Medical technologies are one of those areas that I think should be open-sourced for obvious reasons. The notion of bugs and flaws that no one can get at in medical technology gives me the willies. As well, if by applying the "thousands of eyes" we can save lives, I think that's good for all.
I would agree full heartidly, but most of the general public I have talked with about this, and many papers I have read, have the idea that the opensource model is "peicemeal" and that with code from many different coders you some organization, security, and stability. I fear that unless the public is far better educated about opensource, and more popular things come from opensource, that these fears will keep opensource from entering such a sensitive field as the medical field.
Hmm... after reading this article, this one came to mind. It tells of microrobots that are to be used to repair power plants, anyone else see the possibilities? If people would give nano technology the attention it deserves;) and get a few buckets full of nanobots on the rotating wheel of lids for the fusion generator, it would be nearly maintenence free (by humans) and pretty cost efficient!
I could program my morning routine into myself, and stay asleep while I get myself ready.... or make myself sit up in boring classes with no effort... mmmm *drool*
I have more OS's I want to try than I have computers to try them on. Anyone know exactly how this is different or what benefits it has over the distro it was based on(redhat?)?
I thought there was an international agreement to prevent territory wars that said that no country or person could lay claim to land outside of earth? This would seem to be in violation of that...
They allow tapes of shows to be made and distributed freely, why not distribute mp3's of their shows freely? Does the media on which the music is stored affect the legality? Selling tapes is illegal... and selling mp3's isn't? I am sure their is a legal reason behind this, but I would love to see a jam band offer mp3's of their shows for free.
RFC2616? Make a little daemon that sits on port 80 and browsers work with, but doesn't fully comply with the RFC.
Anything on port 80? Change the port.
Anything that uses HTML? What about Flash, java and other things of the sort? Or use a cgi script to insert the contents of a normal text file in a page... the illegal content would not in HTML by nature, just inserted in it because of the viewer.
The most feasable solution is client side filtering and this is also riddled with holes. What defines a client? If you telnet to a site and read it would it be illegal? Would there have to a commitee to decide exactly what you are allowed to use as a web browser? It would either fail pitifully or turn big brother.
If all else fails, make a new protocal that is cosmetically the same but functions differently.
In short: it's near impossible to do and legal battle after legal battle would have to be fought over it wasting more money than it would ever be worth.
This is great news but I find it hard to believe. They can't just be abandoning their opportunity to make money on Solaris. Big companies never really want to go opensource, they only care about the bottom line, not morals. Open source and linux are buzzwords, I am very suspicious of big companies supporting open source/linux. Example: Corel trying to avoid open source untill they were flooded with email from angry open source fans.
In my gcrystalball I forsee a story on slashdot in the near future of Sun in some way attempting to exploit the open source community.
(this is not flamebait aimed at Sun fans, just wariness of anything with an IPO going opensource)
When will people realize centralized anything is a bad idea? How many bad sci-fi movies do people have to see where the underdog makes the one in a million shot and takes out the centralized control... example: Starwars (ep1 and a new hope)
In all seriousness I work for a school doing networking and we are trying desperately to get away from novell and centralization... it is much more of a hasell than it ever was worth in our opinion. They are also moving from a T1 to a cable modem for each classroom... also centralization... anything centralized on the internet tends to not work well... example: NSI
I would be -very- wary of any new technology that relies so heavy on centralization
I read in a Wired article some time ago about quest before they were functional and how they were going to revolutionize telco's etc. Basically it said the phone companies were in price wars with no end in sight, and when they get low enough, the next logical state is unlimited long distance/internet etc. in one package... could this be the start of it? I would love to be able to cut down on long distance... maybe breath some life back into BBS's
Compaq was never big into the server market before. They bought DEC to get their foot in the door. MS drops support, Tru64 is the only solution other than going with Linux, which I love but many people still won't admit that it is a real, robust, stable, OS. For them to drop Tru64 would just be shooting themselves in the foot. Why would a company buy into the server market, then essentially just walk out of it.
Either it is a rumor or they need some serious strategic help.
oddly enough it was not mentioned that French Debian Linux is not the same distro as anywhere else... it uses time based on the French Prime Meridian (http://slashdot.org/articles/99/07/01/1535256.sht ml)... it's a terrible mess when sorting email by time [;
It's great to see hardware vendors supporting Linux, but every 3com card I have tried in linux worked great before. It seems like they are reinventing the wheel. Do these new drivers offer any benefits?
replace username with the name of the account you would like to see. For some reason some accounts do not work as well as others, they will complain about cookies or an intrusion... 90% work great though.
here's the sad part: http://207.82.250.251/cgi-bin/start?curmbox=ACTI VE&js=no&login=USERNAME&passwd=eh
what do you do? replace USERNAME with the username of the hotmail user wanted.... now THAT is some killer security... that is such a giant hole it is not even funny.
