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doing all the same calculations for the years 1982 through 2002, and giving each president's policies a year to take effect, changes only one result: The Democrats pull ahead of the Republicans on per capita personal income.
Sure you can complain about selective statistcs, but when the three measurements of job growth, stock market performance, and GDP growth taken during times that the two parties control the House, Senate, and White House all point to the same result, then what is there left to complain about?
Democrats are more likely to spread the wealth around through public spending on education or transportation, which may stimulate the economy more broadly. The foundation of recent GOP economic policy--tax cuts--may offer narrower benefits than Republicans claim. High defense spending, another GOP hallmark, may only boost one sector while hurting the whole economy in the form of bigger federal deficits and higher interest rates.
Here in the U.S., the FBI's revised-after-passage specifications for Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) compliance is estimated to cost carriers $3 to 5 billion.
And with a burden shared equivalently by all carriers in this age of record corporate profits, who is going to pay for that? You will, but there will be no line-item on your bill letting you know. Just an across-the-board price hike.
the EAS digital signal is the same signal that the National Weather Service (NWS) uses on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Weather Radio (NWR).
-- www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/eas.html
Monied interests are good at propaganda. Especially if they own lots of mass media. But it dosn't work. People know that spectrum reform is important, but the way it should be done is not the way that buiness and government wants to do it.
If the customer doesn't deal with the OS directly tell them it's a windows compatible box and leave it at that.
And the first lawsuit that comes along for any accidental injury or death where the equipment was involved, the plaintiff sends a discovery demand for all your code, and viola! -- you're down for fraud at three times the cost.
Three times the cost is easy to handle compared to the civil fraud judgement, which will keep you from ever selling a piece of medical equipment again.
Wouldn't it be a little more honest to say "an extra hard drive" than "a small RAID array"?
Unix WAS patented, which is WHY it spread
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Unix's Founding Fathers
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... It was proprietary software, patents wouldn't have done a thing to it.
Actually, a crucial part of Unix was patented, before software patents were technically allowed. But the fact that it had been was the main reason that Unix spread so rapidly in the 70s and 80s.
Back in the 70s, Bell Labs was required by an antitrust consent decree of January 1956 to reveal what patents it had applied for, supply information about them to competitors, and license them in anticipation of issuance to anyone for nominal fees. Any source code covered by such a Bell Labs patent also had to be licensed for a nominal fee. So about every computer science department on the planet was able to obtain the Unix source.
The patent in question was for the setuid bit, U.S. No. 4,135,240. If you look at it, you will see that it is apparently a hardware patent! This is the kicker paragraph:
... So far this Detailed Description has described the file access control information associated with each stored file, and the function of each piece of information in regulating access to the associated file. It remains now to complete this Detailed Description by illustrating an implementation giving concrete form to this functional description. To those skilled in the computer art it is obvious that such an implementation can be expressed either in terms of a computer program (software) implementation or a computer circuitry (hardware) implementation, the two being functional equivalents of one another.
It will be understood that a functionally equivalent software embodiment is within the scope of the inventive contribution herein described. For some purposes a software embodiment may likely be preferrable in practice.
Technically, even though that said it "will be understood," and was understood by everyone as a software patent, it wasn't until the 1981 Supreme case of Diamond v. Diehr that it became enforcable as such. Perhaps that is why the patent took six years to issue back in the 70s.
So, through the 1970s, Unix spread because it was covered by an unenforcable software patent! Doug McIlroy said, "AT&T distributed Unix with the
understanding that a license fee would be collected if and when the setuid
patent issued. When the event finally occurred, the logistical problems of
retroactively collecting small fees from hundreds of licensees did not seem
worth the effort, so the patent was placed in the public domain."
How come these are never reported near coasts? At the frequency they were detected, you think there would be a tsunami event somewhere every week or so.
I wonder if they're related to undersea methane releases.
The name of your best friend is... The scenary I love most is... My favorite movie star is... How would Korea change after reunification? What will you do when Korea is reunified? My favorite movie is...
Nationality / citizenship:
1. Korean 2. Chinese 3. German 4. Russian
5. Australian 6. Bahrain 7. Bangladesh
8. Chinese [duplicate] 9. Indian
10. Indonesian 11.Iranian 12. Iraqi
13. Israeli 14. Japanese 15. Jordan
16. Kuwaiti 17. Lebanese 18. New Zealand ...
52. Canadian 53. Mexican 54. American ["American"?] 55. Argentinian ...
97. Netherlander 98. Portuguese 99. Spanish
100. English
Apparently our sensitive alphabetical sorting technology has been sucessfully prevented from reaching the DPRK.
Kay also decries what he sees as a fundamental failing of the web--it is primarily an environment for displaying information, not for authoring it. "You can read a document in Microsoft Word, and write a document in Microsoft Word. But the people who did web browsers I think were too lazy to do the authoring part."
