There are some studies about neem oil against HIV, working by slowing down the production of viral proteins. Don't expect any of these to be certified in the US anytime soon.. the process involves expensive and expensive testing, and since these natural cures are not patentable, no pharma company is going to submit it for certification. Unless they can isolate the active ingredient, of course.
The response above is to the argument made by TWC that customers should have to pay for their service twice, once at home, and once at the coffee shop. AT&T customers pay only once anyway (well, apart from the token $1).
AT&T (nee SBC, nee Ameritech) DSL customers in Chicago (probably all IL) get access to all their wi-fi hotspots for a token $1 a month. You get pretty good tech support too, they'll patiently walk you through the login page, rest your password, etc. at 9 PM for $1 a month. Death Star maybe, but they do their homework.
Most if not all transit rail systems do "use lots of small motors connected to each wheel instead of one big one in a locomotive." They're either EMU (electric multiple units) or DMU (diesel). It allows them to get a big horsepower number that scales with however long you want to make the train - more coaches at rush hour, fewer at other times. Since most of them are electric, and the diesels too are clean (in terms of emissions/mile/passenger) they are very clean compared to the steam engines. So the future described is here.
Except that it turns out that solution isn't practical for every use. And so we have locomotives too.
Actually with many cars today, you only need to have the remote in your hand, or pockets, and it will unlock the door. Once you get in, you just have to press the start button. You don't ever have to actually operate the keys. So even if the car isn't left running, a child could start it merely by having the remote on its person. Now depressing the brake or clutch to put it into a drive gear might be beyond the child, but starting a car is, well, child's play.
At the Home Depot and Menards, more than half of the fluorescent fixtures available have magnetic ballasts. It is a significant step up to electronic ballasted fixtures. It is possible that they don't move as much of those as the CF lamps. There is plenty of magnetic stock still available online too.
My first thought on reading all the military-style terminology, such as "tactical generator" was, "What century's wars are they fighting now?" Think of the theaters of wars today in which the US Army is involved, and a truck or large van wouldn't go undetected by the enemy anyway. The style of wars being fought by the US Army doesn't require the kind of footprint camoflaging that this could provide.
Then I figured that the army probably happened to be the first sponsor that the research group could find, so the research was described in terms that made it appear useful to them. Nothing wrong with that, a lot of useful research with non-military applications came with military funding, but as you said, it seemed that the process had better civilian application.
I wouldn't agree that it defeats the purpose of having thin clients. No configuration is done on the thin client, it's all on the server. Once setup, the executables are moved (over the shared FS) and run on the client, and when done you can simply shut the client off; it's just an X session. You still have a single point of control. You get all the advantages of thin clients, at the expense of a more sophisticated configuration. But with that, you also get to use the memory and bandwidth of the client, meaning the server doesn't have to be a very big machine. Since a lot of LTSP thin clients are older PCs, this approach puts the memory already installed in them to good use.
When you have programs that pull a lot of data such as images from the internet (that is, web browsers) and graphics-intensive work such as your PDF viewer, then you use local apps in LTSP. For example, Firefox would run locally on the client; you can also get sound on the client with local apps. Each client is then pulling stuff directly from the internet, and not moving all that stuff through the server, and also not using server memory.
PS: I mean graphics-intensive in the sense of having to redraw the screen a lot, not intensive as in gaming.
Additionally:
- The price of milk isn't a national security issue because we produce all the milk we consume. Other nations, such as Iran, do not try to develop nuclear capability because they massive supplies of wheat or corn.
- Similar to how the Dow Transports say something about the Dow Industrials, the price of oil (and consequently, gas) leads the price of consumer goods. Manipulation (if it is happenning) of gas prices should be a more serious offence that that of lipstick.
In addition to recycling garbage directly into other products such as sidewalks, we also have the high temperature plants that convert it into diesel. And then there's the reuse movement - a shopping bag becomes a garbage can liner, etc. You have to look at this as an evolution of the human economy in a positive direction.
You wrote: > Does India really give a rat's ass about American patents? > o, they will sell it to the world. If some silly American patent is violated, well too bad for the Americans.
This is incorrect. Indian Patent Law is in conformance with the WTO.
However, a lot of people think this isn't a good thing.
> So there is some money to be made in "learning" search engines that > tailor themselves to the user
I for one, wouldn't want a search engine that customizes its output to that extent for me (not the way it looks, or the ordering, but the content itself). I'd like to see results for all types of horns even though I've only been interested in air horns in my previous searches. That'd be like only watching a particular news channel that is known to be slanted one way, you'd end up thinking to world is just as they say it is.
