Interestingly enough, the medical field uses an encrypted third party for medical release forms.
I have personally seen more than one of these third party providers require a key and password that were both sent to the same email. They were in separate emails, mind you, but they did not require additional authentication, such as birthday, etc, that would be unavailable without access to the individual's email address.
I've did a little research in the field if immunology in college, and this theory is not only widely accepted, but is being used to help explain other common 20th century diseases.
A great example: It's been discovered that fatty tissue in individuals with obesity often have a very high number of macrophages - white blood cells - that cause a general inflammatory response, in fact a response very similar or identical to what the body would do in the case of a parasite. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC297006/)
It's also well supported that being exposed to allergens at a young age decreases your likelihood of being allergic to them later in life, as the body has time to develop an appropriate immune response while antibody production is still malleable. I.e. A child who has never touched a cat is more likely to be allergic as an adult than one who grew up with cats.
I would argue that the biggest and most effective change that saw an increase in general health and longevity in the 20th century was the widespread use of sanitary cooking and waste management. The ability to stop excrement from contaminating drinking water and food was responsible for a huge reduction in disease and especially spread of parasites.
There's an application that extends usability of trackpad functions on Macbooks running Windows, called Trackpad++ (Link)
Upon downloading for free, it is fully usable, but the owner updates the product with bugfixes and sometimes features once a week. If you don't register the product by sending the owner a donation to receive a license key, it is disabled every week (and doesn't download updates automatically). You can continue using the product, but only if you go online and download the latest version.
This has the benefit of showing off other potential goods you have on your website, giving you free advertising, in addition to forcing users to see the "purchase" button over and over again.
If a consumer doesn't like or need your product, it stops working, no loss. If he wants to test it a little longer, he can keep downloading it, until he decides to purchase or not. When he buys it he is guaranteed updates and a usable product.
I do tend to wonder, if Google Maps is so pivotal to the widespread adoption of iOS 6, would we begin to see a lot of people moving toward Android phones if Google removed their maps from the iOS App Store?
I know Google Maps (and its turn-by-turn navigation) was a very important feature when considering purchasing my own phone.
Graphics card utilization is still rather far behind in OSX. There have been several tests comparing Windows and OSX for graphics card performance - such as this one (http://www.macworld.com/article/1155124/mac_windows_graphics.html).
Because Linux is open source and is supported by avid enthusiasts, it is quite possible that the Linux port of Steam may begin to utilize the graphics card through the operating system more successfully than OSX does. Essentially, one shared barrier to the quality of gaming on UNIX operating systems - graphics support - is conceivably less detrimental to Linux than it is to OSX.
I could see Steam for Linux surpassing Steam in a very short time. The upfront cost of the computer means that it is cheeper to get into gaming on Linux that it is on OSX, and Linux users have consistently shown (through the humble bundle) that they are willing to pay well for games.
Maybe now I'll have a way to make money off all the weeds in my front yard. I'll finally be able to prove to the neighbors that an unkempt yard is actually worth something.
Should we not create computers with at least near human intelegence before we try to give them curiosity? It seems pretty useless to me to give a computer curiosity in the hope that humans might learn something when, at its current state, the computer could not decipher the information it is curious about. I guess we could still look to the future, but why waste this time on such things when we could be programming for the iPad?
This is almost funny. You know, the gas and all. Whatever. Anyway, what other gasses do we have to do the same job(s)? I would think this might not go to well with the people who use it, given how common and likely (comparatively) inexpensive it is.
There is at least one piece of "evidence" for ID belief in nearly every aspect of science. But at the same time there is a non-ID piece of "evidence" that goes against it. For instance, those of ID often believe that a "Spirit" is involved in people or things that (at the same time) gives freedom of choice, and from it the ability to reason, so on... The people who believe something other than ID, or even those in ID who do not believe in having a "Spirit" would argue that there is no free choice or "reason," per say, but that the random or non-random (as in caused by something "in the world") path of electricity through brain neurons causes people to do the things they do. The "Spirit" group might say that the "Spirit" causes the non-random actions, but since the non-"Spirit" group denies the existence of such, and as at this point "Spirits" cannot be proven or disproven, the argument should halt until further evidence is revealed. However, the argument continues even though no new evidence has been shown. Also, even when new evidence is shown disproving "Spirits," one of the "Spirit" group might argue that the "Spirit" is or is caused by a god or God (god meaning one of many, God meaning one). Since this is fundamental to the argument in the first place, the whole thing boils down to a "faith" based belief, for both parties.
