It's not the glue that is novel in this application, but the use of a poloxamer gel to keep the vessel shape while attaching the ends.
Imagine trying to glue together the open ends of two tube socks. It would be time consuming to line up the ends and not glue the other side together, etc. This technique is like putting a solid round canister inside the junction of the two tubes, making it very quick to line up the edges and glue them together.
In this case the canister is a cylinder of poloxamer gel that is solid when warmed above body temperature. After the connection is glued, the gel cools and liquifies, leaving a perfectly glued joint.
From the video: "Once the research is complete and it's put on the market we'll probably be able to price it at roughly the same level as normal meat."
Hmm, should I buy the ribeye or the extruded soy-supplemented feces meat? At the same price, the choice is so difficult....
As long as Apple simply patents "evil" ideas, it seems like a win for me. This means that no other company can implement these ideas without paying licensing fees, which means that I will see less of these obnoxious schemes in products. In fact, the fact that Apple patented this idea, means that any iphone app I buy should be guaranteed not to do this, unless Apple produces it.
So until these ideas actually end up in a product, I won't be complaining.
analogous to a ham buying a pizza over a telephone patch (via ham radio). Explicitly illegal.
This is absolutely false. As a licensed General Class Ham Operator, I know that you cannot conduct business in the sense that you cannot use your radio for commercial purposes. I.e. advertising for your business, communicating with employees (for business purposes), tracking company vehicles with APRS, etc. Ordering a pizza over patch is a personal use. Unless you are a pizza importer/exporter, this would not be a commercial interest for you.
TiVo does indeed track what you do and when. You can opt out of this, but by default it anonymously tracks your viewing.
Case in point: During the Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction" debacle, I recall reading that TiVo reported statistics on how many times TiVo owners skipped back to re-watch the incident.
Not to mention, even if if did evolve along in a similar manner, what are the chances that they are in the same stage of evolution? We have only had radio communication abilities in the last 150 years or so, to be generous. 150 years out of millions is a small window, and then try to align that with the same window at another planet, which could have come to existence in a window of millions or more.
OK,
I was considering options as I want a DVR and a new HD TV.
What if MythTV code was updated to record shows and then sync them to iTunes? That way you could have your workhorse computer in your office, running MythTV, but then you could watch those programs through your iTV box? I think this would be a great solution for me, because I wouldn't need a dedicated computer for recording/watching content, plus I could simultaneously play downloaded movies and TV shows from the same box. This, of course, assumes that running other apps wouldn't affect the TV recording.
Anyone more knowledgeable want to comment?
That's a waste of dings. Every floor should ding in Morse code. You would only need 5-10 dings per floor (assuming 100 floors) and at the 40th floor you would have only heard 591 ding/dashes.
But man would that be annoying....
How about bing/bong binary? bong, bing, bing-bong, bing-bing, bing-bong-bong,...
I also live in Portland (Hillsboro). It seems that there are still a few bugs. When I had it map a route to PDX, it had me get off the Red line right at the airport MAX station, but when I reversed the directions, it had me walk 30 minutes from the airport to the Mt Hood Ave. MAX station. Maybe I am incorrect, but I thought you could get on at the Airport as well, and save yourself the 30 minute walk.
I am not on the do not call list as I just got a new phone number, but I have noticed soemthing about the marketing calls I do recieve.
1) They are at earlier and later hours than normal. 2) The telemarketer usually has a foreign accent now. 3) They call back daily. 4) They are trying to dupe me a lot more.
One night, I had already got one call and was tired of being polite, so when I got another, I simply hung up after a couple of seconds. 10 minutes later, the same lady called back. I hung up once again, and 30 minutes later at 10:30 PM (!) another woman with the same pitch called again. I told her that they had already called 2 times and I wanted to be put on their no call list. Instead of saying "OK", she said, "so, you are not interested?". No! Obviously not. Both of these women had foreign accents, so I am assuming that companies are outsourcing telemarketing a lot more.
Does this explain the late and early calls? I also got one at 8 AM on Saturday morning, and have recieved some on Sunday morning (didn't Sunday used to be taboo?).