> or perhaps the results could be displayed intuitively in domains of > knowledge
That would be helpful. For example, the biggest online auction site will show you all the results for say, "xenon lamps", but they also generate a menu in the left frame containing the main categories, such as "Automobile", "Business & Industrial", "Sporting Goods", etc. However the database of auctions is very well ordered and makes this possible. Generalizing this to contexts in real-life would be considerably harder. Classifications would be possible along many axes... a problem worthy of the company that would tackle it.
Quote (allegedly from Forbes article): "and that the information is collected from various sources rather than a direct feed from the stock exchanges, making it probably less useful for buy & sell decisions. "
This stinks of scraping the botton of the barrel to find something bad to say about Google. Unless you have direct exchange feeds and are in constant direct contact with officers in all the listed firms, you're always getting information collected from various sources, whether you're Yahoo or Google or some guy at Starbucks.
As to use for "buy & sell" decisions, that comment smacks of the contempt that firms like Forbes have for consumers. They have one type of trade in mind, where you use information fresh from analysts who are plugged into a stock, and call the correct time to buy exactly. In reality, very few trades hinge on the few minutes or even hours that secondary news sources take to publish the news from primary sources. Exceptions might be IPOs (which are hard to get into for other reasons anyway), really bad news for a stock (in which case panic selling or even trading being halted by the exchange would be bigger factors), and intraday or tick-based selling (for which sources like Forbes, or Yahoo, or Google aren't even relevant anyway, since you need a live tick feed from someone like Thomson or Reuters).
>I have to decide if it's worth switching to Windows Mobile and paying $450+ for
Getting a PDA that has a specific network technology built-in is going to have you looking for another PDA when the other networks have better plans or faster speeds. You might want to consider getting a PDA with Bluetooth, and use as a modem a Bluetooth-enabled phone that works on the network du jour.
What if a group of people, say neighbors, or firms, or even cities got together, strung some fiber or microwave links between them, and called it MyNet? Physically isolated from the Internet, but nevertheless including entities that are considered separate so far as the conventional or legal definition goes. I think laws such as child porno laws, or externally copyrighted music, would still apply because they are broadly defined. But what if these participating entities explicitly agreed to allow cracking, for one, or the use of strong encryption, or in general, uses which are legally prosecuted to protect the lowest common denominator in computer users, or to allow hooks for prosecuting. Is Internet-2 like this (probably not, because government money is involved). Seems like the Internet space is increasingly being regulated as if, or more harshly than it were meat-space.
Just to get it out of the way, I did go to a very highly reputed undergrad program, and a very highly reputed grad program (both engineering), and I did OK. I mean, I got As in everything, but I can't say I understood everything, but hey, sometimes just short of perfect is good enough. But this one time, I thought I should learn some practical stats, so I took the introductory stats course in the Psych department, and I've got to say, I had no clue from day one. I'd missed only the first class because of some mix-up, but that didn't explain why I didn't understand one word that was said. The instructor spoke in SAS, or so I assume, because there were words in the SAS-based problem set handout that were similar to words on the board. There wasn't any discussion about what real-world problem we were trying to solve. I mean, this wasn't "SAS for Psych" or something, it was an "Introduction to Stats in Psych" course. And at this time, I was TAing a course in engineering that was heavy on simulation programming and stats at the same time! I didn't even bother going back, I figured they weeded me out in one class, that was way more efficient that any engineering course.
Last year, notebooks for the first time out-sold desktops. So this is a very timely announcement. The momentum of notebook sales could carry over to desktop Linux.
Let's see, the House votes 355-21 to start an FTC investigation into GTA Coffeegate, meaning a large number, and broad spectrum of legislators are concerned about the issue, and who gets the/. headline? Hillary. Because no other politician has concerns or motives.
No, actually Hillary gets singled out, because some people are programmed into a crusade against her.
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There are some studies about neem oil against HIV, working by slowing down the production of viral proteins. Don't expect any of these to be certified in the US anytime soon.. the process involves expensive and expensive testing, and since these natural cures are not patentable, no pharma company is going to submit it for certification. Unless they can isolate the active ingredient, of course.
The response above is to the argument made by TWC that customers should have to pay for their service twice, once at home, and once at the coffee shop. AT&T customers pay only once anyway (well, apart from the token $1).
