The movie Beautiful Mind on the life of John Nash present a scene in a bar where he gets his novel idea (which led to a Nobel Prize).
A beautiful women with 3 of her (so-so) friends, 4 guys. If we all go for the cutie, her friends get no attention, go away and we all lose. If we each take one (a guy being luckier than the other), every girls feels she get attention we all 'win'.
Is this scene true or pure romanced fiction? In any way, a good representation of Math + Sex (if this is possible).
God I love lobbys... they always succeed at promoting the interest of 5 companies to politicians and make them forget that they're supposed to legislate for the good of millions (their electors).
You gotta admit that its a tour-de-force that they're pulling on us year after year.
Why are they legal in the first place? Politicians (human beings) + Money = possibility for Corruption, isn't it?
I sure love meteor showers (as everyone does I guess; I mean, free wishes!), but observing them in non-light polluted areas ain't easy. You have to get out of town, and even then, finding a 100% dark place is an adventure nowadays.
To me the real market of Tablet PCs have always been Mac users : they love cute, functional stuff, are often designers / artists / scientists... But Apple probably doesn't think its worth it. If only they were not this expensive... I would get one in an heartbeat.
Looks like IE get burned by the very same 'feature' that allowed it to get 95% market share : integration with Windows and total access to stuff it shouldn't. Lesson learned, Microsoft?
But even without security, FireFox is just plain better. Tabbed browsing is huge, Bookmark toolbar, extensions, find-as-you-type (HUGE improvement over CTRL+F search)... Now I look at IE (the rare time I need to open it for windowsupdate) and it just feels...dirty.
I sure hope the gameplay is good, cause the graphics look like they date from the 80s Era. Sure, graphics ain't everything and its a major achievement for the open source gaming community... but couldn't they hire an Open-GL guy / artist? 6 polygons trees... and the tanks themselves look like LEGO blocks.
RSS feeds served to my inbox, News search engine (like google news), tons of free contents... honestly, I don't see how a 'paper' only can compete on a large scale basis. Sure, for local content its still a perfect solution (especially for small towns, etc). But aside from the ability to be read while in the bus (or in the bathroom I guess), it has no chance vs the Internet.
Internet killed the newspaper star? Maybe not, but crippled seriously, that's a sure thing.
Totally agree, and it even extend to scientific journals, not just medical ones. I've even seen it happen... 'ignoring' stuff that doesn't back up your hypothesis, keeping only the 'good' results to do statistical analysis, choosing a very specific concentration on a dose-response analysis because it's the only one where its 'working'... its sad, but not generalized. I guess everywhere humans are involved and under pressure (for money or papers in the case of science), cheating WILL happen, no matter what kind of sanction you put against it.
Windfarms are not the only bird-killing demon!... Windows! Ban them! Bird traps, they are! And we're even constructing skytowers covered by these!
Seriously, wasn't there an article two months ago dismissing the high killing rate of birds by windfarms?
Are birds that dumb anyway? Oh look, lots of low, rotating things! Contest time! Lets see if we can avoid them! See you at the finish line! If a simple scarecrow can make them avoid fields... I wonder.
In the case of HL2 code theft, Valve got lucky; they just had to wait for the hacker's ego to blow out of proportion due to the massive coverage. He emailed them. Several times. He went to a meeting for an 'interview' for a 'job'. Thank god, most hackers(as in illicit network infiltration) / criminals eventually make mistakes. In this particular case, it was pure dumbness, however.
Imagine the scene:
"Honey, you know the company that I (big F word, past tense) over, well, they're offering me a JOB!"
"Great! When are we moving?"
Don't miss out the wonderful WeatherFox extension for Firefox... crafteh coded this marvel after a suggestion of mine on Mozillazine Forums. International Forecast in your statusbar. Can't beat that!
It isn't on Mars. Monsters aren't from Hell. SWAT instead of space marines. Super-virus?
