In addition to allowing gluten to be made more tolerable to those with Celiac disease, I wonder if the discovery of the proteins responsible will lead to a quick and easy test for immune reaction. Something similar to the TB skin test would be great.
A quick, easy to interpret, cheap test may serve to stem the tide of people self-diagnosing as gluten intolerant. I guess as fads go this one is fairly innocuous, with the only real downside being slightly higher prices to subsidize the "gluten free" versions of foods on menus at restaurants. Of course some sites promote it as a cure for all diseases, but that's always the case with any diet. It must be a godsend to real Celiac sufferers though. All of a sudden the gluten-free products they can eat are much more accessible.
You can select aperture, focal length, and focus position such that you end up with a distance past which everything is in focus. This is called a hyperfocal distance. It would require some major changes in the way you film, for example close-up shots would be very difficult and the lower aperture values require more light. Or you can just attempt to have either everything within the depth of field, or so far out of the DOF that it is just a total blur without any distinguishing features to draw the viewer's eye.
But there is one real major problem with 3d and focus: It removes a major tool in the filmmaker's toolbox. Think about a horror film shot which is focused on the protagonist, and something moves in the background. Is it as suspenseful and scary if everything is in focus and you can immediately see that it was just a branch? How about where the director racks focus from one object to another, drawing you through the scene? Try either of those in a 3D film and you are sure to cause headaches as people's eyes try to figure out what to focus on.
I think that something really important to remember in all this is they live in NY. You pretty much have to divide their salary by half to get an equivalent salary anywhere else in the US.
Even with that in mind, I think the real problem isn't that the programmers should make more, it is that the traders should make LESS. Whining about not being able to take advantage of rigging the game to funnel money to yourself like your superiors do shouldn't get you any sympathy.
The large companies that would be employing this sort of system have agreements with the exchanges where the companies actually get paid to trade shares, because in doing so they make sure there is always a sell and buy offer out there when someone wants to trade their shares in any particular company. The transaction costs are thus effectively negative. It is similar to the setup used in high-frequency trading: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/business/24trading.html
If you were a small trader doing this you would get decimated by fees and other costs. But then again, you also wouldn't have the access required to set up the needed connections between your algorithm and the exchange computers.
Of course, this is not investing at all, it is gambling. It is setting up a computer that you hope can spot the spin and direction of the ball in the roulette wheel before betting is called off. Sure it could it make you a lot of money, but it isn't helping the market or society or the company being traded at all.
I fail to see why contract issues would matter in this case. The 3G data plan is not on a contract. That was kinda the whole point, unlimited data just on the months you need it.
This is of course partially Apple's fault as well as AT&T, because Apple tied the iWhatevers to AT&T. Its about time that Apple gets hit with the same wonderful consideration that normal people receive every day when they are locked into a particular vendor.
New technology costs $$$, which the USPTO does not have. The Patent Office's budget is pretty much 1:1 based on the fees it collects, except when congress wants to siphon off some cash to spend on something else. Hundreds of millions of dollars were siphoned off in the 90's, leaving the Patent office with a massive backlog at least in part because it couldn't keep enough people or the correct equipment to keep up with the applications.
What would be nice is a tiered system, instead of the current Big/Small entity fee system now in place (small entity fees are 1/2 those of the large companies). Tie fees to the number of applications or patents you have. That way those responsible for the backlog pay more, while the small company with 2 patents doesn't get priced out.
For communications companies, they are awfully good at not telling you anything they don't want you to pay attention to.
Of course they are, they stick marketing professionals on the team that makes these to make sure you don't read it. From the fees being in super small print in some vaguely titled paragraph of the contract to the notices of changes to your account being on the back of the second to last page of your monthly bill it is all been carefully designed so that the vast majority of people never ever read it.
It is the same reason that when your credit card changes terms you get a separate letter which looks like just some random piece of bulk junk mail, and if you do open it and read it, one of the the first things you see is "You don't have to do anything!" and the terms go into effect.
This system totally breaks down with sites or passwords that require you to change your password every XX days, and many times will reject a password if a certain number of the characters match with previously used passwords.
Great idea for everyday low-importance stuff though.
