Eswarm isn't live yet, however, the Point is. It allows you to start a "campaign" that people can pledge to, set a cut of date, and if the goal is fulfilled by the cutoff date, then everyone is obligated to meet abide by their pledge. In the case of monetary campaigns, your credit card is required as part of your pledge. You are never charged if the campaign goal isn't met.
It sounds like you only think about computer problems and are sick of being in the same box but want to apply your skills elsewhere.
There's a huge need in the field of computational sciences. You can think about things from database structuring, meta data storage, statical analysis, automation and robotics, networking and distribution of data. All of this is constantly changing, depending on the amount of data being acquired and new technological capabilities, ensuring job security. In the meanwhile you can think about even cooler things, like how to EFFICIENTLY calculate real world interactions biased on physical descriptors; what those descriptors should be; how to design experiments to test the models; even run your own bench top experiments. There's an endless pool of complex, interesting and real-world problems to solve.
The long and shot of it is, computers are boring, but what you can do with them isn't....
Many of the most active open source coders are poster children for being self absorbed. It's just that, instead of being self absorbed with money and material possessions, they prefer to be paid in the form of being well known, having prestige, and generally getting their ego stroked. Just because someone donates their time, or money to charity with some home of prestige or fame, doesn't mean that it's still not an act of charity. Further, you mean to tell me that everyone who starts an open source project thinks they are going to be famous? That's nonsense.
The thing the Africans need to realize is that most programmers prefer to get money in exchange for their coding, and if you don't allow patents, and therefore don't allow programmers to get money in exchange for coding, you have cut off about 98% of your source of new code. You can get some people to work for ego stroking, but most have mortgages to pay and lives to live, and they need money like everyone else. Your premise is severely flawed, patents are not necessary in order for programmers to be paid. Here at the Broad Institute there are plenty of open source programmers who are well paid.
Maybe it's time for a reality check, not everyone in this world is overly selfish.
Actually, IIRC much of the foundation of Color Kinetics, as well as Brian's work, was done by another MIT student, frostbyte (now deceased), and much of it probably qualifies public domain or prior art. Therefore it's likely, Phillips only has a patent on the implementation of a specific controller.
I'm surprised to see Brian made the front of slashdot for his artwork when his academic work, converting ethanol to H2 by creating Rh and CeO2 nanowires using a genetically engineered T9 capsid as the wire template seems far cooler. Unfortunately, is lab's home page seems to be down at the moment.
Or, you could donate to and help create more institutes such as OneWorld Health Then the cures that tax funded research creates, would have a non-profit outlet for development.
It isn't likely that AmGen would attempt to revise the structure of etanercept as they would then have painstakingly go back though every phase of clinical trials again with even the slightest modification. If they use the same product, they only need to complete Phase IIb (efficacy) and Phase III studies to market the drug for this now off-off label use. While an injection to the spine may not seem ideal for patients, it would prove beneficial as there almost certainly would be many competitors to follow due to the fair number of other drugs that act on the exact same pathway. In fact, Embrol was actually originally developed as a rheumatory arthritis drug, targeting Tumor Necrosis Factor. (It has since been proven effective against many other autoimmune diseases.) While there are drugs like Remicade, Humira that also inhibit TNF, a positive result when using Embrol in Alzheimer's seems to implicate ANY drug that targets autoimmune disease as a possible cure.
I tried to sign up but got a "Runtime Error": Server Error in '/' Application. Runtime Error Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
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I doubt that education makes one less likely to swarm. While you may be able to train people to critically think, so that they won't swarm around the underly stupid. Further even in less educated populations there always exist outliers to the social norms.
Did you go to grade school, or where you a home-schooled hippy?
Nice parenthetic, as indeed, this has been known for quite some time and is why DNA can be used for fingerprinting as well as for linage studies. It has been known for decades that mitochondria, which take our genes and translate them into proteins, are encoded by a specific set of DNA which are located outside of the nucleus and its sequence is EXTREMELY conserved. The theory has always been that they are so essential that mutations are just not tolerated.
The article summary is poor, the real story is the direct confirmation of how CNV's (copy number variations) related to disease.
I imagine the company being consulted (being a nitric oxide vendor) would is actually pushing for the blood be infused with nitric oxide.
I don't see injections of nitric oxide being pushed as, the nitric oxide pathway is the same one that Viagra works on.
