You are a genius. You have saved countless lives. Now that we have a way to overcome the blood-brain barrier we can administer live saving drugs to the brain area. Curing many untofore incurable diseases! Why haven't we thought of this before. Pray what is the scientific peer reviewed article so I can reference it and win my Nobel prize.
What's the html tag for sarcasm
PS I am half serious, or there is a half seriously missing.
But even if there is a hint of this working I will try it (IAAS).
Indeed, but the trick is that you only have to build one shielded room instead of two buildings. BTW for electrons there are already "portable" "conventional" devices that go up to 6MeV and which are mounted on robot arms
(Cyberknife) or CT-gantry mounts (tomotherapy) which already treat patients. Google on any of these terms.
It is not for electron beams that this would be a boon. It is rather for other particles (protons, heavy ions). The footprint of such facilities is pretty large. In the US there are currently
a number of proton treatment centers. Protons allow you to generate more conformal treatments (e.g. treating tumor not healthy tissue) with very low levels of doses elsewhere in the body. The latter is important for patients expected to have long survival times (these are becoming more prevalent as we are able to cure more and more tumors with less side effects). This is particularly important in treatment of childhood cancers.
Heavy Ions is another ball game. Now you need a synchrotron to get these up to the desired energies. This means building another building only to hold the accelerator (no talk about treatment rooms, rotatable gantries or anything). Heavy ions are very good at destroying cells as they generate a high density of ionizations along their path. They also have the same interesting conformal properties as
protons. There are only about 4 or 5 heavy ion facilities in the world, most of them in Japan or Europe. There currently is no economic gain to be made building heavy ion facilities, protons are now reimbursed and facilities are starting to be generated although they are very costly ($100 10^6)
A "portable" accelerator would reduce footprint and building costs immensely making it economically feasible. Unfortunately, the accelerators presented here do not have a high enough flux yet to be used for clinically relevant doses.
In short: interesting, but don't hold your breath. Implementation, even in a research setting is at least 10-15 years down the line. Of course I could be completely wrong and have one on my doorstep tomorrow, with a note by a physician, "please calibrate, a patient starts tomorrow"
No they use TeX or LaTeX (for the scared) as a wordprocessor which was there before wordstar. I for one still prefer it over MS-Word. I still use it everyday.
It is adapted to my idiosyncracies something which is hard in any other editor.
Having an RFID that opens everything implanted would likely increase this type of crime, which is already very "popular" in Europe.
For those who are not familiar. An employee, husband, jewelery shop owner's family is held hostage for a short period so that everything the persons owns or has
access to can be emptied. I'd rather have my house emptied by someone stealing my keys than being the key myself. With passwords and codes there still needs to be some
negotiation phase, here the only thing they need is the part of your body with the Id.
Suggestion: if you're righthanded use the left arm;-)
>Everyone assumes that OUR ancestors had the >'superior abilities and traits' but, other than the >fact that we're here instead of them, there's no >reason to think that.
In fact, that is the fallacy most people have when talking (thinking) about evolution. The traits aren't supposed to be superior, they should only be better adapted to the circumstance, event, environment that is driving the selection.
Take for example food shortage. In a first stage a larger size will allow you to talk food from smaller competitors, but when food gets even more scarce a smaller build might just need less food.
Most people think it is survival of the strongest. It is survival of the fittest, as in
fitting a square peg in a square hole, the only difference with the round peg is its squareness,
color, size, or material are of no consequence.
Come to think of it even religion is surely a factor in evolution. It is the first means humankind had to spread 'rules that enable survival' to larger groups. I am sure you can think of many, if not think of combinations of certain type of meats, parasites and climate and how they are dealt with in different religions. These rules enable more religious people to survive than non-religious. Be aware that this is not only way to do this. There are now many different ways to spread such rules (laws, science, internet etc...)
I normally stay out of the Windows bashing fray. If these permission distributions are so good, then tell me how I can setup my daughter's account on a Windows XP machine so that she can play her Harry Potter game and not be an admin?
I have no problem doing that in a Linux environment.
Not a troll or anything I just don't know how (I don't think the help functions and knowledgebase are that great either).
