Bah! Ektachrome is a cheap substitute for Kodachrome. Literally. It was introduced as a cheaper film that was easier to develop, and which allowed fast shutter speeds in low light. Kodachrome, on the other hand, has always been for people who wanted the best quality possible, and wanted the images to last. Affordable digital sensors are still not equal to Kodachrome in dynamic range or in detail. A Kodachrome slide kept in optimal conditions will last nearly 200 years with only slight color degradation. By contrast, you will have to backup your backups and then get your grandchildren to backup those backups for their grandchildren to backup, for them to be able to view those digital images at all. Yeah, I understand that the market has abandoned Kodachrome and why. But the market is a damn fool.
The immune system does not play a substantial or effective role in fighting cancer. It functions like the Immigration and Naturalization police, clobbering aliens who are not welcome. But cancer cells are native-born citizens who have become domestic terrorists, so Immigration has no authority to subdue them: they aren't different enough. Telling Immigration to stand down for a bit, while the National Guard goes in for a surgical strike to remove terrorists cells and replace them with a patriotic new immigrant liver is a pretty good strategy.
While HIPAA (note the correct spelling) restricts employees of the hospital from divulging any of this information without Jobs' consent, there are certainly other people who could have known about the transplant, and then provided this information to the Wall Street Urinal without violating it. Friends, family, neighbors, the FedEx guy, the limo driver, Steve's certainly-overpaid hairdresser, an iStalker, the florist who delivered a bouquet of apple blossoms with a note reading "an Apple® a day keeps liver transplant rejection away", etc. are not bound by HIPAA. Neither is any newspaper or web site that subsequently publishes the info. With any of these, there might conceivably be some grounds for a privacy suit under some other statute, but HIPAA ain't it.
The obvious conclusion is that the cancer had metastasized and appeared in his liver. Whenever a doctor says they got the cancer, there's always a chance that they didn't get it all. Apparently that's the case here. Hopefully they caught it early enough and got the last of it. Time will tell.
Recovery time is going to depend a lot on the patient's condition before the transplant, including why they needed it, so comparing one person's to another's requires taking that into account.
Film isn't the only prior form of new media to experience this. Comics went through a similar period of censorship in the US, with Fredric Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent" as its bible. This led to Congressional hearings in the 1950s and resulted in the creation of the Comics Code Authority, an industry self-censorship board that effectively killed off most genres of comic books (e.g. crime, horror, even romance and westerns), leaving only superhero and funny-animal books that were suitable for young children. It's only in the last couple decades that commercially viable comics with grown-up themes (Watchmen being one of the early examples) have re-emerged, and the CCA fading into irrelevance. The film industry weathered the Hayes Code more successfully, continuing to get intelligent, adult-oriented fare to the public even at the height of censorship (albeit in "sanitized" form); comics did not.
The SCOTUS hasn't just become ideological "these days". Way back in the early 1800s when it started to assert itself as a coequal branch of government, the two parties fought over it, with Congress even impeaching one of the justices. It was overtly political in FDR's day, as evidenced by his attempt to pack it with a bunch of additional liberal justices. Furthermore, there's been an ongoing evolution of the Court interpreting the Constitution, beginning with the point in which the John Jay Court interpreted it to give the Court authority over the states, and especially John Marshall's interpretation of the Constitution in Marbury v. Madison that the Court had the authority to... interpret the Constitution, thereby bootstrapping it into that role.
I don't know Kennedy,* but unless he's an unusual lawyer, he probably loves being the swing vote. In effect it's like having the STAR chamber** for the prosecution, the weak-lefties for the defense, and he gets to listen to their arguments and decide the case. Or in cases where he already has a firm viewpoint on the subject, he can use his position in the middle to frame the terms of the decision. If he doesn't find that appealing, he should retire, because he's gotten tired of the Law.
*Insert Bentsen/Quayle joke here.
**Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Roberts
After beginning a career in IT I quickly established a work ethic that I summarized as "try to do the job well enough that they don't need you anymore". Train the staff to effectively use the equipment, and even find solutions to their own problems. Document everything clearly so I could take vacations, or even get hit by a bus without things grinding to a halt. I knew the scope of the problems I would face and new developments in technology would make my "goal" unattainable.
