This has nothing to do with emotions or maintinaing scientific objectivity. They needed raw materials for their work and got them from the easiest place.
It is obvious that they had a big problem getting hold of eggs to do their work and this was stopping their research. The fact that they are not allowed to even pay for these eggs but must get them for free is stupid.
It is this "morality" that gets in the way of science. Science is neither good nor bad. If Albert Einstein had buggered old ladies to get to the theory of reletivity does not change the theory of relativity one bit.
The Dr in this case did great science and that is what is important. I will tell you right now that there are many many scientists who "use themselves" for their research. I will giive old examples to not get anyone in trouble...I remember some papers from David Shemin and D. Rittenberg from 1945-46 published in the Journal of Biological Chemisrty where one of the two (they never say which) ate something like 60 grams of radioactive Glycine and followed its path in their own bodies to discover that glycine is used to make the heme ring as found in hemoglobin. This was a major discovery and allowed us to work out the lifetime of a red blood cell..for example.
Researchers have never been expected to remain unemotional. They would not do it if they didnt care.... It is sure as hell not for the money. What you must remain is objective and critical of your own work, then you must get critisism from others and defend against their comments.
In my book the Prof did nothing wrong and this was just a witch hunt. His findings will live on. To all those who say he should have known what was going on are very niave. No boss is in total control of everything, when his own people went behind his back they did it with intent and there can be no blame on him. When he found out in my opinion he then did the morally right thing and protected his people. There was never any indication that any of the science was wrong. And believe it or not Nature is about science not eithics.
Let us not forget this research is done to save lives.
"If your system worked before, and interference from the new guy makes it stop working, you can force them off the airwaves."
You are so wrong it is almost funny. However the danger is that you spout like you have a well informed truth. The spectrum in unliscenced. Hence within the transmission powerlimits anyone is free to use it as they will. If I want to broadcast static across all channels or if I want to play sounds of me smacking my head I am free to do so, Provided I do not exceed the transmission power allowed.I can even jam everyone else if I want.....provided I do not exceed the transmission power allowed....Nobody can stop me. That is the whole idea of this spectrum being open. The idea is that is will force cooperation as if people dont play nice then nobody plays!/And have a nice day.
I do not think it matters who wrote the code in the first place. Sony sells the code and so has the responsibility...simple as that. In the same way that if i buy a PS3 and the disc drive is broken SONY cant tell me to take it up with Toshiba or whoever makes the drive. They sold it and they must deal with the consequences. They themselves are free to take it up with their supplier but this up to them.
Imagine you buy a car and the brakes fail the maunfacturer cant avoid liability by saying that it is the fault of the guy who refined the steel and that i should take it up with him.
If it was the case that guilt could be passed down the line then all drug dealers would go free by saying it wasnt my fault you should prosecute the Afgan farmer who planted the poppies, I am merely "passing" it along.
It does not matter who is at FAULT it matters who is RESPONSIBLE.
QVGA.... is the best resolution ever! If you can not see how much better it is please report to your local apple fanboy education centre where we will re-adjust your eyes.
Your arguments that bittorrent is a pancea of P2P is niave. Bit torrent is very good for popular content but very poor at rare content. There are many many movies books and sound recordings that are out of copyright. These can be shared for free.
There are some things that can not be bought for love nor money. I will give you an example. There were two mini series written by Dennis Potter on his deathbed. The first being Karaoke and the second Cold Lazarus. These two were works of pure genius. The BBC and C4 refuse to release the mini-series in any format. What to do?
There are many more books and other works that are now in the public domain but that are only availible on P2P networks due to the huge storage space availible from all the participants. If they are not kept alive they will dissapear!
Many I be the first to agree with you. I want in my heart of hearts to be able to install Linux on my fathers computer. This is to save myself hours of tech support over the phone with his various spyware/malware/networking/foo issues with Windows.
The problem is I want my father to be able to configure and install things. For him to do that he needs a system that works. When he buys a new camera or scanner or webcam he wants a single app on a CD or website that he can download and clik and automagic it works.
For him to wank around trying to install his wifi dongle with ndiswrapper is not on. For him to edit config files is not on. He wants to use his computer not spend his evenings RTFMing. He wants to copy and paste a picture from his browser into his text doc with CTRL-C CTRL-V not anything else.
When you get him as a user this is when the world will change because he will be the guy jamming the phonelines of companies asking why they dont have linux drivers for his new dongle. He will be the guy who takes it back to the shop for a refund when it dosent work. He will make the clerk find one that is supported.
A good example IMHO is nvidia who have a very nice binary installer for their drivers. I just wish he could click and have it run. I still dont understand why it cant change a single line in xorg.conf/xf86conf from nv to nvidia. (As regards them not releasing the source...it is their code and they can do what they want with it!...In my opinion not the best choice but it is their choice.)
