Can someone please explain why this is necessary? Can't you still just play the song with itunes and record from the wav source with a tool like Audacity? Maybe I'm missing something.
I'm not sure if you are aware of it, but several speech databases are avialable to researchers. Some have licences with a yearly fee, but some are free of charge.
There are actually several types of tympnaoplasties ranging from roughing up the edges of the tear and putting a piece of tape over the hole (works >50% of the time) to drilling out the mastoid bone and putting grafts on both the medial (toward the center for your head) and lateral surfaces of the ear drum. If there isn't an active infection or cholesteatoma almost all TM perfs can be repaired.
As a surgeon, I'm naturally inclined toward surgical repair of the hearing loss caused by ear drum perforations, but if hearing loss is the only concern, a simple analog (cheaper ~$500 US) hearing aid can provide very good results.
I'm an electical engineer and otolaryngologist and while the grandparent's hearing test is similar to the vonBekesey audiogram (a tone sweep where you turn up the volume until you hear the sound) the equipment you will be using is almost surely not professional grade. To be accurate the equipment also needs to be calibrated (audiologists pay $100's for this each year). If you suspect you have a hearing loss I would suggest you see either an audiologist (not a hearing aid dispenser) or a physician. The first step in evaluating a hearing loss is to look in you ear with an otoscope, this is a much better tool to diagnose wax than any hearing test, not to mention damage to the ear canal and ear drum. An audiogram, tympanogram, speech thresholds and acoustic reflexes done by an audiologist who knows how to differentiate conductive from sensorineural losses is the next step. Depending on associated symptoms (tinnitus, vertigo, etc), hearing loss type and configuration, an otolaryngologist can then recommend treatment options which may include hearing aids or surgery.
While a clever attempt at an audiogram on the cheap, the granparent's post is pretty inacurate. Please disregard the diagnoses and see you doctor if you are concerend about your hearing.
It will depend on the size and location of the perforation, but many TM perfs can be repaired by an ENT. If you are near an academic hospital, I would suggest looking for a fellowship trained Otologist (ENT with an extra couple years of training). As long as it isn't currently infected most TM perfs are reconstructable.
The obvious next step is for Apple C to spin off iTunes once it has a big enough income stream to support itself for a year or so. This spinoff could then have an IPO, raising the capital to expand into the music business by acquiring small promising labels. The IPO would then give a kickback to their parent company for being an early investor. Then, just to piss Apple R off they could use the rest of the IPO money to buy back all the Beatles tunes from Michael Jackson.
If we allow politicians the right to decide what is true in science, we are well and truly screwed./I
This is exactly what we are doing under the current system. The primary funding mechanism for scientific research and education is from the government at various levels. Whoever has the money gets to decide what gets taught. I suppose if we all made you dictator you could make those decisions, but in a democracy it is politicians who do.
For some high risk procesures, these simulators are nice, but there is no substitue for working on real live people. Even if the number of Mexican medical school docs has increase, I'm sure tehre are still tons of people in Mexico who recieve no medical care or are on wait lists months long to get live preserving treatment. Why not at least give them a chance at timely treatment, even if it does mean being a learning tool.
What they don't mention is how much waste will be produced in creating the metal-alloy fuel necessary to run the plant. They also fail to mention what waste is necessary to create and maintain the liquid sodium sodium coolant. The fact that none of these reactors are actually in existance today make be tend to believe that while many of the problems (especially safety issues) have been solved in a research environment, they are not yet economically feasible in commercial plants.
I still submit that the waste produced in making one of these plant comercially viable is the primary problem with nuclear power which hasno been solved.
Oh and as to toxicity, a lot of it depends on route of administration. I'm pretty sure that mcg for mcg vaporized plutonium will kill a lot more people in 10 years than Botox or equal amounts of chlorine gas.
My point is that permanent storage is the big problem of nuclear energy. If it is in fact true that 80% of current nuclear waste can be recucled into fuel without significant waste in the mining and refinement process then the prooblem may be closer to solved than I thought. I am however skeptical that 80% of the total waste produced in creating nuclear energy can actually be recycled into fuel and that that waste from that fuel will achieve 80% recyclability.
Any refrences on these claims?
As for underwater casks, I think that is how the Indian gvt is disposing of most of their waste. While some of the problem is political...heck we cant even drill for oil off the Pacific coast..The other problem is practical. Our standards for minimizing environmental impact and even potential impacts are much higher. Proving that leaked waste will not get into ground water in Nevada has stalled one permanent dump site for more than 10 years. I hate to think how long it would take to prove that water was not being contaminated from an underwater dumpsite, much les how expensive it would be to build one which is up to these standards.
