While the cost of development is high the cost of production is really low. Now when you have a bunch of people that wouldnt be able to pay for the drugs anyway why not just give them the drug at lower or no cost. Such cost differentiation is not unheard of. for example some drugs for pets are cheap, while the identical drugs for humans are expensive. Thats because people wouldnt pay the high costs of a drug for a pet.
So you are not disagreeing with drug patents (because if they didn't exist drug companies wouldn't have any incentive to research drugs or bring them to market as stated above), but you have a problem with people not being able to pay for the drugs that they need, right? It seems we already have a system in place for this (medicare and public hospitals etc). You can argue (probably pretty easily) that these systems are broken or do not work to their full potential, but your beef is not with drug patents.
Miles usually expire after a couple of years if you don't use them. For a two-year window, you'd have to fly over 13000 miles a day to earn 10,000,000 miles. Pilots don't get that much time in the air.
Actually I am not sure how all the mile programs work, but Delta's miles expire after 4 years of inactivity. So if you don't take a flight on Delta for 4 years all your miles go away, but if you do you keep all all your miles for four more years. They do this for accounting purposes. Otherwise they have these huge financial liabilities they are required to keep on the books forever because they never expire.
If it were me, I would feel this license-change request to be an unwarranted smack in the face. I give you something and then you turn around and accuse me of stealing. That is not very nice.
That is pretty much how they will see it. But it is really transgaming that has
sparked this debate (at least initially). Transgaming has taken the wine code and
developed an open source but not free software business model. They have written code
which they are not willing to give back to wine that has nothing to do with DirectX.
They wrote a bunch of the COM architecture which has not been in wine for a while.
This code would really benefit wine in moving it to the next level (it allows install schield installers to work on wine for example). The whole problem
now is not that transgaming wrote the implementation and won't
give it back, but that they say they might give it back at some
point in the nebulous future. So now there is no incentive for any
developer to work on this major portion of the win32 api because
all their work would be useless if transgaming release their code.
So it is not the fact that transgaming isn't releasing the code, but
the fact that they are holding the wine source hostage. The bsd license
allows commericial companies to adversely affect wine either intentionally or unintentionally.
TIVo does not replace the VCR. People use a VCR
for the most part to tape stuff that they can't
watch in real time. With TiVo everything you
watch is taped. I the past year only twice have
I watched anything on live TV. Why would you watch
live TV when there are literally hours of TV from
the past week that you haven't seen on?
Your comment is exactly why TiVo is failing. All
people see it as is an expensive VCR, but it is
simply a whole new way of watching TV.
I have had a TiVo for about a year now, and I
love it! The only complaint I have about
it is the inability to record two shows at once.
Never have I said I would love to stream MP3s to
my TiVo. Over and over I have cursed West Wing for overlaping
with Enterprise, and Friends for coming on at the
same time as Survivor. I want both! I know they
already have this ability in the DirecTiVo, but
not in the Stand Alone TiVos. This seems like the
next logical evolution of their product, but alas TiVo is yet
another company that has placed strategic partnerships
above features.
Rhys Weatherly has contributed 254,423 lines written since Jan 1, 2001.... He is dotGNU's one-man army. So join him in celebrating his quarter billion lines of his code.
Last time I check 250,000 was not a quarter billion.
Come on! This guy is the kernel maintainer?
I know I will probably get modded down as
flamebait because I am not singing his praises
about being concise and to the point, but that
interview was awful! I can't believe he is suppose to be the point of contact
of anybody (read IBM, HP etc) that want to submit
patches to be in the 2.4 tree. It looks like he
spent about 10 minutes answering these questions,
I can only hope he takes his job maintaining the
kernel seriously. This interview certainly doesn't instill confidence in his
ability to maintain the tree.
Looking up LNUX [yahoo.com] shows that it has a moderate downslope, then being relatively flat since the beginning of September, with a recent moderate rise.
This is not totally unlike the Dow Jones Ind. Avg. [yahoo.com], which is recovering quite nicely from the Sept. 11th events, and is even making up ground lost since the recession started and the dot-bomb era.
What are you talking about? The scale of the "moderate downslope" are no where near the DJIA. Take a look at
the same chart against the DJIA. You can say what you want about VA Linu^H^H^H^H Software, but please don't claim their stock hasn't been volatile.
