Given Moore's Law and the "Innovator's Dilemma", commoditization, industry liquidation, and the trend of "half the price and smaller" every 18-24 months (even faster for genomics technology), more technology is reaching the price point you need at a faster pace than ever.
Consider just one option:
-iPod/iPhone Light Switches: Though you may not be able to put iPads in every room, I just checked eBay and first, second, and third generation iPods and iPhones are selling for $50-$100. With a little programming, a lot of potential becomes possible. Your light switches could control not only your lights but your sound system as well. Every light switch could show the time, the weather for the day, your favorite stocks, and the latest post from your FaceBook Wall or Tweet. The latest iOS Framework supports face tracking which is trivial to implement. Add that to some of the facial image recognition libraries and a well placed iPhone camera in your foyer could cue your favorite music the moment you arrive home. Add photos of your friends to the system and now whenever a guest looks at a light switch, the system could recognize their face and show their favorite stocks or posts from their FB wall.
A single technology pervasively applied could create a compelling impression yet at a budget price.
Just don't be surprised if you find your guests at parties clustered around your light switches playing Angry Birds.
(From a physician trained at Northwestern, in medicine for over 15 years, also a routine coder)
The burning in your eyes is caused by the surface of your eyes drying. The drying is caused by persistent attention to the screen during which time you blink less frequently thus spreading less tears across the surface of the eye.
To cure this you need to do more than trying to blink more often.
When you feel the burning (or as often as you can think of it) - close your eyes and hold them closed. If you have caught the process early enough, you will feel the burning fade as tears soak back into the conjunctiva of your eye. The feeling of relief is immense.
As a physician using computers for long periods of time, the feeling of relief is immense. The technique has worked for years. It has only failed if the eyes dry out too much originally. At that point, inflammation has set in and it takes much longer to resolve.
Changing monitor colors will work only if it encourages you to "blink and hold" more often.
"...six-month mortality was lower in patients assigned bedside MIT, with the lowest absolute death rates observed in patients treated with both prayer and bedside MIT..."
So the death rate is the same right away but six months later, if you were prayed for, you have a much better chance of being alive. You will also have less of a chance to be re-hospitalized.
As a physician myself, I find it interesting that the authors chose to pitch this as a failure for prayer rather than a success.
Yet another ePaper product promised more than a year away. Ho hum. If history has a lesson, any ePaper announcement this far away should just be ignored.
First there was Philips eInk, whose technology was integrated into the underwhelming Sony LIBRIe. Then Seiko revealed a wristwatch that appears big and heavy enough to block bullets.
With their no-lighter-than-other-technology design, most of these products seem to have missed the compelling point of ePaper: it is supposed to be as big and as light as paper!
Even the eInk development kits being sold Novemeber 1st are for small 6 inch displays.
Until they announce ePaper that I can use to cover an entire wall, and it is available *next week*, I am not going to hold my breath...
Print, film, magnetic and optical storage media produced 5 exabytes of new information in 2002 according to these Berkeley researchers. They have been estimating the amount of information created each year and how much it is growing.
Google probably used their figures. Factor in the speed of Google's spiders and the current rate of their growth - and I am sure 300 years is very close to the answer they found with their "math exercise."
Mutating in response to threats is not what I was taught in medical school or in biology.
When there is a threat, we do *not* mutate. We are *selected*.
For example, if suddenly tomorrow an Ice Age kicked in - your genes would not mutate. If you had a child, his or her genes would not be mutated.
Instead, people with the most amount of body hair, or those better able to find shelter, would be "selected" to survive. Twenty generations later, we might have a race of hairy people.
You may be surprised to learn that the mathematics of genetics (and artificial life simulations) have conclusively demonstrated that mutation is estimated to account for only a *tiny* fraction evolutionary change (many simulations show less than 1%). Mutation is almost universally destructive.
Chromosomal crossing over during meiosis, where the greatest swap of DNA occurs (between mother and father), accounts for almost all of evolutionary genetic change. This is why sex evolved.
The amygdala is more classically known for its role in agression and mad passion.
Both a cat and a bull have had electrodes placed to stimulate the amygydala and were alternatively induced to attack or be passionate. (The bull just stopped charging and licked its lips.)
If we followed this research then the liberal slogan would be "Make Love *and* War."
-M
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Given Moore's Law and the "Innovator's Dilemma", commoditization, industry liquidation, and the trend of "half the price and smaller" every 18-24 months (even faster for genomics technology), more technology is reaching the price point you need at a faster pace than ever.
