There's a blood bank at Sunnybrook in Toronto, but it's swamped -- so call the number first.
There was a report that some burn victims might be airlifted to Sunnybrook. (500 miles) If they don't need the blood in Toronto, they can ship it on to New York.
But why were there any Imperial units used on-board at all? Slugs and foot/lbs in space?
Conversions using floating point numbers always give me the willies. Case in point: Microsoft DATE class for holding time/date values. It uses a floating point number to hold the value, with the fractional part holding the time. If you add/subtract to convert local time to GMT and back, the number has shifted out about the 8-9th decimal place. As a result, a time comparision with an unshifted number will fail. *shudder*
There's a reason financial calculations should never use floating point.
There's also probably some magic bean counter stuff going on as well. The project likely gets assigned its "share" of a lot of things like the cost of the building, electricity, phones, the coffee machine and the salaries of people who would be doing the same job regardless: janitors, security, support staff, etc.
Hmm... Not a bad solution. (Really!) Except, if they let the LEGO trademark be used by LegOS, it might seem that they are supporting LegOS. If the next version of LegOS crashes and burns or programs LegoDroids to have sex with your cat, what then? And what happens when the next guy writes LeggyOS?
Yeah, I know, it's only the trademark being licenced. At this point I'm out of my depth and won't go any further. (This may violate the slashdot members' code, but so be it!)
I think it is correct that LegOS has such a name. Because it is a real true "Lego Operating System". So much for the purisms of today's libertarian commercialism where "all's MINE!!!!".
You don't understand. Failing to defend their LEGO trademark would cause them to lose it. Then anyone could call their product LEGO.
Yep, they certainly do have a point. While I think that hacking their hardware/software is great (and I bet LEGO thinks so too), there's no point in poking their lawyers with a stick. IP and trademark are protect it or lose it type stuff.
There are any number of ex-trademarks that were lost because the company didn't defend the trademark (or botched it): Aspirin, linolium, yo-yo, thermos, cellophane, milk of magnesia, lanolin, celluloid, dry ice, escalator, shredded wheat and zipper. (Source: "Made in America", Bill Bryson) While these names are now public domain, some company once created and owned them. Those companies lost big when their trademark became generic.
I'm sure that the LEGO people would rather shoot their own feet off than have to sue someone, but you have to defend a trademark or lose it! They can't afford to lose the LEGO trademark, otherwise anyone can call their product LEGO.
I hope Noga will understand (NogaOS?), and LEGO could give him a few bulk cases of LEGO. And then everyone could go have a cream soda with ice cream float.
LEGO are White Hat Good Guys, Noga is White Hat Good Guy. This problem is stupid, and is just attracting the suits and lawyers.
Now if only LEGO would make steel blocks so that I could build the perfect BattleBot!
If they're trolls, we can always filter on the.mars domain. (And if they have fighting machines and heat rays, maybe they can wipe out ICANN for us. Nobody sneeze please!)
What we're seeing on Mars can only be the Bathroom Scum of the Gods! Think about it -- how many times have you cleaned the shower/toilet with chemicals that should kill all life, but next week it's back again? This must be the same sort of thing. Maybe the Gods showered after building Stonehenge, the pyramids, etc, but never cleaned up properly?:^)
You have the right to try to use dark cable. You have the right to tech support. If you wish, a customer support tech will be appointed. You have the right against unreasonable search of your computer, unless we want to. You have the right to be fsck'ed by large corporations with the DMCA.
You have the right to remain silent by unplugging your network conection.
Well, that's more of a computer Miranda than a bill of rights.
Several complained that business interests, which control 80 percent of all ".com," ".org" and ".net" domain names, could potentially dominate a forum intended for individual users.
Odd, I thought the charter of.org was for non-business interests. Can anyone point at an official charter for the domains?
Bildt took offense at the charge. "There are limits to the amount of rubbish I can take," he said. "Close to half the world has never made a telephone call. I would not tear down the telephone system of the U.S. because of that."
And the other half all have cell-phones, *sigh* (If I hear one more cutesy ring, usually in the middle of something important, It's Clobbering Time!)
At ICANN meetings around the globe, Bildt said, "we're seeing the same people from the same countries turning up at different places. That's not quite global involvement. That's global presence, perhaps."
