LCD monitors are lit by a flourescent tube. Just as some people get migranes from flourescent lighting, the number of people having trouble with LCD displays will begin to escalate as more and more LCD displays surround us.
A modern CRT monitor usually has a refresh rate faster than 60hz, and the fading out of the phosphors tend to even out the flicker even more.
If your wife wants a flat panel display, she could try a plasma model. While plasma is also based on flourescent lighting technology, it is essentially made of thousands and thousands of individual flourescent lights, all turning on and off and varying their brightness individually, which might eliminate the migraine-inducing flicker.
in the UK it is a criminal offence to reproduce 'on any substance whatsoever, and whether or not on the correct scale', any part of any Bank of England banknote.
So, it is illegal to film someone paying for a sandwich in the UK?
Think about an huge asteroid, with this we could dispose the danger more efficiently than with nuke.
The great think about nuclear weapons is that they are the swiss army knife of disaster preparedness. We can use them to avert destruction by asteroids, aliens, earthquakes, disease outbreaks, bad weather, instability of the earths magnetic field, hordes of mutant animals, just about anything!
Aparantly wrapping the money in foil stopped the scanners going off. That makes it reasonably likely
Unless, based on the porrly written quality of the article, and the unscientific approach of the whole adventure, you allow that when they say "we wrapped the money in foil", they may have actually wrapped the whole wallet in foil. Or, they may have wrapped the money in foil and put it back in the wallet, in which case the foil could still have interferred with the wallet's tag (if it had one).
Maybe it was the wallet which had a hidden rfid, not the money. This possibility was not even broached.
Aside from any exploding rfid tags, and aside from the fact that the money was microwaved in a stack, all twentys would likely burn in the same pattern when microwaved simply due to their identical ink distribution.
Is this the Art Bell show now? Can we expect an interview with Hoagland tomorrow?
Why would they dump them in the ocean instead of just burning them in the boiler room to save on heating costs, or cracking them down for use in diamond saws and etc?
The only reason they ever "beat themselves to death" knocking over to track zero was because of the "awful copy protection" schemes and "fancy loaders". If used as designed, the 1541 didn't knock all that much. So, yes they did go out of alignment sometimes, but it wasn't so much due to bad design, as due to abuse. I did use two 1541s heavily for about 10 years (fancy loaders, copy "protection", nibblers, and all) without an alignment problem though.
... only criminals will have genetically modified fish.
One day, when a violent parolee breaks into your house waving a GM glowing fish, you'll wish to god then that you had one in your nightstand to defend your family.
If you read the FAQ, then you already should ahve read the part where they explain that cells with an active Ras pathway (many/most tumor cells do) seem to have an inactive immune response. Ergo, the virus kills the tumor cells, and any normal cell virus infections would activate the natural immune response.
This may mean, depending on the particulars of a given tumor type, that a single treatment of Reovirus might not be sufficient to fully kill off a tumor, if the body eliminates the virus too quickly. Then you would have to wait for the immune system to settle down before trying this treatment again.
I wonder if medical science could eventually develop sort of an arsenal of varius "common cold" virus types to use in rotation on stubborn tumors until they are fully removed?
3. What is the reovirus Reovirus stands for Respiratory Enteric Orphan Virus. The reovirus is a naturally occurring virus to which most of us have been exposed in our lifetime. It is a non-pathogenic virus, meaning that it is not usually associated with any illness. Between 70 and 100 per cent of the population show signs of previous reovirus infection, which is usually confined to the respiratory or gastrointestinal systems in the body.
6. Why doesn't the reovirus infect normal cells? It enters normal cells, but when this happens, an anti-viral response mechanism is turned on and the virus is quickly eliminated. Anyone injected with reovirus is usually able to clear it completely from the body in about two weeks. Back To Top
7. Why does the reovirus kill cancer cells? Scientific studies have demonstrated that approximately two-thirds of all human cancer cells have an activated Ras pathway, one of the most common set of mutations leading to cancer. An activated Ras pathway leads to a constant barrage of growth signals to the cell, causing uncontrolled growth. In cells with an activated Ras pathway, the anti-viral response appears to be turned off. When reovirus infects one of these cancer cells, it is able to replicate and eventually kill the cancer cell. Up to 5,000 progeny virus organisms can then infect and kill surrounding cancer cells. Theoretically, the cycle of infection, replication and cell death will continue until there are no longer any cancer cells accessible.
I think so. We should all cultivate a more detached and relaxed attitude when confronted with the writhing death pains of a Corporate Dinosaur.
Not only is SCO not going to get a penny out of IBM if this went to trial (I'd like to see the battle of the expert witnesses as to whether Linux is to Unix as a Bicycle is to a Luxury Car), but they don't intend to go to trial or to do anything else other than get IBM to put some of the money the money they would of spent on a trial directly into SCO's pocket instead.
The "Slashdot thing to do" is often to start with the wailing and gnashing of teeth on every issue. Many of those issues, like this one, that sort of thing simply isn't appropriately spent on.
