Well, as much as some of us would like that, I would much rather 'attempt' to reproduce once in a while, even though I know I might not have any kids. I think humans are one of a few species that actually enjoy reproducing, I can't speak for them, but it doesn't seem that cows, dogs or horses 'enjoy' each other and use reproduction as a way to make, emphasize and strengthen relationships
1) Driver support. Hardware manufacturers need to start either giving up drivers (like nVidia does, I'm not RMS, I don't care whether they are binary, they have to Just Work (tm), good enough that it doesn't crash the system every 10 seconds (ATi)) 2) Application support. Although it is quite simple to us to run things in Wine or VMWare or find a native/alternative application (I don't have any problem with any of my Windows applications), sometimes the process is not simple enough or intimidating to people that don't want to learn new things which brings us to the next point: 3) User perception. The perception currently is that Linux == hard and good and cheap; Windows == easy and bad and expensive; Mac == easy and good and expensive. But that's the user's perception. I still know people that say that Mac is bad because they saw an implementation of OS7 or 8 that didn't work that great (when Jobs was gone, Mac was sometimes a hell), I still know people that say Mac is expensive but don't compare feature by feature, just look at the initial pricing. There is also the user perception that Linux == Unix and Unix == solely for someone that understands why their login is "sysadmin" or "root" and not just lastnamefirstname. The FUD from Microsoft doesn't help very much either, although anyone with a brain can easily see through it. 4) User capabilities. Users are dumb and don't want to learn. Linux is written by a bunch of geeks like me that UNDERSTAND what happens when they click somewhere. Most users don't and don't want to understand, they just know if they click on position 5,15 on their screen a certain pop-up box will appear. Really, change for an instance the resolution (by either replacing their CRT's with LCD's or so) and you'll notice about 25% of your users will come and complain because they can't find something (true, I've had it happen). Give us geeks any type of interface, be it Commodore 64's BASIC ROM, KDE or Windows Vista, and we'll find our way. Any other user will just call you up and ask you why you changed and didn't teach them. I have implemented large changes in a lot of organizations and you even have to teach people how to use the new interface on their intranet. It's a freakin' website, get over it, Hotmail changes their interface and nobody has a problem, you change the tools they have to use for work and they lose all insight. 5) Pre-seated computers. Windows wasn't going to be this big if they hadn't have it pre-installed on everybody's computer (and gotten away with it). People think that Dell Utilities and Yahoo toolbar comes with their computer. Give them a new computer at work, and they'll wonder why they can't find it. If something comes with their leisure computer, people are going to start exploring the possibilities and now everybody knows how to use Windows. Pre-install Ubuntu with all they need (media player, internet browser, e-mail program and some games) and people will within 1-2 years start getting the idea that Ubuntu is the program that came with their computer although no-one is going to know it is called Ubuntu, just as no-one knows that Windows is the operating system they are running on their computer. The limits of MP3's are even going to be circumvented somehow. People just aren't going to accept MP3's and start asking for OGG and AAC, same response you would get when you sent that user an OGG or AAC when they are using Windows.
To say it with Gates' words: it's not a vulnerability, it's a feature.
If you RTFA it's not a self-propagating virus that doesn't require interaction or stupidity by the user. But then again, the general populus is stupid and clicks yes for everything.
It's a 'script' that does something bad, not a virus. It's not even close to a macro 'virus'. You could call it a trojan by a far call.
Whats next? Suing stores that play music inside for shoppers?
They already do that, I used to work in a European shop and neither public TV nor public radio were allowed to play without paying a hefty royalty (which goes up if you want to play certain sports events). If you do anyway, you get fined.
Exchange IMAP integrated into the domain. And yes, you can use calendars and share calendars, e-mail and more using IMAP (that's what the protocol was made for, that's how Microsoft did Exchange). There's also other good alternatives to Exchange that are free if you really need all that functionality, but I have seen few implementations that are more than sending/receiving e-mail and appointments (which currently Mail and iCal work very nicely together in a 'domain', sending out invites, accepting appointments into the calendar). Next version, they should have an even better alternative. The current Apple Server also has iChat server and check out this for calendaring: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver. The difference between Exchange and the rest is that Exchange packs everything, even the stuff you might not need all together as does the client (Outlook). The rest of the world keeps their stuff separated.