So why does he keep turning up at different places? I wouldn't trust these people to set my VCR, never mind the standards we'll be stuck with for the next umpty years.
I should have also mentioned that once a box is Tempest certified, you aren't allowed to change a single part of it.
If you change the video card because the old one is no longer available, recertify. If you change the supplier of memory chips, recertify. If some.. organization.. wants a network card added to the configuration, recertify. (And it opens up a whole Orange Book can of worms, as well as the existing Red Book can. And those are much bigger than any can of whupass.)
Oh yes, and all suppliers have to be carefully documented, and probably who was working on their production line that day. This can add a hell of a lot to the price of the items because all that paperwork costs!
This is how we get $500 hammers sold to the government. It probably did cost $500 to document all the crap to government specs. ("Where was the ore for this hammer obtained?" "Where did the wood for the handle come from?" "Please document the smelting process to ISO 9001 standards"...)
I really wonder what will happen when this mind-set rams into open software?
I'd believe the part about some of their tech being behind the times.
Tempest workstations are costly, clunky, and a few years behind the state of the art. The time and effort required for certification is long!
The certification is real fun. You give them the equipment and get back either a pass or fail. No indication as to why it failed. Guess, fix and try, try again. Happy happy joy joy!
Did you realize that according to the TOS specs, every crew quarter had a Jacuzzi?
Of course, I imagine that the original blueprints are no longer canon.
"Mr. Scott, more power to the Jacuzzis!"
"Ach Captain, the engines canna take it. There's just ten minutes, and all yer old girlfriends will break through: The Romulan Commander, The Blue Chick, The Blind Chick, Brain-Brain, Lights-in-the-sky (2000 Quatloos!), Miramony his wife (3rd season), The Alternate Universe Chick, somebody from Talos III and all the rest, we canna hold out!"
"Captain, sensors detect a Genesis device being aimed at us. For the safety of the ship, the logical thing would be to toss you out in an escape pod and run for it. Needs of the many and all that."
"Damn you and your Vulcan logic, but let's do it!"
No no no! If they were following the TOS, they'd have silicone-based life forms -- Ensigns with mini-skirts, and riding boots. (Don't ask me why they'd have riding boots without holodecks.)
YEAH! No holodecks! (Of course, we never did see the TOS bowling alley. Maybe they'll have one.)
Sure in war, I'd love to have something that goes through the other guy's armour like stink. (The trade-off between dying in thirty secords verses thirty years.) But I sure wouldn't want to get too close to it in training in peacetime. (Like is there any isotope of Uranium that isn't radioactive or chemically poisonous?)
In war time, we (Homo Sapiens) have done some silly damaging things--but at least not at bad as we could have.
I believe Britain kind of "lost" an island off the coast of Scotland to anthrax in WWII. Here in Canada, we were playing with that too. Botulism toxin (Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario), riderpest. We had "over-kill" quantities of Compound Zed by the end of the war.
Check John Bryden, ISBN 0-7710-1726-X, "Deadly Allies: Canada's Secret War"
I'll believe in "green weapons" when someone fights a war with them -- which I hope I never see.
Here's an interesting question: Should the U.S. military be allowed to have religious chaplains?
It sounds like the same class of thing as voluntary religion clubs in schools to me. (And I imagine schools are state level not federal?)
By the way, the U.S. Army caters to Wiccans. Who are not satanists, of course. Mind you, I doubt the satanists are much more dangerous than, say, a Neitche (sp) Appreciation Club, or Randites.:^)
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There's a blood bank at Sunnybrook in Toronto, but it's swamped -- so call the number first.
There was a report that some burn victims might be airlifted to Sunnybrook. (500 miles) If they don't need the blood in Toronto, they can ship it on to New York.
But why were there any Imperial units used on-board at all? Slugs and foot/lbs in space?
Conversions using floating point numbers always give me the willies. Case in point: Microsoft DATE class for holding time/date values. It uses a floating point number to hold the value, with the fractional part holding the time. If you add/subtract to convert local time to GMT and back, the number has shifted out about the 8-9th decimal place. As a result, a time comparision with an unshifted number will fail. *shudder*
There's a reason financial calculations should never use floating point.
There's also probably some magic bean counter stuff going on as well. The project likely gets assigned its "share" of a lot of things like the cost of the building, electricity, phones, the coffee machine and the salaries of people who would be doing the same job regardless: janitors, security, support staff, etc.