IIRC, SciAm did a writeup of various anti-aging drugs a few months ago, including that one. I may have the magazine wrong (Pharmacy Today? JACS? Science? Nature? I don't have the relevant issue at hand)
Have you remembered any more details about this article? According to Dr. David Adams, the mice study is unpublished.
Wind power is doing better all the time; it is already producing much more electricity than solar, less expensively than natural gas, nuclear, and most hydroelectric. Some time in the next three years, wind power will become less expensive than coal, which is presently the least expensive form of electricity generation by a margin of about 0.7 cents/kwh. When that happens, many places will convert all at once.
One of the few comforts of the days after 9/11 was that it seemed like that they had tipped their hand too early -- that now we would go after them with Extreme Prejudice and grind al Qaeda into dust before they ever got that chance.
Of course, that was all before we decided to drop everything and go after Saddam Hussein... now we've given them a nice breather to start working on finding that loose nuke again. (sigh)
Kerry wouldn't have lied, but I don't blame him for getting fooled by Cheney.
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Sure you can complain about selective statistcs, but when the three measurements of job growth, stock market performance, and GDP growth taken during times that the two parties control the House, Senate, and White House all point to the same result, then what is there left to complain about?
I think Vinzant has the most salient explanation:
And with a burden shared equivalently by all carriers in this age of record corporate profits, who is going to pay for that? You will, but there will be no line-item on your bill letting you know. Just an across-the-board price hike.
NWR Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME)
Full spec (pdf)
Monied interests are good at propaganda. Especially if they own lots of mass media. But it dosn't work. People know that spectrum reform is important, but the way it should be done is not the way that buiness and government wants to do it.
And the first lawsuit that comes along for any accidental injury or death where the equipment was involved, the plaintiff sends a discovery demand for all your code, and viola! -- you're down for fraud at three times the cost.
Three times the cost is easy to handle compared to the civil fraud judgement, which will keep you from ever selling a piece of medical equipment again.
success story here, sorry
success story
If you can't confince my congressperson that it's worth it, as you've increasingly been unable to, then go find a sponsor instead.
Wouldn't it be a little more honest to say "an extra hard drive" than "a small RAID array"?
Back in the 70s, Bell Labs was required by an antitrust consent decree of January 1956 to reveal what patents it had applied for, supply information about them to competitors, and license them in anticipation of issuance to anyone for nominal fees. Any source code covered by such a Bell Labs patent also had to be licensed for a nominal fee. So about every computer science department on the planet was able to obtain the Unix source.
The patent in question was for the setuid bit, U.S. No. 4,135,240. If you look at it, you will see that it is apparently a hardware patent! This is the kicker paragraph:
Technically, even though that said it "will be understood," and was understood by everyone as a software patent, it wasn't until the 1981 Supreme case of Diamond v. Diehr that it became enforcable as such. Perhaps that is why the patent took six years to issue back in the 70s.So, through the 1970s, Unix spread because it was covered by an unenforcable software patent! Doug McIlroy said, "AT&T distributed Unix with the understanding that a license fee would be collected if and when the setuid patent issued. When the event finally occurred, the logistical problems of retroactively collecting small fees from hundreds of licensees did not seem worth the effort, so the patent was placed in the public domain."
I wonder if they're related to undersea methane releases.
Password hint question:
The name of your best friend is ... ... ... ...
The scenary I love most is
My favorite movie star is
How would Korea change after reunification?
What will you do when Korea is reunified?
My favorite movie is
Nationality / citizenship:
1. Korean
...
2. Chinese
3. German
4. Russian
5. Australian
6. Bahrain
7. Bangladesh
8. Chinese [duplicate]
9. Indian
10. Indonesian
11.Iranian
12. Iraqi
13. Israeli
14. Japanese
15. Jordan
16. Kuwaiti
17. Lebanese
18. New Zealand
52. Canadian
53. Mexican
54. American ["American"?]
55. Argentinian
...
97. Netherlander
98. Portuguese
99. Spanish
100. English
Apparently our sensitive alphabetical sorting technology has been sucessfully prevented from reaching the DPRK.
I completely agree; most if not all of the science and technology fields suffer from serious jargon fatigue to some extent.
Tell me about it.
Plus, there are still hundreds of unaccounted-for surface-to-air missles hiding somewhere.
I'd at least wait until the SAM caches are found and the CPA misinformation stops.
How did you learn that?
CMX-1152 a.k.a. ROHLEN seems to be a credible way of relieving oxidative stress. More info here and here.
Wind power is doing better all the time; it is already producing much more electricity than solar, less expensively than natural gas, nuclear, and most hydroelectric. Some time in the next three years, wind power will become less expensive than coal, which is presently the least expensive form of electricity generation by a margin of about 0.7 cents/kwh. When that happens, many places will convert all at once.
No, Mexico's reserves are around 20th internationally; not very much.
Kerry wouldn't have lied, but I don't blame him for getting fooled by Cheney.
Well of course they could, but it's just my humble, poorly-spelled opinion that they won't. Time will tell.