If you write your congressman and snail mail it, it has to go through the scanning for bombs, anthrax, etc... which could takes weeks before it gets to him/her.
Email has a habit of getting deleted or lost in the spam.
Faxing produces a peice of paper that doesn't go through security and is harder to get deleted.
At the same time, we feel fortunate that we have the work ahead of us that we do."
At the same time I feel sad that something as beneficial to science, humanity, technology, economy, and to our lives can be cut so easily. But when it comes to the military or pork projects, a blank check is issued.
On that site you posted, I see under the column Controversial product characteristics / my research / references entries sucj as this: "installing through security holes".
Isn't that a virus or a break-in that's already illegal?
P.S. Thank you for posting that site. Now I can make sure that my "Adblock" ad-in for Firefox will block those companies.
Why not make CEO's personally liable for not putting the code through proper QC channels and selling it over-promised.
Or, having a company culture that promotes sloppy development cycles. I doubt the CEO has any clue about the nity gritty of his software team but he sure is responsible for the people under him and any decisions he makes about saving money - ex. Sending the coding overseas to a firm without making sure their credentials are factual and that they in fact have the experience to produce the code according to spec.
I am SO glad that I DON'T have mod points now because I would have made a knee jerk mod and have modded you down. Then I would have HAD to post under my user name to have ALL of my mods backed out - out of fairness.
I have absolutely no data to back this up, but I think that by doing the bulk of my reading on the net, I'm losing something. I think it's because most of the writing on the net is for 12 year olds and under. There are, of course some exceptions. It's the same as watching too much TV as opposed to reading. My spelling is turning to shit as a result too.
What's the hold up? Why can't they release the test to acedemics for research purposes now. What they were talking about in TFA was a version for clinics, hospitals, etc... for testing patients. And you know they're going to charge a lot of money for it. I was thinking of a "freebee" or at least at a steep discount for acedemic purposes. Because to do a study, they're going to need quite a few of these things.
According to Soreq the blood test will be inexpensive, accurate and will take only a few hours to receive the results. Currently the blood test is not yet available, as Yissum, the Hebrew University technology transfer company, in charge of the commercialization of the research is looking for a partner from the medical industry to help push the research out of the laboratory and into hospitals and clinics.
I was hoping that they would release it for research purposes. For example, if I had the money, I would love to finance a study to see how effective relaxation techniques (TM, Yoga, other breathing exercises, exercise...) are in reducing anxiety. With these blood tests, you'd have an objective measure instead of some questionaire to test for anxiety.
Also, this would be great for testing the efficacy of anti-anxiety drugs such as Paxil.
Now, I'm starting to see some reason to get one of those pods. I'm a really cheap guy and I don't like much of the new music these days so I never had a reason to get one. But, I have a hard time catching The Infinite Mind and other PBS/NPR shows I love and I can't always listen to it over the net when I'm at my computer - it does suck up a lot of badwidth.
"It's basically the concept of creating a magnetic field that goes parallel to the surface of the pad rather than out of the pad and this has many benefits
The "I'm getting cancer and my kids have ADD because of the powerlines in my house" crowd and their lawyers are going to have a field day with this!
They are already genetically discriminating because they hire smart people (their scientists). Or, they are hiring people based on their ethinic backgound in order not to run afoul of EEOC laws. This is getting fun!
I used to be a contract programmer. I did mostly C++, Windows, UNIX, some SQL work. I kept getting hired as a C++ guy with not much opportunity to move to the newer web stuff. Well, to make a long story short, it's all web stuff now and the only C++ work that's around is embedded stuff, which I have no experience with.
What I'm trying to say is - On job, try to find some way to use the Next Great Thing (TM). Anyway you can. Otherwise, while you're on a contract for a year or more, the contract job market changes and then you can't get work.
Classes in the new technology? HA! No one wants to hire a contractor unless he has at least a couple of years of experience. That's why they're hiring a contractor. Because if they were willing to train or have someone with less experience, they'd use someone internally. Or, you can just read up on something, lie about it, and just hope when they check up on you, they don't find out about it.
You bring up an interesting point. I was watching this marketing analyst on the Jim Lehrer News Hour the other day, and he said that the Chinese beleive that their world view is superior to everyone else's. As they become more powerfule, both economically and militarily, they are going to assert this view. I think we in the US have better enjoy our domination while is lasts. And make sure not to piss to many more people off - i.e. the Chinese.
