If it is just a simple saline solution, it would be trivial to make more than enough for a continual circulation, even if a significant amount is being lost through wound. Blood on the other hand, is not as readily available.
I think this technology is targetted at patients who's problems are repairable, but not in the time provided by contemporary surgery. Imagine a gunshot victim that is bleeding to death. Supposing that the salt (saline?) solution could still be injected and take effect, doctors could then have hours to perform the life saving operation as opposed to the minutes the have now. I don't think you'll have perfectly healthy volunteers going into a clinic. More likely they'll setup at an ER and try it on patients that have no likelyhood of survival. I'm wondering if the US (or other countries) would allow those on death row to volunteer for such trials. I wouldn't want to see them forced into it, but allowing them to volunteer for these sorts of things could provide valuable research.
If you're going to count the cost of the OS for Windows, you have to do it for the Linux side as well "Cedega with Point2Play requires Linspire Five-0" which according to the site is $99.00 new. Thus, we're now looking at $143.95 for the Linux way, or as you said, $100-$130 for the Windows.
Let's face it, there is a definite kind of web/mob (wob?) mentality here. Generally, we like wikipedia and google. We don't like Microsoft, NY Times (reg req'd) etc. I'm not really sure how we feel abuot the LA Times. There are obvious exceptions to the above, but I think generally, this is a true statement for slashdot.
So, given that mentality, its natural to assume that given a proper target, the wob would attack. Remember the spammer who got bombarded by snail mail after headlining a slashdot article? (I'm sure someone can provide a link.
Now, I don't know if the resulting spamming of the LA Times was a direct result of slashdot or not, but lets face it, there are a good number of trolls and such here that would take advantage of a wiki.
I think you actually meant Metallica. Motley Crue released a full song and video on the Internet (Hell on High Heels) and encouraged its distribution. I can't remember the website, but I remember the flash? videos of Lars and... well some other guy from Metallica going around and threatning little kids that we're downloading they're music. Motley Crue actually did the voices for another one that featured Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars slamming Metallica. If anyone has a link to any of those files, I'd love to get my hands on them again.
Maybe it doesn't imply, but experimentation and observation suggests they do. For example, blackholes create such a powerful gravity well, that light cannot escape. If photons do not have mass, why are they affected by gravity. And its not just blackholes, light can be seen to "bend" around large objects like planets. Unless I'm mistaken, the general belief is that a photon does have mass.
You are undoubtedly confused and I can't even begin to guess from where you gleaned this information
Well, as I said, I read the article about Casimir force linked to in the original article (http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/030811.F ischbach.casimir.html)
which contains this paragraph: The Casimir force has to do with the minute pressure that real and virtual photons of light exert when they bump against an object. High quantities of photons are constantly striking you from all directions, emitted by everything from your stovetop to distant stars.
Wow, loved that comment. I had never thought of the "wake" effect of a massive object moving (or disappearing) and space/time not being able to completely restore itself afterwards. Even though my understanding of physics is quite limited (high school level plus some reading and disucssions since then), I do tend to grasp most concepts, and the idea that gravity was a force travelling as a particle never quite felt right. However, the idea that a massive object could bend space/time did.
I'm part way through Hawking's "The Universe In A Nutshell". I started reading it on a trip my wife and I took to Hawaii (she grabs popular fiction, I buy Hawking's to read on the beach - I think she's starting to question my sanity). For the most part I really enjoy the book, and its definitely given me something to think about, though I'm starting to disagree with parts of it. It seems that he, and most other physicists are picturing the universe as a closed system. Given some of the things he says in that book, I'm starting to wonder if it is. Of course that just begs the question, If its not, what's outside it?
Anyways, thanks for pointing out some ideas I hadn't come across yet, and it looks like I'm finally going to have to start reading more on Quantum mechanics. I just don't seem to be getting much farther in my understanding of the universe without going down that road.
Well, this is the first time I've heard of the "Casimir force" force, but reading the article linked to in the article (how's that for RTFM) explains that pretty well. Now, the prevailing "ToE" is to the best of my knowledge, string theory. This theory was developed to explain the inconsistancies with Newton's and Einstein's laws when you got down to a sub-atomic level. This study is basically saying that string theory is wrong, and that Newton and Einstein (for the most part) were right.
