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The problem with the grocery or convenience store scenerio is that of waste. They would have to swap out the "gas tank" for a new one so that the waste by-products could be recycled. In fact, to minimize environmental damage it should be federally mandated that purchasing a "gas tank" is illegal without the old tank.
MySQL still seems to get an unreasonable amount of attention.
It's a matter of ingrained habit. When MySQL first came out it was a very light and very fast database. Light because it lacked a lot of key features a real database included. Fast because, lacking those features and necessary checks, it read and wrote very quickly what are essentially flat files. This made it the darling of websites everywhere. Light, fast and easy to install and run. Keep your tables and data simple and the number of rows small and your website would really snap!
After a few months you felt you knew MySQL and as it added features you applied them to other areas. It didn't have foreign keys, it didn't have... It crashes frequently. It give strange results on some inserts or queries. So what? It's light, fast and easy, and you 'know' it. Why change?
mmmm... isn't that the same reason why some folks stay with Windows... and PAY for the 'priviledge'?
I use PostgreSQL as a test database against which I write and test QT applications. I can switch an app between the two backends by changing only a few lines of code and recompiling, or I can build the switching capability into the app. Using PostgreSQL reduces the number of access licenses required for Oracle, or doesn't waste existing connections.
If I had my way I'd use PostgreSQL as the primary database, but some folks believe you've gotta pay money or the app isn't any good. As long as it's their money and not mine.
He didn't seem to be at all bothered that this the main argument people give for using windows.
That's probably because those features are part of PostgreSQL and is the main argument for why people believe that PostgreSQL is overtaking MySQL. Also the fact the PostgreSQL can run PL/SQL with only some modifications, and visa-versa.
include "MicroSkype" with every PC sold by DELL, HP, Gateway and most of the other PC OEMs who don't dare market an alternative OS on the front page of their websites, or add a "xxx recommends Linux" banner. If they do they'll lose their Microsoft ad "rebates" which make survival in a commodity market place so essential because of razor thin profit margins.
Like Netscape, et. al., Skype won't have a spot on the DELL desktop, so they are at an instant market disadvantage because folks have to seek Skype out, download and install it. MicroSkype will already be installed, or will be part of some automatic "virus" patch update on existing Windows boxes.
After Microsoft destroys Skype then you can expect to see MicroSkype convert to a time limited demo mode, with $$$ required to activate the useful features.
The iPod was launched in November 2001 but Apple waited until July 2002 to file for a patent; Microsoft snuck in to license some of the technology the previous May.
David Kaefer, Microsoft's director of intellectual property licensing, said it was open to letting other firms patent its innovations.
They "innovated" by submarining patents on Apple's technology advances, so they are not acting out of character. We've all known what Microsoft means by "innovation", and M$ has paid over $9B in restitution for their IP thefts over the years. The fact that they have a Bush approved monopoly and are willing to price gouge while running consumers ragged on the "upgrade treadmill" gives them the money to buy their way out of jail.
Don't pay any attention to the critics, Bruce. Most are just Micosurfs astroturfing and trying to create desention among the Penquins, and a few hot beaks can't resist replying in kind.
An RV posted for sale on the bulletin board at work gets 2.5 miles per gallon. Also posted are lots of SUV's that get 10-12mpg in town and 18-20mpg on the interstate. That's why folks are dumping those gas hogs.
BUT, as the price of gasoline crosses $3.50 to 4.00/gal even my car will be too expensive to drive. I believe $3/gal will arrive before Christmas, and $4/gal by the next Christmas, if not sooner. Luckily, work is only 3.7 miles away and I have a nice bike.
So, we "register" convicted pedophiles and then let them ROAM FREE to molest again? Then, we fire librarians who don't know, apriori, that the guy setting at the PC is a pedophile?
She didn't know if he was a Mulslim terrorist or not, either. Why not charge her with that? It's just as rediculous.
Law abiding people have been driven from the night, and are being forced to hide behind bars or in gated villages during the day for their own protection, when it is the deviants who should be locked up.
To make matters worse, the Supreme Court preceeded their repeal of the 5th Amendment property rights with a ruling that police have no obligagtion to enforce restraining orders obtained by citizens under proven threats of attack. That puts police in the same catgory as corporate and 503C CEOs, and welfare recipients - people who don't have to work for the money they receive.