Also, are companies outsourcing to try and skirt by legal ramifications? "Well, we just hired company X in country Y, and we had no knowledge that they were breaking the law."
Also, I usually have 1-2 messages on my answering machine every day that says something like "Hi... this is Karren from xyz mortgage group calling back about your request for mortgage information. I found some great numbers for you, so just give me a call back..." Is this not illegal? I never called them, but they are trying to make me think that I did. Argggh.
I think that the killer app for the new iTunes/iPod is old TV shows. Have you ever wanted to watch an old TV show that isn't on DVD and isn't carried in reruns? There are plenty of shows that have followings, but aren't worth it for the networks to play. So, hire a team to go through your archives and digitize old TV shows and put them on iTunes. Instant revenue off of an already existing product. The hang-ups of course are paying to digitize them and figuring out how to pay all of the residuals to the actors.
I don't think the cost would be overly excessive, considering that it is a one-time cost. And I'm guessing they have ways of figuring out residuals from their experience putting old shows on DVD.
Just my 2 cents, but I would be willing to pay $2 for an episode or two of some old shows to watch. Plus, I could take them on the plane with my new video capable iPod.
This reminds me of a psychology experiment where a story is told about a woman who cheats on her husband and asks for forgiveness, but the husband kicks her out in the middle of the night, where she has to make it to her sisters house by taking the ferry and then going through a dangerous wooded area, and asks the ferry captain to call her a cab, but he won't do it on his dime, so she walks through the scary woods and gets attacked and murdered by a psychopath who was abused as a child by his father. (Or something like that)
Ignoring the run-on sentence, you are asked to rate all of the people in the story by how responsible they were for the woman's death.
Invariably, people will rate just about everybody except the murderer, BEFORE the murderer, including the woman! I mean, come on.
The point is, we can make it easier for bad people to do bad things, but this does not excuse that person from responsibility for their actions.
Officer: Why did you break into that house and steal all of their stuff?
Burglar: Their door was poorly secured.
Officer: Oh, alright then, I guess you can go now... I have to go arrest a door manufacturer, a deadbolt manufacturer, a home builder, and a home owner...
This rant really is not an argument for or against software companies, but I just thought some of these analogies are getting a little silly, deciding who to blame.
What people seem to be forgetting is that service providers only want a phone with a music player if they can provide the music.
Apple and Motorola have already had trouble finding takers for their iTunes capable phones because service providers want to sell music to the customer, rather than have them load it off of their computer. It doesn't gain them a whole lot if you can upload your own music.
Plus they are selling crappy ringtones for $3 or more, so can you imagine what would happen if they sold whole songs? They would have to lower their profitable ringtone price point, or sell songs for an outrageous amount, and I'm guessing on the latter assuming they only let you buy music from them. (And probably charge you for the internet access that you will have to use to browse for songs)
Service providers don't want you to have your own music. You hear people whine about iTunes music store, this would be Cingular Music store. $5 single songs at 64k that are DRM's to only your phone.
And as for Bill Gates, he doesn't care about the music player. He wants you to get the phone for the music player and then be tied to microsoft products to sync it. And since you'll also have Word on your phone, you'll need it on your computer... Excel, Outlook,... Not that there is anything wrong with this, but he is not in it for the music.
A lot of people have mentioned that the driver could have just shifted into neutral, but what if that was electronic too?
My father owns a BMW 745i (I think that's the number). Anyway, EVERYTHING is computerized. I mean, EVERYTHING, including the gear shift.
It looks like a little stubby gear shift next to the stearing wheel except it only goes up or down and then returns to center.
You just click up or down to get to the gear you want. You have to push another button simultaneously to get reverse. There's a bit of a learning curve to figure it out. The car wash told him not to bring it back, because they can never put it into gear at the end of the line and have to shut down until they can so they don't have a pile-up.
Point is, he has had to have "software upgrades" because the computer system would reboot while he was driving and he would stall out.
