Lets just see if anything comes of it after the next election. So far the federal strategy seems to be to have dim-sum in Agincourt. (Not a bad personal strategy; no waiting, and probably very good service.)
I know: Create Sciencedot, and only the +5 Informative posts should be believed! (I'm joking. It is an interesting problem when publishing and peer review happen at net speed.)
Re:This disease is blown way out of proportion.
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SARS and the Internet
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Perhaps, but (barring China) we haven't seen it break loose into the open population yet. The fact that the next people hit were the heath care workers and the people trying to figure what it was, was pretty worrisome too. I'll bet that if the Spanish Flu had been bottled up right away, it sure wouldn't have killed as many people as it did.
While you're here, be sure to check out the Chinese restaurants. Sadly due to stupid fears, they've been especially hit hard by lack of people. I'll bet that you get good service and a great meal!
That's one reason that they're thinking of this: "The federal government is considering setting up a Canadian version of the famed U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as authorities hammer together a new strategy to combat SARS and other infectious disease, Anne McLellan, the Health Minister, said yesterday." (Lots of other links on that page.)
I wonder what the Internet will do to the concept of peer review? Publishing and respose will be extremely rapid rather than the slow process of the past.
However, as we've seen on Slashdot, people still take time to carefully think their replies, rather kneejerk flaming, right?:^P
It's neither very contagious (close physical contact is required)
ITYM close presence rather than contact. Also, they have found some people who tend to be "super spreaders" who are very contagious, and they don't know why yet.
did newspapers write articles about how the phone helped this or facilitated that?
Almost certainly. And radio. And cell phones. No argument. Perphaps not a breakthough, just another bump in magnitude. If not news, then a reminder that the Internet is not all pr0n and games.
I didn't want to troll my article, so I didn't point out the fact that these researchers found plain email to be the most useful part of the Internet. The same email that's being hit with billions of spams a day.
I can't say that I have anthing urgent to communicate via email, but the thought of people like these having to wade through all that crap makes me very angry, very angry indeed! *huff*huff*!
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Which company has the slogan "Changing the way you do business"?
I don't think they could pay the Blue Man Group enough money to do the advertising for this.
"I see you having trouble. Would you like some help with that?"
Here I sit, all besotted.
Paid a dime, got slashdotted.
According to WHO Cumulative report in the US, there's been 54 total cases, two new cases and zero deaths. Perhaps you read the wrong column?
Experts say SARS virus mutating quickly Happy happy..
Kids these days... curses is a terminal control library and it's got a warthog on the cover. Extreme enough?
RTFA, but yes, they can be fictional.
I'll bet some people would have killed for some copies of 28 year old manuals when trying to fix Y2K problems. Or was that -72 years?
I have books with a sailor and a cowboy on them. Yeeehah! (Those are funny, but the grasshopper book? Yeugh!)
That's still got at least another year to go. :^)
Then the Atair Basic (Micro-Soft) would just about be public domain. (Everyone could swap papertapes of it guilt free!)
Only 16 more years until my copy of O'Reilly's Programming with Curses goes public domain!
Lets just see if anything comes of it after the next election. So far the federal strategy seems to be to have dim-sum in Agincourt. (Not a bad personal strategy; no waiting, and probably very good service.)
I know: Create Sciencedot, and only the +5 Informative posts should be believed! (I'm joking. It is an interesting problem when publishing and peer review happen at net speed.)
Here's a media site with other good links.
While you're here, be sure to check out the Chinese restaurants. Sadly due to stupid fears, they've been especially hit hard by lack of people. I'll bet that you get good service and a great meal!
That's one reason that they're thinking of this: "The federal government is considering setting up a Canadian version of the famed U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as authorities hammer together a new strategy to combat SARS and other infectious disease, Anne McLellan, the Health Minister, said yesterday." (Lots of other links on that page.)
You could eventually get to it from the first link in the article, but here you go.
However, as we've seen on Slashdot, people still take time to carefully think their replies, rather kneejerk flaming, right? :^P
Without the internet, progress in this area would have been much slower. Yeah, that was sort of why I submitted the article. :^P
SARS can live on in patients The damned thing can stick around for at least a month.
ITYM close presence rather than contact. Also, they have found some people who tend to be "super spreaders" who are very contagious, and they don't know why yet.
Almost certainly. And radio. And cell phones. No argument. Perphaps not a breakthough, just another bump in magnitude. If not news, then a reminder that the Internet is not all pr0n and games.
I can't say that I have anthing urgent to communicate via email, but the thought of people like these having to wade through all that crap makes me very angry, very angry indeed! *huff*huff*!