I mean, I love music. But when I listen to the famous concert of Glenn Gould playing the Brahms First Concerto with the New York Phil, the fact that the recording was done in Flintstone's era monaural is, at worst, unfortunate. But then, I listen to music for the ideas, and a great recording a great performance does not make. It's a bit like complaining that your copy of The Declaration of Independence is fading and cracked at the edges of the parchment.
Also, I find it difficult to conceive that someone who has frequented 'pop' music concerts for more than a few years doesn't have at least some degree of sensorineuronal hearing loss, and would be able to tell the difference between CD quality and 'lame -v -V 0'.
So, please enlignhten me: does audio quality matter more than the audio content? Isn't a bit of a curse to have such a discriminating ear? Don't you find that you call yourself an "audiophile" just to play up to the chicks at the frat house? Thanks for the info!
I agree. The problem that I have had is that I'm too lazy to type four extra characters each time I mean to say GNU/Linux. I've solved this by implementing a perl script that scans STDIN for the phrase "GNU/Linux" and replaces it with "GNU/GNU/Linux." This is really handy for me, since I do with to honor the contribution of the GNU project to GNU/GNU/Linux, but I don't want to be bothered having to type GNU/GNU/Linux when just GNU/Linux conveys the same information.
I think there's still a few bugs in it, though. I'll post it to freshmeat when I've debugged it a bit more.
An increasingly large percentage of the world population (especially in developed nations) is over the age of 50 and cannot safely participate in public demonstrations due to the physical fragility and health risks associated with aging. They simply cannot risk getting beaten up by the police. In other words, the majority of citizens cannot safely assemble and demonstrate.
Are you kidding? The elderly are the ideal people to be on the front lines of a demonstration!
Only the most hardened, jack-booted thug would hit a grandma
"Police vs. the AARP" is a closer match in the arena of public opinion than is "Police vs. Tree-huggers"
Old people bruise more easily, and are thus more photogenic when they appear on The Charlie Rose Show
Old people are less likely to be anally violated while incarcerated
The real down side of using old people for protests
Not having long left for this world, its hard to get them to care for issues beyond social security benefits and the price of adult diapers
They need frequent bathroom breaks
(This is the real show stopper) Having lived for so long, they've seen it all happen before, and they have the growing suspicion that its all going to happen again and that no one's going to learn from history, so why try fighting?
I dunno about virtual protests. Like Heinlein said, all authority derives from the threat of physical violence. Virtual sit-ins will just provide more impetus for government-mandated Palladium-like architectures on our PCs and on the network.
ok, i know this is at least partially OT, but when people make remarks like that in public and the aren't challenged, we all lose.
i understand the position that the bombing of hiroshima and nagasake, and the firebombing of dresden were ethically questionable acts since they were fundamentally civilian targets, but calling them acts of terrorism blurs the distinction too much to let it go.
the fundamental difference between the bombing of the japanese homeland and the world trade center attack was that there was a declared state of war. additional mitigating factors:
the japanese fighters on the outlying islands fought to the death, even against hopeless odds
US planners had every reason to believe that the civilian population of japan would be recruited to fight to the death to protect the mainland
the invasion of the mainland was projected to have high mortality counts on both sides
in the final tally, bombing japan probably spared lives compared to a massive, D-day style invasion (but then, in the final tally, were all dead anyway...). i'm not saying it was undebatable from an ethics standpoint, but i am saying that it was a tough decision to make, and i think they did the right thing.
grouping a wartime act like hiroshima together with an undeclared attack on a civilian target like the WTC attack is nonsense. its like hearing the talking heads say that enron was a victim of stockholder expectations: they weren't victims, they were perpetrators. don't make the english language any more ambiguous than it already is.
"Injured as a result of medical malpractice? Injured as a result of unsafe working conditions? Had an automobile accident? Received unsolicited commercial email? Call 1-800-scumbag now!"
I know the enemy of my enemy is supposed to be my friend...but this is pushing the limits.
Some basic information for you (sorry, if you don't want actual information, quit reading now).
