China is well on its way to being the largest market on the planet, and there doesn't seem to be much if anything on the horizon to challenge their ascendancy. Getting on board with them is just plain smart.
For more strategic advice, refer to Armand Hammer.
... from domestic cops, who can pretty much do anything they like without serious fear of prosecution?
In theory, it makes for a handy way around Constitutional protections: the Interpol cops can tap phones, conduct illegal searches, etc. and then hand over the results to US authorities who can use it (if not admit it at trial.) However, in practice the Bush and Obama administrations haven't bothered with warrants for wiretaps, searches, etc. anyway.
Domestic cops can get away with crap like shooting an unarmed and unresisting "suspect" dead (on video camera!) and still avoid prosecution, so it's not like diplomatic immunity matters all that much either.
Civil disobedience done right. The world would be a better place if more of us (and I'm specifically pointing to empty-nest geezers like that one in the mirror) had the cojones to do similarly rather than constantly bitching.
Same basic theme as the "hygeine hypothesis" that exposure to soil bacteria plays an important role in causing the immune system to deemphasize inflammatory responses and rely more on cell-mediated immunity. In particular, it's been invoked to account for ectopic disease and asthma.
when the kid, puppy, cat, or even coffee do something unexpected.
A yoke is just plain more stable than a stick. The latter is great for quick input of large control motions, but has more drawbacks than advantages where the objective is smooth and precise results with minimal interference.
For all of the "fighter jock" fantasies, drivers are a lot more like jumbo jet jockeys. That includes race drivers -- or don't you think that someone would have put this to use on the F1 circuit already if it was actually better?
You (not you, but the industry) have not accounted for biases in the sample data. Until that is done you don't know the real effectiveness. Sure 99% of the people vaccinated will register antibodies, but the bigger question is, would they have 1) contracted the flu in the first place (majority bias is no) and 2) suffered worse symptoms without it (and this seems to be a wash).
This is called "post-market surveillance" and your assertion that it hasn't happened is more appropriately stated as "I am not aware of this having been done." I would suggest a PubMed search, which might be enlightening.
Or do you think that the CDC just pulls those statistics from a bodily orifice?
We also have not accounted for the "healthy individual bias" along with other socio-economic factors.
There is a science called "epidemiology." Effect Measure and Rogue Epidemiologist are two excellent blogs with very easy to understand discussions on the subject. I advise those interested to remedy their ignorance rather than parade it.
I've been following the public health debate over this, and having known people with the swine flu, I have to say it is mostly hype. Mostly.
Google Flu Trends. The season is just starting. Have a look at how it matches to the last several years at their peaks.
The true efficacy of the vaccine is not known, because they will not do placebo-controlled trials.
It's an influenza vaccine. The only difference between it and any seasonal one is the virus it's made with; all the rest are the same process (grown in eggs, filtered, yada yada yada.) If we waited for full-up trials every season, by the time the vaccine was available we'd be in the next season and the strains in circulation would be different anyway.
HOWEVER! We have done clinical tests with the vaccine, the only way that we can in such short time frame: we injected it into volunteers and measured the antibody response, then compared that to the response from previous seasons where we have after-the-fact data to go by. We've been building that data collection for decades now, and it's pretty flipping good.
As with anything in real time, if you wait for perfect data you might as well not bother.
Over 35,000 people die in the US from the flu every year. Hundreds, if not thousands, of children die from the flu every year.
The 35K/year number is excess deaths due to influenza, and is derived by fancy statistics from the time series of deaths in medical categories (i.e. gunshot wounds don't get figured in.) You can read more on how difficult this process is at Effect Measure.
The "number of children" statistic, on the other hand, is confirmed 2009 H1N1 novel influenza diagnoses on the death certificate. No inference required, they are kids with confirmed infections which led directly to their deaths.
Both statements are true, in context. Please be a little less generous with the F-word.
C#, Basic, or Sun's Java never meant to be 'fast', get a clue. On the contrary, these were created to be fool proof and 'secure', meaning restricted, often deliberately slow so noobs can't abuse their systems or compete with their own first party software.
Which has -- what? -- to do with Microsoft's corporate response time to events that discredit one of their showcase design wins?
While I'm not sure if.NET / Windows is the appropriate platform for a stock exchange, I find it humorous how quickly so many want to bask in the glow of this, using it as proof of something, when I'm fairly certain that it was discarded as proof of nothing when the LSE first went the.NET route. Now we have some completely and utterly unproven vapourware, supported by some fictitious numbers, and people are using it conclusively, when really it should be more along the lines of "yeah...we'll see...".
It's not necessary to be cheering for any replacement to take guilty pleasure in watching Microsoft step on their highly-advertised crank here.
