I agree. I was a statistics major in college, and at the time the programming language we had to take was Pascal. C would have been much more useful in hindsight, as I have had to spend some time later picking it up. The program changed a couple of years later too, to C++.
Have you ever tested your immortality devices in terminally ill patients in a double blinded placebo controlled study. For example, have you recruited a cohort of cancer patients, applied a randomization technique whereby one group gets your device(s) and the other receives similar, yet inactive rings and braclets? Certainly, if your products provide immortality then none of the subjects in the active group would die. With that amount of statistical power, it would be simple and relatively cheap to demonstrate your claims.
Distributed computing as a business model will never be feasible. The organizations that might take advantage of such a business are probably capable of using the hundreds or thousands of in-house computers to do something like this with equipment they already have. For example, at my job, we have been asked to install a program on our system that will basically allow the system to be used for distributed processing when it isn't busy.
Why pay for the cow when you can get the milk for free?
You sir, are simply wrong. Expansion packs for games are notoriously poor sellers. If you released a totally open game for free, invariably someone would develop free addons in their spare time. These may not be up to the same quality of a commercial release (maybe they would, not the point), but the price would increase the demand for freebies, while these commercially developed addons would flounder.
The total open sourcing of games would be the death knell for the industry, at least IMO.
Yep, I think you about have it summed up there. Why on earth would anyone want to spend good money on an 'internet appliance' that can do what for you... pull up recipes in the kitchen from a web site? I would rather maintain a general purpose PC, find a recipe that interests me and then, God forbid print the damn thing out. I just don't see these ever replacing a general PC, despite what the industry may wish.
that since Rambus in an intellectual property company, they have no products, only patents. If they lose this lawsuit (i.e., the patents they have are not upheld) they will go away. PC companies are eager to use DDR-SDRAM as opposed to Rambus RDRAM, and that eagerness will only increase if Rambus' patents that they are using to siphon money from RAM mfr's are struck down. The performance of RDRAM does not justify the increased price it commands.
If you are familiar with either of the teams in the Super Bowl, then you know there won't be any "foot on the line" touchdowns. Hell, there won't event be a score. This will be a 4 overtime scoreless tie, eventually decided by a safety. Nice to see that this will be available, as it means that it will sooner or later make it into all games.
This is a remarkable breakthrough in basic research. However, it will take years to determine how to load this reaction with the correct information to attack the disease, if that can be done at all in a safe way. I am hopeful that this will provide a cure for some of these dreaded diseases, but I am not optimistic that it will happen any time soon. The time frame is at least 20-30 years before anything could become generally available based on this, and I think that is a generous estimate of the time required to create a drug of some sort, test it, and get it approved.
In the world of Windows, AIM is widely used by newbies, as is AOL. So when Person A gets set up with AIM, and then person A tells their friends, the user bases grows rapidly (viral marketing). To use IRC, first of all, you have to know that it exists, and then you have to figure out how to use it. I personally don't think it's that tough, but your average AOL user probably wouldn't.
I couldn't care less about discussing a game that does not exist. I don't understand the need by so many web sites to pump the hell out of a game that has not even been released. The game will never be able to live up to the hype.
I could also do without the political commentary in a game. I want lethal weapons, damn it! After all, it is only a game.
NASA can't even land a probe on Mars without smashing it into bits. It seems unlikely that they would be able to precisely target a section of ocean and successfully hit it, given the track record of incomptence.
Hello? If you access the internet via a public resource such as a school or publid library, then you shouldn't expect much privacy. As stated, these are logged and as such, are public property subject to the FOI act. Seems like a no-brainer.
As a part time grad student in statistics, I was mortified to find this had been taken offline last night as I was doing a homework assignment. I am in terrible pain!
Unfortunately, there are a good deal of mathematical items that are not going to be found in a textbook with an expired copyright. For example, the proof that Gamma(1/4) is a transcendental number was only recently published. This would be a viable solution for elementary calculus references, but for some of the more cutting edge stuff, I don't think this would work.
It is a shame that we will probably never see anything as successful as Pioneer again. It is far easier politically for politicians to spend public money on vote buying programs like prescription drugs than on not so popular (read: no votes directly linked to) space exploration programs. The best days of NASA are long past. Tis unfortunate.