Quite naievely, I would say to enhance quality. I own exactly one DVD-Audio disc and play it on a 5.1 Creative Labs soundcard. It is the absolute only reason I boot to Windows. I have the same record in vinyl and on CD (remastered) and I must say the quality is absolutely stunning. Warmth of vimyl combined with crispness of the CD and 5 separate channels help you to feel exactely surrounded by the players. Unfortunately, the DVD-audio catatlogue absolutely sucks there is almost nothing there. I would kill for a good rendition of a Bach Cantate (Phillipe Herreweghe if you are reading this, go for it!).
I haven't heared the SACD format yet on something like this, their catalogue is somewhat more extensive. Looks Like Betmax deja vue all over again!
You are all wrong. It is a style error called contamination:
Part one: fool me once shame on you (orignal saying)
Part two: Don't get fooled again (The Who)
Your post makes sense in some sense. However, it also shows one of the things this book is about.
You assume immediately that I took someone's job! That remains to be seen, not all H1B's are programmers. I might have some programming skills, but that was not why I was hired. Furthermore, it seems that there are still not enough Americans to do the job I do, when I look at the number of open positions.
Even the fact that you have to stay with the employer that hired you can be used. It can be argued that you have a temporary contract and that your employer must keep his/her end of the bargain. It does take "foreigners" some time to figure this out that you do have recourse and can't be sent home just like that.
I don't agree at all. I was an H1B holder before I received a green card. I also have seen a slew of H1B's hired. Before you hire, you have to post the position and show that there are no "American" candidates (of course you can keep it as quiet as possible). Furthermore you have to show that the wages are of the same level as wages paid to Americans.
I believe there are many myths going around. Actually, wage wise H1B's are better protected than green card holders. On the other hand you are shackled to your employer.
What "foreigners" are not used to is the cutthroat environment they end up in and usually they have to learn how to defend themselves. But that is another issue.
It will also make it easy to finally generate virusses (viri?) that get through pine. Just send e-mail with the commands. The reader acts as a batch command.
1) open your webbanking site
2) transfer all your money to account n0 555 55555 55 (Swiss bank of course)
3) Delete all cache memory
4) Get Rich
This is not a sig, wait a minute it is!
AFAIK, one has to show due diligence in patent application, which means that you show progress with the patent. You can't have things lying around for years, show it to everyine and then decide that it is worth patenting.
In essence when it has already spread throughout the marketplace it is too late for patents.
If the patent office follows it's own rules they should deny the patent
It is clear that the went to Milliways after Magrathea as Milliways is situated at the end of the Universe. There is a particular way to address this problem as clearly (will have been )pointed out by Douglas Adams. It is the time travelling that got everyone (radio, book, movie) mixed up. In short the order does not matter, only when you want to put on your shoes before your sox. And even that is not a bad idea when freezing temperatures abound
Dear Sir,
I sincerely write to seek your co-operation and trust
to enable my colleagues and I carry out an urgent
business opportunity in my department. I work with the Quantum Encryption Company of Nigeria PLC, currently I am the senior manager of bills and exchange at the foreign language encryption department of my company. I have an urgent and confidential business proposal for you.
etc...
Hm, I still think that you need to prove that it is feasible. In the description you have to show it to work. If not, where are all the perpetuum mobile patents? have seen some pretty detailed descriptions of that.
I wasn't aware of that, but it sure helps if you have a prototype, to convince the patent bureau that you have something that works.
70 years doesn't invalidate the Jules Verne example I guess.
The exact quote would be: " A patent cannot be obtained upon a mere idea or suggestion. The patent is granted upon the new machine, manufacture, etc., as has been said, and not upon the idea or suggestion of the new machine. A complete description of the actual machine or other subject matter for which a patent is sought is required."
You have to realize the idea. It seems that there are three steps
1) Having the idea 2) Writing it down in a manner that makes it feasible to implement 3) Carry out the idea through an implementation or prototype
and of course 4) ??? 5) Profit
You have to document these steps in order to have it patented. In case of dispute the date of 1) is the one that counts. Of course you need to have it written down with data and signed by a witness. Then you have to show due diligence in the application. Can't wait twenty years and then implement it. For example it is clear that Jules Verne could claim invention of space travel but there is about 100years before the implementation and he did not implement so he can't patent space travel (this is beside the fact, the man is dead).
