Wonder if there's any spots on that ranch left that can make a good Star Wars movie?
Oh, the cynicism.:-)
Seriously though, growing wines in west Marin leaves me wondering about the quality of these wines (particularly a Chardonnay), but Coppola has produced some rather tasty wines including a scrumptious Merlots and a Claret or two, so I am inclined to believe there may be something of note.
It seems to me that impinging upon the liberty of an entire state is a little bit too extreme. Perhaps tougher penalties and larger fines for people who actually drive drunk would be a better idea."
It seems to me that the burden should be placed upon those that have already proven they are not trustworthy enough to operate a vehicle without being impaired. The other issue is that we need to enforce the laws that already exist rather than letting people continue to operate vehicles after a DUI (or two or three or more). However, if DUI were really as socially unacceptable as it is in some other countries, perhaps we would not have the incidence of DUI that we have.
There are many many folks that have been using multiple monitors for a while. I got my MacIIsi and had two monitors running back in 1988 and every computer since then (except for most of my Windows systems and a couple SGI's) have had multiple displays. The advantages are simply too many to count, but historically the applications for multiple displays have run the gamut from financial displays of information to a system we had based on WinNT that was seriously hacked (read expensive) to have three displays for electroencephalographic information back in 1990. My current system is a G5 with dual Cinema Displays for maximum desktop real estate which provides me with the room I need for our graphics rich analysis of retinal circuitry data. Oh, the second display is also nice to have the iChat list box up along with a terminal window, iTunes and a network activity monitor.
Meh, Seriously..... People are saying how cool this is but multidisplay gaming was being done on my Mac Quadra 840av back in 1989 or 1990 with an application galled Hornet by Graphic Simulations. We had three displays hooked up that could dynamically display front and side views as you moved the plane throughout its axis making virtual air combat much easier. Hornet was apparently written for the Mac natively, but later, when Graphsim decided they were going to write for Windows first and then port the Mac version, we lost the ability to do multidisplays even though the Macintosh had been supporting multiple displays since 1987.
Granted, at the time, a Quadra 840av with three fast NUBUS video cards and three displays were decidedly not cheap, but my point is simply that this is nothing new and when the original Graphsim creators of Hornet included this feature, they knew this was the right way to do it just like the more sophisticated simulators that pilots use for their training.
I've known a couple of folks that own a Saab Draken and Mig-15's and it turns out civilians can own and fly such vehicles. You do need LOA's, and there are other restrictions such as not being able to exceed the sound barrier (at least in US airspace).
Hmmmm. This sounds like the owner might have been Larry Ellison. There have been a number of Mig-29's available in private hands over the years as well as a couple of F-104 Starfighters. I don't know if Larry owned an F-18, or an F-16 but I talked to him at a Java conference (at least I'm pretty sure it was Ellison) years ago and he expressed an interest in obtaining fighter jets like the Mig-29. Someone told me that he recently married, so perhaps his wife would rather he not go "jetting off" and would like him to calm his lifestyle a bit?
I'd be more interested in seeing the data that gets deleted, not the clumps.
Following data clumping, it's really the interactions or the nexus of contact that is interesting. For instance, from a computer science or informational processing perspective, what draws someone to a piece of information? How does one direct information to be most useful? In biological systems, the nexus points are where life happens. For instance, the small molecular fluxes that are constantly providing for molecular signaling, protein synthesis etc.... Information is not lost per se, rather there are information fluxes.
So, to answer your question of stars, it could simply be that a particular star is off the main sequence because of earlier smaller phenomenon that resulted in its appearance much later off the main sequence. Alterations in gravity? Interactions with a binary star? Alterations of proton-proton chains?
But do the companies behind these services have any idea of what is hidden inside their complicated networks?
I have often wondered this about Slashdot itself. It would appear to me that Slashdot would provide an ideal means to mine data on complex interactions that may have implications for anything from database design to network load analysis or perhaps the results may even apply to the modeling of biological systems. The owners of Slashdot would be missing something big if they were not examining Slashdot very carefully.
Mapping the Internet only has so many applications, but if one really wanted to make an obscene amount of money, figuring out how to model systems is where it would be.
Wired has a story that details some of the difficulties that Project LiMux seems to be experiencing in Munich. Including financial and technical issues.
What this experiment will have to do is prove that Linux can do it for less money and be more efficient than proprietary solutions such as Windows.
Studies on open-source security, desktop ergonomics and the software components' stability and compatibility with other applications will be included in the process.
For my money, I would have bet on OS X providing a better system from these perspectives.
IBM and Germany-based Linux distributor SuSE are expected to help offset the costs of the migration by supplying technical support and conducting some of the studies that the Munich city council has requested.
