From whatI have read, there are no conclusive data that link Alzheimer's and smoking, and a according to a recent study pointed by that second link, there was a study debunking the studies that said smoking prevents Alzheimer's.
FWIW, my mother works in a nursing home and says that half of the Alzheimer's patients smoke and half don't, but that's, of course, hardly a representative sample.
Yeah, that's pretty much along the lines of what I was going for there in my other post, above. GPL is based on the exchange of values, just like capitalism. I write something and let you have the source to change it, in exchange, you agree to give back your changes to the community. That's capitalism in its purest form.
Of course, in the end, all marketplaces, absent monopoly of some form, are ultimately capitalist in nature. In communism/socialism, the government is the monopolist. In desktop software, Microsoft is the monopolist;).
If I understand the article correctly, it would seem that 700 Mhz spectrum would only give you 15 MB/s of available bandwidth if it used similar compression techniques to 802.11g. If, as the article suggests, this spectrum were to be used for some big WISP, maybe Google, it wouldn't seem to me to be very viable as the available bandwidth would be split amongst LOTS of users in order to keep it cheap. Now, UMPCs and mobile devices conceivably need less bandwidth, but then, isn't that what we have wireless phone service for?
It seems to be like this article is a bunch of meaningless speculation about Google's plans for being a ubiquitous WISP.
The GPL merely ensures that all software released under its terms -- and derivative works of all software released under its terms -- remain free for all who wish to make use of it. Anyone is free to make money from GPL software, and several companies, including the FSF itself, freely do so.
BSD does not do that. BSD is more like a 'take a penny, leave a penny' tray at the corner store. It relies on the generosity of those who take the code to produced closed-source versions to give changes back to the community.
GPL works on the principle of 'if you take, you must give back,' with legal enforcement behind it, while BSD is 'take it if you want, but could you please, please, pretty please give back?'
And, true communists don't sell stuff, they rely on the contributions of their members. I know several true communists, who openly profess to be so. Many are actually nice people, if a bit misguided, IMHO. Do you know any?
Stallman isn't anti-capitalist. GPL V2 was written specifically to make it clear that people could make money off of GPLed code. The GPL doesn't try to 'eliminate' capitalism by any stretch. In fact, it creates more capitalistic opportunities than closed source software. The GPL, the way I see it, isn't socialist, but libertarian. It seeks to prevent people from manipulating markets and eliminating competition through the control of software and copyright law.
Well its rather self-serving that an IBM employee would rip apart the Novell/Microsoft deal. Now if an uninterested and unbiased third party had something to say about the deal that would be insightful. Pamela Jones? An IBM employee? PJ has stated, oh, I don't know, like a few dozen times that she most certainly does not work for IBM and never has. She's a paralegal who works for a law firm. Which one, I don't know, but I'm betting it's not Swain and Cravath, LLC., IBM's legal representation. Especially since she has to get the court filings off of the public legal databases like everyone else and she relies on readers living in Utah to report on court hearings.
But never mind that. Thing is that IBM has a standing relationship with Novell to sell and market SuSE. They also happen to have a similar relationship with Red Hat. But IBM tends to push SuSE more for high-end enterprise stuff than they do Red Hat. I think it boils down to YaST vs. Anaconda/Kickstart. Whatever.
Maybe you'll read this, maybe you won't, but what the hell:
Well, being an American, I know how ignorant we are of other cultures. Americans, as a rule, are very ethnocentric. Even some of the smartest Americans. To an American, if you say 'gymnasium', they think of a building or a wing of a building that contains a basketball court/floor hockey court/indoor soccer court, some bleachers, climbing ropes, padding on the walls/floor, etc. IOW--a place to hold a 'gym' class or a sporting event.
This is the country that sent milk to starving people in Soviet Bloc Countries not realizing that most people there are lactose intolerant due to not drinking milk as young children. The poor people thought were trying to poison them. This is also the country that produced the Chevy Nova and tried to sell it in Mexico. 'No va' in Spanish, of course, means, more or less 'it doesn't go.'
I don't think OLEDs were ever intended to replace LCD or plasma. I think they were intended to be able to produce small screens that take less power. OLED makes perfect sense in a UMPC or a smart phone, but makes no sense at sizes people want their living room TVs at -- 35"-60", depending on the size of your living room, of course.
If that's what you think, then you aren't paying attention. Jobs thinks that the functions of a PDA have been rolled into cell phones and PDAs have no future. Jobs also thinks that with a phone, if you don't have 3rd party installable apps, then you can control the end-user experience. It's one thing when your laptop or desktop breaks because some 3rd party app is misbehaving. It's another when it happens your phone.
Steve Jobs is right on both accounts. A phone with PDA functions + enhanced reliable == the future of ultra-mobile computing. People don't want two devices for what ultimately should be a complete homogenous communications device that handles voice, e-mail, Internet, and PIM stuff.
$30/GB is still expensive but I bet in less than 2 years solid state drives in this capacity will come down to a few dollars/GB. The price will fall, but not that drastically. Magnetic hard drives and related technology are likely to continue to dominate for many more years due to their price being pennies a GB and their performance being deemed good enough, especially in RAID systems with large caches.
