It's funny because we believe in "free will" and yet all it takes is a dash of photoshop to make us feel full faster or more slowly. Next up! Humans are a 'blank slate' and behavior is socially determined and has no genetic component!
(In other matters, how long before the malware attached to diet pill spam will start manipulating our perceptions in order to fatten us up and increase demand?)
No problem! We can just simplify the process by setting up a large number of so called "certificate authorities", who we will trust implicitly and pay yearly fees for little chunks of math! Nothing could possibly go wrong, and we can have a comforting little padlock symbol for noobs...
So, an 8.8 billion write-down on an 11.2 billion purchase and they are only alleging that "serious improprieties", rather than something like "epic, the-whole-boardroom-is-going-to-federal-country-club-for-maybe-five-years-or-so, fraud"?
Either corporate PR drivel is unusually polite, or white collar crime is absurdly superior on a risk/reward basis compared to little people crime...
Per the discussion here(which includes a Google dev who wrote up some early instructions on running standard linuxes on this ARM Chromebook, and at least one Linaro project person, among other clueful types, Apparently mainline kernel support for the Exynos 5 SoC is expected in the near future but not 100% just yet.
As for ARM packages, you are very likely out of luck for 3rd-party binaries(eg. Flash, Oracle JVM), and may be a more or less second-class citizen in some areas(the javascript JIT compilers in suitably recent versions of Chromium and Firefox do support ARM targets; but older ones didn't, and older or less common JIT compilers like psyco tend to be x86 only); but aside from that most of the FOSS stuff should be cross platform.
How about a Windows 8, Developer Edition? A version that doesn't have Metro, just the basic start menu and trimmed-down version of their operating system specifically designed for software developers and gamers who want power and efficiency, not pretty sliding menus. I would rather my computer's RAM be occupied by the far-odd blocks on Minecraft than a smooth windows frame for some gidget that I never wanted, nor will I ever use.
My impression is that developers are one of the target audiences for 'Metro'. After all, who else will produce the apps to go in the Microsoft Store, and ensure that the future is made of starkly colored squares? Letting them off the hook would just make it easier to keep shipping completely normal looking software that is Win7 compatible. Then were will progress be?
I really liked the part where they bait-and-switched on their business model and pushed a firmware update to devices already in the field to try to stop anybody who didn't like the new pricing model from reflashing the APs they already owned. That was a nice touch.
If you've ever decided "Hey, I should manage the infrastructure that lets me access 'the cloud' with 'the cloud', because nothing could possibly go wrong!" then you might have gone shopping with Meraki...
What puzzles me(admittedly a layman) is that this procedure reduces rather than exacerbates the autoimmune response. If the organism has MS, the immune system is already getting jumpy about myelin, and then they inject something that(at first glance) sounds more like a myelin vaccine than anything else, but in this case the reaction to myelin is shut down.
Is it just a matter of being attacked by macrophages in the spleen, rather than elsewhere, or are there specific properties that the nanoparticles have to posses in order to be coded as harmless debris, rather than pathogens, during their destruction by macrophages(on a different note, I wonder if there are any viruses or bacteria capable of down-regulating immune responses to themselves by sending suitably modified cells into this spleen breakdown process? That would be sneaky...)?
"We administered these particles to animals who have a disease very similar to relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis and stopped it in its tracks"
The article does not claim that this works for MS, just diseases similar to MS.
Given that the research is in a mouse model, you can be assured from the get-go that it isn't 100% identical. Model organisms are always a compromise between accuracy, availability, speed, cost, and not getting sent to jail for experimenting on orphans...
Has anyone patented civet-processed coffee? For those of you not up to date on this technology, civet cats eat the coffee berries including the "beans" which are the stones of the berries. After they go through the cat and are dropped behind it, men gather the "beans" and then roast them as usual for coffee beans from other sources. Some connoisseurs consider such beans to be the "ne plus ultra" of coffee.
Civet processing is too old to be particularly patentable now. There are at least two patented enzymatic processing techniques designed to imitate the civit-shit process at lower cost; but you should be clear if you have actual cats doing the job.
"The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii are nearing their end. As powerful as they have been in the living room, gamers want more."
