. APC probably has Linux software already to do this. For other logging there is ample facilities on Linux. Start a syslog server. Point everything to the loopback address.
Except that there are webhosts that have thousands of sites on just a few Linux boxes.
Where do you think mi2g came up with 12,892 Linux sites cracked? Three Linux boxes, 12,892 parked domain names, one lazy admin... case solved.
If I remember correctly it was like 50% windows, 20% Linux, and then Solaris, etc.
These ratios grouped all windows machines together; WFW, 95, 98, Nt4, w2k, etc. Just about every PC with an "always on" connection counted toward the 'windows' total. Also, if you haven't noticed, this is 2003 and Linux has had three more years to blossom and continue stripping Microsoft of marketshare in the server arena. Have a nice day!
Ok I see what you are getting at now. I think there may be some truth in that. To be accurate though, they do sell drugs at different prices in different countries. That is why many elderly Americans go to Canada to get their prescriptions filled. I think what upsets some people is that they are not allowing third world governments who are fighting an epidemic to disregard their patent rights and build factories to produce cheap anti-HIV drugs using cheap local labor and then distribute those drugs at cost. The drug company's argument is that if they allowed that, even for humanitarian reasons, then many of those drugs would be smuggled into the wealthier countries and sold on a black market undercutting the pharmaceuticals business. The end result would be that the companies which did the most expensive and groundbreaking research would be hurt financially while companies whose only reasearch is for marketing campaigns and who churn out generics at the lowest possible price would gain a huge competetive advantage. The large pharmaceuticals would be forced to cut way back on R&D in order to compete. In the long run the pace of progress would be slowed. Now before you turn up the flame, keep in mind that these are not my opinions. I am only repeating what I understand to be their case.
I'd like to see a "foreigner" cure whatever big incurable disease, patent the method, and the refuse to license it to any company that does business in the US.
Well that's not a very nice thing to say. Many innocent people would die as a result and, in addition, the person who patented the method would lose the opportunity to rake in huge profits from the most overpriced health care system in the world. Not only that but I suspect that all major pharmaceutical companies do business in the U.S. so if your wish came true it would allow all sufferers of that disease to die needlessly. Forgive me, but I hope you don't catch a magic fish anytime soon.
If these governments were subsidizing the development of a commercial competitor to windows then I might agree that MS had some sort of WTO complaint, but they are planning to use Free software which benefits everyone when it is improved including Americans. So what is their actual grievance? It would be like Phizer compaining that a foreigner cured AIDS and then announced to the world how to do it. Or ADM complaining that foreigners grow some of their own food. Oh, right.
Offcourse if I consolidate all my server/services on Windows 2003
Was that a Freudian slip? Either you or your subconcious is very clever.
Seriously, there have been enough MS exploits that use legitimate ports and spread so quickly that something would get through and take out the whole thing.
I have heard the promises that people could consolidate many servers and domains to a lesser number running on one of these things but I can't help but chuckle at the thought of running windows in windows on windows in a production environment. This MS Virual Server is just a way to get people to pay more money for what they were promised years ago: a stable platform with separate memory spaces to keep apps from stepping on each other. Now instead of an nt server running 5 apps you can pay for an "enterprise" nt server and ms terminal server and 5 more copies of regular nt server plus the 5 apps and all the various "client access" licenses. But stability might be somewhat improved. Gartner should put that in their TCO pipe and smoke it... instead of crack.
Any thoughts on merits/benefits/downside of using either of the technology stacks?"
Yeah, if I "consolidate" all my servers onto a Windows 2003 box running Connectix, then my servers (all non-MS) would go down every time some script kiddy wants to show the world how 3l337 he is with a new worm.
This is true, but the difference is insignificant. Gravity follows an inverse square law, and the difference between something on the surface and something 6km up works out to be less than 0.19% if my calculations are correct. This is insignificant, compared with the variations between clouds (or indeed, elephants).
