Monopolies (both legally and economically) are bounded by the market from which consumers can choose alternative products. if you're talking about Apple, that means the computer systems market which is hardware software, some applications and some support all as a bundle. Consumers can choose an Apple system or a Dell or an HP or many others. Hence, no monopoly influence.
So if MS sold computer hardware - say they release the Windows X PC next year, and it's widely touted as THE BEST system to run Windows on - then you'd be fine with them bundling whatever software they wanted.
In fact, to get the BEST version of Windows, with all the features (eg. Windows Media Player, IE, backup software, etc), you'd have to buy their PC.
It's a fine line you're drawing. Be careful that you don't muss it up while you're hopping over it.
I don't want Microsoft in my life. They are criminally convicted monopolists. The world needs to move on to companies that can abide by the laws. We don't need the influences of Microsoft any more. We are no longer babies needing their hand holding. The industry is maturing. We need less Microsoft and more competition, especially in the OS and Office type application markets.
That's nice. It has nothing to do with the cellphone market though.
By the way, will I be in position to change Verizon's new default search engine (Live Search) back to Google?
You obviously have no idea how Live Search mobile works. If you want to use Google's search, open your browser and go to Google. If you want to use Live Search Mobile, open the Live Search app and use that. It even has speech recognition. It's pretty bad-ass to be honest.
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Why do the many researchers into the human brain think that this sort of thing won't happen with the brain and the mind, i.e. why do they think understanding the brain will give an understanding of mental dysfunction?
I'm sure you get a lot of puzzled voices on the end of the phone when you call your cable company to complain that your TV's volume is too quiet.
Because: 1) The software in human brains is actually mostly in the wiring. Different areas of the brain do different things. 2) As far as humans are concerned, our transistors are the bits that typically go wrong. They usually are pretty similar to one another, and are all created from the same basic template. So if there's a problem with the template, you get systematic issues. 3) Mind is a pretty loose and sloppy concept to begin with. If you don't believe me, try some hallucinogenics some time. You'll very quickly gain an appreciation for exactly what a con this whole "mind" thing is. It's not as obvious as you might think; our brains are very good at faking the impression of a "mind".
It is so ridiculous. There is no way taxpayer money should be used to purchase something as ridiculously overpriced as a bulk load of MacBooks (a few for school use, fine). This school board needs some serious management changes if they're greenlighting this sort of purchase when there are much cheaper options.
It's worse than that. My friend's son goes to a school here in Seattle where they require the parents to buy each student a MacBook.
Talk about stupidity. Yes, certainly, we'll force parents to buy their kids (not known for lack of clumsiness) laptops (known for failure when dropped) - and we'll pick the most expensive laptops out there!
It's still possible. I think you misunderstood though because that doesn't make sense for games. Maybe in a HPC environment, which Cell is also intended for, work could be sent to non-local SPUs. Obviously the latency between two game consoles on the internet is too high for offloading any game logic unless you're into some really funky math games.
No, I understand grid/clustered computing alright. But they were explicitly talking about using it for games.
Other claims that didn't materialize: "Speaking of video, Sony Computer Entertainment's chief technical officer Masa Chatani was on hand to show off the PS3's panoramic video functions. Since the console has two HD outputs, it is can be hooked up to two side-by-side HDTVs to projecting video in a 32:9 extra-widescreen format (think Cinemascope in your living room). Like a gigantic version of the Nintendo DS, the dual digital outputs also allow for an extended game display, with the action on one screen and either game information or video chat on the second."
* Co-developed the most powerful consumer electronic chip on the planet along with IBM and Toshiba
Yes. In fact, if you believed Sony's PR before the launch, the chip they developed is so powerful that it can send signals FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT.
No, seriously. They claimed that you could use others' PS3's extra power when they weren't using it to render frames in games. A quick back of the envelope calculation for that showed that yep, you could do that, if you could transfer the rendered frames at speeds in excess of 3x10^8m/s
Sorry for the all-caps, but it's that important. Basic is useful as a tool to teach very introductory programming logic to young kids, maybe 8 or 9 years old. Logo is just as useful for this purpose, and is less apt to confuse them once they get into more advanced topics. By the time they are 11, but especially 14, you should be steering them to a more modern language, for example one that has memory management. At that age, they shouldn't need the use of line numbers to help them with sequential logic, loops, etc
Modern Basics don't have line numbers. Actually, come to think of it, I'm not sure the original BASIC had line numbers either.
