So now, AFTER the last manufacturer of incandescent bulbs in America has closed up shop they want to use some special rules or tricks to make them legal again. Too little too late. This legislation is a perfect example of how BOTH parties are lost to the average people. I'm very Conservative and was critical of Bush for signing this (as if he would have heard or cared that I was critical of anything he did) along with the rest of the RINO Republicans that went along on this. We used to have a thing called 'Free Markets' in this country and this law is just a shining example of how the Government is actually controlling the marketplace. In a few more years LED's will be effective AND affordable, there was no harm in letting those come to market on their own. However, there is harm in forcing the mercury laden CFL's into the marketplace. Now we have homes filled with little toxic bombs just waiting to contaminate (heart-string tug) our kids with mercury.
And your Kardashians are any better? At least the Robertson family EARNED their wealth by starting an actual company and working hard to make it successful long before there was a TV show about them.
We can add all Global Warming and Climate Change stories to the hoax news. We can also add "If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" to the list of hoax news stories. And it's a long list.
- Stopping submarine patents and patent trolls.
- Actually doing due diligence on first-discovery vs. the nonsensical "first to file"
- Actually doing due diligence to keep the Obvious and Trivial patents out
- Actually doing due diligence to be sure someone isn't trying to patent something already patented
I would argue that first to file is as important as first to discover. There are scoundrels and then there are SCOUNDRELS that even if they are doing discovery/invention that will falsify data to claim they were "first". The discover/invention process needs to be documented much like scientific method and independently verified.
The EU rule that a patent must be file before announcement is ludacris. Public announcement AND demonstration of a discovery/invention in fact should improve the standing of a patent application if we are really concerned with patent trolls.
When I was a Navy Corpsman I did blood draws all the time. I also taught others how to do them by letting them use my arm for their first 'stick'. I can tell you that we are always just guessing that a vein will be good enough to draw blood. On men and women with large visible veins its a different issue. They are easy to see and they usually have good blood flow. However they tend to roll to one side or the other when you hit them with a needle. On those with veins that are hidden we are sticking 'blind'. We do our best to feel for a pulse in locations we know there to be veins and then stick the needle in until its hits the vein. Usually we hit the vein. Sometime though we don't and sometimes the vein just collapses.
The tools this robot has are a major advantage. IR to see the veins and ultrasound to tell if there is good blood flow. Those two tools would help most any phlebotomist increase their accuracy rate. The only thing that would concern me is that I didn't see or read anything that indicates the robot can tell how deep the vein is located. Sometimes they are on or near the surface and other times they are much deeper.
I would let the robot test on me just like I used to let new corpsman test on me.
Somewhere between learning to write my first "Hello World" program on the Apple IIe (and the TI99/4A) and making a career out of programming years later, I went to schools for Computer Repair and Bio-Medical Electronics. I still have a pile of 7400 series IC chips and my breadboards amongst other electronic components. I learned analog and digital circuit design in the late 80's. The logic learned in those classes still applies to everyday programming today. No matter what I did in those previous careers, the training I did then still applies today. AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR are still the 7 basic logic elements that make up all digital electronics and programming. From there Truth Tables are built and boolean algebra is applied to create any and all circuits and code today. In my humble opinion these are still essential to training people new to various IT fields. It's like having to learn nous, verbs, adverbs and adjectives in order to write understandable thoughts. If you lack this basic understanding learning the more advance concepts is difficult at best. It's good to see these are still being taught somewhere.
Now I'm more curious as to who's names are on the list. Which party or parties is trying to hide something? I find it odd that a newspaper reporters are worried about the privacy of anyone these days. Makes me wonder if some of the reporters or someone higher up at a newspaper is on the client list.
Next, were the payments for the Zumba lesson or sex? Maybe the sex was the free choice of adults that just happened to be conducting other legal business at the time? Just wondering here.
