Go ahead and google and wikipedia-read Google Health to see how even Google couldn't figure out how to make money out of health care records. There are certain restrictions (HIPAA?, though Google claimed that as a "non-covered entity" that provided a service which people opted in to, they didn't have to follow HIPAA guidelines:
According to its Terms of Service, Google Health is not considered a "covered entity" under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996; thus, HIPAA privacy laws do not apply to it.[14]
In an article covering Google Health's launch, the New York Times discussed privacy issues and said that "patients apparently did not shun the Google health records because of qualms that their personal health information might not be secure if held by a large technology company."[5] Others contend that Google Health may be more private than the current "paper" health record system because of reduced human interaction.[15]
Google discontinued it on june 24, 2011,, but allowed people to access it umtil January 1st, 2013, when they could transfer their data to the Microsoft Vault.
reI usually employ the standard of whether somebody is capable of making a point without resorting to profanity. .
I agree with you whole-heartedly. There may be occasions to use profanity or outbursts of shouting, but those occasions seem to be those which require being intimidating or acting like a rabid dog in order to get the other side to back down. Profanity does not have a place in normal discussion, argument, or debate. .
As a bonus point, I think that "cloud computing" is the worst buzzword out there, though the synergy that comes about with "cloud computing of big data" may be more than the sum of its parts. [bingo! bingo!]
I agree with you that this stinks of a post-desirous-outcome bribe after-the-fact. It definitely doesn't look good. But what's with the silly title of this article: "Conflicted judges are Classier with English Accents" ??? . I actually expected something about how people (defendants, claimants) perceive their judge or arbitrator to be "classier" or "fairer" or "more important" if they happened to speak with a particular type of accent. The title turns out to be just a snarky piece of bitchiness. That's so rude and inappropriate and silly. It's getting a little tiresome here on/. these days.
Ah, thank you very much for the extra info. My sincere apologies for not knowing about that particular formatting option. I've played with internationalization settings before, but I had never seen that one. . You might have to concede, however, that the bizarre use of flush left justification or left-alignment of integer values does not make much sense. Numbers are easier to parse and perceive the relative log-magnitude of when they are presented as decimal aligned for integers or floating point values or as right-aligned columns of text for integer values.
re Looking at the data presented in the pdf,... .
One obvious truth that is appartent from look at the data presented in the pdf is that those in the googleborg don't know how to format data or text
in their documents. (they've scrubbed all doc-generation info from the document before pdf'ing it, but considering that the fonts are all Arial family [Arial-BoldMT, Arial-ItalicMT, Arial-MT, fully embedded truetype fonts] it's possible to guess what word processor they used) :>p
The other thing that is obvious from looking at their data (table at the bottom of page 2) is that the google team does not know how to right-align numerical integer values so as to allow easy visual comparison and what the hell is the deal with using apostrophes as comma separators for integers at thousands and millions ??? I kept trying to parse it for thirty seconds before I figured out how fucked up their data printing is. Use commas, use periods like the europeans, but why the hell use apostrophes which mean "minutes" (which are 1/60th of a degree) or "feet" (which are 1/5280th of a mile, eh,;>) )???
Benchmark Corpus size gzip-9 7-zip kzip Zopfli Alexa-top-10k 693'108'837 128'498'665 125'599'259 125'163'521 123'755'118
It turns out we are both recommending the same thing. My number one recommendation of DrScheme turns out to be the older name of Racket and a version called DrRacket was formerly called DrScheme (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_language#DrRacket_IDE )
Gotcha; no offense taken; glad to know you're just joking. Sorry if I sounded too brusque; I figured that my smileys and joking attitude would let you know I'm not really a partaker in the editor-flame-wars or the clone wars cartoon series. Neither of those has made a big impact on my life.:>)
re: On a side note it really makes me wonder at how history will be influenced by the movies made as their inaccuracies get put into the public conscience in an effort to make a more interesting story for the medium. .
How is real life influenced by fiction? Look at the torture events in the Iraq war and the photographs of prisoner pyramids and their interrogation efforts. Quite a few of the soldiers said that they were inspired (almost taught) by the TV series 24 with keifer sutherland. So a fictional portrayal of torture and interrogation teaches the actual performers of interrogation to torture and act in certain ways, which can get recycled into more fictional stories and lessons for future soldiers and leaders. History influenced by fiction does indeed happen, sad as it may be.
Yep. A good programming environment is key. That can mean hardware + software environment or it can also mean good encouraging parents and/or teachers and classrooms to play in at your own pace and timing. A good library, c-compiler, and a text-editor as simple as notepad or leafpad or nano will be fine for some kids. DrScheme is better for others. Some may like the easy-peasy approach possible with
Hypercard running on an SE-30. My parents have a running TRS-80 and a running apple ][+ (and an SE-30, which is where I say and played with hypercard a bit) which you turn on (it's barely booting up when the boot-environment is the basic interpreter) directly into the BASIC interpreter environment. Those are unbelievably easy to play with and write basic BASIC code on. It's just saving onto cassette tapes that's a pain in the rumpus.
