Just because DCA is unpatented as a chemical and unpatented as a method of treating obscure metabolic diseases doesn't mean it unpatentable as a method of treating cancer. I'm thinking that it would be pretty gutsy for any doctor in the US to treat cancer by using a drug off-lable, the malpractice liability would be extremely high. There is no reason that I know of that would preclude this doctor or his university from taking money to conduct the clinical trials and then if they were sucessful patent the method of treating cancer with this drug later other than their honor. As we have all seen lately "for the good of mankind" doesn't go as far in a university as it did years ago.
My Dr. is squezzing me and workman's comp, but when I look arround his waiting room it's obvious that about half the patient's don't have a snowball's chance in hell of ever paying the bill, yet I see them There every six weeks. I swear my doctor lives at the hospital two doctors covering a regonal burn center is insane. Some places have formally socialized medicine and we have informally socialized medicine
The thing I've aways found the weirdest about them is that their "holy" books are copyrighted, it always struck me that if it's a religion, then they should believe that the word in the "holy" book is fact, and as fact it would be un-copyrightable; we're not talking about subtle translation differences being copyrighted but the whole thing as if it were a work of fiction made up by a second or third rate fiction writer making a bet.
I'm still trying to figure out where this hell, a place of burning damnation came from, it doesn't seem to be in the Bible at least as a place for human souls is concerned.
here's the way I understand it, under the GPL you can't distribute if the terms your distributing under are more restrictive to your user than what you received the software under; so while Novel has no patent indemnity from Microsoft (it's the customers of Novel who are idemnifide) so Novel's customers can have the binary, have they source and can actually use the software; but if the customer's distribute to other's the customer's aren't given the same indemity from Microsoft and they can only have the source, the binary but can't actually use the software legally.
Woah, slow that thing down, here's the problem, If Novel can't sell Linux, it's because patent impairments exist, not because they ADMIT the impairment exist. So if Novel can't distribute, then NOBODY can distribute. Brighter minds than mine would have to figure out all the implications of distribution in countries that don't observe software patent vs. those that do.
I really laugh at the cereal commercials where the guy keeps getting fired, but can't hear the boss because he's chewing the crunchy cereal. Also the Orange County Chopper show touches me because it reminds me of that boss the way Paul Sr. and Pauli Jr go at it. That boss eventualy sold the business and the new owners are salt of the Earth type of people, the last I heard of the old boss was when a couple of US marshals came to the shop looking for him.
This kind of thing happens a lot, we just usually don't hear about it. I will admit ExxonMoblie crossed an unspoken line when they specified an outcome to get the money, usually people who are assumed to be sympathetic are contacted to write the paper and are given a stipend and of course editing and research assistance and it's a for hire work. if the work is unsympathetic it's buried, if it is sympathetic it's offered for publication.
I've seen a lot of research studies state that the new technology is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but the equipment to do this superlative work is selling for 24 cents on the dollar over at ebay 6 months after release; that pretty much tells you that the research was "funded"
The company management is clearly poor how would we know, TFA talked about this guy being the VP of Sales, do they even get to eat at the grown-up table? He should call HR and ask an adult if he's really fired and being sued rather than proceeding on the word of the VP of Sales, well unless of course he was a salesman.
My gut feeling are: these guys really should have shown him the door when he first gave notice, for security reason, then paid him for two weeks to avoid complicating the un-employement insurance, Done it all nicely and thrown in a pleasant exit interview with coffee and donuts for good measure.
The Vice-President of Sales throwing him out the door, that in itself sounds hockey; I'd probably said something like "Sir, meaning no disrespect, but do you actually have the authority to fire people and remove them from the premises? That's pretty specialised and usually coordinated through HR, Legal and Security." I once had a boss that frequently fired me, sometimes several times a day. At first it bothered me, but after a while it got so he'd get pissed, come in and fire me and I'd get stand there with my arms crossed in front of my chest and look at him until he'd either get out of my face and let me work or actually ask for the keys to the building back.
try wigging, out quitting that job flipping burgers for a real one, move out of your mother's basement, and find girlfriend that can walk through a magnetometer with out getting strip searched:)
It occurred to me that this kid is going to rack up horrendous attorney fee's and court costs in a protracted legal battle in front of the jury, now the attorney fully expects that he'll never get paid if the kids counter suit fails and probably expects the good karma and publicity he'll recieve is enough. The court on the other hand has real costs like paying the jurors; if too many of these cases go through drawn-out the jury trial, lose the case, file bankruptcy cycles the courts are likely to lose patience with the RIAA. Now if the RIAA loses it's not like they will be able to file bankruptcy, so they are really in a no-win situation.