Quoted from TFA. Am I the only one who wants LESS? I don't really want my game system to do 9 million things. I just want it to play games.
Then again, when was the last time we were actually listened to? Draconian DRM, the removal of OtherOS, etc...
That could just mean 'more' in the sense of 'more power'(especially coming right after "as powerful as they have been"). All present-gen consoles are starting to get rather long in the tooth at this point. They are fixed targets with a hell of a lot of units in the field, so developers make do; but even the 360 and the PS3 have only half a gig of RAM to speak of, and increasingly antique GPUs.
Now, of course, if you have a device with enough power to run a contemporary game well, and a network connection, you have to explicitly break it to prevent it from being able to do other things as well.
I'm afraid that your first sexual experiences will have to be with a trusted friend, family member, or respected community authority figure, rather than the internet...
Any linguists on the premises may feel free to crush me like a bug; but my naive impression would be that the details of tickling a target's language-related neural structures would depend on what language(s) they know, and (while doing it that way would be much cooler than just dumping it thorugh text-to-speech) you would still have to run a conversion between the spoken language and the language-specific neural interface format for the target, you wouldn't gain access to some sort of all-purpose metalanguage representation just by breaking out the electrodes rather than the headphones...
The scientists owe it to the people there to reduce the risk of an escaped pathogen by as much as they can. Once they do that, there really shouldn't be anything to complain about--it would just be pure, irrational fear from what I can see.
Arguably, siting the lab in the middle of a giant supply of natural hosts for the pathogens being studied is a massive failure of risk reduction, no matter how many sci-fi airlocks they pencil in...
Woz should probably be cheering for Apple's demise at this point...
Just imagine if IBM had been as good at shifting shiny cyrptographic lockboxes and patent litigation back when Apple was getting started. They would have sued his hacker ass back into the garage for good and we'd all still be speaking EBCDIC.
Seems that this is a common theme with ERP rollouts-- scope creep tends to get them all in the end. Granted, most organizations seem to wave off long before the $1 billion mark...
Clearly, the market is ready for an ERP Planning solution...I, for one, can't imagine any reason why adding metaconsultants to the process could possibly go wrong.
This is big news! Adobe has long been a dominant vendor in the market for atrocious desktop security; but here they are demonstrating their capacity for 'big data' and 'cloud-centric' server insecurity solutions. Even better, since the breach compromised the security of numerous individuals at third party companies, I'd say that this is a strong play for the lucrative 'managed insecurity' market enabled by the trend toward IT outsourcing...
I, for one, am downright bullish about Adobe's prospects for subtracting value from the software ecosystem in new and exciting markets!
The trouble is that not choosing isn't an option. And, if a patient cannot communicate or is too young/brain-damaged/mentally ill/etc. to communicate their preference, you can't usefully ask(this particular case, apparently, now may be able to communicate, solving the ethical problem).
This puts you in the position of being forced to act on somebody else, without having access to their opinion. What, then, do you base your actions on? Do you do unto them as you would do unto you? Do you do some polling and do unto them as a statistically representative sample of demographically similar people would do unto themselves? Do you flip a coin?
The problem is that there isn't a 'default' position. Either way, you make the choice for them and impose it on them.
I assume that there is a slice of the 'sold as a medical device' premium; but that you start looking at a considerable premium if you make greater demands on the sensitivity and precision of the device. If you are hunting signals down into microvolt amplitudes, and don't want to get out your good bone saw, I suspect that a $2 op-amp doesn't always cut it.
How can Agilent sell $15k oscilloscopes when you can download Arduino firmware with oscilloscope functions for free? Sensitivity, sample rate, features, probably some name-brand markup.
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It's funny because we believe in "free will" and yet all it takes is a dash of photoshop to make us feel full faster or more slowly. Next up! Humans are a 'blank slate' and behavior is socially determined and has no genetic component!
(In other matters, how long before the malware attached to diet pill spam will start manipulating our perceptions in order to fatten us up and increase demand?)
No problem! We can just simplify the process by setting up a large number of so called "certificate authorities", who we will trust implicitly and pay yearly fees for little chunks of math! Nothing could possibly go wrong, and we can have a comforting little padlock symbol for noobs...