. The TRS-80 has a cool spirally-bound manual for level one basic, and I have to admit to having a lot of fun in the 4k of memory on that machine when I started playing with it about five years ago.
re You mean in VIM. Teaching kids emacs is just wrong ;>)
Let's not have a religious argument [about vi and emacs]; everyone can go to their favorite church. I wasn't just talking about using emacs as the text editor function. I meant the Lisp interpreter and command (run-eval-print loop) accessible that uses Emacs LISP. But it's also possible to use emacs directly to do the edit-compile-debug cycles for postscript or for c or other programming languages as well. I'm sure you knew that, though, so I'm not going to fall for a flame-war or religious war;>) Subjectivity reigns supreme; let the kids use what they like! If they learn to program, it's good. If they learn to like to program, well that's even better, whether they use vi (vhy they'd use vi, i can't say, oy vey) or nano or pico or leafpad or, heavens forbid, emacs!
Scheme and Lisp all the way! Just start off playing with the run environment in emacs and build your way up. Play with the Scheme interpreter com-ponent of GAP. You should program to learn how to accomplish things, even silly things like temperature conversions (F->C, C->F, F->C->K, K->F, et cetera) so a kid feels like they're getting shortcuts for homework. Pretty soon they're actually learning things for each new thing they want to accomplish. Programming rote exercises feels meaningless to me. But there's that subjectivity again. . What's motivational to me may be crap to you. What motivates someone else to program may be crap-tastic to me. To each their own. But I strongly agree with teaching programming (not just coding a small small subprogram or subroutine, but actually understanding a project from beginning to end, even the temperature conversion programs can have a lot of UI trickery even if it's designed just for text mode). .
My recommendations: 1 - play inside emacs 2 - Dr.Scheme 3 - autocad if you can get your hands on it and autolistp
Re: Get a better bank. .
Or consider banking with a local financial cooperative such as a Credit Union. I just set up my account in December and there are few to no fees for the basics like simple checknig accounts and savings accounts. There is a requirement to keep a $5 share minimum in one account, but considering the minimums required at BoA [constrictor, Bank o' America squeezes all of the money out of you!] or other banking institutions, the $5 is almost nothing.
Intent to break the law is not breaking the law .
You {don't / can't / ought not} prosecute "intention to break additional laws". The only activities than ought to be prosecuted ought to be actual breaking of laws. Mens rea is just a part of it. Intention without action is not breaking the law.
Re: The use of two IR absorption measurements is not novel (see patent 5737439). ;>)
correcto, they do in fact cite that particular patent in their own patent. Note the quote I included in my GP post also mentions the use of UV wavelengths too for measuring skin.
The presence of wacky terms (redefinable at will without warning unilaterally by OIN), and the presence of Sony, rootkit disseminator, and Novell (SCO apologist, Microsoft licensor and shill via Mono) gives me pause and makes me wonder about the legitimacy and the true total motivations of this group... Something doesn't smell right here in Danemark. .
For example, look at this particular line in their licensing agreement at
http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/pat_license_agreement.php :
"Linux System" shall, at any time, have the meaning set forth, at that time, on www.openinventionnetwork.com.
Notice the infinite malleability of what a "linux system" is, and that it depends solely upon what OIN wants to say.
So the rest of the licensing agreement contract has fixed values, but the definition of what shall constitute a Linux system is left to be freely redefined and pre-agreed to be bound to the definition of what the OIN says the definition is. Add "kludge" or "kick-in-the-ass" to the end of the so called open invention network OIN to get a load of their pigginess: OINK. No thanks. There's something definitely shady going on here.
re This is not checking for a pulse. .
Look at the application for the patent assigned to the company involved. The patent details say that it measures the change in oxygenation levels which varies slightly as each heartbeat pumps more blood through the vascular system. Here are some details. (it doesn't measure blood pressure, like some people were guessing above, it measures hemoglobin oxygenation/deoxygenation levels). .
It measures
"Pulse Oximetry" which measures the ratio of oxygenated vs. deoxygenated hemoglobin in the blood by measuring infrared absorption at two wavelengths, wavelengths $\lambda_1$=630 nm and \$lambda_2$=940 nm. [LaTeX mods inserted by moi] Here's the relevant information from their patent application at line 82, the preferred embodiment of the invention in http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120119089 :
DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION
[0082] Basically, the invention is based on the transmission properties of quasi-coherent pulsed near-infrared radiation on human epithelial tissue and its absorption by oxidised and deoxidised haemoglobin (25). It is also based on the reflection of near-ultraviolet (24) and pulsed UV-A (23) radiation on human epithelial tissue.
