Most cancers, Alzheimer's and heart disease have nothing to do with inflammation, chronic or otherwise.
Actually, atheroma, the cause (in nearly all cases) of coronary artery disease, and the single commonest cause of death in the Western world, is well established to be an inflammatory process. The process of developing atheroma is influenced by a number of risk factors (e.g. diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, smoking, obesity, family history); interestingly, rheumatoid arthritis is also a significant risk factor. It has even been hypothesised that various bacterial infections (which cause inflammation) may be a cause or risk factor for atherosclerosis, though studies looking at antibiotic treatment of these purported infections have not borne this out so far.
I've never understood why surgeons can't do the same with blood vessels - the patient is bleeding from a major artery, and it never occurs to them that the could slice the artery in half and connect the ends with surgical tubing?
The answer is that vascular surgeons have been doing exactly this since the 1950s.
Common procedures nowadays include replacing part of an aneurysmal abdominal aorta with a "Dacron" graft or bypassing stenosed or occluded arteries in the lower limbs with synthetic grafts.
Wrong. The meter is defined by the distance from the Equator to the North Pole (divided 10 000 000).
No, it isn't. It really is defined from the distance travelled by light in one second. However, it was originally intended that there be 10,000 km from pole to equator: after performing the survey, the metre was defined by the length of a particular piece of metal. Unfortunately, their survey was not quite correct, and the actual distance (in terms of that piece of metal) from pole to equator was 10,002,090 m. The length definition changed in 1960 and then in 1983 to its present form. Likewise, although one cubic cm of water has a mass of one gram for most practical purposes, it is not formally defined as such.
No, it doesn't. Sterilisation methods, e.g. heat, radiation, when performed correctly, kill all pathogens. You're thinking of antibiotics, which select for organisms with some degree of resistance to them, and may indeed create so-called "super bugs".
...I have. I find it extremely irritating, because it requires seperate download and install steps. I want to get my list of updates, select all, click one thing to get them installed, then walk away for a few minutes. Red Had Network doesn't let me do that...
I'm not using the shell, I'm using the System Tools->Red Hat Network option GUI
The command line is useful on a "desktop distro" too, though:-)
If you wish to use the GUI, type "up2date --configure". The options include "Do not install packages after retrieval". Untick the box to the left of this. Doesn't seem that complicated.
Two users who disagree. Solution would be to make the behaviour configurable then, yes?
It _is_ configurable. Out of a long list of options ("man up2date"):
d, --download
Download packages only, do not install them. This option
is provided so that you can override the configuration
option "Do not install packages after retrieval." It is
mutually exclusive with the --install option.
-i, --install
Install packages after they are downloaded. This option
is provided so that you can override the configuration
option "Do not install packages after retrieval.". It is
mutually exlusive with the the --download option.
-u, --update
Completely update the system. All relevant pack-
ages will be downloaded (and possibly installed,
if you have configured Update Agent to do so).
It seems to me that the main issue here is not the ease of use of systems to provide security patches (up2date, apt-get, Windows Update are all easy to use), but how much you trust the vendor / free software organisation not to break your system if you download them automatically. Personally, I haven't (yet) been burnt by RedHat's patches, and upgrade them automatically, but don't trust MS to always get things right.
It's doesn't seem to me that methanol in a sealed cell is any more dangerous than the lithium you have in your current laptop battery, or for that matter than the ethanol in the spirits sold as "Duty Free" on international flights.
It's great to have powerful features, but not everyone needs all that power. 9 times out of 10, all I need is simple check-in and check-out with revision control.
The suggestion in the documentation is that you run an Apache 2 server in parallel with your main (v1.3) server on a different port. Is there any reason that this would be a problem?
TCP makes the assumption that ALL data corruption is due to congestion, and thus its backoff algorithm throttles way back when errors are actually caused by a noisy link.
Is this inherent to TCP, or simply inherent to common implementations of it? Would it be possible to devise special-purpose TCP code which would get around this, while still remaining within the RFCs?
A genuine question. Radio receivers, for everyday uses at least, are extremely cheap. GNU Radio sounds like an interesting idea, but what practical problem does it solve? I guess this may be a cheaper solution for radio transmission in certain circumstances, but is this the only point?
There has been some support for for the NTFS filesystem available for years. The original driver system is no longer developed, and a new system is being actively developed (link). Unfortunately, because of the complexity of this filesystem, which is not fully documented by Microsoft, only read support is satisfactory - i.e. it may be dangerous to write to an NTFS filesystem from Linux.
You may wish to explore loading NTFS as a module or compiling it into your kernel.
I guess we should be careful when reporting stories like this in a hurry. Every distribution has some bugs. It is well known that RH *.0 distributions tend to be more innovative but also more buggy. You have a choice between using some cutting-edge packages in a new distribution or a more stable older distribution.
In medicine we spend a lot of time trying to view 3D structures by looking at 2D images and this sort of display system potentially could make things much easier. I've spent all day trying to look at people's hearts using X ray fluoroscopy (principles devised in the first half of the 20th century) and it's difficult to visualise what you're doing in 3D! Clearly in this situation real time 3D imaging would be tremendously helpful.
Incidentally, "Actuality Systems" display system has 90 million voxels, not just 90!
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Most cancers, Alzheimer's and heart disease have nothing to do with inflammation, chronic or otherwise.
Actually, atheroma, the cause (in nearly all cases) of coronary artery disease, and the single commonest cause of death in the Western world, is well established to be an inflammatory process. The process of developing atheroma is influenced by a number of risk factors (e.g. diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, smoking, obesity, family history); interestingly, rheumatoid arthritis is also a significant risk factor. It has even been hypothesised that various bacterial infections (which cause inflammation) may be a cause or risk factor for atherosclerosis, though studies looking at antibiotic treatment of these purported infections have not borne this out so far.