Linus is a smart guy. He walks softly, but carries a big stick.
. . . and when you can build a better robot dog while living in a spacefaring refugee camp, I'd like to take a look at it.
But seriously, do you all inject these ridiculously awful and often disrespectful spelling errors as a part of some nefarious plan, or can you possibly be that stupid?
As opposed to now, when the rich person just pays more income taxes (95% of the money raised from income taxes comes from people considered "rich") and gets no additional use for their money.
This is essentially a circular argument, as "rich" people pay 95% of income taxes precisely because they make 95% of the income. The only way to negate this would be to make lower-income people each pay a much higher income tax percentage than a high-income person.
In the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality, just about every book and character ever written is real.
1)In the Leage of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality,
This is a prepositional phrase. It denotes that whatever is refered to by the following portion takes place "in" the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality".
2)just about every book and character ever written
This phrase centers on the conjuction of two nouns "book and character". We are told that the "book and character" conjuction refers to "just about all" possible "book and character" cases.
3)is real.
We are told that the "book and character" from the preceding phrase actually exists. Since we are operating under the parameters of a leading prepositional phrase denoting that this sentence occurs within the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality", this "realness" quality is restricted to the reality of the comic book.
There is something missing though. The "book and character" object needs some clarification, as the poster most likely meant only books and characters from our own literary history, and not books and characters within the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality" itself. However, nowhere does the post state anything close to your apparent interpretation that the fictional characters presented in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are based on "real" persons.
This is your pedantic grammar asshole signing off...
I have taken part in a few surveys in my life. With a question like this, there is always an "IF" phrase at the beginning, or the question is presented as a choice.
Given that this survey was given by a company which hopes to make biometric ID cards, the question was probably much like: "IF it would prevent terrorism and identity theft and IF biometric ID cards would make everything in your life more convenient and safer, with no possibility of negative consequence, would you support them?"
Or: "Would you rather have biometric ID cards or to have your wife and children raped and killed before your very eyes?"
Instead of all this "annoy the caller" bologna a lot of people are bragging about on here, two years ago I began to just simply cut off the telemarketer and ask to be placed on their own "do not call" list. I receive very few junk calls nowadays. I make no effort to hide my phone number, and it has been active for ten years.
The only real trouble I had recently was when the TV ratings company decided that they wanted me to report my viewing habits. They will not stop calling you. They will call at all times of the day and evening. They will purposely call 5 times throughout a single day because the person who's been answering the phone might not be "the one that their computer wants to get". They proudly proclaim that they can and do do all this because, since they are not selling anything, they are exempt from the laws regarding telemarketing.
When Netscape 2 came out with frames support, the first thing everyone did was start making sites with a navigation frame and a content frame. Furthermore, it's an obvious extension on the common method of having a static TOC that is appended to every page of a site prior to frames.
Using prior art to invalidate patents is easier than challenging the Patent Office's granting of monopolies on extremely obvious "inventions", but in the long run aren't we just validating the Patent Office? In essence saying, "Yeah, that is patentable, except John Doe did it first."
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This thread useless without pictures
What's the point in talking about Bill Gates' doodles if we don't get to see them?
LCD monitors are lit by a flourescent tube. Just as some people get migranes from flourescent lighting, the number of people having trouble with LCD displays will begin to escalate as more and more LCD displays surround us.
A modern CRT monitor usually has a refresh rate faster than 60hz, and the fading out of the phosphors tend to even out the flicker even more.
If your wife wants a flat panel display, she could try a plasma model. While plasma is also based on flourescent lighting technology, it is essentially made of thousands and thousands of individual flourescent lights, all turning on and off and varying their brightness individually, which might eliminate the migraine-inducing flicker.
rtfa poster
I don't see why ARG people who were not otherwise interested in Halo2 would decide to play Halo2 due to this kind of "marketing".
The great think about nuclear weapons is that they are the swiss army knife of disaster preparedness. We can use them to avert destruction by asteroids, aliens, earthquakes, disease outbreaks, bad weather, instability of the earths magnetic field, hordes of mutant animals, just about anything!
... lies in fitting a "2.5in removable disk" in a "1 x 0.8 x 0.8cm cartridge".
Unless, based on the porrly written quality of the article, and the unscientific approach of the whole adventure, you allow that when they say "we wrapped the money in foil", they may have actually wrapped the whole wallet in foil. Or, they may have wrapped the money in foil and put it back in the wallet, in which case the foil could still have interferred with the wallet's tag (if it had one).
Why would they dump them in the ocean instead of just burning them in the boiler room to save on heating costs, or cracking them down for use in diamond saws and etc?
This ocean story sounds like BS to me.
