Can I just state, for the record, that your comment has nothing to do with either the article or the potential impact?
1) Global Warming is currently occuring (it's really hard to argue with this one right now) 2) hurricanes threaten habitated islands, and the costal regions of the atlantic coast currently. More severe hurricanes will make them less habitable, and cause more damage inland. 3) the ability of the world to withstand them has NOTHING to do with prediction. We are concerned with human and monetary impact of these putative hurricanes. 4) History of past global warming events also has not bearing on the current situation. It's too late for blame. It is not too late for mitigation and preparation.
By any means. This is why they had entire sanitariums set up in the deserts of New Mexico before they figured out how to cure it. Consumption was sort of a big deal.
While I agree, IN GENERAL, that antibiotics are over prescribed, the problem is not the treatment, but the fact that patients are too STUPID to actually finish out their course. In fact, that's what's causing the problem with TB.
If you want to stay healthier, longer, please do feel free to avoid medications for minor infirmaries. But if you DO start taking antibiotics, take them all.
I mean, it's not like there are links to follow or anything?
How come everybody is all "Don't be 'that' guy", rather than attempting to understand the intent of the post? He even states, IN THE TEXT that he's looking for harmless things to do that will KEEP EVERYBODY AMUSED. I mean, it takes like, what, 5 minutes to do stuff like change the wallpaper for well administered workplaces?
Seriously, he's not doing damage, and he doesn't seem to be interested in malicious behavior, just some fun for dark times.
here's one: Set up a message broadcast system and play a game of simon says with everybody in the office.
honestly, I don't see a way to make an open cubicle soundproof without raising the "walls" and putting a door on it and/or putting roof up. Otherwise there will always be sound bleed.
OK, so since there is essentially no cost associated with production of diesel this way, except for transportation costs, and filtering, how is this less efficient than using oil wells?
Once you got the facilities built (lots of concrete, admittedly, but little in the way of technological input is necessary), the only cost is feeding the reactors, and filtering the output, then you have barrels of oil, to do with as you please.
Seems cheaper than wells to me, but I'm not an "energy company".
if you were treated with this, you'd still be HIV positive. Sort of.
This appears to insert itself into the HIV sequence, and add a gene that supresses other functions of the same sequence. In my mind this is closer to the treatment available for leprosy than an actual cure.
In other words, if this became successful, people treated with it would most likely be safe from acquiring AIDS from their HIV infection, but would still be HIV positive. They should still not have sex with HIV negative people, to reduce the possiblity of re-infection and/or harm.
It's much better than taking drug coctails to stay alive, though. A hell of a lot cheaper, too.
Was there actual collusion to impact Rambus technology by limiting production of their chips (this is NOT the same as 'were the chips so expensive that nobody bought them')? This is remarkably hard to prove, but the judge who vindicated RAMBUS earlier this year seemed to think there was enough evidence to indicate some sort of behavior to that effect.
Even if there was a pattern of production shortfalls, it may stand to reason that these companies were simply making a business decision, based on their perception of the market, and the future of their businesses. It seems awfully hard to actually win a lawsuit here.
Of course the trial is set in California, so you never know.
You're assuming that lift is on a one to one ratio with length of craft. This is flawed. Assuming the "balloon" portion increases in all dimensions as you get larger, the increase in lift should be an x^3 increase for every x increase in length. Additional weight might cancel some of this, but certainly not the entire thing.
You're an idiot. Well, not really. You obviously have well thought out arguements. They however begin by assuming that there is some sort of mythical "benefit" that must have come out of this project. It is possible that some of the feeping creaturism that invaded this project could be used on another project. It is equally as likely that said additional project could have designed it themselves, had it been needed. And will have entirely new components to work with at this time. Any project which sits in design phase for more than a couple of years (5, maybe, at most, with some sort of REALLY complex system) is destined for obscurity, and is only justified in asmuch as it gives people a job.
not really. the options outlined below about distinctive ring of a second line is about the closest you'll get.
There might be a way to link it up with caller id, and make a "whitelist" of fax numbers. Other than that, a fax machine can't make the phone ring differently, so you'll have to deal with it some other way.
The problem with trying to design an antibody, or treatment for any virus is that there is not a constant target for them. They change over time.
This is also why you have to get a new flu shot (vaccine) every year. It's not that the old ones stopped working, it's that the flu has changed enough from its previous form for your body to not be able to fight it with the tools it has at hand.
