Either of those have outgrown traditional tunings, and can ad -lib very many strange unconventional tunings. Jandak may not tune at all, but has done a LOT of stuff
Kudos for an original idea, but do you really expect some old grandmother, sedated, on a respirator, from a minor vertebral break, to learn Morse code? For a young person, it's a better idea, although limited, because not everyone knows Morse code. With pencil and paper, she can communicate with everyone.
Pencil and paper, or some type of pointing board with common phrases/questions/answers on it. Most hospitals will have both.
As far as having his GRANDMOTHER learn any new technological choices, while in a hospital, sedated, on a ventilator, in a neck brace - FORGET IT. She's not gonna learn sign language easily, except yes/no. If she can't even write, because of medication/delirium/whatever, then she's not going to be able to learn new ways of communicating.
Sounds like she's an old lady, and somewhat frail like many older people. Becoming intubated for a vertebrae fracture is not normal, so I think she probably has multiple medical problems (I'm a doctor).
Stick to what she knows, and is comfortable - and she will do better with it.
Osteoporosis is a medical problem - generally low amounts of estrogen prevent inhibition of osteoclasts, which therefore resorb the bone faster than the osteoblasts produce new bone.
This article is about surgical substitutes. Bone grafts today are for large visable defects that are either filled in, or are entire segments that are replaced. Generally the donated bone is only changed at the end - about 7mm worth. The rest of the dead, donated bone does not change over, and is generally weaker, and subject to infection at a higher rate.
Bone is complicated - it is a mineral scaffold which houses living bone cells. Most bone substitute just provides the scaffolding (conductive), and some actually induce new bone to form (Inductive), which relies on chemical signals to help cells differentiate into bone forming cells (osteoblasts).
This sounds like they have made a very natural appearing scaffolding, which makes it easy for the new bone cells to move in, and produce normal appearing bone. This is a nice tweak on the existing technology, but not a major breakthru which will help to form new large segmens of bone.
I went to Johns Hopkins, and we had a lot of smart people there - it wasn't pretty.
Trackball = more tendonitis for me
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I had the large 3" ball from Kensington with 4 buttons. I used it for a year, but kept on getting wrist tendonitis, even after trying many different positions and or supports. My wrist and fingers went back to normal after switchiiiing back to a mouse.
I've been using a mouse for computer work, with a fair amount of gaming for 13 years now with no problems.
I suspect that there will be a subset of the population that does better with trackball devices, but the market has shown which device people prefer - the mouse.
I mean come on- the level of lawsuit sophistication in Canada isss pitiful. Here in the USA we can sue for over Seven million dollars if someone ruins our pants,let alone physicallly searching you. We could get up to 60 million dollars for that.
Somehow, I don't think that e-mail and emoticons will ever come into certain conversations in communication with patients.
Mrs. Smith, you have a tumor on your leg and need an amputation:-(
or Mr. Jones, your ESR is 10:-)
I actually don't talk to patients with e-mail, as it is too hard to misconstrue, or patients take small facts and run with the idea. I have been using computers for 25+ years (Apple II -> Linux), so it's not a comfort issue. Physicians are mixed in this issue, some say it saves much time, others don't for the same reason as I do.
Who do you think pays for the life guards, beach patrol, cleaning, shore maintenance? The tax payers, so in Maryland, all the people who don't use the beach are paying for your fun. In NJ the people who use it are charged.
Just like gas prices. In america we think we only pay 3-4$ per gallon, while in Europe, they pay $7. However, most Americans forget that we just spent a TRILLION dollars make sure the oil keeps coming.
It would be nice to have this under my car hood, with a pop-up cowl, so that it'd be stealth most of the time. Then have it pop up when you want to frag that slow moving Prius going 50 in the passing lane.
Car accident 35 MPH to 0 in 2.5 feet. Broken ribs from my small 3 point seatbelt, wrist from steering wheel. Other hand didn't break, but left a fist imprint on my windshield (really cool looking).
