Terrorists blend into the very fabric of our society, spreading their atheistic dogma which undermines the sanctity of marriage and murdering of our babies.
The only fairly reliable way to smoke them out is to hold an election and watch for Kerry signs in their yards. These blimps will help locate those signs.
Oh, we'll get you my pretty and your little dog too!
And it needs to validate your insurance coverage, drivers license, and that you've paid child support! It should not start the car if you vote for the wrong politcial party, buy off-brand gasoline or if you shop at the wrong grocery store! It should teach our young morality and protect the American way of life!
The profit breakdown has been extensively reported elsewhere, as this is derived from SEC filings, and the margins continue to this day, this is just the first source I goggled. NOVA on PBS had a great documentary on this issue last month which had similar stats.
The pharma industry enjoys record profits, pays its corporate officers extravagantly well, and charges the American public more for the same products than any other market in the world.
At the same time, we allow the pharma companies to deduct the expenses of R&D costs, clinical trials, marketing, et al, and give them patent protection so that they enjoy a protected revenue stream for many many years.
This industry then takes its profits and buys congress, ensuring that the government does not use its buying power (MediCare) to negotiate better pricing, and pass legislation which keeps americans, states and health providers from purchasing the very same drugs from Canada (Bush's recent drug bill).
For many, they have no choice: buy drugs or die. I do not believe the patent system was intended as a means to extort money from vulnerable citizens. In my opinion it's high time that our government bullies the pharma industry to arrange its affairs, so that pharmaceuticals are again priced fairly.
They can start by restricting advertising for pharma products just like they have done for cigarettes and alcohol. That should shave 20% right there.
For all the apologists out there who will claim "it's capitalism; they have no responsibility except to their shareholders", let me remind you that the government grants corporate charters and allows businesses to exist to benefit the public good, not just to extort money from the sick and vulnerable.
The tool is very similar in concept to Map of the Market, found on smart money's site.
It visually displays stocks positioned by market segment and sized by capitalization.
It's very handy for distinguishing overall stock market trends.
I've been a Framemaker user for over 12 years and it has not really progressed much in the last 6 or so. They glommed on some html export and XML support, but never saw much use for these features.
Framemaker was ideal for producing technical documents which require: * paragraph style numbering, so that sections may be shuffled and all the numbered chapters, headers, subheads would automatically update * incremental table and figure numbering * cross-references, table of contents and figures which automatically update * variables embedded in text
InDesign would be an excellent substitute if several of these features were implemented. I guess I'll have to keep the old version of MacOS9 Framemaker around until someone comes out with a substitute for this product.
I recall a documentary on prison life some years ago where the inmate being interviewed explained that assaults and murders took place because something had to finally give.
The inmates in conflict had to face each other day in and day out for the next many years, with no way of avoiding each other. Conflict was unavoidable. Someone eventually had to be taken down a notch or 6.
This is much like school, as well described by the parent post above. I really wonder if the escalation of violence in schools is due to inescapable, required attendance.
If its Fight or Flight, and flight is not an option, what else could occur?!
Exactly. During many of the special effect sequences, I grimaced because what they were describing and what they were portraying were contradictory.
I finally couldn't stomach it any longer, and when they started repeating vaguaries for the uptenth time and laying on more eye candy in episode 3, I couldn't take it any longer.
I'm a Nova fan and documentary junkie, and while I did find the explanations of newtonian and einsteinian theories excellent, I still have no frigging clue about the implcations of string theory and 11 dimensions. Am I to believe there are 5 of me sitting here, each drinking a different color of coffee?! Or playing cello. Good grief! Why should multiple dimensions mirror other dimensions? Is there *any* part of theory which states this?!
Just because you *can* do special effects does not mean you *should* do them, especially when they end up distracting and misleading your audience.
I always wondered why Skynet modeled the Terminator after Arnold. I guess they had his picture, perhaps from an old book of California governors. I wonder what the special capabilities of the Ronald Raygun model are.