Please recalculate taking into account that if you travel into the Earth you weigh less because you are being pulled up as well as down by the matter particles which are above the plane of your horizon which is why you will be weightless at the exact center of the Earth. So accordingly, as you rise up through the atmosphere you will weigh less not only due to the inverse square law but because there is less atmosphere gravitationally attracting you upward. You must also take into account the vertigo effect whereby, as you rise to dizzying heights, you will weigh less in direct proportion to the extent to which you become lightheaded. Assume that your head is a perfect sphere with a mass of 5kg.
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Look at this toy r/c jet aircraft they make. I wonder how well its jetfan engine works. Has anybody tried one?
No kidding man. IIRC Wrigley has also received a patent for using chewing gum as a drug delivery system for Viagra which is a perfect example of how ridiculous our patent office has gotten. Is there anyone reading this who would like to have a patent in their name just to list on their resume but thought you didn't have any clever enough ideas? Well your prayers have been answered. The Rad shall provide. Just patent sprinkling Viagra on cupcakes as a drug delivery system. Filed too late? Another slashdotter beat you to it? Never fear, I've got a million of them:
Patent sprinkling Viagra on Sugar Cookies as a drug delivery system.
Patent sprinkling Viagra on Gummi Bears as a drug delivery system.
Patent sprinkling Viagra on Frosted Flakes as a drug delivery system.
Patent sprinkling Viagra on chewing tobacco as a drug delivery system.
Patent sprinkling Viagra on Juji Fruit as a drug delivery system.
Patent sprinkling cyanide over crack as a patent examiner culling system.
If you try all these and they are already taken just send me a message and I will be happy to give you more patentable ideas from my very innovative imagination.
Whom would a citizen normally report a noxious exhaust spewing POS to?
I hear they have a great pyrotechnic show.
Not only that but there could be a web based system to look up that (or any other) number later to verify the integrity of the permanent polling record. Then anyone who wanted to could tabulate the votes, and every voter could verify that their vote has not been stolen.
Then we can correlate density of churches with efficacy of drugs and surgery? If this were true then it would be possible to scientifically study the effect. You should do the research. I guarantee that if you prove a link your name will go down in history.
Depleted uranium is probably just as toxic as lead. But we have seen that even someone who chewed on too many paint chips as a kid can grow up to be president.
Grove pointed to steel and microelectronics as historical precedents but there are others: textiles, televisions, and cars to name a few. Our leaders need to examine what we did before when we lost and try something different this time. The article also said, 'He [Grove] said he had detected no recognition of the problem from any of the presidential candidates.' There is one candidate who has recognized the problem. He brought it up at the democratic debate a few weeks ago. Dennis Kuncinich is the only candidate I have seen who doesn't just say what the latest polls seem to suggest. Check out his 10 key issues. Also note that he specifically offers a plan for the steel problem that Grove talked about. Want to know how he feels about any other issue? Look to the right column. It is all spelled out in black and white. I know we will end up with another Washington insider in the White House next term but the man we need there is the one who already understands the problems the industry leaders like Andy Grove are seeing and has already formulated a course of action.
...a call screener which would let me route calls I know to be telemarketers into a pre-recorded message where I would talk nonstop for about 10 minutes attempting to sell them some product or service of my own.
I would like to see an array of cheap telescopes stationed at the LaGrangian points to do interferometry at any wavelength. Gravity wave detection could also be included in the mix. There would be no need for elaborate vibration damping and not being limited to the simple L shape that current ground based gravity detectors use, we would be able to triangulate gravity wave disturbances in 3 dimensions!
Watch out! I think Amazon has already patented that one.
Massachusetts is probably not taking this course of action over 'religious' issues. Massachusetts used to be a leader in high tech and software. But they were hit hard by a tech recession and hemorrhaged jobs and therefore tax revenue. Now if they have a $1B IT budget, do you think they would rather send that money out of state to Microsoft, Novell, Sun, Oracle and others, or would they rather spend it on local consultants and administrators, putting steam back into their own economy?
