Exogen (website: http://www.exogen.com/, warning, flash and WMV alert) is basically an ultrasound device that's supposed to accelerate the healing of fractures. A lot of the media demonstrates the forearm because that was where most of the testing was done. SWMBO's mother broke her upper arm and used this system for a while; it did help...once she quit smoking.
So this all that different enough to deserve a patent? That it's an implant/crown/etc. instead of an external system.
The idea of using ultrasound to grow bone is nothing new. The size is.
Why don't you try the DRM-free commerical sites? Magnatune is one (most of their music is CC licensed IIRC). EMusic is another. There's a good number of them out there; a lot of them pay royalties to the artists and don't depend on legal loopholes.
You may not find all of the big RIAA artists, but you'll find a lot of interesting lesser-known artists that might suit you better.
I've been buying a lot of CD's from A Different Drum, an indie synthpop label. As far as I can tell they don't have much to do with RIAA. (They might with ASCAP, but that's a fight for a different day).
I would assume it's because encoding MP3 at 64kpbs doesn't require a patent license. Modplug (now OSS) had an MP3 export that did up to 64kbps; I remember something about how that was legal to distribute, but any higher quality required paying for the licenses.
It could also be that it's just an acceptable place to cut quality. Who knows?
Dell machines aren't very upgradeable. Their business model supports the idea of a disposable product.
Anecdotal evidence: a friend had a Dell P2. A vanilla version of that board supported a P3 processor, but Dell's BIOS gave him an error message saying it did not. We suspected that it was because Dell wanted to sell more P3 machines (higher margin) than proc upgrades.
Still doesn't matter. It's still non-zero, and it's still too much for most organizations to just *give away* to anyone who wants/needs/qualifies for it.
This script installs Free implementations of patented algorithms, proprietary codecs, Sun's Java, P2P file sharing programs, non-free programs like Adobe Acrobate, MS true type fonts (unsure about Tahoma; you need a Windows license to use that one), non-free-illegal-in-US codecs, non-free Nvidia binary blobs, and makes some GUI behaviors mimic a W32 environment.
In short, it takes away the Freedom portion of a GNU/Linux system and makes it Yet Another Windows Competitor.
About the only thing I like from that list is disabling CD-ROM drive locking, turning DMA on, and the ESD sleep fix. I'm not sure about the locking, either. Ctrl-Alt-Del bringing up the task manager seems kinda nice, but I would rather just discover keybinding on my own.
Then again, I'm not this script's target audience.
It used to be that I'd say "I won't buy or recommend anything I have to struggle to get working due to copy protection."
Recently it was "I don't buy copy-protected games."
Now? If it's not Software Libre, I pretty much don't want to play it.
The problem is that isn't quite what he was getting at.
Doug's first cancer was curable (as it was contained only in his liver and is completely gone after the tumor was removed.)
His second is treatable, and he may live as long as 10 years.
I don't know about you, but I can't spend 10 years with my family. I would need to work to have a bit of money, especially for these cancer treatments.
Now were it terminal, I'd tie up loose ends and get the hell out of dodge. But if I saw a lot of hope in hanging on for quite a few more years, I'd slowly back off instead.
I suspect that they'll probably patent the hell out of it.
And that means that a great innovation like this will be locked down to the whims of our favorite convicted monopolist.
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A few lawsuits for false arrest might help. But I doubt it.
Exogen (website: http://www.exogen.com/, warning, flash and WMV alert) is basically an ultrasound device that's supposed to accelerate the healing of fractures. A lot of the media demonstrates the forearm because that was where most of the testing was done. SWMBO's mother broke her upper arm and used this system for a while; it did help...once she quit smoking.
So this all that different enough to deserve a patent? That it's an implant/crown/etc. instead of an external system.
The idea of using ultrasound to grow bone is nothing new. The size is.
Why don't you try the DRM-free commerical sites? Magnatune is one (most of their music is CC licensed IIRC). EMusic is another. There's a good number of them out there; a lot of them pay royalties to the artists and don't depend on legal loopholes.
