This is a sad development. There is no reconciliation to be had between science and religion. Anyone who will tell you such a thing is lying. Anyone who believes it is deranged. The best way to kill scientific, technological, medical, and social progress would be to adopt such a philosophically indefensible view.
Oh boo hoo, the world will end because you can't sync your mp3 player...or at least your particular model. If this is a real weak point in the Linux Desktop, then we've come a long way. Instead of whining to the community, write an app or complain to the makers of iRiver that they are not supporting their customer base by refusing to write a quick and dirty, yet shiny and neat-o, application to sync your player under Linux. Beeya!
Quite honestly, the publisher's actions seem pretty normal. If I want to use one of my own figures/tables that I have previously published in a subsequent publication, I need to get the premission from the appropriate publisher. I've never been denied, but I also don't make any money off of my publications...usually, at least in the biological sciences, you have to pay some pretty steep page charges.
So why not try the scam that Travis Oliphant at the numpy project has tried to pawn off...write free sotware, but sell the documentation. No man page = $$$!
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The correct terminology is not 'warm blooded' or 'cold blooded.' Ther correct terms are endothermic and ectothermic, respectively, meaning that heat is obtained either internally or externally. For instance, some lizards maintain (through behavioral thermoregulation) body temperatures warmer than those of humans, even when the air temperature is well below body temperature.
Sharks are fish, just not bony fish. Sharks secondarily lost their bony structure, giving way to cartilaginous skeletons; giving rise to the Class Chondrichthyes. Bony fish fall under Class Osteichtyes.
Sorry for the personal attack...I was only trying to appease the mods and earn a troll...it's harder than you would think.
First, seminars, aren't peer-reviewed, so there are no checks on facts and, thus, seminars cannot be cited in scientific articles, etc.
Second, yes, Dr.Lindzen's work questions the validity of some of the assumptions of the sensitivity analyses of GCMs, but his work can be scrutinized similarly. His criticisms do deserve some merit, but his papers that I have seen don't point a direct finger at humans or natural environmental cycles...he's just skeptical that we haven't developed the correct models. In that sense, he may be correct, but a model is only a 'sketch' of someone's perception of reality and reflects, to some degree, a researcher's bias (within the bounds of supportable scientific theory/evidence).
I not only read scientific articles on a daily basis, but I have published 6 in the last calender year, most with respect to organisms' reponses to variation in thermal environments (both cold and warm).
The problem with www.jamesphogan.com's argument is that just because the words 'climate change' appear in an article or abstract doesn't mean that that's what the article is about. Many articles in the biological sciences discuss the potential effects of climate on the biology of organisms, yet they don't study what causes climate change. So I'd say it's a safe bet that at least 80% of the articles were thrown out on that basis alone.
The argument is not whether man contributes, but how much man contributes (versus other natural causes) to global warming. So the 100% finding is not so surprising.
As an aside, how many scientific articles in the last 10 years have questioned the existence of gravity. The problem is and always will be producing evidence to the contrary.
Just because an animal is ectothermic, does not mean that it's body temperature is the same as air temperature. For instance in South America, certain lizards are active at extremely high altitude, where temperatures often don't climb above 15 degrees C, yet their body temperatures are nearly 10 degrees C above the ambient air temperature. It all simple heat balance. And smaller organisms can heat up more quickly due to radiative heat sources or other sources of heat due to their small body size (=low thermal inertia). So any heat source in the environment might provide refuge for these bees. and it wouldn't take much sun poking through the clouds to be just enough!
...make your own inferences.
CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY
A cup of coffee contains roughly 60 mg to 180 mg of caffeine, compared with 20 mg to 90 mg in tea. Analgesics tend to have 30 mg to 60 mg, and diet and alertness tablets have 100 mg to 200 mg of caffeine(4). The minimum lethal dose for humans is estimated at 150-200 mg/kg(5), although there is a case report of death following a dose of 57 mg/kg(2). The signs of acute caffeine toxicity may be seen following a dose of 10 mg/kg. Symptoms typically initially include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, and muscle fasciculations. Central nervous system effects are manifested as restlessness, agitation, and irritability. In severe cases, seizures may occur.
