There's enough info out there for them to work with, so if they do their jobs right, it'll be no problem. But they have harder jobs than just repeating what's been done before.
In a novel building design, you usually see a factor of safety of 2 or 3 - sometimes more for parts with particularly bad failure modes. That means if everything was up to spec you could at least double or triple the loading. Sometimes this number is more like 5. For code-based building, like in a normal frame house, it's even higher, because they basically assume that a lot of the joints will be poorly made.
For aircraft it's often 1.2 or 1.3. Scary, huh?
But it gets worse - because even the metals (which start out tough, instead of brittle, so a crack doesn't propagate quickly) usually embrittle before long. Oh, and the average aircraft is held together with 1 ton of glue.
Yahoo is repackaging existing services - they're repackaging Google. And yahoo has more name recognition, so more people use it. And they bring in more revenue in ads, so more money goes to Google to develop.
Google OTOH, is developing new technology. Most of that development is incremental -things get better and better. Until we actually find an alien monolith to give us all our science, this is how most advancements happen.
I'm not someone who believes than any psychological condition removes responsibility for your actions, ADD included. But that also doesn't mean that the condition doesn't exist, and especially that research about it can't be helpful.
I would never accept "I have ADD/ADHD" as an excuse not to finish homework, etc. But acknowledging that some people's solutions are different than others isn't bad either. Self-titrated (doc decides the maximum, but you don't have to take it all the time) can be a wonderful aid in otherwise difficult situations. However, forcing kids to take it all the time as is common in this society is quite wrong, for a number of reasons.
(self-titration of some drugs is very bad, but Ritalin isn't one of them. Like prescription Tylenol, it can be taken "as needed" up to a maximum. Do not follow this strategy for antidepressants or antipsychotics, Prozac for instance) I am not a doctor, lawyer, or any other official oer.
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"I'm a 36C. In the game, she's a 36DD. In the movie, she's a 36D. So, we split the difference and made her more athletic." - AJ
is the source and also includes "her breasts are the stuff of legends"
On to address the breast-size issue: The # is the measurement around the ribcage, and letter is the number of additional inches around the breast (ie, the difference) except that for some reason they use DD instead of E, because they can't do math. This means that a 34C and a 36C have the same depth (surface-to-ribcage), and are presumably the same size, but the 34C will look bigger (esp from any distance) because the only thing giving it scale will be the girl, who's smaller. This is the nature of human perception of size. 34B-36C (four sizes) seem to be the most common sizes.
I can't believe I just posted that. I feel so sinful. (I can't tell whether it's from a long post about breasts, or from reading movie interviews on icq.eonline)
I think this idea is right on. While longwinded, it says essentially this: You get cool from other people ~150 of them. Tech could make that 150 million ppl. Someone needs to make a moderation system to do that - and to keep track of _who's_ mods are best, and give them more mod points.
It's a great idea. If no one's done it, perhaps I'll try it next year, but not this.
Get a lawyer first. No question. Only they can really work out all the details.
More than likely they can kick you out (although they may not have followed their own due process giving you ample opportunity to remedy) and they can certainly choose not to host it.
They might even own whatever you did because it was on their server. Maybe. But I'd guess probably not. And even if they own whatever you did, they might not own all the posts.
If they give you an option to stay in school, I'd take it, personally.
Now, if someone who wasn't a student and didn't use your code were to restart it, well, that wouldn't be a problem. _IF_ they actually expel you, I would probably let someone else start it back up. And I'm not convinced a more liberal school wouldn't accept you, possibly even some with transfer value.
As I recall, the Ferrari F50 was considerably slower than the F40 (I might be off, I'm actually not much of a car buff) A magazine (Car and Driver, I think) tried to review the new one, and foudn that _no one_ had been allowed to buy them, only lease them. And if they were reviewed, then the leasee lost their Ferrari status symbol.
Eventually they found out there was _1_ (one) actual owner of a Ferrari F50, someone who'd been a big Ferrari racing supporter. He let them test it, and it was slower. (Not slow, but slower)
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Duct tape is for Ducts, and quite versitle.
Duck Tape is tape Ace sells and it's a poor imitation of the real Duct Tape.