Add to that the fact that the PATRIOT ACT nullifies the Bill of Rights by treating everyone as if they were Muslim terrorists, in order to 'protect the Bill of Rights', and the RICO ACT treats all property as guilty and susceptible to confiscation by the police, at least 10,000 times a year, and the paradox of "Law and Order" in America is complete.
which is the reverse of normal events, ergo it makes the news. Dittos for the Scottish police wp change.
Because so many people and businesses are converting to Linux and FOSS it's not news any more, so stories about that movment are rarely published anymore.
--- per capita death rates of Americans in DC and LA are greater than American soldier combat deaths in Iraq, so when are we pulling out of DC or LA?
and it didn't work because IE could enter and display dollar amounts in text boxes, right justified, and Mozilla could not... without a lot of javascript putzing. Even then, it never looked good or worked well. So, we abandon the idea.
Anyone try making a web page with right justified textboxes and have it run OK on Firefox?
This is one of many *recent* articles with the same theme: Linux has/is making headway in the server room but it hasn't broken out into the desktop...
That Linux is now a major player in the server room has been OLD news for two or three years. What these articles imply is that Linux hasn't/won't make the leap onto the corporate desktop. Just like the arguments several years ago against Linux being a major player in the server room, these articles under estimate the effect of uncounted, free downloads, and the fact that a single copy can be used on many PCs. The Linux desktops where I work have not been included on anyone's count, and I doubt if our circumstance is not unusual. They also over estimate the need for "paid support".
mmm... The bandages use Chitosan, the same substance sold in pills that claim to help weight loss by absorbing 10X their weight in fat. The Chitosan in those anti-fat pills sell for about 10g/buck, a bottle 240 pills with 500mg per pill costs $11.09US.
The technology to extract Chitosan is well known and very inexpensive. At $100 per 4" Sqr bandage it seems like they are doing a little bit of old fashion price gouging.
the more likely year of adoption in the USA, right after we convert to the Metric system.
After our 10 year old 19" magnavox died last week my wife and I went shopping for a 21-24" HDTV and discovered that they are still in the $1K-$3K range. We ended up buying a 23" silvania for $150. I'll bet that it will still be usable in 2015 after the broadcasting lobby makes the appropriate number and amounts of "campaign donations". After all, Democrat or Republican, we have the best Congress money can buy.
Just look at the NOAA weather satillite data and the freely accessible NOAA NextRad image loops that are updated every 10 minutes or so. Taxpayers paid for the launching, maintanence and operation of the weather satillites. Taxpayers paid for the building, maintanence and operation of the NextRad weather radar sites.
But IF the weather channel and other commerical weather businesses have THEIR way the taxpayes will have to PAY THEM for what the taxpayer has already paid for. To make matters worse, where NOAA usually updates data every 10 minutes or less, the commercial businesses rarely update more often than 30 minutes and the old, worthless data is surrounded by ads. So the hapless taxpayer has to pay $60 or more per year for wortheless data dn is forced to watch ads as well.
Rep. Sen. Rick Santorum is 'defending the jobs' (translation: fronting for the weather channel) in his home state by sponsering backdoor legislation which would FORBID NOAA from allowing free public access to NOAA NextRad image loops. Backdoor because the legislation is trying to reverse the results of the public referendum of last fall in which contined free access won by well over a 95% margin.
Selling out the public is becoming a constant theme of politicians of both parties.
Manned exploration in general, and the Shuttle specifically, just isn't practical as long as the flight technology depends upon Newton's Third Law.
As long as we are using any form of propuslion employing the Third Law manned missions will NEVER match the economies and returns, financial, technical or scientific, for robotic explorers.
Adding a human to the payload of the missions to Jupiter, Saturn, or the asteroids would have put those missions out of reach for even the American economy even if there were no expenditures for the "War against Terrorism".
The Shuttle, like the Saturn, was poltically motivated in response to the space achievments of the USSR. It has now become a pork barrel project on which the economies of several states, and the re-election of their politicians depend. It wil be replaced by another pork project in order to preserve those jobs and political careers because a large chunk of voters want it that way.
The problem is that the science of propulsion won't benefit as long as researchers only explore Third Law technologies or variations of it like the Orion Project, or the Ion engine.
Warp drives aren't real and probably never will be, but until something capable of FTL travel, if that is possible, is invented, man won't be traveling to the Moon or Mars, to say nothing of the stars. Especially when we begin to feel the pinch of fossil fuel exhaustion, which in now in the early stages.
You really believe that our politicians would divert the NASA budget to paying down the debt? Where have you been for the last 100 years?