The presence of a "pulsatile" or time-varying signal will indicate the presence of a pulse and will also indicate the heart-rate and the oxygen saturation level of the blood. Using different wavelengths would allow for the measurement of CO_2 levels or of CO (carbon monoxide) levels also. This type of measurement is routinely done on neonates (newborns), intraoperatively, and in the post-surgical unit on patients coming out of anesthesia. I just studied some of it when I went on my hospital shadowing visits with my mom the doctor (!).
re I was hoping for more details. .
Look at the patent application for this assigned to the company involved. It measures the change in oxygenation levels which varies slightly as each heartbeat pumps more blood through the vascular system. Here are some details. (it doesn't measure blood pressure, like some people were guessing above, it measures hemoglobin oxygenation/deoxygenation levels). .
It measures
"Pulse Oximetry" which measures the ratio of oxygenated vs. deoxygenated hemoglobin in the blood by measuring infrared absorption at two wavelengths, wavelengths $\lambda_1$=630 nm and \$lambda_2$=940 nm. [LaTeX mods inserted by moi] Here's the relevant information from their patent application at line 82, the preferred embodiment of the invention in http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120119089 :
DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION
[0082] Basically, the invention is based on the transmission properties of quasi-coherent pulsed near-infrared radiation on human epithelial tissue and its absorption by oxidised and deoxidised haemoglobin (25). It is also based on the reflection of near-ultraviolet (24) and pulsed UV-A (23) radiation on human epithelial tissue.
The presence of a "pulsatile" or time-varying signal will indicate the presence of a pulse and will also indicate the heart-rate and the oxygen saturation level of the blood. Using different wavelengths would allow for the measurement of CO_2 levels or of CO (carbon monoxide) levels also. This type of measurement is routinely done on neonates (newborns), intraoperatively, and in the post-surgical unit on patients coming out of anesthesia. I just studied some of it when I went on my hospital shadowing visits with my mom the doctor (!).
It measures "Pulse Oximetry" which measures the ratio of oxygenated vs. deoxygenated hemoglobin in the blood by measuring infrared absorption at two wavelengths, wavelengths Î1=630 nm and Î2=940 nm. Here's the relevant information from their patent application at line 82, the preferred embodiment of the invention in
http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120119089:
DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION
[0082] Basically, the invention is based on the transmission properties of quasi-coherent pulsed near-infrared radiation on human epithelial tissue and its absorption by oxidised and deoxidised haemoglobin (25). It is also based on the reflection of near-ultraviolet (24) and pulsed UV-A (23) radiation on human epithelial tissue.
The presence of a "pulsatile" or time-varying signal will indicate the presence of a pulse and will also indicate the heart-rate and the oxygen saturation level of the blood. Using different wavelengths would allow for the measurement of CO_2 levels or of CO (carbon monoxide) levels also. This type of measurement is routinely done on neonates (newborns), intraoperatively, and in the post-surgical unit on patients coming out of anesthesia. I just studied some of it when I went on my hospital shadowing visits with my mom the doctor (!).
So Nate Silver does politics, and slashdot is all over it, and the/. article about it gets many many responses [currently shows that it had 576 responses in all, with 144 scoring at or over 2, 79 at or over 3, 56 at or over 4, and 32 scoring 5 .
Now, Nate Silver predict-o'matics the Ocsar Awards and it become obvious that the slashdot crowd is definitely not the Oscar-watching, red-carpet fawning, entertainment-industry-drooling set of consumer-bots that Hollywood really wants to advertise to. :>)
There ought to have been a/. poll asking about tonights Oscar Awards ceremony asking who was watching, who would be attending Oscar-watching parties, who even cared about who might win awards. The winning poll entry would probably be "crickets chirping", because since there are only 7 postings thus far that score over 2 points (and only 49 postings at all [!!!] at 2 a.m. PST the morning after), it's obvious that this is not the topic for/.
La Jolla, California... There's a tiny fruit/vegetable stand that competes with the local supermarket, Ralphs, and the local yuppie grocers, Trader Joes, that has a stand next to the parking lot of the complex that has both of those on La Jolla Village Drive. Of course, they grow a lot of veggies in California, but you do have to watch out for those "out of season" items obviously from Chile and south of the equator veggies and fruits, just like you'd have to be suspicious of seafood that seems to be a great price deal in a supermarket being mislabelled on purpose. You can't take everything as being truth in sales, eh? .