Direct stimulation of the myocardium coupled with vagal stimulation may result in tachycardia, bradycardia, hypertension, or hypotension. Ventricular irritability leads to premature ventricular contractions, typically manifest as palpitations; and paroxysmal atrial tachycardia has been reported. Pulmonary edema has also been reported following severe ingestions, and animal studies have suggested pulmonary vasodilation as a mechanism. Dehydration may also result from excessive diuresis coupled with gastrointestinal losses (2,3,5).
Laboratory findings in acute caffeine toxicity include hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, hyperglycemia, leukocytosis, and glucosuria as well as ketonuria. Blood caffeine concentrations peak within two hours after ingestion(3). Consumption of two cups of coffee will result in a blood caffeine level of 1-10 ug/ml. Seizures have been reported at a level of 50 ug/ml, and death has been reported with a level as low as 80 ug/ml. Caffeine metabolites will also be picked up when measuring theophylline levels (2,5).
TREATMENT
There is not a specific antidote for caffeine poisoning, and care is mainly supportive. Ipecac is not recommended. While previously ipecac-induced emesis was recommended (2,3,5), the risk that a patient may become obtunded and is at high risk for having a seizure precludes its usefulness (6). Activated charcoal has been shown to be useful in binding caffeine. A cathartic may also be used to enhance removal of unabsorbed drug from the gastrointestinal tract (2,3,5). Gastric lavage with saline may be useful for removing stomach contents as well as treating hemorrhagic gastritis. Antacids may also be useful in this regard (2,3).
Seizures may be treated with diazepam or phenobarbital, which may also serve to counteract caffeine's effect on the central nervous system (2,3).
Cardiac arrhythmias should be treated with the appropriate agent. Beta-blockers may be particularly helpful in counteracting the effects of excessive beta-adrenergic stimulation. Cardioselectivity and a short half-life make esmolol an attractive choice (2,3,5).
The patient should be monitored for electrolyte imbalances, particularly hyperglycemia, hypocalcemia, and hypokalemia, although such disturbances rarely require treatment (3,5).
Dietrich and Mortensen describe a one-year old patient who ingested an estimated 200-300 mg/kg of caffeine and had a blood caffeine concentration of 385 ug/ml four hours postingestion. The child developed seizures, ventricular fibrillation, electolyte disturbances, and pulmonary edema. Because of the magnitude of the ingestion and the severity of the cardiac and neurologic symptoms, this patient was treated with charcoal hemoperfusion, and survived without any apparent long-term sequelae(7). However most patients will not require such aggressive extracorporeal techniques of enhancing elimination and will do well with supportive care alone.
CHRONIC EFFECTS
Chronic caffeine users, typically coffee drinkers, experience a tolerance to the effects of caffeine, and may be seen to experience withdrawal in its absence. Typically this abstinence syndrome takes the form of headaches, increased sleepiness, and decreased alertness (2). The psychiatric literature describes associations of caffeine use with a syndrome of anxiety, depression, and even psychosis (1), and recently a caffeine de
So if I want to, I can take the code, modify it, and sell it? Further am I allowed to take the operating system code, modify it, and distribute it for free in the spirit of Linux? Admittedly, I don't know the answer to that one. My hunch is that I doubt it. If I can't do either, then they they are merely milking the system IMO. I
We necessarily don't exclude anyone, but since they are a buisness, we should concentrate our efforts on coding functionability into software or writing new software, not streamlining it to their platform. They pay folks to do that.
Yes. I acknowledged the KHTML reoffering above.
What will it take to please us "whinny ungrateful open sourcers"? My opinion is that you should give back what what you take, whether in terms of coding, or constructive feedback. Let Apple take BSD, let them sell it. But they should also contribute their code back to the projects as everyone else does. Just how much of their approx $129/copy of OS X does the OpenSource community receive? Before you answer, also ask yourself, "how much did the Open Source Community contribute?"
Maybe it's high time to put Apple in the back of our minds when it comes to open source development. Let's face it, they generally slow the process down (e.g., OpenOffice) or try to re-invent it (X11) and hide behind more restrictive licenses after borrowing from the wealth of open source code (...though kudos to them for their recent contribution to the Konqueror project). Let Apple take the responsibility for streamlining code to work under their platform.
Yep. It's called 'burning a cdrom' of your important files and wallpapers (BTW...that's always been my reason for switching OS's...which has the best wallpapers!). I've never really had trouble of other 'settings' that I couldn't figure out without some Windoze Wizard.
