The easy, obvious, and self-serving interpretation: making programmers happy will make them more effective at solving problems.
Alternative interpretation: people who are good at solving problems are happier than people who aren't.
Corollary: maybe adding a foosball table in the lobby won't help after all.
No, this isn't ordinary DNA produced by synthetic means. If that were the case, it would be of little interest to anyone but a few specialists.
What's new is that THIS synthetic DNA uses a different set of bases. not the usual C, G, T, and A.
Presumably, therefore, it cannot usefully be read or replicated by the usual cellular machinery. That incompatibility makes it, arguably, less of a biohazard (or maybe more of a biohazard, since it might bind to the cellular machinery and gum up the works).
The potential applications for this synthetic DNA apparently involve using it as a structural component of nanostructures. Theoretically it could be used for high-density data storage, though it's hard to imagine how the information could be either written or read.
No, these aren't the oldest known signs of life on earth. There are fossils way older than 250 million years.
According to the article, this fuzz is the oldest known **biological material** on earth. Not the same thing.
My post was about the first motion, the motion to depose, which was reportedly denied outright. Barring a successful appeal, SCOX will indeed have to do without the depositions they sought.
The passage you cite refers to the second motion, the motion to compel, which was denied without prejudice. SCOX has thirty days to refile a corrected motion to compel. This motion is separate from the motion to depose, and not particularly related to it.
Judge Wells had set a deadline for the close of discovery, i.e. the process whereby the litigants can ask each other -- or third parties -- for disclosures of information via documents, depositions, and the like. There are certain exception to this deadline but they don't apply here.
SCO waited till the last minute to subpoena Intel, Oracle, and The Open Group, demanding that they provide witnesses for depositions. Besides being needlessly delayed, these subpoenas were procedurally defective in almost every way imaginable.
Naturally, the subpoenaed parties didn't show up for the scheduled depositions. That gave SCO an excuse to whine to the judge that they needed more time to do their depositions, because those other companies were misbehaving.
The judge's reply was, in essence: If you wanted to depose these people, you should have done it sooner, and you should have done it right. I gave you a deadline, I meant what I said, and now your time is up. You'll just have to do without those depositions.
The events beyond SCO's control were that the parties failed to respond as requested to subpoenas that were vague, overbroad, contradictory, untimely, fatally defective in various other procedural respects, and hence not binding on anyone.
However Judge Wells said that the subpoenas would have been untimely even if they had been flawless in other respects. The supoenaed parties would not have had time to respond appropriately.
Or as Linus put it once: even in some alternate universe in which SCO were right, they'd still be wrong.
Yes, I'm sure about SNET. At the time of the acquisition, SBC was desperately trying to get into the long distance business, which was still profitable at the time. As a independent with no Bell heritage, SNET was already offering long distance at a time when regulatory discrimination kept the Baby Bells out of that business. So far as I know, SNET was never part of the Bell system and therefore had greater freedom under the regulatory regime.
Verizon represents a combination of Bell Atlantic and Nynex (both Baby Bells), and later GTE (the biggest single non-Bell telco), and maybe some other bits and scraps that I'm not aware of.
Just to round out the picture, the cellular company Cingular is a joint venture between Bell South (another Baby Bell, based in Atlanta) and SBC.
At one time SBC was on the verge of acquiring Cox, the cable company, but one side or the other got cold feet at the last minute and backed out.
Most mature industries eventually become dominated by handful of major players surrounded by a buzzing swarm of niche players. From the beginning SBC was determined not to become a niche player, and sought to survive by dint of sheer size. So far they have pretty much succeeded.
"Southwestern United States" is perhaps a bit misleading, like the name "Southwestern Bell". The original territory included Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas -- of which only Texas would be considered clearly "Southwestern" by most people, rather than Midwestern or Southern.
Much of what would normally be considered "Southwestern," such as Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, in fact fell to US West, which later became Qwest.
The old Pac Bell territory covered California and parts of Nevada. The old Ameritech territory covered Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.
SBC also acquired Southern New England Telephone, an independent telco mostly confined to Connecticut. SNET had never been part of the original Bell system.
Depending on what you tell it in a configuration file, it removes or warns you about specified tags, attributes, and/or content bracketed by specified tags. You can use it as a filter and pipe the output into other tools as needed for other kinds of massaging.
If you find that history to be laughably wrong, tell us where it errs. You can post your corrections on the ip-wars site, anonymously or otherwise, and they won't be deleted.
If you're unwilling or unable to back up your accusation, there's no reason why anyone should pay any attention to you.