PACS stands for Picture Archival and Retrieval System, and is an application for viewing and distributing digital (radiographic) images. It is no more windows-centric than web servers or word browsers.
Lots of things run on windows right now; i'm told this is because it is easier to find windows programmers than it is to find (qualified) UNIX programmers...programming windows' APIs is a more marketable skill right now, or so some people believe. Siemens' PACS system runs on solaris (Magicstore on the backend, Magicview 1000 on the front end) or windows (Magicview 300). BTW, Siemens daily proves that suitably defective programmers can make both UNIX and windows unstable. At least they're better than Picker^H^H^H^H^H^HMarconi^H^H^H^H^H^HPhillips.
Thanks to the DICOM standard ("standard" in this case means that someone just concantenated everyone's implementations into one big mess...) most DICOM compliant applications can intercommunicate, no matter what the platform.
RSNA (Radiologic Society of North America) has sponsored some (limited functionality) sample implementations of DICOM servers and viewers that are available at the Mallinkrodt website. I just finished building the sources for the DICOM viewer--native C libraries with a Java frontend: it blows! Does anyone want to make a (more featureful) gtk frontend? my email account is on yahoo, my name is brysonborg.
its probably too late in the discussion for anyone to see this, but...
i'm working on a project (have been working, will be working) to build a dedicated mp3 player that fits in my stereo deck. mpg123, alsaplayer, whatever weren't acceptable to me because i needed something that _only_ xmms had:
gapkiller.
don't you hate listening to the breaks in the music between tracks 4 and 5 of pink floyd's 'meddle'? between any two tracks on any Orb album? there's a ton of music out there that doesn't make an audible break in between parts that logically should be separate.
and for a while i had this elaborate scheme to put the entire album in one single file and include the track into as an id3v2 tag...but that ended up being way too overengineered.
so, now, on my mp3 box i have vnc running xmms, and using the perl bindings to xmms for an ncurses client. i'm halfway through my weblication interface. maybe sometime i'll start a dedicated GUI client.
i'd love to use a different engine, but it needs a gapkiller plugin.
self-referential humor that lampoons the karma-whores around slashdot is probably too subtle for the average slashdotter these days...explaining both your current -1 (redundant) mod as well as why simple cut-n-paste karma-whoring seems to always work. no wonder you posted AC.
too many non-nerds on slashdot these days. a true nerd site would have sent that to +3 (funny) by now. future historians no doubt will trace the downfall of linux to the moment X windows worked out of the box on anything but an S3...
The biggest problem with gene therapy is that long term expression of the target gene has been difficult to achieve. The inserted sequence, depending on the gene carrier, may or may not be inserted in to host genome. Actual insertion into the host genome is undesirable because of possible malignant transformation (insertion of the target sequence disrupts the function of a tumor supressor protein, or turns on a pro-tumor protein, etc.). Existing as a genetic sequence outside of the genome proper has also failed to achieve more than temporary expression of the desired protein.
This article describes a technique to increase the effiency of the transfer of a therapeutic gene sequence into a target cell. It does nothing to address the biggest stumbling block of gene therapy. While this is sexycool news, being cured for 3 or 7 months doesn't mean being cured for life.
Claimer: IAAMD I don't mean to be a downer. We're just a loooong way off from real gene therapy.
It is different since Microsoft is a convicted monopolist.
For a monopolist, the rules are different: a monopolist is unable to leverage their monopoly to exclude new competition from a market. This is not illegal for someone who is not a monopolist.
That is how it is different from anything that Apple ever did.
A pre-requisite for a market economy is a balance between private property and a "commons." I know I really suck at making these arguments, but imagine how far the printing press would have gotten if anyone who wanted to write a book had to license a language as well as an alphabet before they could write anything. Then imagine what would have happened if some company launched a lawsuit claming that they had a patent on the concept of a written language. Then, another conglomerate sues saying that they own the IP relating to stories about man-vs-man and man-vs-nature.
The GPL is the best thing out there for creating a "digital commons."
