Where I live we call them "volunteer firefighters" and everyone knows to get their kids away from the streets when the town whistle sounds because a couple of pick-ups with flashing lights on their dashboards will be flying through your residential neighborhood at 3x the speed limit anytime now.
these are the poor souls who end up getting vaporized in industrial accidents
nobody even knows what's going on in that big factory, do they?
they are "volunteer" on purpose, it's better to vaporize those without income.
Yes at first glance that's just a platitude, but it's a good idea to always think about this simple truth whenever you you evaluate something has has a face price of zero.
It's really not so simple as that. You can walk into many places at random to use their public restroom without making a purchase. They have given this service to you for free.
At any coffeehouse you will also see that the napkins and creamer and sugar are free for the taking. They don't charge anything for them.
You will also notice that wifi is free in many many places nowadays.
Also you might notice that the city has given you permission for free to walk on their sidewalks and drive on their roads. They paid lots of money to make these things and they just let everyone use them for free.
There is nothing complex or weird or unusual about any of these phenomena. There are no strings attached. There is no conspiracy. It's a simple fact that many things are free because it's not worth the effort to charge for them, and the goodwill involved makes up for the marginal cost.
The article also fails to mention how economically feasible the use of MRI would be for biopsy, given the high cost of MR in general
An MRI costs $280 in France, $1080 in the USA. The CURRENT prostate biopsy procedure costs well over $2000 in the USA. Guess what? Google is your friend.
Their whole marketing scheme involves letting people feel elite for buying their products. That's how cult deals work.
My 2008 macbook is still running great, let's amortize the cost and see how that works out compared to the three Dells I would have chewed through in that time.
I seem to remember Microsoft selling Xenix to SCO, with a lot of the code filtering into what became SCO OpenServer.
The copious Microsoft copyright notices that are printed out when you log into a SCO system should be your clue. Or maybe the Microsoft copyright notice that is printed when you run the SCO C compiler? If you've ever actually used SCO, you know where it came from.
Well with more and more companies worried about security breaches and the inability to audit deployed code for back doors I dare say Microsoft has a logical and very marketable reason for supporting OpenSSH and the OpenBSD foundation.
Well duh, with Office for OSX, they are the #1 vendor of BSD applications in the world. All of the profits from their OSX division depend on a healthy BSD infrastructure.
Under Steve Ballmer, Microsoft developed and sold many many copies of Office on OSX, which is BSD. In fact, Microsoft is the #1 (in dollar volume) vendor of BSD applications in the whole world. It's been going on for years. Can you just imagine how many BSD developers there are at Microsoft? How many BSD systems they have for testing? Where have you been?
Microsoft is the number one vendor of BSD applications, for sure they want a healthy BSD infrastructure. They make quite a bit of money selling Office products on OSX.
Microsoft is making billions and billions of dollars every year selling licenses for linux/android, they should be sending big checks to the FSF. Without the FSF and their license, Microsoft would not be making that money, because linux would not have happened.
Microsoft at one point was the #1 vendor of Unix software. They wrote the Unix for a Radio Shack system that was the #1 selling Unix system in the whole world at the time.
Microsoft inherited a huge BSD infrastructure when they bought Skype, they maintained it for years.
Microsoft is the #1 vendor of software for the #1 selling Unix system in the whole world, OSX.
maybe we could avoid all evil corporations by cowering in the closet
have you done ethical investigations of your grocer? his supplier? how about the kid who mows your lawn? what about the people you buy gasoline from? do they pass your ethical test?
$50K is massive amounts of money? Maybe you could throw an excellent party or pay for getting the parking lot snowplowed but you are not going to get any sort of "influence" for chicken feed like that.
the implementations need to be tested, too. all chips are not created equal. this batch works great, the next batch fails under certain circumstances. without actual ongoing hardware tests you won't catch it.
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Where I live we call them "volunteer firefighters" and everyone knows to get their kids away from the streets when the town whistle sounds because a couple of pick-ups with flashing lights on their dashboards will be flying through your residential neighborhood at 3x the speed limit anytime now.
these are the poor souls who end up getting vaporized in industrial accidents
nobody even knows what's going on in that big factory, do they?
they are "volunteer" on purpose, it's better to vaporize those without income.
FYI nothing is ever given away for free.
Yes at first glance that's just a platitude, but it's a good idea to always think about this simple truth whenever you you evaluate something has has a face price of zero.
It's really not so simple as that. You can walk into many places at random to use their public restroom without making a purchase. They have given this service to you for free.
