Don't you think patenting PCR as a tool to screen for cancer is still insanely broad?
You really should be trying to patent a sequence of your gene transcript (GATTACATACA...) as it applies to pancreatic cancer, and not the entire PCR technique.
It's not exactly the breakthrough of the century these days that PCR might be used in some way to screen for cancer, you know.
The only way to secure the peace, Senator, as I'm sure you know, is to be prepared. See, we can parachute these robot guys behind enemy lines. They hide out till the first strike blows over. Then each one is able to just carry a 25-megaton bomb right up the middle of Main Street Moscow - like the mailman bringing bad news. We call it Operation 'Gotcha LAST!'
We cannot directly compare Apple hardware with Sony hardware, but we can in fact compare the things they re-sell, such as RAM or disks.
And Apple markup tends to be a lot higher on these compared with HP or Sony. Whether it's due to the "milk the fanboys" attitude or all the rigoros testing, I will not say.
By comparing the listed prices of upgrades (RAM, hard-drive, bluetooth) and addons at Apple online store vs HP or Sony.
In fact, my comment should properly read "at least 30%" as they tend to quote double the price in many cases (such as $700 vs $350 for 4gb of notebook ram)
It's #3: Actively interfering with attempts to run on third-party hardware
They could, of course, realease an unsupported "hobbyists" edition without the hardware lockin in license, but that would mean less reason for people to pay their 30% (or so) hardware markup.
when most women were housewifes which means they only cleaned and cooked, and therefore didn't need elaborate schooling. No colleges for women required.
Educated women, emancipated trams... It's a slippery slope I tell you.
About 10,000 Americans die each day due to natural causes, so an extra 1 per week in Iraq matters how much in the global view of things?
Is it too high a price to pay for controlling the country with the second largest oil reserves (which also happens to be close to the one with the largest oil reserves)? Sounds crass until you consider that the Americans are 3% of the world population yet consume 40% of the world's oil.
No, America's poor did not have it good before America was a global leader; your Steinbeck should have told you as much. So why do they have it so good now?
In the past, colonists sold glass beads and trinkets to the natives in exchange for their land, gold, and women. Today, we sell Microsoft Windows in exchange for uranium and diamonds! Green pieces of paper in exchange for oil and steel.
Make no mistake about it: your 'local' circlejerk economy does not matter: doing each-other's laundry will not generate value. We are only prosperous because we are the high-tech monopoly, and can charge the World whatever the hell we want for machines, planes, drugs, designs. Trillions' worth of treasure in exchange for products of a few brilliant minds!
Just look at the chipmakers: the factories, the suppliers, and the workforce are all abroad, yet the US of A still gets all the cash, just because we are the guys holding the blueprints. If you forbid the US chipmakers to hire the people that can design new chips, who needs us?
Or, and how exactly does the book about socialism apply to international markets?
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf07311/
Source of funding for 2005 (S&E funding sources at colleges and universities; US aggregate) Fed. Govt: 29.2 Billion USD Industry: 2.2 Billion USD
Raw data is available at webcaspar.nsf.gov but I am not sure if you have access.
Your intentions are good, I will grant you that. But what you propose will make American businesses much less competitive, which will hurt our kids in the long run.
The tech jobs are lucrative exactly because they are so competitive: America gets trillions of dollars' worth of "free" money and treasure because the rest of the world is buying our medications, sattelites, software, weapons systems, precision machines, food, and media. I say "free" because these trillions come on top of the manufacturing and labor expenses, and on top of even the reasonably expected profits: a single comms sattelite will only cost about $1 million to produce, yet we sell it for $100,000,000 because nobody else can make one like it!
What you propose is to force the companies to hire mediocre employees. That in itself would not be so bad, but you are also proposing bans on hiring the best employees (who may be foreign). What do you think that will do to our competitiveness?
Why do you think that even the poorest people in America have a house, a car, basic cable, plenty of food, etc. while same guys in the Third World die of hunger? Is it because they are "better" or because their country's economy is better?
My heart goes out to you, in that airconditioned office of yours having to do all the after-hours work (yet finding the time to post here on Slashdot).
Why don't you try pumping shit from the septic tank or work with a pickaxe in 100 degree heat to learn a little about certainties?
I've got news for you: just because you graduate from a college does not make you entitled to a job. You only get the job if the employer believes he can make more from you than he spends on you. Or do you "expect to get paid" just because you graduated with a 2.4 GPA and/or a transcript-full of blowoff courses and no experience?
For your info, recent college grads starting at Intel or Microsoft earn $80K+
In a Free Market an American would be no better off than a Mexican, Chinese, an or Indian. The whole point of the "Gathering Storm" was that in America, we don't want to have starvation, diseases, slave labor, and 40% of the population that cannot read and dies before they reach 50. In short, the in America we do NOT want a free market in so far as the science, technology, education, and math are concerned.
The Storm's idea was that to stay at the top requires us to continue outcompeting all of the other countries, or at least stay at the relative top of the foodchain.
The "Storm" suggestions? Improvements and investment in education, research, and immigration to continue developing and gathering the best and the brightest minds that drive innovation, research, new technologies, new treatments, cures, whatever.
You were right about one thing in your post: you really don't know any better.
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Jetski is the guy that sells surplus ED209s to the pirates. The kind that go "You have 20 seconds to comply."
Don't you think patenting PCR as a tool to screen for cancer is still insanely broad?
You really should be trying to patent a sequence of your gene transcript (GATTACATACA...) as it applies to pancreatic cancer, and not the entire PCR technique.