Take a look at cinepaint it's running 8, 16 and 32 bit color channels and Kodak Cineon CIN, Digital Picture Exchange DPX and OpenEXR, EXR files formats
HA, like anybody who pays for porn is going to know how to filter search results. Besides things like lingerie and topless don't fit any of my definitions of p0rn; to get a.XXX we'd have to have a definition of what porn is, then of course we'd need a certification board to make sure that only certified p0rn gets in the.XXX gTLD; can't let the namespace get polluted.
The problem really isn't the medical personnel but the weaselly MBA and lawyer types that work the admin areas, half of them would pimp their baby sisters to make an extra buck. Still I don't see it as working, both of our local hospitals provide admin services to the local MDs which includes IT services, still they can't find your tetanus shot record from the ER.
You would think that using and developing open source software and homebrewing would have a harmonic resonace; and/. would be crawling with homebrewers.
In most places in the US it's definitely illegal to provide alcohol to a minor, not sure what happens in the gray-zone of 18-21 as they are technically an adult, but I would expect that I wouldn't want to find out.
The thing an 18 year old living on his/her own as a responsible adults needs to do is learn the fine art of brewing their own beer and vinting their own wines. Failing to learn these life-skills dooms a person to a life time of drinking sub-standard corporate piss-waters. Consider the three years as a no-compete period to hone your skills.
Nothing (plausible) can detect everything that might be explosive, Actually even what an explosive is can be kind of ambiguous; still I've read that terrorists are more likely to use peroxide based explosives rather than nitrate based explosives. I see the nitrogen nuclear quadrupole resonance as have more potential in finding IED in the road beds in places like Iraq.
For example, the company's system claims a specific energy of about 280 watt hours per kilogram, compared with around 120 watt hours per kilogram for lithium-ion and 32 watt hours per kilogram for lead-acid gel batteries
so they're claiming more like 2 1/3 an Li-ion battery. On the other hand even if the thing is too fragile and doesn't have enough temperature range for over-the-road use as some anticipate, I can think of some useful thing to do with it in a stationary mode such as peak buffering solar-voltaic or wind generation stations.
When I was in the Army I had some warts frozen off with LN2. It was in an ordinary thermos bottle and they stuck in one of those 6 inch cotton applicators, basically like a long handled Q-tip, then just pressed it against the wart for a few seconds. You got a flash of sering hot cold, then felt it boiling for a bit then nothing, but when it thawed out it hurt like hell!
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Just because DCA is unpatented as a chemical and unpatented as a method of treating obscure metabolic diseases doesn't mean it unpatentable as a method of treating cancer. I'm thinking that it would be pretty gutsy for any doctor in the US to treat cancer by using a drug off-lable, the malpractice liability would be extremely high. There is no reason that I know of that would preclude this doctor or his university from taking money to conduct the clinical trials and then if they were sucessful patent the method of treating cancer with this drug later other than their honor.
As we have all seen lately "for the good of mankind" doesn't go as far in a university as it did years ago.
My Dr. is squezzing me and workman's comp, but when I look arround his waiting room it's obvious that about half the patient's don't have a snowball's chance in hell of ever paying the bill, yet I see them There every six weeks. I swear my doctor lives at the hospital two doctors covering a regonal burn center is insane.
Some places have formally socialized medicine and we have informally socialized medicine
The thing I've aways found the weirdest about them is that their "holy" books are copyrighted, it always struck me that if it's a religion, then they should believe that the word in the "holy" book is fact, and as fact it would be un-copyrightable; we're not talking about subtle translation differences being copyrighted but the whole thing as if it were a work of fiction made up by a second or third rate fiction writer making a bet.
I'm still trying to figure out where this hell, a place of burning damnation came from, it doesn't seem to be in the Bible at least as a place for human souls is concerned.
here's the way I understand it, under the GPL you can't distribute if the terms your distributing under are more restrictive to your user than what you received the software under; so while Novel has no patent indemnity from Microsoft (it's the customers of Novel who are idemnifide) so Novel's customers can have the binary, have they source and can actually use the software; but if the customer's distribute to other's the customer's aren't given the same indemity from Microsoft and they can only have the source, the binary but can't actually use the software legally.
Woah, slow that thing down, here's the problem, If Novel can't sell Linux, it's because patent impairments exist, not because they ADMIT the impairment exist. So if Novel can't distribute, then NOBODY can distribute. Brighter minds than mine would have to figure out all the implications of distribution in countries that don't observe software patent vs. those that do.
I really laugh at the cereal commercials where the guy keeps getting fired, but can't hear the boss because he's chewing the crunchy cereal. Also the Orange County Chopper show touches me because it reminds me of that boss the way Paul Sr. and Pauli Jr go at it. That boss eventualy sold the business and the new owners are salt of the Earth type of people, the last I heard of the old boss was when a couple of US marshals came to the shop looking for him.
