In other countries you wouldn't get very far trying to sue. I think the high costs of medical care, which is partly spent on lobbying the government to make the cost higher, is partly to blaim for the risk of getting sued. Kinda a visious circle.
I don't think anything can survive in 'super glue', and pureish alcohol will kill of most things.
The point is, unless you've got some kind of immune problem the amount of contamination in 'skivie' grade products as apposed to big fat drug company grade products is negligible, especially when compared to how dirty everything else is.
You know those people who ware long sleved tops in the summer? check out there arms if you don't believe me, Jesus you have to be putting a mean amount of very dirty smack in you arms to get a nasty infection.
How many deaths are there a year due to contaminated super-glue?
How many people catch xyz because they cleaned a cut with toilet tissue instead of millspec glaxosmithkline tissue paper?
I'm sorry you can used dental floss and sutures if you want, but hell it's not made by a licensed qualified professional company, so you'll just have to pay glaxo to do a bit more lobying.
I'm living in a flat that's quite new (not more than 15 years old) and I put cardboard up at the window overnight and it keeps the flat nice and toasty.
I read EBooks on my PDA on the train etc.. it's a lot easier than manageing a real book (smaller, no pages). because the screen is a lot more compact on a PDA (or PDA/Phone) it makes reading a lot nicer than a using 20inch LCD.
I expect there are even some phones that you could take in the bath.
A pda could also read the book to you, which is quite good for the train too.
I'm sorry, one of the biggest problems with patents (especially software ones) is the length of time they last. I think 3 years from the drawing-board to the market is reasonable, and it will give you a good couple of years head start on you competitors.
Short (well shortish) patents will driver invention because companies will need to keep creating new things to ensure there niche instead of relying on reviews from outdated ideas.
Also, if a patent expires in 3 years, it doesn't matter too much if it was a poor patent to start with.
Science of Rockets? nope, it's just getting everyone to agree to put a tracking system into there backend, which is impossible science especially with the million+1 E-commerce engines out there.
I've tried to use kdevelop on several occasions (and I do mean tried!), and found it lacking.
Project management is poor to non-existant. Installation management is poor to non-existant. Ideal mode is bloody anoying. I've tried to produce libraies (just using kdevelop and no makefile tweeking), and it seems imposible. etc... The IDE is very hard to use and vim and a ewb brosers pointed to developer.kde.org is a lot easier.
Also I've had a look at one of the linked articals.
"Developing GUI in C++ language is usually considered as a hard task. Fortunately, Qt library greatly simplified it but till recent no tool was available to allow joint development of GUI and code. Pascal and Java developers has been enjoying such tools for several years (Delphi, Kylix, Forte come in mind). KDevelop 3.1 has now the same capabilities."
This is a troll, 1: Kylix supports C++. 2: CBuilder. (which runs under wine) nad is very rad. 3: QTDesigner (and some of the other trolltech tools), support editing code and GUI at the same time.
On a brighter note, the original version of kdevelop (before the re-write) was less cluttered and a hell of a lot easier to use.
Bush can't save the dollar, so don't expect him to save anything else. Bush also thinks that Iraq had has or maybe still has (up it's sleeve) Weapons of mass destruction. and Bush thinks that marrage is about religion so gays can't get married.
And unfortunately the US political system has this horrible idea of putting all there eggs in one basket called the presidency.(so much for democracy!), so don't expect the US to do anything for at least another 4 years.
Bush: I spoke to God last night and he told me of the Axis of Evil, how the Gays are dambed and how i should use up all the fostle fules so that the evolutionists can't disprove creationism.
Doctor: If only he was taking acid I'd feel a hell of a lot safer.
What I'd like to see is. More grants being given to research students forthis kind of thing (though that means using tax$ instead of people paying at the bottom line). Research could then be put under a 'national patent' so companies in the country that developed the technoligy could use it for free, but those in other countries would have to pay, that's the sweetner for the extra tax.
1. An embryo, bacteria, things like slime molds and viruses are all on the border between bilogical 'alive' and chemical 'alive' and sometimes when you look hard you can't really tell, arguing a scientific fact on something that is so open to interpretation is just plain stupid.
