none other than Bruce Perens (Open Source champion) points us to these:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1520/https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1741/
wherein we learn that Opus is "possible royalty/fee". this is not consistent with "Fully Free" to any patent troll waiting for broad adoption before jumping.
the slippery slope of having big-pharma pay for the FDA's testing (as a "cost cutting" maneuver), which then became having the industry itself doing the testing of its own trial products, and by now the FDA is a watch-dog for the industries secrets and guarding their IP, the FDA has become essentially just contract research for the private sector. add that there are good indicators that big-pharma is behind pulling in "campaign contributions" to continue the war on drugs (there's proprietary money in xanax there's none in marijuana) and it's time to just tear down the remains and start a new agency....has that ever occurred? i don't think so.
in all my too many years [hack spittoo] of biochemistry bioinformatics bio-whathaveyou this is the first i've heard of the term "biocurators". and i gotta say, i don't like it. no-sir, not a bit.
"curator mid-14c., from L. curator "overseer, manager, guardian," agent noun from curatus, pp. of curare (see cure). Originally of minors, lunatics, etc.; meaning "officer in charge of a museum, library, etc." is from 1660s." so, "life + manager" or "life + officer in charge of a library"...nah.
before blatantly stating that a suggestion is financially unsound describe the payment and costs involved. you do know that the propane tank example was just an example of a similar market exchange and not in direct monetary proportions, yes? i really don't understand this knee-jerk resistance to a possible solution to the recharge time problem. where has gone the modicum of imagination and ingenuity that used to triumph against far greater challenges than merely swapping batteries - even fairly large ones?
exactly! just think about propane tanks. most places i go, they just take your empty tank and hand you a full one. all the rest is engineering and standardization. imagine a car-wash set-up that slips into a keyed channel on the underside of the car the charged battery in front of the depleted one that it slips out.
it's not only not rocket science, it isn't brain surgery.
Just a few years ago, a Canadian study using baseball stats (because they tracked handiness closely) concluded that lefties were far more likely to die, ( http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199110033251412) this was later shown to have suffered a seemingly paradoxical sampling error (not controlling adequately for those that didn't die). Then there was another study that concluded that left-handedness was likely the result of anoxia in the womb ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002839327390050X). It was discounted for similar sampling error problems. Neurological "wiring error"; perhaps a mutation with few consequences; advantages in the mathematical world (presumably via having a screwy mindset); Language disadvantages; Language *advantages*; high proportion of left-handed (possibly suppressed) American presidents http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/presidents.html (Clinton, Bush, Obama... ). So... run a elaborate predator/prey model applied to sports and see an advantage for the 10% that are different; sounds like rediscovery of Perato distribution to me, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution I'm just not convinced that there's been a proper scientific approach to this issue to date, and until then i'm still stuck with a twisted spine in most college classrooms.
i didn't conclude anything. the topic here is Brin attacking Facebook as a "threat to internet freedom", CISPA is a threat to internet freedom (i say), but Brin doesn't mention the fact that Facebook is supporting CISPA. i just want to know why.
Sergey Brin has listed three threats to Internet freedom: Facebook, Apple,
...and no mention made at all of Facebook's recent scary support of the SOPA-heir: CISPA? Why wouldn't google want to tar Facebook with that one?...might it be that google likes CISPA?
if in doubt blame the browser, but i see a change between frames #1 and #2 and then it gets 'stuck' and no more changes are seen. Firefox 14.0a1 "nightly" ("well y'see thars yer problem right char")
Yes, this is exactly my point too. As an limiting argument, let's say my window manager had some-sort of graphics interface with more bells and whistles than emacs. "ooo look! i wrote a script that resulted in a full Donkeykong game in less than 32 characters!!" of course, that was one of the features of the fancy fictitious graphics interface that there are a number of example games that could be started with the equivalent of "run('donkkong')"
The central problem with 3d-ing stuff is that it solves no problem, scratches no apparent itch, feeds no bull-dog, *and* annoys the pig. Every implementation i've been 'lucky' enough to observe comes off as a skit John Candy did where the 3d feature was made the central feature of the plot (of some silly B-movie). oh, here's a sample (forgot it was "Dr Tongue") http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u4tTFEF_XE
So... "look at this crap we want you to by... *look* at it! ooo..." [moves object fitfully in/out of visual plan]
"What do you want Google? The Key of Orthanc, or perhaps the keys of Barad-dûr itself, along with the crowns of the seven kings, and the rods of the five wizards?"
These efforts are to a large extent laudable, and ought to be encouraged in any case;...however, it gets messy when this hardware requires firm/soft -ware which comes only on a proprietary platform, or binary only libraries, or libraries which require binary only libraries..Net, Eagle, MPLAB... are easy examples, others are more subtle. These guys know about this problem and either are "working" on it (and for that, gawdbless'em), or in some few cases, just don't give a damn; (there is a buck to be made presenting it thus after-all). So, "Open Source Hardware" is often "Open Hardware", sans the source.
