No offense, but if you read the article, this is taxpayer-funded research. NASA will have the choice (once this research produces polymer muscles ready for the medical market) of giving this to companies to develop for use with or without a patent behind the technology. It's my hope, for all the hard-case medical cases that will benefit from this technology, that the research is sold to companies without giving any of them exclusive rights to it for 17 years (which a patent does).
I say this since if more than one company has the rights to this technology, it will hopefully help drive down prices for the buyer.
Since the jokes are going to be flying fast and furious over this, I thought I'd ask if anyone has links to other information about this cool research. Googling on polymer musclesbrought up this page, but I didn't see anything about their ability to carry semi-fluid weight loads like groceries, tools, etc.
One nice side note (hopefully) - since it's government funded through NASA, does this mean this work won't be patented and re-sold in the market for an even higher price than it will already cost?
You know, your suggestion is reasonable and makes a lot of sense, but in the spirit of trolling, I think it's in Microsoft's best interest that Linux remain a hodge-podge of Balkanized, incompatible distros.
"I'm tired of rebuilding Windows computers week after week for stuff like this."
It's no big deal. Go ahead, switch her to a Linux distribution and then you can have the pleasure of rebuilding her Linux PC week after week when she hoses/that distribution/.
"I want to support inexpensive and LEGAL channels to buy the music I want."
You know, the labels behind the RIAA couldn't have said it any better in a well-prepared press release. Soooo, scoot up and pay 5x more for the privilege of downloading music with DRM. Them's good eatings! Yummy yummy yummy!!!
"Unless you mean the right to control the distribution of our creative output, so we can make a living without making something physical."
As long as you're not signed to a label, that's true. However, once you sign that label contract, make no mistake - your ass and ALL distribution rights to your music belong to the label, not you.
As for making a living, that's funny. 90-95% of all acts signed one year are dumped by their label within two years - but your music still belongs to the label.
"And this is good beacuse a Russian business is making money by selling copies of US (and Euro, etc.) musicians' work, but paying them nothing in return? Is that about right?"
Yep, they're operating a lot like the American and European record labels have done for years.
"I do not want my country ruled by a cabal of easily bought unelected scum in Brussels, and, given the way things are going, I think there are many current EU members, such as the UK and Denmark that are wondering how they can get out of it as fast as possible."
Heh, now you know how we feel about our "Representatives" in Washington D.C.:-)
"This was not for the 'good of the consumer'. It was a way to steal Apple's thunder and feel good because they were the 'first website with the details'."
And how is this bad? This is the reason why "scoops" are so revered in the media trade, and why good journalists are always trying to get them, regardless of whether it's for the good of the consumer.
"When you facilitate people with an agenda you are not a journalist anymore, you are a participant in an agenda."
You mean like the way the Bush Administration repeatedly invited fanboy Robert Novak to its press conferences so that he could lob softball questions at the President?
And, given your statement above, you think all confidential sources should be outed, despite the fact that the law has said otherwise?
"At this point though, with how our culture has developed, anonymous sources are a scourage in my opinion. There are numerous cases of anonymous sources being up and out fabricated, and used a cover for rumor and gossip by journalists."
Yep, like those irresponsible journalists Woodward and Berstein, or the journalists who took Karen Silkwood's anonymous work to the public, or how about the Bush Administration leak to Rober Novak that outed a covert CIA agent?
You may not like anonymous sources, but they have always served a purpose. See a brief history here.
Yeah, nice article on the transfar and cleaning process, but really, who gives a shit? We won't be able to record them, and we'll have the pleasure of sucking from our master's teet to view them on our FCC- and Corporate-approved viewing stations.
Someone wake me up when the content industries don't insist on being a bunch of monopolitive, skull-fucking assholes and *then* I might care about restored, super duper restorations.
"And how long before Life w/o Parole is determined to be "Cruel and Unusual" for children?"
Glad you asked, Slashdotter! So far, in thousands of cases decided before the U.S. Supreme Court since 1900, that question has never been accepted by the Court, nor has it even made its way for hearing before any of the 9 Federal Circuit Courts.
However, don't let that stop you from pulling this completely bogus piece o' crap example from your butt as an an example of your historical or legal stupidity.
"17 year old kid with a 20 year sentence comes out of jail at the age of 37 --- may still be a sociopath, has been hardened by jail...his life is pretty much ruined (between the record, and spending the last 20 years in jail without any kind of job experience/training)....yea the kid we want in society."