The majority of CA veggies are grown in the central valley and north/northeast of Los Angeles near Ojai and Oxnard and such. They also grow strawberries in Del Mar in fields that are low flood plain less than three miles from where I live. Mango trees and citrus and avocados also grow well in the La Jolla and San Diego climate.It's not cold enough here for apples and pears, those grow further north. And apricots and walnuts and almonds are also grown near Saccymento. .
My relatives in Sarasota, Florida, also have access to great farmers' markets, but they also have the benefit of real local produce as tomatos are grown in their county at huge levels, and strawberries and lettuce are grown 50 miles north of them. .
But the worst "farmer market" scams I've seen are in Los Angeles, at the Brentwood and Santa Monica "Farmers' Market" on the 3rd ave promenade, and the weekly farmer market sales events near the UCLA campus just south of Gail/Gale(sp?). Now those are filled with "faux farmers" who are repackaging items that they just purchased in bulk at actual farmers markets at 4 in the morning that day. And it definitely helps to know the price of veggies in your regular supermarket, because if the veggies came from the same source, why pay double at the farmers markey for the same thing you can get at Ralphs.
My aunt in Sarasota emailed me this freakshow in Florida that sounds like it's out of a badly written TV law comedy/drama that definitely has an example of friendly cops on the speed dial
Example of local malice by local level police and politicians and even lawyers: one lawyer sets up another lawyer for a drunk-driving charge by getting a paralegal to cajole him into driving drunk and then calling a family friend who happens to be a police sergeant (this is the type of setup you see more often in divorces and custody disputes in order to malign/slander/impugn the reputation of the other side so that you can gain full custody or more money mo' money mo' money): . http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/20754620/2013/01/28/sergeant-was-manipulated-tampa-police-department-says . http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/lawyer-accused-in-dui-setup-says-he-will-no-longer-take-the-fifth/1274804 . http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/sue-carlton-shock-jock-trial-an-insult-to-all-attorneys----and-the-public/1274939
by sending a pretty paralegal half his age into Malio's bar to lie about where she works, chat him up and buy drinks. Though he lives within walking distance, Campbell was driving her in her car when he was arrested.
How did they happen to catch him, you ask? A lawyer from the Bubba firm, Adam Filthaut, admits he called his Tampa police DUI sergeant friend to report the man at Malio's. Police are on it. Campbell is arrested a couple of hours later.
Important detail here: Paralegal, and then lawyers in her firm, are left with Campbell's briefcase containing secret court papers after he is taken away. And having opposing counsel's stuff in the middle of a trial is officially not good.
This was the divorce lawyer's point of view about this bizarre case: The investigator, a former police officer, says he got two women to pose as dates for the father. The father met and drank with the women. When he got behind the wheel to drive to another bar, the investigator called police and reported a suspected drunk driver. The man was convicted of drunk driving.
Re: The battery cells are rectangular with a stud on each side of the top. Not even any prominent markings to indicate polarity, though the two studs seem to be mounted with different colored rivets. .
The other possibility is that the installer was color blind and has been able to get by without that disability showing through. Most items that are color-marked often have a redundant marking that is not dependent on color vision perception (except for resistors and their color banding indicators, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_color_code#Resistor_color-coding and for cable runs of twisted-pairs that use
paired coloring indicators
re: For example, I regularly walk 6 miles to a farmer's market and 6 miles back to save a couple of dollars on the price of vegetables. That's three hours of walking to save a minute or two's income. .
Bonus for you is that you got three hours of aerobic cardiovascular workout time! You'll be healthier, and (two or so dollars) wealthier, and wise! The strange this is that there are people who actually pay other people and companies money for the opportunity to exercise on a treadmill or a stationary bike. These people tend to gas up their SUV and drive the two miles over to their "gym" to do pretend walking and pay for that privilege. You, sir or madam, on the other hand have gamed the system and not fallen for the idiocracy. You get the benefits without the costs.
Also, you're not a leech, so you're also a good person. Plus you also eat vegetables: double-plus good person! (My mom has me convinced that stealing the carrot sticks from the fridge is bad, so I'm tempted more and do it more! It was just a year ago that I figured out that carrots were healthy! I've been conned into liking veggies!) ;>)
Bonus point of spelling pickiness: your response was to Re:I've used Wifi Analizer. Surely, the GP poster meant "Analyzer", unless the word "analizer" tells us more about the GP and his probings by alien species than we wanted to know....
re:If your pages are not connected via links to any extern sites, then by definitionem[sic], they are not part of the World Wide Web.
You're wrong, in my opinion. .
Maybe you've got inbound links only, and no outbound links. You're still a webpage. .
Maybe your page has NO inbound links at all, and a couple of outbound links. Mebbe google and yahoo and bing and so on have not spider-crawled their way out to you, or you are so new and have no inbound links so the web-search-engines don't know you exist yet. You're still a web page if you can be accessed by an HTTP get request, eh? .