Terminal Server VNC/ARD/X (there's even alternatives to that, again for free)
SMS Workgroup Manager and ARD have all that functionality (remote control, patch management, software distribution, and hardware and software inventory), you can also patch your local images for netboot without actually booting them and then use netboot for all your clients instead of having a local disk.
Hah, sounds really like the Satan from the bible (the serpent in the garden of eden): Is it really so that you can't eat of that tree. God himself knows that if you eat from it you will not die and you can decide yourself between good and evil. Microsoft: Is it really so that you are not infringing on patents. Linus himself knows that if you infringe you will get sued...
What exactly is more functional? Each and every item you will cite, I can give you a working and most of the time already shipped alternative for. Of course it's not going to be Exchange but it's going to have the same functionality.
Remember OS/2 Merlin? Ah, the good days. Sometimes you'll see that it's not always the best nor the cheapest that win, usually it's the one that can talk your manager into buying their sh*t
I think you're just bashing Apple, but ok. Yes their hardware is a bit more expensive, but the return is also much larger in forms of better fit-together hardware, service and when you can write off your hardware.
Especially once you go into businesses. The difference in price between Apple and Microsoft starts getting huge once you spec out an environment for >50 people. With Apple you know your clients cost you $129, your server $999, Remote Desktop for $499, no limits, everything integrated with Kerberos + LDAP. With Microsoft you got that and then you have to start calculating CAL's for Exchange, CAL's for your Terminal Server, CAL's and server licenses for your SMS and WUS, and each little piece that will make life easier as the admin costs you an extra CAL which is all included in the Server+Client+RemoteDesktop licenses on Mac. Next to that, the average Windows machine lasts 3 years before it get's old and slow. I've seen G3's running OS X 10.4 without a hitch, G4's are mainstream in many companies and most haven't even gone to Intel yet.
Then support costs. A call to Apple or registering at the Genius bar will at maximum cost you a little over a $100/year and I've always been satisfied with the answers, usually I'll hold for 5 minutes and somebody picks up and I'll either get an answer or get transferred to an engineer in the next 20 minutes. Once somebody in Cupertino actually demonstrated a problem I had in my local Apple Store through Apple Remote Desktop and iChat. Ever called Microsoft? I did recently for a server problem and just to take your call they ask $128 (we happen to have an Enterprise agreement but our rep was nowhere to be found) and put me on hold for 1 hour, then picked up again and said the queue was 2-8 hours. They called me back 20 hours later. My manager was grey, because I'm a contractor paid by the hour and as long as that server was down, I couldn't do shit (tik-tok $55 * 6 actual working hours).
There are only a few people that are going to want to buy this. Uber-rich geeks wanting a new flashy keyboard, some snobs and yuppies, movie sets and producers for more realistic sci-fi, hi-tech dentists and doctors that need a keyboard with specialized buttons at the operating table and finally, DJ's, VJ's in clubs and music studios that run their sets on computers.
Right now all the professionals among those people either have to buy a specialized keyboard or input device or stick little tabs on or above the keys. And I can tell you from experience, if you're doing a quick dj gig and have to use any type of bright light to see what you type, or if you have little stickies on your keys, it's hell. I would kill at some moments for a keyb that would change to lit-up letters when you search your library and back to your 'buttons' when you go back. I know there is stuff out there that emulates the real sets (like the Hercules DJ stuff) but it's not all that and quite impractical.
There is a market for it, although small. I'm too poor to pay for one but if they drop down like say to 10% of their current price, I think they're going to be able to sell a whole lot more.
You don't have to keep Teleslet or Belgasloom in Belgium (the two providers in Belgium that have a monopoly on respectively Cable and DSL). There are other providers that can provide you with DSL with a fair usage policy.
Take an example: a hosting company. Any ASP.NET script, although running as Network Service as you say, can read/write/execute/stop/start anything within other processes running under the same worker processes. Give each customer it's own worker process you say? Won't work, you can circumvent that, and besides that do you know the cost of that (100-300MB/worker process, yes that's what it takes to just start a W3WP process). Another example: SharePoint Server 2007, requires your Worker Process to run as a privileged users in case you are running a web farm.
That's exactly the way IIS does it too. If you 'change' the configuration, it will keep handling the old connections within the old threads and the new connection in a new thread, it's just less transparent. The worst thing in IIS+ASP(.NET) is if you change the configuration in your.NET worker processes, you need to effectively kill the worker process to take the change in configuration thus losing your cache and sessions that the programmer let handle by the system.
