How can they sell something is not theirs? So I could sell a parcel of eath on Satun. Someone should write to SNOPES bout this hoax:)
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Pirate CDs sell more than original in Argentina. On every train station, on every main door of a college, there are informal booth offering prirated CDs. Sometimes is a table, and sometimes is just a fabric on the street with the CDs on. They have color photocopied cover. Official CDs costs around 10 USD, and illegal ones, between 1 and 2 USD. When most people earn 200 USD for month, there is no choice. People who can't affort Internet access, buys this cheaper CDs. Almost nobody buys original CDs. Another popular way of getting CDs, is asking them to your favorite software dealer. They send it on MP3 or wav, as you wish. At least here, downloading music is not something RIAA should take care for. There are other issues more important for them (like the booth at every train station full of illegal CDs).
Instead of all this work and cost (VMWare), just deploy the Lindows Webstation (http://info.lindows.com/webstation/) and forget about people messing up with the computer settings. To make a better user experience, you could add a network drive for them to store their stuff.
The "problem" when you add HD is that the system could be desconfigured. That is a problem for people and institutions who depends on external tech support for their busines. I do prefer HD, but for a library or public internet kiosk without [linux] tech support easy available could be a problem.
felines needs to eat only meat because they leack an aminoacid found only in meat. Their bodies can't make a carboxilic acid (citrate) needed for Krebs cicle.
With the high speed of current computers, coding speed is more important than running/execution speed (unless you are programing a real-time data gathering device). Even if the program is slow, you could leave it running overnight, it cost less than average programmer hourly fee. 5-10 years, I would have said: Learn C, but now, Python have a lot of advantages in order to be consider a "serious" languaje. If you are fine with C, keep with it, but I think trying python won't hurt.
1) Data converting. I integrate data from diferent sources (diferents labs) using python scripts.
2) Bioinformatics: With biopython I do very diferent tasks, like design primers in batch and data converting, but this time using the parsers included in biopython. Now I'm working on an adaptation of this program: SNP_Discovery
I'm also making a GUI for CL program (here: GUI BLAST)
I did cut out the first parte because I thought it was confusing. If you like the Biotechnology Industry Organization definition, the tumor handheld scanner still is NOT biotech. Why? Because the product doesn't use a bio process to work. It is just an electronic device, it just process a kind of biological signal (honestly I don't know wich signal). It is like an computerized axial tomography (CAT), but smaller and specialized on a special function. For you and most/. reader, tomography devices are biotech, since has a bio application and are high technology devices. But CAT are not biotech for any scientistic working on the field. Biotech most time involves transgenic (thats why Dupont mix them). You should ALTER (or transform as people on the field say) a biological system in order to call something biotech. As I said before, go to any biotech company web site and look for their products (or services).
I understand what you mean with bio=live tech=technology, so this would we biotech. But according to most biotech official definition, biotech is another thing. Look here: According to dupont (a industry leader) "is the application of scientific knowledge to transfer beneficial genetic traits from one species to another to enhance or protect an organism" According to the Biotechnology Industry Association: "The use of biological processes to solve problems or make useful products." This last is more broader, but it fundamentals is to use a biological process. IF the handheld scanner basic would be based on a bio function, ok, but it is electronic. It is used to monitor a bio process, but the device is based on an electronic principle. Look at the biotech companies websites (lot of them trades in NASDAQ), and look for their products, they don't offer what most slashdot reader call biotech. Trying to explian what biotech is to an slashdot reader is as hard as trying to explain to my biotech coworkers that hacking is not something evil:)
It won't be a biotech "killer app" since biotech companies are working on genomic and proteomic application. By definition, biotech involves altering DNA on organism (usually bacteria) and selling a protein or procedure derivated from it. This device seems promising, but can't be called biotechnology.
It is not valid the method you describe. I MUST register a copy on the "Registro de Obra de Software" in "Registro Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual".
Check here:
CESSI
On this office you should submit a sealed envelop, but you shouldn't send it by regular mail, just leave it there (and complete some forms and pay a fee).
Zipwars - Episode II. (Attack of the ZIPs) Most people here wont remember, but one of the first software copyrights battle was regarding zip (and pkzip). But it seems the pk people turn to the dark side.
The posting says
"Is there a country were people will work for free?"
I think this is misleading. Other countries have lower salaries because the living cost are cheaper. In Argentina (at least in my town) you can dinner out in a fancy restaurant for 2 people, for 20 pesos, that's 6 US$ (in the US, you just get a Mc Combo for that money).
Most families in Argentina lives with less than 5000 US$/year.
The only problem is the imported goods, they are priced in dollars and tends to have higher price.
I think this interview is the best ever published on/. It could be used to replace all outdated "hacking tutorials" that are floating around the net for years. I'm tired of reading how to built a now useless bluebox and old hacking techniques. I will point to this article to anybody who ask me how to start in computer security.
