Disc = British English spelling.
Disk = American spelling.
Applies to hard drives, CD's, DVDs and every other circular thing.
The way it is spelt should not imply anything about the nature of the thing itself, only the origin of the person writing about it.
That is not the way those spellings work. "Disc" was coined in association with Compact Discs (CDs) when Siemens and Sony developed the original technology. The CD trademark actually specifies that "Compact Disc" be spelled that way. Since neither Siemens, nor Sony are English companies, nor reside in English speaking countries or former colonies, you are dead wrong on that assertion.
In my experience, "disk" is traditionally associated with magnetic recording technology, e.g. hard disk, floppy disk, zip disk, etc., and "disc" was associated with optical media, e.g., Compact Disc, Digital Video/Versatile Disc, Blu-ray Disc, etc. The only current exception is NAND and SSD devices using the "disk" spelling and are not magnetic technology (although, you can use the electromagnetic effects to describe both, err, all).
The argument being made is that expensive and potentially hazardous materials are required to make wind turbines and solar panels.
Yes, I got that from the article too, that using current technologies for renewable energy we will be using, potentially, a lot of non-renewable resources. The whole fallacious article is about how current technologies, unimproved over years of research and development YET TO COME, will do these horrible awful things. Indeed they will, if newer and more efficient ways of providing two megawatts of wind power aren't found, or better than 30% efficiency from solar panels and internal combustion engines, or maybe even less expensive ways to get power from rivers and the ocean than big dams. So, yeah, if nothing advances and no further research is funded then this guy's fantasy world of doom will come to pass. Let's hope others aren't as narrow minded as the author seems to be and that we will have some tremendous breakthroughs in renewable energy technologies with continued funding.
1. Ignore anything on here except the advice: "Go see a lawyer"
2. You will want to see either a probate lawyer or estate attorney, they have different names. One of each if you have the choice!
3. Find one that has any technology experience, or experience dealing with digital records
4. If in doubt see Item #1 above
I love how people over the years say I need to wear a til foil hat every time I mention that it is just a matter of time before the governments move to try to limit, stop, or remove the idea of "cash". Obviously there are Constitutional issues around this, but that never seems to stop the governments. And when it gets too annoying, they can just change the Constitution.
It is not difficult to imagine a world where anything that gives you freedom from being monitored, traced, taxed, restricted, recorded, etc, is eliminated. I keep hoping it will at least wait until I am very old. Younger people don't seem to care about privacy or freedom anyway- they only want safety and convenience, so let THEM deal with it!
That's hardly "Insightful", but sad. I am sorry, but it's our job as the reigning generation to set the tone for those that come. You, sir are setting a very poor example by sitting on your hands and saying, "I'll let the youngsters deal with this when I'm old (or dead)." It's our mess and our responsibility to clean up, NOT THE NEXT GENERATION'S! It's that kind of thinking that left us with the disaster that we have in the first place and the mindset that lets politicians think they can get away with passing illegal acts like this. We need to help the next generation realize the trap they are setting for themselves and avoid it, not sit on our hands and make it someone else's problem.
I don't believe it was Apple that was refusing cash, but the cell providers which require a credit card to charge you for a plan in order to buy an iPhone. Besides, an iPhone without a plan is an iPod Touch... But, yeah, you're right, that was not a govt requirement.
You don't need a lawyer for that, just have a look at any denomination of bill printed in the United States of America. They cannot refuse cash. Period. Sorry, against the law. They can demand a record of sale all they want but they cannot refuse cash for goods and services. This unconstitutional law won't stand long. And don't be hating on the people of Louisiana because their corrupt politicians are complete morons and douche bags!
...how about it says right on the bill itself "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE". Top-left corner of every bill printed in the United States of America. NOW, if they want to make a law that says you have to keep a record of every transaction, public and private, that's a different story, BUT YOU CANNOT REFUSE CASH FOR PAYMENT OF ANY DEBT!!! Pittsburgh bars are practicing this illegal maneuver as well and need to be hammered by the courts for it, as well. Someone just needs to take this to the courts...won't take long for it to be deemed unconstitutional.