It's not exactly the breakthrough of the century these days that PCR might be used in some way to screen for cancer, you know.
Signature character limit? His seems to be exactly 120 chars without "e"
No, I did not count them by hand: #wc -c
Do those come with a free shovel?
We cannot directly compare Apple hardware with Sony hardware, but we can in fact compare the things they re-sell, such as RAM or disks.
And Apple markup tends to be a lot higher on these compared with HP or Sony. Whether it's due to the "milk the fanboys" attitude or all the rigoros testing, I will not say.
Sure it's active. It's hackable just like all other DRM systems, but it's active enough.
Have a look here: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/01/0421248
By comparing the listed prices of upgrades (RAM, hard-drive, bluetooth) and addons at Apple online store vs HP or Sony.
In fact, my comment should properly read "at least 30%" as they tend to quote double the price in many cases (such as $700 vs $350 for 4gb of notebook ram)
It's #3: Actively interfering with attempts to run on third-party hardware
They could, of course, realease an unsupported "hobbyists" edition without the hardware lockin in license, but that would mean less reason for people to pay their 30% (or so) hardware markup.
Maybe like calling a limo instead of employing a full-time chauffeur?
when most women were housewifes which means they only cleaned and cooked, and therefore didn't need elaborate schooling. No colleges for women required.
Educated women, emancipated trams... It's a slippery slope I tell you.
Or crap cables (i.e. below $5,000).
Getting OT here, but the war in Iraq is not lost.
About 10,000 Americans die each day due to natural causes, so an extra 1 per week in Iraq matters how much in the global view of things?
Is it too high a price to pay for controlling the country with the second largest oil reserves (which also happens to be close to the one with the largest oil reserves)? Sounds crass until you consider that the Americans are 3% of the world population yet consume 40% of the world's oil.
Did you mean grep away?
Why don't your google "muslim acid face" or "women drivers saudi arabia" or "islam child slavery" to get the taste?
No, America's poor did not have it good before America was a global leader; your Steinbeck should have told you as much. So why do they have it so good now?
In the past, colonists sold glass beads and trinkets to the natives in exchange for their land, gold, and women.
Today, we sell Microsoft Windows in exchange for uranium and diamonds! Green pieces of paper in exchange for oil and steel.
Make no mistake about it: your 'local' circlejerk economy does not matter: doing each-other's laundry will not generate value. We are only prosperous because we are the high-tech monopoly, and can charge the World whatever the hell we want for machines, planes, drugs, designs. Trillions' worth of treasure in exchange for products of a few brilliant minds!
Just look at the chipmakers: the factories, the suppliers, and the workforce are all abroad, yet the US of A still gets all the cash, just because we are the guys holding the blueprints. If you forbid the US chipmakers to hire the people that can design new chips, who needs us?
Or, and how exactly does the book about socialism apply to international markets?
Uranium will run out faster than oil if we were to substitute one for the other.
No, I am not kidding, look it up.
I hope that (Score: +5, Funny) was worth going to hell for.
http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf07311/ Source of funding for 2005 (S&E funding sources at colleges and universities; US aggregate)
Fed. Govt: 29.2 Billion USD
Industry: 2.2 Billion USD
Raw data is available at webcaspar.nsf.gov but I am not sure if you have access.
Your intentions are good, I will grant you that. But what you propose will make American businesses much less competitive, which will hurt our kids in the long run.
The tech jobs are lucrative exactly because they are so competitive: America gets trillions of dollars' worth of "free" money and treasure because the rest of the world is buying our medications, sattelites, software, weapons systems, precision machines, food, and media. I say "free" because these trillions come on top of the manufacturing and labor expenses, and on top of even the reasonably expected profits: a single comms sattelite will only cost about $1 million to produce, yet we sell it for $100,000,000 because nobody else can make one like it!
What you propose is to force the companies to hire mediocre employees. That in itself would not be so bad, but you are also proposing bans on hiring the best employees (who may be foreign). What do you think that will do to our competitiveness?
Why do you think that even the poorest people in America have a house, a car, basic cable, plenty of food, etc. while same guys in the Third World die of hunger? Is it because they are "better" or because their country's economy is better?
If you can't stand above the competition, is it your fault or the competitors' fault?
Why do you think they should give up their job for you, and not the other way around?
My heart goes out to you, in that airconditioned office of yours having to do all the after-hours work (yet finding the time to post here on Slashdot).
Why don't you try pumping shit from the septic tank or work with a pickaxe in 100 degree heat to learn a little about certainties?
I've got news for you: just because you graduate from a college does not make you entitled to a job. You only get the job if the employer believes he can make more from you than he spends on you. Or do you "expect to get paid" just because you graduated with a 2.4 GPA and/or a transcript-full of blowoff courses and no experience?
For your info, recent college grads starting at Intel or Microsoft earn $80K+
In a Free Market an American would be no better off than a Mexican, Chinese, an or Indian. The whole point of the "Gathering Storm" was that in America, we don't want to have starvation, diseases, slave labor, and 40% of the population that cannot read and dies before they reach 50. In short, the in America we do NOT want a free market in so far as the science, technology, education, and math are concerned.
The Storm's idea was that to stay at the top requires us to continue outcompeting all of the other countries, or at least stay at the relative top of the foodchain.
The "Storm" suggestions? Improvements and investment in education, research, and immigration to continue developing and gathering the best and the brightest minds that drive innovation, research, new technologies, new treatments, cures, whatever.
You were right about one thing in your post: you really don't know any better.