I wouldn't teach them a memory managed language until much later to be honest. Much more useful to go from BASIC (hey, this is how you program!) to Assembly (hey, this is what a computer really is... here's this memory thing... it's on a chip... each thing you store in it has an address). Makes it much easier to learn about things like pointers later.
What'll also help is a good understanding of flag registers, and bit arithmetic. That's a skill which from all the interview candidates I've seen over the past 4 years has nearly completely died out.
How do you figure? Or are you one of those strange and weird people who think that having a drag & drop UI builder means that somehow the IDE is writing all the code that does something with the UI for you?
... of course, to get it to beep, you had to turn the display on and off really fast, in the hope of creating an audio carrier that the TV could understand.
Ah, ZX81... how I... well, actually I don't miss thee at all.
Movies too, but you don't hear hollywood producers complaining about the cost each time they release their new movie.
Hollywood controls distribution much better though. First it goes to theaters... THEN it goes to airlines. THEN it goes to DVD rentals / pay per view. THEN it goes to DVD sales. THEN it goes to TV.
Whereas with games, it's going straight to the DVD Sales bit.
Oops... sorry about that. Thanks for the fact-check. (I was mixing up HSV-1 and APOE-4... damn we need easier to remember terminology for this stuff:) )
We don't have the tech to destroy latent viruses inside cells. We can stop them replicating. We can't kill them when they're just fragments of RNA sitting inside your cell itself.
I've got a theory that you could probably initiate replication and nuke the particles as they come out of the cell - presuming that you're not just left with viral particles inside the cell still, and they all come out.
The trick would be this: * Take lots of acyclovir. * Take lots of arginine butyrate (to encourage the virus to pop out) * Take lots of TNF-alpha (which also encourages the virus to replicate)
Hopefully this would flush it out of your cells and kill it. However, I'm not certain that it would work; I'm pretty sure you'd still end up with some latent virus.
You should read the other papers by Wozniak and Itzhaki. They include, for example, studies on how the HSV1 virus in-situ in nerve cells affects the expression of tau and beta-amyloid proteins, causing them to generate the exact types of plaques seen in AD patients.
They've done a pretty damn compelling job. If they didn't have to dot their i's and cross their t's to the nth degree, I'd have called this one and said it's in the bag years ago.
Other studies have shown that HSV1 has a mechanism by which it alters the creation of the amyloid proteins, and also tau proteins in nerve cells - the same two substances which are rife in Alzheimers'.
The same team that did this study did the study on the protein mechanisms too.
From what I've been seeing, MS is more likely to be varicella zoster related than HSV1 related, however, your continued susceptibility to cold sores (most people stop getting them after a bout in their teens) may indicate a genetic susceptibility to herpres viridae.
They're very similar viruses, and the treatment is nearly identical, so I wouldn't be surprised if treatment for one would affect the other.
Looking into Rebif a bit more, it's an interferon. Other studies have shown that supplementation with interferons help considerably (in people with active HSV infections, typically blood interferon levels are low for one or more types of interferon; alpha, beta & gamma). Supplementing with interferons will work; I would try getting your doc to put you on valcyclovir as well and start eating a high lysine, low-arginine diet - or at least supplementing with lysine. See if it helps. Worst case, at least you won't get cold sore outbreaks:)
Wow, that's a really interesting list. Partly because many of those items are *also* linked to autoimmune responses to gluten in the human diet. In particular, diabetes (Types I and II), Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Rheumatoid arthritis, and colon cancer have been clinically confirmed to my knowledge; I also know of people with MS and Crohn's who find that going gluten-free improved their condition a great deal.
I've got an idea about that... You might want to check and see if there's also any connection to peanut allergies and those conditions, reason being that both wheat germ and peanuts have a high arginine-lysine ratio, which encourages herpes replication.
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Monopolies (both legally and economically) are bounded by the market from which consumers can choose alternative products. if you're talking about Apple, that means the computer systems market which is hardware software, some applications and some support all as a bundle. Consumers can choose an Apple system or a Dell or an HP or many others. Hence, no monopoly influence.
So if MS sold computer hardware - say they release the Windows X PC next year, and it's widely touted as THE BEST system to run Windows on - then you'd be fine with them bundling whatever software they wanted.
In fact, to get the BEST version of Windows, with all the features (eg. Windows Media Player, IE, backup software, etc), you'd have to buy their PC.
It's a fine line you're drawing. Be careful that you don't muss it up while you're hopping over it.
Which demo? Where can I get that? Unless I am not completly mistaken that game never had a demo, but just a closed beta test.