TCO is only part of what Mass. is concerned with but an important part. I have a problem with the CAGW statement, 'While the initial open source software may be "free," most studies conclude that acquisition costs represent only 5 to 10 percent of total cost of ownership.' 5-10% of TCO seems a bit ridiculous. If that were true then when I spend $3000 on a new laptop, OS, and office suite for each user then according to the CAGW the true cost per user would be as much as $60000. Support must be paid regardless. Training will only be higher if users were transitioned to totally new systems instead of making due with their current software packages for a few years. This policy will probably just have the effect of making IT managers spend wisely instead of just over-purchasing licenses for the latest and gayest.
Another trend this policy might slow is that (especially in government organizations) the managers spend every last cent of their budget whether they actually need to or not. This is so that their budget won't be reduced for the following year. Ditto for headcount. They would rather have lots of people being inefficient than a few efficient ones because it makes them look more powerful to have more reports. So they build themselves an empire at the expense of the organization as a whole. But now Massachusetts IT can use their acquisition savings to hire local people to customize Free software. If this works out well expect the whole nation to emulate it as a way to slow down the great tech job exodus to overseas.
Even if the savings aren't as great as we would hope right away, as more people switch to Open Source the savings will grow. CAGW would have us keep sucking on the closed source crack pipe instead of feeling a little short term withdrawal pain at the Open source methadone clinic. And what is with the reference to the Soviet Union? The closed source model has much more in common with the command driven economy of the Soviet union than the American free market style of Free Software.
While it could be that CAGW was influenced by certain donations, I don't think they are a front for Microsoft as some have suggested. I would bet that they are sincere but that some uninformed and short sighted person in their midst steered them wrong. I hope nobody writes them calling them fucktards or flaming them for their ignorance.
I think a good destruction technique would have been to melt a hole through the cpu with a thermite reaction while playing Quake3.
Since it has already been reported that rainfall fluctuates with the day of week and that fluctuation was theorized to be due to pollutants from workday traffic, this discovery does seem to be mostly a confirmation. However, we wouldn't want to assume, would we? Therefore I propose that I be given a fat government grant to study whether humidity also varies based on weekday. And let me assure the Bush administration in advance that I would never make fanciful claims of anthropogenic origin without many years of further study to gather all the facts. hint hint.
Maybe they have a few gig's of work data but a really awesome mp3 collection.
Consider this offshoring trend from the perspective of the Japanese philosophy of Business as War. Should we as a nation allow our already tenuous technological advantage to be eroded further by sending the skills needed to create future IP outside our borders? The jobs we are losing are needed not only for tax revenue but also to give our people the experience they need to build today's foundation for tomorrow's economic future. With respect to the Business is War philosophy, Imagine what would happen if we staffed our army with foreigners. That very thing has happened before and the lesson was long remembered. Rome trained an army of foreign slaves to be its gladiators and was rewarded by a revolt led by Spartacus which very nearly caused the fall of the republic. Even though it is a different kind of conflict, our republic should listen to History and not make that same mistake.
Since so many CIO's believe they will be at a disadvantage if they don't offshore but their competition does, they will start making moves in that direction and, eventually, seeing everyone else doing the same take that as confirmation that they were right, fulfilling their own prophesy. The only way the trend could be stopped is if the government takes action to collect its lost income tax revenues by imposing some sort of fee on importing "intellectual property" just as they would when importing other raw materials. I don't think it would stop it completely nor do I think it should be stopped completely. But it might make CIO's resist the herding instinct just enough to figure out what the right balance is as well as covering some of the governments cost of unemployment, welfare, retraining programs for those whose jobs get taken by displaced knowledge workers who will end up settling for underemployment to make ends meet.
After 10 years without ever needing to apply the knowledge I forgot how.Would the magic sysrq key help? I bet it is a hardware problem though. And what about logging power outages? That is easy to do. APC probably has Linux software already to do this. For other logging there is ample facilities on Linux. Start a syslog server. Point everything to the loopback address.