Microsoft Says IE9 Blocks More Malware Than Chrome
Well, I should certainly hope so! By now you'd think Microsoft would know how to build a browser to *NOT* compromise their own operating system...YEESH!
Define a "page". The whole point of a browser was to get us away from the confines of a page-based medium, like a book or magazine, so information could be presented without the interruption caused by the finite amount of space a "page" presents. Sure, we still call them web "pages", but that's an analogy used for cognitive purposes. If we go back to the finite page model, who's defining what a "page" is? Is it A4, U.S. letter, U.S. legal or what? Sounds like a step backwards to me rather than an innovation. I'm sorry, but in a digital world scrolling is better than flipping pages, IMHO. Don't get me wrong. I love real paper books for what they are (I own many books), but flipping pages digitally is annoying to me and trying to revert back to that model for digital content seems completely backwards-thinking and wrong.
Not to be overly cynical but 30-40 minutes to brace for a major earthquake? While I see this being helpful I can't see saving thousands of lives - at least not in the immediate future.
Before the SCADA control system drops due to destruction, you can slam all natural gas valves shut. Well, at half an hour, you could darn near depressurize the system... Instantly, no deaths due to fire.
Also its practically impossible to be crushed under a building by an earthquake, if you're outside and "far away" from buildings. Yet another reason it sucks to live in an urban area, but for the rest of us...
Finally its difficult to be crushed under a bridge or trapped in a subway tunnel if they've been evacuated...
I would hazard a guess that you could reduce fatalities by about 75% to 90% with this system... until false alarms make it ignored, etc.
I am guessing by this response that you have never lived in an urban area. There's no way you are going to be able to do much of anything useful (except maybe your natural gas shut off scenario) in 30-40 minutes. Municipalities can't react that fast nor can anyone really escape that fast. You cannot shutdown and evacuate an entire subway system that quickly. You couldn't even deploy police to assist with that in enough time.
I'm sorry. Even if this method proves viable the time to react is just too damn short. It takes hours (if not days) to evacuate hurricane areas in the southern U.S. And that's with several days or hours notice of impact. And you think 30-40 minutes will be sufficient to evac Los Angeles or San Francisco? Hardly! The death toll would be worse, especially if people are stuck in their cars on freeways, bridges and overpasses. 1989 earthquake in the Bay Area ring a bell?
It is a breakthrough, but not one of much practical use for saving "thousands" of lives when millions more are casualties. Something better has to be found. If this method could be refined to give days, or better yet weeks notice then it might be useful. Until then we are at the mercy of Mother Nature on earthquakes.
A lot of software that is written for graduate school is by nature specialized. So if you are looking for "widely used software" you probably won't find it there, unless you modify the qualifier to "widely used within a field".
That, and very few people complete a bioinformatics PhD in 4 years as asserted in the summary - unless they enter the PhD program with a master's degree already in hand - most take more like 6-7 years. It can often be one of the most difficult PhDs at any institution in part to the fact that it often involves negotiating a minefield of conflicting departmental requirements between departments of Biology, CSci, Math, Statistics, and others.
With a Biology under grad and a CS master's (or vice-versa) coupled with a competent advisor and a quality research topic, there's little reason why a bioinformatics Ph.D. could not be completed in two to three years like I have watched happen outside my office for 5 or 6 years. If a Ph.D. takes longer than that there's either something really big that's come up in the research and you're building on it or triple checking things, OR you're spinning your wheels because the problem domain is too large or the student (or advisor) is a slacker. YMMV but I've watched some very competent students do some amazing things with the right background and focus on their part and their advisors'.
In this day and age, most good software developed in acadamia tends to get spun into a business venture that makes its academic developers very, very rich. See Google, for example.
