If your cell phone is your only phone, and you lose your cell phone, how do you report that you lost your credit card? (let's assume you don't have any friends and your work doesn't have any phones, either, OK?)
Companies serve no prouctive purpose in medical research.
This is flat-out incorrect. I work in academia doing drug research. So does the rest of my family. Everyone knows that drug companies invest a lot more time and research into drugs than academia could ever hope to do. Yes, they do do testing, but they also do more research. Look at drug companies' actual drug portfolios before you make claims like this. Every company has many many drugs - a few of which are the blockbusters - the stable for the company. There are others, though. You don't hear about them because they're not blockbusters. They're simply the product of other research.
You make a fair point, but I should also point out that ever since corporations got involved, the number of discoveries has increased by probably more than an order of magnitude. I don't think that academia can ever produce results at the same level as industry if only because there is much less competition. I'm not saying that I'm a die-hard capitalist, but it comes down to what is more important - the ethics behind the drug research or the actual drugs that result. Also, I don't think that "drug manufacturer's" semantically mandating only the "manufacture" of drugs is a fair conclusion. Auto manufacturers do substantially more than manufacture autos (fuel cell research etc.)
You know how the slashdot moderation system doesn't exactly work - what makes you think it would work if used in a system that actually determines people's fortunes? As it stands, the nature of publications (believe it or not) allows some (not foolproof) method of allowing its readers to separate important and quality research from trash. It takes experts in the field to be able to identify this, and they don't always do it right, but they do it better than anybody else. This is what Nature et. al. use, and they're paid. I don't think any open system could approach that level of professional involvement - especially because there is no way that governemnt-funded publications would pay as well as commercial ones. You could argue about why it's necessary to have this sort of hierarchy in the scientific industry, but people are competitive by nature and if you take that away, I think you lose an awful lot of productivity.
You couldn't just distribute the money to a number of competing companies in the industry - because then each would get a fraction which isn't enough to fund the scope of this research. Maybe they could have given it all to academia, but, for whatever reason, I just don't think that that is effective. Also, the company makes money for about 20 years, after which they can make generics and such. So maybe by giving all that money to one company and leading to a cure 20 years faster than if they had given money to several companies, everyone benefits in some manner. Just a thought.
That's not totally correct. Second-degree murder is manslaughter in certain circumstances - like in drunk driving (like this). There's a lot of leeway for states to enacts this sort of thing.
I think it depends on how often your pages and styles are changed, but I can't really imagine a stituation where it's the best idea to use the database for styles and content. Instead, I would recommend using the database to store the current content/style information, and whenever it's updated by a user, propagate the changes through files stored in the filesystem. Filesystem reads a re a lot quicker and I think you'll find this improves performance by an order of magnitude. Maybe you have constantly changing style sheets, but that just seems weird.
Hey, I think you missed his point. Well, first of all, China most certainly does give 2 shits if you buy their batteries. In fact, if they can "modernize" and grow their economy using their present value system, then they will see no reason to change it. Only by making clear that China's admission into the collective of successful economies hinges upon not only its economic capabilities, but also the ethical system upon which they are based, will their government see reason to change. Your issues with Target and Wal-Mart are, indeed, well founded but not entirely relevant to the parent's post.
The issue here is that you can do this as a company, but not conspire as an industry. The record industry was already _convicted_ of illegally fixing prices. I even collected my part of the settlement.
DARPA has actually sponsored similar contests in the past that are not directly applicable to military purposes. An example is the FERET (face recognition) contest held a few years ago which is often credited with providing the academic researchers in the field with the motivation, backing and eventual know-how to turn this into a relevant field. Technically, it wasn't a "contest" in the same sense, but the winners got funding and the losers didn't.
I can't tell if you're being facetious or you're actually that callous. The probability of finding "little green men" is so miniscule that it's debatable wether we should spend all this time looking or not. In addition, even if we WERE to find them, we still wouldn't actually be able to do anything about it because they'd be lightyears away. Using your argument, however, this is more important than ending the horrific struggles of those with Alzheimer's? These people live terrible, horribly depressing lives and the reward from finding a cure to this disease isn't to make human's immortal, it's to end unnecessary suffering and improve the human condition in measurable and direct ways. Come to think of it, you may have proposed one of the worst arguments I've ever heard.
Mac OSX achieved both power and ease-of-use/newbie-friendliness. It's got the perty Aqua interface that couldn't confuse anyone and the whole BSD core beneath it. In fact, OSX is exactly a technical OS that is easy to use.New users won't have any idea what they can do with a terminal while experienced users may work solely from the BSD side.
While the FBI and associated spying agencies may have made some noteable mistakes in the recent past, people seem to forget that their primary goal is not to spy on innocent people who may be illegaly trading mp3s, for example - but to focus on the larger issues of great national importance. Limiting their ability to do so by providing "guidelines" (restrictions, and publication of their methods) allows those that truly need to be spied on to easily circumvent any scrutiny of their communications.
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If your cell phone is your only phone, and you lose your cell phone, how do you report that you lost your credit card?
(let's assume you don't have any friends and your work doesn't have any phones, either, OK?)
