Every study on embryonic stem cells I have seen up to now has resulted in long term cancers or other dramatic negative side effects in the patients.
Some of the results have been truly horrific. I'm not sure there is any point to the continued drumbeat that stem cells will cure anything "real soon now".
My 1980ish VW Rabbit 1.8L deisel got 50-60mpg. It had an extended fuel tank, that allowed me to go over 1 month between fillups (and that was while doing DELIVERY jobs in high school)!
The ironic part about the prius story is that it requires electicity from the utility company to charge, and that is being generated by burnig fuel oil, or even worse coal in the majority of the county. So the owner is probably causing more environmental damage with his prius than if he just had a biodeisel, solar or hydrogen card. (oops, hydrogen takes massive energy inputs to produce...more coal and oil).
I've seen sites with extremely solid, fast, affordable infrastructures built on MS products. The key is they have top notch staffs that know how to exploit the technology and make it work.
Sites without those skills generally have problems.
The same can be said of any vendors technologies. Skilled engineers make the difference.
MS probably won't release a version of Linux, but they will probably add a linux subsystem to Windows. I think the recent work with SFU3.5 is simply gearing up to allow windows to run linux binaries natively.
But, releasing MSLinux for developing markets or low income businesses, would be a smart way to deliver product with almost ZERO development cost to MS.
IMO, OSS is commercial software. IBM, Novell, Redhat and a score of others are selling commercial software and they are profiting from the unpaid work of others. Its a no-brainer for a business....let geek1 slave away on the code for no salary. Grab it, release it, and sell service contracts on it. Geek1 gets zip.
First the government can take your house and give it to someone else willing to pay more property taxes than you, now they plan to take away free TV and force people to pay to play and upgrade their hardware at the same time.
It really bites to be low income these days in the US.
That users don't care and simply want their software PREINSTALLED. Most consumers don't want to choose their media player, or even know which one they are using, they just want it to work as soon as they unbox their new system.
The dirty secret is most consumers don't see the cost of windows in their pc purchase, its just another component of the system like a disk or video card, and they expect it to work out of the box. Most users don't even know what linux is, much less have the skills or time to spend endlessly fiddling with it, like the IT elites will.
...trotting out the rotting cadavers of cartoon characters ages old.
They need to fire their CEO and board, close the parks, fire all of the "political agenda" writers and start over as an animation company. Outsourcing talent from Japan or Pixar will not improve their game.
I'm amazed how past climate change incidents are never mentioned as a possible cause of "global warming", although the historical record is rife with natural climate change. There is no evidence that today's changes are not part of a natural cycle.
In fact, we are coming out of a long period of cool coming off of several ice ages starting 10K years ago, to the "little ice ages" of the past 5K years and the catastrophic incidents due to volcanic activity in 300bc and 540ad.
The earth might just simply be adjusting back to its normal balmy climates.
One of my rules of thumb for investing is "is the company producing something I can't live without?".
Google doesn't currently meet this test. They could disappear today, and my life would not be impacted. Additionally they offer products that I would not prefer to use because of the information they are collecting. That includes gmail, googledesktop, googletoolbar and google web accelerator. Advertising is their business model and revenue stream.
As cool as Google's technology is, their business model seems to have more in common with a telemarketer than a technology company.
It always amazes me how people associate Apple Computer with open-ness, free thinking, and individuality.
The company has demonstrated over the course of its existance that it is the direction opposite of all of those trends. Clised
Example 1: iPod limited to apple services and formats, functionally a lockin product designed to trap users into the Apple Music Store.
Example 2: Look and Feel. Apple has always imposed the most limits on the user's ability to customize his computer look and feel of any OS. Conformity is the Mantra at Apple. Individuality be darned.
Example 3: Open Source. Apple plays lip services to opensource but does not give anything of signifigance back to the community. Darwin in open. Aqua is not. KHTML is open, Safari is not. On and on.
AMD's new 90nm fab process with SOI and other technologies licensed from IBM allow them to drasticly reduce the power consumption of a single AMD64 core (venice core) to roughly half that of previous 130nm fabs. That allows them to fit two cores into the power envelope of the preview 130nm single cores.
A software house has to innovate or be replaced by a software house that does innovate?
How is that news? That is the primary fact of the software market. Since the core markets for software are totally saturated and "over-featured" that shifts the focus from innovating on existing products to innovating in the arena of pricing models. That is exactly what is happening.
Mysql is not an innovative database; instead the pricing model for Mysql is the innovation.
