This wasn't about the patient praying, this was about the patient being told that a congregation was either praying for him, not praying for him, or might be praying for him.
The patients who were told a congregation was praying for them actually fared worse than the other two groups.
Almost any person can be convinced that you're right if they don't know the other side of the story.
Most people would rather take someone's word for something, than go to the effort to find a countering viewpoint. That this should be true of government is no surprise...
I'm really beginning to dislike Australia. I keep hearing about more and more laws that restrict the behavior of individuals and businesses--even more so than I hear about here in the US.
Not trolling. Honest! I even left out a potentially inflaming sentence.
I thought one of microsoft's main anti-linux FUD points was that if you use M$ technologies that you'll be protected against patent troubles like this...
wtf happened?
Nothing. If Eolas (or someone like them) set their sights on Mozilla's Gecko and on Opera, there'd be little difference.
Gecko might have the advantage that it's not just maintained by the Mozilla Foundation, but also by individual vendors. Debian's Sarge distribution has its own version, Red Hat their own, Novell's Suse...The patent holder would have to challenge each vendor independantly.
As others have pointed out, Microsoft protects their customers from liability, but not necessarily from forced change. (But, being customers of Microsoft, they've accepted that already.)
In the olden days (before I got involved in computers, thankfully), hard drives had to be periodically reformatted because the read/write head, which was directly attached to a stepper moter, and slowly became unaligned.
The introduction of magnetic coils for arm positioning, and position cues on the discs, solved that problem.
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Where's mfh when you need him?
Yup. Thanks.
Been years since I took a biology class...I think I learned that tidbit in in high school.
If I recall correctly, some bacteria, such as salmonella, do use propellors...tiny little screw-like hairs that the bacteria rotate.
This wasn't about the patient praying, this was about the patient being told that a congregation was either praying for him, not praying for him, or might be praying for him.
The patients who were told a congregation was praying for them actually fared worse than the other two groups.
If you paint yourself into a corner...walk on the painted floor...It can be fixed.
Using peer-to-peer will help take care of that problem.
Almost any person can be convinced that you're right if they don't know the other side of the story.
Most people would rather take someone's word for something, than go to the effort to find a countering viewpoint. That this should be true of government is no surprise...
*cough*censorhip*in*China*France*Germany*US*Unwar rented*Patents*cough
Dude, take some DayQuil before you hack up a lung.
>All the nay-sayers have a serious lack of imagination as to what the revolution controller is capable of. Imagine...
Telling them what to imagine won't help...
Where're the Cheetos?
Whoa...a drunk gets a +5 insightful. What is this, Fark?
I'm really beginning to dislike Australia. I keep hearing about more and more laws that restrict the behavior of individuals and businesses--even more so than I hear about here in the US.
Not trolling. Honest! I even left out a potentially inflaming sentence.
I thought one of microsoft's main anti-linux FUD points was that if you use M$ technologies that you'll be protected against patent troubles like this...
wtf happened?
Nothing. If Eolas (or someone like them) set their sights on Mozilla's Gecko and on Opera, there'd be little difference.
Gecko might have the advantage that it's not just maintained by the Mozilla Foundation, but also by individual vendors. Debian's Sarge distribution has its own version, Red Hat their own, Novell's Suse...The patent holder would have to challenge each vendor independantly.
As others have pointed out, Microsoft protects their customers from liability, but not necessarily from forced change. (But, being customers of Microsoft, they've accepted that already.)
In the olden days (before I got involved in computers, thankfully), hard drives had to be periodically reformatted because the read/write head, which was directly attached to a stepper moter, and slowly became unaligned.
The introduction of magnetic coils for arm positioning, and position cues on the discs, solved that problem.
Are these drives going to face similar issues?
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Hey, don't confuse me with Darrel McBride-like references.
Around here, it's probably a combination of the two, plus hot grits.
So that's what RICO stands for...
Stef! Log off Slashdot before you freak out your coworkers again.
I am, online, pretty much the same person I am in reality.
And in reality, I try to be a reasonable, considerate person. I'm not really worried about the tons of information you can find about me.
No...the : is an unary operand on the right-hand argument. Thus the ) is "escaped" from consideration as a closed parenthesis.
For such a useful and interesting comment, where's the IANAL disclaimer?
UNIX, courtesy of Ma Bell.
Thus, the foundation was laid for BSD and Linux.
Is this simply a combination of luddites and a statistical quirk, or is the Internet reaching its saturation point in the U.S.?
There's a difference?
My two favorite examples are "Little Lost Robot" and "Runaround"
Or you just run Apt (for either Debian or RPM-based distros), and it takes care of your dependency issues for you.