On my XP partition, I regularly use:
the Gimp (image manipulation)
Dev-C++ (C/C++ IDE)
CDex (music ripping software)
Python (scripting/programming language)
R (statistics and graphics software)
OpenOffice (office suite)
Mozilla (web browser and mail client)
Phoenix (web browser based on gecko)
Filezilla (FTP client and server)
I use XP when I don't use Linux. The very reason I use Linux 95% of the time is that it is stable and does not crash. Granted, the XP OS doesn't itself crash often (but more than I'd like), but once a particular program crashes, it usually tends to keep crahing until you reboot...effectively you've crashed the OS. Also, the wonks from Redmond would like to lead you to believe XP boots faster (so who cares if you have to continually reboot!), but all they did was re-arrange the order that processes start such that your desktop pops up first, although you can't really start any apps until it's done chugging along. Also, non-MS apps tend to crash on XP very often though 1) MS's own products (eg Office) tend not to, 2) the same apps rarely if ever crash on Linux (eg Mozilla), and 3) most 'power' apps are not produced by MS.. I can say that in almost 6 months of using SuSE 8.0, I've yet to crash my machine. In the same time, XP has crashed at least once out of every 3 days that it gets used, though XP is lucky if it gets booted more than a few times a month.
Hehe. And BTW, you might not want to make your identity so easily known (i.e., your email is likely on your paper)./.ers are pretty relentless. Some might even be spammers. Others might sign you up for some. Scary stuff. Cheers. The pub calls.
Pretty cool that your advisor threw you on as a second or third author. I thought the medical fields were the only ones that put techs on papers. Typically, techs or work study students go under acknowledgements. Party on.
Yes "c" and "v" are close on the keyboard. That is why the all-knowing Team of Attack Midgets gave us a button called "Preview," and yes, it works.
And while some of us did undergraduate theses, some of us have written doctoral dissertations. Given mine was in biophysics, I generally know physics as well as most undergrads;) But seriously, I'll be waiting to read your paper in Physics Letters should your peers deem your work a valuable contribution to science. Hopefully, your manuscript's final resting place isn't in your advisor's desk drawer.
One more lame thing...it's "van" de Waals not "can" der Waals, as in Johannes Diderik. Obviously your advisor didn't show you a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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This is a sad development. There is no reconciliation to be had between science and religion. Anyone who will tell you such a thing is lying. Anyone who believes it is deranged. The best way to kill scientific, technological, medical, and social progress would be to adopt such a philosophically indefensible view.
Oh boo hoo, the world will end because you can't sync your mp3 player...or at least your particular model. If this is a real weak point in the Linux Desktop, then we've come a long way. Instead of whining to the community, write an app or complain to the makers of iRiver that they are not supporting their customer base by refusing to write a quick and dirty, yet shiny and neat-o, application to sync your player under Linux. Beeya!
Quite honestly, the publisher's actions seem pretty normal. If I want to use one of my own figures/tables that I have previously published in a subsequent publication, I need to get the premission from the appropriate publisher. I've never been denied, but I also don't make any money off of my publications...usually, at least in the biological sciences, you have to pay some pretty steep page charges.
So why not try the scam that Travis Oliphant at the numpy project has tried to pawn off...write free sotware, but sell the documentation. No man page = $$$!
The correct terminology is not 'warm blooded' or 'cold blooded.' Ther correct terms are endothermic and ectothermic, respectively, meaning that heat is obtained either internally or externally. For instance, some lizards maintain (through behavioral thermoregulation) body temperatures warmer than those of humans, even when the air temperature is well below body temperature.
Sharks are fish, just not bony fish. Sharks secondarily lost their bony structure, giving way to cartilaginous skeletons; giving rise to the Class Chondrichthyes. Bony fish fall under Class Osteichtyes.
First, seminars, aren't peer-reviewed, so there are no checks on facts and, thus, seminars cannot be cited in scientific articles, etc.
Second, yes, Dr.Lindzen's work questions the validity of some of the assumptions of the sensitivity analyses of GCMs, but his work can be scrutinized similarly. His criticisms do deserve some merit, but his papers that I have seen don't point a direct finger at humans or natural environmental cycles...he's just skeptical that we haven't developed the correct models. In that sense, he may be correct, but a model is only a 'sketch' of someone's perception of reality and reflects, to some degree, a researcher's bias (within the bounds of supportable scientific theory/evidence).
I not only read scientific articles on a daily basis, but I have published 6 in the last calender year, most with respect to organisms' reponses to variation in thermal environments (both cold and warm).
