Nobody had to. According to Roberts, it is the court's duty to seek out and find any possible angle to keep a law constitutional. If it fails by one interpretation, use another. Only if everything fails is it struck down.
The market had adequate liquidity before high frequency trading, I challange you to find a reasonable arguemnt that it did not.
On May 6th, 2010, the market experienced a "flash crash". One of the reasons for the severity of the crash was that HF traders withdrew from the market. Without the liquidity they were providing, the volatility of the market became worse.
Last week I tried to drive a coyote out of my house, and it bit me. The only possible conclusion is that keeping coyotes in my home is a benefit to my overall health.
The implication is that Jobs found a doctor and said "Hey, want a nice house? How's about giving me a little bump up that transplant list, eh?" Corruption in medicine, playing with people's lives, and such. From TFS, it doesn't appear to be backed up by much more than some coincidental and very fortuitous timing, but it's a nice conspiracy theory.
In addition, these students did not even solve the stated problem.
Fellow Rice senior MechE student here. And actually, they exactly solved the stated problem. Here are some quotes from the document explaining the project we were given when picking senior projects at the beginning of last semester:
"Problem: To come up with an appropriate design that can link a simple autoclave
(shown below) to the a solarthermal device called the capteur soleil"
...
"The capteur soleil can provide thermal power but has not been coupled with an
autoclave. The goal of this project is to achieve such a coupling. To do this, they will
have to experiment with pressurized lines (like the tube which goes from the
capteur to the device... in this case the autoclave). They will have to work with some
sort of coil (we have several prototypes for inspection) to transfer thermal energy to
the autoclave. They also may need to consider some sort of containment system for
the autoclave (for cooking, another of our applications, we use the plastic drum with
towels as the insulation)."
You, as some sort of software developer I'm guessing, felt quite insulted when someone insinuated that Gnome + Linux = Ubuntu was child's play. You felt it trivialized the work of a team who spent countless hours modifying code to create a simple, easily-replicated system that nearly anyone could use.
Likewise, as an engineer, your ignorance of the difficulties of coupling and interface design insult me. If it were so easy, the entire discipline of systems engineering wouldn't exist. This wasn't just putting an autoclave on a hotplate. It was a year of tireless work to create a coupling system that would be easy to install, would transfer heat effectively enough to provide sterilization even under thick cloud cover, and wouldn't fall to pieces the first time someone kicked it.
You know, this is the second post I've made here on Slashdot. The previous one was defending another Rice senior design project against people claiming it was nothing new, a trivial redesign, etc. So I hope you'll forgive me if I seem a bit annoyed when I say this: seriously, guys, we know what we're doing. If you spot something in an article that looks like a glaring hole in an engineering design, it's probably because the reporter doesn't know enough to include it, and not because we're retarded.
Hey folks,
I'm a senior Mechanical Engineer at Rice, and actually good friends with the people who've spent a year on this project. Nobody involved or even acquainted with this project expected it to be groundbreaking, cutting-edge technology. As a couple posters have already stated, medical forceplates are already accepted devices in many hospitals.
When we were selecting our senior design projects back in September, we were given a 1-page intro to the background and expectations for each project. An exact quote from this project's intro is as follows:
"Balance measuring systems exist in both the medical and home entertainment markets but none are tuned to the special needs of children with impaired balance control. These systems cost $25,000 to $95,000 US and patients must be able to stand and or walk without balance aides such as crutches or a walker. This does
not match the patient population targeted for this project."
As you'll notice, the stress here is not on the forceplate design, but on the price and the current restrictions for use (no crutches allowed). The unique features of Drew's, Matt's, and Michelle's device are not in the force plate, but in the cheap price (about $500) and the innovative handrail design, which allows kids to actually turn physical therapy into a game instead of torturous work.
So rail all you want about "this is nothing new!" We know it's nothing new - that was never the point. But when you take an existing technology and reduce its price by at least 98%, and make it entertaining for kids to use along the way, that's DEFINITELY something to rave about. Take your hating elsewhere!
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Well, yeah. It's the particle that gives things mass. It's only fitting that they announce it during the celebration of the fattest nation on Earth.