I can easily imagine leagues of semi-brain dead immortals who dominate the world simply through ruthlessness, luck, and wealth. They will have strong opinions about what's wrong with the world... "the younger peons are lacking nowadays, the damn slackers!". Tighten that iron fist.... kind of like *now*
SCO Announces Intellectual Property License for Linux
August 05, 2003 12:43:00 (ET)
LINDON, Utah, Aug 5, 2003/PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (SCOX, Trade), the owner and licensor of the core UNIX(R) operating system source code, today announced the availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux(R). The run-time license permits the use of SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux distributions. By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5 kernels. Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed.
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990421/SCOLO GO )
SCO announced in July that it had registered the copyrights to its software releases of UNIX System V and UnixWare(R) with the U.S. Copyright office and that it would offer licenses to cure the SCO IP infringement issues for Linux operating systems. Beginning this week, SCO will start meeting with commercial Linux customers to present the details of this right to use SCO intellectual property binary licensing program.
"We have identified numerous files of unlicensed UNIX System V code and UNIX System V derivative code in the Linux 2.4 and 2.5 kernels," said Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource, the intellectual property licensing division of SCO. "We believe it is necessary for Linux customers to properly license SCO's IP if they are running Linux 2.4 kernel and later versions for commercial purposes. The license insures that customers can continue their use of binary deployments of Linux without violating SCO's intellectual property rights."
Pricing and Availability
SCO will be offering an introductory license price of $699 for a single CPU system through October 15th, 2003. Pricing for multiple CPU systems, single CPU add-ons, desktop systems and embedded systems will also be available. Linux users who are interested in additional information or purchasing an IP License for Linux should contact their local SCO sales representative or call SCO at 1-800-726-8649 or visit our web site at http://www.sco.com/scosource.
About The SCO Group
The SCO Group (SCOX, Trade) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses with UNIX business solutions. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 resellers and 4,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to all partners and customers. For more information on SCO products and services visit http://www.sco.com.
SCO and the associated SCO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of The SCO Group, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX and UnixWare are registered trademarks of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.
SOURCE The SCO Group
Blake Stowell of The SCO Group, +1-801-932-5703, bstowell@sco.com ; or Dave Close, Avi Dines, or Brian Willinsky, all of Schwartz Communications, +1-781-684-0770, sco@schwartz-pr.com , for The SCO Group/Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990421/SCOLO GO AP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org PRN Photo Desk, +1-888-776-6555 or +1-212-782-2840
Better yet. Buy two of them and get two paychecks!
And when companies discover that there's really no one driving the thing... finally, a cost-effective employee replacement! No sick days, no paychecks. The 7/24 employee.
Forget shipping jobs to India: Imagine, the whole company could be staffed by one robot repair man, from CEO to technical support tech!
At the best part is that while actual work grinds to nothing, there is no actual loss in productivity. Just much less corporate wasted motion.
Yes, the service module (the thing you stick in your cab window) is built atop a roll-your-own Linux implementation. The enclosure is novel (in order to handle air conditioning/heating/other services, but the boards are primarily off-the-shelf.
In our research, not many truckers have laptops and those that do rarely have ethernet (most use dialup). The system is capable of handling web-browsing entirely via touchscreen, but this was not implemented for some reason.
On the radio show This American
Life, a segment described
how police used the case summary of an FBI profiler as a template for a forced
confession.
Under pressure to find the killer(s), police used intimidation and duress
to coax a suspect to sign a false confession, the conviction since overturned
by DNA evidence. The suspect, unaware of case particulars, was given a confession
to sign lifted verbatim from an FBI profiler's report. The police used a best
guess of how the crime occurred based on the evidence to frame a patsy.
In the not distant future with Total Information Awareness, it will be trivial
to find a patsy for any crime. The
person murdered attended the same university and you shared a class or two
(enrollment
database).
You
enjoy violence and murder (video store database). The murder occured a mile
away and within 30
minutes
of when you filled up your car at the gas station (credit card database).