Given the nature of the organic (chemical) bonds involved, i think it's safe to say that you'd be required to "gather up your grass clippings, mix with chemicals, and paint it on your roof" rather frequently to maintain any sort of significant electricity production. That is, the original organism has to turn these structures over fairly often, and so would you. But, (i suppose), given the proper equipment, it wouldn't be too much more terrible than moving the lawn and washing the car once a week... maybe. And besides, the neighbor's camellia bush has always annoyed you anyway, so...
Es ist nicht das Ziel der Wissenschaft, der unendlichen Weisheit eine Tür zuöffnen, sondern eine Grenze zu setzen dem unendlichen Irrtum.
-- Bertolt Brecht "Leben des Galilei"
here's my (dubious) translation: It is not the goal of Science to open a door to endless knowledge, but rather to place limits upon endless error.
this quote, i believe, it both filled with truthiness, and also reveals notable false-iness in the referenced article.
Too bad they won't name it "The Queller Drive" (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_One_(Space:_1999) ) a fun scifi plot device being that there's this space drive system that gets you there really fast, but unfortunately kills everything that's in its wake.
That's probably close to as good as can't be hoped for, policy-wise. However the previous company i worked for wouldn't allow us access to public databases (of protein structures) so in order to do research we discovered a public wireless network, associated with the local library system, that we could access from within the company offices. Knowing we'd never be permitted to have a specific machine on both networks (wireless and wired) as that would be a grave security problem (...i guess...) we had one machine 'outside' and one 'inside' and wrote a restricted gateway of sorts between ("stupid"? sure. but somehow having two machines made the microsoft certified IT team happy). My sad point being that a company supplied network must often be twisted (if only via memory stick) so that a herd of lawyers could be driven through it.
Do you use pulseaudio or alsa-server? then you're already running a "front end over a daemon". hell, if you're running a kernel audio module (and i'd bet you are) you're running some front end over something that behaves (except for some techno-lawyering) just like a daemon. Your disgust is, in my humble opinion, misplaced.
As a broader hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn polemic: folks that fancy themselves as techies (most slashdot commentors?) would do themselves a favor in education not to become so rigidly married to GUIs. GUIs are handy for a specific class of tasks typically involving many choices taken from relatively small sets; but in the background they're essentially, often actually, performing what a single line of "Ugh" command-line would do....end of sermon, now run off and program a glitzy interface over some crusty old code.
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Did Qualcomm Inc and Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd (the putative patent holders) sign off on that statement?
none other than Bruce Perens (Open Source champion) points us to these: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1520/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1741/ wherein we learn that Opus is "possible royalty/fee". this is not consistent with "Fully Free" to any patent troll waiting for broad adoption before jumping.
It's renown among serious pollsters as a paid-for propaganda site.
the slippery slope of having big-pharma pay for the FDA's testing (as a "cost cutting" maneuver), which then became having the industry itself doing the testing of its own trial products, and by now the FDA is a watch-dog for the industries secrets and guarding their IP, the FDA has become essentially just contract research for the private sector. add that there are good indicators that big-pharma is behind pulling in "campaign contributions" to continue the war on drugs (there's proprietary money in xanax there's none in marijuana) and it's time to just tear down the remains and start a new agency. ...has that ever occurred? i don't think so.
"curator mid-14c., from L. curator "overseer, manager, guardian," agent noun from curatus, pp. of curare (see cure). Originally of minors, lunatics, etc.; meaning "officer in charge of a museum, library, etc." is from 1660s." so, "life + manager" or "life + officer in charge of a library" ...nah.
'geneannonator' ....maybe
before blatantly stating that a suggestion is financially unsound describe the payment and costs involved. you do know that the propane tank example was just an example of a similar market exchange and not in direct monetary proportions, yes? i really don't understand this knee-jerk resistance to a possible solution to the recharge time problem. where has gone the modicum of imagination and ingenuity that used to triumph against far greater challenges than merely swapping batteries - even fairly large ones?
exactly! just think about propane tanks. most places i go, they just take your empty tank and hand you a full one. all the rest is engineering and standardization. imagine a car-wash set-up that slips into a keyed channel on the underside of the car the charged battery in front of the depleted one that it slips out. it's not only not rocket science, it isn't brain surgery.
