Established in 1999, Health Market Science (HMS) is a privately held growth technology and information services company that provides innovative sales and marketing business intelligence solutions to the healthcare and pharmaceutical markets. Utilizing proprietary matching and data consolidation software with integrated web harvesting technologies, HMS scientifically manufactures the most comprehensive and upto- date census of U.S. healthcare providers. HMS healthcare solutions span licensing of databases, building custom data sets, and providing flexible data integration and validation services.
I think what's wrong is the election of judges. To any lawyer observer from another common law country (like me), it just seems unbelievably wrong.
For what it's worth, not all states of the USA elect their judges, and no federal judges are elected. I for one live in New Jersey, an appointed-judge state, right next door to Pennsylvania, an elected-judge state, and I've always shared your opinion of judge elections. I'm not even sure the DA should be elected.
I still don't see how more "realistic" sound improves ANYTHING. I don't particularly want to be scared by the sound of a cow fifty meters offscreen when I'm trying to listen to dialogue. Plenty of the worlds BEST films were filmed with NO sound.
The Scientific American article says that when total anoxia (oxygen concentration less than 0.001 percent) is combined with low temperatures, metabolysis stops. The authors of this article were working with worms:
We have also shown in our work with C. elegans that the embryo's shift into suspended animation under anoxic conditions is not merely a passive result of their running out of oxygen but rather seems to be a purposeful mechanism. We identified two genes functioning during anoxia, but not hypoxia, that appear essential to arresting the embryo's cell cycle.... These results suggest that ischemic damage can be avoided not only by increasing the oxygen available to cells, as conventional wisdom would suggest, but also by decreasing available oxygen. This idea may fly in the face of current medical practice, yet it has strong implications for preserving human tissues: it is difficult to keep an individual organ destined for transplantation oxygenated or to supply enough oxygen to the damaged tissues of injury victims, but it might be possible to decrease their available oxygen.
At the end of the article they describe the same work with dogs that the current story is describing (at Pittsburgh).
Geocoding isn't hard. It just takes about 50 lines of code combined with a decent streets database. Add PostGIS to your postgres streets database and you can even easily geocode intersections like "43rd And Pine Streets".
But, the only public domain streets database is the TIGER data, several years old already. However, ESRI does make it publicly available in shapefile format, ready for importing to postgres.
Maybe I've found a new project to start. Or at least a HOWTO to write.
Fascinating for sure but more like science fiction or out and out bullshit. GPS units don't work so well inside buildings. Hell, they don't work so well in tree covered areas (depending on the unit and antenna).
Not everybody knows this. It is quite believable that someone at the policy level might think a GPS is magical enough to work anywhere.
Geographic Information System is a meaning that predates the existence of Google by at least a decade, probably two. Your own failure to be aware of it does not make it arcane.
The real problem with both Google Maps and MapQuest is the underlying data. Both get their street data (at least in large part) from the same company: TeleAtlas.
This is the company that still hasn't picked up on the fact that many roads near here were renumbered four years ago to meet 911 law requirements. My company's official postal address is 2075 High Hill Rd., but TeleAtlas still thinks the only valid block number for this road is 200-299.
Technically, 25 million megabytes equals exactly 25 terabytes. The SI prefixes specify that mega means million, aka 10^6, and tera means trillion, aka 10^12.
The proper binary prefixes you should be using are mebi and tebi, meaning 2^20 and 2^40 respectively.
(I can't believe that/. won't let me use the <SUP> tag.)
It doesn't exactly mean they're more likely to win; it means that a large number of bettors think they're more likely to win. Which I guess is actually pretty similar to the situation with big name stars.
Wow - 6 minutes after you posted this advice, we've really killed their server:
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A national ID system is one of the most un-American things to arise from the 9-11 kneejerkers.
Maybe it's time we give up on the adjective "American" in this sense. Apparently most of the things that used to be called "un-American" are now being put forward as the proper American way of thinking. Not to put too fine a point on it, which is more American -- a pioneer family crossing the prairie in a covered wagon, or thousands of families zoning out in unison in front of the TV showing American Idol?
Why stop at sex offenders? Take your "route from home to work" code and make it available for anyone who wishes to stalk anyone else. Make sure to include flags for likely places to hang out while stalking, like McDonalds, bus stops, etc.
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Downloading means making a local copy of a file stored elsewhere. Making a copy of something that is copyrighted is copyright infringement.
http://www.healthmarketscience.com/company/press/e dison.html
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Established in 1999, Health Market Science (HMS) is a privately held growth technology and information services company that provides innovative sales and marketing business intelligence solutions to the healthcare and pharmaceutical markets. Utilizing proprietary matching and data consolidation software with integrated web harvesting technologies, HMS scientifically manufactures the most comprehensive and upto- date census of U.S. healthcare providers. HMS healthcare solutions span licensing of databases, building custom data sets, and providing flexible data integration and validation services.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/perl.jobs/msg/ 3a7db16ee21b460a?hl=en
Link is working fine now. Maybe they just took their whole site offline to survive the slashdotting.