Apparantly not only Diebold is trying to convince the public a Washington Post editorial gives a fair overview of the current situation in a readable way.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A701 2-2004May6.html
Registration might be necessary to read the article
I completely disagree with the author in this article in not trying to take calculus in highschool. It is the only time that you will get the chance to learn to think in an abstract way at a time when it is good for anyone to do that. Waiting until College is too late.
Even if you get a lower score, it is not bad for you to see things more than once. Sometimes it is even better for your self esteem.
It is clear that higher math should be part of a computer science (not programming) course. I hope that most people selecting CS don't expect to do web-design. Actually there are nice tools out there to do that and is probably something a person skilled in design (art!) is better apt at doing.
Part of your calculus course should include at least precursors to Fourier Transform (image processing anyone?), Wavelet Transforms (compression), Linear Algebra (Optimization algorithms, machine vision!), analytical and projective geometry (3D visualization).
It is not bad for anyone, having to use these things to be exposed early on.
Choose the path of most resistance (hardest subjects). Stepping down is easier than stepping up
I don't believe having a nice science lab helps you in anyway. Most of the countries you are talking about do not have nice science labs or anything. What they do have is rigorous thresholds (which is not the same as a competition for the best, which is what they tend to do here).
Also they are not allowed the choice of subjects they have in the US (no credits for Aerobics if you are a physics major).
What happens is that in the US thresholds are variable. I am in an admissions committee at a University and I would not be able to admit a lot of the foreign students because the are graded way more stringent than students in the US (every body gets an A;-) ). Getting an A-level score should not be the norm.
Maybe we should start to demand more from our students. The laziness described in many of the previous posting is because they are allowed to be lazy, not because they are inherently more lazy.
As for sports, I believe you can excell (OOCalc?) in sports and science at the same time, heck a know a lot of people who do. You can even date girls when you major in science.
Another possible brake on science advancement is the cost of scientific research in this country. A lot of the research performed aborad is done at a fraction of the cost in the US. Remember that obtaining a Federal Grant at a University not only pays for the research, but also for overhead (51% !) and fringe benefits (26%). These funds then go to a general University fund. A lot of the Universities are now major corporations, so their goal is to make money not produce research (that is only the product (or part of the product) they sell. So this money does not necessarily go to further or help the research of the persons who are recipients of the grant.
Slashdot Mirror
What's the html tag for sarcasm
PS I am half serious, or there is a half seriously missing. But even if there is a hint of this working I will try it (IAAS).Indeed, but the trick is that you only have to build one shielded room instead of two buildings. BTW for electrons there are already "portable" "conventional" devices that go up to 6MeV and which are mounted on robot arms (Cyberknife) or CT-gantry mounts (tomotherapy) which already treat patients. Google on any of these terms.
It is not for electron beams that this would be a boon. It is rather for other particles (protons, heavy ions). The footprint of such facilities is pretty large. In the US there are currently a number of proton treatment centers. Protons allow you to generate more conformal treatments (e.g. treating tumor not healthy tissue) with very low levels of doses elsewhere in the body. The latter is important for patients expected to have long survival times (these are becoming more prevalent as we are able to cure more and more tumors with less side effects). This is particularly important in treatment of childhood cancers.
Heavy Ions is another ball game. Now you need a synchrotron to get these up to the desired energies. This means building another building only to hold the accelerator (no talk about treatment rooms, rotatable gantries or anything). Heavy ions are very good at destroying cells as they generate a high density of ionizations along their path. They also have the same interesting conformal properties as protons. There are only about 4 or 5 heavy ion facilities in the world, most of them in Japan or Europe. There currently is no economic gain to be made building heavy ion facilities, protons are now reimbursed and facilities are starting to be generated although they are very costly ($100 10^6)
A "portable" accelerator would reduce footprint and building costs immensely making it economically feasible. Unfortunately, the accelerators presented here do not have a high enough flux yet to be used for clinically relevant doses.
In short: interesting, but don't hold your breath. Implementation, even in a research setting is at least 10-15 years down the line. Of course I could be completely wrong and have one on my doorstep tomorrow, with a note by a physician, "please calibrate, a patient starts tomorrow"No they use TeX or LaTeX (for the scared) as a wordprocessor which was there before wordstar. I for one still prefer it over MS-Word. I still use it everyday. It is adapted to my idiosyncracies something which is hard in any other editor.
