The effects of melamine on health have been known for a long time. That's why it was so easy to point fingers once the first babies got kidney stones (and then died).
You know, it's not only the melamine in milk and dairy products. It's alos the cheap, lead-containing paint on toys, tainted toothpaste and other such chinese shite.
OK, so I didn't know about PLoS - _maybe_ because their journals are not in the field in which I do research. Also, to be honest, I didn't see ANY citation to any of the PLoS publications - even though some of the microdevices I have been looking at are related to genetics or medicine in general. So their impact is not the highest (I have read or browsed about 1000 papers since the beginning of the year).
I'm not trying to put down this initiative, on the countrary, I am considering publishing in an open-access journal, but it should have some non-negligible impact, if my institute is going to pay a few thousand bucks for the review and publishing.
Published by ACS, no less. However, I have to say that I have never seen a freely-downloadable paper (in the fields of natural science and engineering) that would be peer-reviewed.
The Eee PC 1000 should be much less than $600. I live in Europe so I am not sure about the prices in the US, but here in EU it's one of the cheapest laptopsin general, let alone among the ultraportables!
Thanks for that. But for what's worth, the word "SecuROM" or "secure" are not mentioned there.
It mentions
Third Party Technology. The Software incorporates technology developed by TransGaming Inc. (the "Cider Technology"). The terms and conditions and licenses set out in the schedule apply to Cider Technology.
but TransGaming Inc. did not develop SecuROM. So, EA, I think, has still their pants down.
As you said, those sectors in the LHC are huge. I knew there were a few, didn't know they were 8. The diameter of the LHC "main ring" (feel free to correct my untech terminology, but you know what I mean) is 27Km. Back of envelope calculation says that the length of one sector is about 10Km.
So, perhaps too few sectors? I hope to be proven wrong, for two reasons: I am extremely interested in the outcome of some of those experiments. And also, some of my colleagues are working on particle detectors that will hopefully be used on the LHC, if it works reliably. For their sake, I hope the LHC will be reliable. These guys go to CERN every now and then, but didn't yet get to do a bikeride in the LHC. I so effing envy them...
The sectors in the LHC are huge. Perhaps too huge to be practical. I hope to be proven wrong, for two reasons: I am extremely interested in the outcome of some of those experiments. And also, some of my colleagues are working on detectors that will hopefully be used on the LHC, if it works reliably. For their sake, I hope the LHC will be reliable.
I understand that, but what I meant was: figure out a way to compartmentize the structure, so that only parts need to be warmed up, while the rest is termically insulated.
I know - in fact, I work with cryogenic plasma etching, and even though there the temperatures are not nearly as low as needed for superconductivity of the LHC coils, it still takes a long time to get it to work, or to warm it up for servicing. BUT... what I meant was: figure out a way to compartmentize the structure, so that only parts need to be warmed up, while the rest is termically insulated.
You've inadvertently demonstrated the stupidity of your own argument there. If the point is to "travel faster" and vehicles travel faster then humans, why not send a vehicle? And if we have the vehicle, what's the human for? After all, it's not the 1960s. Vehicles don't need humans to steer them.
Talk about stupidity! Do you have any idea why does it take years for the rovers to negotiate just a few kilometers? It has nothing to do with the speed of the vehicle - and everything to do with the problems of remote-controlling them from earth, with a delay of 8 to 40 min for roundtrip. A strict (almost fastidious) control of the rover is essential, least it ends up stuck in some way or the other, and then it's curtains.
YOU have clearly demonstrated the irrationality of some/.ers regarding manned mission: you just let your brain shut down, that's how rabidly you oppose it. Or maybe you didn't have a brain to begin with?
A human would take no more than a few hours to get there, on foot, much less with some vehicle. And would be able to do much more and diverse probings and experiments. And let's not forget that in those 2 years, the rover has a very high likelihood to break down.
So while human exploration of Mars may be expensive, it is probably much cheaper when comparing results.
