What happens is first- and second-line antibiotics, like penicillin, get overused.
Woudn't this be somewhat regional, though? I mean, especially here in the Los Angeles area, where Mexico can be reached within a few hours' drive, one can pretty much go to Tijuana and get the drugs of their choice without an Rx. For that matter, one can go to various clinicas in (say) Santa Ana and get those amongst other drugs that are otherwise not available without a prescription. I know there are many cases of people taking amoxicillin for sheer placebo effect (yes, they actually think the amoxicillin is going to kill the viral infection!), but I kind of think that it's largely by accessibility.
Think of it, unless you beg and plead of your doctor (who, if he's worth his salt, will give you a true placebo instead), you're not going to legally get penicillin OTC in (say) Iowa.
We-ll, dunno about anyone else, but I remember seeing an extreme close-up of an eye taken with an older camera. I think some opthalmologists were looking at someting in this range. But aside from the novelty of being able to see your own eyes without a mirror, imagine using one of these to do interior exams, glaucoma checks, contour diagrams for contacts... it's amazing what you could do with the eye alone with this.
And it goes beyond that. Maybe some docs can correct me on this, but I'd venture a guess that it would make things like (say) an arthroscopy (or any sort of -scopy)) a bit easier being able to see even the most minute bit of scar tissue while in there cleaning it out.
I could go on. Maybe if there are some other medical types out there to do this.
Didn't the original DivX players have a similar system? Buy a disc for a few $, and only be able to watch it so many times?
What happened to those players?
DIVX(TM) (please note the capitalization) was pulled in summer of 1999 by Circuit City after it was deemed to be an utter failure, having lost millions of dollars during its two-year life.
A search on Google will bring up a myriad of useful links. It was sort of a nebulous form of DRM, but it went nowhere - why the hell would people want to pay for something again after they own it?
Frankly, I see the DRM enhancements coming about failing miserably for the simple reason it's being developed for and by...well, management - they have such high hopes that their product will be given to people who will respect it, and forget history. Copy Protection to this day doesn't work, why should DRM?
What, you mean the guy that sounds like Marge Simpson after she swallowed about three pounds of broken glass and chased it down with 4 packs of Kool menthols?
That's probably more of a throwback of the September That Never Ended. Remember, a lot of the new users to this day will still "top-post" (or stick their reply atop the intact original), or even go beyond that and shun the shift keys and punctuation because they're just in too much of a hurry to hold them down as they hunt and peck.
And don't even get me started about the id10ts who make an artform of run-on sentences.
If one has the material already available on tape, you can always get it to the computer with a video capture card of some flavor and encode it into the stream flavor of your choice, be it Windoze, Real(bad?)Media, or QT. If there's a way to stream MPEG or DivX encoding, I'd suggest that - but keep in mind that I have no experience with media streaming. Remember, if this is to be geared more or less like public TV, you don't really have to start off with professional-looking material - to use educational shows as examples, Sesame Street, one of the longest running public education shows, has a sort of low-budget feel to it, and Fred Rogers even went with low end budgets for his shows. (It's granted you don't have to do high-end stuff for kids, but notable nonetheless, IMHO.)
The problem you'll face here is bandwidth usage. An audio feed site only has to worry about the audio data being fed out - over a 56K modem, you can get fairly reasonable sound quality, if you do it right. Now consider that a DivX movie takes up, what, one CD for two hours, give or take? That's a pretty significant chunk of data to be slinging around. On the other hand, I think Mononoke Hime weighed in on RM at about 240 MB last I looked - but again, that's a lot of data to be pushing through the pipes, and will immediately alienate your dialup people. I recall seeing video pipes that could be used for as little as 33.6 somewhere, but even that will tie up the modem.
In short, you will probably need at minimum a cable modem or DSL to use this service.
I still remember a number of records came with similar perks: Styx' Grand Illusion also had a poster, Floyd's recent re-release of Ummagumma contained a poster of the original album cover, and Emerson Lake and Palmer even had an oddly-cut record sleeve for Brain Salad Surgery designed around the Giger art they used for the album cover.
Bon Jovi seems to have the right idea, throw a few perks into the album and see what happens.
It's not a new model, but it works. It's sort of like the free coffeemaker when you sign up for Gevalia Coffee, or hell, even the privilege of just going in around lunch hour and eating off of the sample trays at your local Costco. They even do it with DVD's - you get features you won't even come anywhere near if you use a VHS, that typically add to the flavor. (Consider The Matrix on DVD versus VHS.) It's a marketing gimmick that, AFAICT, was pioneered by Ron Popeil as such, and it's just crazy enough to work.
