Exactly. Reporters are complaining about the fact that there is no law being enacted at the national level. This structural gap is not in violation of the Bill of Rights!
Saw this while MetaModding and I had to chime in. This is significant because it may represent the vast majority of the Universe. It is not as simple as you seem to think: there are ways of detecting most everything, but evidence indicates that this may be an entirely new form of matter, and that makes astronomers extremely excited.
Just because you can write OSS with a program does not make that program OSS unless the source of said program is, you know, open! I'm surprised that/. would post a story like this.
The confusion of Java and Javascript is one of my biggest pet peeves in computer science. I am fairly proficient in Java, but I still have to look up which command to use the once a year I actually write in Javascript. Google's engineers worked hard to design a system to convert Java into another format only to have this journalist completely disregard it.
It's times like these that I am glad I get to tag articles.
From TFA: "[...] JavaScript is pretty close to a superset of Java[...]. It's not complicated to strip away some typing information from the Java code and end up with something that resembles JavaScript."
This is in response to Google's toolkit, which allows users to code in Java instead of Javascript. I think this feature is a real winner to Java coders. Who wants to code Javascript when you can use Swing? Regardless of what TFA says, there is a difference between the two programming experiences.
In summary, if you are already proficient in Java, Google is the way to go.
Most websites (/. included) do not suck up bandwidth. Glancing at America's most popular websites, I see lots of sites that will run just fine on an 85 kbps connection. Of the top 25, here are the ones that will have real trouble: Myspace (only audio streaming should have real issues), YouTube, CNN videos, and maybe flickr. You need to forget that those of us here are far above average information consumers. There are many people who go online simply to utilize e-mail, check the headlines, and perform research. One reason that more bandwidth-intensive sites are so high is the fact that geeks like me visit those sites many times per week using several computers. There is definitely a market for free85 kpbs wireless Internet service.
I do not think that they have lost the war, but the political attention seems to have shifted to sports doping. This technology should prove helpful on that front, as doping is a major problem.
Just wait until TFA makes it to the nightly news. It is the media, after all, that adds all of the spin.
And tonight on NBC10 News at 11, a new discovery that will make it easier to protect the nation's water supplies from terrorist attack. You see, our water supplies are at risk. All a terrorist has to do is come here, 3 miles NW of I-95 exit 37, and add between 1 and 2 quarts of chemicals to this reservoir to endanger millions in the Philadelphia area. They had better do it soon, however, as this new 'Lab on a chip' will be able to detect such quantities when it comes online in 11 months."
I think it is the free plan that has the ISPs worried. Even though 85kbps is no good for VOIP and video streaming, it is more than sufficient for the average Internet user. You can check your e-mail, send instant messages, and browse the headlines at that speed.
This could also negatively impact the adoption of high speed cellular data networks, which are becoming popular with businesses.
Wow, I cannot believe that you are so casually dismissive of the work that went into this discovery. Why did it take so many years for the proper substance to be discovered?
In pharmaceuticals, things can fold into a number of shapes equal to the age of the universe squared. In theory, someone will eventually find the right shape, but without patent protected research and development, it could take as long as Deep Thought's answer. Patents are absolutely vital to companies. Without them, corporations would move oversees and not sell their products in America.
In order to use/. one should know basic html. The interface here is also much better, even with the ads. There are two systems available for customizing the interface in order to make it more readable.
You seem to think that invention is easy. There is a reason that Edison was the first to perfect the lightbulb: it was hard! He used everything possible to try to create a filiment that really worked. Do you think he would have plucked the hairs from his head and spun everything possible to create a more efficient filament if his competitors could have reproduced it? 100% of R&D costs would be lost to competitors, creating an incentive not to be innovative.
After you find a remedy, you have to figure out if it really works compared to placebo, isolate the possible enzymes/chemicals/whatevers involved, test those enzymes alone, and then start where every other drug starts. How many drugs can you name that started in nature and have been approved by the FDA after successful Phase III clinical trials?