I agree, especically in this case, where a blood disorder could lead to leukemia. Also, it is worth noting that pediatric leukemia has a 70% cure rate (see here for example). Now I admit, chemotherapy for a child (or anyone) is unpleasant, but dealing with these sorts of adversities is what makes families closer together and is an important part of the human experience (IMHO, btw).
Where do you draw the line? If the disease is merely unpleasant but not life threatening, is that a situation where a technique like this could be applied? I am amazed at the scientific acheivement, but at the same time, I am concerned about the "slippery slope".
Honestly, what would you expect M$ to do? The remedy that will be imposed will most likely be harsh (deservedly so), so as a company they are in no hurry to receive it. If Bush wins the election and they can delay these proceedings (by whatever means) until >Jan 20, then this antitrust action will disappear.
This is the only logical tactic that they can employ at this point.
The cellular phone market (in the US anyway) will not be running out of customers any time soon, despite what this article says. There are at least a couple of reasons for this.
1) Disposable (cheap and low quality) phones, targeted towards the non-tech savvy consumer. You buy the phone with xxx number of minutes, and when these are used up, toss it out.
2) As the prices continue to drop, the cellular phone will replace the local monopoly phone companies (Baby Bells) for a majority of homes in the US. In 10-15 years, a "regular" phone line in a home will look as quaint as an old rotary dial phone does today. This transformation will only increase the bottom line for cell phone cos, as they can expand their business into the home phone market.
3) And, as always, there will be those who must be on the bleeding edge of all technology who must have the latest and greatest. This will push along the R&D efforts of the cell phone mfg's, and add to the companies bottom line.
Well, I do share files on Guntella. I leave it running overnights and let whoever leech all night long. Granted, when a load of people get on, it bogs down since I only have cable modem upload speed, but I feel obligated to give something back. I have gotten some reasonably rare stuff from Gnutella, and I think it is only reasonable to share when possible. However, if I get up in the morning and I have something to do, I will cut it off mid stream. I can't let it siphon my bandwidth when I have real work to get done.
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I agree. I was a statistics major in college, and at the time the programming language we had to take was Pascal. C would have been much more useful in hindsight, as I have had to spend some time later picking it up. The program changed a couple of years later too, to C++.
Now if only they could come up with a way to proliferate prostitution over the web!
Have you ever tested your immortality devices in terminally ill patients in a double blinded placebo controlled study. For example, have you recruited a cohort of cancer patients, applied a randomization technique whereby one group gets your device(s) and the other receives similar, yet inactive rings and braclets? Certainly, if your products provide immortality then none of the subjects in the active group would die. With that amount of statistical power, it would be simple and relatively cheap to demonstrate your claims.
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Why pay for the cow when you can get the milk for free?
The total open sourcing of games would be the death knell for the industry, at least IMO.
Yep, I think you about have it summed up there. Why on earth would anyone want to spend good money on an 'internet appliance' that can do what for you ... pull up recipes in the kitchen from a web site? I would rather maintain a general purpose PC, find a recipe that interests me and then, God forbid print the damn thing out. I just don't see these ever replacing a general PC, despite what the industry may wish.
Well, when you neglect to pay the employees, it makes it easier to turn a profit. I would imagine that doing that makes recruiting people hard though.
that since Rambus in an intellectual property company, they have no products, only patents. If they lose this lawsuit (i.e., the patents they have are not upheld) they will go away. PC companies are eager to use DDR-SDRAM as opposed to Rambus RDRAM, and that eagerness will only increase if Rambus' patents that they are using to siphon money from RAM mfr's are struck down. The performance of RDRAM does not justify the increased price it commands.
If you are familiar with either of the teams in the Super Bowl, then you know there won't be any "foot on the line" touchdowns. Hell, there won't event be a score. This will be a 4 overtime scoreless tie, eventually decided by a safety. Nice to see that this will be available, as it means that it will sooner or later make it into all games.
This is a remarkable breakthrough in basic research. However, it will take years to determine how to load this reaction with the correct information to attack the disease, if that can be done at all in a safe way. I am hopeful that this will provide a cure for some of these dreaded diseases, but I am not optimistic that it will happen any time soon. The time frame is at least 20-30 years before anything could become generally available based on this, and I think that is a generous estimate of the time required to create a drug of some sort, test it, and get it approved.
