Possibly because not all patients were taking 4 pills per day. From the summary - "Until now, doctors have been able to optimize dosage for each patient by prescribing up to four small-dose pills of it per day." The up to implies some were taking less than that.
From the title/summary it sounded like they had progressed to the point of making "square" sheets. As far as the article/video shows, it's really a copper coated ribbon?
Still very impressive!
"Most modern operating systems, including Macs , only run code-signed apps by default."
1. Acquire source
2. $COMPILER
3../a.out
I must not understand, anything really. Can someone clear this up, or is this just some slow Sunday news?
If you believe anything in nature plays by fair rules, you're mistaken and wrong. The maximum the market will bear is inline with reality.
I'm not saying it doesn't suck, just that it's true.
I know it's fun to hate on $INDUSTRY, but lets get down to the technology here, the science, and what is possible today that wasn't possible five years ago. We can argue about the costs later, it fundamentally doesn't matter. No single person will pay $850K for this treatment, it'll be insurance, charity, etc.
What has been developed is a virus that introduces DNA into specific regions of the body. It's really mind-blowing! Think of the possibilities this opens into other treatments. We may be able to adapt the science heal lungs in those born with cystic fibrosis, repair hearts of children born with cardiomyopathy, cure Type I/II diabetes, etc.
Besides, if Toyota had to build only as many cars, as patients received this treatment, those would cost a million bucks too! The price seems reasonable for the amount of work that was surely required.
You're also ignoring that we could do similar actions for fuel tanks.
Proposition 1 : when a battery has exhausted its capacity, replace it with another that is fully charged.
Proposition 2 : when a fuel tank is empty, slide in another that has already been filled.
Yes, I know you can't simply pop in another fuel tank to existing planes, but with a redesign like you're talking about, they modifications could be made just the same.
Always check your units!
Your units are wrong! cried the teacher.
Your church weighs six joules — what a feature!
And the people inside
Are four hours wide,
And eight gauss away from the preacher!
-David Morin
I think it's fantastic that we're making progress with 'smart pattern matching'. However, I still get disappointed when I read the hardware specs required to do so. Imagine for a moment: 5 humans competing in a highly complex game with several hundred inputs to each player; spatial, acoustic, thermal, temporal etc. The complex task of facial recognition of multiple players, and how that relates to our 'operating system'. Hiding your own emotions, doing the best you can with statistics, the sounds, the environment, etc. The total thermal dissipated power of the brains at the table of 5 players is on the order of 100W? The short term memory capacity on the order of kilobits?
To me, this isn't even a 'game' in the sense that there's any chance for competition. No human can (as in gets the opportunity to) analyze the complete history of an individuals games. No human can spend more than ~40W of TDP at any given time, and the memory limit, while not a well defined quantity is certainly much much less than the memory available to the cluster.
For this to be a fair game, they should plug the entire system into a 2,000 Calorie battery, and run it till end of each day, with a memory limited to the span of interaction with a group of players. Else it's just an exercise in how many teslas you can afford to throw at a concurrent problem.
Explain how it is nonsensical. I was simply refuting the claim that "Coal is the least efficient method of power generation in the commercial market." The numbers I stated are found in many different sources. I've also worked on photovoltaics.
While I agree with your sentiment, coal burning power plants are more efficient than solar arrays. Coal plants by themselves often average between 30-40% efficiency. Silicon based solar arrays have a lab-value maximum right now at ~25% efficiency. It gets even lower for the thin-film based solar cells, such as those based on ITO and CdTe, 10-16%.
I'd say this is a pretty pessimistic viewpoint. If we could eliminate HIV in 98% of patients today, it'd go a long way in terms of eradication. Combined with preventative care, you'd be looking at just over 1 million lives changed for the better in the US alone.
Not only that, but the time gained from 2% -> 100% again (worst case scenario) would give needed time for further research.
No, in fact, it's probably worse.
As it is guaranteed to not have any meaningful clinical results, the only remaining thing you can get from a bottle is contamination. So, while gaining nothing, you run the risk of ingesting contamination, mechanical, bacterial, viral, etc.
So in that regard, homeopathy 0.
The summary sounds like an obvious plug for system76. I'm not saying it's bad, because what the summary says, is in fact true. I've compared them myself. I even have a System76 desktop and am pleased with it.
However, and advertisement disguised as an article is still and advertisement.
I'd like to offer a counter point to your argument.
The tech used here to reveal the text locked into the burnt scroll is amazing, but not necessarily new. MRI decoding of documents has been demonstrated before, and while painstakingly tedious no doubt, doesn't represent a "new" breakthrough. The difference in this case, is that we aren't recovering an 8 year old tax return of Joe the Plummer, we're recovering a document that is of historical significance to a significant portion of the population of the world. Since there is no new technology to debate, we're left discussing the significance of the findings, which is pretty much null since we already have the book of Leviticus. Since there's no new tech, and no new findings, I guess we're left with a discussion of "why is it significant to have these writings at all", ie the debate of whether or not religion is necessary or factual in the first place.
