We all know that the drug manufacturers wont produce this vaccine. Currently they have a constant revenue stream with a new vaccine needed seasonly. Greed is better than a cure. It's a false hope.
Why does this nonsense always get a mod-up?
Look around you.
See anyone dying of Smallpox? Measles? Polio? Diphtheria? Tetanus? Has your daughter received the HPV - Cervical Cancer vaccine?
There is big money to made in treating cancer.
Why do you suppose that this vaccine wasn't suppressed?
The answer is that the cure brings with it a new level of understanding. It exposes opportunites that had never before been seiously considered.
When most men and women were in failing health along about age 45 or so, it didn't make much sense to put real money into studying arthritis, cancer, glaucoma, senile dementias, and so on.
The question was ridiculous. How did such shallow crybabying get to a slashdot feature? Hasn't that poor schmuck ever heard of DIY computers and GNU/Linux?
Walmart.com stocks 248 Win 7 laptops and 105 Win 7 desktops - along with - quite literally - thousands of after-market hardware and software products for the Win 7 PC.
Product that benefits from enormous economies of scale in production, distribution and marketing. Balanced and tested configurations sold "ready to run" and under warranty - a legally binding promise - of prompt replacement, repair or refund when they don't.
Walmart.com sells a 64 bit dual core AMD Win 7 student laptop with a full licensed install of MS Office Home for $525.
Walmart stocks about 250 Win 7 laptops priced at $330-$1500 . There isn't enough "bloatware" exposed here to suport a rant. Unless you have a quarrel with a pre-install of an MS Office trial edition or MS Office SE.
I've seen more fat on a default install of Ubuntu.
Because of draconian content distribution licensing schemes. Buying a license to stream over the internet is probably per-device, so computers require once license to distribute, handhelds/phones need another license fee, set-top boxes need another fee...
That doesn't seem to be correct.
The rates seem to be based on the kind of service you provide and the amount of content you stream.
You'll pay more if you honor specific requests - streaming tiles from a catalog like Rhapsody's. Less if you look more like a radio station - building playlists around user-defined artists or themes. Licensing 101
There does seem to be an "enterprise cap."
The license will be a more or less a fixed and managable expense for something the size of Last.fm or Pandora.
But distribution costs and the general user experience will differ. The Berlin Philharmonic streams its concerts as a commercial free HD video subscription service with audio quality as high as 320 AAC.
Perhaps that was because the electorate was not as superficial in that era. Interesting pattern given the demographic changes to enfranchisement over time, but I am not prepared to draw conclusions without further research.)
How likely were you to have seen so much as a woodcut portrait or cartoon caricature of a candidate before 1850? Leslie's one of the first and most ambitious of the national illustrated weeklies only had a circulation of about 65,000 as late as the 1890s.
Do you know how George Washington got the command of the Continental Army? He showed up to the Congress wearing his militia uniform -- and he was tall. Nevermind that he had no military experience of note; he looked the part.
He had lived the part as well:
Washington's military experience began in the French and English struggles for domination of the upper Ohio Valley. Washington's surveying experience made him a logical choice to lead Virginian expeditions into the western territories, where he had a series of encounters with the French. In one encounter, in May 1754 near French Fort Duquesne (modern Pittsburgh), Washington's force ambushed a French detachment. Soon afterwards, Washington was forced to surrender his outnumbered force to the French and returned disarmed to Williamsburg.
The British sent General Braddock to Virginia to lead an expedition against the French. As an aide-de-camp, Washington marched with Braddock's army to the Monongahela River, south of Fort Duquesne. The French and their indian allies surprised the British with an attack in which Braddock was killed. Washington led the remnants of the English force in an orderly withdrawal.
The Virginia governor rewarded Washington with the rank of colonel and placed him in command of the colony's troops, with the main mission of guarding the western frontier.
The survivors of Braddock's campaign included Daniel Boone, Thomas Gage, Daniel Morgan --- about twenty historically significant figures in all. It was one of those rare events which can make or break a man.
Being "open" also means being open to people who might not want to participate. What difference does it make?
