What they mean when they say the AIDS virus is 100 years old is that it was transmitted from apes (chimpanzees) to humans 100 years ago. The chimpanzee virus it came from is called SIV-cpz. It, in turn, evolved from other, related viruses. So it didn't just form out of whole cloth. It evolved from something related.
Antenna Web is a good place to find out what stations have digital signals in your area, what direction they are in and what is your best bet for antennas to purchase. They also have ratings/reviews of antennas by users.
The people? Yes, the people should own this. But putting the patents in the public domain isn't the way to benefit the people. Do you really think you can use a spaceship-based GPS system? Putting this in the public domain is a freebie for businesses. If you want the people to benefit most from their tax dollars, NASA should be like the National Institutes of Health and have a licensing office (cheap and pays for itself, despite what someone else here said) and collect license fees to enhance NASA's funding and decreasing the amount of funding that comes from tax dollars.
Auctioning off these patents is more of the Republican agenda of weakening the government at every chance they get to the benefit of big business.
Although this bill is popular among both Republicans and Democrats, it is not a done deal. If you are concerned about this, please contact your Senator and Congressperson.
I'd like to know who sponsored this abomination, and which memebers of the judiciary committee voted for it?
The "Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008" is a merger of two bills, the PRO-IP Act and the PIRATE Act. The PRO-IP Act, which passed the House by a wide margin last year was introduced by a bipartisan group, including John Conyers (D-MI), Lamar Smith (R-TX), and "Hollywood" Howard Berman (D-CA). The PIRATE Act is also bipartisan and was introduced by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Orin Hatch (R-UT).
So the "Democrat" tag on this article is unfair, unless "Republican" is also added.
Funny enough, in 2008, they've managed to knock their costs for said text messages down to zero. 300 million citizens times 10 messages a day times 10 cents minus ZERO costs - zero real competition = OUTRAGEOUS PROFITS!
A man and a woman are honeymooning at the beach. The current takes the woman away and she is lost. The man and police attempt to find her, but they fail.
A few days later, the man goes to the police station for an update. The policeman says "I have some bad news, some good news and some very good news. Which do you want first?
The man says, "please give me the bad news first."
The policeman says, "I'm afraid your wife has drowned. We found the body earlier today."
The man is heartbroken, but asks, "well, what is the good news?"
"When we pulled her up, she was just covered in Dungeness crabs and lobsters. I have to say, it was really good eating!"
The man is shocked, but manages to ask for the very good news.
This isn't for browsers because browsers don't have "pages" in the sense that WYSIWYG printed documents do. The patented method goes from page 1 to page 2 regardless of the zoom.
Having said that, when I'm zoomed in on the first half of page one, I expect Page Down to put me on the second half of page one, so the patent is basically protecting their buggy implementation of Page Down.
During the Cultural Revolution, Mao Tze Tung launched a program called "Let One Thousand Flowers Bloom", where he encouraged dialog and dissent. It was, in fact, a ploy to let the real enemies of the government identify themselves so they could be further repressed.
I think what could be happening here is a short program to appease foreign countries while the Olympics take place, and where thought-criminals will be identified by their web-surfing behavior.
And (of course) it all runs on Internet Explorer! Yeah... this is going to turn out GREAT.
Wait a minute. Is that their plan? The courts said they can't force people to use their browser because of monopoly issues. But now they can say it's not a browser, it's an OS!
This drug is in the second of three phases which are required prior to FDA approval.
Phase 1: safety at various dosages
Phase 2: small test of efficacy and determining proper dosage
Phase 3: larger test of efficacy
It is still years away from the market. There was a screw-up in the formulation of the highest dose in this study, and the lowest dose had no effect, so only the middle of three doses tried had any effect. I found that out here
I think what people are missing is that in this day and age, private companies are lobbying for a piece of the action. I doubt some Congress-critter thought this law up themselves. Most likely, someone from some company somewhere approached a Congressperson and told them what a great idea this would be and how they'd be so happy to donate to their reelection campaign.
I remember hearing about some program (Reading First or something) to get kids to read. It mandated using specific textbooks and was a huge gift to one particular company. I think that's what's happening here.
In Chinese restaurants, waiters pour a bit of the leftover tea onto the table to clean it. They say it works much better than plain water. Ho gon-jeng! (very clean)
a G5 starts at $1800 and you can get a IBM ThinkCentre S50 for around $900.
