Don't forget the greatest subsidy of all: subsidized gasoline. How did automakers pull THAT one off, I will never understand. But, summa summarum, USA has one of the cheapest gasolines in the world.
Thanks. Her osteoporosis is caused by some kind of cancer. But luckliy, she finally started responding positively to chemo, so here's hoping. She's still (relatively) young, not a typical osteoporosis patient.
I am sorry you were moderated as "Troll" - I can clearly see your point, and tend to parly agree. But wouldn't you agree that it's good to have a working technology, even if it's used by a privileged few at first? That at least gives a theoretical chance of being used to cure your disease. If the technology doesn't exist, it can never be used.
So, while not ideal, it's still, apparently, infinitely better to have a solution and use it haphazardly, than not to have one at all.
My group is cooperating with a startup that makes, among other things, glass microbeads covered with nanoparticles of whose composition I am not allowed to speak. These nanoparticles cause bone cell growth. In fact, they cause stem cell differentiation into osteoblasts, which I think is beyong cool. The glass slowly dissolves in the body and the bone remains. Our hypothesis (backed by some experimental data) is that these beads will restore fractured bones, such as spinal vertebrae, to patients with extreme osteoporosis.
Rarely have I wished success to a company, as in this case. Perhaps seeing my aunt succumb to multiple spinal fractures scared the shit out of me.
I don't have all the facts (as I guess nobody in the world at this point does), but based on what I know, I will strongly disagree, and here is why: the purpose of the heart is to provide blood to the body's tissues, in order to keep them oxigenated. The rate of oxigenation depends on the average flux of the blood. Whether the blood flows continuously or pulsed, it is important to maintain an average flux of a given intensity. With continuous flux, the maximum pressure of the blood will be less than with pulsed flux - I hope you can see this, because I wouldn't know how to make this clearer to you.
Since this device, for a given average flux of blood, generates less maximum blood pressures, it will cause less problems such as brain haemorragy, with no (known, at least) drawbacks.
Turbomachine yes, but with a helix with a non-attached axis - it uses a rotating magnetic field generated outside of the rotating helix itself. Please google for HeartMate II, or HeartMate II LVAS. You should find a (cached) page with a link to an animation. That animation will explain better than my puny attempt in this post.
This device is bladeless. In fact, one of the major advantages of this artificial heart compared to the traditional ones, is that this damages less blood cells than all other artificial "pulsed" devices. It has other benefits, like smaller size and less energy consumption. Overall, it's a greatly improved system.
Ok, say your right. Let's have the nuclear inspectors in there then. Fair is fair, if Iran can't have nuclear power, neither can the Israelis. Think that's ever going to happen ?
I question your reading comprehension, or your cognitive skills in general: the whole point is to keep Israel's enemies guessing. Allowing inspectors in facilities that are widely considered as harboring nuclear weapons research, would disclose the lack of any, hence removing Israel's virtual deterrent.
But I doubt you'll understand this - since you didn't understand the post to which you answered to, and that was written in even simpler language.
I'll say this silently, but I don't even think Israel ever had a nuclear weapon. I think it was and still is, just a big bluff, in order to stay safe. As a mafia-affiliated relative of my father once said: "the loaded gun frightens the one that it's pointed at. The empty gun frightens both the one it's pointed at, and the one holding it."
All the acrimony piled up on Israel because of their alleged nuclear program, is, strangely, playing into their hands, because that way they can be as safe as if they had a nuclear weapon - without having to invest the vast resources needed to acquire it.
Looking at this problem more broadly: to acquire nuclear weapons, a country has to have much more resources at their disposal. Iran, for instance, that has a GDP that dwarves that of Israel many times over. Or USA, Russia (former USSR), China, India and Pakistan. All of them huge countries with lots more money and mineral resources than Israel. North Korea, on the other hand ('cause I know you'd bring that one up), doesn't have the resources for a nuclear program, and hence doesn't have one. Sure, they have a nuclear research facility, but that a nuclear weapons program does not make. Another big bluff. In fact, North Korea has already a weapon equally as devastating as a number of warheads: they have a huge number of long-range (albeit not too accurate) artillery pieces lined up along the border with South Korea. If someone just sneezes at them, Seoul is fucked. I mean properly fucked, as if nuked.