What I think, and I may be wrong, it that the current rush toward the everything-is-ownable, IPphilia attitude of today is moving our society towards intellectual feudalism; where it will be impossible to create or partake in many endeavors without pledging alleigance to some sort of multinational conglomerate that will 1) fend off spurious IP claims that, even if unjust, are impossible to defend against as a private individual, and 2) work out the necessary cross-licensing agreements with the other multinationals in order to use the appropriate "property." This seems to be antithetical to the idea of a 'free market,' as well as to most of the ideals of the last two hundred years of western thought.
Again, I may be wrong. I'm getting tired of feeling like a reactionary anarchist everyday I read the lastest "X"-corporation-has-a-patent-on-breathing on slashdot.
Re:If you REALLY want gtk, check this.
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i was using this for a while and it was pretty nice. unfortunately it didn't track gtk+ correctly after gtk+ 1.2.7 or something, and the scrollbars quit working. also, just before i quit using it, gtkemacs implemented their own file selector which i didn't like. i haven't checked out their CVS for the last six months or so: has this changed?
Great sets, great acting...but why did they have to go out of their way to mess up the story??
(Spoilers below)
In the book, for those of you who didn't read it---or even knew that it existed--the hero travels with his crew in a slower-than-light spaceship to another planet. Once on the other planet, he goes straight into the ape-safari where apes are hunting humans in an uncomfortable parody of humans hunting animals. Hijinks ensue. During his discoveries, he discovers that the alien planet was once dominated by humans, but that hundreds or thousands of years ago they grew stupid and that apes took their place as the dominant species. The hero is finally able to return to earth. Remember--it's slower than light travel, so when he returns home hundreds of earth-years have actually passed. When he returns, he is greeted on the landing pad by a bunch of apes. The human devolution and ascendancy of apes has repeated itself on earth. Irony. Curtains close, music swells. The End.
In this version, unfortunately, they start out begging the question: why do they truck chimps and researchers out to Jupiter--the chimps don't seem ready for production use yet... Then there's a time-space warp that blew over from the Star Trek universe. I was able to reasonably suspend my belief throughout the movie--the Oberon?s super chimps came through the time-space warp hundreds or thousands of years before the hero (o.k., so there?s not a 1:1 mapping in the time aspect of the warp, even though the space warp component must be stable) and then displaces the native humans on this planet. OK, although it begs the question: Why would the Oberon research ship venture into this anomaly after seeing two of its ships disappear? Now, the hero gets back into his ship and returns to Earth and...what the hell? It's twentieth century Earth with monkeys in police cars and there's no longer Abe in the Lincoln Memorial but General Thane (the uber-monkey from the Planet of the Apes). This ending not only destroys the symmetry of the original book but left me scratching my head. WTF? Why are there now monkeys in twentieth-century Earth? The only thing that I could figure out is that this must be a parallel universe where monkeys (o.k., maybe I should ammend that to "a different species of monkey") seem to have recapitulated the development of twentieth-century civilization....
Why do people have to dumb everything down for today?s movie watcher. Maybe the guy next to me had the right idea: he brought a couple of cans of Colt 45 with him.
Mountain View, CA, January 5 2000 -- LinuxOne, Inc, announced today the introduction of the LINXTerm, a remarkable productivity-enhancing piece of software designed to complement their LinuxOne OS and LinuxOne Lite operating system products.
The LINXTerm, a substaitial achievement in software engineering, reproduces DEC VT102/VT220 (VTxxx) and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the windowing system directly. It thus implements the traditional text-based Linux interface in a Graphical User Environment (GUI), such as the soon-to-be-released OneX Windowing System.
Dr. Wun C. Chiouu,Sr., President of LinuxOne, Inc., stated "We are quite pleased in the achievements of our research and development (R & D) division. The release of the LINXTerm will consolidate our position as a leader in Linux-related technologies."
Bill, a regional distributor for Power Source (www.poso.com) at the Reading Expo Center Gun and Computer Show, commented, "Hey,like are you going to buy something or are you just going to stand there all day."
