Unless of course they plan to contract it out to some consulting firms, where all the capable ones (IBM, EDS, what have you) will be grossly underbid by consulting firms using offshore admins. *sigh*
First time I've heard EDS described as capable. They're most famous for overrunning costs, not meeting deadlines, and using incompetents over in the UK.....
IIRC, blood vessels contain a number of one way valves which open and close in response to a pulse, so I'm surprised that these don't fail and have problems in the absence of one.
Maybe the pulse is not totally absent, from the article, this only replaces half of the heart, presumably leaving the other half to pulse along as before.....
I presume that they can't really pulse the pump to truly simulate a heart operation, as that may have effects on its power consumption and reliability.
On another subject, is blood affected by magnetic fields? I just wonder if any problems are caused by the magnetic coil drive system of this thing.
I wouldn't really regard it as the case that old versions are not supported; its a simple statement that you should use the latest stable milestone, which fixes all major issues known at that stage.
Take, in comparison MS IE. It also does not support patches to every single version, but encourages upgrade to at least major milestones rather than intermediate ones.
Moz introduces new features in new releases, but its also a bugfix release at the same time, and it is a reflection of the fact the software has not got to the same version level as IE. However, I'm sure you've noticed Windows Update still gives you an IE related patch as often, if not more, than Moz gives you a formal update...
Should emphasise at this point I'm not truly anti IE, but I can't live without tabbed browsing, popup blocking, a less vulnerable email client......:-)
There are still millions upon millions of PCs not connected to a telephone line. Also remember that a lot of people may have more than one PC (I have eight). And telephones are approching PC-dom, with some even running Windows.
Quote from Tannenbaum: That's when I discovered that (1) he had never heard of the patent, (2) did not know what it meant to dedicate a patent (i.e., put it in the public domain), and (3) really did not know a thing about intellectual property law. He was confused about patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
Do you not find it strange that the President of an organisation involved in arguments about patents, copyrights and trademarks should be so ignorant of patents, copyrights and trademarks?
Go build a Myth TV device and stick as many PVR cards in as it can handle.
If you're missing any features, crack your nuckles, break out the keyboard and get coding....
A rummage of Slashdot shows that they did an earlier FUD article on associating Terrorism with the GPL. It was suspected that it the institute was inflenced or funded by Microsoft
I'm beginning to think that Baystar and RBC are indulging in the best troll and waste of time of Open Source developers ever, so I think ways of returning the favour should be looked into.
Is there any way we as a group can hurt both Baystar and RBC for a lot more than their 50 mil investment? Can we find out and boycott companies where they have a major stake? What other actions can we legally take to make sure that the message of taking on the OSS community is a very expensive hobby?
At the end of the day, SCo may be a smoking hole in the ground, but it would be nice if the puppetmasters felt the pain too.
US law probably gives no greater or less protection than Indian law, but this is irrelevant anyway. Your Bank probably still has its headquarters in the US, is subject to US banking law and still has the same responsibility for your data.
Having worked at one stage with Australians for about a year, I found myself picking up and using their accent and phrases. There's a natural process going on where you assimilate the colouration of the general population.
Anyway, I'm not quite sure which part of the Southern US you come from, but the general idea of "cute" isn't the standard image. "Independent" and "possibly packing a concealed weapon" mighth be more inline!
I'm not going to argue about the scary bit concerning the economy!!
A large number of companies outsourcing are truly international in nature, so the question does arise which community they should benefit?
Slashdot has often linked to K5 articles, as it has to any other site which may have comments like itself, and where the article itself is interesting.
A lot of news is self referential, with sites feeding off each other.
In answer to your secrecy and soundalike comments, the answer is obvious; customers of call centres are sometimes zenophobic, and may be under some pressure as a result of a problem they're on the line about. A similar accent and outlook to the customers makes them feel more comfortable and less likely to lash out at the hapless helpdesk operator.
Its an adage that government services should be provided at minimum cost to the taxpayer, so the answer to your morality question is "yes".
Outsourcing provides more people in more countries with a higher level of education; this fosters innovation. From your website/CV (cute baby!) you manage systems that are the greatest example of outsourcing in the world (Linux in case you didn't know). Linux has thousands of workers in many countries working at zero cost! It can be seen as the ultimate example of outsourcing.