Nobody had to. According to Roberts, it is the court's duty to seek out and find any possible angle to keep a law constitutional. If it fails by one interpretation, use another. Only if everything fails is it struck down.
"The provide liquidity"
The market had adequate liquidity before high frequency trading, I challange you to find a reasonable arguemnt that it did not.
On May 6th, 2010, the market experienced a "flash crash". One of the reasons for the severity of the crash was that HF traders withdrew from the market. Without the liquidity they were providing, the volatility of the market became worse.
Last week I tried to drive a coyote out of my house, and it bit me. The only possible conclusion is that keeping coyotes in my home is a benefit to my overall health.
Humans are the only animal known to destroy their own habitat.
I laughed, but then I got a creeping suspicion you were actually serious. Why do people always say this? It's just flat-out wrong.
The implication is that Jobs found a doctor and said "Hey, want a nice house? How's about giving me a little bump up that transplant list, eh?" Corruption in medicine, playing with people's lives, and such. From TFS, it doesn't appear to be backed up by much more than some coincidental and very fortuitous timing, but it's a nice conspiracy theory.
jenningsthecat,
In addition, these students did not even solve the stated problem.
Fellow Rice senior MechE student here. And actually, they exactly solved the stated problem. Here are some quotes from the document explaining the project we were given when picking senior projects at the beginning of last semester:
"Problem: To come up with an appropriate design that can link a simple autoclave (shown below) to the a solarthermal device called the capteur soleil"
"The capteur soleil can provide thermal power but has not been coupled with an autoclave. The goal of this project is to achieve such a coupling. To do this, they will have to experiment with pressurized lines (like the tube which goes from the capteur to the device... in this case the autoclave). They will have to work with some sort of coil (we have several prototypes for inspection) to transfer thermal energy to the autoclave. They also may need to consider some sort of containment system for the autoclave (for cooking, another of our applications, we use the plastic drum with towels as the insulation)."
You, as some sort of software developer I'm guessing, felt quite insulted when someone insinuated that Gnome + Linux = Ubuntu was child's play. You felt it trivialized the work of a team who spent countless hours modifying code to create a simple, easily-replicated system that nearly anyone could use.
Likewise, as an engineer, your ignorance of the difficulties of coupling and interface design insult me. If it were so easy, the entire discipline of systems engineering wouldn't exist. This wasn't just putting an autoclave on a hotplate. It was a year of tireless work to create a coupling system that would be easy to install, would transfer heat effectively enough to provide sterilization even under thick cloud cover, and wouldn't fall to pieces the first time someone kicked it.
You know, this is the second post I've made here on Slashdot. The previous one was defending another Rice senior design project against people claiming it was nothing new, a trivial redesign, etc. So I hope you'll forgive me if I seem a bit annoyed when I say this: seriously, guys, we know what we're doing. If you spot something in an article that looks like a glaring hole in an engineering design, it's probably because the reporter doesn't know enough to include it, and not because we're retarded.
Hey folks, I'm a senior Mechanical Engineer at Rice, and actually good friends with the people who've spent a year on this project. Nobody involved or even acquainted with this project expected it to be groundbreaking, cutting-edge technology. As a couple posters have already stated, medical forceplates are already accepted devices in many hospitals. When we were selecting our senior design projects back in September, we were given a 1-page intro to the background and expectations for each project. An exact quote from this project's intro is as follows: "Balance measuring systems exist in both the medical and home entertainment markets but none are tuned to the special needs of children with impaired balance control. These systems cost $25,000 to $95,000 US and patients must be able to stand and or walk without balance aides such as crutches or a walker. This does not match the patient population targeted for this project." As you'll notice, the stress here is not on the forceplate design, but on the price and the current restrictions for use (no crutches allowed). The unique features of Drew's, Matt's, and Michelle's device are not in the force plate, but in the cheap price (about $500) and the innovative handrail design, which allows kids to actually turn physical therapy into a game instead of torturous work. So rail all you want about "this is nothing new!" We know it's nothing new - that was never the point. But when you take an existing technology and reduce its price by at least 98%, and make it entertaining for kids to use along the way, that's DEFINITELY something to rave about. Take your hating elsewhere!