They might make the robots digestable, so that any organism big enough to eat them will be able to digest them, and possibly use them as a food source.:)
I imagine that the Distributing Companies would like to since that is how they make money. Since they dont make money off of licenses, Tech support is their thing : )
... But Universities buy state of the art hardware. I imagine that the hardware being purchased for this purpose will be "Discount hardware". Im sure they arent intrested in putting a Sparc Station in every home. So in this case Licences will be a much larger portion of the cost. Also, im sure even if you work for a big 10, there are more people to worry about than at your University.
Even if it is not flakey now, It will be easy Microsoft to change upcoming versions of Office software to make sure it will be flakey on the newer versions. This seems like a good jabbing point for MS to quash this quickley. Hopefully there are alot of people that are only dependent on Windows for a single application that needs not be upgraded.
This can also be applied to robotic prosthesis, and other nerve machine connections. This might allow the synapsis to grow into a mesh/matrix of nerve-electronic component connections.
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I agree that people shouldnt freak out, but be very cautious. The problem with GM is that if a specific GM makes a modification that happens to be extremely harmfull to a crop in a situation like drought, or insect swarms, then its likely that all of the plants that have assumed the effective part of the GM genes will be vulnerable. The reason that this isnt normaly a problem in nature is that muatations in genes are normaly indetectibly subtle. Being subtle, they lack much risk of making a plant extremely vulnerable. When changes that occur in nature arnt subtle, since the changes are random, its likely that the change will harm the plant enough to remove it and its offspring from the gene pool pretty quickly.
On top of all of this, in nature, it doesnt matter if only 100 plants out of 1,00,000 survive some environmental situation. Those 100 will go on to reproduce and become the new population. In relation to human lives, it is important. If only 100 plants survive, a huge supply of food being wiped out, will certainly cause a problem.
It seems that the sueing should go the other way around. It should be the responsibility of the growers of geneticly modified crops to keep their plants from "corrupting" other farmers crops. Some farmers use the fact that their crops arnt geneticly modified as a way to attract some customers.
I assume though that the current plantiffs suing represent a lot more money than the farmers who do not use geneticly modified plants, and so it goes...
From what I understand, the Saharra is a pretty windy place. It also has tonnes of sunshine for the taking. With advancements in superconducting cables(1,2), maybe the deserts of the world might someday soon be an un obtrusive place to put some of these land scape marring reneuable resource adsorbing systems.
Devices of this type already exist, just not on the scale described in this article. For example, it is already possible to get retinal implants. The quality is such that you can only see large letters and general motion, but it exists none the less : http://www.optobionics.com/artificialretina.htm. It is also already possible to implant electrodes into the brain of somone who has been paralysed, and have them control a mouse by thinking of moving their abscent body part.http://sulu.smpp.nwu.edu/
If you are paying a penny per page or per domain, then every site you vist has to have billing information on you, and also has web traffic information on you. Some sites are less secure than others. How would it be proposed that we do this? By.NET? I hope not. It could be done by your isp, but then again, the sites will still have to keep tabs on the ISP. Besides, what would be the advantage for the ISP to do all of this book keeping? There are so many problems with this idea, besides the price, so I dont think a price cap will be enough of a fix.
Here is an intersting page at universaldisplay corp. It includes some neat pictures and some video clips of the thing working. Not quite the same, but its OLED and on a flexible display. Neat.
http://www.universaldisplay.com/foled.php
I think the largest advantage of globlization is that it spreads a common communication methods. One of the reasons that we dont know about how others feel about the US is that because their media is not targeted at us, and therefore in annother language, because of this we have no simple way of learning about what they oppose in us. I dont mean that we should eliminate all languages but our own, but in some countries there is a different language every 50 miles. If there was a way for cultures to understand each others media, (literature, news channels, web sites etc), everyone would benefit by gaining the outlook of a different culture. The only way for diverse cultures to find common ground is to share understanding of eachothers outlooks. Having common economic interests is probably the only way to encourage a common communication medium.
"Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so..." Actually as far as society goes, Something is only as bad as its effect on society. That said, untill it is seen weather or not that this "stealing" is having an adverse effect on society, we will all have to rely on the virtues of our philosophies ie "Information wants to be free" or "Ideas can be Owned"
That wouldnt make any sense. If the wasp had reordered the DNA, the behavior wouldnt show up untill the next generation of the spider, except since the larva kill the spider, thats never gonna happen. I think that Its much more likely that the web spinning is controlled by hormones released in a cycle, just as most behaviors are in the lesser animal groups.
The problem with your analogy is that the larva is the little guy in this situation. A better analogy is probably the praying mantis. It lures a mate, takes what it wants from its mate, then eats it. For the praying mantis, its more like : Embrace and Digest, which is seem more appropriate for Microsofts than the (now sarcastic) euphemism that people use: Embrace and Extend.
Maybe a large collection of Universites Should look at this. Universities are Commertial, yet intrested in pure science and have a continual influx of fresh minds and Ideas, and have resources in every science dicipline.
Ozone is also know as O3 and Smog(when mixed with other pollution). Is constantly produced by Internal combustion engines (cars). Unfortuneately it doesnt do us much good down here.
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We just need to get them set up on acouple major spam lists, and we can knock down allot of spammers.
Two people with these things and radio tramsmitters could potentialy communicate "telepathicly". Awesome.
" Privately they are hoping that the US joins without interfering with the choice between Canada and Japan."
Privately published in a major news outlet.
He didnt capitolize his name, nor did he give a last. Seems kinda odd for a formal open letter for someone to have that kind of typo.