At any coffeehouse you will also see that the napkins and creamer and sugar are free for the taking. They don't charge anything for them.
You will also notice that wifi is free in many many places nowadays.
Also you might notice that the city has given you permission for free to walk on their sidewalks and drive on their roads. They paid lots of money to make these things and they just let everyone use them for free.
There is nothing complex or weird or unusual about any of these phenomena. There are no strings attached. There is no conspiracy. It's a simple fact that many things are free because it's not worth the effort to charge for them, and the goodwill involved makes up for the marginal cost.
The article also fails to mention how economically feasible the use of MRI would be for biopsy, given the high cost of MR in general
An MRI costs $280 in France, $1080 in the USA. The CURRENT prostate biopsy procedure costs well over $2000 in the USA. Guess what? Google is your friend.
he's been dead for 40 years, I hope you enjoyed it
BSD software can be forked to GPL anytime
your comment is all bullshit but this is the most entertaining part, what orifice did it come from?
Plastic parts don't have to be actuated by locally mounted servos.
plastic parts won't do well in the autoclave
leaving the cancer to grow doesn't exactly have a good outcome, either
so you would prefer an agonizing slow death from cancer?
Why would you have a robot that needs repair way up in there?
What happens when the prostate repair robot breaks down? Do you want to crawl up there and fix it?
Why don't you ask Seattle? They are currently getting butt-fucked by a broken down tunneling robot.
Their whole marketing scheme involves letting people feel elite for buying their products. That's how cult deals work.
My 2008 macbook is still running great, let's amortize the cost and see how that works out compared to the three Dells I would have chewed through in that time.
I think perhaps Microsoft's SSH server is gonna give you a powershell prompt
I seem to remember Microsoft selling Xenix to SCO, with a lot of the code filtering into what became SCO OpenServer.
The copious Microsoft copyright notices that are printed out when you log into a SCO system should be your clue. Or maybe the Microsoft copyright notice that is printed when you run the SCO C compiler? If you've ever actually used SCO, you know where it came from.
The linux developers have collectively donated the value of Linux, (roughly estimated at $10.8 billion), to the community.
In some quarters, they're making more money than Apple.
yeah, but those are the fake quarters that only work in the coin-op pool tables
Well with more and more companies worried about security breaches and the inability to audit deployed code for back doors I dare say Microsoft has a logical and very marketable reason for supporting OpenSSH and the OpenBSD foundation.
Well duh, with Office for OSX, they are the #1 vendor of BSD applications in the world. All of the profits from their OSX division depend on a healthy BSD infrastructure.
Under Steve Ballmer, Microsoft developed and sold many many copies of Office on OSX, which is BSD. In fact, Microsoft is the #1 (in dollar volume) vendor of BSD applications in the whole world. It's been going on for years. Can you just imagine how many BSD developers there are at Microsoft? How many BSD systems they have for testing? Where have you been?
Microsoft is the number one vendor of BSD applications, for sure they want a healthy BSD infrastructure. They make quite a bit of money selling Office products on OSX.
Microsoft is making billions and billions of dollars every year selling licenses for linux/android, they should be sending big checks to the FSF. Without the FSF and their license, Microsoft would not be making that money, because linux would not have happened.
Microsoft at one point was the #1 vendor of Unix software. They wrote the Unix for a Radio Shack system that was the #1 selling Unix system in the whole world at the time.
Microsoft inherited a huge BSD infrastructure when they bought Skype, they maintained it for years.
Microsoft is the #1 vendor of software for the #1 selling Unix system in the whole world, OSX.
maybe we could avoid all evil corporations by cowering in the closet
have you done ethical investigations of your grocer? his supplier? how about the kid who mows your lawn? what about the people you buy gasoline from? do they pass your ethical test?
donate massive amounts of money to gain influence
$50K is massive amounts of money? Maybe you could throw an excellent party or pay for getting the parking lot snowplowed but you are not going to get any sort of "influence" for chicken feed like that.
that's funny, ssh works just great on VMS and it doesn't have bash or GNU utilities or anything like that.
The rest of the infrastructure is just the chicken feed sprinkle.
That "chicken feed sprinkle" is precisely what the customers are paying for. Facebook is not just selling ads, they are selling everything you type.
the reality of massive system outages affecting NYSE and airlines says that more test engineers are needed
Obviously your designs need to be tested.
the implementations need to be tested, too. all chips are not created equal. this batch works great, the next batch fails under certain circumstances. without actual ongoing hardware tests you won't catch it.