When mail order business was getting started, the traditional businesses and the government moaned and groaned about the lack of tax return... However, today nobody is looking to tax mail order. Why not?
Mail order is been around far longer than the internet.
The internet is a wonderful business model and vector. Let us not soil it with taxes just yet.
"Streaming fees" to me always reminded me of "steaming feces." Anyway, I wonder if MIT will be caught by some of the other legal challenges to the analog hole.
Anybody remember this?
Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has upheld Copyright Office's earlier decision that traditional radio stations have to pay royalties for streaming their traditional radio broadcasts over the Net (process is called simulcasting).
Historically, American radio stations have had weird exception from royalties -- they don't have to pay anything for artists or record labels (they pay for songwriters though) for playing their music on radio, unlike most other radio stations in the world. And to complicate this issue, American Net radio stations have to pay such royalties. Now, the court fight was about this exemption rule and about applying it to simulcasting. Radio stations argued that their material that they air through radio-waves, is exempt from royalties even if broadcasted over the Net. This obviously puts smaller, Net-only broadcasters in losing side as they need to cough up to RIAA every time they play music on their station, while benemoths such as Clear Channel (world's largest radio station owner) don't have such costs involved.
"The DMCA's silence on AM/FM webcasting gives us no affirmative grounds to believe that Congress intended to expand the protections contemplated," the Philadelphia appeals decision reads. "The exemptions the (DMCA) afforded to radio broadcasters were specifically intended to protect only traditional radio broadcasting, and did not contemplate protecting AM/FM webcasting."
The new software will make it easier for Unix customers to adopt Linux, Haff said. "It makes that move from a lot of Unix systems, and from Sun in particular, easier than it was before," he said. Sun Microsystems' Solaris is the most widely used version of Unix and a prime candidate for companies that want to save costs by using Linux on less-expensive Intel-based hardware.
However, being a Sun guy myself, I worry if this is this one more blow against Sun's unstable current position.
As a pulmonary doc and as a researcher, this analogy is hitting close to home. Bravo.
To add more support for your point, even today data obtained using cell culture must be duplicated by other methods before we use it for human use. Cell cultures are very, very valuable tools for research and allow us to test many questions very quickly; however, cell cultures and the actual human body itself are two very different things.
Cell cultures would be similar to a stimulated salt water environment at a research lab or zoo. It may contain many of the parts of the real thing and may help test research ideas... however, it is not the real thing.
The underwater project in question is one step closer to getting to experiment and study the "real thing."
I doubt anyone who maintains a web server would like it stuck at the bottom of the ocean and unaccessible when the hard disc drive decides to start playing up.
Sorry, I missed this point.
I doubt they will have servers stuck at the bottom of the ocean floor. The servers will be sitting high and dry in people-friendly areas. Why would the servers need to be anywhere near the ocean floor?
Hell, I know here at work we try to keep the servers even away from people as much as possible. The servers do not need to be near the action. Feed the data onto dry land where the servers will live.
Is data from the ocean in real time actually much more useful that non-realtime data?
Yes. The article even mentions events such as underwater volcanoesn. Others could include the migration of plant/animal species and manipulation of data gathering devices such as cameras.
If you are watching fish mate, you would like your camera to follow the action... for example. (I guess this is different that watching checkmate, cause then you would be a total geek just watching chess. (g))
Anyway... we don't drop cameras out of planes into the jungle to "gather data." We GO into the jungle, experience it, and attempt to understand it. This is not as easily done on the ocean floor... so this is the next best thing.
It seems that this is going to be a huge attention grabbing thing that is going to lead to massive congestion around these areas.
From this, one also realizes its purpose... profit! Having this will drawn people into this area causing a huge increase in tourism. Hell, I wanna see this thing now.
Who wants to bet how long it's going to be before some body decides it wants to flash multiple countries at once? Too bad David Blain didn't think of this first.
Really? I always thought of Cousteau as someone who loved to be underwater making discoveries. I don't picture him as somebody sitting behind a computer screen doing work.
Thinking of him that way makes him less of a hero... and, err, too much like me.
You think security is troublesome on your own systems... imagine being in control of security on this project.
