Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have made a fundamental discovery relevant to the understanding and treatment of heart failure
It does not say "prevent" heart-failure, anywhere in the article. It is implied in the article that treatment could be greatly improved by this therapy, however, I'm not sure where the line in the summary about prevention comes from.
This is not unexpected, but each revelation just makes the whole situation seem more and more hilarious. The following scenario is probably playing itself out somewhere right now.
NSA Agent 1: "Sir, we've intercepted a French transmission that I think you should take a look at"
NSA Agent 2: "Why, what does it say?"
(Transcript of translated Transmission reads) "Sir, we've intercepted an American transmission that I think you should take a look at"
Worthy idea. Just did that. Turned this up. Friday night, and I'm on a thread about standards. Makes me want to pound myself and tear things limb from limb.
Not just the headline, the summary is rather unclear too. The summary states that
Newly-published research using data commissioned by Congress shows big rises in patent troll activity over the last five years — from 22% to 40% of all patent suits filed, with 4 out of five litigants being patent trolls
However, the actual article states that
Not only has the number of cases increased, but so has the proportion of these non-product-related litigants, from 22 percent to 40 percent of cases filed. They found that four of the top five patent litigants in America exist solely to file lawsuits.
The missing word, in the summary, of course, is TOP, without which the summary makes very little sense, statistics and common-sense wise.
Agreed, there are ethics courses in Business Schools. However, it's also firmly drilled into students that the bottomline is the bottomline, and that it's best not to put your bottom on the line.
Look, I agree that it takes courage to stuff that's considered 'ground-breaking' by others, I do give the guys at Ubuntu respect for that. However consider the following
1) They went the Unity way and alienated all the users like me who use Linux because every single fucking thing is customizable. Not that Unity is not customizable at all, it's just that in terms of customizability it was a horrible, horrible regression. Also, for some insane reason, Ubuntu has become increasingly slow and bloated, I realized this when I made the switch to Arch Linux, on the recommendation of a friend.
2) They make decisions that increasingly cater to users who have just switched over from windows, hoping to give them a similar experience in order to enable painless migration. WAIT. "The same experience?" Seriously? They're running away from the windows experience for heaven's sake. Blow their minds, that's what you're supposed to do.
3) This is my personal belief, I may be wrong, but I think Linux will always remain an OS for the 2%, maybe at most the 5%. Why? Because most people don't want to spend time tweaking their OS, they see it as a waste of time. If Ubuntu keeps trying to cater to these users, trying to make them "switch-over" and thereby alienate their "power-users", I don't see them surviving.
I've tried all the latest releases from the Ubuntu stable, I quadruple boot with Arch as my main OS, I've got Windows 7, OpenSuse and Ubuntu lying around on the other partitions. I currently prefer Ubuntu the least, I'm not kidding, I even like Win7 more. I've been using linux for over 8 years now. I loved Ubuntu at around the time of Hardy Heron. I hate to see the general direction in which they're headed at the moment.
I know you're trolling, but anyway, I've got a galaxy S2 running on Cyanogenmod and I charge it only twice in 3 days. Like c0mpliant, I use my phone to play games, and listen to music quite a lot. When it comes to battery life, this "feature phone" makes any iPhone look bad.
Granted. What I should have said was, perhaps we'll become extinct in as short a timespan as the doomsayers predict. Perhaps it'll take a while longer. Either of those two events would bear little significance in light of the Earth's long history.
The not becoming extinct option, as you've pointed out, is clearly significant.
Perhaps we'll become extinct. Perhaps we won't. In the grand scale of things, either outcome, in light of the Earth's roughly 5 billion year lifespan bears less significance than we'd like to believe
in the previous comment, I mean that I haven't experienced a crash, or the need to reboot in a month. KDE may not be the most bug-free DE out there, but in terms of reliability, I've experienced nothing but improvement over the past few years.
