All I can say, is "wow." This is amazing. But I'm not actually terribly surprised. I can see that one of the major chokepoints to improved science is communication, that is, the ability to quickly research related concepts to an idea. We all know how much the Internet is improving this. Another important barrier is how fast we can iterate over trials, and improvements in technology are making this process faster as well. This process of mutually reinforcing synergy is leading to geometric or even exponential growth, which are both explosively fast. So hold on, folks. Weird stuff is coming. And I love that there is a link to pooping in the article. Nice touch
Ron Paul claims that the United States Federal Government is doing things that it Constitutionally is not allowed to do.
Until he becomes the Supreme Court, it's just an opinion.
It might be just an opinion, but the opinion of the head of the executive branch carries more than a little weight.
Well, there was a time when those were not the criteria. The current institutions, way back when, thrived because they had a REPUTATION for being useful, accurate, etc. But since power corrupts, once instituted, they ossified into the current system of back scratching we call political journalism. The advantage of citizen journalists is they have nothing to lose by asking the hard questions and speaking their truth to power. A big disadvantage is that their readership has no way of knowing if they are utter crackpots, so they have to work harder for credibility at first.
I have an idea, call me a radical. You take a slip of paper and two bowls. You count the sponges before the operation, and write the number on the paper and put the paper and the clean sponges in bowl 1. You put the used sponges in bowl 2. The operation cannot be completed until the number of sponges in the bowls matches that on the piece of paper. Come on, folks, why do you need a bar code scanner, how does that make this easier? The only advantage of the scanner is that it prevents doctors from lying and saying they counted them -- apparently it's a real possibility, or they would just count them.
I don't see why the fact that this misinformation is on youtube is a big deal. It probably just reflects actual public perceptions of science. Educate people, don't act shocked when uneducated people say stupid things.
Isn't it more valuable for Apple to be enable their phones to work with Verizon OR AT&T and sell them to both customer bases than it is to get "kickbacks" from monthlly subscriptions? Plus, remember, to Apple, their branding is hugely important, and AT&T's suckiness in terms of technology is hurting apple. I know Apple would have much preferred to be with Verizon. I for one welcome the rift between Apple and AT&T, even as I worry that it means my current iPhone may become a doorstop in the next year.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you have to put energy into the capacitor to charge it. It's not like the monitor is not using energy while it's sleeping, it's just using energy stored in a capacitor instead of the wall. If anything, this will be slightly worse, as there will be an efficiency factor associated with charging and discharging the capacitor. This just hides the power consumption. It's worthless, right?
Trying to control how a candidate is funded ends up squelching free speech. Colbert may be a fake candidate, but what if he turned out to be someone lots of people wanted to be President? What, a TV station can't back him? As politicians make new rules for getting elected, the rules favor the encumbents more and more, it's inevitable, because they feel the effects of any restrictions first and ensure that the bugs in the system that affect them are eliminated, but problems for their opponents? Oh, well.
The thing that a person doesn't usually think of that hurts the iPhone is it has no stylus, so there is no mouse position, only "taps" and "drags". This limits many web interfaces.... and of course no copy and paste.
An example of a great site that does not work with iPhone is google Docs. You can view your docs, which is cool, but cannot edit them for some reason. Really, it's just not there yet.
Yep, my nightmare is I install my favorite "unapproved" application and Apple deletes it on every version upgrade or worse, every iPhone sync. I'm so tired of Apple trying to protect me from innovation. What happened to the "sosumi" attitude? Sigh
I agree. I am so close to moving back to my Treo it's not funny.
1) No to-do list
2) ATT sucks, verizon is reliable
3) No copy/paste
4) No 3rd-party apps
5) Cannot sync notepad with Macintosh
6) Web apps are ridiculously slow and only available when a network is, which is not when you are in Costco or Lowe's apparently as I've found. Grrr.
Treo sounds better every day -- I paid the Verizon penalty and sold my Treo way too cheap and way too early -- dumb! Now I have to do the reverse.... sell my iPhone cheap and buy out ATT contract and go back to Treo, where I can actually take notes and synch my notepad with my Macintosh. That'
Yes, their "enhanced" network causes me nothing but joy over the slow EDGE speeds and the crappy phone quality and the lousy customer service. I really am thinking of going back to the Palm and Verizon, even though switching back would cost a bundle.
Yes, like mp3sparks.com, where albums are $3.00 each. The selection is not bad at all. Not perfect, but just as good as iTunes, roughly, in my experience. And it's legal.
some morons will have sex with those bodies and create half-brainless children
The first thing you learn in genetics is that it is not blended. A brainless person mated with a person with a brain will not create a person with half a brain.
