Uh, Acid has been available on the PC for years now. That is pretty much the same thing that Garage Band is. Looping small bits of music into a larger song.
Nike argued that in the Cali Supreme Court and lost. Then the US Supreme court said, ``Don't bug us about this''
Personally I am sick and tired of the corporate welfare program that exists in the US. If you don't have a viable business plan, you should and will fail....unless you are a huge multi-national company that owns a few senators.
I realize you are talking about rights of a company vs a community but what about the community vs the individual?
I live in Oregon and I own a lot next to my house that I decided to sell. The lot is between two houses and is backed by a public street. ``Common sense'' would dictate that I should have been able to sell the lot MONTHS ago to a buyer. However there is a runoff of water that drains from the street and in Oregon, this somehow qualifies as wetlands. I have to get buyoff from Washington county, The Oregon Division of State Land AND the Army corps of engineers!
I can assure you the ``little guy'' is getting screwed by other ``little guys''
Just because you have more people looking at the code does not guarantee a level of quality, because those people might not be the most-qualified people to do code review....I'm just simply saying that more in number does not mean it's more in quality.
Mr. Taylor, does this statement mean that spending more on a Microsoft product doesn't mean I am getting the best thing out there?
Just because you have a bunch folks out in the community that have the access to look at open-source product means that, by default, it will be more secure or higher quality.
However, I always have found networking with my peers provides much more desireable results. I have a bad taste in my mouth from dealing with the job sites because you usually have to go through headhunting firms to even find out the details.
Scientists create a virus that reproduces
By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
It is the stuff of science fiction and bioethical debates: The creation of artificial life. Up until now, it's largely been just that.
But an important technical bridge towards the creation of such life was crossed Thursday when genomics pioneer Craig Venter announced that his research group created an artificial virus based on a real one in just two weeks' time.
When researchers created a synthetic genome (genetic map) of the virus and implanted it into a cell, the virus became "biologically active," meaning it went to work reproducing itself.
Venter cautioned that the creation of artificial human or animal life is a long way off because the synthetic bacteriophage -- the virus that was created -- is a much simpler life form. Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria.
The project was funded in part by the Department of Energy, which hopes to create microbes that would capture carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, produce hydrogen or clean the environment.
But the questions ethicists have raised about such work are numerous: Should we be playing God? Does the potential for good that new life forms may have outweigh the harm they could do?
Arthur Caplan, who heads the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics, says yes. This technology "is impressive. It's powerful and it should be treated with humility and caution," Caplan says, "But we should do it."
A genome is made up of DNA "letters," or base pairs, that combine to "spell" an individual's chromosomes. The human genome project was completed in April.
This summer, researchers at Venter's Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives bought commercially available strands of DNA and, using a new technology, coaxed them together to form a duplicate of the genome of a bacteriophage called phi X.
"It's a very important technical advance," says Gerald Rubin, a molecular geneticist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "You can envision the day when one could sit down at a computer, design a genome and then build it. We're still inventing the tools to make that happen, and this is an important one."
Venter notes the synthetic bacteriophage has 5,000 base pairs in its genome. The human genome has 3 billion, so similar work in human form probably won't happen in this decade, he says.
To date, the largest genome that was synthesized was the 7,500-base-pair polio virus. But that was only semi-functional and took three years to complete.
The researchers chose to put the new technology into the public domain for all scientists to use. It will appear in the next few weeks on the Web site of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The technology raises safety issues, says David Magnus of Stanford's Center for Biomedical Ethics. Even putting it in the public domain is "a double-edged sword," he says. That presumes that allowing everyone access will keep the good guys ahead of the bad guys. "It's a gamble.... It's a bet that everyone has a stake in," he says.
I just want to point out that Evolution is Ximians's Outlook clone. Ximian itself is / was a company and possibly could be reffered to as a desk top.
Thanks,
Danny
Too bad I can't get my telco to disassociate my data line from my voice line. I realize they are the same piece of wire but I seriously doubt I need to have a voice line just to run DSL over it. My guess is that the voice line is just a pre-qulaification for DSL.
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Uh, Acid has been available on the PC for years now. That is pretty much the same thing that Garage Band is. Looping small bits of music into a larger song.
Advertising != Free Speech
Nike argued that in the Cali Supreme Court and lost. Then the US Supreme court said, ``Don't bug us about this''
Personally I am sick and tired of the corporate welfare program that exists in the US. If you don't have a viable business plan, you should and will fail....unless you are a huge multi-national company that owns a few senators.
Shouldn't he stick to writing music instead?