LinuxOne, Inc, is an open source software provider and a highly-regarded developer of the shareware Linux OS.
Power Source, Inc., www.poso.com, is a prominent software distributor that is simultaneously one of the largest distributors and one of the fastest growing.
For more information, contact:
Roy Holmes, Vice President of Sales LinuxOne Worldwide Headquarters: 201 San Antonio Circle, C250 Mountain View, CA 94040 Phone: (650) 948-6201 Fax: (650) 948-2932 Email: roy@linuxone.net URL: http://www.linuxone.net/
Julius Liu, President Power Source, Inc. 10032 San Pablo Avenue El Cerrito, CA. 94530 Phone: (510) 527-6908 or (510) 697-6388 Fax: (510) 527-3823
The best moment in the movie Lost In Space was when someone said "Sensors indicate they're silicone-based life forms." I laughed my ass off! OK, for the last time, let's get this straight:
Silicon: a metallic element, located directly below carbon in the periodic table and therefore (hypothetically) able to be the basis for complex molecules. A common SF device is to have a silicon-based life form, putatively different than the more commonly encountered carbon-based life form (e.g. humans). Ok, BTW, it's the semiconducter that makes up the processor in your computer.
Silicone: a synthetic gel used as a lubricant, a sealant, and as a reasonable approximation of breast tissue. Silicone, by the way, was responsible for helping a lot of lawyers get a lot richer in a class action lawsuit claiming exposure to silicone caused connective tissue disease in several women with breast implants. This has now been proven to not be the case...but neither do the lawyers have to give back the money, nor does Dow-Corning (which declared bankrupcy as a result of the settlement against it) get to go back into business.
Now, to make sure you've all got this straight, let's go through a few exercises:
Silicone implants--bigger boobs for chicks! Horray! Silicon implants--the next step after wearable computers: the USR/3Com Breast Pilot XXI.
Silicon Graphics--builds kick ass servers in purple cases. Silicone Graphics--a.k.a. 'Bay Watch'
Are we all clear on the difference, now? Good. Next time I'll explain the difference between "public" and "pubic."
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I never have been able to understand audiophiles.
I mean, I love music. But when I listen to the famous concert of Glenn Gould playing the Brahms First Concerto with the New York Phil, the fact that the recording was done in Flintstone's era monaural is, at worst, unfortunate. But then, I listen to music for the ideas, and a great recording a great performance does not make. It's a bit like complaining that your copy of The Declaration of Independence is fading and cracked at the edges of the parchment.
Also, I find it difficult to conceive that someone who has frequented 'pop' music concerts for more than a few years doesn't have at least some degree of sensorineuronal hearing loss, and would be able to tell the difference between CD quality and 'lame -v -V 0'.
So, please enlignhten me: does audio quality matter more than the audio content? Isn't a bit of a curse to have such a discriminating ear? Don't you find that you call yourself an "audiophile" just to play up to the chicks at the frat house? Thanks for the info!
I agree. The problem that I have had is that I'm too lazy to type four extra characters each time I mean to say GNU/Linux. I've solved this by implementing a perl script that scans STDIN for the phrase "GNU/Linux" and replaces it with "GNU/GNU/Linux." This is really handy for me, since I do with to honor the contribution of the GNU project to GNU/GNU/Linux, but I don't want to be bothered having to type GNU/GNU/Linux when just GNU/Linux conveys the same information.
I think there's still a few bugs in it, though. I'll post it to freshmeat when I've debugged it a bit more.
An increasingly large percentage of the world population (especially in developed nations) is over the age of 50 and cannot safely participate in public demonstrations due to the physical fragility and health risks associated with aging. They simply cannot risk getting beaten up by the police. In other words, the majority of citizens cannot safely assemble and demonstrate.
Are you kidding? The elderly are the ideal people to be on the front lines of a demonstration!