2. Well, what I think God meant to say was... What exactly is the moderate approach (it's a distinct way so it's should be too hard to explain), and how is it not based on the fundementalist approach, and why doesn't bush eat dogs like most some of the countries in the east, and what's wrong with child porn? Which bits of teh guide should I follow? only the ones I think are good so I can ditch the rest, wine on sunday good, killing people i'll just skip that.
Why is spanish the fastest growing languange in the US? think religion and contraception.
1: in the context of an embryo and research it is a moral issue.
2: If you are a Christian or a Jew your beliefs are based on the old testament, if they ain't what the hell are they based on? Next you'll be telling me the pope ain't catholic, he's a leader of some new-wave cult. Where did the idea that people are somehow different come from and the 'axis of evil' come from, it sure wasn't Buddhism. Wake up, smell the roses, we live in a 'cristian/jewish' based culture.
Linux runs on..... and is used in.... developing country for..... Hell Linux has probably saved more lives than any Firefighter and without even getting a medal.
OSS programmers also brave dangers that could see there life being taken away every day: patents, security issues, dmca, reverse engineering.
I've put myself in danger to help others before, it's not heroic it's just something you do, I've also stood upto lines of police for something I belive in that's much harder to do, but I sure as hell don't live in the US and play games with the DMCA or patent laws.
Getting electronic prescriptions dispensed: Currently it's easy (well in the UK) to get someone else to get you prescrition. Hell it's even easier to get them on the black market, and often cheaper.
Online voting: I vote with my feet and at demos not to some stupid head counter. I'm not even on the electoral regester.
Motor vehical ownership: The UK governmens currently running a scare campain about this one, but what they fail to realise is that 'criminals' buy a car with tax on and then sell it before the tax runs out. Anyhow I can rent a car, or borrow one or.... which makes the users identity variable.
I've never been in a car crash that I couldn't prepair for, and I've never been injured in a car crash (appart from a cut toe). Crash test dummies are to crash testing what 'steet value' is to the price you pay for drugs. Worst case senario guide lines.
Like, so your telling me whatever application your runing isn't compiled? That would mean your eitehr using a mainframe with interpreted cobol or using the only browser written in bbc basic.
I'd pick any liquid with good thermail properties but was a poor solvent, I'm sure there must be a lot about, maybe not in such huge quantities though.
Identity management: I cannot ever see the need for uniqueness online, and in saying that I require is you are asaying that I may ahve intent to commit a crime, which isn't work the risk of your ability to control what I can do.
Training: Well, you don't need training really, it's all in the software, all my passwords are already encrypted with kwallet, and I expect that if I use kmail it will automaticly sign my emails.
All I need is for a signiture tag to be added to the xforms or xhtml specification and my browser can transparently sign any data that I post. (I would also add a date field to the post data so that you know when the message was sent, this will prevent a duplicate message being send by a hacker.)
The main problem I can see is viruses and trojons because as soon as someone has broken into your pc your identity is stolen, and that is going to be the problem with any time of identity management system you can think of.
Firstly, it's a 'moral' issue not one of biology, there has been a lot of descusion about the morality of AI and computers definatly arn't biological, life and death has come to mean a lot more than biology.
Secondly, Yes it is, well at least 75% of it is and that's a lot more that nothing, it may be a bit fucked up, had a bit of witch catching thrown in etc.. but it is.
Why do/did we have a Queen , because she is said to be holy and the Queen has overall power over the UK. A hell of a lot of people who went to the US were religions zealots being kicked out of England, and I doub't that you will find anyone in power in most western countries that doesn't proclaim to be christian or Jewish. We don't eat cats and dogs because the bible says so. Abortion is viewed as wrong because the bible says so. People think being gay is wrong, becuse the bible says so. People payed taxes, because of the bible. Now you can't tell me that a culture that has been build up buy it's rulers who in the most part claim beliefs based upon the old testament isn't going to be based upon the old testament?
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In other countries you wouldn't get very far trying to sue. I think the high costs of medical care, which is partly spent on lobbying the government to make the cost higher, is partly to blaim for the risk of getting sued. Kinda a visious circle.
I don't think anything can survive in 'super glue', and pureish alcohol will kill of most things.
The point is, unless you've got some kind of immune problem the amount of contamination in 'skivie' grade products as apposed to big fat drug company grade products is negligible, especially when compared to how dirty everything else is.