Now, the interesting there here is the "Casimir force" which basically, is the force of photons striking an object. We touched on this actually in high school physics. We were experimenting to find out if light was a wave of a particle. (its a wave of particles). I started to ask questions like, if that's true, wouldn't most stationary objects eventually gain mass due to a build up of photons. We never quite got into that... probably a little advanced for most people in high school physics. Sorry, back on topic. This force, becomes very powerful (comparatively) at sub-atomic levels. The force of a particle travelling at the speed of light can become very significant. In fact, it becomes more significant than gravity. So, everything as usualy, I'm not sure I'd agree, but it hopefully does get us one step closer to the ToE.
Typically, first run theatres for at minimum the first week of a movie's release, will pay 100% of ticket sales to the studios. They don't see a dime of that money you're paying to get into the theatre. All their money is made from snacks. As the weeks pass, they'll drop it to 80% or 90% of ticket sales which when the other theatres will pick it up. This coming from my wife who managed a second run theatre for years. I had asked her why they were always at least two weeks behind the big theatres in getting movies. Simply put, they had to rely on some money from ticket sales to stay operational.
I rarely go to theatres anymore. For my wife and I to go, get a couple of drinks and some popcorn, we're easily paying $30. The same thing at home, costs less than $10. Not to mention all the other benefits that were listed above.
Everything you say is correct. However, the thing your missing here is that the nasties that become resistant do so by changing their receptors. However, the situation here is that its being delivered by attaching to the folic acid receptors. Cancerous cells need more folic acid that normal cells. So, one of two things happens. The cancerous cells start shutting down their folic receptors and die, or they don't and they can't build up a resistance since the cells think they're getting folic acid.
Actually probably the best way to catch a bot would be to simply watch for ips that are requesting a robots.txt file. Anything that does is more than likely a bot. Regardless of the client its reporting itself as. If I were trying to run a page up in rankings by showing different pages to the bots, that's probably what I'd do.
Precisely. A few packets to try an open a connection on a specific port, even if they're trying 1000 ports is not going to add up to signficant badwidth. Of course they're probably only trying a couple dozen ports at most. In any case, assuming you're not running any servers, just start blocking incoming traffic. Basically, only allow outgoing, or established incoming. If someone tries to establish a new connection either drop, or reject it.
Hmmm, I never once mentioned Microsoft. Never once called anyone a moron. Lets look at what I was saying. I said if you found a vulnerability in a specific library, would you not tend to check similar libraries for similar flaws?
I have written a lot of PHP/MySQL applications. Someone pointed out a flaw in one of my earlier ones with an unchecked bit of user input that could have resulted in an SQL injection type attack. At the time, I didn't have a standard class for handling DB interactivty, so I fixed the flaw in the application where it was found, and proceeded to go through all my other apps and look for the same or similar flaws.
To me, that is the logical thing to do. Apparently for some its either not a logical next step, or is not a priority.
My wife and I had an ultrasound done on Friday (we're about 4.5 months along). In the lobby, before actually heading in, we had to read a little phamphlet which basically said that this is a medical procedure: Please don't bug the technician while he/she is working. Once the technician has finished with the diagnostics, they will try to give you a few minutes to see what's going on and provide a few pictures.
It was very clear that this was a medical procedure and that pictures and hearing the heartbeat were not guarantees at the end of the procedure. No videos were available to us, but I'll tell you, I'd love to have them.
Looking at your site suggests your not a parent. As a guy about to become one I can tell you this. Those 30 minutes or so seeing this child moving around were the most unbelieveable of my life. I wish I had a video of what we saw. Anyone who tells you they could care less about keepsakes of that first ultrasound are either lying, or have no heart.
Lucky son of a #$*$#^. We only got stills of our ultrasound. Would have loved to take home any kind of movie (VHS, DVD, hell, I'd have wiped out my USB key and filled it with an MPEG if they' offered!). That being said, I'm still in awe of what we saw on the monitor. Congrats to you and your wife!