You are doing 6 months of observation waiting for an undersea volcano to erupt... and the day it does, some undergrad hacker gets into the system and decides to write out I LOVE BETTY with a mini robot sub on the ocean floor.
I am kidding,,, but this is a system that most likely multiple groups of scientists will be able to access. Keeping that type of open system secure will be difficult... especially if they are using the internet to accept data and send commands.
This is why we have the internet: Networked, remote controllable/accessable research.
This project provides multiple layers of input and output--all that can be controlled remotely. This is a science experiment/environment that can be explored and shared by multiple groups of people from anywhere in the world.
Even the radio telescopes are not this advanced; however, it's a similar idea. Groups of sensor inputs that can be fed to groups of people elsewhere.
Will it be expensive? Yes. However, the amount of data that will be received with minimal impact to the environment will be staggering. Once the system is down and reaches a steady state, it can be repeatly used to gain information--without having to interrupt that system again and again.
Bravo to the Neptune project... this is the way research should be done.
This will probably been the next gadget added to the Swiss Army PDA/phone combos.
Before long will see those soccer moms with 3 kids in the back of her gas-guzzler pointing her cell phone at the light in between breaths of talking to her friends from the social club.
That's a good point... and we've been trying it. We are currently piloting two systems--one that requires vocal training and one that does not. We're doing it this way because most docs will not take the time to do the training.
The only reason that this is a consideration is because even the dictation people miss a bunch of words... so everything dictated as to be re-edited. If voice to text systems get 95%, it might be usable and would save an assload of money.
Digital dictation systems that connect to software for transcription haven't worked well either.
Of course, it doesn't help that we docs were all trained to dictate, scratch something unreadable in the chart, and move on.
Even in the hospital setting, they are not all that great yet.
Several different physicians I know have tried the tablet form... only to switch back to a PDA or notebook.
The tablet seems perfect; however, the problem in medicine is the problem everywhere else... input. In increasing amounts history/physicals, progress notes, clinic visits, and orders are being inputted directly into the system by typing. The other predominate way is by dictation... which allows somebody else to type it into the system.
Tablet PCs do not speed up this process in any way. It's still quicker to type or dictate, than to use this format.
Many physicians use PDAs for all the same reasons most geeks use PDAs... however, very few of the reasons are related to medicine. Every medical student knows that a PDA allows for a quick reference on rounds to spice up one's knowledge. The tablet would allow the same info... in just a larger format.
Anyway, we docs wanted to love the tablet... it's just not practical enough... yet.
Stopping stolen car = good thing Disabling stolen car = good thing Monitoring driving habits = good/bad thing
Good if you are an employer and want to make sure your employees are not abusing the company time. Bad if this information is used to harm your personal rights...
Just because this is in a different nation that many of you consider "backwards" doesn't mean that this is a stupid idea... or an upcoming technology here in America.
It's a crapshoot, eh. Dick Faze writes " Royal Bank of Canada is part of a $50 Million investment in SCO: Has our communist neighbor to the north finally flipped completely?" (We know Mr. Faze is being facetious, here... don't we?) This is the same $50,000,000 investment deal in which some people suspected Microsoft's involvment.
Is there some web site that documents all the companies that are investing in SCO?
I have been watching this SCO watch site for while... but it's not all that frequently updated. In depth, yes... but I just want to know every bastard company that I should be avoiding. Give me a list...
The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Thursday that the firms will standardize designs for Unix servers as early as 2004 and production of high-end servers would be consolidated at a Fujitsu subsidiary.
If they agree to integrate their server operations, the two companies would have more than 40 percent of the Unix server market, topping market leader Hewlett-Packard (HPQ: news, chart, profile).
It seems that Fujitsu is not confirming that the two companies will "broaded this relationship." See quote below.
Fujitsu spokesman Scott Ikeda said that while the two companies enjoy a close partnership and have had discussions in the past, there have not been fresh talks to broaden this relationship.
"At the present time, however, nothing has been decided with respect to expanding the scope of our current relationship with Sun," Fujitsu said in a statement.
Too much news being leaked? Or is there another reason to not confirm this at this time?
