With technology like this avalible, it's still hard to see any sort of effect on the actual market. I've looked around for 'cultured' diamonds, and all I can turn up is http://www.diamondscultured.com and http://www.schubach.com/.
It's surprising how little market impact they've had so far.
What about our linux indexing options? I've looked at Beagle, but it seems to require the whole mono install (haven't gotten around to that yet), and some kernel patching, meta info enabled file systems, and doesn't quite help when dealing with NFS mounted home directories. Are there any other choices?
I'm not saying it would destroy the linux community, it would just hurt it (probably not much, but you would notice the pain). I just thought it odd people were speculating that it would be a good move to hurt IBM. When ever configuring cluster based systems, if it's not AIX, I always get a subtle push toward SLES from IBM, at least in terms of personal conversations and distro support lists on their professional software packages.
It would definitely hurt the Linux community at large, but I don't think IBM would be particularly troubled. While IBM is supposedly distro agnostic, I've seen a definite bias towards Suse when dealing with them.
What if Google starts to use a filter designed to elimnate the effect of text that is deemed 'unviewable'. Just check to see if the text color is the same as the background, if it is, ignore it.
I thought of that is less then 30 seconds, what are the odds Google has already thought about it?
I think Steve Jobs thinks of himself of something like a magician. He does some sort of distraction for the audience so he can pull a rabbit out of his hat. And like any magician he gets mad when people try to spoil the secrets of his tricks (in fact he'll sue your ass). But I'm sure one day, presto, there's an iVideo.
I know you're joking, but I've seen that kind of mentality when working with people in high performance computing. It become really important when you have to pay for powering and cooling incredibly large systems. When you start pricing per minute the cost of running a machine compared to the amount of work it can do, sometimes it's more expensive to keep an older machine because you spend more money keeping it on while it takes longer to solve the same problem.
His main idea seems to hinge on the fact that all first person shooters are the same. I would argue that is almost like saying all movies are the same because they are presented in 2D for about 90 minutes. Yes the format is the same, but sometimes the story counts a bit. Yes, I liked the upgrades to the game engine in Halo 2 (and quick ass online play is never a bad thing), but at some level, I also wanted to see what would happen to Master Chief next. It's also why so many people where pissed off about the ending. If they made Halo 3 with the exact same engine, but a new story line (and new levels...) I would probably go get it.
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Now remeber children, once you've paid your pirate tax, it's OK to download anything you want. Go a head, you already paid the fine. If they try to sue you, just argue that if they can do that, then there is no point for the tax. They either have to choose one or the other.
On a related note, CERN is now being sued by the MPAA & RIAA. A spokesmen was commented, saying, "Obviously with 500 terabytes of data being transmitted on the internet, at least some of it had to be copyrighted materials represented by the RIAA and the MPAA. As we know, the internet and communication grids serve no real purpose other then to pirate movies and music." The lawsuit is expected to destroy CERN and any sort of decent networking research anybody was even thinking about doing for the next 50 year.
It's illegal to sell the same product for different prices in different markets and attempt to prevent enterprising individuals from reselling the product if the price difference is sufficient to make it profitable.
I know this might be asking for a bit, but can someone please site a refrences that shows that this is actually illegal?
Considering most of us here are lazy asses, you comment would have been more helpful if you had copied and pasted those search results for us. I could go search the BBC, or I could just read aintitcool. Which do you think is more likely to happen ?;-)
The idea of locking out a player sounds harsh, but I wouldn't put it past them. I think in response to that kind of behavior, only a scorched earth policy would be effective. So don't just hack one player, hack them all. Every time a new player is released, someone needs to crack and and release the keys. The idea of player lockout work if you only do it to a select number of models, but once you have to do it to a significant number of the population, your product turns to crap.
I know it's a joke, but it got me thinking about collection techniques, and whether or not it would be best to simply only collect male samples. Yes, in our politically correct minds, that sound sexist, but in reality, males have all the genetic information for both genders, they simply only have one copy of the X chromosome. But the statistical information from the male X chromosome should be highly correlated to the female population (every male got his X chromosome from a female, so the statistics in the populations should be highly correlated). But if you only study a male selection, you also have the option studying the Y chromosome ( Y chromosome phylogenetic map ) . And because the transmission of the Y chromosome is not governed by simple mendalian genetics, it provides an interesting method for phylogenetic reconstruction (much like mitochondrial DNA, which you only get from your mother). With female samples, you can only study the mitocondrial lines.