This is a good book to get you re-energized in programing and gets into introduced to 7 languages. They are: Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell
I do very well ($$$) programming web based application with ColdFusion. Using other technologies like Javascript (JQuery) for the front end. With the launch of CF 10 this year the language is fully scriptable for those that like script and tags for that that feel better working with tags. While it does not force OO style of programming it does allow OO programming. Because the CF server is built on Java and runs in a JVM you have direct access to Java. CF is designed to be a very strong and robust RAD platform. And it is robust. ColdFusion server is free for developers but it is a commercial product and it has a price tag. Companies are willing to pay for a reliable server platform. They do it all the time. Additionally there are a couple open source ColdFusion engines that are free. Like the OP I too started out programming a long time ago. I started in the 80's and did many languages prior to ColdFusion including assembler, CNC, BASIC, FORTRAN, ASP, PHP, C/C++, SQL, Perl etc.
ColdFusion is a viable language and there is room for more developers.
Nothing really - that would be a very creative use to recapture some lost energy dissipated as heat. But at 15% efficiency it's possible that it's not feasible to add into any device. Besides the thermoelectric material you have to have an addition circuit to capture the energy and a battery storage. If the device already has a battery then it needs to be rechargeable. Its likely that this would act more as a trickle charge than a full fledge charger. In my reading of TFA I did not notice a temperature range that these thermoelectric materials need to operate within.
FTFA:...But the connection between telomere length and health and longevity is far from clear. "There's a lot of doubt in the field," notes Joao Passos, a cellular aging specialist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who was not involved in the research. "For as many studies that show telomere length as a good predictor of health outcomes, there are as many that find no relationship."...
Also, with a bit of work I bet they could find something else the test subjects had in common and thus be claimed to also be a cause for the shortening of Telomeres.
To link this to child abuse is a bit of a stretch based on what I can read in the articles. It would appear that stress has more to do with appearing to age faster than anything. Being abused is stressful. I know first hand.
The premise you're using is also flawed. Why is Government funding healthcare? Government should not fund nor is really legal for it to fund healthcare. Once you get past that part you will realize why taxing people to change their behavior is morally wrong.
Strange indeed that Samsung was able to create a totally new and unique product that magically looks and feels just like an iPhone and iPad. It's more than just the CPU that Samsung has been making for Apple. And Samsung claims their products were invented by themselves.
Toxic (poisonous) is in the size of the dose. Many things are toxic or poisonous to humans in a large enough dose. In small doses those same things may be harmless or even beneficial. Dosage is the key. Otherwise we'd have to ban everything that could ever be harmful to humans.
The Westboro Baptist Church is not Catholic, or Christian. They are a Cult that claims to be Christian. The reality is they are pretty much a single (maybe inbred) family that calls themselves a church.
I am a Christian Biker Geek
This means I am Christian first and an avid motorcyclist and a programmer and systems administrator. I also ride with the Patriot Guard http://www.patriotguard.org/ [patriotguard.org] to help shield families of our fallen heros from these despicable people of this so-called church.
Please do not confuse these people for actual Christians.
The Westboro Baptist Church is not Catholic, or Christian. They are a Cult that claims to be Christian. The reality is they are pretty much a single (maybe inbred) family that calls themselves a church.
I am a Christian Biker Geek
This means I am Christian first and an avid motorcyclist and a programmer and systems administrator. I also ride with the Patriot Guard http://www.patriotguard.org/ to help shield families of our fallen heros from these despicable people of this so-called church.
Please do not confuse these people for actual Christians.
I guess you have no understanding of patents. They were never meant to be for the greater good of society. There were meant to protect inventors of things from those that would steal the ideas. The holder of the patent gets to decide if they want to release the patent to society for the greater good.
it was the talk command on unix or vms systems back then.
And as a college experiment we wrote a two way messaging system using GWBASIC on DOS 3.1 back around 1987. If only the USPTO had people that had a clue.
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So now, AFTER the last manufacturer of incandescent bulbs in America has closed up shop they want to use some special rules or tricks to make them legal again. Too little too late. This legislation is a perfect example of how BOTH parties are lost to the average people. I'm very Conservative and was critical of Bush for signing this (as if he would have heard or cared that I was critical of anything he did) along with the rest of the RINO Republicans that went along on this. We used to have a thing called 'Free Markets' in this country and this law is just a shining example of how the Government is actually controlling the marketplace. In a few more years LED's will be effective AND affordable, there was no harm in letting those come to market on their own. However, there is harm in forcing the mercury laden CFL's into the marketplace. Now we have homes filled with little toxic bombs just waiting to contaminate (heart-string tug) our kids with mercury.