I still see "La Libre Belgique" a french speaking newspaper
But when I do this: http://news.google.be/news?ned=fr_beIt's not there anymore.
Guess what Belgians will do next? BTW there is no such thing as Belgian waffles, Canadian Bacon, or Filet Americain. Right about the beer though!Suggestion: if you're righthanded use the left arm ;-)
Sig was kidnapped
Chekov: I thought zese vere all WRussian inventions?
Who needs a cached back and forth. Use tabbed browsing and switch tabs if you want to go back.
In fact, that is the fallacy most people have when talking (thinking) about evolution. The traits aren't supposed to be superior, they should only be better adapted to the circumstance, event, environment that is driving the selection. Take for example food shortage. In a first stage a larger size will allow you to talk food from smaller competitors, but when food gets even more scarce a smaller build might just need less food.
Most people think it is survival of the strongest. It is survival of the fittest, as in fitting a square peg in a square hole, the only difference with the round peg is its squareness, color, size, or material are of no consequence.
Come to think of it even religion is surely a factor in evolution. It is the first means humankind had to spread 'rules that enable survival' to larger groups. I am sure you can think of many, if not think of combinations of certain type of meats, parasites and climate and how they are dealt with in different religions. These rules enable more religious people to survive than non-religious. Be aware that this is not only way to do this. There are now many different ways to spread such rules (laws, science, internet etc...)
Funny huh, Intelligent Design evolvedI have no problem doing that in a Linux environment.
Not a troll or anything I just don't know how (I don't think the help functions and knowledgebase are that great either).
I know the cluster joke is an open door, but seriously. USBhub == cluster Does it run pvm? Look at me mom, no racks!
Quite naievely, I would say to enhance quality. I own exactly one DVD-Audio disc and play it on a 5.1 Creative Labs soundcard. It is the absolute only reason I boot to Windows. I have the same record in vinyl and on CD (remastered) and I must say the quality is absolutely stunning. Warmth of vimyl combined with crispness of the CD and 5 separate channels help you to feel exactely surrounded by the players. Unfortunately, the DVD-audio catatlogue absolutely sucks there is almost nothing there. I would kill for a good rendition of a Bach Cantate (Phillipe Herreweghe if you are reading this, go for it!). I haven't heared the SACD format yet on something like this, their catalogue is somewhat more extensive. Looks Like Betmax deja vue all over again!
You are all wrong. It is a style error called contamination: Part one: fool me once shame on you (orignal saying) Part two: Don't get fooled again (The Who)
You assume immediately that I took someone's job! That remains to be seen, not all H1B's are programmers. I might have some programming skills, but that was not why I was hired. Furthermore, it seems that there are still not enough Americans to do the job I do, when I look at the number of open positions.
Even the fact that you have to stay with the employer that hired you can be used. It can be argued that you have a temporary contract and that your employer must keep his/her end of the bargain. It does take "foreigners" some time to figure this out that you do have recourse and can't be sent home just like that.
I don't agree at all. I was an H1B holder before I received a green card. I also have seen a slew of H1B's hired. Before you hire, you have to post the position and show that there are no "American" candidates (of course you can keep it as quiet as possible). Furthermore you have to show that the wages are of the same level as wages paid to Americans.
I believe there are many myths going around. Actually, wage wise H1B's are better protected than green card holders. On the other hand you are shackled to your employer.
What "foreigners" are not used to is the cutthroat environment they end up in and usually they have to learn how to defend themselves. But that is another issue.
It will also make it easy to finally generate virusses (viri?) that get through pine. Just send e-mail with the commands. The reader acts as a batch command. 1) open your webbanking site 2) transfer all your money to account n0 555 55555 55 (Swiss bank of course) 3) Delete all cache memory 4) Get Rich This is not a sig, wait a minute it is!