Just a few years ago, a Canadian study using baseball stats (because they tracked handiness closely) concluded that lefties were far more likely to die, ( http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199110033251412) this was later shown to have suffered a seemingly paradoxical sampling error (not controlling adequately for those that didn't die). Then there was another study that concluded that left-handedness was likely the result of anoxia in the womb ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/002839327390050X). It was discounted for similar sampling error problems. Neurological "wiring error"; perhaps a mutation with few consequences; advantages in the mathematical world (presumably via having a screwy mindset); Language disadvantages; Language *advantages*; high proportion of left-handed (possibly suppressed) American presidents http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/presidents.html (Clinton, Bush, Obama ... ). So... run a elaborate predator/prey model applied to sports and see an advantage for the 10% that are different; sounds like rediscovery of Perato distribution to me, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution I'm just not convinced that there's been a proper scientific approach to this issue to date, and until then i'm still stuck with a twisted spine in most college classrooms.
i didn't conclude anything. the topic here is Brin attacking Facebook as a "threat to internet freedom", CISPA is a threat to internet freedom (i say), but Brin doesn't mention the fact that Facebook is supporting CISPA. i just want to know why.
Sergey Brin has listed three threats to Internet freedom: Facebook, Apple,
...and no mention made at all of Facebook's recent scary support of the SOPA-heir: CISPA? Why wouldn't google want to tar Facebook with that one? ...might it be that google likes CISPA?
if in doubt blame the browser, but i see a change between frames #1 and #2 and then it gets 'stuck' and no more changes are seen. Firefox 14.0a1 "nightly" ("well y'see thars yer problem right char")
Yes, this is exactly my point too. As an limiting argument, let's say my window manager had some-sort of graphics interface with more bells and whistles than emacs. "ooo look! i wrote a script that resulted in a full Donkeykong game in less than 32 characters!!" of course, that was one of the features of the fancy fictitious graphics interface that there are a number of example games that could be started with the equivalent of "run('donkkong')"
So... "look at this crap we want you to by... *look* at it! ooo..." [moves object fitfully in/out of visual plan]
Someone should insist with (much-beloved) Professor Stroustrup that it's ok/desirable to leave it so Han Solo shoots first.
"What do you want Google? The Key of Orthanc, or perhaps the keys of Barad-dûr itself, along with the crowns of the seven kings, and the rods of the five wizards?"
nah... just start a company that makes killer-drones. "drones to kill their drones" ...drone-wars!
These efforts are to a large extent laudable, and ought to be encouraged in any case; ...however, it gets messy when this hardware requires firm/soft -ware which comes only on a proprietary platform, or binary only libraries, or libraries which require binary only libraries. .Net, Eagle, MPLAB... are easy examples, others are more subtle. These guys know about this problem and either are "working" on it (and for that, gawdbless'em), or in some few cases, just don't give a damn; (there is a buck to be made presenting it thus after-all). So, "Open Source Hardware" is often "Open Hardware", sans the source.
yes, "moving" the lawn, or even "mowing" the lawn... -sigh- (need more coffee...)
Given the nature of the organic (chemical) bonds involved, i think it's safe to say that you'd be required to "gather up your grass clippings, mix with chemicals, and paint it on your roof" rather frequently to maintain any sort of significant electricity production. That is, the original organism has to turn these structures over fairly often, and so would you. But, (i suppose), given the proper equipment, it wouldn't be too much more terrible than moving the lawn and washing the car once a week... maybe. And besides, the neighbor's camellia bush has always annoyed you anyway, so...
here's my (dubious) translation: It is not the goal of Science to open a door to endless knowledge, but rather to place limits upon endless error.
this quote, i believe, it both filled with truthiness, and also reveals notable false-iness in the referenced article.
Too bad they won't name it "The Queller Drive" (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_One_(Space:_1999) ) a fun scifi plot device being that there's this space drive system that gets you there really fast, but unfortunately kills everything that's in its wake.
That's probably close to as good as can't be hoped for, policy-wise. However the previous company i worked for wouldn't allow us access to public databases (of protein structures) so in order to do research we discovered a public wireless network, associated with the local library system, that we could access from within the company offices. Knowing we'd never be permitted to have a specific machine on both networks (wireless and wired) as that would be a grave security problem (...i guess...) we had one machine 'outside' and one 'inside' and wrote a restricted gateway of sorts between ("stupid"? sure. but somehow having two machines made the microsoft certified IT team happy). My sad point being that a company supplied network must often be twisted (if only via memory stick) so that a herd of lawyers could be driven through it.
http://www.google.com/search?q="rika+banare" (heh... wikipedia only suggests "rika banana")
As a broader hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn polemic: folks that fancy themselves as techies (most slashdot commentors?) would do themselves a favor in education not to become so rigidly married to GUIs. GUIs are handy for a specific class of tasks typically involving many choices taken from relatively small sets; but in the background they're essentially, often actually, performing what a single line of "Ugh" command-line would do. ...end of sermon, now run off and program a glitzy interface over some crusty old code.
http://xmms2.org/wiki/Clients