I volunteered to revive freeboxen - which I had only just joined when it closed down. The maintainer was looking for volunteers, but then ignored my message. Freeboxen.com was awesome.
Eventually things won't be useful anymore, so recycling will be essential. But reusing them until then is wonderful, esp if it saves someone making something ELSE that would have to be recycled.
Until then, I want freeboxen back, even if I have to run it.
You can use PC133 memory in a PC100 MB - same with PC133 or PC100 in a PC66 MB, AFAIK. It has to be at least fast enough. I assume the same with PC150.
Since PC133 is cheaper, no reason you couldn't just buy that.
The Oil/Hazmat issue is definitely a big one.
Water holds heat much more densely (more J/degree)than most anything else, including oil. When you put a sufficient quantity of antifreeze in it this effect is diminished, but still present. Water and Water/Glycol therefore make excellent heating/cooling fluids.
If you want a really massive amount of heat-transfer, the phase-change to steam is the common way to go.
The first action is proper sealing of buildings to be extremely non-leaky. Then some people recommend a small purposeful leak on the top level. Canadians usually recommend making sure you have underpressure in your house, or else your respiration moisture will rot your insulation - no joke! The second action is increased insulation.
I definitely, absolutely, and without a doubt think that a good geothermal heat-pump system goes much farther towards your goals than any particular generation. This essentially involves some welldigging. I suppose that's the third action.
The fourth is water preheating - essentially a thinnish flat tank of water out in the sun - like on your roof. This tank reduces (pretty dramatically) the amount of power you have to put into your water to make it warm. As a bonus, it absorbs heat during the day and keeps a lot of it around at night (as long as it doesn't freeze and burst) Along this vein are other natural ways to trap heat - I once saw an indoor pool coupled with many double-pane skylights.
Only after all of these is power generation seriously likely to make a big difference, unless you're particularly lucky about wind or water where you are. Both are wonderful in some places.
I usually consider a G4 to be 2x as fast as a PIII or Duron, clock for clock. Details in what you're doing and who coded your app make a huge difference, however. So do things like having enough RAM to never, ever hit the HD.
The G3 is essentially just as fast as the G4 for nonAlitVec ops - although it was actually MORE expensive when you could buy both at comparable speeds.
Tbirds and PIVs are faster than PIIIs, duh. How much? anywhere between nothing and 50%, probably.
AFAIK, the G3/G4 already has a 64bit pipe - and imo that accounts for most of the big differences. Most of the Apples are now PC standard. The best thing Apple did was let you buy PC100 RAM for cheap, and have it work.
If your teachers don't understand, explain it. If they actually try to get you in trouble, complain about them stifling your desire to read. I can't imagine this being a bad thing.
I wish I'd seen this sooner. I'm having the same problem with CAD documents - large complex binary files, across many computers on a network. And then I need to at least give out unique numbers, be able to find given files reliably, and track revision letters.
In anyone has any advice relating to this I'd greatly appreciate it. Currently we have an old proprietary system that we seem to not have the source to - even though it was made in house.
I've recently become the publisher of a book (release date is GenCon - 2 Aug 2001) It'll be available for preorder starting 1 Apr 2001 at www.xig.net/starchildren and I'm very aware that the website isn't up yet - it's not 1 Apr 2001, is it?
I did some pretty extensive research and decided to only accept PayPal. - at 2.2% (worst-case) and no other fees the disadvantages of not having a true merch acct are far outweighed by the savings.
For fufillment, I'm essentially hiring a friend as a subcontractor to fufill them and keep the handling charge... I can't find another good way to do low-volume like this. I'll simply give them an email address for complaints, etc... unless I can find something better for this side of the equation.
this solution is not the most hands-off, but it's much more economical than anything I've yet found. I've emailed you, and I read replies, but I don't leave my address on/.
If anyone cared enough to spend all the $. Just isn't a big enough priority - and it would be risky, but not technologically, simply because we haven't done enough "preview" missions to mars unmanned yet.
Taking off from Mars requires a lot of gas. So does earth. Moon doesn't. But that isn't the reason for the gantry, etc. They don't help it take off, at all - (but the boosters fall away, so it'd presumably need a new system or more boosters) The gantry, etc, is there to provide for maintanence of the incredibly complex machine - and I suppose to make sure it isn't damaged in the wind.
