yes, it's called malpractice. But good luck trying to win a case like that!
Is it legal to sue lawyers I wonder? Show that they had a vested material interest in damaging businesses by dragging this out as long as possible? Show that they used deliberately deceitful tactics and were complicit in outright lies, obfuscations and unfair practices and maybe tack on a suit for encouraging their customers to pursue illegal activities (violating the GPL and anything else SCO has done that turns out to be against the law).
I bet this guy is a pointy-haired boss. He is a MANAGER!!!(~gasp!)!!! Dilbert reference for the 3 people who don't get it;)
Why else would he be bashing good tools for IT? (open source, teenagers, etc etc) Sure they're not the best solutions by themselves, but they play important parts of an overall strategy. I mean, would you have the same Dell Optiplexes (Optiplexi?) running Word, crunching astrophysics data, serving webpages, and predicting protein folding? NO! You use the right tool for the right job!
Why is this analogy always used? YOU DON'T USE BOMBS TO DO SURGERY! Extraneous people are always around.
One small bump from a free-floating piece of space junk will alter the path of the beam by quite a bit, assuming it doesn't rip right through the weapon. Even an error of 1/1000 of a degree with a laser at 180km in the sky (the altitude of most spy sats, I think) misses the mark by over 3 meters. Assuming a circular area of error, that's almost 30 square meters! That doesn't seem any more precise than an "ordinary" smart bomb.
Someone check my math, please. My degree is actually in history(!) and not Math/Physics/Astronomy/Engineering.
I think MO will not be the end-all data storage solution for valuable data, but it's a step in the right direction.
I work in a biomedical research lab and we have to keep data from years and years ago. This data represents several lifetimes of research and MUST be preserved. CD's and DVD's are too easily damaged and HDD's are too intricate to be reliable over long periods of use (MTBF's). Tapes are nice, but they are too slow during backups and restore, not to mention you normally have to use proprietary software which may or may not operate under future OS's. The tape systems that ARE fast, reliable, and capacious cost lots of money.
I think solid-state storage may be a viable option when the costs come down and the capacities go up. They aren't magnetic-based so the the magnetic particles or whatever don't spread after long periods of disuse(HDD's) and they don't rely on chemicals which degrade over time (CD/DVD -R's).
Sure MO is slow and bulky but in my limited experience it works very reliably and the media had a long shelf life, although pretty expensive. CDRs get scratches and just freak out sometimes. Zips also freak out for no reason. DVDRs would be cool if they were better protected and had some kind of standard (RAM? +/-? what the fsck is up with that!?).
BTW, Zip disks/drives are EVERYWHERE in academic medical research for some weird reason.
"Zenstrom is hoping to bring the telephone giants to their knees with Skype, an IP-to-IP VoIP software program that currently works only in Microsoft Windows and utilizes a proprietary protocol to establish voice connections between its users."
I hope he doesn't alienate Linux users (ie large % of slashdotters) by keeping it Windows only! I don'tknow how much money he'd lose, but I'm sure it'd be significant, right?
Yes, gene therapy can be dangerous. Some methods use a retrovirus (yes, HIV is a retrovirus!) to deliver the gene. Ever think of how you're going to get "foreign" genetic material into a human body? The same thing happens with organ transplants: REJECTION!
Retrovirii (mainly adenovirus, I believe) are very good devices for invading human cells. Unfortunately they also insert themselves randomly (the altered adenovirus, not the wild-type) and can cause cancers. Not to mention the fact that your body will see it as invader and try to attack it.
This site has a brief overview of some technical problems with gene therapy.
One obstacle, is that the average patient doesn't want to be in a big tube named the NUCLEAR magnetic resonance machine, or NMR as it were. It's only nuclear in that it examines the wobble in the nucleus of atoms, due to the magnetic field (sorry for the quick and dirty version).
They changed the name it to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) because no one is afraid of magnets!
In last weeks NYT magazine, they talked about librarians being activists because of their declaration of resistance to any inquiries as to the checkout habits of its patrons. In that article they state that there is no explicit section regarding the tracking of libraries. After reading the Patriot Act, it was the librarians that interpreted it that way.
I'm not claiming that it couldn't happen. But could it just be paranoia? I mean, this IS the BUSH administration!
Sorry, but I don't know where to get the full article, other than my coffee table!
They should jail a few high profile cases and set expensive penalties, like they did with the junk faxes several years ago.