Didn't the New York Stock Exchange move over to Linux because Microsoft couldn't provide a good, low-latency RT kernel? They begged Microsoft, wanted to stay with Microsoft, and Microsoft couldn't provide them with a solution.
I could be wrong, but IIRC the NYSE has never been a Microsoft shop for the hard-core trading systems. They may have wanted to switch to Microsoft from the previous big Unix iron, but Linux won out.
However, Microsoft got added to the DJIA as a consolation prize.
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Missed the reference to Armand Hammer, didn't you?
For more strategic advice, refer to Armand Hammer.
In theory, it makes for a handy way around Constitutional protections: the Interpol cops can tap phones, conduct illegal searches, etc. and then hand over the results to US authorities who can use it (if not admit it at trial.) However, in practice the Bush and Obama administrations haven't bothered with warrants for wiretaps, searches, etc. anyway.
Domestic cops can get away with crap like shooting an unarmed and unresisting "suspect" dead (on video camera!) and still avoid prosecution, so it's not like diplomatic immunity matters all that much either.
At last a theoretical basis for the Dean Drive.
Civil disobedience done right. The world would be a better place if more of us (and I'm specifically pointing to empty-nest geezers like that one in the mirror) had the cojones to do similarly rather than constantly bitching.
Same basic theme as the "hygeine hypothesis" that exposure to soil bacteria plays an important role in causing the immune system to deemphasize inflammatory responses and rely more on cell-mediated immunity. In particular, it's been invoked to account for ectopic disease and asthma.
Who knew?
No matter how good the focus is, 800x600 is wasted at that small a visual angle.
A yoke is just plain more stable than a stick. The latter is great for quick input of large control motions, but has more drawbacks than advantages where the objective is smooth and precise results with minimal interference.
For all of the "fighter jock" fantasies, drivers are a lot more like jumbo jet jockeys. That includes race drivers -- or don't you think that someone would have put this to use on the F1 circuit already if it was actually better?
This is called "post-market surveillance" and your assertion that it hasn't happened is more appropriately stated as "I am not aware of this having been done." I would suggest a PubMed search, which might be enlightening.
Or do you think that the CDC just pulls those statistics from a bodily orifice?
There is a science called "epidemiology." Effect Measure and Rogue Epidemiologist are two excellent blogs with very easy to understand discussions on the subject. I advise those interested to remedy their ignorance rather than parade it.
False.
Google Flu Trends. The season is just starting. Have a look at how it matches to the last several years at their peaks.
It's an influenza vaccine. The only difference between it and any seasonal one is the virus it's made with; all the rest are the same process (grown in eggs, filtered, yada yada yada.) If we waited for full-up trials every season, by the time the vaccine was available we'd be in the next season and the strains in circulation would be different anyway.
HOWEVER! We have done clinical tests with the vaccine, the only way that we can in such short time frame: we injected it into volunteers and measured the antibody response, then compared that to the response from previous seasons where we have after-the-fact data to go by. We've been building that data collection for decades now, and it's pretty flipping good.
As with anything in real time, if you wait for perfect data you might as well not bother.
The 35K/year number is excess deaths due to influenza, and is derived by fancy statistics from the time series of deaths in medical categories (i.e. gunshot wounds don't get figured in.) You can read more on how difficult this process is at Effect Measure.
The "number of children" statistic, on the other hand, is confirmed 2009 H1N1 novel influenza diagnoses on the death certificate. No inference required, they are kids with confirmed infections which led directly to their deaths.
Both statements are true, in context. Please be a little less generous with the F-word.
on how long they've been cranking their music up to 11.
Which has -- what? -- to do with Microsoft's corporate response time to events that discredit one of their showcase design wins?
It's not necessary to be cheering for any replacement to take guilty pleasure in watching Microsoft step on their highly-advertised crank here.
I could be wrong, but IIRC the NYSE has never been a Microsoft shop for the hard-core trading systems. They may have wanted to switch to Microsoft from the previous big Unix iron, but Linux won out.
However, Microsoft got added to the DJIA as a consolation prize.
did Microsoft take down their triumphant "case report" on the original design-in?
[Grumble] Kids these days [/Grumble]
Anyone with a swimming pool could have told them about the ability of algae to come back from extinction.
Ronald Reagan?
We can prevent that changeover entirely by making gasoline-fueled vehicles cheap compared to other types.
Instead of spending billions on tracking everyone's movements, how about just raising fuel taxes? (Oh, right, see above.)
As it is, you can't even use TomTom with a Linux host system, since the interface protocol is a trade secret. So they have a long way to go.
It takes a while for blood to get back to the brain.