This will most likely be of huge importance in maintaining this transition, but more support may be needed in bringing custom applications from Windows to Linux.
I have been researching a few medical schools as of late, because I wan't to get my DO (doctor of osteopathy) which is the same as an MD.
Think carefully about where you want to live if you get a DO. CME (continuing medical education) credits can be more difficult if you live in places where DO schools are not as popular (like the west). CME credits if you have an MD are decidedly easier to obtain. Now, that does not necessarily mean you should not go for the DO as there are some advantages, (but there are disadvantages as well). Some residency programs also (although they will not admit it) prefer an MD versus a DO, although DO's can sometimes get superior training depending upon where they go.
Our ophthalmology residency training program is fairly hard to get into and we do have a DO in our program here at the Moran Eye Center, but I have not supervised him and cannot comment on his abilities.
I hear there has been a shift in the last 10 to 20 years as far as what medical schools are looking for from applicants. They want people who know exactly why they want to be physicians.
Not really. There has been a gradual shift however, in the demographics of a small minority of the applicants with some folks being older when they apply.
I know several fellow paramedics who have just been accepted into medical school with average MCAT scores and are over the of 25.
However, don't fool yourself in the many schools weigh the MCAT score quite heavily as they do prove to be a reasonably reliable indicator of performance in your first two years of medical school. (classroom time).
As far as medicine being expensive in the West, there are alot more factors contributing to the expenses than a physician's salary.
Now, this you are absolutely correct on. The influence of insurance and HMO's has lead to significant increases in the cost of medicine. But more importantly, (with respect to the cost of medicine) the western consumer of medical services has insisted upon higher quality of medical care which includes expensive new technologies.
Right. I will have to absolutely agree with everything you say here. And in fact, I (and others) would suggest that this is just why certain companies (eg Disney among others) are in trouble. One can only produce garbage for so long before people move to another medium.
With music, for example, they know they're looking for 60 minutes (even 40 minutes these days?) of produced, committee-written whatever, a warm, silicone body to sing it and move it out the door. Gold album.
Well, I guess we know what kind of music you listen to.:-) Seriously though, your logic is all over the place, so I am not quite sure of what you are trying to say other than to simply be disagreeable. However, I will respond with "you have not spent any real time putting music together (or you simply don't care) if you think music is plug and play like that". Real music is a craft that makes a statement about who you are, what you believe or what you feel. Sometimes that does not fit within a defined time schedule.
Look, delays hurt *all* kinds of businesses. This is why most companies who know what they are doing do not comment on future products, and some (like Apple) go to great lengths to keep folks from knowing about projects in the works. Other companies who are less capable try and build enthusiasm by pre-announcing products to say, "Hey, look how cool we are".
Automatic mosaicking is generally done using the spacecraft positioning information.
This is the problem we face. With imagery obtained from the light and electron microscope, there is no embedded fiducial information. Therefore, we need to use some degree of correlation or image comparison to mosaic images.
Automatic registration? It doesn't exist (yet).
Yeah, this is indeed why I want a couple of CS grad students to work on the problem as we have different "types" of images that are really of the same thing. So, the problem is a rather sophisticated one.
I don't know what other NASA packages there might be out there like this, if there are any. I'll ask around.
Out of curiosity, which NASA image processing software are you referring to?
Specifically, I am interested in code that can perform automated image mosaicing, also automated registration of images obtained through different modalities and code that will allow unsupervised k-means and/or ISODATA image classification/clustering of multispectral images.
There must be at least one slashdotter who could dream up a use for NASA software.
Absolutely there is. I can think of a number of potential applications of NASA image processing software to our research in neuroscience. Right now, we are having to either purchase code written for the GIS markets to do what we want, custom write routines in a language such as IDL, or get some computer science graduate students to work for us custom creating code. We are doing the first two and I am going to start recruiting CS grad. students next week, but things might go a lot faster if we already had a source code base to start with.
This reminds me of that old ad which opens with a guy was trying to hook up his laptop at a huge meeting to start a presentation. He is having problems getting things to work and people are yelling suggestions from the audience: "Try c: start!" or something like that. This goes on for some time with different people yelling various suggestions and then at the very end when it appears things are not going to work, someone yells: "get a Mac!" The ad then fades out.... I suppose for the Linux crowd, the yell could be "get a Penguin" or "get a boxen", but the sentiment is the same: Do something.....Do anything......but do not continue to use that unsecured Windows box. You are wasting your time and you are wasting my time and costing companies, businesses and governments big time.
