True, they're not cheap. But I've got blocks in the kids' pile that were handed down TO me. There are FEW toys that survive childhood boredom, Mom's cleaning, and the ravages of being played with as well as Legos. I have blocks 30 years old that snap perfectly with ones fresh out of the box... That's way cool... and justifies their legend status.
It has EVERYTHING to do with science and technology... or at least people in the field. Most techs grew up around legos as their main toy practicaly every day for months at a time. It's part nastelgia, but Lego runs a REALLY tight ship... FEW companies can run 18 PPM manufacturing lines, get 100-200 and have QA pick out the bad ones or rework them... and we're not talking "out the door" which even auto makers can't achive... but "OFF THE MACHINE"!!! 18ppm on the first try is amazing for any industry. That makes it DOUBLY interesting!
Just for fun and to ease what you said about the first game being a gimick.. the first game should be a LEGO Star Wars game. Then the plot dosen't matter as much.. the focus would be on having fun!
my thoughts exactly.. P2P isn't really that interesting for directly funded media.. particularly movies and such. P2P makes sense when the content is FREE.. because everybody can "chip in" on bandwidth. But for Hollywood movies that make millions in profit, it just doesn't fit... if I'm paying nearly full retail for a digital copy the bandwidth cost versus manufacturing cost is an power of 10 cheaper... why would I want to "share" my bandwidth so I can PAY for copyright restricted stuff I can't also share? I see it as the MPAA's way of "out-Appleing" Apple by having their own app everybody runs.. they see the boatloads made by Kazza but don't get that the content was free!!! Nobody will pay if it self destructs but still demands my bandwidth be shared... They don't get how the internet really works.
but it's all those Add-ons to Exchange that Executives HAVE to have that are the killer to migrating away from it. All the office apps, sharepoint, Active directory, all expect to tie back to an Exchange server and simply have no other way to use the "must have" collaboration tools without it. That's the deviousness of Microsoft.. all sorts of other apps that use MS development tools like.Net expect to tie to MS tools. Many third party apps use that "one piece" you've got no control over when it MUST run a special machine custom for your industry.
I'm not knocking the OSS solution, not at all, but the "Exchange" problem isn't JUST an email server.. it's all the third party stuff all over the company that just assumes you've got Microsoft... In many cases you've got no way (profitable) to chase down all those loose ends... and when you finally DO, some middle manager pulls in ANOTHER must have app you have to fight over.
What's needed is more SOLUTIONS and not just pieces. The modularity of OSS is a strength and a weakness. The strength is in rapid integration of modules.. the weakness is the problem that every geek expects THEIR favorite module to work with every other module... we need to start thinking in STACKS of features rather than individual apps. The issue for geeks is that their favorite apps may not end up in the same feature "stack"... in order to round out the feature set easily without duplication. I think Google building it's own apps helps break the "must have MS" syndrome.. but Google's stuff is still their own.. and much doesn't translate to something that's feature COMPLETE in OSS right now. That's the next step for Linux distros.... to offer turnkey solutions, and not just parts. Ubuntu is on the right track, but they're not nearly ambitious enough at promoting STACKS of functions "ready to go"... but the users in the forums are definately on the right track... witness Automatix. Now do that for domain/email/groupware setup and you'll have something interesting for business.
if we could get everybody to take them to one place locally... then you'd have a serious amount of resources being recovered. There's some expensive stuff inside a PC... it's in too small of quantities in just 1 PC, but even 100 PCs it becomes profitable to recycle the components for the materials... monitors even more. I'm waiting for somebody to make an efficient "molecular disassembler" that can break down items.. particularly densely mixed resources like PC components and refine them efficiently to separate out the rare elements to recover them. It costs FAR less to separate refined elements than to dig them up from the ground... the energy recovery for Aluminum for example is 4 units of energy to refine a pound versus 1 to recycle it!!! Not to mention the costs of exploring and FINDING the elements.
The first country to build efficient elemental recycling facilities will have a new golden age on their hands.... the amount of wealth of resources buried in our landfills in the USA is AMAZING!!!
seriously, the business case for broadcasters is to get HD or die! I'm sitting watching HD Fox right now, and it BLOWS AWAY any satellite I've seen. Even SD digital broadcasts are 200% clearer than analog... better than my standard definition satellite. One of my local stations runs a 24 hour weather channel as their sideband...that will be GREAT when the snowstorms start. Another runs CW as it's sideband... a first without cable. If broadcasters DON'T upgrade their 50 year-old tech then they will be left behind. HDTV puts broadcasters on nearly equal technical footing with Cable... they get channel guides, better tech stations, multiple sidebands for dedicated weather, news, or even cartoons for the kids. The current broadcasters that merely feed the big networks and expect big advertising payoffs business are over...but that was happening WITHOUT HD... I bet I spent nearly 2 years watching 0 network TV shows when The-n, Sci-fi and WB were on a roll. on the other hand, the ones that look for new networks, new content, local talents. etc have all new ways to flourish... Technology doesn't GUARANTEE ANY business profits... but it does give them a chance to find some.
