Well, for one, burial seems to require a combination of `Troll' and overrated ratings, and that seems to be reserved for special cases. Typically, it looks to me like it might occur when posts run afoul of purchased online reputation management.
I don't consider it a valid proof of your thesis to proove based on a lack of peer reviewed papers. As long as the publications fail to publish under threat of lawsuit, such a claim amounts to nothing more than proof by threat of violence. `
I don't think 25% are committing crimes. Let's guess that fewer than the general populace are. So for a relatively high standard of crime (say, robbery, not speeding), the general populace might have 5% committing crime.
I justify the police having a lower percentage, because the police *do* sometimes catch their own, and evict them -- plus it can happen in different venues where they get caught and prosecuted. So maybe 3% are actively seriously criminal.
Then of those 3%, how many are simply not caught because they don't do it out in the open?
I think a lot of police, therefore, may well be good police.
Only fools *depend* on predictions that are based on an absence of data, and a lack of understanding of the underlying structures.
That has to do with economics (listening to Greenspan, or to Bernanke, or to politicians ad nauseum on the economy.) It seems to me no coinicidence that although Mutual funds all say "past perfomance is not an indicator of future performance", they all do worse than random on their predictions, thereby indicating that they still believe it is.
But it also has to do with solar storm predictions. By definition, you can't accurately predict outside the envelope. All you *can* do, is say "this is my model, and if it holds, then we are 95% likely to have thus and such a strength solar storm within 5 years, thus and such a strength solar storm within 7 years" and so on. But doing that doesn't predict the solar storm: it validates the model.
I have a legitimately paid for Android phone, provided by my employer. Because it is provided by my employer, I do not intend to be buying music, or video rentals, or downloads.
Yet, Android forced through a MarketPlace update that makes me agree to all kinds of User Agreements for those services, which I do not intend to use. Therefore, I do not intend to agree.
Therefore, I can't use Marketplace again to update my phone.
Therefore, my paid-for phone is now becoming less and less useful.
Well, except for one thing. As long as I don't update Marketplace, none of the *other* malicious updates make it through.
*grin* Google being evil has protected me from others being evil.
Okay, there on the left is Manuel. There on the right is Palmer. They will work for you as hard as you want them to, and nobody can accuse you of being a slave driver.
That said, I think that a large fraction of customers, given the choice, would not buy slavery tainted products. That is one thing that has held me back on the more expensive Raspberry PI: the concern that Chinese manufacture may be tainted.
But typically speaking, it is the profit maximizing stores that eliminate your options.
I disagree with your assessment. I think you completely missed that he *did* find out why his friend's leg grew. It was because of a gracious act by God, in response to prayer.
Moreover, he documented the description, which involved the leg shooting out longer than the other, then slowly relaxing back to an equal length.
It kindof changes your world view.
Or let me try another one that happened after my father became a believer. It was my great aunt Keim who married a German (of that name). He got MRSA, and was dying, here in the US. According to the doctors, his organs were shutting down. Anyhow, my great aunt was staying with him, and she described, all of a sudden, hearing voices in German, praying for him. At that same time, halfway around the world (in Germany) his family and their charismatic church were praying for him, in German. Within 24 hours, his organs turned back on, and he walked out of the hospital, cured. I don't think you can call it "believing in the god of gaps", when my father -- in his analysis -- says, 'it appears that when Jesus said, when two or more are gathered in my name, there I will be', and yet was also there healing him, that therefore the prayer group was also there with him.'
It isn't about the god of gaps. It is rather more like a student in High School Chemistry class. If the teacher teaches something about how things work, and you believe him because he tends to be right, especially when you see he is right, and your experiments or study at that point is simply to duplicate the experiment, then you aren't just believing in a teacher of gaps. You are learning about how things probably are, from those who have been there, done that, ahead of you.