You may not find all of the big RIAA artists, but you'll find a lot of interesting lesser-known artists that might suit you better.
I've been buying a lot of CD's from A Different Drum, an indie synthpop label. As far as I can tell they don't have much to do with RIAA. (They might with ASCAP, but that's a fight for a different day).
Because now it also functions as a humidifier! ;)
I would assume it's because encoding MP3 at 64kpbs doesn't require a patent license. Modplug (now OSS) had an MP3 export that did up to 64kbps; I remember something about how that was legal to distribute, but any higher quality required paying for the licenses. It could also be that it's just an acceptable place to cut quality. Who knows?
Open movie...open build process, open tools... But...no open codecs.
The 'about' box in mplayer2 actually states version 6.4. Looks like a compatibility hack?
The driver can always provide no or a buggy uninstall facility (or none at all.) Microsoft probably won't crack down on this practice.
That's how the US Wal-Marts used to be. A lot of stuff was Made In America, of fairly decent quality.
Now it's all Made For America. The brand trust that was garnered during the first phase is now used as brand loyalty, and spells greater profits.
Try another "high end development tool", then. VS 2005 is only one such tool.
Dell machines aren't very upgradeable. Their business model supports the idea of a disposable product.
Anecdotal evidence: a friend had a Dell P2. A vanilla version of that board supported a P3 processor, but Dell's BIOS gave him an error message saying it did not. We suspected that it was because Dell wanted to sell more P3 machines (higher margin) than proc upgrades.
Ooh, a new definition of the "D" in DRM.
Draconian Restrictions Management has a nice ring to it.
Louisiana is based off of Roman Civil law. (French Common law may be based off of that.)
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I had to come up for air after drowning in that deluge of buzzwords. Can someone explain that to me? :)
Still doesn't matter. It's still non-zero, and it's still too much for most organizations to just *give away* to anyone who wants/needs/qualifies for it.
My girlfriend and I play Bombastic for PS2 a lot. It's an action/puzzle hybrid. Quite fun and you can find it in the bargain bin.
Time to cancel some webmail accounts. I'm sure Yahoo and/or MSN (which I quit using long ago) will do this too.
:)
I doubt I can set up my own MTA...any good howto's out there, or should I *urp* google it?
Synaptic doesn't have support for 'recommends'/'suggests' yet. Aptitude does but it's ncurses.
This script installs Free implementations of patented algorithms, proprietary codecs, Sun's Java, P2P file sharing programs, non-free programs like Adobe Acrobate, MS true type fonts (unsure about Tahoma; you need a Windows license to use that one), non-free-illegal-in-US codecs, non-free Nvidia binary blobs, and makes some GUI behaviors mimic a W32 environment.
In short, it takes away the Freedom portion of a GNU/Linux system and makes it Yet Another Windows Competitor.
About the only thing I like from that list is disabling CD-ROM drive locking, turning DMA on, and the ESD sleep fix. I'm not sure about the locking, either. Ctrl-Alt-Del bringing up the task manager seems kinda nice, but I would rather just discover keybinding on my own.
Then again, I'm not this script's target audience.
More decommissioned hardware available for personal use. ;)
Ubuntu will not include this plugin by default, last I checked. It was discussed to death on the devel mailing list.
It used to be that I'd say "I won't buy or recommend anything I have to struggle to get working due to copy protection." Recently it was "I don't buy copy-protected games." Now? If it's not Software Libre, I pretty much don't want to play it.
The problem is that isn't quite what he was getting at.
Doug's first cancer was curable (as it was contained only in his liver and is completely gone after the tumor was removed.)
His second is treatable, and he may live as long as 10 years.
I don't know about you, but I can't spend 10 years with my family. I would need to work to have a bit of money, especially for these cancer treatments.
Now were it terminal, I'd tie up loose ends and get the hell out of dodge. But if I saw a lot of hope in hanging on for quite a few more years, I'd slowly back off instead.
Like he's doing.
I suspect that they'll probably patent the hell out of it. And that means that a great innovation like this will be locked down to the whims of our favorite convicted monopolist.