They have beautiful workstations. Admittedly my only use of IRIX has been on Computones or NAS* boxes.They did not have prices on the site. That means i cannot afford it if i have to ask. Maybe the Saudi Arabia linux club can, I cannot.
I actually replaced a $40k SGI Octane with a loaded dual G5 for $4500. The service contract on the SGI alone would allow me to purchase a Powerbook every year for what that was running me. Yeah, I switched.
Brain size (in terms of mass) does not have everything to do with intelligence, rather I would more likely believe that brain size (in terms of computational circuits) would be more appropriate. For instance, while human brains are not as big as elephants, we have evolved a convoluted surface topology of the brain to maximize total cortical area devoted to processing. To an impressive degree, so have elephants, but check out their overall topology. elephants have HUGE temporal lobes that may have significance in terms of auditory processing.
You also have to consider that elephant brains while larger actually are a smaller percentage of total body weight than human brains.
"laughter has evolved in the context of joyful play, and that the broad smile has evolved as an expression of nonhostility and friendliness, taking its origin in the expression of fearful submission".
Ah, this must explain why I never felt like smiling during my punk rock days. I was younger, angry and much less secure and could have "evolved" a behavioral approach that prevented my appearing submissive to anybody. (that and I simply thought of myself as one baaaad dude.:-)
If you are going to be diving in colder waters, ScubaPro and others make insulated first stage regulator systems that really do work at preventing icing.
So, I have been attending vicariously via conversations with friends and family that are at the meeting in San Diego. It turns out that yes, indeed one gets a royally painful headache when wearing these things, but when given the alternative......
Actually, TPA treatment is dramatically effective if given within the time window of effectiveness, but as the article alluded to there are other issues with treatment of stroke via TPA, specifically one has to ensure that the stroke is an embolic stroke (meaning a blocking off of blood flow) as opposed to a hemorrhagic stroke (meaning a leak in blood vessels of the brain) as TPA can worsen a stroke that is hemorrhagic in nature. So, careful diagnosis becomes critical. Additionally, TPA administration itself can be a little tricky and can cause a fair risk of damage, but again the alternative.....
Slashdot Mirror
Yup, your a yup from SF...
Nope. A former punk rocker from Texas is closer to the mark.
With the recent advances in wine making (and even some old fashioned blending) it is possible to get good wines even without the best soil or climate.
The classic example of this is the blended wines from Jadot in France. They have blended some exquisite wines that are quite reasonable in price.
Wonder if there's any spots on that ranch left that can make a good Star Wars movie?
:-)
Oh, the cynicism.
Seriously though, growing wines in west Marin leaves me wondering about the quality of these wines (particularly a Chardonnay), but Coppola has produced some rather tasty wines including a scrumptious Merlots and a Claret or two, so I am inclined to believe there may be something of note.
It seems to me that impinging upon the liberty of an entire state is a little bit too extreme. Perhaps tougher penalties and larger fines for people who actually drive drunk would be a better idea."
It seems to me that the burden should be placed upon those that have already proven they are not trustworthy enough to operate a vehicle without being impaired. The other issue is that we need to enforce the laws that already exist rather than letting people continue to operate vehicles after a DUI (or two or three or more). However, if DUI were really as socially unacceptable as it is in some other countries, perhaps we would not have the incidence of DUI that we have.
But how many people really have two monitors?
There are many many folks that have been using multiple monitors for a while. I got my MacIIsi and had two monitors running back in 1988 and every computer since then (except for most of my Windows systems and a couple SGI's) have had multiple displays. The advantages are simply too many to count, but historically the applications for multiple displays have run the gamut from financial displays of information to a system we had based on WinNT that was seriously hacked (read expensive) to have three displays for electroencephalographic information back in 1990. My current system is a G5 with dual Cinema Displays for maximum desktop real estate which provides me with the room I need for our graphics rich analysis of retinal circuitry data. Oh, the second display is also nice to have the iChat list box up along with a terminal window, iTunes and a network activity monitor.
Meh, Seriously..... People are saying how cool this is but multidisplay gaming was being done on my Mac Quadra 840av back in 1989 or 1990 with an application galled Hornet by Graphic Simulations. We had three displays hooked up that could dynamically display front and side views as you moved the plane throughout its axis making virtual air combat much easier. Hornet was apparently written for the Mac natively, but later, when Graphsim decided they were going to write for Windows first and then port the Mac version, we lost the ability to do multidisplays even though the Macintosh had been supporting multiple displays since 1987.
Granted, at the time, a Quadra 840av with three fast NUBUS video cards and three displays were decidedly not cheap, but my point is simply that this is nothing new and when the original Graphsim creators of Hornet included this feature, they knew this was the right way to do it just like the more sophisticated simulators that pilots use for their training.