Umm... up until the discovery of the dead sea scrolls, all our oldest copies of the old testament Bible are in that secret vernacular language that is known as "ancient Persian", and that *was* the language of the vernacular. The second oldest copies are in that secret vernacular language that is known as "Greek", also the language of the vernacular: most Romans also wrote Greek at the time. The dead sea scrolls are written in an Aramaic vernacular, but we have most of our copies of the Old Testament in Greek, because Alexander the Great was impressed enough by the Jewish scribes that he staffed the Great Library with 70 of them, to translate everything important into Greek.
But for the record, the dead sea scrolls also confirm the translations of the Bible.
And yes, back when electronic calculators were new and super-expensive (just as with computers, later), physics departments did keep them chained so as not to be stolen. Likewise, back in the Dark Ages, when Bibles were new and super-expensive, churches did keep them chained so as not to be stolen. But they were readable, and available. And they were available in the language that was universally taught to those who could read: Latin. Latin was taught as opposed to the 1000 different vernacular languages, because that was the language of diplomacy, and therefore of culture. It was the one language that you could always be sure that *someone* nearby would understand.
Okay, I disagree with the fundamentals of your example, but let's let that go with a real example.
Columbus wanted to fund another crusade. He got to America, sent back word that the Indians were animals, and got back an answer from the Church, "well, with animals, you don't have to provide rights."
So within 20 years, other missionaries started sending back word, "you have made a terrible mistake", and the Vatican then pushed through a treaty between all European nations that Indians could not be eaten, they had to be paid for their work, they had to be paid for their land -- and the rightful owner had to be paid, not paying Quonset for Alopin's land (or bribing the chief).
At which point Columbus, who had previously been blinded by greed, and had begun the eventual extermination of natives on the Dominican/Haitian island, repented his stance, and fought it... only to be hauled back to Spain and thrown into prison for the rest of his life.
*** now that is key **. Because the key item is that he did repent, whether the final results reflected that or not. He repented at great cost to himself -- though the cost to the Indians of him not repenting sooner was far greater.
But also, your understanding of belief is flawed. Belief isn't a head thing -- it is what you invest yourself in. To understand it, you need to understand that the Hebrew concept of a student wasn't someone who learned to think the thought or talk the talk, but was rather someone who practiced walking the walk. That is why the word "martyr" actually means "witness". They believe it enough to die for it -- they walk the walk.
Finally: For me, the thing about probabilities is what cinches it in my mind. Not only the Biblical historical events -- but also all that has happened since then, defies probability based on our understanding of the universe, unless you posit that the Bible is correct, in which case probability is affirmed. I don't mean that life came to be on our planet. I have no way of judging the probability of that -- so talking about probability there is nonsense. I mean, when you go to a charismatic revival, and someone you know, who was lame since a child, with leg bones that are different lengths, being healed there and then, permanently. That's the kind of probability that we *do* understand, and it doesn't happen in the doctor's office that way. But at the charismatic prayer meetings, it does happen that way, and the Bible affirms that it does, too. When people pray for the prayers of saints, or go to Lourdes, then too, it does happen that way. Not always, but according to what is promised, it does.
Yes, but to an atheist, you can show him a mainliner opium addict being cured of his addiction, but it makes no difference. You can show him a person who was cured of one leg being shorter than another, but he remains blind. You can show him a person who was healed of rage, but the atheist denies it.
It takes faith to be an atheist.
My father was an agnostic physicist, until one of his friends' leg was cured (2nd case above), and the wife of another departmental physicist was healed of MS paralysis. After that, he had to pick between "agnostic" and "agnostic, but believes). He documented everything, but in the end became "agnostic but believes." After 50-odd years of mostly being agnostic-atheist, he's now a Christian, praise God. We'd been praying for him.
His atheist friends ignored it.
That's the difference between an atheist and an agnostic. For the atheist, it is an article of faith that there must be no other god, for the atheist himself wants to be that god, and in the end, all that denies him is a threat to his existence.
That is, until perchance he recognizes that fact, repents his illogical stance, and realizes that there *is* a God, and comes to know that God.
