Sure there is. As long as you don't organize your government's scientific policies to serve corporate interests, the way America has increasingly done since the Reagan adminstration.
So we have politicians making a political point with "data", and an industry lobby making a political point with "data", and nobody unconnected to the politics and the money doing any analysis on the other parties "data".
How about someone comes up with something scientifically significant without proving to be in bed with one side or the other?
Ever since I was a kid, I've loved Mexican and Chinese and Italian food.
Sure, I like burgers, but you say "spaghetti" or "tacos" or "kung pao" to a kid and you're getting whoops of joy. Even if it's shitty school cafeteria renditions of them.
Kids are eating burgers because it's different from what they get at home every day and they like it. End of stupid story.
Now can we get on with pointing out the inherent bigotry of constantly questioning the validity of immigration?
It's the stuff constantly dumping on the top of the borer instead of falling and being sucked up by its front end. These things run on rails, so except for the first few meters their workspace needs to be relatively clean.
It's also much harder to stabilize loose stuff for use as a tunnel, and almost impossible to trust your load calculations. Nice, hard rock eliminates all that. Just throw in some cleats, spray on the gunite to seal cracks and prevent loose crap from becoming debris, and go to lunch.
Pretty sure if you use enough concrete to build a sidewalk from Poughkeepsie to Chickautagua, you're going to need enough cement to build a sidewalk from Poughkeepsie to Chickautagua.
The point is, nobody has any fucking idea how much that is, even though it's broken down to grade-school metaphors...
I'm shocked that we haven't launched prosecutions of most of the Bush Administration over its mis-handling of everything related to security and the Constitution.
Except in the case where the heart isn't moving and the pacemaker is still trying to make it move. Then the pacemaker will quickly run out of charge and that will the that.
But without the pacemaker, that would have been that long before, so it's a tradeoff of risks.
I guess what we really need is a source of power that is more powerful the less the heart is beating. So instead of a generator, implant a Life Alert dialer, and tie the pacemaker to the bumper of the local paramedic wagon, with the power broadcast back through the dialer and into the pacemaker. You'll be up and running laps in your living room when they burst through the door.
Because a lot of people with pacemakers aren't using their larger muscles, usually for good reason. The only muscle in operation continuously while they're still alive is their heart. Unless they're on some sort of replacement, and then the issue of a pacemaker is moot.
The heart itself is making big movements constantly.
Instead of using blood flow to move a generator to create electricity, use the motion of the heart itself to move the generator to create electricity.
Something like an automatic-watch winding mechanism glued inside the pericardium ought to do it. A few healthy beats and you have enough charge on a capacitor to discharge into the heart as a pacemaker signal. A few thousand and you might have enough for an automatic defibrillator (these can be much less powerful when you have direct access to key points on the heart, and an intelligent sequencer).
The amount of energy needed to mimic the vagus nerve acting electrically on the heart is nearly infinitesimal compared with the amount the heart puts into an average beat, most of which it wastes in its own movement against the tissues within and around itself. If this worked, the heart would never notice.
every plumber in the world knows how to sweat a joint
Soldering pipes would be a great patent if it weren't already centuries old. So would threading them and screwing them together. Just making a pipe out of metal is a good patent.
Go read your Dr. Seuss. If it's not also way above your intellectual level.
The only reason "mathematics is unpatentable" is that it's all old.
Invent a new mathematical symbol, and describe how it's used to make a transformation in the universe that nobody's ever discovered yet, and you'll be in.
I'm sorry, did BF3 have superbowl commercials with Kobe "Black Mamba" Bryant and other famous mofo's playing out the game's action IRL?
No?
Then CoD kicked their ever-lovin' asses in the drumbeat department, and any tiny thing they do from now on will have the impact of a full-out marketing blitz.
The best car will be the one that makes you feel like you're taking the bus, but on your personal schedule and route. I.e., the one that chauffeurs you.
Yes. They got it to work with a particular library, and decided to drop it before expanding it to use other libraries. Beta-testing and demand evaluation are valuable experiments.
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Sure there is. As long as you don't organize your government's scientific policies to serve corporate interests, the way America has increasingly done since the Reagan adminstration.
So we have politicians making a political point with "data", and an industry lobby making a political point with "data", and nobody unconnected to the politics and the money doing any analysis on the other parties "data".
How about someone comes up with something scientifically significant without proving to be in bed with one side or the other?
Ever since I was a kid, I've loved Mexican and Chinese and Italian food.
Sure, I like burgers, but you say "spaghetti" or "tacos" or "kung pao" to a kid and you're getting whoops of joy. Even if it's shitty school cafeteria renditions of them.
