I think that a scientific study for determining just how much military helmets actually contribute to brain damage when the soldier is exposed to an explosion would start by base-lining the brain conditions of 50 or so soldiers.
I know you intended to post snark, but this part is particularly interesting because getting a solid baseline on the cognitive functioning of a large number of soldiers is a really good idea. It is very difficult to diagnose mild TBI, such as post-concussion syndrome. I spoke at a conference with a speech-language pathologist who works at Walter Reed about this and they were being asked whether of not their patients can return to action and there's really no scientifically verified way to answer that question. The problem is that they get a functional evaluation after their injury, and there is nothing to compare their functioning to except population norms. I worked in brain injury rehabilitation for years and had the same problems, but it was a lot easier for me, an occupational therapist, and a vocational rehab councilor to assess a person and say "Go back to work" since my civilian patients weren't going back to such a life-or-death work environment.
Fails to Completely Prevent Brain Damage".
Still, if they can model it up and do better, that sounds great.
Yeah, that's pretty much what TFA said. There probably is a helmet model that can better cushion the pressure wave in a blast without compromising its ability to stop projectiles. They need to run more computer models.
While I agree with you on the obscene profiteering, I still think that the medical industry is a major part of the solution for the future.
We have a critical shortage of healthcare providers (like nurses and nursing assistants) and 10% unemployment. Could these two puzzle pieces be made to fit together somehow? I'd rather the economy be driven by healthcare service than defense spending and pointless consumerism the way it is now.
If they were more efficient, why wouldn't they be less expensive than fossil fuels? Then we'd just switch to them because they're cheaper -- rather than being forced against our will to pay extra for them and to subsidize them.
Because the price doesn't reflect the costs. If you were actually paying with your dollars for the externalities, things would be very different. But the only way to do that is by some non-market entity forcing against someone's will.
Apple is run by a guy who saw employees staring to legendary macs and decided to "throw them away" to computer museum saying they should look to future instead of past.
Like or not, that is the attitude and in fact, if you ask me, it always pays off.
Those who do not know the past, are doomed to repeat it.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Honestly, I was a completely satisfied customer with my Verizon DSL when I lived in New Hampshire. The Fairpoint sale happened shortly after I moved away.
My parents in Maine have Fairpoint phone and DSL and HATE it. That is their only option since TV cable doesn't run by their house; they have DirecTV.
I wondered about that in my lab just last week. Every one of the machines, including one that IT hooked up this month, is connected to its monitor via VGA.
So I switched the cables to DVI and I couldn't see any difference. Then it sortof made sense.
You wont get this though. Because we live in a world that demands "social justice" aka: forcing the smartest to be clumped in with the dumbest and the laziest.
What justice do you offer for the smartest and laziest. Or the dumbest and hardest-working? (This is of interest to me because I'm among the former and I've made a career of helping the latter be more productive citizens.)
So no, "where do babies come from" is NOT a science question when asked by a child.
The question that the child would ask if he wanted to know the biology would be something like "how do babies grow in mommy's tummy?"
You have to walk before you run, and you have to do a lit review before you can do an in-depth experiment. It most certainly is a science question, albeit a pretty rudimentary one, because it is based on the assumption that there is a consistent, verifiable answer.
My niece (5) asked a series of very probing questions recently while she was holding her new baby cousin. She knew that her mother had a scar from a cesarean section, but, upon inquiry, found out that her aunt does not have such a scar. "How did he get out of your tummy?"
She had put one of her assumptions up to challenge and found it wanting. Zombie Feynman says that she is doing science.
I never got the rhythm of ball jumping in classic Metroid. I used the NES Advantage, flipped on the Turbo for the B button and then turned the knob until it got to the exact right frequency. I could climb all the way to the top of the screen that way (which is good since there was that energy tank on the ceiling in that one place).
But still, don't you think that these thieves were able to make a fake ATM machine, program it, and get all the needed hardware to imitate an ATM, must have heard or have at least a vague notion of what Defcon is about?
What I mean is that they very likely didn't know nor care to check which conference was booked there in the first place.
I can think of a bunch of ways to be disabled where it is possible to be able to stand or transfer from one seat to another but not be able to walk long distances. The Segway actually is more exercise than a scooter because you do stand and shift your weight around to drive it. HOwever, "That person who is trying to avoid excruciating pain in both knees must be lazy. They should walk instead so they don't get fat." is just judgmental assholery.