Oh really, you don't think there are hundreds of apps out there that allow you to upload any type of file out there?
It's remotely exploitable, if the programmer is dumb enough. Then again, so is Apache + PHP.
Most server-related exploits are not through visible and administrated or configured services but rather through side-services like RPC in combination with ineptness of programmers and admins. That's what makes the Microsoft platform so darn insecure, there's by default hundreds of services running that nobody knows about or everybody forgets and that have open ports to the outside world. It's also 'too simple' for any CIO to set a server up so there are hundreds of servers that are clicked rather than built together.
Yes, they're trying to catch up and yes, you should have a firewall, but the power in services/servers on *nux is (for most distro's) the defaults it comes with and the simplicity yet strength and visibility of the configuration and security (who doesn't like to see ALL settings in a single flatfile with the possibility of extra comments instead of through hundreds of windows with unexplained commands and options or with a single command see all rules applied to the firewall).
You got that the other way around. Students pay tuition and other charges related to their education. The MPAA is sponsored by the extra taxes raised on empty media, 'copyright enforcement' fees and other things you'll have to pay for whenever you see any type of media.
I think that's an incredible waste of money and way too easy to track back (where and who bought it etc.). I think a better idea is to go with a remote control (they are incredibly cheap) and if you know cell phone or other jammers are going to be used, tune in on the frequency the jammer is going to be used with an LC-circuit and wait for a very powerful signal to come along. Costs you maybe $3...
NY and PA. It's not legal, but who cares. I have a very good RD and the cops in this area are generally dumb with the use of both RADAR and LIDAR allowing me to slow down in time.
My car (Buick) and a lot of other cars that I've seen keep a mileage rating in the dashboard. Currently an avg. of 27,4 mpg. But still, it would be skewed since I drive a lot and I drive fast (80mph+) making it to use more gas than the average person that buys said car.
It's basically just a DRM-machination with the cryptography on chip. Basically, the same that AACS has on HD-DVD, and the patent specifies that guessing the password woud take longer than the lifetime of a drive. Euhm, I guess even guessing 56-bits encryption would be enough.
The problem is still, the user has HIS content, he can do whatever he wants with it as long as he can see it. Unless you encrypt the lightwaves that reach our eyes and plant a DRM chip in our brain, we're going to be able to copy your precious content.
We don't need another combustion engine, we need an engine that can transform the energy stored in the energy carrier efficiently to movement. With combustion, we have too much waste. Take for example electric engines. They have a gigantic torque and power and have little loss (compared to combustion) when transferring the energy from electricity to movement. The only problem is storing the energy and 'refueling' the energy for mobile applications.
What I was thinking personally, that it would be better, safer and more efficient to have electric 'rails' built into the road and about 1KF of gold-capacitors in the car itself. That way cars could also get guided automatically over the network of rails (eliminating accidents and allowing people to do other things while transporting). You know, a personal train, could even be more efficient if cars 'intelligently' collaborated to form larger trains etc.
From what I can read is 2 improvements they made, that others have imho already come up with (or a version of) once: eliminating the mechanical crankshaft-camshaft link (controlling it electronically?) and compressing gasoline (as is done with diesel fuel) before injecting it.
Polycaprolactone? I don't know, just a guess, but I think if they ever go 'live' with this, they'll (have to) find a decent solution. PCL is bio-degradable plastic and I think it degrades in a human body (check Wikipedia or so to make sure). It's used a lot in the medical field.
It's interesting to learn that they made these artificial oxygen carriers especially since blood is not simple to store and a lot of doctors are already starting to look at alternatives (saline solutions is a simple one) to add 'blood' volume when somebody loses some. This is because 'real' blood is difficult to store and handle and has the potential of disease. Another reason is that if you introduce somebody else's blood to your own bloodstream, your body will get symptoms that occur when transplanting other organs like rejection or even fatal shock (depending on the amount of blood administered).
Hmm, just like people wouldn't switch from Coax to 8-wire UTP because Coax was more robust? Or people that wouldn't switch from Token Ring to Ethernet because Token Ring was better? Or people that wouldn't ever need the Internet? Or 640k is enough for anyone? Or "I'll never need/use a cell phone"? Or nobody will ever drop Netware...