The real down side of using old people for protests
I dunno about virtual protests. Like Heinlein said, all authority derives from the threat of physical violence. Virtual sit-ins will just provide more impetus for government-mandated Palladium-like architectures on our PCs and on the network.
killing civilians is killing civilians. killing civilians isn't always terrorism. so, double dumass to you.
not that killing civilians is morally right.
ok, i know this is at least partially OT, but when people make remarks like that in public and the aren't challenged, we all lose.
i understand the position that the bombing of hiroshima and nagasake, and the firebombing of dresden were ethically questionable acts since they were fundamentally civilian targets, but calling them acts of terrorism blurs the distinction too much to let it go.
the fundamental difference between the bombing of the japanese homeland and the world trade center attack was that there was a declared state of war. additional mitigating factors:
in the final tally, bombing japan probably spared lives compared to a massive, D-day style invasion (but then, in the final tally, were all dead anyway...). i'm not saying it was undebatable from an ethics standpoint, but i am saying that it was a tough decision to make, and i think they did the right thing.
grouping a wartime act like hiroshima together with an undeclared attack on a civilian target like the WTC attack is nonsense. its like hearing the talking heads say that enron was a victim of stockholder expectations: they weren't victims, they were perpetrators. don't make the english language any more ambiguous than it already is.
So now the spiel will be:
"Injured as a result of medical malpractice? Injured as a result of unsafe working conditions? Had an automobile accident? Received unsolicited commercial email? Call 1-800-scumbag now!"
I know the enemy of my enemy is supposed to be my friend...but this is pushing the limits.
Some basic information for you (sorry, if you don't want actual information, quit reading now).
PACS stands for Picture Archival and Retrieval System, and is an application for viewing and distributing digital (radiographic) images. It is no more windows-centric than web servers or word browsers.
Lots of things run on windows right now; i'm told this is because it is easier to find windows programmers than it is to find (qualified) UNIX programmers...programming windows' APIs is a more marketable skill right now, or so some people believe. Siemens' PACS system runs on solaris (Magicstore on the backend, Magicview 1000 on the front end) or windows (Magicview 300). BTW, Siemens daily proves that suitably defective programmers can make both UNIX and windows unstable. At least they're better than Picker^H^H^H^H^H^HMarconi^H^H^H^H^H^HPhillips.
Thanks to the DICOM standard ("standard" in this case means that someone just concantenated everyone's implementations into one big mess...) most DICOM compliant applications can intercommunicate, no matter what the platform.
RSNA (Radiologic Society of North America) has sponsored some (limited functionality) sample implementations of DICOM servers and viewers that are available at the Mallinkrodt website. I just finished building the sources for the DICOM viewer--native C libraries with a Java frontend: it blows! Does anyone want to make a (more featureful) gtk frontend? my email account is on yahoo, my name is brysonborg.
its probably too late in the discussion for anyone to see this, but...
i'm working on a project (have been working, will be working) to build a dedicated mp3 player that fits in my stereo deck. mpg123, alsaplayer, whatever weren't acceptable to me because i needed something that _only_ xmms had:
gapkiller.
don't you hate listening to the breaks in the music between tracks 4 and 5 of pink floyd's 'meddle'? between any two tracks on any Orb album? there's a ton of music out there that doesn't make an audible break in between parts that logically should be separate.
and for a while i had this elaborate scheme to put the entire album in one single file and include the track into as an id3v2 tag...but that ended up being way too overengineered.
so, now, on my mp3 box i have vnc running xmms, and using the perl bindings to xmms for an ncurses client. i'm halfway through my weblication interface. maybe sometime i'll start a dedicated GUI client.
i'd love to use a different engine, but it needs a gapkiller plugin.
self-referential humor that lampoons the karma-whores around slashdot is probably too subtle for the average slashdotter these days...explaining both your current -1 (redundant) mod as well as why simple cut-n-paste karma-whoring seems to always work. no wonder you posted AC.
too many non-nerds on slashdot these days. a true nerd site would have sent that to +3 (funny) by now. future historians no doubt will trace the downfall of linux to the moment X windows worked out of the box on anything but an S3...
