With a good memory card (like the 128meg one I use for medical references) and a good speaker (like my Handera 330's) or an earphone jack, there isn't any problem at all.
Of course, one would be able to store a heck of a lot more with a processor fast enough to decode compressed music, but it and the colour screen the thing would inevitably have would sap the battery life so much that it would be "infeasible" to finish playing all those music files.
...after the game was released free on a CD by some computer mag with a bunch of other games a few years ago. I snapped it up, of course. Interestingly, it was cracked to remove this. (Even using the star chart, I still screwed up sometimes.)
The reason is that people buy them because they're cool, not because they're necessary. OTOH, I must carry about 20kg worth of medical references on my CF card in my handera, which is a bit easier to carry around than all those books.
Especially for regional flights...
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I'm glad I graduated this year... I used to be able to fly home during winter vac, etc. for $60 on student standby. Not bad for turning a SIX HOUR ferry and bus trip into a fifteen minute flight. (Travelling by car was only a little less expensive than flying, and almost as long as bus.)
Since all these stupid fees (supposedly to increase security...when was the last time a Canadian flight was hijacked, again?) are FLAT RATE, short trips have increased in cost disproportionately.
1) Making things more complicated than they have to be is generally just a bad idea.
2) In some cases this is done - "cotrimoxazole" (aka Septra, Bacrim) is a common combination of sulphamethoxazole and trimethoprim, which block two different parts of folic acid synthesis (needed to make nucleic acids). Theoretically, this should reduce the risk of resistance.
Most importantly, 3) combinations of antibiotics can have reduced effects. B-lactams (penicillins, cephalosporins) are most lethal to rapidly growing cells, since they block effective cell wall synthesis. Drugs like tetracyclines and macrolides (erythromycin) block protein synthesis and slow cell growth to a crawl (so that the patient's immune system can mop it up easily, assuming the patient has one). Combining the two is just dumb.
However, aminoglycosides (gentamicin, etc.) are often used synergisically with B-lactams, since the latter damage the cell walls and help produce leaks in the membranes of gram+ve bacteria, making it easier for the aminoglycoside to get through the thick cell wall into the nucleus.
Good post. For extra emphasis (and fun), you could always describe pseudomembranous colitis to them in excruciating detail. Death by diarrhea - not a good way to go, especially over a silly little cold.
OK, so its got a desktop processor. But why doesn't any company make a portable computer without any battery packs, replacing them with a built in, efficient DC transformer? Not having that annoying, heavy wall-wart would be a major plus and make the system easier to carry around. And they could always sell an external battery, say a large one that would take up half the carrying case and acually provide a decent amount of battery life.
Then again, if someone wants something truly mobile, why is it impossible to buy a machine with a low speed, super-efficient CPU and (gasp) a monochrome screen that can last for days without a recharge? Even handhelds are going away from this - the battery life of many PowerPCs, with their colour screens and whatnot, is laughable. But my Handera 330 hasn't had its NIMH batteries recharged in a month...
Huh... my reasons are completely different - I buy stuff online because it is either impossible to find it in stores in my area, or it isn't worth the hours spent looking. Medical references, anime, obscure books and movies, hard-to-find electronics (eg: Handera 330), etc...
Btw, I doubt those 30-40% lower prices are realistic...is Amazon still losing money?
But with some GUIs it is at least possible to use the computer without touching a keyboard...so couldn't it say "push F1 or click mouse to continue" or something?
But if he thinks herbal substances aren't profitable, he's on crack. Judging by the number of stores peddling these products, the amount of crap spewed about them on the internet, and the prices - which can be more expensive than a drug which has the same use. E.g., phytoestrogens - plant estrogens which are somehow supposed to be more safe and natural than the synthetic ones (C.E.S., etc.) or the ones from horse piss (Premarin), for which there is no evidence or even a plausible reason that this might be so, and are several times more expensive.
There are some products that have decent evidence for their efficacy - such as glucosamine and chondroitin, which have been studied fairly well despite not being patentable. And then there are substances such as MSM, which purport to cure everything, but have nothing to back it up.
