Just out of curiosity, why don't you want to kill those particular bacteria quickly?
Because it releases toxins from the dead bacteria and can kills the patient. You give bacteriostatic drugs to prevent cell division and let the white blood cells take care of the bacteria at a slower pace.
Quorum sensing blocking drugs may have theraputic efforts. Wooo, ya don't say. But the silliest thing is that she suggests these might replace anti-biotics. Cause, apparently, stopping pathogenic bacteria from enacting their "we're in the majority now" payload is just as good as killing them.
Stopping them from making the biofilm or communicating IS as good as killing them, because it leaves them vulnerable to the body's defenses that they would be invulnerable to. It's a form of bacteriostatic drug like the ones given for anthrax, rickettsia (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever), bubonic plague, etc. Those are bacteria you don't want to kill quickly.
It is EXTREMELY common for a good photographer or graphics artist to find their work under someone else's name on a microstock site.
sxc.hu has some excellent photographers, and they have to patrol photolia and other sites to keep the image thieves from uploading works they didn't shoot.
Miracle Jones, whoever the hell he/she is, says this in her report: "Ellison tossed aside a difficult life as a short-story writer and novelist in New York to move to California and write bad television shows and bad movies. He once even worked for Disney for one famous day, a day he didn't spend honing his craft as creator or "pit-bull" for literature."
Wikipedia gives Ellison a long list of awards. They don't mention Miracle Jones at all.
Hugo: 8 wins
Nebula: 3 (writers vote on these)
Bram Stoker Award: 5 and one lifetime achievement
Edgar: 2
WGA most outstanding teleplay: 4 (only writer to ever do this)
Bradbury Award: 1
I don't like much of what Ellison writes, but clearly he's impressing a lot of authors who are voting the awards for him.
If you share a dozen of 500-page.doc files (with embedded graphs etc) with your customer, you simply don't put your trust in the OO.o import thingy.
MSword is not a publishing package, it's a word processor with delusions of grandeur. If I build a 500-page.DOC file with embedded graphics... that sucker is going to bork real soon. There are some tricks to minimize the pain, but if you are building documents that large, you need something with more power and fewer bugs.
Did anyone actually have that sort of troubles opening, say, Office 2000 document in 2007?
Way too many times... and even opening Office2007 files done on one computer with Office2007 files from another. The localization differences can cause problems, as can the language packs. I worked in a translation department, and we constantly ran into that problem. In my next company, it was multinational and we still had the problem.
Try doing a round-robin of opening, commenting, and saving one document through a small circle of editors and contributors and by the time it comes around to the original author it's going to need serious cleaning up.
I've been tasked by one of my managers to determine the feasibility of transitioning our small 40 or 50 person office from Microsoft Office 2000 to Open Office 3.0. What are some of the problems I may run into as far as document cross compatibility?
With Microsoft Office 2000... very few, and fewer than you would find with a transition to Microsoft Office's current version. You can just install, set it to open.DOC and.XLS by default and most of them will not notice the difference. I showed the IT guy and CEO of a small business how it worked, and in a week the whole company was using Open Office.
Macros: Complex ones might not work, simple ones probably will. If you upgrade to the latest Microsoft Office, NONE of them will work because they switched to some new programming language.
Formatting: If done rationally by the document author, survives nicely. The more elaborate the formatting the greater the chance of it borking.
Has the Open Office suite evolved to a point that permits easy transition from Microsoft's suite?
Oh yeah!
The big exception is Microsoft's bastard stepchild, Powerpoint. You might have to redo some presentations because the fonts and layout and effects will get borked. Same happens every time you open them with a different version of Powerpoint, so it's not OO's fault.
SUGGESTION: After the install, remove any excess fonts and have someone re-create the basic office templates for business letters, etc. Then distribute the template files or make them available in a common directory.
OO will work as a network install, if you want everyone to have access to shared drawings and templates. I've never done that, but I've heard it's possible.
Other open source stuff you can use easily, and it's excellent for newsletters and technical documents: GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus
I was wondering if there is a source of information on intern markets or how a market's competitive salaries are. How do you know if you're getting a decent offer or you deserve more when you're entering a (personally) new market?
As long as you have enough to live on, look at them for the experience and industry connections they will give you, not for the money you will make.
Makes you wonder what else can be discerned from the pattern of blood vessels and other scan information.
If you scan both hands simultaneously, you can usually tell if the person is right or left-handed. The hand that is used more has a larger blood supply, bigger blood vessels.
It doesn't work on piano players, typists and some others who use both hands vigorously.
Just playing devils advocate, but whats stopping them from writing down their new "acquisitions" on said piece of paper?
