Boo hoo. All the criticisms apply equally or more to the GPL. The license seems to be about halfway between the BSD license and the LGPL. You COULD make a library out of the MSPL code and link to it from GPLed code. Unless something in the GPL forbids that.
It's pretty hypocritical to criticize a license for requiring that redistribution of the source of that code or derivatives must be under the same license and then turn around and recommend everyone use the GPL instead.
Why not? To my reading the MSPL is considerably freer than the GPL. It's also a quarter of a page long and written in plain language. It also doesn't seem to conflict with the GPL 3.
"should be owned instead of being responsible for their own well being"
If someone is going to be responsible for his well being, he should be given the best possible information, not the raw, context free dump some engineering company e-mails him.
If you ever find a doctor who's willing to treat a close relative (or himself) for something serious, find another doctor. Most won't do it, and none of the good ones will. EVERYBODY's judgement is clouded when they're considering things seriously affecting their own health.
Yes, the ultimate responsibility lies with the patient. This guy should have access to his data (which he does), by asking the correct person for it.
My mechanic always explains what's wrong with my car when a decision needs to be made, and what was done when I pick it up. Is he being paternalistic, or giving me good service?
"I'm imagining that these pictures are taken with a relatively normal digital camera."
And that's where you went wrong. Digital camera sensors measure luminance only. If you want a colour image, you put a colour filter in front of the sensor. The sensor in your camera probably has a Bayer filter in it, which is a pattern of red, green and blue filters. Using a Bayer filter lets you capture a colour image with one snap, but also means you get a bit less resolution and the chance of some artifacts.
These shots are likely from Curiosity's navigation cameras, which are designed to survey its surroundings. Colour isn't as important as resolution and the absence of artifacts.
Curiosity DOES carry colour cameras, just like the other rovers, but those cameras don't have fixed Bayer filters like yours does. Instead, there's a rotating wheel of filters in front of them so different ones can be used. Using red, blue and green filters you can create a colour image, but you can also put an IR or UV filter in and get images in those bands.
Try asking a lab for your blood test results. They probably won't give them to you.
Medical literature is a step removed. It's not about YOU.
Yes, patients have the right to decide what they want done for them, and yes, they should have access to all their information. And they can get it, by asking their doctors.
You should read the license. It includes a worldwide, royalty free license grant. It does indeed "release patents" with the small qualification that if you sue Pixar for patent infringement your royalty free license is automatically yanked.
That case was about the opposite - a patient wanting to control (or profit from) the use of the descendants of her cells, not a company claiming rights over a cell line.
The manufacturers take the fairly sensible approach of not giving the raw data directly to the patients. On his blog one of the reasons he says the manufacturers give is that patients with raw data would be worried by things they don't understand and constantly wanting to see their doctor for reassurance. He dismisses that objection out of hand.
Patients (and non-patients) DO this all the time. Med students are famous for diagnosing themselves with all sorts of problems. The tech who gives you an x-ray, CT or MRI scan won't give you the images either. You can request them from your doctor, and he will (or may have to) give them to you, but he'll probably want to sit down and go through them with you first.
Patients do try to interpret their own data, usually pessimistically. And besides the stress it causes them and the wasted time it causes their doctors, there was a Slashdot story just the other day about how believing there's something wrong can produce real, potentially dangerous physical effects.
If this guy really wants his data he can go to his doctor and ask for it. There are several very good reasons why he shouldn't have a raw feed from the device manufacturer.
You cannot patent someone's stem cells or genes. That's a pop journalism myth. You CAN patent treatments, given to other people, based on those stem cells or genes. It's okay though, if you have kids you won't be guilty of patent or copyright infringement.
Personally I work best in my hammock, notebook on my lap, head propped up on a pillow, with occasional breaks to run or paddle. Many people look horrified when I tell them about working in a hammock though (isn't it bad for your back!?) and then hit me when I tell them about the rest.;)
Interesting... I commented in the story yesterday about TextEdit going open source that cross platform GUI toolkits, although they're great for developers, aren't nearly as good for end users as native apps.
You just can't beat a good app, carefully designed for the actual platform it's being used on. It looks like that's probably going to apply to OSes too.