As a bicyclist I strongly disagree. Sure, you may be looking out for cars when you step out into the road, but that little bit of lower awareness may be all it takes for you to completely miss the cyclist coming down the road and step out in front of them.
Walking around a town can be tricky, between broken sidewalks, people walking dogs, and all sorts of other obstacles. Also... being on the other end of that conversation sucks.
Great, now when I need zest for a recipe, instead of just being able to give a fruit a good wash and scrub (which you are supposed to do before eating it anyway) I will have to use more fruit to get the same amount of zest because I will have to avoid the massive laser etched brand names that this will inevitably lead to.
I have to wonder how much of the stickiness of Windows XP is from businesses and government which are tied to IE6 for intranet or custom apps.
Upgrade costs (both in hardware and time lost) for just the operating system would be large, but add in redesigning, debugging, and certifying new versions of the tools used day-to-day in a company/division and it just would be insurmountable.
I wish they would focus on somehow fixing the conjestion of the current 2.4GHz spectrum. Having three non-overlapping channels (in the US) is simply not enough. Of course, you won't even have that because some company will come out with an "OMG-1Gb-WIRELESS!!" type AP which will use the whole damn spectrum.
From my apartment I can pick up no less than 20 wireless networks using netstumbler. I'd be much more interested in having 11 or 54 megabit wireless, but a whole bunch of non-overlapping channels.
Interesting. I do not have that plugin installed, however I do have another (adblock) that overlays flash animations with a clickable tab. Perhaps that could be what is causing the problem.
After installing 1.0.1 on WinXP I could not navigate anywhere. Everytime I would hit enter after typing something into the location bar firefox would crash.
Given that the closest a point on the earth and a point on the moon come to each other is around 370,000km that's a round trip time of around 2.5 seconds, plus any routing lag.
On a more serious note, what would this mean for those on the moon as far as interaction with the world? During Apollo you had a couple of people there for a few days with rigourously defined schedules, but how about long term or civilian astronauts? I wonder if the whole internet would be accessable, or if they limited the data to a predefined set of things, such as the New York Times, updated daily.
The cameras are not aimed at the customers, they are aimed at the cashiers. My mother had her mastercard stolen and they pulled the camera records when it was used, and while you could clearly see the cash register and drawer, the thief's face was far enough outside of the camera's focus that he was unidentifiable.
Of course, if it was an inside job this could be useful.
Honestly, it may not be all the phone's fault, it could be the D-Link. If one of your friends has a Linksys WAP, or some other brand higher up than D-Link, you may want to try it out and see if the problem doesn't improve.
In my experience, D-Link's APs seem to be easily confused. In situations where a Linksys, Cisco, or Vivato WAP will keep on going, the D-Link will just drop the connection. This could be some sort of old firmware issue though, and is honestly an unfair comparison (at least with the Cisco and the Vivato).
I feel the submitter's pain, nothing is easier to mess up than a laptop. Everything is right there, waiting to be destroyed. My worst was one night I was chatting with friends late at night and didn't put my laptop up on the shelf as I normally do before going to sleep. The next working I heard a nice, $600 crunch. The LCD on these things is entirely too easy to break.
The upper right hand two-ball thing represents the spin-flip transition of hydrogen. Basically the electron can either be in a spin-up or spin down configuration, and there is a certain probablity/time and wavelength of the photon produced when the electron "flips". Notice there is a little "1" there, this is used as a unit of measure for the rest of the engraving.
The spin-flip transition has a wavelength of 21cm. Next to the people is the binary number 8, 8x21=168cm, the approximate height of a human. Also this can be used to make sure the scale is correct, because Pioneer is show to scale behind the humans.
The period of the spin-flip transition is around 1420(Mhz)^-1. The off burst pattern is actually a map of the Sol system's location in relation to 14 pulsars, whose periods are compaired to that of molecular hydrogen's transition by way of binary. By knowing this the recieving society is supposed to look in the sky and find some of the pulsars with those frequencies and be able to locate us.
Pretty nifty use of math and science I think, but perhaps including an example of binary counting would have been a good idea. I forget what the binary near the planets signifies, either distance or mass, I can't recall which. Probably distance, because that diagram is not to scale.