That said, I've been watching MS for decades now. They never ever give up. My guess is that once the current "monopolist" leadership retires, a younger, more innovative crew will take over the company and start mixing proprietary software, OSS software and services to deliver a new pricing model.
If you combine MS's brand recognition, market penetration, and massive warchest with truly "cool" products priced appropriately, they will be a even greater powerhouse and effectively leave Linux (but not OSS applications) in its niche.
Ummm. Since we have killed off almost all of the major and minor predators in the US, or limited them to a tiny percentage of the landmass, there is a problem with overpopulation of prey animals.
Deer for example breed like rabbits. They rapidly overpopulated even the smallest patch of land. I've seen over 50 deer in a single 5 acre wooded lot in the middle of town before (850K population urban area). These had to be exterminated by fish and wildlife officers.
I don't hunt. Don't have the time or the heart to do it, but it is a very very necessary function. Either depopulate humans and repopulate predators or allow for controlled human predators. There is actually no choice on this.
Good ole Apple, the paragon of intellectual freedom, creativity, openness. They have mastered the style but their substance is limits, conformity, and closed systems.
The idea of "forcing" large numbers of people, including low income or rural populations, to purchase expensive converters or new TV's is offensive. It smacks of the same sort of simony involved with the pay-for-weather sites trying to force noaa.gov to stop providing free online weather feeds so that they can force taxpayers to pay for the feeds.
Granted there is nothing on analog broadcasts worth watching, but nations do need simple, broadcast media for government communications, emergency communications and other items which fall within the national interest.
Arrogance or fact, the numbers are important and the numbers represent why Mac's always seem to be used by "lone wolves", folks whose jobs don't require massive integration with thousands of other folks at an application and data level. The numbers are why Apple has less market share than Linux and is rapidly shifting to a consumer electronics business plan.
Its sad too, because no other PC manufacturer designs better looking, more ergonomic hardware or has a better operating system. All of which is destined to remain in "niche-ness".
My powerbook is my favorite system. But I have to FIND things to do with it because no matter what I have to test my code on windows, linux, and solaris. I have to game on windows or linux. Its really nothing more than a very cool computer with a great OS running email, playing songs, and surfing the web....something a $50 appliance can do. My x86 systems are my work horses.
FWIW, Enlightenment 17 + X11 looks like more of what I want out of a modern GUI than either Longhorn or OSX.
Imagine the chagrin of the Industry if it suddenly became hip and cool to not buy or listen to or watch anything they produce.
Its not like its any good anyway, and its time to cut the pigs out of the middle of the equation. Buy direct only from non-label artists and producers of content.
As for Canada, a 40% tarrif is just what I would expect from aging socialists.
Oh boy. Running housekeeping chores such as DRM, AV, a-spyware, ad nauseum has been one of the reported benefits of the cell processor as well. Oh boy dynamic DRM, just what I bought that shiny new processor for, lol.
But...each gig-E nic consumes the equivilent of a 1Ghz P3 processor, and a stateful inspection software firewall consumes another. So maybe there is a use after all.
Ironically, for most users the 2nd core will be throttled off to save power 90% of the time because most general purpose computing doesn't even sweat todays processors.
These kinds of flippant, childish tone by OSS leaders, especially on the subject matter of how to functionally destroy a business' core market, really don't help OSS to gain mindshare in the business place.
"entirely on Linux is, as far as I know, cheaper in the long run"
Depends on if you have access to good admins who know of to squeeze efficiencies out of unix, how to tune, how to adapt and customize. Otherwise Linux is an unstable money pit. (The same can be said about any OS, and IMO, is Windows' achilles heel)
Second, the last time I got quotes, Redhat ES was more expensive than MS!? What's up with that.
The fact is that businesses care about the software stack, not the OS. OSS products run just fine on Windows, OSX, Solaris, and Linux. Get the one that right for you and your employee skillset.
I already use my passport as ID when traveling within my own country. Its easier to keep up with and produce compared to digging my wallet out and presenting my DL.
"Its only applicable to blogs that mention candidates"
Ummm. The First Ammendment's entire purpose is to protect political speech.
No candidate or elected official should ever be shielded from the voice of the people. The 60 day moratorium on political speech by the public prior to an election is one of the most nefarious laws I have ever seen passed in the USA.
The entire purpose of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights is to define the limits of government to act against the people. The campaign finance law has this all turned around.
And notice that it did not seem to actually work. The last election was awash in money.
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Every study on embryonic stem cells I have seen up to now has resulted in long term cancers or other dramatic negative side effects in the patients.
Some of the results have been truly horrific. I'm not sure there is any point to the continued drumbeat that stem cells will cure anything "real soon now".
