Here is the deal though: They need an aqueous environment to move effectively. I suspect that for robotics teams, some combination of hydrostatic muscles and exoskeletons would be necessary, which now that I am thinking about it could be huge for artificial limbs for amputees. [snip] This technology could open the door for more capable artificial limbs and exoskeletons to enhance human movement as well as robotics.
I have no expertise in this area, so this might just be a lot of babble, but what sort of applications might this have with "prosthetic" eyes? It seems (to my uneducated mind) that you could have lenses that change shape and adapt to changing conditions much more rapidly. Perhaps an octopus muscle system girdling the eyeball instead of corrective lenses?
I know that sounds weird, and is probably unworkable for a variety of reasons. It just sounds weird enough for a Johnathon Lethem novel.
The reality is, is that if open-source isn't the option then we might as well be handing everything over to one insane little geek rather then a community.
I think Ross Perot sold EDS to General Motors sometime back.
On the other hand, Perot was a major financial backer of NeXT, so maybe he's insanely great. That's kind of weird to think about, that we might not have OS X if it weren't for Ross Perot.
Uh, right. And if you're going away for a few days, you call the Plant Deptartment to have someone come by and water your plants.
A professor emeritus? I dunno! That sounds crazy! Maybe it's a professor that emigrated? Let's check his Curriculum Vitae. Wait! What the hell is a Curriculum Vitae? Does it mean he matriculated with his syllabus?
Oh, by the way, when I wanted to pay for classes they told me to go the Registrar's Office, but since that's not a real word, I just left my tuition money in an envelope in the Financial Development office. Close enough, right?
If you're studying a particular subject, you're expected to learn the language of that subject.
If you join an academic institution, you should learn the language of academia and academic institutions. Why is this so hard?
If you don't like it, maybe you should attend a different place of higher learning, such as a barber college.
It's a bad name because you have a small vocabulary? Should we take this a step further and just remove words from the dictionary because you've never encountered them before?
You're giving the man waaaaay too much credit. Let's look at what he wrote again:
employees beholden to strict employee/invention/intellectual property agreements, in their spare time (and even during work-hours) freely give away ideas, code, and products to open source projects
It's just a venomous insinuation and nonsense. These employees (untold amounts of them) are giving away whose ideas, code, and products? We're meant to believe the employer's IP, but he can't come out and say directly: "Hey, big corporations, your employees are stealing your IP," because then he'd actually have to back up his words.
This is all a smear campaign. Make vile insinuations, prove nothing.
Your mistake is to take him at face value, and to try counter arguments. I say, DON'T! Instead, let's get him to support his allegations. Guess what? He can't!
If there are businesses that are too afraid and meek to even explore OSS, it's quite possible that their competitors will find that edge and beat them in the marketplace (assuming, as I do, that OSS does provide a competitive edge). The least a business should do is to examine what the risks really are, instead of being buffaloed by the likes of Ken Brown.
On the other hand, there will still be companies that develop proprietary software, and they'll have to find their place in the new ecosystem. Many of them already are. There's room for both models.
The same goes for nations. If a country allows patents to stifle innovation*, as we're seeing here in the U.S., then other countries will step up to the bat and be happy to take our place.
*I'm not against patents in principle, but it's clear that 1) Software patents are not a good thing for the most part, and 2) Our current patent system in the U.S. is broken and not creating an environment for innovation.
Have you ever been on a factory floor, and seen a sign that records how much time has passed since the last work related accident?
We need something like that for slashdot dupes. At least a little banner on the editors' browsers. Maybe with a bonus system to give them incentive. For one week without a dupe, everyone on staff gets $20. At two weeks, it's doubled. Three weeks it's doubled again.
This might sound expensive, but I highly doubt they'd ever make it past one week, no matter how much weed the extra money would buy them.
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I furnished an apartment for less than $100.
That's nothing. I got a pretty nice mountain bike for only $39.99
Then again, I just got rid of my IIgs last year...
You, sir, are a prime example of the old saying, "It takes a fanboy to catch a fanboy." =)
Here is the deal though: They need an aqueous environment to move effectively. I suspect that for robotics teams, some combination of hydrostatic muscles and exoskeletons would be necessary, which now that I am thinking about it could be huge for artificial limbs for amputees. [snip] This technology could open the door for more capable artificial limbs and exoskeletons to enhance human movement as well as robotics.
I have no expertise in this area, so this might just be a lot of babble, but what sort of applications might this have with "prosthetic" eyes? It seems (to my uneducated mind) that you could have lenses that change shape and adapt to changing conditions much more rapidly. Perhaps an octopus muscle system girdling the eyeball instead of corrective lenses?