I've known a couple of folks that own a Saab Draken and Mig-15's and it turns out civilians can own and fly such vehicles. You do need LOA's, and there are other restrictions such as not being able to exceed the sound barrier (at least in US airspace).
Hmmmm. This sounds like the owner might have been Larry Ellison. There have been a number of Mig-29's available in private hands over the years as well as a couple of F-104 Starfighters. I don't know if Larry owned an F-18, or an F-16 but I talked to him at a Java conference (at least I'm pretty sure it was Ellison) years ago and he expressed an interest in obtaining fighter jets like the Mig-29. Someone told me that he recently married, so perhaps his wife would rather he not go "jetting off" and would like him to calm his lifestyle a bit?
I'd be more interested in seeing the data that gets deleted, not the clumps.
Following data clumping, it's really the interactions or the nexus of contact that is interesting. For instance, from a computer science or informational processing perspective, what draws someone to a piece of information? How does one direct information to be most useful? In biological systems, the nexus points are where life happens. For instance, the small molecular fluxes that are constantly providing for molecular signaling, protein synthesis etc.... Information is not lost per se, rather there are information fluxes.
So, to answer your question of stars, it could simply be that a particular star is off the main sequence because of earlier smaller phenomenon that resulted in its appearance much later off the main sequence. Alterations in gravity? Interactions with a binary star? Alterations of proton-proton chains?
But do the companies behind these services have any idea of what is hidden inside their complicated networks?
I have often wondered this about Slashdot itself. It would appear to me that Slashdot would provide an ideal means to mine data on complex interactions that may have implications for anything from database design to network load analysis or perhaps the results may even apply to the modeling of biological systems. The owners of Slashdot would be missing something big if they were not examining Slashdot very carefully.
Mapping the Internet only has so many applications, but if one really wanted to make an obscene amount of money, figuring out how to model systems is where it would be.
Wired has a story that details some of the difficulties that Project LiMux seems to be experiencing in Munich. Including financial and technical issues.
What this experiment will have to do is prove that Linux can do it for less money and be more efficient than proprietary solutions such as Windows.
Studies on open-source security, desktop ergonomics and the software components' stability and compatibility with other applications will be included in the process.
For my money, I would have bet on OS X providing a better system from these perspectives.
IBM and Germany-based Linux distributor SuSE are expected to help offset the costs of the migration by supplying technical support and conducting some of the studies that the Munich city council has requested.
This will most likely be of huge importance in maintaining this transition, but more support may be needed in bringing custom applications from Windows to Linux.
I have been researching a few medical schools as of late, because I wan't to get my DO (doctor of osteopathy) which is the same as an MD.
Think carefully about where you want to live if you get a DO. CME (continuing medical education) credits can be more difficult if you live in places where DO schools are not as popular (like the west). CME credits if you have an MD are decidedly easier to obtain. Now, that does not necessarily mean you should not go for the DO as there are some advantages, (but there are disadvantages as well). Some residency programs also (although they will not admit it) prefer an MD versus a DO, although DO's can sometimes get superior training depending upon where they go.
Our ophthalmology residency training program is fairly hard to get into and we do have a DO in our program here at the Moran Eye Center, but I have not supervised him and cannot comment on his abilities.
I hear there has been a shift in the last 10 to 20 years as far as what medical schools are looking for from applicants. They want people who know exactly why they want to be physicians.
Not really. There has been a gradual shift however, in the demographics of a small minority of the applicants with some folks being older when they apply.
I know several fellow paramedics who have just been accepted into medical school with average MCAT scores and are over the of 25.
However, don't fool yourself in the many schools weigh the MCAT score quite heavily as they do prove to be a reasonably reliable indicator of performance in your first two years of medical school. (classroom time).
As far as medicine being expensive in the West, there are alot more factors contributing to the expenses than a physician's salary.
Now, this you are absolutely correct on. The influence of insurance and HMO's has lead to significant increases in the cost of medicine. But more importantly, (with respect to the cost of medicine) the western consumer of medical services has insisted upon higher quality of medical care which includes expensive new technologies.
Right. I will have to absolutely agree with everything you say here. And in fact, I (and others) would suggest that this is just why certain companies (eg Disney among others) are in trouble. One can only produce garbage for so long before people move to another medium.
With music, for example, they know they're looking for 60 minutes (even 40 minutes these days?) of produced, committee-written whatever, a warm, silicone body to sing it and move it out the door. Gold album.