Most patents are valid and are not held by IP holding companies. Would Edison have bothered with his projects if the next company down the street could have stolen them? You would be amazed to learn the total amount of money spent every year in America on R&D. Those expenditures need protection or else there is no reason to innovate.
I would encourage you to try to visit a lab sometime. As a seasonal employee of a Fortune 1000 Pharmaceutical company, I can tell you that there is a huge amount of original research that goes into everything that the FDA approves. They use supercomputers, computing clusters, and many many PHDs all working for many years just to make a promising drug candidate that will probably never make it to market. After developing a substance and testing it in the lab and on animals, it enters the arduous FDA approval process, complete with three phases of human clinical trials. Modern pharmaceuticals are a high tech and very competitive business that needs patent protection for the good of humanity.
You might be thinking about dietary supplements, which have been unregulated since 1994 thanks to the DSHEA. Those are often folklore remedies quickly packaged into pill form without any requirements for testing or proven safety.
Just about everything in government is classified for one reason or another. The exact location of a nuclear reactor inside of a ship is classified for obvious reasons (remember the Cole), but that means that everyone on that ship needs a clearance. Everyone doing anything related to defense needs a low level clearance. It's the ones who tell their closest friends that they work for "the government" before quickly changing the subject who really have things to hide.
This example actually hurts your case. By throwing around such apochrypal claims as definitive "proof," it hurts the claims that life originated outside of out atmosphere. Simply because you believe that something is true is no reason to attempt to spin everything into proving that belief.
MySpace is the antithesis of the geek world. It is a corporate website that allows users to violate every standard of web design without having to know a lick of code or even html. The user pages are downright painful to attempt to decipher at times, and there is usually some horrible music playing in the background that is difficult (if not impossible) to stop. The fact that it is used for criminal activity only adds to the collective distaste.
I view GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) as a diagnostic tool. There are definite cases where GPR has generated false positives. Think about when the FBI destroyed that barn recently while looking for Jimmy Hoffa. This technology cannot be trusted on its own, but it can help reduce the wholesale destruction of exploratory digging. It is possible that this shaft is a natural formation or something else that will not lead to treasure (or a deeper understanding of history).
One reason for the drop in interest lately is the pending release of the next generation of consoles. They have been talked about long enough that interest has left the current generation.
Better yet: try to actually look at their computer that is running so poorly. If they run it on laptops or in a horizontal enviroment, they could bring you their computer and replicate the error. Even if it runs on a desktop, if the problem is serious enough they could consider bringing it in. Try to get the exact enviroment in which the alleged error is occuring.
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Darn license agreements. Always getting in the way of things that are fun.
Exactly. Reporters are complaining about the fact that there is no law being enacted at the national level. This structural gap is not in violation of the Bill of Rights!
Does anyone know if this supports synching to Palm OS? That is the most important feature I look for in a PIM.
Saw this while MetaModding and I had to chime in. This is significant because it may represent the vast majority of the Universe. It is not as simple as you seem to think: there are ways of detecting most everything, but evidence indicates that this may be an entirely new form of matter, and that makes astronomers extremely excited.
Just because you can write OSS with a program does not make that program OSS unless the source of said program is, you know, open! I'm surprised that /. would post a story like this.
It's times like these that I am glad I get to tag articles.
This is in response to Google's toolkit, which allows users to code in Java instead of Javascript. I think this feature is a real winner to Java coders. Who wants to code Javascript when you can use Swing? Regardless of what TFA says, there is a difference between the two programming experiences.
In summary, if you are already proficient in Java, Google is the way to go.
Most websites (/. included) do not suck up bandwidth. Glancing at America's most popular websites, I see lots of sites that will run just fine on an 85 kbps connection. Of the top 25, here are the ones that will have real trouble: Myspace (only audio streaming should have real issues), YouTube, CNN videos, and maybe flickr. You need to forget that those of us here are far above average information consumers. There are many people who go online simply to utilize e-mail, check the headlines, and perform research. One reason that more bandwidth-intensive sites are so high is the fact that geeks like me visit those sites many times per week using several computers. There is definitely a market for free85 kpbs wireless Internet service.
