We have a CAVE at our work, and the company that does the maintenance told me about and showed pictures of a 6 meter omnidirectional rolling carpet with VR display they built for the U.S. military. They were even trying to get wind and dust in the environment, but it would gunk up the works. It was probably a one-off though, whereas this new stuff seems to be going towards "commodity" vr.
Indeed, damn universal coverage. Here in Canada they make us do push ups every day, and inspectors accost you at the urinal every now and again. They banned eggnog too, the bastards!
You have illustrated the article's point perfectly: for any ruling the US doesn't like, there is a good reason not to follow it. No shit, Sherlock. You wouldn't have gone to the WTO if you didn't have a good reason for a given policy. The organization exists to come to a solution when BOTH sides have what they feel are legitimate, competing claims. Either you agree to an arbitration mechanism (the WTO), or you don't. Picking which ruling to follow turns it from an arbitration mechanism to a farce.
We will also take appropriate steps to protect against any publication of Sequoia software, its behavior, reports regarding same...
The (mis)behaviour of their machines is intellectual property?? The rest of the letter says that their contract with the county forbids reporting about compliance/non-compliance (such as, lets say, not being able to add).
Researchers at the Butantan Institute in Brazil, meanwhile, claim to have turned embryonic stem cells from male mice into both sperm and eggs. They are now working on skin cells.
If their experiments succeed, the stage would be set for a gay man to donate skin cells that could be used to make eggs.
Okay, am I the only one somewhat concerned by this? Imagine the day when a chick can take a swab of your skin (skin cells are relatively easy to grow in a Petri dish, so quantity isn't such as issue as long as you get down to some live ones), and make a baby with you...imagine what the ethical and legal implications would be...
Now imagine if Sun started shipping fully supported SAMP (Solaris Apache MySQL PHP) software distributions branded with "High Performance*, 64-bit Sun MySQL".
Only a small percentage of those on the list are American citizens.
It's interesting that you know that, because even the Government Accountability Office (which made the report the article is about) couldn't get such information. You must have an inside scoop!
I heard an interview yesterday with one of the report's authors, and the agency responsible for the list wouldn't even tell the GAO how many people have been removed from the list after being put on it. They were told 100,000 "records" have been removed since it started, which could be anything from persons, to SQL data tuples. The long and the short of it is that there is virtually zero accountability for the list.
The abstract says "re-inoculate", but CNN has to appeal to the non-technical (in a scientific sense). At least they got the story mostly right, which doesn't always happen with science headlines...
The abstract, for those who don't have access to the journal (article DOI doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.08.032):
The human vermiform ("worm-like") appendix is a 5 to 10 cm long and 0.5 to 1 cm wide pouch that extends from the cecum of the large bowel. The architecture of the human appendix is unique among mammals, and few mammals other than humans have an appendix at all. The function of the human appendix has long been a matter of debate, with the structure often considered to be a vestige of evolutionary development despite evidence to the contrary based on comparative primate anatomy. The appendix is thought to have some immune function based on its association with substantial lymphatic tissue, although the specific nature of that putative function is unknown. Based (a) on a recently acquired understanding of immune-mediated biofilm formation by commensal bacteria in the mammalian gut, (b) on biofilm distribution in the large bowel, (c) the association of lymphoid tissue with the appendix, (d) the potential for biofilms to protect and support colonization by commensal bacteria, and (e) on the architecture of the human bowel, we propose that the human appendix is well suited as a "safe house" for commensal bacteria, providing support for bacterial growth and potentially facilitating re-inoculation of the colon in the event that the contents of the intestinal tract are purged following exposure to a pathogen.
For you kids wondering how you sent e-mail before SMTP's @ convention (alluded to by the poster), you had to know a network path to a well-known server your friend also knew. And!we!liked!it!like!that!dammit
You hit the nail on the head here. The real story is that while the U.S. dollar has been dropping, the Canadian dollar has not followed suit as it historically has (against the euro, etc.). Economists are saying we're less tied to the U.S. economy now than we used to be, through economic diversification and high commodity prices.