For a better perspective, go fishing and watch the kinds of bait that draw more fish.
OK, this seems outlandish, crazy, and primitive, but here's my thoughts.
Usually within a few minutes of an earthquake, your animals will start acting unusually restless. Cats just can't sit down, dogs start barking madly at seemingly nothing all around them, and one of my coworkers observed a murder of crows start cawing at midnight - within a few minutes of a small tremor that fired off just northeast of Yorba Linda, CA a couple of weeks ago. (The event was on the Whittier fault, made famous 15 years ago when everybody in California died during the Whittier Narrows quake according to an apparent report by a major national news network. The fault runs through Chino Hills, north of Yorba Linda. This has been another Useless Fact(TM).)
Now these are all animals that can hear outside of the human hearing range of 20 Hz-20 KHz. (Or is it 2 KHz that the uper ceiling is at? I don't remember. Anyway....)
Point being, I am thinking they are hearing something we can't. As outlandish as it sounds, perhaps we should be making studies using frequency counters that would pick up that which is outside of human hearing?
I guess I just think that using sattelites to predict it seems a bit outlandish.
Not necessarily. The US Congress does not have the ability to abridge freedom of speech, but when in the course of its use it encroaches on somebody elses rights, you will find it doesn't matter.
How is a zip code going to help a spammer? The poster is looking to send junk snail mail, and frankly I'm more in favor of that because you have to spend time sorting your database, printing your mail, sorting your mail, trucking it down to your local bulk mail center, and paying postage.
Why not plant more trees? Hell, any old plant will do. Not very efficient, but they would certainly make use of the carbon dioxide, and get the right landscaper and s/he'll make it look really nice. Or is this too simple for environmentalists to grasp?
Suppose that pencil and paper would work? While it's not high falootin' as a computer, it would get the point across. Remember, if this is for yourself, people are probably not going to look at it.
Granted it ain't pretty, but it's probably a better alternative than, say, autocad.
I am now opening up a new business where patent claims for existing business models will be filed with the US patent office for you, and ten or fifteen years from date of filing, when it has become a more or less accepted norm, I will pull it out of a cabinet and file a lawsuit against all offenders.
This is clearly a lucrative business opportunity, so I am also looking for investors.
Watch for it at suej00pantsoff.com.
Disclaimer: IANAL, but who gives a damn?! I want a piece of the action here!
OK, just my $.02 here too. We need some traffic in here.
So mine are simple: it's good to see BSD Unix *in general* getting attention still, and better to know that the little devil is still kicking. It works, it can talk TCP/IP, and it's not Micro$oft.
What it sounds like to me is that the Chinese government wants to try and block out all memory of capitalism. It kind of reminds me of Tienamen (sic) Square a while back in a way.
The thing is though is that this is not going to work. It seems to me it's a classic case of a government underestimating the intelligence of its people.
In short, this may be one of the things that brings the "red curtain" down in China. I can only fear for what will happen afterwards though.
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Woudn't this be somewhat regional, though? I mean, especially here in the Los Angeles area, where Mexico can be reached within a few hours' drive, one can pretty much go to Tijuana and get the drugs of their choice without an Rx. For that matter, one can go to various clinicas in (say) Santa Ana and get those amongst other drugs that are otherwise not available without a prescription. I know there are many cases of people taking amoxicillin for sheer placebo effect (yes, they actually think the amoxicillin is going to kill the viral infection!), but I kind of think that it's largely by accessibility.
Think of it, unless you beg and plead of your doctor (who, if he's worth his salt, will give you a true placebo instead), you're not going to legally get penicillin OTC in (say) Iowa.
Either that, or the poster has been possessed by the disembodied spirit of William Shatner.
And it goes beyond that. Maybe some docs can correct me on this, but I'd venture a guess that it would make things like (say) an arthroscopy (or any sort of -scopy)) a bit easier being able to see even the most minute bit of scar tissue while in there cleaning it out.
I could go on. Maybe if there are some other medical types out there to do this.
To update, "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 full of CD Roms".
What happened to those players?
DIVX(TM) (please note the capitalization) was pulled in summer of 1999 by Circuit City after it was deemed to be an utter failure, having lost millions of dollars during its two-year life.
A search on Google will bring up a myriad of useful links. It was sort of a nebulous form of DRM, but it went nowhere - why the hell would people want to pay for something again after they own it?
Frankly, I see the DRM enhancements coming about failing miserably for the simple reason it's being developed for and by...well, management - they have such high hopes that their product will be given to people who will respect it, and forget history. Copy Protection to this day doesn't work, why should DRM?