Thank you, I actually think I'd prefer the dark ages to a Nazi prison, a Hutu-Tutsi extermination campaign, a UN-enforced peace with all the weapons reduction on one side, Leninist/Stalinist communist rule, and whatever our own atheists want to force us into here and now, today.
Let's see... when I was a kid in the days of Apple ][, these neighbors of ours (Stoltzfus family) came up with a graphical programming language.
They showed it to Apple, hoping that Apple would buy. Apple strongly considered it, and then returned it, saying that they weren't interested.
A year later, they came out with Apple Logo, which was immensely popular.
I'm not at all saying it is okay -- but it does happen.
Just to finish the story -- and to explain why I gave the family name, because it is a matter of public record -- about the time I was graduating from college, the same family came up with another killer app. This time, they marketed it themselves. The program was "Rosetta Stone".
No thanks to honest dealing by Apple, but eventually, they did okay.
Oh, by the way, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for Apple on their complaints about being ripped off by Google. I'm all for justice, but I'm not all for piecemeal justice that is selectively good for some parties and not others.
Actually, it's worse than that. The government outsiders who know most about fighting abuse in any industry are the industry insiders themselves. Likewise, the industry outsiders who know most about working in an industry are the government regulatory insiders.
As a result, employees shift back and forth all the time between the two, especially between the worst offenders and the government. After that, crony capitalism becomes a natural result.
Will your tricorder be able to tell that they use drugs or really are an alcoholic? Image the nose and eyes. Perform a time-based FFT on the fingers as they sit there. Take a look at the IR frequency. Take an FFT on the voice.
I don't think it requires magic. I think a lot of the stuff *is* solvable with image analysis, and has already been developed by defense electronics companies. Take a look at the techs on display at embedded computing and RISC tech fairs.
Nonsense. The trick is to find standard technologies that can read and predict diseases.
(1) Laser or infrared thermometer.
(2) Some form of paper chromatography tests. Get 'em from your pharmacy .
(3) Various voltage electrode readings. Have your doctor give you an EKG in the standard physical, and take home with you the electrodes. Check.
(4) A videocamera, an optical fine-focus camera, and a lenseless PenCam camera with interchangeable filters, to view the body at different wavelengths, including IR, or to finely examine such things as the eyes.
(5) A twisted wire thermometer, and a mirror-vapor hygrometer, to measure water vapor emitted.
(6) A couple of various speakers and microphones, one to listen to normal frequencies (like breathing, talking), and a couple others for sound imaging.
(7) Lots and lots of programming. Ideally the tricorder should talk to the person, and listen to their answers, including such things as, "what seems to be the problem?" to get symptoms that it can look up.
It seems to me all these things are easily available, and could be incorporated. I suspect that the 15 diseases will include some easy ones, and some very hard ones. One just has to beat the other tricorders. One doesn't have to solve every problem.
My guess is that a team that included a CNA nurse, an RN, a family doctor, an electronics whiz kid, and about 5 programmers, probably could come up with the winning solution.
Also, don't forget that you can use patented technologies (such as the chromatography) as long as you buy it from the store. You *do* have to find a way to sequentially test and pull them.
Nonsense. The trick is to find standard technologies that can read and predict diseases.
(1) Laser or infrared thermometer. Check.
(2) Some form of paper chromatography tests. Get 'em from your hardware store. Check.
(3) Various voltage electrode readings. Have your doctor give you an EKG in the standard physical, and take home with you the electrodes. Check.
(4) A videocamera, an optical fine-focus camera, and a lenseless PenCam camera with interchangeable filters, to view the body at different wavelengths, including IR, or to finely examine such things as the eyes.
(5) A twisted wire thermometer, and a mirror-vapor hygrometer, to measure water vapor emitted.
(6) A couple of various speakers and microphones, one to listen to normal frequencies (like breathing, talking), and a couple others for sound imaging.
