From TFA: "Scientists from research institutes in Australia, Canada, Japan, China and the UK will today release the first DNA profiles of some of the most prevalent types of tumours."
Note that the USA isn't in the list. Are the US folks are too busy patenting their discoveries so they can monetize them?
Or is the USA falling behind because of the asinine science related policies of previous administration?
The daughter of a neighbor experienced a similar problem some time ago. Fortunately a vice-principal at the school did not ignore the reports from teachers and took disciplinary action against the people involved.
The harassment was vicious, nasty and designed to humiliate and hurt. I understand that the bullies were unrepentant - they felt they had a "right" to hurt someone who didn't kowtow to them.
I am thankful that these sorts of issues were pretty much unknown when I went to school. I think I'll home-school my kids....
Have you ever seen the way a processor is designed these days?
Yes, the final product is a piece of hardware, but all the CPU logic is written in software using languages like VHDL (a sorta Ada like language), Verilog, etc.
You certainly could write the logic for a CPU in a FOSS manner, although converting the source code to the object code is a lot more complex than a simple compile.
Having the source code for the CPU you are using is a huge benefit for bottom feeders who live round the hardware/software interface and are debugging certain types of issues. Been there, done that.
I would LOVE to be an hourly paid worker, if they divided my current annual salary by 2080 (that's 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year) and determined that to be my hourly wage. I reckon my gross income would about double, as hourly paid workers get overtime as a matter of law.
When I worked in Britain, I WAS hourly paid. We were on flex time and allowed to work no earlier than 8AM and no later than 7PM. Security checked the building at that time, and unless you had a note from your manager allowing you to work late you had to leave.
Also we had a 35 hour work week, and as hourly paid, we did receive overtime for any time worked beyond 35 hours, provided it was agreed in advance. However, we did have to clock in and out, and working at home was forbidden and not paid. If you were called at home it was an automatic 15 minutes of overtime, minimum.
Incidentally, all this was negotiated by our union. I was very pleased and happy with the union and gladly paid my dues.
I'd guess you were taking Oxaliplatin and this caused the nerve problems - about 90% of people who take this drug lose some feeling in their hands and feet. 80% of those that do return to normal within 2 years of stopping the drug.
Sadly, I'm in the 20% who do not get all the sensation back in their fingers. No more touch typing for me...:(
I was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2005, and after surgery I did the chemotherapy thing. One of my drugs was Xeloda, which is the marketing name for capecitabine, the drug this guy is taking.
The problem mentioned in TFA is Hand-Foot Syndrome (HFS) or palmer-palmer erythrodysesthesia. Capecitabine causes redness, swelling, a rash, and burning pain in the hands and feet - and sometimes elsewhere such as joints and genitals. In bad cases the skin peels and you get blisters, ulcers and sores in the affected areas. This is because some of the drug leaks out of the capillaries and damages the surrounding tissues, and you have a lot of capillaries close to the surface in the hands and feet.
There are drugs (Vitamin B6, corticosteroids, dimethyl sulfoxide) that can help sometimes - but they didn't for me. Walking became extremely painful, and my hands were constantly hot and painful, although I didn't lose my fingerprints as far as I know. Everything returned to normal some months after chemotherapy completed.
I really sympathize with this guy. Dealing with immigration headaches while having bad hand-foot syndrome would have been a total hassle for me. Even standing up for a few minutes was torture.
I have a BMW. For many years companies like Dinan have been selling new engine control software that improves performance. Guess what, these packages are illegal in some areas - notably in California where I live because the California Air Resources Board has not approved the updated software.
Maybe the same argument applies to the iPhone. The FCC approved the Apple produced software, and changes to the software might or might not cause the phone to go out of spec with regards to RF emissions. In other words, should the FCC need to approve jail-break software? Like that's going to happen...
Of course it's about the money. Apple is a commercial company whose sole purpose is to make money for the owners.
Apple (and all for-profit companies) are going to try to protect their revenue streams, wherever they come from. Not doing so would result in a shareholder lawsuit.
No one forced Apple to sell their OS divorced of their machines. They decided to do that to cash in on the lucrative market of OS upgrades.
Are you saying that Apple shouldn't allow their customers to upgrade to a new version of the operating system? That the version of the OS they get with their computer is the one they must use for the life of that system?
It seems to me that this would be a heck of a disadvantage compared to other manufacturers.
Back in the days of mainframes only, say before 1980 or so, all the systems I worked on (NCR, IBM and Burroughs) used the term "virtual memory" to refer to secondary memory storage on a slower device. Early on the secondary device was CRAM (Card Random Access Memory) and later it was disk.