The problem with www.jamesphogan.com's argument is that just because the words 'climate change' appear in an article or abstract doesn't mean that that's what the article is about. Many articles in the biological sciences discuss the potential effects of climate on the biology of organisms, yet they don't study what causes climate change. So I'd say it's a safe bet that at least 80% of the articles were thrown out on that basis alone.
As an aside, how many scientific articles in the last 10 years have questioned the existence of gravity. The problem is and always will be producing evidence to the contrary.
Anyone who has been around 'scientists' knows that its not about the science.
I am a scientist and can tell you that it is not about the money. If you think so, we should compare pay stubs!
There are many articles in peer reviewd journals, by scientist who do not agree with the idea that humanity is causing global warming.
Name one (...based on your grammar/spelling, I doubt that you read scientific journals).
Just because an animal is ectothermic, does not mean that it's body temperature is the same as air temperature. For instance in South America, certain lizards are active at extremely high altitude, where temperatures often don't climb above 15 degrees C, yet their body temperatures are nearly 10 degrees C above the ambient air temperature. It all simple heat balance. And smaller organisms can heat up more quickly due to radiative heat sources or other sources of heat due to their small body size (=low thermal inertia). So any heat source in the environment might provide refuge for these bees. and it wouldn't take much sun poking through the clouds to be just enough!
...make your own inferences. CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY A cup of coffee contains roughly 60 mg to 180 mg of caffeine, compared with 20 mg to 90 mg in tea. Analgesics tend to have 30 mg to 60 mg, and diet and alertness tablets have 100 mg to 200 mg of caffeine(4). The minimum lethal dose for humans is estimated at 150-200 mg/kg(5), although there is a case report of death following a dose of 57 mg/kg(2). The signs of acute caffeine toxicity may be seen following a dose of 10 mg/kg. Symptoms typically initially include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, cramps, and muscle fasciculations. Central nervous system effects are manifested as restlessness, agitation, and irritability. In severe cases, seizures may occur. Direct stimulation of the myocardium coupled with vagal stimulation may result in tachycardia, bradycardia, hypertension, or hypotension. Ventricular irritability leads to premature ventricular contractions, typically manifest as palpitations; and paroxysmal atrial tachycardia has been reported. Pulmonary edema has also been reported following severe ingestions, and animal studies have suggested pulmonary vasodilation as a mechanism. Dehydration may also result from excessive diuresis coupled with gastrointestinal losses (2,3,5). Laboratory findings in acute caffeine toxicity include hypokalemia, hypocalcemia, hyperglycemia, leukocytosis, and glucosuria as well as ketonuria. Blood caffeine concentrations peak within two hours after ingestion(3). Consumption of two cups of coffee will result in a blood caffeine level of 1-10 ug/ml. Seizures have been reported at a level of 50 ug/ml, and death has been reported with a level as low as 80 ug/ml. Caffeine metabolites will also be picked up when measuring theophylline levels (2,5). TREATMENT There is not a specific antidote for caffeine poisoning, and care is mainly supportive. Ipecac is not recommended. While previously ipecac-induced emesis was recommended (2,3,5), the risk that a patient may become obtunded and is at high risk for having a seizure precludes its usefulness (6). Activated charcoal has been shown to be useful in binding caffeine. A cathartic may also be used to enhance removal of unabsorbed drug from the gastrointestinal tract (2,3,5). Gastric lavage with saline may be useful for removing stomach contents as well as treating hemorrhagic gastritis. Antacids may also be useful in this regard (2,3). Seizures may be treated with diazepam or phenobarbital, which may also serve to counteract caffeine's effect on the central nervous system (2,3). Cardiac arrhythmias should be treated with the appropriate agent. Beta-blockers may be particularly helpful in counteracting the effects of excessive beta-adrenergic stimulation. Cardioselectivity and a short half-life make esmolol an attractive choice (2,3,5). The patient should be monitored for electrolyte imbalances, particularly hyperglycemia, hypocalcemia, and hypokalemia, although such disturbances rarely require treatment (3,5). Dietrich and Mortensen describe a one-year old patient who ingested an estimated 200-300 mg/kg of caffeine and had a blood caffeine concentration of 385 ug/ml four hours postingestion. The child developed seizures, ventricular fibrillation, electolyte disturbances, and pulmonary edema. Because of the magnitude of the ingestion and the severity of the cardiac and neurologic symptoms, this patient was treated with charcoal hemoperfusion, and survived without any apparent long-term sequelae(7). However most patients will not require such aggressive extracorporeal techniques of enhancing elimination and will do well with supportive care alone. CHRONIC EFFECTS Chronic caffeine users, typically coffee drinkers, experience a tolerance to the effects of caffeine, and may be seen to experience withdrawal in its absence. Typically this abstinence syndrome takes the form of headaches, increased sleepiness, and decreased alertness (2). The psychiatric literature describes associations of caffeine use with a syndrome of anxiety, depression, and even psychosis (1), and recently a caffeine de
Shouldn't it have read "...Voyager 1 has reached menopause?"