Weird, but it's a common accounting practice.
Thermos and escalator used to refer to specific brands. *shrug*
And isn't LegOS an OS for LEGO Mindstorm hardware? Sounds like a pretty close class to me.
Anyway, as I've stated in other threads, this is now way out my legal depth. Direct further flames to [127.0.0.1]
Oi! You must have had the 1.0 release. Later releases could handle a larger range between cold or hot. (ThermOS: We keep the lukewarm, lukewarm!)
It's Escalator xtm that boggles my mind!
Okay, I was typing fast, and shouldn't have included "IP" without breaking it down.
Trade secrets? I don't see how those apply. You have a contract with people you give secret info to. If they break it, you can sue them.
I thought there might have been "defend or else" clauses in copyright and patents, but I'm out of my depth here, so I'll bow out. (IANA#$%@#L)
Hmm... Not a bad solution. (Really!) Except, if they let the LEGO trademark be used by LegOS, it might seem that they are supporting LegOS. If the next version of LegOS crashes and burns or programs LegoDroids to have sex with your cat, what then? And what happens when the next guy writes LeggyOS?
Yeah, I know, it's only the trademark being licenced. At this point I'm out of my depth and won't go any further. (This may violate the slashdot members' code, but so be it!)
I think it is correct that LegOS has such a name. Because it is a real true "Lego Operating System". So much for the purisms of today's libertarian commercialism where "all's MINE!!!!".
You don't understand. Failing to defend their LEGO trademark would cause them to lose it. Then anyone could call their product LEGO.
Microsoft LEGO, DELL LEGO, Mattel LEGO, LEGO LEGO, Bob's LEGO, Toy'R'Us LEGO, Jell-O LEGO...
Trademark is something that they have to defend or lose it.
Yep, they certainly do have a point. While I think that hacking their hardware/software is great (and I bet LEGO thinks so too), there's no point in poking their lawyers with a stick. IP and trademark are protect it or lose it type stuff.
There are any number of ex-trademarks that were lost because the company didn't defend the trademark (or botched it): Aspirin, linolium, yo-yo, thermos, cellophane, milk of magnesia, lanolin, celluloid, dry ice, escalator, shredded wheat and zipper. (Source: "Made in America", Bill Bryson) While these names are now public domain, some company once created and owned them. Those companies lost big when their trademark became generic.
I'm sure that the LEGO people would rather shoot their own feet off than have to sue someone, but you have to defend a trademark or lose it! They can't afford to lose the LEGO trademark, otherwise anyone can call their product LEGO.
I hope Noga will understand (NogaOS?), and LEGO could give him a few bulk cases of LEGO. And then everyone could go have a cream soda with ice cream float.
LEGO are White Hat Good Guys, Noga is White Hat Good Guy. This problem is stupid, and is just attracting the suits and lawyers.
Now if only LEGO would make steel blocks so that I could build the perfect BattleBot!
If they're trolls, we can always filter on the .mars domain. (And if they have fighting machines and heat rays, maybe they can wipe out ICANN for us. Nobody sneeze please!)
As well as the added energy to lift a rock out from the sun, there's also the higher Earth escape velocity.
This is obvious proof of ancient astronaughts!
:^)
What we're seeing on Mars can only be the Bathroom Scum of the Gods! Think about it -- how many times have you cleaned the shower/toilet with chemicals that should kill all life, but next week it's back again? This must be the same sort of thing. Maybe the Gods showered after building Stonehenge, the pyramids, etc, but never cleaned up properly?
You have the right to try to use dark cable.
You have the right to tech support. If you wish, a customer support tech will be appointed.
You have the right against unreasonable search of your computer, unless we want to.
You have the right to be fsck'ed by large corporations with the DMCA.
You have the right to remain silent by unplugging your network conection.
Well, that's more of a computer Miranda than a bill of rights.
Several complained that business interests, which control 80 percent of all ".com," ".org" and ".net" domain names, could potentially dominate a forum intended for individual users.
.org was for non-business interests. Can anyone point at an official charter for the domains?
Odd, I thought the charter of
Bildt took offense at the charge. "There are limits to the amount of rubbish I can take," he said. "Close to half the world has never made a telephone call. I would not tear down the telephone system of the U.S. because of that."