Then with something like kpackage and others I will feel safe letting my dad go. Until this time I will keep him on WinXP.
Here is a point you are missing. When a child steals from you you have lost someting and can show damages. This is a criminal case. When the child copies music it was NOT stealing. No object was taken. This is about a civil case.
I agree with you completly. However they do last much much longer than regular batteries. Therefore they are much better for the enviroment in the long run.
My gripe with the tax is that they (*.gov.*) should me making some form of incentive for the use of rechargables rather than disposable betteries. In the same way that there are tax breaks for envoromentaly friendly cars and fuels, so maybe they could do better by encouraging the use of rechargables. I am not upset at the tax per-se as the wisdom behind it.
Secondly the tax in not the same on a per-battery basis. It is infact on the retail cost of the unit. Now as a question of useage I dont think I have ever got to the end of life a AA rechargable battery. I mean when they are quasi dead and can not power a digital camera, they can still go great into a tv remote or a wall clock.
May I wish them all my support. As far as I see it it is a tax that is paid to a private company. In the same way that when ever I do a data back-up I must pay "sony et al" some money for the "blank media" . This is in Portugal at least. One shop tha tI know....mediamarkt. Actually puts how much you pay on he receipt. In this way I found out I was also paying a "recycling" tax on my RECHARGABLE batteries.
It is ok to quote the law but to understand it is something else. As was posted before there are acceptable levels for the number and type of dead pixels. It is dependant on resolution and not size of screen. If the screen is class 1 you are not allowed any. ( I have never seen a class 1 screen) Class 2 (most that are sold) have complicated limits on dead pixels. Always on or always off is worse than one of the colors not working etc.. if they are clustered or not also makes a difference. From what I remember for a 1024 x 768 you are not allowed 2 always on 2 awlways off. Or 4 with color failure. For a smaller screen it would be less. Therefore I would GUESS that the limit is 1 for each case on a PSP. Maybe someone in the know would know.
Finally some sense, I agree with the parent. I have a 170 EURO canon printer that gives beutiful color photo color pictures. Far superior to anything a laser can do. From Canon that ink is much cheaper than HP for example. They do not have any lame asses DRM in the cartriges and are refillable should you choose. To say all injets are the same is the same as saying all laser printers are the same. SOme suck and some are good.
Also not all of us want to spend 400 EUR on a printer so that when the toners run out we have 400EUR more for 4 toners.
"The reason we haven't moved to metric is that we have too much momentum built up in society for anyone to switch over. "...well we switched over in the UK without too much trouble. Change the law, and dont teach the old system in schools. Worked for us. Was in europe when they changed the currency, that went pretty smoothly too. People are quite adaptable.
>>In some places, it's verboten for women to bare their necks or ankles (much less anything else) in public....
Well where I live it is illegal for my wife to bare her naked breasts in public. I demand her freedom!
But seriously they have their laws and we have ours, you cant really compare human rights with laws regarding decency. Dont get me worng I am all for emancipation but please choose your battles better.
On a interesting side note , in the UK I believe we do not have a freedom of speech. CAn someone confirm this?
Am making this comment not so much to the parent as the mods. Insightful! Insightful!....are oyu on crack.
Do not use common sense is no good in science. Common sense tells you the world is flat. Mutations occur at random.
They can become widespread in a populaiton that started with a few members (founder effect).
They are much more likley to surface , if recessive, in populations with inbreeding (I dont mean with cousins and stuff like that but in small populations)
Now most people do not understand how natural selection works. It is NOT survival of the fittest . It is eradication of the not "fit" enough.
The dodo is the perfect example. It had an easy life free of predators and then suddenly the world changed and there were predators and the dodo could not cope.
If you have a gene that causes a disease but it does not kill you and you pass the gene on it is of the same value as having a normal gene. If you dont breed and pass it on it is bad.
If a gene makes you have more kids and more of them survivie then it is good.
(I mean this half as a joke and half as truth. The catholic church is doing a great job of removing from the populaiton genes for people who will be preists!!)
In summary the MAJORITY of your genome is pure junk with no function what so ever. To say that benefit is required for something to remain in the gene pool is false.
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Dear Narcc,
Thank you for the links provided however I must ask that you send more before I can form a balanced opinion onthis very tricky subject.
Yrs,
MrSev
This has nothing to do with emotions or maintinaing scientific objectivity. They needed raw materials for their work and got them from the easiest place.
..for example.
It is obvious that they had a big problem getting hold of eggs to do their work and this was stopping their research. The fact that they are not allowed to even pay for these eggs but must get them for free is stupid.
It is this "morality" that gets in the way of science. Science is neither good nor bad. If Albert Einstein had buggered old ladies to get to the theory of reletivity does not change the theory of relativity one bit.