It makes a difference when the essays published in your encyclopedia have an unmistakable gender bias. It makes a difference when women are unwilling to contribute to your project or recommend it to others.
However, the World Health Organization reports 164,000 deaths per year from measles (which is the leading cause of death among children), not the millions claimed by Mr. Gates.
Gates was speaking about all preventable diseases in children - and from here it looks like he got his numbers right.
Although approximately 10.5 million children under 5 years of age still die every year in the world, progress has been made since 1970, when the figure was more than 17 million.... Today nearly all child deaths occur in developing countries, almost half of them in Africa. While some African countries have made considerable strides in reducing child mortality, the majority of African children live in countries where the survival gains of the past have been wiped out, largely as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
People who helped install electric lamps and put gaslight lighters out of work weren't unethical. People who built cars and put buggy whip makers out of work weren't unethical. Progress happens
I suspect you'll find that gaslight workers transitioned to maintaining the equally demanding arc-lit street lamp and the buggy whip makers to custom coach work and accessories for the auto market.
Dover publishes a handsome reprint of a 1910 Sears catalog for builders.
Gas and electric lighting fixtures co-exist after decades of urban electrification and scarcely differ in outward appearance and manufacture.
Changes in illumination lead to changes in interior design, colors, textures, patterns, materials and fabrics - each of which will react differently to the new source of light. That is an expensive proposition and it doesn't happen overnight.
So, if I decide a TV program is out of the question for some reason (either because I can't receive it at all, or because I won't be there at broadcast time), then it is still a genuine crime that should be punishable by destroying my life with insane charges?
At no point does it become a criminal charge
In the US it can become a federal criminal charge - and it can escalate to a felony charge.
That has been the law since the NET (No Electronic Theft) Act of 1997.
P2P is all about "file sharing." The unlicensed wholesale re-distribution of protected works through P2P networks.
That is why statutory damages apply - and it is why the geek would be the first to scream bloody murder if his uploaded shares could be successfully watermarked and traced back to him.
Even though I am one of those who doesn't respond to commercials?
The geek is the gift of god in cross-examination.
His self-regard, and boundless sense of entitlement to a free media fix is the one message you want the jury to take away from his testimony.
An offer to settle a claim out of court is not extortion.
The problem is not going to go away. Save your rants for someone who isn't billing you by the hour.
Who's to say that someone isn't being naughty and spoofing your address? Or perhaps someone has sniffed enough of your wireless AP traffic to divine the password and go to town downloading crap?
"Who's to say?"
You are.
It's your defense.
But look at what your argument implies about the taste in media, the range of the signal and the technical knowledge, persistence, and resources of your neighbors.
In a civil case, the simpler explanation almost always wins.
Some people like the grandparent poster still think Sony removed it for no reason.
Now why the heck would they do that, any idiot can see it will cause a major shitstorm.
The shitstorm was localized.
The PS3 enthusiast has had other things to talk about:
the Move controller, stereographic 3D for gaming and Blu-Ray video, video editing and uploading for Facebook and YouTube and so on.
Firmware upgrades have keep the five year old PS3 in step with high-end stand-alone Blu-Ray players and streaming media support is good. There has always been a lot of value for the money here.
A single PS3 based HPC cluster could take 2,000 units plus spares out of retail distribution channels while cannibalizing sales of Sony's own cell-based HPC product. This did not bode well for the future.
But the fundamental problem is that when the axe fell on the OtherOS, only the geek was there to mourn it.
42 million consoles sold. 69 million PSN accounts. 17 million PlayStation Home social networking accounts. He needed to show that maintaining support for the OtherOS could deliver numbers on this scale.
I dont go online with my PS3 its in the family room, haven't hacked it either but i'm not going to be forced to put it online
The "family room" generally implies that you have a family -
WiFI home networking and a big screen TV.
The odds are becoming quite good, after all, that your HDTV and home theater receiver/audio system and the radio by your bedside will Internet and WiFi enabled.
You may not want to take the PS3 online, but I am betting someone else does. According to the Wikipedia, there are 69 million PSN accounts, 17 million PlayStation Home social networking accounts - not to mention firmware uogrades for Blu-Ray disk play, services like Netflix, PlayStation Plus, and so on.
