The test was available before the company patented the gene sequence. It was being used. The company has done absolutely nothing to advance the medical field - it has claimed ownership of the DNA of a substantial chunk of the population.
Jesus, is this "national fucking illiterates post to/. day"? First the cretins who didn't read the article and keep claiming the company patented the test, now someone who failed to note the same company holds gene patents on the prostate, but would have, if only they'd read the artcle.
Yeah excpt the company with the patent didn't develop the test. They have a patent on the gene, which they're using to control the test - which existed beforehand. They've done squat to advance medical science.
I know people who are professional admins who dislike Debian's install because it makes it hard for them to do their jobs - no unattended install, no kickstart (a la RedHat) is a pain in the arse for a server farm.
Yes, you can. You need, though, to manually install the redhat-release RPM for the appropriate distro (eg 8 if you're coming from 7.3). At that point, running up2date -u will pull down all the packages that upgraded in the distro.
Actually, they'll just do what the MPAA have done to undermine the free market in DVDs in New Zealand: get thier friends in the US government to threaten New Zealand's trade by claiming we're a company which does not properly respect copyrights.
(We do, but we freely allow parallel importing - if a free market is good enough for US corporations seeking to fire their American employees and evade US taxes, it must be good enough for consumers looking for a good deal).
Your WM will want to understand it, and your toolkit should understand it. But if you read the paper, you'll see they have solutions to help apps that are unfamiliar with the extension cope with their world changing underneath them.
Once the core extension is in there, it should be simple enough to add - the monitor must have some way of telling a Windows host "I have pivoted", so as long as it can be identified and passed to the server as an even, Bob's your uncle. It needn't even be an X addition - a userland daemon could manage it.
You'll note if you read some of the correspondence around this that various members of the GNOME team (and presumably KDE) are adding a control-centre gadget to do exactly that.
They (essentially) use Display PDF, an evolution of Display PostScript. There is no X server. What they gain from that is, well, a pretty GUI. One that does not have many of the useful features of X (no remote windowing, which matters when you're seling Xserves). More importantly, it has none of the X software, which means people have had to hack a working X server onto the platform - Apple refuse to - and run them there. If all you want are the pretty effects you can get from Display PDF, you can go contribute to one of the projects adding Display PostScript to X. There's not much that uses it, but you can have it.
Which means Apple may have a Unixish personality of their Mach core, but out of the box, no Unix GUI tools work.
And if you think Apple, who routinely sue people for producing OS X look-a-like themes would stand for you cloning the Quartz API, you can pass me some of whatever you've got.
X is a lot better than many competing efforts. For starters, it works, is in wide distribution, and has a huge suite of apps. Unlike, say, Berlin, or any of the other "Let's replace X" projects (Berlin, to its credit, at least works. Most alternatives are SourceForgeWare with a few Beavis and Buttheads dissing X withou anything to replace it).
X gives you a base. You can reimplement everything X already does to get the features X doesn't have, or you can implement extensions to X, or rewrite core parts, to correct the faults X has. Guess which is less work?
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See also: Christian fundamentalists taking over US school boards.
The shorter version: libertarians suffer from the same problems as Marxists. They've even got Rand to substitute for Lenin.
But if they did it on an island, they'd have to shell out for an army! And a navy! And an air force! Then they'd need an opressive government!
See, much better to seceede in a mid-west state where you can free-load off the US defence forces.
It's called the Mafia. You can study a little Sicillian history to see this libertarian paradise in action.
(Actually, the fueding families of any number of the Italian city-states would be just as valid).
So? Most of the taxes spent on defense are wasted, to. And landlocked states without millitary installations get a worse deal than coastal ones.
Go away. Read the article.
Feel like an idiot now?
The test was available before the company patented the gene sequence. It was being used. The company has done absolutely nothing to advance the medical field - it has claimed ownership of the DNA of a substantial chunk of the population.
Sure. After all, Salk, Fleming, and Pastuer were only in it for the mondo dollars.
This argument might hold water if it wasn't for the fact the company didn't develop the test, only claimed a patent on the gene sequence.
Jesus, is this "national fucking illiterates post to /. day"? First the cretins who didn't read the article and keep claiming the company patented the test, now someone who failed to note the same company holds gene patents on the prostate, but would have, if only they'd read the artcle.
Wrong. RTFA. The patent is on the gene.
RTFA. The patent has nothing to do with testing for the cells. The company purports to own the actual genes.
Yeah excpt the company with the patent didn't develop the test. They have a patent on the gene, which they're using to control the test - which existed beforehand. They've done squat to advance medical science.
*Right now* it doesn't work as well as kickstart. When it does, that'll be great.
And that's great. When it's delivered, and works with all the packages in the distro it's delivered with.
The inability to do unattended installs, and the lack of a kickstart equivalent, makes Debian suck on servers, IMO.
I know people who are professional admins who dislike Debian's install because it makes it hard for them to do their jobs - no unattended install, no kickstart (a la RedHat) is a pain in the arse for a server farm.
Yes, you can. You need, though, to manually install the redhat-release RPM for the appropriate distro (eg 8 if you're coming from 7.3). At that point, running up2date -u will pull down all the packages that upgraded in the distro.
Actually, they'll just do what the MPAA have done to undermine the free market in DVDs in New Zealand: get thier friends in the US government to threaten New Zealand's trade by claiming we're a company which does not properly respect copyrights.
(We do, but we freely allow parallel importing - if a free market is good enough for US corporations seeking to fire their American employees and evade US taxes, it must be good enough for consumers looking for a good deal).
Your WM will want to understand it, and your toolkit should understand it. But if you read the paper, you'll see they have solutions to help apps that are unfamiliar with the extension cope with their world changing underneath them.
Once the core extension is in there, it should be simple enough to add - the monitor must have some way of telling a Windows host "I have pivoted", so as long as it can be identified and passed to the server as an even, Bob's your uncle. It needn't even be an X addition - a userland daemon could manage it.
You'll note if you read some of the correspondence around this that various members of the GNOME team (and presumably KDE) are adding a control-centre gadget to do exactly that.
They (essentially) use Display PDF, an evolution of Display PostScript. There is no X server. What they gain from that is, well, a pretty GUI. One that does not have many of the useful features of X (no remote windowing, which matters when you're seling Xserves). More importantly, it has none of the X software, which means people have had to hack a working X server onto the platform - Apple refuse to - and run them there. If all you want are the pretty effects you can get from Display PDF, you can go contribute to one of the projects adding Display PostScript to X. There's not much that uses it, but you can have it.
Which means Apple may have a Unixish personality of their Mach core, but out of the box, no Unix GUI tools work.
And if you think Apple, who routinely sue people for producing OS X look-a-like themes would stand for you cloning the Quartz API, you can pass me some of whatever you've got.
Not according to Jim Gettys - this is TBD.
X is a lot better than many competing efforts. For starters, it works, is in wide distribution, and has a huge suite of apps. Unlike, say, Berlin, or any of the other "Let's replace X" projects (Berlin, to its credit, at least works. Most alternatives are SourceForgeWare with a few Beavis and Buttheads dissing X withou anything to replace it).
X gives you a base. You can reimplement everything X already does to get the features X doesn't have, or you can implement extensions to X, or rewrite core parts, to correct the faults X has. Guess which is less work?
The rotation is for people with pivoting monitors which can swap between landscape and portait views, I assume.
Mirroring may be reflection, but it could also be mirrored video for multihead setups.