We have established relationship, motif, and opportunity.
My point is that extremely causal data will be used to make relationships
where none exist and to support conclusions which no hard data supports. It
will become trivial to gather a group of suspects for any crime, none of which
have anything to do with it.
The databases will be used to get tough on crime,
which was a euphemism in the 80's for put pressure on police and courts
to find a patsy and put them away to make us politically significant. The
wave of
released prisoners based on evaluation of DNA evidence in recent years is
proof of this.
Are you a terrorist? I bet if we look at the proper data points
we can make anyone look like one...
Number one cause of device failure for SCSI devices: power shorts on SCSI chain.
Number one cause of device and motherboard failure for Firewire devices: power shorts on Firewire chain.
Notice a pattern?
There's good reason to have two cables running to each device: when a cable inevitably goes bad or the user mis-mates a hot connection, the chance for device damage is minimal.
This is hardly innovative. Gauntlets, PDAs, and HUDs have been around on the market, in sci fi, and cobbled together by hobbyists for decades to varying degrees.
The most significant hurdle for wearables is not styling. It is in developing a user interface and applications designed to be used while walking around, not sitting at a desk or standing still.
Real innovation will be when someone develops the wearable equivilent of the desktop metaphor and wearable equvilent to the mouse for input control. Sorry, current PDA menuing and compass navigation is insufficient.
When the industry gets serious and looks to marketize products like this, I hope they have more vision than simply re-purposing existing user interface mechanisms (and hire me to design the embedded UI). Wearables could be the next killer app.
More features and capabilities in software is not the problem.
Stuffing features and capabilities in a user interface which cannot accomodate them is the problem.
Most Windows-style applications have as many controls constantly displayed on-screen as a 747 cockpit. This is extremely poor application interface design. Most applications suffer from an OS's catchall application interface framework, with developers seeming to believe that it is enough if an application *looks* like other applications for a given OS.
In the 80s among Macintosh users, there was a expression regarding whether software was "Mac-like". This term was never really defined, but was commonly used throughout the community to describe whether software not just followed the user interface guidelines, but also adopted their spirit: that of simplity, ease-of-use, intuitive, elegance.
A superior interface design emphasizes the most commonly used features to allow for quick discovery by new users and reduce interface clutter (reduce cognitive load), and de-emphasizes rarely used and more complicated features.
A well-designed interface organizes features into logical groupings, so that related controls can easily be found by context.
Whats missing from many efforts is a qualified user interface designer who bridges the needs of the development effort with those of the end user. Interface design is an applied technical art. You cannot simply follow a cookbook to comes up with the best interface design solution. It takes an artisan to bridge the technical, aesthetic, and cognitive worlds for specific application solutions.
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Protect us from who, you ask?!
Terrorists blend into the very fabric of our society, spreading their atheistic dogma which undermines the sanctity of marriage and murdering of our babies.
The only fairly reliable way to smoke them out is to hold an election and watch for Kerry signs in their yards. These blimps will help locate those signs.
Oh, we'll get you my pretty and your little dog too!
.
"System Requirements
o nes/tre o650/details.epl
Macintosh
Windows 2000 or XP (later versions may also be supported) with USB port (USB HotSync® cable included)"
From the spec page:
http://www.palmone.com/us/products/smartph
Sure it's a typo, but it's not comforting to see how little attention to detail they pay to cross-platform compatibility.
.
Yeah!
And it needs to validate your insurance coverage, drivers license, and that you've paid child support! It should not start the car if you vote for the wrong politcial party, buy off-brand gasoline or if you shop at the wrong grocery store! It should teach our young morality and protect the American way of life!
This sort of sums up what I think the company is worth.
Book Value Per Share (mrq):
0.203
A book value of twenty point three cents per share!
(From the Yahoo finanace page for SCOX)
Well, according to Y2K financials compiled in:
Off the Charts: Pay, Profits and Spending by Drug Companies [Act Up]
net income for the industry ran an average of ~20%, which is a great profit margin for any manufactured product.
