This sounds like it will be a easy scapegoat for the entire massacre, rather than the fact that the individual was responsible, or the military in general.
But Vernor doesn't technically own a copy of the software, he's merely licensing a copy from Autodesk, correct? The company I work for licenses most of its software, so I know there are distinct differences between the two.
As someone with experience with hardware support for a large company, I can attest to the assertion that SSD's fail pretty often. We use the HP TC4400 tablet, which has a 40gig SSD in it, and we seem to get more of them in with dead harddrives than we do the TC4200, which uses a typical SATA drive.
This may not be true for all SSD's, but it's my experience so far.
My grandfather taught me when I was 8 that there are four inner (solid) planets, and four outer (gaseous) planets, separated by the asteroid belt. Anything else is not a planet, and Pluto certainly should not be.
But oh, if Illinois says it's true then it must be!
This is a good idea in theory, but try doing that when 2,000 people apply for 4 entry-level positions. Are you really going to give every single applicant an excuse, or would "Sorry I didn't even get to your resume because I picked the first one I found" not good enough?
Usually if ask why you're rejected from a position they'll tell you. Making the business legally obligated to proactively inform all rejected applicants is unnecessary.
I have a lot of older P4 machines that aren't special but they run fine. I'm located in Virginia; would you pay for shipping? If you're located within a reasonable distance I wouldn't mind driving them to you.
My fledgling Website Design company recently did free design work for Banana Leaf Project. It's nothing fancy, but a simple website like that can go a long way for a charity organization that's looking for small donations and government sponsorship.
Ockham's Razor: "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." Heinlein's Razor: "Do not attribute to malice what could be more easily explained by stupidity"
It's often called Hanlon's razor because he quoted that in a 1980 book, but it was originally used by Robert Heinlein in his 1941 short story "Logic of Empire".
Heinlein's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. I somewhat agree with you in the WW2 example, because there's sufficient evidence to show that Roosevelt wanted us to join the war (because we needed to join the war). But the Lusitania disaster was completely due to stupidity, and the Gulf of Tonkin incident was due to the trigger-happy captain of the USS Maddox, not some giant conspiracy to throw us into a war.
Additionally, I think you assume too much intelligence and foresight on the part of the Bush Administration with regards to the WMD information.
The point is you're innocent until proven guilty. Think about the Duke Lacrosse team; their Lacrosse season was disbanded for a year and their names dragged through the mud, and in the end they were innocent. They weren't angels by any means, but they did not rape someone. Reputation is hard to gain back.
the first 10 or 15 mins of the shift involved dumping hot water out of urns and staring in to space trying to figure out where we were and why the clock had such a low number on it.
Again, I didn't vote for Obama. Geez, you can't make one neutral comment on Slashdot without people from either side jumping all over you with assumptions and condemnation. Heaven forbid I like both candidates for different reasons!
But I'm speaking as a Canadian with only a passing interest in American politics.
Exactly. Yes, we all know that America is less liberal/extreme as the rest of the world. But when solely discussing the American media, it is more liberal than otherwise. CNN isn't as bad as MSNBC, but it's still pretty biased. Fox News does sort of balance it out by being more extreme in the opposite direction though.
I voted McCain; I was (and am) a fan of the pork-barrel spending cuts he wanted to implement, and the responsible fiscal spending he desired overall. Please don't assume I'm an Obama supporter just because I said that he promoted the change America wants. I never said the change was a good thing.
You ignored the above part of my statement. Like you said, nobody is against the researchers being compensated. But if I'm a large company and I fund said research (and with AIDS we're talking billions and billions of dollars), and then want to make a profit off of it, I'm "exploiting" the medical breakthrough? Using that logic, do restaurants exploit hungry people?
Yeah, after reading the article from the original post I did a bit of research on it myself--apparently 1% of all Europeans have this CCR5 mutation? The bad news: about 30% of people who get bone marrow transplants don't survive the procedure, and the CCR5 mutation makes it more likely for them to die of other things lik West Nile Virus.
In any case, this is wonderful news for the scientific community. Even if this doesn't amount to anything it's still a breakthrough that could help piece together the overall picture. Exciting news.
Good job Germans, bring that karma back up to about neutral!
All joking aside, this could be an amazing breakthrough if it could be commercialized. And since when have people been "HIV Immune"? I've never heard of that shit.
They actually get all of the benefits of being a state (federal-funding for projects, use of our currency, trade rights, etc) without having to pay taxes. Most of the politicians in Puerto Rico are vehemently against requesting statehood for those reasons.
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This sounds like it will be a easy scapegoat for the entire massacre, rather than the fact that the individual was responsible, or the military in general.
But Vernor doesn't technically own a copy of the software, he's merely licensing a copy from Autodesk, correct? The company I work for licenses most of its software, so I know there are distinct differences between the two.