AFAIK, one has to show due diligence in patent application, which means that you show progress with the patent. You can't have things lying around for years, show it to everyine and then decide that it is worth patenting. In essence when it has already spread throughout the marketplace it is too late for patents. If the patent office follows it's own rules they should deny the patent
It is clear that the went to Milliways after Magrathea as Milliways is situated at the end of the Universe. There is a particular way to address this problem as clearly (will have been )pointed out by Douglas Adams. It is the time travelling that got everyone (radio, book, movie) mixed up. In short the order does not matter, only when you want to put on your shoes before your sox. And even that is not a bad idea when freezing temperatures abound
Dear Sir, I sincerely write to seek your co-operation and trust to enable my colleagues and I carry out an urgent business opportunity in my department. I work with the Quantum Encryption Company of Nigeria PLC, currently I am the senior manager of bills and exchange at the foreign language encryption department of my company. I have an urgent and confidential business proposal for you. etc ...
Hm, I still think that you need to prove that it is feasible. In the description you have to show it to work. If not, where are all the perpetuum mobile patents? have seen some pretty detailed descriptions of that.
I wasn't aware of that, but it sure helps if you have a prototype, to convince the patent bureau that you have something that works.
70 years doesn't invalidate the Jules Verne example I guess.
The exact quote would be:
" A patent cannot be obtained upon a mere idea or suggestion. The patent is granted upon the new machine, manufacture, etc., as has been said, and not upon the idea or suggestion of the new machine. A complete description of the actual machine or other subject matter for which a patent is sought is required."
You have to realize the idea.
It seems that there are three steps
1) Having the idea
2) Writing it down in a manner that makes it feasible to implement
3) Carry out the idea through an implementation or prototype
and of course
4) ???
5) Profit
You have to document these steps in order to have it patented. In case of dispute the date of 1) is
the one that counts. Of course you need to have it written down with data and signed by a witness.
Then you have to show due diligence in the application. Can't wait twenty years and then implement it. For example it is clear that Jules Verne could claim invention of space travel but there is about 100years before the implementation and he did not implement so he can't patent space travel (this is beside the fact, the man is dead).
Apparantly not only Diebold is trying to convince the public a Washington Post editorial gives a fair overview of the current situation in a readable way. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A701 2-2004May6.html
Registration might be necessary to read the article
I completely disagree with the author in this article in not trying to take calculus in highschool. It is the only time that you will get the chance to learn to think in an abstract way at a time when it is good for anyone to do that. Waiting until College is too late. Even if you get a lower score, it is not bad for you to see things more than once. Sometimes it is even better for your self esteem. It is clear that higher math should be part of a computer science (not programming) course. I hope that most people selecting CS don't expect to do web-design. Actually there are nice tools out there to do that and is probably something a person skilled in design (art!) is better apt at doing. Part of your calculus course should include at least precursors to Fourier Transform (image processing anyone?), Wavelet Transforms (compression), Linear Algebra (Optimization algorithms, machine vision!), analytical and projective geometry (3D visualization). It is not bad for anyone, having to use these things to be exposed early on. Choose the path of most resistance (hardest subjects). Stepping down is easier than stepping up
I don't believe having a nice science lab helps you in anyway. Most of the countries you are talking about do not have nice science labs or anything. What they do have is rigorous thresholds (which is not the same as a competition for the best, which is what they tend to do here). Also they are not allowed the choice of subjects they have in the US (no credits for Aerobics if you are a physics major). What happens is that in the US thresholds are variable. I am in an admissions committee at a University and I would not be able to admit a lot of the foreign students because the are graded way more stringent than students in the US (every body gets an A ;-) ). Getting an A-level score should not be the norm.
Maybe we should start to demand more from our students. The laziness described in many of the previous posting is because they are allowed to be lazy, not because they are inherently more lazy.
As for sports, I believe you can excell (OOCalc?) in sports and science at the same time, heck a know a lot of people who do. You can even date girls when you major in science.
Another possible brake on science advancement is the cost of scientific research in this country. A lot of the research performed aborad is done at a fraction of the cost in the US. Remember that obtaining a Federal Grant at a University not only pays for the research, but also for overhead (51% !) and fringe benefits (26%). These funds then go to a general University fund. A lot of the Universities are now major corporations, so their goal is to make money not produce research (that is only the product (or part of the product) they sell. So this money does not necessarily go to further or help the research of the persons who are recipients of the grant.
Why does this remind me of a flywheel?