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Well, as much as some of us would like that, I would much rather 'attempt' to reproduce once in a while, even though I know I might not have any kids. I think humans are one of a few species that actually enjoy reproducing, I can't speak for them, but it doesn't seem that cows, dogs or horses 'enjoy' each other and use reproduction as a way to make, emphasize and strengthen relationships
1) Driver support. Hardware manufacturers need to start either giving up drivers (like nVidia does, I'm not RMS, I don't care whether they are binary, they have to Just Work (tm), good enough that it doesn't crash the system every 10 seconds (ATi))
2) Application support. Although it is quite simple to us to run things in Wine or VMWare or find a native/alternative application (I don't have any problem with any of my Windows applications), sometimes the process is not simple enough or intimidating to people that don't want to learn new things which brings us to the next point:
3) User perception. The perception currently is that Linux == hard and good and cheap; Windows == easy and bad and expensive; Mac == easy and good and expensive. But that's the user's perception. I still know people that say that Mac is bad because they saw an implementation of OS7 or 8 that didn't work that great (when Jobs was gone, Mac was sometimes a hell), I still know people that say Mac is expensive but don't compare feature by feature, just look at the initial pricing. There is also the user perception that Linux == Unix and Unix == solely for someone that understands why their login is "sysadmin" or "root" and not just lastnamefirstname. The FUD from Microsoft doesn't help very much either, although anyone with a brain can easily see through it.
4) User capabilities. Users are dumb and don't want to learn. Linux is written by a bunch of geeks like me that UNDERSTAND what happens when they click somewhere. Most users don't and don't want to understand, they just know if they click on position 5,15 on their screen a certain pop-up box will appear. Really, change for an instance the resolution (by either replacing their CRT's with LCD's or so) and you'll notice about 25% of your users will come and complain because they can't find something (true, I've had it happen). Give us geeks any type of interface, be it Commodore 64's BASIC ROM, KDE or Windows Vista, and we'll find our way. Any other user will just call you up and ask you why you changed and didn't teach them. I have implemented large changes in a lot of organizations and you even have to teach people how to use the new interface on their intranet. It's a freakin' website, get over it, Hotmail changes their interface and nobody has a problem, you change the tools they have to use for work and they lose all insight.
5) Pre-seated computers. Windows wasn't going to be this big if they hadn't have it pre-installed on everybody's computer (and gotten away with it). People think that Dell Utilities and Yahoo toolbar comes with their computer. Give them a new computer at work, and they'll wonder why they can't find it. If something comes with their leisure computer, people are going to start exploring the possibilities and now everybody knows how to use Windows. Pre-install Ubuntu with all they need (media player, internet browser, e-mail program and some games) and people will within 1-2 years start getting the idea that Ubuntu is the program that came with their computer although no-one is going to know it is called Ubuntu, just as no-one knows that Windows is the operating system they are running on their computer. The limits of MP3's are even going to be circumvented somehow. People just aren't going to accept MP3's and start asking for OGG and AAC, same response you would get when you sent that user an OGG or AAC when they are using Windows.
we call them leeches, parasites,...
To say it with Gates' words: it's not a vulnerability, it's a feature.
If you RTFA it's not a self-propagating virus that doesn't require interaction or stupidity by the user. But then again, the general populus is stupid and clicks yes for everything.
It's a 'script' that does something bad, not a virus. It's not even close to a macro 'virus'. You could call it a trojan by a far call.
Whats next? Suing stores that play music inside for shoppers?
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They already do that, I used to work in a European shop and neither public TV nor public radio were allowed to play without paying a hefty royalty (which goes up if you want to play certain sports events). If you do anyway, you get fined.
I think the USA has it too: In USA they are called ASCAP or BMI. In the UK they are called PRS. In Sweden STIM, in Germany GEMA... (quote from http://www.shockwave-sound.com/royalties-and-perf
Exchange IMAP integrated into the domain. And yes, you can use calendars and share calendars, e-mail and more using IMAP (that's what the protocol was made for, that's how Microsoft did Exchange). There's also other good alternatives to Exchange that are free if you really need all that functionality, but I have seen few implementations that are more than sending/receiving e-mail and appointments (which currently Mail and iCal work very nicely together in a 'domain', sending out invites, accepting appointments into the calendar). Next version, they should have an even better alternative. The current Apple Server also has iChat server and check out this for calendaring: http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/calendarserver . The difference between Exchange and the rest is that Exchange packs everything, even the stuff you might not need all together as does the client (Outlook). The rest of the world keeps their stuff separated.
