Not necessarily. There has been quite a bit of work on transplanting oligodendrocytes and their precursor cells, including stem cells. That hasn't yielded any real results. Other research has shown that there really isn't a shortage of oligo precursor cells. There are some axons that don't remyelinate but a big source of damage seems to be axons that are permanently damaged or die when they're demyelinated.
It's interesting and might be useful, but it might equally well turn out not to be useful in MS at all.
It's not going to prevent further damage. This certainly isn't a cure or potential cure for MS, but if it works well it might help fix some of the damage that's been done. Some. Axons die in MS, and this won't replace them. There's good evidence that a lot of the actual damage is due to neuronal damage and not a failure to remyelinate.
Not even close to true. If bit coins catch on their value will rise. That will make mining that otherwise wasn't profitable, profitable. So more people will mine, using more energy.
The number of bitcoins are asymptotically limited. That means that so long as the bitcoin economy keeps growing, it will always at some point pay to mine. Faster growth, more energy use. Growth of bit coin is linked to energy use by the laws of supply and demand.
The majority of bestselling games today are written in OpenGL or a close relative. When you count the ports of PC games to other platforms, it's even more.
You're mixing up the API and the SDK. Microsoft makes nice DirectX development tools. There are also nice OpenGL development tools. The difference is that DirectX ONLY works on Microsoft platforms so Microsoft is pretty much the only one that makes development tools for it. OpenGL works on everything else so there are lots of manufacturers who make tools.
You should qualify that. PC games. If you bin a little bit and say the XBox uses Direct3D while the Playstation and Wii use OpenGL, most of the modern best selling games use OpenGL. Note that all the smartphone and tablet games are also OpenGL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games.
Since Microsoft is trying to focus on the table/smartphone market, which is pretty much exclusively OpenGL, you're right, it's not that surprising they're bailing on DirectX.
Yes. This thing is an inertial navigation system, which have existed since the 40s and have been conveniently small for twenty or thirty years, but all packed into a nice little chip, perfect for drones, small missiles and/or lost motorists.
It's just some accelerometers and gyroscopes and some software. You could make one with a smartphone app if you wanted to, although it's probably less accurate. Hm... a search on the app store doesn't turn one up immediately. Might be interesting to play with.
The International Astronomical Union gives astronomical objects their official names, by international agreement. They accept suggestions and proposals, but they do not sell naming rights.
You can call astronomical objects whatever you want. The IAU is pointing out that paying someone for the privilege is kind of a dumb thing to do.
Most of your questions don't have answers. D does. The answer is that if that happened the lawyers would see it as a dangerous precedent. Since the lawyers run society, real estate agents don't get gassed.
I notice there are a lot more people selling their own homes now though. Somebody needs to do a good job making an MLS-type site that allows private listings.
To take pictures of the hot real estate agent while maintaining plausible deniability.
That's the killer app with Google glasses. And the reason why people wearing them are going to be thought of in even less flattering terms than the guys constantly yelling into their bluetooth headsets.
No, everyone knew what tablet computers were for. They were in Star Trek. Everyone knows what VR and AR displays are for. There have been articles for years about contacts and glasses, and actual VR glasses.
What the "experts" said about the first Windows tablets was that they were too clunky and they'd only be niche products. They were precisely right. When Amazon and Apple came along and made tablets and e-readers that were reasonably close to what everyone knew a tablet should be, the whole thing took off.
That's the prediction. I don't think anyone here thinks that good in- or nearly in-eye displays don't have fantastic uses. The question is, does Google Glass?
I'm in favour of this. When I was a kid we'd go to a friends' cabin and spend the morning on the boat collecting golf balls that fell in the lake from the course. As a kid, you could make decent money doing that.
And that's one of the biggest things going against them. People don't want to be recorded constantly. If you don't believe me, get a video camera and walk around pointing it everywhere you look for a while. When you talk to someone at work, record them. When you talk to your significant other, record him or her. Walk into a shop, record, everything. Bonus points if you get into an argument with your SO/boss/coworker and say "You didn't say that. Let's go to the video and check."
There are lots of niches where it would be nice to have (I'm a hang glider pilot too). But most niches, particularly the important ones, are going to want support. Google is pretty famously bad at that. Plus, niches don't fit in with Google's business model. Google makes stuff with mass market appeal so they can get mass marketing data. Every single Google product is focused on that, and when a product fails to achieve that kind of success it gets axed.
I have no doubt Glass will be popular with the Bluetooth headset crowd. Fortunately that's a small group and they're frequently useful for comic relief.
Not quite. Apple let the public think of things they'd like to do on an iPad, yes. But at the unveiling they had their own apps ready to go and well thought out ads showing functionality people wanted. Not to mention twenty years of Star Trek and other science fiction showing you what you can do with a tablet computer.
Google doesn't seem to have any idea what you can do with Glass, other than checking your e-mail/twitter/whatever, which isn't really a killer app. They've also got twenty years of Star Trek showing people what Geordi could do with HIS visor, which you definitely cannot do with Glass.
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Not necessarily. There has been quite a bit of work on transplanting oligodendrocytes and their precursor cells, including stem cells. That hasn't yielded any real results. Other research has shown that there really isn't a shortage of oligo precursor cells. There are some axons that don't remyelinate but a big source of damage seems to be axons that are permanently damaged or die when they're demyelinated.
It's interesting and might be useful, but it might equally well turn out not to be useful in MS at all.
It's not going to prevent further damage. This certainly isn't a cure or potential cure for MS, but if it works well it might help fix some of the damage that's been done. Some. Axons die in MS, and this won't replace them. There's good evidence that a lot of the actual damage is due to neuronal damage and not a failure to remyelinate.