Most companies are run by the guy who invented the damn thing. Microsoft was driven by Bill Gates; when Gates went away, so did Microsoft.
Not true.
Microsoft was launched in 1975. 36 years ago.
Gates knew when it was time to let go, other entrepreneurs have failed this test badly.
Henry Ford had become so set in his ways by the 1940s that the government considered him a threat to the war effort - and nationalization of the Ford Motor Company was averted only because his own family voted their stock against him.
Factoring out the effect of the Windows launch, Microsoft estimated growth around 3%, "in line with PC market growth." Again, 3% growth isn't terrific, but it's nowhere near as bad as the headline figure suggests.
Even if Microsoft's Windows revenue does start to slide in coming years, the company can weather the blow. Sure, Windows revenue makes up a quarter of Microsoft's total sales. But its business-software division -- including Office, as well as SharePoint and Exchange -- contributes 30% of its revenue, and that division expanded its profit by 35% last quarter.
Other divisions are seeing similarly strong profit growth. Microsoft's server and tools division, which makes up another 22% of revenue, saw its profit rise by 21%. And the entertainment group, which makes Xbox and Kinect and accounts for 19% of revenue, posted profit growth of a whopping 86%.
I consider H.264 support in any browser to be of negative utility. It encourages the prevalence of a heavily patent encumbered format on the Internet, which is bad for everybody, except possibly a few large players like Microsoft (though ultimate I don't think it's in their best long-term interests either).
20% of peak hour download traffic in the states was a Netflix stream before Netflix offered a content protected streaming-only service at $9/month. The Netflix client - the Netflix "app - is installed on every HDTV, video player, video game console, mobile device and set top box you could name.
Typically along with Pandora and anywhere from five to thirty or so other media services, social networking and gaming applications. There will be more - much more - to come and the audio and video quality is only going to get better.
That takes the relatively open PC platform and the "standards compliant" browser out of the equation.
Mitsubishi wants to sell you a big screen stereographic HDTV. It would like a slice of the home audio market. It would like a slice of the video gaming market. Netflix, Pandora, Rhapsody and OnLive! can deliver all that for the price of a codec or two.
Will Microsoft be releasing the source code for this plug-in so that we can properly trust it? I doubt it. And will there be a 3 mile long EULA attached to it?
Win 7 supports hardware accelerated H.264 video natively.
Not so very different, really, than what Canonical offers to its OEM customers.
Yes. Microsoft is a patent holder in the H.264 patent pool.
Along with global giants in manufacturing like Cisco, Fujitsu, Hitachi, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba.
Who - along with the 950 or so H.264 licensees - control every link in the hardware chain of video production and distribution from the studio camera to the HDTV.
Slashdot Mirror
We all know that the drug manufacturers wont produce this vaccine. Currently they have a constant revenue stream with a new vaccine needed seasonly. Greed is better than a cure. It's a false hope.
Why does this nonsense always get a mod-up?
Look around you.
See anyone dying of Smallpox? Measles? Polio? Diphtheria? Tetanus? Has your daughter received the HPV - Cervical Cancer vaccine?
There is big money to made in treating cancer.
Why do you suppose that this vaccine wasn't suppressed?
The answer is that the cure brings with it a new level of understanding. It exposes opportunites that had never before been seiously considered.
When most men and women were in failing health along about age 45 or so, it didn't make much sense to put real money into studying arthritis, cancer, glaucoma, senile dementias, and so on.
The question was ridiculous. How did such shallow crybabying get to a slashdot feature? Hasn't that poor schmuck ever heard of DIY computers and GNU/Linux?
Walmart.com stocks 248 Win 7 laptops and 105 Win 7 desktops -
along with - quite literally - thousands of after-market hardware and software products for the Win 7 PC.
Product that benefits from enormous economies of scale in production, distribution and marketing. Balanced and tested configurations sold "ready to run" and under warranty - a legally binding promise - of prompt replacement, repair or refund when they don't.
Because they get paid a fortune to do so
and because no gives a damn.
Walmart.com sells a 64 bit dual core AMD Win 7 student laptop with a full licensed install of MS Office Home for $525.
