Maybe, but if you read the article you know that he is getting a lot of help from NASA. That is a government subsidy.
As an added comment about "provate enterprise", watch the spin in this article. They say things like his micro-meteorite protection is as good as what NASA has done, but cheaper. Of course - what NASA has now is better / cheaper than what they used to have. That is the nature of progress in engineering. And this is developed with the help of NASA scientists, so I don't really understand how this is a big deal. Crediting "private enterprise" seems a bit premature, and leaves out a lot of other factors.
Even better, the entire country of Spain seems to be banned from SkypeOut. We have to use moneybookers.com (no way...). I have a US credit card, but they won't even let my try to use it.
Screw them. I will use the freebies, and spend my money on a company that actually knows how to provide customer service.
>> So, erh, if you ever have to be bitten by a rabid animal, make sure it bites you on the foot and not on the face!
That is very true. My mother (a nurse) treated a boy who was bitten on the face by a rabid dog, many years ago. They kept him on a morphine drip until he died, once he started to show symptoms.
Some clarification: All the other survivors (5, accourding to other news sources) did recieve the vaccine. The developed symptoms, but lived - the only people to do so. Usually, if you get the vaccine, it only works if you never get symptoms. Once you get symptoms, you are pretty much screwed. The virus got to your brain before your immune system killed it.
This girl never even got the vaccine (she was bitten in September, and started to show symptoms more recently). So, she is the first to survive without the vaccine after showing symptoms.
It would be interesting to know a little more about the treatment. If they were using anti-virals, or something that affects the nervous system.
Viruses that I know infect the nerves: Polio, rabies, chickenpox (herpes zoster / shingles), herpes simplex.
There are vaccines for all but the last. Good anti-viral treatments, or anti-virals coctails that work well with nerve viruses might help with h. simplex, or h. zoster outbreaks.
Good point. Additionally, the majority of the temperature exchange takes place over the ocean, driven by ocean currents - hence the Gulf Stream distributing warmth to Western Europe. I doubt there will be many windmills built in the middle of the Gulf Stream (or any ocean stream, for that matter).
Well, I didn't read the article. I already have Ubuntu - why am I going to read a review?
The original post has been changed. It was not clear that they were talking about two entirely different things a PPC version and a Live CD. I wanted to try the PPC version of Ubuntu, I followed the link, and there was no PPc live...
On the link included in the article. From my reading of this posting, it seems to say that Ubuntu has a PPC live CD image available for download, but that does not seem to be the case. I see an i386 live cd (which I downloaded last week), and a PPC install CD. I checked 3 of the download sites.
Good point. I wasn't sure, but I was under the impression that both virii and viruses were acceptable. I was just trying to make it consistent - I didn't check.
Having DNA coding for a lot of proteins does not make a virus alive. This virus has a lot of DNA (the poxvirii do as well), but that does not mean it has a metabolism. Virii use their host's metabolism to produce proteins.
Whether you think virii are alive or not, there is nothing about this virus that suggests (from the linked PubMed abstract) that this virus is qualitatively different from any other.
Those towers get much hotter than that. The last I heard (many years ago, like 8-10) they were using liquid sodium, which could be heated to incredible temperatures. This, in turn, ran through a heat exchanger to heat the water. The advantage is that the sodium gets so hot (I remember something like 800C) that they can run the generator overnight on the residual heat.
"The plan is to run the program on a zillion machines for a month and combine the results."
Really? Have you done the math on that? Are you sure that only a zillion machines can do the work in a month? You might need a few more, I mean, a zillion seems like enough, on the face of it, but you might need a few kajillion more just to make sure...
On the other hand, it should be easy to get a zillion volunteers. More than that might be a problem, though.
So what do the artists get out of this? The users pay, the RIAA collects, but who gets royalties? Considering the history of the recording industry not paying royalties correctly, I very much doubt that they will pay out any royalties to ANYONE when there is no hard proof that the song was copied at all.