I know Gateway now owns Amiga, are they going to make this evident and offer Gateway Amiga PC's with Linux? If so it could really be the push software manufacturers need to jump on the linux wagon. I would love to see linux be more than hype in the media and have a place in joe computer users home.
Anyway, anyone know if this will be the case or will Gateway keep out of Amiga affairs for the most part?
I have never seen a study that shows marijuana to cause apathy or lack of motivation. Everyone seems to know a pothead like that, but who is to say that an apathetic nonmotivated person isn't just prone to enjoy marijuana? It DEFINETLY makes sitting and pondering the meaning of lint entertaining! In my personal experience after I smoke pot and the high wears off I just have that feeling like I completed a large test and my mind is tired for the rest of the day, oh, and I occasionally will forget what I am doing midaction... I guess that would be the short term memory, all in all though I have not seen any harmfull long term effects.
Now if only they had some half decent handwriting recognition software it may be usefull... I don't know anyone who wants to use a computer to see handwriting.
I can type FAR faster then I can write, maybe it's just me but other then the "wow thats neato!" factor I don't see much of a point to it.
As I said, they may use cut-throat tactics, but that is not illegal. If you want a computer that doesn't run windows, you can buy a mac, and now you can buy a computer with linux(and it doesn't even have to be a server). There are several alternatives to MS, just no one wants to use them. That is not MS's fault. Who own's netscape? AOL. Is AOL alive and well? very much so... therefor is netscape alive and well? yup.
I hate Microsoft, but the consumer has alternatives offered to them, and all of those alternatives can do just as much as a MS product can do, peoples just don't want to change. The average consumer -likes- windows and doesn't want something different, MS should not be sued for that.
They do not have a monopoly, they just have a succesful company. Take many European contries for example, in holland windows is $300, due to that schools and most home users use Linux. A monopoly is when you can hike the prices and people -must- pay, like the oil monopoly once had.
Business is a mean, cruel, heartless world that MS has just done very well in.
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Medical technologies are one of those areas that I think should be open-sourced for obvious reasons. The notion of bugs and flaws that no one can get at in medical technology gives me the willies. As well, if by applying the "thousands of eyes" we can save lives, I think that's good for all.
I would agree full heartidly, but most of the general public I have talked with about this, and many papers I have read, have the idea that the opensource model is "peicemeal" and that with code from many different coders you some organization, security, and stability. I fear that unless the public is far better educated about opensource, and more popular things come from opensource, that these fears will keep opensource from entering such a sensitive field as the medical field.
Hmm... after reading this article, this one came to mind. It tells of microrobots that are to be used to repair power plants, anyone else see the possibilities? If people would give nano technology the attention it deserves ;) and get a few buckets full of nanobots on the rotating wheel of lids for the fusion generator, it would be nearly maintenence free (by humans) and pretty cost efficient!
Go nanotechnology!
I could program my morning routine into myself, and stay asleep while I get myself ready.... or make myself sit up in boring classes with no effort... mmmm *drool*
I have more OS's I want to try than I have computers to try them on. Anyone know exactly how this is different or what benefits it has over the distro it was based on(redhat?)?
I thought there was an international agreement to prevent territory wars that said that no country or person could lay claim to land outside of earth? This would seem to be in violation of that...
They allow tapes of shows to be made and distributed freely, why not distribute mp3's of their shows freely? Does the media on which the music is stored affect the legality? Selling tapes is illegal... and selling mp3's isn't? I am sure their is a legal reason behind this, but I would love to see a jam band offer mp3's of their shows for free.
What exactly defines the web?
RFC2616?
Make a little daemon that sits on port 80 and browsers work with, but doesn't fully comply with the RFC.
Anything on port 80?
Change the port.
Anything that uses HTML?
What about Flash, java and other things of the sort? Or use a cgi script to insert the contents of a normal text file in a page... the illegal content would not in HTML by nature, just inserted in it because of the viewer.
The most feasable solution is client side filtering and this is also riddled with holes. What defines a client? If you telnet to a site and read it would it be illegal? Would there have to a commitee to decide exactly what you are allowed to use as a web browser? It would either fail pitifully or turn big brother.
If all else fails, make a new protocal that is cosmetically the same but functions differently.
In short: it's near impossible to do and legal battle after legal battle would have to be fought over it wasting more money than it would ever be worth.
This is great news but I find it hard to believe. They can't just be abandoning their opportunity to make money on Solaris. Big companies never really want to go opensource, they only care about the bottom line, not morals. Open source and linux are buzzwords, I am very suspicious of big companies supporting open source/linux. Example: Corel trying to avoid open source untill they were flooded with email from angry open source fans.
In my gcrystalball I forsee a story on slashdot in the near future of Sun in some way attempting to exploit the open source community.