Consider just one option: -iPod/iPhone Light Switches: Though you may not be able to put iPads in every room, I just checked eBay and first, second, and third generation iPods and iPhones are selling for $50-$100. With a little programming, a lot of potential becomes possible. Your light switches could control not only your lights but your sound system as well. Every light switch could show the time, the weather for the day, your favorite stocks, and the latest post from your FaceBook Wall or Tweet. The latest iOS Framework supports face tracking which is trivial to implement. Add that to some of the facial image recognition libraries and a well placed iPhone camera in your foyer could cue your favorite music the moment you arrive home. Add photos of your friends to the system and now whenever a guest looks at a light switch, the system could recognize their face and show their favorite stocks or posts from their FB wall.
A single technology pervasively applied could create a compelling impression yet at a budget price.
Just don't be surprised if you find your guests at parties clustered around your light switches playing Angry Birds.
The burning in your eyes is caused by the surface of your eyes drying. The drying is caused by persistent attention to the screen during which time you blink less frequently thus spreading less tears across the surface of the eye.
To cure this you need to do more than trying to blink more often.
When you feel the burning (or as often as you can think of it) - close your eyes and hold them closed. If you have caught the process early enough, you will feel the burning fade as tears soak back into the conjunctiva of your eye. The feeling of relief is immense.
As a physician using computers for long periods of time, the feeling of relief is immense. The technique has worked for years. It has only failed if the eyes dry out too much originally. At that point, inflammation has set in and it takes much longer to resolve.
Changing monitor colors will work only if it encourages you to "blink and hold" more often.
Prayer did affect six month mortality.
"...six-month mortality was lower in patients assigned bedside MIT, with the lowest absolute death rates observed in patients treated with both prayer and bedside MIT..."
So the death rate is the same right away but six months later, if you were prayed for, you have a much better chance of being alive. You will also have less of a chance to be re-hospitalized.
As a physician myself, I find it interesting that the authors chose to pitch this as a failure for prayer rather than a success.
Could this deal be more about access to Time Warner's Media Libraries than about AOL?
Jobs is the rapidly emerging, dominant player in the video delivery market.
Perhaps this deal is about enhancing Google Video.
Couple this with the Paypal like service Google has been rumored to be developing and suddenly Google is a player in the on-demand video market.
Yet another ePaper product promised more than a year away. Ho hum. If history has a lesson, any ePaper announcement this far away should just be ignored.
First there was Philips eInk, whose technology was integrated into the underwhelming Sony LIBRIe. Then Seiko revealed a wristwatch that appears big and heavy enough to block bullets.
With their no-lighter-than-other-technology design, most of these products seem to have missed the compelling point of ePaper: it is supposed to be as big and as light as paper!
Even the eInk development kits being sold Novemeber 1st are for small 6 inch displays.
Until they announce ePaper that I can use to cover an entire wall, and it is available *next week*, I am not going to hold my breath...
Print, film, magnetic and optical storage media produced 5 exabytes of new information in 2002 according to these Berkeley researchers. They have been estimating the amount of information created each year and how much it is growing.
Google probably used their figures. Factor in the speed of Google's spiders and the current rate of their growth - and I am sure 300 years is very close to the answer they found with their "math exercise."
Mutating in response to threats is not what I was taught in medical school or in biology.
When there is a threat, we do *not* mutate. We are *selected*.
For example, if suddenly tomorrow an Ice Age kicked in - your genes would not mutate. If you had a child, his or her genes would not be mutated.
Instead, people with the most amount of body hair, or those better able to find shelter, would be "selected" to survive. Twenty generations later, we might have a race of hairy people.
You may be surprised to learn that the mathematics of genetics (and artificial life simulations) have conclusively demonstrated that mutation is estimated to account for only a *tiny* fraction evolutionary change (many simulations show less than 1%). Mutation is almost universally destructive.
Chromosomal crossing over during meiosis, where the greatest swap of DNA occurs (between mother and father), accounts for almost all of evolutionary genetic change. This is why sex evolved.
The amygdala is more classically known for its role in agression and mad passion. Both a cat and a bull have had electrodes placed to stimulate the amygydala and were alternatively induced to attack or be passionate. (The bull just stopped charging and licked its lips.) If we followed this research then the liberal slogan would be "Make Love *and* War." -M
Wow - they really missed the boat on this one.
Imagine if it took 15 clicks every time you visited Slashdot to read what you wanted.
Given two sites - one that takes 15 clicks to get to the info you want - and one that takes 3 - which would you choose?
Have we really seen *too many* easy to navigate sites?
Long live the Three Click Rule !