So while it's easy to classify all things not related to the discovery of room temperature superconductors as redditt fodder, I think you're missing the point of what/. is in the first place, a place for discussion among tech-minded people, about things that more or less relate to tech.
I was going to post something similar. I hate comparisons like these. The 'ants' are pulling against the rolling resistance of the car, not the car laying on its side, as would be the case with the tower equivalent weights. Unless you had some gigantic roller bearings to slide them across.
I doub't it would have much effect. You cannot stop human nature. Besides the view that sex is "bad, dirty, evil..ect", I'm going to throw a broad sweeping generalization that most men in a household take care of the tech stuff anyways, and will answer the question with a "no" and go on about their business, or answer "yes" and set the limits to off.
Asking the "Do you support more use of drone aircraft to attack suspected terrorists?" against what was probably a large group of 15-22 year old males, is probably why the results are misleading. It's a loaded question. Of course they would respond with "yes". A better question would have been "Do you support taking military action, which may result in untold civilian murder, against alleged terrorists?, and if so, what is your banks routing number?" The results would surely have been more swayed towards no. An even better question would have been "In the event of a government sponsord asassination, which results in X deaths, who is to be held responsible for those X deaths, and if no evidence of malice is found on behalf of (X-Y) victims, what should the punishment of the government be?"
There are way too many hidden variables in this type of question to take any valid results away from a poll like this.
If one reads the article, in the last paragraph the statement occurs:
"Time crystals may sound dangerously close to a perpetual motion machine, but it is worth emphasizing one key difference: while time crystals would indeed move periodically in an eternal loop, rotation occurs in the ground state, with no work being carried out nor any usable energy being extracted from the system."
They aren't proposing "mechanical perpetual motion" like we are probably all thinking at first glance. The crystal isn't doing anything abnormal. No energy is to be gained from the system, so at least mechanically, nothing is happening.
I've read most all of his books, starting in high school. I doubt I would have half the imagination or curiosity about space as I do now without some of his ideas.
If you have been anywhere near any tech site in the last year or more, you would know that firefox has gone mad with the numbering scheme. So, either you've been offline for longer than usual, or are trolling mozilla.
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Possibly because not all patients were taking 4 pills per day. From the summary - "Until now, doctors have been able to optimize dosage for each patient by prescribing up to four small-dose pills of it per day." The up to implies some were taking less than that.
From the title/summary it sounded like they had progressed to the point of making "square" sheets. As far as the article/video shows, it's really a copper coated ribbon? Still very impressive!
And now they've conned gullible liberals into taking away your guns so you can't fix it like you were supposed to.
Perhaps you don't live in the US, but there hasn't been any attempt to remove guns from anyone. You didn't happen to post this from Russia, did you?
Why would I ask google, when I could ask slashdot? That's as insane as asking someone to rtfm.
"Most modern operating systems, including Macs , only run code-signed apps by default." 1. Acquire source 2. $COMPILER 3. ./a.out
I must not understand, anything really. Can someone clear this up, or is this just some slow Sunday news?
Please, Tell us how you really feel.
If you believe anything in nature plays by fair rules, you're mistaken and wrong. The maximum the market will bear is inline with reality. I'm not saying it doesn't suck, just that it's true.
I know it's fun to hate on $INDUSTRY, but lets get down to the technology here, the science, and what is possible today that wasn't possible five years ago. We can argue about the costs later, it fundamentally doesn't matter. No single person will pay $850K for this treatment, it'll be insurance, charity, etc. What has been developed is a virus that introduces DNA into specific regions of the body. It's really mind-blowing! Think of the possibilities this opens into other treatments. We may be able to adapt the science heal lungs in those born with cystic fibrosis, repair hearts of children born with cardiomyopathy, cure Type I/II diabetes, etc. Besides, if Toyota had to build only as many cars, as patients received this treatment, those would cost a million bucks too! The price seems reasonable for the amount of work that was surely required.
As opposed to having a large truck full of fuel drive up beside the plane, attach a hose to it, and transfer the fuel that way?
You're also ignoring that we could do similar actions for fuel tanks. Proposition 1 : when a battery has exhausted its capacity, replace it with another that is fully charged. Proposition 2 : when a fuel tank is empty, slide in another that has already been filled. Yes, I know you can't simply pop in another fuel tank to existing planes, but with a redesign like you're talking about, they modifications could be made just the same.