You mind mentioning the location of some subduction zones that might be commercially viable? And until a mine is entirely cleared of viable ore, you are not going to be putting waste back in there. Even with some reprocessing, the problem still remains where to store the waste while it cools and the byproducts of reprocessing.
This is such a bogus argument that comes out everytime we talk about nuclear waste. Nuclear waste is THE biggest problem with nuclear power. The cost of permanent disposal is usually not put into the calulations of how much it costs to generate electricity with Nuc plants. Why? Well its because there are not many places that permanent disposal is possible, so pretty much all the waste ends up being stored "temporarily" at the actual power plant. These temporary storage site have much lower hurdles to jump as far as radiation levels and containment standards because they are "temporary".
It is true that Hg and Pb are toxic pretty mcuh forever, but their use in industry is also higly regulated. And PCAs do in fact degrade. Just shine lots of light on them and watch them change...
All a pub has to do to get around this type of stupididty is use a chalkboard with a logo from some beer company that is an official sponsor. I'm sure there will be plenty of these made available for free to pubs with such a desire.
This thing could be a huge help for nurses and phlebotomists trying to find veins on large patient with lots of subcutaneous fat. There are a lot of central lines placed with ultrasound guidance because these guys are a "tough stick."
Anyone know where I can get a cheap and portable version to see my patient's veins through their skin?
Smokers do in fact have a lower incidence of Parkinson's Disease.
What you fail to mention is that the protective effect of smoking is far outweighed by the increased chance of stroke, oral cancer, heart and lung disease.
Your second point that the studies controlled for "mortality/comorbidity" is a little misleading.
It is a current matter of debate among neurologists as to whether smoking is truly protective. Increase numbers of cholinergic receptors (the ones that Nicotine binds to) are seen in brain scans of people who have difficulty quitting smoking. One theory is that the number or receptors has increased because of constant exposure to nicotine (positive feedback loop). The other is that these people are predisposed to becoming addicted because this high number of receptors is present at their baseline. So once again, correlation does not prove causality, even when "mortality/comorbidity are accounted for."
The jury is still out on this one, but it does make one wonder.
I'm not quite sure what your distinction is between being creating regulations and creating policy is. From my admittedly limited high school understanding of civics class, the executive branch took the laws that were passed by congress and had to implement them. This boils down to creating specific rules or policies. All of these policies have to lie within the bounds of whatever the law says, but there is a lot of flexibility.
Take for example Medicare. Congress does not set the specific reimbursment rates for every procedure they pay for. Heck they don't even lsit everything they pay for. They list classes of things they pay for, like inpatient hospital care, nursing home care, prescription drugs, etc... HHS in the executive branch then get the job of deciding whether viagara prescribed for a hospice patient is covered.
The problem is development libraries and environments. MatLAB, which is probably the most widely used vector processing environment doesn't take advantage of Altivec. In fact, it was jsut re-ported to the mac about a year ago. Anyone know if MatLAB (or better yet, Octave) will be taking advantage of Altivec any time soon?
While providing an alternative to IE was part of the reason AOL bought Netscape, an even bigger reason was that the default homepage for 50% of the net at the time was www.netscape.com.
They bought it for the eye balls. Now that less than 5% of browser homepages are set to netscape.com most of netscape's value has been used up.
I still have to applaud their courage to bet big $$$ on opensource. 10 years ago I never thought I would say it, but thanks AOL!
This is only tangentially realted to the topic. But the article put out a call for programmers and this guy was great. I was wondering if anyone knows what happened to the guy who wrote the Hotline file sharing service for the Mac circa 1996/1997?
And even if they were, there's no way in hell you're going to be able to hook your phone up to an arcade monitor and arcade stick and play the title as it was meant to be played.
If you are really interested in preserving the original gameplay you should you be using emulation? Playing classics with a keyboard or mouse on a 19" computer monitor is not the way it was meant to be played. Only slightly better is a MAME cabinet with a joystick, 6 buttons and a spinner. Somehow playing galaga with six buttons and a spinner on the console doesn't seem like "the way it was meant to be played."
If you are really interested in preservation buy the full cabinet and original ROMS then burn the backups in case they flake.
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I'm sure Jesus had background checks in mind when he said,
"Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back."
Luke 6:30
Can someone please explain why this is necessary? Can't you still just play the song with itunes and record from the wav source with a tool like Audacity?
Maybe I'm missing something.
