Open source is a set of principles and practices on how to write software Close, but not quite. Open source just defines that the code is available. Open Source on the other hand, is a proper noun that refers to the set of principles and practices you are talking about.
You're confused. Open source is an adjective that describes a piece of software as having the original source code publicly available. "Open Source" is also the name of a marketing campaign and licensing lobbying movement. So this release is open source as the code is being made available. It does not comply with the desires of the "Open Source" movement though. The two are entirely different.
* Of or relating to source code (eg, computer code) that is available to the public.
plan2005.cancer.gov/glossary.html
* of or relating to or being computer software for which the source code is freely available
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn It is Open Source. It is not public domain, GPL, CC, or under any usable license.
All Open Source means is that the source is open. We want Dibold to Open Source their black boxes, not so that we can change the code and sell it, but so that we can review it and audit it.
I hear child molesters and dog abusers are big fans of Tim Russert. They watch his show religiously and purchase products from his advertisers. There for, every guest who come on his show has the responsibility to ask him for his side of the story, in a similar fashion:
"Tim, we all know that a lot of people who like kicking dogs and throwing puppies off cliffs are big fans of yours. We also know that you are widely respected in the child porn industry. What do you have to say about that?"
That's not a hard question, that's a loaded question. A hard question would be:
"Our economic advisers believe that your economic policy will fail for reasons X, Y, and Z. Explain how your plan will work to avoid X, Y, and Z."
But watching a man defend an economic policy is no where near as fun as watching him defend himself from accusations of being a terrorist, a Black Panther, Muslim, corrupt, Jewish, antisemitic, etc... If you want some tough questions, get some English interviewers over here to badger the candidates on the issues. If you want BS and fluff, stay tuned to American TV for it's 'Entertainment Value'.
how the fuck is that insightful? its a basic tenet of economics. if that wasnt true, then we wouldnt be having this discussion As much as I hate replying to an AC, you have a very good point. My post may have been accurate, but it doesn't strike me as the type of post to get +5 insightful rating.
Ahh well. Maybe tomorrow it'll turn into an Overrated +3, if not, hopefully the meta moderating will even it out.
content providers are wholly opposed to consumers interests I wouldn't go quite that far. I would say that content providers are wholly interested in making a profit, and the consumers have a strong interest in getting the greatest possible value for their money.
All the nasty, difficult to dispose of and full of toxic chemical batteries aren't improving that value by a hell of a lot, then. Batteries are difficult to dispose of, but really easy to recycle.
Modern diesels are fine with BD. The main issue with running BD was on older engines with rubber fuel lines that the BD would dissolve, leading to clogged injectors and damaged fuel lines. But you can buy a VW diesel and run BD20 in it with out violating the warrenty. You can run BD100 in them just fine, but since BD isn't quite as standardized as PD they will not honor the warrenty if there is a fuel related problem and you've been running anything over BD20. In fact, the new ULSD fuel has lost a good deal of it's natural lubricity. Running 20% BD, 80% ULSD will actually get you the lower emissions of the ULSD and the lubricity of LSD.
-Rick
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Honestly, taking any existing patent and tossing it on the internet should be tossed immediately as obvious.
Knock out software patents, and patents on processes, and blamo! problem solved.
And, sorry, but the rest of society has zero interest in offsetting your health care (or aspect of your personal life) so you can put $300/mo into hobbies and entertainment. And your $100/mo cable and internet bill? You sound as bad as those who apply for food stamps because they don't make enough money for food (and alcohol and tobacco.) The ones who do their grocery shopping at Seven Eleven and have to separate their items into two piles so they can use their cash to pay for their "necessities" (beer, smokes, junk) and their food stamps card to pay for their food. Were those your Wheaties I pissed in this morning? I live with in my means. My post was not a 'woh is me' wine fest, but a statement that your assessment was grossly inaccurate. If you believe that owning a home means paying a mortgage bill and that's it, you are sorely mistaken.
And you are also incorrect. Society as a whole has every interest in offsetting my health care costs, just as I have an interest in offsetting everyone else's. It's called the economy, and having a body of healthy, able, and educated employees. It is in my interest for everyone else to remain healthy, and it is in everyone else's interest for me, just like everyone else, to stay healthy.