$1000 per piece of junk fax and that stopped pretty quickly. Think what would happen if the penalty was only $100 per spam! That's about $20K/yr for just one of my e-mail accounts.
In MY laptop I've replaced (personally, mind you):
LCD screen
RAM
processor
HDD
CD-->DVD-CDRW
If I wanted, I CAN upgrade the video.
Laptops are more modular today than you'd think.
I'll have the same boxen in 5 years too.
-X
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yes, it's called malpractice. But good luck trying to win a case like that! Is it legal to sue lawyers I wonder? Show that they had a vested material interest in damaging businesses by dragging this out as long as possible? Show that they used deliberately deceitful tactics and were complicit in outright lies, obfuscations and unfair practices and maybe tack on a suit for encouraging their customers to pursue illegal activities (violating the GPL and anything else SCO has done that turns out to be against the law).
Why else would he be bashing good tools for IT? (open source, teenagers, etc etc) Sure they're not the best solutions by themselves, but they play important parts of an overall strategy. I mean, would you have the same Dell Optiplexes (Optiplexi?) running Word, crunching astrophysics data, serving webpages, and predicting protein folding? NO! You use the right tool for the right job!
Probably. But this is slashdot! PDAs are way cooler than an AM radio. Besides, who wants pesky announcers?
HAW! HAW!
No! Not sex toys, you perverts!
One small bump from a free-floating piece of space junk will alter the path of the beam by quite a bit, assuming it doesn't rip right through the weapon. Even an error of 1/1000 of a degree with a laser at 180km in the sky (the altitude of most spy sats, I think) misses the mark by over 3 meters. Assuming a circular area of error, that's almost 30 square meters! That doesn't seem any more precise than an "ordinary" smart bomb.
Someone check my math, please. My degree is actually in history(!) and not Math/Physics/Astronomy/Engineering.
Regardless of Los locos!
I work in a biomedical research lab and we have to keep data from years and years ago. This data represents several lifetimes of research and MUST be preserved. CD's and DVD's are too easily damaged and HDD's are too intricate to be reliable over long periods of use (MTBF's). Tapes are nice, but they are too slow during backups and restore, not to mention you normally have to use proprietary software which may or may not operate under future OS's. The tape systems that ARE fast, reliable, and capacious cost lots of money.
I think solid-state storage may be a viable option when the costs come down and the capacities go up. They aren't magnetic-based so the the magnetic particles or whatever don't spread after long periods of disuse(HDD's) and they don't rely on chemicals which degrade over time (CD/DVD -R's).
Sure MO is slow and bulky but in my limited experience it works very reliably and the media had a long shelf life, although pretty expensive. CDRs get scratches and just freak out sometimes. Zips also freak out for no reason. DVDRs would be cool if they were better protected and had some kind of standard (RAM? +/-? what the fsck is up with that!?).
BTW, Zip disks/drives are EVERYWHERE in academic medical research for some weird reason.
25 years old and hard as rock! It's not the fastest or most powerful, but it does what I need.
Does anyone know what the specs were? ie read/write speed?, cache? (did they have cache as we know it now, back then?), capacity?
I hope he doesn't alienate Linux users (ie large % of slashdotters) by keeping it Windows only! I don'tknow how much money he'd lose, but I'm sure it'd be significant, right?
Retrovirii (mainly adenovirus, I believe) are very good devices for invading human cells. Unfortunately they also insert themselves randomly (the altered adenovirus, not the wild-type) and can cause cancers. Not to mention the fact that your body will see it as invader and try to attack it.
This site has a brief overview of some technical problems with gene therapy.
you know, the garbage can!
They changed the name it to Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) because no one is afraid of magnets!
Did this paper come from the Whitehouse or the Patriot Act or something like that? Why do we have to have sensors EVERYWHERE?
I'm not claiming that it couldn't happen. But could it just be paranoia? I mean, this IS the BUSH administration!
Sorry, but I don't know where to get the full article, other than my coffee table!
ICANN, YouCANN, we all CANN for ICANN!
$1000 per piece of junk fax and that stopped pretty quickly. Think what would happen if the penalty was only $100 per spam! That's about $20K/yr for just one of my e-mail accounts.
Nevermore!
In MY laptop I've replaced (personally, mind you): LCD screen RAM processor HDD CD-->DVD-CDRW If I wanted, I CAN upgrade the video. Laptops are more modular today than you'd think. I'll have the same boxen in 5 years too. -X
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltex t/93521889/FILE?TPL=ftx_start
If you want some technical info.