*I am not yet out of high school, and so have not been exposed to the doctrines of Christian, Evolutionist, ID, Muslim... or other college.
How would TBP know that the visitors were from the Netherlands anyway? As far as I know, there is not much to go buy other than an IP address, which can easily be hidden by almost any proxy.
Personally I think google can either epically win or fail with this move. One thing I see as very important is making sure not all of the phones are smartphones. The article suggests that several service providers will be in on the deal (already a step above apple in my opinion), however, if every phone delivered is a smartphone, much of the market will be lost. Not everyone can afford the expenses of internet and email that come with a smartphone. I would get the phone simply because it was running Andriod even if it weren't a smartphone.
I had a nearly opposite reaction to Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Why would I want to watch a two minute cutscene when I could be riping apart more stormtroopers? Althought by the end the game was pretty old, even the worst gameplay was by far better than the cutscenes.
There is always a happy medium somewhere. In the music I listen to, I would say around 40~60 cents a song is reasonable. As for the profit issue, take other professions for example. At the low end are companies like Costco, Walmart, Big Lots, etc. They sell a ton of very inexpensive items to make profit. In the middle, there are semi-specialty stores like Best Buy, Radio Shack, etc. They sell fewer and more specific items at a higher price. At the highest end, companies make just one type of very high priced item like custom built computers or good wines or cigars.
The music industry also needs to find its place in this cycle.
If it can kill MRSA that has already entered a person then it is good enough for right now. There will always be more ways to kill it in the future, but we still need help now.
There is a free online video contact service a friend of mine used. I can't remember the name at the moment( I will post it when I find it out so keep looking for it). All you need is a webcam and microphone for both parties -- worth the cost to keep visual and audio communication.
I have often wondered...
Do these internationally known gamers that add to their games so much (the most amazing line rider maker comes to mind) get anything other than fame for their hard work?
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Interestingly enough, the medical field uses an encrypted third party for medical release forms. I have personally seen more than one of these third party providers require a key and password that were both sent to the same email. They were in separate emails, mind you, but they did not require additional authentication, such as birthday, etc, that would be unavailable without access to the individual's email address.
A great example: It's been discovered that fatty tissue in individuals with obesity often have a very high number of macrophages - white blood cells - that cause a general inflammatory response, in fact a response very similar or identical to what the body would do in the case of a parasite. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC297006/)
It's also well supported that being exposed to allergens at a young age decreases your likelihood of being allergic to them later in life, as the body has time to develop an appropriate immune response while antibody production is still malleable. I.e. A child who has never touched a cat is more likely to be allergic as an adult than one who grew up with cats.
I would argue that the biggest and most effective change that saw an increase in general health and longevity in the 20th century was the widespread use of sanitary cooking and waste management. The ability to stop excrement from contaminating drinking water and food was responsible for a huge reduction in disease and especially spread of parasites.
There's an application that extends usability of trackpad functions on Macbooks running Windows, called Trackpad++ (Link)
Upon downloading for free, it is fully usable, but the owner updates the product with bugfixes and sometimes features once a week. If you don't register the product by sending the owner a donation to receive a license key, it is disabled every week (and doesn't download updates automatically). You can continue using the product, but only if you go online and download the latest version.
This has the benefit of showing off other potential goods you have on your website, giving you free advertising, in addition to forcing users to see the "purchase" button over and over again.
If a consumer doesn't like or need your product, it stops working, no loss. If he wants to test it a little longer, he can keep downloading it, until he decides to purchase or not. When he buys it he is guaranteed updates and a usable product.
I do tend to wonder, if Google Maps is so pivotal to the widespread adoption of iOS 6, would we begin to see a lot of people moving toward Android phones if Google removed their maps from the iOS App Store? I know Google Maps (and its turn-by-turn navigation) was a very important feature when considering purchasing my own phone.