Indy/formula one/Nascar drivers routinely do more G's, but are strapped in better (neck HANS restraints), 5 point belts, wrist restraints.
Or an inflatable wing? At high speeds, it could be a short jet fighter type of wing, and as velocity slowed, the wing would inflate more to provide more lift.
Or have two giant helicopter type wings. They could be rocket powered with rockets tethered on the end on the helicopter blade, to spin it and provide lift, if just the blades weren't enough.
Or how about a set of looong legs that expand out from the lander- say 30 meters. If the lander is tethered to the leg frame, a sustained 10g deccel could be done, slowing the lander from 80 M/s (170 MPH) to zero, as the tether is uncoiled/released.
While many larger airports could have their own algae processing plant, the economics of scale may not make it cost effective if the plant doesn't produce enough fuel.
The example I chose was uneven, to display if people had familiarity with figures, however, many people need help even with a purchase of 4.35, and I give them $5 - I kid you not.
Even though some things can be easily looked up in a book, having committed the facts to memory gives certain advantages that are not obtained by just having them in a book. Do you want your airplane pilot looking up what the trim settings, or throttle settings are on the plane when he is landing? Do you want your surgeon having to look up where the sciatic or femoral nerve is in the middle of your hip replacement?
The answer is no. The retained knowledge of facts allows for a more thorough understanding of the facts, and allows for easier manipulation. I see this all the time with idiot cashiers who can't make change, and have to look up what the correct change is for something that costs $19.27 after I give them $20.02.
Ir retort to Feynman - I could easily look up F=MA in a basic physics book, as opposed to cluttering my mind with that useless formula.
My arguments will obviously trigger a response in fans of the rote memorization vs those of the concepts(why learn adding - we have calculators). Probably swining too far in either direction is unwise, and a healthy balance between the two is beneficial in learning.
I remember only a few years ago, no one had even seen one of these monsters, and now they are washing up on a monthly basis. Is it possible that something has changed in their environment, so as to make them leave it, or kill them?
One is the actual mathematical algorithm. If it's secure - like 128 key encryption, then hell yeah it'll take a long time. However, how many people did they have working on their side 10 to 100? You can bet there will be orders of magnitude more people working on solving the problem of cracking it.
But there are other ways, or as the Elves once said - "Humans are weak." Which to me means they can be bought, compromised, etc. So social engineering, frustrated employees, money, etc all can be used to help "crack" the code.
My worthless estimate of how soon a "working" crack will be only a few weeks to several months.
I worked at a drug company for a few summers in college (Sandoz - the company were Hoffman discovered LSD). We were testing ergotamine derivatives - looking for some neurologic action (headache/seizure relief).
During the safety testing, about 80% of the mice in the higher dose group chewed off their tails and paws. The safety data scientists decided to stop trials on that one.. It might have made a good psycho active weapon, like the Scarecrow used in the Batman movies.
He doesn't experience much pain or discomfort, but then it hits him. Your wrist/hand may not be complaining now, but may in time, eventually have some problems. A mouse tends to keep a wrist at its full pronation (hand down) - which is not a normal thing. Anything that stresses a joint at its limit is morelikely to cause problems.
If you go to say Johns Hopkins or Yale - a 2.9 there probably can count for more than say a 3.5 at the Short Hills Institute of Technology. But often people overlook that fact. You might want to take that into consideration. Your education is probably much better, but some interviewers only see the number.
I've seen a bunch of people get into Medical school with a 3.5 from some little no name college, and others get denied from a prestigious University because of low grades 2.9 (where the competition if much, much tougher).
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Either of those have outgrown traditional tunings, and can ad -lib very many strange unconventional tunings. Jandak may not tune at all, but has done a LOT of stuff
OK, prove yourself! Let's see some refs.
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if we're talking about data density - but I like it even better for amount of data 'cause it makes no sense.