Sure XP CAN do those things... but personally I've never had it work reliably for any period of time. When I first reformatted and installed my Dell it almost worked perfectly.. then gradually disintegrated until even going to sleep crashes the PC. It's a 2+ year install, automatic updates are on, and been kept up with antivirus and antispyware... I'm doing everything I'm supposed to. why did it self destruct?
Yes, that is what the new enterprise encryption is for. They (MS) say you can encrypt email to be self destructing as well as put encryption on documents with many of the restrictions in the patent. So Yes, there is a valid reason and I'm sure plenty of businesses that would love this tech.. then documents could not only be encrypted on disk but critical ones could self destruct if the laptop wasn't connected within a timeframe to the authenticating domain... pretty cool stuff. MS has their own reasons for course.. how many leaked emails or docs get to the press? think Halloween Documents... never again!!! But it also has purpose for DRM... once you create the tech doesn't mean it's not in WMP11 also! what better way to test it out... imagine being able to disable content based on IP... take your laptop overseas and it could "know" from the IP address at the airport wireless your in an invalid region and disable your movies until you return to "safer" shores.... that's REALLY scary.. but it's what they're selling on the enterprise side...
Westminister buckyballs had the same issues. When they were discovered they were going to be used for all sorts of medical applications.. with all that molecular space they could be used to hold several molecules of cutting edge drugs. When they tested it on the usual mice, they all got tissue damage and some got cancer because the buckyballs didn't break down as planned... they were so tough and so small they would literally cut right thru cell walls destroying things instead of helping. Sounds like the same thing they're afraid of here. The particles are so small they can get into places the "raw" element wouldn't be able to and cause more trouble.
this was another plot by Sony to get more media attention to spying for their new James Bond movie... After all, they already had muggings, babies born in line, shots fired and riot police called in for PS3. What better way to kick off a Bond movie than a dead Russian spy!!!
or I could be off my meds and a little more paranoid than usual.
wasn't Putin somehow involved with the KGB in Cold War times? Anyway, their definition of "violent death" probably excludes things like minor torture, suffocation, poisoning, shot to the brain stem, etc... the CIA and KGB were pretty creative in the Cold War Spy days... they could make a "hit" death look like anything they wanted...mugging, traffic accident, electrocution in the tub, natural gas explosion for a city block or two... most only looked "violent" if they were botched.
Frankly, I'm waiting for the TSA response to this!!! I wonder when they'll start forcing flyers to discard things that "look" like radioactive isotopes... or even "isotopes" tee-shirts!!!
It's fun to learn new stuff, but to be an EFFICIENT worker you need to master the skills so you can make the company's resources better. Of course most small business don't WANT their IT structure better, they just want somebody that can make due.. but ask yourself, what skills are you learning that are useful elsewhere? My experience is that the guys that do "whatever their asked" get the shaft when raise time comes.. the company grows a little bit more and hires "pros" at the skills you used to struggle with so now you're not the "team player" you used to be. while it's not necessarily the companies "duty" to improve your career, if working there isn't improving your resume with marketable skills then it's a dead-end job... you won't get pay at that place to compensate your experience, and you won't have experience that's useful to market to somebody else.
but Lawyers go to law school thru rigorous training in practice cases, and how case law works.. even the Bar Exam is heavy in details about how a lawyer is expected to perform in court, what case law applies in different situations before the state's courts.
There needs to be some "offical board" training that shows a CS major or programmer has mastered the skills required to run a project. I know engineers have professional exams for each discipline (civil, mechanical, electrical)... then they can "certify" that projects are professionally engineered. Accountants are more like CS, they have their GAAP handbooks of "best practices" that update every couple years and they also take the CPA exams. Being as software moves so fast I don't think there's "ONE" exam that should cover it... then we'd fall back into the whole "cert mill" problems of the 1990s. That's where schools that teach IT and business that hire IT should perhaps establish requirements for curriculum that proves an IT graduate can not just write code, but also set up and run a project. It shouldn't be run by Software Companies!!! it should be objective that you can DO IT work, and not just talk about it.