If the G5 is so overpriced, why then does the cheapest, most powerful supercomputer consist of G5s? The third most powerful supercomputer in the world is an array of G5s that was much cheaper than many of the supercomputers slower than it.
The fact is, the IBM ThinkCentre S50 is not comparable to the G5. A good, fast Mac that businesses should be looking at is the iMac.
What is the optimal amount of RAM and flash to have? As much as possible is not the answer. The more you have, the more you increase your chances of getting corruption from radiation. Enough to do the job is probably the answer.
What I would like to see is redundant RAM and flash to avoid corruption. Something like a RAID disk array, but for RAM and flash.
If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the toes of giants.
I know nothing about microbiology, yet I know from NPR that only the structure of the receptor has been determined, not the entire gene sequence of the virus. Granted, I'm not sure if the receptor is what made it so virulent and deadly, but the rest of the virus is still unknown.
The receptor isn't part of the virus. It is the part of the human/bird/pig that the virus binds to.
1. Prodigy. The online service that went up against AOL, delphi, compuserve, etc. I remember at a MacWorld Expo, some guy shoving a Prodigy bag in my hand. I chucked it in the trash, since I didn't want to be seen with it.
2. Oh, and Apple's eWorld. A year after eWorld was canned, I went into a Babbage's and found a shrink-wrapped copy of eWorld sitting on the shelf. Man, they sure keep up on Mac software.
3. Rhapsody/Copland. When Apple was on the ropes after Scully left, they desperately needed a new OS to replace the long-in-the-tooth Mac OS. Rhapsody and Copland wasted so much of developers time (read: years) learning to write code for an OS that would never be released. Books were even written on it and it never happened. This really damaged Apple a lot. Thank god they went with *nix.
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What they mean when they say the AIDS virus is 100 years old is that it was transmitted from apes (chimpanzees) to humans 100 years ago. The chimpanzee virus it came from is called SIV-cpz. It, in turn, evolved from other, related viruses. So it didn't just form out of whole cloth. It evolved from something related.
Antenna Web is a good place to find out what stations have digital signals in your area, what direction they are in and what is your best bet for antennas to purchase. They also have ratings/reviews of antennas by users.
The people? Yes, the people should own this. But putting the patents in the public domain isn't the way to benefit the people. Do you really think you can use a spaceship-based GPS system? Putting this in the public domain is a freebie for businesses. If you want the people to benefit most from their tax dollars, NASA should be like the National Institutes of Health and have a licensing office (cheap and pays for itself, despite what someone else here said) and collect license fees to enhance NASA's funding and decreasing the amount of funding that comes from tax dollars.
Auctioning off these patents is more of the Republican agenda of weakening the government at every chance they get to the benefit of big business.
They should follow the beer-ware model. They won't get rich, but boy will they have fun!
Although this bill is popular among both Republicans and Democrats, it is not a done deal. If you are concerned about this, please contact your Senator and Congressperson.
I'd like to know who sponsored this abomination, and which memebers of the judiciary committee voted for it?
The "Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008" is a merger of two bills, the PRO-IP Act and the PIRATE Act. The PRO-IP Act, which passed the House by a wide margin last year was introduced by a bipartisan group, including John Conyers (D-MI), Lamar Smith (R-TX), and "Hollywood" Howard Berman (D-CA). The PIRATE Act is also bipartisan and was introduced by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Orin Hatch (R-UT).
So the "Democrat" tag on this article is unfair, unless "Republican" is also added.
Funny enough, in 2008, they've managed to knock their costs for said text messages down to zero. 300 million citizens times 10 messages a day times 10 cents minus ZERO costs - zero real competition = OUTRAGEOUS PROFITS!
A man and a woman are honeymooning at the beach. The current takes the woman away and she is lost. The man and police attempt to find her, but they fail.
A few days later, the man goes to the police station for an update. The policeman says "I have some bad news, some good news and some very good news. Which do you want first?
The man says, "please give me the bad news first."
The policeman says, "I'm afraid your wife has drowned. We found the body earlier today."
The man is heartbroken, but asks, "well, what is the good news?"
"When we pulled her up, she was just covered in Dungeness crabs and lobsters. I have to say, it was really good eating!"
The man is shocked, but manages to ask for the very good news.
"We're going to pull her up again tomorrow!"