I enjoy doing some creative writing from time to time, and have done a little of this in the past (an old e-zine that only ran a few issues). I often thought there would be other aspiring authors that might like to contribute to something like this if for no other reason then to get some experience writing and have a already interested audience. The tough thing I thought, would be to differentiate it from a blog, which gives the wrong idea.
Why? That's like saying we should have waited until we could land an aircraft on top of Mt. Everest before we flew into space. There's no reason to expand a technology that looks like it will soon be outdated unless it is economically viable. If its not currently viable to cover your parent's area, does that mean they should stop development of new wireless communcation protocols?
True, roaming is a definite consideration, that being said, even if its not solved that quickly its not as bad as it is with WiFi. Remember, WiMax can have ranges of up to 31 miles (without line of sight) which would handle most day to day type uses. That being said, even if a brief interruption were to occur say every 25 miles, cacheing any broadcast type streaming could certainly compensate for the routing change, though live applications (like VoIP) could suffer some.
Yes, 802.16 is WiMax, and yeah, there isn't much in the way of actual news here, which is why I never posted it at openwimax.org. Intel is fighting hard to promote there WiMax chip and get hardware manufacturers to include it in they're devices. The only thing interesting here is that a cell company (Nokia) is working with Intel. Typcially the cell phone companies are pushing 3G and 4G which are for the most part, competeing with WiMax. Interesting since WiMax promises an alternative to cell phones... mobile, wireless VoIP.
The way its written, it would suggest that it takes approximately 48 Earth hours for the planet to orbit the star. I haven't seen any mention of the length of a day on that planet, but that may be impossible to tell at this point.
I love google, and google maps is wonderful to play with. I had actually considered building something like the Chicago Crime page, but given the terms of service, thought I'd better not. I can see Google's point. They are providing a free service for individuals. Haveing another person/group/company use that freedom to build a new service and possibly profit off of it at the expense of the individuals it was created for is rough.
That being said, I think there is a lot of potential for other uses of Google Maps, and hopefully at some point, Google will allow some sort of licenses for use other than personal.
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If it is just a simple saline solution, it would be trivial to make more than enough for a continual circulation, even if a significant amount is being lost through wound. Blood on the other hand, is not as readily available.
I think this technology is targetted at patients who's problems are repairable, but not in the time provided by contemporary surgery. Imagine a gunshot victim that is bleeding to death. Supposing that the salt (saline?) solution could still be injected and take effect, doctors could then have hours to perform the life saving operation as opposed to the minutes the have now. I don't think you'll have perfectly healthy volunteers going into a clinic. More likely they'll setup at an ER and try it on patients that have no likelyhood of survival. I'm wondering if the US (or other countries) would allow those on death row to volunteer for such trials. I wouldn't want to see them forced into it, but allowing them to volunteer for these sorts of things could provide valuable research.
If you're going to count the cost of the OS for Windows, you have to do it for the Linux side as well "Cedega with Point2Play requires Linspire Five-0" which according to the site is $99.00 new. Thus, we're now looking at $143.95 for the Linux way, or as you said, $100-$130 for the Windows.
Sure, make me look up the links. Have a look at what this unmotivated mob can do:
Original Story and the Follow Up and a summary
Let's face it, there is a definite kind of web/mob (wob?) mentality here. Generally, we like wikipedia and google. We don't like Microsoft, NY Times (reg req'd) etc. I'm not really sure how we feel abuot the LA Times. There are obvious exceptions to the above, but I think generally, this is a true statement for slashdot.
So, given that mentality, its natural to assume that given a proper target, the wob would attack. Remember the spammer who got bombarded by snail mail after headlining a slashdot article? (I'm sure someone can provide a link.
Now, I don't know if the resulting spamming of the LA Times was a direct result of slashdot or not, but lets face it, there are a good number of trolls and such here that would take advantage of a wiki.
Because of course a government that won't respect personal freedoms will certainly respect a technicality.
I think you actually meant Metallica. Motley Crue released a full song and video on the Internet (Hell on High Heels) and encouraged its distribution. I can't remember the website, but I remember the flash? videos of Lars and ... well some other guy from Metallica going around and threatning little kids that we're downloading they're music. Motley Crue actually did the voices for another one that featured Nikki Sixx and Mick Mars slamming Metallica. If anyone has a link to any of those files, I'd love to get my hands on them again.