The trouble is that Business don't want to define their requirements objectively and Universities don't want to "teach to" anybody else's requirements... which is a bit criminal because unless there's somebody else that "approves" of what you've learned, your degree isn't WORTH anything. Perhaps we could get IT websites and people that work in the field to create a technical society... but that sounds too much like a "union" and getting IT people to agree on anything is like herding cats!!!
but they profited heavily from the "piracy" monster. After all, they made their product so easy to pirate for so long to get everybody "hooked" on it. Now like all good "dealers" they want not just fair price..but a good markup. Otherwise they'd sell retail copies at $50 like they do for OEMS. They want to pretend they sell a $500 product when they give it away to OEMS for $50... to keep the monopoly appearance. But they won't offer it to "customers" at that price because they don't want to loose the mythos around the OS. Or worse, have people think of windows as a cheap, short term, "disposable" product... like say a Linux distro.
Microsoft has been selling stockholders "world domination" for quite a while and it's not playing out like they'd want. They have been spending investor's PROFITS for years looking the next big thing and only loosing money. Realize that only the OS and Office divisions MAKE profit for the whole company..something like $.85 of every dollar revenue on those two lines is PROFIT!!! Where's that cash going??? they could double or triple their bottom line by DROPPING products and divisions that loose money... I mean Xbox lost 5 Billion over 5 years... meatspace players like GM and Ford are compelled to slash jobs and spending when that happens... if they allowed divisions to loose that kind of money they'd go to JAIL! Microsoft is specifically structured to keep profits away from investors...how else could they get away with 25+ years of not actually paying investors dividends on the profits! Bill tried to compensate with the pumped up stock price, but that bubble has popped.
The only trouble is that if Microsoft did that, they would be another "background" company like GE,BASF, Siemens, etc... companies that make great yearly profits, and everybody has in their house, but most people don't know by NAME anymore so the stocks don't skyrocket, but INVESTORS know about it make lots of money!! Of course what's more pitiful is that somebody that was at one time the RICHEST man in the world is still trying to get that back!!! He's got more than enough money to buy an island somewhere and sit on the beach all day! OR at least do something interesting with his money like Paul Allen or Steve Woz...funny how they are HAPPY even though they don't have so much money anymore... There comes a time to quite while your ahead.... kind of like when Michael Jordan "un-retired" a second time... it was cool, but he was a legend & millionaire.. give a new kid a chance. Bill seems so afraid of letting go...
this is specifically to get at Apple user's pockets!!!
This is so prevent the runaway success that Parallels has become for all the intel mac users. By putting this in the license, and probably with some flimsy second-rate "protection" they make the Parallels be legally forced to play their little game or get a DMCA suit. That's the rub here...Microsoft can FORCE the issue and use police officers if they want. They want customers buying the "upgraded" versions. The worst possible thing that can happen is that developers will make extra sure their products work with Home for all the "Apple" users... and I think Microsoft is trying to put applications into requiring the higher version of windows to even RUN. If all the Apple users make home the default version Microsoft can't continue to shake businesses down.
I see how the cheaters could just tie up the help desk until they figured out how to get the bots around the software, but they have to do something other than mass-bans. While it's effective, it's poor business to paying customers that get caught because so many are hit an once there's no way to even debate with them. If they make too much of a habit it will turn casual gamers off.. and THOSE are the target market.. not the hardcore ones. In my opinion, The Mass-bans wreak of Blizzard profiting from the cheaters even when they say they're not... after all, what better way to pump up the subscriber numbers than have the "cheaters" sign back up with a new copy of the game and a minimum 2 months of subscription. Hmmm... that's just about how far these bans are spaced out? They advertise 7 million copies sold, but how many accounts are really the same copy from bot that were banned then re-established?
Now that Macs run Intel processors, what would it take to create a cross platform Mac-to-Linux version like Wine? After all, OSX makes more use of OpenGL than Windows does.. there would not be as much need for DirectX conversions and such. I know Apple has their own 3D kit and audio kits that are only loosely based on standards, but it's got to be less work than windows.. perhaps Apple could help out a little?