I very strongly agree with almost all (and the very point) of your post. There is only this little detail I have issues with:
Get into a warring states situation and it's every bastard for themselves in a no-holds-barred deathmatch.
Notice that in every war, no matter how localized or global, there have always been two alliances and the inevitable neutral states/forces. This is always the case. The alliances may and often do, shift, but there are always only 2 warring parts, never three or more. Even in the very chaotic war in the Balkans at the beginning of the 90's, there has always been two alliances. Take Bosnia: usually the Boshnyak and Croat forces were allied against the Serbian side, but sometimes the Croats and Serbians fought the Boshnyaks. There was a lot of shifting in that conflict but always two alliances warring, never three sides.
Yes for Antarctica - there does, indeed, seem to be a balancing between areas with thinning and those with thickening ice. But not for Greenland, which appears to be pretty much on a dramatic thinning regimen.
Google is at war and its goal is the liberate the browsers and allow them to be everything they can be.
Evil Microsoft has poor IE as a hostage and is doing terrible things with it. It could be so much but forced into ghetto conditions it is backwards and idiotic.
Direct war with the evil Microsoft is hard but Google is dropping supplies behind enemy lines to help as much as possible. Luxuries other browsers can take for granted are dropped in the form of javascript libraries so that IE can still at least somewhat come along no matter how slow.
Now with this new weapon of peace the evil Microsoft can be twarthed like never before, every IE that dares can now be free and standup like a real browser with all the features those in the free world have come to taken for granted.
There is not going to be one single succesful strategy to liberate the browser, but liberated it will be. Google needs freedom more then any true american company needs air to breath. The communist Microsoft (All for one OS and one OS for all) shall be vanquished. It will not happen overnight, but it will happen.
You, my friend, are truly talented, and could have a career in marketing.
I think it's more than just a stretch to categorize that vehicle as a motorbike. For one think, bikes are nimble and corner easily and accurately. That thing, if it turns corners at all, is probably like a paralytic elephant.
The engine they used is, however, extremely interesting. Extra kudos' for being custom built!
Microsoft has nothing to gain in this war of wards. They should have known it before they started it: now Google has more than just an excuse to publicize/raise the awareness of IEs security holes, educating the public on phishing, in the process. This will will definitely raise the interest of at least some IE users who would have not otherwise bothered themselves with Google's add-on.
I can see how MS got suckered into this, though: they just can't stand someone walking into their turf. Their predator instinct is just too strong, and makes them do stupid things.
I know this might be slightly off-topic, but I think that the issues Slashdot has been having are due to an unexpected spike in traffic after they posted the story of how 3D Realms was switching over to Epic's Unreal Engine for the upcoming Duke Nukem Forever. I'm pretty stoked about this and am saving up to be able to afford a Voodoo2 - DNF is gonna be da bomb!!
I can sell you a Voodoo2 pretty cheap, so you can save your monies for one of those new Pentium 4's.
Actually, I don't want to even think about it. That computer is amazing - and the IBM PC was nothing but a turd in comparison, but it won out. It's actually funny and sad at the same time, to think that people were using nice GUIs on Amigas and Ataris, and at the same time people in companies were using some ugly ASCII DOS-based softwares in the office. And THAT is what won!!!
And this is due to the fact that Google's appstore allows for any number of applications that duplicate a certain functionality, without being anal-retentive about it in the least - unlike Apple.
Thank you very much for those! OK, I have a few comments, but perhaps better done by e-mail. If you feel like, drop me a line: howdilydoo [@t] gmail.com
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Don't forget the greatest subsidy of all: subsidized gasoline. How did automakers pull THAT one off, I will never understand. But, summa summarum, USA has one of the cheapest gasolines in the world.
Thanks. Her osteoporosis is caused by some kind of cancer. But luckliy, she finally started responding positively to chemo, so here's hoping. She's still (relatively) young, not a typical osteoporosis patient.
I am sorry you were moderated as "Troll" - I can clearly see your point, and tend to parly agree. But wouldn't you agree that it's good to have a working technology, even if it's used by a privileged few at first? That at least gives a theoretical chance of being used to cure your disease. If the technology doesn't exist, it can never be used.