I live in Oregon and I own a lot next to my house that I decided to sell. The lot is between two houses and is backed by a public street. ``Common sense'' would dictate that I should have been able to sell the lot MONTHS ago to a buyer. However there is a runoff of water that drains from the street and in Oregon, this somehow qualifies as wetlands. I have to get buyoff from Washington county, The Oregon Division of State Land AND the Army corps of engineers!
I can assure you the ``little guy'' is getting screwed by other ``little guys''
The US is a democracy.
Negative. The US is a democratically elected REPUBLIC.
And no where in there does it talk any thing about Hamburgers or about adoption.
Infact, the only thing I come to expect from Dave Thomas is that he's pushing up daises.....
Now how am I supposed to keep track of all my wives?
Mr. Taylor, does this statement mean that spending more on a Microsoft product doesn't mean I am getting the best thing out there?
Just because you have a bunch folks out in the community that have the access to look at open-source product means that, by default, it will be more secure or higher quality.
Oh, thanks for pointing this out to us as well.
However, I always have found networking with my peers provides much more desireable results. I have a bad taste in my mouth from dealing with the job sites because you usually have to go through headhunting firms to even find out the details.
That is what I use Nagios and Cacti.
The RRD home page has links to TONS of other tool sthat make use of it and SNMP.
Yeah. But it isn't cooler then Randy Bush
I have really great hygene: I shave, shower and don't smell bad. I dress as nicely as I feel is needed. I also don't have trouble getting a date.
I don't think people who dress-up are shallow. Now the way that most of them act, well that is another discussion.
If I have *one* peice of advice that will help you get more more, respect and more oppertunities with the opposite sex....
With brilliant grammer skills like that I am sure you a wooing and awing a whole bunch of 7th graders.
slacks and shirt are economical - their made with poliester so they last a long time and don't abosrb stains.
So you are asuming that we are:
1. Cheap
2. Clumsy
Did it ever occur to you that some people have better things to worry about then trying to win the daily fashion show?
Looks like the lumeta system is toast.
They started a project to map the Internet and probably didn't expect the entire Internet to come to them.
But an important technical bridge towards the creation of such life was crossed Thursday when genomics pioneer Craig Venter announced that his research group created an artificial virus based on a real one in just two weeks' time.
When researchers created a synthetic genome (genetic map) of the virus and implanted it into a cell, the virus became "biologically active," meaning it went to work reproducing itself.
Venter cautioned that the creation of artificial human or animal life is a long way off because the synthetic bacteriophage -- the virus that was created -- is a much simpler life form. Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria.
The project was funded in part by the Department of Energy, which hopes to create microbes that would capture carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, produce hydrogen or clean the environment.
But the questions ethicists have raised about such work are numerous: Should we be playing God? Does the potential for good that new life forms may have outweigh the harm they could do?
Arthur Caplan, who heads the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics, says yes. This technology "is impressive. It's powerful and it should be treated with humility and caution," Caplan says, "But we should do it."
A genome is made up of DNA "letters," or base pairs, that combine to "spell" an individual's chromosomes. The human genome project was completed in April.
This summer, researchers at Venter's Institute for Biological Energy Alternatives bought commercially available strands of DNA and, using a new technology, coaxed them together to form a duplicate of the genome of a bacteriophage called phi X.
"It's a very important technical advance," says Gerald Rubin, a molecular geneticist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "You can envision the day when one could sit down at a computer, design a genome and then build it. We're still inventing the tools to make that happen, and this is an important one."
Venter notes the synthetic bacteriophage has 5,000 base pairs in its genome. The human genome has 3 billion, so similar work in human form probably won't happen in this decade, he says.
To date, the largest genome that was synthesized was the 7,500-base-pair polio virus. But that was only semi-functional and took three years to complete.
The researchers chose to put the new technology into the public domain for all scientists to use. It will appear in the next few weeks on the Web site of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The technology raises safety issues, says David Magnus of Stanford's Center for Biomedical Ethics. Even putting it in the public domain is "a double-edged sword," he says. That presumes that allowing everyone access will keep the good guys ahead of the bad guys. "It's a gamble. ... It's a bet that everyone has a stake in," he says.
This may be true, but I am assured that even if you are caught with drugs in my car. I will never see my car again. Once the feds get it it's gone.
I just want to point out that Evolution is Ximians's Outlook clone. Ximian itself is / was a company and possibly could be reffered to as a desk top. Thanks, Danny
Too bad I can't get my telco to disassociate my data line from my voice line. I realize they are the same piece of wire but I seriously doubt I need to have a voice line just to run DSL over it. My guess is that the voice line is just a pre-qulaification for DSL.