Use adblock instead. just put in wildcard strings such as "ads.*" "*doubleclick*" "*fastclick*" "*burstnet*", and more, and you will block all of the ad shit (including flash) coming from their servers. What good is a javascript mouseover if the script can't download the ad in the first place?
I tend to agree with you, but I'm just saying that your average Best Buy shopper probably will not very tolerant of a four minute boot up, even if the AP does stay on for a month or two without having to reboot. These aren't going to be used in racks where the power NEVER turns off, they will be in homes where the lights might flicker, or somebody flicks a power strip off.
Perhaps I'm just a bit fed up with long boot times after standing on a ladder watching the damn LED's cycle colors for a few minutes.
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In addition to allowing gluten to be made more tolerable to those with Celiac disease, I wonder if the discovery of the proteins responsible will lead to a quick and easy test for immune reaction. Something similar to the TB skin test would be great.
A quick, easy to interpret, cheap test may serve to stem the tide of people self-diagnosing as gluten intolerant. I guess as fads go this one is fairly innocuous, with the only real downside being slightly higher prices to subsidize the "gluten free" versions of foods on menus at restaurants. Of course some sites promote it as a cure for all diseases, but that's always the case with any diet. It must be a godsend to real Celiac sufferers though. All of a sudden the gluten-free products they can eat are much more accessible.
You can select aperture, focal length, and focus position such that you end up with a distance past which everything is in focus. This is called a hyperfocal distance. It would require some major changes in the way you film, for example close-up shots would be very difficult and the lower aperture values require more light. Or you can just attempt to have either everything within the depth of field, or so far out of the DOF that it is just a total blur without any distinguishing features to draw the viewer's eye.
But there is one real major problem with 3d and focus: It removes a major tool in the filmmaker's toolbox. Think about a horror film shot which is focused on the protagonist, and something moves in the background. Is it as suspenseful and scary if everything is in focus and you can immediately see that it was just a branch? How about where the director racks focus from one object to another, drawing you through the scene? Try either of those in a 3D film and you are sure to cause headaches as people's eyes try to figure out what to focus on.
I think that something really important to remember in all this is they live in NY. You pretty much have to divide their salary by half to get an equivalent salary anywhere else in the US.
Even with that in mind, I think the real problem isn't that the programmers should make more, it is that the traders should make LESS. Whining about not being able to take advantage of rigging the game to funnel money to yourself like your superiors do shouldn't get you any sympathy.
The large companies that would be employing this sort of system have agreements with the exchanges where the companies actually get paid to trade shares, because in doing so they make sure there is always a sell and buy offer out there when someone wants to trade their shares in any particular company. The transaction costs are thus effectively negative. It is similar to the setup used in high-frequency trading: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/business/24trading.html
If you were a small trader doing this you would get decimated by fees and other costs. But then again, you also wouldn't have the access required to set up the needed connections between your algorithm and the exchange computers.
Of course, this is not investing at all, it is gambling. It is setting up a computer that you hope can spot the spin and direction of the ball in the roulette wheel before betting is called off. Sure it could it make you a lot of money, but it isn't helping the market or society or the company being traded at all.
I fail to see why contract issues would matter in this case. The 3G data plan is not on a contract. That was kinda the whole point, unlimited data just on the months you need it.
This is of course partially Apple's fault as well as AT&T, because Apple tied the iWhatevers to AT&T. Its about time that Apple gets hit with the same wonderful consideration that normal people receive every day when they are locked into a particular vendor.
New technology costs $$$, which the USPTO does not have. The Patent Office's budget is pretty much 1:1 based on the fees it collects, except when congress wants to siphon off some cash to spend on something else. Hundreds of millions of dollars were siphoned off in the 90's, leaving the Patent office with a massive backlog at least in part because it couldn't keep enough people or the correct equipment to keep up with the applications.
What would be nice is a tiered system, instead of the current Big/Small entity fee system now in place (small entity fees are 1/2 those of the large companies). Tie fees to the number of applications or patents you have. That way those responsible for the backlog pay more, while the small company with 2 patents doesn't get priced out.
For communications companies, they are awfully good at not telling you anything they don't want you to pay attention to.
Of course they are, they stick marketing professionals on the team that makes these to make sure you don't read it. From the fees being in super small print in some vaguely titled paragraph of the contract to the notices of changes to your account being on the back of the second to last page of your monthly bill it is all been carefully designed so that the vast majority of people never ever read it.