I'll pass on the H1B visa questions as I'm not USian. But it's generally true that if you create a technically savvy market elsewhere then there's a demand for your products before they ramp up and make their own.
You should have made reasonable efforts to a) let employer A and B know you were using code you developed for yourself earlier b) taken practical steps to ensure that both A and B have no claim on your software i.e not producing it on their time/ employment contract clauses.
Although I posted a counterargument on Groklaw, this is unlikely to fly, because of legal precedents. The examples I can think of are IBM v Compaq with respect to their clean room BIOS clone, and Apple v Microsoft over "look and feel" issues. In addition, Unix is a POSIX standard to which Linux aims to be compliant; it does not try and be compliant with SCO (or anyone elses) version of Unix.
The technical copyright arena runs a little different from the story writing arena.
Note that although the cases are scheduled to end up in front of a jury, only issues of fact will end up there. If IBM gets various claims made by SCO dismissed on points of law before they end up in front of a jury, a judge will be cleaning SCOs clock before 12 people get to possibly mess it up.
I think this may indicate that Boies isn't really convinced he can win. If he was, he'd have held out for a percentage of the settlement.
The shares will directly reflect the result of the court case. In the highly unlikely event that SCO wins, the value of those 400k shares will skyrocket, thus earning Boies his percentage.
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Unless of course they plan to contract it out to some consulting firms, where all the capable ones (IBM, EDS, what have you) will be grossly underbid by consulting firms using offshore admins. *sigh*
First time I've heard EDS described as capable. They're most famous for overrunning costs, not meeting deadlines, and using incompetents over in the UK.....
IIRC, blood vessels contain a number of one way valves which open and close in response to a pulse, so I'm surprised that these don't fail and have problems in the absence of one.
Maybe the pulse is not totally absent, from the article, this only replaces half of the heart, presumably leaving the other half to pulse along as before.....
I presume that they can't really pulse the pump to truly simulate a heart operation, as that may have effects on its power consumption and reliability.
On another subject, is blood affected by magnetic fields? I just wonder if any problems are caused by the magnetic coil drive system of this thing.
AMD's Sempron
Why not get a full fledged PDA, or even some mobile phones now, which have all the funtionality needed to do this and then some?
Linus: Frodo
......
Stallman: Gimli
Eben Moglen: Elrond
Eric Raymond: Boromir
The Dark Forces
Bill Gates: Sauron
Darl McBride: Witch King of Angmar, head of the Nazgul
In backing everything up.
:-)
I wouldn't really regard it as the case that old versions are not supported; its a simple statement that you should use the latest stable milestone, which fixes all major issues known at that stage.
Take, in comparison MS IE. It also does not support patches to every single version, but encourages upgrade to at least major milestones rather than intermediate ones.
Moz introduces new features in new releases, but its also a bugfix release at the same time, and it is a reflection of the fact the software has not got to the same version level as IE. However, I'm sure you've noticed Windows Update still gives you an IE related patch as often, if not more, than Moz gives you a formal update...
Should emphasise at this point I'm not truly anti IE, but I can't live without tabbed browsing, popup blocking, a less vulnerable email client......
I'd take the time to stay up to date. Moz 1.5 is old enough to be vulnerable.
:-)
I've gone from 1.0 to 1.7 without data loss, but my emails are stored on a separate IMAP servers at home and online.
Export your data before upgrading!
There are still millions upon millions of PCs not connected to a telephone line. Also remember that a lot of people may have more than one PC (I have eight). And telephones are approching PC-dom, with some even running Windows.
rods (5.5 yds)
chains (4 rods, 22 yards)
220 yards in a furlong (or 10 chains)
8 furlongs to a mile.
A mile is a metric unit from Roman times; it's the approximate length of 1000 paces.
So why doesn't the whole thing use eco-friendly wave power instead of batteries?(!)
Quote from Tannenbaum:
That's when I discovered that (1) he had never heard of the patent, (2) did not know what it meant to dedicate a patent (i.e., put it in the public domain), and (3) really did not know a thing about intellectual property law. He was confused about patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
Do you not find it strange that the President of an organisation involved in arguments about patents, copyrights and trademarks should be so ignorant of patents, copyrights and trademarks?