So, while not ideal, it's still, apparently, infinitely better to have a solution and use it haphazardly, than not to have one at all.
My group is cooperating with a startup that makes, among other things, glass microbeads covered with nanoparticles of whose composition I am not allowed to speak. These nanoparticles cause bone cell growth. In fact, they cause stem cell differentiation into osteoblasts, which I think is beyong cool. The glass slowly dissolves in the body and the bone remains. Our hypothesis (backed by some experimental data) is that these beads will restore fractured bones, such as spinal vertebrae, to patients with extreme osteoporosis.
Rarely have I wished success to a company, as in this case. Perhaps seeing my aunt succumb to multiple spinal fractures scared the shit out of me.
Actually, you might be right. Your post made me think.
It's the human jiffy.
:o)
They both use the same principle. The HeartMate II is, in fact, a continuous flow device.
I don't have all the facts (as I guess nobody in the world at this point does), but based on what I know, I will strongly disagree, and here is why: the purpose of the heart is to provide blood to the body's tissues, in order to keep them oxigenated. The rate of oxigenation depends on the average flux of the blood. Whether the blood flows continuously or pulsed, it is important to maintain an average flux of a given intensity. With continuous flux, the maximum pressure of the blood will be less than with pulsed flux - I hope you can see this, because I wouldn't know how to make this clearer to you.
Since this device, for a given average flux of blood, generates less maximum blood pressures, it will cause less problems such as brain haemorragy, with no (known, at least) drawbacks.
Turbomachine yes, but with a helix with a non-attached axis - it uses a rotating magnetic field generated outside of the rotating helix itself. Please google for HeartMate II, or HeartMate II LVAS. You should find a (cached) page with a link to an animation. That animation will explain better than my puny attempt in this post.
This device is bladeless. In fact, one of the major advantages of this artificial heart compared to the traditional ones, is that this damages less blood cells than all other artificial "pulsed" devices. It has other benefits, like smaller size and less energy consumption. Overall, it's a greatly improved system.
Ok, say your right. Let's have the nuclear inspectors in there then. Fair is fair, if Iran can't have nuclear power, neither can the Israelis. Think that's ever going to happen ?
I question your reading comprehension, or your cognitive skills in general: the whole point is to keep Israel's enemies guessing. Allowing inspectors in facilities that are widely considered as harboring nuclear weapons research, would disclose the lack of any, hence removing Israel's virtual deterrent.
But I doubt you'll understand this - since you didn't understand the post to which you answered to, and that was written in even simpler language.
I'll say this silently, but I don't even think Israel ever had a nuclear weapon. I think it was and still is, just a big bluff, in order to stay safe. As a mafia-affiliated relative of my father once said: "the loaded gun frightens the one that it's pointed at. The empty gun frightens both the one it's pointed at, and the one holding it."
All the acrimony piled up on Israel because of their alleged nuclear program, is, strangely, playing into their hands, because that way they can be as safe as if they had a nuclear weapon - without having to invest the vast resources needed to acquire it.
Looking at this problem more broadly: to acquire nuclear weapons, a country has to have much more resources at their disposal. Iran, for instance, that has a GDP that dwarves that of Israel many times over. Or USA, Russia (former USSR), China, India and Pakistan. All of them huge countries with lots more money and mineral resources than Israel. North Korea, on the other hand ('cause I know you'd bring that one up), doesn't have the resources for a nuclear program, and hence doesn't have one. Sure, they have a nuclear research facility, but that a nuclear weapons program does not make. Another big bluff. In fact, North Korea has already a weapon equally as devastating as a number of warheads: they have a huge number of long-range (albeit not too accurate) artillery pieces lined up along the border with South Korea. If someone just sneezes at them, Seoul is fucked. I mean properly fucked, as if nuked.
I very strongly agree with almost all (and the very point) of your post. There is only this little detail I have issues with:
Get into a warring states situation and it's every bastard for themselves in a no-holds-barred deathmatch.