It is the same reason that when your credit card changes terms you get a separate letter which looks like just some random piece of bulk junk mail, and if you do open it and read it, one of the the first things you see is "You don't have to do anything!" and the terms go into effect.
This system totally breaks down with sites or passwords that require you to change your password every XX days, and many times will reject a password if a certain number of the characters match with previously used passwords.
Great idea for everyday low-importance stuff though.
As a bicyclist I strongly disagree. Sure, you may be looking out for cars when you step out into the road, but that little bit of lower awareness may be all it takes for you to completely miss the cyclist coming down the road and step out in front of them.
Walking around a town can be tricky, between broken sidewalks, people walking dogs, and all sorts of other obstacles. Also... being on the other end of that conversation sucks.
Great, now when I need zest for a recipe, instead of just being able to give a fruit a good wash and scrub (which you are supposed to do before eating it anyway) I will have to use more fruit to get the same amount of zest because I will have to avoid the massive laser etched brand names that this will inevitably lead to.
I have to wonder how much of the stickiness of Windows XP is from businesses and government which are tied to IE6 for intranet or custom apps.
Upgrade costs (both in hardware and time lost) for just the operating system would be large, but add in redesigning, debugging, and certifying new versions of the tools used day-to-day in a company/division and it just would be insurmountable.
From my apartment I can pick up no less than 20 wireless networks using netstumbler. I'd be much more interested in having 11 or 54 megabit wireless, but a whole bunch of non-overlapping channels.
I have never installed a .zip build of firefox. firebird and pheonix yes, but not firefox.
Interesting. I do not have that plugin installed, however I do have another (adblock) that overlays flash animations with a clickable tab. Perhaps that could be what is causing the problem.
I've gone back to 1.0 and there are no problems. here's a link to the windows 1.0 versions in case anyone else similarly needs to revert back.
On a more serious note, what would this mean for those on the moon as far as interaction with the world? During Apollo you had a couple of people there for a few days with rigourously defined schedules, but how about long term or civilian astronauts? I wonder if the whole internet would be accessable, or if they limited the data to a predefined set of things, such as the New York Times, updated daily.
But if you pull the cable out, you'll leave open ports on the back of your computer, and we all know how bad those are.
Of course, if it was an inside job this could be useful.
You don't even have to root a machine on the wired network. The administration page is accessible via wireless. Scary.
In my experience, D-Link's APs seem to be easily confused. In situations where a Linksys, Cisco, or Vivato WAP will keep on going, the D-Link will just drop the connection. This could be some sort of old firmware issue though, and is honestly an unfair comparison (at least with the Cisco and the Vivato).
That is wierd, the first time I followed the link, I used bugmenot and got the full article. the second time it took me to the register page.
I feel the submitter's pain, nothing is easier to mess up than a laptop. Everything is right there, waiting to be destroyed. My worst was one night I was chatting with friends late at night and didn't put my laptop up on the shelf as I normally do before going to sleep. The next working I heard a nice, $600 crunch. The LCD on these things is entirely too easy to break.
The spin-flip transition has a wavelength of 21cm. Next to the people is the binary number 8, 8x21=168cm, the approximate height of a human. Also this can be used to make sure the scale is correct, because Pioneer is show to scale behind the humans.
The period of the spin-flip transition is around 1420(Mhz)^-1. The off burst pattern is actually a map of the Sol system's location in relation to 14 pulsars, whose periods are compaired to that of molecular hydrogen's transition by way of binary. By knowing this the recieving society is supposed to look in the sky and find some of the pulsars with those frequencies and be able to locate us.
Pretty nifty use of math and science I think, but perhaps including an example of binary counting would have been a good idea. I forget what the binary near the planets signifies, either distance or mass, I can't recall which. Probably distance, because that diagram is not to scale.
Use adblock instead. just put in wildcard strings such as "ads.*" "*doubleclick*" "*fastclick*" "*burstnet*", and more, and you will block all of the ad shit (including flash) coming from their servers. What good is a javascript mouseover if the script can't download the ad in the first place?
Perhaps I'm just a bit fed up with long boot times after standing on a ladder watching the damn LED's cycle colors for a few minutes.