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JASON ON ENGINEERING MICROORGANISMS FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION
A recent report from the secretive JASON scientific advisory
group considers the feasibility of using microorganisms to
produce fuels as a metabolic product, such as hydrogen or
ethanol.
"Microorganisms present a great opportunity for energy science,"
the JASON report to the Department of Energy said.
"Microorganisms are simpler than plants; they have smaller
genomes and proteomes, and are easier to manipulate and culture.
The enormous biodiversity of microorganisms presents a broad
palette of starting points for engineering. Microorganisms
already make many metabolic products, some of which are useful
fuels."
"Boosting the efficiency of fuel formation from microorganisms is
an important research challenge for the twenty first century."
The JASONs do not publish even their unclassified reports in an
orderly or consistent fashion. A copy of the new report was
obtained by Secrecy News.
See "Engineering Microorganisms for Energy Production,"
JSR-05-300, June 23, 2006 (92 pages, 1.1 MB):
What is obvious is that you have no idea what you are talking about.
A document management system comparable to Filenet's offerings would require more than 20 man years to develop. If you disagree, then please go for it; Filenet needs the competition. Otherwise, STFU.
Filenet provides more than just document management software. They provide a whole slew of products, as well as consulting services and support. Their document management, content management and workflow management products are used by 70 companies in the Fortune 100. Filenet is debt-free, flush with cash and is making money (~$422M in 2005).
IMO, IBM got a good deal, and the market agrees with me.
Take this as constructive advice from someone who works in the field: what you don't know could fill a library (that's a building with books in it).
You could try educating yourself first about Filenet before posting, but I forget; this is Slashdot. Filenet has a buttload of products; they also provide lots of consulting to go along with those products. BTW, consulting is IBM's bread and butter, if you didn't know. Filenet made $422 million bucks last year. At that level of income, IBM will make its money back in about 4 years.
Sure, I'm a Filenet admin, so I'm biased. But I get paid pretty damn well for it.
and I know personally they have been donating their expertise via conference calls and software licenses for PCs for shelters. And possibly in other ways as well; I've been too busy lately to keep dibs on Microsoft.
I live in the affected area and I am a volunteer for the Red Cross.
Write to the author of the article and politely point out that the GPL provides everyone the right to bundle or include GNU software, but not source code, with closed source software.
You never know; he might actually print a retraction. Bwhahahah!... sorry.
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JASON ON ENGINEERING MICROORGANISMS FOR ENERGY PRODUCTION
A recent report from the secretive JASON scientific advisory group considers the feasibility of using microorganisms to produce fuels as a metabolic product, such as hydrogen or ethanol.
"Microorganisms present a great opportunity for energy science," the JASON report to the Department of Energy said.
"Microorganisms are simpler than plants; they have smaller genomes and proteomes, and are easier to manipulate and culture. The enormous biodiversity of microorganisms presents a broad palette of starting points for engineering. Microorganisms already make many metabolic products, some of which are useful fuels."
"Boosting the efficiency of fuel formation from microorganisms is an important research challenge for the twenty first century."
The JASONs do not publish even their unclassified reports in an orderly or consistent fashion. A copy of the new report was obtained by Secrecy News.
See "Engineering Microorganisms for Energy Production," JSR-05-300, June 23, 2006 (92 pages, 1.1 MB):
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/micro.pdfWhat is obvious is that you have no idea what you are talking about.
A document management system comparable to Filenet's offerings would require more than 20 man years to develop. If you disagree, then please go for it; Filenet needs the competition. Otherwise, STFU.
Filenet provides more than just document management software. They provide a whole slew of products, as well as consulting services and support. Their document management, content management and workflow management products are used by 70 companies in the Fortune 100. Filenet is debt-free, flush with cash and is making money (~$422M in 2005).
IMO, IBM got a good deal, and the market agrees with me.
Take this as constructive advice from someone who works in the field: what you don't know could fill a library (that's a building with books in it).
You could try educating yourself first about Filenet before posting, but I forget; this is Slashdot. Filenet has a buttload of products; they also provide lots of consulting to go along with those products. BTW, consulting is IBM's bread and butter, if you didn't know. Filenet made $422 million bucks last year. At that level of income, IBM will make its money back in about 4 years.
Sure, I'm a Filenet admin, so I'm biased. But I get paid pretty damn well for it.
And it runs on UNIX. So there.
Hey, I don't like Microsoft either, but the truth is that they have donated resources:
http://katrinasafe.org/
and I know personally they have been donating their expertise via conference calls and software licenses for PCs for shelters. And possibly in other ways as well; I've been too busy lately to keep dibs on Microsoft.
I live in the affected area and I am a volunteer for the Red Cross.
Googled around and found it:
roger_howorth@vnu.co.uk
Write to the author of the article and politely point out that the GPL provides everyone the right to bundle or include GNU software, but not source code, with closed source software.
You never know; he might actually print a retraction. Bwhahahah!... sorry.