As someone with experience with hardware support for a large company, I can attest to the assertion that SSD's fail pretty often. We use the HP TC4400 tablet, which has a 40gig SSD in it, and we seem to get more of them in with dead harddrives than we do the TC4200, which uses a typical SATA drive.
This may not be true for all SSD's, but it's my experience so far.
Can't believe someone modded this redundant. Funniest post on slashdot in a long time.
My grandfather taught me when I was 8 that there are four inner (solid) planets, and four outer (gaseous) planets, separated by the asteroid belt. Anything else is not a planet, and Pluto certainly should not be.
But oh, if Illinois says it's true then it must be!
This is a good idea in theory, but try doing that when 2,000 people apply for 4 entry-level positions. Are you really going to give every single applicant an excuse, or would "Sorry I didn't even get to your resume because I picked the first one I found" not good enough?
Usually if ask why you're rejected from a position they'll tell you. Making the business legally obligated to proactively inform all rejected applicants is unnecessary.
I have a lot of older P4 machines that aren't special but they run fine. I'm located in Virginia; would you pay for shipping? If you're located within a reasonable distance I wouldn't mind driving them to you.
My fledgling Website Design company recently did free design work for Banana Leaf Project. It's nothing fancy, but a simple website like that can go a long way for a charity organization that's looking for small donations and government sponsorship.
Ockham's Razor: "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best."
Heinlein's Razor: "Do not attribute to malice what could be more easily explained by stupidity"
Ockham's Razor != Heinlein Razor
It's often called Hanlon's razor because he quoted that in a 1980 book, but it was originally used by Robert Heinlein in his 1941 short story "Logic of Empire".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
Heinlein's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. I somewhat agree with you in the WW2 example, because there's sufficient evidence to show that Roosevelt wanted us to join the war (because we needed to join the war). But the Lusitania disaster was completely due to stupidity, and the Gulf of Tonkin incident was due to the trigger-happy captain of the USS Maddox, not some giant conspiracy to throw us into a war.
Additionally, I think you assume too much intelligence and foresight on the part of the Bush Administration with regards to the WMD information.
The point is you're innocent until proven guilty. Think about the Duke Lacrosse team; their Lacrosse season was disbanded for a year and their names dragged through the mud, and in the end they were innocent. They weren't angels by any means, but they did not rape someone. Reputation is hard to gain back.
I'm paying for a certain amount of bandwidth a month. Using a lower percentage of that than I do does not make you a "better customer".
Where have you been? This "virtual time-clock software" has been around for, say, two decades.
Well said sir!
Again, I didn't vote for Obama. Geez, you can't make one neutral comment on Slashdot without people from either side jumping all over you with assumptions and condemnation. Heaven forbid I like both candidates for different reasons!
Exactly. Yes, we all know that America is less liberal/extreme as the rest of the world. But when solely discussing the American media, it is more liberal than otherwise. CNN isn't as bad as MSNBC, but it's still pretty biased. Fox News does sort of balance it out by being more extreme in the opposite direction though.
Took the words right out of my mouth!
I voted McCain; I was (and am) a fan of the pork-barrel spending cuts he wanted to implement, and the responsible fiscal spending he desired overall. Please don't assume I'm an Obama supporter just because I said that he promoted the change America wants. I never said the change was a good thing.
Is there any surprise? The media (with the exception of Fox News) has always had a pretty large liberal bias.
Having said that, Obama is young, charismatic, and is promoting the change America wants. He would have won either way.
You ignored the above part of my statement. Like you said, nobody is against the researchers being compensated. But if I'm a large company and I fund said research (and with AIDS we're talking billions and billions of dollars), and then want to make a profit off of it, I'm "exploiting" the medical breakthrough? Using that logic, do restaurants exploit hungry people?
Heaven forbid that the people who spend a lifetime looking for a cure and pouring billions of dollars into research get reimbursed for their work.
Yeah, after reading the article from the original post I did a bit of research on it myself--apparently 1% of all Europeans have this CCR5 mutation? The bad news: about 30% of people who get bone marrow transplants don't survive the procedure, and the CCR5 mutation makes it more likely for them to die of other things lik West Nile Virus.
In any case, this is wonderful news for the scientific community. Even if this doesn't amount to anything it's still a breakthrough that could help piece together the overall picture. Exciting news.
Good job Germans, bring that karma back up to about neutral!
All joking aside, this could be an amazing breakthrough if it could be commercialized. And since when have people been "HIV Immune"? I've never heard of that shit.
They actually get all of the benefits of being a state (federal-funding for projects, use of our currency, trade rights, etc) without having to pay taxes. Most of the politicians in Puerto Rico are vehemently against requesting statehood for those reasons.