Or, you can just sign up without having any particular affiliation. Facebook opened its doors to the general public sometime in September or October, 2006.
Congress should instead just focus on implementing a 1% national sales tax on everything (brick-and-mortar stores, internet sales, the whole 9 yards). Don't discriminate. Then, they could wipe out the income tax and seriously downsize the IRS (sorry, can't completely eliminate 'em... they still need to handle the national sales tax).
It's not like Novartis has made their entire drug database public with all of their notes regarding which drugs they're interested in pursuing or not,... They've done some significant analysis into the diabetes gene, and rather than withholding it, they're making it public. There's no real compelling reason to protect this aspect of the research, so why not? The benefits of releasing it outweigh the negatives:
They still get to do their own research and develop their own drugs to target specific genes in this area.
They get huge kudos in the PR arena for their attempts at finding a cure for cancer diabetes. They can use this in advertising campaigns.
As researchers in other pharmaceutical companies and/or academia use this information, they'll eventually write grants and use it in their research. Novartis will still get the advantage from them citing the source,... Again, see the above advertising part,...
I mean, they can't listen to iPods while crossing the street, but they obviously haven't had a problem with getting themselves killed crossing traffic by not listening to oncoming cars.
A better solution would be two-fold:
A "three strikes" law that would immediately remove from office any politician that proposed stupid crap like this three times during their lawmaking career.
The immediate sterilization of all parents whose children have been found to lack basic common sense.
It looks like youtube has found Viacom to be in error and reinstated the sunday night dinner video. There is no copyright violation posted, though the video still doesn't load. I guess they went from DMCA'ed to slashdotted in less than a day,...;-)
The big fluffy, white clouds representing the internet are nice and all, but wouldn't it be more accurate to represent the internet on diagrams with a mugshot of Al Gore, instead?
It's not really, "lost for good." They could fix it, probably at a cost about 20 times less than the original one, with new technology. But Dubya needs money for the, "War in Iraq," or the, "War on Terror," instead.
Calling Ric Romero! Hey buddy! We've got a great new BREAKING NEWS story for you! Write an article about the, "death of the floppy disk." It's ground breaking!
Ok, that's seriously farked up. When I went to it, I clicked on the poll on the main CNN page (www.cnn.com) in the lower right corner. They asked if we planned to rush out and upgrade to Windows Vista, they gave two possible responses, YES and NO. This was about 10 am this morning.
And of course, now, they have an entirely different poll there. They're asking, "Would you anonymously post your deepest secret on a Web site?" WTF? Looks like somebody's having a few fun and games with the cnn.com website today,...
We also know now that the one ring also exists, too. Unfortunately, it was never destroyed, as the story goes,... the current ringbearer occupies the Oval Office.
What about deleting other, "useless," domains, like.museum,.aero, and even.biz..travel could probably be wiped as well. Talk about completely and utterly useless TLDs.
Well, I have a pretty new computer (as of October, 2006), so hardware compatibility is not an issue for me to upgrade at all. Will I be rushing out to upgrade to Vista? I have no plans to, no.
Am I also going to slam it as a completely useless, worthless, and ridiculous product? Despite the enormous temptation to do so here on slashdot, no, I won't do that, either.;-)
If we look at Micro$oft's history, they've admittedly had quite a few crowning moments back there. The upgrade from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 was big. It was a huge step at the time, and I'll admit, I was pretty excited about that back then. A much more user-friendly OS, the death of DOS (well, not really, but sort of),... I was even fairly excited about Windows 98, because, while it wasn't great, it did include a lot of little improvements to Windows 95 that made things run a lot better and smoother. Windows 98 was great until Windows 2000 came out, which made things a lot better. But 2000 still wasn't perfect, particularly in the arena of gaming, so 98 reigned for a bit longer in some areas.
I don't even think I should even give the dignity of even mentioning Windows ME, which, if there's any OS out there that deserves to be slammed more than any other, that's the one. I pity all the fools that were suckered into that,...
Windows XP was another crowning moment in Micro$oft's history. I really can't find anything wrong with this OS. They've merged the NT core of Windows NT/2000 with the legacy, gaming, and "home-use" aspects of 95/98. I have yet to see a BSOD in Windows XP. It runs all of the applications I need (well, except for a couple of molecular modeling apps that seem happier in linux;-)... It doesn't seem to be too much of a memory hog, at least not annoyingly so. The interface is decent, who really cares about some fancy eye candy; computers are there to get work done, not stare at graphics all day long while fancy-shmancy moving things dance all over the screen gobbling up RAM,...
So right now, I really see no reason to upgrade. Sure, I'll probably eventually get Vista, but it'll be in about 3-5 years when I buy a new PC that has Vista pre-loaded. Unless, of course, I opt to go for a Mac, which I almost did last year when I bought this computer, except that they're still a little pricey for the 17" and larger screen notebook models,...
Yeah, apparently, lots of Target Stores are doing this all across the country, particularly those near major airports. It's not just for google maps, either. Think of how many more people see these things flying into Chicago O'Hare International Airport?