There is almost no atmosphere on mars (until we add a bunch of plants and a few thousand years, but that's another story) and I don't think they'll be doing any maintenance. So you could certainly do it, as long as they are prepared for it, which they of course would be. Mostly by having a lot of fuel. Landing is more dangerous.
I'm only a somewhat older geek, and perhaps even borderline at that, but I definitely want to say that it can all work out quite well, and I'm quite happy with my life except for being a bit too busy this year. I emailed you in case you want any commentary or advice about anything - or whatever. But no addy of mine on/., please.
I have two question sets:
My first is what do you think of school? What things in school did the best job of teaching you? What were the worst things? Do you consider the experience a good one? What could be better? What could be done better by the professionals who run them, in particular? Did you think your teachers were well enough trained in their subjects? How often do you pursue learning in depth material that isn't computer related?
The second is what's your opinion of math? Do you like it? I've found some bipolarity among geeks and math... I'd be most surprised if you said you were indifferent or "average" about it... have you taken calculus yet? Have you thought about looking into it on your own? (One of my quests is to teach calc to 5th graders, or so - and I think it's important)
There was at least one physical book published long ago (using the first Xerox for the 3rd? edition) called the Principia Discordia - and it was copylefted. Long before OSS. The result was that anyone could publish it - and you were free to make copies of it.
This didn't make it free, but it did make it legal to take it to Kinko's (once kinko's was invented) It has been through at least 5 publishers, most of whom seem to have added some material. But the $s work out like this: each publisher makes a small amount of money - the writers get nothing (except publicity...) You certainly COULD do this with a textbook - and I bet you could find someone to print it, since they wouldn't have to pay YOU royalties... but maybe you'd have to find a small publisher, or possibly you'd have to do it yourself (isn't that what "university press"s were all about?)
you already have the "source" to a book...
I think a more appropriate model might be traditional copyrighting and automatic non-exclusive licenses. Say you normally get $10/copy of a book as a royalty (I've no idea the realism here) instead refuse to sign an exclusivity agreement, and offer $5, or $2. Large publishers might walk away, but some probably won't... people DO publish dead people's works that aren't exclusive, so you might be able to convince them.
Then sell more than one license. Sell them online for a single copy. You can even inflate the single-copy license by calling the pub rate a volume discount.(IGNORE the fact that someone can print 50... you cannot reasonably prevent it - but sue if they SELL them without paying your license) This can work even if you don't have the original deal with any brick-and-mortar pub, but it'd work better if you start with at least one, so it exists in hard format.
Then give out electronic ones incl updates free to anyone who gives you a good critique - including refunding the fee of someone who paid for it. And advertise this fact up front.
I bet you'll have one of the best edited books ever - but I still bet you'll make less money.
- Arete
The point is, the Register wants to get us excited
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Look, things don't work like that article sounds. How does it know it's an MP3? Unless the OS tells it? does it find the file format? In FAT32? How about exfs2? or can't you use multiple formats? A hard drive you can't format would be a new idea of silly, but would have to be where they're going.
Sure, go crazy, but I wouldn't worry to much. A unique ID sucks - but you can't impliment copy protection without the OS, or the backup checker, or whatever. My theory is that INSTALLERs might check that value - to keep count. Backup managers MIGHT... etc. Although MSFT says they won't, which makes it useless.
But the worst-case scenario is enabling things like SDMI to work like they're supposed to more often - i.e. requires your HD to have the right "magic key" or else you can't play the DOWNLOADED music - which doesn't stop you from ripping MP3s. and yes, then you would lose those things when your HD crashed - but it only works for encrypted content that you can't break - and a decrypter that LOOKS for it....
more likely, it'll just be an addition to text books and a few specific pieces of software... and those will be things like SDMI that no sane person would go near, anyway. Don't buy SDMI - that's about the sum of it.
this is quite impressive - I'm not terribly surprised about the _general_ vein of this - but they're talking about 50% of the healing time - that's very impressive.
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There's enough info out there for them to work with, so if they do their jobs right, it'll be no problem. But they have harder jobs than just repeating what's been done before.