The electric light has only been around 100 years, that's barely a blip in how long humans have been around.. even for Young Earth Creationists. Bodies are hardwired to respond to sunlight.. it's a thing they do. Deviating too much screws us up. Unfortunately, the whole "industrial revolution" thing is about unnatural manipulation of materials to man's will. Unfortunately genetics don't bend quite as fast as technology creates new ways. Personally I started noticing SAD symptoms about the middle of October... just before time change. I work in IT, indoors, no windows all day. It's barely light when I start at 8 and nearly dark by 5:30 when I leave. I've walked out of my office at 4:30 on an overcast day an nearly threw up the "circadian" shock was so bad. So yes, there's something to our whole day-nite cycles. The French During the French Revolution tried to go to "decimal" calenders with nice even 10-day weeks... it failed miserably because people couldn't take it.
The trouble is that most of the evidence is philosophical rather than scientific at this point... lots of people KNOW how these things work, but the lawyers and scientist and manager call it superstition and force society into unnatural living conditions.
those are all sleep disorders with huge consequences in our awake life... the parent is a sleep researcher, that's what they do. Many, many people have those problems and even "trivial" things like snoring actually affect your progression thru the sleep levels.. they force your body into "panic" mode to change your position which stops REM sleep. Other things like the tossing and twitching are a sign of "restless leg syndrome" a combination of built up stress and lack of physical exercise... i.e. being a coding geek at a desk 16 hours a day doesn't generate the chemicals your BODY needs to function generated by large scale muscle use... muscles rebel by twitching, hearts don't like it either.
With all the sleep issues starting to come to the front of medical science lately, it's amazing ANYBODY is allowed to publish this research! OF course, look at how the "professionals" in medicine run their lives... you'd think DOCTORS would also focus on getting proper nutrition, sleep, exercise to improve themselves during internships and such...yet they are famous for 36-48 hour shifts with minimal sleep!!! Sleep researches have a steady stream of third shifters in their clinics... right about the time they start having serious physical issues like heart trouble, and anxiety attacks... due to the messed up sleep cycles. OUR 24x7 society doesn't work... it breaks tons of people. You'd think for being SMART beings we'd work WITH our biological necessities to be productive, not AGAINST them.
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True, they're not cheap. But I've got blocks in the kids' pile that were handed down TO me. There are FEW toys that survive childhood boredom, Mom's cleaning, and the ravages of being played with as well as Legos. I have blocks 30 years old that snap perfectly with ones fresh out of the box... That's way cool... and justifies their legend status.
I share my legos with the kids... sometimes.
that should be on the prospective parent test... the 3am walk thru legos barefoot
It has EVERYTHING to do with science and technology... or at least people in the field. Most techs grew up around legos as their main toy practicaly every day for months at a time. It's part nastelgia, but Lego runs a REALLY tight ship... FEW companies can run 18 PPM manufacturing lines, get 100-200 and have QA pick out the bad ones or rework them... and we're not talking "out the door" which even auto makers can't achive... but "OFF THE MACHINE"!!! 18ppm on the first try is amazing for any industry. That makes it DOUBLY interesting!
Just for fun and to ease what you said about the first game being a gimick.. the first game should be a LEGO Star Wars game. Then the plot dosen't matter as much.. the focus would be on having fun!
my thoughts exactly.. P2P isn't really that interesting for directly funded media.. particularly movies and such. P2P makes sense when the content is FREE.. because everybody can "chip in" on bandwidth. But for Hollywood movies that make millions in profit, it just doesn't fit... if I'm paying nearly full retail for a digital copy the bandwidth cost versus manufacturing cost is an power of 10 cheaper... why would I want to "share" my bandwidth so I can PAY for copyright restricted stuff I can't also share? I see it as the MPAA's way of "out-Appleing" Apple by having their own app everybody runs.. they see the boatloads made by Kazza but don't get that the content was free!!! Nobody will pay if it self destructs but still demands my bandwidth be shared... They don't get how the internet really works.
I'm not knocking the OSS solution, not at all, but the "Exchange" problem isn't JUST an email server.. it's all the third party stuff all over the company that just assumes you've got Microsoft... In many cases you've got no way (profitable) to chase down all those loose ends... and when you finally DO, some middle manager pulls in ANOTHER must have app you have to fight over.
What's needed is more SOLUTIONS and not just pieces. The modularity of OSS is a strength and a weakness. The strength is in rapid integration of modules.. the weakness is the problem that every geek expects THEIR favorite module to work with every other module... we need to start thinking in STACKS of features rather than individual apps. The issue for geeks is that their favorite apps may not end up in the same feature "stack"... in order to round out the feature set easily without duplication. I think Google building it's own apps helps break the "must have MS" syndrome.. but Google's stuff is still their own.. and much doesn't translate to something that's feature COMPLETE in OSS right now. That's the next step for Linux distros.... to offer turnkey solutions, and not just parts. Ubuntu is on the right track, but they're not nearly ambitious enough at promoting STACKS of functions "ready to go"... but the users in the forums are definately on the right track... witness Automatix. Now do that for domain/email/groupware setup and you'll have something interesting for business.