Well, for a freaking article you would think he could watch it. I sat through Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and nothing is worse than that.
I thought 2001 was fascinating - I actualy showed the begining to my 5 and 8 year old girls a few months ago (we had been talking about evolution - they had seen a DVD about a theory on how humans (proto-humans) suddenly went from using rudimentary tools for nearly a million of years to develeping a wide variety of tools, almost overnight [in evolutionary time]). I thought the movie would show this in a more graphic way than the DVD (of course I told them the monolith was all made up). They loved it! They wanted to watch the whole movie, and they loved the whole thing ("Look! A space baby!"). There is plenty to see and think about while you watch the movie - the only way it is boring is if you are passively waiting for your brain to be prodded by some flashy crap.
So this guy calls all over the world and talks to a bunch of people to research this thing, and then he can't sit through more than 10 minutes of Kubric's 2001? How lame is that? No wonder some mystery person has it in for journalists...
Besides, it is a great movie.
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"Of course the collective is most improved when the current leadership remains in power and has more wealth and privilege. It's only natural. "
Of course. Tax breaks for the wealthy improve the economy and create jobs. Allowing media conglomerates to grow unchecked increases efficiency, eliminates waste, and creates jobs. War must be wages in the name of peace. And it creates jobs. It is all very clear.
No free country could ever be controlled by a wealthy and privileged few. Impossible. Really, unthinkable. No one even mentions it on TV.
Why gosh, slowtech, that is quite interesting. I imagine that there are a lot of people out there, like you and I, who lust for an iPod, but can't justify $300 for a portable music player. But, of course, if you can replace your PDA, and have a portable music player, and a small home stereo system (the iPod cradle can be hooked into powered speakers), then that is a real deal.
Too bad you didn't think to put that in your original comment, eh?
I have been looking into using the iPod as a PDA (read only, of course), and I am really excited about this. With this feature you can either take audio notes on the run, or, if there is enough processor power for voice recognition, enter information into the Calendar / Address Book, etc.
There is also a third option, which would be neat, to record the audio onto the iPod disk, and then have your Mac transcribe the audio when the iPod hooks up. This could be a work around if the iPod does not have the computing capacity for taking voice input.
This would be so like Apple - they know we are all getting just a little sick of Graffitti and scribbling tiny marks on a tiny screen. Voice recognition / recording would make the iPod a PDA with a unique and convenient interface.
The key to getting around this (and I imagine that Apple is doing this) is to bundle credit card charges monthly. Zipcar does this - you get billed once a month for all your car rentals. That way they don't have to run a bunch of little bills for $6-$12, but instead charge through $100 or so (hopefully) each month.
Thanks for the link! I just saw Bowling for Columbine last night, and I loved it!
Your logic of risk, however, is very flawed. The Justinian plague killed 40% of the population. SARS has killed less than 0.000005% of the world population, but your denominators are all screwed up. Only a very small portion of the world population has been exposed to the SARS virus, so you cannot use the whole world population as a denominator. (That is like saying that only a tiny fraction of the world populatoin has died in accidents related to space travel, therefore space travel is the safest transport possible - very few people have actually been out of the Earth's atmosphere).
SARS is a threat because it is spreading, very contagious, and - most importantly - because it kill relatively young, healthy people. The 5%-10% death rate may be much higher without effective medical care (respirators, etc.). We don't know what the death rate is in rural China. I have heard estimates of up to 50%.
In the face of an unknown disease, it makes sense to take precautions that do no harm to anyone. Those EMTs were not executing potential cases - just using standard barrier protection. I will too if SARS comes to Boston (I work in an immunology research lab, but we are in a hospital).
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Maybe, but if you read the article you know that he is getting a lot of help from NASA. That is a government subsidy.
As an added comment about "provate enterprise", watch the spin in this article. They say things like his micro-meteorite protection is as good as what NASA has done, but cheaper. Of course - what NASA has now is better / cheaper than what they used to have. That is the nature of progress in engineering. And this is developed with the help of NASA scientists, so I don't really understand how this is a big deal. Crediting "private enterprise" seems a bit premature, and leaves out a lot of other factors.