Just imagine the headlines if they had succeeded: "Security experts lose bank accounts to scammers."
If you have the cojones to put your fake ATM in a security conference at least have the brains to do it right.
I can't imagine they hit that specific conference on purpose. They had bad luck. There are conferences in the hotels in Vegas every day. The thieves probably only knew "hotel booked" and "conference" and acted on that. Had it been a conference of commercial real estate managers or occupational therapists it probably would have gathered a good batch of account numbers and PINs.
If it works for a go-kart it could work for a motorized wheelchair. Lots of people with cerebral palsy also have sensory impairments. The sensors and software have the potential to increase the independence of a lot of people.
And what do subpoena have to do with anything here? Everything that's needed is public.
Discovery can to more than just collect evidence. It can also: put the fear of God into their legal team, force their legal team to hire more staff and pay overtime to make photocopies/scans, disrupt the smaller company's day-to-day business with busy-work, force them to provide more rope with which to hang them.
I respectfully disagree. There is a reason we keep gravitating to the same things over and over. Why go through all the trouble of building emotional resonance with an audience and then throwing it away?
The best suggestions here are ones where there have been many, cheap sequels that have started to fail to deliver the same emotional feel as it once did. A reboot is to strip away the cheap sequels and find what it was that was special about the original. If it is done correctly, it can be new and original while at the same time leveraging the "feel" that is residue from previous installments.
Prince of Persia:Sands of Time is a great example of rebooting done right.
Spawn delay is a good idea. Having an AI wingman might be balancing, too. Even if they were stupid as a box of hammers (like the pilots in the movies) they'd distract enemy fire often enough to save the players' butts once in a while.
Jet Set Radio needs to be revisited in all its cel-shaded glory (spray painting with the Wiimote? balance board skate controls?), but does it have so much cruft that it needs to be restarted from scratch?
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I think that a scientific study for determining just how much military helmets actually contribute to brain damage when the soldier is exposed to an explosion would start by base-lining the brain conditions of 50 or so soldiers.
I know you intended to post snark, but this part is particularly interesting because getting a solid baseline on the cognitive functioning of a large number of soldiers is a really good idea. It is very difficult to diagnose mild TBI, such as post-concussion syndrome. I spoke at a conference with a speech-language pathologist who works at Walter Reed about this and they were being asked whether of not their patients can return to action and there's really no scientifically verified way to answer that question. The problem is that they get a functional evaluation after their injury, and there is nothing to compare their functioning to except population norms.
I worked in brain injury rehabilitation for years and had the same problems, but it was a lot easier for me, an occupational therapist, and a vocational rehab councilor to assess a person and say "Go back to work" since my civilian patients weren't going back to such a life-or-death work environment.
Fails to Completely Prevent Brain Damage".
Still, if they can model it up and do better, that sounds great.
Yeah, that's pretty much what TFA said.
There probably is a helmet model that can better cushion the pressure wave in a blast without compromising its ability to stop projectiles. They need to run more computer models.
If the competitive produce it coal, then they are.
While I agree with you on the obscene profiteering, I still think that the medical industry is a major part of the solution for the future.
We have a critical shortage of healthcare providers (like nurses and nursing assistants) and 10% unemployment. Could these two puzzle pieces be made to fit together somehow? I'd rather the economy be driven by healthcare service than defense spending and pointless consumerism the way it is now.
If they were more efficient, why wouldn't they be less expensive than fossil fuels? Then we'd just switch to them because they're cheaper -- rather than being forced against our will to pay extra for them and to subsidize them.
Because the price doesn't reflect the costs. If you were actually paying with your dollars for the externalities, things would be very different. But the only way to do that is by some non-market entity forcing against someone's will.
I've done it once in my entire life and it scared the living shit out of me. Never again.
Apple is run by a guy who saw employees staring to legendary macs and decided to "throw them away" to computer museum saying they should look to future instead of past.
Like or not, that is the attitude and in fact, if you ask me, it always pays off.
Those who do not know the past, are doomed to repeat it.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
My understanding is that in writing Snow Leopard, Apple was already doing a lot of that testing work you describe anyway.
Honestly, I was a completely satisfied customer with my Verizon DSL when I lived in New Hampshire. The Fairpoint sale happened shortly after I moved away.
My parents in Maine have Fairpoint phone and DSL and HATE it. That is their only option since TV cable doesn't run by their house; they have DirecTV.
Tossing out the TV would save a lot of marriages. Folks don't talk anymore,
That's a feature, not a bug.