Walmart stocks about 250 Win 7 laptops priced at $330-$1500 . There isn't enough "bloatware" exposed here to suport a rant. Unless you have a quarrel with a pre-install of an MS Office trial edition or MS Office SE.
I've seen more fat on a default install of Ubuntu.
Because of draconian content distribution licensing schemes. Buying a license to stream over the internet is probably per-device, so computers require once license to distribute, handhelds/phones need another license fee, set-top boxes need another fee...
That doesn't seem to be correct.
The rates seem to be based on the kind of service you provide and the amount of content you stream.
You'll pay more if you honor specific requests - streaming tiles from a catalog like Rhapsody's. Less if you look more like a radio station - building playlists around user-defined artists or themes. Licensing 101
There does seem to be an "enterprise cap."
The license will be a more or less a fixed and managable expense for something the size of Last.fm or Pandora.
But distribution costs and the general user experience will differ. The Berlin Philharmonic streams its concerts as a commercial free HD video subscription service with audio quality as high as 320 AAC.
You get what you are willing pay for.
Perhaps that was because the electorate was not as superficial in that era. Interesting pattern given the demographic changes to enfranchisement over time, but I am not prepared to draw conclusions without further research.)
How likely were you to have seen so much as a woodcut portrait or cartoon caricature of a candidate before 1850? Leslie's one of the first and most ambitious of the national illustrated weeklies only had a circulation of about 65,000 as late as the 1890s.
Do you know how George Washington got the command of the Continental Army? He showed up to the Congress wearing his militia uniform -- and he was tall. Nevermind that he had no military experience of note; he looked the part.
He had lived the part as well:
Washington's military experience began in the French and English struggles for domination of the upper Ohio Valley. Washington's surveying experience made him a logical choice to lead Virginian expeditions into the western territories, where he had a series of encounters with the French. In one encounter, in May 1754 near French Fort Duquesne (modern Pittsburgh), Washington's force ambushed a French detachment. Soon afterwards, Washington was forced to surrender his outnumbered force to the French and returned disarmed to Williamsburg.
The British sent General Braddock to Virginia to lead an expedition against the French. As an aide-de-camp, Washington marched with Braddock's army to the Monongahela River, south of Fort Duquesne. The French and their indian allies surprised the British with an attack in which Braddock was killed. Washington led the remnants of the English force in an orderly withdrawal.
The Virginia governor rewarded Washington with the rank of colonel and placed him in command of the colony's troops, with the main mission of guarding the western frontier.
Brief review of his military career
The survivors of Braddock's campaign included Daniel Boone, Thomas Gage, Daniel Morgan --- about twenty historically significant figures in all. It was one of those rare events which can make or break a man.
Braddock's Alumni
I want to know why Obama hasn't closed the damn place yet.
Do you see any country volunteering to accept these prisoners?
Do you see any state governor wanting to see them tried or imprisoned in his state?
Or is imposed diversity actually more sexist than a natural gender imbalance?
Why do you think that the gender imbalance is "natural?" What does that tell about you?
Being "open" also means being open to people who might not want to participate. What difference does it make?
It makes a difference when the essays published in your encyclopedia have an unmistakable gender bias. It makes a difference when women are unwilling to contribute to your project or recommend it to others.
However, the World Health Organization reports 164,000 deaths per year from measles (which is the leading cause of death among children), not the millions claimed by Mr. Gates.
Gates was speaking about all preventable diseases in children - and from here it looks like he got his numbers right.
Major Causes of Death in Children Under Five in Developing Countries and the Contribution of Malnutrition [source: WHO and The Lancet, 2005]
Pneumonia 19%
Diarrhea 17%
Malaria 8%
Measles 4%
HIV/AIDS 3%
Although approximately 10.5 million children under 5 years of age still die every year in the world, progress has been made since 1970, when the figure was more than 17 million. ...