I know the/. crowd has a strong, somewhat irrational animosity towards manned exploration. So I'll burn some karma, big deal:o)
I just don't understand it when people say DVD is "good enough". You can see the compression artifacts! (and that's on a low resolution display)
Oh and the DRM is annoying.... I suspect it will only be a matter of time before I'll be ripping the movies to watch on my portable devices just like I do with DVD. Just crack it and get on with your life.
First you boast how superior your requirements of visual quality are... and then you say you watch movies on your "portable device"? If you left out the last paragraph, I'd have only said "poor you, you must have struggled immensely before HD-DVD and BD came out. Sucks to be you.". But when I read the last part of your post I had to laugh. Or maybe you're just a masochist, "subjecting" yourself to watch a movie on a small screen and with all sorts of compression artifacts.
Yours is the most self-contradicting modded-up post I have ever read on the intertubes.
So apparently an Asus employee happened to have a personal flash drive, and stored his resume
If that really was his/her resume, I doubt it will do much good to him/her, now.
I love the twist, though: "I worked for 3 years at Asus, but I, er, decided to move on now. Oh, BTW: you can find my resume on your Asus recovery disk - isn't that convenient!"
Secondarily, allowing users to install apps from any source they please would be the first major step in making application piracy that much more likely. And, effectively, the end of all of those cheap $1 and $2 applications. Prices would jump to the $10 and $20 mark seen on other platforms and stores (Handago), which is something that benefits neither honest users nor developers.
You have it backwards. If piracy really does happen (you said that, not me), the $1-$2 apps are the least likely to be affected.
Apple indeed has well-developed marketing muscle. And then, there's Nokia/Symbian with an even stronger marketing muscle. Nokia's been at it for a long time, polishing their brand like Solomon's balls. Expect them to put up a fight against Android.
Neither have I ever seen a Google ad (except the Android press conference, which is all part of marketing), but perhaps now we will. Who knows. One thing is sure: interesting times ahead! Pass the popcorn...
That's a good point, and I am not ignoring those things. Luckily, Google has already signed up a few providers, and the Google brand will inevitably attract a lot of users. The mobile market is not necessarily a winner-takes-it-all: even with only 1% marketshare, one can make loads of cash.
It's sad that her personal correspondence, pictures and information was made public like this, but I'm glad it turned out she's OK. From what I've learned about her, she seems like a nice person.
And how do you know the original poster doesn't have access to a much more precise clock? Serious question here: for all I know, you two might know each other from "real life", and may be privy to what his/her private and professional lives are.
That's news to me. Even though I am not in any of the social networking sites (can you believe it?), I was always under the impression that the profiles you create there are, you know, publicly accessible.
If you don't want information about you to be viewed, it could be a good idea not to publish it online.
If Apple allowed a competing mail app, this would encourage more people to buy the iPhone (more money for Apple), and I'm sure they get a cut of sales through the App Store (even more money for Apple).
Just because someone is greedy, doesn't mean he/she is also smart. There's plenty of greedy companies that keep shooting themselves in the feet. The RIAA labels come to mind.
Wow. Melodramatic much? How about you just cut to the quick and drop a reference to Nazis or Hitler so we can be done with this thread right off the bat...
Oh, and for the record, it's "iPhone" - lower case "i", upper case "p". If you're going to claim it's the next biggest evil of technology, at least spell it correctly.
You're a spelling Nazi. Heck, even worse, you are a so-in-love-with-Apple-that-can't-stand-wrong-capitalization-of-Apple-products-Nazi.
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The effects of melamine on health have been known for a long time. That's why it was so easy to point fingers once the first babies got kidney stones (and then died).
You know, it's not only the melamine in milk and dairy products. It's alos the cheap, lead-containing paint on toys, tainted toothpaste and other such chinese shite.