For the non-Canucks: note that riding is a Canadian word, and doesn't have anything (directly) to do with horses.
Also, although there is no proportional representation in Canada, Ontarians will be voting on whether to use a mixed member proportional system in their next election, which would let not-quite-mainstream parties such as the Green Party get seats without requiring they win a plurality in any given riding. It would also make the ballot considerably larger, but I'm pretty sure we'd still stick with pencil and paper.
Except OUP is not bound by the CC license. When you publish with them, you sign a license that allows them a lot of leeway in redistribution. You can see the actual agreement here.
You can access the article from the OUP web site for free (CC-NL with attribution), and additionally it is available from PubMed Central at the NIH. I don't know how we got that popup asking him for money to use it in a classroom, but it is probably just a mistake. Of course, there's nothing stopping someone from asking you to pay for something that's free, if you're a sucker. Once again, the whole article is right there to read, with the CC license right at the top. BTW, OUP has both Open Access and non-open access journals, so I can see how a common document delivery system could get screwed up. Not that it should, but you could see how. Hopefully they will correct it, I've published Open Access and non-Open Access papers with OUP and they are pretty responsive on both the technical and editorial sides.
If, as the news item poster says, anyone can have access to those two lists and match them up, I can see lots of abuse, even non-governmental. e.g.
Marketing companies warehousing this info into their customer profiles
Political parties knowing specifically who to target in the next election (though they're be major fallout if people found out, so maybe not)
Some reporters wanting to "out" prominent voters (don't think they wouldn't, they get hold of people's private medical records)
Social organizations targeting people who voted the other way on a voter proposition. e.g. Pro-choicers hounding people who voted against a pro-life proposition, or vice versa
I remember an episode of Banachek (starring the indomitable George Peppard) in which a multi-ton sculpture disappeared from a gallery soon after installation. Turns out that it just looked like it was made of stone, but was actually papier mâché or something of the sort and it was all a scam to claim the insurance...
In the Canadian prairies, many parking lots have plugs for each spot, which would mean you can charge up while at work, regardless of the time of year (if they don't switch'em off to stop the summer moochers:-)). We're mostly coal-fired electricity though, so it'd be purely an economic play...
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I should mention, this was 5 years ago.
We have a CAVE at our work, and the company that does the maintenance told me about and showed pictures of a 6 meter omnidirectional rolling carpet with VR display they built for the U.S. military. They were even trying to get wind and dust in the environment, but it would gunk up the works. It was probably a one-off though, whereas this new stuff seems to be going towards "commodity" vr.
Indeed, damn universal coverage. Here in Canada they make us do push ups every day, and inspectors accost you at the urinal every now and again. They banned eggnog too, the bastards!
Is the system general enough to help me avoid Rick James...bitch?
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You have illustrated the article's point perfectly: for any ruling the US doesn't like, there is a good reason not to follow it. No shit, Sherlock. You wouldn't have gone to the WTO if you didn't have a good reason for a given policy. The organization exists to come to a solution when BOTH sides have what they feel are legitimate, competing claims. Either you agree to an arbitration mechanism (the WTO), or you don't. Picking which ruling to follow turns it from an arbitration mechanism to a farce.
There is no RUTION, the (EVOL) is a regex capture group. EVOL is not an option, it is a necessity. Citizens of the world unite, and capture the EVOL!
Okay, am I the only one somewhat concerned by this? Imagine the day when a chick can take a swab of your skin (skin cells are relatively easy to grow in a Petri dish, so quantity isn't such as issue as long as you get down to some live ones), and make a baby with you...imagine what the ethical and legal implications would be...
It's called CoolStack
% man sex ./woman ./woman: Permission denied.
No manual entry for sex.
% man sex > woman
%
Since this is Slashdot, I'll be pedantic and remind you that Newfoundland (of hothouse cucumber fame) is not part of the Maritimes....
It's interesting that you know that, because even the Government Accountability Office (which made the report the article is about) couldn't get such information. You must have an inside scoop!