One of the mega banks stopped sending their customers email requests because they thought the emails were scams. As a result, the bank had to spend more money to use the snail mail. This affected their bottom line. Of course, it's then passed on to the customer someway.
I think any firm, government entity, universities, etc... should be held responsible. It just kills me when I walk by a bursars office and the clerk immediately asks, through the window, for the students SSN and name. If I were a crook, all I'd have to do is just sit there and write them down. Mention this the university, you just get a blank stare.
There is absolutely no reason they have to live with us controlling the internet. Just put their own root DNS servers in place, and legally mandate that all of their ISPs switch over.
I was thinking something similar. (Forgive my ignorance about address resolution, but I'm sure you'll get the drift.) So, if someone wanted to access "www.foo.uk", their ISP would just have to contact the UK's main DNS server to resolve the address within the UK. It would be the same for all countries. They would manage their own domains. The only problem I can see other than what you mentioned is that you could have www.foo.uk, www.foo.us, www.foo.cn, and so on...
From TFA: The company, which has sold more than 13 million copy-protected discs to date, is urging people who buy copy-protected titles to write to Apple and demand that the company license its FairPlay DRM for use with secure CDs.
How about you ("The Company") give the technology to Apple so that you don't lose their users as customers. How would you like it if Apple published on their website that said "Don't buy your company's CDs, they are incompatible with our technology and refuse to change it." You see, in this case, Apple is driving the market. Either conform, or lose customers.
Oh, please no. That'll just give them (RIAA, record companies) ammo for the legislatures that there needs to be more DRM, they need more laws to allow them invade our machines, more laws allowing for all of those stupid lawsuits that they're filing, it gives an excuse as to why their sales are declining - regardless if it's true or not, and more that is not coming to me, now.
Lastly, it's just wrong. I wouldn't like it if you did that to me regardless of how noble your intentions are.
Or, if they're going to put all of these restrictions on the media, then charge less, and I mean a lot less. So, instead of $25 for a new release, I'll only pay $5. And if they still insist on selling it for $25 or above what I'm willing to pay, then Fuck'em! I won't buy anything. There's still plenty of good books I haven't read. And I've been reading a lot more, lately, considering the current state of American media.
Take Google (GOOG ). They didn't know their business model until they had launched, gotten traffic, and saw what Overture had done [with paid-search advertising], then tweaked that model. It takes a while for a business model to mature when you're building that kind of momentum. - Rimmer's Rules
I think this is going to be the norm. Find an existing OS project, see whose using it, and then figure a way to make money. I agree with what your saying. It does seem like a haphazard way of building a business. But OS is a different economic paradigm so I guess it takes a different investment paradigm.
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Email has a habit of getting deleted or lost in the spam.
Faxing produces a peice of paper that doesn't go through security and is harder to get deleted.
At the same time I feel sad that something as beneficial to science, humanity, technology, economy, and to our lives can be cut so easily. But when it comes to the military or pork projects, a blank check is issued.
I'd settle for making him wear a scarlet 'S' on his clothes.
Then I'd know whose kneecaps to break.
Isn't that a virus or a break-in that's already illegal?
P.S. Thank you for posting that site. Now I can make sure that my "Adblock" ad-in for Firefox will block those companies.
You're marked as "Flamebait". Oooo, flaming dicks and pussies! Hmmm, that would be a nihe in the pr0n niz!
Then again, I'm sure there's plenty of people who'd really love that. Actually, well, ummm,....Great Idea!!!!
Or, having a company culture that promotes sloppy development cycles. I doubt the CEO has any clue about the nity gritty of his software team but he sure is responsible for the people under him and any decisions he makes about saving money - ex. Sending the coding overseas to a firm without making sure their credentials are factual and that they in fact have the experience to produce the code according to spec.
I have absolutely no data to back this up, but I think that by doing the bulk of my reading on the net, I'm losing something. I think it's because most of the writing on the net is for 12 year olds and under. There are, of course some exceptions. It's the same as watching too much TV as opposed to reading. My spelling is turning to shit as a result too.
That's my $0.25 opppinion.
What's the hold up? Why can't they release the test to acedemics for research purposes now. What they were talking about in TFA was a version for clinics, hospitals, etc... for testing patients. And you know they're going to charge a lot of money for it. I was thinking of a "freebee" or at least at a steep discount for acedemic purposes. Because to do a study, they're going to need quite a few of these things.