Marketing, advertising, administration costs ran between 15% to 39% of expenses.
Research and development ran an average of ~15%.
Chart which illustrates this. [Act Up]
The profit breakdown has been extensively reported elsewhere, as this is derived from SEC filings, and the margins continue to this day, this is just the first source I goggled. NOVA on PBS had a great documentary on this issue last month which had similar stats.
The pharma industry enjoys record profits, pays its corporate officers extravagantly well, and charges the American public more for the same products than any other market in the world.
At the same time, we allow the pharma companies to deduct the expenses of R&D costs, clinical trials, marketing, et al, and give them patent protection so that they enjoy a protected revenue stream for many many years.
This industry then takes its profits and buys congress, ensuring that the government does not use its buying power (MediCare) to negotiate better pricing, and pass legislation which keeps americans, states and health providers from purchasing the very same drugs from Canada (Bush's recent drug bill).
Drug bill a well-financed victory for industry [USA Today]
For many, they have no choice: buy drugs or die. I do not believe the patent system was intended as a means to extort money from vulnerable citizens. In my opinion it's high time that our government bullies the pharma industry to arrange its affairs, so that pharmaceuticals are again priced fairly.
They can start by restricting advertising for pharma products just like they have done for cigarettes and alcohol. That should shave 20% right there.
For all the apologists out there who will claim "it's capitalism; they have no responsibility except to their shareholders", let me remind you that the government grants corporate charters and allows businesses to exist to benefit the public good, not just to extort money from the sick and vulnerable.
The tool is very similar in concept to Map of the Market, found on smart money's site. It visually displays stocks positioned by market segment and sized by capitalization. It's very handy for distinguishing overall stock market trends.
I've been a Framemaker user for over 12 years and it has not really progressed much in the last 6 or so. They glommed on some html export and XML support, but never saw much use for these features.
Framemaker was ideal for producing technical documents which require:
* paragraph style numbering, so that sections may be shuffled and all the numbered chapters, headers, subheads would automatically update
* incremental table and figure numbering
* cross-references, table of contents and figures which automatically update
* variables embedded in text
InDesign would be an excellent substitute if several of these features were implemented. I guess I'll have to keep the old version of MacOS9 Framemaker around until someone comes out with a substitute for this product.
It seems to be an awefully
complicated way
for the engineers
to get a date.
I am so much *happier* now that I don't think as much.
All issues requiring thought just roll off me.
I know freedom from the burden of intelligence, sentience, ignorance.
I am an animal!
Grrrowlhahaha! More electric shaver please!
London is now known as Air Strip One.
Great. Now I'll have to go all the way to Hong Kong to purchase some flame throwing lungs.
Bullshit.
You can buy a refurb eMac for $600 at CompUSA or similar prices at the Apple store online.
Just buy a Mac.
I recall a documentary on prison life some years ago where the inmate being interviewed explained that assaults and murders took place because something had to finally give.
The inmates in conflict had to face each other day in and day out for the next many years, with no way of avoiding each other. Conflict was unavoidable. Someone eventually had to be taken down a notch or 6.
This is much like school, as well described by the parent post above. I really wonder if the escalation of violence in schools is due to inescapable, required attendance.
If its Fight or Flight, and flight is not an option, what else could occur?!
Exactly. During many of the special effect sequences, I grimaced because what they were describing and what they were portraying were contradictory.
I finally couldn't stomach it any longer, and when they started repeating vaguaries for the uptenth time and laying on more eye candy in episode 3, I couldn't take it any longer.
I'm a Nova fan and documentary junkie, and while I did find the explanations of newtonian and einsteinian theories excellent, I still have no frigging clue about the implcations of string theory and 11 dimensions. Am I to believe there are 5 of me sitting here, each drinking a different color of coffee?! Or playing cello. Good grief! Why should multiple dimensions mirror other dimensions? Is there *any* part of theory which states this?!