Even better, the entire country of Spain seems to be banned from SkypeOut. We have to use moneybookers.com (no way...). I have a US credit card, but they won't even let my try to use it.
Screw them. I will use the freebies, and spend my money on a company that actually knows how to provide customer service.
From the cryogenic freeze you put yourself in on Tuesday?
How lame is this for a dupe?
Because this thing just screams "Blow me up! One stop shopping for creating chaos in Texas!"
Meh.
What do you keep the NaCl in? It is pretty corrosive, especially at high temperatures ...
>> So, erh, if you ever have to be bitten by a rabid animal, make sure it bites you on the foot and not on the face!
That is very true. My mother (a nurse) treated a boy who was bitten on the face by a rabid dog, many years ago. They kept him on a morphine drip until he died, once he started to show symptoms.
Some clarification: All the other survivors (5, accourding to other news sources) did recieve the vaccine. The developed symptoms, but lived - the only people to do so. Usually, if you get the vaccine, it only works if you never get symptoms. Once you get symptoms, you are pretty much screwed. The virus got to your brain before your immune system killed it.
This girl never even got the vaccine (she was bitten in September, and started to show symptoms more recently). So, she is the first to survive without the vaccine after showing symptoms.
It would be interesting to know a little more about the treatment. If they were using anti-virals, or something that affects the nervous system.
Viruses that I know infect the nerves: Polio, rabies, chickenpox (herpes zoster / shingles), herpes simplex.
There are vaccines for all but the last. Good anti-viral treatments, or anti-virals coctails that work well with nerve viruses might help with h. simplex, or h. zoster outbreaks.
Wasn't Dean Kamen working on this?
Why yes, he was.
I hope he is working on this solar project (or one like it). He could certainly sort out the remaining issues.
Good point. Additionally, the majority of the temperature exchange takes place over the ocean, driven by ocean currents - hence the Gulf Stream distributing warmth to Western Europe. I doubt there will be many windmills built in the middle of the Gulf Stream (or any ocean stream, for that matter).
I live in Barcelona. It is the same lattitude as Boston, I believe. I am from Boston. Barcelona is much warmer, all year round ...
Well, I didn't read the article. I already have Ubuntu - why am I going to read a review?
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The original post has been changed. It was not clear that they were talking about two entirely different things a PPC version and a Live CD. I wanted to try the PPC version of Ubuntu, I followed the link, and there was no PPc live
On the link included in the article. From my reading of this posting, it seems to say that Ubuntu has a PPC live CD image available for download, but that does not seem to be the case. I see an i386 live cd (which I downloaded last week), and a PPC install CD. I checked 3 of the download sites.
Did I miss something?
Good point. I wasn't sure, but I was under the impression that both virii and viruses were acceptable. I was just trying to make it consistent - I didn't check.
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Having DNA coding for a lot of proteins does not make a virus alive. This virus has a lot of DNA (the poxvirii do as well), but that does not mean it has a metabolism. Virii use their host's metabolism to produce proteins.
Whether you think virii are alive or not, there is nothing about this virus that suggests (from the linked PubMed abstract) that this virus is qualitatively different from any other.
Those towers get much hotter than that. The last I heard (many years ago, like 8-10) they were using liquid sodium, which could be heated to incredible temperatures. This, in turn, ran through a heat exchanger to heat the water. The advantage is that the sodium gets so hot (I remember something like 800C) that they can run the generator overnight on the residual heat.
You do know that there are exits on the LEFT side of 128 too, right?
"The plan is to run the program on a zillion machines for a month and combine the results."
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Really? Have you done the math on that? Are you sure that only a zillion machines can do the work in a month? You might need a few more, I mean, a zillion seems like enough, on the face of it, but you might need a few kajillion more just to make sure
On the other hand, it should be easy to get a zillion volunteers. More than that might be a problem, though.