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So how much will these cards cost? Flynn told us that the company is aiming to beat $30 dollars a GB, something that should seem very cheap to large corporations, adding "You can drop ship or Fedex this card and be up and running in a few minutes... you can't do that with a storage area network." So, let's say they get to $29 a GB, a reasonable price for NAND flash-based memory devices. 640*30==$19,200. Sorry, but that doesn't seem to beat an inexpensive SAN in price. I recently priced out a 12TB iSCSI SAN for a little bit more than that, and even 1-2 TB fibre SAN from IBM should be around the same price.
Not entirely correct. Dell computers are assembled in Austin, TX, with motherboards made in Mexico by a supplier, computer cases made either offshore or in Mexico by other suppliers, keyboards made in China, monitors made in Mexico, and peripherals made in an assortment of offshore countries. The components on the motherboard, of course, vary by vendor and component. Drives also vary by manufacturer. The Dell I'm using right now has a Samsung hard drive, probably made in either Japan or Malaysia.
Agreed. At the very least, a paper ballot showing how the voter voter, even if the machine does the initial count, auditors need to count the paper ballots as well.
Not if it has an auditable paper trail. The voter walks to the electronic machine, votes, and then two copies of a reciept, matching what's on the screen, come off a receipt printer. One copy for the voter, one for the election auditors. If the paper count doesn't match the machine count then you have election tampering.
1) Where can I buy a WiMAX wireless adapter? Hint: AFAICS, you can't. Do a search on Pricewatch or Froogle, or even go to Sprint's Web page. OTOH, every laptop being produced today comes with support for 802.11a, b, g, and/or n.
2) WiMAX uses licensed spectrum. Cities looking to provide WiMAX service need an FCC license to do anything.
Why on earth do lies like this one get said. He supported a monument being posted. However; nothing of the sort of this judge being a bigot is real. I know Judge Moore. A kinder more gentleman I have not known, especially in political affairs. He is a most decent man. Well, the 10 Commandments being displayed in a government building is offensive to those of us who don't believe in them. A display of said monument is a bigotted act. As for whether that makes the man a bigot, I don't know him so I can't say if he is or isn't. If you say he's decent, maybe he is, but I don't know you either, so that's not much to go on.
Did anyone else immediately think of Live Free or Die Hard when reading this? No, because you're the only one who watched that movie. I did....oh wait, did you say that was supposed to be a movie? Gak!
No. I remember seeing a report sometime during the big blackout that there were control systems hooked to the public Internet running Windows 3.1 with WinSock installed.
Most of those are pretty bad, and I don't agree with all of his ideology, but I'm a practical guy. The country has gotten out of whack with the PATRIOT Act and other laws designed to erode your liberty under the guise of 'fighting terrorism.' I'm also not sure if all of those things are true, but I've heard them all.
There are no terrorists. Al Qaeda is and has been working for the CIA and the NSA. And Ron Paul is the only guy on the roster who sees that and is willing to clear it up. Hillary and Barrack both voted for the PATRIOT Act and the war. So did Fred Thompson and Mit Romney. These are facts, not FUD, and I'm not trying to start a flamewar, so mod me down if you like mods, but metamods need to pay attention, too, because you aren't supposed to mod based on your political opinion.
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From what I have read, there are no conclusive data that link Alzheimer's and smoking, and a according to a recent study pointed by that second link, there was a study debunking the studies that said smoking prevents Alzheimer's.
FWIW, my mother works in a nursing home and says that half of the Alzheimer's patients smoke and half don't, but that's, of course, hardly a representative sample.
Yeah, that's pretty much along the lines of what I was going for there in my other post, above. GPL is based on the exchange of values, just like capitalism. I write something and let you have the source to change it, in exchange, you agree to give back your changes to the community. That's capitalism in its purest form.
;).
Of course, in the end, all marketplaces, absent monopoly of some form, are ultimately capitalist in nature. In communism/socialism, the government is the monopolist. In desktop software, Microsoft is the monopolist
If I understand the article correctly, it would seem that 700 Mhz spectrum would only give you 15 MB/s of available bandwidth if it used similar compression techniques to 802.11g. If, as the article suggests, this spectrum were to be used for some big WISP, maybe Google, it wouldn't seem to me to be very viable as the available bandwidth would be split amongst LOTS of users in order to keep it cheap. Now, UMPCs and mobile devices conceivably need less bandwidth, but then, isn't that what we have wireless phone service for?
It seems to be like this article is a bunch of meaningless speculation about Google's plans for being a ubiquitous WISP.
Ridiculous.
The GPL merely ensures that all software released under its terms -- and derivative works of all software released under its terms -- remain free for all who wish to make use of it. Anyone is free to make money from GPL software, and several companies, including the FSF itself , freely do so.
BSD does not do that. BSD is more like a 'take a penny, leave a penny' tray at the corner store. It relies on the generosity of those who take the code to produced closed-source versions to give changes back to the community.