Just because you *can* do special effects does not mean you *should* do them, especially when they end up distracting and misleading your audience.
I always wondered why Skynet modeled the Terminator after Arnold. I guess they had his picture, perhaps from an old book of California governors. I wonder what the special capabilities of the Ronald Raygun model are.
How will you know what you don't remember?
... kind of like *now*
I can easily imagine leagues of semi-brain dead immortals who dominate the world simply through ruthlessness, luck, and wealth. They will have strong opinions about what's wrong with the world... "the younger peons are lacking nowadays, the damn slackers!". Tighten that iron fist.
Stock up 4% as of 1:13pm ET:
/PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. (SCOX, Trade), the owner and licensor of the core UNIX(R) operating system source code, today announced the availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux(R). The run-time license permits the use of SCO's intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux distributions. By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property License, customers avoid infringement of SCO's intellectual property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5 kernels. Because the SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed.
O GO )
.
.
/Photo: NewsCom: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990421/SCOLO GO
SCO Announces Intellectual Property License for Linux
August 05, 2003 12:43:00 (ET)
LINDON, Utah, Aug 5, 2003
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990421/SCOL
SCO announced in July that it had registered the copyrights to its software releases of UNIX System V and UnixWare(R) with the U.S. Copyright office and that it would offer licenses to cure the SCO IP infringement issues for Linux operating systems. Beginning this week, SCO will start meeting with commercial Linux customers to present the details of this right to use SCO intellectual property binary licensing program.
"We have identified numerous files of unlicensed UNIX System V code and UNIX System V derivative code in the Linux 2.4 and 2.5 kernels," said Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager of SCOsource, the intellectual property licensing division of SCO. "We believe it is necessary for Linux customers to properly license SCO's IP if they are running Linux 2.4 kernel and later versions for commercial purposes. The license insures that customers can continue their use of binary deployments of Linux without violating SCO's intellectual property rights."
Pricing and Availability
SCO will be offering an introductory license price of $699 for a single CPU system through October 15th, 2003. Pricing for multiple CPU systems, single CPU add-ons, desktop systems and embedded systems will also be available. Linux users who are interested in additional information or purchasing an IP License for Linux should contact their local SCO sales representative or call SCO at 1-800-726-8649 or visit our web site at http://www.sco.com/scosource
About The SCO Group
The SCO Group (SCOX, Trade) helps millions of customers in more than 82 countries to grow their businesses with UNIX business solutions. Headquartered in Lindon, Utah, SCO has a worldwide network of more than 11,000 resellers and 4,000 developers. SCO Global Services provides reliable localized support and services to all partners and customers. For more information on SCO products and services visit http://www.sco.com
SCO and the associated SCO logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of The SCO Group, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX and UnixWare are registered trademarks of The Open Group in the United States and other countries. All other brand or product names are or may be trademarks of, and are used to identify products or services of, their respective owners.
SOURCE The SCO Group
Blake Stowell of The SCO Group, +1-801-932-5703,
bstowell@sco.com ; or Dave Close, Avi Dines, or Brian Willinsky, all of
Schwartz Communications, +1-781-684-0770, sco@schwartz-pr.com , for The SCO
Group
AP Archive: http://photoarchive.ap.org
PRN Photo Desk, +1-888-776-6555 or +1-212-782-2840
http://www.sco.com/scosource
Better yet. Buy two of them and get two paychecks!
And when companies discover that there's really no one driving the thing... finally, a cost-effective employee replacement! No sick days, no paychecks. The 7/24 employee.
Forget shipping jobs to India:
Imagine, the whole company could be staffed by one robot repair man, from CEO to technical support tech!
At the best part is that while actual work grinds to nothing, there is no actual loss in productivity. Just much less corporate wasted motion.
I worked on this project.
Yes, the service module (the thing you stick in your cab window) is built atop a roll-your-own Linux implementation. The enclosure is novel (in order to handle air conditioning/heating/other services, but the boards are primarily off-the-shelf.