I think what's wrong is the election of judges. To any lawyer observer from another common law country (like me), it just seems unbelievably wrong.
For what it's worth, not all states of the USA elect their judges, and no federal judges are elected. I for one live in New Jersey, an appointed-judge state, right next door to Pennsylvania, an elected-judge state, and I've always shared your opinion of judge elections. I'm not even sure the DA should be elected.
I still don't see how more "realistic" sound improves ANYTHING. I don't particularly want to be scared by the sound of a cow fifty meters offscreen when I'm trying to listen to dialogue. Plenty of the worlds BEST films were filmed with NO sound.
Thank you! It's a shame you posted as AC; your information is very useful.
At the end of the article they describe the same work with dogs that the current story is describing (at Pittsburgh).
Obviously it would be more efficient to just kill them. Why even wait for conviction? The arresting officer probably has a gun already.
Geocoding isn't hard. It just takes about 50 lines of code combined with a decent streets database. Add PostGIS to your postgres streets database and you can even easily geocode intersections like "43rd And Pine Streets".
But, the only public domain streets database is the TIGER data, several years old already. However, ESRI does make it publicly available in shapefile format, ready for importing to postgres.
Maybe I've found a new project to start. Or at least a HOWTO to write.
Fascinating for sure but more like science fiction or out and out bullshit. GPS units don't work so well inside buildings. Hell, they don't work so well in tree covered areas (depending on the unit and antenna).
Not everybody knows this. It is quite believable that someone at the policy level might think a GPS is magical enough to work anywhere.
Is it because discovering application proves so difficult that the cart, burdened with gizmos, leads the applications cart?
Am I the only nitpicker who picked up on the fact that you should have written "the applications horse"?
... a more common, mundane meaning ...
Geographic Information System is a meaning that predates the existence of Google by at least a decade, probably two. Your own failure to be aware of it does not make it arcane.
The Elements of Style , Strunk & White. Originally published in 1918.
"The pronominal possessives hers, its, theirs, yours, and oneself have no apostrophe."
Try to get the 3rd edition, though. The 4th is much weaker.
Best advice evar: "Omit needless words."
imagine a future PC with 32656 CPUs,
What are the other 111 processors doing (32656 + 111 = 2^15-1)? Enforcing DRM?
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Why the heck doesn't slashcode let me use <sup> and <sub>?
The real problem with both Google Maps and MapQuest is the underlying data. Both get their street data (at least in large part) from the same company: TeleAtlas.
This is the company that still hasn't picked up on the fact that many roads near here were renumbered four years ago to meet 911 law requirements. My company's official postal address is 2075 High Hill Rd., but TeleAtlas still thinks the only valid block number for this road is 200-299.
Due to overwhelming non-demand (not even one hit to my tracker), the torrent is closed. Oh well.
Technically, 25 million megabytes equals exactly 25 terabytes. The SI prefixes specify that mega means million, aka 10^6, and tera means trillion, aka 10^12.
/. won't let me use the <SUP> tag.)
The proper binary prefixes you should be using are mebi and tebi, meaning 2^20 and 2^40 respectively.
(I can't believe that
It doesn't exactly mean they're more likely to win; it means that a large number of bettors think they're more likely to win. Which I guess is actually pretty similar to the situation with big name stars.
Facetiousness aside, I've created a torrent of the rather large movies and still images available for download. Get the torrent file here.
The originals site for these very beautiful, almost awe-inspiring images is here.
(I'm going to see War of the Worlds because Tom Cruise is in it and because Spielberg directed....)
You will undoubtedly get exactly what you deserve exactly when you go. (shudder)
Wow - 6 minutes after you posted this advice, we've really killed their server:
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The really interesting thing for me was how the whole Worf/Riker/Deanna triangle echoed the Trek book Imzadi.
A national ID system is one of the most un-American things to arise from the 9-11 kneejerkers.
Maybe it's time we give up on the adjective "American" in this sense. Apparently most of the things that used to be called "un-American" are now being put forward as the proper American way of thinking. Not to put too fine a point on it, which is more American -- a pioneer family crossing the prairie in a covered wagon, or thousands of families zoning out in unison in front of the TV showing American Idol?
Why stop at sex offenders? Take your "route from home to work" code and make it available for anyone who wishes to stalk anyone else. Make sure to include flags for likely places to hang out while stalking, like McDonalds, bus stops, etc.