This New Scientist article comes short to provide any data about the absolute risk rates. Sure it's easy to make headlines with those impressive relative risk rate reductions: 80% reduction for heavy (4 cups and more/day) coffee drinkers!
But here are the actual absolute risk rates for alcoholic cirrhosis among the general population, as interpreted from the actual study (Archives of Internal Medicine 166:1190:Table 1)
No coffee: 0.16%
Less than 1 cup: 0.14%
1-3 cups: 0.18%
4 cups and more: 0.11%
Whether a patient drinks coffee or not will only cause a 0.07% variability of the alcoholic cirrhosis risk. In short, another fine example of medical sensationalism.
Not exactly a hybrid-dual-processor system, but during the mid-90s Apple has already used both Intel and PowerPC CPUs under the same hood. They did it with the DOS compatibility card, a PCI card that could boot DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and even Linux. The best ones sported a Pentium 166 processor.
Now that Virtual PC is in Microsoft's hands, it would be interesting to see a comeback for those cards.
I am writing this message from a terminal of the central posko (dispensary and supply post) of the Red Cross in Banda Aceh. As a volunteer here, I can tell you that communication through cellphones and satellite phones have been a real pain with satellite signals always going on and off, and voice quality being very bad. GSM phones sometimes fare better. I am here mainly because I couldn't get in touch by phone with my contacts from the Dept of Foreign Affaires, with whom I was first supposed to work with.
Here in the posko the only reliable way to communicate is by the Internet. The IT guys here have set up a nice wired and wireless network which ease the communication with Jakarta, Geneva, and all our relatives. Important reports are going though and help the central coordination of the relief efforts. I am keeping a blog for the medical students of my university so that they learn at the same time the other side of disaster medical relief efforts and international 'humanitarian' organisations.
Stats means nothing if the operating system maker makes it difficult to patch some holes (how are normal persons supposed to know if they have Outlook Express 6.0 or 6.0 SP1 ), takes his time to address known vulnerabilities, and makes it impossible for pirated copies to update their version of the OS.
And it's sickening to hear that the only reason Windows is so much vulnerable is his popularity. It is not. Sloppy programmation and bad choices of default options definitively have their share.
01. spotlight
02. ichat av video
03. ichat audio
04. ichat interface like itunes list
05. safari rss
06. dashboard
07. automator
08. voice over
09..mac sync
10. enhanced unix support
11. 64 bit os better 64 bit atvantage
12. xcode 2.0
13. system prefs stealth mode
14. firewall logging
15. block udp traffic
16. core video
17. core graphics
18. new quicktime cocoa
19. quicktime mpeg4 part 10 the h.264 avc
20. so metadata you could say
21. i heard safari is faster 2.0
22. mail is better with smart thingies
23. people say over all response is faster
24. new theme for overall appearance
25. no debug code
26. has a min requirirment for core image and video
27. all the windows integration
28. Dock menus contain option to remove items.
29. Help Viewer searches Apple KBase articles.
30. iChat has support for inline groups.
31. Support for profile editing in Chat.
32. Menu in iChat for quickly switching between accounts.
33. Share devices over the internet with.Mac.
34. Mail - "Favorites" bar for mail folders.
35. Extra options in Mail compose window.
36. Mail - toggle automatic adding of iCal invites.
37. QuickTime - live resizing.
38. Safari - navigation in contextual menus.
39. Safari - copy image addresses from context. menu
40. Safari - add image to iPhoto by right-clicking
41. Finder - renaming items in sidebar
42. Context. menu for items in sidebar.
43. Setup Assistant - options for transferring files & settings between computers.
44. Finder - save search results as Smart Folders.
46. System-wide tabbed interface?
47. Considerably enhanced Dock?
48. Virtual workspaces in Exposé?
46. search in system prefs
47. new finder search
48. new system wide search
49. search is not limited to the apps it's in
50. search in mail
51. search in address book
52. ability to have spotlight intigrated with other apps
53. Coredata
On the other hand, here is the official response from Arlo, the developer behind Konfabulator.
I think the most interesting point is that he knows about the 6-month head-start he has before Dashboard is available to the public.
What can be done in the mean time? Making more useful widgets. Porting to other platforms (the Windows port was announced in December). More importantly, enhance the application (maybe adding the same appear-only-with-key-pressed), and reduce the CPU load (using WebKit, it might also be possible to make Konfabulator Dashboard-compatible).
There was a "strong anti-AI" camp which believed that Artificial Intelligence couldn't happen - even if you created a perfect simulation of a brain, you'd just be "simulating" intelligence, whatever that means [...] Once we can perfectly replicate the functionality of every last bit of the brain, do we just have a really nifty toy, or a genuine mind?
I am not an AI expert, but I think that the main difference between the mind and the AI is that random, uncontrolled processes are incorporated in your thoughts, which is not the case for AI (unless this random component is simulated?) The encoding in your brain works like lossy compression.
This is the basis for the generation of imaginatory processes and the fact you can't recall a picture with the precision of a computer.
Would it then be possible to record every moment of your life and store it away?
Only if you can also mimic the brain as storage device. As the article states, it only encodes the information. The information is stored everywhere else in your brain.
Also consider how oxygen enters your circulation in a step-by-step process: oxygen comes from the air in your lungs, goes in and out your alveolar cells, then into the lumen of your pulmonar capillaries. From there, it diffuses into red cells, and then, finally, is accepted by hemoglobin molecules. Oxygen is considered as a small molecule that doesn't need any transporter to cross the bilipidic membrane of our cells. So your blood is never entirely gas-free, even in its unbound form.
