Belkin is already on my bad list. I bought a USB hub / iPod dock from them a while ago on Woot. When I opened it up, there were a bunch of inserts for compatibility with different versions of iPods and a notice that I could request new inserts in the future.
So, then I got an iPhone 3G. It fits on the dock and works, but there is no insert for stability, so I wrote to Belkin to request an insert... Their response is that this device does not work with the iPhone. I know for a fact that it does work, and given the (mostly) standardized iPod connector, there's no reason this shouldn't work.
I think that Belkin stopped making this model and no longer wants to support it, so instead of saying so, they simply lied and told me that it wouldn't work with my iPhone.
A few of things that I wonder about. 1) Who cares how much you have to take? 1g of this stuff vs 3g of morphine? 500 mg of Tylenol vs 200mg of Ibuprofen. Really, we should care about the effects of the drug, not how much you have to take. 2) So, all this does is prevent the breakdown/re-uptake of our the chemicals that bind to the same receptors that morphine does. So, the effects should be pretty much identical to those of morphine. It's kind of neat, but not all that surprising. 3) What is all this talk about it being "natural" Who cares? They're going to synthesize it anyway. Morphine is "natural" in the same way. "Natural" is a buzzword that makes people feel good about themselves, but really means nearly nothing. 4) I like the band Morphine.
You do realize that there are fees associated with taking a flight to and from an airport right? Same as Starbucks, if the airport is losing money because of their travelers charging laptops, they'll either cover them up or raise landing fees.
Why do you think that the public won't continue to support innovative games by smaller, newer companies? If you go find a bunch of fellow nerds, and build a great game, you should be able to sell it pretty easily.
"In Europe you're allowed to make and sell things that contain non-pasturized dairy products. In the US, you're not" Not entirely true... I can go down to my local co-op and get quite a few dairy products that are not pasturized... and occationally I can find non-pasturized cheeses in the local specialty foods stores.
"(populated by political failures with no background in education whatsoever.)" So, is your idea of a political success someone that does not get elected?
Speaking of this, If anyone ever watches Law & Order, when they have multiple episodes on in a row, there is a max lag between the episodes of about 10-15 seconds.
(they won't think of all the times the power actually did fail when they were using their computer and the UPS saved their butts). How often do you lose power each year? How often is it unexpected (as in not during a thunder storm, ice storm, hurricane...)?
Why? If you're going to sell at a loss, why sell at all? They plan to make it up in volume. Sweet, if you're going to lose money, you might as well do it in volume.
that it will help people that are born blind in the future... as they could then use this new technology to train their visual cortex. As for people already born blind, I'm not sure that this will never allow them to see, just that they will probably not be able to get the same level of results as someone that once had sight.
Actually, it depends on where the blindness occurs... there are several different "kinds" of blindness... problems with the visual cortex, problems with the optic nerve, and problems with the actual eye structure (though I'm sure there are many more)... it is entirely possible for someone to be born with a working visual cortex and optic nerve, but broken eyes that this would be able to help. BTW, Why is this just making news here, now? I saw a spot on CNN probably a year ago or more about a guy that was blind, but had stuff implanted into his brain and a little camera to allow him to see... It's still really cool, but it isn't really new.
Of course, the problem with this is that you don't have to fly. You could drive within this country. (or take a boat to Alaska or Hawaii). Which doesn't require showing your ID (it might for the driver, but that is about driving, not about traveling). Flying isn't a right, it is a privlige, and you may have to give up some of your rights to be able to use the privliged of flying.
Let's see, State university libraries are typically funded by private donations and state budgets (as opposed to federal research grants paying for the research you want free access to). Private university libraries are funded by private donations, endowments, and tuition. Simply saying "hey the government throws a lot of my money at research, and I want to have access to all that costly information for free" doesn't begin to take in the whole picture. You could argue that every season ticket holder owns a part of the athletes that play for their team, but it's a pretty weak arguement. This arguement isn't quite as weak, but it's pretty close.
grants to research institutions pay for the journal subscriptions I'd like to see you back this up, I suspect that you'd find a pretty even mix purchases from grants and libraries. I think that you would find knowlegeable people less interested in reviewing papers for less exclusive journals. I think this process is in part driven by the excessive snobbery in academia.
These papers are publically available, via subscription, visits to public libraries, and purchasing direct reprints. I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea of making these journals cheaper, but unless the government wants to fund the peer review process that papers go through before they are published, and the publication costs of the journals, this may well backfire.
Yeah, I've always wondered why they don't have multiple lasers in optical drives to increase the bandwidth... I could understand this making writing problematic, but it should work just fine for reading
Take the fairly simple excercise of replacing one brain cell with a chip wired to exactly replicate the function of that neuron. Still got a human? Still got conciousness? Now replace the next one? Now replace all of them. Ok, so you've got a machine that is concious, or you have to pick a point where it lost conciousness even though the function is still identical.
The sad thing about Barbara McClintock is that it took them about 40 years to realize the brilliance of her work (and award her a Nobel for it). Part of this is because she was a woman, and part was because she was working on maize when almost everyone else in her field had "moved on" to drosophila. As I recall, she lived out most of the rest of her life as a hermit at some research station.
I hear about Franklin and how she was screwed and forgotten almost more than I hear about Watson and Crick. I don't think we have to worry about her being forgotten anymore. I think that everyone that knows the story of how they found the structure of DNA knows how big a role she played... and of course she died of cancer a few years later... probably a fate met by many scientists using x-rays at the time.
Having listened to Venter talk and met him, I found him to be quite the pompous ass. No dobut that he is a very smart man, well funded, and driven, but not so much of a likeable person.