Sun/TI partnership milestones: -- 1988 - Sun/TI relationship founded -- 1992 - Delivery of SuperSPARC(r) and MicroSPARC(r) 1 -- 1994 - Delivery of SuperSPARC II -- 1995 - Delivery of UltraSPARC I (first 64 bit SPARC processor) -- 1997 - Delivery of UltraSPARC II (72-way support) -- 2000 - UltraSPARC III (106-way support) -- 2001 - Copper UltraSPARC III -- 2002 - UltraSPARC III (industry's first 64-bit in 130 nm) -- 2003 - First 64-bit 90 nm process samples
1. Together they are going to develop "cutting edge" CPUs... 2. Fujitsu is going to mass produce them... 3. Forget !@#!!@# Profit -- Just hoping for survival?
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When mail order business was getting started, the traditional businesses and the government moaned and groaned about the lack of tax return... However, today nobody is looking to tax mail order. Why not?
Mail order is been around far longer than the internet.
The internet is a wonderful business model and vector. Let us not soil it with taxes just yet.
Davak
Anybody remember this?
However, being a Sun guy myself, I worry if this is this one more blow against Sun's unstable current position.
Davak
Cell cultures?
Lungs?
As a pulmonary doc and as a researcher, this analogy is hitting close to home. Bravo.
To add more support for your point, even today data obtained using cell culture must be duplicated by other methods before we use it for human use. Cell cultures are very, very valuable tools for research and allow us to test many questions very quickly; however, cell cultures and the actual human body itself are two very different things.
Cell cultures would be similar to a stimulated salt water environment at a research lab or zoo. It may contain many of the parts of the real thing and may help test research ideas... however, it is not the real thing.
The underwater project in question is one step closer to getting to experiment and study the "real thing."
Quote at the bottom of the page:
LAMP is funded by the iCampus Alliance (MIT/Microsoft Research)
http://lamp.mit.edu
Okay, slashdot... does Microsoft get any props here?
(oh, sh!t, there goes my Karma.)
Davak
I doubt anyone who maintains a web server would like it stuck at the bottom of the ocean and unaccessible when the hard disc drive decides to start playing up.
Sorry, I missed this point.
I doubt they will have servers stuck at the bottom of the ocean floor. The servers will be sitting high and dry in people-friendly areas. Why would the servers need to be anywhere near the ocean floor?
Hell, I know here at work we try to keep the servers even away from people as much as possible. The servers do not need to be near the action. Feed the data onto dry land where the servers will live.
Is data from the ocean in real time actually much more useful that non-realtime data?
Yes. The article even mentions events such as underwater volcanoesn. Others could include the migration of plant/animal species and manipulation of data gathering devices such as cameras.
If you are watching fish mate, you would like your camera to follow the action... for example. (I guess this is different that watching checkmate, cause then you would be a total geek just watching chess. (g))
Anyway... we don't drop cameras out of planes into the jungle to "gather data." We GO into the jungle, experience it, and attempt to understand it. This is not as easily done on the ocean floor... so this is the next best thing.
Very cool. What about traffic?
It seems that this is going to be a huge attention grabbing thing that is going to lead to massive congestion around these areas.
From this, one also realizes its purpose... profit! Having this will drawn people into this area causing a huge increase in tourism. Hell, I wanna see this thing now.
Who wants to bet how long it's going to be before some body decides it wants to flash multiple countries at once? Too bad David Blain didn't think of this first.
Babelfished article
Enjoy.
Jacques Cousteau wouldve loved this.
Really? I always thought of Cousteau as someone who loved to be underwater making discoveries. I don't picture him as somebody sitting behind a computer screen doing work.
Thinking of him that way makes him less of a hero... and, err, too much like me.
Davak
You think security is troublesome on your own systems... imagine being in control of security on this project.
You are doing 6 months of observation waiting for an undersea volcano to erupt... and the day it does, some undergrad hacker gets into the system and decides to write out I LOVE BETTY with a mini robot sub on the ocean floor.
I am kidding,,, but this is a system that most likely multiple groups of scientists will be able to access. Keeping that type of open system secure will be difficult... especially if they are using the internet to accept data and send commands.
Davak
This is why we have the internet: Networked, remote controllable/accessable research.