They've already robbed Social Security blind and they'd steal that $200B in the blink of an eye, for the "children", of course.
But, I agree with shutting down NASA and using that money to create a "MANHATTEN" type project to develop a viable renewable energy. Solar Power Tower II's are a good start.
It's refreshing to read a comment from someone who really understands the problems facing humanity here on Earth.
Consider that when you eat a slice of toast in the morning the energy you obtain from it is only 1/7th the Oil energy that was consumed just to get it to your breakfast table. Dr. Bartlett coined the phrase "Modern agriculture is nothing more than a way of using land to convert Oil into food!". If people understood that they'd worry less about 'getting back to the Moon' and more about replacing fossile fuel technology with something more permanent, if that is possible.
Gasahol is a subsidy for farmers, not a solution to our energy problem. Without Federal subsidies that program would die over night.
Hydrogen? I used to think so but I'm doubting it can replace gasoline, unless it's used to hydrogenate biocarbon sources.
Solar power towers feeding electricty into the power grid? Doable, but we'll have to convert to light, electric powered vehicles, which won't do anything for trucking, air transportation or heavy industry.
Regardless, humanity has to stop popping kids out of the womb like there is no tomorrow, or it won't matter what technology we derive to replace oil, the kids will eat us out of home and planet.
included "claims" that covered: * employees in the warehouse walking to the bin that contains the object, * placing the object on the conveyer belt, * passing it by an RFID detector, * software that uses the RFID signal to add the object to the shipping invoice and, * prints the invoice and, * pastes it onto the box and, * seals the box and, * conveys it out to the trailer for shipping, and * the employee stacking in the trailer.
After all, in your attempts to unlevel the playing field and block all competition, if you are going to patent trivial business processes that ALL businesses have been using since the web browser first appeared more than 10 years ago, why go just half way? Add a claim of customers walking to their mail box to pick up your delivered goods, forcing customers of competitive Internet businesses to crawl or run to their mailboxes, or risk legal prosecution for theft of Bozo's "IP". The USTPO doesn't care.
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The problem with the grocery or convenience store scenerio is that of waste. They would have to swap out the "gas tank" for a new one so that the waste by-products could be recycled. In fact, to minimize environmental damage it should be federally mandated that purchasing a "gas tank" is illegal without the old tank.
It's a matter of ingrained habit. When MySQL first came out it was a very light and very fast database. Light because it lacked a lot of key features a real database included. Fast because, lacking those features and necessary checks, it read and wrote very quickly what are essentially flat files. This made it the darling of websites everywhere. Light, fast and easy to install and run. Keep your tables and data simple and the number of rows small and your website would really snap!
After a few months you felt you knew MySQL and as it added features you applied them to other areas. It didn't have foreign keys, it didn't have
mmmm... isn't that the same reason why some folks stay with Windows
PostgreSQL compares very well to Oracle.
I use PostgreSQL as a test database against which I write and test QT applications. I can switch an app between the two backends by changing only a few lines of code and recompiling, or I can build the switching capability into the app. Using PostgreSQL reduces the number of access licenses required for Oracle, or doesn't waste existing connections.
If I had my way I'd use PostgreSQL as the primary database, but some folks believe you've gotta pay money or the app isn't any good. As long as it's their money and not mine.
That's probably because those features are part of PostgreSQL and is the main argument for why people believe that PostgreSQL is overtaking MySQL. Also the fact the PostgreSQL can run PL/SQL with only some modifications, and visa-versa.
include "MicroSkype" with every PC sold by DELL, HP, Gateway and most of the other PC OEMs who don't dare market an alternative OS on the front page of their websites, or add a "xxx recommends Linux" banner. If they do they'll lose their Microsoft ad "rebates" which make survival in a commodity market place so essential because of razor thin profit margins.
Like Netscape, et. al., Skype won't have a spot on the DELL desktop, so they are at an instant market disadvantage because folks have to seek Skype out, download and install it. MicroSkype will already be installed, or will be part of some automatic "virus" patch update on existing Windows boxes.
After Microsoft destroys Skype then you can expect to see MicroSkype convert to a time limited demo mode, with $$$ required to activate the useful features.
Tell me again why this is FAIR competition..
David Kaefer, Microsoft's director of intellectual property licensing, said it was open to letting other firms patent its innovations.
They "innovated" by submarining patents on Apple's technology advances, so they are not acting out of character. We've all known what Microsoft means by "innovation", and M$ has paid over $9B in restitution for their IP thefts over the years. The fact that they have a Bush approved monopoly and are willing to price gouge while running consumers ragged on the "upgrade treadmill" gives them the money to buy their way out of jail.