Is there any reason to believe that genetic statistics are vastly different between men a women? If they are not, would the study be more effective if it only concentrated on men?
(I'm not actually proposing to exclude women, I'm just asking questions)
This is just a thought (and I could be wrong here), but I think the apple situation is a bit different. Because the OS is by the same company that made the machine, they can simply claim that when you bought the machine, the OS was just an added bonus they threw in for free. You could try to get the machine without the OS, but you'd only be removing the free bonus. This is supported by the fact that frequently, it you buy a machine within a month of an OS update, Apple will sometimes let you send in a voucher for the new OS for free (happened with my G5)
I think it's referring to the fact that mapping genomes is no longer the future (much like we live in a post-modern world). Genomics is now part of the game. It used to be that if you sequenced a gene, you could work a PhD off of it. Now that's simply the first step. So now that genomes are a part of every day life science, if you don't know how to run blast, you had better get back to school.
Now I can see why some might argue that you can't have internet access within 150 feet of where children congregate (I'm not saying it's logic, but I can see where the argument comes from). But for some reason, I keep thinking there is a more insidious reason for this rule. The internet, by and large, is the ultimate expression of free speech and thought. It's the best place to get info of different ways of thinking. You wouldn't want to expose the mass populous to alternate ways of thinking until you've made sure that you've properly indoctrinated them.
Given their apparent grasp of the obvious, I would have to say no. And even if they did, they are probably paying their lawyers by the hour, so it probably took a few months to figure out.
I think the point is that the are difficult to obtain for people without money. For people with money to throw around, you can try a dozen different stupid patents, and hope that one of them sticks.
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With technology like this avalible, it's still hard to see any sort of effect on the actual market. I've looked around for 'cultured' diamonds, and all I can turn up is http://www.diamondscultured.com and http://www.schubach.com/.
It's surprising how little market impact they've had so far.
What about our linux indexing options?
I've looked at Beagle, but it seems to require the whole mono install (haven't gotten around to that yet), and some kernel patching, meta info enabled file systems, and doesn't quite help when dealing with NFS mounted home directories.
Are there any other choices?
I'm not saying it would destroy the linux community, it would just hurt it (probably not much, but you would notice the pain). I just thought it odd people were speculating that it would be a good move to hurt IBM. When ever configuring cluster based systems, if it's not AIX, I always get a subtle push toward SLES from IBM, at least in terms of personal conversations and distro support lists on their professional software packages.
It would definitely hurt the Linux community at large, but I don't think IBM would be particularly troubled. While IBM is supposedly distro agnostic, I've seen a definite bias towards Suse when dealing with them.
What if Google starts to use a filter designed to elimnate the effect of text that is deemed 'unviewable'. Just check to see if the text color is the same as the background, if it is, ignore it.
I thought of that is less then 30 seconds, what are the odds Google has already thought about it?
I think Steve Jobs thinks of himself of something like a magician. He does some sort of distraction for the audience so he can pull a rabbit out of his hat. And like any magician he gets mad when people try to spoil the secrets of his tricks (in fact he'll sue your ass).
But I'm sure one day, presto, there's an iVideo.
I know you're joking, but I've seen that kind of mentality when working with people in high performance computing. It become really important when you have to pay for powering and cooling incredibly large systems. When you start pricing per minute the cost of running a machine compared to the amount of work it can do, sometimes it's more expensive to keep an older machine because you spend more money keeping it on while it takes longer to solve the same problem.
His main idea seems to hinge on the fact that all first person shooters are the same. I would argue that is almost like saying all movies are the same because they are presented in 2D for about 90 minutes.
Yes the format is the same, but sometimes the story counts a bit. Yes, I liked the upgrades to the game engine in Halo 2 (and quick ass online play is never a bad thing), but at some level, I also wanted to see what would happen to Master Chief next. It's also why so many people where pissed off about the ending.