And Sun, and SGI, and Oracle, 3Com, that list is almost endless. There are many commercial software packages for fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, quantum mechanics and a host of other engineering and scientific fields. MathCAD and Mathematica are some examples along with PATRAN and NASTRAN, CHARMM, VASP, etc. There are TONS of companies that are software spinoffs from universities. TONS of them die every year, too, and end up sold off to patent trolls if they are lucky, err, cursed?
We had no problem getting (at the time) the largest 10 gig Infiniband installation running at VT in 2003 for System X. Fabric optimization was the hardest part, but we worked with a couple of vendors and were able to get an optimized fabric manager in place within a few months. I think the copper limit is still between 15 m and 20 m. Best cables we got were from Gore. We were using 64 port switches throughout to begin with and then moved to smaller leaf switches (24 port) and larger backbone switches (288 port). This allowed us to connect 16 nodes per leaf switch (2 switches per rack) and maintain only 2:1 over subscription to the backbone. It also allowed for a better fabric overall and performance was much improved.
SETI@home, although an embarrassingly parallel task, is not a cluster. Each client processes independent discrete data irrespective of the results of another client. There is no MPI so all you have is a bunch of machines running the same serial software on different data. Clusters can be used for such a thing, but it's a horrible waste of money on interconnects as there is no message passing. It's like saying a computer lab with all the same software on the machines is a "cluster" because all the machines are on a network. Nope. Doesn't work that way.
Are you saying this because it is not a single system image, shared memory machine or because you just don't think distributed memory clusters are supercomputers?
I ask because I have built supercomputers and I find your comment puzzling, at best.
Lmao..he said he needs to test a big deployment with non-consumer grade gear. Your approach outlines the least of his worries.
What is the building(s) architecture, power and existing cable plant like? (concrete and steel, stick; adequate/sub adequate/surplus power; CAT-3, CAT-5, CAT-5e, CAT-6, fiber, thin-net, coaxial) Access points need power and users need to be able to connect to something worth connecting to wirelessly
How is he doing authentication? (802.1x with cert?, challenge response?)
Is it against a central directory server? (what is the topology like to it and how well is it connected, as well as AD, NIS, LDAP?)
What is the acceptable bandwidth minimum per connection? (determines number of APs based on user environment, I.e., municipal-commercial open v. Education v. Corporate v. Government v. Medicine; beyond architectural and interference environments)
What's my budget and timeframe for deployment? (vendors will want to know this to not only help you meet your needs, but potentially offer access to unannounced products should the size, needs and timeframe line up with PR possibilities and $,$$$,$$$ you intend to spend)
As far as benchmarking (I refuse to use that other bs term the OP proposes), do the math for your needs, find the vendors that advertise specs that meet those needs and then call reps for 30-day demo units. Test the specs yourself, read reviews, talk to other big installations with the gear, then buy an initial number of APs and test a small deployment as a pilot before committing to a larger project with the vendor(s))
[...] end-users can't install software they might find helpful in their day-to-day work or might increase efficiency in their departments.
I, personally, don't know a single IT professional that would not allow someone to install a piece of software like that. It would have to be vetted first, of course, but that would mostly be to ensure it gets installed properly and doesn't expose any backdoors. The problem is that most end-users want to install games or silly system doodads that will compromise a machine, bog it down or otherwise be inappropriate for the work place.
I do take issue with the capability argument. Sure, the current generation of tablets (I am gonna lump Androids and others in with the iPad as the hardware is almost all the same) aren't as capable as a modern, mature desktop or laptop platform. But, the rate at which these devices are evolving is significant, and I do see a very near future where a tablet is to a laptop what a laptop was to a desktop as far as a step in capability goes. I may dare say the laptop days may be numbered. It might take 10 years, but it might happen. Depends on what hardware advances come to market between then and now.