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In a novel building design, you usually see a factor of safety of 2 or 3 - sometimes more for parts with particularly bad failure modes. That means if everything was up to spec you could at least double or triple the loading. Sometimes this number is more like 5. For code-based building, like in a normal frame house, it's even higher, because they basically assume that a lot of the joints will be poorly made.
For aircraft it's often 1.2 or 1.3. Scary, huh?
But it gets worse - because even the metals (which start out tough, instead of brittle, so a crack doesn't propagate quickly) usually embrittle before long. Oh, and the average aircraft is held together with 1 ton of glue.
just more info
Yahoo is repackaging existing services - they're repackaging Google. And yahoo has more name recognition, so more people use it. And they bring in more revenue in ads, so more money goes to Google to develop.
Google OTOH, is developing new technology. Most of that development is incremental -things get better and better. Until we actually find an alien monolith to give us all our science, this is how most advancements happen.
What Yahoo did was license google, instead of what they were doing before, licensing Inktomi. Google rocks.
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I'm not someone who believes than any psychological condition removes responsibility for your actions, ADD included. But that also doesn't mean that the condition doesn't exist, and especially that research about it can't be helpful.
I would never accept "I have ADD/ADHD" as an excuse not to finish homework, etc. But acknowledging that some people's solutions are different than others isn't bad either. Self-titrated (doc decides the maximum, but you don't have to take it all the time) can be a wonderful aid in otherwise difficult situations. However, forcing kids to take it all the time as is common in this society is quite wrong, for a number of reasons.
(self-titration of some drugs is very bad, but Ritalin isn't one of them. Like prescription Tylenol, it can be taken "as needed" up to a maximum. Do not follow this strategy for antidepressants or antipsychotics, Prozac for instance) I am not a doctor, lawyer, or any other official oer.
"I'm a 36C. In the game, she's a 36DD. In the movie, she's a 36D. So, we split the difference and made her more athletic." - AJ
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http://icq.eonline.com/Celebs/Qa/Jolie2001/inde
is the source and also includes "her breasts are the stuff of legends"
On to address the breast-size issue: The # is the measurement around the ribcage, and letter is the number of additional inches around the breast (ie, the difference) except that for some reason they use DD instead of E, because they can't do math. This means that a 34C and a 36C have the same depth (surface-to-ribcage), and are presumably the same size, but the 34C will look bigger (esp from any distance) because the only thing giving it scale will be the girl, who's smaller. This is the nature of human perception of size. 34B-36C (four sizes) seem to be the most common sizes.
I can't believe I just posted that. I feel so sinful. (I can't tell whether it's from a long post about breasts, or from reading movie interviews on icq.eonline)
I think this idea is right on. While longwinded, it says essentially this: You get cool from other people ~150 of them. Tech could make that 150 million ppl. Someone needs to make a moderation system to do that - and to keep track of _who's_ mods are best, and give them more mod points.
It's a great idea. If no one's done it, perhaps I'll try it next year, but not this.
Get a lawyer first. No question. Only they can really work out all the details.
More than likely they can kick you out (although they may not have followed their own due process giving you ample opportunity to remedy) and they can certainly choose not to host it.
They might even own whatever you did because it was on their server. Maybe. But I'd guess probably not. And even if they own whatever you did, they might not own all the posts.
If they give you an option to stay in school, I'd take it, personally.
Now, if someone who wasn't a student and didn't use your code were to restart it, well, that wouldn't be a problem. _IF_ they actually expel you, I would probably let someone else start it back up. And I'm not convinced a more liberal school wouldn't accept you, possibly even some with transfer value.
As I recall, the Ferrari F50 was considerably slower than the F40 (I might be off, I'm actually not much of a car buff) A magazine (Car and Driver, I think) tried to review the new one, and foudn that _no one_ had been allowed to buy them, only lease them. And if they were reviewed, then the leasee lost their Ferrari status symbol.
Eventually they found out there was _1_ (one) actual owner of a Ferrari F50, someone who'd been a big Ferrari racing supporter. He let them test it, and it was slower. (Not slow, but slower)
Duct tape is for Ducts, and quite versitle.
Duck Tape is tape Ace sells and it's a poor imitation of the real Duct Tape.
Just in case you're not a troll - he was giving an example.