Oh, and I ran to the store just yesterday to pick up about a week and a half worth of groceries. Nothing to extravagant, a nice blend of easy dinners, fruits, vegies, milk, eggs, the usual. I think the total was right around $150. And that was shopping at a Piggly Wiggly with a discount card. Any time I go for a big shopping trip though, I usually head to Woodmans or the Super Walmart where I can get better prices (enough to offset the $4 in diesel I burn getting to and from the store). To be fair though, I am shopping for myself, my wife, and the bottomless pit we call our son.;) I can't imagine trying to feed a family of 5 these days. Hell, the price of a dozen eggs has over doubled in the last year! And with oil prices skyrocketing, inflation is making grocery shopping less stomach driven and more budget driven.
Our surveys aren't your typical telemarketer crap. We don't do cold calls. People call us and complete what ever assessment they are assign for that time frame of the study they are enrolled in. Cognitive reasoning, memory, rapid thought, depression, bipolar, etc...
It's actually a very rewarding job knowing that the research we do is actively being used to improve drug testing, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness.
Really all you can say is that traditional ways of performing studies are heavily flawed for some purposes, and will result in some drugs with a _lower_ apparent effectiveness, and some drugs with a _higher_ apparent effectiveness. Exactly. Infact, given a traditional clinician administered series of HAM-D with on going drug treatment in a (theoretically) double blind experiment with our IVR administered HAM-D running in parallel, we have actually seen that (in some specific studies) for people who should hot have been included in the study due to not being severly enough effected, placebo had a more significant impact on their condition than the drug. I'll see if I can't dig up some of our doc's published works on the matter. I'm not sure on the copy rights and distribution (I write the software, not the research papers or business plan), but if we have anything published, I'll try to find a free link to it.
We have the system, we have proved it's accuracy, and it is being actively marketed by our partners.
Disclamer first, I work for an R&D company that develops interactive voice response systems (ie: phone surveys) that are used to apply traditional depression and mental health tests in a consistent manner. My company is in part funded by grants and projects paid for by large pharma comps. Although I personally have no contact with them.
When pharma's want to do a study, they set up sites, each site will have one or more doctor and each doctor will have one or more patient who is participating. Quite often, these studies pay a bonus for each patient up to the quota, or the docs will want to try to help and fill their quota. When they do this, it introduces people into the programs who really should not be there. It's not that they are being purposely decietful or anything, they just aren't being as consistent and strict as they should be. I know this to be a fact, we have done numerous studies in which our system's performance is compared to real world docs across the US. And each and every time, our system would exclude over 20% of the patients that the doctors would enroll.
Since these studies are being poluted with people who do not reach the level of condition the drug was ment to treat, the drug will be ineffective on them. You can't "undepress" people who aren't depressed to start with. So they will reduce the effective correlation of the drug. There is also another natural bias that clinicians apply that causes a deflation of scores at the end of the study due to the double blind factor being eliminated by side effects.
In short, traditional ways of performing these studies are heavily flawed and will often result in a lower apparent effectiveness than the drug actually has.
There's always VIA and the Nano-ITX systems. They are slightly larger than this (10cm x 10cm) but they are available, inexpensive, well tested, and have all the stats published. Check out http://www.mini-itx.com/ for more info and cool cases.
- $6000 year maximum? Not at any job I've ever had. Think $1500 for deductibles and then you're done paying. Everything beyond that goes on the policy. With my current provider my family coverage maxes out at $4100 per year. It's a bit more complex than that, but basically it comes down to the insurance company playing the odds and that between the premiums and deductibles in order to max out you have to go over the WHO calculated average per-capita expenditure. So younger, relatively healthy people get screwed on this system, but older people (the majority of my co-workers) are better covered for the major health issues that are likely to effect them.
No company pays $700/mo for their normal employees. The number is in the area of $200-$300/mo. Seeing as how you are neither omniscient, nor have you worked for every company, I have to say you are incorrect. The State of Wisconsin (in 2004) was paying in the range of $600-700 of the insurance premiums for family coverage. My monthly premiums dropped from $980 to just under $200 when I hit my 1.5 year mark and became eligible for the contributions.
- $2000/mo in expenses (not including a mortgage or rent)? I don't think so. My entire cost of living including rent, car payment, food, utilities, gas, auto insurance, etc. is about $2200/mo. Over half of that is rent. Someone who already owns their home (as posited in his story) will have living expenses in the sub $700 range. Add in his $400/mo meds and you're only at $1100. What the crap are you talking about!?!?!