But the point is that Virtual Memory originally referred to main memory storage on a secondary device. Furthermore, this is still the term used for paged storage in Microsoft Windows. Check out the Properties page on the "Computer" menu item on Vista or "My Computer" icon on XP which talks about Virtual Memory when setting the size of the paging file.
The OP is totally correct in his use of Virtual memory both by historical precedent and by current usage in Windows.
"Health care is not a right. If it was, we'd all be indentured servants to pay for it.
Why isn't health care a right in the US? It is in most other developed countries. According to UN statistics, France has the best health care system in the world. I don't see them as indentured servants.
Even the UK, where health care is certainly a right, has a higher standard of living than the US, according to a recent report by Oxford Economics, a consultancy firm.
A healthy population that lives longer is more productive so it's good for the economy also.
McCain has this wonderful plan to give a $2500 tax credit ($5000 for a family) so you can buy health care. Now, I have cancer, which at present is in remission. I haven't tried getting health care on the open market, but judging from the comments on some of the cancer forums from some who have, $2500 wouldn't cover a couple of months of premiums for a person in my position. In fact, one woman said that Aetna wanted over $2000 a month to cover her - with a rider disallowing coverage for cancer.
From TFA: "However, it's interesting that neither company has been proved innocent in this case, with the claims being dismissed out of court instead."
Silly me. I thought you had to be proven guilty, at least in the USA. Is the reporter that dumb or is he trying to put a slant on this?
Frankly, it sounds to me like there's no case to answer, and this is just a quick way to make it go away. If there had been any sort of case the settlement costs would have been in the $100+ million range, not $112,000 to the plaintiffs and $1.7 million for the class (which I presume will mostly go to the lawyers).
But didn't Apple spend a whole ton of money to write and maintain Mac OS X? Don't they specifically state that it's only to be run on Apple hardware? On other words, isn't OS X a specific benefit of owning an Apple system and licensed as such?
Why is it OK to break Apple's license? Would you be saying "good for them" if the news article was about someone breaking the GPL?
In the past I've supported the FSF. This is not what I expect from such an organization.
Denial of Service attacks (of any kind) should not be perpetrated by honorable people. Does this have the general support of the FSF? What the hell do they think they are playing at?
Nevertheless, IE7 broke a bunch of stuff at my company. The IT folks spent a considerable amount of time and and energy getting everything on the intranet working with it.
I would strongly argue that IE7 was a new product with a similar name, and not an upgrade.
I guess it's about as unethical as Microsoft forcing IE7 on all users who use automatic updates. If fact, Microsoft forces new stuff all the time this way.
Not defending it - just saying that Apple, Microsft and Sun all do this, so don't single out Apple as being unethical in this manner.
I installed Safari for Windows about a week after it came out. That was several months ago.
It was very clearly marked as "new software". It was not marked as an update to anything. I just checked on a different system, and Safari is still marked as "new software".
I'd bet a small amount of cash that the terms of the license were drawn up by lawyers without a huge amount of input and review by technical folks. They probably looked at the general characteristics of applications and disallowed those features that they thought might lead to malware being executed. In particular, leaving holes for un-vetted code to be executed.
Apple are probably just trying to protect their users from crap and at the same time protect themselves from legal issues. I can imagine a lawsuit by some aggrieved user: "Why did you leave this huge hole for this virus to walk in and spam overseas calls at tens of $1,000s per month."
I wish they had done a better job. As has been said many times, never ascribe to maliciousness that which can adequately explained by incompetence.
I would guess this is unfounded. After all, nVidia graphics are in the latest Mac Book Pro models as well as being the standard product in the Mac Pro. In fact, the Mac Pro series will support up to 4 graphics adapters, provided they are nVidia cards, as only a single ATI card is supported. nVidia also supplies workstation class video cards for the Mac Pro.
Apple isn't stupid. They remember what happened back in the late 1990s - their only graphics vendor was ATI who was able to completely dictate what graphics solutions were able to be shipped in Apple products. Now Apple is careful to parcel out their graphics work to ATI, Intel and nVidia and will never let any one vendor get into a dominating position. Give each enough to keep them interested, don't give any one of them enough to affect your business plan. Of course this also applies to other components, and is why there may (eventually) be AMD chipsets/processors in Apple products.
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From TFA: "Scientists from research institutes in Australia, Canada, Japan, China and the UK will today release the first DNA profiles of some of the most prevalent types of tumours."
Note that the USA isn't in the list. Are the US folks are too busy patenting their discoveries so they can monetize them?
Or is the USA falling behind because of the asinine science related policies of previous administration?
Or is there another reason?
Or maybe a Catholic high school does have some advantages.