This kind of thing happens a lot, we just usually don't hear about it. I will admit ExxonMoblie crossed an unspoken line when they specified an outcome to get the money, usually people who are assumed to be sympathetic are contacted to write the paper and are given a stipend and of course editing and research assistance and it's a for hire work. if the work is unsympathetic it's buried, if it is sympathetic it's offered for publication.
I've seen a lot of research studies state that the new technology is the greatest thing since sliced bread, but the equipment to do this superlative work is selling for 24 cents on the dollar over at ebay 6 months after release; that pretty much tells you that the research was "funded"
no the strange part is not that the did it immediately but they wait a week; then the VP of Sales did the dirty deed.
The company management is clearly poor how would we know, TFA talked about this guy being the VP of Sales, do they even get to eat at the grown-up table? He should call HR and ask an adult if he's really fired and being sued rather than proceeding on the word of the VP of Sales, well unless of course he was a salesman.
My gut feeling are:
these guys really should have shown him the door when he first gave notice, for security reason,
then paid him for two weeks to avoid complicating the un-employement insurance,
Done it all nicely and thrown in a pleasant exit interview with coffee and donuts for good measure.
The Vice-President of Sales throwing him out the door, that in itself sounds hockey; I'd probably said something like "Sir, meaning no disrespect, but do you actually have the authority to fire people and remove them from the premises? That's pretty specialised and usually coordinated through HR, Legal and Security." I once had a boss that frequently fired me, sometimes several times a day. At first it bothered me, but after a while it got so he'd get pissed, come in and fire me and I'd get stand there with my arms crossed in front of my chest and look at him until he'd either get out of my face and let me work or actually ask for the keys to the building back.
try wigging, out quitting that job flipping burgers for a real one, move out of your mother's basement, and find girlfriend that can walk through a magnetometer with out getting strip searched :)
It occurred to me that this kid is going to rack up horrendous attorney fee's and court costs in a protracted legal battle in front of the jury, now the attorney fully expects that he'll never get paid if the kids counter suit fails and probably expects the good karma and publicity he'll recieve is enough. The court on the other hand has real costs like paying the jurors; if too many of these cases go through drawn-out the jury trial, lose the case, file bankruptcy cycles the courts are likely to lose patience with the RIAA. Now if the RIAA loses it's not like they will be able to file bankruptcy, so they are really in a no-win situation.
I'm sure it's those 8 inch floppies that they are talking about, or possibly the 5 1/4. The 3.5's are not really floppy, at least on the outside!
Take a look at cinepaint it's running 8, 16 and 32 bit color channels and Kodak Cineon CIN, Digital Picture Exchange DPX and OpenEXR, EXR files formats
try searching for "lingerie porn XXX mature free" and you'll get about 1.5 million
HA, like anybody who pays for porn is going to know how to filter search results. Besides things like lingerie and topless don't fit any of my definitions of p0rn; to get a .XXX we'd have to have a definition of what porn is, then of course we'd need a certification board to make sure that only certified p0rn gets in the .XXX gTLD; can't let the namespace get polluted.
The problem really isn't the medical personnel but the weaselly MBA and lawyer types that work the admin areas, half of them would pimp their baby sisters to make an extra buck. Still I don't see it as working, both of our local hospitals provide admin services to the local MDs which includes IT services, still they can't find your tetanus shot record from the ER.
You would think that using and developing open source software and homebrewing would have a harmonic resonace; and /. would be crawling with homebrewers.
In most places in the US it's definitely illegal to provide alcohol to a minor, not sure what happens in the gray-zone of 18-21 as they are technically an adult, but I would expect that I wouldn't want to find out.
The thing an 18 year old living on his/her own as a responsible adults needs to do is learn the fine art of brewing their own beer and vinting their own wines. Failing to learn these life-skills dooms a person to a life time of drinking sub-standard corporate piss-waters. Consider the three years as a no-compete period to hone your skills.
Nothing (plausible) can detect everything that might be explosive, Actually even what an explosive is can be kind of ambiguous; still I've read that terrorists are more likely to use peroxide based explosives rather than nitrate based explosives. I see the nitrogen nuclear quadrupole resonance as have more potential in finding IED in the road beds in places like Iraq.
so they're claiming more like 2 1/3 an Li-ion battery. On the other hand even if the thing is too fragile and doesn't have enough temperature range for over-the-road use as some anticipate, I can think of some useful thing to do with it in a stationary mode such as peak buffering solar-voltaic or wind generation stations.
When I was in the Army I had some warts frozen off with LN2. It was in an ordinary thermos bottle and they stuck in one of those 6 inch cotton applicators, basically like a long handled Q-tip, then just pressed it against the wart for a few seconds. You got a flash of sering hot cold, then felt it boiling for a bit then nothing, but when it thawed out it hurt like hell!
I'm torn between saying "Please stop the insanity" and "MUAHAHAHAH"