$79 a month for 1000 minutes doesn't strike you as expensive? Maybe on your salary, but that's outrageous to me.
I'm currently paying $40 for what sounds like an equivalent plan, and I'm slightly bitter because I use to have a local plan before I moved that gave me the same for $10 a month provided I didn't leave the state.
You paid $50 for an outdated piece of poo while I was able to get an HTC wizard for free after rebate 9 months ago...
sounds to me like you are just happy overpaying.
This is slightly off topic, but the poster is correct, not only this person, but everyone ought to drop Wells Fargo, not just because of their security, but because their customer service is horrid, FTA:
"the bank was horrible. I felt they thought I was comical. I kept dealing with different people. Three different times they told me I'd have to come in and ID the (security camera) photo, that I hadn't done it."
My personal experience isn't much different. I paid them ~$16,000 to clear the lean on my car title in October so that I could purchase a home, they sent me 2 lean release statements, but never a title. After a month, I already hd a buyer, but was still waiting on the title, I called to ask what was happening, the story was wait another week it's in the mail, I continued to call 2ce a week for the next month until they finally told me that I was past due on a payment, despite having making my payout deadline and paying the balance in full. I attempted acquire a copy form my state, but they wouldn't issue it despite the lean release letter as they said the request would have to come though the lien holder. I was on the phone with them every day for 2 weeks, each time people telling me that some one wasn't around to deal with it, or that it was all set, but couldn't give me a time line as to when I'd see the title, but it's okay and that I have 120 days before my account would go into default. On about the 90th day after the supposed missed payment they suddenly had no record of my account. THEY SENT IT TO COLLECTIONS!, ruining my credit in the process. I began talking with the collections department and was still getting the run around. Meanwhile I'm still trying to find a way to mortgage a new home, and came across a condo complex with an on site Wells Fargo mortgage broker. He asked me if he could help me, and run a credit check, after laughing in his face and telling him there wasn't a snow ball chance in hell I'd ever deal with Wells Fargo again, and how horrid their service was, his manager eventually got involved. It took the manager another month and a half, more than 5 months after the start of the fiasco, to clear everything up, and my credit is still hasn't quite recovered.
I just went to aol.co.uk/aim installed their version on my girlfriend's machine (yes I do actually have one so spare me the jokes). It doesn't seem to have the Viewpoint BS bundled with it, has less pop-ups and is way less annoying.
My girlfriends brother was looking into a job at the USPTO. I said, "that's cool, you should start rejecting almost everything as most are so damn obvious. He replied that would be stupid for him to do as he gets a "bonus" for every 1000 or so patents he "puts through."
Since DC current can't travle far - you should really only convert to DC at each outlet. That accounted for - there's no reason we can't settle on 12V DC as it's already standard in the car and is even offered on buses, trains, planes etc. To convert at the outlet to 12 DC car plug you need this: http://www.nugadgets.com/products/ProductDetails/4 .8956.1.html
Well have you ever tried uninstalling it in windows? I did on my girlfriends Sony computer and all the CDRoms couldn't mount. So I uninstalled them with device manager and reinstalled to find that suddenly the correct driver could not be found. I checked the error messages I was getting against google and found a form that gave me some registry hack and linked the problem to the itunes uninstall. If that's not malware, I don't know what is.
> With software bugs being a fact of life, consumers and organizations could claim that they need to be able to verify an application's source code before they accept that their calculations are accurate
Similarly, back before the Y2K bug was seen as a huge technological burden on companies, the FDA had proposed some regulations regarding drug manufacturing / quality control that required the process to be fully reviewable during an FDA inspection. As usual the regulation was intentionally vague as to allow for interpretation where deemed appropriate. I was lucky enough to be working for very compliant and thus, proactive company (now BMS) and got to see how things ideally could be in the pharmaceutical industry: The original guidance given by the agency seemed to require that all equipment and devices have least have some sort of documentation from the vendor saying that they would allow the FDA to look at their source code. It was a MAJOR pain to get companies to agree to such things (as they didn't wanna be held liable for poor code) and thus began the notion that OSS would be used if available. In one notable instance, the manufacture of a UV spec waffled until it came time to fax a document assuring the FDA could look if necessary. Our company ended up returning the whole unit and ordering a different brand. If it weren't for the Y2K worries already burdening the industry, it likely would of turned out that the whole industry would have had to work on VALIDATED and open software -- too bad:(
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Eswarm isn't live yet, however, the Point is. It allows you to start a "campaign" that people can pledge to, set a cut of date, and if the goal is fulfilled by the cutoff date, then everyone is obligated to meet abide by their pledge. In the case of monetary campaigns, your credit card is required as part of your pledge. You are never charged if the campaign goal isn't met.
