Yes, but if you get a sense returned as an adult, the chances for the neural paths to develop are greatly reduced.
Witness traumatic brain injury in children ( age 9 or so) compared to same scale of injury in adults. Considering that a treatment for children for severe seizures is removing a brain hemisphere, you'd never do that to an adult.
while he may capture the "signal" of sensations like pain, he's only catching it at one end, isn't he? There are various layers of signal processing that occur between the point of sensation and the brain.
Now, if he was fitting electrodes (perhaps some with dopamine, GABA, serotonin sensitive versions) into his hippocampus, amgdyla, olfactory bulb, and other parts of his limbic system, then maybe it would be more interesting and with real-world significance.
Why does not direct vagus nerve stimulation work to fend off some seizures? Are there other nerves that could be stimulated in the brain to interrupt such feedack loops (OCD, PTSD, etc) or cascading firestorms (seizures)?
...and you don't think that eventually Mono will have to do the same monkey tricks that Apache has to do now with Microsoft? All MS has to do is make a key piece of functionality proprietary and not disclose it to Mono, and they have many legal layers they can wrap it under, just like with Samba and Kerberos.
Will ActiveState release Perl.net for non-Win32 systems? Will the (crazy?) people who put out Cobol.net do the same? Will MS allow some of the libs used by.Net to be made hostable from non-Win32 systems?
At some point actual testing will need to be done again, if only to ensure the continued validity of their models. Every day they will be working with increasingly old base data...
Otherwise, what they are doing is sort of like load-testing a steel-frame bridge with the assumption that no corrosion is occuring, and being very suprised when it fails, because their (inaccurate) models said it wouldn't...
No it's not.
Is it a "damned shame" if a 'paper products company' moves a paper mill from, say, washington state to western montana because
a) labor is cheaper
b) power is slightly cheaper
c) labor is non-unionized
d) state environmental regulations are not as strict or strictly enforced in MT than in WA?
Wouldn't you say that was "smart business"?
How come MB, BMW etc. aren't building their US assembly plants in the Rust Belt, and instead in south eastern US? Are they evil for wanting to avoid large pockets of entrenched (and probably unemployed...who would make the initial labor pool) UAW workers who would want all that the UAW has done for GM, Ford and ChryCo at their new company?
I've had win2000 crash on me, although it was probably just "protecting" me:
Unplug a USB device like a USB CDROM w/o "shutting down" the device ala PCCards.
why is IP different? Because IT'S NOT REAL. The physical expression of it is, but the idea behind it is not.
The cola bottling cases are no different than a company like Microsoft that for all intents and purposes is a Washington state company, but is incorporated in Delaware, or the deals that companies set up all the time to rig their accounting, or the phone companies claiming that they are justified in treating 3rd party deployers of competing services differently than their own competitive services yet claiming "market rates" (or $800,000 damages for the distribution of a document available from the company for $15.00).
Do they tax the creators of other ethereal intellectual property?
This is the state that wanted to collect sales tax from operated coin-operated machines. While likely intended for companies that run things like video arcades and commercial laundromats, or service providers for vending machines and payphones, it could have just as easily been extended to apartment building owners who happen to have a coin-operated washer and dryer in the basement.
Washington (state) really wants to pass a personal income tax, but probably never will. The money that a software "writer" (define writer. would this extend to all the students in the state's educational system writing code? Would the Univ. of Washington then be held by the state to owe some sort of back tax on Pine or all the code its students write? Would Microsoft and Aldus Corporations be included, or would some convenient loophole be found to not include them?
It also means that it is somehow morally insane that a company like Walmart will vigorously enforce shoplifting of silly things like a pack of gum, while shoplifting of a much larger scale (Enron, Global Crossing, etc ad nauseum) goes effectively unpunished by the perpetrators.
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Doesn't the space shuttle itself carry a good load of hydrazine (a liquid fuel)?
Yes, but if you get a sense returned as an adult, the chances for the neural paths to develop are greatly reduced. Witness traumatic brain injury in children ( age 9 or so) compared to same scale of injury in adults. Considering that a treatment for children for severe seizures is removing a brain hemisphere, you'd never do that to an adult.
while he may capture the "signal" of sensations like pain, he's only catching it at one end, isn't he? There are various layers of signal processing that occur between the point of sensation and the brain.
Now, if he was fitting electrodes (perhaps some with dopamine, GABA, serotonin sensitive versions) into his hippocampus, amgdyla, olfactory bulb, and other parts of his limbic system, then maybe it would be more interesting and with real-world significance.
Why does not direct vagus nerve stimulation work to fend off some seizures? Are there other nerves that could be stimulated in the brain to interrupt such feedack loops (OCD, PTSD, etc) or cascading firestorms (seizures)?
...and you don't think that eventually Mono will have to do the same monkey tricks that Apache has to do now with Microsoft? All MS has to do is make a key piece of functionality proprietary and not disclose it to Mono, and they have many legal layers they can wrap it under, just like with Samba and Kerberos. Will ActiveState release Perl.net for non-Win32 systems? Will the (crazy?) people who put out Cobol.net do the same? Will MS allow some of the libs used by .Net to be made hostable from non-Win32 systems?
At some point actual testing will need to be done again, if only to ensure the continued validity of their models. Every day they will be working with increasingly old base data... Otherwise, what they are doing is sort of like load-testing a steel-frame bridge with the assumption that no corrosion is occuring, and being very suprised when it fails, because their (inaccurate) models said it wouldn't...
No it's not. Is it a "damned shame" if a 'paper products company' moves a paper mill from, say, washington state to western montana because a) labor is cheaper b) power is slightly cheaper c) labor is non-unionized d) state environmental regulations are not as strict or strictly enforced in MT than in WA? Wouldn't you say that was "smart business"? How come MB, BMW etc. aren't building their US assembly plants in the Rust Belt, and instead in south eastern US? Are they evil for wanting to avoid large pockets of entrenched (and probably unemployed...who would make the initial labor pool) UAW workers who would want all that the UAW has done for GM, Ford and ChryCo at their new company?
I've had win2000 crash on me, although it was probably just "protecting" me: Unplug a USB device like a USB CDROM w/o "shutting down" the device ala PCCards.
why is IP different? Because IT'S NOT REAL. The physical expression of it is, but the idea behind it is not. The cola bottling cases are no different than a company like Microsoft that for all intents and purposes is a Washington state company, but is incorporated in Delaware, or the deals that companies set up all the time to rig their accounting, or the phone companies claiming that they are justified in treating 3rd party deployers of competing services differently than their own competitive services yet claiming "market rates" (or $800,000 damages for the distribution of a document available from the company for $15.00).
Do they tax the creators of other ethereal intellectual property? This is the state that wanted to collect sales tax from operated coin-operated machines. While likely intended for companies that run things like video arcades and commercial laundromats, or service providers for vending machines and payphones, it could have just as easily been extended to apartment building owners who happen to have a coin-operated washer and dryer in the basement. Washington (state) really wants to pass a personal income tax, but probably never will. The money that a software "writer" (define writer. would this extend to all the students in the state's educational system writing code? Would the Univ. of Washington then be held by the state to owe some sort of back tax on Pine or all the code its students write? Would Microsoft and Aldus Corporations be included, or would some convenient loophole be found to not include them?
It also means that it is somehow morally insane that a company like Walmart will vigorously enforce shoplifting of silly things like a pack of gum, while shoplifting of a much larger scale (Enron, Global Crossing, etc ad nauseum) goes effectively unpunished by the perpetrators.
As opposed to Grand Theft Auto:3? They're both only games.