In our research, not many truckers have laptops and those that do rarely have ethernet (most use dialup). The system is capable of handling web-browsing entirely via touchscreen, but this was not implemented for some reason.
On the radio show This American Life, a segment described how police used the case summary of an FBI profiler as a template for a forced confession. Under pressure to find the killer(s), police used intimidation and duress to coax a suspect to sign a false confession, the conviction since overturned by DNA evidence. The suspect, unaware of case particulars, was given a confession to sign lifted verbatim from an FBI profiler's report. The police used a best guess of how the crime occurred based on the evidence to frame a patsy.
In the not distant future with Total Information Awareness, it will be trivial to find a patsy for any crime. The person murdered attended the same university and you shared a class or two (enrollment database). You enjoy violence and murder (video store database). The murder occured a mile away and within 30 minutes of when you filled up your car at the gas station (credit card database). We have established relationship, motif, and opportunity.
My point is that extremely causal data will be used to make relationships where none exist and to support conclusions which no hard data supports. It will become trivial to gather a group of suspects for any crime, none of which have anything to do with it.
The databases will be used to get tough on crime, which was a euphemism in the 80's for put pressure on police and courts to find a patsy and put them away to make us politically significant. The wave of released prisoners based on evaluation of DNA evidence in recent years is proof of this.
Are you a terrorist? I bet if we look at the proper data points we can make anyone look like one...
Woz brought us the first personally affordable hardware and helped to break the consolidation of power in the mainframe.
Linus brought us an unencumbered operating system and the benevolent credo of OSS.
They are the leaders of idealogical, as well as technological, movements.
Every major innovation has its saviors and its demons. Where do you want to go today?
Number one cause of device failure for SCSI devices: power shorts on SCSI chain.
Number one cause of device and motherboard failure for Firewire devices: power shorts on Firewire chain.
Notice a pattern?
There's good reason to have two cables running to each device: when a cable inevitably goes bad or the user mis-mates a hot connection, the chance for device damage is minimal.
... you can buy the same form factor from Apple, albeit called an eMac.
This is hardly innovative. Gauntlets, PDAs, and HUDs have been around on the market, in sci fi, and cobbled together by hobbyists for decades to varying degrees.
The most significant hurdle for wearables is not styling. It is in developing a user interface and applications designed to be used while walking around, not sitting at a desk or standing still.
Real innovation will be when someone develops the wearable equivilent of the desktop metaphor and wearable equvilent to the mouse for input control. Sorry, current PDA menuing and compass navigation is insufficient.
When the industry gets serious and looks to marketize products like this, I hope they have more vision than simply re-purposing existing user interface mechanisms (and hire me to design the embedded UI). Wearables could be the next killer app.
More features and capabilities in software is not the problem.
Stuffing features and capabilities in a user interface which cannot accomodate them is the problem.
Most Windows-style applications have as many controls constantly displayed on-screen as a 747 cockpit. This is extremely poor application interface design. Most applications suffer from an OS's catchall application interface framework, with developers seeming to believe that it is enough if an application *looks* like other applications for a given OS.
In the 80s among Macintosh users, there was a expression regarding whether software was "Mac-like". This term was never really defined, but was commonly used throughout the community to describe whether software not just followed the user interface guidelines, but also adopted their spirit: that of simplity, ease-of-use, intuitive, elegance.
A superior interface design emphasizes the most commonly used features to allow for quick discovery by new users and reduce interface clutter (reduce cognitive load), and de-emphasizes rarely used and more complicated features.
A well-designed interface organizes features into logical groupings, so that related controls can easily be found by context.
Whats missing from many efforts is a qualified user interface designer who bridges the needs of the development effort with those of the end user. Interface design is an applied technical art. You cannot simply follow a cookbook to comes up with the best interface design solution. It takes an artisan to bridge the technical, aesthetic, and cognitive worlds for specific application solutions.