And the other half all have cell-phones, *sigh* (If I hear one more cutesy ring, usually in the middle of something important, It's Clobbering Time!)
At ICANN meetings around the globe, Bildt said, "we're seeing the same people from the same countries turning up at different places. That's not quite global involvement. That's global presence, perhaps."
So why does he keep turning up at different places? I wouldn't trust these people to set my VCR, never mind the standards we'll be stuck with for the next umpty years.
I should have also mentioned that once a box is Tempest certified, you aren't allowed to change a single part of it.
.. organization .. wants a network card added to the configuration, recertify. (And it opens up a whole Orange Book can of worms, as well as the existing Red Book can. And those are much bigger than any can of whupass.)
...)
If you change the video card because the old one is no longer available, recertify. If you change the supplier of memory chips, recertify. If some
Oh yes, and all suppliers have to be carefully documented, and probably who was working on their production line that day. This can add a hell of a lot to the price of the items because all that paperwork costs!
This is how we get $500 hammers sold to the government. It probably did cost $500 to document all the crap to government specs. ("Where was the ore for this hammer obtained?" "Where did the wood for the handle come from?" "Please document the smelting process to ISO 9001 standards"
I really wonder what will happen when this mind-set rams into open software?
I'd believe the part about some of their tech being behind the times.
Tempest workstations are costly, clunky, and a few years behind the state of the art. The time and effort required for certification is long!
The certification is real fun. You give them the equipment and get back either a pass or fail. No indication as to why it failed. Guess, fix and try, try again. Happy happy joy joy!
Did you realize that according to the TOS specs, every crew quarter had a Jacuzzi?
Of course, I imagine that the original blueprints are no longer canon.
"Mr. Scott, more power to the Jacuzzis!"
"Ach Captain, the engines canna take it. There's just ten minutes, and all yer old girlfriends will break through: The Romulan Commander, The Blue Chick, The Blind Chick, Brain-Brain, Lights-in-the-sky (2000 Quatloos!), Miramony his wife (3rd season), The Alternate Universe Chick, somebody from Talos III and all the rest, we canna hold out!"
"Captain, sensors detect a Genesis device being aimed at us. For the safety of the ship, the logical thing would be to toss you out in an escape pod and run for it. Needs of the many and all that."
"Damn you and your Vulcan logic, but let's do it!"
No no no! If they were following the TOS, they'd have silicone-based life forms -- Ensigns with mini-skirts, and riding boots. (Don't ask me why they'd have riding boots without holodecks.)
YEAH! No holodecks! (Of course, we never did see the TOS bowling alley. Maybe they'll have one.)
Not that Kirk paid it much attention...
"Star Treking across universe..."
I want the Glen Glen sound FX!
I hope those rounds weren't "depleted" Uranium.
Sure in war, I'd love to have something that goes through the other guy's armour like stink. (The trade-off between dying in thirty secords verses thirty years.) But I sure wouldn't want to get too close to it in training in peacetime. (Like is there any isotope of Uranium that isn't radioactive or chemically poisonous?)
In war time, we (Homo Sapiens) have done some silly damaging things--but at least not at bad as we could have.
I believe Britain kind of "lost" an island off the coast of Scotland to anthrax in WWII. Here in Canada, we were playing with that too. Botulism toxin (Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario), riderpest. We had "over-kill" quantities of Compound Zed by the end of the war.
Check John Bryden, ISBN 0-7710-1726-X, "Deadly Allies: Canada's Secret War"
I'll believe in "green weapons" when someone fights a war with them -- which I hope I never see.
I thought it said an "electronic kibogram". Make sure your measurements are correct or he who greps will git'ya!
Oh yes, almost forgot. You might want to check the actual stats of deeply religous men. A lot were quite free-thinkers.
And there was good ole Ben's visitor's pass to the *cough*Hellfire Club*cough* in London before the war.
Mind you, he did propose an offician chaplain for congress, but this was turned down due lack of funds.
Here's an interesting question: Should the U.S. military be allowed to have religious chaplains?
:^)
It sounds like the same class of thing as voluntary religion clubs in schools to me. (And I imagine schools are state level not federal?)
By the way, the U.S. Army caters to Wiccans. Who are not satanists, of course. Mind you, I doubt the satanists are much more dangerous than, say, a Neitche (sp) Appreciation Club, or Randites.