So what do the artists get out of this? The users pay, the RIAA collects, but who gets royalties? Considering the history of the recording industry not paying royalties correctly, I very much doubt that they will pay out any royalties to ANYONE when there is no hard proof that the song was copied at all.
Once again, the artist is screwed.
Well, for a freaking article you would think he could watch it. I sat through Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and nothing is worse than that.
I thought 2001 was fascinating - I actualy showed the begining to my 5 and 8 year old girls a few months ago (we had been talking about evolution - they had seen a DVD about a theory on how humans (proto-humans) suddenly went from using rudimentary tools for nearly a million of years to develeping a wide variety of tools, almost overnight [in evolutionary time]). I thought the movie would show this in a more graphic way than the DVD (of course I told them the monolith was all made up). They loved it! They wanted to watch the whole movie, and they loved the whole thing ("Look! A space baby!"). There is plenty to see and think about while you watch the movie - the only way it is boring is if you are passively waiting for your brain to be prodded by some flashy crap.
So this guy calls all over the world and talks to a bunch of people to research this thing, and then he can't sit through more than 10 minutes of Kubric's 2001? How lame is that? No wonder some mystery person has it in for journalists...
Besides, it is a great movie.
"Of course the collective is most improved when the current leadership remains in power and has more wealth and privilege. It's only natural. "
Of course. Tax breaks for the wealthy improve the economy and create jobs. Allowing media conglomerates to grow unchecked increases efficiency, eliminates waste, and creates jobs. War must be wages in the name of peace. And it creates jobs. It is all very clear.
No free country could ever be controlled by a wealthy and privileged few. Impossible. Really, unthinkable. No one even mentions it on TV.
Why gosh, slowtech, that is quite interesting. I imagine that there are a lot of people out there, like you and I, who lust for an iPod, but can't justify $300 for a portable music player. But, of course, if you can replace your PDA, and have a portable music player, and a small home stereo system (the iPod cradle can be hooked into powered speakers), then that is a real deal.
Too bad you didn't think to put that in your original comment, eh?
I have been looking into using the iPod as a PDA (read only, of course), and I am really excited about this. With this feature you can either take audio notes on the run, or, if there is enough processor power for voice recognition, enter information into the Calendar / Address Book, etc.
There is also a third option, which would be neat, to record the audio onto the iPod disk, and then have your Mac transcribe the audio when the iPod hooks up. This could be a work around if the iPod does not have the computing capacity for taking voice input.
This would be so like Apple - they know we are all getting just a little sick of Graffitti and scribbling tiny marks on a tiny screen. Voice recognition / recording would make the iPod a PDA with a unique and convenient interface.
The key to getting around this (and I imagine that Apple is doing this) is to bundle credit card charges monthly. Zipcar does this - you get billed once a month for all your car rentals. That way they don't have to run a bunch of little bills for $6-$12, but instead charge through $100 or so (hopefully) each month.
Thanks for the link! I just saw Bowling for Columbine last night, and I loved it!
Your logic of risk, however, is very flawed. The Justinian plague killed 40% of the population. SARS has killed less than 0.000005% of the world population, but your denominators are all screwed up. Only a very small portion of the world population has been exposed to the SARS virus, so you cannot use the whole world population as a denominator. (That is like saying that only a tiny fraction of the world populatoin has died in accidents related to space travel, therefore space travel is the safest transport possible - very few people have actually been out of the Earth's atmosphere).
SARS is a threat because it is spreading, very contagious, and - most importantly - because it kill relatively young, healthy people. The 5%-10% death rate may be much higher without effective medical care (respirators, etc.). We don't know what the death rate is in rural China. I have heard estimates of up to 50%.
In the face of an unknown disease, it makes sense to take precautions that do no harm to anyone. Those EMTs were not executing potential cases - just using standard barrier protection. I will too if SARS comes to Boston (I work in an immunology research lab, but we are in a hospital).