You mean I can breate clean air, live in relative safety, AND sleep in later? Hot damn, I'm voting Green party in 2004!
Where do you think mi2g came up with 12,892 Linux sites cracked? Three Linux boxes, 12,892 parked domain names, one lazy admin... case solved.
If I remember correctly it was like 50% windows, 20% Linux, and then Solaris, etc.
These ratios grouped all windows machines together; WFW, 95, 98, Nt4, w2k, etc. Just about every PC with an "always on" connection counted toward the 'windows' total.
Also, if you haven't noticed, this is 2003 and Linux has had three more years to blossom and continue stripping Microsoft of marketshare in the server arena. Have a nice day!
Ok I see what you are getting at now. I think there may be some truth in that. To be accurate though, they do sell drugs at different prices in different countries. That is why many elderly Americans go to Canada to get their prescriptions filled. I think what upsets some people is that they are not allowing third world governments who are fighting an epidemic to disregard their patent rights and build factories to produce cheap anti-HIV drugs using cheap local labor and then distribute those drugs at cost. The drug company's argument is that if they allowed that, even for humanitarian reasons, then many of those drugs would be smuggled into the wealthier countries and sold on a black market undercutting the pharmaceuticals business. The end result would be that the companies which did the most expensive and groundbreaking research would be hurt financially while companies whose only reasearch is for marketing campaigns and who churn out generics at the lowest possible price would gain a huge competetive advantage. The large pharmaceuticals would be forced to cut way back on R&D in order to compete. In the long run the pace of progress would be slowed. Now before you turn up the flame, keep in mind that these are not my opinions. I am only repeating what I understand to be their case.
Well that's not a very nice thing to say. Many innocent people would die as a result and, in addition, the person who patented the method would lose the opportunity to rake in huge profits from the most overpriced health care system in the world. Not only that but I suspect that all major pharmaceutical companies do business in the U.S. so if your wish came true it would allow all sufferers of that disease to die needlessly. Forgive me, but I hope you don't catch a magic fish anytime soon.
If these governments were subsidizing the development of a commercial competitor to windows then I might agree that MS had some sort of WTO complaint, but they are planning to use Free software which benefits everyone when it is improved including Americans. So what is their actual grievance? It would be like Phizer compaining that a foreigner cured AIDS and then announced to the world how to do it. Or ADM complaining that foreigners grow some of their own food. Oh, right.
Was that a Freudian slip? Either you or your subconcious is very clever.
Seriously, there have been enough MS exploits that use legitimate ports and spread so quickly that something would get through and take out the whole thing.
I have heard the promises that people could consolidate many servers and domains to a lesser number running on one of these things but I can't help but chuckle at the thought of running windows in windows on windows in a production environment. This MS Virual Server is just a way to get people to pay more money for what they were promised years ago: a stable platform with separate memory spaces to keep apps from stepping on each other. Now instead of an nt server running 5 apps you can pay for an "enterprise" nt server and ms terminal server and 5 more copies of regular nt server plus the 5 apps and all the various "client access" licenses. But stability might be somewhat improved. Gartner should put that in their TCO pipe and smoke it... instead of crack.
Yeah, if I "consolidate" all my servers onto a Windows 2003 box running Connectix, then my servers (all non-MS) would go down every time some script kiddy wants to show the world how 3l337 he is with a new worm.
Please recalculate taking into account that if you travel into the Earth you weigh less because you are being pulled up as well as down by the matter particles which are above the plane of your horizon which is why you will be weightless at the exact center of the Earth. So accordingly, as you rise up through the atmosphere you will weigh less not only due to the inverse square law but because there is less atmosphere gravitationally attracting you upward. You must also take into account the vertigo effect whereby, as you rise to dizzying heights, you will weigh less in direct proportion to the extent to which you become lightheaded. Assume that your head is a perfect sphere with a mass of 5kg.