LMAO...actually read the PDF of the kids journal article, inside the linked article off/. It's all based on mathematical formulas and theory. The only real part about it is the data from actual crash tests that predicted the severity of injury. Everything else seems to have been "simulated". The whole premise is a big "IF"!
I'd say the whole thing was a joke. I will have to look if he neglected to take into account the increase in speed limits, urbanization, and just down right stupid behavior of most American drivers. That would be a lovely equation!
Go look at the link, and realize where it goes (i.e. what server at what university), and then read what you wrote and tell me if a major university is going to let genetics code that they hold the patent to, fall into the public domain in the age of Big Pharma? A British university that filed, and got, three U.S. patents... and "foreign counterparts, and other patents pending."
That's not just any code you found there. And it's protected by more than one (maybe, probably not) expired patent:
United States patents 4,935,877 5,136,686, and 5,148,513, foreign counterparts, and other patents pending.
That's code written by a University of London Computer Science professor, and he didn't pay for those patents out of his university salary. UCL paid for them. I would imagine those patents are quite intact, as large research universities don't often let go of IP like this. Especially genetics code in the age of Big Pharma.
You won'y have to worry about a troll. You'll get the scientist and the university that hold these patents. Good luck! You're gonna need it!
That's not just any code you found there. And it's protected by more than one (maybe, probably not) expired patent:
United States patents 4,935,877 5,136,686, and 5,148,513, foreign counterparts, and other patents pending.
That's code written by a University of London Computer Science professor, and he didn't pay for those patents out of his university salary. UCL paid for them. I would imagine those patents are quite intact, as large research universities don't often let go of IP like this. Especially genetics code in the age of Big Pharma.
You won'y have to worry about a troll. You'll get the scientist and the university that hold these patents. Good luck! You're gonna need it!
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Disc = British English spelling. Disk = American spelling. Applies to hard drives, CD's, DVDs and every other circular thing.
The way it is spelt should not imply anything about the nature of the thing itself, only the origin of the person writing about it.
That is not the way those spellings work. "Disc" was coined in association with Compact Discs (CDs) when Siemens and Sony developed the original technology. The CD trademark actually specifies that "Compact Disc" be spelled that way. Since neither Siemens, nor Sony are English companies, nor reside in English speaking countries or former colonies, you are dead wrong on that assertion.
In my experience, "disk" is traditionally associated with magnetic recording technology, e.g. hard disk, floppy disk, zip disk, etc., and "disc" was associated with optical media, e.g., Compact Disc, Digital Video/Versatile Disc, Blu-ray Disc, etc. The only current exception is NAND and SSD devices using the "disk" spelling and are not magnetic technology (although, you can use the electromagnetic effects to describe both, err, all).
The argument being made is that expensive and potentially hazardous materials are required to make wind turbines and solar panels.
Yes, I got that from the article too, that using current technologies for renewable energy we will be using, potentially, a lot of non-renewable resources. The whole fallacious article is about how current technologies, unimproved over years of research and development YET TO COME, will do these horrible awful things. Indeed they will, if newer and more efficient ways of providing two megawatts of wind power aren't found, or better than 30% efficiency from solar panels and internal combustion engines, or maybe even less expensive ways to get power from rivers and the ocean than big dams. So, yeah, if nothing advances and no further research is funded then this guy's fantasy world of doom will come to pass. Let's hope others aren't as narrow minded as the author seems to be and that we will have some tremendous breakthroughs in renewable energy technologies with continued funding.
1. Ignore anything on here except the advice: "Go see a lawyer"
2. You will want to see either a probate lawyer or estate attorney, they have different names. One of each if you have the choice!
3. Find one that has any technology experience, or experience dealing with digital records
4. If in doubt see Item #1 above
Short answer: Lawyer up!
I love how people over the years say I need to wear a til foil hat every time I mention that it is just a matter of time before the governments move to try to limit, stop, or remove the idea of "cash". Obviously there are Constitutional issues around this, but that never seems to stop the governments. And when it gets too annoying, they can just change the Constitution.