The first country to build efficient elemental recycling facilities will have a new golden age on their hands.... the amount of wealth of resources buried in our landfills in the USA is AMAZING!!!
seriously, the business case for broadcasters is to get HD or die! I'm sitting watching HD Fox right now, and it BLOWS AWAY any satellite I've seen. Even SD digital broadcasts are 200% clearer than analog... better than my standard definition satellite. One of my local stations runs a 24 hour weather channel as their sideband...that will be GREAT when the snowstorms start. Another runs CW as it's sideband... a first without cable. If broadcasters DON'T upgrade their 50 year-old tech then they will be left behind. HDTV puts broadcasters on nearly equal technical footing with Cable... they get channel guides, better tech stations, multiple sidebands for dedicated weather, news, or even cartoons for the kids. The current broadcasters that merely feed the big networks and expect big advertising payoffs business are over...but that was happening WITHOUT HD... I bet I spent nearly 2 years watching 0 network TV shows when The-n, Sci-fi and WB were on a roll. on the other hand, the ones that look for new networks, new content, local talents. etc have all new ways to flourish... Technology doesn't GUARANTEE ANY business profits... but it does give them a chance to find some.
Sure XP CAN do those things... but personally I've never had it work reliably for any period of time. When I first reformatted and installed my Dell it almost worked perfectly.. then gradually disintegrated until even going to sleep crashes the PC. It's a 2+ year install, automatic updates are on, and been kept up with antivirus and antispyware... I'm doing everything I'm supposed to. why did it self destruct?
Intel Robinson!!! coming to a PC hard drive near you soon.
Yes, that is what the new enterprise encryption is for. They (MS) say you can encrypt email to be self destructing as well as put encryption on documents with many of the restrictions in the patent. So Yes, there is a valid reason and I'm sure plenty of businesses that would love this tech.. then documents could not only be encrypted on disk but critical ones could self destruct if the laptop wasn't connected within a timeframe to the authenticating domain... pretty cool stuff. MS has their own reasons for course.. how many leaked emails or docs get to the press? think Halloween Documents... never again!!! But it also has purpose for DRM... once you create the tech doesn't mean it's not in WMP11 also! what better way to test it out... imagine being able to disable content based on IP... take your laptop overseas and it could "know" from the IP address at the airport wireless your in an invalid region and disable your movies until you return to "safer" shores.... that's REALLY scary.. but it's what they're selling on the enterprise side...
Westminister buckyballs had the same issues. When they were discovered they were going to be used for all sorts of medical applications.. with all that molecular space they could be used to hold several molecules of cutting edge drugs. When they tested it on the usual mice, they all got tissue damage and some got cancer because the buckyballs didn't break down as planned... they were so tough and so small they would literally cut right thru cell walls destroying things instead of helping. Sounds like the same thing they're afraid of here. The particles are so small they can get into places the "raw" element wouldn't be able to and cause more trouble.
or I could be off my meds and a little more paranoid than usual.
Frankly, I'm waiting for the TSA response to this!!! I wonder when they'll start forcing flyers to discard things that "look" like radioactive isotopes... or even "isotopes" tee-shirts!!!
It's fun to learn new stuff, but to be an EFFICIENT worker you need to master the skills so you can make the company's resources better. Of course most small business don't WANT their IT structure better, they just want somebody that can make due.. but ask yourself, what skills are you learning that are useful elsewhere? My experience is that the guys that do "whatever their asked" get the shaft when raise time comes.. the company grows a little bit more and hires "pros" at the skills you used to struggle with so now you're not the "team player" you used to be. while it's not necessarily the companies "duty" to improve your career, if working there isn't improving your resume with marketable skills then it's a dead-end job... you won't get pay at that place to compensate your experience, and you won't have experience that's useful to market to somebody else.
There needs to be some "offical board" training that shows a CS major or programmer has mastered the skills required to run a project. I know engineers have professional exams for each discipline (civil, mechanical, electrical) ... then they can "certify" that projects are professionally engineered. Accountants are more like CS, they have their GAAP handbooks of "best practices" that update every couple years and they also take the CPA exams. Being as software moves so fast I don't think there's "ONE" exam that should cover it... then we'd fall back into the whole "cert mill" problems of the 1990s. That's where schools that teach IT and business that hire IT should perhaps establish requirements for curriculum that proves an IT graduate can not just write code, but also set up and run a project. It shouldn't be run by Software Companies!!! it should be objective that you can DO IT work, and not just talk about it.