In the airport I am. I put on a big grin as I hand them my passport, then they scan it, look at their screen, eyes get wide, usually there's some involuntary utterance like "oh SHIT" or "oh YES" and a very jumpy border guard marches me off, keeping his gun hand free, a little disconcerted because the international badass he just single handed apprehended doesn't seem very concerned about it.
On the other hand, at land crossings when a dozen agents storm your car with guns drawn you just do exactly what they say (as far as you can understand when they're all yelling at the same time) and look as harmless as possible. That doesn't stop the old couple in the next lane from getting wide eyed though. Even more so when you meet them at the gas station down the road half an hour later....
Ah, was I not buzzword compliant? Were you referring specifically to LARGE businesses then? I suppose the forty to sixty percent year over year growth of Macs in business and government COULD be all due to small players. Forester thinks at least some of it is employees in bigger companies bringing their own Macs. And they also recommended more large businesses consider Macs. Regardless of what you think of Forrester, they are influential. More importantly, the report notes that the use of Macs in large businesses is small, it is growing. That is in direct conflict with your statement "nobody is going to move to Macs."
Linux... I guess you didn't note that the list I linked to includes one of the largest cities in the world, which has moved to using entirely Linux, for everything, including education and all government desktops? Or the US Army, which has adopted Linux for it's field devices?
Windows still dominates large business desktops but there is a willingness to consider alternatives. And if Microsoft is going to insist on everyone learning a new interface that's going to remove a major barrier.
Just make transferring patents illegal. The inventors are issued the patent and hold it. If a third party wants to develop the technology they sign a license agreement that may or may not be exclusive. If someone infringes, the original inventors need to go after them.
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Boo hoo. All the criticisms apply equally or more to the GPL. The license seems to be about halfway between the BSD license and the LGPL. You COULD make a library out of the MSPL code and link to it from GPLed code. Unless something in the GPL forbids that.
It's pretty hypocritical to criticize a license for requiring that redistribution of the source of that code or derivatives must be under the same license and then turn around and recommend everyone use the GPL instead.
Why not? To my reading the MSPL is considerably freer than the GPL. It's also a quarter of a page long and written in plain language. It also doesn't seem to conflict with the GPL 3.
"should be owned instead of being responsible for their own well being"
If someone is going to be responsible for his well being, he should be given the best possible information, not the raw, context free dump some engineering company e-mails him.
If you ever find a doctor who's willing to treat a close relative (or himself) for something serious, find another doctor. Most won't do it, and none of the good ones will. EVERYBODY's judgement is clouded when they're considering things seriously affecting their own health.
Yes, the ultimate responsibility lies with the patient. This guy should have access to his data (which he does), by asking the correct person for it.
My mechanic always explains what's wrong with my car when a decision needs to be made, and what was done when I pick it up. Is he being paternalistic, or giving me good service?
It takes a lot longer to acquire and transmit a panorama from narrow field of view colour cameras than it does from wide angle navigation cams though.
"I'm imagining that these pictures are taken with a relatively normal digital camera."
And that's where you went wrong. Digital camera sensors measure luminance only. If you want a colour image, you put a colour filter in front of the sensor. The sensor in your camera probably has a Bayer filter in it, which is a pattern of red, green and blue filters. Using a Bayer filter lets you capture a colour image with one snap, but also means you get a bit less resolution and the chance of some artifacts.
These shots are likely from Curiosity's navigation cameras, which are designed to survey its surroundings. Colour isn't as important as resolution and the absence of artifacts.
Curiosity DOES carry colour cameras, just like the other rovers, but those cameras don't have fixed Bayer filters like yours does. Instead, there's a rotating wheel of filters in front of them so different ones can be used. Using red, blue and green filters you can create a colour image, but you can also put an IR or UV filter in and get images in those bands.
Try asking a lab for your blood test results. They probably won't give them to you.
Medical literature is a step removed. It's not about YOU.
Yes, patients have the right to decide what they want done for them, and yes, they should have access to all their information. And they can get it, by asking their doctors.
You should read the license. It includes a worldwide, royalty free license grant. It does indeed "release patents" with the small qualification that if you sue Pixar for patent infringement your royalty free license is automatically yanked.
Care to explain why? Other than the one liner on the GNU page saying that it's incompatible with the GPL.
Which doesn't have the least effect on anyone's ownership or use of their own body.
That case was about the opposite - a patient wanting to control (or profit from) the use of the descendants of her cells, not a company claiming rights over a cell line.