I wondered about that in my lab just last week. Every one of the machines, including one that IT hooked up this month, is connected to its monitor via VGA.
So I switched the cables to DVI and I couldn't see any difference. Then it sortof made sense.
I'm personally waiting for OS X Def Leppard. Pour some GUI sugar on me!
Sugar was a terrible GUI. :P
You wont get this though. Because we live in a world that demands "social justice" aka: forcing the smartest to be clumped in with the dumbest and the laziest.
What justice do you offer for the smartest and laziest. Or the dumbest and hardest-working?
(This is of interest to me because I'm among the former and I've made a career of helping the latter be more productive citizens.)
So no, "where do babies come from" is NOT a science question when asked by a child.
The question that the child would ask if he wanted to know the biology would be something like "how do babies grow in mommy's tummy?"
You have to walk before you run, and you have to do a lit review before you can do an in-depth experiment. It most certainly is a science question, albeit a pretty rudimentary one, because it is based on the assumption that there is a consistent, verifiable answer.
My niece (5) asked a series of very probing questions recently while she was holding her new baby cousin. She knew that her mother had a scar from a cesarean section, but, upon inquiry, found out that her aunt does not have such a scar. "How did he get out of your tummy?"
She had put one of her assumptions up to challenge and found it wanting. Zombie Feynman says that she is doing science.
You don't have a copyright/trademark on the term "fuck off fund" do you? I love it.
I am off to my bank websites to change the account nicknames on all my savings accounts.
I never played Halo, but I've laughed myself hoarse playing the Warthog-jumping Flash game.
I never got the rhythm of ball jumping in classic Metroid. I used the NES Advantage, flipped on the Turbo for the B button and then turned the knob until it got to the exact right frequency. I could climb all the way to the top of the screen that way (which is good since there was that energy tank on the ceiling in that one place).
But still, don't you think that these thieves were able to make a fake ATM machine, program it, and get all the needed hardware to imitate an ATM, must have heard or have at least a vague notion of what Defcon is about?
What I mean is that they very likely didn't know nor care to check which conference was booked there in the first place.
I can think of a bunch of ways to be disabled where it is possible to be able to stand or transfer from one seat to another but not be able to walk long distances. The Segway actually is more exercise than a scooter because you do stand and shift your weight around to drive it.
HOwever, "That person who is trying to avoid excruciating pain in both knees must be lazy. They should walk instead so they don't get fat." is just judgmental assholery.
Just imagine the headlines if they had succeeded: "Security experts lose bank accounts to scammers."
If you have the cojones to put your fake ATM in a security conference at least have the brains to do it right.
I can't imagine they hit that specific conference on purpose. They had bad luck. There are conferences in the hotels in Vegas every day. The thieves probably only knew "hotel booked" and "conference" and acted on that. Had it been a conference of commercial real estate managers or occupational therapists it probably would have gathered a good batch of account numbers and PINs.
If it works for a go-kart it could work for a motorized wheelchair. Lots of people with cerebral palsy also have sensory impairments. The sensors and software have the potential to increase the independence of a lot of people.
And what do subpoena have to do with anything here? Everything that's needed is public.
Discovery can to more than just collect evidence. It can also:
put the fear of God into their legal team,
force their legal team to hire more staff and pay overtime to make photocopies/scans,
disrupt the smaller company's day-to-day business with busy-work,
force them to provide more rope with which to hang them.
I respectfully disagree. There is a reason we keep gravitating to the same things over and over. Why go through all the trouble of building emotional resonance with an audience and then throwing it away?
The best suggestions here are ones where there have been many, cheap sequels that have started to fail to deliver the same emotional feel as it once did. A reboot is to strip away the cheap sequels and find what it was that was special about the original. If it is done correctly, it can be new and original while at the same time leveraging the "feel" that is residue from previous installments.
Prince of Persia:Sands of Time is a great example of rebooting done right.
Spawn delay is a good idea. Having an AI wingman might be balancing, too. Even if they were stupid as a box of hammers (like the pilots in the movies) they'd distract enemy fire often enough to save the players' butts once in a while.
Jet Set Radio needs to be revisited in all its cel-shaded glory (spray painting with the Wiimote? balance board skate controls?), but does it have so much cruft that it needs to be restarted from scratch?
They've got the silly tone right, but the game itself is just a browser game (reskinned KoL). A true MMORPG of that setting would be a lot of fun.