The only thing I see amiss is that Return of the Jedi is rated lower than Empire Strikes Back and A New Hope on a "best space movies" countdown. The space battle at the end of ROTJ surpassed anything in the prior two movies.
The results of this survey shouldn't be surprising to anyone, regardless of who funded the study. MS SQL 2000 has been out for several years, and most of the big security holes have already been found, exploited (*cough*slammer*cough*), and patched. To be completely fair, the study should have compared MS SQL 2000 against the contemporary releases of MySQL and Oracle. It should be assumed that time-from-release has a significant impact on the rate bugs are found, and this study pays no attention to that detail.
The exhaust from combustion of hydrogen is water vapor. If this is a more serious greenhouse gas than originally thought, can hydrogen really be considered an eco-friendly fuel? We'd probably have to have condenser units in the role of catalytic converters in hydrogen power cars.
Since when is it good practice for any Patent Office to issue patents based on conjecture? There should be a valid working prototype before any patent is issued. Software patents are bad enough, but speculative patents are total b.s.
Sheesh, of all the childish things. They don't even have the enemy beaten yet and they're already trumpeting their success. WTF? I'm not so sure they should be this cocky anyway, because Microsoft is doing the exact same thing for Hotmail.
I'm not arguing against the FDA per se. In this particular case, the need for a patent to fund the clinical trials is the problem, when the lack of competition as the result of a patent keeps prices to consumers, health plans, and self-insured companies artificially high.
It'd *almost* be better to limit what the oompany can do with the patent to royalties only, rather than total monopoly. Quality controls would be my main concern with that plan, though.
No, the ability of the device to do good is relevent. The value of a system that prevents devices with the capability to do good from being usable is the question.
The patent system is not fatally flawed, certainly, but to suggest that we need it to do good is ridiculous.
No. You missed the point. There is a difference between the ability of the device to do good and its practical value. Patents may enable the latter, but they do not affect the former.
In pharmacology it has. Nobody will foot the clinical testing bills if they don't get a patent. Your lame and stupid web browser example is absolutely irrelevant to this fact.
You're confused. Read the whole post before you hit reply. The point of the post was the difference between intrinsic value and practical value. If the practical value of the device is diminished by lack of patent, that does not affect its intrinsic value. The distinction is highlighted by an example that illustrates the point. The web browser's lack of patent increased its practical value. There was no implication that this device's practical value would be reduced by presence of a patent.
Putting those words within scare quotes tells me more about how nuanced your view of the patent system is than you ever wanted. It's far from perfect, but people like you need to grow up.
You also need to grow up and quote in context. The reason those terms are in quotes is because the definition of inventor and invention as because there is a difference between what is a legitimate invention (like this pencil) and what the USPTO considers a legitimate invention.
Such a device if patented, tested and mass produced could end up doing allot of good.
Patents have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not something will do good. The web browser (in and of itself) wasn't patented, and look how it took off. Plugins to web browsers turn out to have been patented, and look at the pain it causes for web authors who have to change their methods for invoking plugins.
No, patents are only good for making sure an "inventor" gets money for their "invention". In this case, a patent is probably warranted, but don't make the mistake of thinking that the patent is what enabled the device to do a lot of good.
I can see patenting the methods for discovering what the gene does, or for creating a NEW gene, or monitoring what various chemicals do to genes, but isn't this like patenting water?
This is an affront to the very concept of science.
I wouldn't compare that to sacrificing a pawn...it's sacrificing a rook at least. IANAL, but the patent claim looked like a freight train that was going to bowl SCO over even if they had a chance of winning the original claim.
This sort of thing works very, very well for IBM's i5/OS (formerly OS/400). It's interesting to see vendors, almost 30 years after the System/38, finally embrace the concept of an OS-integrated relational database.
It's also interesting to see the amount of hype.Net's L'INQ facility is generating, because that sort of thing's been one of the main productivity features of RPG.
would be like a cut of every CD player, tape player, or record player sold. If the RIAA doesn't get a cut of those, then it obviously shouldn't get a cut of iPod.
It is also an insipid argument that their digital downloads made the iPod. It is completely bass-ackwards to the real truth. There were digital music players, and even digital music stores, before iPod/iTMS. It wasn't until Apple made it simple to buy music that digital downloads took off.
The RIAA labels really show how they feel about Intellectual Property with this move. "What's ours is ours, and anything ours touches is ours."
If you read the article, you will see that RMS is quite clear about the circumstances under which this rule would apply. If the original software has a "download source for the currently running version" button, websites based on modified versions will be required to maintain this functionality.
That only serves to support my point. The lack of quality CS graduates in this country is, in part, a result of CS not being perceived as a job skill with a future... due to offshoring. As with many math and science-oriented majors, there is a rapidly rising proportion of foreign students earning Bachelors degrees in the U.S.
Another part of this is cultural upbringing...parents aren't adequately preparing their students for the realities of life. They're trying to get the schools to do this job, but the schools aren't any better at it due to their focus on teaching their students to pass the government-mandated standardized tests. Students are left with a whole lot of theories about what real life is like after school, but with no real knowledge -- other than they don't want to be their parents...working harder and harder but with no real security.
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They all have an average rating of 4.2.
The only thing I see amiss is that Return of the Jedi is rated lower than Empire Strikes Back and A New Hope on a "best space movies" countdown. The space battle at the end of ROTJ surpassed anything in the prior two movies.
to provide the "X" in AJAX, but the concept was envisioned by Netscape all along.