What, you mean the guy that sounds like Marge Simpson after she swallowed about three pounds of broken glass and chased it down with 4 packs of Kool menthols?
And don't even get me started about the id10ts who make an artform of run-on sentences.
The problem you'll face here is bandwidth usage. An audio feed site only has to worry about the audio data being fed out - over a 56K modem, you can get fairly reasonable sound quality, if you do it right. Now consider that a DivX movie takes up, what, one CD for two hours, give or take? That's a pretty significant chunk of data to be slinging around. On the other hand, I think Mononoke Hime weighed in on RM at about 240 MB last I looked - but again, that's a lot of data to be pushing through the pipes, and will immediately alienate your dialup people. I recall seeing video pipes that could be used for as little as 33.6 somewhere, but even that will tie up the modem.
In short, you will probably need at minimum a cable modem or DSL to use this service.
Nonetheless, good luck.
I still remember a number of records came with similar perks: Styx' Grand Illusion also had a poster, Floyd's recent re-release of Ummagumma contained a poster of the original album cover, and Emerson Lake and Palmer even had an oddly-cut record sleeve for Brain Salad Surgery designed around the Giger art they used for the album cover.
Bon Jovi seems to have the right idea, throw a few perks into the album and see what happens.
It's not a new model, but it works. It's sort of like the free coffeemaker when you sign up for Gevalia Coffee, or hell, even the privilege of just going in around lunch hour and eating off of the sample trays at your local Costco. They even do it with DVD's - you get features you won't even come anywhere near if you use a VHS, that typically add to the flavor. (Consider The Matrix on DVD versus VHS.) It's a marketing gimmick that, AFAICT, was pioneered by Ron Popeil as such, and it's just crazy enough to work.
For a better perspective, go fishing and watch the kinds of bait that draw more fish.
In other news, today I changed the light bulb in my Maglite(TM) when it burned out.
Dunno, you mention that, and I have images of the Camelot scene from Holy Grail a la Lego in mind.
I know it's true because I read it on the Internet right here! That, and Art Bell says it's true! It's all part of a conspiracy!
And we all know that because it's on the 'net it has to be true, right? =)
Usually within a few minutes of an earthquake, your animals will start acting unusually restless. Cats just can't sit down, dogs start barking madly at seemingly nothing all around them, and one of my coworkers observed a murder of crows start cawing at midnight - within a few minutes of a small tremor that fired off just northeast of Yorba Linda, CA a couple of weeks ago. (The event was on the Whittier fault, made famous 15 years ago when everybody in California died during the Whittier Narrows quake according to an apparent report by a major national news network. The fault runs through Chino Hills, north of Yorba Linda. This has been another Useless Fact(TM).)
Now these are all animals that can hear outside of the human hearing range of 20 Hz-20 KHz. (Or is it 2 KHz that the uper ceiling is at? I don't remember. Anyway....)
Point being, I am thinking they are hearing something we can't. As outlandish as it sounds, perhaps we should be making studies using frequency counters that would pick up that which is outside of human hearing?
I guess I just think that using sattelites to predict it seems a bit outlandish.
How is a zip code going to help a spammer? The poster is looking to send junk snail mail, and frankly I'm more in favor of that because you have to spend time sorting your database, printing your mail, sorting your mail, trucking it down to your local bulk mail center, and paying postage.
Why not plant more trees? Hell, any old plant will do. Not very efficient, but they would certainly make use of the carbon dioxide, and get the right landscaper and s/he'll make it look really nice. Or is this too simple for environmentalists to grasp?
Granted it ain't pretty, but it's probably a better alternative than, say, autocad.
I guess the whole thing goes to prove that, within anything computer related, there is more than one way to do it. Clever tutorial, gang. =^_^=
Logical moderation: +1 Funny. Have a nice day. =)
You guys have my sympathies.
DOH!
This is clearly a lucrative business opportunity, so I am also looking for investors.
Watch for it at suej00pantsoff.com.
Disclaimer: IANAL, but who gives a damn?! I want a piece of the action here!
So mine are simple: it's good to see BSD Unix *in general* getting attention still, and better to know that the little devil is still kicking. It works, it can talk TCP/IP, and it's not Micro$oft.
Yes, I'm a Linux user. Deal with it.
The thing is though is that this is not going to work. It seems to me it's a classic case of a government underestimating the intelligence of its people.
In short, this may be one of the things that brings the "red curtain" down in China. I can only fear for what will happen afterwards though.