Maybe it doesn't imply, but experimentation and observation suggests they do. For example, blackholes create such a powerful gravity well, that light cannot escape. If photons do not have mass, why are they affected by gravity. And its not just blackholes, light can be seen to "bend" around large objects like planets. Unless I'm mistaken, the general belief is that a photon does have mass.
You are undoubtedly confused and I can't even begin to guess from where you gleaned this information
Well, as I said, I read the article about Casimir force linked to in the original article ( http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/030811.F ischbach.casimir.html) which contains this paragraph:
The Casimir force has to do with the minute pressure that real and virtual photons of light exert when they bump against an object. High quantities of photons are constantly striking you from all directions, emitted by everything from your stovetop to distant stars.
Wow, loved that comment. I had never thought of the "wake" effect of a massive object moving (or disappearing) and space/time not being able to completely restore itself afterwards. Even though my understanding of physics is quite limited (high school level plus some reading and disucssions since then), I do tend to grasp most concepts, and the idea that gravity was a force travelling as a particle never quite felt right. However, the idea that a massive object could bend space/time did.
I'm part way through Hawking's "The Universe In A Nutshell". I started reading it on a trip my wife and I took to Hawaii (she grabs popular fiction, I buy Hawking's to read on the beach - I think she's starting to question my sanity). For the most part I really enjoy the book, and its definitely given me something to think about, though I'm starting to disagree with parts of it. It seems that he, and most other physicists are picturing the universe as a closed system. Given some of the things he says in that book, I'm starting to wonder if it is. Of course that just begs the question, If its not, what's outside it?
Anyways, thanks for pointing out some ideas I hadn't come across yet, and it looks like I'm finally going to have to start reading more on Quantum mechanics. I just don't seem to be getting much farther in my understanding of the universe without going down that road.
Well, this is the first time I've heard of the "Casimir force" force, but reading the article linked to in the article (how's that for RTFM) explains that pretty well. Now, the prevailing "ToE" is to the best of my knowledge, string theory. This theory was developed to explain the inconsistancies with Newton's and Einstein's laws when you got down to a sub-atomic level. This study is basically saying that string theory is wrong, and that Newton and Einstein (for the most part) were right.
Now, the interesting there here is the "Casimir force" which basically, is the force of photons striking an object. We touched on this actually in high school physics. We were experimenting to find out if light was a wave of a particle. (its a wave of particles). I started to ask questions like, if that's true, wouldn't most stationary objects eventually gain mass due to a build up of photons. We never quite got into that... probably a little advanced for most people in high school physics. Sorry, back on topic. This force, becomes very powerful (comparatively) at sub-atomic levels. The force of a particle travelling at the speed of light can become very significant. In fact, it becomes more significant than gravity. So, everything as usualy, I'm not sure I'd agree, but it hopefully does get us one step closer to the ToE.
Typically, first run theatres for at minimum the first week of a movie's release, will pay 100% of ticket sales to the studios. They don't see a dime of that money you're paying to get into the theatre. All their money is made from snacks. As the weeks pass, they'll drop it to 80% or 90% of ticket sales which when the other theatres will pick it up. This coming from my wife who managed a second run theatre for years. I had asked her why they were always at least two weeks behind the big theatres in getting movies. Simply put, they had to rely on some money from ticket sales to stay operational.
I rarely go to theatres anymore. For my wife and I to go, get a couple of drinks and some popcorn, we're easily paying $30. The same thing at home, costs less than $10. Not to mention all the other benefits that were listed above.
Everything you say is correct. However, the thing your missing here is that the nasties that become resistant do so by changing their receptors. However, the situation here is that its being delivered by attaching to the folic acid receptors. Cancerous cells need more folic acid that normal cells. So, one of two things happens. The cancerous cells start shutting down their folic receptors and die, or they don't and they can't build up a resistance since the cells think they're getting folic acid.
Actually probably the best way to catch a bot would be to simply watch for ips that are requesting a robots.txt file. Anything that does is more than likely a bot. Regardless of the client its reporting itself as. If I were trying to run a page up in rankings by showing different pages to the bots, that's probably what I'd do.