The time it would take to design a molecule that would bind specifically enough to the particular virus in your body and produce enough to be effective is currently much longer than the body's immune response.
Bacterium, and chemical targets are pretty much static, though, and you could mass produce the antibodies.
I still think this idea is fundamentally flawed for anything but the most serious of dangers. Honestly, I don't see much value in having a shunt installed in my arm for anything less serious than a life threatening illness.
It is a blatant bitch session with NO attempt to provide a balanced look at anything. There is absolutely no way I am willing to say that I think that these are anywhere close to the most overpaid jobs in the US.
I know games have been mentioned before, but it might also be nice to show off what you do with some visual stuff. Even Vis-Basic to do a simple animation as an intro might get their attention.
Also don't forget to mention how you could get to work for the CIA as a spy by writing programs to watch out for bad guys...
that there is currently NO CASE for any of this. As far as I can tell, this has not been decided in any court, so any 'copyright violations' are just so much hot air issuing from lawyers' mouths until such time as this goes to court.
the question is still where do you get that force from. The point here is storing and transferring power in and from these 'rubber bands' to use to slingshot stuff. Fine, your answer tells me that I can get a strand moving with very little difficulty in space. This is not really true, since we are talking about centrifugal force, the force is similar to what we would have to apply at sea level. Yes it will stay longer, but you still have to apply the force.
I have heard the arguments. And I agree with the umps. The system is still aparently run by another human being, and from what I heard discussed on ESPN, the results were VERY different between last year, when they had minor league umpires running the system, and this year, when they hired joe schmoe off the street to run it. If there is still a human element in the system that is judging the judges, what the hell is the point.
Seriously people, if BLOCKBUSTER, who rents movies for a living, can't make inroads into netflix's customer base, what makes you think Wal-Mart will?
Netflix started first, they have the word of mouth to become the next e-bay. It doesn't matter what names try to expand into their business, as soon as they turn profitable, they have proven their business model. Price competition doesn't matter if the turnaround time sucks, or if the selection is of censored movies, or if the customer support is crap. Raise your hand if you really want to purchase products from Mal-Mart*.
As I have seen mentioned, Netflix's whole concept is validated by the slow rush to the market by more and more brick and mortar stores. They have advertising agreements with Best Buy, And I think I saw an ad on Yahoo, so they're already started.
IF microsoft DID in fact mis-represent themselves to their clients about their legal ability to write custom code on top of SQL server and market it themselves, then I believe (IANAL) that that is FRAUD, my friends. Yes our old friend FRAUD. Now my interpretation of how this can play out is this:
1) Developers violating patents must pay. They must pay without protest 2) Said developers should be able to collectively or individually SUE Microsoft for fraud. For specifically the amount of the patent payments.
This seems like an end around Justice, but I believe that the two issues are separate. Simply because Microsoft chose to misinterpret the licencing agreement, does not mean that the developers are free to do whatever they want, but IF they were told that they could do so, the developers have a case to make that MICROSOFT should be responsible for said costs.
Look, Grade "inflation" is a waste of your collective bile. Your continual insistence on outrage is also causing mine to rise. Here are my thoughts on the matter:
1) Grade inflation, if it exists is performed on a teacher by teacher basis. as a counter-example to grade inflation, my friend was at one point given a B+ after consistently performing work that was graded at 95% correct, because the teacher was REQUIRED to have a class GPA of 3.2, and since EVERYONE got above 90% on the homeworks, and finals, he had to grade down. This was due to the fact that he was a good teacher, not the fact that he created easy questions. The grade is subjective.
If school work has no practical application to the real world (Book review essays in Humanities, abstract math problems in science), it doesn't even matter what your grade is, because you will never use the skills on which you were graded.
Even if PCI was OK with the use of the trademark in this specific instance, they HAD to send this letter. If they don't they wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they wanted to sue someone who was, say, making a card that they CALLED a PCI card, but didn't match standards.
Now, if they were smart, which I doubt, they could 'license' the use of the trademark for free to the website, but more likely, someone will have to mirror the content w/o any labels to attach it to PCI.
Slashdot Mirror
Um...
Can I just state, for the record, that your comment has nothing to do with either the article or the potential impact?
1) Global Warming is currently occuring (it's really hard to argue with this one right now)
2) hurricanes threaten habitated islands, and the costal regions of the atlantic coast currently. More severe hurricanes will make them less habitable, and cause more damage inland.
3) the ability of the world to withstand them has NOTHING to do with prediction. We are concerned with human and monetary impact of these putative hurricanes.