The only reason they ever "beat themselves to death" knocking over to track zero was because of the "awful copy protection" schemes and "fancy loaders". If used as designed, the 1541 didn't knock all that much. So, yes they did go out of alignment sometimes, but it wasn't so much due to bad design, as due to abuse. I did use two 1541s heavily for about 10 years (fancy loaders, copy "protection", nibblers, and all) without an alignment problem though.
Oops, our bad. Mars [i]is[/i] apparently inhabited by giant sandworms several kilometers long.
Thanks for the correction.
... only criminals will have genetically modified fish.
One day, when a violent parolee breaks into your house waving a GM glowing fish, you'll wish to god then that you had one in your nightstand to defend your family.
If you read the FAQ, then you already should ahve read the part where they explain that cells with an active Ras pathway (many/most tumor cells do) seem to have an inactive immune response. Ergo, the virus kills the tumor cells, and any normal cell virus infections would activate the natural immune response.
This may mean, depending on the particulars of a given tumor type, that a single treatment of Reovirus might not be sufficient to fully kill off a tumor, if the body eliminates the virus too quickly. Then you would have to wait for the immune system to settle down before trying this treatment again.
I wonder if medical science could eventually develop sort of an arsenal of varius "common cold" virus types to use in rotation on stubborn tumors until they are fully removed?
I think so. We should all cultivate a more detached and relaxed attitude when confronted with the writhing death pains of a Corporate Dinosaur.
Not only is SCO not going to get a penny out of IBM if this went to trial (I'd like to see the battle of the expert witnesses as to whether Linux is to Unix as a Bicycle is to a Luxury Car), but they don't intend to go to trial or to do anything else other than get IBM to put some of the money the money they would of spent on a trial directly into SCO's pocket instead.
The "Slashdot thing to do" is often to start with the wailing and gnashing of teeth on every issue. Many of those issues, like this one, that sort of thing simply isn't appropriately spent on.
Linus is a smart guy. He walks softly, but carries a big stick.
. . . and when you can build a better robot dog while living in a spacefaring refugee camp, I'd like to take a look at it.
But seriously, do you all inject these ridiculously awful and often disrespectful spelling errors as a part of some nefarious plan, or can you possibly be that stupid?
This is essentially a circular argument, as "rich" people pay 95% of income taxes precisely because they make 95% of the income. The only way to negate this would be to make lower-income people each pay a much higher income tax percentage than a high-income person.
What about a PSX emulator on the Xbox?
hmmm...
There's no such thing as a caucasian (or any other "race") anyway.
Hey kids, it's time for a sentence breakdown!
In the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality, just about every book and character ever written is real.
1)In the Leage of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality,
This is a prepositional phrase. It denotes that whatever is refered to by the following portion takes place "in" the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality".
2)just about every book and character ever written
This phrase centers on the conjuction of two nouns "book and character". We are told that the "book and character" conjuction refers to "just about all" possible "book and character" cases.
3)is real.
We are told that the "book and character" from the preceding phrase actually exists. Since we are operating under the parameters of a leading prepositional phrase denoting that this sentence occurs within the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality", this "realness" quality is restricted to the reality of the comic book.
There is something missing though. The "book and character" object needs some clarification, as the poster most likely meant only books and characters from our own literary history, and not books and characters within the "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen reality" itself. However, nowhere does the post state anything close to your apparent interpretation that the fictional characters presented in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen are based on "real" persons.
This is your pedantic grammar asshole signing off...
Frida??? They gave Ms. Hayek a unibrow...
The Time Machine? I've seen better makeup on MutantX.
I have taken part in a few surveys in my life. With a question like this, there is always an "IF" phrase at the beginning, or the question is presented as a choice.
Given that this survey was given by a company which hopes to make biometric ID cards, the question was probably much like:
"IF it would prevent terrorism and identity theft and IF biometric ID cards would make everything in your life more convenient and safer, with no possibility of negative consequence, would you support them?"
Or:
"Would you rather have biometric ID cards or to have your wife and children raped and killed before your very eyes?"
Instead of all this "annoy the caller" bologna a lot of people are bragging about on here, two years ago I began to just simply cut off the telemarketer and ask to be placed on their own "do not call" list. I receive very few junk calls nowadays. I make no effort to hide my phone number, and it has been active for ten years.
The only real trouble I had recently was when the TV ratings company decided that they wanted me to report my viewing habits. They will not stop calling you. They will call at all times of the day and evening. They will purposely call 5 times throughout a single day because the person who's been answering the phone might not be "the one that their computer wants to get". They proudly proclaim that they can and do do all this because, since they are not selling anything, they are exempt from the laws regarding telemarketing.
When Netscape 2 came out with frames support, the first thing everyone did was start making sites with a navigation frame and a content frame. Furthermore, it's an obvious extension on the common method of having a static TOC that is appended to every page of a site prior to frames.
Using prior art to invalidate patents is easier than challenging the Patent Office's granting of monopolies on extremely obvious "inventions", but in the long run aren't we just validating the Patent Office? In essence saying, "Yeah, that is patentable, except John Doe did it first."