Precisely. A few packets to try an open a connection on a specific port, even if they're trying 1000 ports is not going to add up to signficant badwidth. Of course they're probably only trying a couple dozen ports at most. In any case, assuming you're not running any servers, just start blocking incoming traffic. Basically, only allow outgoing, or established incoming. If someone tries to establish a new connection either drop, or reject it.
Hmmm, I never once mentioned Microsoft. Never once called anyone a moron. Lets look at what I was saying. I said if you found a vulnerability in a specific library, would you not tend to check similar libraries for similar flaws?
I have written a lot of PHP/MySQL applications. Someone pointed out a flaw in one of my earlier ones with an unchecked bit of user input that could have resulted in an SQL injection type attack. At the time, I didn't have a standard class for handling DB interactivty, so I fixed the flaw in the application where it was found, and proceeded to go through all my other apps and look for the same or similar flaws.
To me, that is the logical thing to do. Apparently for some its either not a logical next step, or is not a priority.
After the jpg incident, wouldn't you tend to look at the code handling other image formats for similar problems? Guess not.
My wife and I had an ultrasound done on Friday (we're about 4.5 months along). In the lobby, before actually heading in, we had to read a little phamphlet which basically said that this is a medical procedure: Please don't bug the technician while he/she is working. Once the technician has finished with the diagnostics, they will try to give you a few minutes to see what's going on and provide a few pictures.
It was very clear that this was a medical procedure and that pictures and hearing the heartbeat were not guarantees at the end of the procedure. No videos were available to us, but I'll tell you, I'd love to have them.
Looking at your site suggests your not a parent. As a guy about to become one I can tell you this. Those 30 minutes or so seeing this child moving around were the most unbelieveable of my life. I wish I had a video of what we saw. Anyone who tells you they could care less about keepsakes of that first ultrasound are either lying, or have no heart.
Lucky son of a #$*$#^. We only got stills of our ultrasound. Would have loved to take home any kind of movie (VHS, DVD, hell, I'd have wiped out my USB key and filled it with an MPEG if they' offered!). That being said, I'm still in awe of what we saw on the monitor. Congrats to you and your wife!
I enjoy doing some creative writing from time to time, and have done a little of this in the past (an old e-zine that only ran a few issues). I often thought there would be other aspiring authors that might like to contribute to something like this if for no other reason then to get some experience writing and have a already interested audience. The tough thing I thought, would be to differentiate it from a blog, which gives the wrong idea.
Why? That's like saying we should have waited until we could land an aircraft on top of Mt. Everest before we flew into space. There's no reason to expand a technology that looks like it will soon be outdated unless it is economically viable. If its not currently viable to cover your parent's area, does that mean they should stop development of new wireless communcation protocols?
True, roaming is a definite consideration, that being said, even if its not solved that quickly its not as bad as it is with WiFi. Remember, WiMax can have ranges of up to 31 miles (without line of sight) which would handle most day to day type uses. That being said, even if a brief interruption were to occur say every 25 miles, cacheing any broadcast type streaming could certainly compensate for the routing change, though live applications (like VoIP) could suffer some.
Yes, 802.16 is WiMax, and yeah, there isn't much in the way of actual news here, which is why I never posted it at openwimax.org. Intel is fighting hard to promote there WiMax chip and get hardware manufacturers to include it in they're devices. The only thing interesting here is that a cell company (Nokia) is working with Intel. Typcially the cell phone companies are pushing 3G and 4G which are for the most part, competeing with WiMax. Interesting since WiMax promises an alternative to cell phones... mobile, wireless VoIP.
The way its written, it would suggest that it takes approximately 48 Earth hours for the planet to orbit the star. I haven't seen any mention of the length of a day on that planet, but that may be impossible to tell at this point.
I love google, and google maps is wonderful to play with. I had actually considered building something like the Chicago Crime page, but given the terms of service, thought I'd better not. I can see Google's point. They are providing a free service for individuals. Haveing another person/group/company use that freedom to build a new service and possibly profit off of it at the expense of the individuals it was created for is rough.
That being said, I think there is a lot of potential for other uses of Google Maps, and hopefully at some point, Google will allow some sort of licenses for use other than personal.