I heard an interview yesterday with one of the report's authors, and the agency responsible for the list wouldn't even tell the GAO how many people have been removed from the list after being put on it. They were told 100,000 "records" have been removed since it started, which could be anything from persons, to SQL data tuples. The long and the short of it is that there is virtually zero accountability for the list.
The abstract says "re-inoculate", but CNN has to appeal to the non-technical (in a scientific sense). At least they got the story mostly right, which doesn't always happen with science headlines...
The abstract, for those who don't have access to the journal (article DOI doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.08.032):
The human vermiform ("worm-like") appendix is a 5 to 10 cm long and 0.5 to 1
cm wide pouch that extends from the cecum of the large bowel. The architecture of the
human appendix is unique among mammals, and few mammals other than humans have
an appendix at all. The function of the human appendix has long been a matter of debate,
with the structure often considered to be a vestige of evolutionary development despite
evidence to the contrary based on comparative primate anatomy. The appendix is thought
to have some immune function based on its association with substantial lymphatic tissue,
although the specific nature of that putative function is unknown. Based (a) on a recently
acquired understanding of immune-mediated biofilm formation by commensal bacteria in
the mammalian gut, (b) on biofilm distribution in the large bowel, (c) the association of
lymphoid tissue with the appendix, (d) the potential for biofilms to protect and support
colonization by commensal bacteria, and (e) on the architecture of the human bowel, we
propose that the human appendix is well suited as a "safe house" for commensal bacteria,
providing support for bacterial growth and potentially facilitating re-inoculation of the
colon in the event that the contents of the intestinal tract are purged following exposure to a pathogen.
For you kids wondering how you sent e-mail before SMTP's @ convention (alluded to by the poster), you had to know a network path to a well-known server your friend also knew. And!we!liked!it!like!that!dammit
You hit the nail on the head here. The real story is that while the U.S. dollar has been dropping, the Canadian dollar has not followed suit as it historically has (against the euro, etc.). Economists are saying we're less tied to the U.S. economy now than we used to be, through economic diversification and high commodity prices.
For the non-Canucks: note that riding is a Canadian word, and doesn't have anything (directly) to do with horses.
Also, although there is no proportional representation in Canada, Ontarians will be voting on whether to use a mixed member proportional system in their next election, which would let not-quite-mainstream parties such as the Green Party get seats without requiring they win a plurality in any given riding. It would also make the ballot considerably larger, but I'm pretty sure we'd still stick with pencil and paper.
Except OUP is not bound by the CC license. When you publish with them, you sign a license that allows them a lot of leeway in redistribution. You can see the actual agreement here.
You can access the article from the OUP web site for free (CC-NL with attribution), and additionally it is available from PubMed Central at the NIH. I don't know how we got that popup asking him for money to use it in a classroom, but it is probably just a mistake. Of course, there's nothing stopping someone from asking you to pay for something that's free, if you're a sucker. Once again, the whole article is right there to read, with the CC license right at the top. BTW, OUP has both Open Access and non-open access journals, so I can see how a common document delivery system could get screwed up. Not that it should, but you could see how. Hopefully they will correct it, I've published Open Access and non-Open Access papers with OUP and they are pretty responsive on both the technical and editorial sides.
If you have a cheap laptop around, you can install Dasher. It requires virtually no mouse movement to write text, and it's actually fun to use too!
I'm not sure who yet, but it's definitely some else's fault...
If you're a conspiracy nut...
I remember an episode of Banachek (starring the indomitable George Peppard) in which a multi-ton sculpture disappeared from a gallery soon after installation. Turns out that it just looked like it was made of stone, but was actually papier mâché or something of the sort and it was all a scam to claim the insurance...
I forgot to mention that the plugs are originally there for engine block heaters so your car starts when it's -40 outside...
In the Canadian prairies, many parking lots have plugs for each spot, which would mean you can charge up while at work, regardless of the time of year (if they don't switch'em off to stop the summer moochers :-)). We're mostly coal-fired electricity though, so it'd be purely an economic play...