This isn't for browsers because browsers don't have "pages" in the sense that WYSIWYG printed documents do. The patented method goes from page 1 to page 2 regardless of the zoom.
Having said that, when I'm zoomed in on the first half of page one, I expect Page Down to put me on the second half of page one, so the patent is basically protecting their buggy implementation of Page Down.
No it is not. You could, for example, say "Joe Smith was briefly a suspect, but it turned out he had a valid alibi."
or cars with dirty plates, but otherwise, why bother?
I think you answered yourself right here.
During the Cultural Revolution, Mao Tze Tung launched a program called "Let One Thousand Flowers Bloom", where he encouraged dialog and dissent. It was, in fact, a ploy to let the real enemies of the government identify themselves so they could be further repressed.
I think what could be happening here is a short program to appease foreign countries while the Olympics take place, and where thought-criminals will be identified by their web-surfing behavior.
And (of course) it all runs on Internet Explorer! Yeah... this is going to turn out GREAT.
Wait a minute. Is that their plan? The courts said they can't force people to use their browser because of monopoly issues. But now they can say it's not a browser, it's an OS!
This drug is in the second of three phases which are required prior to FDA approval.
Phase 1: safety at various dosages
Phase 2: small test of efficacy and determining proper dosage
Phase 3: larger test of efficacy
It is still years away from the market. There was a screw-up in the formulation of the highest dose in this study, and the lowest dose had no effect, so only the middle of three doses tried had any effect. I found that out here
I think what people are missing is that in this day and age, private companies are lobbying for a piece of the action. I doubt some Congress-critter thought this law up themselves. Most likely, someone from some company somewhere approached a Congressperson and told them what a great idea this would be and how they'd be so happy to donate to their reelection campaign.
I remember hearing about some program (Reading First or something) to get kids to read. It mandated using specific textbooks and was a huge gift to one particular company. I think that's what's happening here.
Long live the pentium.
In Chinese restaurants, waiters pour a bit of the leftover tea onto the table to clean it. They say it works much better than plain water. Ho gon-jeng! (very clean)
a G5 starts at $1800 and you can get a IBM ThinkCentre S50 for around $900.
If the G5 is so overpriced, why then does the cheapest, most powerful supercomputer consist of G5s? The third most powerful supercomputer in the world is an array of G5s that was much cheaper than many of the supercomputers slower than it.
The fact is, the IBM ThinkCentre S50 is not comparable to the G5. A good, fast Mac that businesses should be looking at is the iMac.
Daimler-Chrysler is a 15% shareholder in Deutsche Bank which provided the propup funds to SCO which is suing Daimler-Chrysler.
SCO accidentally sues itself!
What is the optimal amount of RAM and flash to have? As much as possible is not the answer. The more you have, the more you increase your chances of getting corruption from radiation. Enough to do the job is probably the answer.
What I would like to see is redundant RAM and flash to avoid corruption. Something like a RAID disk array, but for RAM and flash.
If I have seen further, it is because I have stood on the toes of giants.
I know nothing about microbiology, yet I know from NPR that only the structure of the receptor has been determined, not the entire gene sequence of the virus. Granted, I'm not sure if the receptor is what made it so virulent and deadly, but the rest of the virus is still unknown.
The receptor isn't part of the virus. It is the part of the human/bird/pig that the virus binds to.
The Yugo izn't rated the worst because of its looks.
It's because it leaks oil like Ronald Reagan leaks drool.
Guess how many deaf children are on the list this time!
I wonder if that canyon was formed by the big flood in the bible, like the Grand Canyon was. That's what a book being sold in the GC gift shop says.
1. Prodigy. The online service that went up against AOL, delphi, compuserve, etc. I remember at a MacWorld Expo, some guy shoving a Prodigy bag in my hand. I chucked it in the trash, since I didn't want to be seen with it.
2. Oh, and Apple's eWorld. A year after eWorld was canned, I went into a Babbage's and found a shrink-wrapped copy of eWorld sitting on the shelf. Man, they sure keep up on Mac software.
3. Rhapsody/Copland. When Apple was on the ropes after Scully left, they desperately needed a new OS to replace the long-in-the-tooth Mac OS. Rhapsody and Copland wasted so much of developers time (read: years) learning to write code for an OS that would never be released. Books were even written on it and it never happened. This really damaged Apple a lot. Thank god they went with *nix.