Because the piece of paper was printed, based on their sign-up information, and has a background graphic on it as a watermark... you could even use a PC camera to take a picture of them as they arrive, and their photo ID, and embed it in the equipment list.
From the FA: HealthMap isn't just for doctors, specialists and public health officials, however. If travelers are heading to Paraguay they can see if there is an instance of Yellow Fever, for instance, and get vaccinated before they leave.
Uh... they better distinguish between the human-to-human diseases and the ones that are spread to humans from elsewhere. Yellow Fever, for instance, is always present in the jungle wildlife and only occasionally spreads to humans. I'd hate to have some unsuspecting tourist become a datapoint on the map in Paraguay. And just because Arizona has not reported any bubonic plague cases recently doesn't make it safe to play with the prairie dogs.
One critical point is that ANY color scheme will fatigue your eyes if you constantly use it.
Set up several schemes, with a pale background, not white. Use DARK shades of color-coded text, not glaring primaries. Rotate the backgrounds frequently.
Set the screen contrast down until you have a no-glare effect. Turn the brightness down and up a bit (no way to script that) periodically.
If you have flourescent lighting in the office, use one low-watt incandescent or LED bulb for screen lighting. It cancels out the flicker from the flourescents.
If Bubba the Sheriff wanted to stretch the point, it could be. However, I think this was in reaction to the HP snooping case, and was aimed at using non-PI investigators on a computer where you don't have the owner's permission.
It's one of those poorly-written laws that legislatures are prone to passing when they dealing with new fields. They needed to define quite a few more terms in their preamble.
Per Section 4a1 and 4b, it only applies if you're specifically snooping in the data on the computer. It says nothing about normal repair. Not that someone disgruntled couldn't try to make a case out of it...
Yes... "(b) For purposes of Subsection (a)(1), obtaining or furnishing information includes information obtained or furnished through the review and analysis of, and the investigation into the content of, computer-based data not available to the public.
Looks like it's aimed at "computer security" consultants, not repair firms.
Who's ethicists standards are you using? Personally I think its unethical to deny treatment to willing consenting adults. If my aunt was alowed to opt for a treatment she wanted she could still be alive. Instead she had to use know treatment with the known bad side effects and its well documented ineffectiveness for the type of cancer she had.
The medical ethics boards that approve research projects.
No... but you have to watch out for the lymphocytes that are fellow travellers in with the granulocytes. Those can produce antibodies and kill their host.
Now that we've seen yet another way to fight against cancer, we'll just watch it fade into obscurity as if it were really just a post on/.'s frontpage. Have any of these medical breakthroughs actually born fruit? Have any become tenable?
Since the 1960s, survival rates in some cancers have gone from 90%. Is that tenable enough? Simple lumpectomy has a 30-40% cure rate for breast cancer... add some radiation or short chemo and it's up to 80+%. Is that tenable enough.
This clinical trial is a scary one, and it's small for a reason. The granulocytes might turn on the recipient and kill them.
This is the FIRST trial of this in humans, and there is a chance that the granulocytes will kill the recipients. We aren't mice, and the first trials are always scary.
It's unethical to try this stuff on people who still respond to already tested therapy. If it doens't kill or harm anyone from the infusion of large numbers of WBC... then they will expand the trials.
It's easy to get granulocytes out, although tedious for the donor. If this works, some of the solid tumor cancers could be suddenly treatible.
GoDaddy keeps all the spoils to themselves Which means that his bidding was driving up the auction house's income. It's illegal as hell in any state I can think of.
Slashdot Mirror
Any sort of media will be appropriated by advertising for their paid shills.
Nasty humans exploiting those defenseless unicellular creatures!
Because it releases toxins from the dead bacteria and can kills the patient. You give bacteriostatic drugs to prevent cell division and let the white blood cells take care of the bacteria at a slower pace.
Stopping them from making the biofilm or communicating IS as good as killing them, because it leaves them vulnerable to the body's defenses that they would be invulnerable to. It's a form of bacteriostatic drug like the ones given for anthrax, rickettsia (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever), bubonic plague, etc. Those are bacteria you don't want to kill quickly.
sxc.hu has some excellent photographers, and they have to patrol photolia and other sites to keep the image thieves from uploading works they didn't shoot.
Miracle Jones, whoever the hell he/she is, says this in her report: "Ellison tossed aside a difficult life as a short-story writer and novelist in New York to move to California and write bad television shows and bad movies. He once even worked for Disney for one famous day, a day he didn't spend honing his craft as creator or "pit-bull" for literature."
Wikipedia gives Ellison a long list of awards. They don't mention Miracle Jones at all.
I don't like much of what Ellison writes, but clearly he's impressing a lot of authors who are voting the awards for him.