Terminal Server VNC/ARD/X (there's even alternatives to that, again for free)
SMS Workgroup Manager and ARD have all that functionality (remote control, patch management, software distribution, and hardware and software inventory), you can also patch your local images for netboot without actually booting them and then use netboot for all your clients instead of having a local disk.
WSUS Update Server sits in Apple Server
Hah, sounds really like the Satan from the bible (the serpent in the garden of eden): Is it really so that you can't eat of that tree. God himself knows that if you eat from it you will not die and you can decide yourself between good and evil.
Microsoft: Is it really so that you are not infringing on patents. Linus himself knows that if you infringe you will get sued...
What exactly is more functional? Each and every item you will cite, I can give you a working and most of the time already shipped alternative for. Of course it's not going to be Exchange but it's going to have the same functionality.
Remember OS/2 Merlin? Ah, the good days. Sometimes you'll see that it's not always the best nor the cheapest that win, usually it's the one that can talk your manager into buying their sh*t
I think you're just bashing Apple, but ok. Yes their hardware is a bit more expensive, but the return is also much larger in forms of better fit-together hardware, service and when you can write off your hardware.
Especially once you go into businesses. The difference in price between Apple and Microsoft starts getting huge once you spec out an environment for >50 people. With Apple you know your clients cost you $129, your server $999, Remote Desktop for $499, no limits, everything integrated with Kerberos + LDAP. With Microsoft you got that and then you have to start calculating CAL's for Exchange, CAL's for your Terminal Server, CAL's and server licenses for your SMS and WUS, and each little piece that will make life easier as the admin costs you an extra CAL which is all included in the Server+Client+RemoteDesktop licenses on Mac. Next to that, the average Windows machine lasts 3 years before it get's old and slow. I've seen G3's running OS X 10.4 without a hitch, G4's are mainstream in many companies and most haven't even gone to Intel yet.
Then support costs. A call to Apple or registering at the Genius bar will at maximum cost you a little over a $100/year and I've always been satisfied with the answers, usually I'll hold for 5 minutes and somebody picks up and I'll either get an answer or get transferred to an engineer in the next 20 minutes. Once somebody in Cupertino actually demonstrated a problem I had in my local Apple Store through Apple Remote Desktop and iChat. Ever called Microsoft? I did recently for a server problem and just to take your call they ask $128 (we happen to have an Enterprise agreement but our rep was nowhere to be found) and put me on hold for 1 hour, then picked up again and said the queue was 2-8 hours. They called me back 20 hours later. My manager was grey, because I'm a contractor paid by the hour and as long as that server was down, I couldn't do shit (tik-tok $55 * 6 actual working hours).
There are only a few people that are going to want to buy this. Uber-rich geeks wanting a new flashy keyboard, some snobs and yuppies, movie sets and producers for more realistic sci-fi, hi-tech dentists and doctors that need a keyboard with specialized buttons at the operating table and finally, DJ's, VJ's in clubs and music studios that run their sets on computers.
Right now all the professionals among those people either have to buy a specialized keyboard or input device or stick little tabs on or above the keys. And I can tell you from experience, if you're doing a quick dj gig and have to use any type of bright light to see what you type, or if you have little stickies on your keys, it's hell. I would kill at some moments for a keyb that would change to lit-up letters when you search your library and back to your 'buttons' when you go back. I know there is stuff out there that emulates the real sets (like the Hercules DJ stuff) but it's not all that and quite impractical.
There is a market for it, although small. I'm too poor to pay for one but if they drop down like say to 10% of their current price, I think they're going to be able to sell a whole lot more.
You don't have to keep Teleslet or Belgasloom in Belgium (the two providers in Belgium that have a monopoly on respectively Cable and DSL). There are other providers that can provide you with DSL with a fair usage policy.
Take an example: a hosting company. Any ASP.NET script, although running as Network Service as you say, can read/write/execute/stop/start anything within other processes running under the same worker processes. Give each customer it's own worker process you say? Won't work, you can circumvent that, and besides that do you know the cost of that (100-300MB/worker process, yes that's what it takes to just start a W3WP process). Another example: SharePoint Server 2007, requires your Worker Process to run as a privileged users in case you are running a web farm.
That's exactly the way IIS does it too. If you 'change' the configuration, it will keep handling the old connections within the old threads and the new connection in a new thread, it's just less transparent. The worst thing in IIS+ASP(.NET) is if you change the configuration in your .NET worker processes, you need to effectively kill the worker process to take the change in configuration thus losing your cache and sessions that the programmer let handle by the system.