Today nearly all child deaths occur in developing countries, almost half of them in Africa. While some African countries have made considerable strides in reducing child mortality, the majority of African children live in countries where the survival gains of the past have been wiped out, largely as a result of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Surviving the first five years of life [2003]
People who helped install electric lamps and put gaslight lighters out of work weren't unethical. People who built cars and put buggy whip makers out of work weren't unethical. Progress happens
I suspect you'll find that gaslight workers transitioned to maintaining the equally demanding arc-lit street lamp and the buggy whip makers to custom coach work and accessories for the auto market.
Dover publishes a handsome reprint of a 1910 Sears catalog for builders.
Gas and electric lighting fixtures co-exist after decades of urban electrification and scarcely differ in outward appearance and manufacture.
Changes in illumination lead to changes in interior design, colors, textures, patterns, materials and fabrics - each of which will react differently to the new source of light. That is an expensive proposition and it doesn't happen overnight.
So, if I decide a TV program is out of the question for some reason (either because I can't receive it at all, or because I won't be there at broadcast time), then it is still a genuine crime that should be punishable by destroying my life with insane charges?
At no point does it become a criminal charge
In the US it can become a federal criminal charge - and it can escalate to a felony charge.
That has been the law since the NET (No Electronic Theft) Act of 1997.
P2P is all about "file sharing." The unlicensed wholesale re-distribution of protected works through P2P networks.
That is why statutory damages apply - and it is why the geek would be the first to scream bloody murder if his uploaded shares could be successfully watermarked and traced back to him.
Even though I am one of those who doesn't respond to commercials?
The geek is the gift of god in cross-examination.
His self-regard, and boundless sense of entitlement to a free media fix is the one message you want the jury to take away from his testimony.
It really doesn't get any better than this.
So you get an extortion note.
An offer to settle a claim out of court is not extortion.
The problem is not going to go away. Save your rants for someone who isn't billing you by the hour.
Who's to say that someone isn't being naughty and spoofing your address? Or perhaps someone has sniffed enough of your wireless AP traffic to divine the password and go to town downloading crap?
"Who's to say?"
You are.
It's your defense.
But look at what your argument implies about the taste in media, the range of the signal and the technical knowledge, persistence, and resources of your neighbors.
In a civil case, the simpler explanation almost always wins.
Some people like the grandparent poster still think Sony removed it for no reason.
Now why the heck would they do that, any idiot can see it will cause a major shitstorm.
The shitstorm was localized.
The PS3 enthusiast has had other things to talk about:
the Move controller, stereographic 3D for gaming and Blu-Ray video, video editing and uploading for Facebook and YouTube and so on.
Firmware upgrades have keep the five year old PS3 in step with high-end stand-alone Blu-Ray players and streaming media support is good. There has always been a lot of value for the money here.
A single PS3 based HPC cluster could take 2,000 units plus spares out of retail distribution channels while cannibalizing sales of Sony's own cell-based HPC product. This did not bode well for the future.
But the fundamental problem is that when the axe fell on the OtherOS, only the geek was there to mourn it.
42 million consoles sold. 69 million PSN accounts. 17 million PlayStation Home social networking accounts. He needed to show that maintaining support for the OtherOS could deliver numbers on this scale.
These constant updates take over 15 minutes to complete and won't work in the background.
PlayStation Plus subscribers get automatic downloads of demos, patches, firmware, etc.
PlayStation Plus
Downloads can be scheduled as you like.
Firmware upgrades are not installed automatically. For more details:Support: System Software Updates [Automatic Downloads]
I dont go online with my PS3 its in the family room, haven't hacked it either but i'm not going to be forced to put it online
The "family room" generally implies that you have a family -
WiFI home networking and a big screen TV.
The odds are becoming quite good, after all, that your HDTV and home theater receiver/audio system and the radio by your bedside will Internet and WiFi enabled.
You may not want to take the PS3 online, but I am betting someone else does. According to the Wikipedia, there are 69 million PSN accounts, 17 million PlayStation Home social networking accounts - not to mention firmware uogrades for Blu-Ray disk play, services like Netflix, PlayStation Plus, and so on.
Where's Ballmer with a chair (and not sitting on it)?
The Borg icon and the stained glass window were never more than flameboat.
Trash them both. It clears your head:
In Microsoft's second quarter:
Revenues $19.5 billion.