You know those people who ware long sleved tops in the summer? check out there arms if you don't believe me, Jesus you have to be putting a mean amount of very dirty smack in you arms to get a nasty infection.
Superglue's far to unclean a product, Yeh right!
How many deaths are there a year due to contaminated super-glue?
How many people catch xyz because they cleaned a cut with toilet tissue instead of millspec glaxosmithkline tissue paper?
I'm sorry you can used dental floss and sutures if you want, but hell it's not made by a licensed qualified professional company, so you'll just have to pay glaxo to do a bit more lobying.
I'm living in a flat that's quite new (not more than 15 years old) and I put cardboard up at the window overnight and it keeps the flat nice and toasty.
Cardboard is a great insulator (or at least corrugated cardboard). I'm sure is saved many a homeless person from death.
I read EBooks on my PDA on the train etc.. it's a lot easier than manageing a real book (smaller, no pages). because the screen is a lot more compact on a PDA (or PDA/Phone) it makes reading a lot nicer than a using 20inch LCD.
I expect there are even some phones that you could take in the bath.
A pda could also read the book to you, which is quite good for the train too.
I'm sorry, one of the biggest problems with patents (especially software ones) is the length of time they last.
I think 3 years from the drawing-board to the market is reasonable, and it will give you a good couple of years head start on you competitors.
Short (well shortish) patents will driver invention because companies will need to keep creating new things to ensure there niche instead of relying on reviews from outdated ideas.
Also, if a patent expires in 3 years, it doesn't matter too much if it was a poor patent to start with.
Science of Rockets? nope, it's just getting everyone to agree to put a tracking system into there backend, which is impossible science especially with the million+1 E-commerce engines out there.
I've tried to use kdevelop on several occasions (and I do mean tried!), and found it lacking.
Project management is poor to non-existant.
Installation management is poor to non-existant.
Ideal mode is bloody anoying.
I've tried to produce libraies (just using kdevelop and no makefile tweeking), and it seems imposible.
etc...
The IDE is very hard to use and vim and a ewb brosers pointed to developer.kde.org is a lot easier.
Also I've had a look at one of the linked articals.
"Developing GUI in C++ language is usually considered as a hard task. Fortunately, Qt library greatly simplified it but till recent no tool was available to allow joint development of GUI and code. Pascal and Java developers has been enjoying such tools for several years (Delphi, Kylix, Forte come in mind). KDevelop 3.1 has now the same capabilities."
This is a troll,
1: Kylix supports C++.
2: CBuilder. (which runs under wine) nad is very rad.
3: QTDesigner (and some of the other trolltech tools), support editing code and GUI at the same time.
On a brighter note, the original version of kdevelop (before the re-write) was less cluttered and a hell of a lot easier to use.
Bush can't save the dollar, so don't expect him to save anything else. Bush also thinks that Iraq had has or maybe still has (up it's sleeve) Weapons of mass destruction. and Bush thinks that marrage is about religion so gays can't get married.
And unfortunately the US political system has this horrible idea of putting all there eggs in one basket called the presidency.(so much for democracy!), so don't expect the US to do anything for at least another 4 years.
Bush:
I spoke to God last night and he told me of the Axis of Evil, how the Gays are dambed and how i should use up all the fostle fules so that the evolutionists can't disprove creationism.
Doctor:
If only he was taking acid I'd feel a hell of a lot safer.
HIV cures you.
What I'd like to see is.
More grants being given to research students forthis kind of thing (though that means using tax$ instead of people paying at the bottom line).
Research could then be put under a 'national patent' so companies in the country that developed the technoligy could use it for free, but those in other countries would have to pay, that's the sweetner for the extra tax.
Does it have a linux client? that's worth at least 0.5 of a point, so I don't see how it got more than a 9.5 without one.
When you have no anwer.
Q: So why do the planets travel round the earth?
A: umm.. Because God put them there?
My PC crashed the other day, it must be possesed by an evil spirit, bring on the holy water and start praying.
1. An embryo, bacteria, things like slime molds and viruses are all on the border between bilogical 'alive' and chemical 'alive' and sometimes when you look hard you can't really tell, arguing a scientific fact on something that is so open to interpretation is just plain stupid.