Lawyers (especially a bunch of them) are still somewhat 'people'.
Oh really, you don't think there are hundreds of apps out there that allow you to upload any type of file out there?
It's remotely exploitable, if the programmer is dumb enough. Then again, so is Apache + PHP.
Most server-related exploits are not through visible and administrated or configured services but rather through side-services like RPC in combination with ineptness of programmers and admins. That's what makes the Microsoft platform so darn insecure, there's by default hundreds of services running that nobody knows about or everybody forgets and that have open ports to the outside world. It's also 'too simple' for any CIO to set a server up so there are hundreds of servers that are clicked rather than built together.
Yes, they're trying to catch up and yes, you should have a firewall, but the power in services/servers on *nux is (for most distro's) the defaults it comes with and the simplicity yet strength and visibility of the configuration and security (who doesn't like to see ALL settings in a single flatfile with the possibility of extra comments instead of through hundreds of windows with unexplained commands and options or with a single command see all rules applied to the firewall).
never heard of Vista then eh?
You got that the other way around. Students pay tuition and other charges related to their education. The MPAA is sponsored by the extra taxes raised on empty media, 'copyright enforcement' fees and other things you'll have to pay for whenever you see any type of media.
I think that's an incredible waste of money and way too easy to track back (where and who bought it etc.). I think a better idea is to go with a remote control (they are incredibly cheap) and if you know cell phone or other jammers are going to be used, tune in on the frequency the jammer is going to be used with an LC-circuit and wait for a very powerful signal to come along. Costs you maybe $3...
Am I going to be arrested now?
NY and PA. It's not legal, but who cares. I have a very good RD and the cops in this area are generally dumb with the use of both RADAR and LIDAR allowing me to slow down in time.
My car (Buick) and a lot of other cars that I've seen keep a mileage rating in the dashboard. Currently an avg. of 27,4 mpg. But still, it would be skewed since I drive a lot and I drive fast (80mph+) making it to use more gas than the average person that buys said car.
It's basically just a DRM-machination with the cryptography on chip. Basically, the same that AACS has on HD-DVD, and the patent specifies that guessing the password woud take longer than the lifetime of a drive. Euhm, I guess even guessing 56-bits encryption would be enough.
The problem is still, the user has HIS content, he can do whatever he wants with it as long as he can see it. Unless you encrypt the lightwaves that reach our eyes and plant a DRM chip in our brain, we're going to be able to copy your precious content.
We don't need another combustion engine, we need an engine that can transform the energy stored in the energy carrier efficiently to movement. With combustion, we have too much waste. Take for example electric engines. They have a gigantic torque and power and have little loss (compared to combustion) when transferring the energy from electricity to movement. The only problem is storing the energy and 'refueling' the energy for mobile applications.
What I was thinking personally, that it would be better, safer and more efficient to have electric 'rails' built into the road and about 1KF of gold-capacitors in the car itself. That way cars could also get guided automatically over the network of rails (eliminating accidents and allowing people to do other things while transporting). You know, a personal train, could even be more efficient if cars 'intelligently' collaborated to form larger trains etc.
From what I can read is 2 improvements they made, that others have imho already come up with (or a version of) once: eliminating the mechanical crankshaft-camshaft link (controlling it electronically?) and compressing gasoline (as is done with diesel fuel) before injecting it.
Polycaprolactone? I don't know, just a guess, but I think if they ever go 'live' with this, they'll (have to) find a decent solution. PCL is bio-degradable plastic and I think it degrades in a human body (check Wikipedia or so to make sure). It's used a lot in the medical field.
It's interesting to learn that they made these artificial oxygen carriers especially since blood is not simple to store and a lot of doctors are already starting to look at alternatives (saline solutions is a simple one) to add 'blood' volume when somebody loses some. This is because 'real' blood is difficult to store and handle and has the potential of disease. Another reason is that if you introduce somebody else's blood to your own bloodstream, your body will get symptoms that occur when transplanting other organs like rejection or even fatal shock (depending on the amount of blood administered).
Hmm, just like people wouldn't switch from Coax to 8-wire UTP because Coax was more robust? Or people that wouldn't switch from Token Ring to Ethernet because Token Ring was better? Or people that wouldn't ever need the Internet? Or 640k is enough for anyone? Or "I'll never need/use a cell phone"? Or nobody will ever drop Netware...