Well, let's make it easy. If anyone gets sentenced to 20 years or more in jail, just make it automatic life with no parole.
"Again, why should I have to foot the bill for the next 20+ years...and 20 years is NOTHING for what they did."
You should be so lucky. Housing a person for life costs less than all the legal appeals cost you if they're on their way to the chamber, look it up if you don't believe me. Additionally, you're already footing the bill for hundreds of thousands of non-violent drug offenders, courtesy of the For-Profit U.S. prison system, so stop whining about a few dozen death row inmates in your stste.
"A 16 year old may not understand a contract very well - but a 16 year old does know what death is about..."
Yet, the law requires that someone who is found to be an adult in one area, is an adult in all areas. If you're hot about getting 16 year olds into the chair, then all of the penalities and benefits of adulthood must be extended to them. Pick-and-choose adulthood is LAAAAAAME, and the *only* reason there are 21+ drinking laws in the U.S. is because the federal government extorts states into passing 21+ laws or else lose their highway funding.
"So the question becomes then, what is the difference between someone who is 17 years and 364 days and 23 hours old who brutaly rapes and muders a woman compared to someone who is 18 years 0 days and 0 hours old?"
The difference is that you have failed to get anyone who is 17 years and 364 days old to be declared a legal adult. As soon as you do that, then maybe you will have a legal leg to stand on, but until then it's all La La Land.
Thanks for the link, I really enjoyed it until it got to the highly technical discussion near the last few lines of the page. It is amazing that their glorified bookmarks list did become so popular, and that they had the foresight to ditch the Masters in EE to become the leading index on the WWW.
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No offense, but if you read the article, this is taxpayer-funded research. NASA will have the choice (once this research produces polymer muscles ready for the medical market) of giving this to companies to develop for use with or without a patent behind the technology. It's my hope, for all the hard-case medical cases that will benefit from this technology, that the research is sold to companies without giving any of them exclusive rights to it for 17 years (which a patent does).
I say this since if more than one company has the rights to this technology, it will hopefully help drive down prices for the buyer.
Since the jokes are going to be flying fast and furious over this, I thought I'd ask if anyone has links to other information about this cool research. Googling on polymer muscles brought up this page, but I didn't see anything about their ability to carry semi-fluid weight loads like groceries, tools, etc.
One nice side note (hopefully) - since it's government funded through NASA, does this mean this work won't be patented and re-sold in the market for an even higher price than it will already cost?
Well, if you want to see the complete Fanboy mentality in full masticatory action, check out the Macrumors thread here. I got banned, can you?
Woops, you're right.
This Mac I is pretty cool. I wonder if its Doom 3 benchmarks are any worse than a high-end Dual G5's are? ;-)
"Oh, and Sun/Solaris isn't the "last man standing", Linux is."
Yeah, but given that each Linux distro standing is a lot like the Little Ashes from Army of Darkness, who cares?
You know, your suggestion is reasonable and makes a lot of sense, but in the spirit of trolling, I think it's in Microsoft's best interest that Linux remain a hodge-podge of Balkanized, incompatible distros.
"I'm tired of rebuilding Windows computers week after week for stuff like this."
/that distribution/.
It's no big deal. Go ahead, switch her to a Linux distribution and then you can have the pleasure of rebuilding her Linux PC week after week when she hoses
"People buy used CDs all the time, even though that's not ethical. It's accepted practice."
Oh brooooooooooother. Let's try this same sentence with some other commodities, eh?
"People buy used cars all the time, even though that's not ethical."
"People buy used clothes all the time, even though that's not ethical."
"People buy used computers all the time, even though that's not ethical."
Reselling and buying used products is both fair and wise.
"I want to support inexpensive and LEGAL channels to buy the music I want."
You know, the labels behind the RIAA couldn't have said it any better in a well-prepared press release. Soooo, scoot up and pay 5x more for the privilege of downloading music with DRM. Them's good eatings! Yummy yummy yummy!!!
"Sure they do, if you consider stealing a 'right'."
Why as a matter of fact I do.
Edgar Brofman
President, BMG
"Unless you mean the right to control the distribution of our creative output, so we can make a living without making something physical."
As long as you're not signed to a label, that's true. However, once you sign that label contract, make no mistake - your ass and ALL distribution rights to your music belong to the label, not you.
As for making a living, that's funny. 90-95% of all acts signed one year are dumped by their label within two years - but your music still belongs to the label.