The daughter of a neighbor experienced a similar problem some time ago. Fortunately a vice-principal at the school did not ignore the reports from teachers and took disciplinary action against the people involved.
The harassment was vicious, nasty and designed to humiliate and hurt. I understand that the bullies were unrepentant - they felt they had a "right" to hurt someone who didn't kowtow to them.
I am thankful that these sorts of issues were pretty much unknown when I went to school. I think I'll home-school my kids....
Have you ever seen the way a processor is designed these days?
Yes, the final product is a piece of hardware, but all the CPU logic is written in software using languages like VHDL (a sorta Ada like language), Verilog, etc.
You certainly could write the logic for a CPU in a FOSS manner, although converting the source code to the object code is a lot more complex than a simple compile.
Having the source code for the CPU you are using is a huge benefit for bottom feeders who live round the hardware/software interface and are debugging certain types of issues. Been there, done that.
I would LOVE to be an hourly paid worker, if they divided my current annual salary by 2080 (that's 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year) and determined that to be my hourly wage. I reckon my gross income would about double, as hourly paid workers get overtime as a matter of law.
When I worked in Britain, I WAS hourly paid. We were on flex time and allowed to work no earlier than 8AM and no later than 7PM. Security checked the building at that time, and unless you had a note from your manager allowing you to work late you had to leave.
Also we had a 35 hour work week, and as hourly paid, we did receive overtime for any time worked beyond 35 hours, provided it was agreed in advance. However, we did have to clock in and out, and working at home was forbidden and not paid. If you were called at home it was an automatic 15 minutes of overtime, minimum.
Incidentally, all this was negotiated by our union. I was very pleased and happy with the union and gladly paid my dues.
I'd guess you were taking Oxaliplatin and this caused the nerve problems - about 90% of people who take this drug lose some feeling in their hands and feet. 80% of those that do return to normal within 2 years of stopping the drug.
Sadly, I'm in the 20% who do not get all the sensation back in their fingers. No more touch typing for me... :(
I was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2005, and after surgery I did the chemotherapy thing. One of my drugs was Xeloda, which is the marketing name for capecitabine, the drug this guy is taking.
The problem mentioned in TFA is Hand-Foot Syndrome (HFS) or palmer-palmer erythrodysesthesia. Capecitabine causes redness, swelling, a rash, and burning pain in the hands and feet - and sometimes elsewhere such as joints and genitals. In bad cases the skin peels and you get blisters, ulcers and sores in the affected areas. This is because some of the drug leaks out of the capillaries and damages the surrounding tissues, and you have a lot of capillaries close to the surface in the hands and feet.
There are drugs (Vitamin B6, corticosteroids, dimethyl sulfoxide) that can help sometimes - but they didn't for me. Walking became extremely painful, and my hands were constantly hot and painful, although I didn't lose my fingerprints as far as I know. Everything returned to normal some months after chemotherapy completed.
I really sympathize with this guy. Dealing with immigration headaches while having bad hand-foot syndrome would have been a total hassle for me. Even standing up for a few minutes was torture.
No, it's not.
I have a BMW. For many years companies like Dinan have been selling new engine control software that improves performance. Guess what, these packages are illegal in some areas - notably in California where I live because the California Air Resources Board has not approved the updated software.
Maybe the same argument applies to the iPhone. The FCC approved the Apple produced software, and changes to the software might or might not cause the phone to go out of spec with regards to RF emissions. In other words, should the FCC need to approve jail-break software? Like that's going to happen...
Of course it's about the money. Apple is a commercial company whose sole purpose is to make money for the owners.
Apple (and all for-profit companies) are going to try to protect their revenue streams, wherever they come from. Not doing so would result in a shareholder lawsuit.
What planet are you from?
No one forced Apple to sell their OS divorced of their machines. They decided to do that to cash in on the lucrative market of OS upgrades.
Are you saying that Apple shouldn't allow their customers to upgrade to a new version of the operating system? That the version of the OS they get with their computer is the one they must use for the life of that system?
It seems to me that this would be a heck of a disadvantage compared to other manufacturers.
No, I don't think the OP is confused.
Back in the days of mainframes only, say before 1980 or so, all the systems I worked on (NCR, IBM and Burroughs) used the term "virtual memory" to refer to secondary memory storage on a slower device. Early on the secondary device was CRAM (Card Random Access Memory) and later it was disk.
But the point is that Virtual Memory originally referred to main memory storage on a secondary device. Furthermore, this is still the term used for paged storage in Microsoft Windows. Check out the Properties page on the "Computer" menu item on Vista or "My Computer" icon on XP which talks about Virtual Memory when setting the size of the paging file.
