If this research leads to a commercially viable cure, why does the gov't have to fund it?
Wouldn't the companies performing the research stand to make $billions? From this research?
When was the last time US government research resulted in a cure that was "given away" to the public at large....it always end up on a drug company's balance sheet.
I think that Sen. Schumer should investigate the U.S. auto industry.
I haven't been able to buy parts from Dodge to fit my Ford car.
Seriously though, XP won't prevent me from running another IM (AOL, Yahoo, Jabber), or another Media Player (Real, Winamp, Musicmatch). Or another ISP (AOL, DSL). It doesn't even make it harder to run an alternate.
So I have to download a program to run it. Big deal. Last time I checked the inventory of apps on my Linux boxen, I noticed that I downloaded virtually every usefull application AFTER I loaded the OS (hard to install them prior to the OS). It wasn't a big deal.
Looking at the morning's pre market 9% drop of AMZN following their quarterly "earnings" report, $100 million is a little more than 20% of the.523 Billion shaved off the AMZN market cap this morning.
I can't take my (lawfully obtained) (Sony) copy-protected CD and play it on my (Sony) Vaio laptop due to the protection scheme
I can't take my (lawfully obtained)(Sony) copy-protected CD and play it on my (Sony) MP3 player due to the protection scheme
I can't make a backup copy of my (lawfully obtained) CD for personal use (I know...I can make an analog one........)
Then I would consider it defective.
If this happens enough times to enough people, I'd think it would get to be a class-action or even an FTC matter.
The problem I discovered with Pets.com was that ordering the typical items I'd order were bulk (heavy) items like cases of cans of cat/dog food or kitty litter.
When it costs more to ship the order than the order total, it doesn't make sense.....this leads to lots of incomplete orders (and a trip to the brick and mortar pet store down the street).
I can't download the (legally obtained) songs to my MP3 player
I can't make a backup copy in case my (legally obtained) CD gets that aluminum eating virus we read about
I can't listen to the CD at work on my laptop
I'll take it back to the place of purchase.
If enough individuals do this, the stores will be forced to spend their resources (time and money) with the returns (which take 2-3 times longer than a purchase).
If it happens enough, the stores will in turn be forced to work with the record labels to stem the flow of returns.
The (presumably) best minds and computers in the business can't reliably predict the weather patterns 2 days from now, but they want to talk about 10-50 years from now?
I remember as a kid talking about Global Cooling and how we were heading for the next ice age any time.
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And I thought software demos had a lot of hot air.
If this research leads to a commercially viable cure, why does the gov't have to fund it?
Wouldn't the companies performing the research stand to make $billions? From this research?
When was the last time US government research resulted in a cure that was "given away" to the public at large....it always end up on a drug company's balance sheet.
http://public.wsj.com/sn/y/SB99704058777829496.
It would be premature to predict that their DSL oferring will remain an essential business offering as opposed to the Dish Satellite offering.
You (DirecTV DSL users) could end up in the same position as Covad soon.
That is unless you prefer having everyone that calls you get a busy signal while you surf your brains out
http://www.rhythms.com/news/pr/bulletin_board.c
Lousy customer service + poor order processing + negative profit margins on every line = Chapter 11
You missed the point.
The Ford *comes* with Ford parts....If I want a Dodge engine out of the factory, it ain't gonna happen.
Just like Windoze.
We are asking MS to do something no other industry is forced to do.
I think that Sen. Schumer should investigate the U.S. auto industry.
I haven't been able to buy parts from Dodge to fit my Ford car.
Seriously though, XP won't prevent me from running another IM (AOL, Yahoo, Jabber), or another Media Player (Real, Winamp, Musicmatch). Or another ISP (AOL, DSL). It doesn't even make it harder to run an alternate.
So I have to download a program to run it. Big deal. Last time I checked the inventory of apps on my Linux boxen, I noticed that I downloaded virtually every usefull application AFTER I loaded the OS (hard to install them prior to the OS). It wasn't a big deal.
Looking at the morning's pre market 9% drop of AMZN following their quarterly "earnings" report, $100 million is a little more than 20% of the .523 Billion shaved off the AMZN market cap this morning.
18 months ago, when AMZN was over 100, this would have meant a tiny fraction of the company.
Now with the market cap under 6B, it means a whole lot more.
18 months ago, the same stake would have cost ~$700M!
wouldn't www.microsoftisbadto.us be better?
The definition of defective is what's important.
If
I can't take my (lawfully obtained) (Sony) copy-protected CD and play it on my (Sony) Vaio laptop due to the protection scheme
I can't take my (lawfully obtained)(Sony) copy-protected CD and play it on my (Sony) MP3 player due to the protection scheme
I can't make a backup copy of my (lawfully obtained) CD for personal use (I know...I can make an analog one........)
Then I would consider it defective.
If this happens enough times to enough people, I'd think it would get to be a class-action or even an FTC matter.
I think we're working at the device level here, not the decoder level.
This means that playing the protected CD digitally through *any* decoder will manifest the protection scheme.
So I'm not sure if changing the encoder will do anything for a protected disk being digitally decoded.
The problem I discovered with Pets.com was that ordering the typical items I'd order were bulk (heavy) items like cases of cans of cat/dog food or kitty litter.
When it costs more to ship the order than the order total, it doesn't make sense.....this leads to lots of incomplete orders (and a trip to the brick and mortar pet store down the street).
If:
I can't download the (legally obtained) songs to my MP3 player
I can't make a backup copy in case my (legally obtained) CD gets that aluminum eating virus we read about
I can't listen to the CD at work on my laptop
I'll take it back to the place of purchase.
If enough individuals do this, the stores will be forced to spend their resources (time and money) with the returns (which take 2-3 times longer than a purchase).
If it happens enough, the stores will in turn be forced to work with the record labels to stem the flow of returns.
The (presumably) best minds and computers in the business can't reliably predict the weather patterns 2 days from now, but they want to talk about 10-50 years from now?
I remember as a kid talking about Global Cooling and how we were heading for the next ice age any time.
Its funny how things change.
When you sell groceries (or anything else) for less than you buy them for, you will not be able to stay in business indefinitely.
Why does the dot-bom industry think that the standard laws of business (like profit) don't apply to them?
Does anyone remember when people started companies by bootstrapping (start small....grow over time)?
It weighs 1,739 pounds? They must be using some fairly dense metals.
And where will I put a VAT?
It must be "old game day" at Slashdot.
New Wolfenstein eh? I hope it has a link to babelfish for the german translations.