OK, so I didn't know about PLoS - _maybe_ because their journals are not in the field in which I do research. Also, to be honest, I didn't see ANY citation to any of the PLoS publications - even though some of the microdevices I have been looking at are related to genetics or medicine in general. So their impact is not the highest (I have read or browsed about 1000 papers since the beginning of the year).
I'm not trying to put down this initiative, on the countrary, I am considering publishing in an open-access journal, but it should have some non-negligible impact, if my institute is going to pay a few thousand bucks for the review and publishing.
Published by ACS, no less. However, I have to say that I have never seen a freely-downloadable paper (in the fields of natural science and engineering) that would be peer-reviewed.
The Eee PC 1000 should be much less than $600. I live in Europe so I am not sure about the prices in the US, but here in EU it's one of the cheapest laptopsin general, let alone among the ultraportables!
Thanks for that. But for what's worth, the word "SecuROM" or "secure" are not mentioned there.
It mentions
Third Party Technology. The Software incorporates technology
developed by TransGaming Inc. (the "Cider Technology"). The terms
and conditions and licenses set out in the schedule apply to Cider
Technology.
but TransGaming Inc. did not develop SecuROM. So, EA, I think, has still their pants down.
As you said, those sectors in the LHC are huge. I knew there were a few, didn't know they were 8. The diameter of the LHC "main ring" (feel free to correct my untech terminology, but you know what I mean) is 27Km. Back of envelope calculation says that the length of one sector is about 10Km.
So, perhaps too few sectors? I hope to be proven wrong, for two reasons: I am extremely interested in the outcome of some of those experiments. And also, some of my colleagues are working on particle detectors that will hopefully be used on the LHC, if it works reliably. For their sake, I hope the LHC will be reliable. These guys go to CERN every now and then, but didn't yet get to do a bikeride in the LHC. I so effing envy them...
The sectors in the LHC are huge. Perhaps too huge to be practical. I hope to be proven wrong, for two reasons: I am extremely interested in the outcome of some of those experiments. And also, some of my colleagues are working on detectors that will hopefully be used on the LHC, if it works reliably. For their sake, I hope the LHC will be reliable.
I understand that, but what I meant was: figure out a way to compartmentize the structure, so that only parts need to be warmed up, while the rest is termically insulated.
I know - in fact, I work with cryogenic plasma etching, and even though there the temperatures are not nearly as low as needed for superconductivity of the LHC coils, it still takes a long time to get it to work, or to warm it up for servicing. BUT... what I meant was: figure out a way to compartmentize the structure, so that only parts need to be warmed up, while the rest is termically insulated.
I hope the repairmen don't forget their gloves or screwdrivers in there.
More seriously: the LHC wasn't designed with repairability/serviceability in mind, it seems. Before you mod me down: the proof is before our eyes!
You've inadvertently demonstrated the stupidity of your own argument there. If the point is to "travel faster" and vehicles travel faster then humans, why not send a vehicle? And if we have the vehicle, what's the human for? After all, it's not the 1960s. Vehicles don't need humans to steer them.
Talk about stupidity! Do you have any idea why does it take years for the rovers to negotiate just a few kilometers? It has nothing to do with the speed of the vehicle - and everything to do with the problems of remote-controlling them from earth, with a delay of 8 to 40 min for roundtrip. A strict (almost fastidious) control of the rover is essential, least it ends up stuck in some way or the other, and then it's curtains.
YOU have clearly demonstrated the irrationality of some /.ers regarding manned mission: you just let your brain shut down, that's how rabidly you oppose it. Or maybe you didn't have a brain to begin with?
A human would take no more than a few hours to get there, on foot, much less with some vehicle. And would be able to do much more and diverse probings and experiments. And let's not forget that in those 2 years, the rover has a very high likelihood to break down.
So while human exploration of Mars may be expensive, it is probably much cheaper when comparing results.