The internal storage device is an eMMC module soldered to the motherboard. Unless you have a BGA rework setup and nerves of ice, no go.
this gallery has motherboard shots.
It does support SDHC cards and USB mass storage devices.
So, an 8.8 billion write-down on an 11.2 billion purchase and they are only alleging that "serious improprieties", rather than something like "epic, the-whole-boardroom-is-going-to-federal-country-club-for-maybe-five-years-or-so, fraud"?
Either corporate PR drivel is unusually polite, or white collar crime is absurdly superior on a risk/reward basis compared to little people crime...
Per the discussion here(which includes a Google dev who wrote up some early instructions on running standard linuxes on this ARM Chromebook, and at least one Linaro project person, among other clueful types, Apparently mainline kernel support for the Exynos 5 SoC is expected in the near future but not 100% just yet.
As for ARM packages, you are very likely out of luck for 3rd-party binaries(eg. Flash, Oracle JVM), and may be a more or less second-class citizen in some areas(the javascript JIT compilers in suitably recent versions of Chromium and Firefox do support ARM targets; but older ones didn't, and older or less common JIT compilers like psyco tend to be x86 only); but aside from that most of the FOSS stuff should be cross platform.
How about a Windows 8, Developer Edition? A version that doesn't have Metro, just the basic start menu and trimmed-down version of their operating system specifically designed for software developers and gamers who want power and efficiency, not pretty sliding menus. I would rather my computer's RAM be occupied by the far-odd blocks on Minecraft than a smooth windows frame for some gidget that I never wanted, nor will I ever use.
My impression is that developers are one of the target audiences for 'Metro'. After all, who else will produce the apps to go in the Microsoft Store, and ensure that the future is made of starkly colored squares? Letting them off the hook would just make it easier to keep shipping completely normal looking software that is Win7 compatible. Then were will progress be?
I really liked the part where they bait-and-switched on their business model and pushed a firmware update to devices already in the field to try to stop anybody who didn't like the new pricing model from reflashing the APs they already owned. That was a nice touch.
If you've ever decided "Hey, I should manage the infrastructure that lets me access 'the cloud' with 'the cloud', because nothing could possibly go wrong!" then you might have gone shopping with Meraki...
What puzzles me(admittedly a layman) is that this procedure reduces rather than exacerbates the autoimmune response. If the organism has MS, the immune system is already getting jumpy about myelin, and then they inject something that(at first glance) sounds more like a myelin vaccine than anything else, but in this case the reaction to myelin is shut down.
Is it just a matter of being attacked by macrophages in the spleen, rather than elsewhere, or are there specific properties that the nanoparticles have to posses in order to be coded as harmless debris, rather than pathogens, during their destruction by macrophages(on a different note, I wonder if there are any viruses or bacteria capable of down-regulating immune responses to themselves by sending suitably modified cells into this spleen breakdown process? That would be sneaky...)?
"We administered these particles to animals who have a disease very similar to relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis and stopped it in its tracks"
The article does not claim that this works for MS, just diseases similar to MS.
Given that the research is in a mouse model, you can be assured from the get-go that it isn't 100% identical. Model organisms are always a compromise between accuracy, availability, speed, cost, and not getting sent to jail for experimenting on orphans...
Has anyone patented civet-processed coffee? For those of you not up to date on this technology, civet cats eat the coffee berries including the "beans" which are the stones of the berries. After they go through the cat and are dropped behind it, men gather the "beans" and then roast them as usual for coffee beans from other sources. Some connoisseurs consider such beans to be the "ne plus ultra" of coffee.
Civet processing is too old to be particularly patentable now. There are at least two patented enzymatic processing techniques designed to imitate the civit-shit process at lower cost; but you should be clear if you have actual cats doing the job.
Wii U has a fucking POWER7 with 4 cores, the cpu alone is more powerful that the xbox 360
I have no doubt that nothing was cut from the version of the POWER7 that ships in $5k+ servers in the process of designing a $300 console...
"The Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo Wii are nearing their end. As powerful as they have been in the living room, gamers want more."
Quoted from TFA. Am I the only one who wants LESS? I don't really want my game system to do 9 million things. I just want it to play games.