This project provides multiple layers of input and output--all that can be controlled remotely. This is a science experiment/environment that can be explored and shared by multiple groups of people from anywhere in the world.
Even the radio telescopes are not this advanced; however, it's a similar idea. Groups of sensor inputs that can be fed to groups of people elsewhere.
Will it be expensive? Yes.
However, the amount of data that will be received with minimal impact to the environment will be staggering. Once the system is down and reaches a steady state, it can be repeatly used to gain information--without having to interrupt that system again and again.
Bravo to the Neptune project... this is the way research should be done.
Me want.
:)
It rolls over a P4 3.2 gig in the gaming benchmarks.
I guess I am assuming that the Athlon 64 doesn't have some special Quake benchmarking code...
What ever happened with the exploding motherboards?
This will probably been the next gadget added to the Swiss Army PDA/phone combos.
:)
Before long will see those soccer moms with 3 kids in the back of her gas-guzzler pointing her cell phone at the light in between breaths of talking to her friends from the social club.
Life is so unfair.
That's a good point... and we've been trying it. We are currently piloting two systems--one that requires vocal training and one that does not. We're doing it this way because most docs will not take the time to do the training.
The only reason that this is a consideration is because even the dictation people miss a bunch of words... so everything dictated as to be re-edited. If voice to text systems get 95%, it might be usable and would save an assload of money.
Digital dictation systems that connect to software for transcription haven't worked well either.
Of course, it doesn't help that we docs were all trained to dictate, scratch something unreadable in the chart, and move on.
Davak
Even in the hospital setting, they are not all that great yet.
Several different physicians I know have tried the tablet form... only to switch back to a PDA or notebook.
The tablet seems perfect; however, the problem in medicine is the problem everywhere else... input. In increasing amounts history/physicals, progress notes, clinic visits, and orders are being inputted directly into the system by typing. The other predominate way is by dictation... which allows somebody else to type it into the system.
Tablet PCs do not speed up this process in any way. It's still quicker to type or dictate, than to use this format.
Many physicians use PDAs for all the same reasons most geeks use PDAs... however, very few of the reasons are related to medicine. Every medical student knows that a PDA allows for a quick reference on rounds to spice up one's knowledge. The tablet would allow the same info... in just a larger format.
Anyway, we docs wanted to love the tablet... it's just not practical enough... yet.
Steve's Digicams always has great reviews.
Here's the offical specs on the camera.
Approx. 6.5 megapixels
Davak
My uncle was a die hard film person... but always enjoyed playing with digital... just never in his studio.
However, in the last 12 months he has converted his entire studio over to digital. His work still looks great... even blown out huge.
Anybody other pro/semi-pros out there made the switch?
Does everybody agree that digital is as good as film now?
Davak
Give me a break slashguys...
Stopping stolen car = good thing
Disabling stolen car = good thing
Monitoring driving habits = good/bad thing
Good if you are an employer and want to make sure your employees are not abusing the company time. Bad if this information is used to harm your personal rights...
Just because this is in a different nation that many of you consider "backwards" doesn't mean that this is a stupid idea... or an upcoming technology here in America.
Davak
It's a crapshoot, eh. Dick Faze writes " Royal Bank of Canada is part of a $50 Million investment in SCO: Has our communist neighbor to the north finally flipped completely?" (We know Mr. Faze is being facetious, here ... don't we?) This is the same $50,000,000 investment deal in which some people suspected Microsoft's involvment.
Is there some web site that documents all the companies that are investing in SCO?
I have been watching this SCO watch site for while... but it's not all that frequently updated. In depth, yes... but I just want to know every bastard company that I should be avoiding. Give me a list...
It seems that Fujitsu is not confirming that the two companies will "broaded this relationship." See quote below.
Too much news being leaked? Or is there another reason to not confirm this at this time?
I believe that TI and Sun had developed a relationship with TI's production of the 90-nanometer chips.
Anyway, there is no doubt that the relationship between TI and Sun has been locked in for a long time. Sun breaking away from TI would most likely be very damaging to TI.
1. Together they are going to develop "cutting edge" CPUs...
2. Fujitsu is going to mass produce them...
3. Forget !@#!!@# Profit -- Just hoping for survival?