Not true. Any company that wants to bring this to market, even a generic manufacturer, still has to pay the costs of the clinical trial steps. This is part of your R&D costs, and quite an expensive cost as well. Yes, marketing costs are still astronomical (and probably don't have to be, either), but then again, just because something receives lots of exposure in the mainstream media doesn't mean that doctors are paying attention to that. Although if they're patients start asking about a particular drug, they'll do the research and find out if it's good, but doctors don't research these things in the mainstream media; they have much better sources to find out all of the unbiased details and results.
Obviously, the submitter is a republican, since he left the names out of it. To be fair and partisan, the names of the two GOP Senators are Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), for those interested in helping to vote out these asshats next time they're up for re-election. Unfortunately, the sad thing is that most people forget about all the stupid things the congressman do by the time they're up for re-election, unless they do something really, really stupid, like getting caught taking bribes and falsifying tax returns, or bending over pages,...
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Or, you can just sign up without having any particular affiliation. Facebook opened its doors to the general public sometime in September or October, 2006.
Congress should instead just focus on implementing a 1% national sales tax on everything (brick-and-mortar stores, internet sales, the whole 9 yards). Don't discriminate. Then, they could wipe out the income tax and seriously downsize the IRS (sorry, can't completely eliminate 'em ... they still need to handle the national sales tax).
"Oh, my God! They killed Clippy! You bastards!"
A better solution would be two-fold:
The copyright notice is still there on the Irrlicht video tutorial, though.
The big fluffy, white clouds representing the internet are nice and all, but wouldn't it be more accurate to represent the internet on diagrams with a mugshot of Al Gore, instead?
It's not really, "lost for good." They could fix it, probably at a cost about 20 times less than the original one, with new technology. But Dubya needs money for the, "War in Iraq," or the, "War on Terror," instead.
Calling Ric Romero! Hey buddy! We've got a great new BREAKING NEWS story for you! Write an article about the, "death of the floppy disk." It's ground breaking!
And of course, now, they have an entirely different poll there. They're asking, "Would you anonymously post your deepest secret on a Web site?" WTF? Looks like somebody's having a few fun and games with the cnn.com website today,...
We also know now that the one ring also exists, too. Unfortunately, it was never destroyed, as the story goes,... the current ringbearer occupies the Oval Office.
What about deleting other, "useless," domains, like .museum, .aero, and even .biz. .travel could probably be wiped as well. Talk about completely and utterly useless TLDs.
Am I also going to slam it as a completely useless, worthless, and ridiculous product? Despite the enormous temptation to do so here on slashdot, no, I won't do that, either. ;-)
If we look at Micro$oft's history, they've admittedly had quite a few crowning moments back there. The upgrade from Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 was big. It was a huge step at the time, and I'll admit, I was pretty excited about that back then. A much more user-friendly OS, the death of DOS (well, not really, but sort of),... I was even fairly excited about Windows 98, because, while it wasn't great, it did include a lot of little improvements to Windows 95 that made things run a lot better and smoother. Windows 98 was great until Windows 2000 came out, which made things a lot better. But 2000 still wasn't perfect, particularly in the arena of gaming, so 98 reigned for a bit longer in some areas.
I don't even think I should even give the dignity of even mentioning Windows ME, which, if there's any OS out there that deserves to be slammed more than any other, that's the one. I pity all the fools that were suckered into that,...
Windows XP was another crowning moment in Micro$oft's history. I really can't find anything wrong with this OS. They've merged the NT core of Windows NT/2000 with the legacy, gaming, and "home-use" aspects of 95/98. I have yet to see a BSOD in Windows XP. It runs all of the applications I need (well, except for a couple of molecular modeling apps that seem happier in linux ;-) ... It doesn't seem to be too much of a memory hog, at least not annoyingly so. The interface is decent, who really cares about some fancy eye candy; computers are there to get work done, not stare at graphics all day long while fancy-shmancy moving things dance all over the screen gobbling up RAM,...
So right now, I really see no reason to upgrade. Sure, I'll probably eventually get Vista, but it'll be in about 3-5 years when I buy a new PC that has Vista pre-loaded. Unless, of course, I opt to go for a Mac, which I almost did last year when I bought this computer, except that they're still a little pricey for the 17" and larger screen notebook models,...
Wow! 20,077 'no' votes to '677' yes votes! I think we slashdotted the CNN poll! /not surprised at the results
How much did Bill Gates pay you to post that? Did you get a free trip to Redmond, or something?
Try telling that to the Commander-in-Chief. Apparently, being only partially done with something is enough for him to declare success,... ;-)
Obligatory.
I'd rather not see hillaryclinton.xxx, either!
That sounds sorta like Communism, eh?
Not true. Any company that wants to bring this to market, even a generic manufacturer, still has to pay the costs of the clinical trial steps. This is part of your R&D costs, and quite an expensive cost as well. Yes, marketing costs are still astronomical (and probably don't have to be, either), but then again, just because something receives lots of exposure in the mainstream media doesn't mean that doctors are paying attention to that. Although if they're patients start asking about a particular drug, they'll do the research and find out if it's good, but doctors don't research these things in the mainstream media; they have much better sources to find out all of the unbiased details and results.
Quick! Somebody go over to fark.com and get Wil Wheaton (aka Ensign Wesley Crusher)! He'll have the problem licked in no time! ;-)