Then business got bad, every department's budget got slashed, and I was the IT person whose lay-off would be "least disruptive". My career's been pretty much stalled ever since.
I'm not saying my outlook was wrong... just that no good deed goes unpunished.
"Maybe it'll be sensitive enough to image extrasolar planets."
We don't need any extra solar planets! We have enough solar planets as it is, especially if you count all them newfangled "dwarf" planets like Pluto and Grumpy and Sneezy. When I was a boy we only had eight solar planets, and we were happy to have them... (except maybe the one name after "yer anus")...
Here's a great warrant-free recipe for convictions:
1) Seize computers from random people on flimsy grounds that you know will be thrown out.
2) ???? (Go fishing through their hard drives for evidence of actual crimes.)
3) Prosecute!
The current slate of Pixar features in development are:
* Toy Story 3 (summer 2010)
* Cars 2 (summer 2011)
* The Bear and the Bow (xmas 2011, a princess wants to be an archer instead)
* Newt (summer 2012, the last two members of their species are a mismatched couple)
* Monsters Inc 2 (201?)
At least the movies they're making sequels to are ones where you can make a decent rationale for following the character to further adventures (Incredibles would be another). I can't see a sequel to Nemo, Rat, Wall, or Up - each of which told the by-far-most-important events of the protagonist's life - working as a story.
"If the only ecological consequence to cutting down the trees is that humans wouldn't be able to find them pretty, then yes, I would be a-okay with cutting more of them down."
Then I'm afraid we lack a common framework of values to continue this discussion.
A) If you look at a photo of Earth at night, you'll see why a clear view of the night sky is not just a train-ride to the suburbs away. Huge swaths of land are blanketed in artificial light. By the logic you're presenting here, it wouldn't matter if we cut down all the trees as long as we had tree museums for people to go visit.
B) Pollution is pollution, regardless of the source. Lower levels are more tolerable than higher levels, but it all detracts from the view of the sky (along with other negative effects). All sources of light pollution should be minimized.
C) Seeing the wonder of the universe is a good thing. Living in a cave is not. Is that distinction so difficult to comprehend? "The rest is technology at work, for better or worse." Oh, so maybe you do grasp the point! Except that we don't have to just accept technology "for better or worse"; we can choose to use technology in ways that makes our lives better and not to use technology in ways that makes it worse.
Just because you can see some of the trees doesn't mean you're seeing the forest.
The Milky Way is (traditionally) a diffuse band across the night sky which is lighter than the inky black of space. We call our galaxy the Milky Way because that band is made up of countless distant stars from that galaxy.
It may just be a case of the phenomenon observed over and over in humans: that girls tend to fall for guys who remind them of their father, and boys tend to fall for gals who remind them of their mother. It's provincialism.
The fact that one of the list-makers says he used Quark in first grade probably indicates the problem: they simply don't know the history they're trying to analyze. OK, they did the research to identify a "first e-mail program" and they'd heard about the importance of 1-2-3, but missing Pagemaker and failing to immediately go with Mosaic as the Most Important Browser (since both Mozilla and IE are descended from it, one way or the other) are simple mistakes that would've been avoided by just knowing what was going on 20-30 years ago.
Yeah, I'm afraid you're wrong. Sorry. When the term popped up about 30 years ago, "killer app" referred to an application that was so remarkable and must-have that it "made" the platform it ran on. VisiCalc was the killer app for the Apple II; Lotus 1-2-3 was the killer app for the DOS/PC platform; Space Invaders was the killer app for the Atari 2600; Pagemaker was the killer app for the Mac; etc. What killer apps "killed" were competing platforms, such as 1-2-3 killing the Apple II and TRS-80 in the business market.
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Bah! Ektachrome is a cheap substitute for Kodachrome. Literally. It was introduced as a cheaper film that was easier to develop, and which allowed fast shutter speeds in low light. Kodachrome, on the other hand, has always been for people who wanted the best quality possible, and wanted the images to last. Affordable digital sensors are still not equal to Kodachrome in dynamic range or in detail. A Kodachrome slide kept in optimal conditions will last nearly 200 years with only slight color degradation. By contrast, you will have to backup your backups and then get your grandchildren to backup those backups for their grandchildren to backup, for them to be able to view those digital images at all. Yeah, I understand that the market has abandoned Kodachrome and why. But the market is a damn fool.