The trouble is that Business don't want to define their requirements objectively and Universities don't want to "teach to" anybody else's requirements... which is a bit criminal because unless there's somebody else that "approves" of what you've learned, your degree isn't WORTH anything. Perhaps we could get IT websites and people that work in the field to create a technical society... but that sounds too much like a "union" and getting IT people to agree on anything is like herding cats!!!
I thought it was a human right issue when Microsoft DIDN'T support your language in their OS for FREE? Man, I'm confused... it's so difficult!!
but they profited heavily from the "piracy" monster. After all, they made their product so easy to pirate for so long to get everybody "hooked" on it. Now like all good "dealers" they want not just fair price..but a good markup. Otherwise they'd sell retail copies at $50 like they do for OEMS. They want to pretend they sell a $500 product when they give it away to OEMS for $50... to keep the monopoly appearance. But they won't offer it to "customers" at that price because they don't want to loose the mythos around the OS. Or worse, have people think of windows as a cheap, short term, "disposable" product... like say a Linux distro.
The only trouble is that if Microsoft did that, they would be another "background" company like GE,BASF, Siemens, etc... companies that make great yearly profits, and everybody has in their house, but most people don't know by NAME anymore so the stocks don't skyrocket, but INVESTORS know about it make lots of money!! Of course what's more pitiful is that somebody that was at one time the RICHEST man in the world is still trying to get that back!!! He's got more than enough money to buy an island somewhere and sit on the beach all day! OR at least do something interesting with his money like Paul Allen or Steve Woz...funny how they are HAPPY even though they don't have so much money anymore... There comes a time to quite while your ahead.... kind of like when Michael Jordan "un-retired" a second time... it was cool, but he was a legend & millionaire.. give a new kid a chance. Bill seems so afraid of letting go...
This is so prevent the runaway success that Parallels has become for all the intel mac users. By putting this in the license, and probably with some flimsy second-rate "protection" they make the Parallels be legally forced to play their little game or get a DMCA suit. That's the rub here...Microsoft can FORCE the issue and use police officers if they want. They want customers buying the "upgraded" versions. The worst possible thing that can happen is that developers will make extra sure their products work with Home for all the "Apple" users... and I think Microsoft is trying to put applications into requiring the higher version of windows to even RUN. If all the Apple users make home the default version Microsoft can't continue to shake businesses down.
I see how the cheaters could just tie up the help desk until they figured out how to get the bots around the software, but they have to do something other than mass-bans. While it's effective, it's poor business to paying customers that get caught because so many are hit an once there's no way to even debate with them. If they make too much of a habit it will turn casual gamers off.. and THOSE are the target market.. not the hardcore ones. In my opinion, The Mass-bans wreak of Blizzard profiting from the cheaters even when they say they're not... after all, what better way to pump up the subscriber numbers than have the "cheaters" sign back up with a new copy of the game and a minimum 2 months of subscription. Hmmm... that's just about how far these bans are spaced out? They advertise 7 million copies sold, but how many accounts are really the same copy from bot that were banned then re-established?
Now that Macs run Intel processors, what would it take to create a cross platform Mac-to-Linux version like Wine? After all, OSX makes more use of OpenGL than Windows does.. there would not be as much need for DirectX conversions and such. I know Apple has their own 3D kit and audio kits that are only loosely based on standards, but it's got to be less work than windows.. perhaps Apple could help out a little?
The trouble is that most of the evidence is philosophical rather than scientific at this point... lots of people KNOW how these things work, but the lawyers and scientist and manager call it superstition and force society into unnatural living conditions.
With all the sleep issues starting to come to the front of medical science lately, it's amazing ANYBODY is allowed to publish this research! OF course, look at how the "professionals" in medicine run their lives... you'd think DOCTORS would also focus on getting proper nutrition, sleep, exercise to improve themselves during internships and such...yet they are famous for 36-48 hour shifts with minimal sleep!!! Sleep researches have a steady stream of third shifters in their clinics... right about the time they start having serious physical issues like heart trouble, and anxiety attacks... due to the messed up sleep cycles. OUR 24x7 society doesn't work... it breaks tons of people. You'd think for being SMART beings we'd work WITH our biological necessities to be productive, not AGAINST them.