I know that sounds weird, and is probably unworkable for a variety of reasons. It just sounds weird enough for a Johnathon Lethem novel.
The reality is, is that if open-source isn't the option then we might as well be handing everything over to one insane little geek rather then a community.
I think Ross Perot sold EDS to General Motors sometime back.
On the other hand, Perot was a major financial backer of NeXT, so maybe he's insanely great. That's kind of weird to think about, that we might not have OS X if it weren't for Ross Perot.
Unix is dying or just about dead for the license reason.
Warcraft confirms it.
Jarheads get a bad rap. I've known three ex-marines, and all were quite intelligent.
"Go 2 ur room!"
"WTF? joo dont pwn me! ur not teh boss of me! FOAD!"
"STFU and go 2 ur room!"
They can get a lot more page hits if they can start a flame war. They might be idiots, but they're not dummies.
Hey, you big fat elitist snob.
I couldn't have put it better myself.
Signed,
Another big fat elitist snob
Uh, right. And if you're going away for a few days, you call the Plant Deptartment to have someone come by and water your plants.
A professor emeritus? I dunno! That sounds crazy! Maybe it's a professor that emigrated? Let's check his Curriculum Vitae. Wait! What the hell is a Curriculum Vitae? Does it mean he matriculated with his syllabus?
Oh, by the way, when I wanted to pay for classes they told me to go the Registrar's Office, but since that's not a real word, I just left my tuition money in an envelope in the Financial Development office. Close enough, right?
If you're studying a particular subject, you're expected to learn the language of that subject.
If you join an academic institution, you should learn the language of academia and academic institutions. Why is this so hard?
If you don't like it, maybe you should attend a different place of higher learning, such as a barber college.
It's a bad name because you have a small vocabulary? Should we take this a step further and just remove words from the dictionary because you've never encountered them before?
Maybe Spielberg should be inducted into the Suicide Hall of Fame, because I had a strong urge to kill myself while watching AI.
Does the fact that they're finally inducting PKD tell you nothing?
You're giving the man waaaaay too much credit. Let's look at what he wrote again:
employees beholden to strict employee/invention/intellectual property agreements, in their spare time (and even during work-hours) freely give away ideas, code, and products to open source projects
It's just a venomous insinuation and nonsense. These employees (untold amounts of them) are giving away whose ideas, code, and products? We're meant to believe the employer's IP, but he can't come out and say directly: "Hey, big corporations, your employees are stealing your IP," because then he'd actually have to back up his words.
This is all a smear campaign. Make vile insinuations, prove nothing.
Your mistake is to take him at face value, and to try counter arguments. I say, DON'T! Instead, let's get him to support his allegations. Guess what? He can't!
As with many other things, Let The Market Decide.
If there are businesses that are too afraid and meek to even explore OSS, it's quite possible that their competitors will find that edge and beat them in the marketplace (assuming, as I do, that OSS does provide a competitive edge). The least a business should do is to examine what the risks really are, instead of being buffaloed by the likes of Ken Brown.
On the other hand, there will still be companies that develop proprietary software, and they'll have to find their place in the new ecosystem. Many of them already are. There's room for both models.
The same goes for nations. If a country allows patents to stifle innovation*, as we're seeing here in the U.S., then other countries will step up to the bat and be happy to take our place.
*I'm not against patents in principle, but it's clear that 1) Software patents are not a good thing for the most part, and 2) Our current patent system in the U.S. is broken and not creating an environment for innovation.
Will Nancy Reagan make a cameo appearance?
"Watchoo talkin' about, T'Pol?"
I see you are trying to be funny.
Would you like to see some punch line templates?
Forbes is credible? Where you been, man?
Great attitude! Let's put this applicant on the top of the stack.
It all depends on what you're talking about. A woman can't be 99% pregnant, she either is or she isn't.
A glass containing liquid can be 50% full or 50% empty, depending on whether you're an optimist or a pessimist.
In the case of the GP, I'd say he was 99% correct. =)
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? The Mr. Whipple Foundation to Prevent Squeezing?
OT: Zonk, you're a duping motherfucker!
You'd better read this.
Perhaps we'll finally see the metric Libraries Of Congress based on a physical constant.
And at $40 per seat on average, toilets are much cheaper than Word.
Have you ever been on a factory floor, and seen a sign that records how much time has passed since the last work related accident?
We need something like that for slashdot dupes. At least a little banner on the editors' browsers. Maybe with a bonus system to give them incentive. For one week without a dupe, everyone on staff gets $20. At two weeks, it's doubled. Three weeks it's doubled again.
This might sound expensive, but I highly doubt they'd ever make it past one week, no matter how much weed the extra money would buy them.