Also, ask if there's a different type of drug that's cheaper and just as effective. For example, hydrochlorothiazide costs about a penny a day and has strong evidence for its effeciveness, while Adalat XL (nifedipine) costs dollars and has weaker evidence backing it up (the immediate release form of it is no longer used as it caused heart attacks by producing reflex tachycardia).
Try to get the information to weigh the benefits and costs. Plavix can prevent one person in 200 from having a stroke over 3 years compared to taking aspirin - and costs thousands of dollers per patient versus a few bucks. (The trial I mention showed a risk of ~6% with aspirin and ~5.5% with clopidogrel. Apparently this is supposed to be impressive. Though for those that didn't have strokes, I guess it was.)
A lot of the apps I use with my Handera support it - though they're mostly ones for which having virtual graffiti is useful (eg, iSilo). All the built-in palm OS apps work with it, too.
Yeah, my Handera 330 is great. I run a ton of medical references off my 128meg CF card, and the AAA's last for weeks. (I use NIMH ones, and switch and recharge every couple weeks. No expensive paperweight with a dead internal battery for me, thanks.) I'm glad there isn't colour; it would ruin the battery life.
Btw, do you have any suggestions for adding wireless capability to it? All I've seen are modem cards that attach to a cell phone or phone line.
Oh yeah, I forgot...because according to Hollywood animation is only for crappy Disney kids movies.:-p
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Perhaps... but smileys are primarily used in two-way communication, with people "talking" and interacting with each other. (E-mail, message boards, IRC, ICQ/AIM) I'd hardly expect to see a smiley in, say, a chapter of an online novel.
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. (Galatians 5:19-21)
If witchcraft isn't evil, why is God forbidding them, as alleged children of God, their inheritance of the kingdom?
Shit, I'm screwed. Well, at least I'm not a sorceror. So you've never been jealous, gotten drunk, or felt hatred?
That wouldn't really be necessary - I gather that it's just osmosis. Higher concentration of solute on the other side of the membrane = water flowing out.
Yes, but the post mentioned products advertised as antibacterial, ie, not antiseptics (chlorine, isopropanol, etc.) but antibacterials (chlorhexidine, triclosan, etc.) People generally don't wash their hands with alcohol.
This looks like a good article on the subject: http://www.healthsci.tufts.edu/apua/Pubs/Articles/ EID6_01.pdf
And they can develop some resistance even to antiseptics, by pumping the substance out or degrading it. Oxygen would make a good antiseptic if it weren't for the fact that aerobic organisms (ie, most organisms) have enzymes to break down reactive forms of it.
Not necessarily. Living things have developed resistance to, for example, boiling water. Just that no organism could be adapted to such an extreme environment and be an effective human pathogen at the same time...
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Not to mention that many charities turn around and spend nearly all of that money on advertising, anyway...
With a good memory card (like the 128meg one I use for medical references) and a good speaker (like my Handera 330's) or an earphone jack, there isn't any problem at all.
Of course, one would be able to store a heck of a lot more with a processor fast enough to decode compressed music, but it and the colour screen the thing would inevitably have would sap the battery life so much that it would be "infeasible" to finish playing all those music files.
...after the game was released free on a CD by some computer mag with a bunch of other games a few years ago. I snapped it up, of course. Interestingly, it was cracked to remove this. (Even using the star chart, I still screwed up sometimes.)
The reason is that people buy them because they're cool, not because they're necessary. OTOH, I must carry about 20kg worth of medical references on my CF card in my handera, which is a bit easier to carry around than all those books.
Since all these stupid fees (supposedly to increase security...when was the last time a Canadian flight was hijacked, again?) are FLAT RATE, short trips have increased in cost disproportionately.
LOL. I picked that one up in a used bookstore...what a great book.
2) In some cases this is done - "cotrimoxazole" (aka Septra, Bacrim) is a common combination of sulphamethoxazole and trimethoprim, which block two different parts of folic acid synthesis (needed to make nucleic acids). Theoretically, this should reduce the risk of resistance.