If the value of the notes were considered to be equal to the tuition for the class, it's well into "grand theft" and felony territory.
MSword is not a publishing package, it's a word processor with delusions of grandeur. If I build a 500-page .DOC file with embedded graphics ... that sucker is going to bork real soon. There are some tricks to minimize the pain, but if you are building documents that large, you need something with more power and fewer bugs.
Way too many times ... and even opening Office2007 files done on one computer with Office2007 files from another. The localization differences can cause problems, as can the language packs. I worked in a translation department, and we constantly ran into that problem. In my next company, it was multinational and we still had the problem.
Try doing a round-robin of opening, commenting, and saving one document through a small circle of editors and contributors and by the time it comes around to the original author it's going to need serious cleaning up.
With Microsoft Office 2000 ... very few, and fewer than you would find with a transition to Microsoft Office's current version. You can just install, set it to open .DOC and .XLS by default and most of them will not notice the difference. I showed the IT guy and CEO of a small business how it worked, and in a week the whole company was using Open Office.
Macros: Complex ones might not work, simple ones probably will. If you upgrade to the latest Microsoft Office, NONE of them will work because they switched to some new programming language.
Formatting: If done rationally by the document author, survives nicely. The more elaborate the formatting the greater the chance of it borking.
Oh yeah!
The big exception is Microsoft's bastard stepchild, Powerpoint. You might have to redo some presentations because the fonts and layout and effects will get borked. Same happens every time you open them with a different version of Powerpoint, so it's not OO's fault. SUGGESTION: After the install, remove any excess fonts and have someone re-create the basic office templates for business letters, etc. Then distribute the template files or make them available in a common directory.
OO will work as a network install, if you want everyone to have access to shared drawings and templates. I've never done that, but I've heard it's possible.
Other open source stuff you can use easily, and it's excellent for newsletters and technical documents: GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus
They'd do better with a real job.
As long as you have enough to live on, look at them for the experience and industry connections they will give you, not for the money you will make.
If you scan both hands simultaneously, you can usually tell if the person is right or left-handed. The hand that is used more has a larger blood supply, bigger blood vessels.
It doesn't work on piano players, typists and some others who use both hands vigorously.
Because the piece of paper was printed, based on their sign-up information, and has a background graphic on it as a watermark ... you could even use a PC camera to take a picture of them as they arrive, and their photo ID, and embed it in the equipment list.
Uh ... they better distinguish between the human-to-human diseases and the ones that are spread to humans from elsewhere. Yellow Fever, for instance, is always present in the jungle wildlife and only occasionally spreads to humans. I'd hate to have some unsuspecting tourist become a datapoint on the map in Paraguay. And just because Arizona has not reported any bubonic plague cases recently doesn't make it safe to play with the prairie dogs.
This looks like an online suburbia cartoon ... I mean even as a newb on SecondLife I looked way better than the avatars for this place.
Trust me ... I'm a microbiologist.
Set up several schemes, with a pale background, not white. Use DARK shades of color-coded text, not glaring primaries. Rotate the backgrounds frequently.
Set the screen contrast down until you have a no-glare effect. Turn the brightness down and up a bit (no way to script that) periodically.
If you have flourescent lighting in the office, use one low-watt incandescent or LED bulb for screen lighting. It cancels out the flicker from the flourescents.
TAKE BREAKS! And don't play games on the breaks.
It's one of those poorly-written laws that legislatures are prone to passing when they dealing with new fields. They needed to define quite a few more terms in their preamble.
Yes ... "(b) For purposes of Subsection (a)(1), obtaining or furnishing information includes information obtained or furnished through the review and analysis of, and the investigation into the content of, computer-based data not available to the public.
Looks like it's aimed at "computer security" consultants, not repair firms.
The medical ethics boards that approve research projects.
No ... but you have to watch out for the lymphocytes that are fellow travellers in with the granulocytes. Those can produce antibodies and kill their host.
Since the 1960s, survival rates in some cancers have gone from 90%. Is that tenable enough? Simple lumpectomy has a 30-40% cure rate for breast cancer ... add some radiation or short chemo and it's up to 80+%. Is that tenable enough.
This clinical trial is a scary one, and it's small for a reason. The granulocytes might turn on the recipient and kill them.
It's unethical to try this stuff on people who still respond to already tested therapy. If it doens't kill or harm anyone from the infusion of large numbers of WBC ... then they will expand the trials.
It's easy to get granulocytes out, although tedious for the donor. If this works, some of the solid tumor cancers could be suddenly treatible.
GoDaddy keeps all the spoils to themselves Which means that his bidding was driving up the auction house's income. It's illegal as hell in any state I can think of.