I work for a Generics company in it's R&D labs. Reverse engineering a new drug would be simple. We already reverse engineer the tablet formulation. Even if we didn't have the molecular stucture of the active pharmaceutical ingredient (which would be unlikely for regulatory reasons) it woulndn't take long to identify it with NMR, Mass spec. etc.
There are lots of API manufacturers with the in house skills to quickly work out a synthetic route and scale up to production size batches. No in the Generic industry we support the right of innovator companies to patent new molecules. If they didn't have this right it would kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
This doesn't mean to say there aren't problems with the current situation in the pharmaceutical industry. The high cost of development and the drive for profit means that the innovator companies go for profitable "lifestyle" drugs like the cholesterol inhibiting statins that may have a large section of the population taking the drug for the rest of their lives, instead of developing urgently need new antibiotics against drug resistent bacterias, that are only used for a single course of treatment.
From the Generic companies point of view a trend in the patent area that we don't like is the tendency for drug patent lifetime extension patents. This is when the innovator makes a small change to the product and patents it shortly before the patent on the molecule expires in an attempt to extend its period of exclusive control.
Patents are a complex area I agree with RMS that there is no justification for software patents, but in the area of physical products the whole situation gets more complicated to determine what is positive and what is negative.
Let me explain the principles of parliamentary democracy. The people elect the Parliament. The leader of the parliamentary party that commands a majority becomes Prime Minister (pimus inter pares - first amongst equals) and forms a government which is dependant on support in Parliament for its continued existence.
This structure requires a Head of State with very limited powers - such as dissolving Parliament for fresh elections when the Prime Minister calls for it or when the P.M. has lost the confidence of Parliament e.g. losing a buget vote.
The Head of State may be a constitutional monarch e.g. the UK or Sweden, or a person who stands in for the monarch e.g the Governor General of Canada. In the case of a Republic a President is elected or appointed (normally by Parliament) who is usually some repected figure who can stand above politics and maintain the constitution e.g. Germay, Italy and India.
The situation in the US is gemerally regarded as a form of elective monarchy, i.e. the people elect (or in the case Bush - didn't elect) a President who acts as absolute Monarch with some limited checks and balances from Congress and the Senate.
Hey man I was there too! '72-75. I was at Rutherford the mirror image of Eliot. Took some time to work out that the picture really was of Eliot not Rutherford.
Cool times!
"Um...no. I think you'll find that socialists and anarchists are two seperate groups. They havn't always seen eye-to-eye and to call radical socialists anarchists is ignorant."
Libertarian socialists and left-wing communists are pretty much similar to anarchists as they both reject the state as a means of achieving their political objectives and aim for an anarchist society. Social democratic socialists and Leninist communists are not close to anarchists since they rely on the the strength of the state in its state capitalist and bureaucrat state capitalist forms to achieve their political objectives.
Formally all Marxists in the long term aim for a stateless or anarchistic society - just that some of them seem to see it so far in the future, that all they are concerned with is trying to get control of state power now. The original dispute betweeen Marx and the socialists on the one hand and Bukunin and they anarchists on the other, in the First International, is to too complex to discuss in a short note. Does that clarify the differences?
Gedit has a spell check plugin. Of course the only problem that Gedit is now so bloated it takes as long as a wordprocessor to load. Well maybe not as long as OOo but nearly as long as Abiword
Maybe you should use Emacs instead thats got a spellchecker too - Oh! yes I was forgetting thats bloated too.
This is not a real Zeppelin - A dirigible airship with a rigid hull and gas balloons inside. No its a Blimp - an inflatable non-rigid airship. There are lots of these around I have seen them flying over the skies of both England and Canada quite often. Years ago one of them (a Skyship 2000) would often follow me down the street on my walk home in London - they navigated by following street and my street was one of those it used in flying tourists over the city. This annoyed Prince Carles as they would deliberately fly over his garden in Kensington Palace so the tourists could look inside.
Here in Toronto we see Blimps often enough whenever there is a big sports event. The first time I saw one was 35 years ago whwn I was a student I had finished my first year exams and was reading Michael Moorcock's science fiction novel "Warlord of the air" about an alternative unvierse where airships dominate. I just finished it and looked out of my college room window towards Canterbury Cathedral there flying in front of the Cathedral is an airship! Am I halucinating no! I can see water ballast being dropped by the airship and it starting to ascend. I recognized it as the Goodyear Blimp.
The reason is that they are using the IBM SWT widget toolkit which supplies its own dll to integrate into the Windows MFC and for Linux provides additional GTK2.so library files.
Consequently it appears as a native application in Win XP, Win 2000 and GNOME and XFce4 as a native themable GTK2 app. Sun's SWING used to be stuck in the Metal theme - it can now be skinned to look a bit mor native but not completely.
I only buy CD's from Indie labels - I never buy from RIAA labels
But then I am an ageing born again punk. These labels have the music I want to listen to and support by paying for CD's
The big question is what was the sales of servers sold without an operating system installed. We know Dell an the other hardware manufacturers sell them to you and we know that they will all have Linux or a BSD installed on them (OK a few might have Solaris or yuk SCO put on them) and none will have windows installed.