Business software, profits up 35%
Server and tools, profits up 21%
Entertainment group, profits up 86%
While PC shipments are down and tablet sales are hot, the PC isn't going away any time soon:
No, the iPad Is Not Killing Microsoft's Business
Mobile vs Desktop
Most companies are run by the guy who invented the damn thing. Microsoft was driven by Bill Gates; when Gates went away, so did Microsoft.
Not true.
Microsoft was launched in 1975. 36 years ago.
Gates knew when it was time to let go, other entrepreneurs have failed this test badly.
Henry Ford had become so set in his ways by the 1940s that the government considered him a threat to the war effort - and nationalization of the Ford Motor Company was averted only because his own family voted their stock against him.
Factoring out the effect of the Windows launch, Microsoft estimated growth around 3%, "in line with PC market growth." Again, 3% growth isn't terrific, but it's nowhere near as bad as the headline figure suggests.
Even if Microsoft's Windows revenue does start to slide in coming years, the company can weather the blow. Sure, Windows revenue makes up a quarter of Microsoft's total sales. But its business-software division -- including Office, as well as SharePoint and Exchange -- contributes 30% of its revenue, and that division expanded its profit by 35% last quarter.
Other divisions are seeing similarly strong profit growth. Microsoft's server and tools division, which makes up another 22% of revenue, saw its profit rise by 21%. And the entertainment group, which makes Xbox and Kinect and accounts for 19% of revenue, posted profit growth of a whopping 86%.
No, the iPad Is Not Killing Microsoft's Business
If the guys who released the game took effort to redraw all backgrounds, remake all the textures, remodel and retexture all the 3D models...
It isn't quite that simple.
You need to demon state that you have produced a substantially original work.
I consider H.264 support in any browser to be of negative utility. It encourages the prevalence of a heavily patent encumbered format on the Internet, which is bad for everybody, except possibly a few large players like Microsoft (though ultimate I don't think it's in their best long-term interests either).
20% of peak hour download traffic in the states was a Netflix stream before Netflix offered a content protected streaming-only service at $9/month. The Netflix client - the Netflix "app - is installed on every HDTV, video player, video game console, mobile device and set top box you could name.
Typically along with Pandora and anywhere from five to thirty or so other media services, social networking and gaming applications. There will be more - much more - to come and the audio and video quality is only going to get better.
That takes the relatively open PC platform and the "standards compliant" browser out of the equation.
Mitsubishi wants to sell you a big screen stereographic HDTV. It would like a slice of the home audio market. It would like a slice of the video gaming market. Netflix, Pandora, Rhapsody and OnLive! can deliver all that for the price of a codec or two.
Will Microsoft be releasing the source code for this plug-in so that we can properly trust it? I doubt it. And will there be a 3 mile long EULA attached to it?
Win 7 supports hardware accelerated H.264 video natively.
Not so very different, really, than what Canonical offers to its OEM customers.
DirectX Video Acceleration Specification for H.264/AVC Decoding
Yes. Microsoft is a patent holder in the H.264 patent pool.
Along with global giants in manufacturing like Cisco, Fujitsu, Hitachi, JVC, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba.
Who - along with the 950 or so H.264 licensees - control every link in the hardware chain of video production and distribution from the studio camera to the HDTV.
This reminds me of the old days when Standard Oil demanded a percentage of the take from any railroad that dared to ship a competitor's product.
This will make H.264 acceptable again for commercial use.
Badly in need of an update, I suspect, but still suggestive is this list from the Wikipedia:
List of video services using H.264/MPEG-4 AVC
There are 951 H.64 licensees, of which a breath-taking number are Asian - global giants in industry, tech and broadcasting. AVC/H.264 Licensees
Google is big. But not that big.
Ohhh, right, that's why Ogg Theora isn't natively supported in Internet Explorer
Google Shopping returns 76,000 hits for "H.264."
Product in stores now.
41,000 hits for "H.264 camera."
Including tens of thousands of CCTV security cameras, medical and industrial imaging systems you just might want to view through a browser.
28 hits for "Ogg Theora."
Google Video returns 130,000 hits for "H.264 Video."
877 hits for "Ogg Theora Video."