Right. I've read in previous articles that the Chinese pirate huge amounts of software, much more so than in other countries. Furthermore there are plenty of free OSes out there.
So how does it start working if it gets all its power from flies and needs power to capture flies? If it has a power cord to plug it in or a battery, then that pretty much defeats the whole purpose of the "robot" to begin with.
I noticed in the gallery that the lamp had a power cord. If I were going to buy a powered device to kill bugs it would definitely be a conventional "bug zapper" -- a more entertaining option.
Unfortunately pulseaudio has significant problems rendering sound from OpenAL apps such as the RTS game Glest. Sound is very choppy and maxes the processor making the game unplayable. Hopefully either pulseaudio gets its shit together or "mainstream" Linux distributions dump it altogether.
My school uses CCA and I run Ubuntu. I just have to log in using a web browser for network access.
Windows users have must use Cisco Clean Access Agent, Symantec Antivirus, and keep windows up-to-date or else no network access for them. Of course sometimes one of those fails and they have to reinstall windows.
Microsoft has given my university a grant to help develop software in the field of phamacogenetics. It's for developing a program that will identify interactions between a person's individual genetics and the medications they are prescribed. It's supposed to revolutionize the field of pharmacy. I just hope it doesn't have to reboot after every patient.
The challenge here is to develop a vaccine that causes the body to produce antibodies that it would NOT produce in response to an infection. This vaccine must cause the body to produce antibodies that are more general than those it would produce for any specific flu, but still specific enough that they won't attack anything beneficial.
The "vaccine" from the article is not actually a vaccine. It is a medication. A vaccine acts as you described, causing the body to produce antibodies to pathogens. However, what the article describes is actually an antibody produced outside the body, and when administered should not typically invoke an immune response. There are already many drugs like this on the market.
These drugs often have severe side effects are are not first-line therapy so the clinical use of this (in the extremely unlikely event that it makes it through clinical trials and is approved) will be very small, possibly reserved for the immunocompromised (AIDS patients, bone-marrow transplant patiets etc).
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Right. I've read in previous articles that the Chinese pirate huge amounts of software, much more so than in other countries. Furthermore there are plenty of free OSes out there.
So how does it start working if it gets all its power from flies and needs power to capture flies? If it has a power cord to plug it in or a battery, then that pretty much defeats the whole purpose of the "robot" to begin with.
I noticed in the gallery that the lamp had a power cord. If I were going to buy a powered device to kill bugs it would definitely be a conventional "bug zapper" -- a more entertaining option.
Unfortunately pulseaudio has significant problems rendering sound from OpenAL apps such as the RTS game Glest. Sound is very choppy and maxes the processor making the game unplayable. Hopefully either pulseaudio gets its shit together or "mainstream" Linux distributions dump it altogether.
1. Grandma doesn't know what a web browser is.
2. the web server is disable by default.
Good thing I don't use the Internet.
My school uses CCA and I run Ubuntu. I just have to log in using a web browser for network access.
Windows users have must use Cisco Clean Access Agent, Symantec Antivirus, and keep windows up-to-date or else no network access for them. Of course sometimes one of those fails and they have to reinstall windows.
I've been thinking about getting a whistle or maybe an air horn.
Hell yeah! I contributed to the wacom hotplugging.
My kids aren't getting anything like an iphone until they're high school freshmen (at the earliest).
Hey, is it any surprise campus security are afraid of Command Line Interface Terrorism?
For a second I thought you were making a joke about security being afraid of the CLIT..
Microsoft has given my university a grant to help develop software in the field of phamacogenetics. It's for developing a program that will identify interactions between a person's individual genetics and the medications they are prescribed. It's supposed to revolutionize the field of pharmacy. I just hope it doesn't have to reboot after every patient.
Have you ever tried clicking the thumbs down button under on of the ads?
I did for one of the ads and now it's the ONLY AD I SEE!
Facebook has a sick sense of humor.
because I'm in pharmacy.
Many drugs DO come from natural sources. example:
Pilocarpine: glaucoma drug "obtained from the leaves of tropical American shrubs"
Of course you couldn't extract and purify the compounds yourself. No one has a lab in his basement. Right??
The challenge here is to develop a vaccine that causes the body to produce antibodies that it would NOT produce in response to an infection. This vaccine must cause the body to produce antibodies that are more general than those it would produce for any specific flu, but still specific enough that they won't attack anything beneficial.
The "vaccine" from the article is not actually a vaccine. It is a medication. A vaccine acts as you described, causing the body to produce antibodies to pathogens. However, what the article describes is actually an antibody produced outside the body, and when administered should not typically invoke an immune response. There are already many drugs like this on the market.
These drugs often have severe side effects are are not first-line therapy so the clinical use of this (in the extremely unlikely event that it makes it through clinical trials and is approved) will be very small, possibly reserved for the immunocompromised (AIDS patients, bone-marrow transplant patiets etc).
[I'm in pharmacy school.]
Is this anything like Dasher? The demo can be seen here
I bet developers will now spend a little more time making the GUI look better (more pretty).
I see no www in http://slashdot.org/