?? maybe you have no inbound links, no outbound links, and an url that was printed in an obscure newsletter: Spelunkers of San Diego, La Jolla Division. So someone has to read the url and type it in. You're still a webpage and part of the World Wide Web just like the other two categories above. .
You're part of the WWW if you can be reached by an "HTTP get" and respond with some content (doesn't have to be Hypertext-Markup-Language content, either; an url at http://example.com/text-files/i-am-so-on-the-www-v01.txt would also be a part of the world wide web).
Maybe they can update it and add Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button to the mix of a charms bar and come up with. .. .
the Lucky Charms Bars or LCB for short which could also stand for "least common blue-screen-o'-death"
Slashdot Mirror
In an article covering Google Health's launch, the New York Times discussed privacy issues and said that "patients apparently did not shun the Google health records because of qualms that their personal health information might not be secure if held by a large technology company."[5] Others contend that Google Health may be more private than the current "paper" health record system because of reduced human interaction.[15]
Google discontinued it on june 24, 2011,, but allowed people to access it umtil January 1st, 2013, when they could transfer their data to the Microsoft Vault.
reI usually employ the standard of whether somebody is capable of making a point without resorting to profanity.
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I agree with you whole-heartedly. There may be occasions to use profanity or outbursts of shouting, but those occasions seem to be those which require being intimidating or acting like a rabid dog in order to get the other side to back down. Profanity does not have a place in normal discussion, argument, or debate.
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As a bonus point, I think that "cloud computing" is the worst buzzword out there, though the synergy that comes about with "cloud computing of big data" may be more than the sum of its parts. [bingo! bingo!]
I agree with you that this stinks of a post-desirous-outcome bribe after-the-fact. It definitely doesn't look good. But what's with the silly title of this article: "Conflicted judges are Classier with English Accents" ??? /. these days.
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I actually expected something about how people (defendants, claimants) perceive their judge or arbitrator to be "classier" or "fairer" or "more important" if they happened to speak with a particular type of accent. The title turns out to be just a snarky piece of bitchiness. That's so rude and inappropriate and silly. It's getting a little tiresome here on
Ah, thank you very much for the extra info. My sincere apologies for not knowing about that particular formatting option. I've played with internationalization settings before, but I had never seen that one.
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You might have to concede, however, that the bizarre use of flush left justification or left-alignment of integer values does not make much sense. Numbers are easier to parse and perceive the relative log-magnitude of when they are presented as decimal aligned for integers or floating point values or as right-aligned columns of text for integer values.
re Looking at the data presented in the pdf,... ;>) )???
Benchmark Corpus size gzip-9 7-zip kzip Zopfli
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One obvious truth that is appartent from look at the data presented in the pdf is that those in the googleborg don't know how to format data or text in their documents. (they've scrubbed all doc-generation info from the document before pdf'ing it, but considering that the fonts are all Arial family [Arial-BoldMT, Arial-ItalicMT, Arial-MT, fully embedded truetype fonts] it's possible to guess what word processor they used)
:>p
The other thing that is obvious from looking at their data (table at the bottom of page 2) is that the google team does not know how to right-align numerical integer values so as to allow easy visual comparison and what the hell is the deal with using apostrophes as comma separators for integers at thousands and millions ??? I kept trying to parse it for thirty seconds before I figured out how fucked up their data printing is. Use commas, use periods like the europeans, but why the hell use apostrophes which mean "minutes" (which are 1/60th of a degree) or "feet" (which are 1/5280th of a mile, eh,
Alexa-top-10k 693'108'837 128'498'665 125'599'259 125'163'521 123'755'118
It turns out we are both recommending the same thing. My number one recommendation of DrScheme turns out to be the older name of Racket and a version called DrRacket was formerly called DrScheme (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_language#DrRacket_IDE )
Gotcha; no offense taken; glad to know you're just joking. Sorry if I sounded too brusque; I figured that my smileys and joking attitude would let you know I'm not really a partaker in the editor-flame-wars or the clone wars cartoon series. Neither of those has made a big impact on my life. :>)
re: On a side note it really makes me wonder at how history will be influenced by the movies made as their inaccuracies get put into the public conscience in an effort to make a more interesting story for the medium.
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How is real life influenced by fiction? Look at the torture events in the Iraq war and the photographs of prisoner pyramids and their interrogation efforts. Quite a few of the soldiers said that they were inspired (almost taught) by the TV series 24 with keifer sutherland. So a fictional portrayal of torture and interrogation teaches the actual performers of interrogation to torture and act in certain ways, which can get recycled into more fictional stories and lessons for future soldiers and leaders. History influenced by fiction does indeed happen, sad as it may be.