I know the /. crowd has a strong, somewhat irrational animosity towards manned exploration. So I'll burn some karma, big deal :o)
I just don't understand it when people say DVD is "good enough". You can see the compression artifacts! (and that's on a low resolution display)
Oh and the DRM is annoying.... I suspect it will only be a matter of time before I'll be ripping the movies to watch on my portable devices just like I do with DVD. Just crack it and get on with your life.
First you boast how superior your requirements of visual quality are... and then you say you watch movies on your "portable device"? If you left out the last paragraph, I'd have only said "poor you, you must have struggled immensely before HD-DVD and BD came out. Sucks to be you.". But when I read the last part of your post I had to laugh. Or maybe you're just a masochist, "subjecting" yourself to watch a movie on a small screen and with all sorts of compression artifacts.
Yours is the most self-contradicting modded-up post I have ever read on the intertubes.
"Well, it's almost here - might as well wait for Windows 7 and skip Vista altogether".
My guess is: almost all.
So apparently an Asus employee happened to have a personal flash drive, and stored his resume
If that really was his/her resume, I doubt it will do much good to him/her, now.
I love the twist, though: "I worked for 3 years at Asus, but I, er, decided to move on now. Oh, BTW: you can find my resume on your Asus recovery disk - isn't that convenient!"
And that, in a word, is what deleting half-baked articles gains Wikipedia. Accuracy.
There is no proof, none, nada, that accurate articles are kept and inaccurate ones are deleted.
Every single time a user searches for "golden retriever," one of the hits is going to be the article on Fredsband.
So what? The hits are listed by relevance, I don't think Fred's little garage band is going to confuse anyone.
Secondarily, allowing users to install apps from any source they please would be the first major step in making application piracy that much more likely. And, effectively, the end of all of those cheap $1 and $2 applications. Prices would jump to the $10 and $20 mark seen on other platforms and stores (Handago), which is something that benefits neither honest users nor developers.
You have it backwards. If piracy really does happen (you said that, not me), the $1-$2 apps are the least likely to be affected.
Apple indeed has well-developed marketing muscle. And then, there's Nokia/Symbian with an even stronger marketing muscle. Nokia's been at it for a long time, polishing their brand like Solomon's balls. Expect them to put up a fight against Android.
Neither have I ever seen a Google ad (except the Android press conference, which is all part of marketing), but perhaps now we will. Who knows. One thing is sure: interesting times ahead! Pass the popcorn...
That's a good point, and I am not ignoring those things. Luckily, Google has already signed up a few providers, and the Google brand will inevitably attract a lot of users. The mobile market is not necessarily a winner-takes-it-all: even with only 1% marketshare, one can make loads of cash.
It's sad that her personal correspondence, pictures and information was made public like this, but I'm glad it turned out she's OK. From what I've learned about her, she seems like a nice person.
And how do you know the original poster doesn't have access to a much more precise clock? Serious question here: for all I know, you two might know each other from "real life", and may be privy to what his/her private and professional lives are.
Otherwise, kindly STFU.
That's news to me. Even though I am not in any of the social networking sites (can you believe it?), I was always under the impression that the profiles you create there are, you know, publicly accessible.
If you don't want information about you to be viewed, it could be a good idea not to publish it online.
No. This is pure profit motive, that's all.
And how much profit does Apple make on Mail.app?
If Apple allowed a competing mail app, this would encourage more people to buy the iPhone (more money for Apple), and I'm sure they get a cut of sales through the App Store (even more money for Apple).
Just because someone is greedy, doesn't mean he/she is also smart. There's plenty of greedy companies that keep shooting themselves in the feet. The RIAA labels come to mind.
Wow. Melodramatic much? How about you just cut to the quick and drop a reference to Nazis or Hitler so we can be done with this thread right off the bat...
Oh, and for the record, it's "iPhone" - lower case "i", upper case "p". If you're going to claim it's the next biggest evil of technology, at least spell it correctly.
You're a spelling Nazi. Heck, even worse, you are a so-in-love-with-Apple-that-can't-stand-wrong-capitalization-of-Apple-products-Nazi.
Happy now?