You are right. The same thing happens with automatic DNA sequence machines. Applied Biosystems (AB) sells the ABI sequences line with a DELL (with flat panel monitor!) with WinNT. The Windows has ServicePack 5, and they (AB) tell you NOT TO UPGRADE it to SP6. There is also a training course, and basically they explain that if there is any error on the screen, just reset the computer! (that is their troubleshooting procedure).
In Argentina tax are included on price list for most goods. On the retail, prices are announced X.99 but nobody will give you your 0.01 back, since nobody cares about 0.01 coin (there are very very few).
Why would I want Esperanto? It requires that I assign a gender to all nouns. In my world, the only things that have genders are animals and connectors.
In Esperanto all noums are male (by default), so you don't have to remember the gender of each noum (but in French or Spanish, you have diferent gender for nouns ).
Biotech means modifyng DNA (usually bacterial DNA) to get a product or a service. In Slashdot, biotech seems to be everithing related with medicine and high tech. According to the Utexas.edu life science dictionary:
Biotechnology Definition:
The industrial use of living organisms or biological techniques developed through basic research. Biotechnology products include antibiotics, insulin, interferon, recombinant DNA, and techniques such as waste recycling.
Much older forms of biotechnology include breadmaking, cheesemaking and brewing wine and beer.
" In the lecture of John 'Maddog' Hall on the history of open source (this weekend on Fosdem), his slides had 'livre' software on it. Several times..."
"anyplace in the world- there's "wealth" in the form of tangibles, like decent land with it's own water and garden and woodlot, and precious metals, those are examples of stored wealth that can't be inflated,"
You are right. but be aware that even with "tangible goods" you can have several economic problems. Take Argentina again, we have plenty of land, we export seeds to a lot of nation but a lot of people are starving. There are even kids dying of starvation, like in Africa!!.
That's funny. In Argentina we have a 21% sales tax (yes, 21%). And public services (hospital, education, and so on) really sucks!!!. I mean, go to a public hospital (with 50% poverty rate, most people go to public hospital) and you will have to wait hours in a line at 6 AM. There's NO security, I can get killed any time by anyone. So I don't know what are you complaining about.
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How can they sell something is not theirs? :)
So I could sell a parcel of eath on Satun.
Someone should write to SNOPES bout this hoax
Pirate CDs sell more than original in Argentina. On every train station, on every main door of a college, there are informal booth offering prirated CDs. Sometimes is a table, and sometimes is just a fabric on the street with the CDs on. They have color photocopied cover. Official CDs costs around 10 USD, and illegal ones, between 1 and 2 USD. When most people earn 200 USD for month, there is no choice.
People who can't affort Internet access, buys this cheaper CDs. Almost nobody buys original CDs.
Another popular way of getting CDs, is asking them to your favorite software dealer. They send it on MP3 or wav, as you wish.
At least here, downloading music is not something RIAA should take care for. There are other issues more important for them (like the booth at every train station full of illegal CDs).
Instead of all this work and cost (VMWare), just deploy the Lindows Webstation (http://info.lindows.com/webstation/) and forget about people messing up with the computer settings. To make a better user experience, you could add a network drive for them to store their stuff.
The "problem" when you add HD is that the system could be desconfigured. That is a problem for people and institutions who depends on external tech support for their busines.
I do prefer HD, but for a library or public internet kiosk without [linux] tech support easy available could be a problem.
felines needs to eat only meat because they leack an aminoacid found only in meat. Their bodies can't make a carboxilic acid (citrate) needed for Krebs cicle.
With the high speed of current computers, coding speed is more important than running/execution speed (unless you are programing a real-time data gathering device).
Even if the program is slow, you could leave it running overnight, it cost less than average programmer hourly fee.
5-10 years, I would have said: Learn C, but now, Python have a lot of advantages in order to be consider a "serious" languaje.
If you are fine with C, keep with it, but I think trying python won't hurt.
1) Data converting. I integrate data from diferent sources (diferents labs) using python scripts.
2) Bioinformatics: With biopython I do very diferent tasks, like design primers in batch and data converting, but this time using the parsers included in biopython. Now I'm working on an adaptation of this program:
SNP_Discovery I'm also making a GUI for CL program (here: GUI BLAST)
I did cut out the first parte because I thought it was confusing. If you like the Biotechnology Industry Organization definition, the tumor handheld scanner still is NOT biotech. Why? Because the product doesn't use a bio process to work. It is just an electronic device, it just process a kind of biological signal (honestly I don't know wich signal). It is like an computerized axial tomography (CAT), but smaller and specialized on a special function. For you and most /. reader, tomography devices are biotech, since has a bio application and are high technology devices. But CAT are not biotech for any scientistic working on the field.
Biotech most time involves transgenic (thats why Dupont mix them). You should ALTER (or transform as people on the field say) a biological system in order to call something biotech.
As I said before, go to any biotech company web site and look for their products (or services).