Always check your units! Your units are wrong! cried the teacher. Your church weighs six joules — what a feature! And the people inside Are four hours wide, And eight gauss away from the preacher! -David Morin
I think it's fantastic that we're making progress with 'smart pattern matching'. However, I still get disappointed when I read the hardware specs required to do so. Imagine for a moment: 5 humans competing in a highly complex game with several hundred inputs to each player; spatial, acoustic, thermal, temporal etc. The complex task of facial recognition of multiple players, and how that relates to our 'operating system'. Hiding your own emotions, doing the best you can with statistics, the sounds, the environment, etc. The total thermal dissipated power of the brains at the table of 5 players is on the order of 100W? The short term memory capacity on the order of kilobits? To me, this isn't even a 'game' in the sense that there's any chance for competition. No human can (as in gets the opportunity to) analyze the complete history of an individuals games. No human can spend more than ~40W of TDP at any given time, and the memory limit, while not a well defined quantity is certainly much much less than the memory available to the cluster. For this to be a fair game, they should plug the entire system into a 2,000 Calorie battery, and run it till end of each day, with a memory limited to the span of interaction with a group of players. Else it's just an exercise in how many teslas you can afford to throw at a concurrent problem.
Explain how it is nonsensical. I was simply refuting the claim that "Coal is the least efficient method of power generation in the commercial market." The numbers I stated are found in many different sources. I've also worked on photovoltaics.
While I agree with your sentiment, coal burning power plants are more efficient than solar arrays. Coal plants by themselves often average between 30-40% efficiency. Silicon based solar arrays have a lab-value maximum right now at ~25% efficiency. It gets even lower for the thin-film based solar cells, such as those based on ITO and CdTe, 10-16%.
I'd say this is a pretty pessimistic viewpoint. If we could eliminate HIV in 98% of patients today, it'd go a long way in terms of eradication. Combined with preventative care, you'd be looking at just over 1 million lives changed for the better in the US alone. Not only that, but the time gained from 2% -> 100% again (worst case scenario) would give needed time for further research.
No, in fact, it's probably worse. As it is guaranteed to not have any meaningful clinical results, the only remaining thing you can get from a bottle is contamination. So, while gaining nothing, you run the risk of ingesting contamination, mechanical, bacterial, viral, etc. So in that regard, homeopathy 0.
The summary sounds like an obvious plug for system76. I'm not saying it's bad, because what the summary says, is in fact true. I've compared them myself. I even have a System76 desktop and am pleased with it. However, and advertisement disguised as an article is still and advertisement.
I'd like to offer a counter point to your argument. The tech used here to reveal the text locked into the burnt scroll is amazing, but not necessarily new. MRI decoding of documents has been demonstrated before, and while painstakingly tedious no doubt, doesn't represent a "new" breakthrough. The difference in this case, is that we aren't recovering an 8 year old tax return of Joe the Plummer, we're recovering a document that is of historical significance to a significant portion of the population of the world. Since there is no new technology to debate, we're left discussing the significance of the findings, which is pretty much null since we already have the book of Leviticus. Since there's no new tech, and no new findings, I guess we're left with a discussion of "why is it significant to have these writings at all", ie the debate of whether or not religion is necessary or factual in the first place. So while it's easy to classify all things not related to the discovery of room temperature superconductors as redditt fodder, I think you're missing the point of what /. is in the first place, a place for discussion among tech-minded people, about things that more or less relate to tech.
I was going to post something similar. I hate comparisons like these. The 'ants' are pulling against the rolling resistance of the car, not the car laying on its side, as would be the case with the tower equivalent weights. Unless you had some gigantic roller bearings to slide them across.
I doub't it would have much effect. You cannot stop human nature. Besides the view that sex is "bad, dirty, evil..ect", I'm going to throw a broad sweeping generalization that most men in a household take care of the tech stuff anyways, and will answer the question with a "no" and go on about their business, or answer "yes" and set the limits to off.
Asking the "Do you support more use of drone aircraft to attack suspected terrorists?" against what was probably a large group of 15-22 year old males, is probably why the results are misleading. It's a loaded question. Of course they would respond with "yes". A better question would have been "Do you support taking military action, which may result in untold civilian murder, against alleged terrorists?, and if so, what is your banks routing number?" The results would surely have been more swayed towards no. An even better question would have been "In the event of a government sponsord asassination, which results in X deaths, who is to be held responsible for those X deaths, and if no evidence of malice is found on behalf of (X-Y) victims, what should the punishment of the government be?" There are way too many hidden variables in this type of question to take any valid results away from a poll like this.
If one reads the article, in the last paragraph the statement occurs: "Time crystals may sound dangerously close to a perpetual motion machine, but it is worth emphasizing one key difference: while time crystals would indeed move periodically in an eternal loop, rotation occurs in the ground state, with no work being carried out nor any usable energy being extracted from the system." They aren't proposing "mechanical perpetual motion" like we are probably all thinking at first glance. The crystal isn't doing anything abnormal. No energy is to be gained from the system, so at least mechanically, nothing is happening.
I've read most all of his books, starting in high school. I doubt I would have half the imagination or curiosity about space as I do now without some of his ideas.
I would love to watch the video, but it would require Flash. Being Slashdot, is it not possible at this point to load the videos in html5?
If you have been anywhere near any tech site in the last year or more, you would know that firefox has gone mad with the numbering scheme. So, either you've been offline for longer than usual, or are trolling mozilla.