IBM has been pretty good at taking sucessful closed source technologies and open sourcing them (think eclipse, webspere community ed, jikes and all the patents they've made available to the os community). I think IBM's genius has been in fostering communities to ensure that the technologies are well supported.
That said, SOM & DSOM are old tech from the dinosaur mainframe days. With so many distributed apps using more flexible interoperating technologies (SOAP, XMP-RPC etc) I don't really think open sourcing D/SOM will make that big of a difference to most new application developers.
Here you go, you can drink an unlimited amount of our beer, just as long as you drink it through this measly little straw....no thanks Yahoo.
Now if it were really unlimited, I have a site that I'd like to host, I wonder what their TOS says about Porn and Bittorrent trackers
: )
That will show them 'unlimited'...
Great idea, kinda difficult to implement though. I can just see it: "Test Pilot Wanted for Evolutionary Plane Flight..."
I can't imagine there'll be a line around the block to sign up for that want ad.
I've been using meebo.com for about a year and up until a couple of weeks ago, the only failing was that it didn't have file transfer capabilities. Now that they fixed that, the site is about as good as an IM client can get + no need to install software (and it even works on iphone etc...)
Oh yeah, and there's no need to remember multiple account password
I used to work for a pr0n company where people were actually paid for sleeping on the job (not to mention kissing co-workers...hehe) but I guess my experience is not really that of the 'typical' IT worker...
That said, I think all IT workers should take at least a one hour nap midday sometime, it makes dealing with non-IT types much easier afterward. A colleague of mine introduced me to the 30 min powernap.
At 3pm when you feel tired, chug a Red Bull or a coffee and quickly take a nap, by the time the drink kicks in you should be waking up from your nap charged up and ready to take on another 3hrs or so...try it!
fsckr
PVS is not brain death. The two are completely different and unlike the parent post implied, very few families would consider pulling the switch on a patient's with PVS. Patients with PVS react to pain and other extreme stimuli, so cutting off their nutrient supply is tantamount to starving them to death.
"PVS is also known as cortical death, although it is not the same as coma or brain death."
As opposed to brain death, PVS is not recognized as death in any known legal system.
That the technology will definitely get cheaper as time goes by, there is no question. Also, the issues you mentioned that arose with existing robotic surgery are the kind of issues you'd expect with a radically new technology.
Its only a matter of time before someone in R&D somewhere firgures out how to make the whole process simpler and faster and then before you know it, Dr. Patel from Culcatta will be implanting you wifes boobies at the drive thru plastic surgery joint around the block;)
That's an interesting perspective...but like they say, hindsight is 20/20 (and in this case only just).
As with any other ISP, if the army had better network equipment to work with, the opponents, in this case the insurgents, would have evolved accordingly and maybe this article would have been just as valid...
What can it hurt??
A friend of mine was trekking in Kenya a few months ago, chillin with the natives. He told me that they make a killer alcoholic drink that tastes pretty good. Little did I know what he meant by killer until I saw this:
http://news.inq7.net/world/index.php?index=1&story _id=41596
Either way, no methanol moonshine for me thnx
fsckr
Slashdot Mirror
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Microsoft's New Leaf On Interoperability
That many of the 'artists' that the RIAA protects are hardcore repeat offender criminals that are pimping the handguns, drugs etc etc
IBM has been pretty good at taking sucessful closed source technologies and open sourcing them (think eclipse, webspere community ed, jikes and all the patents they've made available to the os community). I think IBM's genius has been in fostering communities to ensure that the technologies are well supported.
That said, SOM & DSOM are old tech from the dinosaur mainframe days. With so many distributed apps using more flexible interoperating technologies (SOAP, XMP-RPC etc) I don't really think open sourcing D/SOM will make that big of a difference to most new application developers.
Yeah, hardcore swallowing and gagging action 'starring' B.J Pisscum
Here you go, you can drink an unlimited amount of our beer, just as long as you drink it through this measly little straw. ...no thanks Yahoo.
Now if it were really unlimited, I have a site that I'd like to host, I wonder what their TOS says about Porn and Bittorrent trackers
: )
That will show them 'unlimited'...
Great idea, kinda difficult to implement though. I can just see it: "Test Pilot Wanted for Evolutionary Plane Flight..." I can't imagine there'll be a line around the block to sign up for that want ad.
I thought this was another random Hollywood story, think about it, it makes just about as much sense.
I've been using meebo.com for about a year and up until a couple of weeks ago, the only failing was that it didn't have file transfer capabilities. Now that they fixed that, the site is about as good as an IM client can get + no need to install software (and it even works on iphone etc...)
Oh yeah, and there's no need to remember multiple account password
I used to work for a pr0n company where people were actually paid for sleeping on the job (not to mention kissing co-workers...hehe) but I guess my experience is not really that of the 'typical' IT worker... That said, I think all IT workers should take at least a one hour nap midday sometime, it makes dealing with non-IT types much easier afterward. A colleague of mine introduced me to the 30 min powernap. At 3pm when you feel tired, chug a Red Bull or a coffee and quickly take a nap, by the time the drink kicks in you should be waking up from your nap charged up and ready to take on another 3hrs or so...try it! fsckr
That the technology will definitely get cheaper as time goes by, there is no question. Also, the issues you mentioned that arose with existing robotic surgery are the kind of issues you'd expect with a radically new technology.
Its only a matter of time before someone in R&D somewhere firgures out how to make the whole process simpler and faster and then before you know it, Dr. Patel from Culcatta will be implanting you wifes boobies at the drive thru plastic surgery joint around the block ;)
That's an interesting perspective...but like they say, hindsight is 20/20 (and in this case only just).
As with any other ISP, if the army had better network equipment to work with, the opponents, in this case the insurgents, would have evolved accordingly and maybe this article would have been just as valid...
What can it hurt?? A friend of mine was trekking in Kenya a few months ago, chillin with the natives. He told me that they make a killer alcoholic drink that tastes pretty good. Little did I know what he meant by killer until I saw this: http://news.inq7.net/world/index.php?index=1&story _id=41596
Either way, no methanol moonshine for me thnx
fsckr