Yep. A good programming environment is key. That can mean hardware + software environment or it can also mean good encouraging parents and/or teachers and classrooms to play in at your own pace and timing. A good library, c-compiler, and a text-editor as simple as notepad or leafpad or nano will be fine for some kids. DrScheme is better for others. Some may like the easy-peasy approach possible with Hypercard running on an SE-30. My parents have a running TRS-80 and a running apple ][+ (and an SE-30, which is where I say and played with hypercard a bit) which you turn on (it's barely booting up when the boot-environment is the basic interpreter) directly into the BASIC interpreter environment. Those are unbelievably easy to play with and write basic BASIC code on. It's just saving onto cassette tapes that's a pain in the rumpus.
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The TRS-80 has a cool spirally-bound manual for level one basic, and I have to admit to having a lot of fun in the 4k of memory on that machine when I started playing with it about five years ago.
re You mean in VIM. Teaching kids emacs is just wrong ;>) Subjectivity reigns supreme; let the kids use what they like! If they learn to program, it's good. If they learn to like to program, well that's even better, whether they use vi (vhy they'd use vi, i can't say, oy vey) or nano or pico or leafpad or, heavens forbid, emacs!
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Let's not have a religious argument [about vi and emacs]; everyone can go to their favorite church. I wasn't just talking about using emacs as the text editor function. I meant the Lisp interpreter and command (run-eval-print loop) accessible that uses Emacs LISP. But it's also possible to use emacs directly to do the edit-compile-debug cycles for postscript or for c or other programming languages as well. I'm sure you knew that, though, so I'm not going to fall for a flame-war or religious war
Scheme and Lisp all the way! Just start off playing with the run environment in emacs and build your way up. Play with the Scheme interpreter com-ponent of GAP. You should program to learn how to accomplish things, even silly things like temperature conversions (F->C, C->F, F->C->K, K->F, et cetera) so a kid feels like they're getting shortcuts for homework. Pretty soon they're actually learning things for each new thing they want to accomplish. Programming rote exercises feels meaningless to me. But there's that subjectivity again.
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What's motivational to me may be crap to you. What motivates someone else to program may be crap-tastic to me. To each their own. But I strongly agree with teaching programming (not just coding a small small subprogram or subroutine, but actually understanding a project from beginning to end, even the temperature conversion programs can have a lot of UI trickery even if it's designed just for text mode).
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My recommendations:
1 - play inside emacs
2 - Dr.Scheme
3 - autocad if you can get your hands on it and autolistp
Re: Get a better bank.
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Or consider banking with a local financial cooperative such as a Credit Union. I just set up my account in December and there are few to no fees for the basics like simple checknig accounts and savings accounts. There is a requirement to keep a $5 share minimum in one account, but considering the minimums required at BoA [constrictor, Bank o' America squeezes all of the money out of you!] or other banking institutions, the $5 is almost nothing.
Intent to break the law is not breaking the law
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You {don't / can't / ought not} prosecute "intention to break additional laws". The only activities than ought to be prosecuted ought to be actual breaking of laws. Mens rea is just a part of it. Intention without action is not breaking the law.
Re: The use of two IR absorption measurements is not novel (see patent 5737439).
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correcto, they do in fact cite that particular patent in their own patent. Note the quote I included in my GP post also mentions the use of UV wavelengths too for measuring skin.
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For example, look at this particular line in their licensing agreement at http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/pat_license_agreement.php : "Linux System" shall, at any time, have the meaning set forth, at that time, on www.openinventionnetwork.com.
Notice the infinite malleability of what a "linux system" is, and that it depends solely upon what OIN wants to say. So the rest of the licensing agreement contract has fixed values, but the definition of what shall constitute a Linux system is left to be freely redefined and pre-agreed to be bound to the definition of what the OIN says the definition is. Add "kludge" or "kick-in-the-ass" to the end of the so called open invention network OIN to get a load of their pigginess: OINK. No thanks. There's something definitely shady going on here.
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Look at the application for the patent assigned to the company involved. The patent details say that it measures the change in oxygenation levels which varies slightly as each heartbeat pumps more blood through the vascular system. Here are some details. (it doesn't measure blood pressure, like some people were guessing above, it measures hemoglobin oxygenation/deoxygenation levels).
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It measures "Pulse Oximetry" which measures the ratio of oxygenated vs. deoxygenated hemoglobin in the blood by measuring infrared absorption at two wavelengths, wavelengths $\lambda_1$=630 nm and \$lambda_2$=940 nm. [LaTeX mods inserted by moi] Here's the relevant information from their patent application at line 82, the preferred embodiment of the invention in http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120119089 : DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION [0082] Basically, the invention is based on the transmission properties of quasi-coherent pulsed near-infrared radiation on human epithelial tissue and its absorption by oxidised and deoxidised haemoglobin (25). It is also based on the reflection of near-ultraviolet (24) and pulsed UV-A (23) radiation on human epithelial tissue.