They might make the robots digestable, so that any organism big enough to eat them will be able to digest them, and possibly use them as a food source. :)
That sounds great. Also If the Macs are runnign OSX, those intrested in digging deaper into the computer will get a chance to experience UNIX.
See who bids the lowest on tech support.
I imagine that the Distributing Companies would like to since that is how they make money. Since they dont make money off of licenses, Tech support is their thing : )
... But Universities buy state of the art hardware. I imagine that the hardware being purchased for this purpose will be "Discount hardware". Im sure they arent intrested in putting a Sparc Station in every home. So in this case Licences will be a much larger portion of the cost. Also, im sure even if you work for a big 10, there are more people to worry about than at your University.
Even if it is not flakey now, It will be easy Microsoft to change upcoming versions of Office software to make sure it will be flakey on the newer versions. This seems like a good jabbing point for MS to quash this quickley. Hopefully there are alot of people that are only dependent on Windows for a single application that needs not be upgraded.
This can also be applied to robotic prosthesis, and other nerve machine connections. This might allow the synapsis to grow into a mesh/matrix of nerve-electronic component connections.
I agree that people shouldnt freak out, but be very cautious. The problem with GM is that if a specific GM makes a modification that happens to be extremely harmfull to a crop in a situation like drought, or insect swarms, then its likely that all of the plants that have assumed the effective part of the GM genes will be vulnerable. The reason that this isnt normaly a problem in nature is that muatations in genes are normaly indetectibly subtle. Being subtle, they lack much risk of making a plant extremely vulnerable. When changes that occur in nature arnt subtle, since the changes are random, its likely that the change will harm the plant enough to remove it and its offspring from the gene pool pretty quickly.
On top of all of this, in nature, it doesnt matter if only 100 plants out of 1,00,000 survive some environmental situation. Those 100 will go on to reproduce and become the new population. In relation to human lives, it is important. If only 100 plants survive, a huge supply of food being wiped out, will certainly cause a problem.
It seems that the sueing should go the other way around. It should be the responsibility of the growers of geneticly modified crops to keep their plants from "corrupting" other farmers crops. Some farmers use the fact that their crops arnt geneticly modified as a way to attract some customers.
I assume though that the current plantiffs suing represent a lot more money than the farmers who do not use geneticly modified plants, and so it goes...
From what I understand, the Saharra is a pretty windy place. It also has tonnes of sunshine for the taking. With advancements in superconducting cables(1,2), maybe the deserts of the world might someday soon be an un obtrusive place to put some of these land scape marring reneuable resource adsorbing systems.
Devices of this type already exist, just not on the scale described in this article. For example, it is already possible to get retinal implants. The quality is such that you can only see large letters and general motion, but it exists none the less : http://www.optobionics.com/artificialretina.htm. It is also already possible to implant electrodes into the brain of somone who has been paralysed, and have them control a mouse by thinking of moving their abscent body part.http://sulu.smpp.nwu.edu/
If you are paying a penny per page or per domain, then every site you vist has to have billing information on you, and also has web traffic information on you. Some sites are less secure than others. How would it be proposed that we do this? By .NET? I hope not. It could be done by your isp, but then again, the sites will still have to keep tabs on the ISP. Besides, what would be the advantage for the ISP to do all of this book keeping? There are so many problems with this idea, besides the price, so I dont think a price cap will be enough of a fix.
Here is an intersting page at universaldisplay corp. It includes some neat pictures and some video clips of the thing working. Not quite the same, but its OLED and on a flexible display. Neat.
http://www.universaldisplay.com/foled.php
Heres a link to a neat demo of how OLEDs work.
http://www.optics.arizona.edu/oled/
I think the largest advantage of globlization is that it spreads a common communication methods. One of the reasons that we dont know about how others feel about the US is that because their media is not targeted at us, and therefore in annother language, because of this we have no simple way of learning about what they oppose in us. I dont mean that we should eliminate all languages but our own, but in some countries there is a different language every 50 miles. If there was a way for cultures to understand each others media, (literature, news channels, web sites etc), everyone would benefit by gaining the outlook of a different culture. The only way for diverse cultures to find common ground is to share understanding of eachothers outlooks. Having common economic interests is probably the only way to encourage a common communication medium.
I am a URL Happy Slashdot user.
"Nothing is good or bad but thinking makes it so..." Actually as far as society goes, Something is only as bad as its effect on society. That said, untill it is seen weather or not that this "stealing" is having an adverse effect on society, we will all have to rely on the virtues of our philosophies ie "Information wants to be free" or "Ideas can be Owned"
That wouldnt make any sense. If the wasp had reordered the DNA, the behavior wouldnt show up untill the next generation of the spider, except since the larva kill the spider, thats never gonna happen. I think that Its much more likely that the web spinning is controlled by hormones released in a cycle, just as most behaviors are in the lesser animal groups.
The problem with your analogy is that the larva is the little guy in this situation. A better analogy is probably the praying mantis. It lures a mate, takes what it wants from its mate, then eats it. For the praying mantis, its more like : Embrace and Digest, which is seem more appropriate for Microsofts than the (now sarcastic) euphemism that people use: Embrace and Extend.
Maybe a large collection of Universites Should look at this. Universities are Commertial, yet intrested in pure science and have a continual influx of fresh minds and Ideas, and have resources in every science dicipline.
Ozone is also know as O3 and Smog(when mixed with other pollution). Is constantly produced by Internal combustion engines (cars). Unfortuneately it doesnt do us much good down here.