Not even close to true. If bit coins catch on their value will rise. That will make mining that otherwise wasn't profitable, profitable. So more people will mine, using more energy.
The number of bitcoins are asymptotically limited. That means that so long as the bitcoin economy keeps growing, it will always at some point pay to mine. Faster growth, more energy use. Growth of bit coin is linked to energy use by the laws of supply and demand.
Sure we will. Oh, with the addition of a few million years of simmering.
What we're getting close to is understanding how it happened, not performing magic tricks.
I guess you can write better than you can read. I was very careful to qualify the consoles. Too subtle for you?
2001 called, they want their post back.
The majority of bestselling games today are written in OpenGL or a close relative. When you count the ports of PC games to other platforms, it's even more.
You're mixing up the API and the SDK. Microsoft makes nice DirectX development tools. There are also nice OpenGL development tools. The difference is that DirectX ONLY works on Microsoft platforms so Microsoft is pretty much the only one that makes development tools for it. OpenGL works on everything else so there are lots of manufacturers who make tools.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games
You should qualify that. PC games. If you bin a little bit and say the XBox uses Direct3D while the Playstation and Wii use OpenGL, most of the modern best selling games use OpenGL. Note that all the smartphone and tablet games are also OpenGL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_video_games.
Since Microsoft is trying to focus on the table/smartphone market, which is pretty much exclusively OpenGL, you're right, it's not that surprising they're bailing on DirectX.
http://www.digikey.ca/product-search/en/sensors-transducers/multifunction/1967155?k=inertial
Sparkfun has more variety:
https://www.sparkfun.com/pages/accel_gyro_guide
Kinda nice to have everything in one chip, but for most applications these will do just as well and are available now.
Yes. This thing is an inertial navigation system, which have existed since the 40s and have been conveniently small for twenty or thirty years, but all packed into a nice little chip, perfect for drones, small missiles and/or lost motorists.
It's just some accelerometers and gyroscopes and some software. You could make one with a smartphone app if you wanted to, although it's probably less accurate. Hm... a search on the app store doesn't turn one up immediately. Might be interesting to play with.
The International Astronomical Union gives astronomical objects their official names, by international agreement. They accept suggestions and proposals, but they do not sell naming rights.
You can call astronomical objects whatever you want. The IAU is pointing out that paying someone for the privilege is kind of a dumb thing to do.
Most of your questions don't have answers. D does. The answer is that if that happened the lawyers would see it as a dangerous precedent. Since the lawyers run society, real estate agents don't get gassed.
I notice there are a lot more people selling their own homes now though. Somebody needs to do a good job making an MLS-type site that allows private listings.
To take pictures of the hot real estate agent while maintaining plausible deniability.
That's the killer app with Google glasses. And the reason why people wearing them are going to be thought of in even less flattering terms than the guys constantly yelling into their bluetooth headsets.
The piece of paper you pick up on the way in replaces the agent as well as Glass would.
No, everyone knew what tablet computers were for. They were in Star Trek. Everyone knows what VR and AR displays are for. There have been articles for years about contacts and glasses, and actual VR glasses.
What the "experts" said about the first Windows tablets was that they were too clunky and they'd only be niche products. They were precisely right. When Amazon and Apple came along and made tablets and e-readers that were reasonably close to what everyone knew a tablet should be, the whole thing took off.
That's the prediction. I don't think anyone here thinks that good in- or nearly in-eye displays don't have fantastic uses. The question is, does Google Glass?
Uh huh. Having actually done research into telepresence for remote healthcare, it might find a nice somewhere, but it's not going to catch on.
And Google doesn't do niches.
I'm in favour of this. When I was a kid we'd go to a friends' cabin and spend the morning on the boat collecting golf balls that fell in the lake from the course. As a kid, you could make decent money doing that.
$100 golf balls might make that worthwhile again.
And that's one of the biggest things going against them. People don't want to be recorded constantly. If you don't believe me, get a video camera and walk around pointing it everywhere you look for a while. When you talk to someone at work, record them. When you talk to your significant other, record him or her. Walk into a shop, record, everything. Bonus points if you get into an argument with your SO/boss/coworker and say "You didn't say that. Let's go to the video and check."
There are lots of niches where it would be nice to have (I'm a hang glider pilot too). But most niches, particularly the important ones, are going to want support. Google is pretty famously bad at that. Plus, niches don't fit in with Google's business model. Google makes stuff with mass market appeal so they can get mass marketing data. Every single Google product is focused on that, and when a product fails to achieve that kind of success it gets axed.
I have no doubt Glass will be popular with the Bluetooth headset crowd. Fortunately that's a small group and they're frequently useful for comic relief.
Two comments:
1) Your world is really small. Way too small to support a major consumer device.
2) If you need a USB port to connect something to a tablet, your world is even smaller than I thought.
Not quite. Apple let the public think of things they'd like to do on an iPad, yes. But at the unveiling they had their own apps ready to go and well thought out ads showing functionality people wanted. Not to mention twenty years of Star Trek and other science fiction showing you what you can do with a tablet computer.
Google doesn't seem to have any idea what you can do with Glass, other than checking your e-mail/twitter/whatever, which isn't really a killer app. They've also got twenty years of Star Trek showing people what Geordi could do with HIS visor, which you definitely cannot do with Glass.
Because it also lets them check their e-mail. Whoops, I mean, it also lets them tweet.
Right. So sneaky advertising. That makes it MUCH better!