95% is excellent as you say. But pregnancy test, has more than 99% accuracy, since it is based on an monoclonal antibody mediated reaction.
Hello Rob,
:)
I understand what you mean with bio=live tech=technology, so this would we biotech. But according to most biotech official definition, biotech is another thing.
Look here:
According to dupont (a industry leader)
"is the application of scientific knowledge to transfer beneficial genetic traits from one species to another to enhance or protect an organism"
According to the Biotechnology Industry Association:
"The use of biological processes to solve problems or make useful products."
This last is more broader, but it fundamentals is to use a biological process. IF the handheld scanner basic would be based on a bio function, ok, but it is electronic. It is used to monitor a bio process, but the device is based on an electronic principle.
Look at the biotech companies websites (lot of them trades in NASDAQ), and look for their products, they don't offer what most slashdot reader call biotech.
Trying to explian what biotech is to an slashdot reader is as hard as trying to explain to my biotech coworkers that hacking is not something evil
It won't be a biotech "killer app" since biotech companies are working on genomic and proteomic application. By definition, biotech involves altering DNA on organism (usually bacteria) and selling a protein or procedure derivated from it.
This device seems promising, but can't be called biotechnology.
It is not valid the method you describe. I MUST register a copy on the "Registro de Obra de Software" in "Registro Nacional de Propiedad Intelectual". Check here: CESSI On this office you should submit a sealed envelop, but you shouldn't send it by regular mail, just leave it there (and complete some forms and pay a fee).
Zipwars - Episode II. (Attack of the ZIPs)
Most people here wont remember, but one of the first software copyrights battle was regarding zip (and pkzip).
But it seems the pk people turn to the dark side.
The posting says
"Is there a country were people will work for free?"
I think this is misleading. Other countries have lower salaries because the living cost are cheaper. In Argentina (at least in my town) you can dinner out in a fancy restaurant for 2 people, for 20 pesos, that's 6 US$ (in the US, you just get a Mc Combo for that money).
Most families in Argentina lives with less than 5000 US$/year.
The only problem is the imported goods, they are priced in dollars and tends to have higher price.
I think this interview is the best ever published on /. It could be used to replace all outdated "hacking tutorials" that are floating around the net for years. I'm tired of reading how to built a now useless bluebox and old hacking techniques.
I will point to this article to anybody who ask me how to start in computer security.
You are right. The same thing happens with automatic DNA sequence machines. Applied Biosystems (AB) sells the ABI sequences line with a DELL (with flat panel monitor!) with WinNT. The Windows has ServicePack 5, and they (AB) tell you NOT TO UPGRADE it to SP6.
There is also a training course, and basically they explain that if there is any error on the screen, just reset the computer! (that is their troubleshooting procedure).
In Argentina tax are included on price list for most goods.
On the retail, prices are announced X.99 but nobody will give you your 0.01 back, since nobody cares about 0.01 coin (there are very very few).
Why would I want Esperanto? It requires that I assign a gender to all nouns. In my world, the only things that have genders are animals and connectors.
In Esperanto all noums are male (by default), so you don't have to remember the gender of each noum (but in French or Spanish, you have diferent gender for nouns ).
This is an example of why you should subscribe to slashdot. Getting the news 10 minutes in advance could make a difference! :)
Biotech means modifyng DNA (usually bacterial DNA) to get a product or a service. In Slashdot, biotech seems to be everithing related with medicine and high tech.
According to the Utexas.edu life science dictionary:
Biotechnology
Definition:
The industrial use of living organisms or biological techniques developed through basic research. Biotechnology products include antibiotics, insulin, interferon, recombinant DNA, and techniques such as waste recycling.
Much older forms of biotechnology include breadmaking, cheesemaking and brewing wine and beer.
" In the lecture of John 'Maddog' Hall on the history of open source (this weekend on Fosdem), his slides had 'livre' software on it. Several times..."
Maybe he copy it from a portuguese or brazilian webpage. In Portuguese, is LIVRE. Take a look here: http://www.softwarelivre.rs.gov.br/
In Spanish is libre, and not libré. (libré would be past participe)
So USPTO should give the application money back to registars (since was USPTO mistake).
You said:
"anyplace in the world- there's "wealth" in the form of tangibles, like decent land with it's own water and garden and woodlot, and precious metals, those are examples of stored wealth that can't be inflated,"
You are right. but be aware that even with "tangible goods" you can have several economic problems. Take Argentina again, we have plenty of land, we export seeds to a lot of nation but a lot of people are starving. There are even kids dying of starvation, like in Africa!!.
That's funny. In Argentina we have a 21% sales tax (yes, 21%). And public services (hospital, education, and so on) really sucks!!!. I mean, go to a public hospital (with 50% poverty rate, most people go to public hospital) and you will have to wait hours in a line at 6 AM. There's NO security, I can get killed any time by anyone.
So I don't know what are you complaining about.