If only there was some way we could create some sort of "Cross Pacific Collaboration"; a coordinated block of pacific countries with free trade agreements and aligned tariff rules. That would be an amazing way to counter China. Too bad nothing like that was ever negotiated...
Based on my experience, I'm pretty sure yours will be a highly rated comment
Of course he will say that, his job depends on there being patents to work and litigate with.
Yes, let's just ignore his decades of experience in patent law and years of studying patent history that comes with the territory because he has a vested interest. On the other hand, he makes some fairly good points. If we all but abolish the patent system for technology companies they would easily be overtaken by whomever has the largest manufacturing capacity. Ever wonder why Foxcon didn't just grab android and make an iPhone clone? Why be subject to Apple if there are no IP restrictions at all? People bemoan the quandary of the small innovator, and this is a legitimate concern, but it must also be weighed against the benefit patents (software and hardware) confer to large companies who must decide how much to spend on R&D.
Stallman is an activist against tightly controlled intellectual property, copyright and otherwise. That isn't a something to hold against him, it's just a fact that one must consider when listening to his opinions and analysis. Please try to keep that in mind when reading analysis from the other side.
A 'VIA' core makes about as much sense as an 'Apple core' or a 'samsung core'
This product includes a WM8750 processor, it is an 800 mhz arm 11 processor.
http://www.wondermedia.com.tw/en/products/platform/soc/wm8750/
if this makes the front page, please call the processor by it's name; an ARM11 processor
People forget that the content decryption scheme on DVDs requires a licensed key from the DVD Copy Control Association (CCA). Yes, you can download grey-market/illegal decryptors for free, but Microsoft can't bundle this software with your PC legally without paying a fee.
In the past it was usually that hardware manufacturers that paid the DVD CCA, so I wonder Microsoft is changing this practice to encourage WMP uptake or if the article is merely stating that win 8 computers will lack only the MPEG playing software out of the box.
Did you think about what 'open source government' even means?
I think our government is already open-source. The constitution is freely available for all to see, but it can only be changed by a super-majority vote (sounds a little like Debian).
Apparently Richard Stallman knows as little about the nature of the abortion debate as he knows about quantum mechanics.
The cornerstone argument of his paper is that soul's form gradually because they are governed by QM... of course if they were governed by QM, then the current assumption that they form instantaneously is actually more likely to be true since there is no intermediate state. Along with several other broad and inaccurate generalizations he proceeds to use Schrodinger's cat as evidence that his position holds merit (whereas the thought experiment was designed to show the limitations of QM applied to physical systems).
Anyways... doesn't deserve front page, I hope
(Yes RMS is great and stuff, but being a Free Software guru doesn't make you a meta-politico-physical expert)
um, arrive orthogonally to your destination.
problem solved
38k MVA deaths in 2009.
200 deaths caused by backup accidents is 0.6% of the national total.
12400 deaths caused by alcohol impaired drivers is about 38% of the national total.
Rear view cameras = $800
Breathalyzer key lock = ~$1500
For less than twice the price, you can get 62 times the life saving potential. Just food for thought.
Perhaps you didn't read my post.
Also, to the best of my knowledge, a target protein would not need to be crystallized in order for an aptamer to be developed. I'm pretty sure they just screen the proteins against a large aptamer library and then sequence the bound aptamers to see what worked. I'm a little fuzzy on this, so somebody correct me if I got that last part wrong.
The article and slashdot story claim that the chip can sequence proteins. The video I linked to below shows that their chip 'analyzes' proteins by reading specialized aptamers for recognition (aptamers are a bit like a small nucleotide based antibody; they can bind to target molecules with high specificity).
While this is potentially very useful in many fields, not the least of which is medical, it is not the claimed disruptive sequencing technology. The method proposed by ON requires a great deal of forethought and design; it would only work on well characterized proteins that have been isolated with enough purity for aptamers to be developed.
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers. - Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"