Don't pay any attention to the critics, Bruce. Most are just Micosurfs astroturfing and trying to create desention among the Penquins, and a few hot beaks can't resist replying in kind.
30mpg in town, and 41 on the interstate.
An RV posted for sale on the bulletin board at work gets 2.5 miles per gallon. Also posted are lots of SUV's that get 10-12mpg in town and 18-20mpg on the interstate. That's why folks are dumping those gas hogs.
BUT, as the price of gasoline crosses $3.50 to 4.00/gal even my car will be too expensive to drive. I believe $3/gal will arrive before Christmas, and $4/gal by the next Christmas, if not sooner. Luckily, work is only 3.7 miles away and I have a nice bike.
So, we "register" convicted pedophiles and then let them ROAM FREE to molest again? Then, we fire librarians who don't know, apriori, that the guy setting at the PC is a pedophile?
She didn't know if he was a Mulslim terrorist or not, either. Why not charge her with that? It's just as rediculous.
Law abiding people have been driven from the night, and are being forced to hide behind bars or in gated villages during the day for their own protection, when it is the deviants who should be locked up.
To make matters worse, the Supreme Court preceeded their repeal of the 5th Amendment property rights with a ruling that police have no obligagtion to enforce restraining orders obtained by citizens under proven threats of attack. That puts police in the same catgory as corporate and 503C CEOs, and welfare recipients - people who don't have to work for the money they receive.
Add to that the fact that the PATRIOT ACT nullifies the Bill of Rights by treating everyone as if they were Muslim terrorists, in order to 'protect the Bill of Rights', and the RICO ACT treats all property as guilty and susceptible to confiscation by the police, at least 10,000 times a year, and the paradox of "Law and Order" in America is complete.
which is the reverse of normal events, ergo it makes the news. Dittos for the Scottish police wp change.
Because so many people and businesses are converting to Linux and FOSS it's not news any more, so stories about that movment are rarely published anymore.
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per capita death rates of Americans in DC and LA are greater than American soldier combat deaths in Iraq, so when are we pulling out of DC or LA?
and it didn't work because IE could enter and display dollar amounts in text boxes, right justified, and Mozilla could not ... without a lot of javascript putzing. Even then, it never looked good or worked well. So, we abandon the idea.
Anyone try making a web page with right justified textboxes and have it run OK on Firefox?
I can't confirm your observation because it looks like the Microsoft website is SLASHDOTTED!!!!
This is one of many *recent* articles with the same theme: Linux has/is making headway in the server room but it hasn't broken out into the desktop...
That Linux is now a major player in the server room has been OLD news for two or three years. What these articles imply is that Linux hasn't/won't make the leap onto the corporate desktop. Just like the arguments several years ago against Linux being a major player in the server room, these articles under estimate the effect of uncounted, free downloads, and the fact that a single copy can be used on many PCs. The Linux desktops where I work have not been included on anyone's count, and I doubt if our circumstance is not unusual. They also over estimate the need for "paid support".
The USTPO seems to have made a mess of things. The following patents appear to patent Chitosan in essentially the same way.
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Are there lawsuits ahead?
So what we have here is a lawyer's dream and perhaps the reason why the 4"X4" pads cost $100US each.
mmm... The bandages use Chitosan, the same substance sold in pills that claim to help weight loss by absorbing 10X their weight in fat. The Chitosan in those anti-fat pills sell for about 10g/buck, a bottle 240 pills with 500mg per pill costs $11.09US.
The technology to extract Chitosan is well known and very inexpensive. At $100 per 4" Sqr bandage it seems like they are doing a little bit of old fashion price gouging.
I remember that fuss. It seems that the Democrats defended Agee's actions as "free speech". Now it's different? What happen to free speech?
the more likely year of adoption in the USA, right after we convert to the Metric system.
After our 10 year old 19" magnavox died last week my wife and I went shopping for a 21-24" HDTV and discovered that they are still in the $1K-$3K range. We ended up buying a 23" silvania for $150. I'll bet that it will still be usable in 2015 after the broadcasting lobby makes the appropriate number and amounts of "campaign donations". After all, Democrat or Republican, we have the best Congress money can buy.
You're right.
Just look at the NOAA weather satillite data and the freely accessible NOAA NextRad image loops that are updated every 10 minutes or so. Taxpayers paid for the launching, maintanence and operation of the weather satillites. Taxpayers paid for the building, maintanence and operation of the NextRad weather radar sites.