The Dr in this case did great science and that is what is important. I will tell you right now that there are many many scientists who "use themselves" for their research. I will giive old examples to not get anyone in trouble...I remember some papers from David Shemin and D. Rittenberg from 1945-46 published in the Journal of Biological Chemisrty where one of the two (they never say which) ate something like 60 grams of radioactive Glycine and followed its path in their own bodies to discover that glycine is used to make the heme ring as found in hemoglobin. This was a major discovery and allowed us to work out the lifetime of a red blood cell
Researchers have never been expected to remain unemotional. They would not do it if they didnt care.... It is sure as hell not for the money. What you must remain is objective and critical of your own work, then you must get critisism from others and defend against their comments.
In my book the Prof did nothing wrong and this was just a witch hunt. His findings will live on. To all those who say he should have known what was going on are very niave. No boss is in total control of everything, when his own people went behind his back they did it with intent and there can be no blame on him. When he found out in my opinion he then did the morally right thing and protected his people. There was never any indication that any of the science was wrong. And believe it or not Nature is about science not eithics.
Let us not forget this research is done to save lives.
.
"If your system worked before, and interference from the new guy makes it stop working, you can force them off the airwaves."
.....provided I do not exceed the transmission power allowed....Nobody can stop me. That is the whole idea of this spectrum being open. The idea is that is will force cooperation as if people dont play nice then nobody plays! /And have a nice day.
You are so wrong it is almost funny. However the danger is that you spout like you have a well informed truth. The spectrum in unliscenced. Hence within the transmission powerlimits anyone is free to use it as they will. If I want to broadcast static across all channels or if I want to play sounds of me smacking my head I am free to do so, Provided I do not exceed the transmission power allowed.I can even jam everyone else if I want
IANAL but ....
I do not think it matters who wrote the code in the first place. Sony sells the code and so has the responsibility...simple as that. In the same way that if i buy a PS3 and the disc drive is broken SONY cant tell me to take it up with Toshiba or whoever makes the drive. They sold it and they must deal with the consequences. They themselves are free to take it up with their supplier but this up to them.
Imagine you buy a car and the brakes fail the maunfacturer cant avoid liability by saying that it is the fault of the guy who refined the steel and that i should take it up with him.
If it was the case that guilt could be passed down the line then all drug dealers would go free by saying it wasnt my fault you should prosecute the Afgan farmer who planted the poppies, I am merely "passing" it along.
It does not matter who is at FAULT it matters who is RESPONSIBLE.
QVGA.... is the best resolution ever! If you can not see how much better it is please report to your local apple fanboy education centre where we will re-adjust your eyes.
>Microsoft Maginot Defender
With a backdoor called Belgium?
Your arguments that bittorrent is a pancea of P2P is niave. Bit torrent is very good for popular content but very poor at rare content. There are many many movies books and sound recordings that are out of copyright. These can be shared for free.
There are some things that can not be bought for love nor money. I will give you an example. There were two mini series written by Dennis Potter on his deathbed. The first being Karaoke and the second Cold Lazarus. These two were works of pure genius. The BBC and C4 refuse to release the mini-series in any format. What to do?
There are many more books and other works that are now in the public domain but that are only availible on P2P networks due to the huge storage space availible from all the participants. If they are not kept alive they will dissapear!
.
Many I be the first to agree with you. I want in my heart of hearts to be able to install Linux on my fathers computer. This is to save myself hours of tech support over the phone with his various spyware/malware/networking/foo issues with Windows.
...it is their code and they can do what they want with it!...In my opinion not the best choice but it is their choice.)
The problem is I want my father to be able to configure and install things. For him to do that he needs a system that works. When he buys a new camera or scanner or webcam he wants a single app on a CD or website that he can download and clik and automagic it works.
For him to wank around trying to install his wifi dongle with ndiswrapper is not on. For him to edit config files is not on. He wants to use his computer not spend his evenings RTFMing. He wants to copy and paste a picture from his browser into his text doc with CTRL-C CTRL-V not anything else.
When you get him as a user this is when the world will change because he will be the guy jamming the phonelines of companies asking why they dont have linux drivers for his new dongle. He will be the guy who takes it back to the shop for a refund when it dosent work. He will make the clerk find one that is supported.
A good example IMHO is nvidia who have a very nice binary installer for their drivers. I just wish he could click and have it run. I still dont understand why it cant change a single line in xorg.conf/xf86conf from nv to nvidia. (As regards them not releasing the source
Then with something like kpackage and others I will feel safe letting my dad go. Until this time I will keep him on WinXP.
"and when a child steals from me"
Here is a point you are missing. When a child steals from you you have lost someting and can show damages. This is a criminal case. When the child copies music it was NOT stealing. No object was taken. This is about a civil case.
"If I want to burn his book, I don't need permission either."
Well you do need permission from the person that owns the copy of the book you wish to burn!
I agree with you completly. However they do last much much longer than regular batteries. Therefore they are much better for the enviroment in the long run.