(7) Lots and lots of programming. Ideally the tricorder should talk to the person, and listen to their answers, including such things as, "what seems to be the problem?" to get symptoms that it can look up.
It seems to me all these things are easily available, and could be incorporated. I suspect that the 15 diseases will include some easy ones, and some very hard ones. One just has to beat the other tricorders. One doesn't have to solve every problem.
My guess is that a team that included a CNA nurse, an RN, a family doctor, an electronics whiz kid, and about 5 programmers, probably could come up with the winning solution.
Also, don't forget that you can use patented technologies (such as the chromatography) as long as you buy it from the store. You *do* have to find a way to sequentially test and pull them.
Nobody mentioned it, because MARC is standard with Koha, and almost all the talk has been about Koha.
That said, it would be nice if there was a database that Koha could look up: you type in the ISBN, and the Koha program looks it up on the database, and if someone else has already typed it in, then it automatically enters in the MARC data.
Anyhow, that was on my wish list back when I tried Koha out. I wonder if it exists.
I'll Third Koha. Back in Lithuania, when we were considering trying to get our prepublishing business involved in it, I went ahead and installed a system on my Debian computer. It worked.
I'm no major tech -- I have trouble nowadays figuring out how to program my computer [did C and DOS-debug ASM back in the day, but haven't done much more then M$ excel in the last 10].
Koha is about as easy as it got back then, and I'd imagine it's matured since then.
There is a good key point here: go ahead and use your app yourself, to help you perform your job better. Let that app increase your job performance -- but nowhere do you attempt to "sell" the app to anyone else. Nowhere do you document the app for anyone else. You just use it.
Now, if you leave your company, the next person has to figure things out for themselves.
Meanwhile, your job performance is far and away better than the other person's. Which means that raises are more likely. Arguably, raises are better than selling an app.
If you don't get raises, you'll still get rave reviews from co-workers. When they go to other companies, that'll make it that much easier for you to go to other companies, should something happen to your job.
Or, anyhow, that's the theory. Sometimes it works.
But I wouldn't bother trying to sell it to my boss. I'd just use it myself.
Okay, the guy said current tech, sometime in the near future. So your NY-sized ship is too large. Our current tech includes our social condition.
So what *is* feasable? How about geosync orbit, or a location at one of the Earth/Moon stability points?
Suppose the location is just a way-station to the moon? Resupply would probably happen at the moon's surface, since the energies involved are less. Solar power would probably be generated there, too, and the most power-intensive activities would happen there -- but that could be robotic.
Now, looking at the station: You *do* need a good bit of mass for your vessel, but you also need to be able to defend it from small asteroids. So you need some defensive capability.
Also, you can have a comparatively small vessel, with minimal airlock, if you simply rotate it. Do the calculations, a=v*v/r, and design a ship that has 1g at the living edge, and anything up to 1.3g around it, lower g inside that radius.
The colony ship *does* need plants: they'll probably grow in the higher-g regions. They'll supply food, and recycle the air. The colony ship also needs good human-waste management. Such things going bad make up a good side event.
Just theoretically... not knowing what I'm talking about, I might guess that MegaUpload probably has a basis for claiming that they are competition. Such a secret agreement, if it existed, would be in violation of antitrust laws.
It wouldn't give you anything against Google, probably, but it definitely would give you something against the media overlords.
The thing to do, actually, would be to search out all *others* who had similar problems, if they existed, and file a joint lawsuit. No, not class action -- only the lawyers benefit from that. Just a joint lawsuit.
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Well, for one, burial seems to require a combination of `Troll' and overrated ratings, and that seems to be reserved for special cases. Typically, it looks to me like it might occur when posts run afoul of purchased online reputation management.
I don't consider it a valid proof of your thesis to proove based on a lack of peer reviewed papers. As long as the publications fail to publish under threat of lawsuit, such a claim amounts to nothing more than proof by threat of violence. `
I don't think 25% are committing crimes. Let's guess that fewer than the general populace are. So for a relatively high standard of crime (say, robbery, not speeding), the general populace might have 5% committing crime.