So, it is not infeasible that the car could be incapable of shifting into neutral if the system locked up with the cruise control accelerating. I am sure they have fail safes, but as any software engineer knows, it's the corner cases you didn't think of that get you.
You laugh, but just yesterday my girlfriend's roommate told me that she didn't like all the pop-ups with IE, so she just uses AOL. She actually uses AOL, and they have a broadband connection! I asked her why, and she said, "that's what I have always used." So, not only does she use AOL solely for the browser, but she pays for it. Argh!
Not only that, I suspect from the huge amount of pop-ups that she gets, that she has some major spyware, etc on her computer.
I told her she should probably fix that and install a new browser/pop-up blocker. Her response:
I have a revolutionary idea. How about the 3 button mouse "option" *replacing* the default mouse, just like "options" from every other manufacturer do ?
..Don't get sucked in, don't get sucked in, don't... aarrrrghh.
1) Go to the Apple store (store.apple.com).
2) Type "mouse" in the search box.
3) Voila! Apple mouse, apple mouse, 3-button trackpad, 3-button mouse, 3-button mouse, 3-button trackpad.
I don't think Apple's goal is to obliterate the 3-button mouse off of the earth. They just would rather spend their money elsewhere. They provide 3rd party mice in their store.
I doubt that most computer manufacturer's mice are their own. They are mostly rebranded mice from other companies.
So, why should Apple put money into developing a mouse when you can buy one from another company that works just fine? Plus, you can find exactly the one YOU want, instead of moaning that "Apple doesn't make a mouse with the bell/whistle I demand".
Basically, all anyone is moaning about is that Apple includes a 1-button mouse in the box. Why?
Apple starts you off with the basics, and if you need more, go get it.
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It's not the glue that is novel in this application, but the use of a poloxamer gel to keep the vessel shape while attaching the ends.
Imagine trying to glue together the open ends of two tube socks. It would be time consuming to line up the ends and not glue the other side together, etc. This technique is like putting a solid round canister inside the junction of the two tubes, making it very quick to line up the edges and glue them together.
In this case the canister is a cylinder of poloxamer gel that is solid when warmed above body temperature. After the connection is glued, the gel cools and liquifies, leaving a perfectly glued joint.
From the video: "Once the research is complete and it's put on the market we'll probably be able to price it at roughly the same level as normal meat." Hmm, should I buy the ribeye or the extruded soy-supplemented feces meat? At the same price, the choice is so difficult....
This was exactly my thought... "Hmm, we would have never thought of changing the account number. That must be some dark haX0rs voodoo magic."
This.
As long as Apple simply patents "evil" ideas, it seems like a win for me. This means that no other company can implement these ideas without paying licensing fees, which means that I will see less of these obnoxious schemes in products. In fact, the fact that Apple patented this idea, means that any iphone app I buy should be guaranteed not to do this, unless Apple produces it.
So until these ideas actually end up in a product, I won't be complaining.
It seems like it could be fairly profitable to buy .ocm and .cmo, at least the way I type sometimes.
I would just direct *.cmo to a page that says, "I see you mistyped *.com, please click on the ad below to be redirected to your page."
TiVo does indeed track what you do and when. You can opt out of this, but by default it anonymously tracks your viewing.
Case in point: During the Super Bowl "wardrobe malfunction" debacle, I recall reading that TiVo reported statistics on how many times TiVo owners skipped back to re-watch the incident.
Not to mention, even if if did evolve along in a similar manner, what are the chances that they are in the same stage of evolution? We have only had radio communication abilities in the last 150 years or so, to be generous. 150 years out of millions is a small window, and then try to align that with the same window at another planet, which could have come to existence in a window of millions or more.
Wife: "Honey, my computer is frozen, can you come fix it?" Me: "It's not frozen, it's just the new architecture saving power."
...and movies, and full feature browser, and widgets, and proximity/orientation sensors, and 4/8GB memory....
I think you have bad information, his name is Stephen D. Salter.