Most importantly, 3) combinations of antibiotics can have reduced effects. B-lactams (penicillins, cephalosporins) are most lethal to rapidly growing cells, since they block effective cell wall synthesis. Drugs like tetracyclines and macrolides (erythromycin) block protein synthesis and slow cell growth to a crawl (so that the patient's immune system can mop it up easily, assuming the patient has one). Combining the two is just dumb.
However, aminoglycosides (gentamicin, etc.) are often used synergisically with B-lactams, since the latter damage the cell walls and help produce leaks in the membranes of gram+ve bacteria, making it easier for the aminoglycoside to get through the thick cell wall into the nucleus.
Yeah, right: http://www.robeysilver.com/silveraid/bottled.htm
$50 for a bottle of colloidal silver, $2 for a bottle of penicillin-VK, hmm...
Good post. For extra emphasis (and fun), you could always describe pseudomembranous colitis to them in excruciating detail. Death by diarrhea - not a good way to go, especially over a silly little cold.
Then again, if someone wants something truly mobile, why is it impossible to buy a machine with a low speed, super-efficient CPU and (gasp) a monochrome screen that can last for days without a recharge? Even handhelds are going away from this - the battery life of many PowerPCs, with their colour screens and whatnot, is laughable. But my Handera 330 hasn't had its NIMH batteries recharged in a month...
Btw, I doubt those 30-40% lower prices are realistic...is Amazon still losing money?
But with some GUIs it is at least possible to use the computer without touching a keyboard...so couldn't it say "push F1 or click mouse to continue" or something?
Develop drug: $200 million
Advertise drug: $500 million
Bribe^H^H^H^H^HEducate doctors about the benefits of this wonderful new medication: $250 million
Buy a senator just for the hell of it: $50 million
There are some products that have decent evidence for their efficacy - such as glucosamine and chondroitin, which have been studied fairly well despite not being patentable. And then there are substances such as MSM, which purport to cure everything, but have nothing to back it up.
Try to get the information to weigh the benefits and costs. Plavix can prevent one person in 200 from having a stroke over 3 years compared to taking aspirin - and costs thousands of dollers per patient versus a few bucks. (The trial I mention showed a risk of ~6% with aspirin and ~5.5% with clopidogrel. Apparently this is supposed to be impressive. Though for those that didn't have strokes, I guess it was.)
You're an idiot. What about your own troops? Or the pilot, for that matter...
A lot of the apps I use with my Handera support it - though they're mostly ones for which having virtual graffiti is useful (eg, iSilo). All the built-in palm OS apps work with it, too.
Yeah, my Handera 330 is great. I run a ton of medical references off my 128meg CF card, and the AAA's last for weeks. (I use NIMH ones, and switch and recharge every couple weeks. No expensive paperweight with a dead internal battery for me, thanks.) I'm glad there isn't colour; it would ruin the battery life. Btw, do you have any suggestions for adding wireless capability to it? All I've seen are modem cards that attach to a cell phone or phone line.
Are you saying business executives and lawyers can't be daft?
Oh yeah, I forgot...because according to Hollywood animation is only for crappy Disney kids movies. :-p
Perhaps... but smileys are primarily used in two-way communication, with people "talking" and interacting with each other. (E-mail, message boards, IRC, ICQ/AIM) I'd hardly expect to see a smiley in, say, a chapter of an online novel.
If witchcraft isn't evil, why is God forbidding them, as alleged children of God, their inheritance of the kingdom?
Shit, I'm screwed. Well, at least I'm not a sorceror. So you've never been jealous, gotten drunk, or felt hatred?
That wouldn't really be necessary - I gather that it's just osmosis. Higher concentration of solute on the other side of the membrane = water flowing out.
This looks like a good article on the subject: http://www.healthsci.tufts.edu/apua/Pubs/Articles/ EID6_01.pdf
And they can develop some resistance even to antiseptics, by pumping the substance out or degrading it. Oxygen would make a good antiseptic if it weren't for the fact that aerobic organisms (ie, most organisms) have enzymes to break down reactive forms of it.
Not necessarily. Living things have developed resistance to, for example, boiling water. Just that no organism could be adapted to such an extreme environment and be an effective human pathogen at the same time...