You gave a breakdown of the operating systems. I think the parent was talking about browsers.
You're totally right! The point of currency is to be pretty, and not to establish a safe and trusted means of commerce.
Companies serve no prouctive purpose in medical research.
This is flat-out incorrect. I work in academia doing drug research. So does the rest of my family. Everyone knows that drug companies invest a lot more time and research into drugs than academia could ever hope to do. Yes, they do do testing, but they also do more research. Look at drug companies' actual drug portfolios before you make claims like this. Every company has many many drugs - a few of which are the blockbusters - the stable for the company. There are others, though. You don't hear about them because they're not blockbusters. They're simply the product of other research.
You make a fair point, but I should also point out that ever since corporations got involved, the number of discoveries has increased by probably more than an order of magnitude. I don't think that academia can ever produce results at the same level as industry if only because there is much less competition. I'm not saying that I'm a die-hard capitalist, but it comes down to what is more important - the ethics behind the drug research or the actual drugs that result.
Also, I don't think that "drug manufacturer's" semantically mandating only the "manufacture" of drugs is a fair conclusion. Auto manufacturers do substantially more than manufacture autos (fuel cell research etc.)
You know how the slashdot moderation system doesn't exactly work - what makes you think it would work if used in a system that actually determines people's fortunes? As it stands, the nature of publications (believe it or not) allows some (not foolproof) method of allowing its readers to separate important and quality research from trash. It takes experts in the field to be able to identify this, and they don't always do it right, but they do it better than anybody else. This is what Nature et. al. use, and they're paid. I don't think any open system could approach that level of professional involvement - especially because there is no way that governemnt-funded publications would pay as well as commercial ones. You could argue about why it's necessary to have this sort of hierarchy in the scientific industry, but people are competitive by nature and if you take that away, I think you lose an awful lot of productivity.
You couldn't just distribute the money to a number of competing companies in the industry - because then each would get a fraction which isn't enough to fund the scope of this research. Maybe they could have given it all to academia, but, for whatever reason, I just don't think that that is effective. Also, the company makes money for about 20 years, after which they can make generics and such. So maybe by giving all that money to one company and leading to a cure 20 years faster than if they had given money to several companies, everyone benefits in some manner. Just a thought.
That's not totally correct. Second-degree murder is manslaughter in certain circumstances - like in drunk driving (like this). There's a lot of leeway for states to enacts this sort of thing.
Out of curiosity, how do you know which cookies are tracking cookies? I'd like to be able to remove them.
I think it depends on how often your pages and styles are changed, but I can't really imagine a stituation where it's the best idea to use the database for styles and content. Instead, I would recommend using the database to store the current content/style information, and whenever it's updated by a user, propagate the changes through files stored in the filesystem. Filesystem reads a re a lot quicker and I think you'll find this improves performance by an order of magnitude. Maybe you have constantly changing style sheets, but that just seems weird.
Hey, I think you missed his point. Well, first of all, China most certainly does give 2 shits if you buy their batteries. In fact, if they can "modernize" and grow their economy using their present value system, then they will see no reason to change it. Only by making clear that China's admission into the collective of successful economies hinges upon not only its economic capabilities, but also the ethical system upon which they are based, will their government see reason to change. Your issues with Target and Wal-Mart are, indeed, well founded but not entirely relevant to the parent's post.
The issue here is that you can do this as a company, but not conspire as an industry. The record industry was already _convicted_ of illegally fixing prices. I even collected my part of the settlement.
DARPA has actually sponsored similar contests in the past that are not directly applicable to military purposes. An example is the FERET (face recognition) contest held a few years ago which is often credited with providing the academic researchers in the field with the motivation, backing and eventual know-how to turn this into a relevant field. Technically, it wasn't a "contest" in the same sense, but the winners got funding and the losers didn't.
I can't tell if you're being facetious or you're actually that callous. The probability of finding "little green men" is so miniscule that it's debatable wether we should spend all this time looking or not. In addition, even if we WERE to find them, we still wouldn't actually be able to do anything about it because they'd be lightyears away.
Using your argument, however, this is more important than ending the horrific struggles of those with Alzheimer's? These people live terrible, horribly depressing lives and the reward from finding a cure to this disease isn't to make human's immortal, it's to end unnecessary suffering and improve the human condition in measurable and direct ways.
Come to think of it, you may have proposed one of the worst arguments I've ever heard.
Just so you know, it's 18,000 from semester, and over 50% of the students at MIT are on substantial financial aid.
Mac OSX achieved both power and ease-of-use/newbie-friendliness. It's got the perty Aqua interface that couldn't confuse anyone and the whole BSD core beneath it. In fact, OSX is exactly a technical OS that is easy to use.New users won't have any idea what they can do with a terminal while experienced users may work solely from the BSD side.
While the FBI and associated spying agencies may have made some noteable mistakes in the recent past, people seem to forget that their primary goal is not to spy on innocent people who may be illegaly trading mp3s, for example - but to focus on the larger issues of great national importance. Limiting their ability to do so by providing "guidelines" (restrictions, and publication of their methods) allows those that truly need to be spied on to easily circumvent any scrutiny of their communications.