Can you REALLY call this DOOM? Why do they bother? Doom fans are gonna be angry, and for the rest, the movie could have been called Resident Evil IIV : It gets crappier anyway.
I don't know in the USA, but here in Quebec quality TV decreased a LOT. On weekends afternoon we get 'paid ads' for dumb, overpriced products. We get movies that were hip in the 80s (Police academy AGAIN?). Stupid programs (Recycled Fox-branded programs such as car chases, 'funny' accidents, etc). News are always trying to refresh the same stupid debates... when they're not covering irrelevant local stuff (A 80 years old still play tennis!)
No wonder I'm not listening to TV anymore. Google News all the way. When I want, What I want. Yeah.
The 'open everything' solution would have the merit of stopping theft from open source to closed source, essentially getting code for free, which will always happen in a open-closed system. Sometimes its evident (some coverage on Slashdot a month or two ago about pure 'rebranding' without even bothering to change messages during the boot process with the name of the original product), sometimes it's not and you have no way to tell.
But it has problems too. I assume that 'Open everything' would drive us in complicated license/lawsuit hell. "I coded that in program X! Pay y dollars for a license!" "I didn't even look at your source!" "Can you prove it?" Hell even SCO managed to raise hell without any evidence. So nothing's perfect I guess.
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Yeah my bad. Thanks (to both of you) for pointing this out. But in the public's view, a vaccine is clearly something you get to prevent an infection. A treatment is something you get to control / eradicate an infection. Bad education or inappropriate terminology, the result is just about the same:)
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Great idea : it may be of use for patient with resistance to all known anti-retrovirals. But...
It is NOT a vaccine. It is NOT a cure. It's a temporary (at best) treatment. The title is highly misleading. And its far from practical. You need to isolate dendritic cells from an (infected) patient, which is costly, require specific equipment and isn't trivial (forget developing countries, which can't even afford AZT). Then you pulse these cells with killed HIV, which I assume should come from the patient (else soon the treatment will go ineffective due to mutations acquired by the virus) and you reinject the cells, which will go 'alert' the immune system that something is wrong. So mass scale treatment is out of question. Basically, you're only boosting the (ineffective) immune system against HIV-1. After a year, their treatment reduced viral load by 90% in 8 of 18 patients. 90% isn't a lot (anti-retroviral do a lot better than that), and they aren't even achieving 50% success after a year. I would imagine that after 2 or 3 years, the success rate is even lower. And the CD4 count is stable, not increasing to normal levels.
So no, its not 'it'. Don't hold your breath either.
Is it just me or water can't be very very hot? At about 100 degrees Celcius, it vaporize... are they doing electrolysis on hot vapor? If so, can their tech be called Vaporware?:)
Charles Cockell, of the British Antarctic Survey, works on microbes growing in the extreme polar conditions. If you have an access to Nature, check his latest paper treating of "Ecology: widespread colonization by polar hypoliths". There's a summary available from BioEd Online for those (prolly 99% of the crowd here) who can't access Nature.
Another stupid software patent. Its an everexpanding mess which shouldn't have existed in the first place... can you really qualify software as an 'innovative invention'? Should it be protected for 20 (or whatever) years so no one can duplicate your code?
In my opinion, it should be protected like books (and such) by copyright law only. If I can recreate the same effect without seeing your code, I can't see how your patented software is innovative. 'Normal' inventions are a different story altogether; they can be disassembled, reverse engineered, etc. (Ok, Java code too).
So they tried to steal the same exact stuff at the same exact location, twice? Catch me once, shame on you... catch me twice, shame on me! Glad they caught them...
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The movie Beautiful Mind on the life of John Nash present a scene in a bar where he gets his novel idea (which led to a Nobel Prize).
A beautiful women with 3 of her (so-so) friends, 4 guys. If we all go for the cutie, her friends get no attention, go away and we all lose. If we each take one (a guy being luckier than the other), every girls feels she get attention we all 'win'.