Graphics card utilization is still rather far behind in OSX. There have been several tests comparing Windows and OSX for graphics card performance - such as this one (http://www.macworld.com/article/1155124/mac_windows_graphics.html). Because Linux is open source and is supported by avid enthusiasts, it is quite possible that the Linux port of Steam may begin to utilize the graphics card through the operating system more successfully than OSX does. Essentially, one shared barrier to the quality of gaming on UNIX operating systems - graphics support - is conceivably less detrimental to Linux than it is to OSX. I could see Steam for Linux surpassing Steam in a very short time. The upfront cost of the computer means that it is cheeper to get into gaming on Linux that it is on OSX, and Linux users have consistently shown (through the humble bundle) that they are willing to pay well for games.
Maybe now I'll have a way to make money off all the weeds in my front yard. I'll finally be able to prove to the neighbors that an unkempt yard is actually worth something.
Should we not create computers with at least near human intelegence before we try to give them curiosity? It seems pretty useless to me to give a computer curiosity in the hope that humans might learn something when, at its current state, the computer could not decipher the information it is curious about. I guess we could still look to the future, but why waste this time on such things when we could be programming for the iPad?
This is almost funny. You know, the gas and all. Whatever. Anyway, what other gasses do we have to do the same job(s)? I would think this might not go to well with the people who use it, given how common and likely (comparatively) inexpensive it is.
There is at least one piece of "evidence" for ID belief in nearly every aspect of science. But at the same time there is a non-ID piece of "evidence" that goes against it. For instance, those of ID often believe that a "Spirit" is involved in people or things that (at the same time) gives freedom of choice, and from it the ability to reason, so on... The people who believe something other than ID, or even those in ID who do not believe in having a "Spirit" would argue that there is no free choice or "reason," per say, but that the random or non-random (as in caused by something "in the world") path of electricity through brain neurons causes people to do the things they do. The "Spirit" group might say that the "Spirit" causes the non-random actions, but since the non-"Spirit" group denies the existence of such, and as at this point "Spirits" cannot be proven or disproven, the argument should halt until further evidence is revealed. However, the argument continues even though no new evidence has been shown. Also, even when new evidence is shown disproving "Spirits," one of the "Spirit" group might argue that the "Spirit" is or is caused by a god or God (god meaning one of many, God meaning one). Since this is fundamental to the argument in the first place, the whole thing boils down to a "faith" based belief, for both parties. *I am not yet out of high school, and so have not been exposed to the doctrines of Christian, Evolutionist, ID, Muslim... or other college.
How would TBP know that the visitors were from the Netherlands anyway? As far as I know, there is not much to go buy other than an IP address, which can easily be hidden by almost any proxy.
But, though pacman was popular, were 3D graphics even in existance? Wasn't Wolfenstein, released in 1992 the first game with 3D graphics?
Personally I think google can either epically win or fail with this move. One thing I see as very important is making sure not all of the phones are smartphones. The article suggests that several service providers will be in on the deal (already a step above apple in my opinion), however, if every phone delivered is a smartphone, much of the market will be lost. Not everyone can afford the expenses of internet and email that come with a smartphone. I would get the phone simply because it was running Andriod even if it weren't a smartphone.
But this barrel was far more special than the last. It contained over five-hundred billion bananas. (why they are important I don't know)
I had a nearly opposite reaction to Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Why would I want to watch a two minute cutscene when I could be riping apart more stormtroopers? Althought by the end the game was pretty old, even the worst gameplay was by far better than the cutscenes.
There is always a happy medium somewhere. In the music I listen to, I would say around 40~60 cents a song is reasonable. As for the profit issue, take other professions for example. At the low end are companies like Costco, Walmart, Big Lots, etc. They sell a ton of very inexpensive items to make profit. In the middle, there are semi-specialty stores like Best Buy, Radio Shack, etc. They sell fewer and more specific items at a higher price. At the highest end, companies make just one type of very high priced item like custom built computers or good wines or cigars. The music industry also needs to find its place in this cycle.
If it can kill MRSA that has already entered a person then it is good enough for right now. There will always be more ways to kill it in the future, but we still need help now.
Some people reading this now were not actually functionally living in the '90s
I loved the old U.S. military GI Joe. Why do the make "Cobra" GI Joes when the other ones actually existed.
There is a free online video contact service a friend of mine used. I can't remember the name at the moment( I will post it when I find it out so keep looking for it). All you need is a webcam and microphone for both parties -- worth the cost to keep visual and audio communication.
I have often wondered... Do these internationally known gamers that add to their games so much (the most amazing line rider maker comes to mind) get anything other than fame for their hard work?
I've heard this for a while, and it was in popsci a month or two ago.