4) History of past global warming events also has not bearing on the current situation. It's too late for blame. It is not too late for mitigation and preparation.
OK, I'm done.
Really!
All they did was see what the caloric content of the sewage was, and said "If we can turn 20% of this into energy, we have a profit".
where have I seen this before?
By any means. This is why they had entire sanitariums set up in the deserts of New Mexico before they figured out how to cure it. Consumption was sort of a big deal.
While I agree, IN GENERAL, that antibiotics are over prescribed, the problem is not the treatment, but the fact that patients are too STUPID to actually finish out their course. In fact, that's what's causing the problem with TB.
If you want to stay healthier, longer, please do feel free to avoid medications for minor infirmaries. But if you DO start taking antibiotics, take them all.
Period.
I mean, it's not like there are links to follow or anything?
How come everybody is all "Don't be 'that' guy", rather than attempting to understand the intent of the post? He even states, IN THE TEXT that he's looking for harmless things to do that will KEEP EVERYBODY AMUSED. I mean, it takes like, what, 5 minutes to do stuff like change the wallpaper for well administered workplaces?
Seriously, he's not doing damage, and he doesn't seem to be interested in malicious behavior, just some fun for dark times.
here's one:
Set up a message broadcast system and play a game of simon says with everybody in the office.
honestly, I don't see a way to make an open cubicle soundproof without raising the "walls" and putting a door on it and/or putting roof up. Otherwise there will always be sound bleed.
cost cost cost, huh?
OK, so since there is essentially no cost associated with production of diesel this way, except for transportation costs, and filtering, how is this less efficient than using oil wells?
Once you got the facilities built (lots of concrete, admittedly, but little in the way of technological input is necessary), the only cost is feeding the reactors, and filtering the output, then you have barrels of oil, to do with as you please.
Seems cheaper than wells to me, but I'm not an "energy company".
if you were treated with this, you'd still be HIV positive. Sort of.
This appears to insert itself into the HIV sequence, and add a gene that supresses other functions of the same sequence. In my mind this is closer to the treatment available for leprosy than an actual cure.
In other words, if this became successful, people treated with it would most likely be safe from acquiring AIDS from their HIV infection, but would still be HIV positive. They should still not have sex with HIV negative people, to reduce the possiblity of re-infection and/or harm.
It's much better than taking drug coctails to stay alive, though. A hell of a lot cheaper, too.
is of course to march into your manager's office when he's not there, get your swingline stapler back, and burn the place to the ground.
Was there actual collusion to impact Rambus technology by limiting production of their chips (this is NOT the same as 'were the chips so expensive that nobody bought them')? This is remarkably hard to prove, but the judge who vindicated RAMBUS earlier this year seemed to think there was enough evidence to indicate some sort of behavior to that effect.
Even if there was a pattern of production shortfalls, it may stand to reason that these companies were simply making a business decision, based on their perception of the market, and the future of their businesses. It seems awfully hard to actually win a lawsuit here.
Of course the trial is set in California, so you never know.
You're assuming that lift is on a one to one ratio with length of craft. This is flawed. Assuming the "balloon" portion increases in all dimensions as you get larger, the increase in lift should be an x^3 increase for every x increase in length. Additional weight might cancel some of this, but certainly not the entire thing.
With all due respect, sir,
You're an idiot. Well, not really. You obviously have well thought out arguements. They however begin by assuming that there is some sort of mythical "benefit" that must have come out of this project. It is possible that some of the feeping creaturism that invaded this project could be used on another project. It is equally as likely that said additional project could have designed it themselves, had it been needed. And will have entirely new components to work with at this time. Any project which sits in design phase for more than a couple of years (5, maybe, at most, with some sort of REALLY complex system) is destined for obscurity, and is only justified in asmuch as it gives people a job.
echoes of the Bradley come to mind...
not really. the options outlined below about distinctive ring of a second line is about the closest you'll get.
There might be a way to link it up with caller id, and make a "whitelist" of fax numbers. Other than that, a fax machine can't make the phone ring differently, so you'll have to deal with it some other way.
The problem with trying to design an antibody, or treatment for any virus is that there is not a constant target for them. They change over time.
This is also why you have to get a new flu shot (vaccine) every year. It's not that the old ones stopped working, it's that the flu has changed enough from its previous form for your body to not be able to fight it with the tools it has at hand.
The time it would take to design a molecule that would bind specifically enough to the particular virus in your body and produce enough to be effective is currently much longer than the body's immune response.