I own my own house, my mortgage is about $500, taxes, insurances, etc... bring my monthly mortgage check up to $750. The car is another $300. Probably $200 a month in diesel. Another $300+ for gas, water, and electric. $100 for cable and internet. Another $70 for cell phones. $100 a month for car insurance. Probably $200 a month for house maintenance. Another $400+ a month in food. Maybe $300 a month in entertainment/hobbies. And that's not even getting into the horses or any of the medical costs!
For a home owner you're looking at somewhere around $100,000 (minimum) in equity that can be tapped. More likely in the area of $250,000 and possibly as high as $500,000-$1,000,000 (in the north east/north west metro areas.) Not sure which metro you are talking about. I live in a suburb about a 30 minute drive from down town Madison, WI. I picked up my house under market value, and the last appraisal put it at ~$120,000. Of course, I still owe $79,000. So at best, we're talking about 40k equity. I would venture a guess that the majority of home owners have less than 50% equity in their properties, especially considering the housing sales in the last few years. So even with inflated house values, it doesn't mean that people have any equity. And if you look at the way properties have been dropping in price, some people may even be in the hole for equity right now.
My wife and I live inside our means. I cram money into a ROTH 401k every month, we keep a decent nest egg tucked away (no wheres close to $50,000 though!), and we keep the budget balanced so that each month we come out a tiny bit ahead.
No. COBRA. I pay whatever my company pays for the same coverage. We're talking in the area of $200/mo. I call BS. When my wife and I first married I was eligible for entry into the insurance program my employer used (State of Wisconsin), but I was not eligible for the employer contribution (I had only been there for 8 months). That was 2004. At that time, single coverage (healthy non-smoking male) cost ~400 a month, and family coverage (healthy non-smoking family of 3) cost $980 a month.
I picked up cobra for a short stint between gigs last year. We paid $1100 for just over 1 month worth of coverage. And my wife had a knee surgery during that time. The "cost" of the knee surgery was $8000 all together, we paid $1600 of that, in addition to the premium.
So if you were getting single coverage for $200, you likely had one hell of a deductible.
I picked up my CS assoc, BSIT and BSIM degrees through some University work and a good bit of tech colleges. As far as preping for real world employment goes, the University systems have nothing on some of the better tech schools.
Of the 8 graduates of my Comp Sci associates program at Herzing, I would have hired any of them except two (both of who were bright, but didn't have the passion for programming). Those 6 could have hit the ground running on day one doing entry level DBA, Java, Web design, VB, ASP, C++, and network admin stuff. For a bunch of kids, most of who weren't even old enough to drink, they had a whole lot of job options available to them. Compared to some of my friends from the University of Wisconsin, Madison campus Comp Sci program. Those guys knew an amazing amount about Java, and nothing else. Well, nothing else relevant to the majority of job opportunities. Most local insurance companies, banks, retail organizations, etc... don't really want to pay you to write a new compiler;)
I refuse to say that University or Tech schools are "better". The fact is that they are different. And if you can get a staff that has a variety of educational backgrounds, you'll be far better off then focusing on just tech grads or just Unv grads. Just try to avoid the "my degree is better than your degree" BS. That's a whole lot of drama you don't want in a work place.
Zero pollution is a good goal, but unless all of the factors are considered, it's just marketing hype. Actually, it's neither. It's the companies name.
'Bear Wiz Beer' does not contain bear urine. 'Zero Pollution' cars produce pollution.
Those have to be like 8" rims. With tires that small, cruising at 96 MPH would be a bit of a white knuckled experience. Any bump or divet in the road is going to feel like you're hitting a curb in a car that light with that small of wheels. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see what this vehicle can do in the real world, but 1000 miles @ 96 MPH is either a purely hypothetical calculation, or a Dyno run.
An even better example. The pink monkey joke, in all it's glory, pails in comparison to the popularity of the Aristocrats.
That, and I've never heard a rendition of the pink monkey joke that included rape, incest, bestiality (at least, nothing beyond light touching), defecation, or anything along those lines.
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-Rick
You're confused. Open source is an adjective that describes a piece of software as having the original source code publicly available. "Open Source" is also the name of a marketing campaign and licensing lobbying movement. So this release is open source as the code is being made available. It does not comply with the desires of the "Open Source" movement though. The two are entirely different.
-Rick
* Of or relating to source code (eg, computer code) that is available to the public.
plan2005.cancer.gov/glossary.html
* of or relating to or being computer software for which the source code is freely available
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn It is Open Source. It is not public domain, GPL, CC, or under any usable license.