It sounds like you only think about computer problems and are sick of being in the same box but want to apply your skills elsewhere.
There's a huge need in the field of computational sciences. You can think about things from database structuring, meta data storage, statical analysis, automation and robotics, networking and distribution of data. All of this is constantly changing, depending on the amount of data being acquired and new technological capabilities, ensuring job security. In the meanwhile you can think about even cooler things, like how to EFFICIENTLY calculate real world interactions biased on physical descriptors; what those descriptors should be; how to design experiments to test the models; even run your own bench top experiments. There's an endless pool of complex, interesting and real-world problems to solve.
The long and shot of it is, computers are boring, but what you can do with them isn't....
I thought it was just me...
Actually, IIRC much of the foundation of Color Kinetics, as well as Brian's work, was done by another MIT student, frostbyte (now deceased), and much of it probably qualifies public domain or prior art. Therefore it's likely, Phillips only has a patent on the implementation of a specific controller.
I'm surprised to see Brian made the front of slashdot for his artwork when his academic work, converting ethanol to H2 by creating Rh and CeO2 nanowires using a genetically engineered T9 capsid as the wire template seems far cooler. Unfortunately, is lab's home page seems to be down at the moment.
Or, you could donate to and help create more institutes such as OneWorld Health Then the cures that tax funded research creates, would have a non-profit outlet for development.
It isn't likely that AmGen would attempt to revise the structure of etanercept as they would then have painstakingly go back though every phase of clinical trials again with even the slightest modification. If they use the same product, they only need to complete Phase IIb (efficacy) and Phase III studies to market the drug for this now off-off label use.
While an injection to the spine may not seem ideal for patients, it would prove beneficial as there almost certainly would be many competitors to follow due to the fair number of other drugs that act on the exact same pathway. In fact, Embrol was actually originally developed as a rheumatory arthritis drug, targeting Tumor Necrosis Factor. (It has since been proven effective against many other autoimmune diseases.) While there are drugs like Remicade, Humira that also inhibit TNF, a positive result when using Embrol in Alzheimer's seems to implicate ANY drug that targets autoimmune disease as a possible cure.
I tried to sign up but got a "Runtime Error":
Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
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Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
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<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
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Have you considered running for office? Your clarity about protection of individual rights is impressive....
I doubt that education makes one less likely to swarm. While you may be able to train people to critically think, so that they won't swarm around the underly stupid. Further even in less educated populations there always exist outliers to the social norms.
Did you go to grade school, or where you a home-schooled hippy?
Nice parenthetic, as indeed, this has been known for quite some time and is why DNA can be used for fingerprinting as well as for linage studies. It has been known for decades that mitochondria, which take our genes and translate them into proteins, are encoded by a specific set of DNA which are located outside of the nucleus and its sequence is EXTREMELY conserved. The theory has always been that they are so essential that mutations are just not tolerated.
The article summary is poor, the real story is the direct confirmation of how CNV's (copy number variations) related to disease.
I imagine the company being consulted (being a nitric oxide vendor) would is actually pushing for the blood be infused with nitric oxide.
I don't see injections of nitric oxide being pushed as, the nitric oxide pathway is the same one that Viagra works on.
$79 a month for 1000 minutes doesn't strike you as expensive? Maybe on your salary, but that's outrageous to me. I'm currently paying $40 for what sounds like an equivalent plan, and I'm slightly bitter because I use to have a local plan before I moved that gave me the same for $10 a month provided I didn't leave the state. You paid $50 for an outdated piece of poo while I was able to get an HTC wizard for free after rebate 9 months ago... sounds to me like you are just happy overpaying.
This is slightly off topic, but the poster is correct, not only this person, but everyone ought to drop Wells Fargo, not just because of their security, but because their customer service is horrid, FTA:
"the bank was horrible. I felt they thought I was comical. I kept dealing with different people. Three different times they told me I'd have to come in and ID the (security camera) photo, that I hadn't done it."