AT&T (nee SBC, nee Ameritech) DSL customers in Chicago (probably all IL) get access to all their wi-fi hotspots for a token $1 a month. You get pretty good tech support too, they'll patiently walk you through the login page, rest your password, etc. at 9 PM for $1 a month. Death Star maybe, but they do their homework.
That's what he said, ol' Scott McNealy, "Mr. Tao, tear down this wall!"
Most if not all transit rail systems do "use lots of small motors connected to each wheel instead of one big one in a locomotive." They're either EMU (electric multiple units) or DMU (diesel). It allows them to get a big horsepower number that scales with however long you want to make the train - more coaches at rush hour, fewer at other times. Since most of them are electric, and the diesels too are clean (in terms of emissions/mile/passenger) they are very clean compared to the steam engines. So the future described is here.
Except that it turns out that solution isn't practical for every use. And so we have locomotives too.
Actually with many cars today, you only need to have the remote in your hand, or pockets, and it will unlock the door. Once you get in, you just have to press the start button. You don't ever have to actually operate the keys. So even if the car isn't left running, a child could start it merely by having the remote on its person. Now depressing the brake or clutch to put it into a drive gear might be beyond the child, but starting a car is, well, child's play.
At the Home Depot and Menards, more than half of the fluorescent fixtures available have magnetic ballasts. It is a significant step up to electronic ballasted fixtures. It is possible that they don't move as much of those as the CF lamps. There is plenty of magnetic stock still available online too.
My first thought on reading all the military-style terminology, such as "tactical generator" was, "What century's wars are they fighting now?" Think of the theaters of wars today in which the US Army is involved, and a truck or large van wouldn't go undetected by the enemy anyway. The style of wars being fought by the US Army doesn't require the kind of footprint camoflaging that this could provide.
Then I figured that the army probably happened to be the first sponsor that the research group could find, so the research was described in terms that made it appear useful to them. Nothing wrong with that, a lot of useful research with non-military applications came with military funding, but as you said, it seemed that the process had better civilian application.
I wouldn't agree that it defeats the purpose of having thin clients. No configuration is done on the thin client, it's all on the server. Once setup, the executables are moved (over the shared FS) and run on the client, and when done you can simply shut the client off; it's just an X session. You still have a single point of control. You get all the advantages of thin clients, at the expense of a more sophisticated configuration. But with that, you also get to use the memory and bandwidth of the client, meaning the server doesn't have to be a very big machine. Since a lot of LTSP thin clients are older PCs, this approach puts the memory already installed in them to good use.
When you have programs that pull a lot of data such as images from the internet (that is, web browsers) and graphics-intensive work such as your PDF viewer, then you use local apps in LTSP. For example, Firefox would run locally on the client; you can also get sound on the client with local apps. Each client is then pulling stuff directly from the internet, and not moving all that stuff through the server, and also not using server memory.
PS: I mean graphics-intensive in the sense of having to redraw the screen a lot, not intensive as in gaming.
It just wouldn't be the same without the secret ballot.
You make very good points.
Additionally:
- The price of milk isn't a national security issue because we produce all the milk we consume. Other nations, such as Iran, do not try to develop nuclear capability because they massive supplies of wheat or corn.
- Similar to how the Dow Transports say something about the Dow Industrials, the price of oil (and consequently, gas) leads the price of consumer goods. Manipulation (if it is happenning) of gas prices should be a more serious offence that that of lipstick.
In addition to recycling garbage directly into other products such as sidewalks, we also have the high temperature plants that convert it into diesel. And then there's the reuse movement - a shopping bag becomes a garbage can liner, etc. You have to look at this as an evolution of the human economy in a positive direction.
You wrote:
> Does India really give a rat's ass about American patents?
> o, they will sell it to the world. If some silly American patent is violated, well too bad for the Americans.
This is incorrect. Indian Patent Law is in conformance with the WTO.
However, a lot of people think this isn't a good thing.
> So there is some money to be made in "learning" search engines that
> tailor themselves to the user
I for one, wouldn't want a search engine that customizes its output to that extent for me (not the way it looks, or the ordering, but the content itself). I'd like to see results for all types of horns even though I've only been interested in air horns in my previous searches. That'd be like only watching a particular news channel that is known to be slanted one way, you'd end up thinking to world is just as they say it is.