The manufacturers take the fairly sensible approach of not giving the raw data directly to the patients. On his blog one of the reasons he says the manufacturers give is that patients with raw data would be worried by things they don't understand and constantly wanting to see their doctor for reassurance. He dismisses that objection out of hand.
Patients (and non-patients) DO this all the time. Med students are famous for diagnosing themselves with all sorts of problems. The tech who gives you an x-ray, CT or MRI scan won't give you the images either. You can request them from your doctor, and he will (or may have to) give them to you, but he'll probably want to sit down and go through them with you first.
Patients do try to interpret their own data, usually pessimistically. And besides the stress it causes them and the wasted time it causes their doctors, there was a Slashdot story just the other day about how believing there's something wrong can produce real, potentially dangerous physical effects.
If this guy really wants his data he can go to his doctor and ask for it. There are several very good reasons why he shouldn't have a raw feed from the device manufacturer.
And perhaps the other people with this kind of implant would prefer this guy not be given the private key.
You cannot patent someone's stem cells or genes. That's a pop journalism myth. You CAN patent treatments, given to other people, based on those stem cells or genes. It's okay though, if you have kids you won't be guilty of patent or copyright infringement.
Find some shade. You shouldn't be working long hours in the direct sunlight anyway.
Personally I work best in my hammock, notebook on my lap, head propped up on a pillow, with occasional breaks to run or paddle. Many people look horrified when I tell them about working in a hammock though (isn't it bad for your back!?) and then hit me when I tell them about the rest. ;)
Some of us still remember our roots.
Not Canadians.
Interesting... I commented in the story yesterday about TextEdit going open source that cross platform GUI toolkits, although they're great for developers, aren't nearly as good for end users as native apps.
You just can't beat a good app, carefully designed for the actual platform it's being used on. It looks like that's probably going to apply to OSes too.
In the airport I am. I put on a big grin as I hand them my passport, then they scan it, look at their screen, eyes get wide, usually there's some involuntary utterance like "oh SHIT" or "oh YES" and a very jumpy border guard marches me off, keeping his gun hand free, a little disconcerted because the international badass he just single handed apprehended doesn't seem very concerned about it.
On the other hand, at land crossings when a dozen agents storm your car with guns drawn you just do exactly what they say (as far as you can understand when they're all yelling at the same time) and look as harmless as possible. That doesn't stop the old couple in the next lane from getting wide eyed though. Even more so when you meet them at the gas station down the road half an hour later....
Ah, was I not buzzword compliant? Were you referring specifically to LARGE businesses then? I suppose the forty to sixty percent year over year growth of Macs in business and government COULD be all due to small players. Forester thinks at least some of it is employees in bigger companies bringing their own Macs. And they also recommended more large businesses consider Macs. Regardless of what you think of Forrester, they are influential. More importantly, the report notes that the use of Macs in large businesses is small, it is growing. That is in direct conflict with your statement "nobody is going to move to Macs."
Linux... I guess you didn't note that the list I linked to includes one of the largest cities in the world, which has moved to using entirely Linux, for everything, including education and all government desktops? Or the US Army, which has adopted Linux for it's field devices?
According to a survey of senior execs, "nearly 50 percent expect to accelerate adoption of Linux on the desktop, especially for basic office functions, technical workstation users, and higher education/K-12." http://www.novell.com/news/press/2009/3/it-organizations-turn-to-linux-in-economic-downturn.html.
Windows still dominates large business desktops but there is a willingness to consider alternatives. And if Microsoft is going to insist on everyone learning a new interface that's going to remove a major barrier.
And perhaps they should. From the description it sounds like there's plenty of prior art, including Apple's netboot.
Just make transferring patents illegal. The inventors are issued the patent and hold it. If a third party wants to develop the technology they sign a license agreement that may or may not be exclusive. If someone infringes, the original inventors need to go after them.
Did you try the normal way of closing Windows apps? Control-Alt-Delete?
Clearly businesses are not moving to Macs, and deeply distrust Apple equipment. Oh wait... http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57355159-37/look-out-microsoft-apple-is-grabbing-more-it-dollars/
Nobody's using Linux either. http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linux2.html
Yes. Hot, smelly, packed with sweaty people and (here) the smell of overly warm tires and protesters with smoke bombs.