And when it comes to how to supplement iodine in remote areas, it turns out to be pretty easy:
A new approach to combatting iodine deficiency in developing countries: the controlled release of iodine in water by a silicone elastomer.
A Fisch, E Pichard, T Prazuck, R Sebbag, G Torres, G Gernez, M Gentilini
Am J Public Health. 1993 April; 83(4): 540–545. PMCID: PMC1694489 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1694489/
As long as the local shamans don't feel it takes away their business....
Sounds like you would benefit from a site level "current events" feed, that always has the most recent events. Then a per-event feed that, after the event, changes to "thank you for coming, see more at "current events". And that feed expires 3 months after the event.
If people are collecting your old feeds, but not getting value from them, is that actually valuable traffic? Are you interested in getting the word out, or counting fictional traffic?
You can also rename the feed to archive old information. Renaming the feed breaks the links to lazy readers. Anyone who really wants to research your old event data will search for it starting at your home page.
"IE is not available for Linux, and I have no interest in purchasing a different computer -- your action will disenfranchise me. There is no technical justification for such an exclusionary move by a public agency -- the open and democratic process of developing web standards has resulted in tremendous diversity and choice in Internet software. The proposed Copyright Office ruling undermines the very integrity of the web, and makes a mockery of the international standards effort that built the web."
A 2-D barcode could encode much of the same information as this RFID chip -- with none of the privacy implications. Any legitimate use of your passport involves handling it anyway -- it can simply be scanned.
An ISO/IEC 16022 data matrix would do the trick (the same type used by semacode.org and NextBus for cell phones). The Economist recently did an article on these.
RFID is a good technology, but this is a very bad application.
As a young software engineer I found that not even the lawyers read their own legal disclosures. After a bruising round of edits where a lawyer edited his own edits, I inserted the phrase "Reading legal mush can turn your brain to guacamole!".
And indeed, that's how the Amiga Rom Kernel Manual was published (Addison Wesley ISBN 020156775X - if memory serves). To my amazement at the time, I did not even get in trouble:-).
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Don't leave out City Car Share for San Francisco. There is something of a schism in the car sharing world between the non-profits (like City Car Share) and the for-profits (like Zipcar and Flexcar). The non-profits say their model is superior, in part because it is easier to ink deals for parking spots and make deals with public agencies. The for-profits say the important thing is attracting capital to the market so services can grow.
See Why Non-Profit at City Car Share for a good summary of the non-profit side.
How about ZipKids (tm) -- Kids when you want 'em. This would work out great for birth parents also, you could just put your kids up for lease during certain hours.
Turns out Mozilla misregisters itself as the email client. Check http://bugzilla.mozilla.org for details. Use "Start Menu->Run" and enter "mailto:" to convince yourself it is not Firefox's problem.
I was part of the team at Commodore-Amiga working on those chips (helping the chippies from the software side).
Skewed timing has little to do with it. The chips stayed in old fabs because there was no compelling reason, and not enough sales, to move them to more modern fabs. Some chips actually did move to better fabs as they were modified.
The real limitation of the Amiga chipset was more fundamental than timing skew. The Amiga chips were inherently based on the NTSC/PAL video standard. Everything about the chips was tied in lock step to the ideosychrocies of video.
That was fine as far as it went, but it made everything that was not video a hack. In particular you were tied to video refresh rates, even as computer monitors got larger and faster. The video and blitter memory was tied in lock step with video refresh rates, even as CPU capabilities grew.
Eventually it became simpler and faster to just do everything in software in main memory, and ignore the special purpose Amiga hardware. These days you can just throw fast CPUs and frame buffers at problems the Amiga once solved with special purpose hardware tricks.
If you want something of value from the Amiga take inspiration, not obsolete hardware optimized only for NTSC/PAL video frames.
Ok, let's say global warming triggers another ice age or mini-ice age. Then what? Do we try and pump huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere? Drop carbon black on the ice caps? Try to warm our toasty little planets toes?
Ask your self why British beef is imported into the Netherlands, and beef from the Netherlands into Britan? Same for every other country pair on the planet. What sense does this make? What better way to transfer disease, pests, and reduce native biodiversity?
You'd think the free trade folks could come up with some clever financial instrument to unify the markets, without actually shipping "like goods" in both directions.
I'm working in the wireless webpad field. All I can say is that if the wince models hit the market first, it will damage the whole product category. Wince is usable only by geeks, who would shun it because it of the problems, wince is not the right tool.
Be might be better. Linux/Mozilla or QNX/Opera might also be acceptable. Give it a chance. Note that it sure would be nice if Be ran under VMWare. This would make checking Be out a lot easier.
