While it's always good to have another candidate, there are several vaccines that have already been in trials for years. The most promising one currently is an adenovirus-vector trivalent vaccine from Merck which is in Phase II trials now. Details may be found here.
We had a tech demo and stress test of these over this summer here at Cornell. The clickers themselves were the new RF ones and worked fine, even when we had all 500 people hit the same answer. I can't say the same of the software, which was a buggy Powerpoint add-in with a habit of misaligning it's "right answer" circle if the slide layout was changed at all after the polling questions were put in.
From what the professors there were saying, they didn't see a real use for them other than taking attendance, and even then, they didn't seem hugely fond of them. The only ones that seemed interested in using them for quizzing were all (I'm pretty sure), history and other social science professors, not any of my engineering ones.
Assuming you mean the Susquehana River in Pennsylvania, you have to deal with DEP permits. A quick glance at the regs indicated you'd need
a) Dam Permit - application fee of $1500-$3000
b) Environmental Assessment Approval - free
c) Limited Power Permit for Hydroelectric - $5 application fee and $10-10000 annual fee (depending on capacity)
Not to mention any local or federal regulations (did you check the EPA yet?) or the permits you'll need for construction, etc.
There's also a 30-day public comment period before the DEP rules, and they estimate it will take 220 days or so to complete the paperwork.
At my school, Cornell University, they simply charge you for any bandwidth you use over 2GB/month. (At about $3/GB). Basically, you can do what you want on the net, but if you're a heavy downloader, you're going to pay to support that habit. (There have been a few people shut down, but those were the idiots downloading several feature-length movies, etc. a day, and they were shut down for using WAY too much of their dorm's available bandwidth).
And yes, there is an acceptable use policy, but as I use iTMS, that doesn't really affect me.
Another reasons Mac/Linux is more secure is there isn't 10 million things popping up as you browse the internet, inviting you to install software, change your homepage, or other sundry offers - Here's to incompatibility!
Also, Mac/Linux holes get patched significantly faster (in general) then Windows ones.
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While it's always good to have another candidate, there are several vaccines that have already been in trials for years. The most promising one currently is an adenovirus-vector trivalent vaccine from Merck which is in Phase II trials now. Details may be found here.
My home team, Cornell, is currently in second place at the qualifiers, knocking only over one cone on the obstacle course.
You can read their blog here, or find their website (with technology writeups) here.
We had a tech demo and stress test of these over this summer here at Cornell. The clickers themselves were the new RF ones and worked fine, even when we had all 500 people hit the same answer. I can't say the same of the software, which was a buggy Powerpoint add-in with a habit of misaligning it's "right answer" circle if the slide layout was changed at all after the polling questions were put in.
From what the professors there were saying, they didn't see a real use for them other than taking attendance, and even then, they didn't seem hugely fond of them. The only ones that seemed interested in using them for quizzing were all (I'm pretty sure), history and other social science professors, not any of my engineering ones.
Assuming you mean the Susquehana River in Pennsylvania, you have to deal with DEP permits. A quick glance at the regs indicated you'd need
a) Dam Permit - application fee of $1500-$3000
b) Environmental Assessment Approval - free
c) Limited Power Permit for Hydroelectric - $5 application fee and $10-10000 annual fee (depending on capacity)
Not to mention any local or federal regulations (did you check the EPA yet?) or the permits you'll need for construction, etc.
There's also a 30-day public comment period before the DEP rules, and they estimate it will take 220 days or so to complete the paperwork.
Reference is from the massive PDF found at Department of Enviromental Protection
In short, you probably don't want to build a dam.
At my school, Cornell University, they simply charge you for any bandwidth you use over 2GB/month. (At about $3/GB). Basically, you can do what you want on the net, but if you're a heavy downloader, you're going to pay to support that habit. (There have been a few people shut down, but those were the idiots downloading several feature-length movies, etc. a day, and they were shut down for using WAY too much of their dorm's available bandwidth).
And yes, there is an acceptable use policy, but as I use iTMS, that doesn't really affect me.
Another reasons Mac/Linux is more secure is there isn't 10 million things popping up as you browse the internet, inviting you to install software, change your homepage, or other sundry offers - Here's to incompatibility! Also, Mac/Linux holes get patched significantly faster (in general) then Windows ones.