For $2,500/year, I can certify that your Linux box is 100% secure, and do whatever is necessary to make it secure and keep it secure.
ha! This sentance proves you know nothing about security. No setup is 100% secure. You could have an elite commando force guarding your computer 24/7 in a cave 10 miles under the earth with no connections to the outside world, and still it would not 100% secure.
Not that it matters, but Adam Stubblefield is an undergraduate student (CS and Math), and also part of the famous Princeton/Rice SDMI Challenge team. He also broke the mp3.com beam-it protocol. Quite an impressive start to this guy's career.
Slashback tonight with another assortment of corrections, amplifications, looks backward (and even looks forward to looks backward). In this last case, it looks like you may even get fed.
Am I the only one that thinks that timothy's writing is incomprehensible? I don't know what it is, but I have read every slashback post about 3 times just to figure out what he is trying to say. Just wanted to know if I am alone.....
Sunspire is ok (and, I believe, happy) with everything so long as the project doesn't go into direct competition with Tux Racer 1.0.
Uhhhh.... Correct me if I am wrong, but sunspire doesn't have any say over what anybody does with the GPL code base. They can relicense it that is fine, but the GPL code is out there forever right? Anybody can pick up the code and further modify it even to compete with Tux Racer. They probably can't use the name, but they sure can use the GPL code base to compete with sunspire whether sunspire is "ok" with it or not. If the author didn't like these terms, he should not have licensed Tux Racer under the GPL in the first place.
I have cox@home in Santa Barbara, CA, and I have never seen any speed problems. I heard all of the horror stories about cable modem companies and bandwidth problems, but I have never seen any. Maybe my results are atypical. I get a capped upload speed of about 32kBytes/sec and an average download speed of 150kBytes/sec I have seen downloads up to 400kBytes/sec. The service has gone out twice in a year for about 10-15 minutes each time. The price $45/month with cable modem rental. All in all I am very happy with the service.
What makes me the happiest though was the ease of install. That is the major difference between cable and dsl in my mind. With Cable you are dealing with 1 company. This makes a huge difference. I called the cable company on a Monday it was installed as promised on that Thursday.
As counterpoint, My girlfriend had DSL installed and it took literally 6 weeks to get it installed (coordinating the dsl people and the telephone people was a nightmare, they both pointed the finger at each other about whose fault it was). Her DSL experience is probably atypical but the average DSL user seems to have more install headaches than the average cable user.
Just my 2 cents.
His point was that the DMB was popular before they were signed to a record label. Remember Two Things sold more copies of than any other indie record ever. Now you can argue the the band has become manufactured but they did not start out that way. BTW I looked on ticket master and for current DMB ticket prices and they ranged from 30-45. 30 seemed to be for lawn tickets in big venues and 45 seemed to be for smaller venues. Phish isn't on tour so I couldn't check their prices but 30 sounds about right.
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So you are not disagreeing with drug patents (because if they didn't exist drug companies wouldn't have any incentive to research drugs or bring them to market as stated above), but you have a problem with people not being able to pay for the drugs that they need, right? It seems we already have a system in place for this (medicare and public hospitals etc). You can argue (probably pretty easily) that these systems are broken or do not work to their full potential, but your beef is not with drug patents.
If I had mod points, I would mod you down. Too Informative: -1
Now there is no way I a going to make the beta. Thanks a lot.
I'll give you a big shine new nickel if you can tell me what the "M" stands for in "ATM Machine".
Actually I am not sure how all the mile programs work, but Delta's miles expire after 4 years of inactivity. So if you don't take a flight on Delta for 4 years all your miles go away, but if you do you keep all all your miles for four more years. They do this for accounting purposes. Otherwise they have these huge financial liabilities they are required to keep on the books forever because they never expire.
For those who missed it the first time...
The Balmer monkey dance
I just had to reply. Great Sig! I love shiner.
Are you from Texas?
"heals" is an english word too, so ispell wouldn't have caught it. Unfortunately ispell can't fix stupidity, just typos.
