Enough other readers have already pointed out that the Yankees' site (even more so than many other teams' official sites) is bloated and impossible to view under Linux. So, I'll take issue with Katz's point that baseball is starting to "get" the Net.
Baseball has always been hostile towards new media technologies; owners were originally afraid that by allowing any broadcast TV at all, fans would not bother going to the games. More recently, MLB has made exclusive deals with networks (Fox, ESPN) giving exclusive TV broadcast rights to certain days and games. Until this year, MLB either didn't know about or tried to eliminate sites broadcasting baseball games on the internet. Now that internet broadcasts are tolerated, there is still only one broadcaster (broadcast.com), and MLB only "officially" allows the home team's broadcast on the net.
This style of dealing with the media is completely the opposite of what the internet is about. Fans should be able to pick whatever radio (and as bandwith increases, TV) game they want to watch; unlike TV, the only intrinsic restriction of the net is bandwidth, not the number of channels. MLB fears that fans will just sit on the net and never get out to a game; they should realize that (just as with TV broadcasts 50 years ago) more media coverage will result in more fan interest and more butts in the seats.
All the nuclear DNA came from one sheep, but because of the way the clone was made, the mitochondria came from both the egg (most of them) and the cell that was fused with it (a smaller number). Mitochondria replicate some time in the cell cycle (along with all the other organelles), so one would probably expect all cells in Dolly to have the same ratio of mtDNA types as the original fused cell.
What's interesting and surprising about this research is that NO mtDNA except that from the egg was found. This implies that the "foreign" mitochondria originally present were either actively killed off by something, or more likely, were not signaled to replicate at the same time all the "native" mitochondria from the egg cell were (because if they didn't replicate, they would become randomly segregated into the billions of cells making up Dolly, and would be lost). This would mean the signaling pathways telling mitochondria when to replicate are more complicated than we thought they were; i.e. we could now try to figure out what signal turns on the replication and why it only affects some mitochondria.
Not useful (such as perpetual motion machines); or
Offensive to public morality
Who says perpetual motion machines wouldn't be useful? I think they meant "inventions which violate thermodynamic laws."
Also, I'm not sure about their standards of what's offensive. Most/. readers might consider many software patents (such as the infamous XOR patent) to be offensive. In Alabama, they might consider this audio dildo to be more offensive... combine that with a perpetual motion machine and you've got something really unpatentable!
They sell support to the newbies, but many experienced users might buy Official Red Hat for other reasons:
To pay Alan Cox's salary (or that of many other free software programmers).
To buy mindshare. Even though it might not be the best distribution to actually run, a retail sale of RH does more to fuel media hype (and buy attention) than a free download of Debian or Mandrake. The more people there are that hear about linux, the more potential developers we have.
These are the same reasons I might buy a VA Research system instead of a $400 box on the net; I don't need the support, but want to support companies that have been on our side all along.
When I bought a boxed copy of the distribution last year, I got fooled by MacMillan's repackaging and bought that instead of the official RH boxed set. Some people might buy a computer with "Red Hat Linux pre-installed" and not realize they're not getting the same support as someone who buys a boxed copy. As long as Red Hat still allows CheapBytes, MacMillan, et al to say they're "copies of" RH (or some other such language), I don't see a problem with them cracking down a little.
Katz would fit in well in San Francisco, where we sometimes have (fake) protests to save the yuppies.
Considering that a yuppie in SF fits his definition of a "geek" (different culture, not well understood, unfairly protrayed in the media), Katz would probably enjoy this sort of rally.
About the only thing I use RH's site for is to search their mailing list archives. These are really helpful for setting up Alpha linux or getting your PnP sound card to work.
After the site (archive.redhat.com) was taken down for the upgrade, I logged on today but found: "The Red Hat mailing list archive search is currently unavailable due to the SEC's required "quiet period" associated with the proposed IPO of our stock. The search will be available again as soon as the quiet period is over."
So, it appears that the SEC forbids posting any useful information about your product during the "quiet period."
BTW, for anybody who needs info from the lists, the mailing list server still works, and has egrep as a search feature. Of course, there's been no mention of the IPO on the sound card list!
This may have been a "moral victory" for you, but the theater manager is laughing all the way to the bank. Despite his incredibly rude treatment of you and woman with 5 kids, he sold 7 tickets, probably at about $8.50 each.