It is not difficult to imagine a world where anything that gives you freedom from being monitored, traced, taxed, restricted, recorded, etc, is eliminated. I keep hoping it will at least wait until I am very old. Younger people don't seem to care about privacy or freedom anyway- they only want safety and convenience, so let THEM deal with it!
That's hardly "Insightful", but sad. I am sorry, but it's our job as the reigning generation to set the tone for those that come. You, sir are setting a very poor example by sitting on your hands and saying, "I'll let the youngsters deal with this when I'm old (or dead)." It's our mess and our responsibility to clean up, NOT THE NEXT GENERATION'S! It's that kind of thinking that left us with the disaster that we have in the first place and the mindset that lets politicians think they can get away with passing illegal acts like this. We need to help the next generation realize the trap they are setting for themselves and avoid it, not sit on our hands and make it someone else's problem.
I don't believe it was Apple that was refusing cash, but the cell providers which require a credit card to charge you for a plan in order to buy an iPhone. Besides, an iPhone without a plan is an iPod Touch... But, yeah, you're right, that was not a govt requirement.
You don't need a lawyer for that, just have a look at any denomination of bill printed in the United States of America. They cannot refuse cash. Period. Sorry, against the law. They can demand a record of sale all they want but they cannot refuse cash for goods and services. This unconstitutional law won't stand long. And don't be hating on the people of Louisiana because their corrupt politicians are complete morons and douche bags!
...how about it says right on the bill itself "THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE". Top-left corner of every bill printed in the United States of America. NOW, if they want to make a law that says you have to keep a record of every transaction, public and private, that's a different story, BUT YOU CANNOT REFUSE CASH FOR PAYMENT OF ANY DEBT!!! Pittsburgh bars are practicing this illegal maneuver as well and need to be hammered by the courts for it, as well. Someone just needs to take this to the courts...won't take long for it to be deemed unconstitutional.
Microsoft Says IE9 Blocks More Malware Than Chrome
Well, I should certainly hope so! By now you'd think Microsoft would know how to build a browser to *NOT* compromise their own operating system...YEESH!
Define a "page". The whole point of a browser was to get us away from the confines of a page-based medium, like a book or magazine, so information could be presented without the interruption caused by the finite amount of space a "page" presents. Sure, we still call them web "pages", but that's an analogy used for cognitive purposes. If we go back to the finite page model, who's defining what a "page" is? Is it A4, U.S. letter, U.S. legal or what? Sounds like a step backwards to me rather than an innovation. I'm sorry, but in a digital world scrolling is better than flipping pages, IMHO. Don't get me wrong. I love real paper books for what they are (I own many books), but flipping pages digitally is annoying to me and trying to revert back to that model for digital content seems completely backwards-thinking and wrong.
Not to be overly cynical but 30-40 minutes to brace for a major earthquake? While I see this being helpful I can't see saving thousands of lives - at least not in the immediate future.
Before the SCADA control system drops due to destruction, you can slam all natural gas valves shut. Well, at half an hour, you could darn near depressurize the system... Instantly, no deaths due to fire.
Also its practically impossible to be crushed under a building by an earthquake, if you're outside and "far away" from buildings. Yet another reason it sucks to live in an urban area, but for the rest of us...
Finally its difficult to be crushed under a bridge or trapped in a subway tunnel if they've been evacuated...
I would hazard a guess that you could reduce fatalities by about 75% to 90% with this system... until false alarms make it ignored, etc.
I am guessing by this response that you have never lived in an urban area. There's no way you are going to be able to do much of anything useful (except maybe your natural gas shut off scenario) in 30-40 minutes. Municipalities can't react that fast nor can anyone really escape that fast. You cannot shutdown and evacuate an entire subway system that quickly. You couldn't even deploy police to assist with that in enough time.