My personal experience isn't much different. I paid them ~$16,000 to clear the lean on my car title in October so that I could purchase a home, they sent me 2 lean release statements, but never a title. After a month, I already hd a buyer, but was still waiting on the title, I called to ask what was happening, the story was wait another week it's in the mail, I continued to call 2ce a week for the next month until they finally told me that I was past due on a payment, despite having making my payout deadline and paying the balance in full. I attempted acquire a copy form my state, but they wouldn't issue it despite the lean release letter as they said the request would have to come though the lien holder. I was on the phone with them every day for 2 weeks, each time people telling me that some one wasn't around to deal with it, or that it was all set, but couldn't give me a time line as to when I'd see the title, but it's okay and that I have 120 days before my account would go into default. On about the 90th day after the supposed missed payment they suddenly had no record of my account. THEY SENT IT TO COLLECTIONS!, ruining my credit in the process. I began talking with the collections department and was still getting the run around. Meanwhile I'm still trying to find a way to mortgage a new home, and came across a condo complex with an on site Wells Fargo mortgage broker. He asked me if he could help me, and run a credit check, after laughing in his face and telling him there wasn't a snow ball chance in hell I'd ever deal with Wells Fargo again, and how horrid their service was, his manager eventually got involved. It took the manager another month and a half, more than 5 months after the start of the fiasco, to clear everything up, and my credit is still hasn't quite recovered.
just say HELL NO! to Wells Fargo!
Wouldn't the curving of the liquid layers be considered a moving part?
buffer overflows are great - they allow you to get root on all sorts of devices that some bastard tried to lock you out of.
I'm a biochemist. It took me quite a while to find a buisness like this, but I finally found one and am now working there:
broad.harvard.edu
broad.mit.edu
I just went to aol.co.uk/aim installed their version on my girlfriend's machine (yes I do actually have one so spare me the jokes). It doesn't seem to have the Viewpoint BS bundled with it, has less pop-ups and is way less annoying.
My girlfriends brother was looking into a job at the USPTO. I said, "that's cool, you should start rejecting almost everything as most are so damn obvious. He replied that would be stupid for him to do as he gets a "bonus" for every 1000 or so patents he "puts through."
Since DC current can't travle far - you should really only convert to DC at each outlet. That accounted for - there's no reason we can't settle on 12V DC as it's already standard in the car and is even offered on buses, trains, planes etc. To convert at the outlet to 12 DC car plug you need this:4 .8956.1.html
c tId=2102590&cp=&kw=dc+adapter&parentPage=search
http://www.nugadgets.com/products/ProductDetails/
if you have multiple devices you'll need a spliter:
http://www.outletpc.com/c6331.html
if there are any devices that didn't come with a car adapter you can use one of these:
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?produ
Of course higher power versions of these cost more....
WOW!!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!!!
Well have you ever tried uninstalling it in windows? I did on my girlfriends Sony computer and all the CDRoms couldn't mount. So I uninstalled them with device manager and reinstalled to find that suddenly the correct driver could not be found. I checked the error messages I was getting against google and found a form that gave me some registry hack and linked the problem to the itunes uninstall. If that's not malware, I don't know what is.
Frugal results for ogg turn up plenty of devices:c h+Froogle&hl=en&show=dd
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=ogg&btnG=Sear
Winamp 2.7 plays ogg just fine - why go for the itunes bloat?
> With software bugs being a fact of life, consumers and organizations could claim that they need to be able to verify an application's source code before they accept that their calculations are accurate
:(
Similarly, back before the Y2K bug was seen as a huge technological burden on companies, the FDA had proposed some regulations regarding drug manufacturing / quality control that required the process to be fully reviewable during an FDA inspection. As usual the regulation was intentionally vague as to allow for interpretation where deemed appropriate. I was lucky enough to be working for very compliant and thus, proactive company (now BMS) and got to see how things ideally could be in the pharmaceutical industry: The original guidance given by the agency seemed to require that all equipment and devices have least have some sort of documentation from the vendor saying that they would allow the FDA to look at their source code. It was a MAJOR pain to get companies to agree to such things (as they didn't wanna be held liable for poor code) and thus began the notion that OSS would be used if available. In one notable instance, the manufacture of a UV spec waffled until it came time to fax a document assuring the FDA could look if necessary. Our company ended up returning the whole unit and ordering a different brand. If it weren't for the Y2K worries already burdening the industry, it likely would of turned out that the whole industry would have had to work on VALIDATED and open software -- too bad