For instance, an ASUS mainboard would be at www.asus.com
I volunteered to revive freeboxen - which I had only just joined when it closed down. The maintainer was looking for volunteers, but then ignored my message. Freeboxen.com was awesome.
Eventually things won't be useful anymore, so recycling will be essential. But reusing them until then is wonderful, esp if it saves someone making something ELSE that would have to be recycled.
Until then, I want freeboxen back, even if I have to run it.
You can use PC133 memory in a PC100 MB - same with PC133 or PC100 in a PC66 MB, AFAIK. It has to be at least fast enough. I assume the same with PC150.
Since PC133 is cheaper, no reason you couldn't just buy that.
The Oil/Hazmat issue is definitely a big one.
Water holds heat much more densely (more J/degree)than most anything else, including oil. When you put a sufficient quantity of antifreeze in it this effect is diminished, but still present. Water and Water/Glycol therefore make excellent heating/cooling fluids.
If you want a really massive amount of heat-transfer, the phase-change to steam is the common way to go.
The first action is proper sealing of buildings to be extremely non-leaky. Then some people recommend a small purposeful leak on the top level. Canadians usually recommend making sure you have underpressure in your house, or else your respiration moisture will rot your insulation - no joke! The second action is increased insulation.
I definitely, absolutely, and without a doubt think that a good geothermal heat-pump system goes much farther towards your goals than any particular generation. This essentially involves some welldigging. I suppose that's the third action.
The fourth is water preheating - essentially a thinnish flat tank of water out in the sun - like on your roof. This tank reduces (pretty dramatically) the amount of power you have to put into your water to make it warm. As a bonus, it absorbs heat during the day and keeps a lot of it around at night (as long as it doesn't freeze and burst) Along this vein are other natural ways to trap heat - I once saw an indoor pool coupled with many double-pane skylights.
Only after all of these is power generation seriously likely to make a big difference, unless you're particularly lucky about wind or water where you are. Both are wonderful in some places.
I read it - and I agree that you should post a link if you're sincere that it's all been solved.
You can't sue the Russians except in Russian court - and they doubtless will think that was in bad faith of the waivers they have to sign...
I usually consider a G4 to be 2x as fast as a PIII or Duron, clock for clock. Details in what you're doing and who coded your app make a huge difference, however. So do things like having enough RAM to never, ever hit the HD.
The G3 is essentially just as fast as the G4 for nonAlitVec ops - although it was actually MORE expensive when you could buy both at comparable speeds.
Tbirds and PIVs are faster than PIIIs, duh. How much? anywhere between nothing and 50%, probably.
AFAIK, the G3/G4 already has a 64bit pipe - and imo that accounts for most of the big differences. Most of the Apples are now PC standard. The best thing Apple did was let you buy PC100 RAM for cheap, and have it work.
If your teachers don't understand, explain it. If they actually try to get you in trouble, complain about them stifling your desire to read. I can't imagine this being a bad thing.
I wish I'd seen this sooner. I'm having the same problem with CAD documents - large complex binary files, across many computers on a network. And then I need to at least give out unique numbers, be able to find given files reliably, and track revision letters.
In anyone has any advice relating to this I'd greatly appreciate it. Currently we have an old proprietary system that we seem to not have the source to - even though it was made in house.
Ballmer doesn't know his own products.
AFAIK, it is never Hardware Application Layer
I wish this mattered, but no one is left who believes M$ knows what they're talking about, anyway.
I did some pretty extensive research and decided to only accept PayPal. - at 2.2% (worst-case) and no other fees the disadvantages of not having a true merch acct are far outweighed by the savings. /.
For fufillment, I'm essentially hiring a friend as a subcontractor to fufill them and keep the handling charge... I can't find another good way to do low-volume like this. I'll simply give them an email address for complaints, etc... unless I can find something better for this side of the equation.
this solution is not the most hands-off, but it's much more economical than anything I've yet found. I've emailed you, and I read replies, but I don't leave my address on
If anyone cared enough to spend all the $. Just isn't a big enough priority - and it would be risky, but not technologically, simply because we haven't done enough "preview" missions to mars unmanned yet.