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The easy, obvious, and self-serving interpretation: making programmers happy will make them more effective at solving problems. Alternative interpretation: people who are good at solving problems are happier than people who aren't. Corollary: maybe adding a foosball table in the lobby won't help after all.
No, this isn't ordinary DNA produced by synthetic means. If that were the case, it would be of little interest to anyone but a few specialists.
What's new is that THIS synthetic DNA uses a different set of bases. not the usual C, G, T, and A.
Presumably, therefore, it cannot usefully be read or replicated by the usual cellular machinery. That incompatibility makes it, arguably, less of a biohazard (or maybe more of a biohazard, since it might bind to the cellular machinery and gum up the works).
The potential applications for this synthetic DNA apparently involve using it as a structural component of nanostructures. Theoretically it could be used for high-density data storage, though it's hard to imagine how the information could be either written or read.
No, these aren't the oldest known signs of life on earth. There are fossils way older than 250 million years. According to the article, this fuzz is the oldest known **biological material** on earth. Not the same thing.
Read the article again, more carefully this time.
My post was about the first motion, the motion to depose, which was reportedly denied outright. Barring a successful appeal, SCOX will indeed have to do without the depositions they sought.
The passage you cite refers to the second motion, the motion to compel, which was denied without prejudice. SCOX has thirty days to refile a corrected motion to compel. This motion is separate from the motion to depose, and not particularly related to it.
Judge Wells had set a deadline for the close of discovery, i.e. the process whereby the litigants can ask each other -- or third parties -- for disclosures of information via documents, depositions, and the like. There are certain exception to this deadline but they don't apply here.
SCO waited till the last minute to subpoena Intel, Oracle, and The Open Group, demanding that they provide witnesses for depositions. Besides being needlessly delayed, these subpoenas were procedurally defective in almost every way imaginable.
Naturally, the subpoenaed parties didn't show up for the scheduled depositions. That gave SCO an excuse to whine to the judge that they needed more time to do their depositions, because those other companies were misbehaving.
The judge's reply was, in essence: If you wanted to depose these people, you should have done it sooner, and you should have done it right. I gave you a deadline, I meant what I said, and now your time is up. You'll just have to do without those depositions.
The events beyond SCO's control were that the parties failed to respond as requested to subpoenas that were vague, overbroad, contradictory, untimely, fatally defective in various other procedural respects, and hence not binding on anyone.
However Judge Wells said that the subpoenas would have been untimely even if they had been flawless in other respects. The supoenaed parties would not have had time to respond appropriately.
Or as Linus put it once: even in some alternate universe in which SCO were right, they'd still be wrong.
Yes, I'm sure about SNET. At the time of the acquisition, SBC was desperately trying to get into the long distance business, which was still profitable at the time. As a independent with no Bell heritage, SNET was already offering long distance at a time when regulatory discrimination kept the Baby Bells out of that business. So far as I know, SNET was never part of the Bell system and therefore had greater freedom under the regulatory regime.
Verizon represents a combination of Bell Atlantic and Nynex (both Baby Bells), and later GTE (the biggest single non-Bell telco), and maybe some other bits and scraps that I'm not aware of.
Just to round out the picture, the cellular company Cingular is a joint venture between Bell South (another Baby Bell, based in Atlanta) and SBC.
At one time SBC was on the verge of acquiring Cox, the cable company, but one side or the other got cold feet at the last minute and backed out.
Most mature industries eventually become dominated by handful of major players surrounded by a buzzing swarm of niche players. From the beginning SBC was determined not to become a niche player, and sought to survive by dint of sheer size. So far they have pretty much succeeded.
"Southwestern United States" is perhaps a bit misleading, like the name "Southwestern Bell". The original territory included Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Arkansas -- of which only Texas would be considered clearly "Southwestern" by most people, rather than Midwestern or Southern.
Much of what would normally be considered "Southwestern," such as Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado, in fact fell to US West, which later became Qwest.
The old Pac Bell territory covered California and parts of Nevada. The old Ameritech territory covered Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana.
SBC also acquired Southern New England Telephone, an independent telco mostly confined to Connecticut. SNET had never been part of the original Bell system.
Depending on what you tell it in a configuration file, it removes or warns you about specified tags, attributes, and/or content bracketed by specified tags. You can use it as a filter and pipe the output into other tools as needed for other kinds of massaging.
If you find that history to be laughably wrong, tell us where it errs. You can post your corrections on the ip-wars site, anonymously or otherwise, and they won't be deleted. If you're unwilling or unable to back up your accusation, there's no reason why anyone should pay any attention to you.