My gripe with the tax is that they (*.gov.*) should me making some form of incentive for the use of rechargables rather than disposable betteries. In the same way that there are tax breaks for envoromentaly friendly cars and fuels, so maybe they could do better by encouraging the use of rechargables. I am not upset at the tax per-se as the wisdom behind it.
Secondly the tax in not the same on a per-battery basis. It is infact on the retail cost of the unit. Now as a question of useage I dont think I have ever got to the end of life a AA rechargable battery. I mean when they are quasi dead and can not power a digital camera, they can still go great into a tv remote or a wall clock.
May I wish them all my support. As far as I see it it is a tax that is paid to a private company. In the same way that when ever I do a data back-up I must pay "sony et al" some money for the "blank media" . This is in Portugal at least. One shop tha tI know....mediamarkt. Actually puts how much you pay on he receipt. In this way I found out I was also paying a "recycling" tax on my RECHARGABLE batteries.
"They shaft us coz we take it!"
>Would you like to see Micro$oft release a software product called Linux?
YES YES YES! I would love to see that.
It is ok to quote the law but to understand it is something else. As was posted before there are acceptable levels for the number and type of dead pixels. It is dependant on resolution and not size of screen. If the screen is class 1 you are not allowed any. ( I have never seen a class 1 screen) Class 2 (most that are sold) have complicated limits on dead pixels. Always on or always off is worse than one of the colors not working etc.. if they are clustered or not also makes a difference. From what I remember for a 1024 x 768 you are not allowed 2 always on 2 awlways off. Or 4 with color failure. For a smaller screen it would be less. Therefore I would GUESS that the limit is 1 for each case on a PSP. Maybe someone in the know would know.
There is a simple explanation here
http://www.scan.co.uk/iso.asp
Finally some sense, I agree with the parent. I have a 170 EURO canon printer that gives beutiful color photo color pictures. Far superior to anything a laser can do. From Canon that ink is much cheaper than HP for example. They do not have any lame asses DRM in the cartriges and are refillable should you choose. To say all injets are the same is the same as saying all laser printers are the same. SOme suck and some are good.
Also not all of us want to spend 400 EUR on a printer so that when the toners run out we have 400EUR more for 4 toners.
"The reason we haven't moved to metric is that we have too much momentum built up in society for anyone to switch over. " ...well we switched over in the UK without too much trouble. Change the law, and dont teach the old system in schools. Worked for us. Was in europe when they changed the currency, that went pretty smoothly too. People are quite adaptable.
>>In some places, it's verboten for women to bare their necks or ankles (much less anything else) in public....
Well where I live it is illegal for my wife to bare her naked breasts in public. I demand her freedom!
But seriously they have their laws and we have ours, you cant really compare human rights with laws regarding decency. Dont get me worng I am all for emancipation but please choose your battles better.
On a interesting side note , in the UK I believe we do not have a freedom of speech. CAn someone confirm this?
Am making this comment not so much to the parent as the mods. Insightful! Insightful! ....are oyu on crack.
Do not use common sense is no good in science. Common sense tells you the world is flat. Mutations occur at random.
They can become widespread in a populaiton that started with a few members (founder effect).
They are much more likley to surface , if recessive, in populations with inbreeding (I dont mean with cousins and stuff like that but in small populations)
Now most people do not understand how natural selection works. It is NOT survival of the fittest . It is eradication of the not "fit" enough.
The dodo is the perfect example. It had an easy life free of predators and then suddenly the world changed and there were predators and the dodo could not cope.
If you have a gene that causes a disease but it does not kill you and you pass the gene on it is of the same value as having a normal gene. If you dont breed and pass it on it is bad.
If a gene makes you have more kids and more of them survivie then it is good.
(I mean this half as a joke and half as truth. The catholic church is doing a great job of removing from the populaiton genes for people who will be preists!!)
In summary the MAJORITY of your genome is pure junk with no function what so ever. To say that benefit is required for something to remain in the gene pool is false.
....find a job you are good at!
...Ah those were the days.
/childhood
512k Ram.
No hard drive.
Mountains of floppies everywhere.
I even remember not being able to afford to upgrade to a whole Mb of RAM.
As a side note I saw some Dungeon Master java versions floating around the net.
.
..well. How about not hosting your site in the US of A.
That should make it at least a little harder to let the FBI shut you down!
...Listen very carefully. I shall say this only once.
YOU CAN BE SUED FOR ANYTHING BY ANYONE. Will they win the case, that is the important part?
.
No I refuse I want to run M$ Virtual Machine instead.
"Should I expect less if I make jerky motions into my pockets when a police officer pulls me over for a routine traffic accident?"
Well in most countries making "jerky motions" in you r pockets will get you arrested for performing indecent acts in public.
I know nothing! I just click all the links on a slashdot page and hope for the best!