The biggest problem with gene therapy is that long term expression of the target gene has been difficult to achieve. The inserted sequence, depending on the gene carrier, may or may not be inserted in to host genome. Actual insertion into the host genome is undesirable because of possible malignant transformation (insertion of the target sequence disrupts the function of a tumor supressor protein, or turns on a pro-tumor protein, etc.). Existing as a genetic sequence outside of the genome proper has also failed to achieve more than temporary expression of the desired protein.
This article describes a technique to increase the effiency of the transfer of a therapeutic gene sequence into a target cell. It does nothing to address the biggest stumbling block of gene therapy. While this is sexycool news, being cured for 3 or 7 months doesn't mean being cured for life.
Claimer: IAAMD
I don't mean to be a downer. We're just a loooong way off from real gene therapy.
It is different since Microsoft is a convicted monopolist.
For a monopolist, the rules are different: a monopolist is unable to leverage their monopoly to exclude new competition from a market. This is not illegal for someone who is not a monopolist.
That is how it is different from anything that Apple ever did.
A pre-requisite for a market economy is a balance between private property and a "commons." I know I really suck at making these arguments, but imagine how far the printing press would have gotten if anyone who wanted to write a book had to license a language as well as an alphabet before they could write anything. Then imagine what would have happened if some company launched a lawsuit claming that they had a patent on the concept of a written language. Then, another conglomerate sues saying that they own the IP relating to stories about man-vs-man and man-vs-nature.
The GPL is the best thing out there for creating a "digital commons."
What I think, and I may be wrong, it that the current rush toward the everything-is-ownable, IPphilia attitude of today is moving our society towards intellectual feudalism; where it will be impossible to create or partake in many endeavors without pledging alleigance to some sort of multinational conglomerate that will 1) fend off spurious IP claims that, even if unjust, are impossible to defend against as a private individual, and 2) work out the necessary cross-licensing agreements with the other multinationals in order to use the appropriate "property." This seems to be antithetical to the idea of a 'free market,' as well as to most of the ideals of the last two hundred years of western thought.
Again, I may be wrong. I'm getting tired of feeling like a reactionary anarchist everyday I read the lastest "X"-corporation-has-a-patent-on-breathing on slashdot.
i was using this for a while and it was pretty nice. unfortunately it didn't track gtk+ correctly after gtk+ 1.2.7 or something, and the scrollbars quit working. also, just before i quit using it, gtkemacs implemented their own file selector which i didn't like. i haven't checked out their CVS for the last six months or so: has this changed?
Great sets, great acting...but why did they have to go out of their way to mess up the story?? (Spoilers below) In the book, for those of you who didn't read it---or even knew that it existed--the hero travels with his crew in a slower-than-light spaceship to another planet. Once on the other planet, he goes straight into the ape-safari where apes are hunting humans in an uncomfortable parody of humans hunting animals. Hijinks ensue. During his discoveries, he discovers that the alien planet was once dominated by humans, but that hundreds or thousands of years ago they grew stupid and that apes took their place as the dominant species. The hero is finally able to return to earth. Remember--it's slower than light travel, so when he returns home hundreds of earth-years have actually passed. When he returns, he is greeted on the landing pad by a bunch of apes. The human devolution and ascendancy of apes has repeated itself on earth. Irony. Curtains close, music swells. The End. In this version, unfortunately, they start out begging the question: why do they truck chimps and researchers out to Jupiter--the chimps don't seem ready for production use yet... Then there's a time-space warp that blew over from the Star Trek universe. I was able to reasonably suspend my belief throughout the movie--the Oberon?s super chimps came through the time-space warp hundreds or thousands of years before the hero (o.k., so there?s not a 1:1 mapping in the time aspect of the warp, even though the space warp component must be stable) and then displaces the native humans on this planet. OK, although it begs the question: Why would the Oberon research ship venture into this anomaly after seeing two of its ships disappear? Now, the hero gets back into his ship and returns to Earth and...what the hell? It's twentieth century Earth with monkeys in police cars and there's no longer Abe in the Lincoln Memorial but General Thane (the uber-monkey from the Planet of the Apes). This ending not only destroys the symmetry of the original book but left me scratching my head. WTF? Why are there now monkeys in twentieth-century Earth? The only thing that I could figure out is that this must be a parallel universe where monkeys (o.k., maybe I should ammend that to "a different species of monkey") seem to have recapitulated the development of twentieth-century civilization.... Why do people have to dumb everything down for today?s movie watcher. Maybe the guy next to me had the right idea: he brought a couple of cans of Colt 45 with him.