I'm sorry. Even if this method proves viable the time to react is just too damn short. It takes hours (if not days) to evacuate hurricane areas in the southern U.S. And that's with several days or hours notice of impact. And you think 30-40 minutes will be sufficient to evac Los Angeles or San Francisco? Hardly! The death toll would be worse, especially if people are stuck in their cars on freeways, bridges and overpasses. 1989 earthquake in the Bay Area ring a bell?
It is a breakthrough, but not one of much practical use for saving "thousands" of lives when millions more are casualties. Something better has to be found. If this method could be refined to give days, or better yet weeks notice then it might be useful. Until then we are at the mercy of Mother Nature on earthquakes.
A lot of software that is written for graduate school is by nature specialized. So if you are looking for "widely used software" you probably won't find it there, unless you modify the qualifier to "widely used within a field". That, and very few people complete a bioinformatics PhD in 4 years as asserted in the summary - unless they enter the PhD program with a master's degree already in hand - most take more like 6-7 years. It can often be one of the most difficult PhDs at any institution in part to the fact that it often involves negotiating a minefield of conflicting departmental requirements between departments of Biology, CSci, Math, Statistics, and others.
With a Biology under grad and a CS master's (or vice-versa) coupled with a competent advisor and a quality research topic, there's little reason why a bioinformatics Ph.D. could not be completed in two to three years like I have watched happen outside my office for 5 or 6 years. If a Ph.D. takes longer than that there's either something really big that's come up in the research and you're building on it or triple checking things, OR you're spinning your wheels because the problem domain is too large or the student (or advisor) is a slacker. YMMV but I've watched some very competent students do some amazing things with the right background and focus on their part and their advisors'.
In this day and age, most good software developed in acadamia tends to get spun into a business venture that makes its academic developers very, very rich. See Google, for example.
And Sun, and SGI, and Oracle, 3Com, that list is almost endless. There are many commercial software packages for fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, quantum mechanics and a host of other engineering and scientific fields. MathCAD and Mathematica are some examples along with PATRAN and NASTRAN, CHARMM, VASP, etc. There are TONS of companies that are software spinoffs from universities. TONS of them die every year, too, and end up sold off to patent trolls if they are lucky, err, cursed?
We had no problem getting (at the time) the largest 10 gig Infiniband installation running at VT in 2003 for System X. Fabric optimization was the hardest part, but we worked with a couple of vendors and were able to get an optimized fabric manager in place within a few months. I think the copper limit is still between 15 m and 20 m. Best cables we got were from Gore. We were using 64 port switches throughout to begin with and then moved to smaller leaf switches (24 port) and larger backbone switches (288 port). This allowed us to connect 16 nodes per leaf switch (2 switches per rack) and maintain only 2:1 over subscription to the backbone. It also allowed for a better fabric overall and performance was much improved.
SETI@home, although an embarrassingly parallel task, is not a cluster. Each client processes independent discrete data irrespective of the results of another client. There is no MPI so all you have is a bunch of machines running the same serial software on different data. Clusters can be used for such a thing, but it's a horrible waste of money on interconnects as there is no message passing. It's like saying a computer lab with all the same software on the machines is a "cluster" because all the machines are on a network. Nope. Doesn't work that way.
[title] Looks like a cluster [/title]
Not a supercomputer
Are you saying this because it is not a single system image, shared memory machine or because you just don't think distributed memory clusters are supercomputers?
I ask because I have built supercomputers and I find your comment puzzling, at best.
Lmao..he said he needs to test a big deployment with non-consumer grade gear. Your approach outlines the least of his worries.
What is the building(s) architecture, power and existing cable plant like? (concrete and steel, stick; adequate/sub adequate/surplus power; CAT-3, CAT-5, CAT-5e, CAT-6, fiber, thin-net, coaxial) Access points need power and users need to be able to connect to something worth connecting to wirelessly
How is he doing authentication? (802.1x with cert?, challenge response?)