My 1980ish VW Rabbit 1.8L deisel got 50-60mpg. It had an extended fuel tank, that allowed me to go over 1 month between fillups (and that was while doing DELIVERY jobs in high school)!
The ironic part about the prius story is that it requires electicity from the utility company to charge, and that is being generated by burnig fuel oil, or even worse coal in the majority of the county. So the owner is probably causing more environmental damage with his prius than if he just had a biodeisel, solar or hydrogen card. (oops, hydrogen takes massive energy inputs to produce...more coal and oil).
I've seen sites with extremely solid, fast, affordable infrastructures built on MS products. The key is they have top notch staffs that know how to exploit the technology and make it work. Sites without those skills generally have problems. The same can be said of any vendors technologies. Skilled engineers make the difference.
MS probably won't release a version of Linux, but they will probably add a linux subsystem to Windows. I think the recent work with SFU3.5 is simply gearing up to allow windows to run linux binaries natively.
But, releasing MSLinux for developing markets or low income businesses, would be a smart way to deliver product with almost ZERO development cost to MS.
IMO, OSS is commercial software. IBM, Novell, Redhat and a score of others are selling commercial software and they are profiting from the unpaid work of others. Its a no-brainer for a business....let geek1 slave away on the code for no salary. Grab it, release it, and sell service contracts on it. Geek1 gets zip.
First the government can take your house and give it to someone else willing to pay more property taxes than you, now they plan to take away free TV and force people to pay to play and upgrade their hardware at the same time.
It really bites to be low income these days in the US.
That users don't care and simply want their software PREINSTALLED. Most consumers don't want to choose their media player, or even know which one they are using, they just want it to work as soon as they unbox their new system.
The dirty secret is most consumers don't see the cost of windows in their pc purchase, its just another component of the system like a disk or video card, and they expect it to work out of the box. Most users don't even know what linux is, much less have the skills or time to spend endlessly fiddling with it, like the IT elites will.
...trotting out the rotting cadavers of cartoon characters ages old.
They need to fire their CEO and board, close the parks, fire all of the "political agenda" writers and start over as an animation company. Outsourcing talent from Japan or Pixar will not improve their game.
I'm amazed how past climate change incidents are never mentioned as a possible cause of "global warming", although the historical record is rife with natural climate change. There is no evidence that today's changes are not part of a natural cycle.
In fact, we are coming out of a long period of cool coming off of several ice ages starting 10K years ago, to the "little ice ages" of the past 5K years and the catastrophic incidents due to volcanic activity in 300bc and 540ad.
The earth might just simply be adjusting back to its normal balmy climates.
Why should anyone support ports to Mac OSX or Linux? After all, they are a tiny fraction of the platform market.
The same goes for hardware platforms. Why support anything other than x86?
This redhat employee is sounding suspiciously like what I would expect a microsoftie to say.
One of my rules of thumb for investing is "is the company producing something I can't live without?".
Google doesn't currently meet this test. They could disappear today, and my life would not be impacted. Additionally they offer products that I would not prefer to use because of the information they are collecting. That includes gmail, googledesktop, googletoolbar and google web accelerator. Advertising is their business model and revenue stream.
As cool as Google's technology is, their business model seems to have more in common with a telemarketer than a technology company.
It always amazes me how people associate Apple Computer with open-ness, free thinking, and individuality.
The company has demonstrated over the course of its existance that it is the direction opposite of all of those trends. Clised
Example 1: iPod limited to apple services and formats, functionally a lockin product designed to trap users into the Apple Music Store.
Example 2: Look and Feel. Apple has always imposed the most limits on the user's ability to customize his computer look and feel of any OS. Conformity is the Mantra at Apple. Individuality be darned.
Example 3: Open Source. Apple plays lip services to opensource but does not give anything of signifigance back to the community. Darwin in open. Aqua is not. KHTML is open, Safari is not. On and on.
Apple's image is ALL marketing spin.
AMD's new 90nm fab process with SOI and other technologies licensed from IBM allow them to drasticly reduce the power consumption of a single AMD64 core (venice core) to roughly half that of previous 130nm fabs. That allows them to fit two cores into the power envelope of the preview 130nm single cores.
A software house has to innovate or be replaced by a software house that does innovate?
How is that news? That is the primary fact of the software market. Since the core markets for software are totally saturated and "over-featured" that shifts the focus from innovating on existing products to innovating in the arena of pricing models. That is exactly what is happening.
Mysql is not an innovative database; instead the pricing model for Mysql is the innovation.