The presence of a "pulsatile" or time-varying signal will indicate the presence of a pulse and will also indicate the heart-rate and the oxygen saturation level of the blood. Using different wavelengths would allow for the measurement of CO_2 levels or of CO (carbon monoxide) levels also. This type of measurement is routinely done on neonates (newborns), intraoperatively, and in the post-surgical unit on patients coming out of anesthesia. I just studied some of it when I went on my hospital shadowing visits with my mom the doctor (!).
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Look at the patent application for this assigned to the company involved. It measures the change in oxygenation levels which varies slightly as each heartbeat pumps more blood through the vascular system. Here are some details. (it doesn't measure blood pressure, like some people were guessing above, it measures hemoglobin oxygenation/deoxygenation levels).
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It measures "Pulse Oximetry" which measures the ratio of oxygenated vs. deoxygenated hemoglobin in the blood by measuring infrared absorption at two wavelengths, wavelengths $\lambda_1$=630 nm and \$lambda_2$=940 nm. [LaTeX mods inserted by moi] Here's the relevant information from their patent application at line 82, the preferred embodiment of the invention in http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120119089 : DESCRIPTION OF A PREFERRED EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION [0082] Basically, the invention is based on the transmission properties of quasi-coherent pulsed near-infrared radiation on human epithelial tissue and its absorption by oxidised and deoxidised haemoglobin (25). It is also based on the reflection of near-ultraviolet (24) and pulsed UV-A (23) radiation on human epithelial tissue.
The presence of a "pulsatile" or time-varying signal will indicate the presence of a pulse and will also indicate the heart-rate and the oxygen saturation level of the blood. Using different wavelengths would allow for the measurement of CO_2 levels or of CO (carbon monoxide) levels also. This type of measurement is routinely done on neonates (newborns), intraoperatively, and in the post-surgical unit on patients coming out of anesthesia. I just studied some of it when I went on my hospital shadowing visits with my mom the doctor (!).
The presence of a "pulsatile" or time-varying signal will indicate the presence of a pulse and will also indicate the heart-rate and the oxygen saturation level of the blood. Using different wavelengths would allow for the measurement of CO_2 levels or of CO (carbon monoxide) levels also. This type of measurement is routinely done on neonates (newborns), intraoperatively, and in the post-surgical unit on patients coming out of anesthesia. I just studied some of it when I went on my hospital shadowing visits with my mom the doctor (!).
So Nate Silver does politics, and slashdot is all over it, and the /. article about it gets many many responses [currently shows that it had 576 responses in all, with 144 scoring at or over 2, 79 at or over 3, 56 at or over 4, and 32 scoring 5 /. poll asking about tonights Oscar Awards ceremony asking who was watching, who would be attending Oscar-watching parties, who even cared about who might win awards. The winning poll entry would probably be "crickets chirping", because since there are only 7 postings thus far that score over 2 points (and only 49 postings at all [!!!] at 2 a.m. PST the morning after), it's obvious that this is not the topic for /.
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Now, Nate Silver predict-o'matics the Ocsar Awards and it become obvious that the slashdot crowd is definitely not the Oscar-watching, red-carpet fawning, entertainment-industry-drooling set of consumer-bots that Hollywood really wants to advertise to.
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There ought to have been a
La Jolla, California... There's a tiny fruit/vegetable stand that competes with the local supermarket, Ralphs, and the local yuppie grocers, Trader Joes, that has a stand next to the parking lot of the complex that has both of those on La Jolla Village Drive. Of course, they grow a lot of veggies in California, but you do have to watch out for those "out of season" items obviously from Chile and south of the equator veggies and fruits, just like you'd have to be suspicious of seafood that seems to be a great price deal in a supermarket being mislabelled on purpose. You can't take everything as being truth in sales, eh?
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The majority of CA veggies are grown in the central valley and north/northeast of Los Angeles near Ojai and Oxnard and such. They also grow strawberries in Del Mar in fields that are low flood plain less than three miles from where I live. Mango trees and citrus and avocados also grow well in the La Jolla and San Diego climate.It's not cold enough here for apples and pears, those grow further north. And apricots and walnuts and almonds are also grown near Saccymento.
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My relatives in Sarasota, Florida, also have access to great farmers' markets, but they also have the benefit of real local produce as tomatos are grown in their county at huge levels, and strawberries and lettuce are grown 50 miles north of them.