I justify the police having a lower percentage, because the police *do* sometimes catch their own, and evict them -- plus it can happen in different venues where they get caught and prosecuted. So maybe 3% are actively seriously criminal.
Then of those 3%, how many are simply not caught because they don't do it out in the open?
I think a lot of police, therefore, may well be good police.
Only fools *depend* on predictions that are based on an absence of data, and a lack of understanding of the underlying structures.
That has to do with economics (listening to Greenspan, or to Bernanke, or to politicians ad nauseum on the economy.) It seems to me no coinicidence that although Mutual funds all say "past perfomance is not an indicator of future performance", they all do worse than random on their predictions, thereby indicating that they still believe it is.
But it also has to do with solar storm predictions. By definition, you can't accurately predict outside the envelope. All you *can* do, is say "this is my model, and if it holds, then we are 95% likely to have thus and such a strength solar storm within 5 years, thus and such a strength solar storm within 7 years" and so on. But doing that doesn't predict the solar storm: it validates the model.
I have a legitimately paid for Android phone, provided by my employer. Because it is provided by my employer, I do not intend to be buying music, or video rentals, or downloads.
Yet, Android forced through a MarketPlace update that makes me agree to all kinds of User Agreements for those services, which I do not intend to use. Therefore, I do not intend to agree.
Therefore, I can't use Marketplace again to update my phone.
Therefore, my paid-for phone is now becoming less and less useful.
Well, except for one thing. As long as I don't update Marketplace, none of the *other* malicious updates make it through.
*grin* Google being evil has protected me from others being evil.
Okay, there on the left is Manuel. There on the right is Palmer. They will work for you as hard as you want them to, and nobody can accuse you of being a slave driver. That said, I think that a large fraction of customers, given the choice, would not buy slavery tainted products. That is one thing that has held me back on the more expensive Raspberry PI: the concern that Chinese manufacture may be tainted. But typically speaking, it is the profit maximizing stores that eliminate your options.
Do the webs of writing spiders look like flowers now?'
Oh, no! I've been waiting for the galaxy to go `ding' . Do you mean to say I should have been counting the time between stars popping?
I disagree with your assessment. I think you completely missed that he *did* find out why his friend's leg grew. It was because of a gracious act by God, in response to prayer.
Moreover, he documented the description, which involved the leg shooting out longer than the other, then slowly relaxing back to an equal length.
It kindof changes your world view.
Or let me try another one that happened after my father became a believer. It was my great aunt Keim who married a German (of that name). He got MRSA, and was dying, here in the US. According to the doctors, his organs were shutting down. Anyhow, my great aunt was staying with him, and she described, all of a sudden, hearing voices in German, praying for him. At that same time, halfway around the world (in Germany) his family and their charismatic church were praying for him, in German. Within 24 hours, his organs turned back on, and he walked out of the hospital, cured. I don't think you can call it "believing in the god of gaps", when my father -- in his analysis -- says, 'it appears that when Jesus said, when two or more are gathered in my name, there I will be', and yet was also there healing him, that therefore the prayer group was also there with him.'
It isn't about the god of gaps. It is rather more like a student in High School Chemistry class. If the teacher teaches something about how things work, and you believe him because he tends to be right, especially when you see he is right, and your experiments or study at that point is simply to duplicate the experiment, then you aren't just believing in a teacher of gaps. You are learning about how things probably are, from those who have been there, done that, ahead of you.
Umm... up until the discovery of the dead sea scrolls, all our oldest copies of the old testament Bible are in that secret vernacular language that is known as "ancient Persian", and that *was* the language of the vernacular. The second oldest copies are in that secret vernacular language that is known as "Greek", also the language of the vernacular: most Romans also wrote Greek at the time. The dead sea scrolls are written in an Aramaic vernacular, but we have most of our copies of the Old Testament in Greek, because Alexander the Great was impressed enough by the Jewish scribes that he staffed the Great Library with 70 of them, to translate everything important into Greek.