Exactly. It's not on the Playstation Store - I've looked, repeatedly.
Why do I have to dick around 3 menus deep to change my wireless network?
Because you're doing it wrong?
Right-click on the network icon in the task bar. Select "Connect to Network". Voila.
As for IP settings... how often do you change them?
I don't want Microsoft in my life. They are criminally convicted monopolists. The world needs to move on to companies that can abide by the laws. We don't need the influences of Microsoft any more. We are no longer babies needing their hand holding. The industry is maturing. We need less Microsoft and more competition, especially in the OS and Office type application markets.
That's nice. It has nothing to do with the cellphone market though.
By the way, will I be in position to change Verizon's new default search engine (Live Search) back to Google?
You obviously have no idea how Live Search mobile works. If you want to use Google's search, open your browser and go to Google. If you want to use Live Search Mobile, open the Live Search app and use that. It even has speech recognition. It's pretty bad-ass to be honest.
Why do the many researchers into the human brain think that this sort of thing won't happen with the brain and the mind, i.e. why do they think understanding the brain will give an understanding of mental dysfunction?
I'm sure you get a lot of puzzled voices on the end of the phone when you call your cable company to complain that your TV's volume is too quiet.
Because:
1) The software in human brains is actually mostly in the wiring. Different areas of the brain do different things.
2) As far as humans are concerned, our transistors are the bits that typically go wrong. They usually are pretty similar to one another, and are all created from the same basic template. So if there's a problem with the template, you get systematic issues.
3) Mind is a pretty loose and sloppy concept to begin with. If you don't believe me, try some hallucinogenics some time. You'll very quickly gain an appreciation for exactly what a con this whole "mind" thing is. It's not as obvious as you might think; our brains are very good at faking the impression of a "mind".
It is so ridiculous. There is no way taxpayer money should be used to purchase something as ridiculously overpriced as a bulk load of MacBooks (a few for school use, fine). This school board needs some serious management changes if they're greenlighting this sort of purchase when there are much cheaper options.
It's worse than that. My friend's son goes to a school here in Seattle where they require the parents to buy each student a MacBook.
Talk about stupidity. Yes, certainly, we'll force parents to buy their kids (not known for lack of clumsiness) laptops (known for failure when dropped) - and we'll pick the most expensive laptops out there!
It's still possible. I think you misunderstood though because that doesn't make sense for games. Maybe in a HPC environment, which Cell is also intended for, work could be sent to non-local SPUs. Obviously the latency between two game consoles on the internet is too high for offloading any game logic unless you're into some really funky math games.
No, I understand grid/clustered computing alright. But they were explicitly talking about using it for games.
Other claims that didn't materialize: "Speaking of video, Sony Computer Entertainment's chief technical officer Masa Chatani was on hand to show off the PS3's panoramic video functions. Since the console has two HD outputs, it is can be hooked up to two side-by-side HDTVs to projecting video in a 32:9 extra-widescreen format (think Cinemascope in your living room). Like a gigantic version of the Nintendo DS, the dual digital outputs also allow for an extended game display, with the action on one screen and either game information or video chat on the second."
Let's see Sony since the PS2 has:
* Co-developed the most powerful consumer electronic chip on the planet along with IBM and Toshiba
Yes. In fact, if you believed Sony's PR before the launch, the chip they developed is so powerful that it can send signals FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT.
No, seriously. They claimed that you could use others' PS3's extra power when they weren't using it to render frames in games. A quick back of the envelope calculation for that showed that yep, you could do that, if you could transfer the rendered frames at speeds in excess of 3x10^8m/s
Sorry for the all-caps, but it's that important. Basic is useful as a tool to teach very introductory programming logic to young kids, maybe 8 or 9 years old. Logo is just as useful for this purpose, and is less apt to confuse them once they get into more advanced topics. By the time they are 11, but especially 14, you should be steering them to a more modern language, for example one that has memory management. At that age, they shouldn't need the use of line numbers to help them with sequential logic, loops, etc
Modern Basics don't have line numbers. Actually, come to think of it, I'm not sure the original BASIC had line numbers either.
I wouldn't teach them a memory managed language until much later to be honest. Much more useful to go from BASIC (hey, this is how you program!) to Assembly (hey, this is what a computer really is... here's this memory thing... it's on a chip... each thing you store in it has an address). Makes it much easier to learn about things like pointers later.
What'll also help is a good understanding of flag registers, and bit arithmetic. That's a skill which from all the interview candidates I've seen over the past 4 years has nearly completely died out.