I've been running KDE on arch for the past one month without a single crash. Been using KDE for years now. 4.0 was buggy, but the latest releases are extremely stable. I understand that mine may be an isolated case, but your comment may have an equally unreliable basis. Simply wanted to point that out.
Sorry, I was trolling. I'm not an Apple buff. And I said Cyanide, not Cyanogen:). But I hadn't heard of the iDroid Project before, thanks. Didn't know that something like that existed.
sorry, about that, point accepted. Given that everyone's a doctor at home and given the interchangeable usage of the terms viruses and bugs (biologically speaking of course), I extrapolated the interchangeability to the computer domain. Unintentional, purely.
There are quite a few windows bugs out there. This one makes changes to the registry and moves files and folders around. Most of the other bugs do that anyway. I didn't read the whole article, of course, but it seems like this isn't really all that news-worthy. The only difference that I can see is that it moves more stuff around than the other bugs. Or perhaps there was a point and I missed it.
Agreed. The "white board problem solving" technique is heavily biased towards candidates who "prepare" for interviews and who, in the course of their "preparation" happen to have come across the problem before. As an interview technique, I wouldn't give it much credit.
I'm afraid I have to agree. I haven't developed anything open source/created a savvy personal website/got a bunch of awesome projects to show either, but that doesn't mean that I'm bad or incompetent or *not good enough* to program. I taught myself C, have a fair amount of experience in C++ (company internship), know the ins and outs of matlab as a result of my EE major and taught myself some of the basics of writing shell scripts from an old Kernighan textbook that I found lying around once I started experimenting with linux.
For instance, as part of a localisation project, I had to grab RSSI values from a bunch of wireless routers and I found that a simple shell script did the trick, rather than figuring out what software to buy and install on a windows system.
The point that I'm trying to make is that there are lots of competent programmers (I'm not claiming to be great, simply competent) out there who simply cannot be dismissed purely on the basis of not having anything *great* to their credit.
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I know some people who still use Slashdot
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have made a fundamental discovery relevant to the understanding and treatment of heart failure
It does not say "prevent" heart-failure, anywhere in the article. It is implied in the article that treatment could be greatly improved by this therapy, however, I'm not sure where the line in the summary about prevention comes from.
This is not unexpected, but each revelation just makes the whole situation seem more and more hilarious. The following scenario is probably playing itself out somewhere right now.
NSA Agent 1: "Sir, we've intercepted a French transmission that I think you should take a look at"
NSA Agent 2: "Why, what does it say?"
(Transcript of translated Transmission reads) "Sir, we've intercepted an American transmission that I think you should take a look at"
Worthy idea. Just did that. Turned this up. Friday night, and I'm on a thread about standards. Makes me want to pound myself and tear things limb from limb.
Not yielding an inch, are they? Imagine the impact it would have on Subway.
Newly-published research using data commissioned by Congress shows big rises in patent troll activity over the last five years — from 22% to 40% of all patent suits filed, with 4 out of five litigants being patent trolls
However, the actual article states that
Not only has the number of cases increased, but so has the proportion of these non-product-related litigants, from 22 percent to 40 percent of cases filed. They found that four of the top five patent litigants in America exist solely to file lawsuits.
The missing word, in the summary, of course, is TOP, without which the summary makes very little sense, statistics and common-sense wise.
Agreed, there are ethics courses in Business Schools. However, it's also firmly drilled into students that the bottomline is the bottomline, and that it's best not to put your bottom on the line.
Talk about misleading, I read it as solar erection the first time round
Look, I agree that it takes courage to stuff that's considered 'ground-breaking' by others, I do give the guys at Ubuntu respect for that. However consider the following
1) They went the Unity way and alienated all the users like me who use Linux because every single fucking thing is customizable. Not that Unity is not customizable at all, it's just that in terms of customizability it was a horrible, horrible regression. Also, for some insane reason, Ubuntu has become increasingly slow and bloated, I realized this when I made the switch to Arch Linux, on the recommendation of a friend.