The OP is totally correct in his use of Virtual memory both by historical precedent and by current usage in Windows.
"Health care is not a right. If it was, we'd all be indentured servants to pay for it.
Why isn't health care a right in the US? It is in most other developed countries. According to UN statistics, France has the best health care system in the world. I don't see them as indentured servants.
Even the UK, where health care is certainly a right, has a higher standard of living than the US, according to a recent report by Oxford Economics, a consultancy firm.
A healthy population that lives longer is more productive so it's good for the economy also.
Somebody's been drinking the McCain kool-aid.
McCain has this wonderful plan to give a $2500 tax credit ($5000 for a family) so you can buy health care. Now, I have cancer, which at present is in remission. I haven't tried getting health care on the open market, but judging from the comments on some of the cancer forums from some who have, $2500 wouldn't cover a couple of months of premiums for a person in my position. In fact, one woman said that Aetna wanted over $2000 a month to cover her - with a rider disallowing coverage for cancer.
I don't think McCain will get my vote.
Would you like to provide a reference for this remark?
From TFA: "However, it's interesting that neither company has been proved innocent in this case, with the claims being dismissed out of court instead."
Silly me. I thought you had to be proven guilty, at least in the USA. Is the reporter that dumb or is he trying to put a slant on this?
Frankly, it sounds to me like there's no case to answer, and this is just a quick way to make it go away. If there had been any sort of case the settlement costs would have been in the $100+ million range, not $112,000 to the plaintiffs and $1.7 million for the class (which I presume will mostly go to the lawyers).
But didn't Apple spend a whole ton of money to write and maintain Mac OS X? Don't they specifically state that it's only to be run on Apple hardware? On other words, isn't OS X a specific benefit of owning an Apple system and licensed as such?
Why is it OK to break Apple's license? Would you be saying "good for them" if the news article was about someone breaking the GPL?
In the past I've supported the FSF. This is not what I expect from such an organization.
Denial of Service attacks (of any kind) should not be perpetrated by honorable people. Does this have the general support of the FSF? What the hell do they think they are playing at?
I recall that there are three methods approved by Apple for distributing iPhone applications:
1. through the iTunes store (for cash or free).
2. enterprise distribution on an company's own servers.
3. ad-hoc distribution on up to 100 iPhones.
I haven't looked at the details on how this all works, but it doesn't seem to me that there's any great reason for jail-breaking now.
Nevertheless, IE7 broke a bunch of stuff at my company. The IT folks spent a considerable amount of time and and energy getting everything on the intranet working with it.
I would strongly argue that IE7 was a new product with a similar name, and not an upgrade.
I guess it's about as unethical as Microsoft forcing IE7 on all users who use automatic updates. If fact, Microsoft forces new stuff all the time this way.
Not defending it - just saying that Apple, Microsft and Sun all do this, so don't single out Apple as being unethical in this manner.
I installed Safari for Windows about a week after it came out. That was several months ago.
It was very clearly marked as "new software". It was not marked as an update to anything. I just checked on a different system, and Safari is still marked as "new software".
I'd bet a small amount of cash that the terms of the license were drawn up by lawyers without a huge amount of input and review by technical folks. They probably looked at the general characteristics of applications and disallowed those features that they thought might lead to malware being executed. In particular, leaving holes for un-vetted code to be executed.
Apple are probably just trying to protect their users from crap and at the same time protect themselves from legal issues. I can imagine a lawsuit by some aggrieved user: "Why did you leave this huge hole for this virus to walk in and spam overseas calls at tens of $1,000s per month."
I wish they had done a better job. As has been said many times, never ascribe to maliciousness that which can adequately explained by incompetence.
I would guess this is unfounded. After all, nVidia graphics are in the latest Mac Book Pro models as well as being the standard product in the Mac Pro. In fact, the Mac Pro series will support up to 4 graphics adapters, provided they are nVidia cards, as only a single ATI card is supported. nVidia also supplies workstation class video cards for the Mac Pro.
Apple isn't stupid. They remember what happened back in the late 1990s - their only graphics vendor was ATI who was able to completely dictate what graphics solutions were able to be shipped in Apple products. Now Apple is careful to parcel out their graphics work to ATI, Intel and nVidia and will never let any one vendor get into a dominating position. Give each enough to keep them interested, don't give any one of them enough to affect your business plan. Of course this also applies to other components, and is why there may (eventually) be AMD chipsets/processors in Apple products.
(Where former = older music, latter = new music)
No doubt UMG would prefer to keep the current price for the former, while increasing the price for the latter.
There, fixed that sentence for you.
See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/06/13/AR2007061302033.html