Ask Hibbing, MN how they moved their city when it was found to be sitting on a huge Iron Ore deposit. They did it.
And your Kardashians are any better? At least the Robertson family EARNED their wealth by starting an actual company and working hard to make it successful long before there was a TV show about them.
We can add all Global Warming and Climate Change stories to the hoax news. We can also add "If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor" to the list of hoax news stories. And it's a long list.
- Stopping submarine patents and patent trolls.
- Actually doing due diligence on first-discovery vs. the nonsensical "first to file"
- Actually doing due diligence to keep the Obvious and Trivial patents out
- Actually doing due diligence to be sure someone isn't trying to patent something already patented
I would argue that first to file is as important as first to discover. There are scoundrels and then there are SCOUNDRELS that even if they are doing discovery/invention that will falsify data to claim they were "first". The discover/invention process needs to be documented much like scientific method and independently verified.
The EU rule that a patent must be file before announcement is ludacris. Public announcement AND demonstration of a discovery/invention in fact should improve the standing of a patent application if we are really concerned with patent trolls.
When I was a Navy Corpsman I did blood draws all the time. I also taught others how to do them by letting them use my arm for their first 'stick'. I can tell you that we are always just guessing that a vein will be good enough to draw blood. On men and women with large visible veins its a different issue. They are easy to see and they usually have good blood flow. However they tend to roll to one side or the other when you hit them with a needle. On those with veins that are hidden we are sticking 'blind'. We do our best to feel for a pulse in locations we know there to be veins and then stick the needle in until its hits the vein. Usually we hit the vein. Sometime though we don't and sometimes the vein just collapses.
The tools this robot has are a major advantage. IR to see the veins and ultrasound to tell if there is good blood flow. Those two tools would help most any phlebotomist increase their accuracy rate. The only thing that would concern me is that I didn't see or read anything that indicates the robot can tell how deep the vein is located. Sometimes they are on or near the surface and other times they are much deeper.
I would let the robot test on me just like I used to let new corpsman test on me.
Drats - I wasn't logged in when I posted this.
Here try this data: Murder rates world wide. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
Please not the very high rates of murder in countries that ban guns. Also, look at violent crime rates. Just because guns are banned does not mean people don't find another weapon to use. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196941/The-violent-country-Europe-Britain-worse-South-Africa-U-S.html
To stop all of this you'd have to ban people.
Ah the memories - TTL Cookbook! I still have that on a bookshelf in the basement.
Somewhere between learning to write my first "Hello World" program on the Apple IIe (and the TI99/4A) and making a career out of programming years later, I went to schools for Computer Repair and Bio-Medical Electronics. I still have a pile of 7400 series IC chips and my breadboards amongst other electronic components. I learned analog and digital circuit design in the late 80's. The logic learned in those classes still applies to everyday programming today. No matter what I did in those previous careers, the training I did then still applies today. AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR and XNOR are still the 7 basic logic elements that make up all digital electronics and programming. From there Truth Tables are built and boolean algebra is applied to create any and all circuits and code today. In my humble opinion these are still essential to training people new to various IT fields. It's like having to learn nous, verbs, adverbs and adjectives in order to write understandable thoughts. If you lack this basic understanding learning the more advance concepts is difficult at best. It's good to see these are still being taught somewhere.
Now I'm more curious as to who's names are on the list. Which party or parties is trying to hide something? I find it odd that a newspaper reporters are worried about the privacy of anyone these days. Makes me wonder if some of the reporters or someone higher up at a newspaper is on the client list.
Next, were the payments for the Zumba lesson or sex? Maybe the sex was the free choice of adults that just happened to be conducting other legal business at the time? Just wondering here.