Even more: in hyperbaric conditions, where your limited reserves of hemoglobin are already saturated, it is speculated that oxygen nourishes your tissues without being carried by red cells, only dissolved in your blood. Hemoglobin proteins would then only act as a mere oxygen buffer.
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Not to undermine your prophecy, but yeah okay we've got that from your previous comment !
This New Scientist article comes short to provide any data about the absolute risk rates. Sure it's easy to make headlines with those impressive relative risk rate reductions: 80% reduction for heavy (4 cups and more/day) coffee drinkers!
But here are the actual absolute risk rates for alcoholic cirrhosis among the general population, as interpreted from the actual study (Archives of Internal Medicine 166:1190:Table 1)
No coffee: 0.16%
Less than 1 cup: 0.14%
1-3 cups: 0.18%
4 cups and more: 0.11%
Whether a patient drinks coffee or not will only cause a 0.07% variability of the alcoholic cirrhosis risk. In short, another fine example of medical sensationalism.
Thanks to Google, you can try Baidu in English.
Article's pulled off, so here's the Google cache.
Now that Virtual PC is in Microsoft's hands, it would be interesting to see a comeback for those cards.
Here in the posko the only reliable way to communicate is by the Internet. The IT guys here have set up a nice wired and wireless network which ease the communication with Jakarta, Geneva, and all our relatives. Important reports are going though and help the central coordination of the relief efforts. I am keeping a blog for the medical students of my university so that they learn at the same time the other side of disaster medical relief efforts and international 'humanitarian' organisations.
Stats means nothing if the operating system maker makes it difficult to patch some holes (how are normal persons supposed to know if they have Outlook Express 6.0 or 6.0 SP1 ), takes his time to address known vulnerabilities, and makes it impossible for pirated copies to update their version of the OS.
And it's sickening to hear that the only reason Windows is so much vulnerable is his popularity. It is not. Sloppy programmation and bad choices of default options definitively have their share.
MacNN Forums got it to 53 (with some cross references).
.mac sync .Mac.
Can someone complete it?
01. spotlight
02. ichat av video
03. ichat audio
04. ichat interface like itunes list
05. safari rss
06. dashboard
07. automator
08. voice over
09.
10. enhanced unix support
11. 64 bit os better 64 bit atvantage
12. xcode 2.0
13. system prefs stealth mode
14. firewall logging
15. block udp traffic
16. core video
17. core graphics
18. new quicktime cocoa
19. quicktime mpeg4 part 10 the h.264 avc
20. so metadata you could say
21. i heard safari is faster 2.0
22. mail is better with smart thingies
23. people say over all response is faster
24. new theme for overall appearance
25. no debug code
26. has a min requirirment for core image and video
27. all the windows integration
28. Dock menus contain option to remove items.
29. Help Viewer searches Apple KBase articles.
30. iChat has support for inline groups.
31. Support for profile editing in Chat.
32. Menu in iChat for quickly switching between accounts.
33. Share devices over the internet with
34. Mail - "Favorites" bar for mail folders.
35. Extra options in Mail compose window.
36. Mail - toggle automatic adding of iCal invites.
37. QuickTime - live resizing.
38. Safari - navigation in contextual menus.
39. Safari - copy image addresses from context. menu
40. Safari - add image to iPhoto by right-clicking
41. Finder - renaming items in sidebar
42. Context. menu for items in sidebar.
43. Setup Assistant - options for transferring files & settings between computers.
44. Finder - save search results as Smart Folders.
46. System-wide tabbed interface?
47. Considerably enhanced Dock?
48. Virtual workspaces in Exposé?
46. search in system prefs
47. new finder search
48. new system wide search
49. search is not limited to the apps it's in
50. search in mail
51. search in address book
52. ability to have spotlight intigrated with other apps
53. Coredata
On the other hand, here is the official response from Arlo, the developer behind Konfabulator.
I think the most interesting point is that he knows about the 6-month head-start he has before Dashboard is available to the public.
What can be done in the mean time? Making more useful widgets. Porting to other platforms (the Windows port was announced in December). More importantly, enhance the application (maybe adding the same appear-only-with-key-pressed), and reduce the CPU load (using WebKit, it might also be possible to make Konfabulator Dashboard-compatible).
There was a "strong anti-AI" camp which believed that Artificial Intelligence couldn't happen - even if you created a perfect simulation of a brain, you'd just be "simulating" intelligence, whatever that means [...] Once we can perfectly replicate the functionality of every last bit of the brain, do we just have a really nifty toy, or a genuine mind?
I am not an AI expert, but I think that the main difference between the mind and the AI is that random, uncontrolled processes are incorporated in your thoughts, which is not the case for AI (unless this random component is simulated?) The encoding in your brain works like lossy compression.
This is the basis for the generation of imaginatory processes and the fact you can't recall a picture with the precision of a computer.
Would it then be possible to record every moment of your life and store it away?
Only if you can also mimic the brain as storage device.
As the article states, it only encodes the information. The information is stored everywhere else in your brain.
But it is false to assume that there is no gas circulating unbound in blood. In fact, 3% of blood oxygen do so without any carrier proteins.
Also consider how oxygen enters your circulation in a step-by-step process: oxygen comes from the air in your lungs, goes in and out your alveolar cells, then into the lumen of your pulmonar capillaries. From there, it diffuses into red cells, and then, finally, is accepted by hemoglobin molecules. Oxygen is considered as a small molecule that doesn't need any transporter to cross the bilipidic membrane of our cells. So your blood is never entirely gas-free, even in its unbound form.
Even more: in hyperbaric conditions, where your limited reserves of hemoglobin are already saturated, it is speculated that oxygen nourishes your tissues without being carried by red cells, only dissolved in your blood. Hemoglobin proteins would then only act as a mere oxygen buffer.