Is this scene true or pure romanced fiction? In any way, a good representation of Math + Sex (if this is possible).
God I love lobbys... they always succeed at promoting the interest of 5 companies to politicians and make them forget that they're supposed to legislate for the good of millions (their electors).
You gotta admit that its a tour-de-force that they're pulling on us year after year.
Why are they legal in the first place? Politicians (human beings) + Money = possibility for Corruption, isn't it?
I sure love meteor showers (as everyone does I guess; I mean, free wishes!), but observing them in non-light polluted areas ain't easy. You have to get out of town, and even then, finding a 100% dark place is an adventure nowadays.
To me the real market of Tablet PCs have always been Mac users : they love cute, functional stuff, are often designers / artists / scientists... But Apple probably doesn't think its worth it. If only they were not this expensive... I would get one in an heartbeat.
Looks like IE get burned by the very same 'feature' that allowed it to get 95% market share : integration with Windows and total access to stuff it shouldn't. Lesson learned, Microsoft?
But even without security, FireFox is just plain better. Tabbed browsing is huge, Bookmark toolbar, extensions, find-as-you-type (HUGE improvement over CTRL+F search)... Now I look at IE (the rare time I need to open it for windowsupdate) and it just feels...dirty.
I sure hope the gameplay is good, cause the graphics look like they date from the 80s Era. Sure, graphics ain't everything and its a major achievement for the open source gaming community... but couldn't they hire an Open-GL guy / artist? 6 polygons trees... and the tanks themselves look like LEGO blocks.
RSS feeds served to my inbox, News search engine (like google news), tons of free contents... honestly, I don't see how a 'paper' only can compete on a large scale basis. Sure, for local content its still a perfect solution (especially for small towns, etc). But aside from the ability to be read while in the bus (or in the bathroom I guess), it has no chance vs the Internet.
Internet killed the newspaper star? Maybe not, but crippled seriously, that's a sure thing.
Totally agree, and it even extend to scientific journals, not just medical ones. I've even seen it happen... 'ignoring' stuff that doesn't back up your hypothesis, keeping only the 'good' results to do statistical analysis, choosing a very specific concentration on a dose-response analysis because it's the only one where its 'working'... its sad, but not generalized. I guess everywhere humans are involved and under pressure (for money or papers in the case of science), cheating WILL happen, no matter what kind of sanction you put against it.
Windfarms are not the only bird-killing demon! ... Windows! Ban them! Bird traps, they are! And we're even constructing skytowers covered by these!
Seriously, wasn't there an article two months ago dismissing the high killing rate of birds by windfarms?
Are birds that dumb anyway? Oh look, lots of low, rotating things! Contest time! Lets see if we can avoid them! See you at the finish line! If a simple scarecrow can make them avoid fields... I wonder.
Sure, modchips can be used to boot Linux from your XBOX and other cool stuff, as playing imported games on your PS1, etc.
But let`s be honest. 99% of modded Xbox and PS1/2 serve a lone purpose : playing games without paying for them.
Of course, we must also realize that the popularity of the PS1 compared to the N64 was probably due to this 'feature'...
In the case of HL2 code theft, Valve got lucky; they just had to wait for the hacker's ego to blow out of proportion due to the massive coverage. He emailed them. Several times. He went to a meeting for an 'interview' for a 'job'. Thank god, most hackers(as in illicit network infiltration) / criminals eventually make mistakes. In this particular case, it was pure dumbness, however. Imagine the scene :
Heh.past
Looks like Firefox trend of changing names extend even to plugins :) But WeatherFox sounds better in my opinion... which is sad :(
Don't miss out the wonderful WeatherFox extension for Firefox... crafteh coded this marvel after a suggestion of mine on Mozillazine Forums. International Forecast in your statusbar. Can't beat that!
It isn't on Mars.
Monsters aren't from Hell.
SWAT instead of space marines.
Super-virus?