Go build a Myth TV device and stick as many PVR cards in as it can handle. If you're missing any features, crack your nuckles, break out the keyboard and get coding....
A rummage of Slashdot shows that they did an earlier FUD article on associating Terrorism with the GPL. It was suspected that it the institute was inflenced or funded by Microsoft
Damn, where have they been hiding after school then?
I'm beginning to think that Baystar and RBC are indulging in the best troll and waste of time of Open Source developers ever, so I think ways of returning the favour should be looked into.
Is there any way we as a group can hurt both Baystar and RBC for a lot more than their 50 mil investment? Can we find out and boycott companies where they have a major stake? What other actions can we legally take to make sure that the message of taking on the OSS community is a very expensive hobby?
At the end of the day, SCo may be a smoking hole in the ground, but it would be nice if the puppetmasters felt the pain too.
Beer.
Other people have alternative answers.
US law probably gives no greater or less protection than Indian law, but this is irrelevant anyway. Your Bank probably still has its headquarters in the US, is subject to US banking law and still has the same responsibility for your data.
Having worked at one stage with Australians for about a year, I found myself picking up and using their accent and phrases. There's a natural process going on where you assimilate the colouration of the general population.
Anyway, I'm not quite sure which part of the Southern US you come from, but the general idea of "cute" isn't the standard image. "Independent" and "possibly packing a concealed weapon" mighth be more inline!
I'm not going to argue about the scary bit concerning the economy!!
A large number of companies outsourcing are truly international in nature, so the question does arise which community they should benefit?
Slashdot has often linked to K5 articles, as it has to any other site which may have comments like itself, and where the article itself is interesting.
A lot of news is self referential, with sites feeding off each other.
In answer to your secrecy and soundalike comments, the answer is obvious; customers of call centres are sometimes zenophobic, and may be under some pressure as a result of a problem they're on the line about. A similar accent and outlook to the customers makes them feel more comfortable and less likely to lash out at the hapless helpdesk operator.
Its an adage that government services should be provided at minimum cost to the taxpayer, so the answer to your morality question is "yes".
Outsourcing provides more people in more countries with a higher level of education; this fosters innovation. From your website/CV (cute baby!) you manage systems that are the greatest example of outsourcing in the world (Linux in case you didn't know). Linux has thousands of workers in many countries working at zero cost! It can be seen as the ultimate example of outsourcing.
I'll pass on the H1B visa questions as I'm not USian. But it's generally true that if you create a technically savvy market elsewhere then there's a demand for your products before they ramp up and make their own.
Most undershot watermills would not handle a 4-6' change in operating level
You should have made reasonable efforts to
a) let employer A and B know you were using code you developed for yourself earlier
b) taken practical steps to ensure that both A and B have no claim on your software i.e not producing it on their time/ employment contract clauses.
George Harrison, "My Sweet Lord".
Also Richard Ashcroft of Verve had unfortunate experience, with Bittersweet Symphony, getting screwed by the Rolling Stones for smpling four bars.
Not sure whether latter got to court.
But hey, he's a tenured prof now and just traded his wife in on a newer model 1/2 the age of the wife!
I knew teaching had some benefits. Regular yearly influx of fresh 'talent' makes up for the relatively poor pay.
Although I posted a counterargument on Groklaw, this is unlikely to fly, because of legal precedents. The examples I can think of are IBM v Compaq with respect to their clean room BIOS clone, and Apple v Microsoft over "look and feel" issues. In addition, Unix is a POSIX standard to which Linux aims to be compliant; it does not try and be compliant with SCO (or anyone elses) version of Unix.
The technical copyright arena runs a little different from the story writing arena.
Note that although the cases are scheduled to end up in front of a jury, only issues of fact will end up there. If IBM gets various claims made by SCO dismissed on points of law before they end up in front of a jury, a judge will be cleaning SCOs clock before 12 people get to possibly mess it up.
I think this may indicate that Boies isn't really convinced he can win. If he was, he'd have held out for a percentage of the settlement.
The shares will directly reflect the result of the court case. In the highly unlikely event that SCO wins, the value of those 400k shares will skyrocket, thus earning Boies his percentage.