If they made Halo 3 with the exact same engine, but a new story line (and new levels...) I would probably go get it.
Now remeber children, once you've paid your pirate tax, it's OK to download anything you want. Go a head, you already paid the fine. If they try to sue you, just argue that if they can do that, then there is no point for the tax. They either have to choose one or the other.
On a related note, CERN is now being sued by the MPAA & RIAA. A spokesmen was commented, saying, "Obviously with 500 terabytes of data being transmitted on the internet, at least some of it had to be copyrighted materials represented by the RIAA and the MPAA. As we know, the internet and communication grids serve no real purpose other then to pirate movies and music."
The lawsuit is expected to destroy CERN and any sort of decent networking research anybody was even thinking about doing for the next 50 year.
It's illegal to sell the same product for different prices in different markets and attempt to prevent enterprising individuals from reselling the product if the price difference is sufficient to make it profitable.
I know this might be asking for a bit, but can someone please site a refrences that shows that this is actually illegal?
Considering most of us here are lazy asses, you comment would have been more helpful if you had copied and pasted those search results for us. ;-)
I could go search the BBC, or I could just read aintitcool. Which do you think is more likely to happen ?
The idea of locking out a player sounds harsh, but I wouldn't put it past them. I think in response to that kind of behavior, only a scorched earth policy would be effective. So don't just hack one player, hack them all. Every time a new player is released, someone needs to crack and and release the keys. The idea of player lockout work if you only do it to a select number of models, but once you have to do it to a significant number of the population, your product turns to crap.
I know it's a joke, but it got me thinking about collection techniques, and whether or not it would be best to simply only collect male samples.
Yes, in our politically correct minds, that sound sexist, but in reality, males have all the genetic information for both genders, they simply only have one copy of the X chromosome. But the statistical information from the male X chromosome should be highly correlated to the female population (every male got his X chromosome from a female, so the statistics in the populations should be highly correlated). But if you only study a male selection, you also have the option studying the Y chromosome ( Y chromosome phylogenetic map ) . And because the transmission of the Y chromosome is not governed by simple mendalian genetics, it provides an interesting method for phylogenetic reconstruction (much like mitochondrial DNA, which you only get from your mother). With female samples, you can only study the mitocondrial lines.
Is there any reason to believe that genetic statistics are vastly different between men a women? If they are not, would the study be more effective if it only concentrated on men?
(I'm not actually proposing to exclude women, I'm just asking questions)
This is just a thought (and I could be wrong here), but I think the apple situation is a bit different. Because the OS is by the same company that made the machine, they can simply claim that when you bought the machine, the OS was just an added bonus they threw in for free. You could try to get the machine without the OS, but you'd only be removing the free bonus.
This is supported by the fact that frequently, it you buy a machine within a month of an OS update, Apple will sometimes let you send in a voucher for the new OS for free (happened with my G5)
I think it's referring to the fact that mapping genomes is no longer the future (much like we live in a post-modern world).
Genomics is now part of the game. It used to be that if you sequenced a gene, you could work a PhD off of it. Now that's simply the first step. So now that genomes are a part of every day life science, if you don't know how to run blast, you had better get back to school.
At 18 you are no longer a kid - you're an adult.
I've never worked out why people in the US still call people 25 years old 'kids'.
Don't worry, you will when you're 25.
I like to think of myself as the exception that proves the rule.
Now I can see why some might argue that you can't have internet access within 150 feet of where children congregate (I'm not saying it's logic, but I can see where the argument comes from).
But for some reason, I keep thinking there is a more insidious reason for this rule. The internet, by and large, is the ultimate expression of free speech and thought. It's the best place to get info of different ways of thinking. You wouldn't want to expose the mass populous to alternate ways of thinking until you've made sure that you've properly indoctrinated them.
Sounds like another group of people trying to make alternatives to their products illegal rather then reviewing obviously bad business strategies.
Why doesn't this surprise me any more?
Given their apparent grasp of the obvious, I would have to say no. And even if they did, they are probably paying their lawyers by the hour, so it probably took a few months to figure out.
I think the point is that the are difficult to obtain for people without money. For people with money to throw around, you can try a dozen different stupid patents, and hope that one of them sticks.