That said, I've been watching MS for decades now. They never ever give up. My guess is that once the current "monopolist" leadership retires, a younger, more innovative crew will take over the company and start mixing proprietary software, OSS software and services to deliver a new pricing model.
If you combine MS's brand recognition, market penetration, and massive warchest with truly "cool" products priced appropriately, they will be a even greater powerhouse and effectively leave Linux (but not OSS applications) in its niche.
Ummm. Since we have killed off almost all of the major and minor predators in the US, or limited them to a tiny percentage of the landmass, there is a problem with overpopulation of prey animals.
Deer for example breed like rabbits. They rapidly overpopulated even the smallest patch of land. I've seen over 50 deer in a single 5 acre wooded lot in the middle of town before (850K population urban area). These had to be exterminated by fish and wildlife officers.
I don't hunt. Don't have the time or the heart to do it, but it is a very very necessary function. Either depopulate humans and repopulate predators or allow for controlled human predators. There is actually no choice on this.
Good ole Apple, the paragon of intellectual freedom, creativity, openness. They have mastered the style but their substance is limits, conformity, and closed systems.
The idea of "forcing" large numbers of people, including low income or rural populations, to purchase expensive converters or new TV's is offensive. It smacks of the same sort of simony involved with the pay-for-weather sites trying to force noaa.gov to stop providing free online weather feeds so that they can force taxpayers to pay for the feeds.
Granted there is nothing on analog broadcasts worth watching, but nations do need simple, broadcast media for government communications, emergency communications and other items which fall within the national interest.
Arrogance or fact, the numbers are important and the numbers represent why Mac's always seem to be used by "lone wolves", folks whose jobs don't require massive integration with thousands of other folks at an application and data level. The numbers are why Apple has less market share than Linux and is rapidly shifting to a consumer electronics business plan.
Its sad too, because no other PC manufacturer designs better looking, more ergonomic hardware or has a better operating system. All of which is destined to remain in "niche-ness".
My powerbook is my favorite system. But I have to FIND things to do with it because no matter what I have to test my code on windows, linux, and solaris. I have to game on windows or linux. Its really nothing more than a very cool computer with a great OS running email, playing songs, and surfing the web....something a $50 appliance can do. My x86 systems are my work horses.
FWIW, Enlightenment 17 + X11 looks like more of what I want out of a modern GUI than either Longhorn or OSX.
Simple solution. STOP BUYING!
Imagine the chagrin of the Industry if it suddenly became hip and cool to not buy or listen to or watch anything they produce.
Its not like its any good anyway, and its time to cut the pigs out of the middle of the equation. Buy direct only from non-label artists and producers of content.
As for Canada, a 40% tarrif is just what I would expect from aging socialists.
Dead on.
In fact, system performance is so far exceeding actual user need that most don't see any reason to upgrade.
Oh boy. Running housekeeping chores such as DRM, AV, a-spyware, ad nauseum has been one of the reported benefits of the cell processor as well. Oh boy dynamic DRM, just what I bought that shiny new processor for, lol.
But...each gig-E nic consumes the equivilent of a 1Ghz P3 processor, and a stateful inspection software firewall consumes another. So maybe there is a use after all.
Ironically, for most users the 2nd core will be throttled off to save power 90% of the time because most general purpose computing doesn't even sweat todays processors.
These kinds of flippant, childish tone by OSS leaders, especially on the subject matter of how to functionally destroy a business' core market, really don't help OSS to gain mindshare in the business place.
"entirely on Linux is, as far as I know, cheaper in the long run"
Depends on if you have access to good admins who know of to squeeze efficiencies out of unix, how to tune, how to adapt and customize. Otherwise Linux is an unstable money pit. (The same can be said about any OS, and IMO, is Windows' achilles heel)
Second, the last time I got quotes, Redhat ES was more expensive than MS!? What's up with that.
The fact is that businesses care about the software stack, not the OS. OSS products run just fine on Windows, OSX, Solaris, and Linux. Get the one that right for you and your employee skillset.
I already use my passport as ID when traveling within my own country. Its easier to keep up with and produce compared to digging my wallet out and presenting my DL.
"Its only applicable to blogs that mention candidates"
Ummm. The First Ammendment's entire purpose is to protect political speech.
No candidate or elected official should ever be shielded from the voice of the people. The 60 day moratorium on political speech by the public prior to an election is one of the most nefarious laws I have ever seen passed in the USA.
The entire purpose of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights is to define the limits of government to act against the people. The campaign finance law has this all turned around.
And notice that it did not seem to actually work. The last election was awash in money.
This will probably kill linux adoption in my company.