I'm not sure if you are aware of it, but several speech databases are avialable to researchers. Some have licences with a yearly fee, but some are free of charge.
c h/databases/ for a list of some of these, including the CMU kid speach database.
Try http://www.cavs.msstate.edu/hse/ies/projects/spee
There are actually several types of tympnaoplasties ranging from roughing up the edges of the tear and putting a piece of tape over the hole (works >50% of the time) to drilling out the mastoid bone and putting grafts on both the medial (toward the center for your head) and lateral surfaces of the ear drum. If there isn't an active infection or cholesteatoma almost all TM perfs can be repaired.
As a surgeon, I'm naturally inclined toward surgical repair of the hearing loss caused by ear drum perforations, but if hearing loss is the only concern, a simple analog (cheaper ~$500 US) hearing aid can provide very good results.
I'm an electical engineer and otolaryngologist and while the grandparent's hearing test is similar to the vonBekesey audiogram (a tone sweep where you turn up the volume until you hear the sound) the equipment you will be using is almost surely not professional grade. To be accurate the equipment also needs to be calibrated (audiologists pay $100's for this each year). If you suspect you have a hearing loss I would suggest you see either an audiologist (not a hearing aid dispenser) or a physician. The first step in evaluating a hearing loss is to look in you ear with an otoscope, this is a much better tool to diagnose wax than any hearing test, not to mention damage to the ear canal and ear drum. An audiogram, tympanogram, speech thresholds and acoustic reflexes done by an audiologist who knows how to differentiate conductive from sensorineural losses is the next step. Depending on associated symptoms (tinnitus, vertigo, etc), hearing loss type and configuration, an otolaryngologist can then recommend treatment options which may include hearing aids or surgery.
While a clever attempt at an audiogram on the cheap, the granparent's post is pretty inacurate. Please disregard the diagnoses and see you doctor if you are concerend about your hearing.
It will depend on the size and location of the perforation, but many TM perfs can be repaired by an ENT. If you are near an academic hospital, I would suggest looking for a fellowship trained Otologist (ENT with an extra couple years of training). As long as it isn't currently infected most TM perfs are reconstructable.
The obvious next step is for Apple C to spin off iTunes once it has a big enough income stream to support itself for a year or so. This spinoff could then have an IPO, raising the capital to expand into the music business by acquiring small promising labels. The IPO would then give a kickback to their parent company for being an early investor. Then, just to piss Apple R off they could use the rest of the IPO money to buy back all the Beatles tunes from Michael Jackson.
If we allow politicians the right to decide what is true in science, we are well and truly screwed./I This is exactly what we are doing under the current system. The primary funding mechanism for scientific research and education is from the government at various levels. Whoever has the money gets to decide what gets taught. I suppose if we all made you dictator you could make those decisions, but in a democracy it is politicians who do.
For some high risk procesures, these simulators are nice, but there is no substitue for working on real live people. Even if the number of Mexican medical school docs has increase, I'm sure tehre are still tons of people in Mexico who recieve no medical care or are on wait lists months long to get live preserving treatment. Why not at least give them a chance at timely treatment, even if it does mean being a learning tool.
Just my $0.02
What they don't mention is how much waste will be produced in creating the metal-alloy fuel necessary to run the plant. They also fail to mention what waste is necessary to create and maintain the liquid sodium sodium coolant.
The fact that none of these reactors are actually in existance today make be tend to believe that while many of the problems (especially safety issues) have been solved in a research environment, they are not yet economically feasible in commercial plants.
I still submit that the waste produced in making one of these plant comercially viable is the primary problem with nuclear power which hasno been solved.
Oh and as to toxicity, a lot of it depends on route of administration. I'm pretty sure that mcg for mcg vaporized plutonium will kill a lot more people in 10 years than Botox or equal amounts of chlorine gas.
My point is that permanent storage is the big problem of nuclear energy. If it is in fact true that 80% of current nuclear waste can be recucled into fuel without significant waste in the mining and refinement process then the prooblem may be closer to solved than I thought. I am however skeptical that 80% of the total waste produced in creating nuclear energy can actually be recycled into fuel and that that waste from that fuel will achieve 80% recyclability.
Any refrences on these claims?
As for underwater casks, I think that is how the Indian gvt is disposing of most of their waste. While some of the problem is political...heck we cant even drill for oil off the Pacific coast..The other problem is practical. Our standards for minimizing environmental impact and even potential impacts are much higher. Proving that leaked waste will not get into ground water in Nevada has stalled one permanent dump site for more than 10 years. I hate to think how long it would take to prove that water was not being contaminated from an underwater dumpsite, much les how expensive it would be to build one which is up to these standards.