Here is the main reason...
In the world of Windows, AIM is widely used by newbies, as is AOL. So when Person A gets set up with AIM, and then person A tells their friends, the user bases grows rapidly (viral marketing). To use IRC, first of all, you have to know that it exists, and then you have to figure out how to use it. I personally don't think it's that tough, but your average AOL user probably wouldn't.
Well, I somehow doubt the Amish would be real concered with registering a TLD.
I couldn't care less about discussing a game that does not exist. I don't understand the need by so many web sites to pump the hell out of a game that has not even been released. The game will never be able to live up to the hype.
I could also do without the political commentary in a game. I want lethal weapons, damn it! After all, it is only a game.
The laws in this country are just, and created by the public will.
In Germany once, the public will was to cook up Jews in ovens.
In the US (and other countries) once (and still), the public will was to enslave other humans.
Yep, can't go wrong following the will of the teeming masses of humanity. Mob rule is fun!
NASA can't even land a probe on Mars without smashing it into bits. It seems unlikely that they would be able to precisely target a section of ocean and successfully hit it, given the track record of incomptence.
Hello? If you access the internet via a public resource such as a school or publid library, then you shouldn't expect much privacy. As stated, these are logged and as such, are public property subject to the FOI act. Seems like a no-brainer.
Hear Hear!
As a part time grad student in statistics, I was mortified to find this had been taken offline last night as I was doing a homework assignment. I am in terrible pain!
Unfortunately, there are a good deal of mathematical items that are not going to be found in a textbook with an expired copyright. For example, the proof that Gamma(1/4) is a transcendental number was only recently published. This would be a viable solution for elementary calculus references, but for some of the more cutting edge stuff, I don't think this would work.
It is a shame that we will probably never see anything as successful as Pioneer again. It is far easier politically for politicians to spend public money on vote buying programs like prescription drugs than on not so popular (read: no votes directly linked to) space exploration programs. The best days of NASA are long past. Tis unfortunate.
I agree, especically in this case, where a blood disorder could lead to leukemia. Also, it is worth noting that pediatric leukemia has a 70% cure rate (see here for example). Now I admit, chemotherapy for a child (or anyone) is unpleasant, but dealing with these sorts of adversities is what makes families closer together and is an important part of the human experience (IMHO, btw).
Where do you draw the line? If the disease is merely unpleasant but not life threatening, is that a situation where a technique like this could be applied? I am amazed at the scientific acheivement, but at the same time, I am concerned about the "slippery slope".
Honestly, what would you expect M$ to do? The remedy that will be imposed will most likely be harsh (deservedly so), so as a company they are in no hurry to receive it. If Bush wins the election and they can delay these proceedings (by whatever means) until >Jan 20, then this antitrust action will disappear.
This is the only logical tactic that they can employ at this point.
What with Al Gore having invented the internet and everything, you would have expected that the gubmint could have at least mustered a "B" ...
Sigh.
The cellular phone market (in the US anyway) will not be running out of customers any time soon, despite what this article says. There are at least a couple of reasons for this.
1) Disposable (cheap and low quality) phones, targeted towards the non-tech savvy consumer. You buy the phone with xxx number of minutes, and when these are used up, toss it out.
2) As the prices continue to drop, the cellular phone will replace the local monopoly phone companies (Baby Bells) for a majority of homes in the US. In 10-15 years, a "regular" phone line in a home will look as quaint as an old rotary dial phone does today. This transformation will only increase the bottom line for cell phone cos, as they can expand their business into the home phone market.
3) And, as always, there will be those who must be on the bleeding edge of all technology who must have the latest and greatest. This will push along the R&D efforts of the cell phone mfg's, and add to the companies bottom line.
Well, I do share files on Guntella. I leave it running overnights and let whoever leech all night long. Granted, when a load of people get on, it bogs down since I only have cable modem upload speed, but I feel obligated to give something back. I have gotten some reasonably rare stuff from Gnutella, and I think it is only reasonable to share when possible. However, if I get up in the morning and I have something to do, I will cut it off mid stream. I can't let it siphon my bandwidth when I have real work to get done.