"Not exactly supported by Apple" means:
1) No decent GUI (yet? how will this ever improve without Apple support?)
2) Every new software update from Apple wipes out your entire setup, apps, unapproved ringtones, data, etc.
So, yeah, there are 3rd party apps, but it's a serious PITA. We're waiting for Apple/AT&T to find a way to make the iPhone truly very cool. Web apps suck HUGELY. Especially if you are out in the boonies without a network.
Fascinating what people do to translations in order to preserve dogma. I have little doubt that you are probably quoting a pretty accurate translation. However, my King James bible has it: "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth the beasts; even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast; for all is vanity.
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?"
Note the difference in the last part about going up and down -- changed so that there is no question about souls going anywhere. Typical of the modifications made by translators to preserve their dogma.
Yes, sorry, but every chance I get I scream the following warning to people: IPHONE HAS NO TO-DO LIST, DOES NOT COPY AND PASTE, AND DOES NOT DO VIDEO. Three major boners by Apple. I'm bleeding on the edge...
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Synchronization is important to me. I hate my Treo 700p because it sucks as a phone, but I need it because it syncs my calendars and contacts with my Mac. The only reason I don't buy an iPhone yet is I haven't been able to see one in person.
I would suspect that most of the people who would submit their DNA to Ancestory.com are not the same type of people who go leaving their DNA at crime scenes, let alone are every around any crime scenes as anything other than a victim.
The world does not divide up into "good people" and "bad people." All good people do bad things, and all bad people do good things. All dumb people do smart things, and all smart people do dumb things. So I would suspect that you are absolutely wrong. And leaving your DNA at a crime scene does not mean you're guilty.
While the FDA in the United States is doing what? Standing by turning their cheek?
FTFA:
"Professor Piper, whose work has been funded by a government research council, said tests conducted by the US Food and Drug Administration were out of date.
"The food industry will say these compounds have been tested and they are complete safe," he said. "By the criteria of modern safety testing, the safety tests were inadequate. Like all things, safety testing moves forward and you can conduct a much more rigorous safety test than you could 50 years ago."
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Isn't oxidized always the opposite of reduced? What other meaning does it have?
All I can say, is "wow." This is amazing. But I'm not actually terribly surprised. I can see that one of the major chokepoints to improved science is communication, that is, the ability to quickly research related concepts to an idea. We all know how much the Internet is improving this. Another important barrier is how fast we can iterate over trials, and improvements in technology are making this process faster as well. This process of mutually reinforcing synergy is leading to geometric or even exponential growth, which are both explosively fast. So hold on, folks. Weird stuff is coming. And I love that there is a link to pooping in the article. Nice touch
Ron Paul claims that the United States Federal Government is doing things that it Constitutionally is not allowed to do. Until he becomes the Supreme Court, it's just an opinion.
It might be just an opinion, but the opinion of the head of the executive branch carries more than a little weight.
Well, there was a time when those were not the criteria. The current institutions, way back when, thrived because they had a REPUTATION for being useful, accurate, etc. But since power corrupts, once instituted, they ossified into the current system of back scratching we call political journalism. The advantage of citizen journalists is they have nothing to lose by asking the hard questions and speaking their truth to power. A big disadvantage is that their readership has no way of knowing if they are utter crackpots, so they have to work harder for credibility at first.
I have an idea, call me a radical. You take a slip of paper and two bowls. You count the sponges before the operation, and write the number on the paper and put the paper and the clean sponges in bowl 1. You put the used sponges in bowl 2. The operation cannot be completed until the number of sponges in the bowls matches that on the piece of paper. Come on, folks, why do you need a bar code scanner, how does that make this easier? The only advantage of the scanner is that it prevents doctors from lying and saying they counted them -- apparently it's a real possibility, or they would just count them.
I don't see why the fact that this misinformation is on youtube is a big deal. It probably just reflects actual public perceptions of science. Educate people, don't act shocked when uneducated people say stupid things.
Isn't it more valuable for Apple to be enable their phones to work with Verizon OR AT&T and sell them to both customer bases than it is to get "kickbacks" from monthlly subscriptions? Plus, remember, to Apple, their branding is hugely important, and AT&T's suckiness in terms of technology is hurting apple. I know Apple would have much preferred to be with Verizon. I for one welcome the rift between Apple and AT&T, even as I worry that it means my current iPhone may become a doorstop in the next year.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you have to put energy into the capacitor to charge it. It's not like the monitor is not using energy while it's sleeping, it's just using energy stored in a capacitor instead of the wall. If anything, this will be slightly worse, as there will be an efficiency factor associated with charging and discharging the capacitor. This just hides the power consumption. It's worthless, right?