:-) Seriously though, your logic is all over the place, so I am not quite sure of what you are trying to say other than to simply be disagreeable. However, I will respond with "you have not spent any real time putting music together (or you simply don't care) if you think music is plug and play like that". Real music is a craft that makes a statement about who you are, what you believe or what you feel. Sometimes that does not fit within a defined time schedule.
Well, I guess we know what kind of music you listen to.
And how does this relate to delays in business?
Look, delays hurt *all* kinds of businesses. This is why most companies who know what they are doing do not comment on future products, and some (like Apple) go to great lengths to keep folks from knowing about projects in the works. Other companies who are less capable try and build enthusiasm by pre-announcing products to say, "Hey, look how cool we are".
Automatic mosaicking is generally done using the spacecraft positioning information.
:-)
This is the problem we face. With imagery obtained from the light and electron microscope, there is no embedded fiducial information. Therefore, we need to use some degree of correlation or image comparison to mosaic images.
Automatic registration? It doesn't exist (yet).
Yeah, this is indeed why I want a couple of CS grad students to work on the problem as we have different "types" of images that are really of the same thing. So, the problem is a rather sophisticated one.
I don't know what other NASA packages there might be out there like this, if there are any. I'll ask around.
Thank you.
Out of curiosity, which NASA image processing software are you referring to?
Specifically, I am interested in code that can perform automated image mosaicing, also automated registration of images obtained through different modalities and code that will allow unsupervised k-means and/or ISODATA image classification/clustering of multispectral images.
There must be at least one slashdotter who could dream up a use for NASA software.
Absolutely there is. I can think of a number of potential applications of NASA image processing software to our research in neuroscience. Right now, we are having to either purchase code written for the GIS markets to do what we want, custom write routines in a language such as IDL, or get some computer science graduate students to work for us custom creating code. We are doing the first two and I am going to start recruiting CS grad. students next week, but things might go a lot faster if we already had a source code base to start with.
This reminds me of that old ad which opens with a guy was trying to hook up his laptop at a huge meeting to start a presentation. He is having problems getting things to work and people are yelling suggestions from the audience: "Try c: start!" or something like that. This goes on for some time with different people yelling various suggestions and then at the very end when it appears things are not going to work, someone yells: "get a Mac!" The ad then fades out.... I suppose for the Linux crowd, the yell could be "get a Penguin" or "get a boxen", but the sentiment is the same: Do something.....Do anything......but do not continue to use that unsecured Windows box. You are wasting your time and you are wasting my time and costing companies, businesses and governments big time.
They have beautiful workstations. Admittedly my only use of IRIX has been on Computones or NAS* boxes.They did not have prices on the site. That means i cannot afford it if i have to ask. Maybe the Saudi Arabia linux club can, I cannot.
I actually replaced a $40k SGI Octane with a loaded dual G5 for $4500. The service contract on the SGI alone would allow me to purchase a Powerbook every year for what that was running me. Yeah, I switched.
Brain size (in terms of mass) does not have everything to do with intelligence, rather I would more likely believe that brain size (in terms of computational circuits) would be more appropriate. For instance, while human brains are not as big as elephants, we have evolved a convoluted surface topology of the brain to maximize total cortical area devoted to processing. To an impressive degree, so have elephants, but check out their overall topology. elephants have HUGE temporal lobes that may have significance in terms of auditory processing.
You also have to consider that elephant brains while larger actually are a smaller percentage of total body weight than human brains.
"laughter has evolved in the context of joyful play, and that the broad smile has evolved as an expression of nonhostility and friendliness, taking its origin in the expression of fearful submission".
:-)
Ah, this must explain why I never felt like smiling during my punk rock days. I was younger, angry and much less secure and could have "evolved" a behavioral approach that prevented my appearing submissive to anybody. (that and I simply thought of myself as one baaaad dude.
If you are going to be diving in colder waters, ScubaPro and others make insulated first stage regulator systems that really do work at preventing icing.
So, I have been attending vicariously via conversations with friends and family that are at the meeting in San Diego. It turns out that yes, indeed one gets a royally painful headache when wearing these things, but when given the alternative......
Actually, TPA treatment is dramatically effective if given within the time window of effectiveness, but as the article alluded to there are other issues with treatment of stroke via TPA, specifically one has to ensure that the stroke is an embolic stroke (meaning a blocking off of blood flow) as opposed to a hemorrhagic stroke (meaning a leak in blood vessels of the brain) as TPA can worsen a stroke that is hemorrhagic in nature. So, careful diagnosis becomes critical. Additionally, TPA administration itself can be a little tricky and can cause a fair risk of damage, but again the alternative.....
Yeah, digital evidence tampering makes you worry about stuff like this