OK, I was considering options as I want a DVR and a new HD TV. What if MythTV code was updated to record shows and then sync them to iTunes? That way you could have your workhorse computer in your office, running MythTV, but then you could watch those programs through your iTV box? I think this would be a great solution for me, because I wouldn't need a dedicated computer for recording/watching content, plus I could simultaneously play downloaded movies and TV shows from the same box. This, of course, assumes that running other apps wouldn't affect the TV recording. Anyone more knowledgeable want to comment?
That's a waste of dings. Every floor should ding in Morse code. You would only need 5-10 dings per floor (assuming 100 floors) and at the 40th floor you would have only heard 591 ding/dashes.
...
But man would that be annoying....
How about bing/bong binary? bong, bing, bing-bong, bing-bing, bing-bong-bong,
I also live in Portland (Hillsboro). It seems that there are still a few bugs. When I had it map a route to PDX, it had me get off the Red line right at the airport MAX station, but when I reversed the directions, it had me walk 30 minutes from the airport to the Mt Hood Ave. MAX station. Maybe I am incorrect, but I thought you could get on at the Airport as well, and save yourself the 30 minute walk.
I am not on the do not call list as I just got a new phone number, but I have noticed soemthing about the marketing calls I do recieve.
1) They are at earlier and later hours than normal.
2) The telemarketer usually has a foreign accent now.
3) They call back daily.
4) They are trying to dupe me a lot more.
One night, I had already got one call and was tired of being polite, so when I got another, I simply hung up after a couple of seconds. 10 minutes later, the same lady called back. I hung up once again, and 30 minutes later at 10:30 PM (!) another woman with the same pitch called again. I told her that they had already called 2 times and I wanted to be put on their no call list. Instead of saying "OK", she said, "so, you are not interested?". No! Obviously not. Both of these women had foreign accents, so I am assuming that companies are outsourcing telemarketing a lot more.
Does this explain the late and early calls? I also got one at 8 AM on Saturday morning, and have recieved some on Sunday morning (didn't Sunday used to be taboo?).
Also, are companies outsourcing to try and skirt by legal ramifications? "Well, we just hired company X in country Y, and we had no knowledge that they were breaking the law."
Also, I usually have 1-2 messages on my answering machine every day that says something like "Hi... this is Karren from xyz mortgage group calling back about your request for mortgage information. I found some great numbers for you, so just give me a call back..." Is this not illegal? I never called them, but they are trying to make me think that I did. Argggh.
Just venting...
I think that the killer app for the new iTunes/iPod is old TV shows. Have you ever wanted to watch an old TV show that isn't on DVD and isn't carried in reruns? There are plenty of shows that have followings, but aren't worth it for the networks to play. So, hire a team to go through your archives and digitize old TV shows and put them on iTunes. Instant revenue off of an already existing product. The hang-ups of course are paying to digitize them and figuring out how to pay all of the residuals to the actors.
I don't think the cost would be overly excessive, considering that it is a one-time cost. And I'm guessing they have ways of figuring out residuals from their experience putting old shows on DVD.
Just my 2 cents, but I would be willing to pay $2 for an episode or two of some old shows to watch. Plus, I could take them on the plane with my new video capable iPod.
Let's see (1.42+1 acres)*500 Megawatts = ...carry the one...
1.21 Jigawatts! 1.21 Jigawatts! Great Scott!
What the hell is a Jigawatt?
This reminds me of a psychology experiment where a story is told about a woman who cheats on her husband and asks for forgiveness, but the husband kicks her out in the middle of the night, where she has to make it to her sisters house by taking the ferry and then going through a dangerous wooded area, and asks the ferry captain to call her a cab, but he won't do it on his dime, so she walks through the scary woods and gets attacked and murdered by a psychopath who was abused as a child by his father.
(Or something like that)
Ignoring the run-on sentence, you are asked to rate all of the people in the story by how responsible they were for the woman's death.
Invariably, people will rate just about everybody except the murderer, BEFORE the murderer, including the woman! I mean, come on.
The point is, we can make it easier for bad people to do bad things, but this does not excuse that person from responsibility for their actions.
Officer: Why did you break into that house and steal all of their stuff?