The results of this survey shouldn't be surprising to anyone, regardless of who funded the study. MS SQL 2000 has been out for several years, and most of the big security holes have already been found, exploited (*cough*slammer*cough*), and patched. To be completely fair, the study should have compared MS SQL 2000 against the contemporary releases of MySQL and Oracle. It should be assumed that time-from-release has a significant impact on the rate bugs are found, and this study pays no attention to that detail.
Yes, and the root of the question is directed at QUANTITY.
Try using some of that reason your hero espouses before jumping to conclusions about a question.
Read the other replies. Obviously, it's not as dumb a question as you seem to think. It's actually pretty dumb to think it's a dumb question.
The exhaust from combustion of hydrogen is water vapor. If this is a more serious greenhouse gas than originally thought, can hydrogen really be considered an eco-friendly fuel? We'd probably have to have condenser units in the role of catalytic converters in hydrogen power cars.
Since when is it good practice for any Patent Office to issue patents based on conjecture? There should be a valid working prototype before any patent is issued. Software patents are bad enough, but speculative patents are total b.s.
we'd still have a bunch of proprietary network islands floating in a sea of mediocrity.
Sheesh, of all the childish things. They don't even have the enemy beaten yet and they're already trumpeting their success. WTF? I'm not so sure they should be this cocky anyway, because Microsoft is doing the exact same thing for Hotmail.
I'm not arguing against the FDA per se. In this particular case, the need for a patent to fund the clinical trials is the problem, when the lack of competition as the result of a patent keeps prices to consumers, health plans, and self-insured companies artificially high.
It'd *almost* be better to limit what the oompany can do with the patent to royalties only, rather than total monopoly. Quality controls would be my main concern with that plan, though.
No, the ability of the device to do good is relevent. The value of a system that prevents devices with the capability to do good from being usable is the question.
The patent system is not fatally flawed, certainly, but to suggest that we need it to do good is ridiculous.
...but then again, it's probably because the thing doesn't run WMA natively.
No. You missed the point. There is a difference between the ability of the device to do good and its practical value. Patents may enable the latter, but they do not affect the former.
You're confused. Read the whole post before you hit reply. The point of the post was the difference between intrinsic value and practical value. If the practical value of the device is diminished by lack of patent, that does not affect its intrinsic value. The distinction is highlighted by an example that illustrates the point. The web browser's lack of patent increased its practical value. There was no implication that this device's practical value would be reduced by presence of a patent.
Putting those words within scare quotes tells me more about how nuanced your view of the patent system is than you ever wanted. It's far from perfect, but people like you need to grow up.
You also need to grow up and quote in context. The reason those terms are in quotes is because the definition of inventor and invention as because there is a difference between what is a legitimate invention (like this pencil) and what the USPTO considers a legitimate invention.
Try reading the whole post before you hit "Reply".
Such a device if patented, tested and mass produced could end up doing allot of good.
Patents have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not something will do good. The web browser (in and of itself) wasn't patented, and look how it took off. Plugins to web browsers turn out to have been patented, and look at the pain it causes for web authors who have to change their methods for invoking plugins.
No, patents are only good for making sure an "inventor" gets money for their "invention". In this case, a patent is probably warranted, but don't make the mistake of thinking that the patent is what enabled the device to do a lot of good.
I can see patenting the methods for discovering what the gene does, or for creating a NEW gene, or monitoring what various chemicals do to genes, but isn't this like patenting water?
This is an affront to the very concept of science.
I wouldn't compare that to sacrificing a pawn...it's sacrificing a rook at least. IANAL, but the patent claim looked like a freight train that was going to bowl SCO over even if they had a chance of winning the original claim.
This sort of thing works very, very well for IBM's i5/OS (formerly OS/400). It's interesting to see vendors, almost 30 years after the System/38, finally embrace the concept of an OS-integrated relational database.
.Net's L'INQ facility is generating, because that sort of thing's been one of the main productivity features of RPG.
It's also interesting to see the amount of hype
The garbage the movie studios produce is already running rampant in our theatres. I suppose it's appropriate that their products end up in a landfill.
would be like a cut of every CD player, tape player, or record player sold. If the RIAA doesn't get a cut of those, then it obviously shouldn't get a cut of iPod.
It is also an insipid argument that their digital downloads made the iPod. It is completely bass-ackwards to the real truth. There were digital music players, and even digital music stores, before iPod/iTMS. It wasn't until Apple made it simple to buy music that digital downloads took off.
The RIAA labels really show how they feel about Intellectual Property with this move. "What's ours is ours, and anything ours touches is ours."
If you read the article, you will see that RMS is quite clear about the circumstances under which this rule would apply. If the original software has a "download source for the currently running version" button, websites based on modified versions will be required to maintain this functionality.
it was done by an incompetent idiot. Sheesh, installing Gentoo shouldn't take that long. :-)
Their TCP stack is well-known to have BSD code in it. I doubt their Services For Unix is entirely a from-scratch item, also.
That only serves to support my point. The lack of quality CS graduates in this country is, in part, a result of CS not being perceived as a job skill with a future ... due to offshoring. As with many math and science-oriented majors, there is a rapidly rising proportion of foreign students earning Bachelors degrees in the U.S.
Another part of this is cultural upbringing...parents aren't adequately preparing their students for the realities of life. They're trying to get the schools to do this job, but the schools aren't any better at it due to their focus on teaching their students to pass the government-mandated standardized tests. Students are left with a whole lot of theories about what real life is like after school, but with no real knowledge -- other than they don't want to be their parents...working harder and harder but with no real security.