Can you REALLY call this DOOM? Why do they bother? Doom fans are gonna be angry, and for the rest, the movie could have been called Resident Evil IIV : It gets crappier anyway.
I don't know in the USA, but here in Quebec quality TV decreased a LOT. On weekends afternoon we get 'paid ads' for dumb, overpriced products. We get movies that were hip in the 80s (Police academy AGAIN?). Stupid programs (Recycled Fox-branded programs such as car chases, 'funny' accidents, etc). News are always trying to refresh the same stupid debates... when they're not covering irrelevant local stuff (A 80 years old still play tennis!)
No wonder I'm not listening to TV anymore. Google News all the way. When I want, What I want. Yeah.
The 'open everything' solution would have the merit of stopping theft from open source to closed source, essentially getting code for free, which will always happen in a open-closed system. Sometimes its evident (some coverage on Slashdot a month or two ago about pure 'rebranding' without even bothering to change messages during the boot process with the name of the original product), sometimes it's not and you have no way to tell.
But it has problems too. I assume that 'Open everything' would drive us in complicated license/lawsuit hell. "I coded that in program X! Pay y dollars for a license!" "I didn't even look at your source!" "Can you prove it?" Hell even SCO managed to raise hell without any evidence. So nothing's perfect I guess.
Yeah my bad. Thanks (to both of you) for pointing this out. But in the public's view, a vaccine is clearly something you get to prevent an infection. A treatment is something you get to control / eradicate an infection. Bad education or inappropriate terminology, the result is just about the same :)
Great idea : it may be of use for patient with resistance to all known anti-retrovirals. But...
It is NOT a vaccine. It is NOT a cure. It's a temporary (at best) treatment. The title is highly misleading. And its far from practical. You need to isolate dendritic cells from an (infected) patient, which is costly, require specific equipment and isn't trivial (forget developing countries, which can't even afford AZT). Then you pulse these cells with killed HIV, which I assume should come from the patient (else soon the treatment will go ineffective due to mutations acquired by the virus) and you reinject the cells, which will go 'alert' the immune system that something is wrong. So mass scale treatment is out of question. Basically, you're only boosting the (ineffective) immune system against HIV-1. After a year, their treatment reduced viral load by 90% in 8 of 18 patients. 90% isn't a lot (anti-retroviral do a lot better than that), and they aren't even achieving 50% success after a year. I would imagine that after 2 or 3 years, the success rate is even lower. And the CD4 count is stable, not increasing to normal levels.
So no, its not 'it'. Don't hold your breath either.
I SO don't need this.
I got SNES tunes playing in my head since I'm young, and can't seem to stop. Damn you, Final Fantasy!
(For the curious, I do have voices in my head too, and they're telling me to do nasty stuff. To hurt curious persons. That would be you.)
My father used to say that only fools don't admit when they're wrong (subtle message, SCO!).
Aside from the obvious (and illegal?) wardriving, is there a useful application for this kind of stuff?
Is it just me or water can't be very very hot? At about 100 degrees Celcius, it vaporize... are they doing electrolysis on hot vapor? If so, can their tech be called Vaporware? :)
Charles Cockell, of the British Antarctic Survey, works on microbes growing in the extreme polar conditions. If you have an access to Nature, check his latest paper treating of "Ecology: widespread colonization by polar hypoliths". There's a summary available from BioEd Online for those (prolly 99% of the crowd here) who can't access Nature.
Another stupid software patent. Its an everexpanding mess which shouldn't have existed in the first place... can you really qualify software as an 'innovative invention'? Should it be protected for 20 (or whatever) years so no one can duplicate your code?
In my opinion, it should be protected like books (and such) by copyright law only. If I can recreate the same effect without seeing your code, I can't see how your patented software is innovative. 'Normal' inventions are a different story altogether; they can be disassembled, reverse engineered, etc. (Ok, Java code too).
So they tried to steal the same exact stuff at the same exact location, twice? Catch me once, shame on you... catch me twice, shame on me! Glad they caught them...