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But the worst "farmer market" scams I've seen are in Los Angeles, at the Brentwood and Santa Monica "Farmers' Market" on the 3rd ave promenade, and the weekly farmer market sales events near the UCLA campus just south of Gail/Gale(sp?). Now those are filled with "faux farmers" who are repackaging items that they just purchased in bulk at actual farmers markets at 4 in the morning that day. And it definitely helps to know the price of veggies in your regular supermarket, because if the veggies came from the same source, why pay double at the farmers markey for the same thing you can get at Ralphs.
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http://www.myfoxtampabay.com/story/20754620/2013/01/28/sergeant-was-manipulated-tampa-police-department-says
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/lawyer-accused-in-dui-setup-says-he-will-no-longer-take-the-fifth/1274804
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http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/sue-carlton-shock-jock-trial-an-insult-to-all-attorneys----and-the-public/1274939 by sending a pretty paralegal half his age into Malio's bar to lie about where she works, chat him up and buy drinks. Though he lives within walking distance, Campbell was driving her in her car when he was arrested.
How did they happen to catch him, you ask? A lawyer from the Bubba firm, Adam Filthaut, admits he called his Tampa police DUI sergeant friend to report the man at Malio's. Police are on it. Campbell is arrested a couple of hours later.
Important detail here: Paralegal, and then lawyers in her firm, are left with Campbell's briefcase containing secret court papers after he is taken away. And having opposing counsel's stuff in the middle of a trial is officially not good.
So then I hunted for "dui+sting" on your friendly neighborhood search engines and got:
This was the divorce lawyer's point of view about this bizarre case: The investigator, a former police officer, says he got two women to pose as dates for the father. The father met and drank with the women. When he got behind the wheel to drive to another bar, the investigator called police and reported a suspected drunk driver. The man was convicted of drunk driving..
http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-claims-dui-sting-child-custody-dispute-wife/story?id=14207264
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http://www.harriscountydivorceattorneys.com/2011/08/man-blames-wife-for-plotting-dui-to-benefit-from-divorce.shtml
Re: The battery cells are rectangular with a stud on each side of the top. Not even any prominent markings to indicate polarity, though the two studs seem to be mounted with different colored rivets.
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The other possibility is that the installer was color blind and has been able to get by without that disability showing through. Most items that are color-marked often have a redundant marking that is not dependent on color vision perception (except for resistors and their color banding indicators, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_color_code#Resistor_color-coding and for cable runs of twisted-pairs that use paired coloring indicators
re: For example, I regularly walk 6 miles to a farmer's market and 6 miles back to save a couple of dollars on the price of vegetables. That's three hours of walking to save a minute or two's income.
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Bonus for you is that you got three hours of aerobic cardiovascular workout time! You'll be healthier, and (two or so dollars) wealthier, and wise! The strange this is that there are people who actually pay other people and companies money for the opportunity to exercise on a treadmill or a stationary bike. These people tend to gas up their SUV and drive the two miles over to their "gym" to do pretend walking and pay for that privilege. You, sir or madam, on the other hand have gamed the system and not fallen for the idiocracy. You get the benefits without the costs.
Also, you're not a leech, so you're also a good person. Plus you also eat vegetables: double-plus good person! (My mom has me convinced that stealing the carrot sticks from the fridge is bad, so I'm tempted more and do it more! It was just a year ago that I figured out that carrots were healthy! I've been conned into liking veggies!)
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Bonus point of spelling pickiness: your response was to Re:I've used Wifi Analizer . Surely, the GP poster meant "Analyzer", unless the word "analizer" tells us more about the GP and his probings by alien species than we wanted to know....
re:If your pages are not connected via links to any extern sites, then by definitionem[sic], they are not part of the World Wide Web. You're wrong, in my opinion.
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Maybe you've got inbound links only, and no outbound links. You're still a webpage.
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Maybe your page has NO inbound links at all, and a couple of outbound links. Mebbe google and yahoo and bing and so on have not spider-crawled their way out to you, or you are so new and have no inbound links so the web-search-engines don't know you exist yet. You're still a web page if you can be accessed by an HTTP get request, eh?
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?? maybe you have no inbound links, no outbound links, and an url that was printed in an obscure newsletter: Spelunkers of San Diego, La Jolla Division. So someone has to read the url and type it in. You're still a webpage and part of the World Wide Web just like the other two categories above.
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You're part of the WWW if you can be reached by an "HTTP get" and respond with some content (doesn't have to be Hypertext-Markup-Language content, either; an url at http://example.com/text-files/i-am-so-on-the-www-v01.txt would also be a part of the world wide web).
Maybe they can update it and add Google's "I'm feeling lucky" button to the mix of a charms bar and come up with. . .
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the Lucky Charms Bars or LCB for short which could also stand for "least common blue-screen-o'-death"