I was hoping that they would release it for research purposes. For example, if I had the money, I would love to finance a study to see how effective relaxation techniques (TM, Yoga, other breathing exercises, exercise...) are in reducing anxiety. With these blood tests, you'd have an objective measure instead of some questionaire to test for anxiety.
Also, this would be great for testing the efficacy of anti-anxiety drugs such as Paxil.
Now, I'm starting to see some reason to get one of those pods. I'm a really cheap guy and I don't like much of the new music these days so I never had a reason to get one. But, I have a hard time catching The Infinite Mind and other PBS/NPR shows I love and I can't always listen to it over the net when I'm at my computer - it does suck up a lot of badwidth.
The "I'm getting cancer and my kids have ADD because of the powerlines in my house" crowd and their lawyers are going to have a field day with this!
They are already genetically discriminating because they hire smart people (their scientists). Or, they are hiring people based on their ethinic backgound in order not to run afoul of EEOC laws. This is getting fun!
steering wheels on cars.
I used to be a contract programmer. I did mostly C++, Windows, UNIX, some SQL work. I kept getting hired as a C++ guy with not much opportunity to move to the newer web stuff. Well, to make a long story short, it's all web stuff now and the only C++ work that's around is embedded stuff, which I have no experience with.
What I'm trying to say is - On job, try to find some way to use the Next Great Thing (TM). Anyway you can. Otherwise, while you're on a contract for a year or more, the contract job market changes and then you can't get work.
Classes in the new technology? HA!
No one wants to hire a contractor unless he has at least a couple of years of experience. That's why they're hiring a contractor. Because if they were willing to train or have someone with less experience, they'd use someone internally. Or, you can just read up on something, lie about it, and just hope when they check up on you, they don't find out about it.
You bring up an interesting point. I was watching this marketing analyst on the Jim Lehrer News Hour the other day, and he said that the Chinese beleive that their world view is superior to everyone else's. As they become more powerfule, both economically and militarily, they are going to assert this view. I think we in the US have better enjoy our domination while is lasts. And make sure not to piss to many more people off - i.e. the Chinese.
I think any firm, government entity, universities, etc ... should be held responsible. It just kills me when I walk by a bursars office and the clerk immediately asks, through the window, for the students SSN and name. If I were a crook, all I'd have to do is just sit there and write them down. Mention this the university, you just get a blank stare.
You see, there was this company called "Go" a few years ago. Read about it here.
They were working on a Tablet PC before MS fucked them over - at least that's the way they tell it.
I was thinking something similar. (Forgive my ignorance about address resolution, but I'm sure you'll get the drift.) So, if someone wanted to access "www.foo.uk", their ISP would just have to contact the UK's main DNS server to resolve the address within the UK. It would be the same for all countries. They would manage their own domains. The only problem I can see other than what you mentioned is that you could have www.foo.uk, www.foo.us, www.foo.cn, and so on...
How about Network Immune System"? Using "good worm" or "Nematode" will confuse the PHBs or worse alarm them.
Ex. NET ADMIN: "Boss, I want to put a good worm on the system."
PHB (Hearing only the worm part):"No fucking way! No worms on my system!"
How about you ("The Company") give the technology to Apple so that you don't lose their users as customers. How would you like it if Apple published on their website that said "Don't buy your company's CDs, they are incompatible with our technology and refuse to change it." You see, in this case, Apple is driving the market. Either conform, or lose customers.
Oh, please no. That'll just give them (RIAA, record companies) ammo for the legislatures that there needs to be more DRM, they need more laws to allow them invade our machines, more laws allowing for all of those stupid lawsuits that they're filing, it gives an excuse as to why their sales are declining - regardless if it's true or not, and more that is not coming to me, now.
Lastly, it's just wrong. I wouldn't like it if you did that to me regardless of how noble your intentions are.
Resistance is futile. They will be assimilated. :)
Or, if they're going to put all of these restrictions on the media, then charge less, and I mean a lot less. So, instead of $25 for a new release, I'll only pay $5. And if they still insist on selling it for $25 or above what I'm willing to pay, then Fuck'em! I won't buy anything. There's still plenty of good books I haven't read. And I've been reading a lot more, lately, considering the current state of American media.
I think this is going to be the norm. Find an existing OS project, see whose using it, and then figure a way to make money. I agree with what your saying. It does seem like a haphazard way of building a business. But OS is a different economic paradigm so I guess it takes a different investment paradigm.