But for the record, the dead sea scrolls also confirm the translations of the Bible.
And yes, back when electronic calculators were new and super-expensive (just as with computers, later), physics departments did keep them chained so as not to be stolen. Likewise, back in the Dark Ages, when Bibles were new and super-expensive, churches did keep them chained so as not to be stolen. But they were readable, and available. And they were available in the language that was universally taught to those who could read: Latin. Latin was taught as opposed to the 1000 different vernacular languages, because that was the language of diplomacy, and therefore of culture. It was the one language that you could always be sure that *someone* nearby would understand.
Okay, I disagree with the fundamentals of your example, but let's let that go with a real example.
Columbus wanted to fund another crusade. He got to America, sent back word that the Indians were animals, and got back an answer from the Church, "well, with animals, you don't have to provide rights."
So within 20 years, other missionaries started sending back word, "you have made a terrible mistake", and the Vatican then pushed through a treaty between all European nations that Indians could not be eaten, they had to be paid for their work, they had to be paid for their land -- and the rightful owner had to be paid, not paying Quonset for Alopin's land (or bribing the chief).
At which point Columbus, who had previously been blinded by greed, and had begun the eventual extermination of natives on the Dominican/Haitian island, repented his stance, and fought it ... only to be hauled back to Spain and thrown into prison for the rest of his life.
*** now that is key **. Because the key item is that he did repent, whether the final results reflected that or not. He repented at great cost to himself -- though the cost to the Indians of him not repenting sooner was far greater.
But also, your understanding of belief is flawed. Belief isn't a head thing -- it is what you invest yourself in. To understand it, you need to understand that the Hebrew concept of a student wasn't someone who learned to think the thought or talk the talk, but was rather someone who practiced walking the walk. That is why the word "martyr" actually means "witness". They believe it enough to die for it -- they walk the walk.
Finally: For me, the thing about probabilities is what cinches it in my mind. Not only the Biblical historical events -- but also all that has happened since then, defies probability based on our understanding of the universe, unless you posit that the Bible is correct, in which case probability is affirmed. I don't mean that life came to be on our planet. I have no way of judging the probability of that -- so talking about probability there is nonsense. I mean, when you go to a charismatic revival, and someone you know, who was lame since a child, with leg bones that are different lengths, being healed there and then, permanently. That's the kind of probability that we *do* understand, and it doesn't happen in the doctor's office that way. But at the charismatic prayer meetings, it does happen that way, and the Bible affirms that it does, too. When people pray for the prayers of saints, or go to Lourdes, then too, it does happen that way. Not always, but according to what is promised, it does.
Yes, but to an atheist, you can show him a mainliner opium addict being cured of his addiction, but it makes no difference. You can show him a person who was cured of one leg being shorter than another, but he remains blind. You can show him a person who was healed of rage, but the atheist denies it.
It takes faith to be an atheist.
My father was an agnostic physicist, until one of his friends' leg was cured (2nd case above), and the wife of another departmental physicist was healed of MS paralysis. After that, he had to pick between "agnostic" and "agnostic, but believes). He documented everything, but in the end became "agnostic but believes." After 50-odd years of mostly being agnostic-atheist, he's now a Christian, praise God. We'd been praying for him.
His atheist friends ignored it.
That's the difference between an atheist and an agnostic. For the atheist, it is an article of faith that there must be no other god, for the atheist himself wants to be that god, and in the end, all that denies him is a threat to his existence.
That is, until perchance he recognizes that fact, repents his illogical stance, and realizes that there *is* a God, and comes to know that God.
Thank you, I actually think I'd prefer the dark ages to a Nazi prison, a Hutu-Tutsi extermination campaign, a UN-enforced peace with all the weapons reduction on one side, Leninist/Stalinist communist rule, and whatever our own atheists want to force us into here and now, today.
Oh, no... it's been scientifically proven by now, as demonstrated by the fact that it shows up at this link .