> or perhaps the results could be displayed intuitively in domains of
> knowledge
That would be helpful. For example, the biggest online auction site will show you all the results for say, "xenon lamps", but they also generate a menu in the left frame containing the main categories, such as "Automobile", "Business & Industrial", "Sporting Goods", etc. However the database of auctions is very well ordered and makes this possible. Generalizing this to contexts in real-life would be considerably harder. Classifications would be possible along many axes... a problem worthy of the company that would tackle it.
Quote (allegedly from Forbes article):
"and that the information is collected from various sources rather than a direct feed from the stock exchanges, making it probably less useful for buy & sell decisions. "
This stinks of scraping the botton of the barrel to find something bad to say about Google. Unless you have direct exchange feeds and are in constant direct contact with officers in all the listed firms, you're always getting information collected from various sources, whether you're Yahoo or Google or some guy at Starbucks.
As to use for "buy & sell" decisions, that comment smacks of the contempt that firms like Forbes have for consumers. They have one type of trade in mind, where you use information fresh from analysts who are plugged into a stock, and call the correct time to buy exactly. In reality, very few trades hinge on the few minutes or even hours that secondary news sources take to publish the news from primary sources. Exceptions might be IPOs (which are hard to get into for other reasons anyway), really bad news for a stock (in which case panic selling or even trading being halted by the exchange would be bigger factors), and intraday or tick-based selling (for which sources like Forbes, or Yahoo, or Google aren't even relevant anyway, since you need a live tick feed from someone like Thomson or Reuters).
>I have to decide if it's worth switching to Windows Mobile and paying $450+ for
Getting a PDA that has a specific network technology built-in is going to have you looking for another PDA when the other networks have better plans or faster speeds. You might want to consider getting a PDA with Bluetooth, and use as a modem a Bluetooth-enabled phone that works on the network du jour.
What if a group of people, say neighbors, or firms, or even cities got together, strung some fiber or microwave links between them, and called it MyNet? Physically isolated from the Internet, but nevertheless including entities that are considered separate so far as the conventional or legal definition goes. I think laws such as child porno laws, or externally copyrighted music, would still apply because they are broadly defined. But what if these participating entities explicitly agreed to allow cracking, for one, or the use of strong encryption, or in general, uses which are legally prosecuted to protect the lowest common denominator in computer users, or to allow hooks for prosecuting. Is Internet-2 like this (probably not, because government money is involved). Seems like the Internet space is increasingly being regulated as if, or more harshly than it were meat-space.
You write:
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>$scalar @array %hash $array[$index] $hash{$key} @array[0..$index] $#array
All that's well and good, but the fun starts when you can nest them.
print "The array is this big: ".@{$my_hash_ref->{$key}[$index]}[$start..$end]."
Yeeeeeeeeeeehaaa!
By the same logic, do you "love" people who use/support/like free software, yet use MS software at work?
Just to get it out of the way, I did go to a very highly reputed undergrad program, and a very highly reputed grad program (both engineering), and I did OK. I mean, I got As in everything, but I can't say I understood everything, but hey, sometimes just short of perfect is good enough. But this one time, I thought I should learn some practical stats, so I took the introductory stats course in the Psych department, and I've got to say, I had no clue from day one. I'd missed only the first class because of some mix-up, but that didn't explain why I didn't understand one word that was said. The instructor spoke in SAS, or so I assume, because there were words in the SAS-based problem set handout that were similar to words on the board. There wasn't any discussion about what real-world problem we were trying to solve. I mean, this wasn't "SAS for Psych" or something, it was an "Introduction to Stats in Psych" course. And at this time, I was TAing a course in engineering that was heavy on simulation programming and stats at the same time! I didn't even bother going back, I figured they weeded me out in one class, that was way more efficient that any engineering course.
Last year, notebooks for the first time out-sold desktops. So this is a very timely announcement. The momentum of notebook sales could carry over to desktop Linux.
And is it testable?
Besides, every argument from evidence, however fanciful, qualifies as a scientific theory by your argument, which isn't very productive.
Really?! So if Hillary hadn't spoken out, none of the family values republicans in Congress would've voted for the investigation?
Let's see, the House votes 355-21 to start an FTC investigation into GTA Coffeegate, meaning a large number, and broad spectrum of legislators are concerned about the issue, and who gets the /. headline? Hillary. Because no other politician has concerns or motives.
No, actually Hillary gets singled out, because some people are programmed into a crusade against her.