But IF the weather channel and other commerical weather businesses have THEIR way the taxpayes will have to PAY THEM for what the taxpayer has already paid for. To make matters worse, where NOAA usually updates data every 10 minutes or less, the commercial businesses rarely update more often than 30 minutes and the old, worthless data is surrounded by ads. So the hapless taxpayer has to pay $60 or more per year for wortheless data dn is forced to watch ads as well.
Rep. Sen. Rick Santorum is 'defending the jobs' (translation: fronting for the weather channel) in his home state by sponsering backdoor legislation which would FORBID NOAA from allowing free public access to NOAA NextRad image loops. Backdoor because the legislation is trying to reverse the results of the public referendum of last fall in which contined free access won by well over a 95% margin.
Selling out the public is becoming a constant theme of politicians of both parties.
Manned exploration in general, and the Shuttle specifically, just isn't practical as long as the flight technology depends upon Newton's Third Law.
As long as we are using any form of propuslion employing the Third Law manned missions will NEVER match the economies and returns, financial, technical or scientific, for robotic explorers.
Adding a human to the payload of the missions to Jupiter, Saturn, or the asteroids would have put those missions out of reach for even the American economy even if there were no expenditures for the "War against Terrorism".
The Shuttle, like the Saturn, was poltically motivated in response to the space achievments of the USSR. It has now become a pork barrel project on which the economies of several states, and the re-election of their politicians depend. It wil be replaced by another pork project in order to preserve those jobs and political careers because a large chunk of voters want it that way.
The problem is that the science of propulsion won't benefit as long as researchers only explore Third Law technologies or variations of it like the Orion Project, or the Ion engine.
Warp drives aren't real and probably never will be, but until something capable of FTL travel, if that is possible, is invented, man won't be traveling to the Moon or Mars, to say nothing of the stars. Especially when we begin to feel the pinch of fossil fuel exhaustion, which in now in the early stages.
You really believe that our politicians would divert the NASA budget to paying down the debt? Where have you been for the last 100 years?
They've already robbed Social Security blind and they'd steal that $200B in the blink of an eye, for the "children", of course.
But, I agree with shutting down NASA and using that money to create a "MANHATTEN" type project to develop a viable renewable energy. Solar Power Tower II's are a good start.
It's refreshing to read a comment from someone who really understands the problems facing humanity here on Earth.
Consider that when you eat a slice of toast in the morning the energy you obtain from it is only 1/7th the Oil energy that was consumed just to get it to your breakfast table. Dr. Bartlett coined the phrase "Modern agriculture is nothing more than a way of using land to convert Oil into food!". If people understood that they'd worry less about 'getting back to the Moon' and more about replacing fossile fuel technology with something more permanent, if that is possible.
Gasahol is a subsidy for farmers, not a solution to our energy problem. Without Federal subsidies that program would die over night.
Hydrogen? I used to think so but I'm doubting it can replace gasoline, unless it's used to hydrogenate biocarbon sources.
Solar power towers feeding electricty into the power grid? Doable, but we'll have to convert to light, electric powered vehicles, which won't do anything for trucking, air transportation or heavy industry.
Regardless, humanity has to stop popping kids out of the womb like there is no tomorrow, or it won't matter what technology we derive to replace oil, the kids will eat us out of home and planet.
we see any Micrsoft ad campaign promoting "XP N" ?
A couple of media stories and some hype by sychophant 'analysts' and 'journalists'.
No wonder it died.
You doubt?
Since the USTPO approved just under half of the 179,000 patents applied for each year, you have a 50-50 chance of getting this one.
Enjoy the Bahamas!
included "claims" that covered:
* employees in the warehouse walking to the bin that contains the object,
* placing the object on the conveyer belt,
* passing it by an RFID detector,
* software that uses the RFID signal to add the object to the shipping invoice and,
* prints the invoice and,
* pastes it onto the box and,
* seals the box and,
* conveys it out to the trailer for shipping, and
* the employee stacking in the trailer.
After all, in your attempts to unlevel the playing field and block all competition, if you are going to patent trivial business processes that ALL businesses have been using since the web browser first appeared more than 10 years ago, why go just half way? Add a claim of customers walking to their mail box to pick up your delivered goods, forcing customers of competitive Internet businesses to crawl or run to their mailboxes, or risk legal prosecution for theft of Bozo's "IP". The USTPO doesn't care.