Notice that in every war, no matter how localized or global, there have always been two alliances and the inevitable neutral states/forces. This is always the case. The alliances may and often do, shift, but there are always only 2 warring parts, never three or more. Even in the very chaotic war in the Balkans at the beginning of the 90's, there has always been two alliances. Take Bosnia: usually the Boshnyak and Croat forces were allied against the Serbian side, but sometimes the Croats and Serbians fought the Boshnyaks. There was a lot of shifting in that conflict but always two alliances warring, never three sides.
We have been warned for years on end that coastal inundation would be the direct effect of polar melting.
But inundation should not be a delayed effect. It should appear immediately, and in direct proportion to the melting.
So where is it?
Two South Pacific islands have disappeared beneath the waves, as climate change raises sea levels to new heights.
Tuvalu, soon to be no more.
World's deltas subsiding, says study.
Yes for Antarctica - there does, indeed, seem to be a balancing between areas with thinning and those with thickening ice. But not for Greenland, which appears to be pretty much on a dramatic thinning regimen.
Parent is right. In fact: most people whose brain was found to contain Abeta plaques, did not suffer from Alzheimer's disease!
Google is at war and its goal is the liberate the browsers and allow them to be everything they can be.
Evil Microsoft has poor IE as a hostage and is doing terrible things with it. It could be so much but forced into ghetto conditions it is backwards and idiotic.
Direct war with the evil Microsoft is hard but Google is dropping supplies behind enemy lines to help as much as possible. Luxuries other browsers can take for granted are dropped in the form of javascript libraries so that IE can still at least somewhat come along no matter how slow.
Now with this new weapon of peace the evil Microsoft can be twarthed like never before, every IE that dares can now be free and standup like a real browser with all the features those in the free world have come to taken for granted.
There is not going to be one single succesful strategy to liberate the browser, but liberated it will be. Google needs freedom more then any true american company needs air to breath. The communist Microsoft (All for one OS and one OS for all) shall be vanquished. It will not happen overnight, but it will happen.
You, my friend, are truly talented, and could have a career in marketing.
Seriously, I bow before your creativity.
I think it's more than just a stretch to categorize that vehicle as a motorbike. For one think, bikes are nimble and corner easily and accurately. That thing, if it turns corners at all, is probably like a paralytic elephant.
The engine they used is, however, extremely interesting. Extra kudos' for being custom built!
Microsoft has nothing to gain in this war of wards. They should have known it before they started it: now Google has more than just an excuse to publicize/raise the awareness of IEs security holes, educating the public on phishing, in the process. This will will definitely raise the interest of at least some IE users who would have not otherwise bothered themselves with Google's add-on.
I can see how MS got suckered into this, though: they just can't stand someone walking into their turf. Their predator instinct is just too strong, and makes them do stupid things.
Well played, Google.
I know this might be slightly off-topic, but I think that the issues Slashdot has been having are due to an unexpected spike in traffic after they posted the story of how 3D Realms was switching over to Epic's Unreal Engine for the upcoming Duke Nukem Forever. I'm pretty stoked about this and am saving up to be able to afford a Voodoo2 - DNF is gonna be da bomb!!
I can sell you a Voodoo2 pretty cheap, so you can save your monies for one of those new Pentium 4's.
Consumers don't understand what a terrabyte is.
Yep. Looks like you're a bit confused, too.
"Don't take my word for it, take Microsoft's word" !!!
I think I'm going to trust a random schmuck any day rather than Microsoft.
Imagine what might have happened if this actually got momentum behind it and we never went through the stagnation that is DOS/Windows.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Transputer_Workstation [wikipedia.org]
Actually, I don't want to even think about it. That computer is amazing - and the IBM PC was nothing but a turd in comparison, but it won out. It's actually funny and sad at the same time, to think that people were using nice GUIs on Amigas and Ataris, and at the same time people in companies were using some ugly ASCII DOS-based softwares in the office. And THAT is what won!!!
And this is due to the fact that Google's appstore allows for any number of applications that duplicate a certain functionality, without being anal-retentive about it in the least - unlike Apple.
Thank you very much for those! OK, I have a few comments, but perhaps better done by e-mail. If you feel like, drop me a line: howdilydoo [@t] gmail.com
By "Alpha", I guess you talk about the Alpha CPU. Which is not being developed anymore. However, is it being still manufactured/fabbed?