To pass the time at the office.
Kudos for an original idea, but do you really expect some old grandmother, sedated, on a respirator, from a minor vertebral break, to learn Morse code? For a young person, it's a better idea, although limited, because not everyone knows Morse code. With pencil and paper, she can communicate with everyone.
Pencil and paper, or some type of pointing board with common phrases/questions/answers on it. Most hospitals will have both.
As far as having his GRANDMOTHER learn any new technological choices, while in a hospital, sedated, on a ventilator, in a neck brace - FORGET IT. She's not gonna learn sign language easily, except yes/no. If she can't even write, because of medication/delirium/whatever, then she's not going to be able to learn new ways of communicating.
Sounds like she's an old lady, and somewhat frail like many older people. Becoming intubated for a vertebrae fracture is not normal, so I think she probably has multiple medical problems (I'm a doctor).
Stick to what she knows, and is comfortable - and she will do better with it.
Osteoporosis is a medical problem - generally low amounts of estrogen prevent inhibition of osteoclasts, which therefore resorb the bone faster than the osteoblasts produce new bone.
This article is about surgical substitutes. Bone grafts today are for large visable defects that are either filled in, or are entire segments that are replaced. Generally the donated bone is only changed at the end - about 7mm worth. The rest of the dead, donated bone does not change over, and is generally weaker, and subject to infection at a higher rate.
Bone is complicated - it is a mineral scaffold which houses living bone cells. Most bone substitute just provides the scaffolding (conductive), and some actually induce new bone to form (Inductive), which relies on chemical signals to help cells differentiate into bone forming cells (osteoblasts).
This sounds like they have made a very natural appearing scaffolding, which makes it easy for the new bone cells to move in, and produce normal appearing bone. This is a nice tweak on the existing technology, but not a major breakthru which will help to form new large segmens of bone.
I went to Johns Hopkins, and we had a lot of smart people there - it wasn't pretty.
I had the large 3" ball from Kensington with 4 buttons. I used it for a year, but kept on getting wrist tendonitis, even after trying many different positions and or supports. My wrist and fingers went back to normal after switchiiiing back to a mouse.
I've been using a mouse for computer work, with a fair amount of gaming for 13 years now with no problems.
I suspect that there will be a subset of the population that does better with trackball devices, but the market has shown which device people prefer - the mouse.
I mean come on- the level of lawsuit sophistication in Canada isss pitiful. Here in the USA we can sue for over Seven million dollars if someone ruins our pants,let alone physicallly searching you. We could get up to 60 million dollars for that.
Somehow, I don't think that e-mail and emoticons will ever come into certain conversations in communication with patients.
:-(
:-)
Mrs. Smith, you have a tumor on your leg and need an amputation
or Mr. Jones, your ESR is 10
I actually don't talk to patients with e-mail, as it is too hard to misconstrue, or patients take small facts and run with the idea. I have been using computers for 25+ years (Apple II -> Linux), so it's not a comfort issue. Physicians are mixed in this issue, some say it saves much time, others don't for the same reason as I do.
Who do you think pays for the life guards, beach patrol, cleaning, shore maintenance? The tax payers, so in Maryland, all the people who don't use the beach are paying for your fun. In NJ the people who use it are charged.
Just like gas prices. In america we think we only pay 3-4$ per gallon, while in Europe, they pay $7. However, most Americans forget that we just spent a TRILLION dollars make sure the oil keeps coming.
It would be nice to have this under my car hood, with a pop-up cowl, so that it'd be stealth most of the time. Then have it pop up when you want to frag that slow moving Prius going 50 in the passing lane.
Yeah - this would definitely be O.K.
Car accident 35 MPH to 0 in 2.5 feet. Broken ribs from my small 3 point seatbelt, wrist from steering wheel. Other hand didn't break, but left a fist imprint on my windshield (really cool looking).