It wouldn't surprise me if a substantial number of those saying they have an "HD DVD player" actually own Blu-Ray devices.
How about "Up"?
The immune system does not play a substantial or effective role in fighting cancer. It functions like the Immigration and Naturalization police, clobbering aliens who are not welcome. But cancer cells are native-born citizens who have become domestic terrorists, so Immigration has no authority to subdue them: they aren't different enough. Telling Immigration to stand down for a bit, while the National Guard goes in for a surgical strike to remove terrorists cells and replace them with a patriotic new immigrant liver is a pretty good strategy.
While HIPAA (note the correct spelling) restricts employees of the hospital from divulging any of this information without Jobs' consent, there are certainly other people who could have known about the transplant, and then provided this information to the Wall Street Urinal without violating it. Friends, family, neighbors, the FedEx guy, the limo driver, Steve's certainly-overpaid hairdresser, an iStalker, the florist who delivered a bouquet of apple blossoms with a note reading "an Apple® a day keeps liver transplant rejection away", etc. are not bound by HIPAA. Neither is any newspaper or web site that subsequently publishes the info. With any of these, there might conceivably be some grounds for a privacy suit under some other statute, but HIPAA ain't it.
Stem cell therapy? On cancer? Please tell me you're joking. That'd be like putting out a fire with gasoline.
And no matter how much money you have, you can't just "buy" a new medical technology in a matter of a few months.
The obvious conclusion is that the cancer had metastasized and appeared in his liver. Whenever a doctor says they got the cancer, there's always a chance that they didn't get it all. Apparently that's the case here. Hopefully they caught it early enough and got the last of it. Time will tell.
Recovery time is going to depend a lot on the patient's condition before the transplant, including why they needed it, so comparing one person's to another's requires taking that into account.
Film isn't the only prior form of new media to experience this. Comics went through a similar period of censorship in the US, with Fredric Wertham's "Seduction of the Innocent" as its bible. This led to Congressional hearings in the 1950s and resulted in the creation of the Comics Code Authority, an industry self-censorship board that effectively killed off most genres of comic books (e.g. crime, horror, even romance and westerns), leaving only superhero and funny-animal books that were suitable for young children. It's only in the last couple decades that commercially viable comics with grown-up themes (Watchmen being one of the early examples) have re-emerged, and the CCA fading into irrelevance. The film industry weathered the Hayes Code more successfully, continuing to get intelligent, adult-oriented fare to the public even at the height of censorship (albeit in "sanitized" form); comics did not.
The SCOTUS hasn't just become ideological "these days". Way back in the early 1800s when it started to assert itself as a coequal branch of government, the two parties fought over it, with Congress even impeaching one of the justices. It was overtly political in FDR's day, as evidenced by his attempt to pack it with a bunch of additional liberal justices. Furthermore, there's been an ongoing evolution of the Court interpreting the Constitution, beginning with the point in which the John Jay Court interpreted it to give the Court authority over the states, and especially John Marshall's interpretation of the Constitution in Marbury v. Madison that the Court had the authority to... interpret the Constitution, thereby bootstrapping it into that role.
I don't know Kennedy,* but unless he's an unusual lawyer, he probably loves being the swing vote. In effect it's like having the STAR chamber** for the prosecution, the weak-lefties for the defense, and he gets to listen to their arguments and decide the case. Or in cases where he already has a firm viewpoint on the subject, he can use his position in the middle to frame the terms of the decision. If he doesn't find that appealing, he should retire, because he's gotten tired of the Law.
*Insert Bentsen/Quayle joke here.
**Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Roberts
If they're figuring customizability based on the number of malicious ActiveX and other BHOs supported, IE8 wins hands-down.
After beginning a career in IT I quickly established a work ethic that I summarized as "try to do the job well enough that they don't need you anymore". Train the staff to effectively use the equipment, and even find solutions to their own problems. Document everything clearly so I could take vacations, or even get hit by a bus without things grinding to a halt. I knew the scope of the problems I would face and new developments in technology would make my "goal" unattainable.