2) They make decisions that increasingly cater to users who have just switched over from windows, hoping to give them a similar experience in order to enable painless migration. WAIT. "The same experience?" Seriously? They're running away from the windows experience for heaven's sake. Blow their minds, that's what you're supposed to do.
3) This is my personal belief, I may be wrong, but I think Linux will always remain an OS for the 2%, maybe at most the 5%. Why? Because most people don't want to spend time tweaking their OS, they see it as a waste of time. If Ubuntu keeps trying to cater to these users, trying to make them "switch-over" and thereby alienate their "power-users", I don't see them surviving. I've tried all the latest releases from the Ubuntu stable, I quadruple boot with Arch as my main OS, I've got Windows 7, OpenSuse and Ubuntu lying around on the other partitions. I currently prefer Ubuntu the least, I'm not kidding, I even like Win7 more. I've been using linux for over 8 years now. I loved Ubuntu at around the time of Hardy Heron. I hate to see the general direction in which they're headed at the moment.
I know you're trolling, but anyway, I've got a galaxy S2 running on Cyanogenmod and I charge it only twice in 3 days. Like c0mpliant, I use my phone to play games, and listen to music quite a lot. When it comes to battery life, this "feature phone" makes any iPhone look bad.
At least, that's what I heard
Granted. What I should have said was, perhaps we'll become extinct in as short a timespan as the doomsayers predict. Perhaps it'll take a while longer. Either of those two events would bear little significance in light of the Earth's long history. The not becoming extinct option, as you've pointed out, is clearly significant.
s/scale/scheme
Does this mean that we may never get to see the year of the Linux Desktop?
Perhaps we'll become extinct. Perhaps we won't. In the grand scale of things, either outcome, in light of the Earth's roughly 5 billion year lifespan bears less significance than we'd like to believe
Oh that's because they were using an i-Phone
in the previous comment, I mean that I haven't experienced a crash, or the need to reboot in a month. KDE may not be the most bug-free DE out there, but in terms of reliability, I've experienced nothing but improvement over the past few years.
I've been running KDE on arch for the past one month without a single crash. Been using KDE for years now. 4.0 was buggy, but the latest releases are extremely stable. I understand that mine may be an isolated case, but your comment may have an equally unreliable basis. Simply wanted to point that out.
Don't piss him off. He knows i-kido
Sorry, I was trolling. I'm not an Apple buff. And I said Cyanide, not Cyanogen :). But I hadn't heard of the iDroid Project before, thanks. Didn't know that something like that existed.
This one's out there somewhere. I'm looking for it.
sorry, about that, point accepted. Given that everyone's a doctor at home and given the interchangeable usage of the terms viruses and bugs (biologically speaking of course), I extrapolated the interchangeability to the computer domain. Unintentional, purely.
There are quite a few windows bugs out there. This one makes changes to the registry and moves files and folders around. Most of the other bugs do that anyway. I didn't read the whole article, of course, but it seems like this isn't really all that news-worthy. The only difference that I can see is that it moves more stuff around than the other bugs. Or perhaps there was a point and I missed it.
Agreed. The "white board problem solving" technique is heavily biased towards candidates who "prepare" for interviews and who, in the course of their "preparation" happen to have come across the problem before. As an interview technique, I wouldn't give it much credit.
I'm afraid I have to agree. I haven't developed anything open source/created a savvy personal website/got a bunch of awesome projects to show either, but that doesn't mean that I'm bad or incompetent or *not good enough* to program. I taught myself C, have a fair amount of experience in C++ (company internship), know the ins and outs of matlab as a result of my EE major and taught myself some of the basics of writing shell scripts from an old Kernighan textbook that I found lying around once I started experimenting with linux. For instance, as part of a localisation project, I had to grab RSSI values from a bunch of wireless routers and I found that a simple shell script did the trick, rather than figuring out what software to buy and install on a windows system. The point that I'm trying to make is that there are lots of competent programmers (I'm not claiming to be great, simply competent) out there who simply cannot be dismissed purely on the basis of not having anything *great* to their credit.