Burglar: Their door was poorly secured.
Officer: Oh, alright then, I guess you can go now... I have to go arrest a door manufacturer, a deadbolt manufacturer, a home builder, and a home owner...
This rant really is not an argument for or against software companies, but I just thought some of these analogies are getting a little silly, deciding who to blame.
I've already seen a couple of quotes from software companies along the lines of "great, now we don't have to develop 2 versions of everything".
Does this mean that they will take a windows program, slap some aqua GUI on it and stick a label of the box that says "NOW FOR OS X!"?
This seems like it ignores the fact that what makes good OS X software is the user experience, not the GUI.
What people seem to be forgetting is that service providers only want a phone with a music player if they can provide the music.
... Not that there is anything wrong with this, but he is not in it for the music.
Apple and Motorola have already had trouble finding takers for their iTunes capable phones because service providers want to sell music to the customer, rather than have them load it off of their computer. It doesn't gain them a whole lot if you can upload your own music.
Plus they are selling crappy ringtones for $3 or more, so can you imagine what would happen if they sold whole songs? They would have to lower their profitable ringtone price point, or sell songs for an outrageous amount, and I'm guessing on the latter assuming they only let you buy music from them. (And probably charge you for the internet access that you will have to use to browse for songs)
Service providers don't want you to have your own music. You hear people whine about iTunes music store, this would be Cingular Music store. $5 single songs at 64k that are DRM's to only your phone.
And as for Bill Gates, he doesn't care about the music player. He wants you to get the phone for the music player and then be tied to microsoft products to sync it. And since you'll also have Word on your phone, you'll need it on your computer... Excel, Outlook,
A lot of people have mentioned that the driver could have just shifted into neutral, but what if that was electronic too?
My father owns a BMW 745i (I think that's the number). Anyway, EVERYTHING is computerized. I mean, EVERYTHING, including the gear shift.
It looks like a little stubby gear shift next to the stearing wheel except it only goes up or down and then returns to center.
You just click up or down to get to the gear you want. You have to push another button simultaneously to get reverse. There's a bit of a learning curve to figure it out. The car wash told him not to bring it back, because they can never put it into gear at the end of the line and have to shut down until they can so they don't have a pile-up.
Point is, he has had to have "software upgrades" because the computer system would reboot while he was driving and he would stall out.
So, it is not infeasible that the car could be incapable of shifting into neutral if the system locked up with the cruise control accelerating. I am sure they have fail safes, but as any software engineer knows, it's the corner cases you didn't think of that get you.
You laugh, but just yesterday my girlfriend's roommate told me that she didn't like all the pop-ups with IE, so she just uses AOL. She actually uses AOL, and they have a broadband connection! I asked her why, and she said, "that's what I have always used." So, not only does she use AOL solely for the browser, but she pays for it. Argh!
Not only that, I suspect from the huge amount of pop-ups that she gets, that she has some major spyware, etc on her computer.
I told her she should probably fix that and install a new browser/pop-up blocker. Her response:
"When can you do that for me?"...
I have a revolutionary idea. How about the 3 button mouse "option" *replacing* the default mouse, just like "options" from every other manufacturer do ?
..Don't get sucked in, don't get sucked in, don't... aarrrrghh.
1) Go to the Apple store (store.apple.com).
2) Type "mouse" in the search box.
3) Voila! Apple mouse, apple mouse, 3-button trackpad, 3-button mouse, 3-button mouse, 3-button trackpad.
I don't think Apple's goal is to obliterate the 3-button mouse off of the earth. They just would rather spend their money elsewhere. They provide 3rd party mice in their store.
I doubt that most computer manufacturer's mice are their own. They are mostly rebranded mice from other companies.
So, why should Apple put money into developing a mouse when you can buy one from another company that works just fine? Plus, you can find exactly the one YOU want, instead of moaning that "Apple doesn't make a mouse with the bell/whistle I demand".
Basically, all anyone is moaning about is that Apple includes a 1-button mouse in the box. Why?
Apple starts you off with the basics, and if you need more, go get it.