(this is not flamebait aimed at Sun fans, just wariness of anything with an IPO going opensource)
When will people realize centralized anything is a bad idea? How many bad sci-fi movies do people have to see where the underdog makes the one in a million shot and takes out the centralized control... example: Starwars (ep1 and a new hope)
In all seriousness I work for a school doing networking and we are trying desperately to get away from novell and centralization... it is much more of a hasell than it ever was worth in our opinion. They are also moving from a T1 to a cable modem for each classroom... also centralization... anything centralized on the internet tends to not work well... example: NSI
I would be -very- wary of any new technology that relies so heavy on centralization
I read in a Wired article some time ago about quest before they were functional and how they were going to revolutionize telco's etc. Basically it said the phone companies were in price wars with no end in sight, and when they get low enough, the next logical state is unlimited long distance/internet etc. in one package... could this be the start of it? I would love to be able to cut down on long distance... maybe breath some life back into BBS's
well hey, I should sue etrade for my daytrading addiction which forced me to loose thousands of dollars! [:
Compaq was never big into the server market before. They bought DEC to get their foot in the door. MS drops support, Tru64 is the only solution other than going with Linux, which I love but many people still won't admit that it is a real, robust, stable, OS. For them to drop Tru64 would just be shooting themselves in the foot. Why would a company buy into the server market, then essentially just walk out of it.
Either it is a rumor or they need some serious strategic help.
oddly enough it was not mentioned that French Debian Linux is not the same distro as anywhere else... it uses time based on the French Prime Meridian (http://slashdot.org/articles/99/07/01/1535256.sht ml) ... it's a terrible mess when sorting email by time [;
It's great to see hardware vendors supporting Linux, but every 3com card I have tried in linux worked great before. It seems like they are reinventing the wheel. Do these new drivers offer any benefits?
http://207.82.250.251/cgi-bin/start?curmbox=ACTIVE &js=no&login=USERNAME&passwd=eh
replace username with the name of the account you would like to see. For some reason some accounts do not work as well as others, they will complain about cookies or an intrusion... 90% work great though.
Sad sad sad
here's the sad part:I VE&js=no&login=USERNAME&passwd=eh
http://207.82.250.251/cgi-bin/start?curmbox=ACT
what do you do? replace USERNAME with the username of the hotmail user wanted.... now THAT is some killer security... that is such a giant hole it is not even funny.
I know Gateway now owns Amiga, are they going to make this evident and offer Gateway Amiga PC's with Linux? If so it could really be the push software manufacturers need to jump on the linux wagon. I would love to see linux be more than hype in the media and have a place in joe computer users home.
Anyway, anyone know if this will be the case or will Gateway keep out of Amiga affairs for the most part?
nothing, they use the same player
with Athelon or whatever the new AMD's are called now coming out this was very expected
I have never seen a study that shows marijuana to cause apathy or lack of motivation. Everyone seems to know a pothead like that, but who is to say that an apathetic nonmotivated person isn't just prone to enjoy marijuana? It DEFINETLY makes sitting and pondering the meaning of lint entertaining! In my personal experience after I smoke pot and the high wears off I just have that feeling like I completed a large test and my mind is tired for the rest of the day, oh, and I occasionally will forget what I am doing midaction... I guess that would be the short term memory, all in all though I have not seen any harmfull long term effects.
don't you -love- the feeling of a 200 bpm heart? you can hear a LOUD *whoosh whoosh whoosh* in your head...
my second time smoking pot I took over 20 hits and had a massive panic attack and was like that for a hour.
I guess I am only 120 lbs though so not many people can get affected as I am by caffine and pot without really being stupid.
ok ... so they caffine they use is 2.5x more potent ... but how much is in there? I see no where that it says cup for cup it has more kick than coffee.
.. anyone care to enlighten me with a url?
Then again the page is slow and I'm impatient
Now if only they had some half decent handwriting recognition software it may be usefull... I don't know anyone who wants to use a computer to see handwriting.
I can type FAR faster then I can write, maybe it's just me but other then the "wow thats neato!" factor I don't see much of a point to it.
Way to change the topic totally and try to start a distro war!
As I said, they may use cut-throat tactics, but that is not illegal. If you want a computer that doesn't run windows, you can buy a mac, and now you can buy a computer with linux(and it doesn't even have to be a server). There are several alternatives to MS, just no one wants to use them. That is not MS's fault. Who own's netscape? AOL. Is AOL alive and well? very much so... therefor is netscape alive and well? yup.
I hate Microsoft, but the consumer has alternatives offered to them, and all of those alternatives can do just as much as a MS product can do, peoples just don't want to change. The average consumer -likes- windows and doesn't want something different, MS should not be sued for that.
They do not have a monopoly, they just have a succesful company. Take many European contries for example, in holland windows is $300, due to that schools and most home users use Linux. A monopoly is when you can hike the prices and people -must- pay, like the oil monopoly once had.
Business is a mean, cruel, heartless world that MS has just done very well in.