All Open Source means is that the source is open. We want Dibold to Open Source their black boxes, not so that we can change the code and sell it, but so that we can review it and audit it.
I hear child molesters and dog abusers are big fans of Tim Russert. They watch his show religiously and purchase products from his advertisers. There for, every guest who come on his show has the responsibility to ask him for his side of the story, in a similar fashion:
"Tim, we all know that a lot of people who like kicking dogs and throwing puppies off cliffs are big fans of yours. We also know that you are widely respected in the child porn industry. What do you have to say about that?"
That's not a hard question, that's a loaded question. A hard question would be:
"Our economic advisers believe that your economic policy will fail for reasons X, Y, and Z. Explain how your plan will work to avoid X, Y, and Z."
But watching a man defend an economic policy is no where near as fun as watching him defend himself from accusations of being a terrorist, a Black Panther, Muslim, corrupt, Jewish, antisemitic, etc... If you want some tough questions, get some English interviewers over here to badger the candidates on the issues. If you want BS and fluff, stay tuned to American TV for it's 'Entertainment Value'.
-Rick
Ahh well. Maybe tomorrow it'll turn into an Overrated +3, if not, hopefully the meta moderating will even it out.
-Rick
-Rick
I'm curious as to why the "IP pressure" makes them a bad option for SVO conversions?
-Rick
I'm pretty sure a 98 should be fine. But you could double check with the guys over at http://www.tdiclub.com/
-Rick
Heh... That would be "Low Sulfur Diesel" and "Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel" which represent 500ppm and 15ppm sulfur content respectively.
-Rick
-Rick
Modern diesels are fine with BD. The main issue with running BD was on older engines with rubber fuel lines that the BD would dissolve, leading to clogged injectors and damaged fuel lines. But you can buy a VW diesel and run BD20 in it with out violating the warrenty. You can run BD100 in them just fine, but since BD isn't quite as standardized as PD they will not honor the warrenty if there is a fuel related problem and you've been running anything over BD20. In fact, the new ULSD fuel has lost a good deal of it's natural lubricity. Running 20% BD, 80% ULSD will actually get you the lower emissions of the ULSD and the lubricity of LSD.
-Rick
Honestly, taking any existing patent and tossing it on the internet should be tossed immediately as obvious.
Knock out software patents, and patents on processes, and blamo! problem solved.
-Rick
And you are also incorrect. Society as a whole has every interest in offsetting my health care costs, just as I have an interest in offsetting everyone else's. It's called the economy, and having a body of healthy, able, and educated employees. It is in my interest for everyone else to remain healthy, and it is in everyone else's interest for me, just like everyone else, to stay healthy.
Oh, and I ran to the store just yesterday to pick up about a week and a half worth of groceries. Nothing to extravagant, a nice blend of easy dinners, fruits, vegies, milk, eggs, the usual. I think the total was right around $150. And that was shopping at a Piggly Wiggly with a discount card. Any time I go for a big shopping trip though, I usually head to Woodmans or the Super Walmart where I can get better prices (enough to offset the $4 in diesel I burn getting to and from the store). To be fair though, I am shopping for myself, my wife, and the bottomless pit we call our son.
-Rick
Our surveys aren't your typical telemarketer crap. We don't do cold calls. People call us and complete what ever assessment they are assign for that time frame of the study they are enrolled in. Cognitive reasoning, memory, rapid thought, depression, bipolar, etc...
It's actually a very rewarding job knowing that the research we do is actively being used to improve drug testing, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness.
-Rick
We have the system, we have proved it's accuracy, and it is being actively marketed by our partners.
-Rick
Disclamer first, I work for an R&D company that develops interactive voice response systems (ie: phone surveys) that are used to apply traditional depression and mental health tests in a consistent manner. My company is in part funded by grants and projects paid for by large pharma comps. Although I personally have no contact with them.
When pharma's want to do a study, they set up sites, each site will have one or more doctor and each doctor will have one or more patient who is participating. Quite often, these studies pay a bonus for each patient up to the quota, or the docs will want to try to help and fill their quota. When they do this, it introduces people into the programs who really should not be there. It's not that they are being purposely decietful or anything, they just aren't being as consistent and strict as they should be. I know this to be a fact, we have done numerous studies in which our system's performance is compared to real world docs across the US. And each and every time, our system would exclude over 20% of the patients that the doctors would enroll.