In other words, Alzhimer's is a prion disease, much like Kuru. Also, I suspect, much like Multiple Sclerosis.
The difference is that Kuru is a disease gotten by eating human flesh, and even tigers that eat it will be able to get it from humans.
Scrappie comes from sheep. Mad cow comes from cows. Even deer have their own prion disease. If I had to guess what MS comes from, I'd guess pig meat.
So what's Alzhimer's come from? I suspect it comes from sausage. More specifically, from rats. Anyhow, that's where I'd start looking.
Let's see... when I was a kid in the days of Apple ][, these neighbors of ours (Stoltzfus family) came up with a graphical programming language.
They showed it to Apple, hoping that Apple would buy. Apple strongly considered it, and then returned it, saying that they weren't interested.
A year later, they came out with Apple Logo, which was immensely popular.
I'm not at all saying it is okay -- but it does happen.
Just to finish the story -- and to explain why I gave the family name, because it is a matter of public record -- about the time I was graduating from college, the same family came up with another killer app. This time, they marketed it themselves. The program was "Rosetta Stone".
No thanks to honest dealing by Apple, but eventually, they did okay.
Oh, by the way, I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for Apple on their complaints about being ripped off by Google. I'm all for justice, but I'm not all for piecemeal justice that is selectively good for some parties and not others.
Actually, it's worse than that. The government outsiders who know most about fighting abuse in any industry are the industry insiders themselves. Likewise, the industry outsiders who know most about working in an industry are the government regulatory insiders.
As a result, employees shift back and forth all the time between the two, especially between the worst offenders and the government. After that, crony capitalism becomes a natural result.
Will your tricorder be able to tell that they use drugs or really are an alcoholic? Image the nose and eyes. Perform a time-based FFT on the fingers as they sit there. Take a look at the IR frequency. Take an FFT on the voice.
I don't think it requires magic. I think a lot of the stuff *is* solvable with image analysis, and has already been developed by defense electronics companies. Take a look at the techs on display at embedded computing and RISC tech fairs.
Nonsense. The trick is to find standard technologies that can read and predict diseases.
(1) Laser or infrared thermometer.
(2) Some form of paper chromatography tests. Get 'em from your pharmacy .
(3) Various voltage electrode readings. Have your doctor give you an EKG in the standard physical, and take home with you the electrodes. Check.
(4) A videocamera, an optical fine-focus camera, and a lenseless PenCam camera with interchangeable filters, to view the body at different wavelengths, including IR, or to finely examine such things as the eyes.
(5) A twisted wire thermometer, and a mirror-vapor hygrometer, to measure water vapor emitted.
(6) A couple of various speakers and microphones, one to listen to normal frequencies (like breathing, talking), and a couple others for sound imaging.
(7) Lots and lots of programming. Ideally the tricorder should talk to the person, and listen to their answers, including such things as, "what seems to be the problem?" to get symptoms that it can look up.
It seems to me all these things are easily available, and could be incorporated. I suspect that the 15 diseases will include some easy ones, and some very hard ones. One just has to beat the other tricorders. One doesn't have to solve every problem.
My guess is that a team that included a CNA nurse, an RN, a family doctor, an electronics whiz kid, and about 5 programmers, probably could come up with the winning solution.
Also, don't forget that you can use patented technologies (such as the chromatography) as long as you buy it from the store. You *do* have to find a way to sequentially test and pull them.
Nonsense. The trick is to find standard technologies that can read and predict diseases.
(1) Laser or infrared thermometer. Check.
(2) Some form of paper chromatography tests. Get 'em from your hardware store. Check.
(3) Various voltage electrode readings. Have your doctor give you an EKG in the standard physical, and take home with you the electrodes. Check.
(4) A videocamera, an optical fine-focus camera, and a lenseless PenCam camera with interchangeable filters, to view the body at different wavelengths, including IR, or to finely examine such things as the eyes.
