Which is probably why something like this will never be allowed to happen now that people have seen how successful open source is.
That all depends. Open Source faces the difficulties that it does because it's one of those things that most people haven't cared about for the longest of times. There's not been much point caring about open source software when IE is the Internet to Joe Sixpack.
Open source biotech could well be the crunch market. A chance for people to a) promote biotech and b) promote open source. Investigative reports that show off some of the cool things that OS biotech could do that people would care about---"This child would have been born with $BIRTH_DEFECT but we've worked out a way to treat him!" but that bring the issue of peer review and licensing to the forefront. Such a show would likely get a lot of response if it pointed out that MicroSoft is in legislation to patent and lock down the "cure" method. The child could have been treat for minimal cost compared to licensing the patented cure. That sort of thing.
I'm rambling, but what it boils down to is that biotech has the potential to generate a lot of good press not only for itself but for the principals and groups behind Free Information concepts. Creative commons genome modifications, anyone?
It's good for SGI. They're in a position of a) needing money -- and $50m is nothing to be sneezed at, and b) needing publicity. This gives them a way to show the business world that they are still alive (even if they are selling their own organs to remain so) in the hopes that other companies may look at what SGI are working on and make an offer for some of it. If that happens, SGI gets more revenue, and slims down it's business to the point where it can focus on key projects to increase its revenue stream.
I am not any kind of business analyst, I just play one on the internet.
Though some of these devices are just random casualties, those with e-mail cpabilities have found an untraceable mail with an attached PNG of a horse's head in their root mail account. Says it all.
Debian's good for people who already have some clue about Linux, or indeed experience with *nix-alike OSen. Mandrake and SUSE (I have no experience with RH/Fedora) are both better suited for the first time user migrating from Windows. Less command-prompt stuff to begin with, a default installer which detects their hardware and doesn't ask questions that even a Windows "power-user" considers arcane, and a reasonable set of defaults for someone wanting to learn Linux with the minimum of culture-shock.
Use a stream of output from/dev/random (or of course random.org) rather than the terabyte of characters, then MP3 encode it. Not knowing much about music, I don't know how well that would work, if at all.
Of course, if too many people did that there's always the chance someone would use the million monkeys argument: "That's/dev/random output, it just happens to sound exalctly like 'Of Wolf And Man'. Honest, m'lud."
Perhaps the rules should be similar to those of Mornington Crescent
There was an edition of the game where they weren't? Surely you jest.
Ahh, running a 20-person impromptu semi-LARP Paranoia game to break down^Win the newbies at my university's RPG club. We had three people swear that if they ever saw us again they would attempt to kill us, but from everyone else's word of mouth our numbers doubled. Such happy memories.
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"I'm so sorry that I'll apologise to everyone I've ever spammed. I wonder if they've heard about this great h3rb4l v!@gr4 I found last night..."
Odd. Over here in the UK, the term "miscarriage of justice" is not uncommon (though less common, in these days of dumbed down media).
Ah well, one learns something new every day.
Open source biotech could well be the crunch market. A chance for people to a) promote biotech and b) promote open source. Investigative reports that show off some of the cool things that OS biotech could do that people would care about---"This child would have been born with $BIRTH_DEFECT but we've worked out a way to treat him!" but that bring the issue of peer review and licensing to the forefront. Such a show would likely get a lot of response if it pointed out that MicroSoft is in legislation to patent and lock down the "cure" method. The child could have been treat for minimal cost compared to licensing the patented cure. That sort of thing.
I'm rambling, but what it boils down to is that biotech has the potential to generate a lot of good press not only for itself but for the principals and groups behind Free Information concepts. Creative commons genome modifications, anyone?
You have to start a company for it to be legal.
Anyone fancy a job at AntiSpy Technologies LLC?
Do you see the difference? Does the Berne Convention (mentioned above)?
It's good for SGI. They're in a position of a) needing money -- and $50m is nothing to be sneezed at, and b) needing publicity. This gives them a way to show the business world that they are still alive (even if they are selling their own organs to remain so) in the hopes that other companies may look at what SGI are working on and make an offer for some of it. If that happens, SGI gets more revenue, and slims down it's business to the point where it can focus on key projects to increase its revenue stream.
I am not any kind of business analyst, I just play one on the internet.
Though some of these devices are just random casualties, those with e-mail cpabilities have found an untraceable mail with an attached PNG of a horse's head in their root mail account. Says it all.
Debian's good for people who already have some clue about Linux, or indeed experience with *nix-alike OSen. Mandrake and SUSE (I have no experience with RH/Fedora) are both better suited for the first time user migrating from Windows. Less command-prompt stuff to begin with, a default installer which detects their hardware and doesn't ask questions that even a Windows "power-user" considers arcane, and a reasonable set of defaults for someone wanting to learn Linux with the minimum of culture-shock.
Piracy = copyright violation Piracy != theft
One would assume that Adblock will be able to filter them right out as soon as you know the site thay they download from.
Use a stream of output from /dev/random (or of course random.org) rather than the terabyte of characters, then MP3 encode it. Not knowing much about music, I don't know how well that would work, if at all.
/dev/random output, it just happens to sound exalctly like 'Of Wolf And Man'. Honest, m'lud."
Of course, if too many people did that there's always the chance someone would use the million monkeys argument: "That's
IE is perfectly internally consistent. Every part of it is designed to be almost, but not quite, completely unlike a standards-compliant browser.
1) Get sued by SCO 2) Lose the case 3) Get an in on the pump'n'dump 4) Profit!!!
Not fate, just Microsoft's business model.
This kind of meta-craziness melts my brain. Are you accusing The Computer of being nothing more than the engine for a game? That's treason. *zot*