Millimeter Turbins? Must be for really small Muslims.
Turbans are worn by Sikhs, not Muslims.
Also why does it look like she has an Adam's Apple?
Everybody has an Adam's Apple. It's the thyroid cartilage. To be fair it is usually more prominent in men than women.
Unfortunately the world has not completely standardized on when and how these leaps seconds are to be inserted
Rubbish. This has been standardised for many years.
I've never understood why surgeons can't do the same with blood vessels - the patient is bleeding from a major artery, and it never occurs to them that the could slice the artery in half and connect the ends with surgical tubing?
The answer is that vascular surgeons have been doing exactly this since the 1950s.
Common procedures nowadays include replacing part of an aneurysmal abdominal aorta with a "Dacron" graft or bypassing stenosed or occluded arteries in the lower limbs with synthetic grafts.
Wrong. The meter is defined by the distance from the Equator to the North Pole (divided 10 000 000).
No, it isn't. It really is defined from the distance travelled by light in one second. However, it was originally intended that there be 10,000 km from pole to equator: after performing the survey, the metre was defined by the length of a particular piece of metal. Unfortunately, their survey was not quite correct, and the actual distance (in terms of that piece of metal) from pole to equator was 10,002,090 m. The length definition changed in 1960 and then in 1983 to its present form. Likewise, although one cubic cm of water has a mass of one gram for most practical purposes, it is not formally defined as such.
Excess sterilization leads to super-bugs
No, it doesn't. Sterilisation methods, e.g. heat, radiation, when performed correctly, kill all pathogens. You're thinking of antibiotics, which select for organisms with some degree of resistance to them, and may indeed create so-called "super bugs".Talk about reinventing the wheel!
By my calculations, 7 x 10^22 is the number of molecules in approximately 7 grams of sand. There is certainly "plenty of room at the bottom"...
...I have. I find it extremely irritating, because it requires seperate download and install steps. I want to get my list of updates, select all, click one thing to get them installed, then walk away for a few minutes. Red Had Network doesn't let me do that...
:-)
I'm not using the shell, I'm using the System Tools->Red Hat Network option GUI
The command line is useful on a "desktop distro" too, though
If you wish to use the GUI, type "up2date --configure". The options include "Do not install packages after retrieval". Untick the box to the left of this. Doesn't seem that complicated.
Phil
Two users who disagree. Solution would be to make the behaviour configurable then, yes?
It _is_ configurable. Out of a long list of options ("man up2date"):
d, --download
Download packages only, do not install them. This option
is provided so that you can override the configuration
option "Do not install packages after retrieval." It is
mutually exclusive with the --install option.
-i, --install
Install packages after they are downloaded. This option
is provided so that you can override the configuration
option "Do not install packages after retrieval.". It is
mutually exlusive with the the --download option.
-u, --update
Completely update the system. All relevant pack-
ages will be downloaded (and possibly installed,
if you have configured Update Agent to do so).
It seems to me that the main issue here is not the ease of use of systems to provide security patches (up2date, apt-get, Windows Update are all easy to use), but how much you trust the vendor / free software organisation not to break your system if you download them automatically. Personally, I haven't (yet) been burnt by RedHat's patches, and upgrade them automatically, but don't trust MS to always get things right.
Phil
The "safety card" for lithium.
It's doesn't seem to me that methanol in a sealed cell is any more dangerous than the lithium you have in your current laptop battery, or for that matter than the ethanol in the spirits sold as "Duty Free" on international flights.
The CVS commands for these:
Horrendous. Really?
The suggestion in the documentation is that you run an Apache 2 server in parallel with your main (v1.3) server on a different port. Is there any reason that this would be a problem?
TCP makes the assumption that ALL data corruption is due to congestion, and thus its backoff algorithm throttles way back when errors are actually caused by a noisy link.
Is this inherent to TCP, or simply inherent to common implementations of it? Would it be possible to devise special-purpose TCP code which would get around this, while still remaining within the RFCs?
A genuine question. Radio receivers, for everyday uses at least, are extremely cheap. GNU Radio sounds like an interesting idea, but what practical problem does it solve? I guess this may be a cheaper solution for radio transmission in certain circumstances, but is this the only point?
There has been some support for for the NTFS filesystem available for years. The original driver system is no longer developed, and a new system is being actively developed (link). Unfortunately, because of the complexity of this filesystem, which is not fully documented by Microsoft, only read support is satisfactory - i.e. it may be dangerous to write to an NTFS filesystem from Linux.
You may wish to explore loading NTFS as a module or compiling it into your kernel.
What about Boeing's main competitor, Airbus?
Concorde is British/French - America has nothing to compare to it.
See subject
Pegasus. http://www.pmail.com
Not open source, but free as in beer, and a distinguished pedigree.
GPRS is also starting to be available in the United Kingdom.
I guess we should be careful when reporting stories like this in a hurry. Every distribution has some bugs. It is well known that RH *.0 distributions tend to be more innovative but also more buggy. You have a choice between using some cutting-edge packages in a new distribution or a more stable older distribution.
In medicine we spend a lot of time trying to view 3D structures by looking at 2D images and this sort of display system potentially could make things much easier. I've spent all day trying to look at people's hearts using X ray fluoroscopy (principles devised in the first half of the 20th century) and it's difficult to visualise what you're doing in 3D! Clearly in this situation real time 3D imaging would be tremendously helpful.
Incidentally, "Actuality Systems" display system has 90 million voxels, not just 90!