Is it against a central directory server? (what is the topology like to it and how well is it connected, as well as AD, NIS, LDAP?)
What is the acceptable bandwidth minimum per connection? (determines number of APs based on user environment, I.e., municipal-commercial open v. Education v. Corporate v. Government v. Medicine; beyond architectural and interference environments)
What's my budget and timeframe for deployment? (vendors will want to know this to not only help you meet your needs, but potentially offer access to unannounced products should the size, needs and timeframe line up with PR possibilities and $,$$$,$$$ you intend to spend)
As far as benchmarking (I refuse to use that other bs term the OP proposes), do the math for your needs, find the vendors that advertise specs that meet those needs and then call reps for 30-day demo units. Test the specs yourself, read reviews, talk to other big installations with the gear, then buy an initial number of APs and test a small deployment as a pilot before committing to a larger project with the vendor(s))
Lather, rinse, repeat. Your mileage may vary.
NEXT!
Yard Sale?!?! Wonder where it's gonna land. I could use some supplies. :)
[...] end-users can't install software they might find helpful in their day-to-day work or might increase efficiency in their departments.
I, personally, don't know a single IT professional that would not allow someone to install a piece of software like that. It would have to be vetted first, of course, but that would mostly be to ensure it gets installed properly and doesn't expose any backdoors. The problem is that most end-users want to install games or silly system doodads that will compromise a machine, bog it down or otherwise be inappropriate for the work place.
I do take issue with the capability argument. Sure, the current generation of tablets (I am gonna lump Androids and others in with the iPad as the hardware is almost all the same) aren't as capable as a modern, mature desktop or laptop platform. But, the rate at which these devices are evolving is significant, and I do see a very near future where a tablet is to a laptop what a laptop was to a desktop as far as a step in capability goes. I may dare say the laptop days may be numbered. It might take 10 years, but it might happen. Depends on what hardware advances come to market between then and now.
Link http://www.econ.ucsd.edu/~m3jacobs/Jacobsen_Safety.pdf
LMAO...actually read the PDF of the kids journal article, inside the linked article off /. It's all based on mathematical formulas and theory. The only real part about it is the data from actual crash tests that predicted the severity of injury. Everything else seems to have been "simulated". The whole premise is a big "IF"!
I'd say the whole thing was a joke. I will have to look if he neglected to take into account the increase in speed limits, urbanization, and just down right stupid behavior of most American drivers. That would be a lovely equation!
Go look at the link, and realize where it goes (i.e. what server at what university), and then read what you wrote and tell me if a major university is going to let genetics code that they hold the patent to, fall into the public domain in the age of Big Pharma? A British university that filed, and got, three U.S. patents... and "foreign counterparts, and other patents pending."
Amen!
He already grants a free license to academia...follow the links
That's not just any code you found there. And it's protected by more than one (maybe, probably not) expired patent:
United States patents 4,935,877 5,136,686, and 5,148,513, foreign counterparts, and other patents pending.
That's code written by a University of London Computer Science professor, and he didn't pay for those patents out of his university salary. UCL paid for them. I would imagine those patents are quite intact, as large research universities don't often let go of IP like this. Especially genetics code in the age of Big Pharma.
You won'y have to worry about a troll. You'll get the scientist and the university that hold these patents. Good luck! You're gonna need it!
*won't...grrr
That's not just any code you found there. And it's protected by more than one (maybe, probably not) expired patent:
United States patents 4,935,877 5,136,686, and 5,148,513, foreign counterparts, and other patents pending.
That's code written by a University of London Computer Science professor, and he didn't pay for those patents out of his university salary. UCL paid for them. I would imagine those patents are quite intact, as large research universities don't often let go of IP like this. Especially genetics code in the age of Big Pharma.
You won'y have to worry about a troll. You'll get the scientist and the university that hold these patents. Good luck! You're gonna need it!