"And this is good beacuse a Russian business is making money by selling copies of US (and Euro, etc.) musicians' work, but paying them nothing in return? Is that about right?"
Yep, they're operating a lot like the American and European record labels have done for years.
"I do not want my country ruled by a cabal of easily bought unelected scum in Brussels, and, given the way things are going, I think there are many current EU members, such as the UK and Denmark that are wondering how they can get out of it as fast as possible."
:-)
Heh, now you know how we feel about our "Representatives" in Washington D.C.
"This was not for the 'good of the consumer'. It was a way to steal Apple's thunder and feel good because they were the 'first website with the details'."
And how is this bad? This is the reason why "scoops" are so revered in the media trade, and why good journalists are always trying to get them, regardless of whether it's for the good of the consumer.
"When you facilitate people with an agenda you are not a journalist anymore, you are a participant in an agenda."
You mean like the way the Bush Administration repeatedly invited fanboy Robert Novak to its press conferences so that he could lob softball questions at the President?
And, given your statement above, you think all confidential sources should be outed, despite the fact that the law has said otherwise?
"At this point though, with how our culture has developed, anonymous sources are a scourage in my opinion. There are numerous cases of anonymous sources being up and out fabricated, and used a cover for rumor and gossip by journalists."
Yep, like those irresponsible journalists Woodward and Berstein, or the journalists who took Karen Silkwood's anonymous work to the public, or how about the Bush Administration leak to Rober Novak that outed a covert CIA agent?
You may not like anonymous sources, but they have always served a purpose. See a brief history here.
Yeah, nice article on the transfar and cleaning process, but really, who gives a shit? We won't be able to record them, and we'll have the pleasure of sucking from our master's teet to view them on our FCC- and Corporate-approved viewing stations.
Someone wake me up when the content industries don't insist on being a bunch of monopolitive, skull-fucking assholes and *then* I might care about restored, super duper restorations.
"No one has suggested it's proper to strap an 8-year-old into an electric chair."
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Actually, yes they have, higher up in this thread.
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=141135&ci
"And how long before Life w/o Parole is determined to be "Cruel and Unusual" for children?"
Glad you asked, Slashdotter! So far, in thousands of cases decided before the U.S. Supreme Court since 1900, that question has never been accepted by the Court, nor has it even made its way for hearing before any of the 9 Federal Circuit Courts.
However, don't let that stop you from pulling this completely bogus piece o' crap example from your butt as an an example of your historical or legal stupidity.
"17 year old kid with a 20 year sentence comes out of jail at the age of 37 --- may still be a sociopath, has been hardened by jail...his life is pretty much ruined (between the record, and spending the last 20 years in jail without any kind of job experience/training)....yea the kid we want in society."
Well, let's make it easy. If anyone gets sentenced to 20 years or more in jail, just make it automatic life with no parole.
"Again, why should I have to foot the bill for the next 20+ years...and 20 years is NOTHING for what they did."
You should be so lucky. Housing a person for life costs less than all the legal appeals cost you if they're on their way to the chamber, look it up if you don't believe me. Additionally, you're already footing the bill for hundreds of thousands of non-violent drug offenders, courtesy of the For-Profit U.S. prison system, so stop whining about a few dozen death row inmates in your stste.
"A 16 year old may not understand a contract very well - but a 16 year old does know what death is about..."
Yet, the law requires that someone who is found to be an adult in one area, is an adult in all areas. If you're hot about getting 16 year olds into the chair, then all of the penalities and benefits of adulthood must be extended to them. Pick-and-choose adulthood is LAAAAAAME, and the *only* reason there are 21+ drinking laws in the U.S. is because the federal government extorts states into passing 21+ laws or else lose their highway funding.
"So the question becomes then, what is the difference between someone who is 17 years and 364 days and 23 hours old who brutaly rapes and muders a woman compared to someone who is 18 years 0 days and 0 hours old?"
The difference is that you have failed to get anyone who is 17 years and 364 days old to be declared a legal adult. As soon as you do that, then maybe you will have a legal leg to stand on, but until then it's all La La Land.
Thanks for the link, I really enjoyed it until it got to the highly technical discussion near the last few lines of the page. It is amazing that their glorified bookmarks list did become so popular, and that they had the foresight to ditch the Masters in EE to become the leading index on the WWW.
FYI, I loaded it fine in Mozilla 1.7.2 on Windows 2K and have it here on the desk next to me.