GPL works on the principle of 'if you take, you must give back,' with legal enforcement behind it, while BSD is 'take it if you want, but could you please, please, pretty please give back?'
And, true communists don't sell stuff, they rely on the contributions of their members. I know several true communists, who openly profess to be so. Many are actually nice people, if a bit misguided, IMHO. Do you know any?
Stallman isn't anti-capitalist. GPL V2 was written specifically to make it clear that people could make money off of GPLed code. The GPL doesn't try to 'eliminate' capitalism by any stretch. In fact, it creates more capitalistic opportunities than closed source software. The GPL, the way I see it, isn't socialist, but libertarian. It seeks to prevent people from manipulating markets and eliminating competition through the control of software and copyright law.
But never mind that. Thing is that IBM has a standing relationship with Novell to sell and market SuSE. They also happen to have a similar relationship with Red Hat. But IBM tends to push SuSE more for high-end enterprise stuff than they do Red Hat. I think it boils down to YaST vs. Anaconda/Kickstart. Whatever.
Maybe you'll read this, maybe you won't, but what the hell:
Well, being an American, I know how ignorant we are of other cultures. Americans, as a rule, are very ethnocentric. Even some of the smartest Americans. To an American, if you say 'gymnasium', they think of a building or a wing of a building that contains a basketball court/floor hockey court/indoor soccer court, some bleachers, climbing ropes, padding on the walls/floor, etc. IOW--a place to hold a 'gym' class or a sporting event.
This is the country that sent milk to starving people in Soviet Bloc Countries not realizing that most people there are lactose intolerant due to not drinking milk as young children. The poor people thought were trying to poison them. This is also the country that produced the Chevy Nova and tried to sell it in Mexico. 'No va' in Spanish, of course, means, more or less 'it doesn't go.'
I don't think OLEDs were ever intended to replace LCD or plasma. I think they were intended to be able to produce small screens that take less power. OLED makes perfect sense in a UMPC or a smart phone, but makes no sense at sizes people want their living room TVs at -- 35"-60", depending on the size of your living room, of course.
If that's what you think, then you aren't paying attention. Jobs thinks that the functions of a PDA have been rolled into cell phones and PDAs have no future. Jobs also thinks that with a phone, if you don't have 3rd party installable apps, then you can control the end-user experience. It's one thing when your laptop or desktop breaks because some 3rd party app is misbehaving. It's another when it happens your phone.
Steve Jobs is right on both accounts. A phone with PDA functions + enhanced reliable == the future of ultra-mobile computing. People don't want two devices for what ultimately should be a complete homogenous communications device that handles voice, e-mail, Internet, and PIM stuff.
'Gymnasium' is what they call 'high school' in some countries.
Weren't you concerned at that it would get broken while playing dodge ball? ;)
The submitter is still using a Pentium 66 with the FDIV bug.
Not entirely correct. Dell computers are assembled in Austin, TX, with motherboards made in Mexico by a supplier, computer cases made either offshore or in Mexico by other suppliers, keyboards made in China, monitors made in Mexico, and peripherals made in an assortment of offshore countries. The components on the motherboard, of course, vary by vendor and component. Drives also vary by manufacturer. The Dell I'm using right now has a Samsung hard drive, probably made in either Japan or Malaysia.
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Agreed. At the very least, a paper ballot showing how the voter voter, even if the machine does the initial count, auditors need to count the paper ballots as well.
Not if it has an auditable paper trail. The voter walks to the electronic machine, votes, and then two copies of a reciept, matching what's on the screen, come off a receipt printer. One copy for the voter, one for the election auditors. If the paper count doesn't match the machine count then you have election tampering.
Here are the two biggest problems.
1) Where can I buy a WiMAX wireless adapter? Hint: AFAICS, you can't. Do a search on Pricewatch or Froogle, or even go to Sprint's Web page. OTOH, every laptop being produced today comes with support for 802.11a, b, g, and/or n.
2) WiMAX uses licensed spectrum. Cities looking to provide WiMAX service need an FCC license to do anything.
It may or may not be...ARRRGGHHH! *head explodes*
Duh. Undocumented updates cause problems. In related news, failure to check for a buffer overflow causes software bugs.
Hi! This is Chief Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla of the Grammar Police. Where do we send your check, Lt. Permaculture?
No. I remember seeing a report sometime during the big blackout that there were control systems hooked to the public Internet running Windows 3.1 with WinSock installed.
Most of those are pretty bad, and I don't agree with all of his ideology, but I'm a practical guy. The country has gotten out of whack with the PATRIOT Act and other laws designed to erode your liberty under the guise of 'fighting terrorism.' I'm also not sure if all of those things are true, but I've heard them all.
There are no terrorists. Al Qaeda is and has been working for the CIA and the NSA. And Ron Paul is the only guy on the roster who sees that and is willing to clear it up. Hillary and Barrack both voted for the PATRIOT Act and the war. So did Fred Thompson and Mit Romney. These are facts, not FUD, and I'm not trying to start a flamewar, so mod me down if you like mods, but metamods need to pay attention, too, because you aren't supposed to mod based on your political opinion.