Kids are eating burgers because it's different from what they get at home every day and they like it. End of stupid story.
Now can we get on with pointing out the inherent bigotry of constantly questioning the validity of immigration?
It'd be a first if it was.
It's the stuff constantly dumping on the top of the borer instead of falling and being sucked up by its front end. These things run on rails, so except for the first few meters their workspace needs to be relatively clean.
It's also much harder to stabilize loose stuff for use as a tunnel, and almost impossible to trust your load calculations. Nice, hard rock eliminates all that. Just throw in some cleats, spray on the gunite to seal cracks and prevent loose crap from becoming debris, and go to lunch.
Pretty sure if you use enough concrete to build a sidewalk from Poughkeepsie to Chickautagua, you're going to need enough cement to build a sidewalk from Poughkeepsie to Chickautagua.
The point is, nobody has any fucking idea how much that is, even though it's broken down to grade-school metaphors...
Hmm.
I designed a gun.
No, no, no! You're supposed to point it away from you.
I'm shocked that we haven't launched prosecutions of most of the Bush Administration over its mis-handling of everything related to security and the Constitution.
Except in the case where the heart isn't moving and the pacemaker is still trying to make it move. Then the pacemaker will quickly run out of charge and that will the that.
But without the pacemaker, that would have been that long before, so it's a tradeoff of risks.
I guess what we really need is a source of power that is more powerful the less the heart is beating. So instead of a generator, implant a Life Alert dialer, and tie the pacemaker to the bumper of the local paramedic wagon, with the power broadcast back through the dialer and into the pacemaker. You'll be up and running laps in your living room when they burst through the door.
Because a lot of people with pacemakers aren't using their larger muscles, usually for good reason. The only muscle in operation continuously while they're still alive is their heart. Unless they're on some sort of replacement, and then the issue of a pacemaker is moot.
In a pig's ass they don't.
Everything causes turbulence at a significant Reynolds' number.
At the varying and fairly high speeds of blood flow in a major artery you could mix a frozen margarita with one of those things.
In the same way that exercise would. It's temporary, then you get used to it and hardly notice. One more gummy worm a day and you're good.
They're missing a trick.
The heart itself is making big movements constantly.
Instead of using blood flow to move a generator to create electricity, use the motion of the heart itself to move the generator to create electricity.
Something like an automatic-watch winding mechanism glued inside the pericardium ought to do it. A few healthy beats and you have enough charge on a capacitor to discharge into the heart as a pacemaker signal. A few thousand and you might have enough for an automatic defibrillator (these can be much less powerful when you have direct access to key points on the heart, and an intelligent sequencer).
The amount of energy needed to mimic the vagus nerve acting electrically on the heart is nearly infinitesimal compared with the amount the heart puts into an average beat, most of which it wastes in its own movement against the tissues within and around itself. If this worked, the heart would never notice.
No, what you're creating is a device that you think must be working, until it's too late.
Replying to trolls isn't dumb. The troll coming back again and again for abuse and never realizing that he's a masochist? That's dumb.
every plumber in the world knows how to sweat a joint
Soldering pipes would be a great patent if it weren't already centuries old. So would threading them and screwing them together. Just making a pipe out of metal is a good patent.
Go read your Dr. Seuss. If it's not also way above your intellectual level.
The only reason "mathematics is unpatentable" is that it's all old.
Invent a new mathematical symbol, and describe how it's used to make a transformation in the universe that nobody's ever discovered yet, and you'll be in.
So I don't see why they are bothering with this now when they have so much low hanging fruit left
Because the low hanging fruit aren't the high-value targets, and the high-value targets are still susceptible to a small number of exploits.
You like beer, don't you?
Same deal.
I'm sorry, did BF3 have superbowl commercials with Kobe "Black Mamba" Bryant and other famous mofo's playing out the game's action IRL?
No?
Then CoD kicked their ever-lovin' asses in the drumbeat department, and any tiny thing they do from now on will have the impact of a full-out marketing blitz.
Obama's using it as an ashtray.
You'll never hear of it because he's keeping his smoking a secret from his wife.
No, I mean a handful of neurons, dumbfuck.
The total computing power of a P2P network is overwhelmed by the subtle complexity of a small neural network.
Did you get dropped on the head as a child, enjoy it, and continue to do it?
I predict it will lead you down blind alleys. Again and again.
The best car will be the one that makes you feel like you're taking the bus, but on your personal schedule and route. I.e., the one that chauffeurs you.
Yes. They got it to work with a particular library, and decided to drop it before expanding it to use other libraries. Beta-testing and demand evaluation are valuable experiments.