Taking off from Mars requires a lot of gas. So does earth. Moon doesn't. But that isn't the reason for the gantry, etc. They don't help it take off, at all - (but the boosters fall away, so it'd presumably need a new system or more boosters) The gantry, etc, is there to provide for maintanence of the incredibly complex machine - and I suppose to make sure it isn't damaged in the wind.
There is almost no atmosphere on mars (until we add a bunch of plants and a few thousand years, but that's another story) and I don't think they'll be doing any maintenance. So you could certainly do it, as long as they are prepared for it, which they of course would be. Mostly by having a lot of fuel. Landing is more dangerous.
I'm only a somewhat older geek, and perhaps even borderline at that, but I definitely want to say that it can all work out quite well, and I'm quite happy with my life except for being a bit too busy this year. I emailed you in case you want any commentary or advice about anything - or whatever. But no addy of mine on /., please.
I have two question sets:
My first is what do you think of school? What things in school did the best job of teaching you? What were the worst things? Do you consider the experience a good one? What could be better? What could be done better by the professionals who run them, in particular? Did you think your teachers were well enough trained in their subjects? How often do you pursue learning in depth material that isn't computer related?
The second is what's your opinion of math? Do you like it? I've found some bipolarity among geeks and math... I'd be most surprised if you said you were indifferent or "average" about it... have you taken calculus yet? Have you thought about looking into it on your own? (One of my quests is to teach calc to 5th graders, or so - and I think it's important)
thanks
There was at least one physical book published long ago (using the first Xerox for the 3rd? edition) called the Principia Discordia - and it was copylefted. Long before OSS. The result was that anyone could publish it - and you were free to make copies of it.
This didn't make it free, but it did make it legal to take it to Kinko's (once kinko's was invented) It has been through at least 5 publishers, most of whom seem to have added some material. But the $s work out like this: each publisher makes a small amount of money - the writers get nothing (except publicity...) You certainly COULD do this with a textbook - and I bet you could find someone to print it, since they wouldn't have to pay YOU royalties... but maybe you'd have to find a small publisher, or possibly you'd have to do it yourself (isn't that what "university press"s were all about?)
you already have the "source" to a book...
I think a more appropriate model might be traditional copyrighting and automatic non-exclusive licenses. Say you normally get $10/copy of a book as a royalty (I've no idea the realism here) instead refuse to sign an exclusivity agreement, and offer $5, or $2. Large publishers might walk away, but some probably won't... people DO publish dead people's works that aren't exclusive, so you might be able to convince them.
Then sell more than one license. Sell them online for a single copy. You can even inflate the single-copy license by calling the pub rate a volume discount.(IGNORE the fact that someone can print 50... you cannot reasonably prevent it - but sue if they SELL them without paying your license) This can work even if you don't have the original deal with any brick-and-mortar pub, but it'd work better if you start with at least one, so it exists in hard format.
Then give out electronic ones incl updates free to anyone who gives you a good critique - including refunding the fee of someone who paid for it. And advertise this fact up front.
I bet you'll have one of the best edited books ever - but I still bet you'll make less money.
- Arete
Look, things don't work like that article sounds. How does it know it's an MP3? Unless the OS tells it? does it find the file format? In FAT32? How about exfs2? or can't you use multiple formats? A hard drive you can't format would be a new idea of silly, but would have to be where they're going.
Sure, go crazy, but I wouldn't worry to much. A unique ID sucks - but you can't impliment copy protection without the OS, or the backup checker, or whatever. My theory is that INSTALLERs might check that value - to keep count. Backup managers MIGHT... etc. Although MSFT says they won't, which makes it useless.
But the worst-case scenario is enabling things like SDMI to work like they're supposed to more often - i.e. requires your HD to have the right "magic key" or else you can't play the DOWNLOADED music - which doesn't stop you from ripping MP3s. and yes, then you would lose those things when your HD crashed - but it only works for encrypted content that you can't break - and a decrypter that LOOKS for it....
more likely, it'll just be an addition to text books and a few specific pieces of software... and those will be things like SDMI that no sane person would go near, anyway. Don't buy SDMI - that's about the sum of it.
this is quite impressive - I'm not terribly surprised about the _general_ vein of this - but they're talking about 50% of the healing time - that's very impressive.