You mind mentioning the location of some subduction zones that might be commercially viable? And until a mine is entirely cleared of viable ore, you are not going to be putting waste back in there.
Even with some reprocessing, the problem still remains where to store the waste while it cools and the byproducts of reprocessing.
This is such a bogus argument that comes out everytime we talk about nuclear waste. Nuclear waste is THE biggest problem with nuclear power. The cost of permanent disposal is usually not put into the calulations of how much it costs to generate electricity with Nuc plants. Why? Well its because there are not many places that permanent disposal is possible, so pretty much all the waste ends up being stored "temporarily" at the actual power plant. These temporary storage site have much lower hurdles to jump as far as radiation levels and containment standards because they are "temporary".
It is true that Hg and Pb are toxic pretty mcuh forever, but their use in industry is also higly regulated. And PCAs do in fact degrade. Just shine lots of light on them and watch them change...
All a pub has to do to get around this type of stupididty is use a chalkboard with a logo from some beer company that is an official sponsor. I'm sure there will be plenty of these made available for free to pubs with such a desire.
This thing could be a huge help for nurses and phlebotomists trying to find veins on large patient with lots of subcutaneous fat. There are a lot of central lines placed with ultrasound guidance because these guys are a "tough stick."
Anyone know where I can get a cheap and portable version to see my patient's veins through their skin?
So when are they scheduled to stop selling analog TVs, or at least require that digital tuners be included in all new TV?
Wouldn't the clock signal have to traverse the entire chip to remain synchronous logic?
Smokers do in fact have a lower incidence of Parkinson's Disease.
What you fail to mention is that the protective effect of smoking is far outweighed by the increased chance of stroke, oral cancer, heart and lung disease.
Your second point that the studies controlled for "mortality/comorbidity" is a little misleading.
It is a current matter of debate among neurologists as to whether smoking is truly protective. Increase numbers of cholinergic receptors (the ones that Nicotine binds to) are seen in brain scans of people who have difficulty quitting smoking. One theory is that the number or receptors has increased because of constant exposure to nicotine (positive feedback loop). The other is that these people are predisposed to becoming addicted because this high number of receptors is present at their baseline.
So once again, correlation does not prove causality, even when "mortality/comorbidity are accounted for."
The jury is still out on this one, but it does make one wonder.
I'm not quite sure what your distinction is between being creating regulations and creating policy is. From my admittedly limited high school understanding of civics class, the executive branch took the laws that were passed by congress and had to implement them. This boils down to creating specific rules or policies. All of these policies have to lie within the bounds of whatever the law says, but there is a lot of flexibility.
Take for example Medicare. Congress does not set the specific reimbursment rates for every procedure they pay for. Heck they don't even lsit everything they pay for. They list classes of things they pay for, like inpatient hospital care, nursing home care, prescription drugs, etc...
HHS in the executive branch then get the job of deciding whether viagara prescribed for a hospice patient is covered.
The problem is development libraries and environments. MatLAB, which is probably the most widely used vector processing environment doesn't take advantage of Altivec. In fact, it was jsut re-ported to the mac about a year ago.
Anyone know if MatLAB (or better yet, Octave) will be taking advantage of Altivec any time soon?
While providing an alternative to IE was part of the reason AOL bought Netscape, an even bigger reason was that the default homepage for 50% of the net at the time was www.netscape.com.
They bought it for the eye balls. Now that less than 5% of browser homepages are set to netscape.com most of netscape's value has been used up.
I still have to applaud their courage to bet big $$$ on opensource. 10 years ago I never thought I would say it, but thanks AOL!
What I need is a cellphone detector and short range directional jammer so I can keep people from getting calls during movies, lectures and exams.
This is only tangentially realted to the topic. But the article put out a call for programmers and this guy was great. I was wondering if anyone knows what happened to the guy who wrote the Hotline file sharing service for the Mac circa 1996/1997?
And even if they were, there's no way in hell you're going to be able to hook your phone up to an arcade monitor and arcade stick and play the title as it was meant to be played.
If you are really interested in preserving the original gameplay you should you be using emulation? Playing classics with a keyboard or mouse on a 19" computer monitor is not the way it was meant to be played. Only slightly better is a MAME cabinet with a joystick, 6 buttons and a spinner. Somehow playing galaga with six buttons and a spinner on the console doesn't seem like "the way it was meant to be played."
If you are really interested in preservation buy the full cabinet and original ROMS then burn the backups in case they flake.