How do you figure? Or are you one of those strange and weird people who think that having a drag & drop UI builder means that somehow the IDE is writing all the code that does something with the UI for you?
... of course, to get it to beep, you had to turn the display on and off really fast, in the hope of creating an audio carrier that the TV could understand.
Ah, ZX81... how I ... well, actually I don't miss thee at all.
That's how I learned how to program. BASIC at age 6... assembly around age 11.
Movies too, but you don't hear hollywood producers complaining about the cost each time they release their new movie.
Hollywood controls distribution much better though. First it goes to theaters... THEN it goes to airlines. THEN it goes to DVD rentals / pay per view. THEN it goes to DVD sales. THEN it goes to TV.
Whereas with games, it's going straight to the DVD Sales bit.
Oops... sorry about that. Thanks for the fact-check. (I was mixing up HSV-1 and APOE-4... damn we need easier to remember terminology for this stuff :) )
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9524256?dopt=Abstract
http://www.nature.com/onc/journal/v22/n48/full/1207139a.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WWY-45K1406-T&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=b88d0fc0f181cae87b8a1bd7686a8caf
http://books.google.com/books?id=7NAvFJ-oDn0C&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=p52+oncogenesis&source=web&ots=f9fRAXEbkc&sig=Kdl7bxvWMFM18E2deunfget71ds&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA74,M1
http://www.springerlink.com/content/25300q641u238965/
Note that in the above papers, Epstein-Barr explicitly subverts the P52 mechanism to its own ends (which is an interesting result).
Absolutely. You're completely and totally right. I have no idea why I ever disagreed with you. I must be a total moron.
We don't have the tech to destroy latent viruses inside cells. We can stop them replicating. We can't kill them when they're just fragments of RNA sitting inside your cell itself.
I've got a theory that you could probably initiate replication and nuke the particles as they come out of the cell - presuming that you're not just left with viral particles inside the cell still, and they all come out.
The trick would be this:
* Take lots of acyclovir.
* Take lots of arginine butyrate (to encourage the virus to pop out)
* Take lots of TNF-alpha (which also encourages the virus to replicate)
Hopefully this would flush it out of your cells and kill it. However, I'm not certain that it would work; I'm pretty sure you'd still end up with some latent virus.
You should read the other papers by Wozniak and Itzhaki. They include, for example, studies on how the HSV1 virus in-situ in nerve cells affects the expression of tau and beta-amyloid proteins, causing them to generate the exact types of plaques seen in AD patients.
They've done a pretty damn compelling job. If they didn't have to dot their i's and cross their t's to the nth degree, I'd have called this one and said it's in the bag years ago.
Other studies have shown that HSV1 has a mechanism by which it alters the creation of the amyloid proteins, and also tau proteins in nerve cells - the same two substances which are rife in Alzheimers'.
The same team that did this study did the study on the protein mechanisms too.
Interestingly, if you get HSV-1 before you get HSV-2, it gives you a degree of immunity to HSV-2. :)
Yep, I'm a huge big quivering plate of lime jello. You won! Enjoy!
From what I've been seeing, MS is more likely to be varicella zoster related than HSV1 related, however, your continued susceptibility to cold sores (most people stop getting them after a bout in their teens) may indicate a genetic susceptibility to herpres viridae.
Here's the paper I found on varicella zoster & MS:
http://archneur.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/61/4/529
They're very similar viruses, and the treatment is nearly identical, so I wouldn't be surprised if treatment for one would affect the other.
Looking into Rebif a bit more, it's an interferon. Other studies have shown that supplementation with interferons help considerably (in people with active HSV infections, typically blood interferon levels are low for one or more types of interferon; alpha, beta & gamma). Supplementing with interferons will work; I would try getting your doc to put you on valcyclovir as well and start eating a high lysine, low-arginine diet - or at least supplementing with lysine. See if it helps. Worst case, at least you won't get cold sore outbreaks :)
Nah, I just got bored of arguing with you.
Wow, that's a really interesting list. Partly because many of those items are *also* linked to autoimmune responses to gluten in the human diet. In particular, diabetes (Types I and II), Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, Rheumatoid arthritis, and colon cancer have been clinically confirmed to my knowledge; I also know of people with MS and Crohn's who find that going gluten-free improved their condition a great deal.
I've got an idea about that... You might want to check and see if there's also any connection to peanut allergies and those conditions, reason being that both wheat germ and peanuts have a high arginine-lysine ratio, which encourages herpes replication.