That is pretty much how they will see it. But it is really transgaming that has sparked this debate (at least initially). Transgaming has taken the wine code and developed an open source but not free software business model. They have written code which they are not willing to give back to wine that has nothing to do with DirectX. They wrote a bunch of the COM architecture which has not been in wine for a while. This code would really benefit wine in moving it to the next level (it allows install schield installers to work on wine for example). The whole problem now is not that transgaming wrote the implementation and won't give it back, but that they say they might give it back at some point in the nebulous future. So now there is no incentive for any developer to work on this major portion of the win32 api because all their work would be useless if transgaming release their code. So it is not the fact that transgaming isn't releasing the code, but the fact that they are holding the wine source hostage. The bsd license allows commericial companies to adversely affect wine either intentionally or unintentionally.
TIVo does not replace the VCR. People use a VCR for the most part to tape stuff that they can't watch in real time. With TiVo everything you watch is taped. I the past year only twice have I watched anything on live TV. Why would you watch live TV when there are literally hours of TV from the past week that you haven't seen on? Your comment is exactly why TiVo is failing. All people see it as is an expensive VCR, but it is simply a whole new way of watching TV.
I have had a TiVo for about a year now, and I love it! The only complaint I have about it is the inability to record two shows at once. Never have I said I would love to stream MP3s to my TiVo. Over and over I have cursed West Wing for overlaping with Enterprise, and Friends for coming on at the same time as Survivor. I want both! I know they already have this ability in the DirecTiVo, but not in the Stand Alone TiVos. This seems like the next logical evolution of their product, but alas TiVo is yet another company that has placed strategic partnerships above features.
Last time I check 250,000 was not a quarter billion.
Come on! This guy is the kernel maintainer? I know I will probably get modded down as flamebait because I am not singing his praises about being concise and to the point, but that interview was awful! I can't believe he is suppose to be the point of contact of anybody (read IBM, HP etc) that want to submit patches to be in the 2.4 tree. It looks like he spent about 10 minutes answering these questions, I can only hope he takes his job maintaining the kernel seriously. This interview certainly doesn't instill confidence in his ability to maintain the tree.
What are you talking about? The scale of the "moderate downslope" are no where near the DJIA. Take a look at the same chart against the DJIA. You can say what you want about VA Linu^H^H^H^H Software, but please don't claim their stock hasn't been volatile.
ha! This sentance proves you know nothing about security. No setup is 100% secure. You could have an elite commando force guarding your computer 24/7 in a cave 10 miles under the earth with no connections to the outside world, and still it would not 100% secure.
"My banjo's wet." -- Kermit.
By far my favorite muppet quote. Classic.
Not that it matters, but Adam Stubblefield is an undergraduate student (CS and Math), and also part of the famous Princeton/Rice SDMI Challenge team. He also broke the mp3.com beam-it protocol. Quite an impressive start to this guy's career.
RRF!
Lovett 2000
They are auctioning the 4:20 time slot on ebay
Classic.
Am I the only one that thinks that timothy's writing is incomprehensible? I don't know what it is, but I have read every slashback post about 3 times just to figure out what he is trying to say. Just wanted to know if I am alone.....
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I have cox@home in Santa Barbara, CA, and I have never seen any speed problems. I heard all of the horror stories about cable modem companies and bandwidth problems, but I have never seen any. Maybe my results are atypical. I get a capped upload speed of about 32kBytes/sec and an average download speed of 150kBytes/sec I have seen downloads up to 400kBytes/sec. The service has gone out twice in a year for about 10-15 minutes each time. The price $45/month with cable modem rental. All in all I am very happy with the service. What makes me the happiest though was the ease of install. That is the major difference between cable and dsl in my mind. With Cable you are dealing with 1 company. This makes a huge difference. I called the cable company on a Monday it was installed as promised on that Thursday. As counterpoint, My girlfriend had DSL installed and it took literally 6 weeks to get it installed (coordinating the dsl people and the telephone people was a nightmare, they both pointed the finger at each other about whose fault it was). Her DSL experience is probably atypical but the average DSL user seems to have more install headaches than the average cable user. Just my 2 cents.
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His point was that the DMB was popular before they were signed to a record label. Remember Two Things sold more copies of than any other indie record ever. Now you can argue the the band has become manufactured but they did not start out that way. BTW I looked on ticket master and for current DMB ticket prices and they ranged from 30-45. 30 seemed to be for lawn tickets in big venues and 45 seemed to be for smaller venues. Phish isn't on tour so I couldn't check their prices but 30 sounds about right.
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