Then again, when was the last time we were actually listened to? Draconian DRM, the removal of OtherOS, etc...
That could just mean 'more' in the sense of 'more power'(especially coming right after "as powerful as they have been"). All present-gen consoles are starting to get rather long in the tooth at this point. They are fixed targets with a hell of a lot of units in the field, so developers make do; but even the 360 and the PS3 have only half a gig of RAM to speak of, and increasingly antique GPUs.
Now, of course, if you have a device with enough power to run a contemporary game well, and a network connection, you have to explicitly break it to prevent it from being able to do other things as well.
I'm afraid that your first sexual experiences will have to be with a trusted friend, family member, or respected community authority figure, rather than the internet...
Any linguists on the premises may feel free to crush me like a bug; but my naive impression would be that the details of tickling a target's language-related neural structures would depend on what language(s) they know, and (while doing it that way would be much cooler than just dumping it thorugh text-to-speech) you would still have to run a conversion between the spoken language and the language-specific neural interface format for the target, you wouldn't gain access to some sort of all-purpose metalanguage representation just by breaking out the electrodes rather than the headphones...
I'm sure that security is better where God and the County Sheriff are packing.
Even a rather large virus will spatter like an overripe melon if hit with a mere .000012 caliber round. The real trick is in the aiming...
The scientists owe it to the people there to reduce the risk of an escaped pathogen by as much as they can. Once they do that, there really shouldn't be anything to complain about--it would just be pure, irrational fear from what I can see.
Arguably, siting the lab in the middle of a giant supply of natural hosts for the pathogens being studied is a massive failure of risk reduction, no matter how many sci-fi airlocks they pencil in...
Woz should probably be cheering for Apple's demise at this point...
Just imagine if IBM had been as good at shifting shiny cyrptographic lockboxes and patent litigation back when Apple was getting started. They would have sued his hacker ass back into the garage for good and we'd all still be speaking EBCDIC.
"Sinofsky left a short note suggesting that rumors of a multi-product takeover were, frankly, malarkey."
I suspect that he also denies being a reptoid, craving the taste of raw human flesh, or having grown from spores. Why would this be any different?
Seems that this is a common theme with ERP rollouts-- scope creep tends to get them all in the end. Granted, most organizations seem to wave off long before the $1 billion mark...
Clearly, the market is ready for an ERP Planning solution...I, for one, can't imagine any reason why adding metaconsultants to the process could possibly go wrong.
This is big news! Adobe has long been a dominant vendor in the market for atrocious desktop security; but here they are demonstrating their capacity for 'big data' and 'cloud-centric' server insecurity solutions. Even better, since the breach compromised the security of numerous individuals at third party companies, I'd say that this is a strong play for the lucrative 'managed insecurity' market enabled by the trend toward IT outsourcing...
I, for one, am downright bullish about Adobe's prospects for subtracting value from the software ecosystem in new and exciting markets!
The trouble is that not choosing isn't an option. And, if a patient cannot communicate or is too young/brain-damaged/mentally ill/etc. to communicate their preference, you can't usefully ask(this particular case, apparently, now may be able to communicate, solving the ethical problem).
This puts you in the position of being forced to act on somebody else, without having access to their opinion. What, then, do you base your actions on? Do you do unto them as you would do unto you? Do you do some polling and do unto them as a statistically representative sample of demographically similar people would do unto themselves? Do you flip a coin?
The problem is that there isn't a 'default' position. Either way, you make the choice for them and impose it on them.
Oh dear!
If only they had thought to use EEG and neuroimaging techniques during her attempted rehabilitation and the subsequent EOL battle...
Oh, wait, they did, and didn't find anything.
I assume that there is a slice of the 'sold as a medical device' premium; but that you start looking at a considerable premium if you make greater demands on the sensitivity and precision of the device. If you are hunting signals down into microvolt amplitudes, and don't want to get out your good bone saw, I suspect that a $2 op-amp doesn't always cut it.
How can Agilent sell $15k oscilloscopes when you can download Arduino firmware with oscilloscope functions for free? Sensitivity, sample rate, features, probably some name-brand markup.
I'm pretty sure that I read a book about that, and the title was "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"...