(5) A twisted wire thermometer, and a mirror-vapor hygrometer, to measure water vapor emitted.
(6) A couple of various speakers and microphones, one to listen to normal frequencies (like breathing, talking), and a couple others for sound imaging.
(7) Lots and lots of programming. Ideally the tricorder should talk to the person, and listen to their answers, including such things as, "what seems to be the problem?" to get symptoms that it can look up.
It seems to me all these things are easily available, and could be incorporated. I suspect that the 15 diseases will include some easy ones, and some very hard ones. One just has to beat the other tricorders. One doesn't have to solve every problem.
My guess is that a team that included a CNA nurse, an RN, a family doctor, an electronics whiz kid, and about 5 programmers, probably could come up with the winning solution.
Also, don't forget that you can use patented technologies (such as the chromatography) as long as you buy it from the store. You *do* have to find a way to sequentially test and pull them.
Nobody mentioned it, because MARC is standard with Koha, and almost all the talk has been about Koha. That said, it would be nice if there was a database that Koha could look up: you type in the ISBN, and the Koha program looks it up on the database, and if someone else has already typed it in, then it automatically enters in the MARC data. Anyhow, that was on my wish list back when I tried Koha out. I wonder if it exists.
I'll Third Koha. Back in Lithuania, when we were considering trying to get our prepublishing business involved in it, I went ahead and installed a system on my Debian computer. It worked.
I'm no major tech -- I have trouble nowadays figuring out how to program my computer [did C and DOS-debug ASM back in the day, but haven't done much more then M$ excel in the last 10].
Koha is about as easy as it got back then, and I'd imagine it's matured since then.
There is a good key point here: go ahead and use your app yourself, to help you perform your job better. Let that app increase your job performance -- but nowhere do you attempt to "sell" the app to anyone else. Nowhere do you document the app for anyone else. You just use it.
Now, if you leave your company, the next person has to figure things out for themselves.
Meanwhile, your job performance is far and away better than the other person's. Which means that raises are more likely. Arguably, raises are better than selling an app.
If you don't get raises, you'll still get rave reviews from co-workers. When they go to other companies, that'll make it that much easier for you to go to other companies, should something happen to your job.
Or, anyhow, that's the theory. Sometimes it works.
But I wouldn't bother trying to sell it to my boss. I'd just use it myself.
Wow. Does that mean that everyone who is unemployed right now could get people's attention by just making their own nameless ID badge?
My own ID is 3 steps more classified than that, though.
There's no bar code, no photo, and no ID number.
You don't need to know any more than that.
Okay, the guy said current tech, sometime in the near future. So your NY-sized ship is too large. Our current tech includes our social condition.
So what *is* feasable? How about geosync orbit, or a location at one of the Earth/Moon stability points?
Suppose the location is just a way-station to the moon? Resupply would probably happen at the moon's surface, since the energies involved are less. Solar power would probably be generated there, too, and the most power-intensive activities would happen there -- but that could be robotic.
Now, looking at the station: You *do* need a good bit of mass for your vessel, but you also need to be able to defend it from small asteroids. So you need some defensive capability.
Also, you can have a comparatively small vessel, with minimal airlock, if you simply rotate it. Do the calculations, a=v*v/r, and design a ship that has 1g at the living edge, and anything up to 1.3g around it, lower g inside that radius.
The colony ship *does* need plants: they'll probably grow in the higher-g regions. They'll supply food, and recycle the air. The colony ship also needs good human-waste management. Such things going bad make up a good side event.
Just theoretically ... not knowing what I'm talking about, I might guess that MegaUpload probably has a basis for claiming that they are competition. Such a secret agreement, if it existed, would be in violation of antitrust laws.
It wouldn't give you anything against Google, probably, but it definitely would give you something against the media overlords.
The thing to do, actually, would be to search out all *others* who had similar problems, if they existed, and file a joint lawsuit. No, not class action -- only the lawyers benefit from that. Just a joint lawsuit.