2. Well, what I think God meant to say was...
What exactly is the moderate approach (it's a distinct way so it's should be too hard to explain), and how is it not based on the fundementalist approach, and why doesn't bush eat dogs like most some of the countries in the east, and what's wrong with child porn? Which bits of teh guide should I follow? only the ones I think are good so I can ditch the rest, wine on sunday good, killing people i'll just skip that.
Why is spanish the fastest growing languange in the US? think religion and contraception.
1: in the context of an embryo and research it is a moral issue.
2: If you are a Christian or a Jew your beliefs are based on the old testament, if they ain't what the hell are they based on? Next you'll be telling me the pope ain't catholic, he's a leader of some new-wave cult. Where did the idea that people are somehow different come from and the 'axis of evil' come from, it sure wasn't Buddhism.
Wake up, smell the roses, we live in a 'cristian/jewish' based culture.
Linux runs on ..... and is used in .... developing country for .....
Hell Linux has probably saved more lives than any Firefighter and without even getting a medal.
OSS programmers also brave dangers that could see there life being taken away every day: patents, security issues, dmca, reverse engineering.
I've put myself in danger to help others before, it's not heroic it's just something you do, I've also stood upto lines of police for something I belive in that's much harder to do, but I sure as hell don't live in the US and play games with the DMCA or patent laws.
Getting electronic prescriptions dispensed:
.... which makes the users identity variable.
Currently it's easy (well in the UK) to get someone else to get you prescrition. Hell it's even easier to get them on the black market, and often cheaper.
Online voting: I vote with my feet and at demos not to some stupid head counter. I'm not even on the electoral regester.
Motor vehical ownership:
The UK governmens currently running a scare campain about this one, but what they fail to realise is that 'criminals' buy a car with tax on and then sell it before the tax runs out.
Anyhow I can rent a car, or borrow one or
I think the splash screen should say.
'Want this application to load faster?, click here to donate'
I've never been in a car crash that I couldn't prepair for, and I've never been injured in a car crash (appart from a cut toe).
Crash test dummies are to crash testing what 'steet value' is to the price you pay for drugs.
Worst case senario guide lines.
Was the binary hand written by monkies or did it start out in C and then get compiled?
Hey, maybe the gui is in python and never needs to be compiled
Like, so your telling me whatever application your runing isn't compiled? That would mean your eitehr using a mainframe with interpreted cobol or using the only browser written in bbc basic.
I'd pick any liquid with good thermail properties but was a poor solvent, I'm sure there must be a lot about, maybe not in such huge quantities though.
Identity management:
I cannot ever see the need for uniqueness online, and in saying that I require is you are asaying that I may ahve intent to commit a crime, which isn't work the risk of your ability to control what I can do.
Training:
Well, you don't need training really, it's all in the software, all my passwords are already encrypted with kwallet, and I expect that if I use kmail it will automaticly sign my emails.
All I need is for a signiture tag to be added to the xforms or xhtml specification and my browser can transparently sign any data that I post.
(I would also add a date field to the post data so that you know when the message was sent, this will prevent a duplicate message being send by a hacker.)
The main problem I can see is viruses and trojons because as soon as someone has broken into your pc your identity is stolen, and that is going to be the problem with any time of identity management system you can think of.
Firstly, it's a 'moral' issue not one of biology, there has been a lot of descusion about the morality of AI and computers definatly arn't biological, life and death has come to mean a lot more than biology.
Secondly, Yes it is, well at least 75% of it is and that's a lot more that nothing, it may be a bit fucked up, had a bit of witch catching thrown in etc.. but it is.
Why do/did we have a Queen , because she is said to be holy and the Queen has overall power over the UK. A hell of a lot of people who went to the US were religions zealots being kicked out of England, and I doub't that you will find anyone in power in most western countries that doesn't proclaim to be christian or Jewish.
We don't eat cats and dogs because the bible says so.
Abortion is viewed as wrong because the bible says so. People think being gay is wrong, becuse the bible says so. People payed taxes, because of the bible.
Now you can't tell me that a culture that has been build up buy it's rulers who in the most part claim beliefs based upon the old testament isn't going to be based upon the old testament?
It's usually a symbiotic relationship and sometimes hard to tell where the Bactrea/virus stop and the human starts.
Try giving a china man milk?