This could make a big difference to the overall picture.
Printing out the Google graph and staining my eyes to measure the lat point - The google statistics come out Netscape/Mozilla/other browsers 13% and all
MS IE browsers 87%
Not as overwhelming as claimed and from the chart declining.
Grep and find don't pre-index the files. So searching my machine takes me longer than searching the entire web. Google has indexing and caching down to a science. I can't wait for this to be on the market.
OK - locate not good enough for you
All they had to do was install Acrobat Reader and Openoffice on their existing Windows XP machines then they could show PDF's and OOo Impress Presentations. Its pretty damned incompetent that all their machines don't have Reader installed as a default. The machines would still be ready for your summer section professors to show their ppt's only they would just have more capabilities.
How about the mathematicians and physicists at U of T don't they use LaTex and convert their PS to PDF for presentations like in the rest of the world. Still while I was a TA at Mac we didn't have that high opinion of how they ran things at U of T.
In fact Einstein said "ein grosse Nazi". I thnk it just about accurately sums up Heisenberg who had been active in the Bavarian extreme right even before the Nazi's came to power.
You might not have noticed it but the Korean government is already a major user of Linux and was the first government to carry out a major switch to Linux on the desktop (ca 100,000) for its civil service.
BTW you know very little about Linux - flash, javascript and popups (unless you disable them) all work on all the major Linux browsers. I am sure that the Korean version of Joe six-pack (Here in Canada he is Joe twenty-four-pack) knows nothing about Linux but I can assure you that in the Korean government and the big corporations they know a lot about Linux they are not going to let themselves get left behind by China and Japan.
What you must understand is that this is all about setting up a standards base for asian Linux distributions to adhere to, together with related certification. It is not to develop one "official" distro for the three players.
"Australia is beholden to the same International anti-piracy law as any other country"
You mean mean this aussie guy was carrying out armed seizures of ships in international waters and killing and looting - wow he's a lot more danderous than I thought !
The US believes in its imperial extraterritoriality. i.e. it rules the world and its laws apply everywhere. Not long ago it jailed a Canadian businessman for trading with Cuba.
This had happened while he was working in Camada and violated no Canadian laws. Of couse Canada would not let anyone be extradited for that. But the american "bastards" (thats what they are known as here in Canada eh?) arrested him in the U.S.
I feel appreciative that I work as a computer lab assistant at a college now then flipping burgers at a McDonalds.
The case is almost done anyway and I believe the judge should rule soon. Does anyone know when? If things work out soon they should be dead anyway but next summer or early fall. This is when they run out of cash and close shop. This also assumes its not settled or thrown out by then.
After that I would be more then happy to install Linux again.
With such a chicken shit scared attitude you ought to be flipping burgers at McDonalds (an SCO customer).
This is just the sort of attitude SCO is trying to achieve to benefit SCO and Berlind's paymasters.
Fortunately it seems that people who have real money to invest in IT aren't taking your attitude and Linux expansion is continuing unabated. However with such a risk averse attitude if you don't end up flipping burgers at McD's you will still be a computer lab assistant at a college until you retire.
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The purpose was to buy SuSE.
There are lots of API manufacturers with the in house skills to quickly work out a synthetic route and scale up to production size batches. No in the Generic industry we support the right of innovator companies to patent new molecules. If they didn't have this right it would kill the goose that laid the golden egg. This doesn't mean to say there aren't problems with the current situation in the pharmaceutical industry. The high cost of development and the drive for profit means that the innovator companies go for profitable "lifestyle" drugs like the cholesterol inhibiting statins that may have a large section of the population taking the drug for the rest of their lives, instead of developing urgently need new antibiotics against drug resistent bacterias, that are only used for a single course of treatment.
From the Generic companies point of view a trend in the patent area that we don't like is the tendency for drug patent lifetime extension patents. This is when the innovator makes a small change to the product and patents it shortly before the patent on the molecule expires in an attempt to extend its period of exclusive control.
Patents are a complex area I agree with RMS that there is no justification for software patents, but in the area of physical products the whole situation gets more complicated to determine what is positive and what is negative.
This structure requires a Head of State with very limited powers - such as dissolving Parliament for fresh elections when the Prime Minister calls for it or when the P.M. has lost the confidence of Parliament e.g. losing a buget vote.
The Head of State may be a constitutional monarch e.g. the UK or Sweden, or a person who stands in for the monarch e.g the Governor General of Canada. In the case of a Republic a President is elected or appointed (normally by Parliament) who is usually some repected figure who can stand above politics and maintain the constitution e.g. Germay, Italy and India.
The situation in the US is gemerally regarded as a form of elective monarchy, i.e. the people elect (or in the case Bush - didn't elect) a President who acts as absolute Monarch with some limited checks and balances from Congress and the Senate.