So if I want to, I can take the code, modify it, and sell it? Further am I allowed to take the operating system code, modify it, and distribute it for free in the spirit of Linux? Admittedly, I don't know the answer to that one. My hunch is that I doubt it. If I can't do either, then they they are merely milking the system IMO. I
We necessarily don't exclude anyone, but since they are a buisness, we should concentrate our efforts on coding functionability into software or writing new software, not streamlining it to their platform. They pay folks to do that.
Yes. I acknowledged the KHTML reoffering above.
What will it take to please us "whinny ungrateful open sourcers"? My opinion is that you should give back what what you take, whether in terms of coding, or constructive feedback. Let Apple take BSD, let them sell it. But they should also contribute their code back to the projects as everyone else does. Just how much of their approx $129Maybe it's high time to put Apple in the back of our minds when it comes to open source development. Let's face it, they generally slow the process down (e.g., OpenOffice) or try to re-invent it (X11) and hide behind more restrictive licenses after borrowing from the wealth of open source code (...though kudos to them for their recent contribution to the Konqueror project). Let Apple take the responsibility for streamlining code to work under their platform.
Yep. It's called 'burning a cdrom' of your important files and wallpapers (BTW...that's always been my reason for switching OS's...which has the best wallpapers!). I've never really had trouble of other 'settings' that I couldn't figure out without some Windoze Wizard.
On my XP partition, I regularly use: the Gimp (image manipulation) Dev-C++ (C/C++ IDE) CDex (music ripping software) Python (scripting/programming language) R (statistics and graphics software) OpenOffice (office suite) Mozilla (web browser and mail client) Phoenix (web browser based on gecko) Filezilla (FTP client and server)
I use XP when I don't use Linux. The very reason I use Linux 95% of the time is that it is stable and does not crash. Granted, the XP OS doesn't itself crash often (but more than I'd like), but once a particular program crashes, it usually tends to keep crahing until you reboot...effectively you've crashed the OS. Also, the wonks from Redmond would like to lead you to believe XP boots faster (so who cares if you have to continually reboot!), but all they did was re-arrange the order that processes start such that your desktop pops up first, although you can't really start any apps until it's done chugging along. Also, non-MS apps tend to crash on XP very often though 1) MS's own products (eg Office) tend not to, 2) the same apps rarely if ever crash on Linux (eg Mozilla), and 3) most 'power' apps are not produced by MS.. I can say that in almost 6 months of using SuSE 8.0, I've yet to crash my machine. In the same time, XP has crashed at least once out of every 3 days that it gets used, though XP is lucky if it gets booted more than a few times a month.
Hehe. And BTW, you might not want to make your identity so easily known (i.e., your email is likely on your paper). /.ers are pretty relentless. Some might even be spammers. Others might sign you up for some. Scary stuff. Cheers. The pub calls.
That's Dr. Dude to you Mr. Anonymous Coward.
Pretty cool that your advisor threw you on as a second or third author. I thought the medical fields were the only ones that put techs on papers. Typically, techs or work study students go under acknowledgements. Party on.
Yes "c" and "v" are close on the keyboard. That is why the all-knowing Team of Attack Midgets gave us a button called "Preview," and yes, it works.
And while some of us did undergraduate theses, some of us have written doctoral dissertations. Given mine was in biophysics, I generally know physics as well as most undergrads ;) But seriously, I'll be waiting to read your paper in Physics Letters should your peers deem your work a valuable contribution to science. Hopefully, your manuscript's final resting place isn't in your advisor's desk drawer.
One more lame thing...it's "van" de Waals not "can" der Waals, as in Johannes Diderik. Obviously your advisor didn't show you a copy of the Oxford English Dictionary.