No matter how you look at this, if it works as planned it will be good for the residents of the area.
I do not think that they have lost the war, but the political attention seems to have shifted to sports doping. This technology should prove helpful on that front, as doping is a major problem.
And tonight on NBC10 News at 11, a new discovery that will make it easier to protect the nation's water supplies from terrorist attack. You see, our water supplies are at risk. All a terrorist has to do is come here, 3 miles NW of I-95 exit 37, and add between 1 and 2 quarts of chemicals to this reservoir to endanger millions in the Philadelphia area. They had better do it soon, however, as this new 'Lab on a chip' will be able to detect such quantities when it comes online in 11 months."
This could also negatively impact the adoption of high speed cellular data networks, which are becoming popular with businesses.
In pharmaceuticals, things can fold into a number of shapes equal to the age of the universe squared. In theory, someone will eventually find the right shape, but without patent protected research and development, it could take as long as Deep Thought's answer. Patents are absolutely vital to companies. Without them, corporations would move oversees and not sell their products in America.
In order to use /. one should know basic html. The interface here is also much better, even with the ads. There are two systems available for customizing the interface in order to make it more readable.
You seem to think that invention is easy. There is a reason that Edison was the first to perfect the lightbulb: it was hard! He used everything possible to try to create a filiment that really worked. Do you think he would have plucked the hairs from his head and spun everything possible to create a more efficient filament if his competitors could have reproduced it? 100% of R&D costs would be lost to competitors, creating an incentive not to be innovative.
Step 1: Adjust Turing equations to explain Leopard spots
Step 2: ???
Step 3: Profit!
After you find a remedy, you have to figure out if it really works compared to placebo, isolate the possible enzymes/chemicals/whatevers involved, test those enzymes alone, and then start where every other drug starts. How many drugs can you name that started in nature and have been approved by the FDA after successful Phase III clinical trials?
Most patents are valid and are not held by IP holding companies. Would Edison have bothered with his projects if the next company down the street could have stolen them? You would be amazed to learn the total amount of money spent every year in America on R&D. Those expenditures need protection or else there is no reason to innovate.
You might be thinking about dietary supplements, which have been unregulated since 1994 thanks to the DSHEA. Those are often folklore remedies quickly packaged into pill form without any requirements for testing or proven safety.
Just about everything in government is classified for one reason or another. The exact location of a nuclear reactor inside of a ship is classified for obvious reasons (remember the Cole), but that means that everyone on that ship needs a clearance. Everyone doing anything related to defense needs a low level clearance. It's the ones who tell their closest friends that they work for "the government" before quickly changing the subject who really have things to hide.
This example actually hurts your case. By throwing around such apochrypal claims as definitive "proof," it hurts the claims that life originated outside of out atmosphere. Simply because you believe that something is true is no reason to attempt to spin everything into proving that belief.
MySpace is the antithesis of the geek world. It is a corporate website that allows users to violate every standard of web design without having to know a lick of code or even html. The user pages are downright painful to attempt to decipher at times, and there is usually some horrible music playing in the background that is difficult (if not impossible) to stop. The fact that it is used for criminal activity only adds to the collective distaste.
I view GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar) as a diagnostic tool. There are definite cases where GPR has generated false positives. Think about when the FBI destroyed that barn recently while looking for Jimmy Hoffa. This technology cannot be trusted on its own, but it can help reduce the wholesale destruction of exploratory digging. It is possible that this shaft is a natural formation or something else that will not lead to treasure (or a deeper understanding of history).
One reason for the drop in interest lately is the pending release of the next generation of consoles. They have been talked about long enough that interest has left the current generation.
Better yet: try to actually look at their computer that is running so poorly. If they run it on laptops or in a horizontal enviroment, they could bring you their computer and replicate the error. Even if it runs on a desktop, if the problem is serious enough they could consider bringing it in. Try to get the exact enviroment in which the alleged error is occuring.