you want http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Filesystems-HOWTO.ht ml
you forgot Silicon Gra...err, SGI.
Ok, so today Barns and Noble wins, tomorrow Amazon will win, and then next maybe Barns and Noble will win again.
The real winners always have and always will be the lawyers.
LinuxOne, Inc, Press Release #15
January 5, 2000
Mountain View, CA, January 5 2000 -- LinuxOne, Inc, announced today the introduction of the LINXTerm, a remarkable productivity-enhancing piece of software designed to complement their LinuxOne OS and LinuxOne Lite operating system products.
The LINXTerm, a substaitial achievement in software engineering, reproduces DEC VT102/VT220 (VTxxx) and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can't use the windowing system directly. It thus implements the traditional text-based Linux interface in a Graphical User Environment (GUI), such as the soon-to-be-released OneX Windowing System.
Dr. Wun C. Chiouu,Sr., President of LinuxOne, Inc., stated "We are quite pleased in the achievements of our research and development (R & D) division. The release of the LINXTerm will consolidate our position as a leader in Linux-related technologies."
Bill, a regional distributor for Power Source (www.poso.com) at the Reading Expo Center Gun and Computer Show, commented, "Hey,like are you going to buy something or are you just going to stand there all day."
LinuxOne, Inc, is an open source software provider and a highly-regarded developer of the shareware Linux OS.
Power Source, Inc., www.poso.com, is a prominent software distributor that is simultaneously one of the largest distributors and one of the fastest growing.
For more information, contact:
Roy Holmes, Vice President of Sales LinuxOne Worldwide Headquarters:
201 San Antonio Circle, C250
Mountain View, CA 94040
Phone: (650) 948-6201
Fax: (650) 948-2932
Email: roy@linuxone.net
URL: http://www.linuxone.net/
Julius Liu, President
Power Source, Inc.
10032 San Pablo Avenue
El Cerrito, CA. 94530
Phone: (510) 527-6908 or (510) 697-6388
Fax: (510) 527-3823
The best moment in the movie Lost In Space was when someone said "Sensors indicate they're silicone-based life forms." I laughed my ass off! OK, for the last time, let's get this straight:
Silicon: a metallic element, located directly below carbon in the periodic table and therefore (hypothetically) able to be the basis for complex molecules. A common SF device is to have a silicon-based life form, putatively different than the more commonly encountered carbon-based life form (e.g. humans). Ok, BTW, it's the semiconducter that makes up the processor in your computer.
Silicone: a synthetic gel used as a lubricant, a sealant, and as a reasonable approximation of breast tissue. Silicone, by the way, was responsible for helping a lot of lawyers get a lot richer in a class action lawsuit claiming exposure to silicone caused connective tissue disease in several women with breast implants. This has now been proven to not be the case...but neither do the lawyers have to give back the money, nor does Dow-Corning (which declared bankrupcy as a result of the settlement against it) get to go back into business.
Now, to make sure you've all got this straight, let's go through a few exercises:
Silicone implants--bigger boobs for chicks! Horray!
Silicon implants--the next step after wearable computers: the USR/3Com Breast Pilot XXI.
Silicon Graphics--builds kick ass servers in purple cases.
Silicone Graphics--a.k.a. 'Bay Watch'
Are we all clear on the difference, now? Good. Next time I'll explain the difference between "public" and "pubic."
No no no! 'Atopia' is the land where everyone has eczema and asthma!