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And when it comes to how to supplement iodine in remote areas, it turns out to be pretty easy:
A new approach to combatting iodine deficiency in developing countries: the controlled release of iodine in water by a silicone elastomer.
A Fisch, E Pichard, T Prazuck, R Sebbag, G Torres, G Gernez, M Gentilini
Am J Public Health. 1993 April; 83(4): 540–545. PMCID: PMC1694489 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1694489/
As long as the local shamans don't feel it takes away their business....
Sounds like you would benefit from a site level "current events" feed, that always has the most recent events. Then a per-event feed that, after the event, changes to "thank you for coming, see more at "current events". And that feed expires 3 months after the event.
If people are collecting your old feeds, but not getting value from them, is that actually valuable traffic? Are you interested in getting the word out, or counting fictional traffic?
You can also rename the feed to archive old information. Renaming the feed breaks the links to lazy readers. Anyone who really wants to research your old event data will search for it starting at your home page.
The core of my letter, sent today, is:
"IE is not available for Linux, and I have no interest in purchasing a different computer -- your action will disenfranchise me. There is no technical justification for such an exclusionary move by a public agency -- the open and democratic process of developing web standards has resulted in tremendous diversity and choice in Internet software. The proposed Copyright Office ruling undermines the very integrity of the web, and makes a mockery of the international standards effort that built the web."
A 2-D barcode could encode much of the same information as this RFID chip -- with none of the privacy implications. Any legitimate use of your passport involves handling it anyway -- it can simply be scanned.
An ISO/IEC 16022 data matrix would do the trick (the same type used by semacode.org and NextBus for cell phones). The Economist recently did an article on these.
RFID is a good technology, but this is a very bad application.
As a young software engineer I found that not even the lawyers read their own legal disclosures. After a bruising round of edits where a lawyer edited his own edits, I inserted the phrase "Reading legal mush can turn your brain to guacamole!".
:-).
And indeed, that's how the Amiga Rom Kernel Manual was published (Addison Wesley ISBN 020156775X - if memory serves). To my amazement at the time, I did not even get in trouble
Don't leave out City Car Share for San Francisco. There is something of a schism in the car sharing world between the non-profits (like City Car Share) and the for-profits (like Zipcar and Flexcar). The non-profits say their model is superior, in part because it is easier to ink deals for parking spots and make deals with public agencies. The for-profits say the important thing is attracting capital to the market so services can grow.
See Why Non-Profit at City Car Share for a good summary of the non-profit side.
How about ZipKids (tm) -- Kids when you want 'em. This would work out great for birth parents also, you could just put your kids up for lease during certain hours.
Turns out Mozilla misregisters itself as the email client. Check http://bugzilla.mozilla.org for details. Use "Start Menu->Run" and enter "mailto:" to convince yourself it is not Firefox's problem.
I was part of the team at Commodore-Amiga working on those chips (helping the chippies from the software side).
Skewed timing has little to do with it. The chips stayed in old fabs because there was no compelling reason, and not enough sales, to move them to more modern fabs. Some chips actually did move to better fabs as they were modified.
The real limitation of the Amiga chipset was more fundamental than timing skew. The Amiga chips were inherently based on the NTSC/PAL video standard. Everything about the chips was tied in lock step to the ideosychrocies of video.
That was fine as far as it went, but it made everything that was not video a hack. In particular you were tied to video refresh rates, even as computer monitors got larger and faster. The video and blitter memory was tied in lock step with video refresh rates, even as CPU capabilities grew.
Eventually it became simpler and faster to just do everything in software in main memory, and ignore the special purpose Amiga hardware. These days you can just throw fast CPUs and frame buffers at problems the Amiga once solved with special purpose hardware tricks.
If you want something of value from the Amiga take inspiration, not obsolete hardware optimized only for NTSC/PAL video frames.
Ok, let's say global warming triggers another ice age or mini-ice age. Then what? Do we try and pump huge amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere? Drop carbon black on the ice caps? Try to warm our toasty little planets toes?
Yup, I managed to fry a 1GHz Athlon when testings fans.
Ask your self why British beef is imported into the Netherlands, and beef from the Netherlands into Britan? Same for every other country pair on the planet. What sense does this make? What better way to transfer disease, pests, and reduce native biodiversity?
You'd think the free trade folks could come up with some clever financial instrument to unify the markets, without actually shipping "like goods" in both directions.
I'm working in the wireless webpad field. All I can say is that if the wince models hit the market first, it will damage the whole product category. Wince is usable only by geeks, who would shun it because it of the problems, wince is not the right tool.
Be might be better. Linux/Mozilla or QNX/Opera might also be acceptable. Give it a chance. Note that it sure would be nice if Be ran under VMWare. This would make checking Be out a lot easier.