Trying to control how a candidate is funded ends up squelching free speech. Colbert may be a fake candidate, but what if he turned out to be someone lots of people wanted to be President? What, a TV station can't back him? As politicians make new rules for getting elected, the rules favor the encumbents more and more, it's inevitable, because they feel the effects of any restrictions first and ensure that the bugs in the system that affect them are eliminated, but problems for their opponents? Oh, well.
The thing that a person doesn't usually think of that hurts the iPhone is it has no stylus, so there is no mouse position, only "taps" and "drags". This limits many web interfaces.... and of course no copy and paste. An example of a great site that does not work with iPhone is google Docs. You can view your docs, which is cool, but cannot edit them for some reason. Really, it's just not there yet.
Yep, my nightmare is I install my favorite "unapproved" application and Apple deletes it on every version upgrade or worse, every iPhone sync. I'm so tired of Apple trying to protect me from innovation. What happened to the "sosumi" attitude? Sigh
I agree. I am so close to moving back to my Treo it's not funny. 1) No to-do list 2) ATT sucks, verizon is reliable 3) No copy/paste 4) No 3rd-party apps 5) Cannot sync notepad with Macintosh 6) Web apps are ridiculously slow and only available when a network is, which is not when you are in Costco or Lowe's apparently as I've found. Grrr. Treo sounds better every day -- I paid the Verizon penalty and sold my Treo way too cheap and way too early -- dumb! Now I have to do the reverse.... sell my iPhone cheap and buy out ATT contract and go back to Treo, where I can actually take notes and synch my notepad with my Macintosh. That'
Yes, their "enhanced" network causes me nothing but joy over the slow EDGE speeds and the crappy phone quality and the lousy customer service. I really am thinking of going back to the Palm and Verizon, even though switching back would cost a bundle.
Yes, like mp3sparks.com, where albums are $3.00 each. The selection is not bad at all. Not perfect, but just as good as iTunes, roughly, in my experience. And it's legal.
some morons will have sex with those bodies and create half-brainless children
The first thing you learn in genetics is that it is not blended. A brainless person mated with a person with a brain will not create a person with half a brain.
"Not exactly supported by Apple" means: 1) No decent GUI (yet? how will this ever improve without Apple support?) 2) Every new software update from Apple wipes out your entire setup, apps, unapproved ringtones, data, etc. So, yeah, there are 3rd party apps, but it's a serious PITA. We're waiting for Apple/AT&T to find a way to make the iPhone truly very cool. Web apps suck HUGELY. Especially if you are out in the boonies without a network.
Fascinating what people do to translations in order to preserve dogma. I have little doubt that you are probably quoting a pretty accurate translation. However, my King James bible has it: "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth the beasts; even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast; for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion; for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?" Note the difference in the last part about going up and down -- changed so that there is no question about souls going anywhere. Typical of the modifications made by translators to preserve their dogma.
Yes, sorry, but every chance I get I scream the following warning to people: IPHONE HAS NO TO-DO LIST, DOES NOT COPY AND PASTE, AND DOES NOT DO VIDEO. Three major boners by Apple. I'm bleeding on the edge...
Synchronization is important to me. I hate my Treo 700p because it sucks as a phone, but I need it because it syncs my calendars and contacts with my Mac. The only reason I don't buy an iPhone yet is I haven't been able to see one in person.
Oh, THAT box. :-)
Actually, it's a two-per-person limit, I believe
The world does not divide up into "good people" and "bad people." All good people do bad things, and all bad people do good things. All dumb people do smart things, and all smart people do dumb things. So I would suspect that you are absolutely wrong. And leaving your DNA at a crime scene does not mean you're guilty.
The WHOLE POINT of Blue Gene is to do intellectual exercises. It's a RESEARCH computer.
Yes, well, good luck getting your carry-on onto the plane when it weight 350lbs from gold bricks.
FTFA:
"Professor Piper, whose work has been funded by a government research council, said tests conducted by the US Food and Drug Administration were out of date.
"The food industry will say these compounds have been tested and they are complete safe," he said. "By the criteria of modern safety testing, the safety tests were inadequate. Like all things, safety testing moves forward and you can conduct a much more rigorous safety test than you could 50 years ago."