The kid had it right... the best thing to do would have been to have walked out and taken your business to a less fascist theater. Since you saw South Park (a great movie) 2 other times as well, I hope at least some of the money went to businesses with a more reasonable policy.
If there are nothing but Sony theaters and Blockbuster videos in your area, wait a couple of years. High bandwidth, fast processors, and large, cheap monitors will do to the movie industry what MP3s are currently doing to the recording industry monopolists.
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"Well, my coven and I celebrate under moonless night skies, go to movies, and swap recipies. And we always get together to watch Ally McBeal."
--some witch in Oakland
Baseball has always been hostile towards new media technologies; owners were originally afraid that by allowing any broadcast TV at all, fans would not bother going to the games. More recently, MLB has made exclusive deals with networks (Fox, ESPN) giving exclusive TV broadcast rights to certain days and games. Until this year, MLB either didn't know about or tried to eliminate sites broadcasting baseball games on the internet. Now that internet broadcasts are tolerated, there is still only one broadcaster (broadcast.com), and MLB only "officially" allows the home team's broadcast on the net.
This style of dealing with the media is completely the opposite of what the internet is about. Fans should be able to pick whatever radio (and as bandwith increases, TV) game they want to watch; unlike TV, the only intrinsic restriction of the net is bandwidth, not the number of channels. MLB fears that fans will just sit on the net and never get out to a game; they should realize that (just as with TV broadcasts 50 years ago) more media coverage will result in more fan interest and more butts in the seats.
JMC
What's interesting and surprising about this research is that NO mtDNA except that from the egg was found. This implies that the "foreign" mitochondria originally present were either actively killed off by something, or more likely, were not signaled to replicate at the same time all the "native" mitochondria from the egg cell were (because if they didn't replicate, they would become randomly segregated into the billions of cells making up Dolly, and would be lost). This would mean the signaling pathways telling mitochondria when to replicate are more complicated than we thought they were; i.e. we could now try to figure out what signal turns on the replication and why it only affects some mitochondria.
JMC
Inventions which are:
Who says perpetual motion machines wouldn't be useful? I think they meant "inventions which violate thermodynamic laws."
Also, I'm not sure about their standards of what's offensive. Most /. readers might consider many software patents (such as the infamous XOR patent) to be offensive. In Alabama, they might consider this audio dildo to be more offensive... combine that with a perpetual motion machine and you've got something really unpatentable!
JMC
These are the same reasons I might buy a VA Research system instead of a $400 box on the net; I don't need the support, but want to support companies that have been on our side all along.
JMC
When I bought a boxed copy of the distribution last year, I got fooled by MacMillan's repackaging and bought that instead of the official RH boxed set. Some people might buy a computer with "Red Hat Linux pre-installed" and not realize they're not getting the same support as someone who buys a boxed copy. As long as Red Hat still allows CheapBytes, MacMillan, et al to say they're "copies of" RH (or some other such language), I don't see a problem with them cracking down a little.
Girls can't recognize a troll, everyone knows that.
Hope this helps.
JMC
Considering that a yuppie in SF fits his definition of a "geek" (different culture, not well understood, unfairly protrayed in the media), Katz would probably enjoy this sort of rally.
About the only thing I use RH's site for is to search their mailing list archives. These are really helpful for setting up Alpha linux or getting your PnP sound card to work.
After the site (archive.redhat.com) was taken down for the upgrade, I logged on today but found: "The Red Hat mailing list archive search is currently unavailable due to the SEC's required "quiet period" associated with the proposed IPO of our stock. The search will be available again as soon as the quiet period is over."
So, it appears that the SEC forbids posting any useful information about your product during the "quiet period."
BTW, for anybody who needs info from the lists, the mailing list server still works, and has egrep as a search feature. Of course, there's been no mention of the IPO on the sound card list!
JMC
This may have been a "moral victory" for you, but the theater manager is laughing all the way to the bank. Despite his incredibly rude treatment of you and woman with 5 kids, he sold 7 tickets, probably at about $8.50 each.
The kid had it right... the best thing to do would have been to have walked out and taken your business to a less fascist theater. Since you saw South Park (a great movie) 2 other times as well, I hope at least some of the money went to businesses with a more reasonable policy.
If there are nothing but Sony theaters and Blockbuster videos in your area, wait a couple of years. High bandwidth, fast processors, and large, cheap monitors will do to the movie industry what MP3s are currently doing to the recording industry monopolists.
JMC