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Belkin is already on my bad list. I bought a USB hub / iPod dock from them a while ago on Woot. When I opened it up, there were a bunch of inserts for compatibility with different versions of iPods and a notice that I could request new inserts in the future.
So, then I got an iPhone 3G. It fits on the dock and works, but there is no insert for stability, so I wrote to Belkin to request an insert... Their response is that this device does not work with the iPhone. I know for a fact that it does work, and given the (mostly) standardized iPod connector, there's no reason this shouldn't work.
I think that Belkin stopped making this model and no longer wants to support it, so instead of saying so, they simply lied and told me that it wouldn't work with my iPhone.
A few of things that I wonder about.
1) Who cares how much you have to take? 1g of this stuff vs 3g of morphine? 500 mg of Tylenol vs 200mg of Ibuprofen. Really, we should care about the effects of the drug, not how much you have to take.
2) So, all this does is prevent the breakdown/re-uptake of our the chemicals that bind to the same receptors that morphine does. So, the effects should be pretty much identical to those of morphine. It's kind of neat, but not all that surprising.
3) What is all this talk about it being "natural" Who cares? They're going to synthesize it anyway. Morphine is "natural" in the same way. "Natural" is a buzzword that makes people feel good about themselves, but really means nearly nothing.
4) I like the band Morphine.
I really was hoping that a LRAD was going to be a giant Airzooka.
You do realize that there are fees associated with taking a flight to and from an airport right? Same as Starbucks, if the airport is losing money because of their travelers charging laptops, they'll either cover them up or raise landing fees.
Why do you think that the public won't continue to support innovative games by smaller, newer companies? If you go find a bunch of fellow nerds, and build a great game, you should be able to sell it pretty easily.
"In Europe you're allowed to make and sell things that contain non-pasturized dairy products. In the US, you're not"
Not entirely true... I can go down to my local co-op and get quite a few dairy products that are not pasturized... and occationally I can find non-pasturized cheeses in the local specialty foods stores.
"(populated by political failures with no background in education whatsoever.)"
So, is your idea of a political success someone that does not get elected?
Speaking of this, If anyone ever watches Law & Order, when they have multiple episodes on in a row, there is a max lag between the episodes of about 10-15 seconds.
(they won't think of all the times the power actually did fail when they were using their computer and the UPS saved their butts).
How often do you lose power each year? How often is it unexpected (as in not during a thunder storm, ice storm, hurricane...)?
Roads aren't just to make wheels work. They also provide boundaries of where you can't go.
I don't think my Jeep believes you.
Why? If you're going to sell at a loss, why sell at all?
They plan to make it up in volume.
Sweet, if you're going to lose money, you might as well do it in volume.
that it will help people that are born blind in the future... as they could then use this new technology to train their visual cortex. As for people already born blind, I'm not sure that this will never allow them to see, just that they will probably not be able to get the same level of results as someone that once had sight.
Actually, it depends on where the blindness occurs... there are several different "kinds" of blindness... problems with the visual cortex, problems with the optic nerve, and problems with the actual eye structure (though I'm sure there are many more)... it is entirely possible for someone to be born with a working visual cortex and optic nerve, but broken eyes that this would be able to help.
BTW, Why is this just making news here, now? I saw a spot on CNN probably a year ago or more about a guy that was blind, but had stuff implanted into his brain and a little camera to allow him to see... It's still really cool, but it isn't really new.
Of course, the problem with this is that you don't have to fly. You could drive within this country. (or take a boat to Alaska or Hawaii). Which doesn't require showing your ID (it might for the driver, but that is about driving, not about traveling). Flying isn't a right, it is a privlige, and you may have to give up some of your rights to be able to use the privliged of flying.
Let's see, State university libraries are typically funded by private donations and state budgets (as opposed to federal research grants paying for the research you want free access to). Private university libraries are funded by private donations, endowments, and tuition.
Simply saying "hey the government throws a lot of my money at research, and I want to have access to all that costly information for free" doesn't begin to take in the whole picture.
You could argue that every season ticket holder owns a part of the athletes that play for their team, but it's a pretty weak arguement. This arguement isn't quite as weak, but it's pretty close.
grants to research institutions pay for the journal subscriptions
I'd like to see you back this up, I suspect that you'd find a pretty even mix purchases from grants and libraries.
I think that you would find knowlegeable people less interested in reviewing papers for less exclusive journals. I think this process is in part driven by the excessive snobbery in academia.
These papers are publically available, via subscription, visits to public libraries, and purchasing direct reprints.
I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea of making these journals cheaper, but unless the government wants to fund the peer review process that papers go through before they are published, and the publication costs of the journals, this may well backfire.
Yeah, I've always wondered why they don't have multiple lasers in optical drives to increase the bandwidth... I could understand this making writing problematic, but it should work just fine for reading
Take the fairly simple excercise of replacing one brain cell with a chip wired to exactly replicate the function of that neuron. Still got a human? Still got conciousness? Now replace the next one? Now replace all of them. Ok, so you've got a machine that is concious, or you have to pick a point where it lost conciousness even though the function is still identical.
The sad thing about Barbara McClintock is that it took them about 40 years to realize the brilliance of her work (and award her a Nobel for it). Part of this is because she was a woman, and part was because she was working on maize when almost everyone else in her field had "moved on" to drosophila. As I recall, she lived out most of the rest of her life as a hermit at some research station.
I hear about Franklin and how she was screwed and forgotten almost more than I hear about Watson and Crick. I don't think we have to worry about her being forgotten anymore. I think that everyone that knows the story of how they found the structure of DNA knows how big a role she played... and of course she died of cancer a few years later... probably a fate met by many scientists using x-rays at the time.
Having listened to Venter talk and met him, I found him to be quite the pompous ass. No dobut that he is a very smart man, well funded, and driven, but not so much of a likeable person.