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Indy/formula one/Nascar drivers routinely do more G's, but are strapped in better (neck HANS restraints), 5 point belts, wrist restraints.
Paul Strapp, MD, US Airforce did up to 40 G deccel (equiv to 120MPH brick wall crash) on a rocket sled, with various breaks, no perm damage. http://www.af.mil/history/person.asp?dec=&pid=123
Or an inflatable wing? At high speeds, it could be a short jet fighter type of wing, and as velocity slowed, the wing would inflate more to provide more lift.
Or have two giant helicopter type wings. They could be rocket powered with rockets tethered on the end on the helicopter blade, to spin it and provide lift, if just the blades weren't enough.
Or how about a set of looong legs that expand out from the lander- say 30 meters. If the lander is tethered to the leg frame, a sustained 10g deccel could be done, slowing the lander from 80 M/s (170 MPH) to zero, as the tether is uncoiled/released.
While many larger airports could have their own algae processing plant, the economics of scale may not make it cost effective if the plant doesn't produce enough fuel.
The example I chose was uneven, to display if people had familiarity with figures, however, many people need help even with a purchase of 4.35, and I give them $5 - I kid you not.
Even though some things can be easily looked up in a book, having committed the facts to memory gives certain advantages that are not obtained by just having them in a book. Do you want your airplane pilot looking up what the trim settings, or throttle settings are on the plane when he is landing? Do you want your surgeon having to look up where the sciatic or femoral nerve is in the middle of your hip replacement?
The answer is no. The retained knowledge of facts allows for a more thorough understanding of the facts, and allows for easier manipulation. I see this all the time with idiot cashiers who can't make change, and have to look up what the correct change is for something that costs $19.27 after I give them $20.02.
Ir retort to Feynman - I could easily look up F=MA in a basic physics book, as opposed to cluttering my mind with that useless formula.
My arguments will obviously trigger a response in fans of the rote memorization vs those of the concepts(why learn adding - we have calculators). Probably swining too far in either direction is unwise, and a healthy balance between the two is beneficial in learning.
I remember only a few years ago, no one had even seen one of these monsters, and now they are washing up on a monthly basis. Is it possible that something has changed in their environment, so as to make them leave it, or kill them?
One is the actual mathematical algorithm. If it's secure - like 128 key encryption, then hell yeah it'll take a long time. However, how many people did they have working on their side 10 to 100? You can bet there will be orders of magnitude more people working on solving the problem of cracking it.
But there are other ways, or as the Elves once said -
"Humans are weak." Which to me means they can be bought, compromised, etc. So social engineering, frustrated employees, money, etc all can be used to help "crack" the code.
My worthless estimate of how soon a "working" crack will be only a few weeks to several months.
And I hate the fact that people will try to enforce said laws in Second Life. Since when are there copyright laws, patent laws, etc in Second Life?
I worked at a drug company for a few summers in college (Sandoz - the company were Hoffman discovered LSD). We were testing ergotamine derivatives - looking for some neurologic action (headache/seizure relief).
During the safety testing, about 80% of the mice in the higher dose group chewed off their tails and paws. The safety data scientists decided to stop trials on that one.. It might have made a good psycho active weapon, like the Scarecrow used in the Batman movies.
He doesn't experience much pain or discomfort, but then it hits him. Your wrist/hand may not be complaining now, but may in time, eventually have some problems.
A mouse tends to keep a wrist at its full pronation (hand down) - which is not a normal thing. Anything that stresses a joint at its limit is morelikely to cause problems.
If you go to say Johns Hopkins or Yale - a 2.9 there probably can count for more than say a 3.5 at the Short Hills Institute of Technology. But often people overlook that fact. You might want to take that into consideration. Your education is probably much better, but some interviewers only see the number.
I've seen a bunch of people get into Medical school with a 3.5 from some little no name college, and others get denied from a prestigious University because of low grades 2.9 (where the competition if much, much tougher).