Since these studies are being poluted with people who do not reach the level of condition the drug was ment to treat, the drug will be ineffective on them. You can't "undepress" people who aren't depressed to start with. So they will reduce the effective correlation of the drug. There is also another natural bias that clinicians apply that causes a deflation of scores at the end of the study due to the double blind factor being eliminated by side effects.
In short, traditional ways of performing these studies are heavily flawed and will often result in a lower apparent effectiveness than the drug actually has.
-Rick
There's always VIA and the Nano-ITX systems. They are slightly larger than this (10cm x 10cm) but they are available, inexpensive, well tested, and have all the stats published. Check out http://www.mini-itx.com/ for more info and cool cases.
-Rick
I own my own house, my mortgage is about $500, taxes, insurances, etc... bring my monthly mortgage check up to $750. The car is another $300. Probably $200 a month in diesel. Another $300+ for gas, water, and electric. $100 for cable and internet. Another $70 for cell phones. $100 a month for car insurance. Probably $200 a month for house maintenance. Another $400+ a month in food. Maybe $300 a month in entertainment/hobbies. And that's not even getting into the horses or any of the medical costs! For a home owner you're looking at somewhere around $100,000 (minimum) in equity that can be tapped. More likely in the area of $250,000 and possibly as high as $500,000-$1,000,000 (in the north east/north west metro areas.) Not sure which metro you are talking about. I live in a suburb about a 30 minute drive from down town Madison, WI. I picked up my house under market value, and the last appraisal put it at ~$120,000. Of course, I still owe $79,000. So at best, we're talking about 40k equity. I would venture a guess that the majority of home owners have less than 50% equity in their properties, especially considering the housing sales in the last few years. So even with inflated house values, it doesn't mean that people have any equity. And if you look at the way properties have been dropping in price, some people may even be in the hole for equity right now.
My wife and I live inside our means. I cram money into a ROTH 401k every month, we keep a decent nest egg tucked away (no wheres close to $50,000 though!), and we keep the budget balanced so that each month we come out a tiny bit ahead.
-Rick
I picked up cobra for a short stint between gigs last year. We paid $1100 for just over 1 month worth of coverage. And my wife had a knee surgery during that time. The "cost" of the knee surgery was $8000 all together, we paid $1600 of that, in addition to the premium.
So if you were getting single coverage for $200, you likely had one hell of a deductible.
-Rick
FTA is said to travel as far as 1000 miles at up to 96 mph with each tiny fill-up. (emphasis mine)
Sure sounds like they are claiming 96 mph.
-Rick
I picked up my CS assoc, BSIT and BSIM degrees through some University work and a good bit of tech colleges. As far as preping for real world employment goes, the University systems have nothing on some of the better tech schools.
;)
Of the 8 graduates of my Comp Sci associates program at Herzing, I would have hired any of them except two (both of who were bright, but didn't have the passion for programming). Those 6 could have hit the ground running on day one doing entry level DBA, Java, Web design, VB, ASP, C++, and network admin stuff. For a bunch of kids, most of who weren't even old enough to drink, they had a whole lot of job options available to them. Compared to some of my friends from the University of Wisconsin, Madison campus Comp Sci program. Those guys knew an amazing amount about Java, and nothing else. Well, nothing else relevant to the majority of job opportunities. Most local insurance companies, banks, retail organizations, etc... don't really want to pay you to write a new compiler
I refuse to say that University or Tech schools are "better". The fact is that they are different. And if you can get a staff that has a variety of educational backgrounds, you'll be far better off then focusing on just tech grads or just Unv grads. Just try to avoid the "my degree is better than your degree" BS. That's a whole lot of drama you don't want in a work place.
-Rick
'Bear Wiz Beer' does not contain bear urine.
'Zero Pollution' cars produce pollution.
-Rick
Those have to be like 8" rims. With tires that small, cruising at 96 MPH would be a bit of a white knuckled experience. Any bump or divet in the road is going to feel like you're hitting a curb in a car that light with that small of wheels. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see what this vehicle can do in the real world, but 1000 miles @ 96 MPH is either a purely hypothetical calculation, or a Dyno run.
-Rick
I don't think I can think about baseball for an hour while it repairs itself though...
-Rick
An even better example. The pink monkey joke, in all it's glory, pails in comparison to the popularity of the Aristocrats.
That, and I've never heard a rendition of the pink monkey joke that included rape, incest, bestiality (at least, nothing beyond light touching), defecation, or anything along those lines.
-Rick