Then business got bad, every department's budget got slashed, and I was the IT person whose lay-off would be "least disruptive". My career's been pretty much stalled ever since.
I'm not saying my outlook was wrong... just that no good deed goes unpunished.
"Having said that, I don't really see why you cannot study while being at the helpdesk. It's not a stressful role,"
You clearly haven't worked in a helpdesk role at any of the places I've worked.
"Maybe it'll be sensitive enough to image extrasolar planets."
We don't need any extra solar planets! We have enough solar planets as it is, especially if you count all them newfangled "dwarf" planets like Pluto and Grumpy and Sneezy. When I was a boy we only had eight solar planets, and we were happy to have them... (except maybe the one name after "yer anus")...
Here's a great warrant-free recipe for convictions:
1) Seize computers from random people on flimsy grounds that you know will be thrown out.
2) ???? (Go fishing through their hard drives for evidence of actual crimes.)
3) Prosecute!
The current slate of Pixar features in development are:
* Toy Story 3 (summer 2010)
* Cars 2 (summer 2011)
* The Bear and the Bow (xmas 2011, a princess wants to be an archer instead)
* Newt (summer 2012, the last two members of their species are a mismatched couple)
* Monsters Inc 2 (201?)
At least the movies they're making sequels to are ones where you can make a decent rationale for following the character to further adventures (Incredibles would be another). I can't see a sequel to Nemo, Rat, Wall, or Up - each of which told the by-far-most-important events of the protagonist's life - working as a story.
"You apparently are some sort of nature worshiper "
No, it's your obvious contempt for me and my viewpoint (without even knowing what it is) that makes this discussion impossible.
"If the only ecological consequence to cutting down the trees is that humans wouldn't be able to find them pretty, then yes, I would be a-okay with cutting more of them down."
Then I'm afraid we lack a common framework of values to continue this discussion.
Try Pitcairn Island.
A) If you look at a photo of Earth at night, you'll see why a clear view of the night sky is not just a train-ride to the suburbs away. Huge swaths of land are blanketed in artificial light. By the logic you're presenting here, it wouldn't matter if we cut down all the trees as long as we had tree museums for people to go visit.
B) Pollution is pollution, regardless of the source. Lower levels are more tolerable than higher levels, but it all detracts from the view of the sky (along with other negative effects). All sources of light pollution should be minimized.
C) Seeing the wonder of the universe is a good thing. Living in a cave is not. Is that distinction so difficult to comprehend? "The rest is technology at work, for better or worse." Oh, so maybe you do grasp the point! Except that we don't have to just accept technology "for better or worse"; we can choose to use technology in ways that makes our lives better and not to use technology in ways that makes it worse.
Just because you can see some of the trees doesn't mean you're seeing the forest. The Milky Way is (traditionally) a diffuse band across the night sky which is lighter than the inky black of space. We call our galaxy the Milky Way because that band is made up of countless distant stars from that galaxy.
It may just be a case of the phenomenon observed over and over in humans: that girls tend to fall for guys who remind them of their father, and boys tend to fall for gals who remind them of their mother. It's provincialism.
The fact that one of the list-makers says he used Quark in first grade probably indicates the problem: they simply don't know the history they're trying to analyze. OK, they did the research to identify a "first e-mail program" and they'd heard about the importance of 1-2-3, but missing Pagemaker and failing to immediately go with Mosaic as the Most Important Browser (since both Mozilla and IE are descended from it, one way or the other) are simple mistakes that would've been avoided by just knowing what was going on 20-30 years ago.
Yeah, I'm afraid you're wrong. Sorry. When the term popped up about 30 years ago, "killer app" referred to an application that was so remarkable and must-have that it "made" the platform it ran on. VisiCalc was the killer app for the Apple II; Lotus 1-2-3 was the killer app for the DOS/PC platform; Space Invaders was the killer app for the Atari 2600; Pagemaker was the killer app for the Mac; etc. What killer apps "killed" were competing platforms, such as 1-2-3 killing the Apple II and TRS-80 in the business market.