This is a good book to get you re-energized in programing and gets into introduced to 7 languages. They are: Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell
I do very well ($$$) programming web based application with ColdFusion. Using other technologies like Javascript (JQuery) for the front end. With the launch of CF 10 this year the language is fully scriptable for those that like script and tags for that that feel better working with tags. While it does not force OO style of programming it does allow OO programming. Because the CF server is built on Java and runs in a JVM you have direct access to Java. CF is designed to be a very strong and robust RAD platform. And it is robust. ColdFusion server is free for developers but it is a commercial product and it has a price tag. Companies are willing to pay for a reliable server platform. They do it all the time. Additionally there are a couple open source ColdFusion engines that are free. Like the OP I too started out programming a long time ago. I started in the 80's and did many languages prior to ColdFusion including assembler, CNC, BASIC, FORTRAN, ASP, PHP, C/C++, SQL, Perl etc.
ColdFusion is a viable language and there is room for more developers.
Nothing really - that would be a very creative use to recapture some lost energy dissipated as heat. But at 15% efficiency it's possible that it's not feasible to add into any device. Besides the thermoelectric material you have to have an addition circuit to capture the energy and a battery storage. If the device already has a battery then it needs to be rechargeable. Its likely that this would act more as a trickle charge than a full fledge charger. In my reading of TFA I did not notice a temperature range that these thermoelectric materials need to operate within.
Maybe you need to learn what Fascism is - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
Education is a terrible thing to waste. To bad the Public Schools in America fail to educate.
FTFA: ...But the connection between telomere length and health and longevity is far from clear. "There's a lot of doubt in the field," notes Joao Passos, a cellular aging specialist at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom who was not involved in the research. "For as many studies that show telomere length as a good predictor of health outcomes, there are as many that find no relationship."...
Also, with a bit of work I bet they could find something else the test subjects had in common and thus be claimed to also be a cause for the shortening of Telomeres.
To link this to child abuse is a bit of a stretch based on what I can read in the articles. It would appear that stress has more to do with appearing to age faster than anything. Being abused is stressful. I know first hand.
The premise you're using is also flawed. Why is Government funding healthcare? Government should not fund nor is really legal for it to fund healthcare. Once you get past that part you will realize why taxing people to change their behavior is morally wrong.
Strange indeed that Samsung was able to create a totally new and unique product that magically looks and feels just like an iPhone and iPad. It's more than just the CPU that Samsung has been making for Apple. And Samsung claims their products were invented by themselves.
Toxic (poisonous) is in the size of the dose. Many things are toxic or poisonous to humans in a large enough dose. In small doses those same things may be harmless or even beneficial. Dosage is the key. Otherwise we'd have to ban everything that could ever be harmful to humans.
The Westboro Baptist Church is not Catholic, or Christian. They are a Cult that claims to be Christian. The reality is they are pretty much a single (maybe inbred) family that calls themselves a church.
I am a Christian Biker Geek
This means I am Christian first and an avid motorcyclist and a programmer and systems administrator. I also ride with the Patriot Guard http://www.patriotguard.org/ [patriotguard.org] to help shield families of our fallen heros from these despicable people of this so-called church.
Please do not confuse these people for actual Christians.
The Westboro Baptist Church is not Catholic, or Christian. They are a Cult that claims to be Christian. The reality is they are pretty much a single (maybe inbred) family that calls themselves a church.
I am a Christian Biker Geek
This means I am Christian first and an avid motorcyclist and a programmer and systems administrator. I also ride with the Patriot Guard http://www.patriotguard.org/ to help shield families of our fallen heros from these despicable people of this so-called church.
Please do not confuse these people for actual Christians.
More importantly, can the guys on ISS order take-out from the new Chinese space station?
I guess you have no understanding of patents. They were never meant to be for the greater good of society. There were meant to protect inventors of things from those that would steal the ideas. The holder of the patent gets to decide if they want to release the patent to society for the greater good.
it was the talk command on unix or vms systems back then. And as a college experiment we wrote a two way messaging system using GWBASIC on DOS 3.1 back around 1987. If only the USPTO had people that had a clue.
Agreed - PostgreSQL all the way - and now with replication.