Well there we are Constitutional Theory 101
Hey man I was there too! '72-75. I was at Rutherford the mirror image of Eliot. Took some time to work out that the picture really was of Eliot not Rutherford. Cool times!
Libertarian socialists and left-wing communists are pretty much similar to anarchists as they both reject the state as a means of achieving their political objectives and aim for an anarchist society. Social democratic socialists and Leninist communists are not close to anarchists since they rely on the the strength of the state in its state capitalist and bureaucrat state capitalist forms to achieve their political objectives.
Formally all Marxists in the long term aim for a stateless or anarchistic society - just that some of them seem to see it so far in the future, that all they are concerned with is trying to get control of state power now. The original dispute betweeen Marx and the socialists on the one hand and Bukunin and they anarchists on the other, in the First International, is to too complex to discuss in a short note. Does that clarify the differences?
Gedit has a spell check plugin. Of course the only problem that Gedit is now so bloated it takes as long as a wordprocessor to load. Well maybe not as long as OOo but nearly as long as Abiword
Maybe you should use Emacs instead thats got a spellchecker too - Oh! yes I was forgetting thats bloated too.
This is not a real Zeppelin - A dirigible airship with a rigid hull and gas balloons inside. No its a Blimp - an inflatable non-rigid airship. There are lots of these around I have seen them flying over the skies of both England and Canada quite often. Years ago one of them (a Skyship 2000) would often follow me down the street on my walk home in London - they navigated by following street and my street was one of those it used in flying tourists over the city. This annoyed Prince Carles as they would deliberately fly over his garden in Kensington Palace so the tourists could look inside.
Here in Toronto we see Blimps often enough whenever there is a big sports event. The first time I saw one was 35 years ago whwn I was a student I had finished my first year exams and was reading Michael Moorcock's science fiction novel "Warlord of the air" about an alternative unvierse where airships dominate. I just finished it and looked out of my college room window towards Canterbury Cathedral there flying in front of the Cathedral is an airship! Am I halucinating no! I can see water ballast being dropped by the airship and it starting to ascend. I recognized it as the Goodyear Blimp.
Read it - cool mabe this is the way I will end up getting broadband
Yaaay! - me too !
Consequently it appears as a native application in Win XP, Win 2000 and GNOME and XFce4 as a native themable GTK2 app. Sun's SWING used to be stuck in the Metal theme - it can now be skinned to look a bit mor native but not completely.
I only buy CD's from Indie labels - I never buy from RIAA labels But then I am an ageing born again punk. These labels have the music I want to listen to and support by paying for CD's
This could make a big difference to the overall picture.
Not as overwhelming as claimed and from the chart declining.
Will RMS testify in his St. Ignucius costume.
Grep and find don't pre-index the files. So searching my machine takes me longer than searching the entire web. Google has indexing and caching down to a science. I can't wait for this to be on the market. OK - locate not good enough for you
He currently telecommutes with the OSDL as a senior research fellow which is based in Beaverton, Oregon. He can undoubtedly sue in the U.S.
How about the mathematicians and physicists at U of T don't they use LaTex and convert their PS to PDF for presentations like in the rest of the world. Still while I was a TA at Mac we didn't have that high opinion of how they ran things at U of T.
I don't want Lonhorn on my desktop !
Yeah but you can still delete a lot of system files from Nautilus or Konqueror as root.
In fact Einstein said "ein grosse Nazi". I thnk it just about accurately sums up Heisenberg who had been active in the Bavarian extreme right even before the Nazi's came to power.
BTW you know very little about Linux - flash, javascript and popups (unless you disable them) all work on all the major Linux browsers. I am sure that the Korean version of Joe six-pack (Here in Canada he is Joe twenty-four-pack) knows nothing about Linux but I can assure you that in the Korean government and the big corporations they know a lot about Linux they are not going to let themselves get left behind by China and Japan.
What you must understand is that this is all about setting up a standards base for asian Linux distributions to adhere to, together with related certification. It is not to develop one "official" distro for the three players.
You mean mean this aussie guy was carrying out armed seizures of ships in international waters and killing and looting - wow he's a lot more danderous than I thought !
This had happened while he was working in Camada and violated no Canadian laws. Of couse Canada would not let anyone be extradited for that. But the american "bastards" (thats what they are known as here in Canada eh?) arrested him in the U.S.
Easy - fire a MCSE and hire a fresh computer science grad.
He will know how to do it.
The case is almost done anyway and I believe the judge should rule soon. Does anyone know when? If things work out soon they should be dead anyway but next summer or early fall. This is when they run out of cash and close shop. This also assumes its not settled or thrown out by then.
After that I would be more then happy to install Linux again.
With such a chicken shit scared attitude you ought to be flipping burgers at McDonalds (an SCO customer).
This is just the sort of attitude SCO is trying to achieve to benefit SCO and Berlind's paymasters.
Fortunately it seems that people who have real money to invest in IT aren't taking your attitude and Linux expansion is continuing unabated. However with such a risk averse attitude if you don't end up flipping burgers at McD's you will still be a computer lab assistant at a college until you retire.