Bacterium, and chemical targets are pretty much static, though, and you could mass produce the antibodies.
I still think this idea is fundamentally flawed for anything but the most serious of dangers. Honestly, I don't see much value in having a shunt installed in my arm for anything less serious than a life threatening illness.
um. no.
just no, dude.
1) It says in the article that they are specifically coated to prevent immune response.
2) They can't pass the blood brain barrier, because they're too big.
3) The whole thing is supposed to break down in like 5 hours, at which point the iron can be incorporated into your body.
That sets a precident.
everybody, go buy the Firefly DVD set as soon as it's out.
period
It is a blatant bitch session with NO attempt to provide a balanced look at anything. There is absolutely no way I am willing to say that I think that these are anywhere close to the most overpaid jobs in the US.
check here, here, or here for further reference.
Thank you for playing.
I know games have been mentioned before, but it might also be nice to show off what you do with some visual stuff. Even Vis-Basic to do a simple animation as an intro might get their attention.
Also don't forget to mention how you could get to work for the CIA as a spy by writing programs to watch out for bad guys...
that there is currently NO CASE for any of this. As far as I can tell, this has not been decided in any court, so any 'copyright violations' are just so much hot air issuing from lawyers' mouths until such time as this goes to court.
Just my $.04
the question is still where do you get that force from. The point here is storing and transferring power in and from these 'rubber bands' to use to slingshot stuff. Fine, your answer tells me that I can get a strand moving with very little difficulty in space. This is not really true, since we are talking about centrifugal force, the force is similar to what we would have to apply at sea level. Yes it will stay longer, but you still have to apply the force.
Where does that force come from?
I have heard the arguments. And I agree with the umps. The system is still aparently run by another human being, and from what I heard discussed on ESPN, the results were VERY different between last year, when they had minor league umpires running the system, and this year, when they hired joe schmoe off the street to run it. If there is still a human element in the system that is judging the judges, what the hell is the point.
Seriously people, if BLOCKBUSTER, who rents movies for a living, can't make inroads into netflix's customer base, what makes you think Wal-Mart will?
Netflix started first, they have the word of mouth to become the next e-bay. It doesn't matter what names try to expand into their business, as soon as they turn profitable, they have proven their business model. Price competition doesn't matter if the turnaround time sucks, or if the selection is of censored movies, or if the customer support is crap. Raise your hand if you really want to purchase products from Mal-Mart*.
As I have seen mentioned, Netflix's whole concept is validated by the slow rush to the market by more and more brick and mortar stores. They have advertising agreements with Best Buy, And I think I saw an ad on Yahoo, so they're already started.
Go netflix.
IF microsoft DID in fact mis-represent themselves to their clients about their legal ability to write custom code on top of SQL server and market it themselves, then I believe (IANAL) that that is FRAUD, my friends. Yes our old friend FRAUD. Now my interpretation of how this can play out is this:
1) Developers violating patents must pay. They must pay without protest
2) Said developers should be able to collectively or individually SUE Microsoft for fraud. For specifically the amount of the patent payments.
This seems like an end around Justice, but I believe that the two issues are separate. Simply because Microsoft chose to misinterpret the licencing agreement, does not mean that the developers are free to do whatever they want, but IF they were told that they could do so, the developers have a case to make that MICROSOFT should be responsible for said costs.
Just my $.0002 (adjusted for inflation)
Look, Grade "inflation" is a waste of your collective bile. Your continual insistence on outrage is also causing mine to rise. Here are my thoughts on the matter:
1) Grade inflation, if it exists is performed on a teacher by teacher basis. as a counter-example to grade inflation, my friend was at one point given a B+ after consistently performing work that was graded at 95% correct, because the teacher was REQUIRED to have a class GPA of 3.2, and since EVERYONE got above 90% on the homeworks, and finals, he had to grade down. This was due to the fact that he was a good teacher, not the fact that he created easy questions. The grade is subjective.
If school work has no practical application to the real world (Book review essays in Humanities, abstract math problems in science), it doesn't even matter what your grade is, because you will never use the skills on which you were graded.
So, in brief: GET OVER IT.
Even if PCI was OK with the use of the trademark in this specific instance, they HAD to send this letter. If they don't they wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they wanted to sue someone who was, say, making a card that they CALLED a PCI card, but didn't match standards.
Now, if they were smart, which I doubt, they could 'license' the use of the trademark for free to the website, but more likely, someone will have to mirror the content w/o any labels to attach it to PCI.